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- DirectorBert GlennonStarsOlive BordenJack PickfordEddie GribbonA saxophone player Clyde, who busks on the San Francisco Bay waterfront. One night, he meets Flowers, and teaches her to dance, but finds that "Blackjack", the leader of a ruthless gang, is also in love with her.
- DirectorRaoul WalshStarsJune CollyerDon TerryAnders Randolf
- DirectorJohn G. AdolfiStarsAntonio MorenoHelene CostelloMyrna LoyA 1928 early part-talkie thriller picture from Warner Bros. directed by John G. Adolfi and starring Antonio Moreno, Helen Costello, and Myrna Loy. It is unknown whether a sound copy survives, but a silent copy with no talking is in the care of the British Film Institute. The silent print runs just under 50 minutes. According to the Library of Congress, the film survives in British Film Institute's National Film and Television Archive.
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsDolores CostelloConrad NagelMitchell LewisRose Shannon, a dancing girl at "Kelly's" in New York City's "Tenderloin" district, worships at a distance Chuck White, a younger member of the gang that uses the place as their hangout. Chuck's interest in her is only just as another plaything. Rose is unknowingly placed in a position in which she is implicated in a crime about which she knows nothing. The police pick her up, and the gang sends Chuck to take care of her in the event that she might know or disclose something that will implicate the gang.
- DirectorJack ConwayStarsLon ChaneyAnita PageCarroll NyeA tough New York cop is determined to bring down a crook who has always managed to provide an alibi for the crimes he's been accused of, even though the detective knows he's guilty of committing them.
- DirectorRoland WestStarsChester MorrisHarry StubbsMae BuschChick Williams, a prohibition gangster, rejoins his mob soon after being released from prison. When a policeman is murdered during a robbery, he falls under suspicion. The gangster took Joan, a policeman's daughter, to the theater, sneaked out during the intermission to commit the crime, then used her to support his alibi. The detective squad employs its most sophisticated and barbaric techniques, including planting an undercover agent in the gang, to bring him to justice.
- DirectorGregory La CavaStarsRobert ArmstrongCarole LombardLouis PayneA reporter's marriage is jeopardized by his drinking and he finds himself accused of a murder he didn't commit.
- DirectorPál FejösStarsGlenn TryonEvelyn BrentMerna KennedyA naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder.
- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsWallace BeeryFlorence VidorWarner OlandSociety woman Joan Fry falls in love with Chuck Riley, the white leader of a powerful gang in Chinatown, and he quickly drags her down into the depths with him. But seeing her so much in love with him causes him to realize that he is in love with her, and he determines to lift her up again. "Boston" Charley, the rival gang-leader, has other plans.
- DirectorRay TaylorStarsLina BasquetteReed HowesFlora FinchOn a whim, Mary, a high society girl works as a cabaret dancer in a shady New York nightclub. The crooked owner of the club is attempting to bunco a millionaire with the aid of Harry, who has fallen for Mary. She agrees to help in the scheme, but wishing to avoid putting him in real danger, asks old friend George to pose as the rich victim, but in a fit of jealousy, he double crosses them all.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsJack MulhallLila LeeAggie HerringPat and Danny McGlone are identical twin bothers, rivals and competitors in everything they do, and Pat grows up and becomes a policeman while Danny turns to a life of crime. They now find themselves on the opposite sides of the law, and both are in love with a pretty Irish girl from their neighborhood, Kate Dean. Before long one has to prove that blood is thicker than water.
- DirectorRobert FloreyStarsClaudette ColbertDavid NewellNellie SavageMrs. Ramsey sent Jean Oliver to prison on a false charge. To get even, Jean (disguised as Madame Mystera) plans to kidnap her daughter and turn her into a thief. Love entanglements with a gangster known as "The Fox" and newspaperman Grant complicate her plans.
- DirectorRay EnrightStarsConrad NagelLois WilsonEdward EarleWhen a taxi carrying socialite Ruth Darrow drives into the middle of a gun battle between hijacker Kid Gloves and a trio of bootleggers, Ruth is injured. She is taken to a nearby apartment, and The Kid helps to care for her. John Stone, Ruth's fiance and a bootlegger with a respectable front, finds them together and blackmails The Kid into marrying the girl. The Kid and Ruth live together like brother and sister, and Stone, realizing that Ruth was not two-timing him, decides to bump off The Kid. To save her husband's life, Ruth agrees to leave The Kid and marry Stone. Stone is implicated in a killing, however, and forced to leave town. Ruth and The Kid decide to stay married, and The Kid determines to reform.
