Horace McCoy

Michel Dolannes resigns from a major newspaper as a journalist to launch a new journal 'Le Cosmopolite' which reveals all kinds of shady deals.One day, he is killed but who is the killer?

대공황으로 돈도 일자리도 안식처도 갖지 못한 미국의 젊은이들은 지친 삶의 돌파구를 찾아 마라톤 댄스 경연 대회를 찾는다. 당시 선풍적인 인기를 모았던 이 대회는 쉬지 않고 춤을 추는 대회인데 끝까지 버티는 사람에게 1,500달러의 상금과 그밖의 공황으로 얻기 힘든 모든 것들을 부상으로 주는 대회였다. 그래서 이 대회에서 승리하는 것은 바로 공황의 그늘에서 벗어나 새로운 삶을 꾸릴수 있는 지름길이었다. 하지만 몸에 장애나 질병, 의심받을 만한 나쁜 처신을 한 사람에게는 출전의 기회가 철저하게 봉쇄되어 있기도 하다. 대회의 프로모터인 록키(긱 영)는 비열한 사나이로 돈을 위해선 무슨 짓이든 할 그런 사람이었고, 댄스 대회 표를 많이 팔기 위해 가능한한 모든 수단을 동원한다. 춤으로 몸을 혹사시키는 대회였던 만큼 의사나 의료진이 경기장에 항상 대기하고 있었고, 사람들은 그런 점에 매력을 느껴 댄스 대회를 찾는 것이기도 했다. 로버트(마이클 사라진)와 글로리아(제인 폰다)는 처음부터 한 팀은 아니었지만 대회가 시작되자 서로의 춤 실력을 발견하고 충동적으로 커플을 이루어 대회에 참가하는데..

Claudette Colbert plays Prudence Webb, who arrives in the wide-open town of Fort Ralston, Texas, to assume control of her late father's newspaper. Her first major print crusade is aimed at gambler Chris Mooney (Barry Sullivan), whom Prudence holds responsible for her dad's suicide. She then takes aim at a couple of crooked cattle barons (Ray Collins and Walter Sande), who'd like nothing better than to put Prudence out of the way for keeps.

Claudette Colbert plays Prudence Webb, who arrives in the wide-open town of Fort Ralston, Texas, to assume control of her late father's newspaper. Her first major print crusade is aimed at gambler Chris Mooney (Barry Sullivan), whom Prudence holds responsible for her dad's suicide. She then takes aim at a couple of crooked cattle barons (Ray Collins and Walter Sande), who'd like nothing better than to put Prudence out of the way for keeps.

The Mayhew brothers flee from one Texas town to another as older brother Bill repeatedly attempts to keep younger brother Sam out of jail. Bill finally gives up on his younger brother and heads for Colorado. He gets a job and all is well until his brother shows up and takes a job that puts them on opposite sides of the law.

In this film's version of the story, four of the Reno Brothers are corrupt robbers and killers while a fifth, Clint is a respected Indiana farmer. A sister, Laura, who has inherited the family home, serves the outlaw brothers as a housekeeper and cook. One brother is killed when they go after a bank, the men of the town appear to have been waiting for them…

A policeman tries to protect a young woman against a hit man, when she flees New York after witnessing a mob killing.

A policeman tries to protect a young woman against a hit man, when she flees New York after witnessing a mob killing.

Three stories, very different in space and time. Lysistrata, a dancer from ancient times, Jeanne d'Arc, medieval warrior and Elisabeth, American war widow who comes on pilgrimage in Italy.

A doctor returned from the Korean War must choose between joining a glamorous practice and helping the poor.

A doctor returned from the Korean War must choose between joining a glamorous practice and helping the poor.

A small group of men and a tank stave off a German attack in a Bedouin desert during World War II.

