Arthur Belasco

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The Story of Temple Drake
6.5
Temple Drake est la fille gâtée du juge de Dixon, une ville du sud des Etats-Unis. Au cours d'une promenade avec son prétendant, Toddy Gowan, la voiture tombe en panne près du bar de Lee Goodwin, un contrebandier. Tous les deux sont emmenés chez Trigger, un chef de gang violent qui s'en prend à Temple. Toddy tente de la défendre mais il est frappé violemment par Trigger...
Crime
Penthouse
6.7

Penthouse

Sep 08, 1933
Gertie Waxted knows how notorious gangster Jim Crelliman runs his rackets, because she's long been under the hoodlum's thumb. She's secretly helping lawyer Jackson Durant in a snoop job aimed at pinning a murder on the thug. Her life will be in peril when that secret gets out.
Crime
Johnny, roi des gangsters
6.1
Johnny Eager est un gangster qui, une fois sorti de prison, semble mener une vie d'honnête homme. Il est devenu chauffeur de taxi et paraît avoir rompu avec toutes ses anciennes relations de la pègre. Cela n'est qu'une apparence, dissimulé derrière cette couverture, il a rapidement reconstitué un empire criminel et attend des autorisations pour ouvrir un champs de course de lévriers. Il s'éprend de Lisbeth Bard, une des étudiantes de son contrôleur judiciaire, M. Verne. Mais le père de Lisbeth est John Benson Farell, le procureur incorruptible, il n'aime pas Johnny et veut protéger sa fille.
Crime
The Fighting Rookie
4

The Fighting Rookie

May 15, 1934
Patrolman Jim Trent (Jack La Rue) hears the screams of a woman and rushes to her aid in an upstairs apartment. Inside, he is hit on the head and whiskey poured on his uniform. Gangster Louis Cantor (Mathew Betz) and his henchmen have used this ruse to get him off his beat in order to rob a warehouse. The Police Commissioner (DeWitt Jennings), knowing Trent is innocent, suggests he be dismissed from the force and get a job with the gang. At Cantor's swank gambling establishment Trent finds his girlfriend, Molly Malone (Ada Ince), who has been searching for him. With the evidence he has gathered, Trent captures Cantor and calls for the police.
Drama
Thunder Afloat
5.9

Thunder Afloat

Sep 15, 1939
A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.
Action
Nazi Agent
6.6

Nazi Agent

Mar 01, 1942
Humble stamp dealer Otto Becker has little to do with international politics, so when he receives a surprise visit from his estranged twin brother and Nazi spy, Baron Hugo von Detner, his world is thrown into turmoil. Threatening Becker with deportation, Hugo forces him to use his shop as a front for espionage.
Crime
Au service de la loi
6

Au service de la loi

Mar 24, 1939
Le fils d'un brave policier, qui a suivi les traces de son pere, use d'une telle violence qu'il se retrouve bientot hors la loi.
Crime
Fast and Furious
5.1

Fast and Furious

Oct 06, 1939
Joel & Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York, take a vacation to Seaside City. At Seaside, Joel's pal, Mike Stevens is managing and preparing for their beauty pageant. Joel is made one of the judges plus he has invested $5,000 in it, to Garda's dismay. Eric Bartell, promoter, arrives to dupe Stevens. When Ed Connors, New York racketeer arrives, Bartell is mysteriously murdered. Joel and Garda set out to investigate the murder.
Comedy
Girl in Danger
1

Girl in Danger

Sep 11, 1934
Inspector Steve Trent tracks the stolen Cortez emerald, last pilfered by a murdered gangster.
Mystery
Jeune Tom Edison
5.6

Jeune Tom Edison

Mar 15, 1940
L'inventeur Thomas Edison enfance de est chronique et lui montre un jeune homme dont les premières inventions et expériences scientifiques finissent généralement causer des résultats désastreux. En conséquence, les gens pensent tous les villes Tom est fou, et la création d'une relation tendue entre Tom et son père. Toms seule consolation est sa mère qui croit comprendre qu'il est dirigé à faire de grandes choses.
Drama
Je profite de cette femme
6.2
Georgi a tenté de se suicider en réaction à une histoire d'amour plus tôt. Maintenant que le Dr Decker l'a épousée, il se propose de lui faire de l'aimer. Pour faire assez pour lui donner ce qu'elle veut, il devient médecin riche, abandonnant ses services cliniques aux pauvres.
Drama
La Vie de Thomas Edison
6.619
En flash-back, cinquante ans après avoir inventé l'ampoule, un Edison âgé de 82 ans raconte son histoire à partir de vingt-deux ans avec son arrivée à New York. Il est sur son chemin avec invention d'une forme précoce de ticker sur le marché boursier.
History
L'Introuvable
7.5

L'Introuvable

May 25, 1934
Convaincue de la culpabilité de son père dans une affaire de meurtre, Dorothy Wynant s'accuse elle-même auprès du détective amateur Nick Charles. Excitée par ce meurtre mystérieux, l'épouse de Nick, la fantasque Nora, le pousse à accepter l'affaire. D'abord réticent, Nick finit par se lancer dans l'enquête quand il se rend compte que la police fait fausse route...
Comedy
Wyoming
5.9

Wyoming

Sep 13, 1940
With the army after him and his partner deserting, Reb decides that a change of scenery would be nice so he heads for Wyoming with Dave.
Western
Nouvelle lune
6.8

Nouvelle lune

Jun 28, 1940
Un leader révolutionnaire est amoureux d'un aristocrate français en Louisiane.
Romance
Third Finger, Left Hand
6.8
Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues. Unfortunately, things don't go to plan when Jeff Thompson, a potential suitor, uncovers the deception and decides to show up at Margot's family home posing as her husband!
Comedy
Jackass Mail
7

Jackass Mail

Jul 01, 1942
An unknowing orphan idolizes the horse thief/mail robber who has shot his father.
Romance
Carnival
1

Carnival

Feb 15, 1935
"Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves him with an infant son he names "Poochy." His father-in-law and the baby's grandfather sues him for custody of the baby and Chick takes his son and hides out for a couple of years. He joins his former assistants, Daisy and "Fingers", in a circus act only to find that the persistent grandfather is still on his trail.
Romance
The Affairs of Martha
5.8

The Affairs of Martha

Jun 21, 1942
Members of a well-to-do small community become worried when it is revealed that one of their maids is writing a telling exposé.
Romance
Slightly Dangerous
5.8

Slightly Dangerous

Apr 01, 1943
Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.
Comedy
Fingers at the Window
5.4

Fingers at the Window

Apr 22, 1942
In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders, apparently committed by a lunatic.
Mystery
Swing Shift Maisie
6.5

Swing Shift Maisie

Oct 01, 1943
Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin. Breezy, however, falling in love with and getting engaged to Maisie's conniving roommate Iris, doesn't realize she's using him and it's up to Maisie to convince him.
Comedy