Bootlegger/cafe owner, Johnny Franks recruits crude working man Scorpio to join his gang, masterminded by crooked criminal defense lawyer Newton. Scorpio eventually takes over Frank's operation, beats a rival gang, becomes wealthy, and dominates the city for several years until a secret group of six masked businessmen have him prosecuted and sent to the electric chair.
During China's Tang dynasty the emperor has taken the princess of a neighboring province as his wife...
When Polly Fisher, a circus aerialist, is hurt while performing, she is taken to the house of a near...
A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pac...
Buck is a hard working lumberjack, but likes to have fun. Buck's father is the foreman and wants Buc...
A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economi...
The title refers to the business of affable, ambitious bail bondsman (and politically-connected grif...
A mobster's daughter leads her boyfriend from the circus into bootlegging.
It is 1915 in Vienna and the Great War has caused many casualties. Elsa, a beautiful prostitute, wan...
Returning after a long absence, a man learns the woman he fell in love with on the ship going home i...
Fed up with her tiny hometown, Cassie Barnes moves to New York City to find a job. She and her two f...
Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life...
A young couple marries in secret. Judy's afraid her parents won't approve of Dick and she'll lose he...
A dance trophy winning young couple is temporarily split up when a playboy aviator leads the girl to...
A sailor falls for a gangster's moll, leaves his wife and finds himself caught up in a life of crime...
A bitter woman who thinks she'll never love again marries, only to fall for a brash young man.
Two brothers' trip to the big city to do a little gambling results in a fateful turn of events.
Young Al Capone catches the eye of Johnny Torrio, a criminal visiting New York from Chicago. Torrio ...
A young man ruthlessly climbs the corporate ladder only to attempt suicide when the stock market cra...
Young Asians in San Francisco find their love thwarted by clan warfare.
Broadway actress leaves New York to become a star in Hollywood, and succeeds despite sleazy director...