- DirectorJohn CromwellStarsGeorge BancroftEsther RalstonWarner OlandA gangster's henchman becomes a hero after he is drafted to serve in the Great War.
- DirectorMalcolm St. ClairStarsTom MooreOwen MooreMatt MooreThree successful Irish brothers cross paths in a very unexpected way.
- DirectorRay EnrightStarsMonte BlueDavey LeeBetty CompsonGangster Joe Daley marries a chorus girl named Sadie and decides to give up the rackets and surrender $100,000 to the DA . For this she turns on him and goes in with Blackie Culver, a rival gang lord, and they set Joe up to take the rap for stealing it. Joe is sent to prison, still unaware of Sadie's betrayal. She makes Joe believe the DA wants her and that he must save her by escaping. He does so and injures his face in the breakout. Farm girl Elsa Langdon has her surgeon father remake his face. Now unrecognizable, Joe learns of Sadie's plot and returns to the city.
- DirectorWillard MackStarsRobert AmesWillard MackSylvia FieldAn escaped convict and the detective tasked with hunting him down end up working in parallel to clear the convict's name and nab the gangsters that framed him.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsRichard BarthelmessBetty CompsonWilliam HoldenA gangster is put in prison, but finds salvation through music while serving his time. Again on the outside, he finds success elusive and temptations abound.
- DirectorClyde BruckmanMalcolm St. ClairStarsHarold LloydBarbara KentNoah YoungHarold Bledsoe, a botany student, is called back home to San Francisco, where his late father had been police chief, to help investigate a crime wave in Chinatown.
- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsHal SkellyChester MorrisEvelyn BrentDan, a tough police captain, and Ray, a hardened criminal, are estranged brothers. When Ray faces capture, Kitty, the sister of Ray's ex-partner, offers to help him escape because she sees an opportunity for revenge against Dan.
- DirectorWalter LangStarsLola LaneRalph InceGuinn 'Big Boy' WilliamsBased on the David Belasco stage production of the Max Marcin play in which heavyweight-champion Jack Dempsey played the role of the fighter, Tiger: This "behind-the-scenes look of a heavyweight-championship fight" looks much like all of the other boxing films in which the Champ gets involved in a frame-up and is asked to take a dive.
- DirectorRussell MackStarsEddie QuillanRobert ArmstrongJames GleasonEddie, a messenger boy in the George McCall brokerage house, is dispatched to deliver $50,000 in currency to the bank just before before closing time, but his weakness for tossing the dice results in his arriving too late; unable to return it to the company safe, he is forced to take it home. A jokingly intended dinner invitation extended to the boss's daughter is accepted, and when Joan guides Eddie to a restaurant beyond his means, he is forced to delve into the company funds. On the way home he is waylaid by two crooks, Monk and Lefty, and in the ensuing chase Eddie rides the service elevator of a hotel to a room where he gets involved with Ace Carter, a notorious gambler from whom he wins a large sum. Later, when Joan discovers that Eddie is a gambler, she refuses his marriage proposal. At a poker game, Jim Durkin is shot by Monk, the fourth player; Eddie then decides to reform, refuses to gamble, but is arraigned as a witness to the murder; and Durkin's brother, Skip, comes to get revenge but is apprehended after forcing Monk to confess. Eddie is released and reconciled with Joan.
- DirectorPaulette McDonaghStarsMarie LorraineArthur GreenawayJohn FaulknerThe daughter of the head of a criminal gang falls in love with the son of her father's most bitter enemy.
- DirectorChristy CabanneStarsBessie LoveNed SparksHugh TrevorFor the last four years Margaret Holt has been helping her brother, assistant D.A. Victor Holt, to try to bring down the dope dealing Schemer Marko gang. Margaret kills Marko (aka 'James Morton') when he discovers she's found evidence to use against him. Looking for someplace to hide out, she flees to a local house for disadvantaged women. Her secret is discovered by gossip columnist John Howell and crotchety old mystery writer Winthrop Clavering, who concoct a plan to try to clear Margaret of the crime and, at the same time, capture the Marko gang, who have since kidnapped Victor and are now hot on Margaret's trail as well.
