Brief Synopsis
J. Ward Thomas of Park Avenue leads a double life as an investment broker and as notorious gambler Spade Martin, despite the protests of his beautiful wife Natalie, a nightclub singer who retired when they married. Spade’s younger brother “Chick” wires Spade from Seattle that he has quit gambling for a job in real estate and is about to marry a nice girl named Betty. Relieved to find his kid brother is straight, Spade sends him $10,000 cash as a wedding present. When a woman posing as a pregnant wife comes to Spade for a loan, Spade gives it to her. Later, when Steve Burdick, the woman’s supposed husband, brags in a bar that he made a fool of Spade, Spade’s hit man, Trigger, kills Burdick. Tired of Spade’s gambling, Natalie books a return engagement at Cafe Nocturne, telling him that she is a singer rather than a wife now. Spade promises to go straight in six days; however, Chick arrives in New York with a cocky attitude after having made fifty grand out of the ten. He is now ready to gamble against Spade Martin himself, unaware Spade is his brother. To teach Chick a lesson, Spade sets up one more game with “Big Ed” Bullock, the head of a gambling ring that lures wealthy tourists into joining them at poker. Inevitably, the outsider takes a heavy loss, and the gang splits the profits. Spade tells Big Ed he wants Chick to go straight, but while Spade and Natalie are at a romantic hideaway, Chick wins $70,000 in the poker game. Big Ed, furious, believes that Spade set him up and threatens to murder Chick if Spade does not get him his money back. Spade, meanwhile, has promised Betty that he will send Chick back to her a broke, but decent man. Following the game, Big Ed orders Spade’s old gang to locate him, and while Natalie sleeps, Spade slips out of their cabin and returns to the city. Big Ed, meanwhile, has invited Chick to play Spade in another game, in which Spade plans to help Big Ed beat Chick. When Chick recognizes his brother, he is more determined than ever to beat him, but cannot outwit Spade. Near the end of the game, Chick has lost $50,000 to Spade, but Spade is caught dealing from the bottom of the deck, although he swears he has never turned a crooked card before. Chick, disheartened, walks out, and Big Ed threatens to have Spade killed by his own former henchmen if he does not return the balance of Chick’s profits. Natalie, meanwhile, has woken up to discover that Spade has again deserted her and vows to end their marriage. The now reformed Chick leaves New York with Betty, and Spade sends them $10,000. Natalie returns to the Cafe Nocturne and, that night, Big Ed is seated in the audience with his thugs. When Spade arrives at the club, one of the thugs shoots him. Fatally wounded, he returns Big Ed’s money, then exits through the audience and collapses as Natalie sings a torch song.

Her Husband Lies - 1937 Edward Ludwig - (Gail Patrick, Ricardo Cortez, Akim Tamiroff).english.avi

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Suspected crime boss Nate Girard beats a murder rap, and newspaper photog Kent Murdock is on the story. Girard and lawyer Redfield throw a party for the news men where Murdock romances a mystery woman who confronted Girard in front of him, but Murdock’s fiancée Hester shows up. After they return to his apartment, have a fight, and she leaves, the mystery woman slips in and begs for his help. Police Inspector Bacon and the cops show up, looking for the mystery woman; Murdock hides her. Murdock goes with the cops to discuss the murder the woman is suspected of. Bacon explains (in flashback) how some photogs were setting up a shot with Girard and Redfield. When the flashbulbs popped, Redfield keeled over dead and the woman, Meg Archer, fled while the newsmen ran out to phone their papers. The newsmen (who were rounded up later as thoroly as possible) are taken into police custody, except for Murdock (who wasn’t at the scene), who is given a cap on the sly by rival McGoogin. Altho evidence suggests Meg is guilty, Murdock returns to his apartment and pledges to help her. She drugs his drink, but in the middle of the night, someone breaks in, knocks her out, and ransacks Murdock’s photography equipment. They awaken in the morning and Murdock finds a photo plate in the cap McGoogin gave him. It’s a pic taken by one of the photog from behind Redfield and probably shows the killer preparing to murder him. Girard arrives and tries to bribe Murdock. The cops arrive, with McGoogin, and McGoogin pockets the photo plate. Girard threatens Murdock and Meg, implying that he staged Meg’s father’s suicide; they have to get the photo plate back and try to clear Meg’s name… and get out of his engagement to Hester. The story becomes more and more convoluted, with the shooting of McGoogin and then Meg, the arrival of the brother of the man Girard was on trial for killing, and Murdock’s decision to confront Girard on his own terms.
(Plot from IMDB)

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Directed by Wilhelm Thiele and written by Thiele and Bradbury Foote with black and white cinematography by film noir giant John Alton

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This drama is an updated version of Ulmer’s 1944 film Bluebeard. It is set in New York and follows the exploits of an eccentric Parisian painter who has come to New York to escape a controversy surrounding his work. The trouble stems when the model he has used in all his work is found floating dead in the Seine.

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