Oklahoma outlaw Belle Starr meets the Dalton gang when rescued from lynching by Bob Dalton, who falls for her. So do gang member Mac and wealthy saloon owner Tom Bradfield, who's enlisted in a bankers' scheme to trap the Daltons. Dissension among the gang and Bradfield's ambivalence complicate the plot, as Belle demonstrates her prowess with shootin' irons, horses, and as a surprisingly racy saloon entertainer. Written by Rod Crawford

베테랑 로데오 선수인 제프 맥클라우드(로버트 미첨)는 경기 중에 부상을 입은 후 그 일을 그만두고 어린 시절을 보냈던 고향으로 돌아온다. 그곳에서 그는 자기 소유의 목장을 사려고 열심히 돈을 모으고 있는 웨스(아서 케네디)와 루이즈(수잔 헤이워드) 부부를 만나게 된다. 로데오 팬인 웨스는 로데오 챔피언이었던 제프를 알아보고는 자신이 일하는 목장에 소개시켜준다. 곧 웨스는 제프에게 상금의 절반을 제공하는 대가로 로데오 선수가 되는 방법을 가르쳐 달라고 부탁한다.

조나단 선장은 무역을 하면서 살아가는 유능한 선장이다. 어느 날 그는 샌프란시스코에 와서 알래스카를 사들일 계획을 시작한다. 그때 마침 정략결혼이 싫어서 샌프란시스코로 도망쳐 와있는 러시아 공주는 알래스카로 갈 배를 구하기 위해서 조나단 선장에게 자신이 공주라는 것을 숨기고 접근한다. 하지만 조나단 선장과 공주는사랑에 빠지고, 조나단 선장은 공주의 정채를 모른 채 그녀를 위해서 자신의 일을 뒤로하고 알래스카로 떠나는데...

Special prosecutor John Conroy hopes to combat organized crime in his city and appoints his cop father Matt as chief investigator. John doesn't understand why Matt is reluctant, but cynical reporter Jerry McKibbon thinks he knows: he's seen Matt with mob lieutenant Harrigan. Jerry's friendship with John is tested by the question of what to do about Matt, and by his attraction to John's girl Amanda. Meanwhile, the threatened racketeers adopt increasingly violent means of defense.

A veteran rodeo rider takes on a young apprentice in order to "teach him the ropes", and winds up competing against him.

Johnny Casar runs away from the orphanage to start a successful career as a roller skater and after setbacks learns to curb his ruthlessness and ambition.

Ralph Cotter, a ruthless criminal, escapes violently from a farm prison. Then, he seduces a dead inmate’s sister, gets back quickly into the crime business, faces corrupt local cops who run the city’s underworld and meets a powerful tycoon’s whimsical daughter.

A couple of Confederate soldiers, returning home from the Civil War, find Texas transformed into an armed camp with a quasi-dictator gathering up land and power as fast as he can. The two former Rebels take on this despot each in his own way.

Five officer candidates fight to prove their mettle during training.

The "war of nerves" which gripped the European continent in 1938, is the background for this war thriller starring George Sanders.

A fictionalized biopic about aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart. A female pilot breaks the Los Angeles to New York record and attracts the interest of the U.S. Navy, who want to send her on a spy mission.

베어너클시대(맨주먹복싱시합)였던 1880년대, 미국의 전설적인 헤비급 복서 존 L. 설리반에게 복싱의 신기술을 보여주며 당당히 KO승을 한 제임스 코벳의 실화를 바탕으로 만든 영화. 1880년대 샌프란시코에서 복싱은 불법에다 저급 스포츠로 취급되었다. 유명 회원제 클럽의 회원들은 글로브를 장착하고 KO룰을 적용시킨 이른바 ‘퀸즈베리룰’이 복싱을 좀 더 신사적인 스포츠로 만들어 줄 것이라 생각하고 새로운 룰의 적용을 지지한다. 클럽의 회원들은 후원하던 젊은 복서 제임스 코벳은 퀸즈베리룰 도입이래 최고의 선수가 되었다. 그러나 아직 어린 짐에게 성공의 달콤한 맛은 독이 되었고 결국 그는 자만과 욕심으로 후원자까지 잃게 되었다. 그러나 이 같은 시련 속에서도 그는 자신만의 스텝을 갈고 닦아 승승장구했으며 결국 세계챔피언이자 자신의 어린 시절 우상이었던 존 L. 설리번과 경기를 하게 된다. 당시 최고의 미남배우였던 에롤 플린이 주인공 짐 코벳 역을 맡았으며 사실적인 권투경기의 묘사로 평론가로부터 호평을 들었던 작품이다.

