Abilene Town 1946  N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Edwin L. Marin
Cast: Randolph Scott, Ann Dvorak, Edgar Buchanan, Rhonda Fleming, Lloyd Bridges, Helen Boyce, Howard Freeman, Richard Hale, Jack Lambert, Dick Curtis
When a range war rages in 1879 as homesteaders and cattlemen clash, Marshal Dan Mitchell (Randolph Scott) arrives on the scene to try to settle the dispute over land rights.
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Blind Alley 1939  N/R, 71 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Charles Vidor
Cast: Chester Morris, Ralph Bellamy, Ann Dvorak, Joan Perry, Melville Cooper, Rosa Stradner, John Eldredge, Marc Lawrence, Ann Doran, Scotty Beckett
This is a psychological drama about a psychiatrist (Ralph Bellamy) outwitting an escaped convict who is holding him prisoner. This film was remade in 1948 as "The Dark Past."
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The Case of the Stuttering Bishop 1937  N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: William Clemens
Cast: Donald Woods, Ann Dvorak, Anne Nagel, Linda Perry, Craig Reynolds, Gordon Oliver, Joseph Crehan, Helen MacKellar, Edward McWade, Mira McKinney
Donald Woods takes on the role of Perry Mason in this final, and weakest, entry in the series. A bishop asks Perry to take the case of finding the real heir to a rich man's estate, contending that the current heir may be an impostor. After the rich man is murdered, Perry's job grows more difficult.
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College Coach 1933 N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William A. Wellman
Cast: Dick Powell, Ann Dvorak, Pat O'Brien, Arthur Byron, Lyle Talbot, Hugh Herbert, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Donald Meek, John Wayne, Ward Bond
Corruption in college sports is part of the theme of this film in which Phil Sargent (Dick Powell) is a young chemistry major AND football player who wins the big game for Coach Gore (Pat O'Brien). Watch for USC player John Wayne in a bit part.
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Flame of Barbary Coast 1945  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Joseph Kane
Cast: John Wayne, Ann Dvorak, Joseph Schildkraut, William Frawley, Virginia Grey, Butterfly McQueen, Paul Fix, Marc Lawrence, Russell Hicks, Jack Norton
Montana rancher Duke Fergus (John Wayne) goes to San Francisco where he confronts the famous San Francisco earthquake AND a love affair with saloon singer Flaxen Tarry (Ann Dvorak).
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G-Men 1935  N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William Keighley
Cast: James Cagney, Margaret Lindsay, Ann Dvorak, Robert Armstrong, Lloyd Nolan, Regis Toomey, Harold Huber, Raymond Hatton, Marc Lawrence, Barton MacLane, William Harrigan, Russell Hopton, Edward Pawley, Monte Blue, Addison Richards
James Cagney plays a good guy is this movie, which is perhaps William Keighley's best directing job. The plot follows the adventures of James "Brick" Davis (Cagney), a lawyer whose education was financed by crime boss "Mack" McKay (William Harrigan). Brick's roommate Eddie (Regis Toomey) becomes an F.B.I. agent but is later killed by gangster Danny Leggett (Edward Pawley) in a gang shooting. Now, Brick joins the F.B.I. as an agent where he is looked upon with suspicion because of his background ties to McKay. Nevertheless, Brick sets out to avenge the death of Eddie and follows a trail of murders that extends from New York to the Midwest. Based on Gregory Miller's book "Public Enemy No. 1."
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Housewife 1934  N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Alfred E. Green
Cast: George Brent, Bette Davis, Ann Dvorak, Ruth Donnelly, John Halliday, Hobart Cavanaugh, Robert Barrat, Jonathan Hale, Joseph Cawthorn, Phil Regan, Willard Robertson, Leila Bennett, Harry Tyler, Charles Coleman
When George (George Brent) leaves his wife Nan (Ann Dvorak) for Patricia (Bette Davis), he finds that life is still not a bed of roses. Rare weak effort by top stars.
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A Life of Her Own 1950 N/R, 108 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: George Cukor
Cast: Lana Turner, Ray Milland, Tom Ewell, Louis Calhern, Ann Dvorak, Barry Sullivan, Margaret Phillips, Jean Hagen, Phyllis Kirk, Sara Haden
Fashion model Lily Brannel James (Lana Turner) becomes the mistress of married man Steve Harleigh (Ray Milland) but leaves him when she learns that his wife is an invalid.
