82% (2) The Mummy 73 min, Approved, [Fantasy, Horror] [Karl Freund] [22 Dec 1932]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 72%, Rotten Tomatoes: 93%, External Reviews
Awards: 1 win & 2 nominations.
Actors: Arthur Byron, Boris Karloff, David Manners, Zita Johann
Writer: Nina Wilcox Putnam (from a story by), Richard Schayer (from a story by), John L. Balderston (screen play)
External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English, Arabic, French Country: USA
Plot: In 1921 a field expedition in Egypt discovers the mummy of ancient Egyptian prince Im-Ho-Tep, who was condemned and buried alive for sacrilege. Also found in the tomb is the Scroll of Thoth, which can bring the dead back to life. One night a young member of the expedition reads the Scroll out loud, and then goes insane, realizing that he has brought Im-Ho-Tep back to life. Ten years later, disguised as a modern Egyptian, the mummy attempts to reunite with his lost love, an ancient princess who has been reincarnated into a beautiful young woman.
Rotten Tomatoes: Brought back to life after nearly 3,700 years, Egyptian high priest Imhotep wreaks havoc upon the members of a British field exposition. While disguised as a contemporary Egyptologist, he falls in love with Zita Johann, whom he recognizes as the incarnation of a priestess who died nearly 40 centuries earlier.
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78% (2) Gabriel Over the White House 86 min, PASSED, [Drama, Fantasy, Romance] [Gregory La Cava] [31 Mar 1933]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 65%, Rotten Tomatoes: 92%, External Reviews
Actors: Arthur Byron, Franchot Tone, Karen Morley, Walter Huston
Writer: Carey Wilson (screen play), Bertram Bloch (additional dialogue), Anonymous (novel)
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Plot: A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a metamorphosis into an incorruptible statesman after a near-fatal accident.
Rotten Tomatoes: At the bottom of the Depression, a political hack is elected President of the United States. After suffering a near-fatal car accident, he is inspired by the angel Gabriel to seize dictatorial powers in order to lead the nation out of its woes.
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80% (1) Fast Life 82 min, PASSED, [Comedy, Romance, Sport] [Harry A. Pollard, Sam Wood] [16 Dec 1932]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 80%, External Reviews
Actors: Arthur Byron, Conrad Nagel, Madge Evans, William Haines
Writer: Byron Morgan (screen play), Ralph Spence (screen play), E.J. Rath (story "Let's Go")
External Links: Wikipedia IMDb Language: English, Spanish Country: USA
Plot: Two sailors are leaving the US Navy after 10 years. In their spare time, one of them (Haines) invents a carburetor that should increase the speed that powered boats will run, but all that they succeed in doing is to sink the Admiral's launch. After discharge, broke and out of work, they find work with a boat builder who wants the fastest race boat in the World. They design the boat, carburetor and the engine but lack of money and the foreclosure of the business hinders their efforts to prove the new design.
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73% (1) The Prisoner of Shark Island 96 min, Approved, [Biography, Drama, History] [John Ford] [28 Feb 1936]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 73%, External Reviews
Awards: 1 win.
Actors: Arthur Byron, Claude Gillingwater, Gloria Stuart, Warner Baxter
Writer: Nunnally Johnson (screenplay)
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Plot: A few short hours after President Lincoln has been assassinated, Dr. Samuel Mudd gives medical treatment to a wounded man who shows up at his door. Mudd has no idea that the president is dead and that he is treating his murderer, John Wilkes Booth. But that doesn't save him when the army posse searching for Booth finds evidence that Booth has been to the doctor's house. Dr. Mudd is arrested for complicity and sentenced to life imprisonment, to be served in the infamous pestilence-ridden Dry Tortugas.
Rotten Tomatoes: In this film, Warner Baxter plays Dr. Samuel Mudd, American history's most famous victim of circumstance. In 1865, Dr. Mudd sets the broken leg of a mud-caked stranger. The injured man turns out to be John Wilkes Booth, and Mudd is accused of conspiring to murder President Lincoln.
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72% (1) Tonight Is Ours 75 min, [Drama, Romance] [Stuart Walker] [21 Jan 1933]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 72%, External Reviews
Actors: Alison Skipworth, Arthur Byron, Claudette Colbert, Fredric March
Writer: Noël Coward (play), Edwin Justus Mayer
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Plot: A princess is torn between her royal obligations and her love for a handsome Frenchman.
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71% (1) 20,000 Years in Sing Sing 78 min, UNRATED, [Crime, Drama, Film-Noir] [Michael Curtiz] [24 Dec 1932]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 71%, External Reviews
Actors: Arthur Byron, Bette Davis, Lyle Talbot, Spencer Tracy
Writer: Lewis E. Lawes (book), Wilson Mizner (screen play), Brown Holmes (screen play), Courtney Terrett (adaptation), Robert Lord (adaptation)
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Plot: Tom Connors is sentenced to Sing Sing believing his influential friends will soon have him out on parole. A trouble maker, he gets ninety days in solitary and no parole. His girlfriend Fay is injured and Warden Long lets Tom visit her on his honor to return. During a fight with mobster Joe Finn Fay shoots Finn, Tom jumps out the window and is blamed for the death. He gives himself up but is sentenced to the electric chair.
Rotten Tomatoes: Sent to Ossining Prison (popularly known as Sing Sing), influential crook Spencer Tracy is unregenerate and refuses to adhere to the rules. Thanks to Sing Sing's compassionate warden, Tracy becomes a model prisoner. This film is based on the book by real-life Sing Sing warden Lewis E. Lawes.
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70% (1) The Mayor of Hell 90 min, TV-PG, [Crime, Drama, Romance] [Archie Mayo, Michael Curtiz] [24 Jun 1933]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 70%, External Reviews
Actors: Allen Jenkins, Arthur Byron, James Cagney, Madge Evans
Writer: Edward Chodorov (screen play), Islin Auster (based on a story by)
External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English, Italian, Yiddish Country: USA
Plot: Five members of a teen-age gang, including leader Jimmy Smith, are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the melodramatically callous Thompson. Soon, Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner as a political favor, arrives complete with hip flask and blonde. Gargan falls for activist nurse Dorothy and, inspired by her, takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. But Thompson, to conceal his years of graft, needs a quick way to discredit Gargan...
Rotten Tomatoes: Gangster Cagney allows his powerful political connections to appoint him "deputy inspector" of a state reform school. There he finds the youths abused and battered by a brutal, heartless warden and his thuggish guards. It is a nurse who informs Cagney and pleads with him to clean things up. Something touches Cagney's normally hard heart and he commits himself to enacting more humane reforms. Soon, he gets the warden booted out and begins working closely with the inmates, who come to trust and respect him until Cagney's dark side emerges and he reveals himself for what he is--a ruthless mobster. This destroys the boys' trust and when the old warden is reinstated makes matters even worse until Cagney makes a difficult choice. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
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