A doctor becomes a blackmailer and a jewel thief in order to raise funds for a hospital in East London but is uncovered by an ambitious reporter.
Cinematic Era: 1932 Vintage
1927 Matches Found
- 10.0 1932 • Cinematic
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A detective goes undercover and poses as a criminal to try to discover the reasons behind the murder of a night club owner.
Murder at Covent Garden
7.0 1932 • Cinematic -
Jimmy Mulligan and Poppy Kirk, both out of work, strike up a conversation outside a radio shop and discover a shared dream of hitting it big dancing and decide to team up. As “Mulligan & Kirk” they have their highs and lows while falling in love but eventually find enormous success. Their personal relationship, however, hits a few snags on the way to a happy ending.
Dance Team
10.0 1932 • Cinematic -
Scotty, an unwilling Navy war hero is cast into the limelight. He wants to get married and be an engineer, but is forced to fulfil the expectations of the public, his employer and his PR agent, which he hates. Although he and his long time girlfriend Janet love each other, they are pressured to marry before they are ready. The strain takes its toll on both of them.
It's Tough to Be Famous
6.3 1932 • Cinematic -
Tom and Jerry are plumbers who spend more time singing and dancing than fixing leaky pipes.
Joint Wipers
9.0 1932 • Cinematic -
Pluto's cage-mate at the dog pound breaks out and lets all the other dogs out as well. In the park, that terrier keeps following Pluto too closely for Pluto's tastes, until he digs up a huge bone and gives it to Pluto (who doesn't particularly want to share). But soon all the other escaped dogs are chasing after the bone.
Just Dogs
6.2 1932 • Cinematic -
A British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott
Once bitten
10.0 1932 • Cinematic -
In this musical short, the son of a department store owner replaces the regular sales girls with chorus girls.
Over the Counter
4.4 1932 • Cinematic -
A man framed for murder escapes from prison in order to prove his innocence.
The Menace
5.6 1932 • Cinematic -
Steele gets into a fight with a ranch foreman, knocking the foreman out. The foreman was supposed to represent the ranch in a prize fight with a middleweight champion. Now Steele finds himself in the fight of his life.
The Fighting Champ
6.7 1932 • Cinematic -
Truck driver Norman Foster has aspirations to become a prize fighter, but romantic interest June Clyde finds the idea deplorable. Henry Armetta and ZaSu Pitts supply the laughs.
Steady Company
10.0 1932 • Cinematic -
Gabby Denton, a hard-drinking, down-on-his-luck drifter, seems to get a chance at redemption when his brother-in-law helps get him a job as a mechanic. Not realizing the garage he works for is actually a front for a stolen car ring, Gabby soon finds himself mixed up in both murder and a liaison with the boss's girl.
The Devil Is Driving
5.3 1932 • Cinematic -
A pretty but virtuous small-town bank clerk is the victim of a vicious rumor from an unsuccessful suitor that she spent the night with a notorious womanizer.
Hot Saturday
6.6 1932 • Cinematic -
A bankrupt aristocrat tries to keep up appearances while his situation worsens. To top it off the life savings given to him by a beggar to invest has been mistakenly claimed by the aristocrat's altruist society for their annual Feast of the Poor.
The Table of the Poor
6.0 1932 • Cinematic -
Bank clerk William Marble is desperate for money to pay his family's bills. When his wealthy nephew visits, Marble asks him for a loan, but the young man refuses. Marble decides to kill his nephew. It is a twisted path to justice after Marble is transformed by the crime he committed and the wealth he gains.
Payment Deferred
5.7 1932 • Cinematic -
The young and patriotic student Demachy joins the French army in 1914 to defend his country. But he and his comrades soon experience the terrifying, endless trench war in Champagne, where more and more wooden crosses have to be erected for this cannon fodder.
Wooden Crosses
7.1 1932 • Cinematic -
Heck Claibourne has been involving young Russ Whitely in his cattle rustling schemes, and when they are nearly caught by Sheriff Doug Barrett and deputy O'Hara, their cohort, Luke, shoots and kills O'Hara.
Vanishing Men
8.0 1932 • Cinematic -
The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich Chilcote family and the hard working Tarleton family.
The Wet Parade
6.2 1932 • Cinematic -
An actress returns to Tokyo after a successful stint in Hollywood to reclaim—with the help of her gangster brother—the daughter she abandoned years before.
No Blood Relation
7.3 1932 • Cinematic -
Mickey is playing Christmas carols on a standup bass for change. Alas, all he gets is screws, rocks, and other useless stuff. He plays outside a rich man's window, and the spoiled brat kid inside decides he wants Pluto. Mickey isn't selling, but when his bass gets destroyed by a passing sleigh and he sees a house full of orphans with no presents, he changes his mind. Mickey plays Santa to the kids. Meanwhile, the brat has been torturing Pluto; his father finally has enough and throws Pluto out and spanks the child. Pluto and Mickey are reunited, and as a bonus, the kid has tied the Christmas turkey to Pluto's tail. (Also included: Chip an' Dale 1947, Lend a Paw 1941)
Mickey's Good Deed
6.4 1932 • Cinematic -
After suffering a traumatic injury, a policeman resigns from the force and, after he's saved from a suicide attempt, goes to work at a café frequented by gangsters.
