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They Call It Sin
New YorkIn 1920...They called it "Flaming Youth" TODAY... "They Call it Sin" — An innocent, young, small town church organist is thrown out of her home, told she was adopted and that her mother was an evil woman. She follows a crush to the big-city and left fending for herself.
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Symphony of Six Million
New YorkA young doctor escapes the slums of New York City to make his fortune as a Park Avenue doctor. When a fatal mistake results in tragedy his resolve to continue working is severely tested. Based on a novel by Fannie Hurst.
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Back Street
New York The 1920s The 1910s The 1900sA Story that will grip you with its powerful emotional appeal written by one of America's foremost novelists__ A picture with an amazing cast of star players — A woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets" of his life.
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Rockabye
New YorkThe heart-cry of a million mothers! — A Broadway actress with a problematic past falls hard for the author of her new play.
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The Sport Parade
New YorkShe gambled her heart on her college hero! — Two Dartmouth football players fall in love with the same girl following college graduation.
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The Man Who Played God
New York'A Modern Drama From Real Life' — While giving a private performance for a visiting monarch, concert pianist Montgomery Royale is deafened when a bomb is detonated in an attempt to assassinate the foreign ruler. With his career over as a result of his injury, Royale returns to New York City with his sister Florence, close friend Mildred Miller, and considerably younger fiancée Grace Blair. After abandoning thoughts of suicide, Montgomery discovers he can lip read, and he spends his days observing people in Central Park from his apartment window. As he learns of people's problems, he tries to help them anonymously. He becomes absorbed in his game of "playing God" but his actions are without sincerity.
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The Rich Are Always with Us
New YorkSumptuous portrayal of sensuous society in the perfumed fragrance of Park Avenue and Paris boudoirs. — A wealthy couple's marriage is falling apart due to the man's infidelity. The wife's male friend has long loved her and sees his big opportunity.
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The Famous Ferguson Case
New YorkA foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall after prominant financier George Ferguson is killed. Two types of New York City journalists descend on Cornwall, one interested in facts, the other in getting sensational "news". Mrs. Ferguson is known to have been friendly with a local banker. The Fergusons quarrel the evening he is killed (by "burglers", his wife tells the police later), and she is arrested, spurred on by the "bad" journalists, who also manage to badger the banker's wife into the hospital. Meanwhile, young Bruce Foster runs the Cornwall Courier, and shows the big city reporters how to dig out real news while they attempt to subvert justice for their own ends.
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Big City Blues
New YorkIt's Sweet and Hot! — An Indiana boy comes into an inheritance and moves to New York City, living it up with his girlfriend until he gets in over his head and someone gets killed.
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Central Park
New YorkTwo destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get tangled up with some gangsters only to be reunited again in the end.
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The Heart of New York
New YorkA poor New York plumber's wife and children hope to move "uptown" from their lower East Side neighborhood after he sells his new invention.
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Unholy Love
New York The 1930sAn adaptation of Madame Bovary transported to Rye, New York in the 1930's. All characters have been renamed.
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Three Wise Girls
New YorkA virtuous small town girl supports her mother on her salary as a soda jerk. — Romantic comedy drama about three friends in New York. Cassie has come to New York and goes to work as a model where her friend Gladys works. She falls in love with wealthy young Jerry who is already married. Gladys has the same probelm with her man Phelps.
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The Conquerors
New York The 1920s The 1890s The 1870sA newlywed couple journeys west to make their fortune, and begins a banking empire.
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Vanity Street
New YorkA New York policeman helps a hungry and penniless young woman start life anew by arranging to get her a job in "The Follies".
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City Streets
New YorkLove and courage pitted against a ruthless hate! — A mobster's daughter leads her boyfriend from the circus into bootlegging.
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Five Star Final
New York The 1930sA picture as sensational as its subject! — An unscrupulous newspaper editor searches for headlines at any cost.
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Five and Ten
New YorkJohn owns the largest chain of five and ten cent stores in the country. He moves his family to New York from Kansas City and their life, though grand, is falling apart due to his constant working. Wife and mother Jenny is lonely. Son Avery hates his job. Daughter Jennifer is snubbed by classmate Muriel and her friends. At a charity bazaar, Jennifer meets Berry and sparks are evident. However, he is engaged to Muriel and Muriel will make sure that she, and only she, marries Berry. After the marriage, Berry still thinks of Jennifer as Jennifer thinks of Berry. Avery laments about the state of his family since they were happy in Kansas City.
