The Bad and the Beautiful 1952  N/R, 118 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Gloria Grahame, Dick Powell, Barry Sullivan, Walter Pidgeon, Elaine Stewart, Gilbert Roland, Leo G. Carroll, Vanessa Brown, Paul Stewart, Sammy White, Ivan Triesault, Francis X. Bushman, William Tannen
This story is told from the perspectives of actress Gloria Lorrison (Lana Turner), writer James Lee Bartlow (Dick Powell), and director Fred Amiel (Barry Sullivan) who go to a movie studio to listen to a pitch from producer Jonathan Shields (Kirk Douglas) whose studio is troubled financially. Shields wants them to work on a new project, but all three have had bad experiences in the past with Shields that will make them think twice about signing with him. The film won five Academy Awards, including Best Supporting Actress (Gloria Grahame for her role as Rosemary Bartlow), and Kirk Douglas received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor.
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The Barretts of Wimpole Street 1934  N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Forbidden Alliance
Director: Sidney Franklin
Cast: Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Sullivan, Katharine Alexander, Ian Wolfe, Ralph Forbes, Una O'Connor, Ferdinand Munier, Leo G. Carroll
This film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, and Norma Shearer was also nominated for Best Actress. The story relates the love affair and marriage of Elizabeth Barrett (Norma Shearer) and Robert Browning (Fredric March).
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 Captains Courageous 1937 N/R, 116 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama
Director: Victor Fleming
Cast: Freddie Bartholomew, Spencer Tracy, Lionel Barrymore, Melvyn Douglas, Mickey Rooney, Charley Grapewin, John Carradine, Leo G. Carroll, Charles Trowbridge, Jack La Rue
Spencer Tracy won the Best Actor Oscar for his role in this film about a Portuguese fisherman. When a wealthy, spoiled boy (Freddie Bartholomew) falls overboard off an ocean liner, he learns about life and hard work from the fishermen who rescue him. Based on the Rudyard Kipling classic.
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The Casino Murder Case 1935  N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Edwin L. Marin
Cast: Paul Lukas, Alison Skipworth, Donald Cook, Rosalind Russell, Arthur Byron, Ted Healy, Eric Blore, Isabel Jewell, Louise Fazenda, Leslie Fenton, Leo G. Carroll, Purnell Pratt
Paul Lukas, accent and all, becomes the fourth Philo Vance. After people are poisoned, Philo is brought in to sort through the suspects in this stretch-in-credibility plot. Rosalind Russell was just beginning to blossom into stardom at the time of this film.
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Charlie Chan in City in Darkness 1939  N/R, 73 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama
aka: City in Darkness
Director: Herbert I. Leeds
Cast: Sidney Toler, Lynn Bari, Richard Clarke, Harold Huber, Leo G. Carroll, Lon Chaney Jr., Pedro de Cordoba, Dorothy Tree, Douglass Dumbrille, C. Henry Gordon, Noel Madison, Louis Mercier, George Davis, Adrienne D'Ambricourt, Barbara Leonard
When Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) visits friends from World War I in Paris, he finds that Paris is a city of darkness because of air raids preparing for the possible outbreak of World War II. Munitions maker Petroff (Douglass Dumbrille) is murdered, and Charlie investigates. The clues lead to espionage and arms dealings with the Nazis. At the film's end, Charlie talks about the evils of conference table bargaining.
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 Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise 1940  N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Mystery / Comedy / Thriller
Director: Eugene Forde
Cast: Sidney Toler, Marjorie Weaver, Victor Sen Yung, Lionel Atwill, Leo G. Carroll, Robert Lowery, Don Beddoe, Cora Witherspoon, Kay Linaker, Charles Middleton, Leonard Mudie, Harlan Briggs, Claire De Brey, James Burke, Richard Keene
A Scotland Yard detective is murdered, and Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) goes aboard a cruise ship sailing from Honolulu to San Francisco to solve the crime when it appears that the killer is one of the ship's passengers. With help from his Number 2 son Jimmy (Victor Sen Yung) and the widow (Kay Linaker) of the murdered Scotland Yard detective, Charlie investigates suspicious passengers who include Dr. Sudermann (Lionel Atwill), Prof. Gordon (Leo G. Carroll), and Mr. Walters (Charles Middleton). This is a remake of the lost Charlie Chan movie of 1931, "Charlie Chan Carries On."
