Ricardo Cortez Movies

A look at the past, present and future of Hollywood as seen through the eyes of the movie columnist.

A man dodges jewel thieves while carrying a fortune in diamonds on the Orient Express.

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...

After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him rise to a position of power in the vice industry of...

By Whose Hand? is a lost 1927 American silent crime drama film directed by Walter Lang and released by Columbia Pictures.

Mother O'day, running her saloon after the death of her husband, places her daughter in the care of Mrs. Kendall, a high society woman. Later, in the...

William Poster writes a gossip column for the Morning Gazette. He will write about anyone and everyone as long as he gets the credit. He gets most of...

Lawyer Perry Mason is summoned to the Laxter mansion in the dead of night to write granddaughter Wilma out of invalid Peter Laxter's will, to keep...

Postal inspectors track down money stolen from a railroad car.

Excess Baggage is a lost 1928 American silent comedy film directed by James Cruze and distributed by MGM. The film was based on the play of the same...

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1936.

A reporter and a police detective sort through the clues in a night-club owner's murder.

Thirteen women who were schoolmates ask a swami to cast their horoscopes. The news they receive is not good for any of them.

Actress Jessica Wells, sister of actor Damon Wells, is on top of her form except when her husband Vance is around. When Vance takes her to the...

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1937.

Gifted German wrestler Polokai falls in love with ex-con Laura, who persuades him to emigrate to America and gets him involved with crooked promoters.

A gambler falls for a fake countess.

New York store clerk joins a hobo and an illegal immigrant heading for his newly bought land in Arizona.

Native son returns from school in Spain to California in 1855 and finds corrupt politicians stealing land from old California families. He becomes a...

An embittered Louie Peronni returns from prison to find that his sister, Juli Peronni, is engaged to policeman Eddie Farrell, and also finds that his...