Cast: Dwight Frye

Direction James Whale

Cast Boris Karloff · Colin Clive · Mae Clarke · John Boles

Synopsis In Frankenstein (1931), a young scientist named Henry Frankenstein becomes obsessed with creating life from dead tissue. With the help of his assistant, Fritz, he assembles a creature from body parts and brings it to life using electricity. However, the...

Direction James Whale

Cast Boris Karloff · Colin Clive · Valerie Hobson · Elsa Lanchester

Synopsis Owing to the popularity of ‘Frankenstein’, Mary Shelley decides to write a sequel. In her story the Frankenstein monster survives its burning in the mill. It is discovered and taken in by the eccentric philosopher-scientist Dr Pretorius. Pretorious tries to...

Direction James Whale

Cast Claude Rains · Gloria Stuart · William Harrigan · Henry Travers

Synopsis With THE INVISIBLE MAN (the first film in a series), James Whale (FRANKENSTEIN) provides another stylish, blackly comic entry in the popular Universal horror cycle of the 1930s. When a mysterious man, face wrapped in bandages and wearing dark goggles,...

Direction Tod Browning

Cast Bela Lugosi · Helen Chandler · David Manners · Dwight Frye

Synopsis After a harrowing ride through the Carpathian mountains in eastern Europe, Renfield enters castle Dracula to finalize the transferral of Carfax Abbey in London to Count Dracula, who is in actuality a vampire. Renfield is drugged by the eerily hypnotic...

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast Bebe Daniels · Ricardo Cortez · Dudley Digges · Una Merkel

Synopsis Sam Spade is quite the womanizer. When his secretary tells him the new customer waiting outside his office is a knockout, he wastes no time before seeing her. It turns out she's a knockout with money. And she wants to...

Direction Archie Mayo

Cast Lew Ayres · Dorothy Mathews · Leon Janney · Robert Elliott

Synopsis Lou Ricarno is a smart guy. His plan is to organize the various gangs in Chicago so that the mugs will not liquidate each other. With the success of his leadership, Louie prospers, marries Doris and retires to Florida to...

Direction Rowland V. Lee

Cast Louis Hayward · Joan Bennett · George Sanders · Florence Bates

Synopsis In 1865, General Gurko Lanen is dictator of "Lichtenburg" in the Balkans. Rightful ruler Zona hopes to get aid from Napoleon III of France. The visiting Count of Monte Cristo falls for Zona and undertakes to help her, masquerading as...

Direction Lew Landers

Cast John Beal · Joan Fontaine · Phillip Huston · Jane Walsh

Synopsis Young Jim Stanton is a conscientious surgeon, but spends too many off-duty hours pursuing his passion for aviation to suit his stuffy father. When it is discovered that a passenger killed in a plane that Jim crashes was a married...

Direction Frank R. Strayer

Cast Lionel Atwill · Fay Wray · Melvyn Douglas · Maude Eburne

Synopsis In a small town in europe, people are dying. The blood is being drained from their bodies, and puncture wounds are found on the throat. The Burgermeister and his council are frantic. Is it the work of vampire bats flown...

Direction Charles C. Coleman

Cast Rita Hayworth · Charles Quigley · Marc Lawrence · Arthur Loft

Synopsis Mary Gillespie is restoring the Col. Gillespie Circus to its former splendor after her father's death. With the help of her publicist boyfriend Jim, the sell-out crowds are returning to the big top. Egotistical equestrian star Senor Martinet, however, holds...

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Phillips Holmes · Grant Mitchell · Lucille Powers · Otis Harlan

Synopsis Eighteen years ago, John Bolton found the man who killed his brother Joe and shot it out. The man was killed and John went to prison. His son Mike is now a college track star and when the fraternity finds...

Direction D. Ross Lederman

Cast William Gargan · Marguerite Churchill · Gene Morgan · Romaine Callender

Synopsis Perry Travis (William Gargan) is a wise-cracking private detective-cum-amateur radio broadcaster who sets the plot in motion when he witnesses the murder of a scientist, Sir Conrad Stava (Egon Brecher). Lois Allen (Marguerite Churchill) is the murdered man's secretary who...

Direction Arthur Lubin

Cast Lloyd Nolan · Barton MacLane · Lola Lane · Ray Middleton

Synopsis A criminal uses his knowledge of the law for his not-very-legal purposes, betraying friends along the way.

Direction Sam Newfield

Cast George Zucco · Mary Carlisle · Nedrick Young · Dwight Frye

Synopsis The twin of a kindly small-town physician returns from the grave for vengeance against his brother, who secretly killed him because the twin served Satan.

Direction Leon Barsha

Cast Don Terry · Rita Hayworth · Robert Paige · Wyn Cahoon

Synopsis Tempermental torch singer Gail Preston performs at the Swing Swing Club, a ritzy nightclub decorated in a prison theme, at which patrons have the choice of sitting in cells that line the room or at tables. Gail is not well-liked...

Direction Irving Cummings

Cast Edmund Lowe · Evelyn Brent · Constance Cummings · Don Dillaway

Synopsis An ambitious lawyer uses circumstantial evidence to help convict an innocent man then tries to make amends with his family.

Direction Edward Buzzell

Cast Melvyn Douglas · Florence Rice · Claire Dodd · Shepperd Strudwick

Synopsis Joel Sloane is a rare book dealer and part time detective. He finds stolen or lost rare books for the insurance companies and gets a reward for their return. But this is a little different. Otto Brockler, a rare book...

Direction Lew Landers

Cast Paul Kelly · Lola Lane · Larry Parks · Trevor Bardette

Synopsis FBI agents Allan Harper and Tommy Baker are in charge of a group of subversives, spies and saboteurs that the US government is deporting to foreign countries aboard a ship. The deportees attempt to take over the ship.

Direction Frank McDonald

Cast Richard Arlen · Jean Parker · Nils Asther · Marie Wilson

Synopsis A spy steals a secret military device, then hijacks an airliner to get away. The airliner crashes in the wilderness & the survivors are threatened by a raging forest fire.

Direction Roy William Neill

Cast Adolphe Menjou · Donald Cook · Greta Nissen · Ruthelma Stevens

Synopsis Suave, lip-reading DA Thatcher Colt plans to get away from the big city for a while. So he and his secretary, Miss Kelly hop on a train for an Upstate NY town called Gilead. They expect a calm oasis, but...