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Sidewalks of New York
New YorkNothing but laughs! — A dim-witted slumlord tries to reform a gang of urban boys (and impress an attractive young woman) by transforming their rough neighborhood into a more decent place.
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An American Tragedy
New YorkThe Story of a Girl...Good Enough to Betray...But Not Good Enough to Marry. — A social climber charms a debutante, seduces a factory worker and commits murder.
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Bachelor Apartment
New YorkA New York playboy, Wayne Carter, dates wild women until he falls for a hard-working stenographer, Helene Andrews.
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Arizona
New YorkA West Point graduate (John Wayne) jilts his girlfriend (Laura La Plante) but runs into her later at an Army outpost.
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Street Scene
New YorkThe simple story of LIFE through the window pane of the house across the street. — The setting is a city block during a sweltering summer, where the residents serve as representatives of the not-very-idealized American melting pot. There is idle chitchat, gossip, jealousy, racism, adultery, and suddenly but not unexpectedly, a murder.
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Delicious
New YorkA comic group of Europeans coming to the USA have romantic and immigration troubles.
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Ten Cents a Dance
New YorkA taxi dancer with a jealous husband finds herself falling for a wealthy client.
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Grief Street
New YorkA reporter helps the police investigate the murder of a disagreeable and philandering actor who is found strangled to death in his theater dressing room with its door and window locked from the inside.
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The Man Who Came Back
New YorkA spoiled carefree rich kid gets into too much trouble for his father who sends him out on his own to prove himself capable of making a respectable man of himself.
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My Sin
New YorkA prostitute living in Panama shoots her pimp and is charged with murder. The lawyer who gets her off fronts her money to start a new life in NY where she becomes a successful business woman and meets wealthy businessman, Harry Davenport. He knows nothing of her past. Then someone from the past shows up. Will she be exposed? Will she follow through on her plan to marry?
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The Reckless Hour
New YorkHer Love Lived an Hour- Her Penalty Lasted a Life Time! — Seduced and abandoned, with child, by a charming cad, a former New York fashion model learns to detest the male race in general until befriended by a warm-hearted artist-type who shows her that life -- and men -- ain't so bad in this early talkie drama.
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Strictly Dishonorable
New YorkA hopelessly silly young flibbertigibbet from Mississippi is faced with the choice of her poor, boorish New Jersey boyfriend or a dashing Opera star, a man of experience.
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Manhattan Parade
New YorkDirector Lloyd Bacon's 1931 drama takes a different look at the Broadway arena by focusing on the owners of a theatrical costume shop.
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Seed
New YorkGirls! "SEED" is your story!...it is made up of the thoughts you think in secret - good and bad - and since your thoughts are YOU, so "Seed" is YOU! DOn't fail to see the picture that reaches right into your heart and soul! — Bart is a clerk for a publishing company; he has written a novel. His wife Peggy and he have five children. Bart's former girlfriend Mildred is manager of the company's Paris office. She manages to get the novel published and talks Bart into marrying her after he divorces Peggy. Initially successful, Bart must turn to writing trash to keep Mildred in money. When he sees how well his four sons and daughter Margaret have grown without his help, he asks Peggy to let them all come live with him and Mildred. Peggy agrees, but the arrival of his beloved children puts Mildred's future in jeopardy. Written by Ed Stephan
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24 Hours
New YorkA nightclub singer is carrying on an affair with a married man. When she is found murdered, her lover is suspected of the crime.
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Working Girls
New YorkMEN may do the bossing- but the girls make their own plans for them! — Two sisters from Indiana, the wide-eyed and innocent Mae Thorpe, and her sister June, more streetwise, move into the Rolf House for Homeless Girls in New York. With June's help, Mae obtains a job as a stenographer for scientist Joseph von Schraeder, while June gets work as a telegraph operator at Western Union.
