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The 13th Man (1937)
   starred   
Weldon Heyburn, Inez Courtney and Selmer Jackson
Director: William Nigh. Also starred Matty Fain, Milburn Stone & Grace Durkin. Plot: A tough district attorney has been cleaning up the town, and has already imprisoned twelve dangerous criminals...


The 39 Steps (1935)
   starred   
Robert Donat, Madelaine Carroll and Lucie Mannheim
Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Also starred Godfrey Tearle, Peggy Ashcroft & John Laurie. Plot: A man in London tries to help a counterespionage agent, and is finding himself in one jam after another.


42nd Street (1933)
   starred   
Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels and George Brent
Director: Lloyd Bacon. Also starred Ruby Keeler, Guy Kibbee & Una Merkel. Plot: A producer puts on what may be his last Broadway show, and at the last moment a chorus girl has to replace the star...


1,000 Dollars a Minute (1935)
   starred   
Roger Pryor, Leila Hyams and Edward Brophy
Director: Aubrey Scotto. Also starred Sterling Holloway, Edgar Kennedy & Purnell Pratt. Plot: A down-on-his luck newspaperman finds himself the center of an experiment being conducted by two daffy millionaires--to see if someone can spend $1000 a minute, every minute, for 12 solid hours. If he can do it, he gets $10,000. If he can't do it, he gets nothing.


$1000 a Touchdown (1939)
   starred   
Joe E. Brown, Martha Raye and Eric Blore
Director: James P. Hogan. Also starred Susan Hayward, John Hartley & Joyce Matthews. Plot: A show-biz couple inherit a college on the brink of bankruptcy. In a bid to increase funding they attempt to build up the college football team by offering $1,000 for every touchdown scored.


Abdul the Damned (1935)
   starred   
Fritz Kortner, Adrienne Ames and Nils Asther
Director: Karl Grune. Also starred Esme Percy, John Stuart & Charles Carson. Plot: In 1908, Sultan Abdul Hamid (Kortner) faces resistance from the Young Turk party, while also becoming infatuated with a visiting Austrian singer.


Abraham Lincoln (1930)
   starred   
William L. Thorne, Lucille La Verne and Helen Freeman
Director: D.W.Griffith. Also starred Otto Hoffman, Walter Huston & Edgar Dearing. Plot: An episodic biography of the 16th President of the United States.


Absolute Quiet (1936)
   starred   
Lionel Atwill, Irene Hervey and Raymond Walburn
Director: George B. Seitz. Also starred Stuart Erwin, Ann Loring & Louis Hayward


Accent of Youth (1935)
   starred   
Sylvia Sidney, Herbert Marshall and Phillip Reed
Director: Wesley Ruggles. Also starred Holmes Herbert, Catherine Doucet & Astrid Allwyn. Plot: A young secretary falls in love with her boss, a middle-aged playwright. Complications ensue when her boss' son falls for her.


Accidents Will Happen (1938)
   starred   
Ronald Reagan, Gloria Blondell and Dick Purcell
Director: William Clemens. Also starred Sheila Bromley, Addison Richards & Hugh McConnell. Plot: An insurance adjustor tangles with a big insurance-fraud gang.


Accused (1936)
   starred   
Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Dolores Del Rio and Florence Desmond
Director: Thornton Freeland. Also starred Basil Sydney, Googie Withers & J. H. Roberts. Plot: Tony Seymour (Fairbanks) and his partner, Gaby Ramarios (Rio) are a dance team who perform an Apache specialty number...


Ace Drummond (1936)
   starred   
John 'Dusty' King, Jean Rogers and Noah Beery Jr
Director: Forde Beebe & Clifford Smith. Also starred Guy Bates Post, Lon Chaney Jr., & Jackie Morrow


Ace of Aces (1933)
   starred   
Richard Dix, Elizabeth Allan and Ralph Bellamy
Director: J. Walter Ruben. Also starred Theodore Newton, Nella Walker & Anderson Lawler. Plot: A sculptor who doesn't want to have any part of World War I is shamed by his girlfriend into joining the army. He becomes a fighter pilot, and undergoes a complete personality change.


Action for Slander (1937)
   starred   
Clive Brook, Ann Todd and Margaretta Scott
Director: Tim Whelan. Also starred Arthur Margetson, Ronald Squire & Athole Stewart.


Adorable (1933)
   starred   
Janet Gaynor, Henri Garat and C. Aubrey Smith
Director: William Dieterle. Also starred Herbert Mundin, Blanche Friderici & Hans Heinrich von Twardowski. Plot: Janet Gaynor plays a rebellious princess who must try to marry the man she loves, instead of the stuffy old prince her parents want her to marry...


Adventure in Manhattan (1936)
   starred   
Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea and Reginald Owen
Director: Edward Ludwig. Also starred Thomas Mitchell, Victor Kilian & John Gallaudet. Plot: Joel McCrea plays a hotshot reporter who thinks he knows everything and Jean Arthur plays an actress who puts one over on him...


The Adventures of Frank Merriwell (1936)
   starred   
Donald Briggs, Jean Rogers and John 'Dusty' King
Director: Clifford Smith. Also starred Carla Laemmle, House Peters Jr., & Herschel Mayall Jr.


The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938)
   starred   
Gary Cooper, Sigrid Gurie and Basil Rathbone
Director: Archie Mayo. Also starred George Barbier, Binnie Barnes & Ernest Truex. Plot: Marco Polo (Cooper) travels from Venice to Peking, where he quickly discovers spaghetti and gunpowder and falls in love with the Emperor's daughter...


The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
   starred   
Errol Flynn, Olivia De Havilland and Basil Rathbone
Directors: Michael Curtiz and William Keighley


The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)
   starred   
Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce and Ida Lupino
Director: Alfred. L. Werker


The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)
   starred   
May Robson, Walter Brennan and Victor Jory
Director: Norman Taurog. Also starred David Holt, Victor Kilian & Nana Bryant. Plot: Misadventures of a mischievous boy in 1850 Missouri.


Advice to the Lovelorn (1933)
   starred   
Lee Tracy, Sally Blane and Paul Harvey
Director: Alfred L. Werker. Also starred Sterling Holloway, C. Henry Gordon & Isabel Jewell. Plot: Los Angeles newspaper reporter Toby Prentiss (Tracy) is continually in trouble with his editor.


The Affairs of Annabel (1938)
   starred   
Jack Oakie, Lucille Ball and Ruth Donelly
Director: Benjamin Stoloff


The Affairs of Cellini (1934)
   starred   
Constance Bennett, Fredric Mmarch and Frank Morgan
Director: Gregory La Cava. Also starred Fay Wray, Vince Bennett & Jessie Ralph. Plot: The 16th-century sculptor woos the Duchess of Florence (Bennett) despite the duke.


Affairs of a Gentleman (1934)
   starred   
Paul Lukas, Leila Hyams and Patricia Ellis
Director: Edwin L. Marin. Also starred Phillip Reed, Onslow Stevens & Dorothy Burgess. Plot: When a novelist is murdered, suspicion falls on all the women he had affairs with--and then wrote about in his books.


After Office Hours (1935)
   starred   
Constance Bennett, Clark Gable and Stuart Erwin
Director: Robert Z. Leonard. Also starred Billie Burke, Harvey Stephens & Katherine Alexander. Plot: Hard-hitting news editor Jim Branch (Gable) falls for high-society type Sharon Norwood (Bennett) but can't get to first base as he continually makes use of her knowledge of the rich and famous to try to solve the murder of one of her socialite acquaintences.


After the Thin Man (1936)
   starred   
William Powell, Myrna Loy and James Stewart
Director: W. S. Van Dyke. Also starred Elissa Landi, Joseph Calleia & Jessie Ralph. Plot: Selma (Landi) asks Nick (Powell) to find her missing husband. He had been seeing a bit on the side, and blackmailing a local criminal. David Graham (Stewart) claims he paid the missing husband to get rid of a former girlfriend. Will Nick locate him?


After Tomorrow (1932)
   starred   
Charles Farrell, Marian Nixon and Minna Gombell
Director: Frank Borzage. Also starred William Collier Sr., Josephine Hull & William Pawley


After Tonight (1933)
   starred   
Constance Bennett, Gilbert Roland and Edward Ellis
Director: George Archainbaud. Also starred Sam Godfrey, Lucien Prival & Mischa Auer


The Age for Love (1931)
   starred   
Billie Dove, Charles Starrett and Lois Wilson
Director: Frank Lloyd. Also starred Edward Everett Horton, Mary Duncan & Adrian Morris


Age of Indiscretion (1935)
   starred   
Paul Lukas, Magde Evans and Helen Vinson
Director: Edward Ludwig. Also starred may Robson, David Holt & Ralph Forbes


The Age of Innocence (1934)
   starred   
Irene Dunne, John Boles and Lionel Atwill
Director: Philip Moeller. Also starred Helen Westley, Laura Hope Crews & Julie Haydon. Plot: An engaged attorney and a divorcee fall for each other in 1870s Manhattan.


Ah, Wilderness! (1935)
   starred   
Wallace Berry, Lionel Barrymore and Aline MacMahon
Director: Clarence Brown. Also starred Cecilia Parker, Spring Byington & Mickey Rooney. Plot: Story of small-town life in turn-of-the-century America, and a young boy's problems facing adolescence.


Air Eagles (1931)
   starred   
Lloyd Hughes, Norman Kerry and Shirley Grey
Director: Phil Whitman. Also starred Berton Churchill, Matty Kemp & Otis Harlan. Plot: An airplane pilot and a criminal battle for the woman they love.


Air Hawks (1935)
   starred   
Ralph Bellamy, Tala Birell and Wiley Post
Director: Albert S. Rogell. Also starred Douglass Dumbrille, Robert Allen & Billie Seward. Plot: A mysterious ray that immobilizes all motors and engines threatens the security of the country.


Air Mail (1932)
   starred   
Ralph Bellamy, Gloria Stuart and Pat O'Brien
Director: John Ford. Also starred Slim Summerville, Lilian Bond & Russell Hopton. Plot: Level headed Mike Miller (Bellamy) runs Desert Airport, an air mail base full of daring young pilots risking their lives to get the mail through-regardless of the weather.


The Airmail Mystery (1932)
   starred   
James Flavin, Lucile Browne and Wheeler Oakman
Director: Ray Taylor. Also starred Frank Hagney, Sidney Bracey & Nelson McDowell. Plot: A pilot and a gold mine owner go up against the evil Black Hawk, who has invented a plane that can take off and land without using a runway.


