Paul Lukas Movies

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...

A singer on a gambling ship is married to a wealthy playboy. When he is found murdered, all evidence points to her as the culprit, and she is put on...

After socialite Lynn Llewellyn receives an anonymous threat, he is poisoned at his uncle's casino, and although he recovers, his wife is murdered by...

A young Navy sailor has one night to find out why a woman was killed and he ended up with a bag of money after a drinking blackout.

During the British Raj, the orphan of a British soldier poses as a Hindu and is torn between his loyalty to a Buddhist mystic and aiding the English...

In 1903, Doctor Huntington Bailey meets a friendly older lady during a train trip. She tells him that she is going to visit her brother Nick and his...

An ambitious chorus girl finds fame, marriage, and motherhood with a talented composer, only to leave him for a handsome singer.

Government agent Sol Madrid travels to Mexico with hooker Stacey to bring mobster Villanova and drug kingpin Dietrich to justice.

The daughter of a murdered financier works as a jewelry salesperson while she tracks her father's colleagues who plotted against him.

When a German art dealer living in the US returns to his native country he finds himself attracted to Nazi propaganda.

Lieut. Robert Banks, an American aviator on leave in Paris, meets Mary Gordon, a young American who lives abroad, but their romance is cut short by...

A woman becomes estranged from her daughter when the girl learns that she is illegitimate.

Propaganda short film depicting the rise of Nazism in Germany and how political propaganda is similarly used in the United States. The film was made...

An Englishman and a cabby try to save an heiress from murder in Spain.

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

A princess falls in love with the man who killed her cousin. The lover swears it was in self-defense. A lost film.

An Irish convict sentenced to hard labor in Australia escapes into the outback, and organizes a band of fellow escapees to fight a corrupt landlord.

When a novelist is murdered, suspicion falls on all the women he had affairs with--and then wrote about in his books.

After marrying an archaeologist, a Victorian-era woman with a sordid past realizes that she is not ready to settle down with one man.

A mobster's daughter leads her boyfriend from the circus into bootlegging.