The Big Chance 1933  N/R, 63 min.
Genre: Drama / Action / Adventure / Romance
Director: Albert Herman
Cast: John Darrow, Merna Kennedy, Natalie Moorhead, Mickey Rooney, Matthew Betz, Hank Mann, Robert McKenzie, Virginia True Boardman, Frank LaRue, George Chesebro, Jack Mower, George Morrell, Billy Engle, Rose Plumer, Kit Guard
Rocky (John Darrow) wins a boxing match, but it is part of gambler Flash McQuaid's (Mathew Betz) plan. The match was fixed, and McQuaid plans to stage more fixed fights and then have Rocky throw a championship fight. Plans go awry when Rocky meets and falls in love with church-going Mary (Merna Kennedy). Rocky decides to change his ways, but McQuaid has his own plans for Rocky and does not hold back in his efforts to rid Rocky of Mary's influence–he even kidnaps Mary's young brother, Arthur (Mickey Rooney). But, by story's end, all ends happily.
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Call of the Prairie 1936  N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Howard Bretherton
Cast: William Boyd, Muriel Evans, James Ellison, George "Gabby" Hayes, Chester Conklin, Al Bridge, Chill Wills, Hank Mann, Al Hill, Willie Fung
Outlaws are thwarted when Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) sneaks up on them and then convinces them to change their ways.
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 City Lights 1931  N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Charles Chaplin
Cast: Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Harry Myers, Florence Lee, Hank Mann, Jean Harlow, Al Ernest Garcia, T.S. Alexander, Henry Bergman, Eddie McAuliffe, Granville Redman, Willie Keeler, Robert Parrish, Robert Graves, Tom Dempsey
This highly entertaining film is classic Charlie Chaplin fare. The plot involves the Little Tramp's love for a blind, flower girl (Virginia Cherrill). The story involves a comedy of mistaken identities in which an eccentric millionaire (Harry Myers) only recognizes the Little Tramp when he has been drinking. After a night of drinking, the millionaire gives the Little Tramp $1,000 for the flower girl's rent. After a few misadventures involving burglars in the millionaire's home, the Little Tramp gives the flower girl the money to pay for her rent and an eye operation. The operation is performed, and, later, the Little Tramp sees her through her window and shyly smiles. She goes outside and gives him money and a flower. She recognizes him as her benefactor and all ends happily when she tells him, "I can see."
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The Devil Is a Woman 1935  N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Josef von Sternberg
Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Lionel Atwill, Edward Everett Horton, Alison Skipworth, Cesar Romero, Don Alvarado, Tempe Pigott, Francisco Moreno, Hank Mann, Morgan Wallace, Lawrence Grant, Edwin Maxwell
Told in flashbacks, this story involves the memories of Captain Don Pasqual "Pasqualito" Costelar (Lionel Atwill) as he tells young military officer Antonio Galvan (Cesar Romero)–who has just met Concha Perez (Marlene Dietrich)–of the trials and tribulations he suffered when seduced by her many years before. Later that same evening, Pasqual encounters Antonio with Concha and, in a fit of jealousy, challenges him to a duel.
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 Modern Times 1936 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Charles Chaplin
Cast: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Chester Conklin, Tiny Sanford, Hank Mann, Stanley Blystone, Al Ernest Garcia, Murdock MacQuarrie, Richard Alexander, Louis Natheaux, Sammy Stein
This movie was written by, directed by, and stars Charlie Chaplin. It is the last movie of the "Little Tramp" and also Chaplin's last "silent" film–although Chaplin's voice is heard for the first time when he sings a song. The humor is visual and remains timeless as Charlie meets the modern industrial age head-on.
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Sinner's Holiday 1930  N/R, 59 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John G. Adolfi
Cast: Grant Withers, James Cagney, Evalyn Knapp, Joan Blondell, Lucille La Verne, Noel Madison, Otto Hoffman, Warren Hymer, Hank Mann, Purnell Pratt
In this depressing story (James Cagney's first film), gypsies in an amusement park provide the backdrop for murder.
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Spite Marriage 1929 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Edward Sedgwick
Cast: Buster Keaton, Dorothy Sebastian, Edward Earle, Leila Hyams, William Bechtel, John Byron, Hank Mann, Pat Harmon, Edward Brophy, Ray Cooke
Dry cleaner Elmer (Buster Keaton) is infatuated with stage star Trilby (Dorothy Sebastian) and attends all of her performances, elegantly dressed in different "borrowed" clothing for each performance. Thinking that Elmer is rich, after her boyfriend jilts her Trilby marries Elmer to get back at the boyfriend. And the fun begins in Keaton's last silent film.
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| 1. The Big Chance (1933)
2. Call of the Prairie (1936)
3. City Lights (1931)
4. The Devil Is a Woman (1935)
5. Modern Times (1936)
6. Sinner's Holiday (1930)
7. Spite Marriage (1929)
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