Hearts in Bondage 1936  N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lew Ayres
Cast: James Dunn, Mae Clarke, David Manners, Charlotte Henry, Henry B. Walthall, Fritz Leiber, George Irving, Irving Pichel, J.M. Kerrigan, Frank McGlynn Sr., Ben Alexander, Oscar Apfel, Clay Clement, Edward Gargan
During the Civil War, a Union naval officer, Lieutenant Kenneth Reynolds (James Dunn), is stripped of his commission after he sinks, instead of obeying orders by Confederate forces to set fire to his ship, the Merrimac. Later, the Confederates raise the Merrimac and restore it. Meanwhile, Reynolds is reinstated and serves on the Monitor during which time he is involved in the historic battle of the Monitor and the Merrimac.
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 The Last of the Mohicans 1936   N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama
Director: George B. Seitz
Cast: Randolph Scott, Binnie Barnes, Henry Wilcoxon, Bruce Cabot, Heather Angel, Philip Reed, Robert Barrat, Hugh Buckler, Willard Robertson, Lumsden Hare, William Stack, Frank McGlynn Sr., Will Stanton, William V. Mong, Art Dupuis
This is an excellent, exciting rendition of James Fenimore Cooper's classic novel, with Randolph Scott in perhaps his best work as Hawkeye. During the French and Indian War, Hawkeye escorts the two daughters–Alice and Cora Munro (Binnie Barnes and Heather Angel) of the commander of a fort through hostile territory accompanied by the last two survivors of the Mohican tribe Uncas (Philip Reed) and Chingachgook (Robett Barrat).
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Little Miss Marker 1934  N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Alexander Hall
Cast: Adolphe Menjou, Dorothy Dell, Shirley Temple, Charles Bickford, Lynne Overman, Frank McGlynn Sr., Warren Hymer, Garry Owen, Willie Best, Frank Conroy
This good Damon Runyan story was a perfect vehicle for Shirley Temple. After her father goes into debt to his bookie, Sorrowful Jones (Adolphe Menjou), Miss Marker (Shirley Temple) becomes a ward of the bookie as an I.O.U. Remade in 1949 as "Sorrowful Jones" with Bob Hope, in 1963 as "Forty Pounds of Trouble" with Tony Curtis, and in 1980 with Walter Matthau.
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 The Littlest Rebel 1935 N/R, 73 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: David Butler
Cast: Shirley Temple, John Boles, Jack Holt, Karen Morley, Bill Robinson, Stepin Fetchit, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Willie Best, James Flavin, Frank McGlynn Sr.
Set during the Civil War, a young Southern girl, Virgie Cary (Shirley Temple), is the daughter of a captured Confederate soldier. Virgie dances (with Bill Robinson) and charms President Lincoln into sparing her father's life.
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Lost in the Stratosphere 1934  N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Melville W. Brown
Cast: William Cagney, Edward J. Nugent, June Collyer, Edmund Breese, Lona Andre, Cactus Mack, Russ Clark, Matt McHugh, June Gittelson, Hattie McDaniel, Pauline Garon, Frank McGlynn Sr.
Military pilots Lt. Tom "Soapy" Cooper and Lt. Richard "Woody" Wood (William Cagney and Edward J. Nugent) are also pranksters–until one of their practical jokes misfires, and they find themselves in a weather balloon "lost in the stratosphere." (William Cagney is James Cagney's brother.)
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Love Affair 1939 N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Leo McCarey
Cast: Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, Maria Ouspenskaya, Lee Bowman, Astrid Allwyn, Scotty Beckett, Maurice Moscovitch, Tom Dugan, Frank McGlynn Sr., Joan Leslie
This movie has been remade two times as "An Affair to Remember" in 1958 and again as "Love Affair" (1994). It is the three-hankie story about lovers on an ocean voyage who plan to reunite later, BUT fate intervenes. Six Academy Award nominations were received including Best Picture, Actress, and Supporting Actress (Maria Ouspenskaya).
