Bridge of Sighs 1936  N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Phil Rosen
Cast: Onslow Stevens, Dorothy Tree, Jack La Rue, Walter Byron, Mary Doran, John Kelly, Oscar Apfel, Paul Fix, Bryant Washburn, Robert Homans, Lafe McKee, Selmer Jackson
Assistant District Attorney Jeffrey Powell (Onslow Stevens) loves Marion (Dorothy Tree) who (unknown to Jeffrey) is the sister of a man Jeffrey wrongfully sent to prison for murder. Marion attempts to clear her brother's name by getting committed to prison in order to get the proof from an inmate. When Jeffrey finds out about her actions, he sets out to find the truth.
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Crimson Romance 1934  N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Action / Drama
Director: David Howard
Cast: Ben Lyon, Sari Maritza, Erich von Stroheim, Hardie Albright, James Bush, William Bakewell, Herman Bing, Bodil Rosing, Vince Barnett, Arthur Clayton, Oscar Apfel, Purnell Pratt, Jason Robards Sr., Wilhelm von Brincken
American friends Bob Wilson (Ben Lyon) and Fred von Bergen (James Bush) join the German air force prior to the U.S. entry in World War I. When America enters the war, Bob remains loyal to America and fights for his country, but Fred continues to fight for Germany and is killed in action. Bob consoles Fred's love Alida (Sari Maritza), and his actions lead to their marriage. Meanwhile, Fred's mother (Bodil Rosing) delivers an anti-war eulogy.
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Fifty Roads to Town 1937 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Norman Taurog
Cast: Don Ameche, Ann Sothern, Slim Summerville, Jane Darwell, John Qualen, Alan Dinehart, Stepin Fetchit, Oscar Apfel, Douglas Fowley, Allan Lane
While marooned in a mountain cabin during a snowstorm, Peter (Don Ameche) and Millicent (Ann Sothern) fall in love despite their ordeal.
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Hearts in Bondage 1936  N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lew Ayres
Cast: James Dunn, Mae Clarke, David Manners, Charlotte Henry, Henry B. Walthall, Fritz Leiber, George Irving, Irving Pichel, J.M. Kerrigan, Frank McGlynn Sr., Ben Alexander, Oscar Apfel, Clay Clement, Edward Gargan
During the Civil War, a Union naval officer, Lieutenant Kenneth Reynolds (James Dunn), is stripped of his commission after he sinks, instead of obeying orders by Confederate forces to set fire to his ship, the Merrimac. Later, the Confederates raise the Merrimac and restore it. Meanwhile, Reynolds is reinstated and serves on the Monitor during which time he is involved in the historic battle of the Monitor and the Merrimac.
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Hot Saturday 1932  N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Drama / Comedy
Director: William A. Seiter
Cast: Cary Grant, Nancy Carroll, Randolph Scott, Edward Woods, Lilian Bond, William Collier Sr., Jane Darwell, Rita La Roy, Oscar Apfel, Marjorie Main, Stanley Smith, Rose Coghlan, Jessie Arnold, Grady Sutton, Nora Cecil
Socialite Ruth Brock (Nancy Carroll) is engaged to Bill Fadden (Randolph Scott), but after an argument with him she takes revenge by having an innocent fling with playboy Romer (Cary Grant). Gossip abounds, and her fiance threatens to call off the wedding. Romer tells the real story and wins Ruth as a result.
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Huckleberry Finn 1931 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Norman Taurog
Cast: Jackie Coogan, Mitzi Green, Junior Durkin, Eugene Pallette, Jackie Searl, Clarence Muse, Clara Blandick, Jane Darwell, Oscar Apfel, Warner Richmond
Huckleberry Finn and Jim raft down the Mississippi in this Mark Twain classic about life on the Mississippi River. The same starring cast (Jackie Coogan, Mitzi Green, Junior Durkin, and Clara Blandick) appeared the previous year in "Tom Sawyer."
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It's Tough to Be Famous 1932 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Alfred E. Green
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Mary Brian, Emma Dunn, Walter Catlett, Oscar Apfel, J. Carrol Naish, David Landau, Claire McDowell, Louise Beavers, Harold Minjir
Scotty (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) is a young submarine officer who saves the crew after his submarine sinks. Expecting to sacrifice his life, he is rescued instead and now is a MAJOR media celebrity, causing great disruption in his day-to-day activities. A good study of our obsession with heroes, at least in the 1930s.
