Nat Pendleton 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...

A detective (Edmund Lowe) trails a professor (Henry Daniell) who stole credit for his wife's research, then killed her.

When a wealthy Indian student endows the college so they can keep the football coach rumor has it the Indian has played professionally and can't be...

Thanks to a series of comic mishaps, a timid, small-town office clerk finds himself wanted by the police and labeled by the media as "Public Enemy...

A revolutionary leader romances a French aristocrat in Louisiana.

Story of two friends who play football, one of whom is a self-centered quarterback who thinks he's the only man on the team.

A young boxer gets caught between a no-good father and a crime boss when he starts dating the boss's daughter, although she doesn't know what daddy...

An elevator operator invents a machine that he believes can help to defeat a corrupt politician in the city's upcoming mayoral election.

A small-town girl schemes to get to Hollywood only to run into the man she left behind.

A sleazy lawyer gains clients by showing up at terrible accidents. His boss, determined to stop him, hires a pretty girl to cozy up and coerce the...

A carefree San Francisco bachelor rediscovers life's values when he's rescued from the sea by an Italian fisherman with a wise and earthy family.

Amidst a backdrop of growing violence and intimidation, independent cab drivers struggling against a consolidated juggernaut rally around...

An Air Force washout and his buddy room with a pretty young lady. Desperate for jobs during the Depression, they finally land employment with the mob.

A rookie flyer, Ens. Alan Drake, joins the famous Hellcats Squadron right out of flight school in Pensacola. He doesn't make a great first impression...

Ex-convicts try to stop a Chinese smuggling ring.

An auto mechanic suspects sabotage in a recent series of fatal racecar accidents.

Just out of prison, Benny Horowitz tries to go straight. Things are complicated by his former girlfriend and his former gangster buddies.

A society woman wrongly -- and very publicly -- accused of infidelity is dropped by her friends, spurned by her husband, and faced with the loss of...

A singing Frenchman meets an American heiress and gets a job at her father's chewing-gum factory.

College football star Billy Dexter is prone to getting into public fights. His father demands he reform and sends him to mend his ways with a devout...