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Director: Alfred Hitchcock    More Info
Starring: Sara Allgood, Sidney Morgan, John Laurie, John Longden, Edward Chapman, Maire O'Neill, Dennis Wyndham, Kathleen O'Regan

 Set during an uprising of the Dublin Civil War, this is a rendition of Sean O'Casey's play about the troubled members of an Irish family.

Director: John Francis Dillon    More Info
Starring: Otis Skinner, Loretta Young, David Manners, Mary Duncan, Sidney Blackmer, Montagu Love, Ford Sterling, Theodore von Eltz, John St. Polis, Edmund Breese

 Baghdad beggar Haji (Otis Skinner) makes his way into the palace inner-circle where he romances Wazir Mansur's (Sidney Blackmer) "head wife" Zeleekha (Mary Duncan) while his daughter Marsinah (Loretta Young) falls in love with Caliph Abdallah (David Manners). Fate plays a big role in this captivating story.

Director: Frank Capra    More Info
Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Ralph Graves, Lowell Sherman, Marie Prevost, Nance O'Neil, George Fawcett, Juliette Compton

 Ex-prostitute Kay Arnold (Barbara Stanwyck) falls in love with a wealthy man (Ralph Graves). She believes she has found true love–until his mother interferes with plans.

Director: Scott Pembroke    More Info
Starring: Jack Benny, Betty Bronson, Eva Novak, E. Alyn Warren, Billy Butts, Adolph Milar, George E. Stone, Tom Dugan, Vadim Uraneff, Dorothea Wolbert

 The Medicine Man, Dr. John Harvey (Jack Benny), meets Mamie (Betty Bronson) and her brother, Buddy (Billy Butts), when they attend his medicine show as it passes through their town. Mamie's abusive father, Goltz (E. Alyn Warren), tries to force her into a marriage for money, and, when she asks Harvey for help, he comes to her aid.

Director: John Ford    More Info
Starring: Kenneth MacKenna, Frank Albertson, Paul Page, Walter McGrail, Stuart Erwin, Warren Hymer, J. Farrell MacDonald, George LeGuere, Charles K. Gerrard, Ben Hendricks Jr.

 Following a disabled submarine's descent to the ocean's floor, the desperate crew works out a rescue plan for their survival.

Director: George W. Hill    More Info
Starring: Marie Dressler, Wallace Beery, Dorothy Jordan, Marjorie Rambeau, Frank McGlynn Sr., Don Dillaway, Russell Hopton, DeWitt Jennings, Jack Pennick, Gretta Gould

 Marie Dressler won the Academy Award as Best Actress for her role as Min, the salty owner of a seaside inn who goes to extremes protecting those she loves.

Director: Lloyd Bacon    More Info
Starring: John Barrymore, Joan Bennett, Walter Long, Nigel De Brulier, Noble Johnson, Virginia Sale, John Ince, Lloyd Hughes, May Boley, Tom O'Brien

 Any resemblance to Herman Melville's classic story is purely coincidental in this strange adaptation of his story about Captain Ahab's obsession with the great white whale.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch    More Info
Starring: Jack Buchanan, Jeanette MacDonald, Zasu Pitts, Claud Allister, Lionel Belmore, Tyler Brooke, John Roche, Albert Conti, Helen Garden, Donald Novis

 Countess Vera von Conti (Jeanette MacDonald) is engaged to Prince Otto von Seibenheim (Claud Allister), but she does not love him. So, just before the scheduled wedding, Vera heads for Monte Carlo where she loses, time after time, at the casinos. She meets a mysterious man (Jack Buchanan) who asks if he may touch her hair for luck. He strokes her hair, but it is Vera's luck that changes, and she asks him to stay by her side. What Vera does not know is that he is actually the very wealthy Count Rudolph Falliere who is posing as a commoner in order to be near Vera. The Count plays his game until he ends up winning her heart, and they live happily ever after. Among the songs MacDonald sings is, "Beyond the Blue Horizon."

