 Cleopatra 1934  N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Henry Wilcoxon, Gertrude Michael, Joseph Schildkraut, Ian Keith, C. Aubrey Smith, Irving Pichel, Ian Maclaren, John Carradine, Arthur Hohl, Edwin Maxwell, Eleanor Phelps, Leonard Mudie, William Farnum
Good performances enhance this excellent film that won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography and was nominated for Best Picture. Claudette Colbert easily handles the title role of the seductive Cleopatra, the Queen of Egypt, who uses her wiles on the Roman emperor Julius Caesar (Warren William). Then, after Caesar is killed, she turns her attentions to Caesar's rival, Marc Antony (Henry Wilcoxon), and enters into a romance destined for tragedy.
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The Crusades 1935  N/R, 124 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Loretta Young, Henry Wilcoxon, Ian Keith, Katherine DeMille, C. Aubrey Smith, Joseph Schildkraut, Alan Hale, C. Henry Gordon, George Barbier, Montagu Love
In this Cecil B. DeMille historical epic, Richard the Lionhearted (Henry Wilcoxon) leads a crusade to the Holy Land to wrest control from the infidels.
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The Diary of Anne Frank 1959 N/R, 170 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: George Stevens
Cast: Millie Perkins, Joseph Schildkraut, Shelley Winters, Ed Wynn, Lou Jacobi, Richard Beymer, Gusti Huber, Diane Baker, Douglas Spencer, Charles Wagenheim, Dodie Heath, Edmund Purdom
Anne (Millie Perkins) and her parents, the Van Daans (Lou Jacobi and Shelley Winters), are Jews hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam during World War II. This is Anne's story about coming of age in an attic surrounded by the threat of immediate death. Anne wrote, "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." Shelley Winters won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. Oscars were also presented for Art Direction/Set Decoration and Cinematography. The film was nominated for five other Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
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Flame of Barbary Coast 1945  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Joseph Kane
Cast: John Wayne, Ann Dvorak, Joseph Schildkraut, William Frawley, Virginia Grey, Butterfly McQueen, Paul Fix, Marc Lawrence, Russell Hicks, Jack Norton
Montana rancher Duke Fergus (John Wayne) goes to San Francisco where he confronts the famous San Francisco earthquake AND a love affair with saloon singer Flaxen Tarry (Ann Dvorak).
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The Garden of Allah 1936  N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Boleslawski
Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Basil Rathbone, Charles Boyer, C. Aubrey Smith, John Carradine, Tilly Losch, Joseph Schildkraut, Henry Brandon, Lucile Watson, Helen Jerome Eddy
Set in Algeria, this is the story of a monk, Boris Androvsky, who has forsaken his calling and settles into a marriage with Domini Enfilden (Marlene Dietrich). He begins to question the wisdom of his choice.
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Idiot's Delight 1939 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Clarence Brown
Cast: Norma Shearer, Clark Gable, Edward Arnold, Charles Coburn, Joseph Schildkraut, Burgess Meredith, Virginia Grey, Laura Hope Crews, Richard "Skeets" Gallagher, Fritz Feld
Set in the early days of World War II, this is the film adaptation of Robert E. Sherwood's play about vaudevillians Irene (Norma Shearer) and Harry (Clark Gable) who meet years after their brief affair when both are guests at a European hotel. Gable steals the show in his performance of "Puttin' on the Ritz."
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The King of Kings 1927 N/R, 115 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: H.B. Warner, Ernest Torrence, Joseph Schildkraut, Victor Varconi, Jacqueline Logan, William Boyd, Dorothy Comming, James Neill, Joseph Striker, Robert Edeson, Sidney D'Albrook, David Imboden, Charles Belcher, Clayton Packard, Robert Ellsworth
Cecil B. DeMille's silent epic film tells the story of Christ. The story begins with glamorous courtesan Mary Magdalene (Jacqueline Logan), who is upset with Judas (Joseph Schildkraut) and goes to Jesus (H.B. Warner) and repents her sins. The story then continues through Jesus' life, betrayal, Crucifixion, and Resurrection. Of interest is that the "Resurrection" scene is filmed in two-color Technicolor. This film was remade in 1961.
