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Behind The Makeup (1930) Bolero (1934) + Rumba (1935) Broadway Bad (1934) + Hello, Sister (1933) The Broken Wing (1932)
Behind The Makeup (1930)
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Broadway Bad (1934) + Hello, Sister (1933)
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In this complicated drama, the jolly painted face of a circus clown is but a mask for an avaricious, ruthlessly ambitious, and deceitful man.

Hap is performing in small New Orleans clubs when he saves the life of the starving Gardino, a member of a distinguished family of European clowns.
BOLERO: Bolero stars George Raft as Raoul de Barre, an arrogant dancer who rises to fame in the years prior to, during, and after WW I. Raoul is helped along the way by his promoter brother Mike (William Frawley) and scores of willing females, matriculating from two-bit gigolo to the greatest ballroom dancer in Paris.

Rumba: A follow-up to the highly successful Bolero, this lively romantic drama stars George Raft as Joe Martin, a Cuban-American dancer who lives and works in Havana with his lovely partner Goldie Allen until a bad case of varicose veins forces impacts his career.

Broadway Bad: Broadway Bad stars Joan Blondell as a wisecracking but goodhearted chorus girl whose husband (Ricardo Cortez) is an abusive lout. Blondell's plight makes the headlines, which results in an upswing in her career.

Hello, Sister: Love turns into an unhealthy obsession in this offbeat drama. Millie (Zasu Pitts) and Peggy (Boots Mallory) are two friends who leave behind the small town where they were raised to try their luck in New York City.
Captain Innocencio (Leo Carrillo) practices "frontier justice", just one of several responsibilities he has in running the town. Whatever he says goes! But there is something more important to Captain Innocencio than the town's affairs: He is trying to win the heart of Lolita (Lupe Velez), the daughter of a wealthy rancher.
Bulldog Drummond (1929) Change Of Heart (1934) Charming Sinners (1929) The Cheat
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Tired of his sedentary postwar existence, Col. Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond (Ronald Colman) offers his services as adventurer for hire. This gets him mixed up with lovely Joan Bennett, whose wealthy father is being held against his will in a gloomy sanitarium. Four courageous college graduates become heroes when they successfully complete a 15-hour coast-to-coast plane flight. Alas, things don't go so well for the foursome when they return to earth to seek out employment. Charming Sinners was an adaptation of Somerset Maugham's play The Constant Wife. Robert Miles (Clive Brook) starts the ball rolling when he falls in love with Anne-Marie Whitley (Mary Nolan), the best friend of his own wife Kathryn (Ruth Chatterton). NOW AVAILABLE
Condemned (1929) Connecticut Yankee (1931) The Conquering Horde (1931) Convicted (1931) + Iron Master (1933)
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Convicted (1931) + Iron Master (1933)
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Colman is unjustly sentenced for a crime he does not commit and is sent to a tropical penal colony. Ann Harding is the unhappy wife of the Warden. You can guess the rest. These two expert actors do a wonderful job. Colman was nominated for an Oscar for this performance and deserved it. The cinematography is also quite stunning. This Mark Twain adaptation affords a rare opportunity to enjoy a "collaboration" between two of America's greatest humorists. Will Rogers plays the operator of a tiny radio repair shop, who is called to an old mansion to replace a battery on a dark and stormy night. Dan McMasters (Richard Arlen), a Yankee war hero, is sent from Washington to help set up a safe and efficient passageway for the cattle drovers -- thereby earning himself the enmity of the local land barons who've been charging the cattlemen exorbitant fees to trek across their land. Convicted: Aileen Pringle plays Clair Norville, an actress, who is taking a cruise. She is being harassed by another passenger, Tony Blair, (Richard Tucker), a producer of her last show. He has embezzled funds and is traveling with Constance (Dorothy Christy, the most natural actor in the movie) another actress, who wants her cut. 