Director: Josef von Sternberg    More Info
Starring: Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, Adolphe Menjou, Ullrich Haupt, Eve Southern, Francis McDonald, Paul Porcasi, Juliette Compton, Michael Visaroff, Albert Conti

 French Foreign Legionnaire Tom Brown (Gary Cooper) falls in love with singer Amy Jolley (Marlene Dietrich) at Lo Tinto's cabaret in this top-notch love story. Four Academy Award nominations were received, including Best Actress (Dietrich) and Director.

Director: Harry Beaumont    More Info
Starring: Joan Crawford, Anita Page, Dorothy Sebastian, Robert Montgomery, Raymond Hackett, John Miljan, Hedda Hopper, Albert Conti, Edward Brophy, Louise Beavers

 Sales girls Jerry (Joan Crawford), Connie (Anita Page), and Franky (Dorothy Sebastian) seek rich husbands in this rather unconvincing–and dated–drama.

Director: Victor Halperin    More Info
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Jeanette Loff, Judith Barrie, Marie Prevost, John St. Polis, Lucien Prival, Sammy Blum, Harry Northrup, Almeda Fowler, Hal Price

 Douglas Fairbanks Jr. made his "talkie" debut in this film as a wealthy businessman's son who goes to a penthouse party that features "party girls" and learns that the woman (Jeanette Loff) he is now interested in was once a party girl herself.

Director: Augusto Genina    More Info
Starring: Louise Brooks, Georges Charlia, Andre Nicolle, Jean Bradin, Gaston Jacquet, H. Bandini, M. Ziboulsky, Yves Glad, Alex Bernard, Raymonde Sonny

 In this early sound movie from France, Louise Brooks is memorable for her performance as the typist who wins a beauty contest, fights for a movie career, and endures tragedy. However, Brooks is the only thing memorable about this film.

Director: Harry d'Abbadie D'Arrast    More Info
Starring: Ronald Colman, Kay Francis, Bramwell Fletcher, Frances Dade, David Torrence, Alison Skipworth, John Rogers, Wilson Benge, Virginia Bruce

 Based on E.W. Hornung's story of an ex-policeman (Ronald Colman) who finds thievery more profitable than that of his former profession, this is an entertaining film.

Director: Victor Fleming    More Info
Starring: Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Noah Beery, Gregory Gaye, George Cooper, C. Henry Gordon, Bela Lugosi, Colin Chase, Noah Beery Jr., Claire Du Brey

 Four volunteers–Deucalion (Warner Baxter), Machwurth (Noah Beery), Mordiconi (C. Henry Gordon), and Biloxi (George Cooper)–leave their unit in the French Foreign Legion. They join forces with a beautiful spy, Eleanore (Myrna Loy), which is a decision that leads to tragic consequences.

Director: Richard Wallace    More Info
Starring: Gary Cooper, Beryl Mercer, Daisy Belmore, Nora Cecil, Tempe Pigott, Arthur Hoyt, Basil Radford, Arthur Metcalfe, Larry Steers, Mary Gordon

 Kenneth Dowey (Gary Cooper) is taken in by Sarah Dowey (Beryl Mercer) and becomes her family during a short seven days leave from his army unit.

Director: George Archainbaud    More Info
Starring: Evelyn Brent, Louis Wolheim, Jean Arthur, Raymond Hatton, Joel McCrea, Blanche Sweet, Gavin Gordon, Purnell Pratt, William B. Davidson, Ivan Linow

 Boyd Emerson (Joel McCrea) and Freddie Marsh (Gavin Gordon) vie not only for the hand of wealthy Cherry Malotte (Evelyn Brent) but for her Alaskan salmon fishing business as well.

Director: Paul L. Stein    More Info
Starring: Constance Bennett, Kenneth MacKenna, Basil Rathbone, Zasu Pitts, Rita La Roy, Louis John Bartels, John Roche, Kendall Lee, Muriel Finley, Judith Wood

 After agreeing to a marriage of convenience, a young woman (Constance Bennett) is taught some lessons about the value of being true to oneself and must make some real decisions.

Director: John G. Adolfi    More Info
Starring: Grant Withers, James Cagney, Evalyn Knapp, Joan Blondell, Lucille La Verne, Noel Madison, Otto Hoffman, Warren Hymer, Hank Mann, Purnell Pratt

 In this depressing story (James Cagney's first film), gypsies in an amusement park provide the backdrop for murder.

