Everything Happens at Night 1939  N/R, 76 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Irving Cummings
Cast: Sonja Henie, Ray Milland, Robert Cummings, Maurice Moscovitch, Alan Dinehart, Fritz Feld, Jody Gilbert, Leonid Kinskey, Victor Varconi, William Edmunds
Two reporters, Geoffrey Thompson (Ray Milland) and Ken Morgan (Robert Cummings), try to find a missing Nobel Prize winner, and both fall in love with the man's daughter, Louise (Sonja Henie).
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The Great Commandment 1939  N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Drama / Adventure
Director: Irving Pichel
Cast: John Beal, Maurice Moscovitch, Albert Dekker, Marjorie Cooley, Warren McCollum, Lloyd Corrigan, Ian Wolfe, Olaf Hytten, Anthony Marlowe, Lester Sharpe, Marc Loebell, Harold Minjir, George Rosener
Judean scholar Joel (John Beal) revolts against the Romans, but with the arrival of Jesus of Nazareth, Joel puts down his sword in favor of a higher calling.
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 The Great Dictator 1940  N/R, 127 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Charles Chaplin
Cast: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner, Henry Daniell, Billy Gilbert, Emma Dunn, Maurice Moscovitch, Grace Hayle, Bernard Gorcey
Political satire about the Third Reich abounds as Charlie Chaplin plays dual roles of dictator Adenoid Hynbel as well as his look-alike: a Jewish barber.
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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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Winterset 1936 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Alfred Santell
Cast: Burgess Meredith, Margo, Eduardo Ciannelli, Paul Guilfoyle, John Carradine, Maurice Moscovitch, Edward Ellis, Stanley Ridges, Mischa Auer, Willard Robertson, Myron McCormick, Helen Jerome Eddy
Based on Maxwell Anderson's Broadway play–and bringing Burgess Meredith, Margo, and Eduardo Ciannelli to the screen to recreate their Broadway roles–this film is a fictionalized account of the famous Sacco/Vanzetti case. Fifteen years after his father (John Carradine) was found guilty of murder and executed, his son (Burgess Meredith) sets out to prove his father's innocence. This is Burgess Meredith's film debut. Look for a young Lucille Ball.
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| 1. Everything Happens at Night (1939)
2. The Great Commandment (1939)
3. The Great Dictator (1940)
4. Love Affair (1939)
5. Winterset (1936)
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