 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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Arrest Bulldog Drummond 1938  N/R, 60 min.
Genre: Action
Director: James P. Hogan
Cast: John Howard, H.B. Warner, Heather Angel, Reginald Denny, E.E. Clive, George Zucco, Claud Allister, Zeffie Tilbury, Leonard Mudie, John Davidson
Once again Bulldog Drummond (John Howard) puts off his marriage to Phyllis Clavering (Heather Angel) when he goes off on the trail of a murderer. In this entry in the Bulldog Drummond series, Drummond and his cohort, Scotland Yard's Col. Nielson (H.B. Warner), must recapture an ammunition-detonating machine that was stolen by an espionage ring.
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Arsene Lupin Returns 1938  N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: George Fitzmaurice
Cast: Melvyn Douglas, Virginia Bruce, Warren William, John Halliday, Nat Pendleton, Monty Woolley, E.E. Clive, George Zucco, Tully Marshall
A famous jewel comes to France, so can an equally famous jewel thief (Melvyn Douglas) be far behind? The police think he is dead, so the gamble could succeed. The original "Arsene Lupin" (1932) starred John and Lionel Barrymore.
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Bachelor Mother 1939 N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Garson Kanin
Cast: Ginger Rogers, David Niven, Charles Coburn, Frank Albertson, E.E. Clive, Ernest Truex, Paul Stanton, Ferike Boros, Leonard Penn, Dennie Moore, Elbert Coplen Jr., Frank M. Thomas, Edna Holland, June Wilkins, Donald Duck
Polly Parrish (Ginger Rogers) is a clerk at Merlin's Department Store who discovers an abandoned baby on her doorstep. She falls in love with the little bundle of joy and decides to adopt the baby. Rumors fly that Polly is really the birth mother, and the store owner, J.B. Merlin (Charles Coburn), sends his son David (David Niven) to get Polly back on the straight-and-narrow path. Now, Polly discovers more than love for the charming infant, she discovers other forms of love, too.
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The Bride of Frankenstein 1935  N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Romance
Director: James Whale
Cast: Colin Clive, Boris Karloff, Ernest Thesiger, Elsa Lanchester, Valerie Hobson, O.P. Heggie, Una O'Connor, E.E. Clive, Walter Brennan, John Carradine, Gavin Gordon, Douglas Walton, Lucien Prival, Dwight Frye, Reginald Barlow
In Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein," Dr. Frankenstein considers making a bride for his monster and then realizes the folly of his idea. But in this sequel, Dr. Frankenstein (Colin Clive) is coerced into creating a female companion (Elsa Lanchester) for his monster (Boris Karloff).
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Bulldog Drummond in Africa 1938 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Louis King
Cast: John Howard, Heather Angel, H.B. Warner, J. Carrol Naish, E.E. Clive, Reginald Denny, Anthony Quinn, Matthew Boulton, Neil Fitzgerald, Paul Porcasi
Just before he is to marry Phyllis Clavering (Heather Angel), Bulldog Drummond (John Howard) heads off for Africa to rescue his friend, Col. Nielson (H. B. Warner), from the clutches of an international spy ring.
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Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back 1934 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Roy Del Ruth
Cast: Ronald Colman, Loretta Young, Warner Oland, Charles Butterworth, Una Merkel, C. Aubrey Smith, E.E. Clive, Mischa Auer, Halliwell Hobbes, Creighton Hale
Retired British military officer Bulldog Drummond (Ronald Colman) uncovers the deception of a woman pretending to be an heiress.
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Bulldog Drummond's Bride 1939 N/R, 55 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: James P. Hogan
Cast: John Howard, Heather Angel, H.B. Warner, Reginald Denny, Eduardo Ciannelli, Elizabeth Patterson, E.E. Clive, John Sutton, Neil Fitzgerald, Gerald Hamer
Bulldog Drummond (John Howard) and his fiancee, Phyllis (Heather Angel), finally get married, but their honeymoon haven has been taken over by a bank robber (Eduardo Ciannelli) along with his ton of explosives.
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Bulldog Drummond's Peril 1938 N/R, 66 min.
