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Frank X. Shaw
Francis X. Shaw (September 15, 1895 – June 12, 1962) was an American assistant director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Assistant Director. Selected filmography * '' Slightly Used'' (1927) * ''Sailor Izzy Murphy'' (1927) * ''The Girl from Chicago'' (1927) * ''Pay as You Enter'' (1928) * ''The Lion and the Mouse'' (1928) * ''State Street Sadie'' (1928) - (uncredited) * ''The Singing Fool'' (1928) * ''Stark Mad'' (1929) * ''Honky Tonk'' (1929) - (uncredited) * '' Night Nurse'' (1931) - (uncredited) * ''The Star Witness'' (1931) - (uncredited) * '' Carnival Boat'' (1932) - (uncredited) * '' State's Attorney'' (1932) - (uncredited) * '' White Eagle'' (1932) - (uncredited) * '' 20,000 Years in Sing Sing'' (1932) - (uncredited) * ''Mystery of the Wax Museum'' (1933) - (uncredited) * '' The Keyhole'' (1933) - (uncredited) * ''The Mayor of Hell'' (1933) - (uncredited) * ''Captured!'' (1933) - (uncredited) * '' I Loved a Woman'' (1933) - (uncredited) * ''E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world's most populous megacities. Los Angeles is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Southern California. With a population of roughly 3.9 million residents within the city limits , Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic and cultural diversity, being the home of the Hollywood film industry, and its sprawling metropolitan area. The city of Los Angeles lies in a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the west and extending through the Santa Monica Mountains and north into the San Fernando Valley, with the city bordering the San Gabriel Valley to it's east. It covers about , and is the county seat of Los Angeles County, which is the most populous county in the United States with an estim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Star Witness
''The Star Witness'' is a 1931 American pre-Code crime drama film produced and distributed by Warner Bros. and directed by William A. Wellman. The film stars Walter Huston, Frances Starr, Grant Mitchell, and Chic Sale. ''The Star Witness'' was nominated for an Academy Award at the 5th Academy Awards for Best Story. A print of the film is preserved by the Library of Congress.''Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress'', (<-book title) p.174 c.1978 by The American Film Institute Plot The Leeds family consists of two adult children, their two young brothers, their parents, and Grandpa Summerill, a feisty retired soldier visiting from the . Hearing a commotion outside, most of them go to the windows and witness |
Gambling Lady
''Gambling Lady'' is a 1934 American pre-Code romantic drama film directed by Archie Mayo, and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea and Pat O'Brien. Plot Mike Lee raises his daughter Lady Lee to be as honest a gambler as he is. When he gets too much in debt to the underworld syndicate headed by Jim Fallin, he commits suicide rather than be pressured into running a crooked game. Lady initially goes to work for Fallin, then quits and sets out on her own when he tries to "help" her by providing a crooked dealer. Longtime admirer and bookie Charlie Lang proposes to her, but it is persistent young Garry Madison who wins her heart, despite unknowingly bringing two policemen in disguise to the illegal gambling den where she is playing. She resists marrying him, fearing the reaction of his high society father, Peter, but Garry is pleased to learn that she already knows and likes his father, a fellow gambler. However, Peter does disapprove of the union, offering to buy her off. When ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mandalay (film)
''Mandalay'' is a 1934 American Pre-Code Hollywood, pre Code drama film directed by Michael Curtiz and written by Austin Parker and Charles Kenyon based on a story by Paul Hervey Fox. The film stars Kay Francis, Ricardo Cortez, Warner Oland and Lyle Talbot, and features Ruth Donnelly and Reginald Owen. The film is about a world-weary woman (Francis) nicknamed "Spot White" at the local brothel-bar who does what she can to survive. Curtiz used cutting edge wipes and opticals in the film. Future child star Shirley Temple won a small role in the film as the daughter of the Donnelly and Littlefield characters, but the role was little more than a walk-on. Originally, her name was not listed in the credits and was only included years later. Plot summary Russian refugee Tanya Borisoff is suddenly abandoned penniless in Rangoon, Burma, by her lover, Tony Evans, who accepted a gunrunning deal from Nick, the owner of an amoral nightclub. Nick made the deal hoping to get Tanya as his main "h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Convention City
''Convention City'' is a 1933 American Pre-Code Hollywood, pre-Code sex comedy film directed by Archie Mayo, and starring Joan Blondell, Guy Kibbee, Dick Powell, Mary Astor and Adolphe Menjou. The film was produced by Henry Blanke and First National Pictures and distributed by Warner Bros. Due to its racy content, ''Convention City'' was held from circulation after the Motion Picture Production Code was enacted in 1934. Prints were subsequently ordered to be destroyed by studio head Jack L. Warner. The film is considered Lost film, lost and has become one of the more coveted lost films because of its reported racy content. Plot The plot revolves around the convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City. Throughout the film, the employees of Honeywell Rubber are mainly concerned with drinking and sex. President J.B. Honeywell (Grant Mitchell (actor), Grant Mitchell) is to choose a new company salesmanager. T.R. Kent (Adolphe Menjou) and George Ellerbe (Guy Kibbee) ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ever In My Heart
''Ever in My Heart'' is a 1933 American Pre-Code Hollywood, pre-Code drama film directed by Archie Mayo and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Otto Kruger, and Ralph Bellamy. It portrays the tragic consequences of the virulent History of propaganda, propaganda that spread false stories of atrocities and stigmatized anything German during the World War I, Great War. Plot In 1909 in the town of Archedale, Mary Archer, an American girl from the prominent Archer family, meets Hugo Wilbrandt, a German chemist who knows her cousin and childhood sweetheart Jeff. It had been assumed for years that Mary and Jeff would marry someday, but Mary falls in love with Hugo and he with her. They soon marry and start a family. Hugo enthustically adopts his new country and becomes an American citizen on the eve of World War I. Allied propaganda soon promotes anti-German sentiment, which eventually costs Hugo his professorship at the local university. Hard times fall on the family, and the Wilbrandts' you ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Loved A Woman
''I Loved a Woman'' is a 1933 American pre-Code drama directed by Alfred E. Green, starring Kay Francis, Edward G. Robinson, and Genevieve Tobin. According to producer Hal Wallis' autobiography (with Charles Higham), Robinson and Francis "were oddly matched. Kay was so tall that we had to put Eddie obinsonon a box in some scenes to bring him level with her and, understandably he was humiliated. Irritable and self-conscious, he argued with Kay frequently. But he ..gave credit to her fine acting." However, it was Wallis and other executives who also made the choice to cut three of Kay's scenes, leaving her presence in the film really as a supporting actress.Daniel Bubbeo, ''The Women of Warner Brothers: The Lives and Careers of 15 Leading Ladies, with Filmographies for Each'' (Jefferson NC: McFarland, 2010), 92, ; Robert Beck, ''The Edward G. Robinson Encyclopedia'' (Jefferson NC: McFarland, 2002), 162, ; and Hal Wallis and Charles Higham, ''Starmaker: The Autobiography of Hal W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Captured!