Air Police (1931)
   starred   
Kenneth Harlan, Josephine Dunn and Richard Cramer
Director: Stuart Paton. Also starred Charles Delaney, Arthur Thalasso & Tom London. Plot: The U.S. Air Patrol is fighting alien-smuggling along the USA-Mexico border, and U.S. Army Air Corps buddies Jerry Doyle (Harlan) and Andy Conroy (Delaney) are among the pilots on this assignment. One of them is shot down by the smuggling-gang, and the other goes after the gang with vengeance.


Alcatraz Island (1937)
   starred   
John Litel, Ann Sheridan and Mary Maguire
Director: William C. McGann. Also starred Gordon Oliver, Dick Purcell & Ben Welden. Plot: A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.


Alexander Hamilton (1931)
   starred   
George Arliss, Doris Kenyon and Alan Mowbray
Director: John G. Adolfi. Also starred June Collyer, Ralf Harolde & Montagu Love. Plot: With the end of the Revolutionary War in 1783, General George Washington (Mowbray) took Colonel Hamilton (Arliss) with him into the newly formed government...


Alexander Nevsky (1938)
   starred   
Nikolai Cherkasov, Nikolai Okhlopkov and Andrei Abrikosov
Directors: Sergei Eisenstein and Dmitri Vasilyev


Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)
   starred   
Tyrone Power, Alice Faye and Don Ameche
Director: Henry King. Also starred Ethel Merman, Jack Haley & Jean Hersholt. Plot: This send-up of ragtime song and dance begins in 1915 San Francisco when society boy Roger Grant decides to pursue popular rather than serious music. Won Oscar


Alf's Button (1930)
   starred   
Tubby Edlin, Alf Goddard and Nora Swinburne
Director: W. P. Kellino. Also starred Polly Ward, Humberston Wright & Annie Esmond.


Alf's Button Afloat (1938)
   starred   
Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen and Jimmey Nervo
Director: Marcel Varnel -- Also starred Teddy Knox, Charlie Naughton & Jimmy Gold


Algiers (1938)
   starred   
Charles Boyer, Sigrid Gurie and Hedy Lamarr
Director: John Cromwell. Also starred Joseph Calleia, Alan Hale & Gene Lockhart. Plot: Beautiful Gaby (Lamarr) meets a romantic jewel thief in the mysterious Casbah.


Alias the Doctor (1932)
   starred   
Richard Barthelmess, Marian March and Norman Foster
Director: Lloyd Bacon & Michael Curtiz. Also starred Adrienne Dore, Lucille La Verne & Oscar Apfel. Plot: Karl (Barthelmess) is the workaholic adopted son while Stephan (Foster) is the lazy one. They both go to Munich to study medicine...


Alias French Gertie (1930)
   starred   
Bebe Daniels, Ben Lyon and Robert Emmett O'Connor
Director: George Archainbaud. Also starred John Ince, Daisy Belmore & Betty Pierce


Alias Mary Dow (1935)
   starred   
Sally Eilers, Ray Milland and Henry O'Neill
Director: Kurt Neumann. Also starred Katharine Alexander, Chick Chandler & Juanita Quigley. Plot: A taxi-dancer agrees to pose as a girl who had been kidnapped as a child 18 years before.


Ali Baba Goes to Town (1937)
   starred   
Eddie Cantor, Tony Martin and Roland Young
Director: David Butler. Also starred June Lang, Gypsy Rose Lee & Raymond Scott. Plot: A movie company is doing the Arabian Nights when a hobo enters their camp, falls asleep and dreams he's back in Baghdad as advisor to the Sultan...


Alibi (1931)
   starred   
Austin Trevor, Franklin Dyall and Elizabeth Allan
Director: Leslie S. Hiscott. Also starred J. H. Roberts, John Deverell & Ronald Ward


Alibi Ike (1935)
   starred   
Joe E. Brown, Olivia De Havilland and Ruth Donnelly
Director: Ray Enright. Also starred Roscoe Karns, William Frawley & Eddie Shubert. Plot: Idiosyncratic new recruit Francis "Ike" Farrell (Brown) tries to help the Cubs to the pennant with his pitching and hitting.


Alice Adams (1935)
   starred   
Katharine Hepburn, Fred McMurray and Fred Stone
Director: George Stevens. Also starred Evelyn Venable, Frank Albertson & Ann Shoemaker. Plot: The misadventures of two social-climbing women in small town America.


Alice in Wonderland (1933)
   starred   
Charlotte Henry, Leon Errol and Louise Fazenda
Director: Norman Z. McLeod. Also starred Ford Sterling, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher & Raymond Hatton. Plot: On a boring winter afternoon, Alice (Henry)dreams, that she's visiting the land behind the mirror. This turns out to be a surrealistic nightmare...


The All-American (1932)
   starred   
Richard Arlen, Andy Devine and Gloria Stuart
Director: Russell Mack. Also starred James Gleason, John Darrow & Preston Foster. Plot: The story of the rise and fall of an All-American football player.


Allegheny Uprising (1939)
   starred   
Claire Trevor, John Wayne and George Sanders
Director: William A. Seiter. Also starred Brian Donlevy, Wilfrid Lawson & John F. Hamilton. Plot: In British colonial America, Captain Swanson's (Sanders) adherence to the rules results in Trader Callendar's (Donlevy) selling to the Indians under cover of a government permit.


All the King's Horses (1934)
   starred   
Carl Brisson, Mary Ellis and Edward Everett Horton
Director: Frank Tuttle. Also starred Katherine DeMille, Eugene Pallette & Arnold Korff. Plot: Movie star changes places with a king who looks exactly like him, causing complications for all concerned.


All Men Are Enemies (1934)
   starred   
Helen Twelvetrees, Mona Barrie and Hugh Williams
Director: George Fitzmaurice. Also starred Herbert Mundin, Henry Stevenson & Walter Byron


All of Me (1934)
   starred   
Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins and George Raft
Director: James Flood. Also starred Helen Mack, Nella Walker & William Collier Sr. Plot: A professor tires of the direction his life is going and wants to move west, but his girlfriend doesn't understand why he is so dissatisfied.


All Over Town (1937)
   starred   
Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson and Mary Howard
Director: James W. Horne. Also starred Harry Stockwell, Franklin Pangborn & James Finlayson. Plot: Two zanies try to stage a show in a theater that has a reputation for being jinxed.


All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
   starred   
Louis Wolheim and Lew Ayres
Director: Lewis Milestone. From the book of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque. The original title was “Im Westen nichts Neues” which literally translated means “Nothing New In the West”.


All Women Have Secrets (1939)
   starred   
Virginia Dale, Joseph Allen and Jeanne Cagney
Director: Kurt Neumann. Also starred Peter Lind Hayes, Betty Moran & John Arledge. Plot: When they decide they might as well be penniless husbands and wives as penniless campus sweethearts...


Almost Married (1932)
   starred   
Violet Heming, Ralph Bellamy and Alexander Kirkland
Director: William Cameron Menzies. Also starred Alan Dinehart, Mary Gordon & Tempe Pigott. Plot: Russian beauty Anita Mellikovna (Heming), traveling by train with a forged passport and carrying jewels, finds the police on her tail...


Always Goodbye (1938)
   starred   
Barbara Stanwyck, Herbert Marshall and Ian Hunter
Director: Sidney Lanfield. Also starred Cesar Romero, Lynn Bari & Binnie Barnes


Amateur Daddy (1932)
   starred   
Warner Baxter, Marian Nixon and Rita La Roy
Director: John G. Blystone. Also starred William Pawley, Lucille Powers & David Landau


The Amateur Gentleman (1936)
   starred   
Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Elissa Landi and Gordon Harker
Director: Thornton Freeland. Also starred Basil Sydney, Hugh Williams & Irene Browne


The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)
   starred   
Edward G. Robinson, Claire Trevor and Humphrey Bogart
Director: Anatole Litvak. Also starred Allen Jenkins, Donald Crisp & Gale Page. Plot: Dr. Clitterhouse (Robinson) is fascinated with the working of the criminal mind. His interest is so deep that he finds the best way to observe criminals in action is to become one himself!


The Amazing Mr. Williams (1939)
   starred   
Melvyn Douglas, Joan Blondell and Clarence Kolb
Director: Alexander Hall. Also starred Ruth Donnelly, Edward Brophy & Donald MacBride. Plot: Kenny Williams (Douglas), a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll (Blondell), the Mayor's secretary...


The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss (1936)
   starred   
Cary Grant, Mary Brian and Peter Gawthorne
Director: Alfred Zeisler. Also starred Henry Kendall, Leon M. Lion & John Turnbull. Plot: A bored millionaire wagers his doctor that he can support himself at a working class job for year without touching his inheritance.


Ambassador Bill (1931)
   starred   
Marguerite Churchill, Greta Nissen and Tad Alexander
Director: Sam Taylor. Also starred Ray Milland, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Arnold Korff & Ferdinand Munier. Plot: An American ambassador arrives in a small country that is being convulsed by political intrigue and civil unrest...


Ambush (1939)
   starred   
Lloyd Nolan, Gladys Swarthout and Ernest Truex
Director: Kurt Neumann. Also starred William Henry, Broderick Crawford & John Hartley


American Madness (1932)
   starred   
Walter Huston, Pat O'Brien and Kay Johnson
Director: Frank Capra. Also starred Constance Cummings, Gavin Gordon & Arthur Hoyt. Plot: It's the 1930s, the Depression era, and the Board of Directors of Thomas Dickson's bank want Dickson (Huston) to merge with New York Trust and resign...


An American Tragedy (1931)
   starred   
Phillips Holmes, Sylvia Sidney and Frances Dee
Director: Josef von Sternberg. Also starred Irving Pichel, Frederick Burton & Claire McDowell


And So They Were Married (1936)
   starred   
Melvyn Douglas, Mary Astor and Edith Fellows
Director: Elliott Nugent. Also starred Jackie Moran, Donald Meek & Dorothy Stickney


And Sudden Death (1936)
   starred   
Randolph Scott, Frances Drake and Tom Brown
Director: Charles Barton. Also starred Fuzzy Knight, Porter Hall & Joe Sawyer. Plot: An heiress with a penchant for speeding runs afoul of a traffic cop. Romance develops between the two...


Angel (1937)
   starred   
Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall and Melvyn Douglas
Director: Ernst Lubitsch. Also starred Edward Everett Horton, Ernest Cossart & Laura Hope Crews. Plot: Woman and her husband take separate vacations, and she falls in love with another man.


Angel's Holiday (1937)
   starred   
Jane Withers, Joan Davis and Sally Blane
Director: James Tinling. Also starred Robert Kent, Harold Huber & Frank Jenks. Plot: With the help of a young newspaperman June (Withers) rescues a movie star who is caught held for ransom when she visits her hometown.


The Angels Wash Their Faces (1939)
   starred   
Ann Sheridan, Billy Halop and Bernard Punsly
Director: Ray Enright. Also Starred Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall & Gabriel Dell. Plot: A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life...


Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)
   starred   
James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart and Pat O'Brien
Director: Michael Curtiz


Animal Crackers (1930)
   starred   
The Marx Brothers, Margaret Dumont and Lillian Roth
Director: Victor Heerman. Writers: George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind. A hilarious romp by the Marx Brothers (Groucho, Chico, Harpo and Zeppo) who attempt to recover a missing painting.


The Animal Kingdom (1932)
   starred   
Ann Harding, Leslie Howard and Myrna Loy
Director: Edward H. Griffith. Also starred William Gargan, Neil Hamilton & Ilka Chase. Plot: Tom Collier (Howard) has had a great relationship with Daisy (Harding), but when he decides to marry, it is not Daisy whom he asks...


Annapolis Salute (1937)
   starred   
James Ellison, Marsha Hunt and Harry Carey
Director: Christy Cabanne. Also starred Van Heflin, Ann Hovey & Arthur Lake


Anna Christie (1930)
   starred   
Greta Garbo, Marie Dressler and Charles Bickford
Director: Clarence Brown. From the Eugene O'Neill play. This was Garbo's first talkie. The story of Anna returning to her father after living in Minnesota for 15 years and revealing her past.


Anna Karenina (1935)
   starred   
Greta Garbo, Fredric March, and Freddie Bartholomew
Director: Clarence Brown. Also starred Maureen O'Sullivan, May Robson & Basil Rathbone. Plot: The married Anna Karenina (Garbo) falls in love with Count Vronsky (March) despite her husband's refusal to grant a divorce, and both must contend with the social repercussions.


Ann Vickers (1933)
   starred   
Irene Dunne, Walter Huston and Conrad Nagel
Director: John Cromwell. Also starred Bruce Cabot, Edna May Oliver & Sam Hardy. Plot: Social worker/prison reformer looks for love with men who abuse her, finds herself attracted to a controversial judge.


Anything for a Thrill (1937)
   starred   
Frankie Darro, Kane Richmond and June Johnson
Director: Leslie Goodwins. Also starred Ann Evers, Johnstone White & Horace Murphy. Plot: Don Mallory (Frankie Darro) is the younger brother of ace newsreel photographer Cliff Mallory (Kane Richmond)...


Arrest Bulldog Drummond (1939)
   starred   
John Howard, Heather Angel and H. B. Warner
Director: James P. Hogan. Also starred Reginald Denny, E. E. Clive & Jean Fenwick. Plot: The invention of a war machine, that brings to explosion everything one wants to, puts Scotland Yard and Captain Drummond (Howard) into alarm.


Arrowsmith (1931)
   starred   
Ronald Colman, Helen Hayes and Myrna Loy
Director: John Ford. Based on a novel by Sinclair Lewis. Dr Martin Arrowsmith (Ronald Colman) attempts to find a cure for Bubonic Plague in the West Indies. Helen Hayes stars as his faithful wife and Myrna Loy as a temptress.


The Arsenal Stadium Mystery (1940)
   starred   
Leslie Banks, Greta Gynt and Ian McLean
Director: Thorold Dickinson. Also starred Liane Linden, Anthony Bushell & Esmond Knight


Arsène Lupin Returns (1938)
   starred   
Melvyn Douglas, Virginia Bruce and Warren William
Director: George Fitzmaurice. Also starred John Halliday, Nat Pendleton & Monty Woolley. Plot: A woman and a man vying for a woman's affection: the usual love trio?


Ask a Policeman (1938)
   starred   
Will Hay, Graham Moffatt and Moore Moffatt
Director: Marcel Varnel. Also starred Glennis Lorimer, Peter Gawthorne & Charles Oliver


The Avenging Hand (1937)
   starred   
Noah Beery, Louis Borel & Kathleen Kelly
Director: Victor Hanbury & Frank Richardson. Also starred Charles Oliver, Reginald Long & Tarva Penna. Plot: A Chicago gangster is pleasantly surprised by violent crime in London. When he discovers crooks are after a mysterious package, and murder an innocent match-seller for it, he turns detective.


The Awful Truth (1937)
   starred   
Irene Dunne, Cary Grant and Ralph Bellamy
Director: Leo McCarey


Baby Face (1933)
   starred   
Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent and Donald Cook
Director: Alfred E. Green. Also starred Alphonse Ethier, Henry Kolker & Margaret Lindsay. Plot: Lilly (Baby Face) (Stanwyck) sleeps her way from basement speakeasy bartender, literally floor by floor, to the top floor of a New York office building...


Back Door to Heaven (1939)
   starred   
Wallace Ford, Aline MacMahon and Stuart Erwin
Director: William K. Howard. Also starred Patricia Ellis, Bert Frohman & Jimmy Lydon. Plot: The life of a young slum kid, who starts out stealing small things in order to fit in with the "crowd"...


Bank Alarm (1937)
   starred   
Conrad Nagel, Eleanor Hunt and Vince Barnett
Director: Louis J. Gasnier. Also starred Wheeler Oakman, Nat Carr & Frank Milan. Plot: An investigator tries to find a gang responsible for a rash of bank robberies. What he doesn't know is that his sister is the girlfriend of the gang's ringleader.


Bank Holiday (1938)
   starred   
John Lodge, Margaret Lockwood and Hugh Williams
Director: Carol Reed. Also starred René Ray, Merle Tottenham & Linden Travers


The Bank Messenger Mystery (1936)
   starred   
George Mozart, Francesca Bahrle and Paul Neville
Director: Lawrence Huntington. Also starred Marilyn Love, Frank Tickle & Kenneth Kove


Before Dawn (1933)
   starred   
Stuart Erwin, Dorothy Wilson and Warner Oland
Director: Irving Pichel. Also starred Dudley Digges, Gertrude Hoffman & Frank Reicherl. Plot: Joe Valerie (Reicher) stashed a million dollars in gold from a robbery 15 years earlier. Now that he lay dying a painful death, he trades the location of the money to Dr. Cornelius (Oland) for a shot to end his suffering.


Behind the Make-Up (1930)
   starred   
Hal Skelly, William Powell and Fay Wray
Director: Robert Milton. Also starred Kay Francis, E. H. Calvert & Paul Lukas. Plot: Gardoni (Powell), a down-on-his-luck vaudeville performer, is taken in by a fellow performer, a clown who has a bicycle riding act. Gardoni shows his appreciation by stealing the clown's act and his girlfriend, whom he marries.


Behind Office Doors (1931)
   starred   
Mary Astor, Robert Ames and Ricardo Cortez
Director: Melville W. Brown. Also starred Catherine Dale Owen, Kitty Kelly & Edna Murphy. Plot: Mary Linden is the secretary who is the unheralded power behind successful executive James Duneen.


The Big House (1930)
   starred   
Chester Morris, Wallace Beery and Lewis Stone
Director: George W. Hill. Also starred Robert Montgomery, Leila Hyams & George F. Marion. Plot: A convict falls in love with his new cellmate's sister, only to become embroiled in a planned break-out which is certain to have lethal consequences.


Big Town Czar (1939)
   starred   
Barton MacLane, Tom Brown and Eve Arden
Director: Arthur Lubin. Also starred Jack La Rue, Frank Jenks & Walter Woolf King. Plot: When gangster Phil Daley (Barton MacLane) gets rid of his chief Paul Burgess (Walter Woolf King) he has everything that money can buy...


A Bill of Divorcement (1932)
   starred   
John Barrymore, Billie Burke and Katharine Hepburn
Director: George Cukor. Katharine Hepburn's film debut. John Barrymore (Drew Barrymore's great grandfather) comes home from a mental asylum after 15 years to find his wife has divorced him and is planning to marry again. Kate, his daughter, also is planning her own wedding.


Bird of Paradise (1932)
   starred   
Dolores Del Rio, Joel McCrea and John Halliday
Director: King Vidor. Also starred Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher, Bert Roach & Lon Chaney Jr. Plot: A native girl falls for a visitor to her island, but she's chosen to be sacrificed to the volcano god.


Bitter Sweet (1933)
   starred   
Anna Neagle, Fernand Gravey and Esme Percy
Director: Herbert Wilcox. Also starred Clifford Heatherley, Ivy St. Helier & Miles Mander


The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933)
   starred   
Barbara Stanwyck, Nils Asther and Toshia Mori
Director: Frank Capra. Also starred Walter Connolly, Gavin Gordon & Lucien Littlefield. Plot: The American missionary Megan Davis (Stanwyck) arrives in Shanghai during the Chinese Civil War to marry the missionary Dr. Robert Strife (Gordon).


The Black Camel (1931)
   starred   
Warner Oland, Sally Eilers and Bela Lugosi
Director: Hamilton MacFadden. Also starred Dorothy Revier, Victor Varconi & Murray Kinnell. Plot: The unsolved murder of a Hollywood actor several years earlier and an enigmatic psychic are the keys to help Charlie (Oland) solve the Honolulu stabbing death of a beautiful actress.


The Black Cat (1934)
   starred   
Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi and David Manners
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer. Also starred Julie Bishop, Egon Brecher & Harry Cording. Plot: American honeymooners in Hungary are trapped in the home of a Satan- worshipping priest when the bride is taken there for medical help following a road accident.


Black Eyes (1939)
   starred   
Otto Kruger, Mary Maguire and John Wood
Director: Herbert Brenon. Also starred Walter Rilla, Marie Wright & Jenny Laird. Plot: A waiter in Moscow, pre-1914, leads his daughter into thinking he is prosperous businessman.


Blazing Barriers (1937)
   starred   
Frank Coghlan Jr, Florine McKinney and Edward Arnold Jr
Director: Aubrey Scotto. Also starred Irene Franklin, Guy Bates Post & Herbert Corthell. Plot: Two young hoods from the city are sent to a Civilian Conservation Corps camp in the mountains to try to turn them away from the life of crime they're headed for.


Blockade (1938)
   starred   
Madeleine Carroll, Henry Fonda and Leo Carrillo
Director: William Dieterle. Also starred John Halliday, Vladimir Sokoloff & Robert Warwick. Plot: A simple peasant is forced to take up arms to defend his farm during the Spanish Civil War.


Block-Heads (1938)
   starred   
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy and Patricia Ellis
Director: John G. Blystone. Also starred Minna Gombell, Billy Gilbert & James Finlayson. Plot: It's 1938, but Stan doesn't know the war is over; he's still patrolling the trenches in France, and shoots down a French aviator...


Blonde Venus (1932)
   starred   
Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall and Cary Grant
Director: Josef von Sternberg. Also starred Dickie Moore, Gene Morgan & Rita La Roy. Plot: American chemist Ned Faraday (Marshall) marries a German entertainer and starts a family. However, he becomes poisoned...


