Bradley King Movies
Despite the masculine-sounding name, prolific screenwriter Bradley King was a woman. Educated at the Academy of Sacred Heart in Albany, NY, King became a magazine writer prior to embarking on a screen career in 1920 when her short story Footlights and Shadow was filmed by Lewis J. Selznick for his star, former Ziegfeld girl Olive Thomas. For the next decade and a half, King... (read more) delivered the screenplays for such disparate films as The Sunshine Trail (1923), Declassée (1925), The Return of Peter Grimm (1926), and The Squall (1929). Continuing well into the sound era, King penned the 1931 version of East Lynne, Clara Bow's final film Hoopla (1933), and Maid of Salem (1937). She was married to director John Griffith Wray. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, Rovi
That's My Man
1947
A man's addiction to gambling almost destroys his life in this racetrack adventure. Joe Grange is nearly broke when he buys an ailing colt and brings it back to health. He then...
Maid of Salem
1937
Claudette Colbert is a young freethinking woman living in Salem, Massachusetts during the notorious 17th century "witch trials". Colbert falls in love with adventurer Fred...
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
1935
Charles Dickens' unfinished novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, has been a source of speculation and controversy ever since its posthumous publication. Even so, the ending...
Under the Pampas Moon
1935
In this western-style musical, a rakish gaucho rides off across the Argentine pampas to Buenos Aires in search of his stolen horse. Once there, he soon engages in hot pursuit of a...
Let's Live Tonight
1935
Having struck gold in 1934 with Grace Moore's One Night of Love, Columbia Pictures hoped to do the same with international favorite Lillian Harvey in Let's Live...
Hoopla
1933
Clara Bow, the saucy "It" girl of the silent screen, made her film farewell in the ragged musical drama Hoopla. Based on the stage play The Barker (previously filmed in...
Humanity
1933
In this melodrama a Lower East Side doctor struggles to earn enough money to pay for his son's tuition in a prestigious European medical school. The doctor, who raised the boy...
Six Hours to Live
1932
In this off-beat sci-fi film, an outspoken diplomat is murdered during an international trade conference. This is a terrible blow for his native country because the ambassador had...
Westward Passage
1932
A starry-eyed girl marries an impoverished but talented young writer. Though easily frustrated and given to temperamental outbursts, the wife's presence soothes him and their...
Passport to Hell
1932
In this melodrama, a woman is blamed for another's suicide and ends up deported to Germany. Just as WW I erupts she marries a German commandant's son to keep from being sent to an...
Three Girls Lost
1931
Even before the Fox Studios merged with 20th Century Productions in 1935, the company was dedicated to the proposition that three leading ladies were better than one. The "Three...
East Lynne
1931
Whenever a vaudeville comic of the 1920s wanted to get a quick laugh, he'd announce to his audience "Next Week: East Lynne." To many playgoers, this hoary stage adaptation of...
Wild Company
1930
This drama is set during Prohibition and follows the exploits of a spoiled brat with overly permissive parents. He soaks them for as much money has he can get and then squanders...
The Way of All Men
1930
In this corny disaster drama, patrons of an underground speakeasy in New Orleans attend a victory party and end up terrified when a Mississippi flood threatens to break through a...
Son of the Gods
1930
Adapted from a story by Rex Beach, Son of the Gods stars Richard Barthelmess as Sam Lee, a young Chinese-American, anxious to distance himself from his oriental heredity....
The Lash
1930
In this western adventure, set in California just after the Spanish-American War, a Mexican rancher becomes a populist avenger battling injustice and corruption. Among his targets...
Dark Streets
1929
A love triangle between two twin brothers and a lovely young woman provides the framework for this drama (it was the first talkie to feature an actor in a dual role). One of the...
The Squall
1929
Still in the Hollywood phase of his career, director Alexander Korda made his talking-picture bow with Warner Bros.' The Squall. Myrna Loy stars as Nubi, a sexy and...
Young Nowheres
1929
In this drama, an elevator operator in a big hotel gets in big trouble after he and a chambermaid are found in a guest's suite. Though they had good reason to be in there, they...
Drag
1929
No, Richard Barthelmess doesn't don women's apparel in the 1929 talkie The Drag. Barthelmess plays a Vermont newspaper editor, happily married to Alice Day. That is, he...