Dames 1934  N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Musical / Comedy
Director: Ray Enright
Cast: Joan Blondell, Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Zasu Pitts, Hugh Herbert, Guy Kibbee, Arthur Vinton, Sammy Fain, Phil Regan, Arthur Aylesworth, Johnny Arthur, Leila Bennett, Berton Churchill
Multi-millionaire Ezra Ounce (Hugh Herbert) leads his friends and family in a campagne for "the preservation of America's Morals." Meanwhile, his distant cousin, Jimmy (Dick Powell), is producing a show in what Ezra believes to be "the demon world of the theater" starring Ezra's niece Barbara (Ruby Keeler). Ezra's solution: hire thugs to wreck the show, and mayhem ensues.
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Gambling Lady 1934  N/R, 66 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Archie Mayo
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Pat O'Brien, Claire Dodd, Joel McCrea, C. Aubrey Smith, Arthur Treacher, Philip Reed, Robert Barrat, Arthur Vinton, Ferdinand Gottschalk
Barbara plays the cardsharp daughter of a gambler who proves her honesty when her wealthy husband (Joel McCrea) gets into trouble.
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Gambling Ship 1933  N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Louis J. Gasnier, Max Marcin
Cast: Cary Grant, Benita Hume, Roscoe Karns, Glenda Farrell, Jack La Rue, Arthur Vinton, Charles Williams, Edwin Maxwell, Frank Moran, Spencer Charters
This is a limp story of a gambler, Ace (Cary Grant), who poses as a businessman on a train. He meets Eleanor (Benita Hume), who is posing as a socialite but is really the mistress for a man who owns a failing gambling ship. She convinces Ace to buy the ship in order to get business from Pete (Jack La Rue), an enemy of Ace. Some fine moments and LaRue is a great villain.
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Heroes for Sale 1933 N/R, 73 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William A. Wellman
Cast: Richard Barthelmess, Loretta Young, Aline MacMahon, Gordon Westcott, Robert Barrat, Grant Mitchell, Charley Grapewin, Douglass Dumbrille, Ward Bond, Frank Darien, Berton Churchill, Robert McWade, G. Pat Collins, Margaret Seddon, Arthur Vinton
As the country heads for the Great Depression in 1929, Tom and Ruth Holmes (Richard Barthelmess and Loretta Young) manage to cope with Tom's morphine addiction that he got while recuperating from an injury suffered during World War I. Tom is treated and released from an asylum and finds work at a laundry. He becomes friends with Max Brinker (Robert Barrat) who has invented a washing machine, and they form a partnership. Later, the machines put Tom and his coworkers out of business, which results in a riot during which Ruth is killed. By story's end, Tom has donated his fortune from the washing machine business to Mary (Aline MacMahon) so that she can feed the hungry during the Depression, and Tom is out roaming the streets looking for a job.
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Picture Snatcher 1933 N/R, 77 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Cast: James Cagney, Patricia Ellis, Alice White, Ralph Bellamy, Ralf Harolde, Robert Emmett O'Connor, Robert Barrat, G. Pat Collins, Tom Wilson, Renee Whitney, Arthur Vinton, Gino Corrado, Don Brodie, Sterling Holloway, George Chandler
After his release from prison, gangster Danny Kean (James Cagney) decides to go straight. He talks to his friend, newspaper editor Al McLean (Ralph Bellamy), who gets him a job as a tabloid photographer after he takes pictures of a fireman in the process of murdering his wife and lover. Now, Al's girlfriend Allison (Alice White) falls for Danny, but he falls in love with Patricia (Patricia Ellis) who happens to be the daughter of police Lt. Casey Nolan (Robert Emmett O'Connor) who had put him in jail. Danny continues to get unique pictures, including one of a woman dying in the electric chair that was facilitated by Casey. Problems develop when one of Danny's former gang members (Ralf Harolde) enters the scene, but Danny manages to save the day. Fast paced and has its funny moments.
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Red Salute 1935 N/R, 77 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Her Enlisted Man
Runaway Daughter
Her Uncle Sam
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Young, Hardie Albright, Cliff Edwards, Ruth Donnelly, Gordon Jones, Purnell Pratt, Paul Stanton, Nella Walker, Arthur Vinton
Drue Van Allen (Barbara Stanwyck) is a college student and daughter of an Army general (Purnell Pratt). She is swayed in the liberal direction by one suitor and in the conservative direction by another.
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The Viking 1931 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama
Director: Varick Frissell, George Melford
Cast: Bob Bartlett, Louise Huntington, Charles Starrett, Arthur Vinton, Wilfred Grenfell
Seal hunter Jed (Arthur Vinton) coerces the town jinx Luke (Charles Starrett) into going with him on an expedition off the Newfoundland coast aboard The Viking, which is commanded by Capt. Barker (Bob Bartlett). They join a hunting party on the ice floes where Jed tries to kill Luke. But, Jed is blinded by the snow, and Luke helps him find his way back to safety on the boat. Jed regains his sight and, from that moment on, becomes Luke's loyal defender.
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| 1. Dames (1934)
2. Gambling Lady (1934)
3. Gambling Ship (1933)
4. Heroes for Sale (1933)
5. Picture Snatcher (1933)
6. Red Salute (1935)
aka: Her Enlisted Man
aka: Runaway Daughter
aka: Her Uncle Sam
7. The Viking (1931)
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