Movies: William Pawley

  • 1939
    The Roaring Twenties

    The Roaring Twenties (1939)

    The Roaring Twenties

    7.51939HD

    After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires ...

    The Roaring Twenties
  • 1932
    Red-Headed Woman

    Red-Headed Woman (1932)

    Red-Headed Woman

    6.51932HD

    Lil works for the Legendre Company and causes Bill to divorce Irene and marry her. She has an affair with businessman Gaerste and uses him to force society to pay attention to her....

    Red-Headed Woman
  • 1940
    The Grapes of Wrath

    The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

    The Grapes of Wrath

    7.81940HD

    Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully....

    The Grapes of Wrath
  • 1932
    I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

    I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)

    I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

    7.81932HD

    A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang....

    I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
  • 1940
    The Return of Frank James

    The Return of Frank James (1940)

    The Return of Frank James

    6.31940HD

    Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2000....

    The Return of Frank James
  • 1939
    Disputed Passage

    Disputed Passage (1939)

    Disputed Passage

    61939HD

    A doctor's medical studies are threatened by his infatuation with a Chinese girl. The girl returns to China, but complications ensue when she runs into him in Nanking during a Japanese bombing raid....

    Disputed Passage
  • 1939
    Union Pacific

    Union Pacific (1939)

    Union Pacific

    6.51939HD

    One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his h...

    Union Pacific
  • 1937
    You Only Live Once

    You Only Live Once (1937)

    You Only Live Once

    7.11937HD

    Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is framed for murder, Taylor is forced to flee with his wife Joan Graham and baby. While escaping prison ...

    You Only Live Once
  • 1939
    Frontier Marshal

    Frontier Marshal (1939)

    Frontier Marshal

    61939HD

    Wyatt Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone in this very romanticized version of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral....

    Frontier Marshal
  • 1937
    Born Reckless

    Born Reckless (1937)

    Born Reckless

    5.51937HD

    Racketeer Jim Barnes is trying to force the independent taxicab-drivers to join his "protection service" at the cost of five bucks a day. Champion race-car driver, Bob Kane, joins with his friends Lee and "Dad" Martin in a fight for the street rights...

    Born Reckless
  • 1940
    Double Alibi

    Double Alibi (1940)

    Double Alibi

    4.51940HD

    A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect....

    Double Alibi
  • 1935
    Mary Burns, Fugitive

    Mary Burns, Fugitive (1935)

    Mary Burns, Fugitive

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    A young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangster....

    Mary Burns, Fugitive
  • 1932
    Letty Lynton

    Letty Lynton (1932)

    Letty Lynton

    6.81932HD

    Socialite Letty Lynton is returning to New York, abandoning one-time lover Emile Renaul in South America, when she strikes up a shipboard romance with Jerry Darrow. Renault is waiting for her in New York and will not leave her alone, so she poisons h...

    Letty Lynton
  • 1935
    The Affair of Susan

    The Affair of Susan (1935)

    The Affair of Susan

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    Two people go to Coney Island to find romance and wind up in jail....

    The Affair of Susan
  • 1938
    Prairie Moon

    Prairie Moon (1938)

    Prairie Moon

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    Gene takes care of three tough kids sent west from Chicago after their father died and left them a cattle ranch. They help him catch a bunch of rustlers....

    Prairie Moon
  • 1936
    Bullets or Ballots

    Bullets or Ballots (1936)

    Bullets or Ballots

    6.51936HD

    After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake is sincere in his effort to join the mob. "Bugs" Fenner, meanwhile, is certain that Blake i...

    Bullets or Ballots
  • 1932
    Careless Lady

    Careless Lady (1932)

    Careless Lady

    5.31932HD

    Innocent Sally Brown thinks men are only attracted to experienced women, so she poses as the wife of an unmarried businessman on a trip to Paris....

    Careless Lady
  • 1936
    The Public Pays

    The Public Pays (1936)

    The Public Pays

    71936HD

    In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a protection racket preying on milk distribution is broken through the persistence of law enforcement and the courage of a local businessman....

    The Public Pays
  • 1933
    Gabriel Over the White House

    Gabriel Over the White House (1933)

    Gabriel Over the White House

    7.21933HD

    A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a metamorphosis into an incorruptible statesman after a near-fatal accident....

    Gabriel Over the White House
  • 1938
    International Crime

    International Crime (1938)

    International Crime

    5.41938HD

    The second and final Grand National Pictures film to feature The Shadow, played again by Rod La Rocque. In this version, Lamont Cranston is an amateur detective and host of a radio show with his assistant Phoebe (not Margo) Lane. Cabbie Moe Shrevnitz...

    International Crime