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Life of Emile Zola 1937 N/R, 116 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William Dieterle
Cast: Paul Muni, Gale Sondergaard, Donald Crisp, Joseph Schildkraut, Gloria Holden, Louis Calhern, Harry Davenport, Erin O'Brien-Moore, John Litel, Henry O'Neill, Morris Carnovsky, Robert Barrat, Vladimir Sokoloff, Robert Warwick
This film won the Academy Award for Best Picture. It tells the story of writer Emile Zola (Paul Muni) who was aroused by the unfair trial of Alfred Dreyfus in the 1800s. Oscars also went to Joseph Schildkraut for Best Supporting Actor and to Norman Raine for Best Screenplay. There were seven other nominations, including Best Actor (Muni) and Director.
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 The Man in the Iron Mask 1939 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: James Whale
Cast: Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett, Warren William, Joseph Schildkraut, Alan Hale, Miles Mander, Bert Roach, Walter Kingsford, Marion Martin, Montagu Love, Peter Cushing, Albert Dekker, Doris Kenyon
This is a good rendition of Alexandre Dumas' classic story of twin brothers (both played by Louis Hayward)–one becomes the King of France and the other is sprung from prison and raised by the Three Musketeers (Alan Hale, Miles Mander, and Bert Roach). The renegade brother is forced to wear an iron mask to hide the fact that he is the legitimate heir to the throne, else his brother would do him in. Elaborate adventure. Look for Peter Cushing as a messenger to the King in his first screen role.
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Marie Antoinette 1938  N/R, 160 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Cast: Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore, Robert Morley, Anita Louise, Joseph Schildkraut, Gladys George, Henry Stephenson, Reginald Gardiner, Cora Witherspoon
Set in pre-revolutionary France, MGM spared nothing on its opulent sets, French antiques, and expensive costumes in presenting this story of the doomed Austrian princess (Norma Shearer) who became Queen of France just as it became a "crumbling" empire.
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Monsieur Beaucaire 1946 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: George Marshall
Cast: Bob Hope, Joan Caulfield, Patric Knowles, Marjorie Reynolds, Cecil Kellaway, Joseph Schildkraut, Reginald Owen, Constance Collier, Hillary Brooke, Douglass Dumbrille
A barber (Bob Hope) impersonates Monsieur Beaucaire at the court of Louis XV in this entertaining farce involving royalty.
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Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation 1939 N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Norman Foster
Cast: Peter Lorre, Joseph Schildkraut, Lionel Atwill, Virginia Field, John "Dusty" King, Iva Stewart, Victor Varconi, John Bleifer, Harry Strang, John Davidson
This is the final in the series of J.P. Marquand's clever, polite Mr. Moto played by Peter Lorre. Mr. Moto guards the crown of the Queen Of Sheba, which is on its way to a museum. But the master thief is nearby. A good finale to the successful and entertaining series.
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Orphans of the Storm 1921 N/R, 150 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: D.W. Griffith
Cast: Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Joseph Schildkraut, Frank Losee, Katherine Emmet, Morgan Wallace, Lucille La Verne, Sheldon Lewis, Frank Puglia, Creighton Hale, Monte Blue, Sidney Herbert, Lee Kohlmar, Marcia Harris, Leslie King
Set during the French Revolution, this is another of D.W. Griffith's great spectacles. It is the story of two orphans, Henriette and Louise (Lillian and Dorothy Gish), who were raised as sisters. After Dorothy goes blind, the two leave for Paris in an attempt to find someone to cure Dorothy. But they get separated as the war unfolds around them.
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The Rains Came 1939 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Clarence Brown
Cast: Myrna Loy, Tyrone Power, George Brent, Brenda Joyce, Nigel Bruce, Joseph Schildkraut, Jane Darwell, Henry Travers, Laura Hope Crews, Maria Ouspenskaya
Lady Edwina Esketh (Myrna Loy) falls in love with an Indian doctor, Major Rama Safti (Tyrone Power), while her husband serves his tour of duty in India for the British government. This film was remade in 1955 as "The Rains of Ranchipur."
