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Director: Richard Wallace    More Info
Starring: Victor Mature, Louise Platt, Leo Carrillo, Bruce Cabot, Robert Barrat, Vivienne Osborne, Miles Mander, Roscoe Ates, Alan Ladd

 Set during the War of 1812, patriot Dan Marvin (Victor Mature) fights the British as he heads up a crew on a sailing ship. Alan Ladd has a bit part in this film as one of the sailors.

Director: Norman Foster    More Info
Starring: Sidney Toler, Jean Rogers, Kane Richmond, Lionel Atwill, Mary Nash, Victor Sen Yung, Chris-Pin Martin, Jack La Rue, Frank Puglia, Eddie Acuff

 During World War II, a plot is in-the-making to blow up the Panama Canal, and the United States government hires Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) to solve the case. Helping Charlie is his Number 2 son Jimmy (Victor Sen Yung), and after they land in Panama City they are confronted by the problem of a number of people who could be an elusive Axis spy known as Rymer who is behind the plot to destroy the canal. Will Charlie and Jimmy be able to identify Rymer, solve the case, and save the canal?

Director: Michael Powell    More Info
Starring: Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Hay Petrie, Joss Ambler, Raymond Lovell, Esmond Knight, Charles Victor, Phoebe Kershaw, Harold Warrender, John Longden

 During the World War II blackout in London, Capt. Andersen's (Conrad Veidt) Danish freighter is delayed in port by British customs agents. Two passengers–Mrs. Sorensen (Valerie Hobson) and Mr. Pidgeon (Esmond Knight)–manage to sneak off the ship, and Andersen rows to shore in search of them. He roams through London's dark streets, finally finds them, and learns that they are both secret agents. Pidgeon escapes, but Andersen stays with Mrs. Sorensen and figures out that she is trying to uncover a Nazi spy ring operating out of a Soho nightclub basement. They are captured by the spies, but Andersen escapes–determined to recruit help and to return and perform a rescue while capturing the spies.

Director: George Waggner    More Info
Starring: Ralph Byrd, Lorna Gray, George Lynn, Willy Castello, Mantan Moreland, Jean Del Val, Ann Codee, Boyd Irwin, Neyle Morrow, Alberto Morin

 On the way to Morocco and the French Foreign Legion, Paul (Ralph Byrd) meets Helene (Lorna Gray), and a romance begins. But Helene is engaged to Paul's best friend Jean (George Lynn), and the battle for her begins. Meanwhile, there are bad arms dealers to deal with.

Director: Ford Beebe    More Info
Starring: Buster Crabbe, Carol Hughes, Charles Middleton, Anne Gwynne, Frank Shannon, John Hamilton, Herbert Rawlinson, Shirley Deane, Lee Powell, Roland Drew

 Flash Gordon (Buster Crabbe) is back in action in this 12-episode serial as the "Purple Death," a lethal plague, hits Earth. Flash's nemesis, Ming the Merciless (Charles Middleton) of the planet Mong, is behind it. So, Flash and friends return to Mong seeking the antidote. Of course, the powers of Ming will make that difficult.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock    More Info
Starring: Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, George Sanders, Albert Bassermann, Robert Benchley, Edmund Gwenn, Eduardo Ciannelli, Harry Davenport, Ian Wolfe

 At the beginning of World War II, American reporter Johnny Jones (Joel McCrea) is sent to Europe where he witnesses the assassination of Dutch diplomat Van Meer (Albert Basserman). Looking into the matter, Johnny finds a huge conspiracy, and, with help from peace advocate Stephen Fisher's (Herbert Marshall) daughter Carol (Laraine Day), he uncovers Nazi plans to conquer Europe. But, discovering the plans will lead to a dangerous journey as Johnny puts together clues to discover who is the leader of the deadly plot. The film received six Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Supporting Actor (Basserman). This is one of Alfred Hitchcock's best films.

Director: James Whale    More Info
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Joan Bennett, John Howard, George Sanders, Vincent Price, Alan Hale, George Bancroft, Gene Garrick, Francis McDonald, Iron Eyes Cody

 On a treasure hunt through South America, an archeological expedition discovers lost temples and headhunters in the interior jungle of Brazil.

Director: Al Christie    More Info
Starring: Heather Angel, John "Dusty" King, Constance Collier, Walter Catlett, Tom Dugan, Robert Elliott, Clem Bevans, Emma Dunn, Henry Brandon, William B. Davidson

 Schoolteacher Anne Gladden (Heather Angel) escapes the attentions of a gangster by driving off in his car. What Anne does not know is that there is a corpse in the trunk. While the gangster tries to recover his car, Anne meets a stranger and picks him up. Now they discover the body and try to return the car, but both the gangster and the police are on their trail.

