Baby Face Morgan 1942  N/R, 60 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Arthur Dreifuss
Cast: Mary Carlisle, Richard Cromwell, Robert Armstrong, Chick Chandler, Charles Judels, Warren Hymer, Vince Barnett, Ralf Harolde, Hal K. Dawson, Kenneth Chryst, Pierce Lyden, Toddy Peterson
This gangster comedy is a tale about over-the-hill mobsters who are tricked into thinking "Baby Face" Morgan (Richard Cromwell) is now in charge of a phony trucking insurance scam. But "Baby Face" isn't in on the scam, pays off claims, and reduces the gang's profits.
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 Baby Take a Bow 1934 N/R, 73 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Harry Lachman
Cast: Shirley Temple, James Dunn, Claire Trevor, Alan Dinehart, Ray Walker, Ralf Harolde, James Flavin, Dorothy Libaire, Richard Tucker, Olive Tell
This is Shirley Temple's first film in which she has a starring role, and she made her name as a young girl who clears her ex-convict father (James Dunn) from the charge of stealing jewels.
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 Broadway 1942  N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: William A. Seiter
Cast: George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Janet Blair, Broderick Crawford, Marjorie Rambeau, Anne Gwynne, S.Z. Sakall, Edward Brophy, Marie Wilson, Ralf Harolde
Set during Prohibition, this is the story of murder in the midst of speakeasies, bootleggers, and gangsters.
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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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 Dixiana 1930 N/R, 99 min.
Genre: Musical / Comedy
Director: Luther Reed
Cast: Bebe Daniels, Everett Marshall, Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Joseph Cawthorn, Jobyna Howland, Dorothy Lee, Ralf Harolde, Bill Robinson, Eddy Chandler, Eugene Jackson, Robert Livingston
The popular comedy team of Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey star as Peewee and Gaylord bringing comedy relief to this musical starring Bebe Daniels as their sister who is about to marry a wealthy Southern plantation heir (Everett Marshall).
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He Was Her Man 1934 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Cast: James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Victor Jory, Frank Craven, Harold Huber, Russell Hopton, Ralf Harolde, John Qualen, Samuel S. Hinds, George Chandler
This weak crime drama concerns a double-crossing safecracker fleeing from the mob. He ends up in a fishing village and falls in love with a fisherman's fiancee. Not exactly one of Cagney's best.
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Hook, Line and Sinker 1930 N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Edward F. Cline
Cast: Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Dorothy Lee, Ralf Harolde, Jobyna Howland, Natalie Moorhead, Hugh Herbert, George F. Marion, William B. Davidson, Stanley Fields
Wilbur and Addington (Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey) come to the aid of Mary (Dorothy Lee) by helping fix up her inherited, run-down hotel despite the objections of her mother who wants Mary to wed rich lawyer John (Ralf Harolde). The hotel becomes successful, but rival gangs find it as a place to do business, and John is associated with one of them. One of several films made by the comedy team of Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey.
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 I'm No Angel 1933 N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Wesley Ruggles
Cast: Mae West, Cary Grant, Edward Arnold, Kent Taylor, Gregory Ratoff, Ralf Harolde, Gertrude Michael, Russell Hopton, Hattie McDaniel, Nat Pendleton, Gertrude Howard
This is one of Mae West's best films. She plays a lion tamer in a sideshow who becomes entangled in an affair that results in a court case where she proves more than capable of providing her own defense.
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Jimmy the Gent 1934  N/R, 66 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: James Cagney, Bette Davis, Alice White, Allen Jenkins, Arthur Hohl, Alan Dinehart, Philip Reed, Hobart Cavanaugh, Ralf Harolde, Dennis O'Keefe
This offbeat gangster comedy has Cagney trying to find heirs for unclaimed fortunes. The two stars invigorate a weak script.
