Hell's Kitchen
Another Dead End Kids melodrama with the gang getting out of reform school only to become the victims of Mitchell, the tough superintendent at the Hell's Kitchen Shelter. Fields plays a paroled racketeer who wants to make a new life and tries to straighten out the crooked home. His humanitarian efforts backfire, and he gets sent back to prison, but not before seeing Mitchell taken into custody by ...mehrthe authorities. ..
Castle On The Hudson
In a power-packed performance, Garfield does a reprise of Spencer Tracy's role in 20,000 YEARS IN SING SING. He is the wisecracking jewel thief doing 25 to 30 years, and his faithful girl friend, the luscious Ann Sheridan, attempts to get him paroled. Shifty lawyer Cowan promises to help but injures Sheridan when she rebuffs him. A sympathetic warden, O'Brien, allows Garfield to go free on his "ho...mehrnor system" to visit Sheridan, and he walks in on her just as Cowan pays another visit. Sheridan shoots Cowan, but Garfield takes the blame, first fleeing, then returning to prison to save O'Brien's job and honorably go to the chair. The film lacks the pace of its original, but Garfield's magnetic personality holds it together.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Von Max Reinhardt und William Dieterle kurz nach ihrer Emigration 1935 verfilmte Inszenierung von Shakespeares "Sommernachtstraum". Eng an das Bühnenstück angelehnt, glanzvoll ausgestattet, mit filmischer Trick-Zauberei phantasievoll ausgeschmückt und gut gespielt
Dinner At Eight
Eine Gruppe unterschiedlicher Personen wird von der Ehefrau eines pleitebedrohten Reeders zu einem Dinner geladen. Bevor das Abendessen beginnt, skizziert der Film die einzelnen Gäste und entfaltet ein bitterböses Bild der Eitelkeiten und Verlogenheit unter Reichen und Neureichen, ihrer Krankheiten, Pleiten und Beziehungen...