Direction: Archie Mayo

Direction Archie Mayo

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

Direction Archie Mayo

Cast Leslie Howard · Bette Davis · Humphrey Bogart · Genevieve Tobin

Plot This heartfelt drama about a gangster on the run is the film for which Humphrey Bogart first received wide-scale recognition. Bogie and costar Leslie Howard were both brought on board...

Direction Archie Mayo

Cast Leslie Howard · Bette Davis · Olivia de Havilland · Eric Blore

Plot Basil Underwood and Joyce Arden have postponed their marriage eleven times. Henry Grant's fiancée Marcia is infatuated with Basil. At Henry's request Basil acts boorishly so as to kill the...

Direction Archie Mayo

Cast John Barrymore · Marian Marsh · Donald Crisp · Bramwell Fletcher

Plot Sinister music maestro Svengali can control the actions of women through hypnotism and his telepathic powers. When a pupil he has seduced announces she has left her husband for him,...

Direction Archie Mayo · Fritz Lang

Cast Jean Gabin · Ida Lupino · Thomas Mitchell · Claude Rains

Plot After a drunken binge on the San Pablo waterfront, longshoreman Bobo fears he may have killed a man. In his uncertainty, he takes a job on an isolated bait barge....

Direction Archie Mayo

Cast George Raft · Constance Cummings · Wynne Gibson · Mae West

Direction Archie Mayo

Cast Lew Ayres · Dorothy Mathews · Leon Janney · Robert Elliott

Plot Lou Ricarno is a smart guy. His plan is to organize the various gangs in Chicago so that the mugs will not liquidate each other. With the success of his...

Direction Archie Mayo

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Dick Foran · Erin O'Brien-Moore · Ann Sheridan

Plot When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.

Direction Archie Mayo

Cast George Raft · Joan Bennett · Lloyd Nolan · Walter Pidgeon

Plot An aircraft designer falls for the wife of an imprisoned gangster. All goes well until the gangster gets out of prison...

Direction Archie Mayo

Cast Joel McCrea · Gene Reynolds · Walter Brennan · Terry Kilburn

Plot Young Frankie (Gene Reynolds), a victim of a squalid life in the slums, fancies himself a tough guy until hearing a performance by violinist Jascha Heifetz (as himself). Inspired by...

Direction Archie Mayo

Cast Paul Muni · Anne Baxter · Claude Rains · George Cleveland

Plot In this comedy, Paul Muni plays a recently murdered gangster who finds himself roasting in Hell. Muni can't believe that he's in for All Eternity and keeps trying to "bust...

Direction Archie Mayo · Michael Curtiz

Cast James Cagney · Madge Evans · Arthur Byron · Allen Jenkins

Plot Five members of a teen-age gang, including leader Jimmy Smith, are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the melodramatically callous Thompson. Soon, Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed...

Direction Archie Mayo

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Otto Kruger · Ralph Bellamy · Ruth Donnelly

Plot In 1909 Mary Archer, daughter of small-town bluebloods, awaits the return from Germany of sometime beau Jeff. But Jeff brings with him a German friend, Hugo Wilbrandt, who loves and...

Direction Archie Mayo

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Mary Astor · Ricardo Cortez · Mae Clarke

Plot A talented young actress seems to be under the spell of her unscrupulous, avaricious, and totally unprincipled husband.

Direction Archie Mayo

Cast George Montgomery · Ann Rutherford · Glenn Miller · Lynn Bari

Plot Connie Ward is in seventh heaven when Gene Morrison's band rolls into town. She is swept off her feet by trumpeter Bill Abbot. After marrying him, she joins the bands...

Direction Archie Mayo

Cast Paul Muni · Bette Davis · Margaret Lindsay · Eugene Pallette

Plot Johnny Ramirez rises from bouncer to partner in Charlie Roark's border town casino. Charlie's wife Marie loves Johnny, but Johnny loves society woman Dale. Marie kills her husband, making it...

Direction Archie Mayo

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Joel McCrea · Pat O'Brien · Claire Dodd

Plot A businesslike syndicate runs all the gambling joints in town; least profitable is honest Mike Lee's. Under pressure to allow cheating, Mike "walks out," leaving tough-minded daughter Lady Lee to...

Direction Archie Mayo

Cast Gary Cooper · Sigrid Gurie · Basil Rathbone · George Barbier

Plot Marco Polo travels from Venice to Peking, where he quickly discovers spaghetti and gunpowder and falls in love with the Emperor's daughter. The Emperor Kublai Khan is a kindly fellow,...

Direction Archie Mayo

Cast Tyrone Power · Anne Baxter · Dana Andrews · James Gleason

Plot Against his personal preference, PT boat commander Ward Stewart is made executive officer of the submarine USS Corsair. On leave before sailing, he meets schoolteacher Jean Hewlett and gives her...

Direction Archie Mayo

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · James Rennie · Ricardo Cortez · Natalie Moorhead

Plot Ann, a young lady of scandalously "advanced" ideas, has been living in near-sin with blueblood lover Dick, due to her conviction that marriage will destroy their love. Finally, social pressure...