American Madness 1932  N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Frank Capra
Cast: Walter Huston, Pat O'Brien, Kay Johnson, Constance Cummings, Gavin Gordon, Arthur Hoyt, Robert Emmett O'Connor, Sterling Holloway, Walter Walker, Robert Ellis
During the 1890s depression, bank president Thomas Dickson (Walter Huston) is at odds with his board members who want to merge with Union Bank. One day the bank is robbed, and chief teller Matt Brown (Pat O'Brien) is accused of the theft. Brown has an alibi, but his loyalty to Dickson stands in his way of using it.
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The Bat 1959  N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Crane Wilbur
Cast: Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead, Gavin Gordon, John Sutton, Lenita Lane, Darla Hood, John Bryant, Harvey Stephens, Mike Steele, Elaine Edwards
Adapted from Mary Roberts Rinehart's novel, this is the story of mystery writer Cornelia Van Gorder's (Agnes Moorehead) experiences after she rents a country mansion in which one million dollars in securities are hidden. A hooded killer "The Bat" wants those securities and will murder anyone who gets in his way. Mysterious and dangerous events ensue as the local police detective (Gavin Gordon) investigates–but there is more to the detective than meets the eye.
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 Black Beauty 1933  N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Phil Rosen
Cast: Esther Ralston, Alexander Kirkland, Hale Hamilton, Gavin Gordon, Don Alvarado, George Walsh, Theodore Lorch, Eddie Fetherston, Al Bridge, John Larkin, Bruce Covington
Black Beauty has been raised by the loving Cameron family and is being trained to run in the steeplechase race. But, after a series of problems, the Camerons are forced to sell Black Beauty. The cruel Captain Jordan (Gavin Gordon) purchases the horse and then mistreats it. But, Henry Cameron (Alexander Kirkland) recovers the horse and brings love back into Black Beauty's life–and his own as he now will live happily ever after with Leila (Esther Ralston). Based on Anna Sewell's classic novel.
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 Bordertown 1935 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Archie Mayo
Cast: Paul Muni, Bette Davis, Margaret Lindsay, Eugene Pallette, Robert Barrat, Soledad Jimenez, Gavin Gordon, Henry O'Neill, Hobart Cavanaugh, Samuel S. Hinds
Marie (Bette Davis) kills her husband (Robert Barrat) because she thinks she is in love with Johnny Ramirez (Paul Muni). When Johnny spurns her advances, Marie frames him for the murder. Fortunately for Johnny, Marie breaks down on the witness stand and he becomes a free man.
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The Bride of Frankenstein 1935  N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Horror / Sci-Fi / Horror / Romance
Director: James Whale
Cast: Colin Clive, Boris Karloff, Ernest Thesiger, Elsa Lanchester, Valerie Hobson, O.P. Heggie, Una O'Connor, E.E. Clive, Walter Brennan, John Carradine, Gavin Gordon, Douglas Walton, Lucien Prival, Dwight Frye
In Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein," Dr. Frankenstein considers making a bride for his monster and then realizes the folly of his idea. But in this sequel, Dr. Frankenstein (Colin Clive) is coerced into creating a female companion (Elsa Lanchester) for his monster (Boris Karloff).
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Female 1933 N/R, 60 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Ruth Chatterton, George Brent, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Philip Faversham, Ruth Donnelly, Johnny Mack Brown, Lois Wilson, Philip Reed, Rafaela Ottiano, Douglass Dumbrille, Gavin Gordon, Kenneth Thomson, Spencer Charters
A hard-working executive, Alison Drake (Ruth Chatterton), works long hours at her automobile factory–until Jim Thorne (George Brent) comes along and shows her that all work makes Alison a dull girl.
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Hard to Handle 1933 N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: James Cagney, Mary Brian, Ruth Donnelly, Allen Jenkins, Claire Dodd, Gavin Gordon, Emma Dunn, Robert McWade, Douglass Dumbrille, Matt McHugh
Lefty Merrill (Cagney) is a press agent/con artist who gets into a number of humorous situations, including a get-rich-quick dance marathon. Lots of wisecracking.
