 The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938  N/R, 106 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Romance
Director: Michael Curtiz, William Keighley
Cast: Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone, Ian Hunter, Olivia de Havilland, Claude Rains, Patric Knowles, Eugene Pallette, Alan Hale, Melville Cooper, Una O'Connor, Herbert Mundin, Montagu Love, Robert Noble, Leonard Willey, Kenneth Hunter
Errol Flynn IS Robin Hood. Romance blooms between Robin and Maid Marian (Olivia de Havilland) in the midst of sweeping sword fights in Sherwood Forest as Robin leads his band of merry men against Prince John (Claude Rains) and his efforts to tax the poor. The film received an Oscar nomination for Best Picture.
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All This, and Heaven Too 1940  N/R, 121 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Anatole Litvak
Cast: Bette Davis, Charles Boyer, Jeffrey Lynn, Barbara O'Neil, Virginia Weidler, Walter Hampden, Harry Davenport, Fritz Leiber, Ann E. Todd, Montagu Love, Helen Westley, Henry Daniell, George Coulouris, June Lockhart, Janet Beecher
After falling in love with the governess (Bette Davis), the Duc de Praslin (Charles Boyer) murders his wife. More tragedy follows with the suicide of the Duc; but the governess still finds happiness in this classic tale set in Paris in the mid-1800s. Academy Award nominations included Best Picture and Supporting Actress (Barbara O'Neil).
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The Constant Nymph 1943  N/R, 112 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Edmund Goulding
Cast: Charles Boyer, Joan Fontaine, Brenda Marshall, Alexis Smith, Charles Coburn, Dame May Whitty, Peter Lorre, Eduardo Ciannelli, Montagu Love, Marcel Dalio
Joan Fontaine received an Academy Award nomination for her role as the 14-year-old Tessa Sanger who is smitten with the sophisticated composer, Lewis Dodd (Charles Boyer).
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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 Devil and Miss Jones 1941 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Sam Wood
Cast: Jean Arthur, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn, Edmund Gwenn, Spring Byington, S.Z. Sakall, William Demarest, Walter Kingsford, Montagu Love, Regis Toomey
In this entertaining comedy, a department store owner, J.P. Merrick (Charles Coburn), pretends to be one of the store's clerks in an effort to solve problems involving the potential for unionization.
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Devotion 1946  N/R, 108 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Curtis Bernhardt
Cast: Olivia de Havilland, Ida Lupino, Nancy Coleman, Paul Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet, Arthur Kennedy, Dame May Whitty, Victor Francen, Montagu Love, Edmund Breon
This is a biography of the Bronte sisters–ala Hollywood–featuring Charlotte (Olivia de Havilland) and Emily (Ida Lupino) as two sisters competing for the romantic attentions of Arthur Nicholls (Paul Henreid).
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A Dispatch from Reuters 1940 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William Dieterle
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Edna Best, Eddie Albert, Albert Bassermann, Gene Lockhart, Otto Kruger, Nigel Bruce, Montagu Love, James Stephenson, Walter Kingsford
This is the biography of Julius Reuter (Edward G. Robinson) who began with a fleet of carrier pigeons and ended up with the first news wire service.
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The Divine Lady 1929 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Frank Lloyd
Cast: Corinne Griffith, Victor Varconi, H.B. Warner, Ian Keith, Marie Dressler, Dorothy Cumming, William Conklin, Montagu Love, Helen Jerome Eddy, Julia Swayne Gordon, Michael Vavitch, Evelyn Hall
Amidst exciting sea battles, this film tells the story of the scandalous affair between Lady Hamilton (Corinne Griffith) and Lord Horatio Nelson (Victor Varconi), which leads to her influence providing supplies for Nelson's fleet and, ultimately, the British victory. Frank Lloyd won an Academy Award for Best Director.
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Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet 1940 N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William Dieterle
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Gordon, Otto Kruger, Donald Crisp, Maria Ouspenskaya, Montagu Love, Sig Ruman, Donald Meek, Henry O'Neill, Albert Bassermann
This is an excellent film biography of the German research scientist, Dr. Ehrlich (Edward G. Robinson), who discovered a cure for venereal disease.
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 Gunga Din 1939 N/R, 117 min.
Genre: Adventure / Action / Comedy / Drama
Director: George Stevens
Cast: Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Sam Jaffe, Eduardo Ciannelli, Joan Fontaine, Montagu Love, Robert Coote, Cecil Kellaway, Abner Biberman, Lumsden Hare, Reginald Sheffield, Roland Varno, Charles Bennett, Jamiel Hasson
Rudyard Kipling's poem about British soldiers crushing revolts during the 1800s in India is the source for this outstanding film. After a British outpost is raided by the rebelling Thugges who want the British off their land, Sergeants Cutter (Cary Grant) MacChesney (Victor McLaglen), and Ballantine (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) are ordered to the outpost to annihilate the raiders. They are accompanied by Indian troops and water-bearer Gunga Din (Sam Jaffe) and manage to complete their mission. Later, Cutter and Gunga Din search for gold and find it–in the Thugges' headquarters, and the dangers reach new heights.