Genre: Mystery
aka: Peril of Bulldog Drummond
Director: James P. Hogan
Cast: John Barrymore, John Howard, Louise Campbell, Reginald Denny, E.E. Clive, Porter Hall, Nydia Westman, Elizabeth Patterson, Halliwell Hobbes, Zeffie Tilbury
Once again Bulldog Drummond (John Howard) must delay wedding plans as he and Col. Nielson (John Barrymore) head to Switzerland in search of a stolen diamond.
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Bulldog Drummond's Revenge 1937 N/R, 60 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Louis King
Cast: John Barrymore, John Howard, Louise Campbell, Reginald Denny, E.E. Clive, Frank Puglia, Nydia Westman, Robert Gleckler, Lucien Littlefield
Bulldog Drummond (John Howard) and his able cohort, Scotland Yard's Col. Nielson (John Barrymore), are on the trail of the secret formula for a powerful bomb.
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Cain and Mabel 1936 N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Cast: Marion Davies, Clark Gable, Allen Jenkins, Roscoe Karns, Walter Catlett, E.E. Clive, Robert Paige, Hobart Cavanaugh, Ruth Donnelly, William Collier Sr.
A musical star, Mabel O'Dare (Marion Davies), pretends to be in love with a championship fighter, Larry Cain (Clark Gable), as part of a publicity stunt, but the stunt takes on new dimensions when the romance turns serious.
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 Camille 1936 N/R, 108 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: George Cukor
Cast: Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore, Elizabeth Allan, Jessie Ralph, Henry Daniell, Laura Hope Crews, E.E. Clive, Joan Leslie, Fritz Leiber Jr., Lenore Ulric, Rex O'Malley, Eily Malyon, Olaf Hytten, Gwendolyn Logan
In one of Greta Garbo's most famous roles, she plays the Parisian prostitute, Camille, who has been supported by her consort, the wealthy Baron de Varville (Henry Daniell). Love does not enter the picture until Camille meets French nobleman Armand Duvall (Robert Taylor), and he becomes the love of her life. Camille decides to leave the baron and then finds that Armand's father (Lionel Barrymore) disapproves of her past and wants her to leave his son alone. Camille tries to leave Armand, but Armand pursues and supports Camille even as she lies dying from tuberculosis. Based on Alexandre Dumas' novel, this is also the story that Verdi used for "La Traviata."
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The Charge of the Light Brigade 1936 N/R, 115 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Adventure / Romance
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Patric Knowles, Donald Crisp, Nigel Bruce, Henry Stephenson, David Niven, Spring Byington, J. Carrol Naish, E.E. Clive, C. Henry Gordon, G.P. Huntley, Robert Barrat, Walter Holbrook, Scotty Beckett
In this film version of Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem, set during the 1854 Crimean War, Major Geoffrey Vickers (Errol Flynn) vows revenge on the Indian potentate Surat Khan (C. Henry Gordon) after witnessing a slaughter of British citizens at a British fort commanded by Col. Campbell (Donald Crisp). Meanwhile, Geoffrey and his brother Perry (Patric Knowles), who is also a soldier, are both in love with Campbell's daughter Elsa (Olivia de Havilland), but it is Perry who wins her heart. Now, Geoffrey leads his Light Brigade into a fight to the death against the Russian soldiers who are providing supplies to Surat Khan.
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 Charlie Chan in London 1934 N/R, 79 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama / Thriller
Director: Eugene Forde
Cast: Warner Oland, Drue Leyton, Ray Milland, Mona Barrie, Douglas Walton, Alan Mowbray, George Barraud, E.E. Clive, Reginald Sheffield, Murray Kinnell, Paul England, Madge Bellamy, Perry Ivins, Walter Johnson, Elsa Buchanan
After Paul's (Douglas Walton) arrest for murder, his sister Pamela Ward (Drue Leyton) calls in Charlie Chan (Warner Oland) to solve the crime and free her brother. Chan heads for Geoffrey Raymond's (Alan Mowbray) country estate where the murder occurred. He has only 65 hours to expose the real murderer before Paul is scheduled to be executed.
