Cast: Sig Ruman

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Carole Lombard · Jack Benny · Robert Stack · Stanley Ridges

Synopsis Joseph Tura and his wife Maria top the bill at a Warsaw theatre company. Young aviator Lieutenant Sobinski is madly in love with the girl and the two arrange to meet in her dressing room during the play they are...

Direction Sam Wood

Cast The Marx Brothers · Groucho Marx · Harpo Marx · Chico Marx

Synopsis Moved by a strange sense of business, Groucho gets all the stars of the Milano Opera on a boat headed to New York. Two stowaways also travel on the same boat: Harpo and Chico. The three of them stir up...

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Greta Garbo · Melvyn Douglas · Bela Lugosi · Ina Claire

Synopsis Ninotchka is a stern, straightlaced Communist Party member sent to Paris to finish the sale of Grand Duchess Swana's jewels for the Soviet government. But, while studying the frivolous materialism of Paris, Ninotchka meets Leon, Swana's lawyer and sometime lover,...

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Cary Grant · Jean Arthur · Rita Hayworth · Thomas Mitchell

Synopsis While waiting for her boat, Bonnie Lee stops at a small airport in South America. The pilots there deliver mail over a dangerous and usually foggy mountain pass. Geoff Carter, the lead flyer, seems distant and cold as Bonnie tries...

Direction Sam Wood

Cast The Marx Brothers · Groucho Marx · Harpo Marx · Chico Marx

Synopsis Town villain Morgan has his sights set on taking over Judy's sanitarium and turning it into a casino. Aiding Judy in saving the sanitarium are Dr. Hugo Hackenbush, a horse doctor illegally employed as the sanitarium director; Tony, a helper...

Direction Billy Wilder

Cast William Holden · Don Taylor · Otto Preminger · Robert Strauss

Synopsis During WWII, in Stalag (which is German for prison) 17, the prisoners are dumbfounded as to how the Germans know when someone's trying to escape. Recently, two tried to escape and never made past just outside the camp. Sefton, a...

Direction Archie Mayo

Cast The Marx Brothers · Groucho Marx · Harpo Marx · Chico Marx

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Ruth Gordon · Otto Kruger · Donald Crisp

Synopsis Dr. Paul Ehrlich was the German physician who developed the first synthetic antimicrobial drug, 606 or Salvarsan. The film describes how Ehrlich first became interested in the properties of the then-new synthetic dyes and had an intuition that they could...

Direction John Ford

Cast John Wayne · Maureen O'Hara · Dan Dailey · Ward Bond

Synopsis A biography of Navy flier-turned-screenwriter Frank W. "Spig" Wead.

Direction George Seaton

Cast James Garner · Eva Marie Saint · Rod Taylor · Werner Peters

Synopsis In this psychological war-drama an Army Major -from the American intelligence- is captured by the Germans during World War II -on the eve of the D-Day-. The Nazis attempt to brainwash him into believing that it's six years later, that...

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast James Stewart · June Allyson · Harry Morgan · Barton MacLane

Synopsis James Stewart, at his warmest and most avuncular, plays the bandleader who rocketed to fame during the swing era. The Glenn Miller Story may be a whitewashed version of Miller's life, but it certainly is a pleasant example of the...

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Merle Oberon · Melvyn Douglas · Burgess Meredith · Alan Mowbray

Synopsis Larry Baker (Melvyn Douglas) loves his job and married life, not realizing that his wife, Jill (Merle Oberon), is bored to tears and wishes that he would pay more attention to her. While trying to make Larry react, an eccentric...

Direction Otto Preminger · Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Tallulah Bankhead · Charles Coburn · Anne Baxter · William Eythe

Synopsis A Royal Scandal dwells upon a fictional incident in the life of Russia's Catherine the Great.

Direction King Vidor

Cast Gary Cooper · Anna Sten · Ralph Bellamy · Helen Vinson

Synopsis Because his finances are low and he is seeking background for a new book, author Tony Barratt and his wife Dora return to his country home in Conneecticut. While he is finding a theme for his book on the lives...

Direction Jack Conway

Cast William Powell · Myrna Loy · Gail Patrick · Jack Carson

Synopsis Steve and Susan Ireland find nothing but trouble as they get ready to celebrate their fourth wedding anniversary. Susan catches Steve with his old girlfriend and mistakenly believes he is having an affair. So the shocked wife decides to get...

Direction Douglas Sirk

Cast George Sanders · Linda Darnell · Edward Everett Horton · Anna Lee

Synopsis In this filmed Chekhov adaptation, Olga is an alluring peasant woman who lures cynical aristocrat Fedor away from his milquetoast fiancée, with tragic consequences.

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Edmund Lowe · Victor McLaglen · Florence Rice · Marjorie Rambeau

Synopsis Two members of a crew of "sandhogs", men who work on an underwater tunnel project, battle each other over the same woman and a rival team of sandhogs to see who will finish their half of the tunnel first, with...

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Carole Lombard · Fredric March · Charles Winninger · Walter Connolly

Synopsis When a small-town girl is diagnosed with a rare, deadly disease, an ambitious newspaper man turns her into a national heroine.

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast Ricardo Montalban · George Murphy · Howard Da Silva · James Mitchell

Synopsis To penetrate a gang exploiting illegal Mexican farmworkers smuggled into California (and leaving no live witnesses), Mexican federal agent Pablo Rodriguez poses as an ignorant bracero, while his American counterpart Jack Bearnes works from outside. Soon, both are in deadly...

Direction John Ford

Cast Madeleine Carroll · Franchot Tone · Reginald Denny · Sig Ruman