Screenplay: John Bright

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast James Cagney · Jean Harlow · Edward Woods · Joan Blondell

Synopsis A young hoodlum rises up through the ranks of the Chicago underworld, even as a gangster's accidental death threatens to spark a bloody mob war.

Direction Alfredo B. Crevenna · Emilio Fernández

Cast Pedro Armendáriz · Ariadne Welter · Carlos López Moctezuma · Luis Aceves Castañeda

Synopsis A group of semi-slave laborers rebel against the appalling work conditions in a logging camp deep in the Mexican jungle.

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast James Cagney · Joan Blondell · Louis Calhern · Noel Francis

Synopsis At a midwestern hotel, conniving bellhop Bert Harris has a finger in every pie. He promotes a job for glamorous Ann Roberts, but she does not immediately succumb to his charms. However, Bert soon enlists Ann as partner in his...

Direction Ernst Lubitsch · Norman Taurog · Norman Z. McLeod · William A. Seiter

Cast Gary Cooper · Charles Laughton · George Raft · Jack Oakie

Synopsis Buoyant, star-studded comedy about a dying steel tycoon (Richard Bennett) who randomly selects eight people from a phone book and gives them each a million dollars. Among the lucky recipients are a clumsy china salesman (Charles Ruggles), a working girl...

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...

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Virginia Davis · Joan Blondell · Anne Shirley · Ann Dvorak

Synopsis Three women who were childhood schoolmates take different paths in life. Vivian marries a very wealthy lawyer and has an adorable boy. Mary, on the other hand, takes the hard road through reform school. After a superstitious faux pas, Vivian's...

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast James Cagney · Joan Blondell · Ann Dvorak · Eric Linden

Synopsis Famous motor-racing champion Joe Greer (James Cagney) returns to his hometown to compete in a local race. He discovers his younger brother has aspirations to become a racing champion and during the race Joe loses his nerve when another driver...

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Pat O'Brien · Humphrey Bogart · Ann Sheridan · Barton MacLane

Synopsis Ex-Army officer Jameson takes a job a prison guard at San Quentin. Joe, the brother of his new girlfriend May, is sentenced to the prison for robbery. When Jameson tries to separate lawbreakers from hardened criminals, badguy Hansen tries to...

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast James Cagney · Loretta Young · George E. Stone · Guy Kibbee

Synopsis Amidst a backdrop of growing violence and intimidation, independent cab drivers struggling against a consolidated juggernaut rally around hot-tempered Matt Nolan. Nolan is determined to keep competition alive on the streets, even if it means losing the woman he loves.

Direction John Rawlins

Cast Basil Rathbone · Nigel Bruce · Evelyn Ankers · Reginald Denny

Synopsis England, at the start of World War Two. Mysterious wireless broadcasts, apparently from Nazi Germany are heard over the BBC. The warn of acts of terror in England, just before they take place. Baffled, the Defence Committee call in Holmes...

Direction Lowell Sherman

Cast Mae West · Cary Grant · Owen Moore · Gilbert Roland

Synopsis New York singer and nightclub owner Lady Lou has more men friends than you can imagine. Unfortunately one of them is a vicious criminal who's escaped and is on the way to see "his" girl, not realising she hasn't exactly...

Direction William A. Seiter

Cast George Raft · Pat O'Brien · Janet Blair · Broderick Crawford

Synopsis George Raft, hoofer at the Paradise Club, shares his ambitions with his dancing partner, Billie Moore. She is also the quarry of Stave Crandall, a big-shot racketeer and bootlegger. When Steve bumps of "Scar" Edwards, from whom he has hijacked...

Direction William K. Howard

Cast Wallace Ford · William Harrigan · Stuart Erwin · Jimmy Lydon

Synopsis The life of a young slum kid, who starts out stealing small things in order to fit in with the "crowd", winds up in reform school, and eventually spends much of his life in prison. Upon his release, he finds...

Direction Richard Wallace

Cast Edward Arnold · Francine Larrimore · Gail Patrick · George Bancroft

Synopsis “Teddy” Connor, a woman recently orphaned, leaves her uncle’s Midwestern farm for Chicago, where she meets “lumber king” John Meade. John takes her in for a hot meal and sends her roses the next day. John is engaged to penniless...

Direction Herbert Kline

Cast George Brent · Lynn Bari · Russ Tamblyn · Tommy Cook

Synopsis Teen baseball fan Johnny Barrows sneaks into the baseball stadium of the Cleveland Indians, then playing in the 1948 World Series; claiming to be an orphan, he befriends team members & broadcaster Mike Jackson. But it develops that Johnny has...

Direction Lewis Seiler

Cast Paul Kelly · Arline Judge · Mona Barrie · Gregory Ratoff

Synopsis Donovan unknowingly becomes tangled up with jewel thieves when Evelyn Howard gives him a cigarette lighter containing some hot rocks.

Direction Jack Donohue

Cast Alan Baxter · Virginia Gilmore · Richard Kollmar · Loring Smith

Synopsis After his photo is accidentally taken, that someone will do everything in his power to get hold of the negative.

Direction James P. Hogan

Cast Paul Kelly · Marsha Hunt · Kent Taylor · Robert Cummings

Synopsis An attorney is responsible for sending an innocent man to jail for a murder he did not commit. He soon gets a taste of his own medicine when his wife is murdered and no one will believe him when he...

Direction Robert Rossen

Cast Mel Ferrer · Miroslava · Anthony Quinn · Eugene Iglesias