Movies

Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered...

A female ex-con falls in love and hesitates to reveal her past.

A gossip columnist helps a Broadway ingenue who's beholden to a penthouse gangster.

Michael 'Nuggin' Taylor and Powdah save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about the slave trade on the high seas during 1842.

An Iowa drugstore owner becomes embittered when his son is killed in World War II. The druggist believes that the boy's life was cut short before he...

A mother tries to get her daughter to marry for money, but the daughter wants to marry for love.

Dr. Eli Watt, a widower, comes to a small town, considering himself a failure in his attempt to have a meaningful career in New York. He raises his...

A little girl enlists the aid of an attorney to obtain a divorce from her parents. Breezy B comedy was loosely remade as Irreconcilable Differences.

A young, newlywed couple learns to make their marriage work—on a budget.

Elna Curry, once a concert pianist, develops an unfounded jealousy of neighbor, Trudie Morrow. Elna who suffers from neurasthenia, believes that...

A bucolic lawyer takes on big-city corruption, setting out to prove that an above-suspicion politician is actually a crook - all while falling in...

A story about a man from Wyoming who enlists in the Army and is sent to the front during World War I. There he saves the life of an American society...

World War I drama about a soldier and the wild horse he befriends.

Phil and Pete compete for Mary's love and also in a contest for best song written by a college student.

A domineering matriarch is less than happy when her son brings home his new bride. She immediately sets to work at sabotaging their marriage as well...

Allison Long is acquitted on charges of poisoning her father but then her benefactor is poisoned. Reporter Duffy Giles has faith in her innocence.

A countess fleeing her husband mistakes a count for her hairdresser at a Monte Carlo casino.

An ordinary Joe has ambitions to become a Tin Pan Alley writer.

Ruby is a counter girl at the San Diego Soda Shop with a habit of being a girlfriend to Sailors stopping by. Things get a little zany when she sets...

A social climber charms a debutante, seduces a factory worker and commits murder.