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Directed by Edward BuzzellOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Crime,
RomanceActors Carole Lombard,
Pat O'Brien,
Ward Bond,
Shirley Grey,
Mayo Methot,
Jack La RueRating68%
New York City streetwalker Mae (Carole Lombard) is placed on a train by a policeman and told not to come back. However, she gets off, taking the cab of Jimmy Doyle (Pat O'Brien), who doesn't think much of women. She slips away without paying the fare. Her friend and fellow prostitute, Lil (Mayo Methot), advises her to find honest work., 1h22
Directed by Ida Lupino,
Nicholas RayOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Noir,
CrimeActors Ida Lupino,
Robert Ryan,
Ward Bond,
Ed Begley,
Charles Kemper,
Anthony RossRating71%
Robert Ryan plays Jim Wilson, a tough police detective embittered by years of dealing with low-life urban scum. After severely beating several suspects, Jim is assigned to a case far from the city to find the killer of a young girl. Joining the manhunt, in snow-covered terrain, Wilson finds himself paired with the victim's father, Walter Brent (Ward Bond), who plans to shoot the killer himself. When the two men come upon a cabin occupied by Mary Malden (Ida Lupino), a blind woman who is also the killer's sister, Wilson's life is changed forever. Mary, a generous and loving person who has cared for her mentally ill brother Danny (Sumner Williams) since the death of their parents, convinces Wilson to protect Danny from Brent. Wilson also promises to get help for Danny if he surrenders to him. Inspired by Mary's courage and recognizing Brent's rage as the mirror image of his own, Wilson gains the insight to free himself from his own blindness., 1h56
Directed by Billy WilderOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
CrimeThemes Théâtre,
Films based on playsActors Tyrone Power,
Marlene Dietrich,
Charles Laughton,
Elsa Lanchester,
Una O'Connor,
John WilliamsRating83%
Sir Wilfrid Robarts (Charles Laughton), a master barrister in ill health, takes on Leonard Vole (Tyrone Power) as a client, despite the objections of his private nurse, Miss Plimsoll (Elsa Lanchester), who says the doctor warns him against taking on any criminal cases. Vole is accused of murdering Mrs. Emily French (Norma Varden), a rich, older widow who had become enamored of him, going so far as to make him the main beneficiary of her will. Strong circumstantial evidence points to Vole as the killer, but Sir Wilfrid believes Vole is innocent., 1h41
Directed by Lewis Milestone,
Nate WattOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Crime,
RomanceThemes Films about writers,
Films about journalists,
Théâtre,
Films about capital punishment,
Films based on playsActors Adolphe Menjou,
Pat O'Brien,
Mary Brian,
George E. Stone,
Edward Everett Horton,
Walter CatlettRating66%
The film, considered a screwball comedy, centers on a reporter, Hildebrand 'Hildy' Johnson (Pat O'Brien) and his editor (Adolphe Menjou), who hope to cash in on a big story involving an escaped accused murderer, Earl Williams (Stone) and hide him in a rolltop desk while everybody else tries to find him., 1h10
Directed by Edward L. CahnOrigin USAGenres Drama,
CrimeActors Pat O'Brien,
Merna Kennedy,
Berton Churchill,
Tom Ricketts,
Gloria Stuart,
Charles K. FrenchRating69%
O'Brien plays an Irish mine worker, Barney Slaney. Later Barney gets a job as a fireman on the local train for an engineer named Mileaway. He gets married, but finds his wife having an affair with Grover Perkins, a childhood nemesis. Barney loses control and kills them both. He turns himself in and receives a life sentence of hard labor. Barney quickly finds out that the brother of the man he killed, Ed Perkins, will be in charge of his chain gang, and the brother bullies him repeatedly. While the prisoners dig graves, Barney knocks Ed unconscious and drops him into one of the open graves. He then escapes during the ensuing meyhem, in which the warden is killed. He breaks out of the police dragnet, and hides at a farm which recently had a pestilence infection. He meets a woman named Lorraine, and they run away together., 1h15
Directed by Frank Capra,
Allan Dwan,
Roy William NeillOrigin USAGenres Drama,
CrimeActors Walter Huston,
Pat O'Brien,
Kay Johnson,
Constance Cummings,
Gavin Gordon,
Arthur HoytRating73%
In the Great Depression era, the Board of Directors of Thomas Dickson's bank want Dickson (Walter Huston) to merge with New York Trust and resign. He refuses. One night, Dickson's bank is robbed of $100,000. The suspect is Matt Brown (Pat O'Brien), an ex-convict whom Dickson hired and appointed Chief Teller. Brown, who's very loyal to Dickson, refuses to say where he was that night. He actually has two witnesses for his alibi, Mrs. Dickson (Kay Johnson) and fellow worker Cyril Cluett (Gavin Gordon), but Brown is protecting Dickson from finding out that Mrs. Dickson was with Cluett having a romantic evening. Cluett, who has a $50,000 gambling debt, is actually responsible for the robbery, but lets Brown take the rap., 1h20
Directed by Christy CabanneOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
CrimeThemes Political filmsActors Pat O'Brien,
Evelyn Brent,
Neil Hamilton,
Mary Brian,
Louis Calhern,
J. Carrol NaishRating48%
When a district attorney who has been investigating a utility company's directors for fraud is suddenly killed, his wisecracking newspaperman friend (Pat O'Brien) gets curious. He and the upstanding new district attorney (Neil Hamilton) separately pursue the case. Cultivated but sinister businessmen, a shady nightclub owner specializing in "import and export", several beautiful young women always seen in evening gowns, a "Latin lover" type who reads Casanova and an abundance of suave men in evening dress provide eye-candy for the duration., 1h23
Directed by Roy RowlandOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Noir,
CrimeThemes Medical-themed films,
Psychologie,
Films about psychiatry,
Films set in psychiatric hospitalsActors Barbara Stanwyck,
George Sanders,
Gary Merrill,
Jesse White,
Harry Shannon,
Claire CarletonRating65%
Cheryl Draper (Barbara Stanwyck), while looking out her bedroom window, witnesses a young woman being strangled to death. The woman reports the killing to the police, but when the man named Albert Richter (George Sanders) notices detectives arriving downstairs, he moves the body. When the police show up to his door, Richter acts nonchalant, and when no body is found, the police are convinced that the woman saw something in her dreams.