Big Town After Dark 1947  N/R, 69 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama
aka: Underworld After Dark
Director: William C. Thomas
Cast: Philip Reed, Hillary Brooke, Richard Travis, Ann Gillis, Vince Barnett, Joe Sawyer, Robert Kent, Charles Arnt, Joseph Allen, William Haade, Arthur Space, Richard Keene
When Susan (Ann Gillis), the niece of a newspaper publisher (Richard Travis), gets in over her head gambling, her uncle is blackmailed by gambling racketeers. Crusading newspaper editor-in-chief Steve Wilson (Philip Reed) and police reporter Lorelei Kilbourne (Hillary Brooke) jump on the trail of the mobsters involved.
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Lucky Night 1939  N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Norman Taurog
Cast: Myrna Loy, Robert Taylor, Joseph Allen, Henry O'Neill, Charles(2) Lane, Marjorie Main, Irving Bacon, Douglas Fowley
Wealthy Cora Jordan (Myrna Loy) marries a poor poet, Bill Overton (Robert Taylor), and problems mount over their different needs for social lives. No, thanks.
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My Son, the Hero 1943  N/R, 66 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer
Cast: Patsy Kelly, Roscoe Karns, Joan Blair, Carol Hughes, Max "Slapsie Maxie" Rosenbloom, Luis Alberni, Joseph Allen, Lois Collier, Jeni Le Gon, Nick Stewart, Hal Price, Al St. John, Maxine Leslie
Con-man "Big Time" Morgan (Roscoe Karns) has lied to his war correspondent son, Michael (Joseph Allen), by telling him he is a wealthy businessman. Now, Michael is coming to visit his father, and "Big Time"–with help from ex-wife Gerty (Patsy Kelly) and prize fighter Kid Slug (Max "Slapsie Maxie" Rosenbloom)–gets his hands not only a mansion but a family as well, thus increasing his chances of pulling off the deception.
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Our Leading Citizen 1939 N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Alfred Santell
Cast: Bob Burns, Susan Hayward, Joseph Allen, Gene Lockhart, Charles Bickford, Elizabeth Patterson, Clarence Kolb, Paul Guilfoyle, Fay Helm, Kathleen Lockhart
A young lawyer, Clay (Joseph Allen), returns to his hometown to work with his deceased father's partner, Lem (Bob Burns). Lem's daughter, Judith (Susan Hayward), and Clay hit it off, but when he starts representing a factory owner who suppresses his workers for the sake of more money for himself, problems loom on the horizon.
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| 1. Big Town After Dark (1947)
aka: Underworld After Dark
2. Lucky Night (1939)
3. My Son, the Hero (1943)
4. Our Leading Citizen (1939)
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