Cast: Elisabeth Risdon

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast James Cagney · Priscilla Lane · Humphrey Bogart · Gladys George

Plot After WWI, three war veterans, Lloyd Hart (Jeffrey Lynn), Eddie Bartlett (James Cagney), and George Hally (Humphrey Bogart), go back to their lives in the United States but they find...

Direction Raoul Walsh

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

Plot 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...

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Claude Rains · Gloria Dickson · Edward Norris · Otto Kruger

Plot A southern town is rocked by scandal when teenager Mary Clay is murdered on Confederate Decoration Day. Andrew Griffin, a small-time lawyer with political ambitions, sees the crime as his...

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Ronald Colman · Greer Garson · Philip Dorn · Susan Peters

Plot As the First World War ends a soldier wanders out of a Midlands asylum. Smithy was found in the trenches having lost his memory and all contact with the past....

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast Peter Lorre · Edward Arnold · Marian Marsh · Elisabeth Risdon

Plot Von Sternberg’s first film after leaving Paramount (and Dietrich) was this expressionistic riot based on the Dostoevsky novel, about student Peter Lorre (in his Hollywood debut) obsessed by a murder...

Direction Curtis Bernhardt

Cast Robert Taylor · Audrey Totter · Herbert Marshall · Dorothy Patrick

Plot Steven Kenet, suffering from a recurring brain injury, appears to have strangled his wife. Having confessed, he's committed to an understaffed county asylum full of pathetic inmates. There, Dr. Ann...

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast Dorothy Lamour · Akim Tamiroff · John Howard · Judith Barrett

Plot A doctor's medical studies are threatened by his infatuation with a Chinese girl. The girl returns to China, but complications ensue when she runs into him in Nanking during a...

Direction John Farrow

Cast Chester Morris · Lucille Ball · Wendy Barrie · John Carradine

Plot After their airplane crashes in the South American jungle, the passengers and crew must survive until the repairs can be made. Apart from the two pilots there is an elderly...

Direction Mel Ferrer

Cast Claudette Colbert · Robert Ryan · Jane Cowl · Paul Kelly

Plot During the ceremony marrying Ellen and David, a stranger stands up when that phrase "if anyone knows why these two may not be joined..." is spoken. The stranger announces that...

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast William Powell · Irene Dunne · Elizabeth Taylor · Edmund Gwenn

Plot In late nineteenth century New York a Wall Street broker likes to think his house runs his way, but finds himself constantly bemused at how much of what happens is...

Direction Richard Fleischer

Cast Lawrence Tierney · Priscilla Lane · Phillip Reed · June Clayworth

Plot Homicide detective Mike Carter is tossed off the police force for insubordination and violating regulations. He reluctantly takes a job as bodyguard to Mrs. Gene Dysen, the owner of a...

Direction Jules Dassin

Cast Charles Laughton · Robert Young · Margaret O'Brien · William Gargan

Plot In the 1600s, cowardly Sir Simon of Canterville flees a duel and seeks solace in the family castle. His ashamed father seals him in the room where he is hiding...

Direction Richard Thorpe

Cast Mickey Rooney · Walter Connolly · William Frawley · Rex Ingram

Plot The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a 1939 film adaptation of Mark Twain's classic novel of the same name, starring Mickey Rooney in the title role.

Direction Edwin L. Marin

Cast John Wayne · Ella Raines · Ward Bond · George 'Gabby' Hayes

Plot When a stranger arrives in a western town he finds that the rancher who sent for him has been murdered. Further, most of the townsfolk seem to be at each...

Direction Lewis Allen

Cast Joel McCrea · Gail Russell · Herbert Marshall · Phyllis Brooks

Plot When Elizabeth Howard (Gail Russell) comes to fashionable Crescent Drive to take charge of two motherless children, she finds them spoiled, unmanageable yet strangely cognizant of all the weird events...

Direction Richard Boleslawski

Cast Irene Dunne · Melvyn Douglas · Thomas Mitchell · Thurston Hall

Plot The small-town prudes of Lynnfield are up in arms over 'The Sinner,' a sexy best-seller. They little suspect that author 'Caroline Adams' is really Theodora Lynn, scion of the town's...

Direction Chester Erskine

Cast Claudette Colbert · Fred MacMurray · Marjorie Main · Louise Allbritton

Plot Based on the true-life adventures of best-selling humorist Betty MacDonald. A young urban bride agrees to help her new husband realize his life-long dream of owning a chicken farm. A...

Direction Dorothy Arzner

Cast Rosalind Russell · John Boles · Billie Burke · Jane Darwell

Plot A domineering woman marries a wealthy man for his money, and then uses her position to further her own ambitions for money and power.

Direction Garson Kanin

Cast John Barrymore · Peter Holden · Virginia Weidler · Katharine Alexander

Plot In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book-to-bottle. He works, slightly, as a night-watchman and his children, who know him...

Direction William A. Seiter

Cast Deanna Durbin · Franchot Tone · Walter Brennan · Robert Stack