Eternal Love 1929  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Cast: John Barrymore, Camilla Horn, Victor Varconi, Hobart Bosworth, Bodil Rosing, Mona Rico, Evelyn Selbie
Director Lubitsch's and John Barrymore's final silent film before moving into talkies, this tale, based on a novel by Jakob Christopher Beer, is set in the Swiss Alps (filmed in the Canadian Rockies). A couple, each of whom is in a loveless marriage, carries on a secret romance; but when the woman's husband is murdered, they are on the run. A real tearjerker, but well told.
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 Goin' to Town 1935  N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Comedy / Musical
Director: Alexander Hall
Cast: Mae West, Paul Cavanagh, Gilbert Emery, Marjorie Gateson, Tito Coral, Ivan Lebedeff, Fred Kohler, Monroe Owsley, Grant Withers, Luis Alberni, Wade Boteler, Mona Rico, Paul Harvey, Lucio Villegas
Dance-hall queen Cleo Borden (Mae West) inherits an oil field from her deceased husband but lacks social graces to enter high society. She takes etiquette lessons and gets into a marriage in name only with Fletcher Colton (Monroe Owsley) to gain social position. But, British engineer Edward Carrington (Paul Cavanagh), who she had fallen for when he surveyed her property, returns to the scene and is now an earl. By story's end, Cleo has divorced Fletcher, married Edward, and lives happily ever after in London.
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Zorro Rides Again 1937  N/R, 210 min.
Genre: Western
Director: John English, William Witney
Cast: John Carroll, Helen Christian, Reed Howes, Duncan Renaldo, Noah Beery, Richard Alexander, Nigel De Brulier, Bob Cortman, Roger Williams, Edmund Cobb, Mona Rico, Tom London
James (John Carroll), the great-grandson of Zorro, becomes the new Zorro when called in to deal with a gang trying to take control of the new-construction California-Yucatan Railroad. It takes 12 episodes to get the job done in this OK serial.
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| 1. Eternal Love (1929)
2. Goin' to Town (1935)
3. Zorro Rides Again (1937)
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