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Loretta Young plays dual roles in this 1930 crime drama about a young thief planning to steal jewels from a wealthy socialite.

Ex-convicts try to stop a Chinese smuggling ring.

A wealthy Broadway playboy is found dead, and it comes to light that he was a vicious blackmailer. It's up to police lieutenant Jim Stevens to pick...

An addled Englishman's efforts to save three young women from eviction land them all in jail and leads to other adventures and mischief.

A gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's leader, John Madison, encounters a faith healer and...

"Happy" MacDonald and his unfaithful wife own a Prohibition era night club. On this eventful night, he is threatened by bootleggers, and the club's...

A trio of veteran pilots joins an aerial circus.

Jack's father lowers the boom when his irresponsible rich-kid ends up in jail after a night of debauchery. The father appoints Ossie, Jack's cousin,...

Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden. There, via ongoing continuing deceit and...

An ambitious shoe salesman, Harold, unknowingly meets the boss' daughter and tells her he is a leather tycoon. The rest of the film he spends hiding...

Socialite banker Henry Judson maintains his extravagant lifestyle by embezzling from his bank, but is caught by sleazy assistant manager Waters and...

A young man falls into the clutches of a nightclub singer who corrupts him.

A follower of Napoleon escapes the firing squad, flees to a woman's bedroom and winds up butler.

A recently impoverished but formerly wealthy young woman ends up working as a nightclub hostess. There she meets a handsome, sophisticated and...

Two phony fortune tellers get mixed up with gypsies.

A barber turns down a promising business venture in order to take his sick son to a drier climate out west.

An eccentric, fluttery bachelor is dismayed to discover an undressed woman in his apartment.

Lee is a fresh young kid from the South when he gets a job with The Press. His first assignment on gangsters gets his name in the paper, the police...

Civilian Mary Dane and falsely imprisoned Bud Leonard love each other. Lou Rinaldo, who framed Bud to get Mary, and escape-minded King Callahan want...

A former government agent in France, who has failed at an assignment and been disavowed, is deported back to the USA, where he can only find work at...