Arsene Lupin 1932  N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Jack Conway
Cast: John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Karen Morley, John Miljan, Tully Marshall, Henry Armetta, George Davis, John Davidson, James T. Mack
In their first joint screen appearance, John and Lionel Barrymore play a gentleman rogue, Arsene Lupin (John), and the French detective, Guerchard (Lionel), who is hot on Arsene Lupin's trail.
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Beloved Enemy 1936 N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: H.C. Potter
Cast: Merle Oberon, Brian Aherne, Karen Morley, Jerome Cowan, David Niven, Henry Stephenson, Donald Crisp, Theodore von Eltz, David Torrence, Don "Red" Barry
An English woman, Helen Drummond (Merle Oberon), and an Irish insurrectionist, Dennis Riordan (Brian Aherne), are in love, but political problems threaten their romance.
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Black Fury 1935 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Paul Muni, Karen Morley, William Gargan, Barton MacLane, John Qualen, J. Carrol Naish, Vince Barnett, Henry O'Neill, Ward Bond, Akim Tamiroff
An immigrant coal miner, Joe Radek (Paul Muni), becomes embroiled in battles between unionists and those who oppose labor protection.
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The Crime Doctor 1934  N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John S. Robertson
Cast: Nils Asther, G. Pat Collins, Frank Conroy, Donald Crisp, William Frawley, Samuel S. Hinds, Fred Kelsey, Otto Kruger, J. Farrell MacDonald, Karen Morley
A detective seeks to commit the perfect crime. He suspects his wife of having an affair and kills a woman who is blackmailing the suspected man involved in the affair. However, this doesn't solve the problem in this tragic tale.
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 Dinner at Eight 1933 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: George Cukor
Cast: Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow, Lionel Barrymore, Lee Tracy, Edmund Lowe, Billie Burke, Jean Hersholt, Madge Evans, Karen Morley, Louise Closser Hale, Phillips Holmes, May Robson, Grant Mitchell
Millicent Jordan (Billie Burke) arranges a dinner party that she believes will help her husband Oliver's (Lionel Barrymore) career. Among the guests are business executive Dan Packard (Wallace Beery) and his wife Kitty (Jean Harlow) who just happens to be having an affair with another guest, Dr. Wayne Talbot (Edmund Lowe). Also at the dinner party are matinee idol Larry Renault (John Barrymore), who is involved with the Jordans' daughter Paula (Madge Evans), and aging stage actress Carlotta (Marie Dressler). The personal lives of the guests at this dinner party are scrutinized, and the result is a highly entertaining, sophisticated comedy.
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Flesh 1932 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Ford
Cast: Wallace Beery, Ricardo Cortez, Karen Morley, Jean Hersholt, John Miljan, Vince Barnett, Herman Bing, Edward Brophy, Ward Bond, Nat Pendleton
A German wrestler (Wallace Beery) comes to America to seek fame in the ring but falls for a mobster's girlfriend, Lora (Karen Morley), which results in major problems.
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Framed 1947   N/R, 81 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Richard Wallace
Cast: Glenn Ford, Janis Carter, Barry Sullivan, Edgar Buchanan, Karen Morley, Barbara Woodell, Sid Tomack, Al Bridge, Stanley Andrews, Walter Baldwin
After being setup by Paula Craig (Janis Carter), Mike Lambert (Glenn Ford) finds himself accused of murder and robbery.
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The Healer 1935  N/R, 76 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Little Pal
Director: Reginald Barker
Cast: Ralph Bellamy, Karen Morley, Mickey Rooney, Judith Allen, Robert McWade, Bruce Warren, J. Farrell MacDonald, Vessie Farrell
While wealthy Dr. Holden (Ralph Bellamy) and his assistant, Evelyn Allen (Karen Morley), help polio-stricken Jimmy (Mickey Rooney) with therapy at an Adirondacks charity camp, Holden becomes more interested in socialite Joan Bradshaw (Judith Allen) whose designs on him go well beyond his treating her injuries. After Joan funds a sanitarium for the good doctor, he works there for awhile before discovering that he needs to go back to his roots–and Evelyn.
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Kentucky 1938 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: David Butler
Cast: Loretta Young, Richard Greene, Walter Brennan, Douglass Dumbrille, Karen Morley, Moroni Olsen, Russell Hicks, Willard Robertson, Bobs Watson, Charles(2) Lane
Walter Brennan won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role of the patriarch of the Goodwin family that has been feuding with the Dillons. When Sally Goodwin (Loretta Young) falls in love with the young Dillon boy, the families finally reconcile.
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The Last Train from Madrid 1937 N/R, 77 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: James P. Hogan
Cast: Dorothy Lamour, Lew Ayres, Gilbert Roland, Anthony Quinn, Lee Bowman, Karen Morley, Robert Cummings, Lionel Atwill, Alan Ladd, Olympe Bradna, Helen Mack, Lee Bowman
Set in the 1930s during the Spanish civil war, an assortment of characters board a train as their last-ditch-effort means for escaping the war-torn country.