- DirectorWalter LangStarsTom MooreLola LaneRoscoe Karns
- DirectorWilliam James CraftStarsJohn WrayBetty CompsonJohn HarronA reporter is assigned to do a story on a notorious racketeer.
- DirectorGeorge ArchainbaudStarsEvelyn BrentRegis ToomeyRalf HaroldeWoman swears revenge against an Inspector who was responsible for her father's death.
- DirectorReginald BarkerStarsJames MurrayKathryn CrawfordCarl StockdaleA bootlegger on the run from the law hides out on a college campus. He disguises himself as a student, and soon becomes the school's star athlete and most popular man on campus.
- DirectorRowland V. LeeStarsGeorge BancroftMary AstorFredric MarchJoe Forziati (Bancroft), an Italian immigrant who has battled his way to success as a New York building contractor, decides to embark on a social career.
- DirectorBerthold ViertelStarsMilton SillsDorothy MackaillKenneth MacKennaA hard-boiled nightclub owner saves a beautiful young girl from drowning. He promptly falls in love with her, but she prefers a younger, more-genteel lover.
- DirectorJohn S. RobertsonStarsJoseph SchildkrautBarbara KentEdward G. RobinsonJust after newsman Rooker and Ruth Kearns are married he covers a double murder during a bank robbery. Cigarettes at the scene implicate gangster Tony Garotta. Garotta kidnaps Rooker and another reporter, intending to kill them.
- DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsAlice WhiteChester MorrisWilliam BakewellA New York girl has a dull boyfriend and seems destined for a dull marriage when she meets a rich playboy who has money to burn and places to go. She gets involved with the playboy and never seems to notice that he might be shady and untrustworthy.
- DirectorHobart HenleyStarsHelen MorganCharles RugglesFred KohlerA boozing newsman (Charles Ruggles) woos a singer (Helen Morgan) while spying on her bootlegger boyfriend (Fred Kohler).
- DirectorWilliam James CraftStarsSlim SummervilleHarry LangdonBessie LoveTwo men, one timid and one aggressive, make out as comical criminals.
- DirectorGeorge ArchainbaudStarsRichard DixMary LawlorMatthew BetzLarry Sheldon is a gambler and during an argument he accidentally shoots a man. Fleeing he changes his identity, pretending to be a minister. Things are complicated when he meets a real preacher and falls in love with his daughter Doris.
- DirectorHarry Joe BrownStarsJack HoltDorothy RevierDavey LeeA gangster's wife, fearful that he is about to be murdered by his rivals, tips off the police to his whereabouts in order to save his life. Her husband, however, believes her reason was that she wanted him out of the way so she could have his best friend.
- DirectorWilliam BeaudineStarsMonte BlueLila LeeWilliam 'Stage' BoydA policeman doubles as a gunman to get in with the mob.
- DirectorEdward F. ClineStarsAlice WhiteEdward G. RobinsonNeil HamiltonVice lord Dominic has brought Swifty Dorgan east to do a job for him. When Swifty appears to have died falling from a train, detective Henderson impersonates him hoping to get into the mob. When he's killed his sister Polly poses as Swifty's widow and gets a singing job at Dominic's nightclub. Then the real Swifty shows up.
- DirectorTay GarnettStarsHelen TwelvetreesRicardo CortezJohn GarrickRicardo Cortez plays a ruthless, near-psychotic gangster who withal follows his own code of honor. Helen Twelvetrees co-stars as a trusting young woman who marries mob lawyer John Garrick, never dreaming that both her husband and her brother Frank Conroy are involved in the rackets. When she does learn the horrible truth, it is she who determines to "cleanse" her family of the tinge of crime by dealing directly with Cortez--and she means directly.
- DirectorLawrence C. WindomStarsMary NolanJohnnie WalkerLou TellegenThe Lady cop Florence Vinton goes undercover to get the goods on rival gangsters Eddie Swan and Larry Marsh. Just at the point in which Florence looks like she's going to be rubbed out, Swan and Marsh shoot each other down.
- DirectorJohn Francis DillonStarsRichard BarthelmessFay WrayRegis ToomeyA rookie reporter receives bribes from gangsters to suspend negative press.
- DirectorClarence BrownStarsNorma ShearerLeslie HowardLionel BarrymoreAn alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects when his free-spirited daughter becomes romantically involved with him.
