Another Dawn 1937  N/R, 73 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: William Dieterle
Cast: Kay Francis, Errol Flynn, Ian Hunter, Frieda Inescort, Mary Forbes, Herbert Mundin, Billy Bevan, Kenneth Hunter, Clyde Cook, Charles Irwin
In this story set in Africa, Captain Denny Roark (Errol Flynn) is grieving over the death of his lover when he falls in love with Julia Ashton (Kay Francis), the wife of his commanding officer.
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Cavalcade 1933  N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Frank Lloyd
Cast: Diana Wynyard, Clive Brook, Ursula Jeans, Herbert Mundin, Una O'Connor, Beryl Mercer, Irene Browne, Frank Lawton, Margaret Lindsay, Billy Bevan
This film, an Oscar winner for Best Picture, is Noel Coward's story of the effects of World War I on the British Marryot family (Diana Wynyard and Clive Brook) over a 30 year period–before, during, and after the war. Frank Lloyd also won an Oscar for Best Director. A third Oscar was received for Art Direction.
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Counter-Espionage 1942 N/R, 73 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Cast: Warren William, Eric Blore, Hillary Brooke, Thurston Hall, Fred Kelsey, Forrest Tucker, Kurt Katch, Matthew Boulton, Morton Lowry, Billy Bevan
The Lone Wolf is in London during the Nazi bombing blitz and becomes involved with Nazi spies. Blore continues to add a comedy touch in his role of our hero's butler.
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 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1941 N/R, 114 min.
Genre: Drama / Horror / Thriller
Director: Victor Fleming
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman, Lana Turner, Donald Crisp, Ian Hunter, Barton MacLane, C. Aubrey Smith, Sara Allgood, Peter Godfrey, William Tannen, Frederick Worlock, Frances Robinson, Billy Bevan, Denis Green, Forrester Harvey
The focus of this version of Robert Louis Stevenson's novel is on the psychological problems involved with Jekyll's two personalities. After the good Dr. Jekyll (Spencer Tracy) drinks his potion and the evil Mr. Hyde emerges, his violent and sexual side is drawn to floozy barmaid Ivy Peterson (Ingrid Bergman). Later, when the father (Donald Crisp) of Beatrix (Lana Turner) gives permission for Dr. Jekyll to marry her, Dr. Jekyll decides that he must tell them about his evil side of Mr. Hyde. But, his decision may be too late when he discovers that Mr. Hyde is taking over his personality.
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 Dracula's Daughter 1936 N/R, 69 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Lambert Hillyer
Cast: Otto Kruger, Marguerite Churchill, Gloria Holden, Irving Pichel, Hedda Hopper, E.E. Clive, Edward Van Sloan, Gilbert Emery, Halliwell Hobbes, Billy Bevan, Nan Grey, Claud Allister, Edgar Norton
Count Dracula's daughter, Countess Marya Zaleska (Gloria Holden), has inherited her father's thirst for blood, but she seeks psychiatric help from Jeffrey Garth (Otto Kruger) to curtail her murderous excursions.
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The Golden Age of Comedy 1957 N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Robert Youngson
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Ben Turpin, Carole Lombard, Will Rogers, Harry Langdon, Jean Harlow, Keystone Cops, Billy Bevan, Andy Clyde, Edgar Kennedy, Charles Murray, Harry Gribbon
Producer/Director Robert Youngson presents some of the greatest moments in silent comedy. Highlights include the physical comedy of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, young starlets Jean Harlow and Carole Lombard, and the versatility of Ben Turpin. The film provides good moments in viewing pleasure.
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The Last Outpost 1935 N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Charles Barton, Louis J. Gasnier
Cast: Cary Grant, Gertrude Michael, Claude Rains, Kathleen Burke, Colin Tapley, Akim Tamiroff, Billy Bevan, Georges Renavent, Jameson Thomas, Robert Adair, Claude King, Margaret Swope, Nick Shaid
Injured during the Kurdistan/British war, Captain Michael Andrews (Cary Grant) is brought back to good health by nurse Rosemary Haydon (Gertrude Michael). Although she is married to the man (Claude Rains) who saved Andrews' life, this plays only a small part in their thoughts of the moment.
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The Lodger 1944 N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Director: John Brahm
Cast: Laird Cregar, George Sanders, Merle Oberon, Cedric Hardwicke, Sara Allgood, Aubrey Mather, Queenie Leonard, David Clyde, Helena Pickard, Billy Bevan, Doris Lloyd, Edmund Breon, Colin Campbell, Lumsden Hare, C. Montague Shaw
This remake of the Alfred Hitchcock thriller stars Laird Cregar as Mr. Slade, the boarding house lodger, who rents a room in a London boardinghouse owned by Ellen Bonting (Sara Allgood). At the same time, Jack the Ripper is killing actresses in London, and Ellen becomes suspicious of Slade. Ellen's niece Kitty (Merle Oberon) is a music-hall actress, and Scotland Yard Inspector John Warwick (George Sanders) is in love with her. Ellen tells Warwick of her suspicions, and, heeding Ellen's warnings, Warwick works to solve the murders. Good performances and lots of chills. Remade as "Man in the Attic."
