Cafe Metropole 1937  N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Edward H. Griffith
Cast: Tyrone Power, Loretta Young, Adolphe Menjou, Gregory Ratoff, Charles Winninger, Helen Westley, Christian Rub, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Georges Renavent, Leonid Kinskey, Hal K. Dawson, Louis Mercier, Gino Corrado, Jules Raucourt, Paul Porcasi
Monsieur Victor (Adolphe Menjou) owns the Cafe Metropole, but he faces a prison term if he does not replace the money he has embezzled from the cafe. He thinks he has the money when he wins at the casino, and playboy Alexander Brown (Tyrone Power) gives him a check, but the check bounces. Now, Victor forces Alexander to pretend to be a Russian prince, "Alexis Penayev," and woo a wealthy American, Laura Ridgeway (Loretta Young), so that they can use her money to pay off the debt. The courtship begins, Alexis and Laura fall in love, and then the real prince (Gregory Ratoff) makes himself known. Has Victor taken on more than he can handle?
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 Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo 1937  N/R, 71 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Director: Eugene Forde
Cast: Warner Oland, Keye Luke, Virginia Field, Sidney Blackmer, Harold Huber, Kay Linaker, Robert Kent, Edward Raquello, George Lynn, Louis Mercier, George Davis, George Sorel, John Bleifer, Georges Renavent, Eugene Borden
Charlie Chan (Warner Oland) and his son Lee (Keye Luke) are vacationing in Monte Carlo when a million dollars in bonds from the famous Riviera casino are stolen, and the messenger who was carrying them is murdered. Charlie is asked to investigate and uncovers the work of bartender Al Rogers (George Lynn) who is blackmailing Mrs Karnoff (Kay Linaker) whose husband (Sidney Blackmer) is engaged in a bitter feud with Paul Savarin (Edward Raquello). Al turns up dead, but is Mrs. Karnoff really the murderess? Other suspects include Savarin and a woman with things to hide, Evelyn Gray (Virginia Field). This is Oland's last movie.
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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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Darling Lili 1970  G, 139 min.
Genre: Musical / Drama
Director: Blake Edwards
Cast: Julie Andrews, Rock Hudson, Jeremy Kemp, Michael Witney, Lance Percival, Jacques Marin, Andre Maranne, Niall MacGinnis, Vernon Dobtcheff, Gloria Paul, Bernard Kay, Doreen Keogh, Carl Duering, Laurie Main, Louis Mercier
This story about World War I espionage features Julie Andrews in the role of Lili. Posing as a British music hall singer, Lili is really a German spy whose assignment is to uncover enemy plans. Her mission is jeopardized when she falls in love with handsome American pilot, Major William Larrabee (Rock Hudson), and, as a result, she puts both of their lives in danger when William realizes her secret but does not tell the authorities.
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 Sahara 1943 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Adventure / Action / Drama
Director: Zoltan Korda
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Bruce Bennett, Lloyd Bridges, Rex Ingram, J. Carrol Naish, Dan Duryea, Kurt Kreuger, Richard Nugent, Patrick O'Moore, Guy Kingsford, Carl Harbord, Louis Mercier, John Wengraf, Walter Bonn, Michael Dyne
This World War II adventure is the story of U.S. Army Sergeant Joe Gunn's (Humphrey Bogart) out-maneuvering the Germans while leading British, French, South African, and Sudanese soldiers across the desert in search of water. Despite a betrayal, they work as a team and defeat a German force that is also in search of the water. J. Carrol Naish received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Giuseppe who is a prisoner of the Allies.
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| 1. Cafe Metropole (1937)
2. Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo (1937)
3. Charlie Chan in City in Darkness (1939)
aka: City in Darkness
4. Darling Lili (1970)
5. Sahara (1943)
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