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A Christmas Carol 1938 N/R, 68 min.
Genre: Family / Drama / Fantasy
Director: Edwin L. Marin
Cast: Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart, Kathleen Lockhart, Terry Kilburn, Barry MacKay, Lynne Carver, Leo G. Carroll, June Lockhart, Ann Rutherford, Halliwell Hobbes, Lionel Braham, D'Arcy Corrigan, Ronald Sinclair, Bunny Beatty, John O'Day
This early version of "A Christmas Carol" is worth watching. Ebenezer Scrooge (Reginald Owen) is visited by the Ghosts of Christmas Present, Past, and Future (Ann Rutherford, Lionel Braham, and D'Arcy Corrigan), and they convince him to reassess his treatment of Tiny Tim (Terry Kilburn) and his family.
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The Desert Fox 1951 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Henry Hathaway
Cast: James Mason, Jessica Tandy, Cedric Hardwicke, Luther Adler, Everett Sloane, Leo G. Carroll, George Macready, Richard Boone, Eduard Franz, Dan O'Herlihy
Germany's Field Marshal Rommel and tank warfare in Africa during World War II are highlighted in this film. Actual war film footage is interspersed with studio filming, but the human story of Rommel's disfavor upon his return to Germany is what stands out in this excellent film.
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Enchantment 1948 N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Irving Reis
Cast: David Niven, Teresa Wright, Evelyn Keyes, Farley Granger, Jayne Meadows, Leo G. Carroll, Shepperd Strudwick, Gigi Perreau, Melville Cooper, Henry Stephenson
Years ago, during another war, General Sir Roland Dane (David Niven) lost his chance for love with Lark Ingoldsby (Teresa Wright). Now he encourages ambulance driver Grizel Dabe (Evelyn Keyes) not to make this same mistake with pilot Pax Masterson (Farley Granger).
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Father of the Bride 1950 N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Bennett, Don Taylor, Billie Burke, Leo G. Carroll, Moroni Olsen, Melville Cooper, Paul Harvey, Russ Tamblyn, Taylor Holmes, Frank Orth, Tom Irish, Marietta Canty, Fay Baker
This excellent film depicts a father Stanley T. Banks' (Spencer Tracy) emotions surrounding the approaching wedding of his only daughter Kay (Elizabeth Taylor). Mother Ellie (Joan Bennett) and daughter prepare wedding plans, but Father becomes concerned with financing the wedding. Underlying all this is Father's problem of coming to grips with losing his place of importance in his daughter's life. Academy Award nominations were received for Best Picture, Actor (Tracy), and Writing.
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Forever Amber 1947 N/R, 140 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Otto Preminger
Cast: Linda Darnell, Cornel Wilde, Richard Greene, George Sanders, Richard Haydn, Jessica Tandy, Anne Revere, Leo G. Carroll, John Russell, Robert Coote
Living in London during the 17th century, Amber (Linda Darnell) rises from life as a prisoner to Lady in the Court of Charles II by trading sex for power. Too long, but still holds the interest fairly well.
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The Happy Years 1950  N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: William A. Wellman
Cast: Dean Stockwell, Darryl Hickman, Scotty Beckett, Leon Ames, Margalo Gillmore, Leo G. Carroll, George Chandler, Danny Mummert, Peter M. Thompson
Based on Owen Johnson's "Lawrenceville Stories," Dean Stockwell plays prep-schooler John Humperdink Storer who struggles with professors, girls, and older students as he grows through his adolescent years. 1 User Review
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The House on 92nd Street 1945 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Henry Hathaway
Cast: William Eythe, Lloyd Nolan, Signe Hasso, Leo G. Carroll, Gene Lockhart, Lydia St. Clair, Reed Hadley, William Post Jr., Harry Bellaver, Charles Wagenheim
FBI agent Bill Dietrich (William Eythe) is given the job of breaking up a Nazi spy ring that is attempting to steal atomic bomb secrets. This film is an excellent example of how actual documentary film footage can be interwoven with a Hollywood film.
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 North by Northwest 1959  N/R, 136 min.
