The Case of the Howling Dog 1934  N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Alan Crosland
Cast: Warren William, Mary Astor, Allen Jenkins, Grant Mitchell, Helen Trenholme, Helen Lowell, Dorothy Tree, Gordon Westcott, Harry Tyler, Arthur Aylesworth
This is the first film of Erle Stanley Gardner's Perry Mason, and the series continued for five more movies; Warren William stars as our hero defender in the first four. Unlike the sober entries starring Raymond Burr, these are light-hearted, if not as well written and acted. In this episode, Perry gets involved in a family feud that ends up in murder. He amazes all as he identifies the killer in the courtroom.
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Devil and the Deep 1932  N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Marion Gering
Cast: Tallulah Bankhead, Gary Cooper, Charles Laughton, Cary Grant, Paul Porcasi, Juliette Compton, Henry Kolker, Lucien Littlefield, Arthur Hoyt, Gordon Westcott
Everyone pays when a submarine skipper, Commander Sturm (Charles Laughton), suspects that two of his lieutenants (Gary Cooper and Cary Grant) are having affairs with his wife Pauline (Tallulah Bankhead).
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Fashions of 1934 1934   N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Musical
aka: Fashions
Director: William Dieterle
Cast: William Powell, Bette Davis, Frank McHugh, Verree Teasdale, Reginald Owen, Henry O'Neill, Philip Reed, Hugh Herbert, Gordon Westcott, Etienne Girardot
Sherwood Nash (William Powell) and Lynn (Bette Davis) try to pass themselves off as Paris fashion designers.
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Heritage of the Desert 1932 N/R, 62 min.
Genre: Western
aka: When the West Was Young
Director: Henry Hathaway
Cast: Randolph Scott, Sally Blane, J. Farrell MacDonald, David Landau, Gordon Westcott, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Vince Barnett, Susan Fleming, Fred Burns, Charles Stevens, Jack Pennick, Hal Price, Lew Meehan, Merrill McCormick
Rancher Adam Naab (J. Farrell MacDonald) owns land that provides the only way out of the valley, and he won't allow outlaw Judson (David Landau) to drive his stolen cattle through his land. Judson attempts to buy the land without success and resorts to trying to get the land through Adam's son Snap (Gordon Westcott). The stage is set for a showdown with surveyor Jack Hare (Randolph Scott) in the center of the action, which is complicated by Snap's girlfriend Judy (Sally Blane) showing an interest in Jack. This film, based on a Zane Grey story, is Randolph Scott's first starring role.
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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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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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Private Detective 62 1933 N/R, 67 min.
Genre: Mystery
aka: Man Killer
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: William Powell, Margaret Lindsay, Ruth Donnelly, Gordon Westcott, James Bell, Arthur Byron, Arthur Hohl, Irving Bacon, George Brent, Sheila Terry
A former undercover man (William Powell) is hired to frame a gambler (Margaret Lindsay) in Paris. As he sets out to perform his task, he finds himself falling in love with his victim.
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Queen Kelly 1929 N/R, 101 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Erich von Stroheim
Cast: Gloria Swanson, Walter Byron, Seena Owen, Sidney Bracey, Wilhelm von Brincken, Sylvia Ashton, Tully Marshall, Gordon Westcott, Wilson Benge, Florence Gibson
Originally completed in 1929 this film, financed by Gloria Swanson, was not released in the U.S. until it was restored in 1985. A convent inhabitant, Patricia (Swanson), is kidnapped and seduced by the betrothed prince Wolfram (Walter Byron) of mad Queen Regina (Seena Owen), the ruler of a small country in Europe. Wolfram is imprisoned while Patricia eventually inherits a string of brothels from her aunt in East Africa. Patricia marries a lecherous old man, and tragedy eventually follows. A treatise on the degradation of the human race and the last silent film by Erich von Stroheim.
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The Working Man 1933 N/R, 77 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: John G. Adolfi
Cast: George Arliss, Bette Davis, Hardie Albright, J. Farrell MacDonald, Theodore Newton, Gordon Westcott, Charles E. Evans, Frederick Burton, Edward Van Sloan, Claire McDowell
Shoe manufacturer John Reeves (George Arliss) becomes bored with his work after his main competitor dies. He turns the company over to his bratty nephew (Hardie Albright) and heads off on a vacation. He meets the heirs (Bette Davis and Theodore Newton) of the competitor and finds out that the company is in financial trouble. Pretending to be a laborer, John takes a job with the company and turns it around and becomes a competitor with his nephew. In the process, he teaches the heirs a few lessons.
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| 1. The Case of the Howling Dog (1934)
2. Devil and the Deep (1932)
3. Fashions of 1934 (1934)
aka: Fashions
4. Heritage of the Desert (1932)
aka: When the West Was Young
5. Heroes for Sale (1933)
6. Murder in the Clouds (1934)
7. Private Detective 62 (1933)
aka: Man Killer
8. Queen Kelly (1929)
9. The Working Man (1933)
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