William Pawley

Adaptation of the play Music at Midnight, set in the Iron Curtain.

Lloyd Nolan is back as detective Michael Shayne who's in search of a stolen coin.

Two troublesome boys grow into very different men, one becoming a hoodlum and the other embracing college but both are in-love with the same girl.

Frontiersman Tom Garfield and his pals endeavor to save their land from the clutches of slimy easterner Forsyth. The villain hires a bit of local muscle in the form of brutish Chris Matson, but he's no match for our hero.

When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his company.

An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne, Lionel Atwill and Edward Brophy.

Cuando los periódicos publican la noticia del asesinato de Jesse James, su hermano Frank, que desde hace años vive con una identidad falsa (Ben Wooden), decide abandonar su pacífica vida de granjero para vengar su muerte.

Sgt. Renfrew and Constable Kelly go aloft to search for a plane missing with a shipment of gold from the Yukon Mine Company. Inventor Speavy has devised a power ray which disrupts electrical impulses, and Morgan and his gang of crooks has brought in Prof. Lewis to increase the ray's range, telling him he's helping the government develop this new weapon. Speavy spills the beans to Prof. Lewis and his daughter Madeleine,and Morgan threatens to implicate them in his crimes unless they cooperate. Morgan kills Speavy when he tries to warn Renfrew, but when Madeleine stows away on board the doomed plane Renfrew is piloting, will the crooks be able to make Prof. Lewis use the power ray to bring the plane down?

A reporter enlists the help of a gangster's secretary to obtain evidence to bring her boss to justice.

Un corredor de bolsa de Wall Street es encarcelado por desfalco. Su hijo, recién licenciado en la universidad, intenta conseguir trabajo para pagar la fianza. Sin embargo, debido a la reputación de su padre, es rechazado en todas partes. Dadas las circunstancias, acaba entrando en una banda mafiosa y llega a ser la mano derecha de un poderoso gángster.

Tom Joad regresa a su hogar tras cumplir condena en prisión, pero la ilusión de volver a ver a los suyos se transforma en frustración al ver cómo los expulsan de sus tierras. Para escapar al hambre y a la pobreza, la familia no tiene más remedio que emprender un larguísimo viaje lleno de penalidades con la esperanza de encontrar una oportunidad en California, la tierra prometida.

A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect.

A dancehall girl meets a sailor and they fall in love, but the club’s owner doesn’t want the girl to leave.

When the plane owned by the "Yukon and Columbia Mail Service" crashes, RCMP Sergeant Renfrew (James Newill) and Constable Kelly (Dave O'Brien) suspect murder. Their suspicions are confirmed when Renfrew finds the control stick has been jammed, forcing the plane to fly in one direction until the gas ran out. Mine owner Louise Howard (Louise Stanley) reports that her superintendent is missing. The Mounties find him murdered and that too has been made to look like an accident. A new mail service pilot, Bill Shipley (Warren Hull), arrives. He had gone to training school with Renfrew but had been cashiered for misconduct. The Mounties discover that Raymond (Karl Hackett), who had been working for Louise, really owns the flying line managed by Yuke Cardoe (William Pawley.) They find proof that all the gold from the mine isn't being turned over to Louise, and suspect that Raymond and Yuke are stealing the gold and shipping it to Seattle by plane.

Air-race champions "Speed" Leslie and Branda Fowler combine to open a very profitable airplane service that flies patients to other cities for special treatment. Gangsters soon move in and offer to take over, without an invitation.

Estados Unidos, Ley Seca, años 20. Relato sobre los diferentes caminos que siguen tres veteranos que se conocen durante la Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918). Cuando regresan a América tras luchar por su país, tropiezan con el problema del desempleo y con grandes difícultades económicas. Uno de ellos (Lynn) seguirá con decisión el buen camino; otro (Cagney), amargado por la falta de futuro, no encuentra más salida que el contrabando ilegal de licor; el tercero (Bogart) se convierte en un implacable gángster.

Adaptación de una novela de Lloyd C. Douglas ("Sublime obsesión", "La túnica sagrada"), cuyos protagonistas son médicos que tienen concepciones contrapuestas de su profesión: unos son idealistas, y otros materialistas.

Addie Fippany, her father Jean Paul Batiste Fippany, her mother Josephine and her sister Cecile roam the country-side in a mule-drawn wagon, trading trinkets to farmers for chickens which they sell in the cities. Addie and her father love the care-free life, but Mrs. Fippany and Cecile want to settle down in New York City. As soon as the "chicken wagon family" reaches New York, Addie gets into mischief and a policeman, Matt Hibbard, helps her and falls in love with Cecile. He helps the family settle into a deserted firehouse which is up for public sale.

En la bulliciosa ciudad minera de Tombstone, Ben Carter, el dueño de un saloon, intenta deshacerse de un competidor que ha traído hermosas chicas de Chicago, contratando a un pistolero. En vista de que el sheriff se niega a enfrentarse con él, decide hacerlo Wyatt Earp, un antiguo explorador del Ejército, que acaba aceptando el puesto de sheriff y empieza a limpiar la ciudad de maleantes. Mientras tanto, mantiene una peculiar relación de amistad/rivalidad con Doc Holliday, un jugador tísico.

