07 Jan

I’ll Name The Murderer (1936) THRILLER

 

Stars: Ralph Forbes, Marion Shilling, Malcolm McGregor
Director: Bernard B. Ray

When a nightclub singer is murdered, a local gossip columnist begins his own investigation. Watch for a young Margaret Hamilton, The Wicked Witch from “Wizard of Oz.”

 

06 Jan

Street Scene (1931) SYLVIA SIDNEY

 

Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Beulah Bondi, Estelle Taylor
Director: King Vidor

Twenty-four hours elapse on the stoop of a Hell’s Kitchen tenement as a microcosm of the American melting pot interacts with each other during a summer heatwave.

 

 

05 Jan

The Lady in Scarlet (1935) MYSTERY

 

 

 

Stars: Reginald Denny, Patricia Farr, Claudia Dell
Director: Charles Lamont

in this dark detective mystery, a web of blackmail, corruption and stolen bonds are uncovered after a a wealthy art dealer is murdered! or…If you want to be happy and live a king’s life, never make a pretty woman your wife.

 

 

04 Jan

The Rage of Paris (1938) DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, JR.

 

Stars: Danielle Darrieux, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Director: Henry Koster

Things go little awry, when a beautiful French model is sent on a nude modeling job and starts disrobing… at the wrong address!

 

03 Jan

Affairs of Cappy Ricks (1937) WALTER BRENNAN

 

Stars: Walter Brennan, Mary Brian and Lyle Talbot
Director: Ralph Staub

A crusty old sea captain, returns home from a long voyage to discover that his family and his business are in chaos.

 

02 Jan

Motive For Revenge (1935) CRIME-THRILLER

 

Stars: Donald Cook, Irene Hervey, Doris Lloyd
Director: Burt P. Lynwood

A bank teller is driven to stealing bank funds by his mother-in-law who continually nags him about forcing her daughter Muriel to live in poverty. He is caught and sent to prison. Meanwhile, the mother forces Muriel to divorce him and marry a wealthy industrialist.

 

01 Jan

Reaching for the Moon (1930) DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS

 

Stars: Douglas Fairbanks, Bebe Daniels, Edward Everett Horton
Director: Edmund Goulding
Writer: Irving Berlin

A Wall Street wizard is coached by his valet in the ways of love.

 

30 Dec

The Magnificent Rogue (1946) COMEDY

 

 

 

Stars: Lynne Roberts, Warren Douglas, Gerald Mohr
Director: Albert S. Rogell
Cinematography: John Alton

While her husband is away fighting during WWII, a young wife successfully manages his advertising business. A snag develops when the husband returns and expects her to be a housewife.

 

 

 

29 Dec

False Pretenses (1935) COMEDY ROMANCE

Stars: Irene Ware, Sidney Blackmer, Betty Compson
Director: Charles Lamont

A girl who’s just lost her job meets a drunk millionaire on a bridge who’s just lost his money. They go back to his house, and devise a plan: he’ll teach her how to be a lady, and then introduce her to his rich friends so she can snag a husband, and then she’ll pay him a finder’s fee.