Shanghai Rose
Shanghai Rose is the proprietress of a gin mill which doubles as a bordello. A murder occurs, and she is put on trial for her life. A series of flashbacks “reconstruct” the crime from several different points of view —…
Genre Crime
Side Street
Three New York Irish brothers cross paths as policeman, doctor and bootlegger.
Silent Sentinel
A Alan James film directed by , released in 1929.
Speakeasy
Newspaper staffer Alice Woods persuades the editor to allow her to chase a story, that of prizefight contender Martin, who is about to fight for the championship. However, he does not know that his manager is preparing to double-cross him.
Red Hot Rhythm
Walter, a songwriter who is in love with Mary, a nightclub singer, prefers to make a living by fleecing crackpot songwriters and promoting their creations. When Walter writes “At Last I’m in Love” for Mary, she promises to plug the…
Painted Faces
After a vaudeville performer is murdered backstage, framed-up evidence lead the police to arrest a troupe member. At his trial, Hermann, a Scandinavian clown known as Beppo, is the lone juror holding out against conviction and pleading for his innocence…
Prisoners
Prisoners was released as a part-talking, part-silent feature. An Austrian showgirl working in a cabaret moonlights as a thief. When she is caught in the act, a young lawyer offers to defend her. Unfortunately, he loses the case, causing her…
Just Off Broadway
Tom Fowler watches in horror as his brother Ed is gunned down in cold blood. With his dying breath, Ed asks his brother to bring the killer to justice. Discovering that the hit was ordered by the city’s top mobster,…
Light Fingers
“Light Fingers” is both the name and the physical description of this film’s hero, a dapper petty thief.
Hardboiled Rose
A Southern Belle must work in a gambling house to pay off her father’s debts, which drove him to suicide. She then meets a man who sweeps her off her feet and takes her away from it all.
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