- DirectorA. Edward SutherlandStarsJack OakieJean ArthurWilliam 'Stage' BoydNaïve insurance agent 'Cyclone' Case falls in love with Sylvia Martine, whose father has a dispute with gangster Mike Slade. When Sylvia is kidnapped by Slade and his gang, 'Cyclone' decides to save her and wanders straight into a gang war without even realizing it.
- DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsJohn GilbertLouis WolheimLeila HyamsJack lives the high life and wants to make Marjorie his one and only. He then learns that his deceased father is alive--but dying of lead poisoning. His father had sent him away 20 years before, to keep him out of the rackets. But now that he is dying, he wants to split the business between Giacomo (Jack) and Frank, his other son. The business includes running booze down from Canada.
- DirectorRoy William NeillStarsMae ClarkeJames HallMarie PrevostGangster's moll Marcia Cameron (Mae Clark) quits her racketeering boyfriend Dapper Dan Tyler (Robert Ellis) for a respectable rich man, Bob Henderson (James Hall), but after giving birth to their child, her shady background becomes a liability. Bob is so embarrassed by her former associations that he sues for divorce. But Dapper Dan is gunned down by a detective and picky Bob forgives all.
- DirectorRowland V. LeeStarsLeo CarrilloConstance CummingsRobert YoungA Romeo and Juliet love story between the son of a brutal Italian bootlegger and the daughter of his bitter ex-partner, who is engaged in a blood feud with his one-time friend.
- DirectorEdward SlomanStarsRichard ArlenMary BrianWilliam 'Stage' BoydFollowing a killing and robbery in a big city back east, gang leader Kedge Darvas and some of his henchies take a train to a small western town in Idaho, with intentions of hiding out there until things cool down back in Chi or NYC, or wherever they lammed from.They are welcomed with open arms by the citizens under the impression they are there as capital investors with money to spend. Before long, Darvas figures the town is ripe for the taking and sends word for reinforcements, and each arriving train unloads a few suits and snappy-brim hats.Then they get rough, kill Sheriff Posey Meed and rile up the citizens, led by cowhand Brad Farley, who had Darvas spotted for a wrong number just by the way he made moves on Sue Vancey.
- DirectorEdward L. CahnGeorge MelfordStarsLeo CarrilloNoah BeeryMary BrianThe police use a gangster's son to get to him.
- DirectorSidney LanfieldStarsJoan BennettHardie AlbrightOwen MooreHush Money is a 1931 American Pre-Code comedy-drama film featuring Joan Bennett, Hardie Albright, Owen Moore, Myrna Loy, and George Raft. The movie was directed by Sidney Lanfield.
- DirectorErle C. KentonStarsJack HoltTom MooreConstance CummingsThe first film produced by Harry Cohn's brother Jack, and a version of this film's plot was used in 1937's "End of the Trail" that also starred Jack Holt as the good-man-gone-wrong who is executed. War-time buddies Cookie Leonard (Jack Holt) and Mike O'Dowd (Tom Moore) return from World War One and returning home, Mike becomes a police officer but Cookie finds his old job as a reporter on the Herald is no longer vacant, and he takes up with gangster/bootlegger A. C. Marino (Robert Ellis.) They are both in love with Molly Pearson (Constance Cummings), a nurse who looked after them in a field-hospital in France. Cookie, in order to save someone else kills Marino but is charged with murder and is arrested by his old friend Mike. Molly and Mike watch Cookie walk the last mile to the electric chair.
- DirectorRichard ThorpeStarsVera ReynoldsCarroll NyeThomas E. JacksonShowgirl June Page is arrested for the murder of gangster Honest Ed Baker, and cub reporter Allan Perry decides he will get her story. She refuses to speak to Allan at all but steadfastly denies killing Baker and insists that, despite rumors, she was not his girl. When the local gangsters meet to discuss a replacement for Baker, Poker Wilson is chosen and announces that he is taking over all of Baker's property, including June. Allan continues his pursuit of June, explaining that this story could be his big break. While they are arguing, Wilson attempts to drag June away with him. Allan knocks him out and June hurries him away to hide in her apartment. She warns Allan that the gangsters will be looking for him and suggests that he spend the night at her apartment. By the next morning, they have fallen in love. When Wilson breaks into June's apartment, she pretends she was holding Allan there for him. Wilson's men take Allan for a ride, but June manages to slip a gun into his coat pocket. Even though the gun only has one bullet, Allan uses it to make his getaway, but still believes that June betrayed him. Allan and Paddy Reardon, a policeman, sneak into June's apartment just in time to hear her confess to Baker's murder, which she committed in self-defense. Reardon shoots Wilson in the back as he tries to escape. June and Allan are reconciled, and their happiness is complete when Reardon tells June that he is sure she will be exonerated for her crime.
