Wife Wanted (MOD)

Wife Wanted (MOD)For her final film appearance, Kay Francis goes out with a bang and how! in this femme noir sensation. Fading film queen Carole Raymond (Francis) thinks she's going to feather her nest egg with a real estate exit plan, only to find herself behind the eight ball in a classified lonely hearts crime ring. Set up as the fall gal for a snuffed out romeo, Carole is up to her white furs in illegitimate matrimony until a muckraker (Robert Shayne) gets a sniff

moves and countermoves that center on a scheme to torpedo American transport ships

and Jimmy uses the marksmanship he developed to wipe out enemy machine gunners

Breaking into the movies in 1925

a mysterious man of action whose work as a cabaret piano player hides his identity as the leader of a bullet-frenzied fight against the Nazis' construction of a vital North African railroad

he was ready to be gone with the bygone

a famed animal trapper whom he's never met

Based on Rudolf Besier's play

surreal cartoon landscape that really packs a punch

In a change of pace from his offbeat thrillers and Hitchcock homages

David faces a trial where race counts more than evidence

The supporting cast includes Rosemary Lane (one of Garfield's Four Daughters costars)

Grant's The Awful Truth and Penny Serenade costar