Director: Sam Wood    More Info
Starring: Louis Mann, Robert Montgomery, Elliott Nugent, Leila Hyams, Clara Blandick, Mary Doran, Ralph Bushman, Robert McWade, Dell Henderson, Henry Armetta

 Successful businessman Adolf Wagenkampf (Louis Mann) adores his family, and when his son is forced to move to the desert because he has tuberculosis, Adolph stays with him there. This is not a good business decision but an excellent family choice as Adolf is willing to sacrifice his business and wealth for the interests of his loved ones.

Director: Benjamin Stoloff    More Info
Starring: Ted Healy, Frances McCoy, Charles Winninger, George Bickel, Lucile Browne, Stanley Smith, Shemp Howard, Moe Howard, Hallam Cooley, Freddie Sanborn

 In this slapstick comedy–which marks the movie debut of The Three Stooges–Shemp Howard, Moe Howard, and Larry Fine play firemen who are friends of Ted (Ted Healy) who is an employee of Otto Schmidt's (Charles Winninger) costume store is then told not to tell Otto's niece, Louise (Lucile Browne), that the store is going bankrupt. Meanwhile, Richard Carlson (Stanley Smith) arrives to manage the store and falls for Louise who is not at all interested in him. Ted invites Queenie (Frances McCoy) and Louise to the Firemen's Ball during which Ted and Richard will wear identical costumes in an attempt to fool Louise, but she catches on. Matters come to a head when fires break out, and the zany firemen arrive in time to rescue both Richard and Louise.

Director: Arnold Fanck    More Info
Starring: Leni Riefenstahl, Sepp Rist, Ernst Udet, Fredrich Kaybler, Mathias Wieman, Alfred Beierle, Ernst Peterson, Harald Reinl

 Hannes (Sepp Rist) tends an isolated observatory on Mont Blanc, having contact with the outside world only by Morse code or from visits by pilot Ernst (Ernst Udet). Ernst brings Hella (Leni Riefenstahl), who lives at the bottom of the mountain with her astronomer father, and they fall in love. When Hannes loses his gloves in a storm, his hands become frozen and he calls for help via Morse code. Hella heads a rescue team to reach him. But, Ernst flies in and saves Hannes.

Director: Paul Sloane    More Info
Starring: Louise Dresser, Tom Patricola, Kenneth MacKenna, Joyce Compton, June Collyer, Addie McPhail, Cliff Saum, Sidney De Gray, Paul Porcasi, John St. Polis

 This film is about three Italian sisters, Carlotta (Joyce Compton), Elena (June Collyer), and Antonia (Addie McPhail), who head in separate directions after World War I and leave their mother (Louise Dresser) behind.

Director: John Cromwell    More Info
Starring: Jackie Coogan, Junior Durkin, Mitzi Green, Lucien Littlefield, Tully Marshall, Clara Blandick, Jackie Searl, Ethel Wales, Dick Winslow, Jane Darwell

 Mark Twain's classic is given good treatment in this, the first "talkie" version of the story, with more to follow. The same starring cast (Jackie Coogan, Junior Durkin, Mitzi Green, and Clara Blandick) took the same roles the following year in "Huckleberry Finn."

Director: Frank Tuttle    More Info
Starring: Clara Bow, Fredric March, Sam Hardy, Eddie Fetherston, Jed Prouty, Rex Bell

 Fredric March plays a sailor who is infatuated with a young waitress (Clara Bow). Bow's dance number is worth watching.

Director: John Ford    More Info
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Claire Luce, Warren Hymer, Humphrey Bogart, William Collier Sr., Steve Pendleton, Morgan Wallace, Robert Emmett O'Connor, Bob Burns, Pat Somerset

 In this very early Humphrey Bogart vehicle, he plays wrongly convicted Steve whose plight is noted by St. Louis (Spencer Tracy) and Dannemora Dan (Warren Hymer) who, in turn, escape from prison to help Steve. Spencer Tracy's film debut.