88 years ago:
'G' Men (US)
James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused to get involved with the underworld. When a friend of his is gunned down by a notorious criminal, Brick decides to abandon the exercise of the law and join the Department of Justice to capture the mur...
1935-05-04
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/26718
#GMen #JamesCagney #RobertArmstrong #BartonMacLane #ClassicFilm

67 years ago:
Wetbacks (US)
Former Coastguardsmen Jim Benson is about to lose his boat when a couple approaches him for a fishing charter. Jim departs just ahead of the Sherrif with drunken Shanks, and his companion Sally (Gates). Shanks takes off into a small Mexican village after a fight with Jim, stranding both Sally and hi...
1956-05-04
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/140497
#Wetbacks #LloydBridges #NancyGates #BartonMacLane #Film

78 years ago:
Tarzan and the Amazons (US)
A group of archaeologists asks Tarzan to help them find an ancient city in a hidden valley of women. He refuses, but Boy is tricked into doing the job. The queen of the women asks Tarzan to help them.
1945-04-29
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/55872
#TarzanandtheAmazons #JohnnyWeissmüller #JohnnySheffield #BartonMacLane #RKO #ClassicFilm

88 years ago:
The Case of the Curious Bride (US)
After giving the District Attorney another stinging defeat, Perry plans to take a vacation in China. That is, he was, until Rhoda, his old flame, meets him at a restaurant. It seems that her husband Moxley, who had been allegedly dead for four years, is alive and demanding money as she has married i...
1935-04-13
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/75770
#TheCaseoftheCuriousBride #MichaelCurtiz #DonaldWoods #BartonMacLane #OlinHowland #Film

70 years ago:
Kansas Pacific (US)
Just before the Civil War (but after the South has seceded), Southern saboteurs try to prevent railroad construction from crossing Kansas to the frontier; army captain Nelson is sent out to oppose them. As the tracks push westward, Nelson must contend with increasingly violent sabotage, while trying...
1953-02-22
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/18807
#KansasPacific #RayNazarro #SterlingHayden #EveMiller #BartonMacLane #Western #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Film

85 years ago:
Blondes at Work (US)
When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself and reporter Torchy Blane on scooping her rivals in crime news reporting, Det. Lt. Steve McBride determines to thwart her efforts to get inside information - and she determines to go on getting it, by...
1938-02-05
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/160162
#BlondesatWork #GlendaFarrell #BartonMacLane #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film

Ann Sheridan and Barton MacLane in “Wine, Women and Horses” (1937). This is the first time I’ve seen MacLane in a lead role where he wasn’t paired with Glenda Farrell.

#OldMovies #ClassicHollywood #BartonMacLane #AnnSheridan