Beyond Tomorrow 1940  N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Drama / Fantasy / Romance
Director: A. Edward Sutherland
Cast: Harry Carey, C. Aubrey Smith, Charles Winninger, Alex Melesh, Maria Ouspenskaya, Helen Vinson, Richard Carlson, Jean Parker, Rod La Rocque, J. Anthony Hughes, Robert Homans, William Bakewell, Virginia McMullen, James Bush, Gino Corrado
Three old, rich men (Harry Carey, C. Aubrey Smith, and Charles Winninger), who have been wrapped up in themselves all their lives, are lonely on Christmas, so they look for dinner guests. James and Jean (Richard Carlson and Jean Parker) are selected, and the couple falls in love. Later, tough times cause a parting of the ways. The three elderly men die in a plane wreck and return as spirits to help get the couple back together.
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Broadway Bill 1934  N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Frank Capra
Cast: Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Walter Connolly, Helen Vinson, Margaret Hamilton, Douglass Dumbrille, Raymond Walburn, Lynne Overman, Clara Blandick, Ward Bond
This is a Damon Runyon story about an inveterate gambler who bets everything on his own racehorse.
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Grand Slam 1933  N/R, 67 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: William Dieterle
Cast: Loretta Young, Paul Lukas, Frank McHugh, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson, Roscoe Karns, Walter Byron, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Joseph Cawthorn, Paul Porcasi
After a waiter (Paul Lukas) is called on to make up a fourth during a bridge tournament, he falls in love with one of the players (Loretta Young) in this tongue-in-cheek look at the bridge tournament craze of the 1930s.
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 I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang 1932  N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson, Preston Foster, Allen Jenkins, Edward Ellis, Harry Woods, Douglass Dumbrille, Irving Bacon, John Wray, Noel Francis, Berton Churchill, David Landau, Hale Hamilton, Sally Blane
This powerful story, based on the autobiography of Robert E. Burns, concerns an innocent man, James Allen (Paul Muni) who went through Hell-on-Earth at the hands of a Southern justice system. After escaping the chain gang once only to be turned in later by scorned wife Helen (Glenda Farrell), he again escapes. This is not a pleasant story, but it is one that should hold the watcher's attention. The ending is classic.
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In Name Only 1939 N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Cromwell
Cast: Carole Lombard, Cary Grant, Kay Francis, Charles Coburn, Peggy Ann Garner, Helen Vinson, Katharine Alexander, Jonathan Hale, Frank Puglia, Nella Walker
Trapped in an unhappy marriage, Alec Walker (Cary Grant) meets and falls in love with a beautiful widow, Julie Eden (Carole Lombard), but their plans for the future depend on his current wife (Kay Francis) granting the divorce.
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The Kennel Murder Case 1933  N/R, 73 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: William Powell, Mary Astor, Eugene Pallette, Ralph Morgan, Helen Vinson, Jack La Rue, Paul Cavanagh, Robert Barrat, Henry O'Neill, Frank Conroy
In this classic Philo Vance (William Powell) mystery, detective Vance investigates a murder at the Kennel Club that was made to look like a suicide.
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The Lady and the Monster 1944 N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: The Lady and the Doctor
Tiger Man
Director: George Sherman
Cast: Erich von Stroheim, Vera Ralston, Richard Arlen, Mary Nash, Sidney Blackmer, Helen Vinson, William Henry, Charles Cane, Janet Martin, Juanita Quigley, Josephine Dillon, Lane Chandler
This is the first of three films based on Curt Siodmak's novel, "Donovan's Brain." The 1953 version, "Donovan's Brain," is truer to the novel than this one or 1962's "The Brain." Mad scientist Franz (Erich von Stroheim) keeps a ruthless financier's brain alive. The brain takes over the mind of lab assistant Patrick (Richard Arlen) in order to take revenge on those who wronged him.
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The Life of Vergie Winters 1934 N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Alfred Santell
Cast: Ann Harding, John Boles, Helen Vinson, Betty Furness, Frank Albertson, Lon Chaney Jr., Ben Alexander, Donald Crisp, Walter Brennan, Sara Haden
Based on Louis Bromfield's novel, this is the story of a woman (Ann Harding) who rises above petty gossip and makes a go of her life. A handkerchief may be needed for some.