- DirectorRowland BrownStarsSpencer TracyMarguerite ChurchillSally EilersTruck driver Bugs Raymond organizes the trucking associations and takes protection money. Now rich, he decides to marry socialite Dorothy Stone. She rejects him for another, so he plots to kidnap her on her wedding day.
- DirectorWalter FordeStarsPatric CurwenEsmond KnightJohn LongdenA master of disguise commits a series of daring crimes. Nobody knows what he looks like. He even masquerades as a doctor and kills his own partner whilst under police protection because he was about to betray him.
- DirectorRowland V. LeeStarsWalter HustonLoretta YoungDudley DiggesFor the love and respect of his daughter, a crime boss reconsiders his involvement in the extortion racket he's built.
- DirectorGeorge W. HillStarsWallace BeeryLewis StoneJohnny Mack BrownAfter rising bootlegger Slaughterhouse Scorpio eliminates his gangland competition, two reporters and a cabal of six businessmen work to expose him.
- DirectorEdward L. CahnStarsEric LindenSidney FoxTully MarshallCorrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taking payoffs.
- DirectorCharles BrabinStarsWalter HustonJean HarlowWallace FordPolice Chief Jim Fitzpatrick ruthlessly goes after organized crime and is prepared to use brutal and violent methods to fight it.
- DirectorJohn G. AdolfiStarsJoan BlondellWallace FordGuy KibbeeGangsters posing as police officers offer a woman a chance to make money if she helps them out.
- DirectorFrank R. StrayerStarsGlenn TryonVera ReynoldsMarjorie BeebeA sailor falls for a gangster's moll, leaves his wife and finds himself caught up in a life of crime.
- DirectorLupino LaneStarsHenry KendallBetty NortonMargot Grahame
- DirectorHarry Wagstaff GribbleAlexander HallStarsAlison SkipworthRichard BennettGeorge RaftInternational con artist Martha Hicks a.k.a. Countess von Claudwig is released from another stay in prison and decides to treat her rheumatism with a stay at her estranged husband's hotel at a Wisconsin spa. There undercover, she checks in on the two daughters she abandoned as infants. One wishes to marry an upstanding young man, but his priggish father wants him to marry money. The younger daughter has taken up with hood. Though denying any filial bond, the Countess uses her wiles to try to get her family on track and avoid the detective on her trail.
- DirectorJames FloodElliott NugentStarsWarren WilliamSidney FoxAline MacMahonProsecutor becomes a defense attorney after an innocent man is sent to an electric chair.
- DirectorGeorge B. SeitzStarsJack MulhallPatsy Ruth MillerWalter McGrailA young couple finds themselves mixed up with mobsters planning to rob a warehouse.
- DirectorTay GarnettStarsLew AyresMaureen O'SullivanLouis CalhernA gossip columnist's rise to fame, closely based on the real life of Walter Winchell.
- DirectorAlfred L. WerkerStarsVictor McLaglenGreta NissenNell O'DayGambler/racketeer "Knucks" McGloin takes note of just how much money and action (aside from the game itself) takes place around and about the annual Rose Bowl football game, and decides this is one sweet proposition and could be even sweeter if one had his own college and football game and had a large say beforehand as to the outcome of any game this team had. So he ups and creates his own college---Carnasie after his own neighborhood. His gangster rival. Gilatti, thinks this give McGloin a definite inside advantage and, if there is one thing a gambler can't abide, it is that someone has an inside advantage and they are not that someone. Gilatti gets himself a college football team. Education marches on.
- DirectorEdward L. CahnStarsRobert ArmstrongRussell HoptonLila LeeA policeman in need of money is persuaded to take a $1000 bribe to stay away the night a packing house is to be robbed.
- DirectorWalter FordeStarsMuriel AkedJoan BarryDonald CalthropThe theft of a valuable Van Dyck painting leads to murder, and many suspects are on a plush express train speeding from Paris to Rome.
