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Director: Basil Dean    More Info
Starring: Vivien Leigh, Leslie Banks, Laurence Olivier, Francis L. Sullivan, Hay Petrie, Robert Newton, Laurence Hanray, David Horne, Esme Percy, William Dewhurst

 A couple (Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh) has just three weeks together before he plans to confess to a murder he committed in self-defense.

Director: John Cromwell    More Info
Starring: Raymond Massey, Ruth Gordon, Gene Lockhart, Mary Howard, Howard Da Silva, Dorothy Tree, Harvey Stephens, Minor Watson, Alan Baxter, Elisabeth Risdon

 Based on Robert E. Sherwood's Pulitzer Prize winning play, this is a classic film about the 16th President, covering his childhood through election to the Presidency. Along with Lincoln's professional life, highlighted by his debates with Stephen Douglas (Gene Lockhart), his personal life, including the doomed courtship of Ann Rutledge (Mary Howard) and later marriage to Mary Todd (Ruth Gordon in her screen debut) are also part of the story.

Director: Anatole Litvak    More Info
Starring: Bette Davis, Charles Boyer, Jeffrey Lynn, Barbara O'Neil, Virginia Weidler, Walter Hampden, Harry Davenport, Fritz Leiber, Ann E. Todd, Montagu Love

 After falling in love with the governess (Bette Davis), the Duc de Praslin (Charles Boyer) murders his wife. More tragedy follows with the suicide of the Duc; but the governess still finds happiness in this classic tale set in Paris in the mid-1800s. Academy Award nominations included Best Picture and Supporting Actress (Barbara O'Neil).

Director: Ben Hecht    More Info
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Rita Hayworth, Thomas Mitchell, John Qualen, George Watts, Ralph Theodore, Eddie Foster, Jack Roper, Constance Worth, Walter Baldwin

 A do-gooder playwright attempts to prevent an embezzler from committing suicide and then give him a reason for living. Great dialogue but the characters are a bit hard to believe.

Director: William Nigh    More Info
Starring: Boris Karloff, Maris Wrixon, Gertrude Hoffman, Henry Hall, Gene O'Donnell, Dorothy Vaughan, Selmer Jackson, George Cleveland, Ray Corrigan, Mary Field

 In need of spinal fluid to cure a young girl's paralysis, Dr. Adrian (Boris Karloff) camouflages himself in an ape skin and murders townsfolk to obtain their spinal fluids for his serum.

Director: Charles Barton    More Info
Starring: Rochelle Hudson, Glenn Ford, Miles Mander, Joe De Stefani, Selmer Jackson, Georgia Caine, John Qualen, Mary Currier, Isabel Jewell, Eva Hyde

 When babies are exploited by criminals who sell them to hopeful, would-be parents, reporter Steve Burton (Glenn Ford) tries to get the goods on the racketeers.

Director: A. Edward Sutherland    More Info
Starring: Harry Carey, C. Aubrey Smith, Charles Winninger, Alex Melesh, Maria Ouspenskaya, Helen Vinson, Richard Carlson, Jean Parker, Rod La Rocque, J. Anthony Hughes

 Three old, rich men (Harry Carey, C. Aubrey Smith, and Charles Winninger), who have been wrapped up in themselves all their lives, are lonely on Christmas, so they look for dinner guests. James and Jean (Richard Carlson and Jean Parker) are selected, and the couple falls in love. Later, tough times cause a parting of the ways. The three elderly men die in a plane wreck and return as spirits to help get the couple back together.

Director: John Farrow    More Info
Starring: Maureen O'Hara, Adolphe Menjou, Fay Bainter, Herbert Marshall, Dame May Whitty, Patric Knowles, C. Aubrey Smith, Ernest Cossart, Kathryn Collier, Bunny Beatty

 In this remake of the 1932 film, a mentally ill man (Adolphe Menjou) regains sanity and returns home after a long absence. He is confronted with divorce, but gets to know his now-grown daughter (Maureen O'Hara).

Director: Jack Conway    More Info
Starring: Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Claudette Colbert, Hedy Lamarr, Frank Morgan, Chill Wills, Lionel Atwill, Minna Gombell, Sara Haden, Marion Martin

 Love among the excitement of wildcatters and oil captures an earlier era in America. Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy play oilmen whose luck in the fields is as much of a roller coaster ride as their personal lives.

