Fireman, Save My Child

The grand mouth of mirth himself, Joe E. Brown, gets to show off his astounding athleticism as well as his vaudevillian chops in this sports comedy about a pitcher who brings the heat while looking to douse the fire. Smokey Joe Grant (Brown), contented...

Alexander Hamilton

More than a decade after wowing audiences on the Great White Way with his portrayal of the nation's original Treasury secretary in the eponymous play he coauthored with Mary Hamlin, Mr. George Arliss reprised the role for his home studio, Warner Bros...

Ship From Shanghai, The

It all starts light enough: A band plays "Singin' in the Rain" in Chinese in a Shanghai nightclub while a supercilious playboy (Conrad Nagel) pursues a beautiful, if overly serious, member of the English aristocracy (Kay Johnson). A married couple...

Notorious Affair, A

Billie Dove stars as British heiress Lady Patricia Hanley, who ditches high society for love when she marries penniless musician Paul Gherardi (Basil Rathbone). Exiled from both country home and family coffers, Patricia keeps her man hale and hearty...

Manhattan Parade

A theatrical costume company is center stage for this pre-Code look at the business of Broadway. Doris Roberts (Winnie Lightner) is the super-efficient operations manager of the Roberts Costume Company, a firm she cofounded with her husband, John (Walter...

Devil to Pay, The

Lovable rogue Willie Hale (Ronald Colman) has frittered away another fortune in British East Africa, so he auctions off his belongings and returns to England. While Lord Leland (Frederick Kerr), Willie's father, fumes about Willie's latest failure,...

Condemned

A suave, self-centered thief learns to give instead of steal. A fear-fraught shut-in finds the courage to brave fate. A cold-blooded killer finds something worth dying for. An all-powerful prison warden discovers how small and weak he is. These four...

Famous Ferguson Case, The

Bruce Foster (Tom Brown) is a small-town reporter who dreams of landing the big scoop that will gain him entry into the ranks of big-city journos. His dream comes true in nightmare fashion when local resident/world-famous banker George Ferguson (Purnell...

Kansas City Princess

Joan Blondell and Glenda Farrell team up to play a pair of gold diggers with hearts of gold in this tale of manicurists on the run from the mob. When Rosie Sturges (Blondell, Blonde Crazy) loses her diamond engagement ring from mobster Dynamite Carson...