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The Cowboy from Brooklyn (Original trailer)

Fri, 02 Mar 2007 22:02:25 -0500

A singing cowboy (Dick Powell) turns out to be a tenderfoot. Co-starring Pat O’Brien, directed by Lloyd Bacon.

Twenty Million Sweethearts

Mon, 16 Oct 2006 06:52:09 -0400

A promoter (Pat O'Brien) neglects his wife to make a singer (Dick Powell) a radio star in Twenty Million Sweethearts (1934).

Angels with Dirty Faces - Trailer

Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:30:48 -0400

Michael Curtiz (CASABLANCA) directs James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, and Pat O'Brien in one of the greatest gangster melodramas made during the Hollywood studio era. William "Rocky" Sullivan (Cagney) and Jerry Connolly (O'Brien), partners in mischief as boys, are separated when only Jerry is fast enough to get away from the cops after the duo steals fountain pens from a railroad car. Rocky, refusing to give the name of his friend, is sent off to a reform school where he falls under the influence of criminal elements. The grown-up Rocky's triumphant return to the neighborhood complicates the efforts of Jerry, now a parish priest, to keep a local group of boys (the Dead End Kids) out of trouble. When the gang begins to idolize Rocky, Connolly fears his good works may come to nothing. Meanwhile, Rocky vies for control of the criminal rackets in the neighborhood with mob boss Mac Keefer (George Bancroft) and a corrupt, double-crossing lawyer, James Frazier (Bogart).Curtiz's taut, suspenseful, yet suprisingly sensitive handling of the gritty urban morality play turned ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES into the first unqualified masterpiece of his stunningly prolific career. The archetypal gangster thriller, brimming with the magnetism and explosive dramatic energy supplied by the three male leads, was nominated for three Academy Award Nominations: Best Director, Best Actor (Cagney), and Best Original Story.

Abilene Town (1946)

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:09:48 -0500

Abilene, Kansas, town marshal Dan Mitchell (Scott) has managed to keep a tenuous peace by keeping saloons, gambling, and guns on one side of Main Street, and the stores, women, children, and farmers on the other side. Violence and killings begin when homesteaders arrive in town in droves. Dan convinces the shopkeepers to side with the homesteaders. To save his town, Dan pits the saloon owners and cowboys against each other, resulting in a vicious bloodbath. In the midst of the chaos, Dan must make a decision between the two women he loves.

Ring of Fear

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 08:46:19 -0400

The Clyde Beatty Circus seems jinxed, falling victim again and again to apparent accidents which are actually the acts of a murderous saboteur. Mystery writer Mickey Spillane comes on the scene to solve the case.

Indianapolis Speedway - (Original Trailer)

Thu, 16 Mar 2006 20:32:29 -0500

Auto racing’s okay for Pat O'Brien but when little brother John Payne tries to get behind the wheel, O'Brien cuts him off on Indianapolis Speedway (1939).

42nd Street (1933)

Mon, 06 Nov 2006 00:25:40 -0500

When the leading star of a Broadway musical is injured, the desperate producer replaces her with a dazzling chorus girl.

Scarface

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:25:53 -0500

Completed in mid-1930, Scarface, based on Armitage Trail’s novel of the same name, might have been the first of the great talkie gangster flicks, but it was held up for release until after that honor was jointly usurped by Little Caesar and Public Enemy. Paul Muni stars as prohibition-era mobster Tony Camonte, a character obviously patterned on Al Capone (whose nickname was "Scarface"). The homicidal Camonte ruthlessly wrests control of the bootlegging racket from his boss, Johnny Lovo (Osgood Perkins), and claims Lovo's mistress, Poppy (Karen Morley), in the bargain. But while Poppy satisfies him sexually, Tony has a soft spot in his heart only for his sister Cesca (Ann Dvorak). The film's finale is one of the longest and bloodiest of the 1930s, maintaining suspense and concern for the characters involved even though Muni has deliberately done nothing to make Tony likeable to audience. The grimness of Scarface is leavened by a few choice moments of black humor. Forced to leave a stage production of Rain in order to commit a murder, Tony returns to his theater seat and anxiously asks his buddies how the play came out. Some of the film's funniest moments belong to Vince Barnett as the mentally deficient, illiterate gangster secretary, who at one juncture gets so mad at a caller on the phone that he shoots the receiver. Scarface features a famous "'X' Marks The Spot" logo, inspired by news photos of gangland murders: whenever a character is killed, the letter "X" appears on screen in one form or another. Example: When a rival gangster (played by Boris Karloff) is killed at a bowling alley, the camera cuts to his bowling ball knocking down all the pins — a strike, denoted, of course, by an "X." Producer Howard R. Hughes couldn't release Scarface until he toned down some of the violence, reshot certain scenes to avoid libel suits, added the subtitle "The Shame of the Nation" to the opening credits, and shoehorned in new scenes showing upright Italian-Americans...