Stars: Mamie Smith, Alec Lovejoy, Norman Astwood
Director: Arthur Dreifuss
Writers: Frank Wilson (story), Vincent Valentini
Dramatic events in a Harlem apartment house center around Pa Wilkins, chosen by the Better Business League to replace their ousted, crooked leader Marshall…who wants revenge; and Pa’s ward Jim Bracton, a two-timing Romeo whose affairs are coming to a crisis. And hanging around is Marshall’s murderous junkie henchman, Lomax. Will it all end in someone’s being killed?
1932 pre-code Hollywood Legal Crime Drama about ethical quandaries faced by a rising young prosecutor Vince Day, a big city District Attorney, played by actor //arren WI££I/M who decides to become a defense attorney. The film follows the exploits of a lawyer who begins his career with good intentions and a bright insouciance, but takes an eventual slide down a slippery slope of moral turpitude in the pursuit of court room victories & hung juries for increasingly disreputable clientele.
At one point, heavy drinking attorney Day, ensconced in a bar room, says of his court room style: “Sensationalism. Ballyhoo. Barnum and Bailey. Give ’em a three-ring circus and toss in a little Houdini on the side. Give ’em a swell show and they won’t even stop to think.”
This classic black & white film also stars Sidney Fox as Southern accented love interest Celia Farraday, and Aline MacMahon as long suffering loyal secretary Miss Hickey. This story was loosely based on an actual infamous lawyer of the early 20th century, Fordham law graduate William Joseph Fallon, who represented many pimps, gangsters and a total of 120 homicide suspects who all escaped the electric chair with the help of “The Great Mouthpiece”.
Directed by James Flood & Elliott Nugent
Screenplay: Joseph Jackson (screenplay); Earl Baldwin (adaptation & dialogue); Frank J. Collins (stage play)
Cinematography: Barney McGill
Art Direction: Esdras Hartley
Film Editing: George Amy
remaining cast :
Johnny Morris . . . . . William Janney
Mr. Barton . . . . . John Wray
Gladys . . . . . Polly Walters
J. B Roscoe . . . . . Ralph Ince
Elaine . . . . . Mae Madison
Miss DeVere . . . . . Noel Francis
E.A Smith . . . . . Morgan Wallace
Bartender . . . . . Guy Kibbee
Tony . . . . . J. Carroll Naish
Forbes . . . . . Walter Walker
Garland . . . . . Jack LaRue
Mr. Pondapolis . . . . . Stanley Fields
Jarvis . . . . . Murray Kinnell
Wilson . . . . . Emerson Tracey
Stars: Hoot Gibson, Sheila Bromley, Jack Rutherford
Director: George Melford
Writer: Jack Natteford (story)
A con man posing as a lawyer tries to sell copies of a phony law book. Things get serious when he has to defend a young man falsely accused of robbery.
Stars: Tom Tyler, Roberta Gale, Louise Cabo
Director: Bernard B. Ray
Writers: Rose Gordon, J.K. Henry (story)
The famous western fiction writer Bob Morris arrives at the Henderson ranch. He quickly realizes the hanging, runaway horses, and the shootout are fakes for his benefit. But when a real robbery takes place he thinks it’s another fake.
Stars: Linda Darnell, Edgar Buchanan, Michael Duane
Director: Sidney Salkow
Writers: Martin Berkeley (story)
A young woman’s husband has been imprisoned for a crime he didn’t commit. In order to be near him to try to help him get his sentence overturned, she moves into a boardinghouse near the prison where all the residents are the wives of inmates! YIKES
Stars: Patricia Farr, William Bakewell, Lulu McConnell
Director: Charles Lamont
Writers: John W. Krafft (screenplay), Dorrell McGowan (story)
A manicurist is mistaken for the winner of a large sweepstakes and finds herself pursued by fortune hunters. But the real trouble begins when the real winner shows up!
Yachtsman Steve Drexel bets his friends that he can swim ashore on a remote south-seas island with nothing but a toothbrush and be ‘living the life of Riley’ when they return. With handmade…
Director: A. Edward Sutherland
Writers: Douglas Fairbanks (story), Thomas J. Geraghty (adaptation)
Stars: Douglas Fairbanks, William Farnum, Earle Browne