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Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927) -- (Movie Clip) The Falls Are Just Below

Illicit (1931) -- (Movie Clip) Dubious Connecticut Resorts

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The Big Chance (1933)

Hearts of Humanity (1932)

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Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927) -- (Movie Clip) The Falls Are Just Below The famous ice-floe spectacle, from the Harriet Beecher Stowe novel, fugitive slave mother Eliza (Margarita Fisher) and child flee in a winter storm to a free state, famously re-shot entirely in Hollywood after an expensive, failed shoot in upstate New York, in Universal’s multi-million dollar epic treatment of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 1927.

Illicit (1931) -- (Movie Clip) Dubious Connecticut Resorts Worth noting terrific dialogue from the underlying un-produced play by Edith Fitzgerald and Robert Riskin, boozy Georgie (Charles Butterworth) drops in on Dick (James Rennie) and his unabashed intimate girlfriend Anne (Barbara Stanwyck), in the pre-Code drama Illicit, 1932.

Illicit (1931) -- (Movie Clip) Must It Be Puffy? First scene for Barbara Stanwyck, age 24, in her first starring role, uninhibited in the apartment of her boyfriend Dick (James Rennie), in the provocative pre-Code Warner Bros. drama Illicit, 1931.

Illicit (1931) -- (Movie Clip) We Two Modern People Dick (James Rennie) can’t wait while his somewhat reluctantly betrothed fianceè Anne (Barbara Stanwyck) visits with Price (Ricardo Cortez), the ex-boyfriend who insisted on seeing her before her marriage, in the pre-Code potboiler Illicit, 1931.

Mad Genius, The (1931) -- (Movie Clip) That Sensation Of Screaming 15 years on from his humble introduction, John Barrymore is now impresario Tsarakov, Luis Alberni his desperate dance director Serge, Marian Marsh (Barrymore’s co-star from Svengali) his principal Nana, Mae Madison and Carmel Myers as needier performers, in The Mad Genius, 1931.

Mad Genius, The (1931) -- (Movie Clip) There Was A Strange Boy Freaky opening in the Warner Brothers-John Barrymore commercial follow-up to Svengali, the star operates a puppet act, assisted by Charles Butterworth, young Frankie Darro their only audience, pursued by a pre-Frankenstein Boris Karloff, Michael Curtiz directing, The Mad Genius,1931.

Public Enemy, The (1931) -- (Movie Clip) You Gotta Grow Up Sometime The first appearance of the adult Tom and Matt (James Cagney, title character, and Edward Woods), now in 1915 Chicago and still reporting to small-time hoodlum Putty Nose (Murray Kinnell), who’s upping the ante, early in William A. Wellman’s Warner Bros.’ sensation The Public Enemy, 1931.

Public Enemy, The (1931) -- (Movie Clip) You Gotta Have Friends Chicago, 1917, beer truck drivers Tom (James Cagney, title character) and Matt (Edward Woods) aren’t impressed by their brother and sister (Donald Cook, Rita Flynn) getting together, as they visit local operator Ryan (Robert O’Connor) with a scheme, in William A. Wellman’s The Public Enemy, 1931.

She Done Him Wrong (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Come Up Sometime Salvation Army Captain Cummings (Cary Grant) from next door is cutting a thief (James C. Eagles) some slack, when resident saloon singer Lou (star and screenwriter Mae West) appears, her famous line not quite as usually cited, in She Done Him Wrong, 1933.

Death On The Diamond (1934) -- (Movie Clip) When I Say We Hot-shot rookie pitcher Larry (Robert Young) being introduced by Frances (daughter of the coach), to Dunk (Joe Sawyer), Frank (Robert Livingston), her dad (David Landau) and the premise, in real St. Louis Cardinals gear, in Death On The Diamond, 1934.

Death On The Diamond (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Give It To The Milk Fund Villain Karnes (C. Henry Gordon) aims to stop the streaking Cardinals, whose pitcher Larry (Robert Young) is practicing in a mirror when he gets a bribe, and consults with coach (David Landau), his daughter (Madge Evans) and reporter Downey (Paul Kelly) in MGM's Death On The Diamond, 1934.

Stranger In Town (1932) -- (Movie Clip) Bugs In This Cabbage On the opening day of the new chain grocery across the street, Marian (Ann Dvorak) with Grandpa Crickle (Charles "Chic" Sale) at his old-line store, then with competitor Jerry (David Manners), in Stranger In Town, 1932.

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