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The Lost Patrol 1934 N/R, 74 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama
Director: John Ford
Cast: Victor McLaglen, Boris Karloff, Wallace Ford, Reginald Denny, Alan Hale, J.M. Kerrigan, Billy Bevan, Brandon Hurst, Douglas Walton, Sammy Stein, Howard Wilson, Neville Clark, Paul Hanson, Francis Ford, Frank(1) Baker
In this film adaptation of Philip MacDonald's novel, the story involves a British patrol stranded in the Mesopotamia Desert during World War I. The men are trying, with great difficulty, to fend off Arab enemy forces when their commanding officer is killed. A sergeant (Victor McLaglen) takes over, but the patrol has no knowledge of its location–or even its mission–when they start their trek across the desert. They stumble onto an oasis where they hope to find rest, but snipers begin to pick off the men, and the religious ranting of Sanders (Boris Karloff) fills their ears. Finally, only two men remain alive–Sergeant Morelli (Wallace Ford) and Sanders–and the desperate fight for survival continues. Another John Ford masterpiece with interesting characters.
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Love from a Stranger 1947 N/R, 81 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Whorf
Cast: Sylvia Sidney, John Howard, John Hodiak, Isobel Elsom, Ernest Cossart, Ann Richards, Frederick Worlock, Philip Tonge, Anita Sharp-Bolster, Billy Bevan
This remake of the 1937 Roland V. Lee film casts Sylvia Sidney in the role of the woman who suspects that her new husband (John Hodiak) plans to kill her.
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Monte Carlo 1930 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy / Musical / Romance
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Cast: Jack Buchanan, Jeanette MacDonald, Zasu Pitts, Claud Allister, Lionel Belmore, Tyler Brooke, John Roche, Albert Conti, Helen Garden, Donald Novis, Billy Bevan, Sidney Bracey, Frances Dee, Rolfe Sedan
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."
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Moss Rose 1947 N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Gregory Ratoff
Cast: Peggy Cummins, Ethel Barrymore, Victor Mature, Vincent Price, Margo Woode, George Zucco, Patricia Medina, Rhys Williams, Patrick O'Moore, Billy Bevan
Chorus girl Belle Adair (Peggy Cummins) uses blackmail as an entry into society to get Michael whose mother, Lady Margaret Drego (Ethel Barrymore), allows her selfish love for her son to cause two murders.
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Once Upon a Time 1944 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Alexander Hill
Cast: Cary Grant, Janet Blair, James Gleason, Ted Donaldson, William Demarest, Howard Freeman, Art Baker, Paul Stanton, Harry Strang, Billy Bevan, Eddie Acuff
A small boy, Pinky Thompson (Ted Donaldson), has a caterpillar that can dance, and it does not take long for a theatrical producer (Cary Grant) to figure out how to make money off of the dancing insect.
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 The Pearl of Death 1944 N/R, 67 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Roy William Neill
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Dennis Hoey, Evelyn Ankers, Holmes Herbert, Mary Gordon, Richard Nugent, Ian Wolfe, Miles Mander, Billy Bevan
This film was adapted from Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Six Napoleons." The story involves the plot to steal a $250,000 pearl and how Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and Doctor Watson (Nigel Bruce) get to the bottom of the matter.
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Penny Serenade 1941 N/R, 125 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: George Stevens
Cast: Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Beulah Bondi, Edgar Buchanan, Ann Doran, Eva Lee Kuney, Wallis Clark, Walter Soderling, Billy Bevan, Ben Taggart, Jane Biffle, Fred "Snowflake" Toones, Dick Wessel, Frank Mills, John Tyrrell
Julie Adams (Irene Dunne) listens to the song "Penny Serenade," which is the song that was playing when she first met her husband Roger (Cary Grant). That song and others cause Julie to remember her life with Roger, and the story is told through flashbacks. Their courtship, marriage, adoption of Trina (Jane Biffle), and then sudden death of Trina (now played by Eva Lee Kuney) at age six are shown through Julie's memories. Grant received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor.
