The Criminal Code (1930)
Жанр : криминал, драма
Время выполнения : 1Ч 37М
Директор : Howard Hawks
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After young Robert Graham commits a murder while drunk and defending his girlfriend, he is prosecuted by ambitious Mark Brady and sentenced to 10 years. Six years later, Brady becomes the prison warden and offers the beleaguered Robert a job as his chauffeur. Robert cleans up his act, but, on the eve of his pardon, his cellmate drags him back into the world of violence, and he faces a difficult choice that could return him to prison.
Маньяк-убийца наводит ужас на жителей Города. Маленькие девочки не успевают домой к обеду, не возвращаются вовсе. Полиция сбилась с ног в поисках преступника, однако все усилия тщетны. Обеспокоенный активностью полицейских, преступный мир города сам объявил погоню за нарушившим табу маньяком.
Фильм рассказывает захватывающую историю о жестком контроле организованной преступности над Чикаго в эпоху «сухого закона». Главный герой — Тони Кармонте, честолюбивый преступник, не знающий жалости. Тони идет к своей цели: он намерен стать криминальным боссом города.
Konrad von Seidlitz is a young yuppie lawyer currently celebrating his engagement with Cornelia, daughter of minister of justice Volkerts. As a public relations gag, he hasn't paid his parking fines for two years and now insists on being sentenced to jail for two weeks as punishment. Using his knowledge as a lawyer he makes the best out of his visit in jail still working, still in a splendid mood and not adapting to any rule. Probably a good way to get the desired public attention, but also a good way to make enemies inside the jail-house. One day before Konrad is to be released his booth is searched and two hundred grams of cocaine are found. That's a serious problem even for a brilliant lawyer like Konrad and even if you're innocent
Химик поселяется в маленькой деревенской гостинице и совершает первое убийство. Оказывается, юный химик открыл ужасную формулу, опасный препарат, делающий человеческую плоть невидимой. Интерес у него был исключительно научный, но препарат имел побочный эффект, превративший его в маньяка. Почти сразу же он начинает искать противоядие, которое могло бы вернуть его в нормальное состояние…
Агент по недвижимости Ренфилд приезжает в Трансильванию, чтобы подписать с графом Дракулой договор о покупке им старого аббатства Карфакс в Лондоне. Местные жители предупреждают Ренфилда, что замок Дракулы — логово нечисти, но тот игнорирует предупреждения и отправляется в замок. На перевале Борго его подбирает карета с молчаливым кучером. Выглянув по дороге из кареты, Ренфилд видит, что кучер исчез, а над упряжкой машет крыльями летучая мышь…
Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company executive Mariette Colet, the two crooks decide to combine their criminal talents to rob their employer. Under the alias of Monsieur Laval, Gaston uses his position as Mariette's personal secretary to become closer to her. However, he takes things too far when he actually falls in love with Mariette, and has to choose between her and Lily.
Робинсон играет парикмахера, обладающего невероятным везением в азартных играх. При поддержке друзей он отправляется испытать удачу в большом городе, и в итоге проходит тернистый путь от провинциала из крошечного городка до «крупного босса в крупном городе», став царём азартного мира. Но такие выскочки мешают жить добропорядочным высокопоставленным гражданам, и окружной прокурор решает любыми средствами избавиться от парикмахера, у которого есть одна слабость — блондинки…
1909 год, двое ирландских мальчишек Том и Мэтт взрослеют на «грязных» улицах Саут-Сайда Чикаго, проходя курс обучения преступной жизни у скупщика краденого. Став взрослыми, ребята переходят к ограблениям, в результате убит полицейский. Далее идет бутлеггерство, приходит «успех», они уже живут в апартаментах с двумя блондиночками Мэмю и Китти.
Том, более крутой и жестокий, быстрее поднимается по ступенькам гангстерской иерархии, и через какое-то время убийство становится для обоих настолько обыденным, что они убивают даже лошадь. Но расплаты, по законам морали того времени, не избежать.
The Farmer is abducted by a capering Jungle Goddess. As pre-Code as a Terrytoon ever got. Most animation is by Frank Moser; with him are Art Babbitt, Jerry Shields, Bill Tytla and others.
Lonely in his English country estate, Sir Basil decides to gather his grown (albeit illegitimate) children around him in his declining years. He uses a ledger which keeps track of the payments he has been making to ex-lovers to locate 2 of them, and a third is found by a lawyer in New York, her mother was too proud to accept any money. Sir Basil is a curmudgeon, and his three adult children have a hard time with him at first. Toni, the American, is a free spirit who had a budding career in show business. Jeffery is English and a semi-gentleman, and Maria is Italian, with a Latin temperament. They begin to bond, especially Sir Basil and Toni, whose outgoing personality finally wins over the old man. But past lives begin to creep back into the picture and threaten the old man's plans for a life filled with his children.
A young couple marries in secret. Judy's afraid her parents won't approve of Dick and she'll lose her generous allowance. Her parents bring her home from the city where she's been studying art and encourage the attentions of Tom, a persistent suitor. Judy and her jealous husband have an argument that leads her back to the city, a drunken, amorous Tom and a tragedy.
A dance trophy winning young couple is temporarily split up when a playboy aviator leads the girl to believe he's in love with her.
A man who believes that love is more animal and chemical than spiritual, bets that by controlling the circumstances, he can get any man and woman to fall for with each other and get engaged within a month.
Ex-convicts try to stop a Chinese smuggling ring.
A bank teller's love life falls apart when he's accused of embezzling.
Culture shock bombards a woman and her family when they leave their hick town to help her sister out in her big-city beauty parlor.
During Civil War Reconstruction, the Connelly family is romantically restored to their former glory when Will Connelly marries a Yankee farm girl, Joanna Tate, despite the objects of his temperamental father Bob Connelly.
After catching their husbands with other women, two wives go on a girls-only vacation.
Clancy and MacIntosh are a pair of stock comedy Irish and Scottish plumbers who have been partners for twenty years; but when Clancy accidentally buys some shares on margin, MacIntosh's Scotch thrift rebels and their partnership breaks up. In the meantime, their children are in love...
When Polly Fisher, a circus aerialist, is hurt while performing, she is taken to the house of a nearby minister, John Hartley. As she recuperates, they fall in love with each other and secretly marry. But when the truth leaks out , John's congregation rebels at having a circus woman as their minister's wife, and he is fired. Polly decides to leave John in hopes of giving back to him the calling that means so much to him. But fate steps in and rearranges all plans.
