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The Doorway to Hell (1930)
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- Through The Doorway
- Passing Through The Doorway
- Lew Ayres as Louie Ricarno
- James Cagney as Mileaway
- Dorothy Mathews as Doris
- Reign of Terror, Napoleon, Exile
- A Hit!
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Little Caesar came to theaters in January 1931 and The Public Enemy followed that April. But before either and coming courtesy of the same studio, Warner Brothers, The Doorway to Hellmade a huge hit with theatergoers in October 1930. The Doorway to Hellis no static early talkie. It is driven by action punctuated by violence as well as dynamic actin...
Out of the black a newspaper printing press rattles off copies which serve as the backdrop for our opening credits. Ripped from the headlines indeed! These are your headlines, 1930. Zanuck and company are just breathing life into your newspapers and getting ready to introduce you to the real Monks, Midgets and Gimpys of the streets. Newspapers will...
Lew Ayres won't turn twenty-two until a couple of months after The Doorway to Hellis released. He looks every bit as baby-faced as that statement of fact would imply. And he's riding ridiculously high at the moment. The teenager had scored a break in landing a couple of small parts at Pathe Studios where he managed to be noticed by outgoing executi...
Before Louie takes the town over we get to meet James Cagney as Mileaway as he goes around town making sure all of the right people come to that overheated meeting. The Doorway to Hell is James Cagney's second film role after Warner Brothers called him and Joan Blondell out to Hollywood for Sinners' Holiday. It's a fantastic warm-up for what would ...
Dorothy Mathews plays Doris, Louie's girlfriend and quickly his wife in The Doorway to Hell. She's a pretty blonde though a bump in the middle of what's a bit of a pretty long and sharp nose stops me from calling her a great beauty. Ayres might be too pretty for her. Cagney is just right. But even if you don't find Mathews to be a looker, she's mor...
Louie Ricarno quit the mob and once the chaos that grows out of that gets personal he finds himself pulled back in. As Louie exacts his cold-blooded vengeance both Mileaway and Doris are pushed aside and the police chief, O'Grady, begins to play a bigger role. It's O'Grady along with a portrait of Napoleon in Exile who play out Louie's final scene ...
While The Doorway to Hell delivers a satisfying pay-off it falls far short of the memorable last shots of Edward G. Robinson in Little Caesar or Cagney in The Public Enemy that I easily recall to mind simply in typing out this sentence. I wouldn't call the final moments of The Doorway to Hellinconclusive by any stretch, but it lacks the definitive ...
Ankerich, Michael. Broken Silence: Conversations with 23 Silent Film Stars. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1993.Butterfield, C.E. "Red Caposella To Broadcast Kentucky Derby; Clem McCarthy to Be Missing." The Bee(Danville, VA) 14 April 1952: 20.Custen, George F. Twentieth Century's Fox: Darryl F. Zanuck And The Culture Of Hollywood. New York: BasicBooks, 1997."Walter Hampden to De Starred in Ethan Frome at Des Moines." Ames Daily Tribune-Times. 24 March 1938: 9.Mar 20, 2012 · The Doorway to Hell (1930) #WarnerArchive #WarnerBros #TheDoorwaytoHellMob boss Louie Ricarno is leaving "the game," quitting the beer-running rackets and se...
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Sep 7, 2019 · Movie Review: The Doorway to Hell (1930) WARNING: SPOILERS. There’s a good bit about halfway through this. Our lead, Louie Ricarno (Lew Ayres), who organized the Chicago gangs only to walk away from it all, is down in Florida, golfing and writing a book about his life.
- Blue Moon (Manhattan Melodrama a, 1934) “Blue Moon” evolved as a song from the MGM soundtrack-writing system, source of some of the best movie songs in their time; Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart tailored the eventual finished version for a Clark Gable film called Manhattan Melodrama.
- Cheek To Cheek (Top Hat, 1935) Russian-Jewish émigré Irving Berlin wrote “Cheek To Cheek” in a single day, on demand, for the Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers movie Top Hat.
- Ol’ Man River (Show Boat, 1936) For a tune to really make its mark among the best movie songs it sometimes has to find the right singer. The 1927 Broadway drama Show Boat featured Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II’s song performed by actors, and, a year later, Paul Whiteman (with Bing Crosby on vocals) had a minor hit with it.
- Somewhere Over The Rainbow (The Wizard Of Oz, 1939) Some songs are the perfect vehicle for a performer’s interpretation and improvisation, and certain numbers are remembered more for the singer than the writer.
Jun 8, 2022 · The best songs about hell deal with the underworld in a variety of different ways, whether it be fascination, attraction, or something more.
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The Doorway to Hell is a 1930 American pre-Code crime film directed by Archie Mayo and starring Lew Ayres and James Cagney in his second film role. [2] [3] The film was based on the story A Handful of Clouds, written by Rowland Brown. The film's title was typical of the sensationalistic titles of many Pre-Code films. [4]
