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Dick Tracy (Morgan Conway), a supremely intelligent police detective, must solve a series of brutal murders in which the victims, all from different social and economic backgrounds, are viciously slashed to pieces by the one known as Splitface. Suspects flourish but Tracy must find the common link of extortion and revenge before more are killed. …
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Stars: Jan Wiley, Phil Warren, Eddie Dunn Director: Don Brodie Writers: Harry O. Hoyt (story), Elizabeth Hayter (screenplay) An “exotic dancer” is thrown in jail for “lewd activity.” She later discovers the raid was set up by her boss to get publicity. Also known as “A Fig Leaf for Eve.” source
A businessman’s daughter runs away from an arranged marriage, only to find herself penniless and suspected of theft after she becomes the victim of a bag thief in the train. When she … Director: Albert de Courville Writers: Henry Koster (story), Wolfgang Wilhelm (story), Stars: Jessie Matthews, Owen Nares, Carol Goodner source
A classic “B” featurette about “smugglin’ in Chinamen for $300 a load” Director: Burt P. Lynwood Writers: Louis E. Heifetz (story), Charles F. Royal (adaptation) Stars: Esther Ralston, Regis Toomey, J. Farrell MacDonald source
After a good-natured Irish cop is framed for a diamond robbery and murder and presumed dead in a train wreck, he gets plastic surgery and returns to expose the real killers. Director: Charles Lamont Writer: Ewart Adamson (story) Stars: Cecilia Parker, Russell Hopton, Theodore von Eltz source
When Lt. “Wild Bill” Traynor, bad boy of the Marine Corps, arrives at a San Diego Marine Base, he is surprised to discover he has been assigned to duty under his old rival, Captain Benton … Director: David Howard Writers: Colbert Clark (story), James Gruen (screenplay), Stars: William Haines, Conrad Nagel, Esther Ralston source
Director: Frank R. Strayer Writer: George B. Seitz (story) Stars: Edward J. Nugent, Priscilla Dean, Ann Christy Priscilla Dean was one of the major star names of the early 1920s.Here she plays an adulterous wife who kills her lover. Eddie Nugent, Dean’s loyal stepson, confesses to the crime himself and is carted off to prison, …
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 …
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 …
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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. source