Cast: Robert Emmett O'Connor

Direction Sam Wood

Cast The Marx Brothers · Groucho Marx · Harpo Marx · Chico Marx

Synopsis Moved by a strange sense of business, Groucho gets all the stars of the Milano Opera on a boat headed to New York. Two stowaways also travel on the same boat: Harpo and Chico. The three of them stir up...

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Walter Huston · Pat O'Brien · Kay Johnson · Constance Cummings

Synopsis It's the 1930s, the Depression era, and the Board of Directors of Thomas Dickson's bank want Dickson to merge with New York Trust and resign. He refuses. One night, Dickson's bank is robbed of $100,000. The suspect is Matt Brown,...

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast Marlene Dietrich · Herbert Marshall · Cary Grant · Dickie Moore

Synopsis Marlene Dietrich is Helen, a former nightclub entertainer married to scientist Herbert Marshall. Their idyllic family life is shattered when he becomes disabled, and she must return to the stage to support him and their son (Dickie Moore). Enter millionaire...

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Ruth Chatterton · Louis Calhern · Helen Jerome Eddy · Donald Cook

Synopsis Frisco Jenny was orphaned by the 1906 earthquake and fire and has become the madame of prosperous bawdy house. She puts her son up for adoption and he rises to prominence as district attorney dedicated to closing down such houses....

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Loretta Young · Ricardo Cortez · Franchot Tone · Andy Devine

Synopsis A young woman is on trial for murder. In flashback, we learn of her struggles to overcome poverty as a teenager -- a mistaken arrest and prison term for shoplifting and lack of employment lead to involvement with gangsters. In...

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast James Cagney · Ralph Bellamy · Patricia Ellis · Alice White

Synopsis Ex-convict Danny Kean decides to become honest as a photographer for a paper. He falls in love with Patricia, the daughter of the policeman who arrested him. Mr Nolan, her father, doesn't like that relation at first, but McLean, Kean's...

Direction George W. Hill

Cast Chester Morris · Wallace Beery · Lewis Stone · Robert Montgomery

Synopsis Young Kent Marlowe, sent to prison for manslaughter, never learns the prison 'code of honor', planting a knife on his cellmate John Morgan, causing Morgan's parole, due to start the next day, to be revoked. Morgan escapes, meets and falls...

Direction James Parrott

Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Edgar Kennedy · James Finlayson

Synopsis Bilingual and longer version of the short film "Night Owls" (1930), shooted simultaneously with its predecessor for the Spanish market.

Direction Clyde Bruckman

Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Noah Young · Eugene Pallette

Synopsis Fight manager (Hardy) takes out an insurance policy on his puny pugilist (Laurel) and then proceeds to try to arrange for an accident so that he can collect. When a pie delivery man (Hall) slips on a banana peel, meant...

Direction Charley Rogers

Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Mae Busch · Arthur Housman

Synopsis Door-to-door greeting card salesmen Stanley and Oliver call upon Mrs. Pierre Gustave, a woman distraught over her husband's neglect. They agree to her plan to reclaim her husband's affection by making him jealous. But when Gustave arrives and finds his...

Direction James Parrott

Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Frank Austin · Harry Bernard

Synopsis Bilingual and longer version of the short film "The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case" (1930), shooted simultaneously with its predecessor for the Spanish market.

Direction W.S. Van Dyke

Cast Warner Baxter · Myrna Loy · Charles Butterworth · Mae Clarke

Synopsis Racketeer Tony Gazotti is thankful that lawyer Jackson Durant helps him beat a murder rap, but Durant just does it for the thrill of it and refuses payment. Durant's defense of mobsters causes his firm to disown him and his...

Direction Clyde Bruckman

Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Charles A. Bachman · Dorothy Coburn

Synopsis Pompous J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Hardy), greets his nephew from Scotland (Laurel,) who arrives in kilts. He is immediately taken to a tailor for a pair of proper pants.

Direction Fred Guiol

Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · James Finlayson · Stanley Stanford

Synopsis Two convicts (Laurel & Hardy), in an escape attempt, tunnel into the warden's office, instead. They then disguise themselves as painters and walk out the front gate. Needing new clothes, they steal suits from visiting dignitaries, take their places in...

Direction James Parrott

Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Enrique Acosta · Baldwin Cooke

Synopsis Bilingual and longer version of the short film "Below Zero" (1930), shooted simultaneously with its predecessor for the Spanish market.

Direction John Ford

Cast Spencer Tracy · Claire Luce · Warren Hymer · Humphrey Bogart

Synopsis Two prisoners, Saint Louis and Dannemora Dan, escape during a theatrical production in order to go to the aid of Steve, a former prisoner whose past is about to be exposed by the man who framed Judy unless Steve agrees...

Direction Sam Wood

Cast Joan Crawford · Robert Armstrong · Marie Prevost · Douglass Montgomery

Synopsis Mary Turner goes up for three years on a crime she didn't commit. Once out she and former prison mates plan a scam in which old men can be sued for breach of promise - the "heart balm" racket. After...

Direction Leo McCarey

Cast Eddie Cantor · Lyda Roberti · Robert Young · Ruth Hall

Synopsis An innocent man accused of robbing banks masquerades as a bullfighter to escape the police.

Direction Alfred E. Green

Cast Warren William · Bette Davis · Guy Kibbee · Vivienne Osborne

Synopsis Zachary Hicks is nominated at the Progressive party's convention even though he has little chance of winning the governorship. Kay suggests the party bosses hire Hal Blake (whom she loves) as campaign manager. Hal is in jail for falling behind...

Direction John Francis Dillon

Cast Charles Farrell · Bette Davis · Ricardo Cortez · Glenda Farrell

Synopsis Former bootlegger Nick Barnes pressures neighborhood druggist Jimmy Morrell into making cut-rate drugs. The money makes it possible for Jimmy to marry Norma Frank, a pharmacy clerk. Expecting a baby, she wants Jimmy to quit the racket. Beaten by the...