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Directed by Sam WoodOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Romantic comedy,
RomanceActors William Haines,
Leila Hyams,
Polly Moran,
Marie Dressler,
Francis X. Bushman, Jr.,
Clara BlandickRating52%
Tom Ward, a cocky young football hero, returns home after graduation determined to conquer the world. He begins a flirtation with Mary Howe, secretary to his rival, McAndrews, and in a restaurant he bribes a waiter to spill soup on her employer. Although offered a local banking job, Tom stakes his fortunes on a scheme to sell bonds to wealthy old Hattie Brown, a befuddled spinster, and achieves the difficult task while posing as a doctor by getting her drunk. Finally, desperate over Mary's engagement to McAndrews, Tom kidnaps her from the altar. In a chase finale she is convinced that he loves her. , 1h35
Directed by Sam WoodOrigin USAGenres DramaActors Robert Montgomery,
Elliott Nugent,
Francis X. Bushman,
Leila Hyams,
Clara Blandick,
Francis X. Bushman, Jr.Rating61%
"Adolf Wagenkampf", a German immigrant barber on the verge of becoming rich, takes his sickly son away on a two-year stay in a drier climate. The man's partner deems him a failure, but he learns that his family is more important than finance., 1h29
Directed by Sam WoodOrigin USAGenres DramaActors Wallace Beery,
Mickey Rooney,
Margaret Hamilton,
Arthur Hohl,
Minor Watson,
Marjorie GatesonRating67%
Wallace Beery plays eternally inebriated ex-veterinarian Tom Terry. An aspiring jockey Mickey (Mickey Rooney) idolizes Tom, who reciprocates by passing along horsemanship advice to the kid. The film's dramatic high point is where Tom, judgement benumbed by years of alcohol abuse, tries to pull himself long enough to perform a delicate operation on Mickey's beloved horse Lady-Q. The film culminates in a big horse race, with Mickey and Tom laying their hopes on the "long shot.", 1h27
Directed by Sam WoodOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-dramaActors Marie Dressler,
Polly Moran,
Anita Page,
Norman Foster,
Jacquie Lyn,
Jerry TuckerRating62%
Maggie Warren (Dressler) inherited a family bank during the Depression and Lizzie Praskins (Moran) is one of her biggest depositors. Maggie’s son John is engaged to Lizzies's daughter Helen. All kinds of farces happen when the would-be mothers-in-law battle for setting the wedding's protocol including their different preferences of choosing the pastor to perform the ceremony., 1h27
Directed by Sam WoodOrigin USAGenres Drama,
RomanceActors Jean Harlow,
Clark Gable,
Stuart Erwin,
Dorothy Burgess,
Elizabeth Patterson,
Inez CourtneyRating68%
Small-time con man Eddie Hall (Clark Gable) hides from his latest victim and a policeman in the first unlocked apartment he can find. It turns out to occupied by Ruby Adams (Jean Harlow), a cynical woman with numerous boyfriends. When it is safe to come out, Eddie wants to become better acquainted with his pretty rescuer. Although she resists at first, she ends up falling in love with him. , 1h26
Directed by Sam WoodOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Spy,
RomanceThemes Spy films,
Political filmsActors Myrna Loy,
George Brent,
Lionel Atwill,
C. Henry Gordon,
Leo G. Carroll,
Mischa AuerRating61%
In 1915 Berlin, the German high command is worried about ally Turkey. Recent British attacks on the vital Dardanelles shows signs of inside knowledge. Von Sturm (Lionel Atwill), the head of German intelligence, is ordered to find out if Ali Bey (C. Henry Gordon), the Turkish commander of the region, is the traitor., 2h8
Directed by Sam WoodOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Biography,
RomanceThemes Sports films,
Baseball filmsActors Gary Cooper,
Teresa Wright,
Walter Brennan,
Dan Duryea,
Elsa Janssen,
Ludwig StösselRating75%
Lou Gehrig (Cooper) is a young Columbia University student whose old-fashioned mother (Elsa Janssen) wants him to study hard and become an engineer. But the young man has a gift for baseball. A sportswriter (Brennan) befriends Gehrig and persuades a scout to come see him play. Before long Gehrig signs with the team he has always revered, the New York Yankees. With the help of his father (Ludwig Stössel), he endeavors to keep his career change a secret from his mother.