Cinematography: Merrit B. Gerstad

Direction Sam Wood

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

Plot 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...

Direction Tod Browning

Cast Wallace Ford · Leila Hyams · Olga Baclanova · Roscoe Ates

Plot The story involves duplicitous trapeze artist Cleopatra (Olga Baclanova) seducing sideshow midget Hans (Earles) for his inheritance. Hans’ reluctant friends, the other sideshow attractions, resist allowing her into their clan,...

Direction Tod Browning

Cast Lon Chaney · Joan Crawford · Norman Kerry · Nick de Ruiz

Plot Alonzo, one of the star attractions of Zanzi's gypsy circus, is an "armless wonder" who hurls knives with his feet at his attractive assistant Nanon, Zanzi's daughter. In reality, Alonzo...

Direction John M. Stahl

Cast Margaret Sullavan · John Boles · Edna May Oliver · Billie Burke

Plot A one-night fling during World War I results in a young girl getting pregnant. Years later, she meets him again. Now a successful businessman, he doesn't even remember her, but...

Direction John M. Stahl

Cast Claudette Colbert · Warren William · Rochelle Hudson · Ned Sparks

Plot Bea Pullman and her daughter Jessie have had a hard time making ends meet since Bea's husband died. Help comes in the form of Delilah Johnson, who agrees to work...

Direction Curtis Bernhardt

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Alexis Smith · Sydney Greenstreet · Rose Hobart

Plot Richard Mason (Humphrey Bogart) is slightly injured in a car accident but pretends greater hurt so that he cannot accompany his wife Kathryn on a trip to the mountains. He...

Direction Henry King

Cast James Stewart · Simone Simon · Jean Hersholt · Gregory Ratoff

Plot A Parisian sewer worker (James Stewart) longs for a rise in status and a beautiful wife. He rescues a girl (Simone Simon) from the police, lives with her in a...

Direction Robert Z. Leonard

Cast William Powell · Myrna Loy · Luise Rainer · Frank Morgan

Plot At the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, sideshow barker Flo Ziegfeld turns the tables on his more successful neighbor Billings, and steals his girlfriend to boot. This pattern is repeated throughout...

Direction Herman Shumlin

Cast Bette Davis · Paul Lukas · Geraldine Fitzgerald · Lucile Watson

Plot Sara and Kurt Muller and their three children are returning to her mother's home in Washington DC after 18 years in Europe. A Romanian Count living there discovers Kurt's attache...

Direction Irving Rapper

Cast Robert Alda · Joan Leslie · Alexis Smith · Charles Coburn

Plot Composer George Gershwin is driven by his need to succeed. Unfortunately his drive destroys his romantic relationships with singer Julie Adams, who is desperately in love with him, and aloof...

Direction Archie Mayo

Cast George Raft · Joan Bennett · Lloyd Nolan · Walter Pidgeon

Plot An aircraft designer falls for the wife of an imprisoned gangster. All goes well until the gangster gets out of prison...

Direction Archie Mayo · Michael Curtiz

Cast James Cagney · Madge Evans · Arthur Byron · Allen Jenkins

Plot Five members of a teen-age gang, including leader Jimmy Smith, are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the melodramatically callous Thompson. Soon, Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed...

Direction Tod Browning

Cast Lon Chaney · Polly Moran · Henry B. Walthall · Marceline Day

Plot The abandoned home of a wealthy man who supposedly committed suicide five years earlier is taken over by ghoulish figures - could they be vampires?

Direction Tod Browning

Cast Lon Chaney · Lois Moran · Owen Moore · Henry B. Walthall

Plot East meets West -- you'll meet thrills such as you've never imagined possible in this powerful film, Chaney's greatest role!

Direction W.S. Van Dyke

Cast Lionel Barrymore · Kay Francis · Madge Evans · William Bakewell

Plot Richard Grant is a lawyer who believes that murder under certain circumstances is justifiable. Richard's daughter, Barbara, takes her dad to a dinner party hosted by Richard's old friend, wealthy...

Direction Tod Browning

Cast Conrad Nagel · Leila Hyams · Margaret Wycherly · Helene Millard

Plot Although his murdered friend was by all accounts a scoundrel a true "bounder" Edward Wales is determined to trap his killer by staging a seance using a famous medium. Many...

Direction Benjamin Christensen

Cast Lon Chaney · Barbara Bedford · Ricardo Cortez · Mack Swain

Plot There is hunger in Siberia during the Russian Civil War. Dim-witted peasant Sergei is searching corpses for food. He meets a mysterious young woman looking for the town of Novokursk....

Direction Tay Garnett

Cast Pat O'Brien · Edward Arnold · Broderick Crawford · Ruth Terry

Plot A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name.

Direction Tay Garnett

Cast Loretta Young · David Niven · Hugh Herbert · Billie Burke

Plot Anita's (Loretta Young) life seems to be progressing nicely. She's engaged to Don Barnes (Broderick Crawford), a wealthy man that will give her all the stability and comfort a woman...

Direction Garson Kanin

Cast Ginger Rogers · George Murphy · Alan Marshal · Burgess Meredith

Plot Ginger Rogers, a telephone operator, is pursued by George Murphy (a down-to earth fellow), Alan Marshal (a rich man) and Burgess Meredith (a noncomformist). She dreams what life would be...