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The Long Night 1947 N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Anatole Litvak
Cast: Henry Fonda, Barbara Bel Geddes, Vincent Price, Ann Dvorak, Elisha Cook Jr., Moroni Olsen, Will Wright, Queenie Smith, Mary Gordon, Byron Foulger
When Maximilian, a magician (Vincent Price), causes Joe's girlfriend (Barbara Bel Geddes) to leave him, Joe (Henry Fonda) kills Maximilian. Told in flashback, the girlfriend tries to talk Joe into surrendering to the police.
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Manhattan Merry-Go-Round 1937 N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Charles Reisner
Cast: Leo Carrillo, Ann Dvorak, James Gleason, Luis Alberni, Smiley Burnette, Selmer Jackson, Moroni Olsen, Max Terhune, Gene Autry, Cab Calloway
There are plenty of songs and performers in this musical comedy. The storyline involves bad guys taking over a record company and forcing performers to do their thing, but problems ensue.
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Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone 1950 N/R, 69 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Norman Taurog
Cast: Marjorie Main, James Whitmore, Ann Dvorak, Phyllis Kirk, Fred Clark, Dorothy Malone, Willard Waterman, Don Porter, Clinton Sandberg, Douglas Fowley
When lawyer John J. Malone's (James Whitmore) client is murdered, he teams up with Hattie O'Malley (Marjorie Main), and, together, they solve the crime.
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Murder in the Clouds 1934 N/R, 61 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: D. Ross Lederman
Cast: Lyle Talbot, Ann Dvorak, Gordon Westcott, Robert Light, George Cooper, Charles C. Wilson, Henry O'Neill, Russell Hicks, Arthur Pierson, Edward McWade, Clay Clement, Eddie Shubert
Everything that can go wrong does when hotshot airline pilot Bob "Three Star" (Lyle Talbot) is hired to fly a scientist with a new explosive to Washington, D.C.
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Our Very Own 1950 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: David Miller
Cast: Ann Blyth, Farley Granger, Joan Evans, Jane Wyatt, Ann Dvorak, Donald Cook, Natalie Wood, Phyllis Kirk, Martin Milner, Gus Schilling
As a young adult Gail discovers that she was adopted and must deal with her feelings toward her birth mother as well as her adoptive parents.
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Out of the Blue 1947 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Leigh Jason
Cast: Virginia Mayo, George Brent, Turhan Bey, Ann Dvorak, Carole Landis, Elizabeth Patterson, Julia Dean, Richard Lane, Charles Smith, Paul Harvey
George Brent plays a happily married husband who knows he will never be able to explain to his out-of-town wife why he has an unconscious woman in their apartment.
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 Scarface 1932 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Drama / Action
aka: Scarface, The Shame of the Nation
Director: Howard Hawks, Richard Rosson
Cast: Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, George Raft, Boris Karloff, Tully Marshall, Maurice Black, Paul Fix, Vince Barnett, Karen Morley, Osgood Perkins, C. Henry Gordon, Purnell Pratt, Inez Palange, Edwin Maxwell, Henry Armetta
Paul Muni is excellent as Roaring Twenties' gangster Antonio "Tony" Camonte in this film modeled after Al Capone's criminal activities in the world of bootleg gin as he fights to overtake the other mobster leaders in the city
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The Secret of Convict Lake 1951 N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Michael Gordon
Cast: Glenn Ford, Ethel Barrymore, Gene Tierney, Zachary Scott, Ann Dvorak, Barbara Bates, Ruth Donnelly, Cyril Cusack, Richard Hylton, Helen Westcott
In the 1870s, a group of convicts escape and hide out in a small California community of women.
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Sky Devils 1932 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: A. Edward Sutherland
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Ann Dvorak, William "Stage" Boyd, George Cooper, Billy Bevan, Yola D'Avril, William B. Davidson, Walter Catlett, Paul Fix, John Miljan, Forrester Harvey
Two ex-lifeguards (Spencer Tracy and William Boyd) try to live on the lighter side of life while evading action as pilots in World War I.
