The story of two lovers in the shadow of the ruthless alliance-crushed by a code of cruelty-taking the right to happiness!
The children of feuding gangsters fall in love and fight to escape their parents' notoriety.
Mike Palmero
Maria Palmero
Marco Ricca, also known as Marco Smith
Joe Palmero
Tony Ricca
Nina Palmero
Don Morley
Benedicto Ricca
Skid
Bradley (as Frederick Howard)
Willie
Victor - Mike's Butler
Nellie Weaver
Club Merlin Doorman (uncredited)
23 Jun 1961
In order to gain revenge on the killers of his parents, a man joins an organized crime ring as a hit man. The brutality of his slayings in his quest for vengeance makes him a man that the police desperately want to collar. ※ Only the first 32 minutes of the film currently exist today. The plot summary has been added in the form of title cards to aid the viewing experience.
05 May 1979
A businessman comes into conflict with a gangster when he refuses to allow drugs to be sold through his restaurant.
29 Apr 1931
Prizefighter Mason loses his opening fight so wife Rose leaves him for Hollywood. Without her around Mason trains and starts winning. Rose comes back and wants Mason to dump his manager Regan and replace him with her secret lover Lewis.
08 Aug 1938
Jim 'Socker' Conway, former boxer and FBI hero, is maneuvered for political reasons into a do-nothing job in the district attorney's office. Meanwhile, he meets wild debutante Letty Lane, girlfriend of mob mouthpiece Steve Lawrence; and Letty's much nicer sister Susan. Now the slot machine gang brutally beats Jim's friends Franz and Otto. And Jim finds a way to use his nominal position to go into the racket- busting business. But his success puts Letty in deadly peril...
29 Aug 1931
A Harvard football star disobeys his upper class parents and runs off with his true love.
11 Dec 1935
A crooked nightclub owner, pretending to go straight, is forced to kill a henchman when the latter tries to run off with the gang's latest haul.
21 Oct 1999
Joe Dekko, small time thief, finds himself under a bridge with a bullet in his head. That was just the beginning.
17 Jun 1932
William Poster writes a gossip column for the Morning Gazette. He will write about anyone and everyone as long as he gets the credit. He gets most of his information from his showgirl gal-pal, Peggy. Eventually Bill's reckless tattling gets him in deep trouble with friends and enemies, putting his career and life in jeopardy.
30 Dec 1976
A mobster kills a cop during a robbery and then finds himself pursued by the police, his gang, and the media.
02 Apr 1935
Grant hides stolen money in the luggage of Bonnie Shea who is moving west. Later when he and his men arrive to retrieve the money, they also kidnap Bonnie. This sends Reasonin' Bates and his cowhands on their horses after the gangsters in their cars.
30 Oct 1930
A pair of hapless half-wits get into continuous mischief during the occupation of Germany after WW I.
01 Sep 1937
Runyonesque crooks on the lam hide out on blind man's pastoral farm and decide to go straight.
22 Dec 1930
A young woman reunites with the father she's not seen since early childhood, also falls in love with a sailor who wishes to marry her, and eventually is forced to reveal to each man about her dark past. (NOTE: This is the German language version.)
24 Feb 1937
A small railroad is being squeezed out of business by the tactics of a trucking company owned by gangsters.
20 Jan 1934
Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield with embezzlement of the bank. He considers Frank a straight shooter and he goes easy on the story. Every other paper goes with the story that Frank took the money and Brad is demoted, by the publisher, to the Heartthrob column - writing advice to the lovelorn. After feeling sorry for himself for two months, he takes the column seriously and makes it the talk of the town. But Brad still wants his old job back so he will have to find Canfield and the missing money.
01 Jan 1988
Christian, well-off of a certain age, lives alone in a house between the moors and the sea on the Sardinian coast, she loved dearly by Ghiana, a peasant married. The arrival in the farmhouse near the young and charming Sara, who takes care of the mentally ill husband, upsets the life of Christian and his relationship with Ghiana, arousing in him love and anguish.
09 Oct 1945
In this crime drama, a young woman leaves her unhappy life at home to become a sophisticated night club singer. Her first job is nearly fatal when she entangles herself with the mobsters who own the joint and learns too much about their operation. Her boss decides to kill her and make it look like suicide. An intrepid reporter disbelieves the report and exposes the truth to the public.
26 Feb 1931
A widow's decision to run for mayor kicks off a battle of the sexes in a small town.
05 Apr 1930
In Russia in the early 1900s, Fedya, a handsome, self-indulgent womanizer, falls in love with and marries Lisa, his friend Victor's fiancée. Fedya quickly tires of domestic life and resumes his profligate ways, drinking and gambling away his family's fortune. Lisa refuses to leave him despite his deplorable ways, so he takes drastic measures to ensure that she will no longer be harmed by his actions and reputation.
01 Nov 1930
A devoted sailor jeopardizes his love life for love of the sea.