76% (1) Waterloo Bridge 81 min, [Drama, Romance] [James Whale] [01 Nov 1931]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 76%, External Reviews
Actors: Doris Lloyd, Douglass Montgomery, Frederick Kerr, Mae Clarke
Writer: Robert E. Sherwood (from the stage play by), Benn W. Levy (adaptation), Tom Reed (screen play)
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Plot: In World War I London, Myra is an American out of work chorus girl making ends meet by picking up men on Waterloo Bridge. During a Zeppelin air raid she meets Roy, a naive young American who enlisted in the Canadian army. They fall for each other, and he tricks Myra into visiting his family who live in a country estate outside London, where his step-father is a retired British Major. However Myra is reluctant to continue the relationship with Roy, because she has not told him about her past.
Rotten Tomatoes: Mae Clarke had the best role of her career as the heroine of Waterloo Bridge, the first of three filmizations of Robert L. Sherwood's play. Douglass Montgomery (here credited as Kent Douglass) plays a young American soldier who, while on leave from World War I, meets Myra (Clarke) during an air raid in London and falls in love with her, unaware she is a prostitute. Directed with a delicate mixture of realism and impressionism by James Whale, the 1931 Waterloo Bridge is head and shoulders above its heavily laundered 1940 remake -- which in turn is vastly superior to the 1956 re-remake, Gaby.
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74% (1) Little Man, What Now? 98 min, Passed, [Drama] [Frank Borzage] [04 Jun 1934]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 74%, External Reviews
Actors: Alan Hale, Catherine Doucet, Douglass Montgomery, Margaret Sullavan
Writer: William Anthony McGuire (screenplay & adaptation), Hans Fallada (novel)
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Plot: A young couple struggling against poverty must keep their marriage a secret in order for the husband to keep his job, as his boss doesn't like to hire married men.
Rotten Tomatoes: Set in Germany shortly before the collapse of the Weimar Republic, this romantic drama chronicles the travails of an impoverished newlywed couple who leave their home village and move in with the groom's stepmother in bustling Berlin to find success. The husband gets a small job in a department store and things are okay until they discover that the stepmother is really a notorious madame and runs an exclusive brothel. This leads the groom to quit his job and take his pregnant bride on the road in search of opportunity. The plot is based on a novel by Hans Fallada.
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73% (1) The Cat and the Canary 72 min, Approved, [Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller] [Elliott Nugent] [10 Nov 1939]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 73%, External Reviews
Actors: Bob Hope, Douglass Montgomery, John Beal, Paulette Goddard
Writer: Walter DeLeon (screenplay), Lynn Starling (screenplay), John Willard (based on the stage play by)
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Plot: Ten years have passed since the death of millionaire, Cyrus Norman. Cosby, Cyrus' attorney, has gathered Cyrus' 6 remaining relatives to his New Orleans' mansion for Cyrus' "reading of the will". To the others disappointment, Joyce is the sole heir, but, due to a streak of insanity running in the family, a second will has been made in case Joyce falls victim to it. This puts Joyce in danger. Suddenly, Miss Lu, Cyrus' maid, appears and warns them that the spirits have told her that one of them will die that night. Following this, Hendrick, a prison guard, warns them that, "The Cat", a homicidal maniac has escaped. This sets up Cyrus' relatives with a night filled with murders, mysteries and intrigue.
Rotten Tomatoes: In this film, the relatives of a recently-deceased millionaire are summoned to a creepy mansion for the reading of the will. The spooky fun begins when the dead man's beautiful niece is told that she must spend a night in the house and emerge safe and sane the following morning.
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67% (1) The Mystery of Edwin Drood 87 min, [Drama, Horror, Mystery] [Stuart Walker] [04 Feb 1935]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 67%, External Reviews
Actors: Claude Rains, David Manners, Douglass Montgomery, Heather Angel
Writer: Leopold Atlas, John L. Balderston, Charles Dickens (novel), Bradley King, Gladys Unger
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Plot: John Jasper, a brooding, moody choirmaster at a finishing school in Victorian England, maintains a secret life that includes frequenting an opium den. His tortured mind becomes obsessed with a young student, Rosa Bud, who is engaged to his nephew Edwin Drood. When she senses the intensity of Jasper's feelings, she becomes frightened of him and avoids his company. When the mixed-blooded Neville Landless and his twin sister Helena arrive at the school from Ceylon, Neville and Edwin take an immediate dislike to one another over Rosa's affections. Although they quarrel and make up, Edwin disappears, and suspicion logically falls on the quick-tempered Neville.
Rotten Tomatoes: An opium-addicted choirmaster of a cathedral puts himself in a difficult situation after he falls in love with his nephew's fiancee. His love turns to madness and one Christmas Eve, he murders his rival and stuffs the corpse into a pit of quicklime that is located beneath the cathedral crypt. Any one after that who falls in love with the girl suffers a similar fate. The story is based on the final, unfinished novel of Charles Dickens.
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62% (1) Everything Is Thunder 76 min, [Drama, Thriller] [Milton Rosmer] [01 Oct 1936]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 62%, External Reviews
Actors: Constance Bennett, Douglass Montgomery, Oskar Homolka, Roy Emerton
Writer: Marion Dix (screenplay), J.B. Hardy (novel), J.O.C. Orton (screenplay)
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Plot: During the first world war a Canadian officer escapes from a prison camp and reaches Berlin where he and a streetwalker plan to reach Holland.
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57% (1) Paid 86 min, APPROVED, [Drama, Film-Noir] [Sam Wood] [30 Dec 1930]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 57%, External Reviews
Actors: Douglass Montgomery, Joan Crawford, Marie Prevost, Robert Armstrong
Writer: Bayard Veiller (play), Lucien Hubbard (adaptation), Charles MacArthur (adaptation), Charles MacArthur (dialogue)
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Plot: Mary Turner goes up for three years on a crime she didn't commit. Once out she and former prison mates plan a scam in which old men can be sued for breach of promise - the "heart balm" racket. After plotting verious ways to get back at the men who set her up initially, she softens and settles down.
Rotten Tomatoes: A young woman turns con artist to get back at the man who had her unfairly jailed then falls in love with her intended victim's son -- and suddenly finds herself accused of his father's murder. This MGM melodrama from a play was filmed twice previously and once again in 1939.
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