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 The Littlest Rebel 1935 N/R, 73 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: David Butler
Cast: Shirley Temple, John Boles, Jack Holt, Karen Morley, Bill Robinson, Stepin Fetchit, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Willie Best, James Flavin, Frank McGlynn Sr.
Set during the Civil War, a young Southern girl, Virgie Cary (Shirley Temple), is the daughter of a captured Confederate soldier. Virgie dances (with Bill Robinson) and charms President Lincoln into sparing her father's life.
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 M 1951 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Joseph Losey
Cast: David Wayne, Howard Da Silva, Martin Gabel, Jim Backus, Luther Adler, Steve Brodie, Raymond Burr, Karen Morley, Norman Lloyd, John Miljan
This remake of the 1931 German film is not as good; however, it is an entertaining thriller about the tracking-down of a child murderer.
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The Mask of Fu Manchu 1932  N/R, 68 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Charles Brabin
Cast: Boris Karloff, Lewis Stone, Karen Morley, Charles Starrett, Myrna Loy, Jean Hersholt, David Torrence, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Lawrence Grant, Herbert Bunston
Fu Manchu (Boris Karloff) plots to obtain the mask of Genghis Khan, which will give him the necessary means to rule the world. Falling into his torture chamber are Terrence Granville (Charles Starrett) and Sheila (Karen Morley), but Scotland Yard's Investigator Nayland Smith (Lewis Stone) enters the picture and saves both the hapless couple and the world from the influence of Fu Manchu.
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 Mata Hari 1931 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: George Fitzmaurice
Cast: Greta Garbo, Ramon Novarro, Lionel Barrymore, Lewis Stone, C. Henry Gordon, Karen Morley, Alec B. Francis, Blanche Friderici, Edmund Breese, Helen Jerome Eddy, Frank Reicher, Sarah Padden
The infamous World War I spy, Mata Hari (Greta Garbo), uses her sexuality to get her hands on secret papers but is finally caught after falling in love with Lt. Alexis Rosanoff (Ramon Novarro) and allowing love, not the Nazis, to govern her actions.
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Our Daily Bread 1934 N/R, 74 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Miracle of Life
Director: King Vidor
Cast: Tom Keene, Karen Morley, Barbara Pepper, John Qualen, Addison Richards, Billy Engel, Frank Minor, Henry Hall, Harry Holman, Lynton Brent
King Vidor produced and directed this powerful film. Set during the Depression, the story shows how the extraordinary efforts of those who work on a collective farm provide the way to salvation.
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 Pride and Prejudice 1940  N/R, 117 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Robert Z. Leonard
Cast: Greer Garson, Laurence Olivier, Mary Boland, Edmund Gwenn, Melville Cooper, Edna May Oliver, Ann Rutherford, Maureen O'Sullivan, Frieda Inescort, Karen Morley, Heather Angel, Marsha Hunt, Bruce Lester, Marten Lamont, Edward Ashley
Set in 19th-century England, Jane Austen's comedy of manners tells the dilemma of five unmarried sisters. One of them, Elizabeth (Greer Garson), is enamored with Darcy (Laurence Olivier), and this spurs on the other sisters–Jane (Maureen O'Sullivan), Lydia (Ann Rutherford), Kitty (Heather Angel), and Mary (Marsha Hunt)–to find their own romances.
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 Scarface 1932 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Drama / Action
aka: Scarface, The Shame of the Nation
Director: Howard Hawks, Richard Rosson
Cast: Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, George Raft, Boris Karloff, Tully Marshall, Maurice Black, Paul Fix, Vince Barnett, Karen Morley, Osgood Perkins, C. Henry Gordon, Purnell Pratt, Inez Palange, Edwin Maxwell, Henry Armetta
Paul Muni is excellent as Roaring Twenties' gangster Antonio "Tony" Camonte in this film modeled after Al Capone's criminal activities in the world of bootleg gin as he fights to overtake the other mobster leaders in the city
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The Sin of Madelon Claudet 1931 N/R, 73 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Edgar Selwyn
Cast: Helen Hayes, Lewis Stone, Neil Hamilton, Robert Young, Cliff Edwards, Jean Hersholt, Charles Winninger, Alan Hale, Marie Prevost, Karen Morley
Helen Hayes won the Academy Award as Best Actress for this film in which she portrayed Madelon Claudet, a poor woman who pays friends to rear her son born out of wedlock. Her mother's love drives her to resort to prostitution to gain money needed for her son's welfare–a son who does not suspect she is his mother.
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| 1. Arsene Lupin (1932)
2. Beloved Enemy (1936)
3. Black Fury (1935)
4. The Crime Doctor (1934)
5. Dinner at Eight (1933)
6. Flesh (1932)
7. Framed (1947)
8. The Healer (1935)
aka: Little Pal
9. Kentucky (1938)
10. The Last Train from Madrid (1937)
11. The Littlest Rebel (1935)
12. M (1951)
13. The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932)
14. Mata Hari (1931)
15. Our Daily Bread (1934)
aka: Miracle of Life
16. Pride and Prejudice (1940)
17. Scarface (1932)
aka: Scarface, The Shame of the Nation
18. The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931)
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