For Whom the Bell Tolls 1943  N/R, 130 min.
Genre: Drama / Adventure / Romance
Director: Sam Wood
Cast: Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff, Arturo de Cordova, Joseph Calleia, Katina Paxinou, Vladimir Sokoloff, Mikhail Rasumny, Fortunio Bonanova, Frank Puglia, Eric Feldary, Victor Varconi, Alexander Granach
Set in the Spanish Civil War, American Robert Jordan (Gary Cooper) helps a band of peasant guerillas blow up a bridge. While hiding in the hills, Jordan meets and falls in love with Maria (Ingrid Bergman) who has suffered at the hands of Franco's forces. Katina Paxinou won an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress. The film also received eight nominations, including Best Picture, Actor (Cooper), Actress (Bergman), and Supporting Actor (Akim Tamiroff).
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Hangmen Also Die 1943  N/R, 131 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Lest We Forget
Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Anna Lee, Gene Lockhart, Dennis O'Keefe, Alexander Granach, Margaret Wycherly, Nana Bryant, Lionel Stander, Arthur Loft
Following the assassination of the hated Nazi, Reinhardt Heydrich, by Czechoslovakian Doctor Svoboda (Brian Donlevy), Germans retaliate against the Czechs through a reign of terror.
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Joan of Paris 1942  N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Robert Stevenson
Cast: Michele Morgan, Paul Henreid, Thomas Mitchell, Laird Cregar, May Robson, Alexander Granach, Alan Ladd, George Cleveland, Richard Fraser, Paul Weigel
In this excellent World War II story the French underground helps allied pilots escape capture by the Gestapo.
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A Man Betrayed 1941 N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Wheel of Fortune
Director: John H. Auer
Cast: John Wayne, Frances Dee, Edward Ellis, Wallace Ford, Ward Bond, Harold Huber, Alexander Granach, Barnett Parker, Edwin Stanley, Harry Hayden
Lawyer Lynn Hollister (John Wayne) arrives in town to take on political corruption and ends up falling in love with a crooked politician's (Edward Ellis) daughter, Sabra Cameron (Frances Dee).
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Ninotchka 1939 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Cast: Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire, Sig Ruman, Bela Lugosi, Felix Bressart, Alexander Granach, Gregory Gaye, Richard Carle, Edwin Maxwell
This pre-cold-war-era film pits the ideals of Communism against those of Capitalists in a very entertaining film featuring Greta Garbo as Ninotchka, the emissary from Russia whose head and heart are turned by love. There were Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Actress, and Writing (both Original Story and Screenplay).
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 Nosferatu the Vampire 1922 N/R, 81 min.
Genre: Foreign / Horror / Thriller
aka: Nosferatu
Director: F.W. Murnau
Cast: Max Schreck, Gustav von Wangenheim, Alexander Granach, Greta Schroder, Georg H. Schnell, Ruth Landshoff, John Gottowt, Gustav Botz, Max Nemetz, Wolfgang Heinz, Albert Venohr, Eric van Viele, Guido Herzfeld, Fanny Schreck, Hardy von Francois
This early film version of Bram Stoker's "Dracula" is an excellent example of the era of German Expressionism. One looks at Count Orlok's (Max Schreck) pointed ears, rodent teeth, and extra-long fingernails and knows he is up to no good. The story begins when real estate agent Hutter (Gustav von Wagenheim) arrives to close a sale with Count Orlok and cuts his own finger. Orlok's reaction to Hutter's blood clues Hutter that there is more to Orlok than meets the eye. Orlock then moves into a house across the street from Hutter and his wife Ellen (Greta Schroder), and the death toll rises. Now, Ellen sets out to bring an end to Orlok's activities and uses information from "Book of the Vampires" to bring about his end.
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The Seventh Cross 1944 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Signe Hasso, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Agnes Moorehead, Ray Collins, Alexander Granach, George Macready, Herbert Rudley, Felix Bressart
Set during World War II, this story is about seven men who escape from a Nazi concentration camp. The S.S. captain in charge of the camp vows to nail each one of the seven escapees to seven separate trees. The title refers to the one tree that remains unused as one of the ex-prisoners manages to make it to freedom. Hume Cronyn received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
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So Ends Our Night 1941 N/R, 120 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: John Cromwell
Cast: Fredric March, Frances Dee, Margaret Sullavan, Glenn Ford, Erich von Stroheim, Anna Sten, Joseph Cawthorn, Leonid Kinskey, Alexander Granach, Sig Ruman
In this World War II story, political refugees traverse Europe trying to stay one step ahead of the Nazis.
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| 1. For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
2. Hangmen Also Die (1943)
aka: Lest We Forget
3. Joan of Paris (1942)
4. A Man Betrayed (1941)
aka: Wheel of Fortune
5. Ninotchka (1939)
6. Nosferatu the Vampire (1922)
aka: Nosferatu
7. The Seventh Cross (1944)
8. So Ends Our Night (1941)
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