A weary dance-hall girl in a Panama saloon is given the choice of jail or going with a rough-and-tumble oil driller's jungle oil-field in order to pay him back for being slipped a mickey and robbed.

En 1862, durante la Guerra de Secesión, dos empresas rivales comienzan a construir la primera línea de ferrocarril transcontinental que enlace el Atlántico con el Pacífico. Al tiempo narra los amores entre la hija de uno de los ingenieros, Mollie Monahan (Barbara Stanwyck), el agente del gobierno encargado de la seguridad Jeff Butler (Joel McCrea) y el principal saboteador Dick Allen (Robert Preston).

Roy Rogers is a cowboy who joins the Border Patrol, only to have his buddy Tommy get killed at a local saloon. Determined to get revenge at any cost, Roy and Rusty cross the border in search of Arizona Jack, the man responsible for Tommy's death.

Gene takes care of three tough kids sent west from Chicago after their father died and left them a cattle ranch. They help him catch a bunch of rustlers.

A district attorney uses psychology to expose a criminal gang by publicizing the prosecution of an innocent man.

A homeless woman named Hannah drifts into the lives of the kindly Ward family, in a small Indiana town in 1919. Hannah makes herself useful as a cook and housekeeper and stays with the Wards... but her real interest is in meeting their neighbor, teenager Peter Trimble. It turns out that Peter is the son she bore out of wedlock and gave up for adoption, and now Hannah has returned to town to see what sort of young man her son has become.

La segunda y última película de Grand National Pictures que presenta The Shadow, interpretada nuevamente por Rod La Rocque. En esta versión, Lamont Cranston es un detective aficionado y presentador de un programa de radio con su asistente Phoebe (no Margo) Lane. Cabbie Moe Shrevnitz y el Comisionado Weston también aparecen.

Granite-jawed Jack Holt performs a dual role in Columbia's Trapped by G-Men.

Racketeer Jim Barnes is trying to force the independent taxicab-drivers to join his "protection service" at the cost of five bucks a day. Champion race-car driver, Bob Kane, joins with his friends Lee and "Dad" Martin in a fight for the street rights of a big city.

El nuevo capitán de patio de la penitenciaría de San Quentin quiere hacer de los años de cárcel de los reclusos un tiempo para la reinserción, en lugar de para el castigo. Pero no todo el mundo está de acuerdo. Steve Jameson (Pat O'Brien) pretende unas reformas a base de incentivos y amenazas. Una huelga de reclusos y un presidiario estafador que birla un rifle son algunos de los problemas a los que tendrá que hacer frente Jameson. Otro es el recluso Red (Humphrey Bogart), al principio influenciado, pero que vuelve a ver las cosas como antiguamente, y trata de conseguir su libertad de forma violenta.

Jimmy Davis se convierte en un héroe matando alemanes durante la Primera Guerra Mundial, pero resulta gravemente herido. Durante su estancia en el hospital se enamora de Rose, una enfermera que a su vez está enamorada de Fred, compañero de Jimmy. Fred es capturado pero ambos piensan que está muerto al no volver del campo de batalla, así que comienzan planes de boda. Cuando Fred aparece no se opone al matrimonio de ellos a pesar de quedar destrozado emocionalmente. Finalizada la guerra, Fred se encuentra con Jimmy y descubre que es un mafioso

Un delincuente de poca monta (Henry Fonda), condenado ya tres veces, es acusado de un asesinato que no ha cometido. Aunque consigue escapar de la cárcel, la fatalidad le impide seguir el camino recto, a pesar de contar con el apoyo de una mujer que le ama.

In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a protection racket preying on milk distribution is broken through the persistence of law enforcement and the courage of a local businessman.

A young reporter tries to prove her mettle by exposing a liquor racketeering gang.

Judith has just been paroled for a crime which her vindictive, jealous, violent husband, Gene, fingered her for. Gene is in prison for life. She claims that she had no knowledge of Gene's criminal activity, but FBI agent Lee Laird doesn't buy it.

The Big Noise is retired textile manufacturer Julius Trent (Guy Kibbee). Seeking a new outlet for his entrepreneurial energies, Trent buys a half interest in a thriving dry-cleaning establishment. This gets him mixed up with a gang of protection racketeers, who promise dire consequences if Trent doesn't dance to their tune.

Con la pandilla de Al Kruger a la cabeza, los gángsters de Nueva York prosperan gracias a una administración débil que ha enviado al duro policía Johnny Blake (Edward G. Robinson) a un barrio de las afueras. Los cerebros de la banda son un triunvirato de banqueros cuyas influencias políticas, financieras y sociales permiten la existencia de los gángsters. Cuando Bryan, un editor que hace campaña contra ellos, aparece asesinado, un gran jurado designa al capitán Dan McLaren para que acabe con los malhechores. McLaren expulsa, aparentemente, a Blake del cuerpo de policía y éste, enfadado, se une a la banda como mano derecha de Kruger. Nick Fenner (Humphrey Bogart), el ayudante y asesino de Bryan, sospecha de Blake y desconfía de la presencia del ex policía en la banda.