Genre: Adventure / Thriller / Mystery
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Martin Landau, Leo G. Carroll, Jessie Royce Landis, Philip Ober, Josephine Hutchinson, Edward Platt, Les Tremayne, Adam Williams, Robert Ellenstein, Philip Coolidge, Patrick McVey, Ken Lynch
A Madison Avenue businessman (Cary Grant) is pursued by foreign agents who mistakenly think he is a spy. He has a torrid affair with a stranger (Eva Marie Saint) during a train ride while eluding the agents. The chase takes place from New York City, through Midwest corn fields, and culminates at the top of Mount Rushmore in South Dakota's Black Hills. One of Hitchcock's and filmdom's greats. The film was nominated for three Academy Awards: Best Art Direction-Set Direction, Film Editing, and Writing.
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The Paradine Case 1947 N/R, 131 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Gregory Peck, Ann Todd, Charles Laughton, Charles Coburn, Alida Valli, Leo G. Carroll, Ethel Barrymore, Louis Jourdan, Joan Tetzel, Isobel Elsom, Edgar Norton, John Goldsworthy, Lester Matthews, Lumsden Hare, Patrick Aherne
This courtroom drama involves the case of Maddelena Anna Paradine (Alida Valli) who is on trial for murdering her wealthy husband. Defense attorney Anthony Keane (Gregory Peck), although married to Gay (Ann Todd), falls in love with his beautiful client, fails to see the blatant facts of the case, and believes that she is innocent. Meanwhile, Judge Lord Thomas Horfield (Charles Laughton) sees through Anna's facade, and the prosecuting attorney, Sir Joseph (Leo G. Carroll), is determined to find her guilty. Despite Anna's protests, Keane calls her lover, stableman Andre Latour (Louis Jourdan), to the stand and tries to prove that he is the murderer. After being disgraced, Latour commits suicide. Finally, Anna admits that she killed her husband and blames Keane for Latour's death. The story ends with a stunned Keane leaving the courtroom. Ethel Barrymore received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress in her role as Lady Sophie Horfield, the judge's loony wife.
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 The Parent Trap 1961  N/R, 129 min.
Genre: Family
Director: David Swift
Cast: Hayley Mills, Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith, Charles Ruggles, Una Merkel, Leo G. Carroll, Joanna Barnes, Cathleen Nesbitt, Ruth McDevitt, Nancy Kulp
Twins Sharon and Susan (both played by Hayley Mills) meet at camp, learn they are sisters, and plot to reunite their divorced parents in this popular Disney film. There were three sequels in the 1980s as well as a remake in 1998.
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The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex 1939 N/R, 106 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Elizabeth the Queen
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Donald Crisp, Nanette Fabray, Vincent Price, Alan Hale, Henry Stephenson, Henry Daniell, Leo G. Carroll
This 16th-century drama is VERY loosely based on the relationship of Queen Elizabeth I (Bette Davis) and the Earl of Essex (Errol Flynn). They endure a love/hate affair leading to the Earl's execution in the Tower of London.
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The Prize 1963 N/R, 135 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Mark Robson
Cast: Paul Newman, Edward G. Robinson, Elke Sommer, Diane Baker, Kevin McCarthy, Leo G. Carroll, Micheline Presle, Gerard Oury, Sergio Fantoni, John Wengraf
This film adaptation of Irving Wallace's novel is the story of a Nobel Prize winner (Paul Newman) who stumbles into a kidnapping plot and a love affair while in Stockholm to pick up his award.
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 Rebecca 1940 N/R, 130 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller / Mystery / Romance
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Joan Fontaine, Laurence Olivier, George Sanders, Judith Anderson, Nigel Bruce, Gladys Cooper, Florence Bates, Reginald Denny, C. Aubrey Smith, Leo G. Carroll, Melville Cooper, Lumsden Hare, Leonard Carey, Edward Fielding, Forrester Harvey
In this film, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, Joan Fontaine plays a naive woman married to a brooding widower (Laurence Olivier). After moving into his country estate, she finds that she must live in the shadow of Rebecca, his first wife. Based on Daphne du Maurier's Gothic novel. The film also won an Academy Award for Best Cinematography and was nominated for nine other awards, including Best Actor (Olivier), Actress (Fontaine), Supporting Actress (Judith Anderson) and Director.
