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The title refers to the business of affable, ambitious bail bondsman (and politically-connected grifter) Bill Bailey, who, in the course of his work, crosses paths with every kind of offender there is, from first-time defendants to career criminals.
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65 min
1933-11-17
Released
English
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Bill Bailey
Ruby Darling
Elaine Talbart
Drury Darling
Singer
Bail Bond Clerk
Charley
Davy's Girlfriend (uncredited)
Butcher Weighing Sausages (uncredited)
Bombmaker (uncredited)
Jewish Client (uncredited)
Party Guest (uncredited)
Red's Girlfriend (uncredited)
Jewish Client's Son (uncredited)
Rebecca, Ruby's maid (uncredited)
Charley's Henchman (uncredited)
Jessica (uncredited)
Newspaper Managing Editor (uncredited)
Racetrack Spectator (uncredited)
District Attorney (uncredited)
Job Seeker (uncredited)
Nightclub Woman Wearing Monocle (uncredited)
8.1
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1931-05-11 | de
6.9
A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-packed train journey.
1932-02-12 | en
7.5
In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.
1932-04-09 | en
7.0
Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson's wife had an affair... all in the same day.
1932-08-15 | en
4.0
A salesman gets in trouble with a party girl and a debutante in Detroit.
1931-08-15 | en
5.8
An escaped convict and the detective tasked with hunting him down end up working in parallel to clear the convict's name and nab the gangsters that framed him.
1929-04-13 | en
6.7
Gertie Waxted knows how notorious gangster Jim Crelliman runs his rackets, because she's long been under the hoodlum's thumb. She's secretly helping lawyer Jackson Durant in a snoop job aimed at pinning a murder on the thug. Her life will be in peril when that secret gets out.
1933-09-08 | en
6.2
A semi-fictionalized account of the life of Mata Hari, an exotic dancer who was accused of spying for Germany during World War I.
1931-12-26 | en
5.9
Bank clerk William Marble is desperate for money to pay his family's bills. When his wealthy nephew visits, Marble asks him for a loan, but the young man refuses. Marble decides to kill his nephew. It is a twisted path to justice after Marble is transformed by the crime he committed and the wealth he gains.
1932-11-01 | en
6.0
A gambler wanted for murder hides under the guise of a clergyman.
1930-07-20 | en
6.9
Two brothers' trip to the big city to do a little gambling results in a fateful turn of events.
1931-06-11 | en
7.2
Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and cold-blooded killers. But with street notoriety and newfound wealth, the duo feels the heat from the cops and rival gangsters both. Despite his ruthless criminal reputation, Tom tries to remain connected to his family, however, gang warfare and the need for revenge eventually pull him away.
1931-04-23 | en
6.5
Infamous burglar "The Bat" commits a daring jewelry theft despite heavy police presence. Soon after, a bank theft occurs, which may be the work of the criminal as well. Meanwhile, Cornelia Van Gorder has various people arrive at her old mansion, including her niece, Dale, a bank employee, and police detective Anderson. When guests start turning up dead, Cornelia begins to suspect that The Bat may be lurking around the estate.
1930-11-13 | en
5.0
Passing herself off as a countess, glamorous Lucy Stavrin hobnobs with the rich and famous along the French Riviera. Aware that Lucy is a phony, jewel-thief Malatroff blackmails Lucy into helping him steal the valuable necklace owned by the young wife of phlegmatic American businessman Sylvester Corbett.
1930-02-22 | en
6.9
A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?
1931-01-25 | en
5.5
Nora Moran, a young woman with a difficult and tragic past, is sentenced to die for a murder that she did not commit. She could easily reveal the truth and save her own life, if only it would not damage the lives, careers and reputations of those whom she loves.
1933-12-13 | en
6.5
The coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge is stranded at a bootleggers’ hide-out, subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual violence, and plunged into a criminal underworld that threatens to swallow her up completely.
1933-05-06 | en
6.8
Prohibition is ending so bootlegger Bugs Ahearn decides to crack California society. He leases a house from down-on-her-luck Ruth and hires her as social secretary. He rescues Polly Cass from a horsefall and goes home to meet her dad who sells him some phony stock certificates. When he learns about this he sends to Chicago for mob help.
1933-05-20 | en
6.1
In 19th century Paris, a maniac abducts young women and injects them with ape blood in an attempt to prove ape-human kinship but constantly meets failure as the abducted women die.
1932-01-27 | en
7.0
The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
1934-05-04 | en