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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 Great Guy 1936 N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery
Director: John G. Blystone
Cast: James Cagney, Mae Clarke, Edward Brophy, James Burke, Henry Kolker, Bernadene Hayes, Edward McNamara, Dennis O'Keefe, Robert Gleckler, Joe Sawyer, Edward Gargan, Matty Fain, Mary Gordon, Wallis Clark, Douglas Wood
It is the Depression Era, and Johnny Cave (James Cagney) has retired from a career in boxing and has accepted the position of Inspector for the Department of Weights and Measures. He discovers bureaucratic problems within the Bureau and, against the wishes of his girlfriend Janet (Mae Clarke), he crusades against the corruption that he finds in the meat-packing business.
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Hell's House 1932 N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Howard Higgin
Cast: Junior Durkin, Bette Davis, Pat O'Brien, Frank Coghlan Jr., Charley Grapewin, Emma Dunn, Morgan Wallace, Hooper Atchley, Wallis Clark, James A. Marcus
A very naive teenager (Junior Durkin) ends up in reform school after he takes the blame for a bootlegging crime in this very early Bette Davis and Pat O'Brien film.
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Hidden Gold 1932 N/R, 60 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Arthur Rosson
Cast: Tom Mix, Raymond Hatton, Judith Barrie, Wallis Clark, Eddie Gribbon, Donald Kirke, Roy Moore, Bud Osborne, Jay Wilsey
On the lookout for a cache of stolen gold, Tom Mix finds the fortune via an outlaw gang.
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The Kiss Before the Mirror 1933  N/R, 67 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: James Whale
Cast: Frank Morgan, Nancy Carroll, Gloria Stuart, Donald Cook, Paul Lukas, Jean Dixon, Walter Pidgeon, Charley Grapewin, Walter Brennan, Wallis Clark
This film, shot on available Frankenstein sets, is the story of a lawyer who begins to recognize that his family situation mirrors that of the client he is defending in a crime of passion.
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Madame Butterfly 1932  N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Marion Gering
Cast: Sylvia Sidney, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles, Sandor Kallay, Irving Pichel, Helen Jerome Eddy, Edmund Breese, Wallis Clark, Sheila Terry, Berton Churchill
In this film, Puccini's opera is the basis for the story, but there is no music. The movie follows the traditional storyline of Lieutenant Pinkerton's (Cary Grant) tragic love affair with Cho-Cho-San (Sylvia Sidney).
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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 by Invitation 1941  N/R, 67 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Phil Rosen
Cast: Wallace Ford, Marian Marsh, Sarah Padden, Gavin Gordon, George Guhl, Wallis Clark, Minerva Urecal, Arthur Young, Herb Vigran, Hazel Keener, Phillip Trent, Dave O'Brien
Knowing that her greedy relatives can't wait to get her money, Aunt Cassie (Sarah Padden) invites the family to her estate for a family reunion. Also along for the evening's events are reporter Bob White (Wallace Ford) and his girl Friday, Nora O'Brien (Marian Marsh). At the stroke of midnight, a guest is murdered, and more murders follow in this mystery/comedy.
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Penny Serenade 1941 N/R, 125 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: George Stevens
Cast: Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Beulah Bondi, Edgar Buchanan, Ann Doran, Eva Lee Kuney, Wallis Clark, Walter Soderling, Billy Bevan, Ben Taggart, Jane Biffle, Fred "Snowflake" Toones, Dick Wessel, Frank Mills, John Tyrrell
Julie Adams (Irene Dunne) listens to the song "Penny Serenade," which is the song that was playing when she first met her husband Roger (Cary Grant). That song and others cause Julie to remember her life with Roger, and the story is told through flashbacks. Their courtship, marriage, adoption of Trina (Jane Biffle), and then sudden death of Trina (now played by Eva Lee Kuney) at age six are shown through Julie's memories. Grant received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor.
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Postal Inspector 1936 N/R, 58 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Otto Brower
Cast: Ricardo Cortez, Patricia Ellis, Michael Loring, Bela Lugosi, Wallis Clark, Arthur Loft, David Oliver, Guy Usher, Spencer Charters, Hattie McDaniel, Harry Beresford
Gambling debts force nightclub owner Gregory Benez (Bela Lugosi) into a life of crime. When he hires a beautiful singer (Patricia Ellis) to perform in his club, she and Benez are put under the watchful eye of U.S. Postal Inspector Bill Davis (Ricardo Cortez).
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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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Star Reporter 1939 N/R, 62 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Howard Bretherton
Cast: Warren Hull, Marsha Hunt, Morgan Wallace, Wallis Clark, Clay Clement, Virginia Howell, Paul Fix, Joseph Crehan, Eddie Kane, William Ruhl, Lester Dorr, Monte Collins
After gangsters murder his father, John Randolph (Warren Hull) inherits his father's newspaper and races to expose those responsible for the crime. More than a few surprises lie ahead as he sorts out clues, but the one that throws John for a loop is when he learns that the man who pulled the trigger is his own birth father.
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| 1. Easy Money (1936)
2. Great Guy (1936)
3. Hell's House (1932)
4. Hidden Gold (1932)
5. The Kiss Before the Mirror (1933)
6. Madame Butterfly (1932)
7. Missing Girls (1936)
8. Murder by Invitation (1941)
9. Penny Serenade (1941)
10. Postal Inspector (1936)
11. Shopworn (1932)
12. Star Reporter (1939)
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