Arthur Hohl
7 titles
Filmography
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Romance in Manhattan
(1935)A charming, starry-eyed Czech immigrant arrives in America expecting the golden land of opportunity. What he discovers instead, in this breezy comedy, are the harsh realities of New York City. Ginger Rogers stars as Sylvia Dennis, a bouncy chorus girl who comes to the aid of Karel Novak (Francis Lederer), a lonely and somewhat lost illegal alien who just jumped ship to find his dream in America. But the dream turns sour when he takes the job of a scab driver during a taxi-cab strike and gets a punch in the nose for his trouble. Sylvia, taking pity on Karel and enchanted by his undying optimism, allows him to camp on the roof of her apartment building a situation that sparks romance against the backdrop of the glittering Manhattan skyline.

The Scarlet Claw
(1944)The sleuths investigate a series of grisly murders in a small Canadian village called La Mort Rouge during the Second World War. The villagers believe the deaths are the work of a phantom, according to an old legend, and they see things which support this. Holmes and Watson have to prove otherwise, and stop the killer.

Wild Boys of the Road
(1933)In the depths of the Depression, two teenage boys strike out on their own in order to help their struggling parents and find life on the road tougher than expected.

Jimmy the Gent
(1934)Academy Award winners James Cagney and Bette Davis star as a less-than-scrupulous private detective and the woman he loves--who has just left him for an even less scrupulous employer. Jimmy Corrigan (Gagney) is jealous when his operative and sweatheart, Joan Martin (Davis), goes to work for Charles Wallingham (Alan Dinehart) because Wallingham seems to have much more class than Corrigan. But Co...

Island of Lost Souls
(1932)Shipwrecked sailor Edward Parker is stranded on a tropical island inhabited by Dr. Moreau, a scientist who conducts brutal experiments to transform animals into partial humans. Parker's attempt to escape the island is thwarted by Dr. Moreau's cadre of beasts and by the scientist's desire to use the sailor in one of his experiments.
The Silk Express
(1933)
The Spider Woman
(1943)Murder mystery in which renowned detective Sherlock Holmes is called upon to investigate a series of apparent suicides that have taken place in peculiar circumstances. He soon deduces that they are in fact murders committed by a woman. Disguised as an Indian, he uncovers a world of illicit gambling and insurance scams, and finds himself a target of the evil murderer.