Iron Master: In this drama, a bright young mill worker is left in charge of his late employer's estate. This causes many hard feelings from the surviving family. He forces the boss's son and daughter to work in the factory. They do not want to. For revenge they begin divulging trade secrets to a competitor. They only stop after the daughter falls in love.
Cynara Devil To Pay For the Defense (1930) + Street Of Chance (1930) Hot Pepper
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Devil To Pay (1930)
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For the Defense (1930) + Street Of Chance (1930)
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Hot Pepper (1933)
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Jim Warlock (Ronald Colman) is a successful British lawyer who has always displayed a solid and conservative nature in his business associations, his professional ethics, and his personal life. He has enjoyed a happy if unexciting marriage with his wife Clemency (Kay Francis) for seven years, but when she leaves town for several days, Jim meets Doris (Phyllis Barry), a young sales clerk. Ronald Colman plays the "black sheep" of a wealthy British family, sent to South Africa so that he'll be as far away from home as possible. Broke again, Colman auctions off his belongings and heads for London to the less-than-open arms of his father (Frederick Kerr). He begins to dally with a saucy actress (Myrna Loy), but soon his attentions shift to a young heiress (Loretta Young) engaged to a nobleman. The heiress manages to set Colman on the straight and narrow, so he renounces his wastrel ways and settles down--but not before breaking up the girl's upcoming wedding. Based on a play by Frederick Lonsdale, Devil to Pay is dated only in its subject matter; on a purely technical level, the film hardly betrays its age at all.
For the Defense (1930 - 62 min) William Powell stars in this drama as William Foster, a gifted defense attorney with a gift for making cases go his way. Foster's winning record in the courtroom has earned him a colorful clientele, including several notorious criminals, but he doubts his abilities when his girlfriend Irene Manners (Kay Francis) is charged with manslaughter after a violent incident which occurred while she was drinking.

Street of Chance (1930 - 76 min) This fact-based drama chronicles the events that led to the murder of a notorious gambler. The story begins when a young cardsharp goes to see his brother, whom he believes is a stockbroker. In reality, the brother is a famed gambler who is trying to quit and try to rebuild his marriage.
Hot Saturday Hypnotized (1932) I Cover The Waterfront (1933) Interference (1928)
Hot Saturday (1932)
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Hypnotized (1932)
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I Cover The Waterfront (1933)
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Interference (1928)
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In this romantic comedy, a socialite has an argument with her sweetie and decides to exact revenge. Randolph Scott, Cary Grant, and Nancy Carroll star. A circus worker wins a sweepstakes prize of $150,000 and must travel to England to present his ticket and collect his winnings. He books passage on a transatlantic liner, but on board is a shady hypnotist who hears about the man's good fortune.

He manages to get a chance to hypnotize the winner and then takes his ticket, after which he disappears. When the man wakes up and realizes his ticket has been stolen, he sets out to find the phony "professor" and reclaim his ticket.
With an editor who won't leave him alone because the leads are constantly rolling in, wannabe investigative reporter Joe Miller (Ben Lyon) can't get a decent night's rest from his waterfront beat.

