Plot:
Wonderful idea to give a party with people who dislike each other. Late at night, everyone decides to go into the pool, except Stamm, who is drunk. Montague dives in as does Greeff and Leland, but only Greeff and Leland come out. Montague is no where to be found so Leland suspects foul play and calls the cops. Luckily, Philo is with the D.A. and comes along, but they do not find Montague. When they drain the pool the next day, they find nothing except what looks like dragon prints. Philo has his suspicions and tries to piece the clues together to find out what has happened.

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Synopsis
Sol Glass’s clothing business is losing sales because the “customer girls,” the women employed to entertain buyers from out of town, are not friendly enough. Salesman Tommy Nelson suggests using stenographers to entertain buyers, who he believes are tired of gold diggers. When his fiancée, Florence Denny, wants to participate in the program, however, Tommy refuses to let her. Birdie, one of the other stenographers, becomes a very successful customer girl, closing many sales, and Tommy, too, succumbs to her charms. One night, when he has a date with Birdie, Tommy suggests that Florence go out with buyer Daniel Drew. She is surprised, but agrees in order to earn a commission for Tommy so that they can afford to get married. She likes Daniel, but is horrified when he expects her to spend the night and flees from his hotel. She has a further blow when her friend, Maizee, reveals Tommy’s affair with Birdie. She breaks her engagement, and is now willing to accept Daniel’s apology. While he is on the road, Daniel phones and writes and they become friends. Meanwhile, Tommy tells Florence she is acquiring a bad reputation, using that as an excuse to offer her money to get together with him. This encounter convinces Florence to quit her work as a customer girl. Daniel, who is now deeply in love with Florence, returns to town. He asks her help in completing a merger. Although she is disappointed by his request, she agrees and gets the necessary signature, without compromising herself. Daniel, however, does not believe what she did was so innocent, especially when the buyer hints that she blackmailed him into signing. Convinced that her refusals were just a ploy, Daniel drives her into the country, where he attacks her. She escapes to find Tommy in a taxi, but when she begs him for help, he, too, believes that she is selling herself. Daniel overhears Tommy’s accusations and, realizing that Florence is really innocent, makes Tommy apologize. He also begs her forgiveness and asks her to marry him.

1.0GB | 1h 05m | 696×540 | mkv

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One blast of an exploitation-noir (to coin a phrase) Wild Weed (aka She Shoulda Said No) was marketed by the legendary huckster Kroger Babb, and directed by the always reliable Sam Newfield (who could handle anything from noir to horror to all-midget musicals). Babb, who was legendary for his marketing and publicity techniques (he had some of the most incredible return-on-investment ratios of his time, among film producers), wasn’t averse to starting letter writing campaigns against his own pictures to drum up controversy and thus sell tickets.

Wild Weed was produced to capitalize on the arrest of Lila Leeds– infamously, along with Robert Mitchum– for posession of marijuana. The film weaves a sordid narrative of a young aspiring dancer (Leeds was a dancer who was aspiring to be an actress) who, while working hard to put her little brother through college, is introduced to the evils of weed by a sinister local dealer (played by the wonderfully oily Alan Baxter), promptly becomes “hooked”, and becomes a dealer herself. Her little brother, already guilty over his sponging an education off of his sisters grinding toil in dancehalls, comes home one day and discovers her selling drugs– and promptly hangs himself out of guilt. As in real life, the police raid one of her “drug parties”, and, prior to doing 60 days in jail (as Leeds did in real life) is given a Scare Tour of the nut ward, the cops putting on display all manner of women driven crazy or to ruin and hard narcotics via use of the demonic weed. While locked up, her character is tormented by “withdrawal”-amplified pangs of guilt, with many wonderfully photographed moments of hallucinations and panic.

Take special note of the manner in which Ms Leeds is made to “smoke”– in massive closeup, the physical routine she goes through resembles the performance of a sex act that will need no naming here. It’s no wonder that poor Ms. Leeds didn’t experience a career rebound after this film, given the times.

1.55GB | 1h 08m | 706×529 | mkv

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Quote:
This film tries to blend comedy with drama, and the result is an uneasy tossed salad rather than a smooth pudding. Lyle Talbot is so stalwart and large it is difficult to feature him as a TV inventor — but he more than makes up for this in the fight scene, where, with his usual technique, he just beats the dickens out of the other actors for five or ten minutes. Nat Pendelton is wonderful as the dim-witted bill collector turned science hobbyist. Mary Astor, playing closer to her “Thin Man” arch smile than to her “Maltese Falcon” dramatic style, is a scheming but lovable promoter of potato peelers who decides to back this newfangled thing called television. All in all, this makes a better comedy than a drama, but the direction pulls it both ways, and thus it fails to satisfy either audience altogether.

Kudos to the prop department for building the most amazingly art deco television camera and receiver in the history of film — complete with a flat screen monitor! Great stuff, that!

Anyway, it’s a fun film, won’t put you to sleep, and might give you a few laughs until Lyle Talbot swings into action and starts the fight scene that you knew was headed your way the minute you saw his name in the credits and his broad shoulders in that unconvincing scientist’s get-up.

728MB | 1h 03m | 640×480 | avi

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The post Del Lord – Trapped by Television (1936) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A mad scientist performs experiments on “the criminal mind” on captured criminals on board his private ship.

903MB | 1 h 2 min | 696×522 | mkv

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After several false starts, opera star Grace Moore became a motion picture success in the sublimely assembled One Night of Love. Moore opens the film by losing a radio talent contest in New York. She disconsolately heads to Europe, where the best job she can come up with is singing in a restaurant. Here she is discovered by brilliant voice-teacher Tulio Carminatti, who carefully nurtures Moore until she becomes the toast of the European opera world. The two fall in love, but jealousy nearly destroys them both… One Night of Love represents Grace Moore’s finest screen work. The film’s musical manifest includes such operatic standards as Lucia di Lammermoor, Madame Butterfly and Carmen; the “contemporary” musical lineup was composed by such hands as Louis Silvers (who won an Oscar for his efforts), Victor Schertzinger (who also directed), and Gus Kahn. – Hal Erickson, allmovie.com

The film won the Academy Award for Original Music Score. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture; Grace Moore was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role.

831MB | 1:23:28 | 624×464 | avi

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