Movies: Margot Grahame

Adaptation of John Gay's 18th century opera, featuring Laurence Olivier as MacHeath and Hugh Griffith as the Beggar....

A series of vignettes with a loose plot. Featured are Frank Morgan, Groucho Marx, Frank McHugh, Robert Benchley and The Brian Sisters. Not bad, more interesting for the historical significance than for entertainment....

Helen Roberts, who's on probation, goes back to work as a waitress at Torre's Fish Palace, a San Francisco waterfront dive. The customers are low characters trying to make time with Helen and ex-rum runners trying to make a dishonest dollar. Some of ...

In the lead-up to the First World War, a French military attaché falls in love with the wife of a prominent German in Stamboul in the Ottoman Empire....

A cop goes undercover to infiltrate and break up a counterfeiting ring....

Clay Tallant comes to Silver City, Arizona in the 1880s and encounters wide-spread lawlessness and disorder, unscrupulous politicians, outlaws galore and brow-beaten citizens. He accepts the position of town marshal and, with his brother and a reform...

A husband tries to hide a runaway girl from his wife and mother-on-law....

'Paris. Roué poses as secretary to flirt with employer's wife.' (British Film Catalogue)...

Stephen Sorrell, a decorated war hero, raises his son Kit alone after Kit's mother deserts husband and child in the boy's infancy. Sorrell loses a promising job offer and is forced to take work as a menial. Both his dignity and his health are damaged...

This is the story of a woman who kicks out her no-good second husband after he wastes all her money. Since gambling and drink had taken all her money, she decides to use the money from a windfall to open an illegal after hours night club and gambling...

Three victims plot to murder a retired informer....

A young, ruthless woman falls in love with a rising actor....

A British comedy film directed by Lupino Lane...

Norman Young wants to marry Margot Grahame but a contract with a producer prohibits her from marrying during a five year period. Norman spends millions to take over the contact....

The manager of a foreign branch of an American toy company attempts to entertain his visiting American boss to obtain a partnership....

A woman takes the blame for a murder accidentally committed by her half-sister...

A young couple struggle with their overbearing parents....

'Girl's wastrel cousin and his valet go to Timbuctoo.' (British Film Catalogue)...