Direction: Sam Wood

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 Victor Fleming · George Cukor · Sam Wood

Cast Vivien Leigh · Clark Gable · Olivia de Havilland · Leslie Howard

Synopsis When wealthy Southern belle Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) learns that Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard), whom she's secretly in love with, is engaged to Melanie Hamilton (Olivia de Havilland), she decides to tell him at a party about her feelings for...

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 Sam Wood

Cast Robert Donat · Greer Garson · John Mills · Terry Kilburn

Synopsis An old classics teacher looks back over his long career, remembering pupils and colleagues, and above all the idyllic courtship and marriage that transformed his life.

Direction Sam Wood

Cast Gary Cooper · Teresa Wright · Babe Ruth · Walter Brennan

Synopsis Gary Cooper plays Lou Gehrig, the first baseman for the Yanks who suffered from a crippling and incurable disease. Even when Gehrig was a student at Columbia University, the press had already pegged him as a top ballplayer. Soon the...

Direction Sam Wood

Cast Jean Arthur · Robert Cummings · Charles Coburn · Edmund Gwenn

Synopsis Tycoon John P. Merrick is startled to see an effigy of himself hanging on the front page of the New York Times, courtesy of union organizers at Neeley's Department Store, which Merrick didn't even know he owned. On a sudden...

Direction Sam Wood

Cast Joan Fontaine · Patric Knowles · Herbert Marshall · Richard Ney

Synopsis In 1909, the beautiful but amoral British belle Ivy Lexton meets older, rich Miles Rushworth; undeterred by the prior claims of her husband Jervis and lover Roger, she goes after Miles and has no trouble fascinating him, but oddly enough...

Direction Sam Wood

Cast Ann Sheridan · Robert Cummings · Ronald Reagan · Betty Field

Synopsis Five children in an apparently ideal American small town find their lives changing as the years pass near the turn of the century in 1900. Parris and Drake, both of whom have lost their parents, are best friends; Parris dreams...

Direction Sam Wood

Cast James Stewart · June Allyson · Frank Morgan · Agnes Moorehead

Synopsis The movie is about Chicago White Sox pitcher Monty Stratton (Jimmy Stewart), who in the 1930s, compiled a 37-19 won-loss record in three seasons. After he became the winningest right-hander in the American League, his major league career ended prematurely...

Direction Sam Wood

Cast Robert Taylor · John Hodiak · Arlene Dahl · Jean Hagen

Synopsis Robert Taylor is a scout, John Hodiak is the captain and Don Taylor is the lieutenant who is in love with another man´s wife. Arlene Dahl is searching for her sister who was captured by an Indian chief called Diablito....

Direction Sam Wood

Cast Gary Cooper · Ingrid Bergman · Akim Tamiroff · Arturo de Córdova

Synopsis This respectful adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's novel of the Spanish Civil War was one of the most sensational and popular films to come out of wartime Hollywood. Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman were Hemingway's personal choices for the roles of...

Direction Sam Wood

Cast Myrna Loy · Spencer Tracy · Harvey Stephens · William Harrigan

Synopsis Vivian, Ed and Harry steal jewels in Paris. In New York government agent McBride accompanies Vivian riding across the country with the loot. She falls in love with him and gives up crime; he finds the stash and arrests her....

Direction Sam Wood

Cast Ginger Rogers · Dennis Morgan · James Craig · Eduardo Ciannelli

Synopsis Kitty Foyle (Ginger Rogers), a hard-working white-collar girl from a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania low, middle-class family, meets and falls in love with young socialite Wyn Strafford but his family is against her. In 1940 "Kitty Foyle" won one Academy Award: best...

Direction Sam Wood

Cast Rudolph Valentino · Gloria Swanson · Edythe Chapman · Raymond Blathwayt

Synopsis Love, duty, and the scent of narcissus. Theodora, a young and penniless aristocrat, marries a much older man, self-made millionaire grocer Josiah Brown, so that her father and spinster sisters can live comfortably. Soon after the wedding, she finds herself...

Direction Sam Wood

Cast William Holden · Martha Scott · Thomas Mitchell · Frank Craven

Synopsis Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. People grow up, get married, live, and die. Milk and the newspaper get delivered every morning, and nobody locks their front doors.

Direction Jack Conway · Sam Wood

Cast Jean Harlow · Lionel Barrymore · Franchot Tone · Lewis Stone

Synopsis With her pal Kitty, Eadie Chapman escapes from the sleazy roadhouse run by her mother and stepfather, only to become a showgirl. But her former milieu gave her a poor opinion of easy morals, and she plans to preserve her...

Direction Sam Wood

Cast Claudette Colbert · Don Ameche · Dick Foran · Charles Dingle

Synopsis Christopher Price, a small-town bank executive, continues to be loyal to and idolize his boyhood friend, Joseph Jefferson Parker, a famous war correspondent. But Chris's wife, Mary, is none to fond of Joe and tired of her husband's idolizing. On...

Direction Sam Wood

Cast David Niven · Olivia de Havilland · Dame May Whitty · Dudley Digges

Direction Sam Wood

Cast Jean Harlow · Clark Gable · Stuart Erwin · Dorothy Burgess

Synopsis Eddie Hall and his partner Slim are a pair of nickel-and-dime con men on the hustle. Nearly caught by the police, Eddie ducks into Ruby Adams's apartment and convinces her to hide him. Ruby isn't averse to taking advantage of...

Direction Sam Wood

Cast Clark Gable · Walter Pidgeon · Van Johnson · Brian Donlevy

Synopsis Army generals struggle with the decision to prioritize bombing the German factories producing new jet fighters over the extremely high casualties the mission will cost.