 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 1939  N/R, 71 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Director: Alfred L. Werker
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Ida Lupino, Alan Marshal, George Zucco, Terry Kilburn, Henry Stephenson, E.E. Clive, Arthur Hohl, Mary Gordon, Holmes Herbert, Mary Forbes, May Beatty, Frank Dawson, Peter Willes
Clever detective Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and his faithful cohort, Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce), are trying to foil an attempt by Professor Moriarty (George Zucco) to steal England's Crown Jewels. When Moriarty sends a death threat to socialite Ann Brandon (Ida Lupino), Holmes and Watson are sidetracked while Moriarty goes on with his plot to steal the jewels. Now, Holmes and Watson must split up to prevent murder as well as the theft.
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 After the Thin Man 1936  N/R, 113 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewart, Elissa Landi, Sam Levene, Joseph Calleia, George Zucco, Paul Fix, Jessie Ralph, Alan Marshal
Nick, Nora, and Asta are back in another delightfully clever film in which one of Nora's upper-crust relatives might be a murderer. William Powell and Myrna Loy are incomparable as Nick and Nora Charles, and Asta, of course, is the terrier with an attitude.
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Day of the Outlaw 1959  N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Andre De Toth
Cast: Robert Ryan, Burl Ives, Tina Louise, Alan Marshal, Venetia Stevenson, Nehemiah Persoff, David(1) Nelson, Helen Westcott, Jack Lambert, Frank DeKova, Lance Fuller, Elisha Cook Jr.
Ruthless Jack Bruhn (Burl Ives) and his band of Army renegades take over a remote Western town. Reluctant rancher Blaise Starrett (Robert Ryan) is the only one who will stand up to the gang. Good performances by Ryan and Ives who stage the final shootout in a snowstorm.
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Dramatic School 1938 N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert B. Sinclair
Cast: Luise Rainer, Paulette Goddard, Alan Marshal, Lana Turner, Gale Sondergaard, Ann Rutherford, Hans Conried, Rand Brooks, Frank Puglia, Henry Stephenson
Louise (Luise Rainer) attends a dramatic school in Paris and has trouble juggling her career and marriage.
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Exile Express 1939  N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Otis Garrett
Cast: Anna Sten, Alan Marshal, Jerome Cowan, Jed Prouty, Walter Catlett, Stanley Fields, Leonid Kinskey, Irving Pichel, Harry Davenport, Addison Richards, Feodor Chaliapin Jr., Spencer Charters
During the attempt to get their hands on the secret formula for a deadly poison, the assailants kill an American scientist. When she is framed for the murder, the scientist's lab assistant, Nadine (Anna Sten), finds her quest for American citizenship, as well as her future, in jeopardy. But help is on the way from reporter Steve Reynolds (Alan Marshal) who comes to Nadine's aid and solves the crime.
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 House on Haunted Hill 1959  N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Drama / Horror / Thriller
Director: William Castle
Cast: Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart, Richard Long, Alan Marshal, Carolyn Craig, Elisha Cook Jr., Howard Hoffman, Julie Mitchum, Leona Anderson
Frederick Loren (Vincent Price) has offered $10,000 each to five people IF they will spend one night in his haunted house that has been the site of a number of murders. They want the money and appear at the appointed time and place, but, unbeknownst to Frederick, his wife Annabelle (Carol Ohmart) has her own plans for collecting the reward money. The doors are locked at midnight, and now screams, severed heads, a skeleton, and even a strangling noose fill the dark night.
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The Howards of Virginia 1940 N/R, 115 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Frank Lloyd
Cast: Cary Grant, Martha Scott, Cedric Hardwicke, Alan Marshal, Paul Kelly, Richard Carlson, Alan Ladd, Irving Bacon, Elisabeth Risdon, Anne Revere, Peter Cushing
This is the story of how one family endured the American Revolutionary War.
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 The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1939  N/R, 114 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William Dieterle
Cast: Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Cedric Hardwicke, Thomas Mitchell, Edmond O'Brien, Alan Marshal, Walter Hampden, Harry Davenport, George Zucco, Fritz Leiber, Katharine Alexander, Etienne Girardot, Arthur Hohl, Minna Gombell, Helene Whitney
The bell ringer of Notre Dame Cathedral, deformed hunchback Quasimodo (Charles Laughton), falls in love with beautiful gypsy Esmeralda (Maureen O'Hara) when the Chief Justice of Paris Jean Frollo (Cedric Hardwicke) sends him to abduct her. The abduction plan fails when Captain of the Guard Phoebus (Alan Marshal) saves her, and Quasimodo is sentenced to a flogging. Now, Esmeralda is the only one willing to bring water to Quasimodo while he is being held captive in the public square. But, more problems develop, and Quasimodo's love for Esmeralda will end in tragedy. A great movie.
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I Met My Love Again 1938 N/R, 77 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joshua Logan, George Cukor, Arthur Ripley
Cast: Joan Bennett, Henry Fonda, Dame May Whitty, Alan Marshal, Louise Platt, Alan Baxter, Tim Holt, Dorothy Stickney
A young woman (Joan Bennett) leaves her small town to run away with her lover and lives to regret her actions.
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Irene 1940 N/R, 101 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Herbert Wilcox
Cast: Anna Neagle, Ray Milland, Roland Young, Alan Marshal, May Robson, Billie Burke, Arthur Treacher, Marsha Hunt, Isabel Jewell, Ethel Griffies
This is the film adaptation of a 1919 Broadway musical in which an Irish lass, Irene O'Dare (Anna Neagle) rises from poverty into the arms of Don Marshal (Ray Milland). The song "Alice Blue Gown" was introduced in this pretty good musical.
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Night Must Fall 1937 N/R, 117 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Richard Thorpe
Cast: Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Dame May Whitty, Alan Marshal, Winifred Harris, Kathleen Harrison, Matthew Boulton, E.E. Clive, Eily Malyon, Beryl Mercer
Robert Montgomery and Dame May Whitty received Academy Award nominations for their roles in this drama about a psychotic killer, Danny (Robert Montgomery), masquerading as a charming young man. He cons his way into the Bransom home as a live-in companion for Mrs. Bransom (Dame May Whitty), but her niece, Olivia (Rosalind Russell), becomes suspicious of Danny's extracurricular activities.
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The White Cliffs of Dover 1944 N/R, 126 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Clarence Brown
Cast: Irene Dunne, Alan Marshal, Roddy McDowall, Frank Morgan, Van Johnson, C. Aubrey Smith, Dame May Whitty, Gladys Cooper, Peter Lawford, Elizabeth Taylor
Based on a poem by Alice Duer, this is a sentimental tale of Susan Dunn Ashwood's (Irene Dunne) personal losses–her husband was killed in World War I and, now, her son is lost during World War II.
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| 1. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)
2. After the Thin Man (1936)
3. Day of the Outlaw (1959)
4. Dramatic School (1938)
5. Exile Express (1939)
6. House on Haunted Hill (1959)
7. The Howards of Virginia (1940)
8. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
9. I Met My Love Again (1938)
10. Irene (1940)
11. Night Must Fall (1937)
12. Parnell (1937)
13. The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)
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