Cast: Maurice Black
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Maurice Black. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 24
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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Show Folks
1928 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Paul L. Stein
Cast Eddie Quillan · Lina Basquette · Carole Lombard · Robert Armstrong
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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
Direction Edward Ludwig
Cast Norman Foster · June Clyde · ZaSu Pitts · Henry Armetta
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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
Direction George Abbott
Cast Richard Arlen · Fay Wray · Eugene Pallette · Robert Gleckler
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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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