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Flame of Barbary Coast 1945 Duke falls for Flaxen in the Barbary Coast in turn of the century San Francisco He loses money to crooked gambler Tito, goes home and PL learns to gamble, and returns After he makes a fortune he opens his own place with Flaxen as the entertainer The 1906 quake destroys hi

Massacre 1934 Joe Thunderhorse, a Sioux Indian who has become the wealthy star of a Wild West show, returns home to his reservation after years away and finds that his father is dying and his people are being abused by corrupt white officials

I Sell Anything 1934 Fast talking auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler is content with his Second Avenue existence selling pawned goods for highly inflated prices One day, a Fifth Avenue society lady picks up a priceless belt buckle for a song at Cutlers shop Cutler tries to get his cut of the true price, bu

Bright Lights 1935 Joe and Fay Wilson are a happily married vaudeville team But when a reporter discovers, that one of the chorus girls in the troupe is a slightly eccentric heiress, who bugs sometimes out to do something strange e g being a chorus girl in vaudeville, the manager decides that Joe ha

Housewife 1934 Nan Reynolds encourages her copywriter husband Bill to open his own agency Nearly out of business, he finally gets a client Former girlfriend Patricia Berkeley writes a very successful commercial for the client and neats up their old romance Wife and girlfriend struggle over Bill

Mrs. OMalley and Mr. Malone (1950) "Murder-on-the-train" mystery has lawyer Malone chasing his paroled embezzler client (Kepplar) who still hasn't paid Malone's fee. When Kepplar jumps parole on a train to Chicago, Malone follows, in company with Kepplar's ex-wife, a police inspector and M

Scarface (1932) Johnny Lovo rises to the head of the bootlegging crime syndicate on the south side of Chicago following the murder of former head, Big Louis Costillo. Johnny contracted Big Louis' bodyguard, Tony Camonte, to make the hit on his boss. Tony becomes Johnny's second in command, and is no

The Private Affairs of Bel Ami (1947) Writer Georges Duroy (George Sanders) is one social-climbing S.O.B. who does most of his climbing over the warm (and cold) bodies of women. He begins with Rachel (Marie Wilson), a hanger-on in the cafes and Folies Bergere crowd, and then moves on to dally with C

Heat Lightning (1934) In the Mohave Desert, Olga runs a gas station, lunch counter, and auto camp with her younger sister Myra. In a 24-hour period, Olga must deal with Myra's desire to go to a town dance with a cad, the appearance by happenstance of George, an old boyfriend whose conduct is never a