- DirectorRalph MurphyStarsPhillips HolmesDorothy JordanCharles RugglesCollege football player (Phillips Holmes)is asked to dope a star teammate by his crooked gambler brother(Lew Cody).He refuses, but they player is doped anyway,and collapses and dies. A Detective (David Landau) has the whole game re-enacted to find important clues.
- DirectorJames FloodStarsGeorge RaftNancy CarrollRoscoe KarnsWhen his father is murdered, erstwhile conman Nick Darrow asks the cops if he can go undercover to find the killers, and maybe even stop a crime ring that has been plaguing the police.
- DirectorVictor FlemingStarsDorothy JordanLewis StoneNeil HamiltonThe evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich Chilcote family.
- DirectorBerthold ViertelVictor ViertelStarsClaudette ColbertMelvyn DouglasLilyan TashmanA young woman goes undercover to gather evidence to free her boyfriend, an attorney who has been framed for a murder he didn't commit.
- DirectorRay EnrightLucien HubbardStarsJoan BlondellChester MorrisAllen JenkinsThe story of a Depression-downtrodden waif who uses her brains instead of her body to rise from tyro con artist to crime boss.
- DirectorRowland BrownStarsGeorge BancroftJudith AndersonFrances DeeBill Bailey (George Bancroft) is a Los Angeles, California bail bondsman who lives in a world of complete, casual corruption, where all he has to do is pick up the phone to get the charges against a client dismissed. He falls in love with a slumming socialite who bluntly and startlingly declares her sexual preferences with this immortal line: "If I could find a man who would be my master and give me a good thrashing, I'd follow him around like a dog on a leash."
- DirectorLowell ShermanStarsConstance CummingsRuss ColumboPaul KellyRacketeer Frank Rocci is smitten with Joan Whelan, a dancer at Texas Guinan's famous Broadway night spot. He uses his influence to help her get a starring role in the show, hoping that it will also get Joan to fall in love with him. After scoring a hit, Joan accepts Frank's marriage proposal, more out of gratitude than love. The situation gets even stickier when she falls for a handsome band leader during a trip to Florida. Can she tell Frank she's in love with someone else?
- DirectorLouis J. GasnierMax MarcinStarsCary GrantBenita HumeJack La RueTired of the dangerous life as gambling boss, Ace Corbin 'retires' from the racket and travels cross-country by train to begin a new life with a new name. On the train, he meets Eleanor and they fall in love. Eleanor is afraid to tell Ace she's a soiled dove and Ace doesn't tell Eleanor of his shady past. Old enemies won't let Ace begin his new life, and old commitments's won't free Eleanor of her sordid ties. Ace's old life and Eleanor's deception collide with the typical results. But love conquers all!
- DirectorMario CameriniStarsAssia NorisSandro RuffiniElio SteinerA woman becomes convinced that her husband is an infamous wife-killer intent on adding her to his list of victims.
- DirectorSam NewfieldStarsNoel FrancisDon DillawayDorothy BurgessA freelance stenographer is hired for a job, but when she arrives at the address she was given, she finds that a murder has taken place there--and she is arrested for it.
- DirectorD. Ross LedermanStarsRegis ToomeyAnita PageBarbara Weeks
- DirectorRalph MurphyStarsCharles BickfordRichard ArlenMary BrianA German American family from 1916 thru 1933. After the losses of the Great War, what will happen to the family patriarch and his lager business under Prohibition?
- DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsCharles BickfordJudith AllenRichard CromwellHigh school students band together to dispense vigilante justice against a vicious gangland boss.
- DirectorEdward SedgwickStarsBuster KeatonJimmy DuranteRoscoe AtesTwo men decide to cash in on the end of Prohibition by selling watered down beer.
- DirectorJohn Francis DillonStarsCharles FarrellBette DavisRicardo CortezRacketeers flood the market with counterfeit cosmetics and drugs, causing some tragedies.
- DirectorMichael PowellStarsLeslie BanksAnne GreyCarol GoodnerJim Bronton is an insurance investigator, but he's unhappy with his work and gets involved with a gang of arsonists. His conscience is troubling him ...
- DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsAline MacMahonAnn DvorakPreston FosterA lady gas station attendant gets mixed up with escaped murderers.
- DirectorMurray RothStarsPhillips HolmesEdward ArnoldMary CarlisleTo stop his mother from marrying a man he doesn't like, a young millionaire hires an ex-con help him fake his own kidnaping.