Director: Irving Pichel    More Info
Starring: Paul Muni, Gene Tierney, Laird Cregar, John Sutton, Vincent Price, Nigel Bruce, Virginia Field

 This is the story of the English navigator, Pierre Radison (Paul Muni), who explored Hudson Bay and began the Hudson Bay Company for British fur-trading interests.

Director: Rouben Mamoulian    More Info
Starring: Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Basil Rathbone, Gale Sondergaard, J. Edward Bromberg, Eugene Pallette, Montagu Love, George Regas, Janet Beecher, Robert Lowery

 Don Diego Vega (Tyrone Power) is an aristocrat who returns to California in the early 1800s and fights the injustice of dictator Don Luis Quintero (J. Edward Bromberg) and his henchman Capt. Pasquale (Basil Rathbone) who are now ruling the district after displacing Don Diego's father Don Alejandro (Montagu Love) as governor. Don Diego is in love with Quintero's niece, Lolita (Linda Darnell), but he dons his mask and becomes Zorro, fighting against Quintero's corruption and leaving his mark as he battles for justice. Lots of fun and adventure.

Director: Christy Cabanne    More Info
Starring: Dick Foran, Peggy Moran, Wallace Ford, Eduardo Ciannelli, George Zucco, Cecil Kellaway, Charles Trowbridge, Tom Tyler, Sig Arno, Leon Belasco

 Unemployed archeologists Steve (Dick Foran) and Babe (Wallace Ford) receive funding from a magician, The Great Solvani (Cecil Kellaway), and his daughter Marta (Peggy Moran). Steve and Babe join forces in Egypt and find themselves living with the Mummy (Tom Tyler) and threatened by a high priest (George Zucco) in this good comedic horror film. Humor helps relieve the tension.

Director: Cecil B. DeMille    More Info
Starring: Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll, Paulette Goddard, Preston Foster, George Bancroft, Akim Tamiroff, Lon Chaney Jr., Regis Toomey, Richard Denning, Rod Cameron

 Dusty Rivers (Gary Cooper) is a Texas Ranger who ends up working with the Canadian Mounties when he heads into their territory while on the trail of his man.

Director: King Vidor    More Info
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, Walter Brennan, Addison Richards, Ruth Hussey, Nat Pendleton, Donald MacBride, Robert Barrat, Lumsden Hare, Isabel Jewell

 In this historical saga about 18th-century America, Major Robert Rogers (Spencer Tracy) leads his men on an expedition to map out a northwest passage to the sea.

Director: Hal Roach    More Info
Starring: Victor Mature, Carole Landis, Lon Chaney Jr., John Hubbard, Mamo Clark, Nigel De Brulier, Conrad Nagel., Jacqueline Dalya, Inez Palange, Edgar Edwards

 This caveman saga has excellent special effects–often seen in other films–depicting the dangers encountered by early humans inhabiting Earth. Remade as "One Million Years B.C." in 1966.

Director: Phil Rosen    More Info
Starring: Charles Bickford, Irene Rich, Melvin Lang, George Cleveland, June Carlson, Guy Usher, Dave O'Brien, Tristram Coffin, I. Stanford Jolley, Jess Cavin

 Sadie (Irene Rich) owns an Alaskan riverboat in the Yukon and has been using the money made taking gold-miners to their claims to pay for her daughter Helen's (June Carlson) education at boarding school. Finding that she is strapped for cash, Sadie sells the boat to the shady John Thorne (Melvin Lang) who now uses the boat to jump miners' claims. Unexpectedly, Helen arrives on the scene, and her boyfriend Bob (Dave O'Brien) goes to work for Thorne. But, fear not, Sadie's friend Ace (Charles Bickford) comes to the rescue and saves the day.

Director: Edward H. Griffith    More Info
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Madeleine Carroll, Tullio Carminati, Lynne Overman, Muriel Angelus, Billy Gilbert, Thomas Louden, Frank Godoy, Jack Carr, Frederick Vogeding

 Good lead players and OK scenery enhance this run-of-the-mill jungle story.

Director: Michael Curtiz    More Info
Starring: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Raymond Massey, Ronald Reagan, Alan Hale, William Lundigan, Van Heflin, Gene Reynolds, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Ward Bond

 Jeb Stuart (Errol Flynn), who would later become Robert E. Lee's top cavalry scout, is given orders to bring in abolitionist John Brown (Raymond Massey).