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Sadie McKee 1934 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Clarence Brown
Cast: Joan Crawford, Gene Raymond, Franchot Tone, Edward Arnold, Esther Ralston, Jean Dixon, Leo G. Carroll, Akim Tamiroff, Mary Forbes, Helen Ware, Matt McHugh, Zelda Sears, Wade Boteler, Selmer Jackson, Samuel S. Hinds
Housemaid Sadie McKee (Joan Crawford) is working for wealthy Michael Alderson (Franchot Tone) and his family when she elopes with her boyfriend Tommy (Gene Raymond) to New York City. But, before Sadie and Tommy get married, Tommy dumps her when he takes up with showgirl Dolly (Esther Ralston). Devastated, Sadie takes a nightclub job, accepts a drunken marriage proposal from millionaire Jack Brennan (Edward Arnold), and marries him. Now known as a gold digger, Sadie does help Brennan overcome his alcoholism. Has Sadie possibly found true love, or is it still waiting in the wings? The song "All I Do Is Dream of You" was introduced in this film.
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Scotland Yard 1941  N/R, 68 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Norman Foster
Cast: Nancy Kelly, Edmund Gwenn, John Loder, Henry Wilcoxon, Melville Cooper, Leo G. Carroll, Gilbert Emery, Norma Varden, Leyland Hodgson, Lionel Pape
Nazis kidnap a London banker and send in his double to gain illegal funding for their war effort, but Inspector Cork (Edmund Gwenn) uncovers the evil plot.
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The Snows of Kilimanjaro 1952 N/R, 113 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama / Romance
Director: Henry King
Cast: Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Ava Gardner, Hildegarde Neff, Leo G. Carroll, Marcel Dalio, Torin Thatcher, Helene Stanley, Ivan Lebedeff, Ava Norring, Vincente Gomez, Richard Allen, John Dodsworth, Leonard Carey, Emmett Smith
After suffering injuries on the slopes of Kilimanjaro, Harry Street (Gregory Peck) lies dying and reflects on his past loves–wife Helen (Susan Hayward) and Cynthia (Ava Gardner). While both were very important to him, Cynthia is now dead, and it is Helen who is nursing his wounds and gives him the will to live.
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So Evil My Love 1948 N/R, 109 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lewis Allen
Cast: Ray Milland, Ann Todd, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Leo G. Carroll, Raymond Huntley, Martita Hunt, Hugh Griffith, Moira Lister, Raymond Lovell, Finlay Currie
An evil artist finagles his way into a widow's confidence with tragic results for her.
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Song of Love 1947 N/R, 117 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Clarence Brown
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Paul Henreid, Robert Walker, Henry Daniell, Leo G. Carroll, Jimmy Hunt, Gigi Perreau, Ann Carter, Roman Bohnen, Ludwig Stossel
This is a romanticized version of the marriage of Clara and Robert Schumann and her special friendship with Johannes Brahms. The facts are pretty mixed up, but the music is a delight.
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 Spellbound 1945 N/R, 111 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama / Romance / Thriller
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Leo G. Carroll, Michael Chekhov, Donald Curtis, Rhonda Fleming, John Emery, Paul Harvey, Irving Bacon, Regis Toomey, Jean Acker, Norman Lloyd, Steven Geray, Bill Goodwin, Wallace Ford
Dr. Edwards (Gregory Peck) reports as the new director of Green Manors mental hospital where he is to replace Dr. Murchison (Leo G. Carroll). While answering questions of his staff, a psychiatrist, Constance Peterson (Ingrid Bergman) notices that there are problems with their new director. She suspects that he is not really Edwards and that he is an amnesiac and could have murdered the real doctor. Constance believes that curing his amnesia is the key to solving the mystery and attempts to heal him. While working with him, Constance begins to fall in love but will soon learn that danger lurks ahead. Academy Award nominations included Best Picture, Supporting Actor (Michael Chekhov) and Director.
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The Spy in the Green Hat 1966 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Joseph Sargent
Cast: Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, Jack Palance, Janet Leigh, Leo G. Carroll, Leticia Roman, Eduardo Ciannelli, Allen Jenkins, Joan Blondell, Elisha Cook Jr.
This film is a result of splicing together parts of "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." TV series and is a watchable James Bond and 1930s gangster film spoof. Jack Palance plays the bad guy who is the target of the U.N.C.L.E. agents.