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The Picture of Dorian Gray 1945 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Romance
Director: Albert Lewin
Cast: George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Angela Lansbury, Peter Lawford, Donna Reed, Lowell Gilmore, Richard Fraser, Reginald Owen, Mary Forbes, Morton Lowry, Douglas Walton, Miles Mander, Lydia Bilbrook, Billy Bevan, Robert Greig
After his friend Lord Henry Wotton (George Sanders) talks him into it, London aristocrat Dorian Gray (Hurd Hatfield) commissions artist Basil Hallward (Lowell Gilmore) to paint his portrait. When the picture is completed, Gray makes a pact with the Devil to stay eternally young. Years go by, and others grow older, but Gray seems to get younger. Meanwhile, the portrait is hidden away, but it shows Gray's face growing old and disfigured. He murders Hallward to ensure that his secret will not be told and then falls in love with Hallward's niece Gladys (Donna Reed). But, Gladys' ex-boyfriend David (Peter Lawford), whose Aunt Sibyl committed suicide when Gray betrayed her, is suspicious of Gray and sets out to reveal his true, evil nature. Gray: "To get back my youth, I'd do anything in the world–except get up early, take exercise, or be respectable." Angela Lansbury received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
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The Return of the Vampire 1944  N/R, 69 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Lew Landers
Cast: Bela Lugosi, Frieda Inescort, Nina Foch, Roland Varno, Miles Mander, Matt Willis, Ottola Nesmith, Gilbert Emery, Leslie Denison, Billy Bevan
As if the bombings during the World War II Battle of Britain were not enough, vampire Armand Tesla (Bela Lugosi) arrives in London to add more terror to the moment.
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Rogues of Sherwood Forest 1950 N/R, 79 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Gordon Douglas
Cast: John Derek, Diana Lynn, George Macready, Alan Hale, Matthew Boulton, Billy Bevan, Paul Cavanagh, John Dehner, Billy House, Lowell Gilmore
Robin, Earl of Huntington (John Derek) is Robin Hood's son, and, like his father, he fights for the rights of commoners. In this story, Robin helps force the signing of the Magna Carta.
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Shadows Over Shanghai 1938  N/R, 66 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Charles Lamont
Cast: James Dunn, Ralph Morgan, Lynda Grey, Robert Barrat, Paul Sutton, Edward Woods, Edwin Mordant, Chester Gan, Victor(2) Wong, Edward Keane, Billy Bevan, William Haade
American newspaperman Johnny McGinty (James Dunn) falls in love with a Russian teacher, Irene (Lynda Grey), who works at a mission in Shanghai. After Irene's brother (Edward Woods) gives her a valuable amulet that she must take from Shanghai to San Francisco and ensure that it does not get into the wrong hands, Johnny marries Irene hoping to aid in the effort to get the amulet out of the country. They board a ship for the voyage, but they are not alone; those who want the amulet are hot on its trail.
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Sky Devils 1932 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: A. Edward Sutherland
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Ann Dvorak, William "Stage" Boyd, George Cooper, Billy Bevan, Yola D'Avril, William B. Davidson, Walter Catlett, Paul Fix, John Miljan, Forrester Harvey
Two ex-lifeguards (Spencer Tracy and William Boyd) try to live on the lighter side of life while evading action as pilots in World War I.
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A Study in Scarlet 1933 N/R, 71 min.
Genre: Mystery / Thriller
Director: Edwin L. Marin
Cast: Reginald Owen, Anna May Wong, June Clyde, Alan Dinehart, John Warburton, Warburton Gamble, Alan Mowbray, J.M. Kerrigan, Doris Lloyd, Billy Bevan, Wyndham Standing, Halliwell Hobbes, Leila Bennett, Tempe Pigott, Cecil Reynolds
Sherlock Holmes (Reginald Owen) is asked by a widow, Mrs. Murphy (Doris Lloyd), to investigate a secret society where the members leave their fortunes to the society, the "Scarlet Ring," when they die. Unfortunately, members are being killed right and left, and Sherlock sets out to uncover the culprit.
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Suspicion 1941  N/R, 99 min.
Genre: Mystery / Thriller
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce, Dame May Whitty, Isabel Jeans, Heather Angel, Reginald Sheffield, Leo G. Carroll, Constance Worth, Auriol Lee, Billy Bevan, Gavin Gordon, Lumsden Hare, Alfred Hitchcock
Timid Lina (Joan Fontaine) marries Johnnie Aysgarth (Cary Grant). Although deeply in love with Johnnie, Lina begins to piece together evidence that she is her husband's intended murder victim. Joan Fontaine won the Best Actress Academy Award for her performance in this film, and a nomination was received for Best Picture.
