George Raft Movies

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1942.

Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight....

A wealthy young man tries to woo a university student, while her two uncles work to popularize a local club.

The scheme of a pair of married con artists goes awry when their victim dies, and they are both caught and imprisoned. When she gets out of prison,...

Produced for Turner Classic Movies, this documentary looks at the early days of the gangster film.

Raoul Leduc is a police inspector trailing a spy who plots to kidnap an important American atomic scientist. Joe Victor a gangster who is hired to...

Casino operator Johnny Lamb hires down-on-her-luck socialite Lucille Sutton as his casino hostess, in order to help her and to improve casino income....

A rich society woman uses a gangster to win a congressional election.

Comedian Lloyd Hamilton escorts a group of beauty contest winners to various Hollywood night spots.

In this send-up of the Humphrey Bogart detective films of the 1940s, a man idolizes Bogart so much that he has his features altered to look exactly...

The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His...

This black & white novelty film features Egyptian actor Alex d'Arcy -- playing the part of a discharged American soldier -- traveling the French...

A bored society girl sets her sights on a dancer in a Broadway show.

This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance...

George Raft plays a sailor who sets out to solve his father's mysterious death.

A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.

Nightclub owner Steve Larwitt sees his empire of investments collapse as he faces tax evasion charges and attacks by rivals. Believing Steve will be...

As the first "blonde bombshell," Mae West reigned supreme and changed the nation's view of women, sex and race — on stage, in films, on radio...

Compilation of lighting and costume tests from various films, most notably Sternberg's "The Devil Is a Woman" (1935).