Marshall Ruth

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• Movie7.0

  ComedyRomance

  It's World War II and there is a severe housing shortage everywhere - especially in Washington, D.C. where Connie Milligan rents an apartment. Believing it to be her patriotic duty, Connie offers to sublet half of her apartment, fully expecting a suitable female tenent. What she gets instead is mischievous, middle-aged Benjamin Dingle. Dingle talks her into subletting to him and then promptly sublets half of his half to young, irreverent Joe Carter - creating a situation tailor-made for comedy and romance.

  The More the Merrier

  1943 · 102 votes

• Movie5.1

  MusicRomance

  The vaudeville act of Harriet and Queenie Mahoney comes to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs them for his number in one of Francis Zanfield's shows. When Eddie meets Queenie, he soon falls in love with her—but she is already being courted by Jock Warriner, a member of New York high society. Queenie eventually recognizes that, to Jock, she is nothing more than a toy, and that Eddie is in love with her.

  The Broadway Melody

  1929 · 179 votes

• Movie7.1

  CrimeDrama

  With the aid of his former law students, a professor-turned-prosecutor battles corruption and organized crime.

  I Am the Law

  1938 · 11 votes

• Movie10.0

  Drama

  A woman with a sordid past is redeemed by love in this silent melodrama from low-budget Sanford Productions.

  Her Sacrifice

  1926 · 1 votes

• Movie6.8

  Western

  A singing medicine-show cowboy and his magician partner catch a killer.

  Moonlight on the Prairie

  1935 · 4 votes

• Movie4.0

  ActionAdventure

  The Two Yanks in Trinidad are gangsters Tim Reardon (Pat O'Brien) and Vince Barrows (Brian Donlevy), who split up over a disagreement and join the army, Tim to escape Vince's wrath and Vince to get his lunch-hooks on Tim. Both of our heroes run afoul of Army discipline and protocol in general, and tough top sergeant Valentine (Donald MacBride).

  Two Yanks in Trinidad

  1942 · 5 votes

• Movie6.8

  CrimeDrama

  When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved in. Though no one is willing to listen to the innocent prisoner's pleas for freedom, Brick's faithful fiancée, Mary, knows that her lover is innocent because she was with him when the crime was committed. As the scheduled execution draws ever nearer, Mary begins to investigate the murder herself.

  Let Us Live

  1939 · 13 votes

• Movie3.3

  ActionDrama

  In a banana republic, way south of the Texas border, a dumb-Dora American girl, Norma (Olive Borden), lets her ruby-red lips promise more than she is willing to deliver, and she finds herself a prisoner in a notorious dance-hall/brothel. But her American aviator boyfriend, Barry Blake (John Boles), is flying to her rescue. He does just that but, alas, they are quickly captured by a gang of outlaws. Possibly the many expensive pieces of jewelry she has gathered from the many male friends she has made along the way, including El Presidente, captured the outlaws' attention.

  Virgin Lips

  1928 · 3 votes

• Movie

  Comedy

  Piecemeal, chaotic slapstick comedy revolving around honeymooners and various misunderstandings.

  Moonlight and Monkey Business

  1930

• Movie5.8

  Drama

  A woman gets help from her gangster friends after her foster son takes the blame for a murder he did not commit.

  One Night at Susie's

  1930 · 9 votes

• Movie9.0

  ActionDrama

  Fireman Bob Darrow invents an original chemical fire extinguisher, and his rival, Dan Mitchell, for June Madison, also has his eyes on Bob's invention. Chapter 1: The Red Peril, Chapter 2: Flaming Hate, Chapter 3: The Fire Trap, Chapter 4: Death's Chariot, Chapter 5: The Avalanche, Chapter 6: The Jaws of Death, Chapter 7: Forest of Fire, Chapter 8: Blank Cartridges, Chapter 9: The House of Terror / The House of Horror, Chapter 10: The Depths of Doom, Chapter 11: A Flaming Death, Chapter 12: The Last Alarm.