The Pride of the Legion
7.0 1932 • Cinematic -
A cattleman's association hires a range detective to track down and capture a notorious rustler known as El Lobo.
Lawless Valley
4.5 1932 • Cinematic -
An airliner makes a forced landing at night in the desert. The passengers and crew take refuge in a nearby deserted house. Soon some of the passengers are found murdered, and one of the passengers reveals himself to be a detective who was guarding one of the murdered passengers, who was carrying a bag of diamonds--which is now missing. The detective must find out which of the passengers is the killer.
Tangled Destinies
5.8 1932 • Cinematic -
An old man is reading a book by the fire. The clock strikes 8, and he heads off to bed. From his book, Alice in Wonderland, out crawls Alice, who turns the radio to the title tune. This wakes up Rip Van Winkle; Alice then rouses the Three Musketeers, who sing a bit. Next tune: Nero fiddles, Rome burns, and Cleopatra sizzles in a slinky dance. Uncle Tom sings a spiritual as Mr. Hyde sneaks up and abducts Alice. Tarzan to the rescue, along with several other characters who mount a spirited attack using such office supplies as pen points, matches, and a fountain pen. They box him up and carry him off.
Three's a Crowd
6.2 1932 • Cinematic -
Because his father, Lord Grenham, spends more time philandering with attractive women than conducting business, Willie Tatham is forced to interrupt his honeymoon with his wife Margot in the south of France and return to London to get his father to sign an important contract. While Margot, an actress, goes to a small resort where she will not be recognized, Kitty Lake, one of the young women Lord Grenham pursues, flirts with Willie. Two weeks pass and when Willie tells Margot on the telephone that he must stay in town, she threatens to engage in a violent flirtation with the next attractive man she sees. Karl von der Heide, from Vienna, who is waiting to use the telephone, overhears her and begins a flirtation. She identifies herself to him as Mrs. Margaret Spaulding, and they pursue the beginnings of a romance until Margot suddenly returns home.
Aren't We All?
8.0 1932 • Cinematic -
Propaganda film, presumed lost.
The Dawn of Manchuria and Mongolia
8.0 1932 • Cinematic -
The kids help capture a family of thieves.
Free Eats
7.1 1932 • Cinematic -
John Mason returns to the Sally Ann mine to claim his half share. Janet Cater also returns although her father lost his half share to Joe Ryan. Ryan and his gang are also there to get the gold. A mysterious Phantom is also present. Mason's plan to expose Ryan as an outlaw and to force him to turn his share to Janet works. But when distracted by the Phantom, John is made a prisoner by the gang.
Haunted Gold
5.1 1932 • Cinematic -
A French-Canadian girl is a champion bronc rider and is also a nightclub singer. An ambitious young man sees her act one night and is struck by her talent, realizing that she is good enough to become a Broadway star. He convinces her to accompany him to New York, where she indeed does become a Broadway star. However, the young man finds himself being squeezed out by greedy Broadway producers who see the talented young girl as their own personal gold mine.
The Girl from Calgary
5.0 1932 • Cinematic -
A pet shop specializing in birds. The various caged birds chirp along to the score in their various styles (including a set of birds that looks like the Marx Brothers). A cat eyes the proceedings hungrily and makes his way in through an open transom, causing panic and an organized counterattack.
The Bird Store
5.8 1932 • Cinematic -
A young woman goes undercover to gather evidence to free her boyfriend, an attorney who has been framed for a murder he didn't commit.
The Wiser Sex
7.5 1932 • Cinematic -
A department store assistant becomes publicity conscious.
Love on Wheels
6.0 1932 • Cinematic -
Wenn dem Esel zu wohl ist
9.0 1932 • Cinematic -
When motorcycle cop Dick Fay gives a ticket to Phyllis Crawford, her father's graft-fed influence leads to his demotion to foot patrolman.
Disorderly Conduct
8.0 1932 • Cinematic -
A gossip columnist helps a Broadway ingenue who's beholden to a penthouse gangster.
Love is a Racket
5.4 1932 • Cinematic -
New York playboy Danny Churchill is sent to a small town in Arizona, where being sheriff is very dangerous, to keep away from girls, but he decides to open a dude ranch there. He asks his friend Slick, a professional gambler and his wife Kitty, to help him. Slick decides to go there in a cab, driven by shy Jimmy. Jimmy's younger sister Tessie also travels there. There Danny has fallen in love with Molly, but troubles arise for him when the local heavy decides that he doesn't like the ranch and announces running for sheriff. Danny and Slick got the idea that Jimmy would be the ideal candidate, especially because of the fact that the heavy has announced he would kill another sheriff. With some help Jimmy is elected, but Molly leaves Danny with a New York shyster for Mexico. Mitzi, Danny, Kitty, Patsy - Jimmy's sweetheart as well as Jimmy and Slick follow her to win her heart back for Danny, but they are followed by the local heavy and his friend.
