Big City Blues 1932 N/R, 65 min. Genre: Drama
Director: Mervyn LeRoy Cast: Joan Blondell, Eric Linden, Inez Courtney, Evalyn Knapp, Humphrey Bogart, Guy Kibbee, Lyle Talbot, Walter Catlett, Grant Mitchell, J. Carrol Naish, Jobyna Howland, Ned Sparks, Inez Courtney, Thomas E. Jackson, Walter Percival
When Bud Reeves (Eric Linden), from Indiana, experiences a three-day visit to NYC, he finds both love with chorus girl Vida Fleet (Joan Blondell) and a murder in his hotel room on his itinerary.
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Dixiana 1930 N/R, 99 min. Genre: Musical / Comedy
Director: Luther Reed Cast: Bebe Daniels, Everett Marshall, Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Joseph Cawthorn, Jobyna Howland, Dorothy Lee, Ralf Harolde, Bill Robinson, Eddy Chandler, Eugene Jackson, Robert Livingston
The popular comedy team of Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey star as Peewee and Gaylord bringing comedy relief to this musical starring Bebe Daniels as their sister who is about to marry a wealthy Southern plantation heir (Everett Marshall).
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Hook, Line and Sinker 1930 N/R, 75 min. Genre: Comedy
Director: Edward F. Cline Cast: Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Dorothy Lee, Ralf Harolde, Jobyna Howland, Natalie Moorhead, Hugh Herbert, George F. Marion, William B. Davidson, Stanley Fields
Wilbur and Addington (Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey) come to the aid of Mary (Dorothy Lee) by helping fix up her inherited, run-down hotel despite the objections of her mother who wants Mary to wed rich lawyer John (Ralf Harolde). The hotel becomes successful, but rival gangs find it as a place to do business, and John is associated with one of them. One of several films made by the comedy team of Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey.
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Topaze 1933 N/R, 80 min. Genre: Drama
Director: Harry d'Abbadie D'Arrast Cast: John Barrymore, Myrna Loy, Albert Conti, Luis Alberni, Reginald Mason, Jackie Searl, Frank Reicher, Jobyna Howland, Lowden Adams, Rolfe Sedan
Based on Marcel Pagnot's satire, this is the story of a timid French schoolteacher, Auguste Topaze (John Barrymore), who is duped into keeping silent about an unscrupulous scam being perpetrated by the Baron de Lateur (Reginald Mason). This film was later remade as "I Like Money" a.k.a. "I Like Money."
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| 1. Big City Blues (1932)
2. Dixiana (1930)
3. Hook, Line and Sinker (1930)
4. Topaze (1933)
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