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Jim Hanvey, Detective 1937 N/R, 71 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Phil Rosen
Cast: Guy Kibbee, Tom Brown, Lucie Kaye, Catherine Doucet, Edward Brophy, Edward Gargan, Helen Jerome Eddy, Theodore von Eltz, Kenneth Thomson, Howard C. Hickman, Oscar Apfel, Wade Boteler
Detective Jim Hanvey (Guy Kibbee) takes on a contract with an insurance company to locate a valuable jeweled necklace, and, although the theft was just a prank, ensuing events involve a murder.
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 The Maltese Falcon 1931  N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Mystery
aka: Dangerous Female
Director: Roy Del Ruth
Cast: Ricardo Cortez, Bebe Daniels, Dudley Digges, Una Merkel, Robert Elliott, J. Farrell MacDonald, Oscar Apfel, Thelma Todd, Walter Long, Dwight Frye
Although not as popular as the Humphrey Bogart version 10 years later, this first (of three) filming of Dashiell Hammett's story, is good. Private Eye Sam Spade (Ricardo Cortez) takes a case for Ruth (Bebe Daniels), whose sister is missing. Ultimately, it becomes a case of looking for a valuable statuette (with others also in pursuit) and pursuing the murderer of his partner. The 1936 version is titled "Satan Met a Lady."
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Man on the Flying Trapeze 1935 N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Clyde Bruckman
Cast: W.C. Fields, Mary Brian, Kathleen Howard, Grady Sutton, Vera Lewis, Lucien Littlefield, Oscar Apfel, Walter Brennan, Minerva Urecal, James Flavin, Lew Kelly, Tammany Young, Edward Gargan, James Burke, Carlotta Monti
This story is about one day in the life of a harried man, Ambrose Wolfinger (W. C. Fields), who is henpecked by his wife Leona (Kathleen Howard) at home and suffers stresses at work. Ambrose wants to take the afternoon off from work to attend a wrestling match, and the excuse he uses for time off is to tell a lie that his mother-in-law Cordelia (Vera Lewis) has died. On his way to the wrestling match Ambrose experiences many misadventures –including getting four traffic tickets in a row. The delays prevent him from getting to the match on time. When he arrives home, Ambrose realizes by their cold stares that his family has learned about the lie. Now, Ambrose's loving daughter Hope (Mary Brian) offers support, and Ambrose's lie turns into a win-win situation at home and at work.
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The Man Who Played God 1932 N/R, 81 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John G. Adolfi
Cast: George Arliss, Bette Davis, Violet Heming, Louise Closser Hale, Donald Cook, Ray Milland, Ivan F. Simpson, Andre Luguet, Oscar Apfel, Paul Porcasi
A concert pianist (George Arliss) goes deaf but finds satisfaction in helping students gain access to musical careers.
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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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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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Shadows of the Orient 1935 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Burt P. Lynwood
Cast: Esther Ralston, Regis Toomey, J. Farrell MacDonald, Oscar Apfel, Sidney Blackmer, Eddie Fetherston, Kit Guard, James B. Leong, Matty Fain, John Elliott, Richard Loo, Slim Whitaker
After she is arrested in a Chinatown casino, Viola (Esther Ralston) finds herself caught in the middle–between the casino owner King Moss (Sidney Blackmer) who runs a smuggling ring, and immigration official Bob Baxter (Regis Toomey) who has provided Viola with her alibi.
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Shopworn 1932 N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Nick Grinde
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Regis Toomey, Zasu Pitts, Lucien Littlefield, Clara Blandick, Edwin Maxwell, Oscar Apfel, Joe Sawyer, Albert Conti, Wallis Clark
The romance of waitress Kitty Lane (Barbara Stanwyck) and her rich boyfriend (Regis Toomey) is broken up when his mother frames her and she is sent to jail. Years later, Kitty becomes a stage star and is eventually reunited with her lover.
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Sooky 1931 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Norman Taurog
Cast: Jackie Cooper, Robert Coogan, Jackie Searl, Willard Robertson, Helen Jerome Eddy, Enid Bennett, Oscar Apfel, Tom Wilson, Gertrude Sutton, Harry Beresford
This sequel to "Skippy" again features boyhood friends Skippy (Jackie Cooper) and Sooky (Robert Coogan) in funny, yet sentimental, escapades around their neighborhood.
