2 Gangsters,1 Masked Hooligan and a Swashbuckler!

[Deej]

These are the newest additions to my collection. Unfortunately, The Beloved Rogue is the only title I was able to find on DVD. Still, I'm pretty gosh-darned happy about finding all of them! Come, people, share my joy.

They Made Me A Criminal (1939)
The Beloved Rogue (1927)
Black Legion (1936)
Alibi (1929)

I've seen They Made Me A Criminal, it's been a few years, I remember it as a pretty tight crim/boxing flick with John Garfield and the Dead End Kids.

The others will be first time views, I'm pretty stoked about finding Black Legion, it's an early Bogart flick that's been a b***h to track down. Woo hoo!

PS. I've been given a departure date of April 11, so that's about 3 more weeks you lucky people get to spend with me. Aren't ya thrilled?

[BoyScoutKevin]

Only seen "They Made Me a Criminal" w/ John Garfield, Claude Rains, Ann Sheridan, May Robson, and Ward Bond.
A remade of "The Lfie of Jimmy Dolan," which was a film adaptation of the play "The Sucker."
Though Rans is miscast as a NYC police detective, this is probably one of the Dead End Kids better films
Notable for the director, Busby Berkeley, who was better known as a choreographer and creator and director of musical numbers, then as a film director.
Also notable for the strip poker game in the film. (Sorry guys. No women involved.)
The Dead End Kids, needing some money to purchase a pair of boxing gloves, see a 12-year-old military cade t with a movie camera. (The cadet being, played by 15 year-old Ronald Sinclair ) They then engage him, as he has no money, in a game of strip poker. They not only win his movie camera, they also win his cadet uniform. Thus, the last we see of them, is them wearing the pieces of his uniform, and he sititing in the family car, sans uniform, in his underwear.
What makes this scene notable, is when Will Hays was brought in to clean up Hollywood, after the Fatty Arbuckle sex scandal, all the major studios agreed as to what could and could not be depicted on the screen. And one of the things that was not to be depcited on the screen, was any form of strip poker. Thus, how Busby Berkeley got dispensation to show this on the screen, is anybody's guess.
Enjoy all the films, Deej.