Film Trailers World: Michael Curtiz

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September 08, 2015

Black Fury (1935)

Black Fury

Black Fury is a 1935 American crime film starring Paul Muni, Karen Morley, and William Gargan.

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Based on a real-life incident from 1929 in which a coal miner was beaten to death by company detectives. After being left by his girlfriend Karen for policeman William Gargan, the drunken coal miner played by Muni walks into a labor meeting. There he becomes elected and fights for the rights of the coal miners.

February 17, 2015

Mildred Pierce (1945) Trailer

Mildred Pierce

A mother's love leads to murder.

Mildred Pierce is a 1945 American drama film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Joan Crawford, Jack Carson and Zachary Scott and featuring Eve Arden, Ann Blyth and Bruce Bennett, in a film noir about a long-suffering mother and her ungrateful daughter.

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After her cheating husband leaves her, Mildred Pierce proves she can become independent and successful, but can't win the approval of her spoiled daughter.

November 16, 2014

Jim Thorpe -- All-American (1951) Trailer

Jim Thorpe -- All-American

He wore America's heart over his!

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The stirring life story of the American Indian who overcame personal and professional struggles to become one of the nation's greatest athletes.

November 13, 2014

Young Man with a Horn (1950) Trailer

Young Man with a Horn

A White-Hot Drama about a Red-Hot Jazzman!

Young Man with a Horn is a 1950 musical drama film based on a novel of the same name by Dorothy Baker inspired by the life of Bix Beiderbecke, the jazz cornetist.

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Aimless youth Rick Martin learns he has a gift for music and falls in love with the trumpet. Legendary trumpeter Art Hazzard takes Rick under his wing and teaches him all he knows about playing. To the exclusion of anything else in life, Rick becomes a star trumpeter, but his volatile personality and desire to play jazz rather than the restricted tunes of the bands he works for lands him in trouble. Written by Jerry Milani <jmilani@ix.netcom.com>

November 12, 2014

20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932) Trailer

20,000 Years in Sing Sing

20,000 Years in Sing Sing is a 1932 American black-and-white drama film starring Spencer Tracy and Bette Davis, and set in Sing Sing Penitentiary, the notorious maximum security

prison in New York State.

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Tom Connors is a criminal sentenced to Sing Sing. His girlfriend Fay is injured and Warden Long arrainges for Tom to visit her on his honor to return. While there he gets a fight with mobster Joe Finn and Fay shoots Finn. Tom jumps out the window and is blamed for the death. He gives himself up but it sentenced to the electric chair.