Barbara Leonard

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City in Darkness
6.4

City in Darkness

Nov 15, 1939
Chan, in Paris for a reunion with friends from World War I, becomes involved in investigating the murder of a munitions manufacturer who was supplying arms to the enemy, even as the rising clouds of World War II force the city into nightly blackout status..
Crime
Les Carrefours de la ville
6.173
Nan, dont le jovial mais inquiétant beau-père, Pop Cooley, fait partie du gang de la bière dirigé par Big Fellow Maskal, est amoureuse du Kid, un modeste employé d'un tir forain. Elle voudrait le convaincre d'entrer dans le gang. Il s'y refuse. Big Fellow essaie en vain de séduire la compagne d'un de ses lieutenants, Blackie. Il trouve plus expéditif de supprimer Blackie et en confie le soin à Pop Cooley. Des soupçons de complicité retombent sur Nan, qui est condamnée à une peine de prison. Cooley persuade le Kid qu'il pourra financer les frais d'avocat de Nan s'il accepte de mettre ses dons de tireur hors pair au service du gang. Le Kid prend goût à ses nouvelles fonctions...
Crime
Une heure près de toi
6.449
André Bertier, un gynécologue parisien de renom, est un séducteur né, passionné par les belles femmes. Marié et très amoureux de son épouse, Colette, il se livre un combat quasi-quotidien pour lui rester fidèle. Ce sacrifice lui est d'autant plus coûteux que la meilleure amie de son épouse, Mitzi, a décidé de le séduire. Très rapidement elle parvient à ses fins, ce que ne saurait tolérer Colette. La compagne humiliée cherche à se venger…
Comedy
Bought!
6

Bought!

Aug 22, 1931
Working-class girl dreams of living a better life and forsakes her friends when she has a chance to break into high society.
Drama
The Crash
5.2

The Crash

Oct 09, 1932
Linda Gault is a luxury loving wife who casually seduces other men while getting investment tips from one of her lovers.
Drama
Scotland Yard
1

Scotland Yard

Oct 19, 1930
A criminal fleeing a bank robbery has a chance encounter with a banker and his wife and takes a locket with both their pictures in it as a remembrance of the wife's stunning beauty. After enlisting for WWI to escape prosecution, his face is disfigured in combat, and plastic surgeons mistakenly give him the banker's face. As the banker is conveniently MIA, it gives the criminal the opportunity to plan a bank heist from the inside and also to get closer to the banker's wife.
Crime
Men of the North
5

Men of the North

Sep 27, 1930
Part of a gold shipment has been stolen and the Sergeant suspects Louis LeBey. When Louis is attracted to newly arrived Nedra Ruskin, Woolie-Woolie becomes jealous and tells the Sergeant where Louis hid the gold. First Louis rescues the Sergeant whose dog team crashes chasing him and then he saves Nedra from an avalanche. When he returns the injured Nedra to the settlement, the Sergeant takes him prisoner.
Drama
Son of the Gods
5.5

Son of the Gods

Mar 09, 1930
The popular Caucasian-looking son (Richard Barthelmess) of a wealthy Chinese businessman lives away from his widowed father and passes as white, but experiences prejudice, rejection, insult, and heartache when the socialite (Constance Bennett) he loves learns of his heritage.
Drama
Folies Bergère
5.5

Folies Bergère

Feb 22, 1935
Un artiste des Folies Bergère, Eugène Charlier, imite à la perfection un banquier célèbre, le baron Cassini. En raison de cette ressemblance, il est engagé par des associés du baron pour remplacer celui-ci lors d'une réception. Il s'ensuit naturellement un certain nombre de quiproquos.
Comedy
Desirable
7.3

Desirable

Sep 08, 1934
A man meets the daughter of his lover and they begin to fall in love.
Romance
Flirtation Walk
5.5

Flirtation Walk

Dec 01, 1934
A private stationed in Hawaii gets involved with the general's engaged daughter. In order to avoid a scandal, the pair break up, but meet again years later when he's at West Point producing the annual play that turns out to star her.
Music
The White Angel
8

The White Angel

Jun 25, 1936
In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurses when it was considered a disreputable profession.
Drama
Second Fiddle
5

Second Fiddle

Jun 30, 1939
Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Minnesota but he follows her.
Comedy
Espionage
6.5

Espionage

Feb 26, 1937
Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the rumours of war in Europe.
Drama
Femmes sans nom
4.8

Femmes sans nom

Mar 14, 1940
La lune de miel de Joyce et Fred MacNeil est un arrêt brutal et peu satisfaisant lorsque Fred est accusé d'assassiner. Railroaded en prison grâce aux efforts d'aide politique ambitieux DA Marlin (John Miljan), Fred attend son sort malheureux sur Death Row, alors que Joyce travaille des heures supplémentaires à l'extérieur pour effacer le nom de son mari
Crime
La Veuve joyeuse
6.721

La Veuve joyeuse

Nov 02, 1934
Surpris par le roi dans le boudoir de la reine, le prince Danilo est contraint pour se racheter d’aller séduire une jeune et jolie veuve émigrée à Paris, dont l’immense fortune est nécessaire au rétablissement des finances du royaume. Évidemment, rien ne se passera comme prévu…
Comedy
The Man from Yesterday
4.75
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.
War
Surprise
1

Surprise

Mar 15, 1930
Tom Dugan trying to go on a date behind his wife's back gets a surprise.
Comedy
The Sleeping Porch
1

The Sleeping Porch

Sep 07, 1929
The doctor prescribes fresh air for a man with a bad cold. His wife is determined to comply with the doctor's orders even if it kills him.
Love Affair
5.6

Love Affair

Mar 17, 1932
Heiress learns to fly from aeronautical engineer. Things get complicated as their affair progresses.
Drama
The Bees' Buzz
4

The Bees' Buzz

Apr 06, 1929
Two friends - Andy and Harry - get into trouble while they are trying to prevent the marriage of Andy's daughter.
Comedy
A Successful Calamity
5.2

A Successful Calamity

Sep 17, 1932
Henry Wilton is an elderly millionaire saddled with his selfish young second wife Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton and a pair of spoiled grown children, Peggy and Eddie. To test his family's mettle, Henry pretends to have gone broke. Just as he suspected they would, his children rally to their father's side and change their ways: Peggy forsakes the fortune hunter George Struthers for the nice young man she's really in love with, the polo coach Larry Rivers, while Eddie applies for a demanding job and performs admirably. Only Sweetie seems to desert Henry.
Comedy