Prohibition is ending so bootlegger Bugs Ahearn decides to crack California society. He leases a house from down-on-her-luck Ruth and hires her as social secretary. He rescues Polly Cass from a horsefall and goes home to meet her dad who sells him some phony stock certificates. When he learns about this he sends to Chicago for mob help.

Rose-Marie

1936

English

6.7

♡ 3

royal canadian mounted police (mountie)

Western

W.S. Van Dyke Director

Edgar Dearing as Mounted Policeman

Matty Roubert as Newsboy

Alan Mowbray as Premier

Reginald Owen as R.O. Myerson

An incognito opera singer falls for a policeman who has been assigned to track down her fugitive brother.

It's in the Air

1935

English

5.8

♡ 2

Charles Reisner Director

Jack Benny as Calvin Churchill

Matty Roubert as Newsboy

Dale Van Sickel as Nightclub Patron

George Chandler as Reporter

Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin wants to go straight and win back his estranged wife, but first the men must dodge a dogged IRS agent and bilk a bunch of aviation investors out of the backing boodle for a balloon excursion into the stratosphere.

Mad Love

1935

English

7.2

♡ 5

100%

81%

based on novel or book

Karl Freund Director

Ramsay Hill as Actor

Peter Lorre as Doctor Gogol

Ian Wolfe as Henry Orlac -, Stephen's Stepfather

Matty Roubert as Newsboy

An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with those of a knife-throwing murderer.

Shall We Dance

1937

English

7.4

♡ 16

89%

Mark Sandrich Director

Mary Stewart as Dancer and Singer

Matty Roubert as Elevator Operator

Ben Alexander as Evans - a Bandleader

Charlie Hall as Ship's Bartender

Ballet star Petrov arranges to cross the Atlantic aboard the same ship as the dancer and musical star he's fallen for but barely knows. By the time the ocean liner reaches New York, a little white lie has churned through the rumour mill and turned into a hot gossip item—that the two celebrities are secretly married.

Baby Face

1933

English

7.5

♡ 9

100%

Alfred E. Green Director

John Elliott as Bank Director

Douglass Dumbrille as Brody

Edward Van Sloan as Jameson - Bank Director

Matty Roubert as Newsboy

A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness.

My Favorite Wife

1940

English

7.2

♡ 11

86%

Garson Kanin Director

Donald MacBride as Hotel Clerk

Matty Roubert as Page Boy Paging Mr. Arden

Horace McMahon as Truck Driver Giving Lift to Ellen

Murray Alper as Yosemite Bartender

Years after she was presumed dead in a shipwreck, Ellen Arden returns home to the surprise of her husband recently remarrying. But he too gets a shock when he learns that Ellen spent her time alone on an island with another man.

An American Tragedy

1931

English

6.4

♡ 6

50%

Action

based on novel or book

Josef von Sternberg Director

Sidney D'Albrook as Courtroom Policeman

Nella Walker as Hotel Guest

Sylvia Sidney as Roberta Alden

Matty Roubert as Vendor Outside of Courtroom

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

Forbidden

1932

English

6.9

♡ 5

63%

Frank Capra Director

Adolphe Menjou as Bob

Barbara Stanwyck as Lulu

Matty Roubert as Newsboy

Bill Elliott as Reporter

On a cruise to Cuba, Lulu Smith falls in love with Bob Grover. Back home, she breaks off the romance when he tells her he is married. Lulu has a baby but doesn't tell Bob, who turns out to be a rising politician. She passes herself off as the baby's nanny. When Bob learns what is going on, he adopts the little girl, not telling his wife or anyone else where she came from. Lulu gets a job at a newspaper. Things get complicated when the editor gets the dirt on Bob, but also wants to marry Lulu.

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Rose-Marie

It's in the Air

Mad Love

Shall We Dance

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My Favorite Wife

An American Tragedy

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