Screenplay: Lillie Hayward

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Ruth Chatterton · Louis Calhern · Helen Jerome Eddy · Donald Cook

Synopsis Frisco Jenny was orphaned by the 1906 earthquake and fire and has become the madame of prosperous bawdy house. She puts her son up for adoption and he rises to prominence as district attorney dedicated to closing down such houses....

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast James Cagney · Mae Clarke · Margaret Lindsay · Leslie Fenton

Synopsis When a movie theater usher is fired, he takes up with criminals and finds himself quite adept at various illegal activities. Eventually though, the police catch up with him, and he runs to hide out in Los Angeles. There he...

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Alan Ladd · Olivia de Havilland · Dean Jagger · David Ladd

Synopsis Just after the Civil War, proud rebel Alan Ladd doggedly wanders the land looking for a doctor who can cure his mute son. The warmth of a father's love and faith, the devotion of a boy for a dog, and...

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Robert Mitchum · Barbara Bel Geddes · Robert Preston · Walter Brennan

Synopsis When a shady-looking stranger rides into town to join his old friend it is assumed he is a hired gun. But as the new man comes to realise the unlawful nature of his buddy's business and the way the homesteaders...

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Bette Davis · George Brent · Roscoe Karns · Wini Shaw

Synopsis Reporter Curt Devlin loves sob sister Ellen Garfield but believes women are "bum newspapermen". When she learns the identity of a murdered arsonist, he calls it luck. When she goes after the murderer he gets enough evidence to have Maitland...

Direction Richard Fleischer

Cast William Lundigan · Dorothy Patrick · Jeff Corey · Nestor Paiva

Synopsis For six months, a strangler has terrorized the city. Calling himself The Judge, he's a self-appointed destroyer of 'evil' who only strikes on rainy nights. Police Lieut. Harry Grant is obsessed with catching him but has failed so far, despite...

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 Louis King

Cast Fred MacMurray · Anne Baxter · Bruce Cabot · Esther Dale

Synopsis Clint Barkley (MacMurray) first sees Smoky as a runaway, and drives him back to the ranch where he meets the owner, Julie Richards (Anne Baxter). He is given a job on her ranch, but the head cowhand is doubtful about...

Direction John Brahm

Cast James Ellison · Heather Angel · John Howard · Bramwell Fletcher

Synopsis The Hammond family has been cursed since the Crusades with the possibility that each family member could become a werewolf. When Hammond family members keep falling prey to wolf attacks, a police detective investigates and finds that the werewolf curse...

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Joan Blondell · Eric Linden · Jobyna Howland · Ned Sparks

Synopsis Seventy-two hours in the life of Indiana man Bud who inherits money and heads for New York City where his cousin Gibbony introduces him to chorus girl Vida for whom he falls. When a girl is killed by a drunk...

Direction Kurt Neumann

Cast Joel McCrea · Dean Stockwell · Chill Wills · Leon Ames

Direction Lewis R. Foster

Cast Sal Mineo · Phil Carey · Jerome Courtland · Rafael Campos

Synopsis In Dakota territory in the 1870s, White Bull, a young Sioux, proves his manhood by catching and training a wild colt he names Tonka. When a cruel cousin claims the horse as the privilege of rank, White Bull lets Tonka...

Direction Charles Barton

Cast Fred MacMurray · Jean Hagen · Tommy Kirk · Annette Funicello

Synopsis After years of on-the-job clashes with cranky canines, mail carrier Wilson Daniels sees man's best friend as his worst enemy. This makes for one hairy situation when a magical ring accidentally transforms his teenage son Wilby into a lumbering sheepdog!...

Direction George Sherman

Cast Fess Parker · Diana Hyland · Katy Jurado · Hoyt Axton

Synopsis A cowboy finds, captures and patient trains a beautiful wild stallion until a bond develops between the two that is almost unbreakable. The cowboy's brother, however, needing money to pay off debts, trades the horse, and tries to sneak the...

Direction Richard Fleischer

Cast Sharyn Moffett · Regis Toomey · Madge Meredith · Walter Reed

Synopsis An eight-year-old girl is an unwilling and disturbed witness of parental quarrels in her home, and when the parents finally secure a divorce, the judge decrees that the young girl live with her mother for eight months and her father...

Direction Lesley Selander

Cast Richard Conte · Viveca Lindfors · Barbara Britton · Hugh O´Brian

Synopsis A band of victimized gold miners strikes back at the organized ruthlessness of a land baron who also is effectively sabotaging a movement to unionize the California Territory.

Direction Albert S. Rogell

Cast Joan Leslie · James Craig · Jack Oakie · Chill Wills

Synopsis When his father dies, rodeo star Dan Bennett returns to his ranch but hires on as a ranch hand. A horse known as the White Outlaw is the leader of a herd of wild horses and Dan's obsession now is...

Direction Budd Boetticher

Cast John Lund · Scott Brady · Joyce Holden · Chill Wills

Synopsis A veteran rodeo rider takes on a young apprentice in order to "teach him the ropes", and winds up competing against him.

Direction William Witney

Cast John Payne · Faith Domergue · Rod Cameron · Slim Pickens

Synopsis Scout and wagon-train guide Kirby Randolph hates all Indians, particularly Kiowa Chief Satank, whose massacre of an entire wagon-train of settlers led by Kirby, has led to his ostracism and neither he nor his pal Sam Beekman can get jobs....

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Joan Bennett · Milton Berle · Otto Preminger · Carl Esmond

Synopsis It is a toss-up as to who is most displeased when Patrolman Moe Finkelstein is given the duty of guarding the German consulate ran by Karl Baumer; neither Moe nor Baumer are too happy with this turn of events. Moe,...