Cast: Irving Bacon

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Teresa Wright · Joseph Cotten · Macdonald Carey · Henry Travers

Synopsis Charlotte 'Charlie' Newton is bored with her quiet life at home with her parents and her younger sister. She wishes something exciting wold happen and knows exactly what they need: a visit from her sophisticated and much traveled uncle Charlie...

Direction George Cukor

Cast Judy Garland · James Mason · Jack Carson · Charles Bickford

Synopsis Norman Maine, a movie star whose career is on the wane, meets showgirl Esther Blodgett when he drunkenly stumbles into her act one night. A friendship develops, then blossoms into romance before tensions increase as Esther's career takes off while...

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast James Stewart · June Allyson · Harry Morgan · Barton MacLane

Synopsis James Stewart, at his warmest and most avuncular, plays the bandleader who rocketed to fame during the swing era. The Glenn Miller Story may be a whitewashed version of Miller's life, but it certainly is a pleasant example of the...

Direction Nicholas Ray

Cast James Cagney · Viveca Lindfors · John Derek · Jean Hersholt

Synopsis Odd little Western that gets off to a snappy start when a man (Matt Dow) is mistaken as a train robber. After the town's sheriff shoots the kid he's riding with, Dow clears his name and ends up as the...

Direction Irving Reis

Cast Cary Grant · Myrna Loy · Shirley Temple · Rudy Vallee

Synopsis Teenaged Susan Turner, with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent, sneaks into his apartment to model for him and is found there by her sister Judge Margaret Turner. Threatened with jail, Nugent agrees to date Susan until the...

Direction Henry Koster

Cast Deanna Durbin · Charles Laughton · Robert Cummings · Guy Kibbee

Synopsis A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to make his dying father's last moments happy. However, the old man's health takes a turn for the better and now his son doesn't know...

Direction Cecil B. DeMille

Cast Gary Cooper · Laraine Day · Signe Hasso · Dennis O'Keefe

Synopsis As the Japanese sweep through the East Indies during World War II, Dr. Wassell is determined to escape from Java with some crewmen of the cruiser Marblehead. Based on a true story of how Dr. Wassell saved a dozen or...

Direction Michael Gordon

Cast Ida Lupino · Stephen McNally · Howard Duff · Peggy Dow

Synopsis Deborah Chandler's rejected suitor, Selden Clark, manages the factory of her father, who dies: did he fall or was he pushed? But charming Clark manages to win her over and marry her. On the honeymoon, Clark's former girl Patricia intervenes...

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Robert Young · Randolph Scott · Dean Jagger · Virginia Gilmore

Synopsis While escaping from a heist of a bank, the outlaw Vance Shaw helps Edward Creighton, the chief-engineer of the Western Union that is surveying the Wild West and had had an accident with a horse. In 1861, Vance regenerates and...

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast Luise Rainer · Spencer Tracy · Charley Grapewin · Janet Beecher

Direction Alfred Santell

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Joel McCrea · Lloyd Nolan · Stanley Ridges

Synopsis In a fantastically art-deco hospital, young Dr. Kildare treats and falls for impoverished Janet Healy, widow of a bank robber, who's been in prison and can't find her baby. Later she helps Kildare sew up gangster Hanlon in a tavern...

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast James Cagney · Humphrey Bogart · Rosemary Lane · Donald Crisp

Synopsis McCord's gang robs the stage carrying money to pay Indians for their land, and the notorious outlaw "The Oklahoma Kid" Jim Kincaid (Cagney) takes the money from McCord (Bogart). McCord stakes a "sooner" claim on land which is to be...

Direction Mark Sandrich

Cast Bing Crosby · Fred Astaire · Marjorie Reynolds · Virginia Dale

Synopsis Lovely Linda Mason has crooner Jim Hardy head over heels, but suave stepper Ted Hanover wants her for his new dance partner after femme fatale Lila Dixon gives him the brush. Jim's supper club, Holiday Inn, is the setting for...

Direction Lewis R. Foster

Cast Dan Duryea · Dorothy Lamour · Sterling Hayden · Irene Hervey

Synopsis Merl Kramer works as a stenographer for a psychiatrist. She is casually dating Karl Benson, a private eye and former cop. Merl mentions in passing that one of her boss's patients is an author with recurring dreams of murdering his...

Direction Sam Wood

Cast Claudette Colbert · Don Ameche · Dick Foran · Charles Dingle

Synopsis Christopher Price, a small-town bank executive, continues to be loyal to and idolize his boyhood friend, Joseph Jefferson Parker, a famous war correspondent. But Chris's wife, Mary, is none to fond of Joe and tired of her husband's idolizing. On...

Direction Tay Garnett

Cast Loretta Young · Barry Sullivan · Bruce Cowling · Margalo Gillmore

Synopsis Invalid George Jones is both physically and mentally ill. He mistakenly believes his wife Ellen and his doctor are having an affair and also planning to kill him. He writes a letter to his lawyer detailing their alleged murder plot....

Direction Norman Taurog

Cast Cary Grant · Betsy Drake · Lurene Tuttle · Randy Stuart

Synopsis Anne and "Poppy" Rose are the average American family, with three quirky kids. Anne has a good heart and gives lost cats and dogs a home - and one day also the orphan Jane, a problem child who already tried...

Direction Frank Tuttle

Cast Lili Damita · Charles Ruggles · Roland Young · Cary Grant

Synopsis Stephen (Cary Grant) plays the Olympic-athlete husband of Claire (Thelma Todd), who in turn is the object of desire for Parisian millionaire Gerald Grey (Roland Young). To keep Stephen from catching on, Young hires Germaine (Lili Damita) to pose as...

Direction Wesley Ruggles

Cast Carole Lombard · Fred MacMurray · John Barrymore · Una Merkel

Synopsis Helen and Ken are a pretty strange couple. She is a pathological liar, and he is a scrupulously honest (and therefore unsuccessful) lawyer. Helen starts a new job, and when her employer is found dead, all the (circumstantial) evidence points...

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast William Powell · Margaret Lindsay · Ruth Donnelly · Gordon Westcott

Synopsis A private eye in Paris falls for the beautiful gambling lady he''s investigating.