The Bowery
“In the Gay Nineties New York had grown up into bustles and balloon Sleeves … but The Bowery had grown younger, louder and more rowdy until it was known as…
Souls at Sea
Michael ‘Nuggin’ Taylor and Powdah save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about the slave trade on the high seas during 1842.
Manpower
Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang. Tensions start to show in the…
Night After Night
A former boxer purchases a classy speakeasy and falls in love with a wealthy society girl.
Nob Hill
A Barbary Coast saloon owner hopes to marry his way into San Francisco’s high society. Directed by Henry Hathaway, the film was released in 1945.
Loan Shark
A vicious loan shark ring has been preying on factory workers. When several workers at a tire factory suffer violence at the hands of the loan sharkers, a union leader…
Bolero
The complicated relationship between an ambitious, ruthless nightclub dancer and the woman he loves.
Race Street
Johnny Angel
George Raft plays a sailor who sets out to solve his father’s mysterious death.
Palmy Days
Musical comedy antics in an art deco bakery (motto: “Glorifying the American Doughnut”) with Eddie Cantor as an assistant to a phoney psychic, who is mistaken for an efficiency expert…
A Dangerous Profession
A cop-turned-bail bondsman gets involved in a murder investigation.
Invisible Stripes
A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.
Johnny Allegro
Treasury Department officials recruit a florist (Raft) to lead them to a wanted criminal (Macready); but once he gets too close, he finds he’s the hunted.
A Bullet for Joey
Raoul Leduc is a police inspector trailing a spy who plots to kidnap an important American atomic scientist. Joe Victor a gangster who is hired to carry out the abduction,…
Five Golden Dragons
While travelling through Hong Kong, Bob Mitchell accidentally stumbles into the middle of criminal negotiations between a mean gang, the Five Golden Dragons and the local mobsters.
Skidoo
Ex-gangster Tony Banks is called out of retirement by mob kingpin God to carry out a hit on fellow mobster “Blue Chips” Packard. When Banks demurs, God kidnaps his daughter…
Nocturne
In 1940s Los Angeles, when womanizing composer Keith Vincent is found dead, the inquest concludes it was a suicide but police detective Joe Warne isn’t so sure.
The House Across the Bay
Nightclub owner Steve Larwitt (George Raft) sees his empire of investments collapse as he faces tax evasion charges and attacks by rivals. Believing Steve will be safer in prison for…
You and Me
Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Among his ’employed-prison-graduates’ are Helen…
Each Dawn I Die
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter’s criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.
They Drive by Night
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to…
The Ladies Man
After his girl leaves him for someone else, Herbert gets really depressed and starts searching for a job. He finally finds one in a big house which is inhabited by…
If I Had a Million
An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.
Some Like It Hot
Two artists witness a mob hit and fight to discover a means from town before they’re observed from the gangsters. Their only chance is to become part of an all-girl…