Ricardo Cortez Movies

While on trial for her life, a young woman recalls her tough upbringing and her involvement with the men who brought her to this current state of...

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...

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...

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

Abandoned by her lover, a woman becomes the main "hostess" in a decadent nightclub, but tries to put her past behind her on a steamer to Mandalay.

A gambler falls for a fake countess.

Expressing post-war cultural internationalism, this silent film follows the mysterious Orchid and the man who loves her.

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...

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

A ruthless businessman tries to steal his brother's successful shipping company. He hires a gifted mimic to date one of his brother's daughters to...

Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her...

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

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.

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...

A condemned inmate's premature death places officials under suspicion.

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.

Walter and Vivian live in the country and have a difficult time keeping servants. Walter then hires a private detective who has been fired for...