Allen Jenkins 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...

Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll.

A meek salesman with an uncanny ability to pick horses is virtually kidnapped by a trio of gamblers.

A behind-the-scenes look at the massive preparation in the production of Cosmopolitan's lavish musical comedy romance, 'Cain and Mabel."

Promoter Ed Hatch comes to the Ozarks with his slow-witted wrestler Joe Skopapoulos whom he pits against a hillbilly Amazon blacksmith, Sadie Horn....

A hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads.

Two golddiggers go fishing for millionaires in Havana.

Gambler/racketeer "Knucks" McGloin takes note of just how much money and action (aside from the game itself) takes place around and about the annual...

Orphaned horse-trainer's little daughter has reciprocated bond with horse, which needs her presence to win races.

A private eye specializing in divorce cases falls for the woman he's been hired to frame.

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.

Madge Winton, a beautiful secretary, makes herself look homely in order to avoid advances by lecherous bosses. When her new employer, writer Freddy...

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1935.

Former bootlegger Dutch Barnes pressures neighborhood druggist Jimmy Morrell into making cut-rate knockoff toiletry, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical...

Story of a war veteran, who is persuaded by a machine politico to run for alderman. He finds that disreputable politicians are using his war record...

A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant celebrity thanks to an ambitious photographer.

Neurotic Broadway star Al Jackson faces professional ruin when he loses his voice. While recuperating in the country, he falls in love with farm girl...

People in an old, dark mansion are menaced by a maniac called "The Black Ace".

Society heiress Joan Bradford rebels against her mother's choice of a future husband by masquerading as a working class girl and dating a window...

The boys get mixed up with a race horse & crooked gamblers