The Beast of the City (1932)
Beware the hunters who stalk their prey through city jungles!
장르 : 범죄, 드라마, 로맨스
상영시간 : 1시간 26분
연출 : Charles Brabin
시놉시스
Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick is after gangster Sam Belmonte. He uses his corrupt brother Ed to watch over Daisy who was associated with Belmonte.
Chandler, a con-man, and his helper Frank decide to create a clairvoyant act for the carny circuit, as a little research reveals Ameicans spent $125 million on mind-readers and astrology. The carny, renamed Chandra, falls for one of his marks, Sylvia, but their love is tested when he brings tragedy to other peoples' lives and she asks him to go straight.
A young woman goes to New York and finds success in advertising thanks to her legs while her boyfriend spends the summer in Europe with his band.
A working girl shares her apartment with an artist, taking the place in shifts.
A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley.
A modern-day tale of gangsterism and revenge. After a notorious mobster murders a Jewish tailor and is let off for the crime, a band of outraged high-school students turns into vigilante crusaders hell-bent on punishing the wrongdoers. Memorable pre-Code moment: the students torturing a gangster by dangling him over a pit filled with rats.
Kay Arnold is a gold digger who wanders from party to party with the intention of catching a rich suitor. Jerry Strong is a young man from a wealthy family who strives to succeed as an artist. What begins as a relationship of mutual convenience soon turns into something else.
Seeking the whereabouts of international gangster Nick Randall, the US State Department contacts Scotland Yard, as his girlfriend, Angela Booth, is currently in a British prison. Angela has refused to give Nick up to the law, so the combined authorities arrange for Angela to escape, aided by stoolie Gran' Ramsey who is at the same prison. The police will then follow Angela to Nick. Gran' stages the getaway, and the two women, accompanied by a third convict, Marguerite, whose prison-born baby is about to be turned over to welfare authorities. It is up to Gran' to keep the police informed of Angela's movements without being detected by the escapees, until Angela contacts Nick. This film is a reworking of principal footage from the UK film WOMEN WITHOUT MEN (1955), q.v., which, with added new footage (including scenes with original star Beverly Michaels), significantly revises the plot and central characters from a story about a wrongly imprisoned waif to one about a gangster's moll.
Lucky Jordan is a gangster living in New York City and when he's drafted into the army, he tries to escape duty by using an old con woman named Annie to convince the draft board he's needed at home. When that fails, Jordan is sent to boot camp, but he doesn't stay there long. He takes a beautiful USO worker hostage and flees back to New York. There, he learns that a rival gangster is plotting against America.
Gifted German wrestler Polokai falls in love with ex-con Laura, who persuades him to emigrate to America and gets him involved with crooked promoters.
Unscrupulous agent Rush Blake makes singing waiter Buddy Clayton a big radio star while Peggy Cornell, who has lost her own radio show, helps Buddy.
A naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder.
The Whinneys share expenses for their trip to Hollywood with George and Gracie and their great Dane. A clerk in Whinney's bank has put fifty thousand dollars in a suitcase, hoping to rob Whinney on the road, but instead Whinney takes another road and is himself arrested in Nevada.
월 스트리트 사업가 제리는 유능한 비서 줄리아와 진지한 관계를 맺길 원하지만, 줄리아에게는 약혼자 필립이 있다. 제리의 구애를 뿌리친 줄리아는 필립과의 결혼을 서두르고, 더 이상 줄리아와 함께 일할 수 없다고 생각한 제리는 그녀를 해고한다. 1년 후 줄리아를 만난 제리는 그녀에게 다시 반하고, 둘 사이에 대해 의혹을 품고 있던 필립은 해서는 안 될 짓을 벌이고 만다. 떠오르는 스타였던 클로데트 콜베르의 지적인 매력이 스크린을 가득 채운다.
A sportswriter jilted by his globe-trotting girlfriend marries a woman jilted by her boyfriend.
A teenager lands in a brutal reform school for refusing to squeal on his bootlegger boss.
A man is promised $25,000 if he can bring the circulation of a newspaper up to one million.
Gangsters plan an assassination of a rival while he rides the train carrying him to prison.
Salomy Jane, a California mountain girl, is sought after by a number of men in the nearby small town of Redwood City. She is affected when two criminals are pursued by authorities: one for killing a hypocritical mayoral candidate, the other for robbing the stagecoach.
A woman tries to save her husband from the electric chair after both are sent to prison for a murder they didn't commit.
어릴 적부터 마약조직의 손에서 커 온 마틴과 페페. 10대 시절 첫눈에 반한 상류층 소녀 소피아에 대한 일편단심 때문에 마틴은 20대가 되어서도 페페의 놀림을 받는다. 보스의 신뢰를 바탕으로 승승장구하는 마틴과 페페는 큰 돈을 벌고, 자신의 모든 걸 쏟아 부어 고급 주택을 마련한 마틴은 소피아에게 청혼하며 다른 삶을 꿈꾼다. 보스의 명령으로 최대물량을 운반하는 임무를 수행하던 마틴과 페페가 멕시코의 라이벌 조직에 마약을 모두 털리면서 보스에게 큰 빚을 지게 되고, 빚 청산을 위해 마틴과 페페는 점점 더 위험한 수를 쓰게 된다. 설상가상 소피아 또한 마틴의 정체를 알게 되어 조직을 나올 것을 요구하고, 마틴은 마지막 한 탕을 위해 마이애미, 뉴욕, 멕시코, 콜롬비아를 누비며 목숨을 건 마약밀매를 진행한다. 그러다 마약청 요원으로부터 밀고자가 되어 경찰의 끄나풀로 일하라는 제안을 받게 되는데…