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The Little Red Schoolhouse 1936  N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Schoolboy Penitentiary
Director: Charles Lamont
Cast: Frank Coghlan Jr., Dickie Moore, Ann Doran, Lloyd Hughes, Richard Carle, Ralf Harolde, Frank Sheridan, Matthew Betz, Kenneth Howell, Sidney Miller, Lafe McKee, Don Brodie
Orphaned 17-year-old Frankie (Frank Coghlan Jr.) runs away from his hometown and heads for New York City where he gets in trouble with a gang and ends up in reform school. Teachers get him back on the right track, and Frankie returns home in time to save his brother, Dickie (Dickie Moore), from making the same mistake.
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A Man Betrayed 1937 N/R, 58 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John H. Auer
Cast: Edward J. Nugent, Kay Hughes, Lloyd Hughes, John Wray, Edwin Maxwell, Theodore von Eltz, Thomas E. Jackson, William Newell, Smiley Burnette, John Hamilton, Ralf Harolde, Carleton Young
Oil company executive Frank Powell (Edward J. Nugent) is framed for a murder and teams up with a group of thieves–led by Sparks (John Wray)–who helps prove his innocence.
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Murder, My Sweet 1944  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Mystery
aka: Farewell My Lovely
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Cast: Dick Powell, Anne Shirley, Mike Mazurki, Claire Trevor, Otto Kruger, Miles Mander, Douglas Walton, Donald Douglas, Ralf Harolde, Esther Howard
This remake of 1942's "The Falcon Takes Over" is the film adaptation of Raymond Chandler's book, "Farewell My Lovely," in which Philip Marlowe (Dick Powell) is on the trail of a missing woman. Remade in 1975 as "Farewell, My Lovely."
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Night Nurse 1931 N/R, 73 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Director: William A. Wellman
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Blondell, Ben Lyon, Charles Winninger, Clark Gable, Edward J. Nugent, Blanche Friderici, Walter McGrail, Ralf Harolde, Vera Lewis, Charlotte Merriam, Marcia Mae Jones, Jed Prouty, Allan Lane, Betty Jane Graham
Student nurse Lora Hart (Barbara Stanwyck) learns of a plot to starve her young patients Nanny (Marcia Mae Jones) and Desney (Betty Jane Graham) who are heirs to a large inheritance. The family chauffeur Nick (Clark Gable) plans to marry the children's mother (Charlotte Merriam), and he wants to take control of the inheritance. Now it is up to Lora's nurse friend B. Maloney (Joan Blondell) and bootlegging boyfriend Mortie (Ben Lyon) to come to Laura's aid and save the children.
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The Perfect Clue 1935 N/R, 64 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Robert G. Vignola
Cast: David Manners, Richard "Skeets" Gallagher, Dorothy Libaire, Betty Blythe, William P. Carleton, Ralf Harolde, Ernie Adams, Robert Gleckler, Frank Darien, Charles C. Wilson, Jack Richardson, Pat O'Malley, Frank LaRue, Lloyd Ingraham
Mona (Dorothy Libaire) is the spoiled daughter who rebels when her wealthy, widowed father Jerome (William P. Carleton) plans to marry Ursula (Betty Blythe). Mona decides to get even by eloping with her boyfriend Ronnie (Richard "Skeets" Gallagher). They are on the train to Niagara Falls when Mona changes her mind, jumps off the train, and hires David (David Manners) to drive her to Albany. David robs and dumps Mona only to return and apologize. But there are even more problems with David than Mona realizes, and a rocky road lies ahead.
