Released Date:
1931-01-25
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
79 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (8049 Reviews)
Director:
Mervyn LeRoyW.R. Burnett (novel)
Robert N. Lee (continuity)
Francis Edward Faragoh (screen version)
Francis Edward Faragoh (dialogue)
Rico is a small-time hood who knocks off gas stations for whatever he can take. He heads east and signs up with Sam Vettori's mob. A New Year's Eve robbery at Little Arnie Lorch's casino results in the death of the new crime commissioner Alvin McClure. Rico's good friend Joe Massara, who works at the club as a professional dancer, works as the gang's lookout man and wants out of the gang. Rico is ambitious and eventually takes over Vettori's gang; he then moves up to the next echelon pushing out Diamond Pete Montana. When he orders Joe to dump his girlfriend Olga and re-join the gang, Olga decides there's only one way out for them.
Released Date:
1932-11-19
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
92 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
8.1 (8696 Reviews)
Director:
Mervyn LeRoyRobert E. Burns (by)
Howard J. Green (screen play)
Brown Holmes (screen play)
Having returned from fighting in World War I, James Allen doesn't want to settle into a humdrum life and decides to set off to find his fortune. He travels the length and breadth of America, working as a skilled tradesman in the construction industry. When times get tough however, he finds himself living in a shelter where an acquaintance suggests they go out for a hamburger. What the friend really has in mind is to rob the diner and Allen soon finds himself working on a chain gang with a long jail sentence. Allen manages to escape however and heads to Chicago where over several years he slowly but surely works his way up the ladder to become one of the most respected construction engineers in the city. His past catches up with him and despite protestations from civic leaders and his many friends in Chicago, he finds himself again on the chain gang. Escaping for a second time, he accepts that to survive, he must lead a life of crime.
Released Date:
1954-10-21
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
98 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (944 Reviews)
Director:
Frank TashlinAlex Gottlieb (screenplay)
Steve Fisher (play)
Alex Gottlieb (play)
Mark Christopher is a 35-year old, award-winning comedy scriptwriter who is struggling to be taken seriously as a drama writer. On Christmas Eve, two police officers bring 17-year old Susan (picked up for vagrancy and brawling) to Mark's apartment. If she spends a few days with him, Mark could use Susan as inspiration to write a script about juvenile-delinquents and Susan could avoid spending Christmas behind bars.
Released Date:
1959-05-20
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
118 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (700 Reviews)
Director:
Delbert MannGenres:
DramaPaddy Chayefsky (screenplay)
Paddy Chayefsky (based on his play)
A widowed businessman becomes obsessed with one of his employees, the divorcèe Betty Preisser.
Released Date:
1964-03-06
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
96 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
5.2 (1320 Reviews)
Director:
Gene NelsonGerald Drayson Adams (screenplay)
Gene Nelson (screenplay)
Gerald Drayson Adams (story)
An Army officer returns to the Smoky Mountains tries to convince his kinfolk to allow the Army to build a missile site on their land. Once he gets there, he discovers he has a lookalike cousin.
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