Blood Money (1933)
   starred   
George Bancroft, Judith Anderson and Frances Dee
Director: Rowland Brown. Also starred Chick Chandler, Blossom Seeley & Etienne Girardot


The Blue Angel (1930)
   starred   
Emil Jannings, Marlene Dietrich and Kurt Gerron
Director: Josef von Sternberg. Also starred Rosa Valetti, Hans Albers & Charles Puffy


Born Lucky (1933)
   starred   
Talbot O'Farrell, René Ray and John Longden
Director: Michael Powell. Also starred Ben Welden, Helen Ferrers & Barbara Gott


Born to Be Wild (1938)
   starred   
Ralph Byrd, Doris Weston and Ward Bond
Director: Joseph Kane. Also starred Robert Emmett Keane, Ben Hewlett & Charles Williams. Plot: A greedy land baron has shut down the dam that supplies water to the town of Indian Head. Two truck drivers race to get a truck loaded with dynamite to the dam so they can blow it, but must battle their way through a gang of armed thugs hired by the land baron to stop them.


Boys' Reformatory (1939)
   starred   
Frankie Darro, Grant Withers and Lillian Elliott
Director: Howard Bretherton. Also starred Ben Welden, David Durand & Frank Coghlan Jr. Plot: A tough street kid takes the rap for a burglary committed by the son of his foster family and is sent to a boys reformatory, where the inmates are under the thumb of corrupt guards and a brutal prison doctor.


Boys Town (1938)
   starred   
Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Henry Hull and Bobs Watson
Director: Norman Taurog. The story of Father Edward Flanagan (Tracy) and his efforts to provide a safe environment for runaway boys in Omaha, Nebraska. Tracy won his second Oscar for Best Actor as Father Flanagan in 1939.


Boys Will Be Boys (1935)
   starred   
Will Hay, Gordon Parker and Jimmy Hanley
Director: William Beaudine. Also starred Davy Burnaby, Norma Varden & Claude Dampier


Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
   starred   
Boris Karloff, Colin Clive and Valerie Hobson
Director: James Whale. Also starred Ernest Lanchester, Gavin Gordon and Douglas Walton. Doctor Frankenstein (goaded by an even madder scientist) builds his monster a mate...Drama/horror


Bringing Up Baby (1938)
   starred   
Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant
Director: Howard Hawkes. Also features Barry Fitzgerald and Charles Ruggles. Katherine sets her eye on Cary who is seeking a rare dinosaur bone. Baby is Katherine's leopard who is sent by mistake to her NY apartment.


The Brown Wallet (1936)
   starred   
Patric Knowles, Nancy O'Neil and Henry Caine
Director: Michael Powell. Also starred Henrietta Watson, Charlotte Leigh & Shayle Gardner


Bulldog Drummond at Bay (1937)
   starred   
John Lodge, Dorothy Mackaill and Victor Jory
Director: Norman Lee. Also starred Claude Allister, Hugh Miller & Leslie Perrins


Bulldog Drummond Comes Back (1937)
   starred   
John Barrymore, John Howard and Louise Campbell
Director: Louis King. Also starred Reginald Denny, E. E. Clive & J. Carrol Naish. Plot: The girlfriend of Captain Drummond (Howard) has been kidnapped by an enemy of Drummond who seeks revenge.


Bulldog Drummond Escapes (1937)
   starred   
Ray Milland, Guy Standing and Heather Angel
Director: James P. Hogan. Also starred Reginald Denny, Porter Hall & Fay Holden. Plot: Captain Drummond (Milland) becomes a prisoner when he intents to protect a beautiful heiress of an espionage organization.


Bulldog Drummond in Africa (1938)
   starred   
John Howard, Heather Angel and H. B. Warner
Director: Louis King. Also starred J. Carrol Naish, Reginald Denny & E. E. Clive. Plot: Drummond (Howard), his girlfriend and his butler try to free an high post of Scotland Yard who has been kidnapped.


Bulldog Drummond's Bride (1939)
   starred   
John Howard, E. E. Clive and Heather Angel
Director: James P. Hogan. Also starred H. B. Warner, Reginald Denny & Elizabeth Patterson. Plot: A bank-robbery in London prevents - again - the marriage of Bulldog Drummond (Howard) with his girlfriend.


Bulldog Drummond's Peril (1938)
   starred   
John Barrymore, John Howard and Nydia Westman
Director: James P. Hogan. Also starred Louise Campbell, Reginald Denny & E. E. Clive. Plot: In this episode captain Drummond (Howard) tries to find the killer of various people. All assassinations were provoked by a diamond of great value...


Bulldog Drummond's Revenge (1937)
   starred   
John Barrymore, John Howard and Robert Gleckler
Director: Louis King. Also starred Louise Campbell, Frank Puglia & Lucien Littlefield. Plot: Captain Drummond (Howard) travels to Switzerland in order to marry his girlfriend but the disappearance of a dangerous cargo of explosives makes him delay his plans.


Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police (1939)
   starred   
John Howard, Leo G. Carroll and Heather Angel
Director: James P. Hogan. Also starred H. B. Warner, Elizabeth Patterson & Reginald Denny. Plot: Captain Drummond (Howard) and his girlfriend want to marry but a hidden treasure in the house in which they want...


Bulldog Edition (1936)
   starred   
Ray Walker, Evalyn Knapp and Regis Toomey
Director: Charles Lamont. Also starred Cy Kendall, William Newell & Oscar Apfel


Bulldog Jack (1935)
   starred   
Jack Hulbert, Fay Wray and Ralph Richardson
Director: Walter Forde. Also starred Claude Hulbert, Gibb McLaughlin & Atholl Fleming


Buried Alive (1939)
   starred   
Beverly Roberts, Robert Wilcox and Paul McVey
Director: Victor Halperin. Also starred Ted Osborne, George Pembroke & Alden 'Stephen' Chase. Plot: A prison trustee rescues a despondent executioner from a bar-room brawl, and is blamed for the fight by a tabloid reporter who actually started it, and loses parole, becomes embittered, and gets blamed for murder of guard.


Camille (1936)
   starred   
Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor and Lionel Barrymore
Director: George Cukor. Also starred Elizabeth Allan, Jessie Ralph & Henry Daniell. Plot: A Parisian courtesan must choose between the young man who loves her and the callous baron who wants her, even as her own health begins to fail.


Captain Blood (1935)
   starred   
Errol Flynn, Olivia De Havilland and Lionel Atwill
Director: Michael Curtiz. Also starred Basil Rathbone, Ross Alexander & Guy Kibbee. Plot: An enslaved English doctor and his comrades in chains escape and become pirates of the Robin Hood variety.


Captains Courageous (1937)
   starred   
Spencer Tracy, Freddie Bartholomew, Lionel Barrymore and Mickey Rooney
Director: Victor Fleming. Harvey Cheyne (Freddie) is a spoiled brat who falls off an ocean liner and is rescued by fishermen just putting out to sea. He learns much in his trip with them about real life. Tracy won an Oscar for Best Actor as Manuel in 1938.


Carnival in Flanders (1935)
   starred   
Françoise Rosay, Jean Murat and Alerme
Directed by Jacques Feyder


Car of Dreams (1935)
   starred   
Grete Mosheim, John Mills and Norah Howard
Director: Graham Cutts & Austin Melford. Also starred Robertson Hare, Mark Lester & Margaret Withers


The Case of the Lucky Legs (1935)
   starred   
Warren William, Genevieve Tobin and Patricia Ellis
Director: Archie Mayo. Also starred Lyle Talbot, Allen Jenkins & Craig Reynolds. Plot: Frank Patton (Reynolds) is the promoter of the Lucky Legs Contest. The problem is that he always skips town before paying the $1000 to the winner...


Cavalcade (1933)
   starred   
Diana Wynyard, Clive Brook, Una O’Connor and Herbert Mundin
Director: Frank Lloyd


Central Park (1932)
   starred   
Joan Blondell, Wallace Ford and Guy Kibbee
Director: John G. Adolfi. Also starred Henry B. Walthall, John Wray & Harold Huber. Plot: Rick (Ford) and Dot (Blondell), two penniless New Yorkers, meet and fall in love in Central Park. Promising to meet later, they separate.


The Champ (1931)
   starred   
Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper and Irene Rich
Director: King Vidor. The 1979 remake starred Jon Voight, Faye Dunaway and Ricky Schroder (remember him?).


Channel Crossing (1933)
   starred   
Matheson Lang, Constance Cummings and Edmund Gwenn
Director: Milton Rosmer. Also starred Anthony Bushell, Dorothy Dickson & Nigel Bruce


Charlie Chan's Secret (1936)
   starred   
Warner Oland, Rosina Lawrence and Charles Quigley
Director: Gordon Wiles. Also starred Henrietta Crosman, Edward Trevor & Astrid Allwyn. Plot: The heir to a huge fortune is presumed drowned, then shows up, is then murdered.


Charlie Chan at the Circus (1936)
   starred   
Warner Oland, Keye Luke and George Brasno
Director: Harry Lachman. Also starred Olive Brasno, Francis Ford & Maxine Reiner. Plot: While visiting the circus with his family, Charlie (Oland) is recruited by the big top's co-owner to investigate threatening letters that he's received.


Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo (1937)
   starred   
Warner Oland, Keye Luke and Virginia Field
Director: Eugene Forde. Also starred Sidney Blackmer, Harold Huber & Kay Linaker. Plot: Although Charlie (Oland) and Lee (Luke) are in Monaco for an art exhibit, they become caught up in a feud between rival financiers which involves the Chans in a web of blackmail and murder.


Charlie Chan at the Olympics (1937)
   starred   
Warner Oland, Katherine DeMille and Pauline Moore
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone. Also starred Allan Lane, Keye Luke & C. Henry Gordon. Plot: When a strategically important new aerial guidance system is stolen, Charlie (Oland) traces it to the Berlin Olympics, where he has to battle spies and enemy agents to retrieve it.


Charlie Chan at the Opera (1936)
   starred   
Warner Oland, Boris Karloff and Keye Luke
- Director: H. Bruce Humberstone. Also starred William Demarest, Guy Usher & Margaret Irving. Plot: A dangerous amnesiac escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the opera house to wreak revenge on those who tried to murder him seven years earlier.


Charlie Chan at the Race Track (1936)
   starred   
Warner Oland, Keye Luke and Helen Wood
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone. Also starred Thomas Beck, Alan Dinehart & Gavin Muir. Plot: When a friend of Charlie's (Oland) is found kicked to death by his own race horse on board a Honolulu-bound liner, the detective discovers foul play and uncovers an international gambling ring.