Director: Michael Curtiz    More Info
Starring: Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Claude Rains, Flora Robson, Alan Hale, Donald Crisp, Gilbert Roland, William Lundigan, Montagu Love, Francis McDonald

 Errol Flynn is definitely at his swashbuckling best as 1850s' British pirate Geoffrey Thorpe leads the Sea Hawk pirates on raids and captures more than 50 Spanish ships. In the process, he learns that the Spanish are planning to attack England and have placed spies in Queen Elizabeth's (Flora Robson) court. But, Elizabeth does not approve of Thorpe's pirating tactics and demands that he change his ways. Meanwhile, Thorpe falls in love with Dona Maria (Brenda Marshall), and now he must expose the treachery to save his country and win the love of Dona Maria.

Director: Ludwig Berger    More Info
Starring: Sabu, John Justin, June Duprez, Conrad Veidt, Rex Ingram, Miles Malleson, Mary Morris, Hay Petrie, Allan Jeayes, Morton Selten

 Abu (Sabu) is a young boy who is tossed into a Bagdad dungeon for stealing. He is joined by Prince Ahmad (John Justin) who the evil Grand Vizier Jaffar (Conrad Veidt) has deposed as ruler of the realm. Together, Abu and Ahmad manage to escape to Bazra where Ahmad falls in love with a beautiful princess (June Duprez). But, the wicked Jaffar appears on the scene with intentions of marrying the princess and sails off with her as his prisoner. Ahmad and Abu follow them, and along the way Ahmad opens a bottle containing a genie (Rex Ingram). Abu outwits the genie, but will his powers be enough to help Ahmad get to the magical Land of Legend where he can regain the crown?

Director: William Keighley    More Info
Starring: James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Pat O'Brien, Andy Devine, George Tobias, Helen Vinson, Jerome Cowan, George Reeves, Victor Kilian, Frank Puglia

 Central American planter Nick Butler (James Cagney) is a plantation foreman working for Baldwin Fruit Company executive Steve Case (Pat O'Brien). Butler is preparing to head back to Chicago and leave his plantation job behind, but he encounters problems from Case who wants O'Brien to work on another plantation. Butler does agree and goes to the plantation where problems lie ahead in the form of Gloria (Helen Vinson) who is the wife of former foreman Bob Anderson (Jerome Cowan), sexy nightclub singer Lee Donley (Ann Sheridan), and Latino bandits led by Rosario "Rosie" La Mata (George Tobias).

Director: Louis King    More Info
Starring: Dorothy Lamour, Robert Preston, Lynne Overman, J. Carrol Naish, Chief Thundercloud, Frank Reicher, Paul Harvey, Jack Carson, Al Kikume, John Rogers

 Adventure mixed with comedy prevails when sailors discover Dea (Dorothy Lamour) living alone on a tropical island where, since childhood, she has survived in isolation from the outside world.

Director: George Archainbaud    More Info
Starring: Ray Milland, Patricia Morison, Akim Tamiroff, William Frawley, Darryl Hickman, Charlene Wyatt, Jane Darwell, Esther Dale

 A New York surgeon, William Crawford (Ray Milland), visits Canada, and his trip coincides with an epidemic. After treating the citizens with a vaccine, Crawford is caught in a blizzard, and the rescue reveals his love affair with Alverna Easter (Patricia Morison) whose husband rescues them.

Director: John Cromwell    More Info
Starring: Fredric March, Cedric Hardwicke, Betty Field, Jerome Cowan, Sig Ruman, Margaret Wycherly, Fritz Feld, Rafaela Ottiano, Lionel Royce, Chester Gan

 A loner, Hendrik Heyst (Fredric March), finds his life on a small island is disrupted by the intrusion of unexpected "guests" in this film version of a Joseph Conrad tale.

Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet    More Info
Starring: Buck Jones, Tim McCoy, Raymond Hatton, Luana Walters, Dennis Moore, Kathryn Sheldon, Tristram Coffin, Horace Murphy, Slim Whitaker, I. Stanford Jolley

 In this first of a series of "Rough Riders" films, the Rough Riders–Buck Roberts (Buck Jones), Tim McCall (Tim McCoy), and Sandy Hopkins (Raymond Hatton)–are called in to save Ruth Masters' (Luana Walters) stage line when a dastardly gang, led by Steve Taggert (Tristram Coffin), begins robbing the stages and shooting the drivers.

Director: Michael Curtiz    More Info
Starring: Errol Flynn, Fred MacMurray, Ralph Bellamy, Regis Toomey, Craig Stevens, Robert Armstrong, Allen Jenkins, Alexis Smith, Herbert Anderson, Moroni Olsen

 In pre-Pearl Harbor bombing days, scientist Doug Lee (Errol Flynn) tries to solve the problem of blackouts suffered by pilots training for possible future air battles.