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Strangers on a Train 1951 N/R, 101 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Farley Granger, Robert Walker, Ruth Roman, Patricia Hitchcock, Leo G. Carroll, Laura Elliot, Jonathan Hale, Howard St. John, Norma Varden, Robert Gist, Marion Lorne, John Brown, John Doucette, Dick Wessel
In this thriller, Bruno Antony (Robert Walker) is the psychopathic stranger on a train who has a conversation with Guy Haines (Farley Granger) about exchanging murders. Later, Guy learns that Bruno has carried out the murder of Guy's wife, and now Guy is expected to perform his part of the bargain. Tense all the way; an Alfred Hitchcock masterpiece.
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Suspicion 1941 N/R, 99 min.
Genre: Mystery / Thriller
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce, Dame May Whitty, Isabel Jeans, Heather Angel, Reginald Sheffield, Leo G. Carroll, Constance Worth, Auriol Lee, Billy Bevan, Gavin Gordon, Lumsden Hare, Alfred Hitchcock
Timid Lina (Joan Fontaine) marries Johnnie Aysgarth (Cary Grant). Although deeply in love with Johnnie, Lina begins to piece together evidence that she is her husband's intended murder victim. Joan Fontaine won the Best Actress Academy Award for her performance in this film, and a nomination was received for Best Picture.
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The Swan 1956 N/R, 112 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Charles Vidor
Cast: Grace Kelly, Alec Guinness, Louis Jourdan, Agnes Moorehead, Jessie Royce Landis, Brian Aherne, Leo G. Carroll, Estelle Winwood, Robert Coote, Doris Lloyd
Set in 1910's Hungary, Princess Alexandra (Grace Kelly) finds herself falling in love with Dr. Nicholas Agi (Louis Jourdan) although she is promised in marriage to Prince Albert (Alec Guinness).
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 Tarantula 1955 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Jack Arnold
Cast: John Agar, Mara Corday, Leo G. Carroll, Nestor Paiva, Ross Elliott, Raymond Bailey, Clint Eastwood, Hank Patterson, Steve Darrell, Dee Carroll
Scientists are horrified when a tarantula escapes from the lab and attacks local citizens.
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That Funny Feeling 1965 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Richard Thorpe
Cast: Sandra Dee, Bobby Darin, Donald O'Connor, Nita Talbot, Larry Storch, Leo G. Carroll, James Westerfield, Robert Strauss, Ben Lessy, Benny Rubin
In an attempt to impress her wealthy NYC boyfriend, Tom (Bobby Darin), maid-for-hire Joan (Sandra Dee) tells him that she lives in a beautiful apartment that, in reality, she is paid to clean. What Joan doesn't know is that the apartment belongs to Tom. Tom plays along.
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Time Out of Mind 1947 N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Siodmak
Cast: Phyllis Calvert, Robert Hutton, Ella Raines, Eddie Albert, Leo G. Carroll, Helena Carter, John Abbott, Henry Stephenson, Samuel S. Hinds, Janet Shaw
Raised in a family of New England mariners, Chris Fortune (Robert Hutton) dreams of being a musician, but he must first convince his relatives that he has every intention of attaining his dream.
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Tower of London 1939 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Rowland V. Lee
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Barbara O'Neil, Ian Hunter, Vincent Price, Nan Grey, John Sutton, Leo G. Carroll, Miles Mander, Lionel Belmore
Evil King Richard III (Basil Rathbone) gains the kingdom of England through executions and tortures in the Tower of London. Remade in 1962.
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Treasure of the Golden Condor 1953 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Delmer Daves
Cast: Cornel Wilde, Constance Smith, Finlay Currie, Walter Hampden, Anne Bancroft, George Macready, Fay Wray, Leo G. Carroll, Robert Blake, Konstantin Shayne
Jean-Paul (Cornel Wilde) is a wronged French nobleman who tries to regain his estate and title in this remake of "Son of Fury."
