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    Man of the People

    One of the advantages of holding an MGM stock-company contract in the 1930s was the occasional...

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    The Man Who Talked Too Much

    A courtroom becomes the scene of heated rivalries between an attorney and his younger brother who is...

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    Manslaughter

    Poor but honest district attorney Fredric March, sick of the "one law for rich, one law for poor"...

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    The Master Mind

    Oscar Apfel, the man who collaborated with Cecil B. DeMille on the direction of the pioneering...

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    Meet Me at the Fair

    Despite its ebullient title and the presence of lightweight dancing star Dan Dailey, Meet Me at the...

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    A Million for Love

    Danny Eagan (Reed Howes) is on trial for his life, charged with the murder of a prominent gangster...

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    The Mouthpiece

    A shaken prosecutor (Warren William) turns underworld lawyer after sending an innocent man to the...

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    Mr. District Attorney

    There were two separate 1940s film series inspired by Philips H. Lord's radio weekly Mr. District...

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    Mr. District Attorney

    Columbia's Mr. District Attorney was the second attempt to launch a film series based on the popular...

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    The Night Angel

    In this crime drama, a Prague DA must close down a house of prostitution masquerading as a cafe. He...

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    No Living Witness

    Crusading district attorney Jerry Bennett (Gilbert Roland) would give anything to get the goods on...

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    Nob Hill

    A Barbary Coast saloonkeeper (George Raft) falls for a socialite (Joan Bennett) in circa-1900 San...

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    The Racket (1928)

    Complications arise when a police captain (Thomas Meighan) tries to bring a powerful bootlegger...

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    Regeneration (1915)

    A pretty social worker (Anna Q. Nilsson) steers a New York hoodlum (Rockcliffe Fellowes) away from a...

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    Remember the Night (1940)

    Love blooms between a sympathetic attorney and the comely shoplifter he has taken home for the...

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    The Running Fight

    Robert Cummings -- not to be confused with the same-named leading man of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s...

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    Secret Evidence

    In this crime drama, a naive young woman receives an unpleasant wake-up call when she learns that...

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    Secrets of the Underground

    In this wartime espionage drama, Nazis open up a covert operation in the US. Outwardly it is a...

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    Shady Lady

    In this crime drama, a former card shark finally gets paroled and decides to take his singing niece...

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    Smashing the Rackets

    "Ripped from today's headlines", RKO Radio's Smashing the Rackets was inspired by the career of...

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    There's Always a Woman

    A woman (Joan Blondell) plays sleuth on the same murder case her husband (Melvyn Douglas)...

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    The Unknown Man

    A lawyer (Walter Pidgeon) offers his life for justice after discovering he has freed a killer.

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    The Waning Sex

    According to playwrights Frederic and Fanny Hatton, The Waning Sex was the male -- and this...

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    The Whole Town's Talking (1935)

    A bookkeeper (Edward G. Robinson) learns he looks just like a gangster whom police plan to shoot on...

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    The Woman Accused

    On the eve of her marriage to Cary Grant, socialite Nancy Carroll is visited by her sadistic...

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    Racket Busters (1938)

    A trucker (George Brent) with a pregnant wife (Gloria Dickson) fights a New York mobster's (Humphrey...

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    That Royale Girl

    The stars and director of Sally of the Sawdust, namely Carol Dempster, W. C. Fields and D. W....

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    Silent Witness (1985)

    A lawyer finds himself the chief suspect in the investigation of a district attorney's murder.

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    6,000 Enemies

    District attorney Walter Pidgeon pursues the conviction of criminals so diligently that word has...

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    Penitentiary

    Penitentiary was the first of two remakes of Howard Hawks' 1931 prison flick The Criminal Code (the...