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Picture Snatcher 1933 N/R, 77 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Cast: James Cagney, Patricia Ellis, Alice White, Ralph Bellamy, Ralf Harolde, Robert Emmett O'Connor, Robert Barrat, G. Pat Collins, Tom Wilson, Renee Whitney, Arthur Vinton, Gino Corrado, Don Brodie, Sterling Holloway, George Chandler
After his release from prison, gangster Danny Kean (James Cagney) decides to go straight. He talks to his friend, newspaper editor Al McLean (Ralph Bellamy), who gets him a job as a tabloid photographer after he takes pictures of a fireman in the process of murdering his wife and lover. Now, Al's girlfriend Allison (Alice White) falls for Danny, but he falls in love with Patricia (Patricia Ellis) who happens to be the daughter of police Lt. Casey Nolan (Robert Emmett O'Connor) who had put him in jail. Danny continues to get unique pictures, including one of a woman dying in the electric chair that was facilitated by Casey. Problems develop when one of Danny's former gang members (Ralf Harolde) enters the scene, but Danny manages to save the day. Fast paced and has its funny moments.
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Ridin' on a Rainbow 1941 N/R, 79 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Lew Landers
Cast: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Mary Lee, Carol Adams, Ferris Taylor, Georgia Caine, Tom London, Byron Foulger, Ralf Harolde, Jimmy Conlin, Guy Usher, Forrest Taylor
Gene Autry is after a bank robber, leading him to a steamboat performer. It turns out that he robbed a bank to provide for his talented daughter.
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The Secret Witness 1931 N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama
aka: Terror by Night
Director: Thornton Freeland
Cast: Una Merkel, William Collier Jr., Zasu Pitts, Purnell Pratt, Clyde Cook, Ralf Harolde, June Clyde, Rita La Roy, Paul Hurst, Nat Pendleton, Clarence Muse, Hooper Atchley, Billy Bletcher, Mike Donlin, Henry Hall
Wealthy philanderer Herbert Folsom (Hooper Atchley) is found dead from a bullet wound, and there are several suspects who include his wife (Rita La Roy) and the brother of his latest mistress–who committed suicide when Herbert had refused to dump his wife. Ditzy neighbor Lois Martin (Una Merkel) helps in identifying the culprit.
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Smart Money 1931 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Alfred E. Green
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, James Cagney, Evalyn Knapp, Ralf Harolde, Noel Francis, Maurice Black, Boris Karloff, Paul Porcasi, Ben Taggart, Morgan Wallace, Margaret Livingston, Billy House, Charles(1) Lane, Donald Cook
Nick (Edward G. Robinson) is a barber who is lucky in cards. His friends give him financial backing, and he heads for the city with his younger brother Jack (James Cagney) who is there to protect Nick from those who would steal from him. Nick hits it big in gambling, but he does have a weakness for blondes, and Sleepy Sam's (Ralf Harolde) girl (Noel Francis) gets Nick into a rigged game, and Nick loses everything. Jack tries to help, but tragedy awaits when Nick accidentally kills Jack and is sent to jail on manslaughter charges.
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Winner Take All 1932 N/R, 66 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Roy Del Ruth
Cast: James Cagney, Marian Nixon, Guy Kibbee, Clarence Muse, Virginia Bruce, Dickie Moore, Allan Lane, Ralf Harolde, John Roche, Alan Mowbray
Prizefighter Jim Kane (James Cagney) recuperates from tuberculosis and regains success in the ring and the love of Peggy (Marian Nixon).
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| 1. Baby Face Morgan (1942)
2. Baby Take a Bow (1934)
3. Broadway (1942)
4. Check and Double Check (1930)
aka: Amos 'N' Andy
5. Dixiana (1930)
6. He Was Her Man (1934)
7. Hook, Line and Sinker (1930)
8. I'm No Angel (1933)
9. Jimmy the Gent (1934)
10. The Little Red Schoolhouse (1936)
aka: Schoolboy Penitentiary
11. A Man Betrayed (1937)
12. Murder, My Sweet (1944)
aka: Farewell My Lovely
13. Night Nurse (1931)
14. Our Relations (1936)
15. The Perfect Clue (1935)
16. Picture Snatcher (1933)
17. Ridin' on a Rainbow (1941)
18. The Secret Witness (1931)
aka: Terror by Night
19. Smart Money (1931)
20. Winner Take All (1932)
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