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Rangers of Fortune 1940 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Sam Wood
Cast: Fred MacMurray, Albert Dekker, Gilbert Roland, Patricia Morison, Dick Foran, Joseph Schildkraut, Bernard Nedell, Minor Watson, Frank Puglia, Matt McHugh
Gil (Fred MacMurray) and his pals (Albert Dekker and Gilbert Roland) arrive in a small town run by a land baron who intends to take over ranchers' land. The trio take care of the situation in this good Western.
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The Shop Around the Corner 1940 N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Cast: Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan, Joseph Schildkraut, Sara Haden, Felix Bressart, William Tracy, Inez Courtney, Charles Halton, Charles Smith, Sarah Edwards, Edwin Maxwell, William Edmunds, Grace Hale, Mary Carr
Kiara (Margaret Sullavan) and Alfred (James Stewart) are co-workers in a small, Budapest shop. Although they are antagonistic toward each other at work, they unwittingly become loving pen pals. Because they do not sign their real names, they do not realize that they are writing to each other. Will their antagonism stop when the truth comes out? The story was later remade as the musical film "In the Good Old Summertime" and as the Broadway play "She Loves Me."
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Slave Ship 1937 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Tay Garnett
Cast: Warner Baxter, Wallace Beery, Elizabeth Allan, Mickey Rooney, George Sanders, Jane Darwell, Joseph Schildkraut, Miles Mander, Arthur Hohl, Minna Gombell
It's adventure on the high seas as Captain Lovett (Warner Baxter) wants to get out of the slave trade, get rid of the crew, and start over in respectable shipping. But–the crew won't have anything to do with that idea, and the rebellion is underway.
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Souls at Sea 1937 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure
Director: Henry Hathaway
Cast: Gary Cooper, George Raft, Frances Dee, Henry Wilcoxon, Harry Carey, Olympe Bradna, Robert Cummings, Porter Hall, George Zucco, Joseph Schildkraut, Virginia Weidler, Stanley Fields, Lucien Littlefield, Tully Marshall, Gilbert Emery
While Nuggin (Gary Cooper) is being tried for the mass murder of slaves, his story is told in flashback. After the slaves on the ship he and his friend Powdah (George Raft) served on killed the captain, Nuggin secretly put them ashore and returned the ship to the British Navy. The British government then ordered Nuggin to sabotage the slave trade. This film is based on the true story that took place in Philadelphia during 1842.
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Suez 1938 N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Allan Dwan
Cast: Tyrone Power, Loretta Young, Annabella, J. Edward Bromberg, Joseph Schildkraut, Henry Stephenson, Sidney Blackmer, Sig Ruman, Nigel Bruce, Miles Mander
Ferdinand De Lesseps was the architect for the Suez Canal; that much is true. But the rest of the material for this film is pure fiction. As an art form, however, this Darryl F. Zanuck epic deserves high marks.
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The Three Musketeers 1939 N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Comedy / Musical
Director: Allan Dwan
Cast: Don Ameche, Al Ritz, Harry Ritz, Jimmy Ritz, Binnie Barnes, Lionel Atwill, Gloria Stuart, Pauline Moore, Joseph Schildkraut, John Carradine, Miles Mander, Douglass Dumbrille, John "Dusty" King, Russell Hicks, Gregory Gaye
Don Ameche stars as D'Artagnan while the Ritz Brothers (Al, Harry, and Jimmy) take on Musketeer roles in this enjoyable version of Alexandre Dumas' classic adventure in which they help Louis XIII (Joseph Schildkraut) save France.
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| 1. Cleopatra (1934)
2. The Crusades (1935)
3. The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
4. Flame of Barbary Coast (1945)
5. The Garden of Allah (1936)
6. Idiot's Delight (1939)
7. The King of Kings (1927)
8. Life of Emile Zola (1937)
9. The Man in the Iron Mask (1939)
10. Marie Antoinette (1938)
11. Monsieur Beaucaire (1946)
12. Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation (1939)
13. Orphans of the Storm (1921)
14. The Rains Came (1939)
15. Rangers of Fortune (1940)
16. The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
17. Slave Ship (1937)
18. Souls at Sea (1937)
19. Suez (1938)
20. The Three Musketeers (1939)
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