John Wray

A German youth eagerly enlists as a soldier in World War I, but his enthusiasm wanes as he gets a firsthand view of the horrors of warfare.

This crackling mystery thriller stars Joan Blondell as a private duty nurse who gets herself mixed up in a murder investigation. Miss Adams has an unusual eye for detail, so when a police detective sends her undercover to solve a puzzling murder case, she unravels a complex plot, risking her life while she's at it.

The on-set murder of a gangster movie’s leading man sparks a police hunt for the killer with his co-star, director and studio head among the suspects.

The owner of a large mansion throws a costume party that turns deadly. The police and a guest try to discover who committed the crime.

A New York City reporter's investigation into a series of cannibalistic murders leads him to uncover mysterious experiments at a Long Island estate.

The richest woman in the world (Ruth Chatterton) has everything money can buy. But with her heart torn between her faithless husband and an ardent writer (George Brent), she can't have the one thing every woman wants: happiness. Herbert Hoover was still President and the Depression was at its most depressing when this delicious wallow in uptown romance hit the Bijou, featuring an electric performance by young Bette Davis as a society girl also enamored of the writer. This wasn't the end of Davis' relationship with Brent. They would make 11 films together, including Jezebel and Dark Victory. It wasn't the end of the Chatterton-Brent relationship, either: the on-screen lovers married soon after the film opened.

A stray mongrel, a former lawyer with a grudge and his ex-wife's family lead to a story of heroism and redemption in Almost a Gentleman. When the family of promising lawyer Dan Preston's (James Ellison) wife, Marian Mabrey (June Clayworth), poisoned their relationship and destroyed their marriage, Dan abandoned his career and set off traveling. He returns a few years later, discovers that a pretty young novelist has moved into his house and takes in a stray dog to compete with his ex-in-laws' pedigreed champion. But when Marian is kidnapped, Dan and his mongrel are the one's who rescue her.