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You are here: Home / Archives for Clarence Muse

Attorney for the Defense (1932) – Edmund Lowe’s Fallon for Columbia

June 8, 2016 By Cliff Aliperti 5 Comments

Edmund Lowe in Attorney for the Defense

Edmund Lowe stars in Attorney for the Defense, second of four 1932 pre-Code crooked lawyer movies based on the exploits of William J. Fallon. With Evelyn Brent and Constance Cummings; Directed by Irving Cumming for Columbia.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1932, Bradley Page, Clarence Muse, Columbia, Constance Cummings, Don Dillaway, Dorothy Peterson, Douglas Haig, Dwight Frye, Eddie Kane, Edmund Lowe, Evelyn Brent, Irving Cummings, Lawyers, Nat Pendleton, pre-Code, William J. Fallon

The Mind Reader (1933) Starring Warren William

March 18, 2015 By Cliff Aliperti 1 Comment

Warren William and Constance Cummings

Warren William stars as a Depression-era hustler who turns carnival psychic until the love of a good woman tames him. He can’t pay the bills selling brushes though so his old partner lures him back into the mind reading racket. Warren William stars in The Mind Reader (1933) with Constance Cummings, Allen Jenkins, and Clarence Muse. Directed by Roy Del Ruth.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1933, Allen Jenkins, carnivals, Clara Blandick, Clarence Muse, Constance Cummings, Earle Foxe, First National, Mayo Methot, Natalie Moorhead, pre-Code, psychics, Robert Greig, Roy Del Ruth, Warner Archive, Warren William

Frank Capra’s Broadway Bill (1934) Starring Warner Baxter and Myrna Loy

June 17, 2014 By Cliff Aliperti 6 Comments

1937 John Sinclair Film Stars

A look at Frank Capra’s follow-up to It Happened One Night, the 1934 holiday release Broadway Bill starring Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy and a horse named Broadway Bill. With comparison to 1950 remake Riding High and explanation of why Bill wound up out of circulation until 1992.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1934, Bing Crosby, Charles Lane, Clara Blandick, Clarence Muse, Claude Gillingwater, Douglass Dumbrille, Frank Capra, Frankie Darro, Helen Vinson, Horse Racing, Lucille Ball, Lynne Overman, Margaret Hamilton, Myrna Loy, Raymond Walburn, Robert Riskin, Sports, Walter Connolly, Ward Bond, Warner Archive, Warner Baxter

Secret Service (1931) – William Gillette’s Civil War Melodrama Comes to RKO

June 8, 2014 By Cliff Aliperti 2 Comments

Secret Service 1931

Digging deep into RKO’s 1931 adaptation of William Gillette’s Secret Service starring Richard Dix and Shirley Grey. Comparing the movie to the 1896 play. What was added and what was kept and how classic scenes were interpreted on film.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1931, Civil War, Clarence Muse, Gavin Gordon, J. Walter Ruben, play, Richard Dix, Shirley Grey, spies, theater, William Gillette, William Post Jr

Winner Take All (1932) from Warner Archive’s Latest Wave of James Cagney

March 19, 2014 By Cliff Aliperti 7 Comments

James Cagney in Winner Take All

James Cagney stars as boxer Jimmy Kane in Winner Take All, a 1932 Warner Bros. release. This post takes a look at the Rocky II-like double knockdown from the film in order to revisit its inspiration, a real-life 1912 lightweight title fight. Also starring Marian Nixon and Virginia Bruce.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1932, Alan Mowbray, Boxing, Clarence Muse, Clarence Wilson, Dickie Moore, Esther Howard, Guy Kibbee, James Cagney, John Roche, Marian Nixon, pre-Code, Ralf Harolde, Roy Del Ruth, Sports, Virginia Bruce, Warner Archive