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Speak Easily 1932 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Edward Sedgwick
Cast: Buster Keaton, Jimmy Durante, Ruth Selwyn, Thelma Todd, Hedda Hopper, William Pawley, Sidney Toler, Lawrence Grant, Henry Armetta, Edward Brophy, DeWitt Jenninsg, Oscar Apfel, Sidney Bracey, Fred Kelsey, Inez Palange
Professor Timoleon Zanders Post (Buster Keaton) has inherited a fortune and decides to enjoy life when he meets and falls in love with a dancer, Eleanor Espere (Thelma Todd). So, he buys her show–including the piano player Jimmy Dodge (Jimmy Durante)–and plans to bring it to Broadway. But, does he have the ability to carry off his plan?
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The Spoilers 1930  N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Western / Action
Director: Edwin Carewe
Cast: Gary Cooper, Kay Johnson, Betty Compson, William "Stage" Boyd, Oscar Apfel, James Kirkwood, Slim Summerville, Harry Green, Lloyd Ingraham, George Irving, Knute Erickson, Merrill McCormick, John Beck, Jack Holmes, Charles K. French
In this early Western film, gold prospector Roy Glenister (Gary Cooper) meets and falls in love with Helen (Kay Johnson) while voyaging to the Yukon. When Glenister arrives in Alaska, his partners Slapjack Simms and Joe Dextry (Slim Summerville and James Kirkwood) inform him that they are in danger of losing their mine because U.S. marshal Voorhees (Jack Holmes), Judge Stillman (Lloyd Ingraham), and politician Alec McNamara (William "Stage" Boyd) are conspiring to gain ownership of the mines in the area. Helen suggests that they take the matter to court, but that turns out to be impossible. Finally, Glenister takes matters into his own hands and whips McNamara in a powerful fistfight. 1 User Review
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| | orlalobo1 01/30/2007 | i would be happy to rate this movie if i could ever see it. i am 65 & this is the only
gary cooper movie i have never(of sound pictures). why isn't it ever shown on
tv or out on dvd. i like the john wayne version but i really want to see the 1930 version with gary cooper.
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The Texan 1930 N/R, 79 min.
Genre: Western
Director: John Cromwell
Cast: Gary Cooper, Fay Wray, Emma Dunn, Oscar Apfel, James A. Marcus, Donald Reed, Soledad Jimenez, Veda Buckland, Cesar Vanoni, Ed Brady
The "Llano Kid" (Gary Cooper) heads for South America to escape the law and becomes involved in a plot in which he pretends to be Senora Ibarra's (Emma Dunn) son.
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Tomorrow at Seven 1933 N/R, 62 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Ray Enright
Cast: Chester Morris, Vivienne Osborne, Frank McHugh, Allen Jenkins, Henry Stephenson, Grant Mitchell, Charles Middleton, Oscar Apfel, Cornelius Keefe, Virginia Howell
The "Ace of Spades" is a killer on the loose in Chicago when mystery writer Neil Broderick (Chester Morris) along with bumbling detectives Clancy (Frank McHugh) and Dugan (Allen Jenkins) step in to save the day.
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Tugboat Annie 1933 N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: Marie Dressler, Wallace Beery, Robert Young, Maureen O'Sullivan, Willard Robertson, Frankie Darro, Tammany Young, Jack Pennick, Paul Hurst, Oscar Apfel
Marie Dressler and Wallace Beery provide enjoyable fare as Tugboat Annie and her boozing husband in this lighthearted comedy.
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| 1. Abraham Lincoln (1930)
2. Bridge of Sighs (1936)
3. Crimson Romance (1934)
4. Fifty Roads to Town (1937)
5. The Finger Points (1931)
6. Hearts in Bondage (1936)
7. Hot Saturday (1932)
8. Huckleberry Finn (1931)
9. It's Tough to Be Famous (1932)
10. Jim Hanvey, Detective (1937)
11. The Maltese Falcon (1931)
aka: Dangerous Female
12. Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935)
13. The Man Who Played God (1932)
14. Murder at Glen Athol (1936)
15. The Nut Farm (1935)
16. Shadows of the Orient (1935)
17. Shopworn (1932)
18. Sooky (1931)
19. Speak Easily (1932)
20. The Spoilers (1930)
21. The Texan (1930)
22. Tomorrow at Seven (1933)
23. Tugboat Annie (1933)
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