Horse Feathers (1932), Two Seconds (1932), Bugsy Malone (1976), State's Attorney (1932), Blondie of the Follies (1932), Idlewild (2006), Harlem Nights (1989), The Locked Door (1929) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Speakeasy movies.
Storyline: Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff has just been installed as the new president of Huxley College. His cavalier attitude toward education is not reserved for his son Frank, who is seeing the college widow, Connie Bailey. Frank influences Wagstaff to recruit two football players who hang out in a speakeasy, in order to beat rival school Darwin. Unfortunately, Wagstaff mistakenly hires the misfits Baravelli and Pinky. Finding out that Darwin has beaten him to the "real" players, Wagstaff enlists Baravelli and Pinky to kidnap them, which leads to an anarchic football finale.
Plot Keywords: professor, college president, college student, football player, bootlegger, marx brothers, hilarious ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Allen claims he his being executed for the wrong murder. Flashbacks show him working with Clark as a riveter. When he makes a killing on the horses he meets Shirley and gets married. When Clark tells him Shirley is unfaithful they fight and Clark falls to his death. Later he finds that Clark was telling the truth.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: murderer, warden, best friend, wife, judge, doctor, bleak ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A gangster movie where all the gangsters are played by children. Instead of real bullets they use "splurge guns" that cover the victim in cream. The story tells of the rise of "Bugsy Malone" and the battle for power between "Fat Sam" and "Dandy Dan".
Plot Keywords: boy, girl, gangster, amusing, fiery, madcap, rousing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Attorney Tom Cardigan is the discontented "mouthpiece" for Vanny Powers' mob. When Tom takes sweet June Perry as his mistress, she tries in vain to redeem him. But Powers decides Tom would be even more useful to him as District Attorney, which he arranges with surprising ease...despite Tom's warning that "if I go on the other side, I'll stay there." Soon, Tom's ambition leads him to ditch June for the daughter of political boss Ulric. The crisis arrives when Powers goes on trial for a killing...witnessed by June.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: attorney, governor, mobster, prostitute, client, gritty, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Blondie, a New York tenement dweller, and Lurlene are best friends. When Lurlene makes the cast of a big Broadway show, she arranges for Blondie to join the cast as well. But the friendship goes awry when Lurlene's sweetheart, wealthy Larry Belmont, catches Blondie's act and falls for the fair-haired newcomer. Though she is attracted to Larry as well, Blondie spurns his attentions out of loyalty to her friend. But the attraction proves to be stronger than any of them could have imagined.—Dan Navarro <daneldorado@yahoo.com>
Plot Keywords: showgirl, young woman, friend, performer, boyfriend, father, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A musical set in the Prohibition-era American South, where a speakeasy performer and club manager Rooster must contend with gangsters who have their eyes on the club while his piano player and partner Percival must choose between his love, Angel or his obligations to his father.—CCC
Plot Keywords: pianist, manager, gangster, singer, diva, wife, cool ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: "Sugar" Ray is the owner of an illegal casino, who contends with the pressures of vicious gangsters and corrupt policemen who want to see him go out of business. In the world of organized crime and police corruption in the 1930s, any dastardly trick is fair.
Plot Keywords: father, adopted son, gangster, mistress, corrupt cop, amusing, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: While Ann and the son of her boss are out on a ship, the son, Frank makes advances towards her. Whilst fighting him off, the ship's raided and the passengers herded ashore. Almost 2 years later, Ann's celebrating her anniversary to when her sister-in-law announces she's in love - and it turns out to be Frank. Ann decides to save her husband's sister from a fate worse than death,—Ron Kerrigan <mvg@whidbey.com>
Plot Keywords: secretary, lawyer, womanizer, sister-in-law, son, father, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When Owens' gang shoots it out in a New York nightclub, detective Breezy Kildare is wounded. After he recovers he takes a vacation at his father's ranch in Wyoming. Here he meets Owens again and finds him running a protection racket. When Breezy tries to stop him, Owens makes plans to eliminate Breezy.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: police officer, rancher, gangster, bootlegger, henchman, father, rousing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A mermaid (Jodi Benson) and her six sisters rebel against their father's (Jim Cummings) order to ban all music in the underwater kingdom.
Plot Keywords: mermaid, fish, king, queen, nanny, crab, amusing ...
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