Charlie Chan at Treasure Island (1939)
   starred   
Sidney Toler, Victor Sen Yung and Cesar Romero
Director: Norman Foster. Also starred Douglas Fowley, Pauline Moore & Donald MacBride. Plot: Charlie's (Toler) investigation of a phony psychic during the 1939 World Exposition on San Francisco's Treasure Island leads him to expose a suicide as murder.


Charlie Chan in City in Darkness (1939)
   starred   
Sidney Toler, Lynn Bari and Richard Clarke
Director: Herbert I. Leeds. Also starred Harold Huber, Pedro de Cordoba & Dorothy Tree. Plot: While in Paris for a reunion on the eve of World War II, Charlie (Toler) finds that the murder of an hated businessman leads him to a conspiracy to smuggle arms to Germany.


Charlie Chan in Honolulu (1938)
   starred   
Sidney Toler, Phyllis Brooks and Victor Sen Yung
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone. Also starred Eddie Collins, John 'Dusty' King. Plot: While Charlie (Toler) is distracted with the birth of his first grandchild, son Jimmy (Yung) impersonates his father in order to investigate a murder aboard a freighter in the harbor.


Charlie Chan in London (1934)
   starred   
Warner Oland, Drue Leyton and Ray Milland
Director: Eugene Forde. Also starred Mona Barrie, Douglas Walton & Alan Mowbray. Plot: Charlie (Oland) visits a wealthy country home in England. Suspects in the murder range from a housekeepe to a stableman to a lawyer.


Charlie Chan in Paris (1935)
   starred   
Warner Oland, Mary Brian and Thomas Beck
Director: Lewis Seiler. Also starred John Miljan, Erik Rhodes & Keye Luke. Plot: Hired to investigate forged bonds, Charlie (Oland) is thwarted by the murder of his undercover agent, but the arrival of son Lee (Luke) helps him uncover the true culprits.


Charlie Chan in Reno (1939)
   starred   
Sidney Toler, Ricardo Cortez and Phyllis Brooks
Director: Norman Foster. Also starred Slim Summerville, Kane Richmond & Pauline Moore. Plot: Mary Whitman (Moore), an old friend of Charlie's (Toler) in Reno for a divorce, finds herself accused of murdering the woman her husband planned to marry after the decree became final.


Charlie Chan in Shanghai (1935)
   starred   
Warner Oland, Irene Hervey and Jon Hall
Director: James Tinling. Also starred Russell Hicks, Keye Luke & Halliwell Hobbes. Plot: When a prominent official is murdered at a banquet honoring Charle Chan (Oland), the detective and son Lee (Luke) team up to expose an opium-smuggling ring.


Charlie Chan on Broadway (1937)
   starred   
Warner Oland, Keye Luke and Joan Marsh
Director: Eugene Forde. Also starred J. Edward Bromberg, Douglas Fowley & Harold Huber. Plot: Returning from European exile where she avoided testifying against her criminal associates, a former singer with a tell-all diary is murdered to insure her silence.


Chasing Yesterday (1935)
   starred   
Anne Shirley, O. P. Heggie and Helen Westley
Director: George Nichols Jr. Also starred Elizabeth Patterson, Etienne Girardot & John Qualen


Cheer Boys Cheer (1939)
   starred   
Nova Pilbeam, Edmund Gwenn and Jimmy O'Dea
Director: Walter Forde. Also starred Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt & C. V. France


Chinatown After Dark (1931)
   starred   
Carmel Myers, Rex Lease and Barbara Kent
Director: Stuart Paton. Also starred Edmund Breese, Frank Mayo & Billy Gilbert. Plot: The female head of a criminal gang in Chinatown is after a valuable jewel, and lets nothing stand in her way of finding it.


China Seas (1935)
   starred   
Clark Gable, Jean Harlow and Wallace Beery
Director: Tay Garnett. Also starred Lewis Stone, Rosalind Russell & C. Aubrey Smith. Plot: When earthy Dolly Portland (Harlow) is rejected by Captain Gaskell (Gable) in favor of a socialite, she aids Jamesy McCardle (Beery), in league with Malay pirates, in his plot to seize his ship.


Cimarron (1931)
   starred   
Richard Dix, Irene Dunne, Estelle Taylor and Roscoe Ates
Director: Wesley Ruggles. Based on the novel “Cimarron” by Edna Ferber. RKO Pictures spent close to $1.5 million. That’s about $17 million today.


The Citadel (1938)
   starred   
Robert Donat, Rosalind Russell and Ralph Richardson
Director: King Vidor. Also starred Rex Harrison, Emlym Williams & Penelope Dudley-Ward


City Lights (1931)
   starred   
Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee and Harry Myers
Director: Charles Chaplin. Also starred Hank Mann, Charles Chaplin and Jean Carpenter. The Tramp struggles to help a blind flower girl he has fallen in love with..Comedy/drama


City Streets (1931)
   starred   
Gary Cooper, Sylvia Sidney and Paul Lukas
Director: Rouben Mamoulian. Also starred William 'Stage' Boyd, Wynne Gibson & Guy Kibbee. Plot: Nan (Sidney), a racketeer's daughter, is in love with The Kid (Cooper), a shooting gallery showman.


The Clairvoyant (1934)
   starred   
Claude Rains, Fay Wray and Mary Clare
Director: Maurice Elvey. Also starred Ben Field, Jane Baxter & Athole Stewart


Climbing High (1938)
   starred   
Jessie Matthews, Michael Redgrave and Noel Madison
Director: Carol Reed. Also starred Alastair Sim, Margaret Vyner & Francis L. Sullivan


C.O.D. (1932)
   starred   
Garry Marsh, Hope Davey and Arthur Stratton
Director: Michael Powell. Also starred Sybil Grove, Roland Culver & Peter Gawthorne


Come on George! (1939)
   starred   
George Formby, Patricia Kirkwood and Joss Ambler
Director: Anthony Kimmins. Also starred Merial Forbes, Cyril Raymond & George Hayes


Convict 99 (1938)
   starred   
Will Hay, Graham Moffatt, Moore Marriott and Googie Withers
Director: Marcel Varnel


Convicted (1931)
   starred   
Aileen Pringle, Richard Tucker and Jameson Thomas
Director: Christy Cabanne. Also starred Harry Myers, Dorothy Christy & Wilfred Lucas. Plot: Tony Blair (Tucker), a producer of Broadway plays, is murdered on a California-bound passenger liner, and a series of events leads to an assumption that Claire Norvelle (Pringle) has committed the killing.


Crackerjack (1938)
   starred   
Tom Walls, Lilli Palmer and Noel Madison
Director: Albert de Courville. Also starred Edmund Breon, Leon M. Lion & Charles Heslop


Crashing Hollywood (1938)
   starred   
Lee Tracy, Joan Woodbury and Paul Guilfoyle
Director: Lew Landers. Also starred Lee Patrick, Richard Lane & Bradley Page. Plot: An ex-con, just out of prison, and his wife meet a screen writer on the train and decide that, since he's writing about crime without knowing much about it, collaborating with him would be better than starting a duck farm. Things get a bit sticky when the real gangsters show up and want to know how Hollywood knows so much about them


The Crime of Dr. Crespi (1935)
   starred   
Erich Von Stroheim, Harriet Russell and Dwight Frye
Director: John H. Auer. Also starred Paul Guilfoyle, John Bohn & Geraldine Kay. Plot: A crazed scientist invents a serum that induces a catatonic state in whoever it is injected into. He uses the serum to paralyze his enemies, so that he can bury them alive


Crime of Helen Stanley (1934)
   starred   
Ralph Bellamy, Shirley Grey and Gail Patrick
Director: D. Ross Lederman. Also starred Kane Richmond, Bradley Page & Vincent Sherman


Crime on the Hill (1933)
   starred   
Sally Blane, Nigel Playfair and Lewis Casson
Director: Bernard Vorhaus. Also starred Anthony Bushell, Phyllis Dare & Judy Kelly


Crime School (1938)
   starred   
Humphrey Bogart, Gale Page and Billy Halop
Director: Lewis Seiler. Also starred Bobby Jordan, Huntz Hall & Leo Gorcey. Plot: Deputy Commissioner of Correction Mark Braden (Bogart) finds a reform school in terrible condition and assumes control himself...


The Crooked Circle (1932)
   starred   
Zasu Pitts, James Gleason and Ben Lyon
Director: H. Bruce Hunberstone. Also starred Irene Purcell, C. Henry Gordon & Raymond Hatton. Plot: A group of amateur detectives sets out to expose The Crooked Circle, a secretive group of hooded occultists.


Crown V. Stevens (1936)
   starred   
Beatrix Thomson, Patric Knowles and Reginald Purdell
Director: Michael Powell. Also starred Glennis Lorimer, Allan Jeayes & Frederick Piper


César (1936)
   starred   
Raimu, Pierre Fresnay and Anré Fouché
Final film in the Fanny Trilogy


A Cuckoo in the Nest (1933)
   starred   
Tom Walls, Ralph Lynn and Grace Edwin
Director: Tom Walls. Also starred Yvonne Arnaud, Mary Brough & Robertson Hare


Dames (1934)
   starred   
Joan Blondell, Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler
Director: Ray Enright & Busby Berkeley. Also starred Zasu Pitts, Guy Kibbee & Hugh Herbert. Plot: Multi millionaire Ezra Ounce (Herbert) wants to start a campaign against 'filthy' forms of entertainment, like Broadway-Shows...


A Damsel in Distress (1937)
   starred   
Fred Astaire, George Burns and Gracie Allen
Director: George Stevens. Also starred Joan Fontaine, Reginald Gardiner & Ray Noble. Plot: Lady Alyce Marshmorton (Fontaine) must marry soon, and the staff of Tottney Castle have laid bets on who she'll choose...


Dance Pretty Lady (1932)
   starred   
Ann Casson, Carl Harbord and Michael Hogan
Director: Anthony Asquith. Also starred Moore Marriott, Flora Robson & Leonard Brett


Dancing Lady (1933)
   starred   
Joan Crawford, Clark Gable and Franchot Tone
Director: Robert Z. Leonard. Also starred May Robson, Winnie Lightner & Fred Astaire. Plot: An attractive dancer is rescued from jail by a rich man, who helps her to have her first big opportunity at a musical play on Broadway.


Dandy Dick (1935)
   starred   
Will Hay, Nancy Burne and Esmond Knight
Director: William Beaudine. Also starred Davy Burnaby, Mignon O'Doherty & Syd Crossley


Danger Flight (1939)
   starred   
John Trent, Marjorie Reynolds and Milburn Stone
Director: Howard Bretherton. Also starred Jason Robards Sr, Tommy Baker & Dennis Moore. Plot: Tailspin Tommy (Trent) is flying through a severe storm to deliver a payroll. What he doesn't know is that a gang of crooks is setting a trap for him in order to get their hands on the money.