Director: Henry Hathaway    More Info
Starring: Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Dean Jagger, Brian Donlevy, John Carradine, Mary Astor, Vincent Price, Marc Lawrence, Jane Darwell, Jean Rogers

 Scorned by citizens of Missouri and Illinois, Brigham Young (Dean Jagger) leads his fellow Mormons westward to Utah. This is the story of The Church of the Latter Day Saints as its members followed their beliefs to success following adversity.

Director: Terry O. Morse    More Info
Starring: Boris Karloff, Margaret Lindsay, Maris Wrixon, Bruce Lester, Leonard Mudie, Holmes Herbert, Winifred Harris, Lester Matthews, Jack Mower, Frederick Vogeding

 Employed as a butler at a British war minister's home, Valdar (Boris Karloff) is really a German espionage agent.

Director: Lloyd Bacon    More Info
Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Ann Sothern, Humphrey Bogart, Donald Crisp, Ralph Bellamy, Allen Jenkins, Charles D. Brown, Cecil Kellaway, Richard Lane, Paul Guilfoyle

 When Little John Sarto (Edward G. Robinson) retires, gangland is quickly taken over by Jack Buck (Humphrey Bogart) who is not about to relinquish his position when Sarto gets bored. Sarto eventually finds happiness in a monastery after a failed attempt at starting another gang.

Director: George King    More Info
Starring: Marius Goring, Helen Haye, Penelope Dudley-Ward, Patrick Barr, John Warwick, Felix Aylmer, Ronald Shiner, George Merritt, Torin Thatcher, Elizabeth Scott

 Lord William Lebanon (Marius Goring) and his mother, Dowager Lady Lebanon (Helen Haye), share homicidal tendencies that run in their family. When the murdered body of chauffeur Studd (John Warwick) is found, Scotland Yard Chief Inspector Tanner (George Merritt) and Deputy Sergeant Totty (Ronald Shiner) step in and try to solve a very difficult case. Based on a stage play by Edgar Wallace.

Director: Anatole Litvak    More Info
Starring: John Garfield, Ann Sheridan, Pat O'Brien, Burgess Meredith, Henry O'Neill, Jerome Cowan, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, John Litel, Willard Robertson, Edward Pawley

 This remake of "20,000 Years in Sing Sing" involves prison inmate Tommy Gordon's (John Garfield) attempts to challenge Warden Long's (Pat O'Brien) prison reforms.

Director: Henry King    More Info
Starring: Henry Fonda, Dorothy Lamour, Linda Darnell, Guy Kibbee, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Roscoe Ates, Olin Howland, Si Jenks, Frank Conlan

 The circus in the 19th century is the world of Chad Hanna (Henry Fonda); the story follows his adventures, which aren't all that great.

Director: Norman Foster    More Info
Starring: Sidney Toler, Jean Rogers, Kane Richmond, Lionel Atwill, Mary Nash, Victor Sen Yung, Chris-Pin Martin, Jack La Rue, Frank Puglia, Eddie Acuff

 During World War II, a plot is in-the-making to blow up the Panama Canal, and the United States government hires Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) to solve the case. Helping Charlie is his Number 2 son Jimmy (Victor Sen Yung), and after they land in Panama City they are confronted by the problem of a number of people who could be an elusive Axis spy known as Rymer who is behind the plot to destroy the canal. Will Charlie and Jimmy be able to identify Rymer, solve the case, and save the canal?

Director: Anatole Litvak    More Info
Starring: James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Frank Craven, Donald Crisp, Arthur Kennedy, George Tobias, Elia Kazan, Anthony Quinn, Frank McHugh, Bob Steele

 Gotham truck driver Danny (James Cagney) goes back into the boxing ring to help his kid brother Eddie (Arthur Kennedy) with tuition for music school where he is studying to become a composer. Meanwhile, Danny's girlfriend Peggy (Ann Sheridan), hoping to make a career as a nightclub dancer, breaks off their engagement and goes into partnership with sleazy, professional dancer Murray Burns (Anthony Quinn). Now, Danny accepts a championship bout but ends up blind after resin dust is put on his gloves by his opponent's handlers. Danny and Peggy appear irreconcilable–until Eddie composes a symphony that tells how Peggy and Danny really feel and conducts his first major work at Carnegie Hall.

