Behind Office Doors 1931  N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Melville W. Brown
Cast: Mary Astor, Robert Ames, Ricardo Cortez, Kitty Kelly, Edna Murphy, Catherine Dale Owen, Charles Sellon, William Morris, George Irving, Lon Poff
A secretary, Mary (Mary Astor), is the force behind the company president (Robert Ames) and is the real reason he has achieved such success. She is taken for granted, and so, finally, Mary becomes romantically attached to another executive, which forces the president to look at her in a different way.
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Check and Double Check 1930  N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Amos 'N' Andy
Director: Melville W. Brown
Cast: Freeman F. Gosden, Charles J. Correll, Sue Carol, Irene Rich, Ralf Harolde, Charles Morton, Edward Martindel, Rita La Roy, Russ Powell, Roscoe Ates, Duke Ellingon, Robert Homans
In this, their only film appearance, the White comedians of radio fame, Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll, bring their Black characters of Amos 'n' Andy to the screen. Although their radio show had been a hit, seeing them in blackface was a different matter. Years later, the characters were brought to TV and were readily accepted when Black men took on the roles of Amos 'n' Andy.
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Lost in the Stratosphere 1934 N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Melville W. Brown
Cast: William Cagney, Edward J. Nugent, June Collyer, Edmund Breese, Lona Andre, Cactus Mack, Russ Clark, Matt McHugh, June Gittelson, Hattie McDaniel, Pauline Garon, Frank McGlynn Sr.
Military pilots Lt. Tom "Soapy" Cooper and Lt. Richard "Woody" Wood (William Cagney and Edward J. Nugent) are also pranksters–until one of their practical jokes misfires, and they find themselves in a weather balloon "lost in the stratosphere." (William Cagney is James Cagney's brother.)
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The Nut Farm 1935 N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Melville W. Brown
Cast: Wallace Ford, Betty Alden, Florence Roberts, Spencer Charters, Oscar Apfel, Joan Gale, Bradley Page, Lorin Raker, Arnold Gray
Middle-aged couple Bob and Helen (Oscar Apfel and Betty Alden) make a fresh start in California where Bob wants to buy a nut farm. But plans change, and when they put their money and acting skills into a low-budget film directed by Bob's brother (Wallace Ford), more than a few misadventures ensue.
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| 1. Behind Office Doors (1931)
2. Check and Double Check (1930)
aka: Amos 'N' Andy
3. Lost in the Stratosphere (1934)
4. The Nut Farm (1935)
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