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Forbidden Hollywood volume 6
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
"Volume Six turns the spotlight on adultery, alcoholism, prostitution, and racism, issues that the Production Code would soon ban from the screen. Starring the pre-Code era's biggest stars, including John Gilbert, Richard Barthelmess, Myrna Loy, Kay Francis, and Ann Dvorak,...[they] are a provocative reflection of American mores in a not-so-innocent time. The Wet Parade:... Demon whiskey brings ruin to two families in this all-star adaptation of...
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
The hatchet man: A Tong executioner allows his wife to run off with a gangster only to learn she's been sold into prostitution.
Skyscraper souls: A financier stops at nothing to gain control of a 100-story office building and a naive young woman.
Employees' entrance: A tyrannical department store manager chases after profits and a young woman.
Ex-lady: An artist who doesn't believe in marriage reluctantly weds her lover only to discover he's seeing...
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
Blonde crazy: A bellhop and chambermaid are out to enjoy each other, while conning criminals.
Strangers may kiss: A desperate lady is on a love trek across the continent.
Hi, Nellie: A newspaperman gets demoted to being a column writer, and finds comfort in a glass.
Dark hazard: A gambling addict is torn between a good girl and a glamour girl who bets it all on one special pooch.
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Guilty hands: when a lawyer discovers that his daughter plans to wed one of his past clients, he commits a horrible act to ensure it never happens.
The mouthpiece: after a traumatic experience, a prosecutor changes his lifestyle in order to cope.
Secrets of the French police: a man tricks a French woman into posing as a Russian.
The Match King: a man rises from rags to riches but is then distracted by a beautiful woman.
Ever in my heart: a German...
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Big city blues: A free-wheeling chorus girl hooks up with the ultimate hick.
Hell's highway: A cool convict works the road crew for a corrupt warden.
The cabin in the cotton: Sharecroppers are taken advantage of by the planter who keeps them as virtual slaves.
When ladies meet: A female novelist whose latest work extols the virtues of extramarital amour has a fling with her married publisher.
I sell anything: A Second Avenue auctioneer gets played...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The divorcée: When a woman discovers that her husband has been unfaithful to her, she decides to respond in kind.
A free soul: An alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects when his free-spirited daughter becomes romantically involved with his client.
Three on a match: Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a...
Series
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
As a restless young man early in World War I, William A. Wellman joined the French Foreign Legion, and then became an ace American pilot with the famed Lafayette Escadrille. After being shot down and suffering grave injuries, the war hero returned to civilian life in Hollywood in the 1920s, soon becoming known as Wild Bill for his maverick perspective and two-fisted approach to directing. Narrated by Alec Baldwin.
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