  Heroes of the Flames

  1931 · 1 votes

• Movie6.2

  ComedyRomance

  Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically involved as well. Although skilled in ferreting out great stories, they often behave in an unprofessional and immature manner. After their shenanigans cause their frustrated city editor to resign, the publisher promotes Charlie to the job, a decision based on the premise that only a slacker would be able crack down on other shirkers and underachievers. His pomposity soon alienates most of his co-workers and causes Rusty to move to New York. Charlie resigns and along with gangster friend Smiles Benson tries to win Rusty back before she marries a stuffy society author.

  Wedding Present

  1936 · 18 votes

• Movie4.2

  ComedyCrime

  A group of people find themselves trapped in a creepy mansion, complete with secret passageways, a mad doctor and a murderous gorilla.

  Who Killed Doc Robbin?

  1948 · 13 votes

• Movie7.3

  ComedyRomance

  A girl who's just lost her job meets a drunk millionaire on a bridge who's just lost his money. They go back to his house, and eventually come up with a plan to benefit them both: he'll scrounge enough money together to teach her how to be a lady, and then introduce her to his rich friends so she can snag a husband, after which she'll pay him a finder's fee. Complications ensue.

  False Pretenses

  1935 · 3 votes

• Movie10.0

  DramaWestern

  A rancher’s son returns from college in time to help father wage war on a gang of rustlers

  Ridin’ Luck

  1927 · 1 votes

• Movie6.2

  ComedyDrama

  Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of her next film. Many silent stars shown making the transition to sound.

  Hollywood Cavalcade

  1939 · 7 votes

• Movie4.5

  CrimeDrama

  A story of love, humor and drama against the background of America's "Biggest Little City." An (interrupted) indiscretion by John Wyatt with a floozy prompts his wife, June, to make a trip to Reno, Nevada in order to get a quickie six-week-waiting-period divorce. John, penitent over his past actions (since he got caught), follows his wife to Reno and manages a reconciliation after a murder gives him a chance to prove his true devotion.

  Night Life in Reno

  1931 · 11 votes

• Movie6.5

  ThrillerCrime

  An innocent trucker takes it on the lam when he's accused of robbery.

  Desperate

  1947 · 40 votes

• Movie6.0

  ComedyFantasy

  Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue who grants their wish and they wind up living each other's life.

  Turnabout

  1940 · 14 votes

• Movie10.0

  ComedyRomance

  Charles Cook, a husband with a multi-year itch, decides he will go out and whoop it up with the boys, but tells his wife it is a business meeting. His helpful friend Jack Scott introduces him to a very pretty--and shapely--Miss Scott, whose stock-in-trade is understanding misunderstood husbands, and she is very good at it. Charles enjoys being one of the boys and schedules more business meetings. Meanwhile, his wife Alice is at home wishing her husband didn't have to go to so many business meetings.

  Red Wine

  1928 · 1 votes

• Movie6.5

  Drama

  A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.

  Diamond Jim

  1935 · 2 votes

• Movie8.5

  ComedyRomance

  Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter Stefan Janowski. The big city doles out joy and misery indiscriminately: In the apartment below Victor and Steve, Gus Nelson learns that his wife has given birth to quintuplets, while the lonely tenant in the apartment below Gus has given up on life and committed suicide.

  New York Town

  1941 · 2 votes

• Movie7.0

  Drama

  Socialite Carol Morgan romps through the Depression and her wealth while breaking up with Bill Wade and getting back together with him.

  Faithless

  1932 · 8 votes

• Movie7.0

  Drama

  A very topical early talkie from low-budget company Columbia Pictures, Wall Street starred Ralph Ince, brother of producer Thomas H. Ince, as Roller McCray, a steelworker turned ruthless tycoon whose tough business methods leads a rival (Philip Strange) to commit suicide. The widow (Aileen Pringle), believing she can ruin Ince by using his own methods, conspires with her husband's former partner (Sam De Grasse), but a strong friendship between Ince and Pringle's young son (Freddie Burke Frederick) changes things dramatically. According to future Three Stooges director Edward Bernds, who worked as a sound mixer on Wall Street, Ince's reaction to his rival's suicidal jump from a window ledge was changed from a sneering "I didn't think he had the guts" to the more respectful "I didn't think he'd do it" due to derisive laughter from the film's crew.

  Wall Street

  1929 · 2 votes