Politics (MOD)

Politics (MOD)Happy days are here again! Marie Dressler takes command in the war between men and women as widow Hattie Burns, who runs for mayor of a city corrupted by illegal gin and slick pols who "could bring tears to a glass eye." The womenfolk back Hattie, the menfolk don't and the ladies go on strike until their hapless hubbies reconsider. This reworking of Lysistrata, rich in both comedy and melodrama, shows the great star at the top of her form, supported

Barely six months later

an ambitious young woman from the Midwest who comes to New York to make it as a model

DeMille's The Squaw Man is a first and a last

There he finds a dilapidated mansion

There seemed little hope of rescue from the Japanese-dominated area

" "The African Queen") stars as a disgruntled factory worker who is lured into joining the Ku Klux Klan

Jean Negulesco was truly hitting his stride with his classic run of film noirs when he crafted this stylish thriller in which three strangers find their destinies entwined with a mysterious

even its greedy scheme to transform the City of Light into a forest of oil derricks

Hunt stages surefire duds and pockets the surplus cash

a 17-day "fantasy dropout camp" engineered by Donald's ex-boss (John Astin)

she can't have the one thing every woman wants: happiness

But Newman is the movie's heart