Danger on the Air (1938)
   starred   
Nan Grey, Donald Woods and Jed Prouty
Director: Otis Garrett. Also starred Berton Churchill, William Lundigan & Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher


Dangerous Corner (1934)
   starred   
Virginia Bruce, Conrad Nagel and Melvyn Douglas
Director: Phil Rosen. Also starred Erin O'Brien-Moore, Ian Keith & Betty Furness


Dangerous Paradise (1930)
   starred   
Nancy Carroll, Richard Arlen and Warner Oland
Director: William A. Wellman. Also starred Gustav von Seyffertitz, Francis McDonald & George Kotsonaros. Plot: Heyst (Arlen), a hermit on his own tropical island, plays unwilling host to red-headed stowaway Alma (Carroll). Danger looms...


Dangerous to Know (1938)
   starred   
Anna May Wong, Akim Tamiroff and Gail Patrick
Director: Robert Florey. Also starred Lloyd Nolan, Harvey Stephens & Anthony Quinn. Plot: A gangster tries to fix things so that he can marry a rich society woman.


The Dark Eyes of London (1940)
   starred   
Bela Lugosi, Hugh Williams and Greta Gynt
Director: Walter Summers. Also starred Edmon Ryan, Wilfred Walter & Alexander Field


The Dark Hour (1936)
   starred   
Ray Walker, Berton Churchill and Irene Ware
Director: Charles Lamont. Also starred Hobart Bosworth, Hedda Hopper & E. E. Clive. Plot: A pair of detectives investigates the murder of an elderly millionaire who was the target of blackmail and death threats and find that there is no shortage of suspects, many of them in the victim's own family.


Dark Journey (1937)
   starred   
Conrad Veidt, Vivien Leigh and Joan Gardner
Director: Victor Saville. Also starred Anthony Bushell, Ursula Jeans & Margery Pickard


Dark Victory (1939)
   starred   
Bette Davis, George Brent and Humphrey Bogart
Director: Edmund Goulding. Also starred Geraldine Fitzgerald, Ronald Reagan & Henry Travers. Plot: A young socialite is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour, and must decide whether she'll meet her final days with dignity.


Daughter of the Dragon (1931)
   starred   
Anna May Wong, Warner Oland and Sessue Hayakawa
Director: Lloyd Corrigan. Also starred Bramwell Fletcher, Frances Dade & Holmes Herbert. Plot: Princess Ling Moy (wong), a young and beautiful Chinese aristocrat lives next door, unbeknownst to her, to Dr. Fu Manchu (Oland), a brilliant but twisted genius who is out to rule the world.


Daughter of the Tong (1939)
   starred   
Evelyn Brent, Grant Withers and Dorothy Short
Director: Bernard B. Ray. Also starred Dave O'Brien, Richard Loo & Dirk Thane. Plot: A detective matches wits with the female leader of an Oriental crime ring.


A Day at the Races (1937)
   starred   
Groucho Marx, Chico Marx and Harpo Marx
Director: Sam Wood. Also starred Allan Jones, Maureen O'Sullivan & Margaret Dumont. Plot: A vet posing as a doctor, a race horse owner and his friends struggle to help keep a sanitarium open with the help of a misfit racehorse.


Dead End (1937)
   starred   
Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea and Humphrey Bogart
Director: William Wyler. Also starred Wendy Barrie, Claire Trevor & Allen Jenkins. Plot: The Dead End Kids, an unemployed architect, and gangster Baby Face Martin (Bogart) interact with an East Side neighborhood over one day and night.


Death on the Set (1935)
   starred   
Henry Kendall, Eve Gray and Jeanne Stuart
Director: Leslie S. Hiscott. Also starred Garry Marsh, Wally Patch & Lewis Shaw


Destry Rides Again (1939)
   starred   
Marlene Dietrich, James Stewart and Mischa Auer
Director: George Marshall. Also starred Charles Winninger, Brian Donlevy & Allen Jenkins


Devil and the Deep (1932)
   starred   
Tallulah Bankhead, Gary Cooper and Charles Laughton
Director: Marion Gering. Also starred Cary Grant, Paul Porcasi & Juliette Compton


The Devil is a Woman (1935)
   starred   
Marlene Dietrich, Lionel Atwill and Edward Everett Horton
Director: Josef von Sternberg. Also starred Alison Skipworth, Cesar Romero & Don Alvarado. Plot: Film told in flashbacks of an older man's obsession for a woman who can belong to no-one but can frustrate everyone...


The Devil's Party (1938)
   starred   
Victor McLaglen, William Gargan and Paul Kelly
Director: Ray McCarey. Also starred Beatrice Roberts, Frank Jenks & John Gallaudet. Plot: Adults who grew up as slum kids meet later in life, but murder disrupts their reunion.


Dinner at Eight (1933)
   starred   
Marie Dressler, John Barrymore and Wallace Beery
Director: George Cukor. Also starred Jean Harlow, Lionel Barrymore & Billie Burke. Plot: Social climbing Millicent (Burke) and Oliver Jordan (Lionel Barrymore) throw a dinner for a bunch of New York society types, each of whom has much to reveal.


The Divine Spark (1935)
   starred   
Mártha Eggerth, Phillips Holmes and Benita Hume
Director: Carmine Gallone. Also starred Donald Calthrop, Arthur Margetson & Edmund Breon


Doctor Bull (1933)
   starred   
Will Rogers, Vera Allen and Marian Nixon
Director: John Ford. Also starred Howard Lally, Berton Churchill & Louise Dresser. Plot: Dr. Bull (Rogers) is an old-fashioned country doctor whose affair with the widow Janet Cardmaker (Allen) is creating waves in the small town where he practices...


Doctor Syn (1937)
   starred   
George Arliss, Margaret Lockwood and John Loder
Director: Roy William Neill. Also starred Roy Emerton, Graham Moffatt & Frederick Burtwell


Dodge City (1939)
   starred   
Errol Flynn, Olivia De Havilland and Ann Sheridan
Director: Michael Curtiz. Also starred Bruce Cabot, Frank McHugh & Alan Hale. Plot: Dodge City. A wide-open cattle town run by Jeff Surrett (Cabot). Even going on a children's Sunday outing is not a safe thing to do...


Dodsworth (1936)
   starred   
Walter Houston, Ruth Chatterton and Paul Lukas
Director: William Wyler. Also starred Mary Astor, Kathryn Marlowe and David Niven. A bittersweet tale of the increasing estrangement of a retired automobile tycoon and his wife..Drama/romance


Dracula (1931)
   starred   
Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler and David Manners
Director: Tod Browning. Also starred Dwight Frye, Edward Van Sloan and Herbert Bunston. The vampire Count Dracula arrives in England and begins to prey upon the virtuous young Mina...Fantasy/horro


The Drifter (1932)
   starred   
William Farnum, Noah Beery and Phyllis Barrington
Director: William A. O'Connor. Also starred Charles Sellon, Bruce Warren & Russell Hopton. Plot: A man known as The Drifter (Farnum) returns home to his cabin in the woods and winds up getting involved with an escaped convict, a gunfighter, lumber company rivals, mysterious family ties and murder.


Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
   starred   
Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins and Rose Hobart
Director: Rouben Mamoulian. Not to be confused with the 1971 production, "Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde".


The Drum (1938)
   starred   
Sabu, Raymond Massey and Roger Livesey
Director: Zoltan Korda. Also starred Valerie Hobson, David Tree & Desmond Tester


Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)
   starred   
Claudette Colbert, Henry Fonda and Edna May Oliver
Director: John Ford. Also starred Eddie Collins, John Carradine & Dorris Bowdon. Plot: Before the Revolutionary War farmer Martin (Fonda) brings bride Magdelana (Colbert) the Mohawk Valley where they are burned out by Indians...


The Drums of Jeopardy (1931)
   starred   
Warner Oland, June Collyer and Lloyd Hughes
Director: George B. Seitz. Also starred Clara Blandick, Hale Hamilton & Wallace MacDonald. Plot: A mad doctor is determined to take revenge on the family he believes is responsible for his daughter's death.


Duck Soup (1933)
   starred   
Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx and Chico Marx
Director: Leo McCarey. Also starred Zeppo Marx, Margaret Dumont and Raquel Torres. Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs Teasdale...Comedy/musical


The Duke Comes Back (1937)
   starred   
Allan Lane, Heather Angel and Genevieve Tobin
Director: Irving Pichel. Also starred Johnny Russell, Joseph Crehan & Frederick Burton


East Lynne (1931)
   starred   
Ann Harding, Conrad Nagel and Cecilia Loftus
Director: Frank Lloyd. Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1931. Only one copy of the film is known to exist.


East Meets West (1936)
   starred   
George Arliss, Lucie Mannheim and Godfrey Tearle
Director: Herbert Mason. Also starred Romney Brent, Ballard Berkeley & Ronald Ward


East of Borneo (1931)
   starred   
Rose Hobart, Charles Bickford and Georges Renavent
Director: George Melford. Also starred Lupita Tovar & Noble Johnson. Plot: Woman treks through jungle to find her missing husband.


Easy Living (1937)
   starred   
Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold and Ray Milland
Director: Mitchell Leisen. Also starred Luis Alberni, Mary Nash & Franklin Pangborn. Plot: J.B. Ball (Arnold), a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family.


The Edge of the World (1937)
   starred   
John Laurie, Belle Chrystall and Eric Berry
Director: Michael Powell. Also starred Kitty Kirwan, Finlay Currie & Niall MacGinnis


Elephant Boy (1937)
   starred   
Sabu, W. E. Holloway and Walter Hudd
Director: Robert J. Flaherty/Zoltan Korda. Also starred Allan Jeayes, Bruce Gordon & D. J. Williams


Eternally Yours (1939)
   starred   
Loretta Young, David Niven and Hugh Herbert
Director: Tay Garnett. Also starred Billie Burke, C. Aubrey Smith & Raymond Walburn


Evensong (1934)
   starred   
Evelyn Laye, Fritz Kortner and Emlyn Williams
Director: Victor Saville. Also starred Carl Esmond, Alice Delysia & Conchita Supervia


Evergreen (1934)
   starred   
Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale and Betty Balfour
Director: Victor Saville. Also starred Barry MacKay, Ivor McLean & Hartley Power


Everything is Thunder (1936)
   starred   
Constance Bennett, Douglass Montgomery and Oskar Homolka
Director: Milton Rosmer. Also starred Roy Emerton, Frederick Lloyd & Peggy Simpson


Exiled to Shanghai (1937)
   starred   
Wallace Ford, June Travis and Dean Jagger
Director: Nick Grinde & Armand Schaefer. Also starred William Bakewell, Arthur Lake & Jonathan Hale


The Face at the Window (1939)
   starred   
Tod Slaughter, John Warwick and Aubrey Mallalieu
Director: George King. Also starred Marjorie Taylor, Robert Adair & Wallace Everett. Plot: Set in France in 1880. A series of murders is attributed to a Wolf Man.


