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Fit for a King (RKO-Radio) places Joe E. Brown, his great mouth and banshee yawp in the newspaper business, to the patent disadvantage of all concerned. In the course of his six-reel career he frustrates craven intrigues in a turbulent Graustarkian monarchy, out-halfwits his press rival, Paul Kelly, wins the hand of Puppet Princess Helen Mack.
Alcatraz Island (First National-Warner Bros.). Studio magic simulates the stern Federal penitentiary in San Francisco Bay, involves it in a loose-jointed melodrama acted by John Litel, Ann Sheridan, Mary Maguire, Dick Purcell and Gordon Oliver.
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The Life of Emile Zola (Paul Muni, Joseph Schildkraut).
Dead End (Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, Humphrey Bogart, Claire Trevor).
The Prisoner of Zenda (Ronald Colman, Madeleine Carroll, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Raymond Massey).
100 Men and a Girl (Deanna Durbin, Adolphe Menjou, Leopold Stokowski).
Stage Door (Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, Andrea Leeds).
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