Girl Crazy
4.3 1932 • Cinematic -
The story of two Naval crewmen who work hard at sea and play harder on land.
Hell Divers
6.7 1932 • Cinematic -
A shifty lawyer is threatened with death within two days by a criminal who supposedly died in Australia.
The Ringer
5.1 1932 • Cinematic -
Fame goes to a priggish singer's head and almost costs him his girlfriend.
Crooner
6.5 1932 • Cinematic -
An architect has an affair with a woman who inspires him. Her brother is in love with the architect's daughter. The complicated entanglement leads to misunderstanding and dissolution, but ultimately love.
Street of Women
5.0 1932 • Cinematic -
The officers of the Flying Squad attempt to track down a drug-smuggling gang.
The Flying Squad
7.0 1932 • Cinematic -
Tom and Jerry, together with their faithful hound and horse, go hunting and end up matching wits with a rascally rabbit.
Rabid Hunters
9.0 1932 • Cinematic -
A daydreaming dramatist and his beloved persevere through hard times in the hope that one of his plays will be a hit.
Lovers Courageous
6.0 1932 • Cinematic -
Jones played Tom McKenna, a disgraced Royal Canadian Mountie who turns highway robber to pay off his gambling debt. He joins a gang of outlaws led by Morgan (Niles Welch) and to prove his loyalty is assigned to rob a safe belonging to the father (Ralph Lewis) of his former girlfriend, Shirley (Greta Grandstedt).
McKenna of the Mounted
10.0 1932 • Cinematic -
In order to keep his lover, Maria Draga, in luxury, Captain Alex Pastitsch contracts huge debts which threaten his military career. To save Alex's career, his superior officer, Colonel Strádimirovitsch has an idea of how to fix it.
A Woman Commands
9.0 1932 • Cinematic -
Two marines stationed in the Chinese port of Hang Chow decide to swear off women and join the lighthouse patrol.
Lighthouse Love
6.7 1932 • Cinematic -
Tom Halliday of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is implicated and framed on a murder charge. The real killer has gone back into the United States, so Halliday, with no credentials, has to cross the border in order to find and capture the killer.
Honor of the Mounted
7.0 1932 • Cinematic -
A cowboy goes undercover to catch the cattle thieves who killed his father.
Renegades of the West
6.0 1932 • Cinematic -
A British musical comedy film directed by Wilhelm Thiele
Marry Me
10.0 1932 • Cinematic -
Eddie Kane wanders round the studio back-lot, opening various doors to see which stars pop out.
Hollywood on Parade No. A-3
10.0 1932 • Cinematic -
Charting the military escapades of serial bungler Tommy Josser, Josser in the Army sees the hapless hero in France during wartime, where he masquerades as a German general, unmasks a spy, gets captured and then makes a spectacular airborne escape!
Josser in the Army
10.0 1932 • Cinematic -
Hugh Herbert and Roscoe Ates are in a bar where all the men wear fezzes. They are trying to make time with cigarette girl Dorothy Granger. Their loud celery-crunching rouses the ire of Jerry Mandy, aka Sham Poo the magician.
Sham Poo, the Magician
10.0 1932 • Cinematic -
Although terrified of girls, Charley must take a job teaching at a girls school.
Girl Grief
7.0 1932 • Cinematic -
Lovers David Lunch and Betty Summers are caught in the feud between their two families. When David kills the Summers son, he escapes to the West. He marries and when his boy is two he and his wife are killed by Indians who take the boy. Twenty years later the boy is now the Indian chief. Betty's daughter is nearby and the two are destined to meet.
The Golden West
5.5 1932 • Cinematic -
In Africa, two hunters meet a girl and her father who are searching for her lost brother. Their search is complicated by rival hunters who are after ivory and by a tribe of hostile natives.
Jungle Mystery
7.0 1932 • Cinematic -
A pre-Code drama.
Breach of Promise
10.0 1932 • Cinematic -
Lily is threatened with divorce by her husband after spending an innocent night with friend Rupert Harvey.
Lily Christine
10.0 1932 • Cinematic -
When World War I comes to an end, three pilots find themselves on hard times. They wind up in Hollywood, where they work as stunt fliers for a sadistic director.
The Lost Squadron
6.5 1932 • Cinematic -
Newspaper editor Bill Temple arrives in Boom Town planning to expose Jim Blane as a crook. When Blane's henchman Buck fails to kill Temple, Blane prepares to flee with his money. But a sudden announcement of a gold strike empties the town. Blane heads after his henchmen who have taken his money and Temple heads after Blane.
Ghost City
5.0 1932 • Cinematic -
Working girl Margie Evans has decided there are two kinds of opportunities for a slum kid during the Depression: Those you make and those you take. Determined to help her family out of its financial bind, she is ready to do both after she shows up at the penthouse pool bash of a wealthy playboy.
Under Eighteen
6.3 1932 • Cinematic