Beating the Odds
A girl raised isolated from society in the South Seas falls in love with a visiting sculptor.
A young man falls into the clutches of a nightclub singer who corrupts him.
Plaats van handeling is het Londen van 1902, wanneer de Boerenoorlog woedt en het klimaat gunstig is voor minder oorbare praktijken. Macheath behoort tot het inbrekersgilde en verkoopt zijn buit in zijn zogenaamde B-winkels.
Lee is a fresh young kid from the South when he gets a job with The Press. His first assignment on gangsters gets his name in the paper, the police on a raid and Lee in the hospital.
The story of corrupt, power-hungry, manipulative Grigori Rasputin's influence on members of the Russian Imperial family and others, and what resulted.
In this drama, an immigrant barber becomes a US citizen and works hard to uphold his ideals of personal freedom and rights. He is a total supporter of the system, and when he is held-up, decides to reform the criminal by feeding him and finding him work. Later, a local politician attempts to tell people how to vote, but the barber is not swayed and becomes an example to others in his neighborhood.
After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake is sincere in his effort to join the mob. "Bugs" Fenner, meanwhile, is certain that Blake is a police agent.
A meat inspector sets out to rid his town of payoff deals affecting the quality of meat being sold to the public.
Een nieuwslezer wordt gedegradeerd omdat hij de criminele activiteiten van de stad via de ether aan het licht brengt.
A just-married young woman attempts suicide after her husband tells her he really doesn't love her because he has become involved in an extortion racket, then finds herself becoming involved with the doctor who has saved her life and become attracted to her.
Biopic about the Rothschilds, a Jewish family whose members rose to the top of the European banking community during the Napoleonic era.
Johnny Campbell isa glib campaign manager for gubenatorial candidate Stogie McPhee. Having impulsively promised Johnny that she'll marry him if McPhee wins, heroine Pepper Wilson begins canvassing the voters on behalf of rival candidate Gildersleeve. But the race is won by a dark horse, blacksmith Gunther Potts, who single-handedly cleans out the corrupt element in the local government.
Casablanca: Je komt er makkelijk in, maar een stuk moeilijker uit, vooral wanneer je op de zwarte lijst van de Nazi's staat. Bovenaan die lijst staat de naam van de Tsjechische verzetsleider Victor Laszlo.
Clint Ross's skill at fisticuffs earns him the town marshal's job in Cheyenne. Thanks to the string-pulling of political boss Big Bill Harmon, Ross makes it all the way up to the governor's office. But when Ross figures out that Big Bill is a big crook, it's showdown time.
With the backing of the Mayor, Brady is running a crooked gambling operation. When Sheriff Curt shuts him down, he reopens when the Mayor charters his place as a private club. When Curt decides to run for Mayor, he is made to shut down the popular Warren medicine show. With Curt now out of favor the Warrens decide to run their daughter for Mayor and Brady has a plan to stop her also.
Muichkine, a young Russian prince, returns home to St. Petersburg from a mental institution, determined to spread decency and kindness in the harsh and cruel world. He becomes betrothed to an innocent young girl while trying to save a less-innocent woman from her own travail, but jealousy and his own naivete conjoin to bring about unimaginable tragedy.
In semi-documentaire stijl gefilmd melodrama over een ten onrechte van moord op een priester beschuldigde man in het Bridgeport, Connecticut van de midden jaren 20. Zijn advocaat wordt van hogerhand tegengewerkt om zijn onschuld te bewijzen.
A gritty crime story involving a newspaper man and crooked politicians.
Ken Williams (James Brown), a star basketball player on a college team learns that a police lieutenant (Regis Toomey) is the head of a gambling ring attempting to fix basketball games by bribing the players.