A rookie reporter receives bribes from gangsters to suspend negative press.

The Finger Points (1931) TVRIP x264 AC3 KJNU.mkv

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Marcia Harper (Sleeper) sets out to send a group of racketeers, headed by villain John Hart (Blackmer), to prison after they cheat her out of a small inheritance from her father by claiming that her father owed them money. She is aided in her venture by industrious reporter Phil Stewart (Toomey), who acquires a mysterious old Roman coin that becomes the key to bringing down the racketeers.

Great.God.Gold.1935.avi

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Runtime:	1h 10mn
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I Wouldn’t Be in Your Shoes (1948)

A dancer is pinned for murder after his shoe prints are found at the scene of the crime. His wife follows the trail of clues to the genuine killer.

Letterboxd review
Watched by Evelyn Rose 26 Dec 2019

“This is a fine time to be law-abiding!” An awesome little Christmas-set film noir produced by Monogram, about a tap dancer whose shoes, thrown out the window at a screeching cat, leave footprints at a murder crime scene, circumstantial evidence set to clasp handcuffs around his wrists. With a screenplay by Steve Fisher from a Cornell Woolrich novel, the dialogue is top-tier snappy noir dialogue, and the film’s extended waltz on the high cost of living up to the standards of postwar America’s “mysterious prosperity” adds genuinely affecting thematic oomph. Interestingly, it opens much like Hugo Fregonese’s Black Tuesday, a track back and forth along prison cells while our lead frets hours before his execution. “What a rotten way to make a living.” One of the great B noirs, one of the great anti-Christmas movies, and, without question, the greatest shoe movie ever made.

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One of several Pre-Code dramas helmed by Warner Bros. contract director Archie Mayo in 1932, Under Eighteen is a cautionary tale for the working girl that was lost in the shuffle of too many similar programmers released that same year. Seen today, it provides a unique window into the past when studios like Warner Bros. catered to blue collar audiences, particularly women, with movie plots that mirrored situations and circumstances in the lives of their audience.

Under Eighteen opens on a hopeful note with Sophie (Anita Page) getting married to Alf (Norman Foster) and moving out of the cramped tenement apartment she shares with her sister Marge (Marian Marsh) and her mother. The mood quickly changes to despair as Marge considers her circumstances and realizes that marriage is not necessarily the answer to the grinding poverty she experiences day after day. This becomes even more pronounced when Sophie, Alf and their newborn baby move back in with them because Alf lost his job and won’t look for a new one; he keeps blowing the little money they have on billiard tournaments in bars, hoping he’ll win the big cash prize. The situation becomes unbearable for Sophie once she realizes she is pregnant with a second child. She begs Marge to help her raise the money for a divorce lawyer, all of which helps convince Marge that she won’t make the same mistakes. Her fiancé Jimmie (Regis Toomey), a delivery boy who aspires to start his own delivery service, wants to tie the knot and doesn’t share Marge’s dismal view of matrimony. In her opinion, “Marriage is a bunk, at least for poor people.”

Soon Marge postpones her wedding plans with Jimmie and sets her sights on raising money for her sister’s divorce lawyer by using herself as collateral in a deal she proposes to Howard Raymond (Warren William), a well-known tycoon and notorious ladies’ man. Marge goes to his penthouse apartment, where a decadent rooftop party is in full swing, and begins to succumb to the inhibition-free atmosphere. When Marge and Howard finally retire to his private suite, however, their rendezvous takes a surprisingly unexpected turn.

More than anything else, Under Eighteen is an impressive showcase for Marian Marsh (best known for her role as Trilby in Svengali [1931]), who displays both fearless determination and raging self-doubt as the desperate Marge. The film builds suspense and a growing tension over what lengths Marge will go to help her sister. And it offers a grimly realistic view of the options available for women born and raised in the slums. This isn’t an escapist fantasy but the flip side of the working girls glimpsed in Gold Diggers of 1933. For most of the film, the camera captures the squalid details of tenement life: people sleeping on fire escapes on sweltering summer nights, the congested sidewalks and never-ending street traffic, the rented rooms with walls so thin you can hear the neighbors through them.

Though not as sordid or as entertainingly racy as other Pre-Code movies such as Baby Face (1933) or Employees’ Entrance (1933), Under Eighteen has its share of frisky behavior and sexual innuendos, particularly during the penthouse pool party scene. Warren William, who specialized in playing lecherous employers and rich philanderers, is right in his element here. When he welcomes Marge to his alcohol-fueled roof party, he says, “Why not take off your clothes and stay awhile?” Prior to that, he is glimpsed bobbing up and down suggestively in the water with a drunken female guest on a phallic-like float so we know his intentions are strictly dishonorable.

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