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His First Command 1929  N/R, 61 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Gregory LaCava
Cast: William Boyd, Dorothy Sebastian, Gavin Gordon, Helen Parrish, Howard C. Hickman, Alphonse Ethier, Paul Hurst, Charles R. Moore, Jules Cowles, Mabel Van Buren
Unable to get the attention of a colonel's daughter (Dorothy Sebastian), a playboy (William Boyd) enlists in the army to gain her affections.
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The Matchmaker 1958 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Joseph Anthony
Cast: Shirley Booth, Anthony Perkins, Shirley MacLaine, Paul Ford, Robert Morse, Wallace Ford, Perry Wilson, Russell Collins, Rex Evans, Gavin Gordon, Torben Meyer, Bess Flowers
This forerunner of the musical "Hello, Dolly" stars Shirley Booth as matchmaker Dolly Levi who falls in love with Horace Vandergelder (Paul Ford). Anthony Perkins and Shirley MacLaine play the young couple, Cornelius Hackl and Irene Malloy, who Dolly has matched.
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Murder by Invitation 1941 N/R, 67 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Phil Rosen
Cast: Wallace Ford, Marian Marsh, Sarah Padden, Gavin Gordon, George Guhl, Wallis Clark, Minerva Urecal, Arthur Young, Herb Vigran, Hazel Keener, Phillip Trent, Dave O'Brien
Knowing that her greedy relatives can't wait to get her money, Aunt Cassie (Sarah Padden) invites the family to her estate for a family reunion. Also along for the evening's events are reporter Bob White (Wallace Ford) and his girl Friday, Nora O'Brien (Marian Marsh). At the stroke of midnight, a guest is murdered, and more murders follow in this mystery/comedy.
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Mystery of the Wax Museum 1933 N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell, Frank McHugh, Allen Vincent, Arthur Edmund Carewe, Gavin Gordon, Edwin Maxwell, Holmes Herbert, DeWitt Jennings
Following his hideous disfigurement in a fire at his London wax museum, the owner relocates to America where he opens a new museum. This time his figures are his own murder victims encased in wax. This is the first horror film not set in the usual old, gloomy manse and was remade with Vincent Price in the lead as "House of Wax."
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Notorious 1946 N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern, Leopoldine Konstantin, Reinhold Schunzel, Moroni Olsen, Ivan Triesault, Wally Brown, Gavin Gordon, Alex Minotis, Fay Baker, Antonio Moreno, Friedrich von Ledebur, Charles D. Brown
During World War II, American agent Devlin (Cary Grant) heads to Rio De Janeiro where he works with Alice Huberman (Ingrid Bergman), who is the daughter of a convicted spy. Together, they track down Nazi secrets after she marries German businessman Alexander Sebastian (Claude Rains), and Alice and Devlin find Uranium hidden in Sebastian's cellar. This is one of Alfred Hitchcock's best movies. The film received two Academy Award nominations, including Best Supporting Actor (Rains).
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Paper Bullets 1941 N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
aka: Gangs, Inc.
Crime, Inc
Director: Phil Rosen
Cast: Joan Woodbury, Jack La Rue, Linda Ware, John Archer, Vince Barnett, Alan Ladd, Gavin Gordon, William Halligan, George Pembroke, Selmer Jackson, Phillip Trent, Kenneth Harlan, Bryant Washburn, Alden "Stephen" Chase, Robert Strange
Rita Adams (Joan Woodbury) had been raised in an orphanage with fellow orphans Bob Elliot and Mickey Roma (John Archer and Jack La Rue). As an adult, Rita takes the rap for wealthy playboy Harold's (Phillip Trent) hit-and-run crime and ends up in jail. When she is released from prison, Rita determines to get vengeance against Harold's father Clarence (George Pembroke) who was responsible for her being sent to prison. Meanwhile, her childhood friend Bob is now an undercover agent trying to snare mobster Mickey, and Rita is the key to his investigation. Rita rises to power in the criminal world but ends up back in prison; however, this time her childhood sweetheart Bob promises to be waiting when she is released.