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Waterloo Bridge 1940 N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: Vivien Leigh, Robert Taylor, Lucile Watson, Virginia Field, C. Aubrey Smith, Janet Shaw, Leo G. Carroll, Maria Ouspenskaya, Leonard Mudie, Halliwell Hobbes, Janet Waldo, Steffi Duna, Virginia Carroll, Eleanor Stewart, Wyndham Standing
Set amidst the bombings of London during World War II, this is the love story of ballerina Myra (Vivien Leigh) and soldier Roy Cronin (Robert Taylor). They fall in love instantly and make plans to marry. When Roy leaves for the battlefront, Myra misses a dance recital in order to bid him farewell and loses her job. Soon, the newspaper reports that Roy has been killed, and Myra turns to prostitution to support herself. Roy wasn't killed, but when he returns to Myra a tragic end to their romance lies ahead.
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We're No Angels 1955 N/R, 106 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Aldo Ray, Peter Ustinov, Joan Bennett, Basil Rathbone, Leo G. Carroll, Lea Penman, Gloria Talbott, Paul Newlan, Torben Meyer, John Baer, John Smith, Joe Ploski, Ross Gould, Victor Romito
Three Devil's Island convicts–Joseph, Albert, and Jules (Humphrey Bogart, Aldo Ray, and Peter Ustinov)–escape and take refuge with the Ducotel family (Leo G. Carroll, Joan Bennett, and Gloria Talbott). While living with the Ducotels, the ex-cons protect the family from evil Uncle Andre Trochard (Basil Rathbone) who threatens the family with eviction after auditing the books of the store he owns that the Ducotels manage. The convicts contemplate murdering Trochard, but Albert's pet poisonous snake does the job for them. Now the Ducotels inherit the store and Trochard's fortune. The convicts have solved the family's problems except for finding a mate for Isabelle (Talbott), but soon that problem will be solved, and the convicts will have done their "good" deeds.
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 Wuthering Heights 1939 N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: William Wyler
Cast: Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven, Flora Robson, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Donald Crisp, Miles Mander, Leo G. Carroll, Hugh Williams, Cecil Humphreys, Cecil Kellaway, Sarita Wooton, Rex Downing, Douglas Scott, Helena Grant
In this filmed version of Emily Bronte's classic novel, Mr. Earnshaw (Cecil Kellaway) brings home orphaned Heathcliff (Rex Downing) to Wuthering Heights. Earnshaw's son Hindley (Douglas Scott) hates Heathcliff, but daughter Catherine (Sarita Wooton) loves him. Mr. Earnshaw dies, and Hindley takes over forcing Heathcliff to work as a stable boy. Cathy and Heathcliff love each other, but when they grow up, Cathy (now played by Merle Oberon) marries wealthy neighbor Edgar Linton (David Niven). Heathcliff (now played by Laurence Olivier) has left but returns a wealthy man, buys Wuthering Heights from Hindley (now played by Hugh Williams), and marries Edgar's sister Isabella (Geraldine Fitzgerald). Now, Cathy realizes that she cannot forget Heathcliff, and even death cannot part them. Academy Award nominations included Best Picture, Actor (Olivier), Supporting Actress (Geraldine Fitzgerald), and Director.
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| 1. The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
2. The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934)
aka: Forbidden Alliance
3. Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police (1939)
4. Captains Courageous (1937)
5. The Casino Murder Case (1935)
6. Charlie Chan in City in Darkness (1939)
aka: City in Darkness
7. Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise (1940)
8. A Christmas Carol (1938)
9. The Desert Fox (1951)
10. Enchantment (1948)
11. Father of the Bride (1950)
12. Forever Amber (1947)
13. The Happy Years (1950)
14. The House on 92nd Street (1945)
15. North by Northwest (1959)
16. One Spy Too Many (1966)
17. The Paradine Case (1947)
18. The Parent Trap (1961)
19. The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
aka: Elizabeth the Queen
20. The Prize (1963)
21. Rebecca (1940)
22. Sadie McKee (1934)
23. Scotland Yard (1941)
24. The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
25. So Evil My Love (1948)
26. Song of Love (1947)
27. Spellbound (1945)
28. The Spy in the Green Hat (1966)
29. Strangers on a Train (1951)
30. Suspicion (1941)
31. The Swan (1956)
32. Tarantula (1955)
33. That Funny Feeling (1965)
34. Time Out of Mind (1947)
35. Tower of London (1939)
36. Treasure of the Golden Condor (1953)
37. Waterloo Bridge (1940)
38. We're No Angels (1955)
39. Wuthering Heights (1939)
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