This 1932 American gangster classic from Howard Hawks, loosely based on the life and legend and Al Capone, transforms the criminal rise and fall into a perverted twist in the American dream.
William Wellman directs this snappy pre-code drama set in a sleazy backwater where the dregs of civilization hide out and the local law is even more corrupt than the crooks.
Myrna Loy is a wronged woman who takes her revenge in this “Ten Little Indians”-style pre-code thriller set in a circle of sorority sisters whose planned reunion is marred with premonitions of death, murder, and suicide.
“Are we not men?” Charles Laughton stars in the first screen version of the H.G. Wells novel and (for all the changes from the novel) still the defining one.
Boris Karloff wrings even more pathos from his plight as the misunderstood monster and Elsa Lanchester’s hissing, birdlike performance as the bride made her an instant icon.