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The Dark Hour 1936  N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Charles Lamont
Cast: Ray Walker, Irene Ware, Berton Churchill, Hedda Hopper, Hobart Bosworth, E.E. Clive, William V. Mong, Harold Goodwin, Aggie Herring, Kathryn Sheldon, Harry Strang, Fred Kelsey
Based on a Sinclair Gluck novel, "The Last Trap," this is the story of two able, but very different, detectives (Ray Walker and Berton Churchill) working on a murder case in an old, dark house.
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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, John Blood, Gordon Hart
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 Gay Divorcee 1934  N/R, 107 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Mark Sandrich
Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Alice Brady, Edward Everett Horton, Erik Rhodes, Eric Blore, William Austin, Betty Grable, E.E. Clive, Paul Porcasi, Lillian Miles, Charles Coleman, George Davis, Charlie Hall
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, as Guy and Mimi, run into each other at a resort where Mimi is awaiting her divorce. Mimi mistakes Guy for the man (Erik Rhodes) who her aunt (Alice Brady) has hired to have a tryst with Mimi and, thus, provide the grounds for her divorce. Complications ensue when Guy is attracted to Mimi, but she, because of the mix-up, does not treat him well. By story's end, all ends happily. The dances to "The Continental" and "Night and Day" are delightfully performed in this film. "The Continental" won the Academy Award for Best Song, the first year that the award was given for this category. Nominations were also received for four other awards, including Best Picture.
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Gold Diggers of 1935 1935 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Busby Berkeley
Cast: Dick Powell, Adolphe Menjou, Gloria Stuart, Alice Brady, Glenda Farrell, Frank McHugh, Wini Shaw, Grant Mitchell, Hugh Herbert, Joseph Cawthorn, Dorothy Dare, Ruth Eddings, Don Brodie, E.E. Clive, Dennis O'Keefe
Following the popularity of "Gold Diggers of 1933," this film was made, and it was not a disappointment. The story takes place during the summer at the seaside resort Hotel Wentworth where the workers depend on tips and often fleece the guests. Desk clerk Dick Curtis (Dick Powell) is working to pay medical school bills and is engaged to hostess Arlene (Dorothy Dare). Among the guests are multi-millionaire Mathilda Prentiss (Alice Brady) and her daughter Ann (Gloria Stuart). Mathilda hires Dick to chaperone Ann, and, of course, they fall in love–much to the dismay of Mathilda. Meanwhile, Mathilda is in charge of running the annual charity theater show, and she hires Russian director Nicolett (Adolphe Menjou). The show does go on, and one of its musical numbers, "Lullaby of Broadway," won the Academy Award for Best Song. Another Busby Berkeley musical extravaganza.
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The Golden Arrow 1936 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Alfred E. Green
Cast: Bette Davis, George Brent, Eugene Pallette, Dick Foran, Carol Hughes, Catherine Doucet, Craig Reynolds, Henry O'Neill, Eddie Acuff, E.E. Clive
Daisy Appleby (Bette Davis) is a wealthy heiress who finds the solution to her problem of being plagued by fortune hunters–she wants a "marriage of convenience" with newspaperman Johnny Jones (George Brent).
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 The Hound of the Baskervilles 1939 N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama / Horror / Thriller
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Richard Greene, Wendy Barrie, Lionel Atwill, John Carradine, Ralph Forbes, Morton Lowry, E.E. Clive, Mary Gordon, Barlowe Borland, Beryl Mercer, Eily Malyon, Lionel Pape, Nigel De Brulier
For the first time on film, Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce take on their roles of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. A huge hound has been killing the Baskervilles, and, following the killing of Sir Charles Baskerville, Holmes and Watson are given the job of solving the murder when the deceased's nephew, Sir Henry Baskerville (Richard Greene), calls on them to for help. Holmes sends Dr. Watson to the Baskerville estate to investigate. Meanwhile, Holmes, under disguise, monitors events at the estate and encounters more than a few mysteries before solving the crime.
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 The Invisible Man 1933 N/R, 71 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi / Horror / Drama / Thriller
Director: James Whale
Cast: Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart, Una O'Connor, Henry Travers, William Harrigan, Holmes Herbert, E.E. Clive, Dudley Digges, Walter Brennan, John Carradine, Forrester Harvey, Harry Stubbs, Donald Stuart, Dwight Frye, Jameson Thomas
H.G. Wells wrote the story, which was then adapted to film in this excellent, early-era movie that marks the film debut of Claude Rains. The plot involves a scientist (Rains) who invents an invisibility serum with one bad side effect:: using it causes the person to go insane, and he does.