Forced to cover everything from bootleggers to herring stench, mob arrests to nude swimmers, he's got no choice- he'd be out a job if he doesn't jump when the boss says so.
William Powell's first all-talking picture also stars Evelyn Brent as scheming Deborah Kane, who sets out to blackmail
Faith Marley (Doris Kenyon), the above-reproach wife of Sir John Marlay (Clive Brook).
Iron Man King of the Jungle Ladies Love Brutes Ladies Of Leisure
Iron Man (1931)
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King of the Jungle (1933)
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Ladies Love Brutes (1930)
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Ladies Of Leisure (1930)
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In this boxing drama, a prizefighter is left by his money-grubbing showgirl wife who aspires to be a movie star. Starring Lew Ayres, Jean Harlow, Robert Armstrong. Tod Browning directs. In this campy adventure, a man raised in the mysterious African jungles by a pride of lions is captured by circus people and taken to New York along with his feline pals. Buster Crabbe stars.
Man From Yesterday (1932) Masquerader (1933) Me and My Gal (1932) The Mighty (1929)
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Masquerader (1933)
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Me and My Gal (1932)
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Mighty (1929)
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A woman whose husband never came home from World War I finds herself in love with her doctor. She travels with him to Switzerland, and as they check into the hotel there, she is astounded to see her supposedly dead husband. In an interesting precursor to his later vehicle The Prisoner of Zenda, Ronald Colman essays a dual role in Goldwyn's The Masquerader. Colman is cast as Member of Parliament Sir John Chilcote and his identical cousin, a newspaper journalist also named John. A mean-spirited alcoholic and drug addict, Sir John needs time to try to recover from his multitude vices. In this wisecracking comedy, Dan Dolan (Spencer Tracy) is a cop whose beat is the New York waterfront. Dan has a soft spot for Helen Riley (Joan Bennett), a sharp-tongued waitress at a cheap diner, while her scatter-brained sister Kate (Marion Burns) is in love with Duke Castage (George Walsh),
a sleazy low-level mobster. 
In this melodrama set during WW I, a gangster joins the army and is promoted to major. He then returns from war torn Europe to tell a family that their beloved son had died in his arms during a battle. The major then falls in love with the late soldier's sister and decides to accept a position in town as the new police commissioner.
The Misleading Lady (1932) Mother's Millions (1931) Murder at the Vanities Murder By The Clock
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Mother's Millions (1931)
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Murder at the Vanities (1934)
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Murder By The Clock (1931)
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Claudette Colbert plays a dizzy socialite who wants to become an actress. She buys her way into an audition for the part of a seductive vamp in an upcoming film. To prove she's worthy of the role, Colbert comes on strong to unsuspecting bachelor Edmund Lowe. He falls like a ton of bricks, but Colbert drops him when she's cast in the film. Based on the stage play, Mother's Millions is one of several 1930s films inspired by the life of the reclusive "Witch of Wall Street" Hetty Green. Though a millionairess several times over, financial sorceress Harriet Breen (May Robson) lives like a pauper and expects everyone around her to do the same. The Earl Carroll Vanities, a popular Broadway revue of the 1930s and '40s, is the setting for this murder mystery. An eerie early-talkie mystery, Murder by the Clock spends most of its time in a cemetery. The matriarch (Blanche Frederici) of a wealthy family is haunted by the notion that she'll be buried alive.
Murders In The Zoo (1933) Mystery of Edwind Drood (1935) New York Nights The Night of June 13 (1932)
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New York Nights (1929)
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Night of June 13 (1932)
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Insanely jealous of his wife, wealthy zoologist Lionel Atwill uses his knowledge of animals to dispose of any would-be rivals.

Atwill brings his latest collection of wild animals to a major metropolitan zoo.
John Jasper is a respectable choir master on the upper level, but beneath lurks a madman, an opium-addicted man of intrigue and deception with a deadly fascination for a young girl, Rosa Bud, who is engaged to his nephew, Edwin Drood.

The marriage has been arranged from the crib, and neither Rosa nor Edwin (who is fondly called "Ned") are particularly fond of the idea, having resolved themselves to wed someday, simply because they must. Rosa is a young learner of music, and is fearful of her instructor -- John Jasper -- while her fiancé mere laughs off her uncertainty.
Terrified at the prospect of making her talking-picture debut, silent-screen queen Norma Talmadge spent several months taking diction lessons before shooting commenced on New York Nights. Co-Starring Gilbert Roland. A multi-character drama set in a suburban neighborhood, The Night of June 13th takes place in four households. One of these is inhabited by unhappy husband Clive Brook, who is accused of murdering his wife.

Actually, she has committed suicide, but those neighbors who could provide Brook with an alibi remain silent for selfish reasons of their own. Leavening the dramatic content is the comedy relief of Mary Boland and Charlie Ruggles as a married couple with in-law problems. Brook is saved at the last minute by an elderly neighbor who blasts the cowardice of the other suburbanites.
Night Of Terror (1933) No Limit Pick Up (1933) Renegades
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No Limit (1931)
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Pick Up (1933)
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Renegades (1930)
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Bela Lugosi plays a mysterious Indian mystic who is but one of numerous eccentric characters lingering about in an eerie mansion, stalked by an unseen murderer.

