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The Maltese Falcon (1931) Roy Del Ruth, Bebe Daniels, Ricardo Cortez, Dudley Digges
Sam Spade is quite the womanizer. When his secretary tells him the new customer waiting outside his office is a knockout Read More »
Shadow of Doubt (1935) George B. Seitz, Ricardo Cortez, Virginia Bruce, Constance Collier
Haworth is a show biz producer who has a number of ex-girlfriends that he has beaten over the years. Read More »
The Walking Dead (1936) Michael Curtiz, Boris Karloff, Ricardo Cortez, Edmund Gwenn
A gang of racketeers frames down-on-his-luck John Ellman for murder. Read More »
Midnight Mary (1933) William A. Wellman, Loretta Young, Franchot Tone, Ricardo Cortez
A young woman is on trial for murder. In flashback, we learn of her struggles to overcome poverty as a teenager Read More »
Mystery in Mexico (1948) Robert Wise, William Lundigan, Jacqueline White, Ricardo Cortez
Insurance detective Steve Hastings is sent by his company to investigate the disappearance of a fellow agent. Read More »
Torch Singer (1933) Alexander Hall, George Somnes, Claudette Colbert, Ricardo Cortez, David Manners, Drama, Musical, Romance
Sally Trent has an illegitimate child, but cannot support her and gives the baby up for adoption. Read More »
Mandalay (1934) Michael Curtiz, Kay Francis, Ricardo Cortez, Warner Oland, Drama, Romance
Russian refugee Tanya Borisoff is suddenly abandoned penniless in Rangoon, Burma, by her lover, Tony Evans, who accepted a gunrunning deal from Nick, the owner of an amoral nightclub. Read More »
Broadway Bad (1933) Sidney Lanfield, Joan Blondell, Ricardo Cortez, Ginger Rogers, Drama
Showgirl Joan Blondell, supported by her friend Ginger Rogers, fights for the custody of her son during a divorce hearing. Read More »
Girl in 313 (1940) Ricardo Cortez, Florence Rice, Kent Taylor, Lionel Atwill, Crime, Drama, Romance
A police agent infiltrates a gang of jewel thieves and on the way to finding who the evildoers are, falls in love with a thief. Read More »
Illicit (1931) Archie Mayo, Barbara Stanwyck, James Rennie, Ricardo Cortez, Drama, Romance
Ann, a young lady of scandalously “advanced” ideas, has been living in near-sin with blueblood lover Dick, due to her conviction that marriage will destroy their love. Read More »
Behind Office Doors (1931) Melville W. Brown, Mary Astor, Robert Ames, Ricardo Cortez, Drama, Romance
Mary Linden is the secretary who is the unheralded power behind successful executive James Duneen. He takes her for granted until rival Wales tries to take her away from him.
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Torrent (1926) Monta Bell, Ricardo Cortez, Greta Garbo, Gertrude Olmstead, Drama, Romance
A young girl and her father are kicked out of their house by a cruel noblewoman, and the girl’s heart is broken when her sweetheart, the noblewoman’s son, won’t go to Paris with them. After becoming an opera star in Paris, the girl returns to her homeland and finds her romance with the nobleman rekindled.
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Special Agent (1935) William Keighley, Bette Davis, George Brent, Ricardo Cortez, Crime, Drama
Newspaperman Bill Bradford becomes a special agent for the tax service trying to end the career of racketeer Alexander Carston. Julie Gardner is Carston’s bookkeeper. Bradford enters Carston’s organization and Julie cooperates with him to land Carston in jail. An informer squeals on them. Julie is kidnapped by Carston’s henchmen as she is about to testify.
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Mockery (1927) Benjamin Christensen, Lon Chaney, Barbara Bedford, Ricardo Cortez, Drama, Romance
One of the rare American films directed by Danish auteur Benjamin Christensen, Mockery stars Lon Chaney Sr. as a half-witted Russian peasant. On the verge of starvation, Chaney is hired to guide a beautiful countess (Barbara Bedford) through the treacherous Siberian wastes. Once he arrives at the countess’ home territory, Chaney is swept up by the Bolshevik movement. He comes to despise the aristocracy in general and the countess in particular, but the young woman’s kindness towards him weakens his revolutionary resolve. Long thought lost, Mockery was rediscovered and preserved in the mid-1970s; the film was based on a story by Stig Esbern.
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