The Doorway to Hell

The Doorway to HellMob boss Louie Ricarno is leaving "the game," quitting the beer running rackets and settling down in Florida to write his memoirs and live the good life with his new bride. Yet Ricarno's past returns to spoil his happiness, plunging him back into an underworld of violence and payback. Top billed Lew Ayres, just two months removed from his success in All Quiet on the Western Front, plays Ricarno in a machine gunning Pre Code saga directed by Archie

So when he stumbles onto a British-owned sugar plantation

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Christine Allison (Hayward--I Want to Live

Mickey Rooney portrays Tim in this fish-out-of-water tale co-scripted by and based on a story by A Yank at Oxford screenwriter George Oppenheimer

Ann is a gold digger who thinks she has a heart of brass

a smooth-talking hood who sells unwanted babies to childless rich couples

Yet his fight goes on

Tom Courtenay

they both get a break at the same time

Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon reprise their legendary roles as Mr

Dorothy Mackaill's work is in the midst of a well deserved renaissance

nuance and high drama into a heartbreaking classic