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The House Across the Bay (1940) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The House Across the Bay
director: Archie Mayo actor: George Raft / Joan Bennett
other title: Destin dans la nuit / El gangster y la bailarina
Nightclub owner Steve Larwitt sees his empire of investments collapse as he faces tax evasion charges and attacks by rivals. Believing Steve will be safer in prison for one year, his wife, Brenda, testifies against him on advice from his lawyer, Slant Kolma, who is in love with her. After Steve receives 10 years in Alcatraz, Brenda moves to be near him and avoids advances of airplane builder Tim Nolan, who knows nothing about her past.
The Lady from Cheyenne (1941) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Lady from Cheyenne
director: Frank Lloyd actor: Loretta Young / Robert Preston
other title: Una mujer de carácter / Une femme à poigne
Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founded railroad town of Laraville, Boss Jim Cork hopes to manipulate the sale of town lots to give him control, but Quaker schoolmarm Annie Morgan bags one of the key lots. Cork's lawyer Steve Lewis tries romancing Annie to get the lot back, finding her so overpoweringly liberated she leaves him dizzy. Still, Steve attains his nefarious object...almost...then has cause to deeply regret having aroused the sleeping giant of feminism!
The Glass Key (1935) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Glass Key
director: Frank Tuttle actor: George Raft / Edward Arnold
other title: Der gläserne Schlüssel / La Clé de verre
When Paul Madvig, a successful politician who fights his rivals to seize the city, becomes implicated in a murder, Ed Beaumont, his friend and right-hand man, must decide which side he is on.