Arizona Mahoney 1936  N/R, 58 min.
Genre: Western
aka: Arizona Thunderbolt
Director: James P. Hogan
Cast: Joe Cook, Robert Cummings, Buster Crabbe, June Martel, Marjorie Gateson, John Miljan, Dave Chasen, Irving Bacon, Billy Lee, Fred Kohler, James P. Burtis, Frank Mayo, Jim Mason, Jack Perrin
Arizona Mahoney (Joe Cook), who makes a living being shot out of a cannon in the circus, and his piano-playing partner Phillip Randall (Robert Cummings) decide to settle down in the West, and, with help from the circus elephant, they round up a gang of rustlers.
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Desert Gold 1936 N/R, 58 min.
Genre: Western
Director: James P. Hogan
Cast: Buster Crabbe, Marsha Hunt, Robert Cummings, Tom Keene, Monte Blue, Raymond Hatton, Leif Erickson, Frank Mayo, Walter Miller, Si Jenks, Art Mix, Robert McKenzie
An Indian tribe led by Maya (Buster Crabbe) guards the secret of a vast gold deposit on their land. But a gang led by Chetley (Monte Blue) intends to extract the secret of the tribe. Based on a Zane Grey novel.
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In the Good Old Summertime 1949  N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Musical / Comedy / Romance
Director: Robert Z. Leonard
Cast: Judy Garland, Van Johnson, S.Z. Sakall, Spring Byington, Clinton Sundberg, Buster Keaton, Liza Minnelli, Lillian Bronson, Marcia Van Dyke, William Forrest, Joi Lansing, Howard M. Mitchell, Everett Glass, Jeffrey Sayre, Frank Mayo
Remade as a musical from the original film, "The Shop Around the Corner," this delightful story is about music-store clerk Veronica (Judy Garland) whose pen pal is, in reality, her hard-to-get-along-with co-worker Andrew (Van Johnson). In life, they detest each other but do not realize that they are pen pals because they do not sign their real names. They fall in love on paper, but will that love remain strong when the truth comes out?
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Old Acquaintance 1943 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Vincent Sherman
Cast: Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, John Loder, Gig Young, Dolores Moran, Philip Reed, Roscoe Karns, Anne Revere, Esther Dale, Joseph Crehan, Ann Doran, Abigail Adams, Jack Mower, Frank Mayo, Jimmy Conlin
Best selling author Kitty Marlow (Bette Davis) returns to her home town and reunites with her childhood friend Millie (Miriam Hopkins) who is now happily married to Preston Drake (John Loder) and pregnant. Millie envies Kitty's success and wants to become a successful author, also. Kitty provides contacts at her publishing company, and Millie's book is published and becomes a best seller–as do her future books. Millie becomes even more successful than Kitty, and that leads to a long-standing feud between the women that will extend for years and include Millie believing that Kitty is trying to steal Preston and results in the end of Millie's marriage. Years later, the feud extends to Millie's daughter Deirdre (Dolores Moran) who is in love with Kitty's fiance Rudd (Gig Young). Kitty gives up Rudd to Deirdre, and the women end their rift and become inseparable old acquaintances.
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San Francisco 1936  N/R, 115 min.
Genre: Drama / Musical / Romance
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Cast: Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, Spencer Tracy, Jack Holt, Ted Healy, Jessie Ralph, Shirley Ross, Edgar Kennedy, Jason Robards Sr., Harold Huber, Margaret Irving, William Ricciardi, Kenneth Harlan, Roger Imhof, Frank Mayo
Blackie Norton (Clark Gable) owns the Paradise beer garden in San Francisco where he hires singer Mary Blake (Jeanette MacDonald) to sing. Romance between Blackie and Mary is in the air, but club patron Jack Burley (Jack Holt) vies for Mary's attentions and offers her a job with the San Francisco Opera. Blackie's friend, Father Mullin (Spencer Tracy), also believes that Mary should be singing somewhere other than at Blackie's bar. Mary is torn between working for Blackie and looking for a classier job. Then fate steps in when San Francisco is hit by the great 1906 Earthquake, and the film's climax takes place amidst the backdrop of fires breaking out, buildings swaying and collapsing, and the rubble brought on by the disaster. This epic film earned a number of Academy Award nominations (Best Picture, Spencer Tracy for Best Actor, and W.S. Van Dyke for Best Director) but ended up with only one Oscar–Best Sound Recording.
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 The Wagons Roll at Night 1941 N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ray Enright
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Sylvia Sidney, Eddie Albert, Joan Leslie, Sig Ruman, Cliff Clark, Frank Wilcox, John Ridgely, Clara Blandick, Garry Owen, Charley Foy, Aldrich Bowker, Jack Mower, Frank Mayo, Al Herman
Grocery clerk Matt Varney (Eddie Albert) captures an escaped lion and returns it to Nick Coster's (Humphrey Bogart) carnival. Nick is impressed with Matt and offers him a job as lion tamer. Matt accepts the job and replaces Hoffman the Great (Sig Ruman), but trouble lies ahead when he falls for Mary Coster (Joan Leslie), who is Nick's sister. Nick disapproves of their relationship and sends Matt into the den of a ferocious lion. Matt survives but now must fight a gun-toting Hoffman the Great who is seeking revenge. Will Matt have met his match, or will his courage ensure winning the heart of Mary? Remake of "Kid Galahad" with a change in scenery.
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| 1. Arizona Mahoney (1936)
aka: Arizona Thunderbolt
2. Desert Gold (1936)
3. In the Good Old Summertime (1949)
4. Old Acquaintance (1943)
5. San Francisco (1936)
6. The Wagons Roll at Night (1941)
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