Charles Bickford Movies

Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered...

The baseball player goes from wayward youth to Boston Red Sox pitcher to New York Yankees home-run hero.

A San Francisco hood is rubbed out by rival Bruno Felkin, who himself reports the crime to Homicide Lt. Kelsey in an alibi scheme which fails. To...

An undercover cop infiltrates a powerful New York based crime syndicate.

An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.

This drama centers on the fight for certain post-Prohibitionist groups to gain total control over the liquor industry. Much of the tale is focused...

Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, and Buffalo Bill go up against Indians and a gunrunner.

A wealthy ex-bootlegger comes to the rescue of a formerly rich society girl after her gold-digging fiancé leaves her stranded when he finds...

Cornell employs clips from 1931's jungle melodrama East of Borneo – more specifically, clips of its lead actress, Rose Hobart – to...

Lem Schofield, a lawyer in a one-time small-town turned industrialized big city, runs his firm on examples set by Abraham Lincoln and is a friend to...

An ex-con vows vengeance on the newspaper responsible for putting him behind bars, but has a change of heart when another racketeer threatens to...

A woman and her children escape severe poverty and abuse. She successfully betters her family's condition while living with the secret that she...

A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the big race.

A posse's pursuit of bank robbers ends with loot missing and a sheriff (Broderick Crawford) wounded.

The owner of an Alaskan gambling boat and her business partner help thwart a crooked businessman who attempts to steal claims from local miners.

In the late 1800s, the longtime feud between the Kentucky McCoy family and the West Virginia Hatfields has lain dormant – until Johnse Hatfield...

When Dr. Ernest Tindal's wife is murdered, evidence mounts to convict her lover, Frank Marian. But Frank knows he didn't do it.....

A nightclub singer marries the rich owner of a rubber plantation. When she returns with him to his estate in Malaysia, she finds out that he is...

A young man forges a check in order to help his mother, but is caught and sentenced to 14 years in prison...

A wealthy mill owner finances the education of a clever, but poor, young man.