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Morgan Wallace has 4 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1920s through the 1930s.
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Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
Dir. Fritz Lang · With Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy, Walter Abel
France, on the eve of the French Revolution. Henriette and Louise have been raised together as sisters. When the plague that takes their parents' lives causes Louise's blindness, they decide to travel to Paris in search of a cure, but they separate when a lustful aristocrat crosses their path.
Dir. D.W. Griffith · With Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Joseph Schildkraut
In an effort to be able to afford expensive treatment for her gravely ill American husband, a retired German entertainer returns to the cabaret as Blonde Venus and catches the eye of a wealthy politician.
Dir. Josef von Sternberg · With Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, Cary Grant
After he inherits some money, Harold Bissonette ("pronounced bis-on-ay") decides to give up the grocery business, move to California and run an orange grove. Despite his family's objections and the news that the land he bought is worthless, Bissonette packs up and drives out to California with his nagging wife Amelia and children.
Dir. Norman Z. McLeod · With W.C. Fields, Baby LeRoy, Kathleen Howard
