The Sin of Nora Moran
"A MAJESTIC PICTURE which proudly leads the outstanding screen attractions of 1934"
5.5
NR
1933
65 min
"A MAJESTIC PICTURE which proudly leads the outstanding screen attractions of 1934"
Brazen perpetual offender Barbara Graham tries to go straight but she finds herself implicated in a murder and sent to death row.
A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.
The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and shut case soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other.
Locked in her cell, a murderer reflects on the events that have led her to death row.
A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.
After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.
Holly Parker, the wife of a wealthy diplomat, is compromised by the accidental death of a man who has been romantically pursuing her. She is forced by her mother-in-law to assume a new identity in order to save the reputation of her husband and infant son. She wanders the world, trying to forget her heartbreak with the aid of alcohol and unsavory men. Eventually returning to the city of her downfall, she murders a blackmailer who threatens to expose her past. Amazingly, Holly is represented at her murder trial by her now adult son, who has become a public defender. In the hope of protecting her family, she refuses to reveal her real name and is known to the court as "Madame X".
Convicted of manslaughter for a drunken driving accident, Kent Marlowe is sent to prison, where he meets vicious incarcerated figures who are planning an escape from the brutal conditions.
A brash young lawyer takes a short-term, high-paying job as bodyguard for a slick business exec being threatened by a former partner, and quickly realizes he may be in over his head.
An ex-con trying to go straight must face a crazed criminal out for revenge.
An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.
Schoolteacher Bertram Cates is arrested for teaching his students Darwin's theory of evolution. The case receives national attention and one of the newspaper reporters, E.K. Hornbeck, arranges to bring in renowned defense attorney and atheist Henry Drummond to defend Cates. The prosecutor, Matthew Brady is a former presidential candidate, famous evangelist, and old adversary of Drummond.
After a carnival troupe saves his life, a man agrees to help its immortal leader collect five souls and win a bet with the devil.
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.
A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder while looking out her bedroom window.
Respected black cavalry Sergeant Brax Rutledge stands court-martial for raping and killing a white woman and murdering her father, his superior officer.
When illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine gets out of prison, he decides to straighten up. Armed with nothing but an old drum set, Frankie tries to get honest work as a drummer. But when his former employer and his old drug dealer re-enter his life, Frankie finds it hard to stay clean and eventually finds himself succumbing to his old habits.
Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspect that she murdered him while attempting to resist his advances.
A savings-and-loan bank is robbed; later, a police wiretap identifies meek bank teller Leon Poole as the inside man. In capturing him, detective Sam Wagner accidentally kills Poole's young wife, and at his trial Poole swears vengeance against Wagner. Poole begins his plans to get revenge when he escapes his captors.
In this twisty thriller, a tennis coach at a tropical resort finds himself at the center of a missing persons mystery. Tom teaches tennis during the day and parties at night. When an enigmatic tourist arrives, Tom is unable to shake the feeling he has met her before. Tension and attraction grow, until her husband disappears, and the police suspect Tom.
Zita Johann
Nora Moran
John Miljan
Paulino
Alan Dinehart
District Attorney John Grant
Paul Cavanagh
Governor Dick Crawford
Claire Du Brey
Mrs. Edith Crawford
Sarah Padden
Mrs. Watts
Henry B. Walthall
Father Ryan
Harvey Clark
Mr. Moran
Aggie Herring
Mrs. Moran
Cora Sue Collins
Nora Moran, as a Child
Joseph W. Girard
Captain of Detectives
Ann Brody
Matron