Other potential victims/suspects include a reporter, a pair of exotic house servants, a fetching heroine, even an extra psychopath thrown in as a red herring.
In this fluffy comedy, an innocent usherette falls for a customer whom she finally meets and eventually marries. Soon after the ceremony, she learns that he is a jewel thief about to go to jail.

She then moves into a girlfriend's ultra-modern apartment that is really a front for gamblers. Again, the young woman finds herself in real trouble until her hubby is released from jail and comes to her rescue. Happiness ensues.
In this romantic drama, an ex-con conceals her criminal past and starts a new life with a kindly cab driver. Together, the two friends leave the city and move to the suburbs where she helps him set up an auto mechanic business. Though they are in love, they cannot marry for she is still legally the wife of her incarcerated ex-crime partner. Things get more sticky when a seductive socialite attempts to steal the cabbie from the ex-con. More trouble follows when her husband busts out of jail and she is blamed with helping him escape. NOW AVAILABLE
The Riding Tornado (1932) The Royal Family of Broadway (1930) Scandal Sheet (1931) Secret of the Blue Room (1933)
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Royal Family of Broadway (1930)
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Scandal Sheet (1931)
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Secret of the Blue Room (1933)
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The Riding Tornado featured Tim McCoy as a famous rodeo champ who, incognito, wins a supposed killer stallion, Pal, and a purse of 500 dollars in a small town race. Having amicably lost the money in a poker game, Tim is hired by Pal's prior owner, rancher Hiram Olcott (Lafe McKee), to track down a gang of cattle rustlers headed by Hetch Engle (Wheeler Oakman). Royal Family of Broadway is an abridged but otherwise literal translation of the George S. Kaufman/Edna Ferber Broadway hit The Royal Family.

The title referred not to kings and queens but to a prominent theatrical family named Cavendish--based none too loosely on the famed Barrymore clan.
Mark Flint (George Bancroft) is the editor of the titular scandal sheet, possessing all of the gall and none of the ethics of your average big-city journalist.

