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Richard Dix Reckons Himself The Public Defender (RKO, 1931)

May 13, 2014 By Cliff Aliperti 5 Comments

The Public Defender 1931

Richard Dix is a harmless playboy until trouble calls and with the assistance of Boris Karloff and Paul Hurst he becomes The Reckoner in RKO’s The Public Defender (1931).

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1931, Alan Roscoe, Boris Karloff, Carl Gerard, Crime, Edmund Breese, Emmett King, farnesbarnes, Frank Sheridan, J. Walter Ruben, Nella Walker, Paul Hurst, Purnell Pratt, Richard Dix, RKO (Pathe), Robert Emmett O'Connor, Rochelle Hudson, Ruth Weston, Shirley Grey, Warner Archive

Penthouse (1933) Starring Warner Baxter and Myrna Loy

August 2, 2012 By Cliff Aliperti 10 Comments

Myrna Loy and Warner Baxter

Warner Baxter stars as a mobster’s mouthpiece in Penthouse (1933) also featuring Myrna Loy. And, in one of his best, Nat Pendleton plays the mobster.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1933, Albert Hackett, C. Henry Gordon, charles butterworth, Frances Goodrich, George E. Stone, Lawyers, Mae Clarke, Martha Sleeper, murder, Myrna Loy, Mysteries, Nat Pendleton, penthouse, Phillips Holmes, pre-Code, Robert Emmett O'Connor, W.S. Van Dyke, Warner Archive, Warner Baxter

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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