A ruthless and domineering woman is married to her childhood companion, an alcoholic district attorney. He is the only living witness to her heinous murder of her wealthy aunt that occurred seventeen years prior to their troubled marriage.

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)

Walter Burns, editor of a Chicago newspaper, is about to lose his ace reporter and former wife, Hildy Johnson, to insurance salesman Bruce Baldwin! The crafty editor uses every trick in his arsenal to get Hildy to write one last big story, about murderer Earl Williams and the inept Sheriff Hartwell.

His Girl Friday (1940)

Warning: trashy movie ahead! After being educated abroad, a noble-hearted South Seas prince returns home with plans to reform his kingdom. However, a ruthless member of the royal family conspires to poison the king and usurp the prince's rightful place on the throne. Trashy royalty!

1940s