Screenplay: Peter Milne

Direction Don Siegel

Cast Sydney Greenstreet · Peter Lorre · Joan Lorring · George Coulouris

Synopsis Mr. Grodman was a respected superintendent at Scotland Yard until a mistake in an investigation caused the execution of an innocent man...

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Bessie Love · Johnnie Walker · Ernest Hilliard · Lionel Belmore

Synopsis A Broadway matinee idol famous for his black-face portrayals anonymously joins an amateur acting troupe and falls in love with the leading lady.

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Pat O'Brien · Humphrey Bogart · Ann Sheridan · Barton MacLane

Synopsis Ex-Army officer Jameson takes a job a prison guard at San Quentin. Joe, the brother of his new girlfriend May, is sentenced to the prison for robbery. When Jameson tries to separate lawbreakers from hardened criminals, badguy Hansen tries to...

Direction Busby Berkeley

Cast Dick Powell · Adolphe Menjou · Gloria Stuart · Alice Brady

Synopsis In a luxury hotel stage director Nicoleff stages a show to get the money to pay his bills. Mrs. Prentiss, who is backing the show wants her daughter Ann to marry the millionaire T. Mosely Thorpe, but Ann falls in...

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Boris Karloff · Ricardo Cortez · Edmund Gwenn · Marguerite Churchill

Synopsis Bringing the dead back to life was an extremely popular horror movie theme of the thirties and forties and Boris Karloff could certainly lay claim to being the king of this specialized genre. Between 1936 and 1941, he made seven...

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast William Powell · Mary Astor · Eugene Pallette · Ralph Morgan

Synopsis Archer Coe has been found dead in his locked bedroom. The cops consider it suicide, but Philo believes otherwise. When the Coroner shows up, he finds that Archer had been hit with a blunt object, stabbed and shot - making...

Direction Herbert I. Leeds

Cast Peter Lorre · Jean Hersholt · Amanda Duff · Warren Hymer

Synopsis Puerto Rico has become the back door by which a criminal syndicate smuggles inexpensive contraband diamonds from South America into the United States, dramatically driving down the price of legitimate gems. After they have ruthlessly murdered a special investigator, Moto...

Direction Arthur Lubin

Cast Maria Montez · Jon Hall · Sabu · Turhan Bey

Synopsis A shark hunter falls in love with the beautiful ruler of a tropical island.

Direction John Reinhardt

Cast Lee Tracy · Don Castle · Julie Bishop · Annabel Shaw

Synopsis A reporter hires a bodyguard to protect him from a gang boss he has been investigating. After a car accident traps the two of them inside the car with the tide coming in, the reporter recounts for his bodyguard the...

Direction Joe May

Cast William Gargan · Irene Hervey · Dorothy Arnold · Alan Dinehart

Synopsis A detective goes undercover as a producer to investigate an actor's murder, which occurred during the performance of a play. The actor's body disappeared shortly after the crime, and his ghost is rumored to be haunting the theater.

Direction David Butler

Cast Dennis Morgan · Arlene Dahl · Andrea King · Alan Hale

Synopsis The life of Irish tenor Chauncey Olcott is chronicled from his childhood to his days as the toast of New York. In between, his rise to the top is complicated by romances with two women: his true love Rose Donovan...

Direction David Butler

Cast Dennis Morgan · Virginia Mayo · Gene Nelson · Lucille Norman

Synopsis When boyfriend Vince Nichols won't give up his gambling, Abby joins vaudeville partners Carol and June in a trek to Las Vegas searching for millionaires, followed by playboy Ted Lansing with a big crush on Abby. When the girls learn...

Direction William Keighley

Cast Aline MacMahon · Guy Kibbee · Tom Brown · Robert McWade

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast Gordon MacRae · Eddie Bracken · Dick Wesson · Virginia Gibson

Synopsis Biff Roberts, Tony Williams and Dave Crouse are upper classmen at Southern Military Institute (fictional school based on real school---Virginia Military Instute---in original play and film), and just three months away from graduating as commissioned officers in the U.S. Army....

Direction David Butler

Cast June Haver · Gordon MacRae · James Barton · Gene Nelson

Direction Frank McDonald

Cast Ricardo Cortez · Kay Linaker · John Eldredge · Mary Astor

Synopsis Crotchety hospital administrator Peter Melady, self-proclaimed developer of a new wonder anaesthetic, is about to undergo a delicate operation to be performed by the glib Dr. Leo Harrigan, Melady's longtime mutual adversary. Police are called when the murdered body of...

Direction William Dieterle

Cast George Brent · Margaret Lindsay · Eugene Pallette · Robert Barrat

Synopsis A wealthy Broadway playboy is found dead. He was actually a vicious blackmailer. It's up to police lieutenant Jim Stevens to pick the murderer out of several likely candidates like the cocaine addict Dolly White. And Stevens has a love-affair...

Direction Robert Florey

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Gene Raymond · Genevieve Tobin · John Eldredge

Synopsis Shelby Barrett (Barbara Stanwyck) rides show horses for wealthy widow "Nicko" Nicholas (Genevieve Tobin)and meets Johnny Wyatt (Gene Raymond), scion of a once-wealthy Long Island Family, but who now goes about the country riding polo ponies for "Nicko." Despite the...

Direction Erle C. Kenton

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

Direction William Keighley

Cast George Brent · Beverly Roberts · Barton MacLane · Robert Barrat

Synopsis Jefferson Russett runs a logging company; his brother, Steve, is the prodigal son. Jeff cuts off his allowance and puts him to work, but on his first day, he is tricked into signing a contract allowing arch-rivals Barton Logging to...