Big City Blues (1932), Pre-Code Party in Depression-Era New York

June 26, 2013 By Cliff Aliperti 4 Comments

Eric Linden in Big City Blues

Eric Linden finds fun, trouble and Joan Blondell in Depression-era New York in Warner Bros.’ Big City Blues (1932). Directed by Mervyn LeRoy with an unbilled supporting appearance by Humphrey Bogart along with several others.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1932, Big City Blues, Clarence Muse, Dick Powell, Eric Linden, Evalyn Knapp, Grant Mitchell, Guy Kibbee, Herman Bing, Humphrey Bogart, inez courtney, J. Carroll Naish, Joan Blondell, jobyna howland, josephine dunn, Lyle Talbot, Mervyn LeRoy, Ned Sparks, New York, pre-Code, Rating: 8/10, sheila terry, Thomas E. Jackson, Torben Meyer, walter catlett, ward morehouse, Warner Bros.

RKO’s Hell’s Highway (1932) Beats Other Chain Gang Movie to Theaters

January 23, 2013 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

Hells Highway Film Daily ad

It’s tempting to call RKO’s Hell’s Highway (1932) a knockoff on I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang. However the Richard Dix movie came first. A long essay looking at Hell’s Highway, Dix, the Etude Ethiopian Chorus and that other Chain Gang movie.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1932, C. Henry Gordon, Charles Middleton, Clarence Muse, David O Selznick, eddie hart, etude ethiopian chorus, hells highway, i am a fugitive from a chain gang, john arledge, John Cromwell, Louise Beavers, louise carter, Oscar Apfel, Prison Films, Rating: 8/10, Richard Dix, RKO (Pathe), Rochelle Hudson, Rowland Brown, Sandy Roth, Stanley Fields, Tom Brown, Warner Richmond

Safe in Hell (1931), Talkie Triumph for Tough Dorothy Mackaill

November 16, 2012 By Cliff Aliperti 5 Comments

Dorothy Mackaill in Safe in Hell

Safe in Hell (1931) nearly starred Barbara Stanwyck, but no matter as Dorothy Mackaill makes the part her own. A bit about the film and what happened to this otherwise forgotten star.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1931, Barbara Stanwyck, cecil cunningham, Charles Middleton, Clarence Muse, Donald Cook, Dorothy Mackaill, gustav von seyffertitz, Ivan F. Simpson, John Wray, Lilian Bond, Marilyn Miller, Morgan Wallace, nina mae mckinney, no man of her own, pre-Code, Ralf Harolde, safe in hell, victor varconi, Warner Archive, William A. Wellman

Washington Merry-Go-Round (1932) with Lee Tracy and Constance Cummings

November 6, 2012 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

Constance Cummings and Lee Tracy

Lee Tracy stars in Washington Merry-Go-Round (1932), Columbia’s pre-Code precursor to Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) with Constance Cummings, Alan Dinehart and Walter Connolly.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1932, Alan Dinehart, Arthur Vinton, Clarence Muse, Columbia, Constance Cummings, Frank Sheridan, james cruze, John Larkin, Lee Tracy, Mr Smith Goes to Washington, political, political movies, wallis clark, Walter Connolly, Washington, washington merry go round

Night World (1932) Starring Mae Clarke, Lew Ayres and Boris Karloff

April 14, 2012 By Cliff Aliperti 6 Comments

Bert Roach in Night World

A look at Universal’s rollicking 58-minute movie set inside a speakeasy run by Boris Karloff with a Busby Berkeley choreographed dance to boot. Mae Clarke and Lew Ayres star as the love interests while Clarence Muse and general ambiance steal the show.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1932, Bert Roach, Boris Karloff, Busby Berkeley, Clarence Muse, Dorothy Peterson, dorothy revier, Gangsters, George Raft, Hedda Hopper, hobart henley, Jack La Rue, Lew Ayres, Mae Clarke, night world, pre-Code, Prohibition, Robert Emmett O'Connor, Russell Hopton, speakeasies, Universal

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