Cast: Arthur Hohl

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Martha Raye · Marilyn Nash · Isobel Elsom

Synopsis Monsieur Verdoux is a bluebeard who marries women and kills them after the marriage to get the money he needs for his family. But with two ladies he has bad luck.

Direction William Dieterle

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

Synopsis 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. In his triumphant attempt to create a performance as memorable...

Direction Tod Browning

Cast Lionel Barrymore · Maureen O'Sullivan · Frank Lawton · Robert Greig

Synopsis An escaped Devil's Island convict uses miniaturized humans to wreak vengeance on those that framed him.

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Frankie Darro · Edwin Phillips · Rochelle Hudson · Dorothy Coonan Wellman

Synopsis In the depths of the Depression, two teenage boys strike out on their own in order to help their struggling parents and find life on the road tougher than expected.

Direction Alfred E. Green

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · George Brent · Donald Cook · Alphonse Ethier

Synopsis Lily Powers (Baby Face) has to do more than serve drinks at her father's run-down speakeasy in a small industrial town. His death gives her the chance to get to New York. With her experience in using her looks to...

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast Spencer Tracy · Loretta Young · Marjorie Rambeau · Glenda Farrell

Synopsis Bill takes Trina into his depression camp cabin. Later, just as he finds showgirl LaRue who will support him, Trina becomes pregnant.

Direction John Ford

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Jean Arthur · Arthur Hohl · Arthur Byron

Synopsis Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He's never late for work and nothing interesting ever happens to him. One day everything changes: he oversleeps and is fired as an example, he's then mistaken for evil criminal...

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast James Cagney · Joan Blondell · Ruby Keeler · Dick Powell

Direction Erle C. Kenton

Cast Charles Laughton · Bela Lugosi · Richard Arlen · Leila Hyams

Synopsis An obsessed scientist conducts profane experiments in evolution, eventually establishing himself as the self-styled demigod to a race of mutated, half-human abominations.

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 Roy William Neill

Cast Basil Rathbone · Nigel Bruce · Gerald Hamer · Paul Cavanagh

Synopsis A village in Canada has an old legend about a phantom that years ago killed three villagers. Many residents are afraid that the monster has come back, because some of them have seen strange luminous shapes, and then some sheep...

Direction Stephen Roberts

Cast Francis Lederer · Ginger Rogers · Arthur Hohl · Jimmy Butler

Direction Alfred L. Werker

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

Synopsis 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 the intrepid detective from figuring out his main caper, Moriarty...

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 Roy William Neill

Cast Basil Rathbone · Nigel Bruce · Gale Sondergaard · Dennis Hoey

Synopsis Alarmed by a series of baffling suicides of prominent gamblers popularly dubbed "The Pajama Murders" by the newspapers, Holmes fakes his own death and assumes the identity of Rajni Singh, a retired Indian military man with a paralyzed arm. After...

Direction H.C. Potter

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Ruth Hussey · Gene Lockhart · Bobs Watson

Synopsis John Ingram, successful oil-field firefighter, is really a chain-gang escapee. Someone out of his past finds him...

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast James Cagney · Bette Davis · Allen Jenkins · Alan Dinehart

Synopsis Unscrupulous Jimmy Corrigan (James Cagney) runs an agency that searches for heirs of those who have died without leaving a will and often provides phony claimants in order to collect his fee. When his former girlfriend Joan Martin (Bette Davis),...

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast William Powell · Margaret Lindsay · Ruth Donnelly · Gordon Westcott

Synopsis A private eye in Paris falls for the beautiful gambling lady he''s investigating.

Direction Harold Young

Cast Lon Chaney Jr. · Evelyn Ankers · Milburn Stone · Douglass Dumbrille

Synopsis Stage mentalist Gregor the Great becomes enraged when a drunken audience member belittles his act. When the man dies suddenly, Gregor convinces himself that his hypnotic powers are to blame. Guilt-ridden, he retires from performing to Valerie Monet's wax museum....

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast Ronald Colman · Loretta Young · C. Aubrey Smith · Charles Butterworth

Synopsis Algy, Bulldog Drummond's right-hand-man, is getting married. Bulldog attends; on the way home, in the fog, he enters the (apparently deserted) mansion of Prince Achmed in search of a phone. He finds none, but he does find a body -...