Otto Yamaoka

서머셋 모옴의 원작을 영화화한 것으로 살인을 한 여인이 자신의 결백을 입증하기 위해서 그것이 정당방위였음을 주장하는 이야기. 치정살인 이후에 이어지는 재판과정을 통해 보여지는 베티 데이비스의 뻔뻔하게도 평온한 베티 데이비스의 연기 일품이고, 예상치 못한 사적인 복수과정으로 끝나는 결말도 상당히 충격적인 마무리.

Eddie Kerns sells his song to a Broadway producer and also lands a job dancing in the musical. He sends for his dance partner-fiancée Molly Mahoney who brings her younger sister Pat. Upon seeing Molly and Pat dance, the producer picks Pat for the show and gives Molly a job selling cigarettes. A wealthy friend of the producer named "Chat" Chatsworth also has his eye on Pat. Pat is teamed with Eddie in the specialty number as Kerns and Mahoney. Pat and Eddie soon realize that they are in love and must tell Molly. Pat balks at hurting Molly and goes out with Chat who already has five ex-wives.

The bank has been robbed, the night watchman killed and the safe opened. The townspeople want John as he was the only one with the combination. Clint gets John out of town but before the mob turns ugly but the deputy is shot when he and Clint go to get John at the shack. Things look bad for John, but Clint does not believe that John did the robbery and he will look for the real crooks.

Helen Roberts, who's on probation, goes back to work as a waitress at Torre's Fish Palace, a San Francisco waterfront dive. The customers are low characters trying to make time with Helen and ex-rum runners trying to make a dishonest dollar. Some of the latter, including Helen's unwelcome suitor Martin Rhodes, are after a mysterious, valuable hidden "cargo"; when violence erupts, Helen finds herself innocently involved, and is soon on the run from both cops and crooks.

When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the publication's frazzled head editor, Warren Haggerty, must find a way to turn the tables on her. Soon Haggerty's harried fiancée, Gladys Benton, and his dashing friend Bill Chandler are in on a scheme that aims to discredit Connie, with amusing and unexpected results.

With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to write his memoirs for magazine-publisher Jordan Winston. When Blakeford's daughter, Patricia, ask him to desist for the sake of his ex-wife, Carlotta Blakeford, he attempts to break his contract with Winston.

Cowboy Jeff Larabee returns from the east and meets Doris Halloway, a young girl, that he regards as a vagabond, till he learns that she's the owner of the farm where he works. He tries to win her heart, but without success, until she is endangered by gangsters

A lonely radio operator in Labrador falls for an engaged woman.

경제적으로 쪼들리던 소설가 토니는 아내와 뉴욕을 떠나 고향 농장으로 간다. 이웃의 폴라드인 얀 노박이 토니의 농장을 원하고, 농장을 팔아 돈이 생기자 아내는 뉴욕으로 가버린다. 한편, 노박 가족에게 흥미가 생긴 토니는 그들을 소재로 글을 쓰려고 고향에 남는데, 그는 얀의 딸 마냐와 사랑에 빠지고 만다. 비극적 결말이 예견되지만, 허락 받지 못할 사랑에 대한 색다른 시선을 담았다. 한때 ‘제2의 그레타 가르보, 마를렌 디트리히’라 불리며 기대를 모았으나 아쉽게도 할리우드에 정착하지 못했던 러시아 출신의 안나 스텐이 풍부한 잠재성을 보여준 작품이기도 하다.

A polo-playing grandmother and her broke brood get back in the money with a Wall Street bet.

A detective tries to figure out who killed a man who predicted his own death.

A race-car driver whose career is on the skids because of his drinking falls for a rich society girl. That motivates him to clean up his act and resume his career, but it may be too late for that.

A struggling writer divorces his wife to pursue his career without interference, but they meet in Europe years later after she has remarried.

Movie star Shelah Fane is seeing wealthy Alan Jaynes while filming in Honolulu, Hawaii, but won't marry him without consulting famed psychic Tanaverro first. Tanaverro confronts her about the unsolved murder of fellow film star Denny Mayo three years earlier, and she decides to reject Jaynes' proposal. When Shelah is found shot to death in her beach-front pavilion, Charlie Chan of the Honolulu Police investigates.

A ruthless, crooked stockbroker is murdered at his luxurious country estate, and detective Philo Vance just happens to be there; he decides to find out who killed him.