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Thanks a Million 1935 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Musical / Comedy / Romance
Director: Roy Del Ruth
Cast: Dick Powell, Ann Dvorak, Fred Allen, Patsy Kelly, Raymond Walburn, David Rubinoff, Benny Baker, Andrew Tombes, Alan Dinehart, Paul Harvey, Edwin Maxwell, Margaret Irving, Charles Richman, Lynn Bari, Harry Stubbs
Eric Land (Dick Powell) is the leading man in a traveling musical show whose manager Ned Lyman (Fred Allen) talks him into taking the place of an alcoholic candidate and running for the office of Governor of Pennsylvania. The campaigning proves disastrous for Eric's relationship with his girlfriend Sally (Ann Dvorak), and Eric wants out of politics. However, the people now love Eric, and he wins the election–and Sally as well.
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This Modern Age 1931 N/R, 76 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Nick Grinde
Cast: Joan Crawford, Pauline Frederick, Neil Hamilton, Monroe Owsley, Hobart Bosworth, Emma Dunn, Albert Conti, Marjorie Rambeau, Ann Dvorak, Adrienne D'Ambricourt, Marcelle Corday
Debutante Valentine (Joan Crawford) is reunited with her mother in Paris where she becomes the object of romantic attention from two men.
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Three on a Match 1932 N/R, 63 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: Joan Blondell, Warren William, Ann Dvorak, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Lyle Talbot, Patricia Ellis, Sheila Terry, Grant Mitchell, Clara Blandick, Virginia Davis, Anne Shirley, Betty Carse, Allen Jenkins, Edward Arnold
Schoolmates from the past–actress Mary Keaton (Joan Blondell), high-society matron Vivian Revere (Ann Dvorak), and Ruth Westcott (Bette Davis)–meet at a restaurant and use one match to light their cigarettes. Over the next years, Vivian divorces Henry (Warren William), leaves her baby son with him, and marries gambler Mike (Lyle Talbot). Mary marries Henry, and Ruth works as the baby's governess. By now, Vivian is a drug addict and alcoholic and has become involved in a plot to kidnap her own son when her husband Mike hires "Harve the Mug" (Humphrey Bogart) to perform the kidnapping. During the kidnapping, both Vivian and her son are taken captive, but Vivian jumps out of a window, and the police rescue her son.
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The Walls of Jericho 1948 N/R, 111 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John M. Stahl
Cast: Cornel Wilde, Linda Darnell, Anne Baxter, Kirk Douglas, Ann Dvorak, Marjorie Rambeau, Henry Hull, Barton MacLane, Colleen Townsend
Small-town life in Jericho, Kansas is NOT what Dave (Cornel Wilde) wants for himself. His wife belittles his dreams, but his law partner's wife apparently understands his unhappiness and comes to the rescue.
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The Way to Love 1933 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Norman Taurog
Cast: Maurice Chevalier, Ann Dvorak, Edward Everett Horton, Arthur Pierson, Minna Gombell, Douglass Dumbrille, John Miljan, Sidney Toler, Blanche Friderici, George Regas
Street vendor Francois (Maurice Chevalier) becomes involved with Madeleine (Ann Dvorak) after she leaves the circus and her partner.
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| 1. Abilene Town (1946)
2. Blind Alley (1939)
3. The Case of the Stuttering Bishop (1937)
4. College Coach (1933)
5. The Crowd Roars (1932)
6. Flame of Barbary Coast (1945)
7. G-Men (1935)
8. Housewife (1934)
9. A Life of Her Own (1950)
10. The Long Night (1947)
11. Love Is a Racket (1932)
12. Manhattan Merry-Go-Round (1937)
13. Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone (1950)
14. Murder in the Clouds (1934)
15. Our Very Own (1950)
16. Out of the Blue (1947)
17. Scarface (1932)
aka: Scarface, The Shame of the Nation
18. The Secret of Convict Lake (1951)
19. Sky Devils (1932)
20. Thanks a Million (1935)
21. This Modern Age (1931)
22. Three on a Match (1932)
23. The Walls of Jericho (1948)
24. Way Out West (1930)
25. The Way to Love (1933)
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