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Min and Bill 1930 N/R, 66 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: George W. Hill
Cast: Marie Dressler, Wallace Beery, Dorothy Jordan, Marjorie Rambeau, Frank McGlynn Sr., Don Dillaway, Russell Hopton, DeWitt Jennings, Jack Pennick, Gretta Gould
Marie Dressler won the Academy Award as Best Actress for her role as Min, the salty owner of a seaside inn who goes to extremes protecting those she loves.
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The Poor Little Rich Girl 1917 N/R, 64 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Maurice Tourneur
Cast: Mary Pickford, Madelaine Traverse, Charles Wellesley, Herbert Prior, Gladys Fairbanks, Frank McGlynn Sr., Emile La Croix, Marcia Harris, Charles Craig, Frank Andrews, George Gemon, Maxine Elliot Hicks, Nora Cecil
Mary Pickford stars in this comedy/drama as 11-year-old (much younger than Pickford's true age) Gwen whose parents (Madelaine Traverse and Charles Wellesley) ignore her. Her father is obsessed with making money, and her mother is busy on the social scene. When Gwen's nurse Jane (Gladys Fairbanks) gives Gwen an overdose of sleeping potion, her parents finally realize how important Gwen is to them. When Gwen regains consciousness, a new and better life awaits her.
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Rogues' Gallery 1944 N/R, 60 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Albert Herman
Cast: Frank Jenks, Robin Raymond, H.B. Warner, Ray Walker, Davison Clark, Robert Homans, Frank McGlynn Sr., Pat Gleason, Edward Keane, Earle S. Dewey, Milton Kibbee, Gene Roth
News photographer Eddie (Frank Jenks) and reporter Patsy (Robin Raymond) become involved in murder and assorted other mysterious happenings after they interview the inventor of a listening device.
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Search for Beauty 1934 N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Erle C. Kenton
Cast: Buster Crabbe, Ida Lupino, Toby Wing, James Gleason, Robert Armstrong, Gertrude Michael, Roscoe Karnes, Verna Hillie, James B. "Pop" Kenton, Frank McGlynn Sr., Ann Sheridan, Bradley Page, Nora Cecil, Virginia Hammond, Eddie Gribbon
Olympic swimming champions Don and Barbara (Buster Crabbe and Ida Lupino) have won a contest given by a "physical culture" magazine and find themselves in a power struggle with the magazine publishers. Don and Barbara have been hired as editors, but the publishers want them to pose in swim suits and show skin. But, Don and Barbara want the magazine to focus on health. They give up their positions in exchange for a health farm, which they refurbish and then invite beauty pageant workers to take jobs as health instructors for the guests. But more than a few problems lie ahead between Don and Barbara and the publishers before they find success.
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The Secret Six 1931 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: George W. Hill
Cast: Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, Johnny Mack Brown, Jean Harlow, Marjorie Rambeau, Clark Gable, Ralph Bellamy, John Miljan, DeWitt Jennings, Frank McGlynn Sr., Paul Hurst, Louis Natheaux
When bootleggers threaten to undermine Chicago's civil order, the police chief creates a vigilante group of six to go up against the gangsters.
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These Three 1936  N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William Wyler
Cast: Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon, Joel McCrea, Catherine Doucet, Bonita Granville, Margaret Hamilton, Walter Brennan, Alma Kruger, Marcia Mae Jones, Frank McGlynn Sr.
Based on Lillian Hellman's "The Children's Hour," this early version features Bonita Granville as the spiteful girl who spreads a vicious rumor that nearly destroys two founders (Miriam Hopkins and Merle Oberon) of a girls' school. Granville received an Oscar nomination for Supporting Actress.
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| 1. Hearts in Bondage (1936)
2. The Last of the Mohicans (1936)
3. Little Miss Marker (1934)
4. The Littlest Rebel (1935)
5. Lost in the Stratosphere (1934)
6. Love Affair (1939)
7. Min and Bill (1930)
8. The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917)
9. Rogues' Gallery (1944)
10. Search for Beauty (1934)
11. The Secret Six (1931)
12. These Three (1936)
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