Maliejandra's Ratings
by Maliejandra
This page compiles a list of titles Maliejandra has rated, providing a convenient overview of all their ratings.
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- DirectorStan HarrisStarsTom SmothersDick SmothersPat Paulsen
- DirectorStan HarrisStarsTom SmothersDick SmothersPat Paulsen
- DirectorJames TinlingStarsJames DunnArline JudgeRaymond WalburnRichard Foster is the brains of a quartet of con-artists that includes Giltedge, a stock swindler; "Painless," a phony dentist; and "Gorgeous," along as decoration and bait. Richard goes off alone to attend a reunion of his old high-school class but, when he gets there, he discovers that some of his old friends turn out to be not as simple as he remembered them. The reunion is really a plot to lure an old millionaire, Andrew Anshutter, and his money back to town. Richard enters into the scheme and sends for his friends. Thinks are going well for all concerned, with the exception of Anshutter, but Richard falls in love with his old flame from high-school, Susan Adams, and complications arise.
- DirectorRobert B. SinclairStarsRobert SterlingMarsha HuntVirginia WeidlerA gangster (Robert Sterling) hides out on a farm and falls for the farmer's daughter (Marsha Hunt).
- DirectorEmory JohnsonStarsNeil HamiltonDorothy GulliverRalph LewisDiamond thieves have infiltrated the staff of O'Day Jewelry. The Los Angeles Police Dept. employs their newest weapon, an airplane, to help smash the diamond theft ring.
- DirectorSidney SalkowStarsJeanne DanteKenneth HowellMartha SleeperA 13-year-old girl who is a murder mystery fanatic gets mixed up in a real murder.
- DirectorAlan CroslandStarsJoan BennettBen LyonJohn Halliday
- DirectorGregory La CavaStarsCharles 'Chic' SaleColleen MooreJoseph J. DowlingAt the Slippery Elm Picture Palace, an old-fashioned movie house, various comical rural types are seen: theater owner "Theo Bender" (also known as "His Nibs"); his son, "Elmer Bender;" newspaper editor "Mr. Percifer;" "Wally Craw," who predicts the weather; organist "Miss Dessie Teed;" youthful tenor Peelee Gear, Jr.; and on the screen, a protagonist known as "The Boy." Standing at his projection machine, Theo informs the audience that he has removed the titles from the film he is about to show, but will explain the action as it unfolds in the story, He Fooled 'Em All. The Boy leaves a small town to get rich in the city, but he is swindled out of his money by a city chap, after which his clothes are stolen, and he is forced to become a dishwasher to pay his rent. The city chap persuades The Girl and The Girl's Father to visit the city, hoping to swindle them as well, but they stay at the hotel where The Boy is working, and the young hero foils the swindler's plot. Although the customary happy ending has been removed, "His Nibs" tells the audience that The Boy and The Girl get married just the same.
- DirectorJ.A. HoweStarsEdward Everett HortonSharon LynnOtis HarlanEddie wants to marry a girl, but her father is strongly opposed to it. For her sake, she convinces him to at least meet Eddie.
- DirectorMitchell LeisenStarsJack BennyJoan BennettMary BolandBuck Boswell and his all-girl troupe are stranded in Paris, but Buck manages to con the manager of the Hotel de Navarre in furnishing accommodations for his group, but the proprietor's wife locks them out. In his search for funds, Buck meets Patricia Harper, the fourth-richest girl in the world, but he isn't aware of that and thinks she is penniless. Patricia joins his troupe as a lark, and her father, James Harper, also pretends he is broke. Through some chicanery, Buck gets jobs for the girls as models at the Palace of Feminine Arts at the Paris International Exposition. James Harper borrows the priceless Napoleon necklace to have a copy made for his daughter, but Buck thinks he stole it.
- DirectorMaurice CampbellStarsConstance BennettGeorge HackathorneWallace MacDonaldA woman confesses to her fiancee that she was involved in a scandalous incident with a former fiancee. After marriage, her past threatens to destroy their lives.
- DirectorFred GuiolStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyMadeline HurlockTo flee from a tireless Forest Ranger, the shabby vagrants, Stan and Ollie, find refuge at a colonel's mansion that is vacant for the weekend. Soon, a couple of newly-weds arrive in hopes of renting the manor. Where is the rightful owner?
- DirectorFrank TuttleStarsClara BowRalph ForbesCharles RugglesAn American movie star vacationing in France gets mixed up with a songwriter, mistaken identity, and winds up married to someone she doesn't know.
- DirectorWilliam K. HowardStarsVictor McLaglenLois MoranNick StuartWhart-rat Nick Stuart grows up in reform school and is taken under the wing of likable career-criminal Victor McLagien, who makes him part of his illicit operations.
- DirectorJoseph RothmanTony SargStarsEdna MurphyElliott NugentRaymond BloomerA dissatisfied woman considers leaving her husband for a chance at a better life.
- DirectorBayard VeillerStarsMay AllisonAlan RoscoeStanley GoethalsRalph Kirkwood is falsely tried for murder. He is found guilty after being represented by lawyer, Tom Gannell. Kirkwood's wife believes she knows the identity of the real killer and sets about trapping him.
- DirectorAlexander HallStarsFrancis LedererJoan BennettCharles RugglesLederer is a Hessian soldier who defects to the Americans during the Revolutionary War.He falls in love with a Yankee girl, but a thuggish local militiaman jealously makes things hard for him while he's a prisoner of war.
- DirectorEdward H. GriffithStarsConstance BennettRegis ToomeyRobert AmesRich People is a 1929 talking picture directed by Edward H. Griffith and starring Constance Bennett. It was produced by Ralph Block and distributed through Pathé Exchange.
- DirectorJ.A. HoweStarsJames ParrottJobyna RalstonHapless photographer James Parrott attempts to shoot a bathing beauty pageant.
- DirectorJohn G. BlystoneStarsJoan BennettSpencer TracyUna MerkelImpoverished Jane Miller is loved by millionaire Roger and newspaperman William. Though William warns her otherwise, she goes with the millionaire to his French chateau, where she risks terrible cruelty and even death.
- DirectorAlfred SantellStarsAlice WhiteDonald ReedLee MoranAlice White plays an aspiring dancer who fakes her own kidnapping as a publicity stunt. Her newfound fame causes trouble with her boyfriend (Charles Delaney).
- DirectorRoy William NeillStarsConstance BennettDon PorterJohn LitelA war correspondent's new wife is suspected by his colleagues of being a German spy.
- DirectorWilliam K. HowardStarsJoan BennettDonald CookRichard 'Skeets' GallagherIncredibly fast-moving courtroom yarn in which Bennett is defended by ex-beau Cook when she's accused of killing her faithless fiance, while the trial is broadcast live on the radio.
- DirectorWilliam S. HartStarsWilliam S. HartMaude GeorgeRobert McKim"Lady Fingers" Hilgard is the black sheep of a fine English family. He runs a dance hall at Lumber Cove and Babette is his favorite. But Babette turns her affections to Blue Blazes Rawden when he leads his men into the Cove for a spree, and Hilgard taunts him into a duel, the winner to take the money, the resort and the girl. Hilgard is killed, but Babette finds Rawden's gun has not been discharged and fires one shot, persuading Rawden that he shot in self-defense. Hilgard's mother and younger brother come to camp and the old lady shows a motherly affection for the man she believes to have been her boy's pal, but Babette, scorned, tells the brother Rawden killed "Lady Fingers," and unable to deny, Blue Blazes again hits the trail alone, in spite of Babette's frenzied entreaties.
- DirectorFrank S. MattisonStarsGaston GlassWanda HawleyDick Grace