The Big Shakedown 1934  N/R, 64 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Francis Dillon
Cast: Charles Farrell, Bette Davis, Ricardo Cortez, Glenda Farrell, Allen Jenkins, Henry O'Neill, Robert Emmett O'Connor, Dewey Robinson, John Wray, Renee Whitney
When a young pharmacist (Charles Farrell) is drawn into the drug kingdom, his wife (Bette Davis) decides she cannot live in his new world.
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Footlight Parade 1933  N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Cast: James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Guy Kibbee, Hugh Herbert, Frank McHugh, Claire Dodd, Renee Whitney, Ruth Donnelly
This is one of those grand scale musicals that, in this instance, contains some of Busby Berkeley's best work. Chester Kent (James Cagney) is a brash, hustling stage director who faces economic and romantic problems.
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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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| 1. The Big Shakedown (1934)
2. Footlight Parade (1933)
3. Picture Snatcher (1933)
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