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Isle of Fury 1936  N/R, 60 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Frank McDonald
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Margaret Lindsay, Donald Woods, Paul Graetz, Gordon Hart, E.E. Clive, George Regas, Sidney Bracey, Tetsu Komai, Houseley Stevenson
This screen adaptation of Somerset Maugham's "The Narrow Corner" stars Humphrey Bogart as Val Stevens, a fugitive who, while hiding out on a South Seas island, falls in love.
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It's Love I'm After 1937 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Archie Mayo
Cast: Bette Davis, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland, Patric Knowles, Eric Blore, Bonita Granville, Spring Byington, Veda Ann Borg, George Barbier, E.E. Clive
An actress (Bette Davis) explodes with jealousy when her actor husband (Leslie Howard) pays more than a little attention to a fan (Olivia de Havilland).
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Kidnapped 1938 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Alfred L. Werker
Cast: Warner Baxter, Freddie Bartholomew, Arleen Whelan, C. Aubrey Smith, Reginald Owen, John Carradine, Nigel Bruce, Miles Mander, E.E. Clive, Halliwell Hobbes
Based on Robert Louis Stevenson's tale, this is the story of David Balfour (Freddie Bartholomew) who inherits a fortune and is kidnapped by his evil uncle. David meets Alan Breck (Warner Baxter),and the two travel across Scotland to regain what is rightfully his.
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Libeled Lady 1936 N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Jack Conway
Cast: Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy, William Powell, Walter Connolly, Charley Grapewin, Cora Witherspoon, E.E. Clive, Charles Trowbridge, Spencer Charters, Otto Yamaoka, Bunny Beatty, George Chandler, Greta Meyer, Hal K. Dawson
After newspaper editor Warren Haggerty (Spencer Tracy) prints a story about wealthy Connie Allenbury (Myrna Loy) stealing the husband of another woman, Connie sues the paper for printing a false story. Warren is about to marry Gladys (Jean Harlow) but now postpones the wedding and hires Bill Chandler (William Powell) to marry Gladys in name only and then pursue Connie. The plan is for Gladys to sue Connie for alienation of affections and get her to drop the lawsuit against Warren. But, plans backfire when true love enters the picture. Remade in 1946 as "Easy to Wed."
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Little Lord Fauntleroy 1936 N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Cromwell
Cast: Freddie Bartholomew, Dolores Costello, C. Aubrey Smith, Guy Kibbee, Henry Stephenson, Mickey Rooney, Constance Collier, E.E. Clive, Una O'Connor, Jessie Ralph, Ivan F. Simpson, Helen Flint, Mary Beatty, Eric Alden, Jackie Searl
During the 19th century, Ceddie Erroll (Freddie Bartholomew) is living in Brooklyn with his widowed mother (Dolores Costello). Freddy's father had been disowned by his father, the Earl of Dorincourt (C. Aubrey Smith), when he married an American. Now, Ceddie has become the heir to the Earl's estate, and the Earl accepts Ceddie as Lord Fauntleroy and invites him and his mother to visit. Ceddie and his mother do travel to England, and he begins to win over his grumpy grandfather who still has problems accepting Ceddie's mother because she is an American. When a false claim is made on the estate, Ceddie's American friends, including Dick Tipton (Mickey Rooney), step in to help, and the Earl finally accepts Ceddie's mother, and everything ends happily.
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The Little Princess 1939 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Family / Comedy / Drama / Musical
Director: Walter Lang, William A. Seiter
Cast: Shirley Temple, Richard Greene, Anita Louise, Ian Hunter, Cesar Romero, Arthur Treacher, Sybil Jason, Miles Mander, E.E. Clive, Mary Nash, Marcia Mae Jones, Beryl Mercer, Deidre Gale, Ira Stevens, Eily Malyon
Sara Crewe (Shirley Temple) is left in an exclusive boarding school in England when her father Captain Reginald Crew (Ian Hunter) marches off to serve in the Boer War. After it is reported that he is killed in action, Sara is left penniless and must work as a servant–until her father returns alive.
