Soundtrack: Max Steiner

Direction John Cromwell

Cast Eleanor Parker · Agnes Moorehead · Ellen Corby · Hope Emerson

Plot Frightened 19-year-old Marie Allen (Eleanor Parker) gets sent to an Illinois penitentiary for being an accomplice in an armed robbery. A sympathetic prison head (Agnes Moorehead) tries to help, but...

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Gary Cooper · Walter Brennan · George Tobias · Joan Leslie

Plot True story of the farm boy who made the transition from religious pacifist to World War I hero. The Valley of the 3 Forks of the Wolf, located in the...

Direction Edmund Goulding

Cast Bette Davis · George Brent · Humphrey Bogart · Geraldine Fitzgerald

Plot The twenty-three years old wealthy sportswoman Judith Traherne (Bette Davis) has painful headaches and double-vision, and the family doctor, Dr. Parsons (Henry Travers), convinces her to go with her best...

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Teresa Wright · Robert Mitchum · Judith Anderson · Lane Chandler

Plot Set in New Mexico around the turn of the century and told in flashback, the film tells the story of Jeb (Mitchum) whose entire family was slaughtered when he was...

Direction Jean Negulesco

Cast Jane Wyman · Lew Ayres · Charles Bickford · Agnes Moorehead

Plot In a small fishing village on the island of Cape Breton, Dr. Robert Richardson takes aninterest in a sweet deaf mute named Belinda. He teaches her sign language and lip...

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Ruth Gordon · Otto Kruger · Donald Crisp

Plot Dr. Paul Ehrlich was the German physician who developed the first synthetic antimicrobial drug, 606 or Salvarsan. The film describes how Ehrlich first became interested in the properties of the...

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Kirk Douglas · Lauren Bacall · Doris Day · Mary Beth Hughes

Plot As a boy, orphan and dropout Rick Martin finds his only outlet in music. Through chance-met black jazzman Art Hazzard, he develops into a great trumpeter...too great for jazz-hating Jack...

Direction Edward Dmytryk

Cast Humphrey Bogart · José Ferrer · Van Johnson · Fred MacMurray

Plot During the Second World War, onboard a small insignificant ship in the U.S. Pacific Fleet, an event occurs unlike any that the United States Navy has ever experianced. A Ship's...

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Paul Muni · Henry O'Neill · Joseph Schildkraut · Gale Sondergaard

Plot The biopic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfuss Affair. Paul Cezanne and Émile Zola were friends when both were starting...

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Errol Flynn · Olivia de Havilland · Patric Knowles · Nigel Bruce

Plot Major Vickers is an officer at the 27th Lancers in India 1856. When the regiment is on maneuver, the barracks are attacked by Surat Khan and his soldiers who massacre...

Direction Anatole Litvak

Cast James Cagney · Ann Sheridan · Anthony Quinn · Frank Craven

Plot Cagney is Danny Kenny, a truck driver who enters "the fight game" and Sheridan his former girlfriend, Peggy. While Danny is realizing success in the ring, he is blinded by...

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Fredric March · Janet Gaynor · Adolphe Menjou · May Robson

Plot Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of alcoholic star Norman Maine, is given...

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Troy Donahue · Suzanne Pleshette · Diane McBain · James Gregory

Plot Lt. Hazard (Troy Donahue), fresh out of West Point, arrives in Arizona Territory at hot, dusty, Fort Delivery. Appalled by the lax discipline of its troops, he restricts their privileges...

Direction George Cukor

Cast Katharine Hepburn · Joan Bennett · Paul Lukas · Frances Dee

Plot Josephine March and her three sisters Margaret, Amy, and Beth grow up with their mother's guidance while their father fights in the American Civil War (1861 to 1865). The vivacious...

Direction King Vidor

Cast Bette Davis · Joseph Cotten · David Brian · Ruth Roman

Plot Rosa Moline is bored with life in a small town. She loves Chicago industrialist Neil Latimer who has a hunting lodge nearby. Rosa squeezes her husband's patients to pay their...

Direction Anatole Litvak

Cast Bette Davis · Charles Boyer · Jeffrey Lynn · Barbara O'Neil

Plot Bette Davis stars as the lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy in the film version of Rachel Field's epic historical romance novel ALL THIS AND HEAVEN TOO. Charles Boyer is...

Direction Irving Pichel · Ernest B. Schoedsack

Cast Joel McCrea · Fay Wray · Leslie Banks · Robert Armstrong

Plot After a shipwreck, a big game hunter washes up on a remote island only to discover that its owner, also a hunter, has tired of tracking animals and has developed...

Direction Ron Magid · Phil Savenick

Cast Sam Fontana · Rick Baker · Craig Barron · Rudy Behlmer

Direction Vincent Sherman

Cast Ann Sheridan · Lew Ayres · Zachary Scott · Eve Arden

Plot Chris Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer it was an act of self-defense. It's later revealed that he was actually her lover and she had posed...

Direction Curtis Bernhardt

Cast Bette Davis · Glenn Ford · Dane Clark · Walter Brennan

Plot Kate Bosworth and her twin sister Patricia fall in love with Martha's Vineyard lighthouse inspector Bill Emerson. Patricia and Bill are married. To forget, Kate returns to painting. Bill goes...