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White Shoulders
New Yorkwhite shoulders
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Animal Crackers
New YorkThe maddest comics of them all! — The well-known explorer and hunter Captain Spaulding has just returned from Africa, and is being welcomed home with a lavish party at the estate of influential society matron Mrs. Rittenhouse when a valuable painting goes missing. The intrepid Captain Spaulding attempts to solve the crime with the help of his silly secretary Horatio Jamison, while sparring with the anarchic Signor Emanuel Ravelli and his nutty sidekick The Professor.
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Anna Christie
New YorkOld sailor Chris Christofferson eagerly awaits the arrival of his grown daughter Anna, whom he sent at five years old to live with relatives in Minnesota. He has not seen her since, but believes her to be a decent and respectably employed young woman. When Anna arrives, however, it is clear that she has lived a hard life in the dregs of society, and that much of spirit has been extinguished. She falls in love with a young sailor rescued at sea by her father, but dreads to reveal to him the truth of her past. Both father and young man are deluded about her background, yet Anna cannot quite bring herself to allow them to remain deluded.
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Madam Satan
New YorkAngela and Bob Brooks are an upper class couple. Bob is an unfaithful husband. Angela has a plan to win back his affections.
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The Big Pond
New YorkA singing Frenchman meets an American heiress and gets a job at her father's chewing-gum factory.
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Our Blushing Brides
New YorkThe Man Joan Loves---Loves Her! But Marriage Never Entered His Head! — Three department store girls--Connie, Franky, and Jerry--share an apartment on West 91st Street in New York City. Each earns little more than 20 dollars per week. Jerry is the sensible one, but the others throw themselves at amoral rich men in an attempt to hook one and better themselves. They end up being hurt and disappointed despite Jerry's attempts to warn them.
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Son of the Gods
New YorkThe popular Caucasian-looking son (Richard Barthelmess) of a wealthy Chinese businessman lives away from his widowed father and passes as white, but experiences prejudice, rejection, insult, and heartache when the socialite (Constance Bennett) he loves learns of his heritage.
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The Life of the Party
New YorkIT'S A KICK IN THE SHINS! You'll laugh till you cry At this glorious riot of fun! — Two gold diggers try a French dressmaker, two Mr. Smiths and Havana.
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Young Man of Manhattan
New YorkTwo flappers try to get their newspaper reporter boyfriends to pay attention to them.
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Kathleen Mavourneen
New YorkKathleen O'Connor, fresh off the boat from Ireland, must decide between the two men who love her - a poor plumber and a wealthy politician.
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For the Defense
New YorkToo CLEVER to be STRAIGHT — William Foster is a slick attorney who stays within the law, but specializes in representing crooks and shady characters. He's adept at keeping them out of jail, winning acquittals, and having decisions reversed, thus springing criminals out of prison. He is romantically involved with dancer Irene Manners, who is two-timing him, although she wants to marry him. She kills a man driving while out with her other man, Jack Defoe, who takes the blame. Unfortunately, a ring Foster had just given Irene is found at the crime scene. Foster ends up defending Jack, but when the ring is found, he thinks he is protecting Irene, so pleads guilty to jury tampering.
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Lilies of the Field
New YorkMildred Harker loses custody of her child in a messy divorce settlement. Leaving her hometown in disgrace, Mildred heads to New York, where after a crash course in the school of hard knocks she joins the chorus of a Ziegfeld-like musical revue. Now a full-fledged gold-digger, she enjoys the favors of backstage johnnies and elderly sugar daddies, but finally finds true love in the form of Park Avenue socialite Ted Willing.
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Cheer Up and Smile
New YorkWhen a popular radio singer is knocked unconscious during a robbery, a squeaky-voiced college boy fills in for him. To everyone's amazement, especially his recent girlfriend, who just broke up with him, he becomes an overnight sensation.
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Peacock Alley
New YorkClaire Tree is a singer/dancer who goes after what she wants in a straight-forward, no-nonsense manner, so when she finds herself in the New York City hotel-suite, in fashionable Peacock Alley, of Stoddard Channing, she wastes no time.
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The Sap from Syracuse
New YorkAMERICA'S WISEST WISE CRACKER! — Ellen Saunders is an heiress on a cruise to Europe being pursued by a day laborer mistaken for a prominent mining engineer. During the cruise, he foils two crooks try to get rid of her.
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