A Face in the Fog (1936)
   starred   
June Collyer, Lloyd Hughes and Lawrence Gray
Director: Robert F. Hill. Also starred Jack Mulhall, Al St. John & Jack Cowell. Plot: A mysterious killer known as The Fiend uses an unusual bullet as his trademark for his murders.


The Face on the Barroom Floor (1932)
   starred   
Dulcie Cooper, Bramwell Fletcher and Alice Ward
Director: Bertram Bracken. Also starred Phillips Smalley, Walter Miller & Maurice Black. Plot: Bill Bronson (Fletcher) is a likable young bank clerk, whose congenital thirst for liquor is kept under control until he joins his wife Mary (Cooper) at getting blotto at a company party. From there it is a downward spiral.


The Faithful Heart (1932)
   starred   
Herbert Marshall, Edna Best and Mignon O'Doherty
Director: Victor Saville. Also starred Laurence Hanray, Anne Grey & Athole Stewart


Fanny (1932)
   starred   
Raimu, Pierre Fresnay and Fernand Charpin
Second film in the Pagnol trilogy; directed by Marc Allégret


A Farewell to Arms (1932)
   starred   
Helen Hayes, Gary Cooper and Adolphe Menjou
Director: Frank Borzage. Also starred Mary Philips, Jack La Rue & Blanche Friderici. Plot: A tale of the love between ambulance driver Lt. Henry (Cooper) and nurse Catherine Barkley (Hayes) during World War I.Won 2 Oscars


Fashions of 1933 (1934)
   starred   
William Powell, Bette Davis and Frank McHugh
Director: William Dieterle. Also starred Hugh Herbert, Verree Teasdale & Reginald Owen. Plot: Sherwood Nash (Powell) is a swindler who bootlegs Paris fashions for sale at cut-rate prices.


Federal Agent (1936)
   starred   
William Boyd, Irene Ware and Charles A. Browne
Director: Sam Newfield. Also starred George Cooper, Lenita Land & Don Alvarado. Plot: A federal agent sets out to track down his partner's killers.


The Fighting Pilot (1935)
   starred   
Richard Talmadge, Gertrude Messinger and Robert Frazer
Director: Noel M. Smith. Also starred Eddie Davis, Victor Metzetti & William Humphrey. Plot: An inventor develops a new type of aircraft. A crooked businessman attempts to buy it but the inventor refuses to sell it to him...


Fighting Stock (1935)
   starred   
Tom Walls, Ralph Lynn and Robertson Hare
Director: Tom Walls. Also starred Marie Lohr, Herbert Lomas & Lesley Wareing


Fighting Thoroughbreds (1939)
   starred   
Ralph Byrd, Mary Carlisle and Robert Allen
Director: Sidney Salkow. Also starred George 'Gabby' Hayes, Marvin Stephens & Charles C. Wilson


A Fire Has Been Arranged (1935)
   starred   
Chesney Allen, Bud Flanagan and Harold French
Director: Leslie S. Hiscott. Also starred Mary Lawson, Alastair Sim and Hal Walters


Fire Over England (1937)
   starred   
Flora Robson, Raymond Massey and Leslie Banks
Director: William K. Howard. Also starred Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh & Morton Selten


The Fire Raisers (1934)
   starred   
Leslie Banks, Anne Grey and Carol Goodner
Director: Michael Powell. Also starred Frank Cellier, Francis L. Sullivan & Lawrence Anderson. Plot: Jim Bronson (Banks) is an insurance investigator, but he's unhappy with his work and gets involved with a gang of arsonists....


First a Girl (1935)
   starred   
Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale and Anna Lee
Director: Victor Saville. Also starred Griffith Jones, Alfred Drayton & Constance Godridge. Plot: Elizabeth (Matthews), a delivery girl, dreams of being a music-hall singer but she is refused at the first casting she takes part in....


The First Offence (1933)
   starred   
John Mills, Lilli Palmer and Bernard Nedell
Director: Herbert Mason. Also starred Michel André, H.G.Stoker & Jean Wall


Flaming Gold (1933)
   starred   
William Boyd, Mae Clarke and Pat O'Brien
Director: Ralph Ince. Also starred Robert McWade, Helen Ware & Rollo Lloyd


Flight from Glory (1937)
   starred   
Chester Morris, Whitney Bourne and Onslow Stevens
Director: Lew Landers. Also starred Van Heflin, Richard Lane & Paul Guilfoyle


The Floradora Girl (1930)
   starred   
Marion Davies, Lawrence Gray and Walter Catlett
Director: Harry Beaumont. Also starred Louis John Bartels, Ilka Chase and Vivien Oakland. A chorus girl (Marian Davies) gets bad advice from her fellow chorines in handling a rich suitot Lawrence Gray) who assumes she is a gold-digger...Drama/romance


The Flying Irishman (1939)
   starred   
Douglas Corrigan, Paul Kelly and Robert Armstrong
Director: Leigh Jason. Also starred Gene Reynolds, Donald MacBride & Eddie Quillan. Plot: This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan.(played by himself)


Follow the Fleet (1936)
   starred   
Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers and Randolph Scott
Director: Mark Sandrich. Also starred Harriet Hilliard, Astrid Allwyn & Betty Grable. Plot: A Navy sailor tries to rekindle a romance with the woman he loves while on shore leave in San Francisco.


Footlight Parade (1933)
   starred   
James Cagney, Joan Blondell and Ruby Keeler
Director: Lloyd Bacon. Also starred Dick Powell, Frank McHugh & Ruth Donnelly. Plot: Chester Kent (Cagney) struggles against time, romance, and a rival's spy to produce spectacular live "prologues" for movie houses.


Foreign Affaires (1935)
   starred   
Tom Walls, Norma Varden and Marie Lohr
Director: Tom Walls. Also starred Ralph Lynn, Robertson Hare & Diana Churchill. Plot: Upper class but broke, two British scroungers cause havoc in high society on the French Riviera


The Four Feathers (1939)
   starred   
John Clements, Ralph Richardson and C. Aubrey Smith
Director: Zoltan Korda. Also starred June Duprez, Allan Jeayes. Plot: A British army officer who resigns his commission on the eve of his unit's embarkation to a mission....


The Four Just Men (1939)
   starred   
Hugh Sinclair, Griffith Jones and Francis L. Sullivan
Director: Walter Forde. Also starred Frank Lawton, Anna Lee & Basil Sydney. Plot: The four men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies of the country


Frankenstein (1931)
   starred   
Colin Clive, Mae Clarke and John Boles
Director: James Whale. Also starred Boris Karloff, Edward Van Sloan and Frederick Kerr. Horror classic in which an obsessed scientist assembles a living being from parts of exhumed corpses. Drama/horror


Frankie and Johnnie (1936)
   starred   
Helen Morgan, Chester Morris and Lilyan Tashman
Director: John H. Auer & Chester Erskine. Also starred Florence Reed, Walter Kingsford & William Harrigan


Freaks (1932)
   starred   
Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams and Olga Baclanova
Director: Tod Browning. Also starred Roscoe Ates, Henry Victor and Daisy Earles. A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance...Drama/horror


A Free Soul (1931)
   starred   
Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, Lionel Barrymore and Clark Gable
Director: Clarence Brown. In the film, Lionel Barrymore delivered a 14-minute monologue. It was captured using more than one camera, since a film reel only held 10 minutes of footage.


Friday the Thirteenth (1933)
   starred   
Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale and Muriel Aked
Director: Victor Saville. Also starred Cyril Smith, Richard Hulton & Max Miller. Plot: It is pouring with rain at one midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and driver of a London....


The Front Page (1931)
   starred   
Adolph Menjou, Pat O'Brien, Edward Everett Horton and Mary Brian
Director: Lewis Milestone. Menjou and O'Brien team up to get "the scoop" on the whereabouts of an escaped criminal and get the story out first in 1928 Chicago. From the play by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur


Front Page Woman (1935)
   starred   
Bette Davis, George Brent and Roscoe Karns
Director: Michael Curtiz. Also starred Wini Shaw, Walter Walker & J. Carrol Naish. Plot: A woman reporter tries to prove she's just as good as any man, but runs into trouble along the way.


Fugitive Road (1934)
   starred   
Erich Von Stroheim, Wera Engels and Leslie Fenton
Director: Frank R. Strayer. Also starred George Humbert, Hank Mann & Harry Holman. Plot: An Austrian officer must face up to the good and evil aspects of his own personality as he becomes involved in a war.


Fury (1936)
   starred   
Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy and Walter Abel
Director: Fritz Lang. Also starred Bruce Cabot, Edward Ellis & Walter Brennan. Plot: When a prisoner barely survives a lynch mob attack and is presumed dead, he vindictively decides to frame the mob for his murder.


Gambling Ship (1933)
   starred   
Cary Grant, Benita Hume and Jack La Rue
Director: Louis J. Gasnier & Max Marcin. Also starred Glenda Farrell, Roscoe Karns & Arthur Vinton. Plot: Tired of the dangerous life as gambling boss, Ace Corbin (Grant) 'retires' from the racket and travels cross-country...


Gang Bullets (1938)
   starred   
Anne Nagel, Robert Kent and Charles Trowbridge
Director: Lambert Hillyer. Also starred Morgan Wallace, J. Farrell MacDonald & John T. Murray. Plot: A ruthless but clever gangster who knows every loophole in the law has the tables turned by a dedicated District Attorney and his assistant.


Gangster's Boy (1938)
   starred   
Jackie Cooper, Robert Warwick and Lucy Gilman
Director: William Nigh. Also starred Louise Lorimer, Tommy Wonder & Selmer Jackson. Plot: A popular high school valedictorian and star athlete becomes a pariah when it's discovered that his father is a former bootlegger.


Gangway (1937)
   starred   
Jessie Matthews, Barry MacKay and Nat Pendleton
Director: Sonnie Hale. Also starred Alastair Sim, Olive Blakeney & Noel Madison


The Gaunt Stranger (1938)
   starred   
Sonnie Hale, Wilfrid Lawson and Louise Henry
Director: Walter Forde. Also starred Alexander Knox, Peter Croft & George Merritt. Plot: A suspense thriller with virtually the entire cast under suspicion of murder.


