Cast: Henry O'Neill

Direction William Wyler

Cast Bette Davis · Henry Fonda · George Brent · Margaret Lindsay

Synopsis Set in antebellum New Orleans during the early 1850's, this film follows Julie Marsden through her quest for social redemption on her own terms. Julie is a beautiful and free spirited, rapacious Southern belle who is sure of herself and...

Direction John Ford

Cast Charles Winninger · Arleen Whelan · John Russell · Stepin Fetchit

Synopsis John Ford's remake of his 1934 Will Rogers vehicle, JUDGE PRIEST, combines three Irvin S. Cobb stories about the kindly Kentucky magistrate William Priest, played by Charles Winninger. Set in 1905 Kentucky, it focuses on the judge's battle for reelection...

Direction Max Ophüls

Cast James Mason · Joan Bennett · Geraldine Brooks · Henry O'Neill

Synopsis After discovering the dead body of Bea Harper's lover, Bea's mother Lucia hides the body under the assumption that it was her daughter who killed the man. Martin Donnelly comes to blackmail Lucia on behalf of his partner Nagel and...

Direction Mitchell Leisen

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · John Lund · Jane Cowl · Phyllis Thaxter

Synopsis Helen Ferguson (Stanwyck) is a pregnant girl who assumes a new identity and whose past catches up with her in blackmail and murder.

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Ruth Gordon · Otto Kruger · Donald Crisp

Synopsis Dr. Paul Ehrlich was the German physician who developed the first synthetic antimicrobial drug, 606 or Salvarsan. The film describes how Ehrlich first became interested in the properties of the then-new synthetic dyes and had an intuition that they could...

Direction Phil Karlson

Cast Broderick Crawford · Donna Reed · John Derek · Rosemary DeCamp

Synopsis A newspaper man takes over an ailing New York daily newspaper and revives it as a scandal sheet by staging a number of publicity stunts. The man's wife, whom he left penniless years ago, resurfaces and threatens to blackmail him....

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Paul Muni · Henry O'Neill · Joseph Schildkraut · Gale Sondergaard

Synopsis The biopic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfuss Affair. Paul Cezanne and Émile Zola were friends when both were starting their careers. Through ups and downs Zola became financially successful...

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Robert Taylor · Lana Turner · Edward Arnold · Van Heflin

Synopsis Ruthless hood Johnny Eager is pretending to his parole officer that he has chucked the rackets and is now a full-time taxi driver. In fact he's as deep in as he ever was, and desperately needs official permission to open...

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Errol Flynn · Olivia de Havilland · Ann Sheridan · Bruce Cabot

Synopsis A Texas cattle agent (Errol Flynn) witnesses first hand, the brutal lawlessness of Dodge City and takes the job of sheriff to clean the town up.

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Bette Davis · Humphrey Bogart · Lola Lane · Isabel Jewell

Synopsis Set in the underworld of Manhattan, Marked Woman tells the story of a woman who dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters. The women of the story are "hostesses". What is implied, but not stated...

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast George Raft · Jane Bryan · William Holden · Humphrey Bogart

Synopsis Cliff Taylor (George Raft) is an ex-con who wants to go straight, but since being released from prison on parole, he finds it hard to find and hold a job because of his criminal past. His brother Tim (William Holden)...

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Paul Muni · Josephine Hutchinson · Anita Louise · Donald Woods

Synopsis In 1860, having helped France solve the problem of sour wine, chemist Louis Pasteur turns to the dangers of childbirth: 20,000 Paris women were dying annually. His germ theory and recommendation that doctors wash their hands and sterilize their instruments...

Direction John Sturges

Cast Spencer Tracy · Pat O'Brien · Diana Lynn · John Hodiak

Synopsis James Curtayne (Spencer Tracy) has retired from law but he returns to defend John O'Hara (James Arness) on a murder charge. Curtayne's drinking and rustiness result in O'Hara's being found guilty, but Curtayne makes further efforts to prove him innocent.

Direction John Farrow

Cast Ray Milland · Audrey Totter · Thomas Mitchell · George Macready

Synopsis Righteous district attorney Joseph Foster's main goal in life is to rid his city of the gangsters infesting it. In order to be even more efficient in his war against crime he plans to run for governor. One day he...

Direction W.S. Van Dyke

Cast William Powell · Myrna Loy · Barry Nelson · Donna Reed

Synopsis Nick and Nora's hopes for a pleasant afternoon at the local race track are dashed when a jockey is found shot dead in the locker room. Nick's friend Lt. Abrams wants him to help out but Nick is enjoying the...

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Paul Muni · Bette Davis · Brian Aherne · Claude Rains

Synopsis The newly named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carolotta arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juraez and democracy. He tries to appease the Mexicans but fails. Abraham Lincoln is supporting Juarez and asks the French to withdraw...

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast James Cagney · Mae Clarke · Margaret Lindsay · Leslie Fenton

Synopsis When a movie theater usher is fired, he takes up with criminals and finds himself quite adept at various illegal activities. Eventually though, the police catch up with him, and he runs to hide out in Los Angeles. There he...

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Pat O'Brien · Sybil Jason · Humphrey Bogart · Ann Sheridan

Synopsis Officer O'Malley arrests John Phillips for a traffic violation and costs him a chance at a good job. Phillips has a wife and crippled child, so he commits robbery and O'Malley sends him to prison. After this O'Malley becomes closer...

Direction Anatole Litvak

Cast John Garfield · Ann Sheridan · Pat O'Brien · Burgess Meredith

Synopsis Mobster Tommy Gordon isn't worried about being sentenced to Sing Sing prison because his political pals have promised him a quick parole. A troublesome prisoner, he finally concedes that his friends have deserted him, and he makes an effort to...

Direction Anatole Litvak

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Francis Lederer · George Sanders · Paul Lukas

Synopsis Ed Renard is a G-Man investigating a huge Nazi spy ring in the United States. Contacts are discovered and arrested in U.S.A.