The Amazing Mr. Williams
The Amazing Mr. Williams is a very different, very good detective film, with ongoing romantic complications. Which does he love more – his fiancé or his work as a homicide detective?
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The Thin Man
Synopsis of The Thin Man
Between cocktails and the first course of a society dinner, urbane,dry-witted detectives and sophisticates Nick and Nora Charles will show the police the holes in their investigation. They’ll unmask a brutal murderer and solve the mystery behind the disappearance of The Thin Man.
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Evelyn Prentice
Evelyn Prentice (1934) starring William Powell, Myrna Loy, Una Merkel, Rosalind Russell
Synopsis of Evelyn Prentice
Evelyn Prentice is a mystery about a powerful attorney who doesn’t realize his wife has gotten herself into some trouble. Will he lose his first case? Will she have to reveal her role in a murder?
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Mad Love
Mad Love (1935), starring Peter Lorre, Frances Drake, Colin Clive
Mad Love What will obsessed surgeon Dr. Gogol do to be with lovely Yvonne Orlac … When her pianist husband’s hands are crushed? How far will he go…
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The Champ
The Champ (1931) starring Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper
The Champ – the original father-son tale remains one of the all-time great tearjerkers. Wallace Beery plays the washed-up prizefighter making a ring comeback to provide for his son.
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A Slight Case of Murder [Edward G. Robinson]
A Slight Case of Murder (1938) starring Edward G. Robinson, Jane Bryan, Edward Brophy, Ruth Donnelly, Bobby Jordan, Allen Jenkins
Synopsis of A Slight Case of Murder
A Slight Case of Murder is a spoof about gangsters who decide to go straight. With the end of Prohibition, bootlegger Remy Marco becomes a legitimate brewer. But he’s slowly going broke because the beer he makes tastes terrible, and everyone is afraid to tell him. After four years, with bank officers preparing to foreclose on the brewery, he retreats to his Saratoga summer home. There, he finds four dead mobsters who meant to ambush him, but were killed by their confederate whom they meant to betray. More and more problems begin to pop up in the life of the former bootlegger, as he has taken in a bratty orphan, and his daughter comes home with a fiancé that turns out to be a state cop.
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