The Gay Divorcee (1934)
   starred   
Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers and Alice Brady
Director: Mark Sandrich. Also starred Edward Everett Horton, Erik Rhodes & Eric Blore. Plot: Mimi Glossop (Rogers)divorce so her Aunt Hortense (Brady) hires a professional to play the correspondent in apparent infidelity.... Won an Oscar


Get That Man (1935)
   starred   
Wallace Ford, Finis Barton and E. Alyn Warren
Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet. Also starred Leon Ames, Lillian Miles & Laura Treadwell. Plot: Life gets complicated for a taxi driver when it's discovered that he's the spitting image of the murdered heir to a fortune.


The Ghost Camera (1933)
   starred   
Henry Kendall, Ida Lupino and John Mills
Director: Bernard Vorhaus. Also starred Victor Stanley, George Merritt & Felix Aylmer. Plot: When a photograph is taken at the scene of a murder, the camera is tossed out of a castle window to....


The Ghost Goes West (1935)
   starred   
Robert Donat, Jean Parker and Eugene Pallette
British romantic comedy, directed by René Clair


The Ghost Train (1931)
   starred   
Jack Hulbert, Cicely Courtneidge and Ann Todd
Director: Walter Forde. Also starred Cyrill Raymond, Allan Jeayes & Donald Calthrop


The Ghost Walks (1934)
   starred   
John Miljan, June Collyer and Richard Carle
Director: Frank R. Strayer. Also starred Henry Kolker, Johnny Arthur & Spencer Charters. Plot: During a stormy night at an old dark mansion, people who claim to see ghosts roaming the halls are later found murdered.


The Ghoul (1933)
   starred   
Boris Karloff, Cedric Hardwicke and Ernest Thesiger
Director: T. Hayes Hunter. Also starred Dorothy Hyson, Anthony Bushell & Kathleen Harrison. Ploy: An Egyptologist returns from the dead to take revenge on those who have violated his tomb


The Girl in the Crowd (1935)
   starred   
Barry Clifton, Patricia Hilliard and Googie Withers
Director: Michael Powell. Also starred Harold French, Clarence Blakiston & Margaret Gunn


A Girl Must Live (1939)
   starred   
Margaret Lockwood, Renee Houston and Lilli Palmer
Director: Carol Reed. Also starred George Robey, Hugh Sinclair & Naunton Wayne. Plot: A runaway schoolgirl falls among chorus girls planning to marry into the nobility.


Girl of the Port (1930)
   starred   
Sally O'Neill, Reginald Sharland and Mitchell Lewis
Director: Bert Glennon. Also starred Duke Kahanamoku, Donald MacKenzie & Renée Macready


Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
   starred   
Warren William, Joan Blondell and Arline MacMahon
Director: Mervyn LeRoy. Also starred Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell & Guy Kibbee. Plot: Millionaire turned composer Dick Powell rescues unemployed Broadway people with a new play.


Golden Boy (1939)
   starred   
Barbara Stanwyck, Adolphe Menjou and William Holden
Director: Rouben Mamoulian. Also starred Lee J. Cobb, Joseph Calleia & Sam Levene. Plot:Despite his musical talent, Joe Bonaparte (Holden) wants to be a boxer.


Gone With The Wind (1939)
   starred   
Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable and Olivia De Havilland
Director: Victor Fleming. Also featured Evelyn Keyes, Leslie Howard, Butterfly McQueen, Ann Rutherford, Victory Jory, George Reeves (TV's Superman), Thomas Mitchell and Hattie McDaniel. Atlanta as the Civil War moves across Georgia and the love and jealousy of Rhett, Scarlett, Melanie and Ashley.


Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
   starred   
Robert Donat, Greer Garson and Terry Kilburrn
Director: Sam Wood. Also starred John Mills, Paul Henried & Judith Furse


The Good Earth (1937)
   starred   
Paul Muni, Luise Rainer and Walter Connolly
Director: Sidney Franklin. Also starred Tilly Losch, Charley Grapewin & Jessie Ralph. Plot: The story of a farmer in China: a story of humility and bravery. His father gives Wang Lung (Muni)a freed slave as wife...


Good Morning Boys (1937)
   starred   
Will Hay, Martita Hunt and Peter Gawthorne
Director: Marcel Varnel. Also starred Graham Moffatt, Fewless Llewellyn & Mark Daly. Plot: A schoolteacher and his pupils visit Paris where they outwit a gang of crooks


Gorilla Ship (1932)
   starred   
Ralph Ince, Vera Reynolds and Reed Howes
Director: Frank R. Strayer. Also starred Wheeler Oakman, James Bradbury Jr & George Chesebro. Plot: A man, his wife and his best friend are aboard a yacht at sea that later gets shipwrecked. The husband soon starts to resent the attention paid to his wife by his friend.


Grand Hotel (1932)
   starred   
Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery and Lionel Barrymore
Director: Edmund Golding. Also starred Lewis Stone and Jean Hersholt.


Great God Gold (1935)
   starred   
Sidney Blackmer, Martha Sleeper and Regis Toomey
Director: Arthur Lubin. Also starred Edwin Maxwell, Ralf Harolde & Maria Alba. Plot: Greed, ambition and hunger-for-power drive John Hart (Blackmer), a New-York-City stock-market broker, into crooked dealings and deception...


Great Guy (1936)
   starred   
James Cagney, Mae Clarke and James Burke
Director: John G. Blystone. Also starred Edward Brophy, Henry Kolker & Bernadene Hayes. Plot: The adventures of an investigator (Cagney) for the Bureau of Weights and Measures.


The Great Hospital Mystery (1937)
   starred   
Jane Darwell, Sig Ruman and Sally Blane
Director: James Tinling. Also starred Thomas Beck, Joan Davis & William Demarest. Plot: When gangsters threaten the life of the brother of a nurse, she and her superintendent make it look as if he died while a hospital patient.


The Great Waltz (1938)
   starred   
Fernand Gravet, Luise Rainer and Miliza Korjus
Directed by Julien Duvivier; biography of Johann Strauss II


The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
   starred   
William Powell, Myrna Loy and Luise Rainer
Director: Robert Z. Leonard


Green Eyes (1934)
   starred   
Shirley Grey, Charles Starrett and Claude Gillingwater
Director: Richard Thorpe. Also starred John Wray, William Bakewell & Dorothy Revier. Plot: The owner of a large mansion in the country throws a costume party for some of his friends. However, the party turns sour when he is found stabbed to death in a closet. The police and a guest try to discover who committed the murder.


Guilty As Hell (1932)
   starred   
Edmund Lowe, Victor McLaglen and Richard Arlen
Director: Erle C. Kenton. Also starred Adrienne Ames, Henry Stephenson & Ralph Ince


Guilty Hands (1931)
   starred   
Lionel Barrymore, Kay Francis and Madge Evans
Director: W. S. Van Dyke. Also starred William Bakewell, C. Aubrey Smith & Polly Moran. Plot: Richard Grant (Barrymore) is a lawyer who believes that murder under certain circumstances is justifiable.


Gunga Din (1939)
   starred   
Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen and Douglas Fairbanks Jr
Director: George Stevens. Also starred Sam Jaffe, Eduardo Ciannelli & Joan Fontaine. Plot: In 19th century India, three British soldiers and a native waterbearer must stop a secret mass revival of the murderous Thuggee cult before it can rampage across the land.


The Guv'nor (1935)
   starred   
George Arliss, Ivor Barnard and Frank Cellier
Director: Milton Rosmer. Also starrred Mary Clare, Gene Gerrard & George Hayes


Happy Landing (1938)
   starred   
Sonja Henie, Don Ameche and Jean Hersholt
Director: Roy Del Ruth. Also starred Ethel Merman, Cesar Romero & Billy Gilbert. Plot: Bandleader (Romero and manager (Ameche) discover skater (Henie) in Norway. They become rivals as she returns with them to America.


Hard Rock Harrigan (1935)
   starred   
George O'Brien, Irene Hervey and Fred Kohler
Director: David Howard. Also starred Dean Benton, Frank Rice & Victor Potel. Plot: Tim 'Hard Rock" Harrigan (O'Brien), a construction-crew driller working on the site of the Boulder Dam, is in...


Harmony Lane (1935)
   starred   
Douglass Montgomery, Evelyn Venable and Adrienne Ames
Director: Joseph Santley. Also starred Joseph Cawthorn, William Frawley & David Torrence. Plot: The life and loves of composer Stephen Foster (Montgomery), from his early success through his decline, degradation, and death from alcoholism.


The Hatchet Man (1932)
   starred   
Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young and Dudley Digges
Director: William A. Wellman. Also starred Leslie Fenton, Edmund Breese & J. Carrol Naish. Plot: San Francisco Tong hatchet man Wong (Robinson) must execute his boyhood friend Sun (Naish).


The Headline Woman (1935)
   starred   
Heather Angel, Roger Pryor and Ford Sterling
Director: William Nigh. Also starred Conway Tearle, Robert Gleckler & Russell Hopton. Plot: When the daughter of a newspaper publisher is falsely charged with murder, a reporter on her father's paper goes into hiding with her...


The Healer (1935)
   starred   
Ralph Bellamy, Karen Morley and Mickey Rooney
Director: Reginald Barker. Also starred Judith Allen, Robert McWade & Bruce Warren. Plot: A young doctor running a health farm for polio victims is dazzled by a pretty and wealthy society girl, to the detriment of his patients and the woman who really loves him.


Hearts of Humanity (1932)
   starred   
Jean Hersholt, Jackie Searl and J. Farrell MacDonald
Director: Christy Cabanne. Also starred Claudia Dell, Charles Delaney & Lucille La Verne. Plot: Genial Irish NYC policeman Tom O'Hara (J.Farrell MacDonald) is looking forward to the arrival of his wife and their young son...


Heat Wave (1935)
   starred   
Albert Burdon, Cyril Maude and Les Allen
Director: Maurice Elvey. Also starred Anna Lee, Vera Pearce & Bernard Nedell


Hell's Angels (1930)
   starred   
Jean Harlow, Ben Lyon and James Hall
Director: Howard Hughes. The story of two brothers enrolled at Oxford who join the RAF during WWI. Helen (18 year old Jean Harlow) was loved by both brothers.


Hell's Headquarters (1932)
   starred   
Jack Mulhall, Barbara Weeks and Frank Mayo
Director: Andrew L. Stone. Also starred Phillips Smalley, Fred Parker & Everett Brown


Hell-Ship Morgan (1936)
   starred   
George Bancroft, Ann Sothern and Victor Jory
Director: D. Ross Lederman. Also starred George Regas, Howard C. Hickman & Ralph Byrd. Plot: After getting in a fight in a waterfront cafe over a girl, Captain Ira "Hell-Ship" Morgan (George Bancroft)...


Hell's House (1932)
   starred   
Bette Davis, Pat O'Brien and Junior Durkin