Cliff Saum Movies

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

Two starving songwriters will only get funding if they get British actress Jane Clarke to star in their show.

When news reporter Walter Garrett arrives at the hotel room of bombshell actress Angela Merrova to conduct an interview, he finds her dead from...

Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged with getting a supply vessel to Russian allies as...

Nancy helps two aging spinsters fulfill the byzantine provisions of their father's will, but the murder of their chauffeur complicates matters.

Outdoor drama about a newly-hired lumberjack discovering that his former girlfriend is now his new boss's wife.

When a prisoner on Death Row is "accidentally" killed just before his execution, a reporter smells something fishy...

An infatuated debutante renews a Shakespearean actor's running feud with his leading lady.

A reformer's daughter wins the lead role in a scandalous Broadway show.

Wonderful idea to give a party with people who dislike each other. Late at night, everyone decides to go into the pool, except Stamm, who is drunk....

A notorious counterfeiter passes himself off as a Secret Service agent to Steve and gets him to unwittingly help him bilk the racetrack out of tens...

In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief.

A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.

Three comrades graduate from Viriginia Military Institute. Bing has a chance to return to VMI as a football coach.

An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.

Physician Carole Nelson, suspected of having ties to notorious gangster Joe Gurney, must prove her innocence or the Medical Board will revoke her...

Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taking payoffs.

When Georgiana Summers learns that the woman who stole and married her husband is planning a romantic tryst with a new love, she hatches a giddy plot...

Two troublesome boys grow into very different men, one becoming a hoodlum and the other embracing college but both are in-love with the same girl.

The adventures of a cocky con man and his beautiful accomplice.