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Maid of Salem 1937 N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Frank Lloyd
Cast: Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Louise Dresser, Gale Sondergaard, Beulah Bondi, Bonita Granville, Donald Meek, Harvey Stephens, E.E. Clive, Benny Bartlett, Edward Ellis, Virginia Weidler, Halliwell Hobbes, Pedro de Cordoba, Madame Sul-Te-Wan
Barbara Clark (Claudette Colbert) lives in Salem, Massachusetts, during the "witch trials" of colonial days. When she falls in love with Roger Coverman (Fred MacMurray) who is on the lam from Virginia, her romance causes a scandal. After young Ann Goode (Bonita Granville) pretends to be possessed, she is tried and sentenced to be burned at the stake. Now, Barbara is accused of witchcraft, but Roger arrives in town to save Barbara and Ann, and all ends well.
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Mr. Moto's Last Warning 1939 N/R, 71 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Norman Foster
Cast: Peter Lorre, Ricardo Cortez, Virginia Field, John Carradine, George Sanders, Robert Coote, John Davidson, E.E. Clive, Holmes Herbert, Leyland Hodgson
A plot to disrupt agreements between France and England over the Suez Canal is thwarted by Mr. Moto (Peter Lorre).
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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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Raffles 1940 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Sam Wood
Cast: David Niven, Olivia de Havilland, Dame May Whitty, Dudley Digges, Douglas Walton, Lionel Pape, E.E. Clive, Peter Godfrey, Margaret Seddon, Gilbert Emery
An ex-Scotland Yard detective, Raffles (David Niven), relieves his boredom by becoming a jewel thief. This is a remake of a 1930 film by the same name.
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Sylvia Scarlett 1935 N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: George Cukor
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Edmund Gwenn, Dennie Moore, Brian Aherne, Natalie Paley, Lennox Pawle, Daisy Belmore, E.E. Clive, Leonard Mudie
This film is fun to watch as it is the first of a number of Katharine Hepburn/Cary Grant films. Although ahead of its time, it is a combination of comedy and drama about four vagabond players in Europe.
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Trouble for Two 1936 N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Mystery
aka: The Suicide Club
Director: J. Walter Ruben
Cast: Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Frank Morgan, Reginald Owen, Louis Hayward, E.E. Clive, Walter Kingsford, Ivan F. Simpson, Robert Greig, Pedro de Cordoba
Taken from Robert Louis Stevenson's "Suicide Club" stories, this lighthearted mystery promises much, but falls short in the end. Prince Florizel (Robert Montgomery) is heir to the throne of Karovia. He joins a mysterious Suicide Club and must survive a series of lethal traps to gain the crown and regain his princess (Rosalind Russell).
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| 1. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)
2. Arrest Bulldog Drummond (1938)
3. Arsene Lupin Returns (1938)
4. Bachelor Mother (1939)
5. The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
6. Bulldog Drummond Comes Back (1937)
7. Bulldog Drummond Escapes (1937)
8. Bulldog Drummond in Africa (1938)
9. Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (1934)
10. Bulldog Drummond's Bride (1939)
11. Bulldog Drummond's Peril (1938)
aka: Peril of Bulldog Drummond
12. Bulldog Drummond's Revenge (1937)
13. Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police (1939)
14. Cain and Mabel (1936)
15. Camille (1936)
16. The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
17. Charlie Chan in London (1934)
18. The Dark Hour (1936)
19. Dracula's Daughter (1936)
20. The Gay Divorcee (1934)
21. Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)
22. The Golden Arrow (1936)
23. The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
24. The Invisible Man (1933)
25. Isle of Fury (1936)
26. It's Love I'm After (1937)
27. Kidnapped (1938)
28. Libeled Lady (1936)
29. Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936)
30. The Little Princess (1939)
31. Maid of Salem (1937)
32. Mr. Moto's Last Warning (1939)
33. Night Must Fall (1937)
34. Raffles (1940)
35. Sylvia Scarlett (1935)
36. Tarzan Escapes (1936)
37. Trouble for Two (1936)
aka: The Suicide Club
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