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The Little Giant 1933 N/R, 74 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Roy Del Ruth
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Helen Vinson, Mary Astor, Kenneth Thomson, Russell Hopton, Shirley Grey, Don Dillaway, Berton Churchill, Selmer Jackson, Dewey Robinson, Louise Mackintosh, Rolfe Sedan, Joan Barclay, Guy Usher, William Worthington
Prohibition has ended, and Chicago gangster Bugs Ahearn (Edward G. Robinson) and chief lieutenant Al Daniels (Russell Hopton) head west to Santa Barbara where Bugs plans to gain respectability. Bugs rents a mansion from Ruth Wayburn (Mary Astor) and hires her as his personal assistant and social secretary. Meanwhile, Bugs falls in love with socialite Polly Cass (Helen Vinson) and asks her to marry him. But, Polly, without Bugs' knowledge, continues her affair with John Staley (Kenneth Thomson), and her family swindles Bugs out of his ill-gotten fortune. When Ruth, who has fallen in love with Bugs, finally tells Bugs about Polly's family's activities, Bugs calls in the mob to help him out.
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Nothing But the Truth 1941 N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Elliott Nugent
Cast: Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, Edward Arnold, Leif Erickson, Helen Vinson, Grant Mitchell, Willie Best, Catherine Doucet, Rose Hobart, Clarence Kolb, Glenn Anders, Mary Forbes, Leon Belasco, Helene Millard, Lee Shumway
Gwen Saunders (Paulette Goddard) gives stockbroker Steve Bennett (Bob Hope) $10,000 and tells him to double its value. Problems really begin when Steve uses the money for a bet that involves his telling the truth–and nothing but–for 24 hours.
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The Power and the Glory 1933 N/R, 73 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William K. Howard
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Colleen Moore, Ralph Morgan, Helen Vinson, Phillip Trent, Henry Kolker, Sarah Padden, J. Farrell MacDonald, Robert Warwick
This is a great character study of Tom Garner's (Spencer Tracy) rise to the top of his profession only to find that his wife was unfaithful, and his life had no meaning.
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The Thin Man Goes Home 1944 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Richard Thorpe
Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Lucile Watson, Gloria DeHaven, Anne Revere, Harry Davenport, Leon Ames, Donald Meek, Helen Vinson, Donald MacBride
Even on a vacation at the family home, Nick and Nora Charles (William Powell and Myrna Loy) cannot escape a murder mystery staring them in the face. This is the fifth movie in the popular "Thin Man" series.
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Torrid Zone 1940 N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Action / Comedy / Adventure
Director: William Keighley
Cast: James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Pat O'Brien, Andy Devine, George Tobias, Helen Vinson, Jerome Cowan, George Reeves, Victor Kilian, Frank Puglia, Grady Sutton, John Ridgely, Paul Porcasi, Frank Yaconelli, Dick Botiller
Central American planter Nick Butler (James Cagney) is a plantation foreman working for Baldwin Fruit Company executive Steve Case (Pat O'Brien). Butler is preparing to head back to Chicago and leave his plantation job behind, but he encounters problems from Case who wants O'Brien to work on another plantation. Butler does agree and goes to the plantation where problems lie ahead in the form of Gloria (Helen Vinson) who is the wife of former foreman Bob Anderson (Jerome Cowan), sexy nightclub singer Lee Donley (Ann Sheridan), and Latino bandits led by Rosario "Rosie" La Mata (George Tobias).
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The Wedding Night 1935 N/R, 81 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: King Vidor
Cast: Gary Cooper, Ralph Bellamy, Walter Brennan, Anna Sten, Helen Vinson, Sig Ruman, Esther Dale, George Meeker, Hilda Vaughn, Douglas Wood
A Polish girl is pursued by two men–with disastrous results.
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| 1. Beyond Tomorrow (1940)
2. Broadway Bill (1934)
3. Grand Slam (1933)
4. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
5. In Name Only (1939)
6. The Kennel Murder Case (1933)
7. The Lady and the Monster (1944)
aka: The Lady and the Doctor
aka: Tiger Man
8. The Life of Vergie Winters (1934)
9. The Little Giant (1933)
10. Nothing But the Truth (1941)
11. The Power and the Glory (1933)
12. The Thin Man Goes Home (1944)
13. Torrid Zone (1940)
14. The Wedding Night (1935)
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