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A Tale of Two Cities 1935  N/R, 121 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jack Conway
Cast: Ronald Colman, Elizabeth Allan, Edna May Oliver, Reginald Owen, Basil Rathbone, Blanche Yurka, Henry B. Walthall, Donald Woods, Walter Catlett, Fritz Leiber, H.B. Warner, Mitchell Lewis, Claude Gillingwater, Billy Bevan, Lucille La Verne
This is the best film version of Charles Dickens' story of love and death during the Reign of Terror following the French Revolution. Ronald Colman takes on the role of weary London lawyer Sydney Carton who selflessly saves Charles Darnay (Donald Woods) from the guillotine by taking his place and allowing him to return to Lucie (Elizabeth Allan)–the woman who both men love. An Academy Award nomination was received for Best Picture.
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Terror by Night 1946 N/R, 60 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama / Adventure / Thriller
Director: Roy William Neill
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Alan Mowbray, Dennis Hoey, Mary Forbes, Billy Bevan, Frederick Worlock, Leyland Hodgson, Harry Cording, Skelton Knaggs, Renee Godfrey, Geoffrey Steele, Janet Murdoch, Gerald Hammer, Boyd Davis
Lady Margaret Carstairs (Mary Forbes) and her son Roland (Geoffrey Steele) are on a train heading for Scotland, and she has hired Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) to guard the "Star of Rhodesia" diamond that she is carrying with her. Doctor Watson (Nigel Bruce) and Inspector Lestrade (Dennis Hoey) are helping Holmes protect the diamond. Holmes switches diamonds with Margaret, but after Roland is killed, and the fake diamond is stolen, Holmes, Watson, and Lestrade set out to solve the mystery.
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Waterloo Bridge 1931 N/R, 81 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: James Whale
Cast: Mae Clarke, Douglass Montgomery, Doris Lloyd, Frederick Kerr, Enid Bennett, Bette Davis, Ethel Griffies, Rita Carlyle, Ruth Handforth, Billy Bevan, Louise Emmons
During World War I, while taking cover under Waterloo Bridge during an air raid in London, chorus girl Myra (Mae Clarke) meets Canadian soldier Roy Cronin (Douglass Montgomery). Not realizing that Myra is a prostitute, Roy falls in love with her, and they make plans to be married–despite Myra's concerns about not admitting to Roy that she is a prostitute. Roy does find out about her past but still loves Myra. It is time for Roy to return to the battlefield, and they share a tearful farewell at Waterloo Bridge. Later, during another air raid, Myra is again near Waterloo Bridge but doesn't take cover and is killed.
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The Woman in Green 1945 N/R, 66 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama / Horror / Thriller
Director: Roy William Neill
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Hillary Brooke, Nigel Bruce, Henry Daniell, Mary Gordon, Paul Cavanagh, Matthew Boulton, Frederick Worlock, Olaf Hytten, Billy Bevan, Eve Amber, Coulter Irwin, Sally Shepherd, Colin Hunter, Leslie Denison
With severed fingers of women murder victims for clues, Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and Doctor Watson (Nigel Bruce) investigate, and the trail leads to a mysterious hypnotist, Lydia (Hillary Brooke). They follow their logic and uncover blackmail and hypnosis that are part of a plot by Lydia and Holmes' nemesis, Moriarty (Henry Daniell).
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The Wrong Road 1937 N/R, 62 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: James Cruze
Cast: Richard Cromwell, Helen Mack, Lionel Atwill, Horace McMahon, Russ Powell, Billy Bevan, Marjorie Main, Rex Evans, Joseph Crehan, Arthur Hoyt, Syd Saylor, Selmer Jackson, Chester Clute
Jimmy (Richard Cromwell) and Ruth (Helen Mack) are young and need money. Their solution: rob a bank, serve time, and spend the stolen money later. The plan works–until they are released from jail and have problems finding the hidden money. But, find it they do and, at the same time, come to their senses and turn the cache in to the authorities.
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| 1. Another Dawn (1937)
2. Cavalcade (1933)
3. Counter-Espionage (1942)
4. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
5. Dracula's Daughter (1936)
6. The Golden Age of Comedy (1957)
7. The Last Outpost (1935)
8. The Lodger (1944)
9. The Lost Patrol (1934)
10. Love from a Stranger (1947)
11. Monte Carlo (1930)
12. Moss Rose (1947)
13. Once Upon a Time (1944)
14. Payment Deferred (1932)
15. The Pearl of Death (1944)
16. Penny Serenade (1941)
17. The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
18. The Return of the Vampire (1944)
19. Rogues of Sherwood Forest (1950)
20. Shadows Over Shanghai (1938)
21. Sky Devils (1932)
22. A Study in Scarlet (1933)
23. Suspicion (1941)
24. A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
25. Terror by Night (1946)
26. Waterloo Bridge (1931)
27. The Woman in Green (1945)
28. The Wrong Road (1937)
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