Director: Michael Powell    More Info
Starring: Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Hay Petrie, Joss Ambler, Raymond Lovell, Esmond Knight, Charles Victor, Phoebe Kershaw, Harold Warrender, John Longden

 During the World War II blackout in London, Capt. Andersen's (Conrad Veidt) Danish freighter is delayed in port by British customs agents. Two passengers–Mrs. Sorensen (Valerie Hobson) and Mr. Pidgeon (Esmond Knight)–manage to sneak off the ship, and Andersen rows to shore in search of them. He roams through London's dark streets, finally finds them, and learns that they are both secret agents. Pidgeon escapes, but Andersen stays with Mrs. Sorensen and figures out that she is trying to uncover a Nazi spy ring operating out of a Soho nightclub basement. They are captured by the spies, but Andersen escapes–determined to recruit help and to return and perform a rescue while capturing the spies.

Director: Nick Grinde    More Info
Starring: Rochelle Hudson, Frieda Inescort, June Lang, Lola Lane, Glenn Ford, Iris Meredith, Lorna Gray, Esther Dale, William Farnum, Mary Field

 Tough-luck Betty (Rochelle Hudson) ends up in a women's prison and must contend with hardened inmates. Lawyer Mary Ellis (Frieda Inescort) takes an interest in her situation.

Director: Bernard Vorhaus    More Info
Starring: Jean Hersholt, Dorothy Lovett, Robert Baldwin, Tom Neal, Maude Eburne, Vera Lewis, George Meader, Reginald Barlow, Al Bridge, James C. Morton

 In this second entry in the series, beloved Dr. Christian (Jean Hersholt) fends off the advances of wealthy Mrs. Stewart while fighting an outbreak of meningitis in a slum area of town.

Director: Dorothy Arzner    More Info
Starring: Maureen O'Hara, Louis Hayward, Lucille Ball, Virginia Field, Ralph Bellamy, Maria Ouspenskaya, Mary Carlisle, Katharine Alexander, Edward Brophy, Walter Abel

 Judy O'Brien (Maureen O'Hara) arrives in New York City planning to gain fame as a ballerina. As luck would have it, she gets a job working as a stooge for strip-tease dancer Bubbles (Lucille Ball) who dances a ballet as a lead-in to her strip show. The two women encounter problems when they both fall for playboy Jimmy Harris (Louis Hayward), and physical fighting is used to determine who should have Jimmy. But that issue is settled after Jimmy's ex-wife (Virginia Field) decides to take him back.

Director: Christy Cabanne    More Info
Starring: Richard Arlen, Andy Devine, Peggy Moran, Vinton Haworth, Herbert Corthell, Harry C. Bradley, Sandra King, Landers Stevens, John Holmes, Jack Rice

 "Pop" O'Shea (Herbert Corthell) and his mechanic "Guppy" Wexel (Andy Divine) are working on an experimental oil-fueled auto engine for car racing when their car is in an accident that nearly destroys the engine. Larry Taylor (Richard Arlen) has plans of his own for the oil-fueled engine and secretly installs it in his race car. He enters a race with the engine, wins the race–and the girl (Peggy Moran) as well.

Director: Jean Yarbrough    More Info
Starring: Bela Lugosi, Suzanne Kaaren, Dave O'Brien, Guy Usher, Yolande Donlan, Donald Kerr, Edmund Mortimer, Gene O'Donnell, Alan Baldwin, John Ellis

 Deranged scientist Dr. Paul Carruthers (Bela Lugosi) sets out to destroy the cosmetics firm where he is employed. (They don't pay him enough!) His "bats" kill people who wear a certain cologne. There is a sequel: "Devil Bat's Daughter."

Director: William Clemens    More Info
Starring: Boris Karloff, Nedda Harrigan, James Stephenson, Adia Kuznetzoff, Rolla Gourvitch, Will Stanton, Edward Keane, Pedro de Cordoba, Al Bridge, Earl Dwire

 A French doctor, Charles Gaudet (Boris Karloff), treats a treasonous soldier and is punished with imprisonment on Devil's Island where his presence provides the means to save a young girl's life.

Director: William Dieterle    More Info
Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Edna Best, Eddie Albert, Albert Bassermann, Gene Lockhart, Otto Kruger, Nigel Bruce, Montagu Love, James Stephenson, Walter Kingsford

 This is the biography of Julius Reuter (Edward G. Robinson) who began with a fleet of carrier pigeons and ended up with the first news wire service.