4 Movies Starring Helen Vinson

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1932-11-19

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

92 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

8.1 (8696 Reviews)

Director:

Mervyn LeRoy

Cast:

Writer:

Robert E. Burns (by)

Howard J. Green (screen play)

Brown Holmes (screen play)

Fullplot:

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.

The Power and the Glory

The Power and the Glory

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1933-10-06

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

76 min

Rated:

PASSED

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (424 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Preston Sturges (original screenplay)

Fullplot:

A man's life is retold just after his funeral. Beginning as a track walker, Tom Garner rose through all sorts of railroad jobs to head the company. In the meantime he lost touch with his family. When he saw what was happening it was already too late.

Broadway Bill

Broadway Bill

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1934-12-27

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

104 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (597 Reviews)

Director:

Frank Capra

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Robert Riskin (screen play)

Mark Hellinger (based upon a story "Strictly Confidential" by)

Fullplot:

Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons- in-law, Dan Brooks and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Brooks quits his job as manager of J.L.'s paper box factory and devotes his life to his racing horse Broadway Bill, but his bank- roll is thin and the luck is against him, he is arrested because of $150 he owes somebody for horse food, but suddenly a planed fraud by somebody else seems to offer him a chance...

The Wedding Night

The Wedding Night

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1935-03-08

Languages:

English, Polish

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

83 min

Rated:

PASSED

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (512 Reviews)

Director:

King Vidor

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Edwin H. Knopf (an original story by)

Edith Fitzgerald (screen play)

Fullplot:

Because his finances are low and he is seeking background for a new book, author Tony Barratt and his wife Dora return to his country home in Conneecticut. While he is finding a theme for his book on the lives and customs of the local, immigrant tobacco farmers, his wife returns to New York and, alas, his Japanese servant deserts him. He meets a neighboring farm girl, Manya Novak, and hires her to cook his meals and clean his house. They soon fall in love. But, following the customs of the old country, her father has entered a 'marriage bargain' for her to wed a man, Fredrik Sobieski, not of her choosing.

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