Cast: Maurice Black

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Maurice Black. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


While Paris Sleeps

1932 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Victor McLaglen · Helen Mack · William Bakewell · Jack La Rue

Synopsis Fifteen years after Jacques Costaud, a French war veteran and a recipient of France's prestigous Croix de Guerre, kills a man and is sentenced to life in prison, he escapes from a penal colony in French Guyana. Jacques is chased...

6.8

22 votes

6.8

22 votes

Tiger Shark

1932 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Richard Arlen · Zita Johann · Leila Bennett

Synopsis After surviving a shipwreck, San Diego tuna fisherman Mike Mascarenhas, an immigrant from Portugal, loses a hand to a shark. The following season, one of his crew, Manuel Silva, falls overboard and is killed by the sharks following the boat....

6.7

262 votes

6.7

262 votes

The Front Page

1931 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Milestone

Cast Adolphe Menjou · Pat O'Brien · Mary Brian · Edward Everett Horton

Synopsis Hildy Johnson, newspaper reporter, is engaged to Peggy Grant and planning to move to New York for a higher paying advertising job. The court press room is full of lame reporters who invent stories as much as write them. All...

6.7

295 votes

6.7

295 votes

Smart Money

1931 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Alfred E. Green

Cast Edward G. Robinson · James Cagney · Margaret Livingston · Ralf Harolde

Synopsis Nick Venizelos, an immigrant Greek barber, has an uncommon affinity for poker and other sorts of wagering and a group of his friends bankroll him in a big game, where his weakness for pretty blondes is taken advantage of by...

6.5

127 votes

6.5

127 votes

Bonnie Scotland

1935 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction James W. Horne

Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · June Lang · William Janney

Synopsis Stan and Ollie mistakenly enlist in the army and find themselves posted to the Northwest Frontier in India on a dangerous mission.

6.0

88 votes

6.0

88 votes

I Cover the Waterfront

1933 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction James Cruze

Cast Ben Lyon · Claudette Colbert · Ernest Torrence · Hobart Cavanaugh

Synopsis Reporter Joe Miller is sure that fisherman Eli Kirk smuggles illegal Chinese immigrants into the country, but can't obtain enough evidence to satisfy his editor. Chance plays into his hands in the lovely form of Kirk's daughter, Julie, whom he...

5.4

81 votes

5.4

81 votes

The Cohens and Kellys in Trouble

1933 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction George Stevens

Cast George Sidney · Charles Murray · Maureen O'Sullivan · Frank Albertson

Synopsis Kelly's daughter falls for a revenue agent, and his divorced wife is after alimony.

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The King Murder

1932 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Richard Thorpe

Cast Conway Tearle · Natalie Moorhead · Marceline Day · Dorothy Revier

Synopsis A beautiful blonde makes a career out of seducing and then blackmailing wealthy married men. She is found murdered after demanding a $5000 payoff from her latest victim, and the detective investigating the case finds out that she was involved...

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Framed

1930 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction George Archainbaud

Cast Evelyn Brent · Regis Toomey · Ralf Harolde · William Holden

Synopsis Rose Manning, the daughter of a racketeer who has just been killed, along with a policeman, in a shoot-out is undergoing a hard third-degree grilling from Police Inspector "Butch" McArthur, and she leaves with a desire for revenge against McArthur....

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Playing Around

1930 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Alice White · Chester Morris · William Bakewell · Richard Carlyle

Synopsis New 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. She gets involved with the playboy and never seems to notice...

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Lonely Wives

1931 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Russell Mack

Cast Edward Everett Horton · Esther Ralston · Laura La Plante · Patsy Ruth Miller

Synopsis A lonely husband, whose wife has been away, hires a look-a-like impersonator to fill his place and fool his mother-in-law while he plays around with a pretty coquette. His wife returns that night and confusion prevails.

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Twin Husbands

1933 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Frank R. Strayer

Cast John Miljan · Shirley Grey · Monroe Owsley · Hale Hamilton

Synopsis Chesterfield - John Miljan, Shirley Grey, Monroe Owsley, Hale Hamilton. Miljan plays a famous crook who awakens in a posh mansion...

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Steady Company

1932 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

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Street of Chance

1930 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction John Cromwell

Cast William Powell · Jean Arthur · Kay Francis · Regis Toomey

Synopsis This fact-based drama chronicles the events that led to the murder of a notorious gambler. The story begins when a young cardsharp goes to see his brother, whom he believes is a stockbroker. In reality, the brother is a famed...

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Murder on the Campus

1933 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Richard Thorpe

Cast Shirley Grey · J. Farrell MacDonald · Ruth Hall · Dewey Robinson

Synopsis A 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 sets out to prove her innocence and...

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Stars Over Broadway

1935 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction William Keighley

Cast Pat O'Brien · Jane Froman · James Melton · Jean Muir

Synopsis Al is a down on his luck promoter who is thinking of taking the final bow when he meets Jan, the singing porter. He sees something in Jan so he signs him to a contract. Al works odd jobs to...

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The Game That Kills

1937 · Movie · 55 min. · United States

Direction D. Ross Lederman

Cast Charles Quigley · Rita Hayworth · John Gallaudet · J. Farrell MacDonald

Synopsis Tom Ferguson, star left wing of the Indians hockey team, is killed during a game in an "accident" with Dick Adams and Bill Drake, two of his own teammates. His brother, Alec Ferguson, is not convinced it was and accident,...

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The Sea God

1930 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

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Adventure's End

1937 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction Arthur Lubin

Cast John Wayne · Diana Gibson · Montagu Love · Moroni Olsen

Synopsis Pacific pearl diver Duke Slade escapes angry natives by joining a whaler whose dying captain persuades him to marry his daughter who is already being wooed by the first mate.

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