Cast: Frank Melton

Direction Henry King

Cast Janet Gaynor · Will Rogers · Lew Ayres · Sally Eilers

Synopsis Stong's 1932 novel is the basis for the popular film with Pat Boone and Ann-Margret and the recent Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway musical. The plot follows the adventures of the Frake family at the Iowa State Fair in the late...

Direction John Ford

Cast Will Rogers · Tom Brown · Anita Louise · Henry B. Walthall

Synopsis A judge sees fair play when tackling prejudices and injustices in a small American town.

Direction John Ford

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

Direction George Marshall

Cast James Stewart · Paulette Goddard · Horace Heidt · Charles Winninger

Synopsis It's rare to see a musical comedy which allows an actor of Jimmy Stewart's caliber to exploit his charismatic screen persona, but POT O' GOLD fits this bill. Stewart plays Jimmy Haskell, the owner of a struggling music store whose...

Direction H.C. Potter

Cast Fred Astaire · Paulette Goddard · Artie Shaw · Burgess Meredith

Synopsis Danny and Hank are surprised when Artie Shaw hires competent manager Ellen away from their college band. The two trumpet players scheme to get into Shaw's outfit themselves, each trying to trump the other's plays.

Direction George Marshall

Cast James Dunn · Alice Faye · Frank Mitchell · Jack Durant

Synopsis Down-on-his-luck film director Jimmie Dale takes a job at a fly-by-night acting school. He is drawn into the plans of the school's owner to bilk a wealthy young man out of the funds he has supplied to shoot a movie...

Direction Alfred L. Werker

Cast Jane Withers · Walter Brennan · Pauline Moore · Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer

Synopsis Jane Withers helps celebrate her town's fiftieth anniversary in spite of crooks planning a bank robbery.

Direction James Cruze

Cast Will Rogers · Louise Dresser · Evelyn Venable · Kent Taylor

Synopsis Rogers plays a small town banker in the 1890s whose chief rival is the deacon (Middleton) with whom he has traded horse flesh. Taylor is a bank teller who places a winning $4,500 bet on a 10-1 harness racing horse,...

Direction Hamilton MacFadden

Cast Warner Baxter · Madge Evans · James Dunn · John Boles

Synopsis President Franklin Roosevelt appoints a theatrical producer as the new Secretary of Amusement in order to cheer up an American public still suffering through the Depression. The new secretary soon runs afoul of political lobbyists out to destroy his department.

Direction Charles Lamont

Cast Valerie Hobson · Paul Harvey · G.P. Huntley · Betty Compson

Synopsis At a high-society dinner party, a wealthy, older and married man sets his sights on a beautiful young girl who's loved by a younger and not-so-wealthy man.

Direction George Marshall

Cast Edward Everett Horton · Karen Morley · Alan Dinehart · Glen Boles

Synopsis Hubert T. Wilkins is a bookkeeper who is encouraged by his romantic interest, Emily Converse, to ask his boss, Mr. Bates, for a $10 dollar raise. He is then fired and has no money for his and Emily's wedding. He...

Direction Frank McDonald

Cast Richard Arlen · Chester Morris · Jean Parker · Joe Sawyer

Synopsis Two demolitions experts become arch rivals when they fall in love with the same woman in this drama. Their job is to bring down old skyscrapers and it is quite dangerous. The two finally begin working together when they are...

Direction Ben Holmes

Cast Anne Shirley · John Morley · Gene Lockhart · Dudley Clements

Synopsis An heiress and a dog-catcher go searching for a priceless stamp.

Direction Erle C. Kenton

Cast Jean Hersholt · Dorothy Lovett · Robert Baldwin · Maude Eburne

Direction Ralph Staub

Cast Walter Brennan · Mary Brian · Lyle Talbot · Frank Shields

Synopsis Cappy Ricks, a crusty old sea captain, returns home from a long voyage to discover that his family and his business are in chaos--his daughter is set to marry a nitwit that he can't stand, and his future mother-in-law has...

Direction William A. Seiter

Cast James Dunn · Mae Clarke · Neil Hamilton · Sidney Toler

Direction David Butler

Cast Will Rogers · Peggy Wood · Mary Carlisle · Paul Harvey

Synopsis A small-town druggist is henpecked by his social-climbing wife to sell his pharmacy to a national chain. In addition, she tries to set up her pretty young daughter with the nitwit son of the chain's owner, even though the girl...

Direction Fred Guiol

Cast William Tracy · James Gleason · Noah Beery Jr. · Joe Sawyer

Synopsis In 1941, producer Hal Roach abandoned production of full-length features in favor of a new concept: The "Streamliner", a four-reel film-halfway between a short subject and a feature-designed for the double-bill market. The first Roach streamliner was the timely service...