Harold Clemens


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Lady Ice (1973)
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Sin Of Nora Moran, The (1933) -- (Movie Clip) The Opiate Quieted Her Body Complex narrative as Claire DuBrey, wife of the governor, has come to her brother the D-A (Alan Dinehart) with letters from a lover who, he admits, was the troubled title character (Zita Johann), who is, as time leaps, comforted by Sarah Padden, then as a child (Cora Sue Collins) by Father Ryan (Henry B. Walthall), in The Sin Of Nora Moran, 1933.
Sin Of Nora Moran, The (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Confident Of Immediate Success More narration from prosecutor Alan Dinehart relating the backstory of the condemned title character (Zita Johann) upon the death of her adoptive parents, embarking on a dance career, winding up with a lion tamer (John Miljan) of dubious character, in the ambitious melodrama from poverty-row Majestic Pictures, The Sin Of Nora Moran, 1933.
Sin Of Nora Moran, The (1933) -- (Movie Clip) That Gentleman's Here Again An array of stock footage and spicy pre-Code original material, with more flashback about the title character (Zita Johann) who awaits execution, and her time in New York, where she met the future governor (Paul Cavanagh), in the low-budget high-brow The Sin Of Nora Moran, 1933.
Very Honorable Guy, A (1934) -- (Movie Clip) I May Look Dumb In the opening scene we met goons Ponzetti and O’Hara (Harold Huber, Arthur Vinton) who had the idea to use the popular “Feet” Samuels (Joe E. Brown, title character) as a means to get to Hendrickson (George Pat Collins), who owes their gangster boss, and it goes plenty wrong, Lloyd Bacon directing, in A Very Honorable Guy, 1934, from a Damon Runyon story.
Shut My Big Mouth (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Beautify West! Opening his first feature on his new Columbia contract after two years recovering from car-crash injuries, Joe E. Brown is visionary florist Wellington Holmes, heading west with sidekick Oglethorpe (Fritz Feld), soon pursued by Buckskin Bill (Victor Jory), Hank Bell and Earle Hodgins driving the stage, in Shut My Big Mouth, 1942.
Vampire Bat, The (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Drained Of Their Life's Blood The first proper scene, policeman Karl (Melvyn Douglas), who doesn't believe in vampires at all, conferring with the burgomeister (Lionel Belmore) and crew (William V. Mong, Harrison Greene, Paul Weigel), exposition in The Vampire Bat, 1933, also starring Fay Wray and Lionel Atwill.
Vampire Bat, The (1933) -- (Movie Clip) She Wants Her Cross Aloof doctor von Niemann (Lionel Atwill) tends to vampire victim "Old Apple Woman" (Rita Carlisle), potential suspect Herman (Dwight Frye) and maid Gertrude (Fern Emmett) attending, while outside Kringen (George E. Stone) spreads further alarm, in The Vampire Bat, 1933.
Vampire Bat, The (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Two Puncture Wounds The doc (Lionel Atwill) studies vampires, with aide (Fay Wray) and her reporter boyfriend (Melvyn Douglas), Aunt Gussie (Maude Eburne) fusses, and the burogmeister (Lionel Belmore) and sidekicks bring news of another murder and missing suspect, in the programmer The Vampire Bat, 1933.
Jimmy The Gent (1934) -- (Movie Clip) I Love Your Enthusiasm The criminal underbelly of a big-city hospital, medical staff (Mary Treen the nurse, Philip Faversham the intern on the phone) sharing word of a loaded corpse, intercepted by Philip Reed, relaying the call to second-billed Bette Davis, who works for slick Alan Dinehart, in Jimmy The Gent, 1934, starring James Cagney.
Jimmy The Gent (1934) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Liable To Catch Something The first scene together for two Warner Bros. titans in the first of only two pictures they made together, Bette Davis as Joanie, we learn, is a former associate, now working for a rival, of James Cagney as Corrigan, a scrappy competitor in the unclaimed-inheritance business in Jimmy The Gent, 1934.
Jimmy The Gent (1934) -- (Movie Clip) He's Sore As A Boil After a blazing Warner Bros. opening of fatal accidents and headlines of vast fortunes with no heirs, director Michael Curtiz enters the office of the title character, Renee Whitney and Merna Kennedy taking flak for James Cagney, who tears into sidekick Allen Jenkins, in Jimmy The Gent, 1934.
When Knighthood Was In Flower (1922) -- (Movie Clip) Locked On Two Sides Biggest scene for William Powell in only his second picture, as new King Francis I of France, determined to take his father’s widow, the young Queen Mary, formerly Tudor, of France (Marion Davies), for his own, her friend Caskoden (Ernest Glendenning) aiding her escape, in When Knighthood Was In Flower, 1922.

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