Cast: Edward Van Sloan

Direction James Whale

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

Synopsis Midnight funeral services are visited by Frankenstein on the lookout for human corpses. But the monster he creates is unwelcome by the real world. Based on the Mary Shelley novel.

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 Karl Freund

Cast Boris Karloff · Zita Johann · David Manners · Edward Van Sloan

Synopsis The original, and by far the best film version of the mummy legend. Archeologists digging in Egypt uncover a 3000-year-old mummy which comes to life and attempts to restore life to its beloved princess. As he extends his influence over...

Direction Mitchell Leisen

Cast Fredric March · Evelyn Venable · Guy Standing · Katharine Alexander

Synopsis Death (March) is bored and wonders why humans fear him so much. He takes on human form, pretending to be the handsome Prince Sirki, and becomes a guest of Italian nobleman, Duke Lambert (Standing). He bewilders most, except the lovely...

Direction Alexander Hall

Cast Loretta Young · Ray Milland · Reginald Gardiner · Gail Patrick

Synopsis June Cameron has written a best seller about spinsters: women are men's equals and don't need them for fulfillment. Through a series of errors and misunderstandings, the press believes she's married Tim Sterling, a university instructor she's just met. Her...

Direction Nick Grinde

Cast Boris Karloff · Evelyn Keyes · Bruce Bennett · Edward Van Sloan

Synopsis A physician on death row for a mercy killing is allowed to experiment on a serum using a criminals' blood, but secretly tests it on himself. He gets a pardon, but finds out he's become a Jekyll-&-Hyde.

Direction Lambert Hillyer

Cast Otto Kruger · Gloria Holden · Marguerite Churchill · Edward Van Sloan

Synopsis Hungarian countess Marya Zaleska seeks the aid of a noted psychiatrist, in hopes of freeing herself of a mysterious evil influence.

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Kay Francis · David Manners · Una Merkel · Andy Devine

Synopsis Lois is the editor of the 400 Magazine and is a work-a-holic. When Tom comes to her office to sell her a rowing machine, he leaves as her personal secretary. After a short time, he is an executive decision maker...

Direction Edwin L. Marin

Cast David Manners · Adrienne Ames · Bela Lugosi · John Wray

Synopsis While filming the closing scene of "The Death Kiss", leading man Myles Brent is actually killed. Having played around with, or been married to, most of the women connected with the movie studio, there are lots of suspects. When leading...

Direction Felix E. Feist

Cast Peggy Shannon · Lois Wilson · Sidney Blackmer · Lane Chandler

Synopsis New York City awaits a massive series of tidal waves which has already struck the North American west coast. As the waves strike and destroy the city, Martin is separated from his family. Seemingly the only survivor, he meets Claire,...

Direction Ford Beebe · Saul A. Goodkind

Cast Bela Lugosi · Robert Kent · Dorothy Arnold · Edwin Stanley

Synopsis A military intelligence officer and a pretty reporter try to find a scientist whose inventions can destroy the world.

Direction Marcel Varnel

Cast Chester Morris · Genevieve Tobin · Victor Jory · Elizabeth Patterson

Synopsis A bomb is hidden on an ocean liner, but nobody on board is aware of its presence.

Direction Richard Wallace

Cast Tallulah Bankhead · Charles Bickford · Paul Lukas · Eugene Pallette

Synopsis Tallulah Bankhead's first Hollywood movie was this romantic-drama, in which she plays Susan, the unhappy wife of oil rigger Walt (Charles Bickford), who labors in a Central American oil field. The bored Susan falls in love with Walt's good friend...

Direction H. Bruce Humberstone

Cast Charles Ruggles · Verree Teasdale · Sidney Blackmer · Phyllis Barry

Synopsis A sexy golddigger lands who she thinks is a wealthy big-game hunter from a royal family. What she doesn't know is that not only is he not wealthy, nor a big-game hunter nor from a royal family, but he's only...

Direction Roy William Neill

Cast May Robson · Fay Wray · Victor Jory · Raymond Walburn

Synopsis A game-old-girl, Mary Hastings (May Robson), retires as the head of the Hasting Plow Works...only to see it slip rapidly into ruin. Her ne're-do-well son and daughter refuse to part with a cent of their fifty million dollar trust fund...

Direction Otis Garrett

Cast Nan Grey · Donald Woods · Jed Prouty · Berton Churchill

Synopsis Caesar Kluck, soft-drink magnate, is found dead in the office of a big radio-broadcasting company. Benjamin Franklin Butts, a sound engineer, discovers that Kluck met his death from cyanogen gas, administered in some mysterious fashion. Harry Jones, head of the...

Direction Richard Thorpe

Cast Shirley Grey · J. Farrell MacDonald · Ruth Hall · Dewey Robinson

Synopsis A popular young student finds herself accused of a series of murders that have occurred on the college campus. Her boyfriend, a reporter for the local newspaper, knows she didn't do it, and sets out to prove her innocence and...

Direction John S. Robertson

Cast May Robson · Mary Carlisle · Fred MacMurray · Alan Hale

Synopsis Miss Bayles (May Robson) has been trying to close down a business operated by Clarence (Alan Hale). Clarence runs a crooked gambling operation in the back room. Miss Bayles uses Clarence's crooked dice to beat him and uses her winnings...

Direction Robert Florey

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Gene Raymond · Genevieve Tobin · John Eldredge

Synopsis Shelby Barrett (Barbara Stanwyck) rides show horses for wealthy widow "Nicko" Nicholas (Genevieve Tobin)and meets Johnny Wyatt (Gene Raymond), scion of a once-wealthy Long Island Family, but who now goes about the country riding polo ponies for "Nicko." Despite the...

Direction John G. Adolfi

Cast George Arliss · Bette Davis · Theodore Newton · Hardie Albright

Synopsis Shoe manufacturer John Reeves turns his business over to his conceited nephew when his rival dies. On vacation, he runs into his rivals heirs who are living it up on their dead father's money. Reeves gets hired by them and...