St. Louis Woman (1934)
1934 · Feature film · 68 min · dir. Albert Ray
- Drama
Synopsis
Johnny Mack Brown stars as medical student and football star who was expelled after a night club brawl over a woman. He meets her again only to find out she owns the club and is involved with a gambler...
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Albert Ray
- Writer
- Elwood Ullman
- Cinematography
- George Meehan
- Studio
- Screencraft Productions
- Released
- 1934-04-14
- Running time
- 68 minutes
Cast & crew
Albert Ray Director
Jeanette Loff
Johnny Mack Brown
Earle Foxe
Roberta Gale- Dareece Murphy
- Eddie Clayton
- Sterrett Ford
Tom London
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · Wonderful Performance From Jeanette Loff · loveshollywood · 2015-06-26
This is a great B-movie from 1934 starring the beautiful and talented Jeanette Loff. She seems to have been forgotten today but she was a popular starlet in the early 1930s. Johnny Mack Brown is Jim Warren, a college football player with a sweet girlfriend (Roberta Gale). One night he goes to a nightclub to see "St. Louis Lou" (Jeanette Loff) sing. Jim gets into a fight that gets him kicked off the team and expelled from school. When Lou finds out he is broke she convinces her gangster boyfriend Harry (Earle Foxe) to give Jim a job on his professional football team. Warren tries to sabotage…
★★ · A Woman's Picture (Bring tissues) · bobsluckycat · 2013-08-08
Disguised at first as a football picture, things turn turgid almost from the start. Older woman infatuates college boy and everything goes to hell until the tepid ending. Johnny Mack Brown brings a sincerity to his part. After he left MGM in 1931 Brown worked in several roles for several Poverty Row or "B" units of Universal and Paramount and others before hitting his stride a popular western star. The female leads Jeanette Loff and Roberta Gale are awful and they would be out of pictures in short time. I mean pathetic. Behind the camera, the story was concocted by Elwood Ullman and Jack…
