https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1AHec7sfZ8

Downstairs (1932) is an excellent hard-hitting pre-code melodrama with John Gilbert in top form as a deliciously slimy cad obsessed with women and money. Lots of pre-code sexual frankness here, and a very pre-code ending.
My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/03/downstairs-1932.html
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Spencer Tracy and Virginia Bruce in “The Murder Man” (1935)
IMDB Synopsis: “When a crooked businessman is fatally shot, a hotshot New York newspaper reporter specializing in murder stories narrows in on the dead man's associate.”