Cast: Jerome Cowan

Direction John Huston

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Mary Astor · Gladys George · Peter Lorre

Synopsis Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) is a private eye who gets involved in the hunt for a statuette while searching for the murderer of his partner, Miles Archer (Jerome Cowan). His fellow treasure hunters include a sinister 'little and large' act...

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Ida Lupino · Alan Curtis · Arthur Kennedy

Synopsis Roy 'Mad Dog' Earle is broken out of prison by an old associate who wants him to help with an upcoming robbery. When the robbery goes wrong and a man is shot and killed Earle is forced to go on...

Direction King Vidor

Cast Gary Cooper · Patricia Neal · Raymond Massey · Kent Smith

Synopsis Long treasured as a masterpiece of camp, THE FOUNTAINHEAD stars Gary Cooper as architect Howard Roark. A paragon of integrity, he refuses to create buildings that violate his sense of aesthetic value, choosing instead to work as laborer until he...

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Sylvia Sidney · Henry Fonda · Barton MacLane · Jean Dixon

Synopsis Archetypal depression-era stars Henry Fonda and Sylvia Sidney are felicitously teamed in Fritz Lang's You Only Live Once. Fonda plays an ex-convict who can't get a break on the "outside". He marries Sidney, who like her husband is one of...

Direction Edmund Goulding

Cast Bette Davis · Miriam Hopkins · George Brent · Donald Crisp

Synopsis Delia marries Jim, not Joe After Delia breaks her engagement to Clem and marries Jim, Clem promises to marry Delia's cousin Charlotte, but he dies at the battle of Vicksburg leaving Charlotte an unwed mother. She and her daughter Tina,...

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Kirk Douglas · Lauren Bacall · Doris Day · Mary Beth Hughes

Synopsis As a boy, orphan and dropout Rick Martin finds his only outlet in music. Through chance-met black jazzman Art Hazzard, he develops into a great trumpeter...too great for jazz-hating Jack Chandler, leader of the dance band he joins. But before...

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Ruth Warrick · Walter Brennan · Dean Jagger · Charlotte Greenwood

Synopsis Six-year-old Jenny rescues a collie dog, the only survivor of a plane wreck. A tag on the dog's neck states that it is en route to a medical laboratory where its blood will be used for spotted fever vaccine. Dr....

Direction Roy Rowland

Cast Van Johnson · Arlene Dahl · Gloria DeHaven · Tom Drake

Synopsis Homicide detective Mike Conovan investigates the shooting of fellow detective Monigan...who apparrently was moonlighting as guard for a bookie. He finds that all the bookies in town are being robbed, most upsetting to the racket bosses who can't get normal...

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 Vincent Sherman

Cast Ann Sheridan · Lew Ayres · Zachary Scott · Eve Arden

Synopsis Chris Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer it was an act of self-defense. It's later revealed that he was actually her lover and she had posed for an incriminating statue he created.

Direction John Ford · Stuart Heisler

Cast Dorothy Lamour · Jon Hall · Mary Astor · C. Aubrey Smith

Synopsis In the days of the tall ships and colonial rule of the South Pacific, a naive native sailor working as first mate on an island hopping windjammer is unjustly jailed in Tahiti for striking a racist planter with government connections....

Direction Mark Sandrich

Cast Fred Astaire · Ginger Rogers · Edward Everett Horton · Eric Blore

Synopsis Ballet star Pete "Petrov" Peters arranges to cross the Atlantic aboard the same ship as the dancer he's fallen for but barely knows, musical star Linda Keene. By the time the ocean liner reaches New York, a little white lie...

Direction John Farrow

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Gail Russell · John Lund · Virginia Bruce

Synopsis When heiress Jean Courtland attempts suicide, her fiancée Elliott Carson probes her relationship to John Triton. In flashback, we see how stage mentalist Triton starts having terrifying flashes of true precognition. His partner, Whitney Courtland, uses Triton's talent to make...

Direction Leslie Stevens

Cast Kate Manx · Corey Allen · Warren Oates · Robert Ward

Synopsis Duke and Boots, two young thugs, hold up a California gas-station owner. Duke, viral and savage, taunts the slower and psychologically-confused Boots because he has never made a sexual conquest. Duke offers to seduce a woman for Boots and the...

Direction Anatole Litvak

Cast John Garfield · Ida Lupino · Thomas Mitchell · Eddie Albert

Synopsis Fishermen Jonah Goodwin (Thomas Mitchell) and Olaf Johnson (John Qualen) are confronted by gangster Harold Goff (John Garfield) who tries to extort "boat protection" money out of the two men. Afraid to go to the law, the two men decide...

Direction Archie Mayo · Fritz Lang

Cast Jean Gabin · Ida Lupino · Thomas Mitchell · Claude Rains

Synopsis After a drunken binge on the San Pablo waterfront, longshoreman Bobo fears he may have killed a man. In his uncertainty, he takes a job on an isolated bait barge. That night, he rescues lovely Anna from a watery suicide...

Direction Norman Z. McLeod

Cast Danny Kaye · Virginia Mayo · Vera-Ellen · Steve Cochran

Direction Mitchell Leisen

Cast Ida Lupino · Martin Balsam · Jerome Cowan · Ted de Corsia

Synopsis The washed up actress Barbara Trenton is a woman stranded in her past, worshiping and watching her movies of twenty-five years ago in her glorious days. Her housemaid Sally is worried with her behavior and she tells to Barbara's friend...

Direction Edmund Goulding

Cast Bette Davis · George Brent · Mary Astor · Lucile Watson

Synopsis Sandra and Pete elope but their marriage is invalid since she's not yet divorced. Sandra is, however, pregnant by Pete. Pete marries his former fiancée Maggie, then flies to South America where his plane crashes. Maggie pays Sandra to let...

Direction Anatole Litvak

Cast John Garfield · Ann Sheridan · Pat O'Brien · Burgess Meredith

Synopsis Mobster Tommy Gordon isn't worried about being sentenced to Sing Sing prison because his political pals have promised him a quick parole. A troublesome prisoner, he finally concedes that his friends have deserted him, and he makes an effort to...