Knowing full well that his wife (Kay Francis) plans to leave him in favor of handsome but unscrupulous banker Noel Adams (Clive Brook), Flint digs up as much dirt as possible on his rival.
The three suitors of the heroine (Gloria Stuart) wager that each can survive a night in the forbidding blue room. The first to brave the room is a callow young man (William Janney) in whom the heroine has no real interest. A scream is heard in the middle of the night; when the other guests investigate, the young man has vanished, and the available clues suggest that he has met with foul play.
Secrets of a Secretary (1931) Seven Days Leave (1930) The Silent Witness Sky Bride (1932)
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Seven Days Leave (1930)
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Silent Witness (1932)
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Sky Bride (1932)
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In this pre-code drama, an impetuous heiress goes on a cruise and ends up marrying a Latin gigolo on a whim. Her father then dies, and as soon as her devoted husband discovers that the old man died destitute, he takes off. Now the girl must work; she gets a job as her father's best friend's wife's social secretary. Sarah Ann Dowey (Mercer) is an elderly charwoman in London during the Great War. She cries herself 'Mrs' Dowey, but in fact she never married and is childless. (Apparently an elderly widow commanded more respect in 1914 than an elderly spinster.) The other three scrubwomen who char with Mrs Dowey - Mesdames Mickelham, Haggerty and Twymley - all have sons in uniform, and Mrs Dowey feels left out ... until she spots a newspaper dispatch mentioning Private Kenneth Dowey of the Canadian Black Watch. NOW AVAILABLE Richard Arlen revives his aviation-ace role from Wings in the adventurous Sky Bride. Arlen plays Speed Condon, the star attraction of a barnstorming troupe of stunt flyers.
Supernatural Take a Chance Terror Aboard Tonight Is Ours
Supernatural (1933)
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Take a Chance (1933)
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Terror Aboard (1933)
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Tonight Is Ours (1933)
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This atmospheric suspense film from the makers of White Zombie marked an unusual turn for glamorous Carole Lombard as heiress Roma Courtenay What's to dislike about this movie? Night Owl is a cute tune. Cliff Edwards and James Dunn have a lot of fun. June Knight looks good and Dorothy Lee takes the swivel hip's to a new level. Buy a copy of this movie and have an evening of fun. An ocean liner is found at sea with everyone on board dead. An investigation is begun to find out what happened. A beautiful queen and her commoner-lover have a rendezvous in her apartment the night before her marriage to a prince. Stunningly and skillfully directed with some great out of this world fancy dress costumes. It is also unmistakeably pre-Code - certain scenes would not be possible not too long into the future.
Under Cover Man (1932) Under Two Flags (1936) The Unholy Garden (1931) Up For Murder (1931)
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Unholy Garden (1931)
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Up For Murder (1931)
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In his first starring role, George Raft plays Nick Darrow, a fence convinced by the police to go undercover after his father is killed in a Wall Street heist. Teaming up with Lora Madigan (Nancy Carroll), yet another victim of the gang, Nick gets close to the gang boss, Mason (Lew Cody), and his moll (Noel Francis), but is almost killed when Mason becomes suspicious. In the end, however, Nick manages to kill the man who murdered his father, a vile Russian (Gregory Ratoff), and is able to hand over Mason to the authorities. Set in Saharan Africa, Ronald Colman is Corporal Victor, a man who has taken the rap for a crime committed by his younger brother. Victor has joined the French Foreign Legion to escape his past, taking with him his valet Rake (Herbert Mundin).

His commander is the ruthless Major Doyle (Victor McLaglen), who becomes jealous when Cigarette (Claudette Colbert), a nightclub singer with a yen for men in uniforms, sets her sights on Victor.
A clever, slyly self-satirical screenplay by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur.

 The title refers to a Saharan oasis where a group of international crooks have converged, free from prosecution. Ronald Colman stars as gentleman thief Barrington Hunt, who rallies his fellow crooks together in a plan to divest a wealthy baron (Dudley Digges) of his fortune.

Part of the scheme requires Hunt to make love to Fay Wray, the baron's lovely daughter, a task that proves pleasurable indeed. But Hunt hadn't counted on falling in love with Wray -- and when he does, it's "reformation and redemption" time, with our hero turning on and turning in his former pals.
In this pre-code drama, a cub reporter, Robert Marshall, falls for the society editor who is already the mistress of the publisher. The two men begin a rivalry that culminates with the publisher's death.
Virginian (1929) Virtuous Sin (1930) Wild Company (1930) Witching Hour (1934)
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Virtuous Sin (1930)
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Wild Company (1930)
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Witching Hour (1934)
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Gary Cooper, as a lanky Wyoming ranch and foreman, places his gun on a poker table after being insulted by one of the gamblers and intones, "If you want to call me that . . . smile." Kay Francis plays Marya, the wife of overly sensitive scientist Sabin (Kenneth MacKenna). Commissioned into the Russian army during WWI, Sabin can't cope with the rigors of military life, and as a result is condemned to death for insubordination. This drama is set during Prohibition and follows the exploits of a spoiled brat with overly permissive parents.

He soaks them for as much money has he can get and then squanders the money in an illicit speak-easy where he has fallen for the lovely singer.

Unfortunately, she is a gangster's moll. The gangster befriends the smitten youth with the ulterior motive of using him as the pigeon in a murder he just committed.
Woman Accused (1933)
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On the eve of her marriage to Cary Grant, socialite Nancy Carroll is visited by her sadistic ex-lover Louis Calhern, who threatens to have his gangster pal Jack LaRue rub out Grant if Carroll doesn't give up her marriage plans.