Joan Blondell, one of Hollywood's most memorable blondes, gets top billing in this protofeminist crime yarn as tough as a taxi dancer's heart. Blondell's first starring role was also a change of pace for a contract player usually cast as a chorus cutie or the male lead's loyal doxy. Instead she plays the title character, a Depression-downtrodden waif who uses her brains instead of her body to rise from tyro con artist to crime boss.
WATCHTwo Americans in search of a Scottish inheritance wind up serving with the British in India.
WATCHIt opens in 1926 when three bank robbers, Theodore Kedrich, Jan Imarski, and Petra Lonelli, stage a daring daylight bank robbery and get away with a million dollars in cash. They are soon apprehended and sent to prison for ten years but the money is not recovered. Flash forward to 1936 when all three men have been released from prison and are about to be deported back to where they came from via the Deportation ...
WATCHFirst teaming of Oscar-winning duo Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers ("Top Hat," "The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle") in this Oscar-nominated musical about a dance-band leader who finds love and success in Brazil.
WATCHOscar-honoree Edward G. Robinson ("Double Indemnity," "Soylent Green") introduced the world to a new kind of gangster in his powerful portrayal of Johnny Rico, a small-time hood who brutally shoots his way to the top of the underworld. Co-starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. ("Gunga Din"). This film was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay, and the American Film Institute recently selected Little Caesar as one of the 50 Greatest Villains in film. "Little Caesar" was selected for ...
WATCHFarce comedy with Edward Everett Horton in dual roles. Himself and an actor made out to look like him to fool his mother in-law while he's out having fun with a girl.
WATCHA popular young student finds herself accused of a series of murders that have occurred on the college campus. Her boyfriend, a reporter for the local newspaper, knows she didn't do it, and and sets out to prove her innocence and catch the real killer.
WATCHNew York girl has a dull boyfriend and seems destined for a dull marriage when she meets a rich playboy who has money to burn and places to go.
WATCHBroadway actress leaves New York to become a star in Hollywood, and succeeds despite sleazy directors and her own ego.
WATCHSilver-screen icons Edward G. Robinson and James Cagney star in this classic drama as Nick and Jack Venizelos, two brothers whose fateful trip to the big city to do a little gambling results in a tragic turn of events. Directed by filmmaker Alfred E. Green, this film marks the only time in Robinson and Cagney's historic careers that the pair would team up on-screen.
WATCHLegendary Boris Karloff reprises his role as the screen's most misunderstood monster and Elsa Lanchester stars as his ill-fated bride in one of the most popular horror classics of all time.
WATCHThe film begins with a guy waking up from a bump on the head. The people around him try in vain to convince him that five years have passed and that he's a rich guy. However, none of this makes sense to the character played by Miljan AND none of it makes any sense to the audience...none. After this plot is quickly abandoned, the film begins to get better. It seems that a wife and ...
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