Harvey F. Thew

Total Credits at Criticker: 26 (Writer)

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    She Done Him Wrong
    New York singer and nightclub owner Lady Lou has more men friends than you can imagine. Unfortunately one of them is a vicious criminal who's escaped and is on the way to see "his" girl, not realising she hasn't exactly been faithful in his absence. Help is at hand in the form of young Captain Cummings a local temperance league leader though. (imdb)
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    Operator 13
    An actress signs up to spy for the Union, then falls for a Confederate officer. (imdb)
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    Two Seconds
    A condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, relives the events that led to his being sentenced to die in the electric chair. (imdb)
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    Uncle Tom\
    Slavery tears apart a black family in the South before the start of the Civil War. (imdb)
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    The Delicious Little Devil
    A poor hat-check girl loses her job and is forced to get a job as a dancer at a roadhouse. There she falls in love with the son of a rich businessman (imdb)
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    Death on the Diamond
    Pop Clark is about to lose his baseball team, unless they can win the pennant so he can pay off debts. He hires ace player Larry Kelly to ensure the victory. As well as rival teams, mobsters are trying to prevent the wins, and as the pennant race nears the end, Pop's star players begin to be killed, on and off the field. Can Larry romance Pop's daughter, win enough games, and still have time to stop a murderer before he strikes more than three times? (imdb)
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    Murder in the Private Car
    Ruth Raymond works on the switchboard and her boyfriend is John Blake. It has taken 14 years, but a detective named Murray has found her and confirmed that she is Ruth Carson. As a child, she was kidnaped by her uncle and is the daughter of a wealthy railroad tycoon. Under the watchful eye of Godfrey D. Scott, an attempt on her life is foiled. But a fake telegram put her on a private railroad car heading east. It is in this car that her life is again in danger and people are murdered. (imdb)
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    The Narrow Trail
    Ice Harding, outlaw, tames a wild horse and names it King. Ice and his gang hold up a stagecoach and encounter San Francisco vice king Bates and his innocent niece Betty Werdin. Ice is taken with the young woman, but at first she sees nothing in him. But she begins to come around when her uncle tries to swindle Ice, and the outlaw himself undergoes a change of course under the influence of the girl. (imdb)
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    The Famous Ferguson Case
    A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall after prominant financier George Ferguson is killed. Two types of New York City journalists descend on Cornwall, one interested in facts, the other in getting sensational "news". Mrs. Ferguson is known to have been friendly with a local banker. (imdb)
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    The Matrimonial Bed
    It is the fifth anniversary of the death of Adolphe Noblet who died in a train wreck. His servant and friends still worship him but don't care much for his wife Sylvaine's second husband Gustave with whom she has recently had a child. Sylvaine's friends recommend that she use a new hairdresser, Leopold Trebel. However, when this womanizing coiffeur arrives, he turns out to be Adolphe suffering from amnesia. (imdb)
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    The Woman from Monte Carlo
    Deanna Corlaix, from Vienna, was once a playgirl but is now happily married to Commander Corlaix, an older man who married her to make her a lady, but then fell in love with her. Corlaix, commander of the La Fayette , the pride of the French Navy, is bound by his duty, and Deanna is left alone during his months at sea. One day, on the eve of World War I, Lieutenant George D'Ortelles, a former lover, brings her a note from her husband asking her to meet him aboard ship for a dance. (tcm.com)
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    Terror Aboard
    An ocean liner is found at sea with everyone on board dead. An investigation is begun to find out what happened.An ocean liner is found at sea with everyone on board dead. An investigation is begun to find out what happened. (imdb)
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    Stranger in Town
    This 1932 film about life in a small town centers on two rival storeowners.
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    Oh, Doctor!
    Rufus Billings was born premature and after a lifetime of doctors doting on his frail health he is now a hypochondriac of the first order. Now an adult Rufus has learned his late father has left him $750,000 but he won't inherit the sum for three more years. Rufus is certain he is on death's door and will never last three years so his Doctor arranges for a loan of $100,000 to pay for a live in nurse.
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    Playing Around
    New York girl has a dull boyfriend and seems destined for a dull marriage when she meets a rich playboy who has money to burn and places to go. She gets involved with the playboy and never seems to notice that he might by shady, until he shoots her father in a cigar-store holdup! (imdb)
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    Show Girl in Hollywood
    'Rainbow Girls' has just opened and closed on Broadway when Dixie, a actress in it, runs into smooth talking Hollywood Director Frank Buelow. He tells her she would be a natural, promises her a movie contract, and so she goes to Hollywood, but there is no contract for her. She meets Donny, a washed-up veteran actress (Blanche Sweet), on the lot who becomes her friend. (imdb)
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    Transient Lady
    A senator's brother turns up murdered, and the senator tries to pin the blame on a man he knows is innocent.
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    A School for Husbands
    A woman named Betty (Fannie Ward) is simple and plain, her husband finds that boring and doesn't invite her out. She decides she needs to wear nicer clothes to get the attention of her husband. Suddenly she inherits a large amount of money while at the same time her husband loses all his money in a stock market crash. Her husband doesn't realize she is rich so he goes out to California to sell some of their property to raise some final money.
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    The Winning of Sally Temple
    The story takes place in early 18th century England. Sally Temple (played by Fannie Ward) is pursued by many men. She goes on a series of comedic misadventures, sometimes resulting in becoming somewhat undressed. Eventually she chooses a husband.
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    The Heart Specialist
    Because he believes that romance is dead, the city editor (Jack Matheis wants to can the "advice to the lovelorn" column. Rosalie Beckwith, the column's author (Minter), naturally disagrees with him. The editor suggests that she prove him wrong by seeing if she can find romance within a 40-mile radius of the city. So Rosalie takes a train to Essex, Connecticut and is mistaken for the cousin of wealthy ex-soldier Bob Straton (Alen Forrest).
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    She Couldn\
    A gangster finances the career of a cabaret singer but falls for a socialite.
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    The Cheerful Fraud
    A young man fakes his identity to impress a girl.
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    Tiger Rose
    A mountie pursues a man wanted for murder.
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    Song of the West
    As a wagon train treks west, two men, Lt. Singleton and a Stanton, a scout, are rivals for the attentions of the Colonels' daughter, Virginia. Stanton is held for murder after a fight with a bad guy named Davolo. He escapes jail and joins the train disguised as a minister. Virginia runs off with him and they start a saloon in San Francisco
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    Divorce Among Friends
    Pre code, sexually suggestive romantic comedy in which Mr and Mrs Morris both have extra marital flings that cause some confusion. Will they divorce or will they be able to make up?
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    Supernatural
    In New York city, Ruth Rogan is convicted of killing 3 of her lovers and sentenced to be executed. Meanwhile, lovely Roma Courtenay becomes a millionaire heiress when her brother dies. A spiritualist approaches Roma with an urgent message from her dead brother. He runs a rigged seance that doesn't convince Roma's boyfriend Grant but has Roma confused. Then unexpectedly, the executed Ruth Rogan's spirit takes control of Roma's body. Roma runs off with the fake spiritualist under Ruth Rogan's control. Grant desperately tries to track Roma down and return her soul. (imdb)
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