An Arizona frontiersman steals an Indian agent's girlfriend, followed by trouble.

Two Virginians are heading for a new life in Texas when they witness a stagecoach being held up. They decide to rob the robbers and make off with the loot. To escape a posse, they split up and don't see each other again for a long time. When they do meet up again, they find themselves on different sides of the law. This leads to the increasing estrangement of the two men, who once thought of themselves as brothers.

In the 1890s lumberjack John leaves Seattle for Alaska to look for gold. After he marries dancehall girl Sally, he finds she used to be in love with his best friend Blackie.

With thousands of cattle being rustled from White Sage ranch the 1930's Texas Rangers are called in. They manage to get one of their agents into the gang by making them think he is the Pecos Kid on the lam.

Ma Webster (Blanche Yurka) and her boys rob a bank on Christmas Eve; G-men stop them with Tommy guns.

Joyce and Fred MacNeil's honeymoon comes to an abrupt and unsatisfying halt when Fred is accused of murder. Railroaded into prison through the efforts of politically ambitious assistant DA Marlin, Fred awaits his doom on Death Row, while Joyce works overtime on the outside to clear her husband's name

This expose of the U.S. parole system, as seen through the eyes of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, takes dead aim on lawyers who manipulate the justice system in order to get undeserving convicts parole from prisons. The point is made when FBI agents are assigned to track down "Big Boy" Bradmore, who after getting an undeserved parole, via the efforts of a shyster lawyer, promptly murders an FBI agent.

A scientist invents a television device called the Iconoscope. Foreign agents hear about it and try to steal it.

A Chinese general's daughter (Anna May Wong) tracks her father to a slave-labor tyrant's (J. Carrol Naish) jungle empire.

Dr. Bartley Morgan covers up his profitable illegalities with the respectable veneer of a posh, highly profitable private practice, he runs with his nurse Margaret Hopkins. The FBI agent Robert Anders has to catch on to Morgan's illicit activities.

During a stick-up, a woman is excited by the criminal and joins him on his crime spree.

Notorious racketeer Joe Albany kills James Flowers when he discovers he is embezzling from the club they own. Joe escapes through a window and hails a taxi, but when he gets nervous at the sound of sirens, he jumps out. Hardware salesman Peter Harris accidentally hits Joe with his car, and unharmed, Joe seizes this opportunity to hide in Peter's car. Peter is so drunk that Joe is able to con him into believing that he is Charles Edwards, a fellow hardware man who was with him at a convention, and in the guise of friendship, accompanies Peter to his suburban home. The next morning, Joe gets antsy and wants to leave, but Peter's family, his wife Mary, young son Robert and daughter Jane all entreat him to stay.

Racketeer Steve Recka, art patron and political power-maker, rules his town and Madame Lan Ying, his beautiful friend and hostess (read:mistress), with an iron hand. He meets Margaret Van Kase, a socialite not impressed by his power nor his wealth, having no money herself, and Steve makes frantic efforts to win her and turns away from the loyal Lin Yang.

Postal inspectors track down money stolen from a railroad car.

Louis Friedlander-directed film

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. ...

A kidnapping, three airplane crashes and several fist-fights adds speed to the plot in which the plans of a new, faster airplane motor invented by brothers Tim and Jerry are stolen and suspicion falls on their office secretary Mary Stuart. But she can pilot an airplane with the best of them and she risks her life to save Tim. And when she gets kidnapped, Jerry regains his lost nerve in rescuing her.

A kidnapping, three airplane crashes and several fist-fights adds speed to the plot in which the plans of a new, faster airplane motor invented by brothers Tim and Jerry are stolen and suspicion falls on their office secretary Mary Stuart. But she can pilot an airplane with the best of them and she risks her life to save Tim. And when she gets kidnapped, Jerry regains his lost nerve in rescuing her.

Joan Leesom is stranded in a remote South American jungle village. She is pursued by the rapacious Taggart Taggart, however, has been involved with the beautiful native girl Chita. Chita now feels nothing but hatred for Joan, creating a deadly triangle that leads to an explosive ending.

Soldiers of the Storm is a 1933 American Pre-Code crime film directed by D. Ross Lederman.