- DirectorAlexander HallStarsDorothea WieckAlice BradyBaby LeRoy
- DirectorPaul SloaneStarsFranchot ToneMay RobsonKaren MorleyJust out of prison, Benny Horowitz tries to go straight. Things are complicated by his former girlfriend and his former gangster buddies.
- DirectorRoy William NeillStarsJack HoltJean ArthurDonald CookCarnie owner Buck Rankin marries local girl Helen and plans to go straight, but after a brawl ends up with a twenty-year sentence for manslaughter. When a pregnant Helen vows to wait for him Rankin forges a letter from the warden's office informing Helen that Rankin drowned while attempting to escape. Twenty years later Rankin is released from prison, changes his name to "Duke Sheldon", and eventually becomes a nightclub owner with ties to the mob. Helen has remarried - to a local judge - and daughter Sandra has become a reporter. When it's learned that notoriously camera-shy "Duke Sheldon" will be providing a mobster's alibi at a high-profile trial Sandra is sent to write an exposé. She immediately recognizes Rankin from a photo her mother kept, and father and daughter have a tearful reunion. Now Rankin must decide what to do: testify at the trial, revealing his identity and exposing Helen as an unintentional bigamist. Or refuse to testify, protecting Helen and Sandra but angering the mob.
- DirectorRaoul WalshStarsCharles ButterworthUna MerkelHarvey StephensWillie Harrington is a wimpy small-town bookkeeper at a bank who unwittingly gets involved with the country's toughest gangster and his gang, and he gets suspected of being the leader of the gang. Hiis wife, Millie, files for divorce when she learns of his suspected-affiliation with the gangsters. The police have an all-out manhunt going for him, while he is being held by the gangsters in their hideout.
- DirectorWilliam DieterleStarsPaul MuniAnn DvorakBarton MacLaneA small-town doctor gets roped into helping a notorious bank robber.
- DirectorMitchell LeisenStarsRichard BarthelmessJoe MorrisonGertrude MichaelA detective who has "four hours to kill" before delivering his prisoner, an escaped killer, spends the time in the lobby of a Broadway theater where a musical is playing. The film focuses on the relationship between the two men, and also among various characters in the theater audience, staff, and cast.
- DirectorWilliam K. HowardStarsSylvia SidneyMelvyn DouglasAlan BaxterA young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangster. The association results in her being tried and sentenced to a long prison term. However, the authorities permit her to escape, hoping that she will lead them to her boyfriend.
- DirectorCrane WilburStarsPreston FosterMelvyn DouglasCharles CoburnMoney was what gangster Vince M. Falcone wanted most and he did lay hands on millions of dollars by fair means or (mostly) foul. But once he became rich what he craved for was respectability. So why not marry a lovely society lady? And with a young daughter as a bonus Mister Falcone could show off among the creme de la creme. Of course when times got rough he felt free to desert his wife and little girl. Fortunately "Traps," a lawyer working for the underworld, will console them both.
- DirectorRalph MurphyStarsFred MacMurrayMadge EvansDavid HoltThis story about the U.S. Department of Justice and its agents begins with a daring mail-truck robbery by a ruthless gang that flees to the western U.S. after the robbery. When money from the robbery shows up in a small Kansas town, the department sends agent Dick Grant to investigate, posing as a businessman. He is hindered in his assignment by local newspaper reporter Helen Sherwood, and when he falls in love with her, he is unable to reveal to her who he really is and why he is there.
- DirectorJ. Walter RubenStarsLionel BarrymoreJean ArthurChester MorrisA G-man goes undercover to infiltrate a gang, helping the group's leader escape from prison to gain his trust.
- DirectorGeorge MarshallStarsRochelle HudsonCesar RomeroBruce CabotThe title refers to the government's plan at the time for putting an end to a lucrative racket, kidnapping. When Hudson and Norris enter a country house to get out of the rain it turns out to be a kidnapper hideout.
- DirectorWilliam KeighleyStarsBette DavisGeorge BrentRicardo CortezNewspaperman Bill Bradford becomes a special agent for the tax service trying to end the career of racketeer Alexander Carston. Julie Gardner is Carston's bookkeeper. Bradford enters Carston's organization and Julie cooperates with him to land Carston in jail. An informer squeals on them. Julie is kidnapped by Carston's henchmen as she is about to testify.