Cast: George Zucco

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Charles Laughton · Maureen O'Hara · Cedric Hardwicke · Thomas Mitchell

Plot Of the many film versions of Victor Hugo's novel, this classic from Hollywood's golden year of 1939 remains the best, rivaled only by the 1923 silent version starring Lon Chaney....

Direction George Cukor

Cast Joan Crawford · Melvyn Douglas · Conrad Veidt · Osa Massen

Plot Anna Holm is a blackmailer, who because of a facial scar, despises everyone she encounters. When a plastic surgeon performs an operation to correct this disfigurement, Anna becomes torn between...

Direction John M. Stahl

Cast Monty Woolley · Gracie Fields · Laird Cregar · Una O'Connor

Plot From Arnold Bennett's novel "Buried Alive". An artist returning from years abroad takes the identity of his dead valet to escape the attentions of the press.

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Judy Garland · Gene Kelly · Walter Slezak · Gladys Cooper

Plot When Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne appeared in S. N. Behrmann's The Pirate on Broadway, there were no musical numbers whatsoever. But with Gene Kelly and Judy Garland in the...

Direction Henry Hathaway

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

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

Direction Mitchell Leisen

Cast Claudette Colbert · Ray Milland · Dennis O'Keefe · George Zucco

Plot In 1939, American Tom Martin, who fought in the Spanish Civil War, awaits execution at the hands of the Fascist victors when reporter Augusta 'Gusto' Nash, for a scoop, aids...

Direction W.S. Van Dyke

Cast William Powell · Myrna Loy · James Stewart · Elissa Landi

Plot Now back in San Francisco after their holiday in New York, Nick and Nora find themselves trying to solve another mystery. It's New Year's Eve and they are summoned to...

Direction Lothar Mendes

Cast Roland Young · Ralph Richardson · Edward Chapman · Ernest Thesiger

Plot As a result of a discussion between a trio of gods over the true worthiness of Earth, a retiring British shop assistant is granted miraculous powers. His new powers are...

Direction Fred M. Wilcox

Cast Margaret O'Brien · Herbert Marshall · Dean Stockwell · Gladys Cooper

Plot When Cholera takes the parents of Mary Lennox, she is shipped from India to England to live with her Uncle Craven. Archibald Craven's house is dark, drafty, with over 100...

Direction Douglas Sirk

Cast George Sanders · Lucille Ball · Charles Coburn · Boris Karloff

Plot Before being forever associated with melodrama, acclaimed director Douglas Sirk dabbled in other genres. LURED, a good example of this, is a witty and stylish thriller about a serial killer...

Direction Alfred L. Werker

Cast Basil Rathbone · Nigel Bruce · Ida Lupino · George Zucco

Plot Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) goes head to head against his archenemy, Professor Moriarty (George Zucco), who's planning to steal the Star of Delhi gem from the Crown Jewels. To keep...

Direction Charles Walters

Cast Fred Astaire · Ginger Rogers · Oscar Levant · Jacques François

Plot The MGM reunion of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, 10 years after their last RKO picture, happened by accident. The Barkleys of Broadway was meant to pair Astaire with Judy...

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Tyrone Power · Loretta Young · Annabella · J. Edward Bromberg

Plot De Lesseps is a young aristocrat who conceives the idea for the Suez Canal. When Napoleon fails him, the British show interest. Though the production values make the film entertaining...

Direction Herman Shumlin

Cast Charles Boyer · Lauren Bacall · Victor Francen · Wanda Hendrix

Plot During the Spanish Civil War, a republican courier Louis Denard (Charles Boyer) travels to England to try and buy coal. He meets with an amount of local hostility, while his...

Direction Roy William Neill

Cast Basil Rathbone · Nigel Bruce · Marjorie Lord · Henry Daniell

Plot In World War II, a British secret agent carrying a vitally important document is kidnapped en route to Washington. The British government calls on Sherlock Holmes to recover it.

Direction Gregory Ratoff

Cast Peggy Cummins · Victor Mature · Ethel Barrymore · Vincent Price

Plot It's that smudge of fog called London under the reign of Victoria. When a music-hall dancer is murdered, a moss rose marks the page of a Bible next to her...

Direction Elliott Nugent

Cast Bob Hope · Paulette Goddard · John Beal · Douglass Montgomery

Plot Ten years have passed since the death of millionaire, Cyrus Norman. Cosby, Cyrus' attorney, has gathered Cyrus' 6 remaining relatives to his New Orleans' mansion for Cyrus' "reading of the...

Direction Jack Conway · George Cukor · Mervyn LeRoy · Victor Saville

Cast Greer Garson · Robert Mitchum · Richard Hart · Morris Ankrum

Plot Shortly after WWII, flashbacks tell the story of Marise, her husband Paul, and Jean, who was imprisoned with Paul in a German camp. While attempting to escape from the camp...

Direction Jack Conway

Cast Clark Gable · Jean Harlow · Lionel Barrymore · Frank Morgan

Plot Carol Clayton is the daughter of a horse breeder at Saratoga. Though engaged to wealthy Hartley Madison, and disgusted by bookie Duke Bradley, her father owes Bradley a lot of...

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast Joan Blondell · Roland Young · Carole Landis · Billie Burke

Plot Topper is once again tormented by a fun-loving spirit. This time, it's Joan Blondell, who was accidentally murdered while vacationing at the home of her wealthy friend, Ann Carrington (Landis),...