Cast: Porter Hall

Direction Billy Wilder

Cast Fred MacMurray · Barbara Stanwyck · Edward G. Robinson · Tom Powers

Synopsis Unsuspecting Mr. Dietrichson becomes increasingly accident prone after his icily calculating wife (Barbara Stanwyck) encourages him to sign a double indemnity policy proposed by a smooth-talking insurance agent (Fred MacMurray). Against a backdrop of distinctly California settings, the partners in...

Direction Leo McCarey

Cast Victor Moore · Beulah Bondi · Fay Bainter · Thomas Mitchell

Synopsis An elderly couple has lived together for 50 years but they have just lost their home to a bank. Their five children are sorry to hear that, but they don't want to get their hands too dirty helping them, so...

Direction Billy Wilder

Cast Kirk Douglas · Jan Sterling · Robert Arthur · Porter Hall

Synopsis A frustrated former big-city journalist now stuck working for an Albuquerque newspaper exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to re-jump start his career, but the situation quickly escalates into an out-of-control circus. Charles Tatum, a down-on-his-luck...

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Cary Grant · Rosalind Russell · Ralph Bellamy · Gene Lockhart

Synopsis Hildy Johnson has divorced Walter Burns and visits his office to tell him that she is engaged to another man and that they are going to get married the day after. Walter Burns can't let that happen and frames the...

Direction Preston Sturges

Cast Joel McCrea · Veronica Lake · Robert Warwick · William Demarest

Synopsis Sullivan is a successful, spoiled, and naive director of fluff films, with a heart-o-gold, who decides he wants to make a film about the troubles of the downtrodden poor. Much to the chagrin of his producers, he sets off in...

Direction Preston Sturges

Cast Eddie Bracken · Betty Hutton · Diana Lynn · William Demarest

Synopsis Preston Sturges directs THE MIRACLE OF MORGAN'S CREEK, about Trudy Kockenlocker (Betty Hutton) a party girl who wakes up one morning to find she's married and pregnant, but she cannot remember who, of six possible American soldiers, is the lucky...

Direction W.S. Van Dyke

Cast William Powell · Myrna Loy · Maureen O'Sullivan · Nat Pendleton

Synopsis After a four year absence, one time detective Nick Charles returns to New York with his new wife Nora and their dog, Asta. Nick re-connects with many of his old cronies, several of whom are eccentric characters, to say the...

Direction Archie Mayo

Cast Leslie Howard · Bette Davis · Humphrey Bogart · Genevieve Tobin

Synopsis This heartfelt drama about a gangster on the run is the film for which Humphrey Bogart first received wide-scale recognition. Bogie and costar Leslie Howard were both brought on board after appearing in the successful stage play by Pulitzer prize-winner...

Direction Clarence Brown

Cast David Brian · Claude Jarman Jr. · Juano Hernández · Porter Hall

Synopsis In 1940s Mississippi two teenage boys and an elderly woman combine forces to prevent a miscarriage of justice and clear a black man of a murder charge.

Direction George Seaton

Cast Maureen O'Hara · John Payne · Edmund Gwenn · Gene Lockhart

Synopsis Six year old Susan has doubts childhood's most enduring miracle Santa Clause. Her mother told her the "secret" about Santa a long time ago, so Susan doesn't expect to receive the most important gifts on her Christmas list. But after...

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 Leo McCarey

Cast Bing Crosby · Barry Fitzgerald · Rise Stevens · Gene Lockhart

Synopsis A new priest shows up at the parish of a crusty old priest named Father Fitzgibbon. The new man, Father O'Malley, must ingratiate himself with both the old man and his congregation. There are various ups and downs in their...

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Gary Cooper · George Raft · Frances Dee · Henry Wilcoxon

Synopsis Cooper and Raft save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about slave trade on the high seas in 1842.

Direction Cecil B. DeMille

Cast Gary Cooper · Jean Arthur · James Ellison · Charles Bickford

Synopsis With the end of the North American Civil War, the manufacturers of repeating rifles find a profitable means of making money selling the weapons to the North American Indians, using the front man John Lattimer to sell the rifles to...

Direction Arnold Laven

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Paulette Goddard · K.T. Stevens · Porter Hall

Synopsis When a police officer is shot arresting a car thief, Captain Barnaby uses his skills and contacts to track down the culprits and uncovers a bank heist plan in the process. Barnaby has no qualms about bending the law to...

Direction John Brahm

Cast Fred MacMurray · Ava Gardner · Roland Culver · Richard Haydn

Synopsis After the war, Matt Gordon returns to Singapore to retrieve a fortune in smuggled pearls. Arrived, he reminisces in flashback about his prewar fiancée...

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast John Wayne · Claire Trevor · Walter Pidgeon · Roy Rogers

Synopsis Cowpoke Bob Seton becomes a rival for William Cantrell's girl and for the sheriff's job Cantrell covets. When Seton wins both, Cantrell forsakes his respected position as schoolteacher and leads a band of renegades through Kansas, looting and destroying, all...

Direction Richard Thorpe

Cast James Stewart · Jean Hagen · Wendell Corey · Carl Benton Reid

Synopsis This is the story of David Marshall 'Marsh' Williams, the real life inventor of the world famous M-1 Carbine automatic riffle used in WWII. It all started when Marsh, who was one to do things his way, was caught distilling...

Direction Archie Mayo

Cast Joel McCrea · Gene Reynolds · Walter Brennan · Terry Kilburn

Synopsis Young Frankie (Gene Reynolds), a victim of a squalid life in the slums, fancies himself a tough guy until hearing a performance by violinist Jascha Heifetz (as himself). Inspired by the maestro, Frankie returns to his violin, an instrument his...

Direction Lewis Milestone

Cast Gary Cooper · Madeleine Carroll · William Frawley · Dudley Digges

Synopsis In revolution-torn China, American mercenary O'Hara is entrusted with a perilous mission, to get arms for the helpless authorities in a province ravaged by warlord General Yang. On the train to Shanghai, he meets Judy Perrie, whose father is in...