On her debut as an opera star, Marion Stuart is interrogated and possibly implicated in the death of a male acquaintance. Released, although thoroughly shaken-up, Marion attempts to perform but loses her voice onstage. Humiliated, but driven to sing, she travels to South America under the assumed name of Maria Delasano, and works in an opera company under the tutelage of Feodor Glinka, who wants her to shun men and save herself for her art. Mary resists the persistent attentions of wealthy young Phil Roberts, who follows the company in hopes of marrying her. ...

Fate brings a job at Boulder Dam and romance with a saloon singer into the life of a young man on the run.

A young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangster.

Two people go to Coney Island to find romance and wind up in jail.

Dos reporteros planean casarse, pero la novia se queda esperando en el altar porque su novio se ha infiltrado para exponer la actividad de las pandillas.

Band leader Jack Conrad is impressed by prison inmate Ray Ferrera on saxophone. Conrad hires Ray to join his band and tour upon his release. Ray hooks up with Jean, a dancer in the show, and the two become a successful dance act. However, when an ex-inmate buddy of Ray's robs the tour bus, Ray is suspected of wrongdoing by Jack and the others in the group. After a gang of thugs hijacks the tour bus, Ray tries to use his street smarts to redeem his reputation.

A naive farmer encounters a beautiful burlesque dancer on the streets of New York and agrees to pose as her husband during her mother's visit.

World War I drama about a soldier and the wild horse he befriends.

A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a metamorphosis into an incorruptible statesman after a near-fatal accident.

Jim Hall, fugitivo de la ley, se une a la banda de Hays, capataz del rancho Herrick, que se propone robar el ganado del ranchero. Jim se siente atraído por la hermana de éste y confiesa al sheriff el inminente robo, pero después cae prisionero de la banda.

Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get tangled up with some gangsters only to be reunited again in the end.

Retrato desolador de la injusticia y el sufrimiento humanos causados por el sistema penal de los Estados Unidos vigente tras la I Guerra Mundial.

El intelectual e ingenuo profesor Post hereda una enorme cantidad de dinero y decide que es hora de salir y disfrutar de la vida. Se enamora de una bailarina de una mediocre función de teatro y decide comprar el espectáculo con su herencia para llevarlo a Broadway. (FILMAFFINITY)

Vivienne Ware is defended by her ex-beau when she's accused of killing her faithless fiance.

El mundano y rico Letty Lynton vuelve a Nueva York, después de abandonar a su amante Emile Renaul en Sudamérica, cuando ella tiene un romance con Jerry Darrow. Lynton la espera en Nueva York, pero ella lo envenena. Cuando los detectives la arrestan, Jerry prepara una coartada.

Adaptación de una obra teatral de John Frederick Ballard, en la que se abordaba el tema de la delincuencia juvenil.

Jim Gladden, a construction site foreman, is partially responsible for the accidental death of one of his workers, Fred Smith, and makes good on Fred's deathbed request to go to Scotch Valley and take care of his surviving wife and children. When Jim arrives in the small town, he is told that there are two Fred Smith families in Scotch Valley, the rich Smiths and the poor Smiths. Jim assumes that the Smiths he is looking for are the poor ones, and is directed to a house where four children live in poverty.

Innocent Sally Brown thinks men are only attracted to experienced women, so she poses as the wife of an unmarried businessman on a trip to Paris.

In the Depression, Pete and Sidney are good kids, working hard, giving money to their parents, and engaged for three years while they save to get married. Each has a selfish mother: Sydney's is cold, Pete's is clingy. Sidney's mother is looking for her own happiness, no matter how much that search harms her daughter and long-suffering husband; and, the longer the engagement lingers, the more pressure Pete's mom puts on Sidney to break it off and set her son free. "After Tomorrow" is Pete and Sidney's favorite song, but with illness, poverty, and temptation: will that good day ever come?

Story of French prisoner in Germany who falls in love with a German general's daughter. From the novel "Axelle" by Pierre Benoit.

Ma Shelby (Mae Marsh) es una madre que lo da todo por sus cuatro hijos; pero estos, cuando se hacen mayores tomarán caminos dispares y no se preocuparán por ella.

A young Russian girl is forced into a life of prostitution in Czarist Russia, and she and a British journalist find their lives endangered when she reveals to him information regarding the social crimes rampant in her country.

La perdición –y maldad de su título– de Margot Rande no es otra que su díscolo hijo. Cuando el muchacho atraca un banco, la madre le protege disparando accidentalmente a un policía. Condenada a veinte años de prisión, la mujer es sometida a todo tipo de vejaciones por culpa de guardianas sin escrúpulos. Un abogado intentará reducir su condena, pero las cosas se complican cuando ella tiene un niño mientras está entre rejas.