Cliff Saum Movies

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

The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists. Trustee Ed Keller has also...

A paroled convict's efforts to improve conditions at a boys' reform school alarm the school's corrupt warden, who has been embezzling funds from the...

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

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

A French doctor sentenced for treason performs brain surgery on the prison commandant's daughter.

An ex-gang member tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal influence after he suddenly becomes a Hollywood movie star.

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

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....

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.

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

After a wealthy dowager who has made a substantial donation to her alma mater suddenly disappears, Nancy Drew sets out to solve the mystery.

A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.

Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal...

His role in the plight of an unemployed man (Humphrey Bogart) and his disabled daughter profoundly affects an intractable Irish policeman (Pat...

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

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...

Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter...

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

Secret Service agents try to solve the theft of treasury banknote plates.