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Philo Vance's Gamble 1947 N/R, 62 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Basil Wrangell
Cast: Alan Curtis, Vivian Austin, Frank Jenks, Tala Birell, Gavin Gordon, Cliff Clark, James Burke, Toni Todd, Joseph Crehan, Grady Sutton, Dan Seymour, Francis Pierlot
Alan Curtis takes on the role of super sleuth Philo Vance in this entry in the series. A valuable emerald is stolen, followed by a series of murders. Vance is called in to help, is soon immersed in an international smuggling ring but, of course, is able to sort through the suspects and come up with the killer.
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The Scarlet Empress 1934  N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Josef von Sternberg
Cast: Marlene Dietrich, John Lodge, Sam Jaffe, Louise Dresser, C. Aubrey Smith, Gavin Gordon, Olive Tell, Jameson Thomas, Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, Ruthelma Stevens, Davison Clark, Erville Alderson, Maria Riva, Akim Tamiroff
To improve the royal bloodline, the Empress Elizabeth (Louise Dresser) of Russia imports German Princess Sophia (Marlene Dietrich) as the bride for her dull-witted son, the Grand Duke Peter (Sam Jaffe). When the Empress dies, Sophia leads her troops to the palace and ascends to the throne as Catherine the Great. While this story is not historically accurate, it represents one of the best biographical efforts of the 1930s.
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The Silver Horde 1930 N/R, 76 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: George Archainbaud
Cast: Evelyn Brent, Louis Wolheim, Jean Arthur, Raymond Hatton, Joel McCrea, Blanche Sweet, Gavin Gordon, Purnell Pratt, William B. Davidson, Ivan Linow
Boyd Emerson (Joel McCrea) and Freddie Marsh (Gavin Gordon) vie not only for the hand of wealthy Cherry Malotte (Evelyn Brent) but for her Alaskan salmon fishing business as well.
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Suspicion 1941 N/R, 99 min.
Genre: Mystery / Thriller
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce, Dame May Whitty, Isabel Jeans, Heather Angel, Reginald Sheffield, Leo G. Carroll, Constance Worth, Auriol Lee, Billy Bevan, Gavin Gordon, Lumsden Hare, Alfred Hitchcock
Timid Lina (Joan Fontaine) marries Johnnie Aysgarth (Cary Grant). Although deeply in love with Johnnie, Lina begins to piece together evidence that she is her husband's intended murder victim. Joan Fontaine won the Best Actress Academy Award for her performance in this film, and a nomination was received for Best Picture.
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They Gave Him a Gun 1937 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Franchot Tone, Gladys George, Edgar Dearing, Mary Treen, Cliff Edwards, Charles Trowbridge, Joe Sawyer, George Chandler, Gavin Gordon
Returning home after duty in World War I, Jimmy (Franchot Tone), has trouble adapting to civilian life and becomes involved with gangsters until his friend, Fred (Spencer Tracy), finally convinces him to turn his life around.
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Windjammer 1937 N/R, 60 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Ewing Scott
Cast: George O'Brien, Constance Worth, William Hall, Brandon Evans, Gavin Gordon, Stanley Blystone, Lal Chand Mehra, Ben Hendricks Jr., Lee Shumway, Sam Flint, Frank Hagney
Assistant District Attorney Lane (George O'Brien) boards a commodore's (Brandon Evans) yacht in order to serve a summons on the powerful Naval officer. But, when the yacht is attacked by gunrunners, Lane steps in to save passengers and crew.
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| 1. American Madness (1932)
2. The Bat (1959)
3. The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933)
4. Black Beauty (1933)
5. Bordertown (1935)
6. The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
7. Female (1933)
8. Hard to Handle (1933)
9. His First Command (1929)
10. The Matchmaker (1958)
11. Murder by Invitation (1941)
12. Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
13. Notorious (1946)
14. Paper Bullets (1941)
aka: Gangs, Inc.
aka: Crime, Inc
15. Philo Vance's Gamble (1947)
16. The Scarlet Empress (1934)
17. The Silver Horde (1930)
18. Suspicion (1941)
19. They Gave Him a Gun (1937)
20. Windjammer (1937)
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