''Captured!'' (aka ''Fellow Prisoners'') is a 1933 American pre-Code film about World War I prisoners of war in a German camp. The film was directed by Roy Del Ruth and stars Leslie Howard and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. ''Captured!'' was based on the short story "Fellow Prisoners" (1930) by Sir Philip Gibbs."View: 'Captured!'." ''American Film Institute'', 2019. Retrieved: June 29, 2019. Plot British Captain Fred Allison bids farewell to his new wife, Monica, whom he has only known for six days, and sets out to serve in . He ends up a prisoner of war (POW), tortured by the fact that his wife has not written to him since ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mayor Of Hell
''The Mayor of Hell'' is a 1933 American pre-Code Warner Brothers film starring James Cagney. The film was remade in 1938 as ''Crime School'' with Humphrey Bogart taking over James Cagney's role and ''Hell's Kitchen'' with Ronald Reagan in 1939. Plot Racketeer Patsy Gargan is made deputy commissioner of a reform school as a reward from his corrupt political cronies. Initially, he has no interest in the school, but his sympathy for the boys, who are abused and battered by a brutal, heartless warden and his thuggish guards convince him to take the job seriously, as does an attractive resident nurse named Dorothy. Gargan sends Thompson, the superintendent, on vacation and, while he is gone, puts Dorothy's reform ideas into action. The school is functioning well under a system of self-government when Patsy is called back to the city to take care of some political business. Patsy shoots another man during a fight and has to go into hiding. Thompson returns to the school and convinces ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Keyhole (1933 Film)
''The Keyhole'' is a 1933 American Pre-Code Hollywood, pre-Code comedy-drama film directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Kay Francis, George Brent, Glenda Farrell and Allen Jenkins. It was released by Warner Bros. on March 25, 1933. A woman with two husbands tries to divorce one of them by heading down to Havana where things get more complicated. Plot Anne Brooks (Kay Francis), wife of wealthy businessman Schuyler Brooks, is being blackmailed by her former husband Maurice Le Brun who never finalized their divorce and lied to her about it. Acting on advice from Brooks' sister, Anne books a cruise ship passage to Havana, Cuba, to lure Le Brun out of the United States so that he can be blocked from re-entering. Suspicious of her behavior, Brooks hires private detective Neil Davis (George Brent) to follow her and report on whether she is having an affair, but tells him that she is merely a young woman that he's interested in. Anne leaks to Le Brun the details of her trip and he als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mystery Of The Wax Museum
''Mystery of the Wax Museum'' is a 1933 American pre-Code mystery- horror film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell, and Frank McHugh. It was produced and released by Warner Bros. and filmed in two-color Technicolor; '' Doctor X'' and ''Mystery of the Wax Museum'' were the last two dramatic fiction films made using this process."Notes" Plot In London in 1921, Ivan Igor (pronounced eye-gor) is a who operates a |
20,000 Years In Sing Sing
''20,000 Years in Sing Sing'' is a 1932 American Pre-Code drama film set in Sing Sing Penitentiary, the maximum security prison in Ossining, New York, starring Spencer Tracy as an inmate and Bette Davis as his girlfriend. It was directed by Michael Curtiz and based upon the nonfiction book ''Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing'', written by Lewis E. Lawes, the warden of Sing Sing from 1920 to 1941. The film was remade by First National Pictures as ''Castle on the Hudson'' in 1940, starring John Garfield, Ann Sheridan, and Pat O'Brien. Plot Cocky Tommy Connors (Spencer Tracy) is sentenced from 5 to 30 years in Sing Sing for robbery and assault with a deadly weapon. His associate, Joe Finn (Louis Calhern), promises to use his contacts and influence to get him freed long before that, but his attempt to bribe the warden to provide special treatment is met with disdain and failure. Connors makes trouble immediately, but several months confined to his cell changes his attitude somew ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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