The Black Raven 1943  N/R, 64 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Sam Newfield
Cast: George Zucco, Robert Livingston, Wanda McKay, Glenn Strange, I. Stanford Jolley, Noel Madison, Byron Foulger, Robert Middlemass, Charles Middleton, Jimmy Aubrey
Amos (George Zucco) is host at a remote, spooky inn where mysterious strangers, each with their own secrets, stop by on a rainy night. Before the night is out, murder takes over the scene. An "old dark house" mystery.
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Bombs Over Burma 1943  N/R, 67 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama
Director: Joseph H. Lewis
Cast: Anna May Wong, Noel Madison, Leslie Denison, Nedrick Young, Dan Seymour, Frank Lackteen, Teala Loring, Dennis Moore, Richard Loo, Hayward Soo Hoo
During World War II, Chinese school teacher Lin Ying (Anna May Wong) risks her life when she spies for the Allies as part of the effort to protect the Burma Road for use by Chinese guerillas.
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Charlie Chan in City in Darkness 1939 N/R, 73 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama
aka: City in Darkness
Director: Herbert I. Leeds
Cast: Sidney Toler, Lynn Bari, Richard Clarke, Harold Huber, Leo G. Carroll, Lon Chaney Jr., Pedro de Cordoba, Dorothy Tree, Douglass Dumbrille, C. Henry Gordon, Noel Madison, Louis Mercier, George Davis, Adrienne D'Ambricourt, Barbara Leonard
When Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) visits friends from World War I in Paris, he finds that Paris is a city of darkness because of air raids preparing for the possible outbreak of World War II. Munitions maker Petroff (Douglass Dumbrille) is murdered, and Charlie investigates. The clues lead to espionage and arms dealings with the Nazis. At the film's end, Charlie talks about the evils of conference table bargaining.
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Easy Money 1936 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Phil Rosen
Cast: Onslow Stevens, Kay Linaker, Noel Madison, Allen Vincent, Barbara Barondess, Wallis Clark, Selmer Jackson, Robert Homans, Robert Graves, John Kelly, Robert Frazer, Barbara Bedford
Prosecuting attorney Dan Adams (Onslow Stevens) resigns his position and goes undercover working to get the goods on a gang of fake-accident racketeers, and, in the process, his brother Eddie (Allen Vincent) is murdered by the gangsters. With Eddie's death, Dan's assistant Carol Carter (Kay Linaker) comes up with key evidence against the gang, but gang leader "Duke" Trotti (Noel Madison) has plans to do away with Carol before she can implicate them.
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Four Hours to Kill 1935  N/R, 71 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Mitchell Leisen
Cast: Richard Barthelmess, Joe Morrison, Helen Mack, Gertrude Michael, Dorothy Tree, Roscoe Karns, Ray Milland, Henry Travers, Paul Harvey, Noel Madison
A murderer eludes his guard and escapes into a theater where the lives of those in attendance are affected by the danger of his presence.
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The Hatchet Man 1932  N/R, 74 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William A. Wellman
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Dudley Digges, Leslie Fenton, J. Carrol Naish, Edmund Breese, Tully Marshall, Charles Middleton, Noel Madison, Blanche Friderici
Life during an earlier era in San Francisco's Chinatown is depicted in this story about love and ethnic conventions involving ritual executioner Wong Low Get (Edward G. Robinson) and his bride, Toya (Loretta Young).
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 Jitterbugs 1943 N/R, 74 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Malcolm St. Clair
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Vivian Blaine, Bob Bailey, Douglas Fowley, Noel Madison, Lee Patrick, Robert Emmett Keane, Francis Ford, Charles Halton
When Susan Cowan (Vivian Blaine) is cheated out of her family estate, Laurel and Hardy pretend to be a socialite and a Southern Colonel to help retrieve Susan's inheritance.
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Me and My Gal 1932 N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Raoul Walsh
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Marion Burns, George Walsh, J. Farrell MacDonald, Noel Madison, Henry B. Walthall, George Chandler, Bert Hanlon, Will Stanton
Comedy reigns when a hard-boiled cop (Spencer Tracy) falls for a waitress (Joan Bennett) whose relatives are involved with the underworld.
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Miss V from Moscow 1942  N/R, 68 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Intrigue in Paris
Director: Albert Herman
Cast: Lola Lane, Noel Madison, Howard Banks, Paul Weigel, John Wosper, Anna Demetrio, Wilhelm von Brincken, Juan de la Cruz, Kathryn Sheldon, Victor Kendell
Working with the Free French underground during World War II, Russian spy Vera Marova (Lola Lane) and downed American pilot Steve Worth (Howard Banks) send secret messages alerting the Allies of Nazi submarine movements.
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Missing Girls 1936 N/R, 66 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Phil Rosen
Cast: Roger Pryor, Muriel Evans, Sidney Blackmer, Noel Madison, Ann Doran, George Cooper, Dewey Robinson, Wallis Clark, Vera Lewis, Warner Richmond, Lafe McKee, Ben Carter, Frank LaRue
After Dorothy (Muriel Evans) and her friend Ann (Ann Doran) witness gangster Ben Davis (Noel Madison) kill Dorothy's father Senator Benson (Wallis Clark), they are taken hostage. Newspaper reporter Jimmie Dugan (Roger Pryor) disguises himself as a tramp and sets out to rescue the girls from Ma Barton's (Vera Lewis) hideout.
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Murder at Glen Athol 1936 N/R, 64 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Frank R. Strayer
Cast: John Miljan, Irene Ware, Iris Adrian, Noel Madison, Oscar Apfel, Barry Norton, Harry Holman, Betty Blythe, Wilson Benge, E.H. Calvert, James P. Burtis, Lew Kelly
While on vacation, detective Bill Holt (John Miljan) attends a party at a country mansion where death takes center stage when three guests are murdered.
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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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What Price Crime? 1935 N/R, 63 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Albert Herman
Cast: Charles Starrett, Noel Madison, Virginia Cherrill, Charles Delaney, Jack Mulhall, Nina Guilbert, Henry Roquemore, John Elliott, Arthur Loft, Jack Cowell, Lafe McKee, Fred "Snowflake" Toones
G-man Allen Grey (Charles Starrett) goes undercover as a prizefighter in order to catch the gang that is smuggling firearms that they steal from the government. The trail leads to nightclub owner Douglas Worthington (Noel Madison) who turns out to be the gang leader. Our hero's task becomes more difficult when he falls in love with Worthington's sister (Virginia Cherrill).
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| 1. The Black Raven (1943)
2. Bombs Over Burma (1943)
3. Charlie Chan in City in Darkness (1939)
aka: City in Darkness
4. Easy Money (1936)
5. The Finger Points (1931)
6. Four Hours to Kill (1935)
7. The Hatchet Man (1932)
8. Jitterbugs (1943)
9. Me and My Gal (1932)
10. Miss V from Moscow (1942)
aka: Intrigue in Paris
11. Missing Girls (1936)
12. Murder at Glen Athol (1936)
13. Sinner's Holiday (1930)
14. What Price Crime? (1935)
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