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His Double Life 1933 N/R, 63 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Arthur Hopkins
Cast: Roland Young, Lillian Gish, Lumsden Hare, Montagu Love, Lucy Beaumont, Charles Richman, Oliver Smith, Philip Tonge, Audrey Ridgewell, Regina DeValet
In this film based on Arnold Bennett's play, Roland Young takes the role of shy artist Priam Farrel whose death is mistakenly reported when the body of his valet is identified as that of Farrel. Going along with the error, Farrel attends his own funeral at Westminster Abbey and then meets and marries spinster Alice (Lillian Gish). But, life happily ever after is not an easy goal to obtain.
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Kismet 1930  N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Adventure / Fantasy
Director: John Francis Dillon
Cast: Otis Skinner, Loretta Young, David Manners, Mary Duncan, Sidney Blackmer, Montagu Love, Ford Sterling, Theodore von Eltz, John St. Polis, Edmund Breese, Blanche Friderici, Richard Carlyle, John Sheehan, Otto Hoffman, Noble Johnson
Baghdad beggar Haji (Otis Skinner) makes his way into the palace inner-circle where he romances Wazir Mansur's (Sidney Blackmer) "head wife" Zeleekha (Mary Duncan) while his daughter Marsinah (Loretta Young) falls in love with Caliph Abdallah (David Manners). Fate plays a big role in this captivating story.
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The Lone Wolf Strikes 1940 N/R, 57 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Sidney Salkow
Cast: Warren William, Joan Perry, Eric Blore, Alan Baxter, Astrid Allwyn, Montagu Love, Robert Wilcox, Don Beddoe, Fred Kelsey, Addison Richards
Our hero, the reformed jewel thief, comes to the rescue of another damsel in distress whose pearls have been stolen.
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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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 The Mark of Zorro 1940 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Western / Romance
Director: Rouben Mamoulian
Cast: Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Basil Rathbone, Gale Sondergaard, J. Edward Bromberg, Eugene Pallette, Montagu Love, George Regas, Janet Beecher, Robert Lowery, Chris-Pin Martin, Bell Mitchell, Eugene Borden, Frank Puglia, John Bleifer
Don Diego Vega (Tyrone Power) is an aristocrat who returns to California in the early 1800s and fights the injustice of dictator Don Luis Quintero (J. Edward Bromberg) and his henchman Capt. Pasquale (Basil Rathbone) who are now ruling the district after displacing Don Diego's father Don Alejandro (Montagu Love) as governor. Don Diego is in love with Quintero's niece, Lolita (Linda Darnell), but he dons his mask and becomes Zorro, fighting against Quintero's corruption and leaving his mark as he battles for justice. Lots of fun and adventure.
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The Menace 1932 N/R, 64 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Roy William Neill
Cast: H.B. Warner, Bette Davis, Walter Byron, Natalie Moorhead, William B. Davidson, Crauford Kent, Halliwell Hobbes, Charles K. Gerrard, Murray Kinnell, Montagu Love
After spending time in prison for murdering his father, a young man returns to seek revenge on those responsible for his imprisonment.
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 The Prince and the Pauper 1937 N/R, 115 min.
Genre: Family / Adventure / Drama / Fantasy
Director: William Keighley
Cast: Errol Flynn, Claude Rains, Billy Mauch, Robert J. Mauch, Alan Hale, Montagu Love, Barton MacLane, Henry Stephenson, Eric Portman, Halliwell Hobbes, Lionel Pape, Leonard Willey, Murray Kinnell, Phyllis Barry, Ivan F. Simpson
Two boys meet–one is Prince Edward (Robert J. Mauch), and the other is a poor boy from London's slums, Tom (Billy Mauch)–and are struck by their physical resemblance to each other. While playing, they exchange clothes and identities, and Edward is evicted from the palace by the Captain of the Guard (Alan Hale) who believes he is a pauper. Now, Tom is thought to be the Prince of Wales by everyone except the evil Earl of Hertford (Claude Rains) who uses the deception as his chance to control the throne. Meanwhile, Edward lives with Tom's father (Barton MacLane) until he is befriended by a soldier of fortune, Miles Hendon (Errol Flynn), who takes him to the palace where he proves his real identity in time to be crowned King of England. A great musical score backs up this film version of Mark Twain's story.
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 The Prisoner of Zenda 1937 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama / Romance
Director: John Cromwell
Cast: Ronald Colman, Madeleine Carroll, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Mary Astor, C. Aubrey Smith, Raymond Massey, David Niven, Montagu Love, Byron Foulger, Spencer Charters, Wilhelm von Brincken, Philip Sleeman, Eleanor Wesselhoeft, Charles Halton, Torben Meyer
This is an excellent version of the classic story of an Englishman Rudolph Rassendyll (Ronald Colman) who travels to a mythical European country where he is a distant cousin of Prince Rudolf V (also played by Colman). The cousins greatly resemble each other, and Captain Fritz von Tarlenheim (David Niven) and Colonel Zapt (C. Aubrey Smith) take Rudolph to the Prince's hunting lodge where they meet. The next day, it is discovered that the Prince has been kidnapped, and now Rudolph becomes involved in palace intrigue and romance–with the Prince's fiancee Princess Flavia (Madeleine Carroll)–when he is asked to impersonate the Prince.
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Professor Beware 1938 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Elliott Nugent
Cast: Harold Lloyd, Phyllis Welch, Raymond Walburn, Lionel Stander, William Frawley, Thurston Hall, Cora Witherspoon, Sterling Holloway, Mary Lou Lender, Montagu Love, Etienne Girardot, Christian Rub, Spencer Charters, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Ward Bond
Archaeologist Prof. Dean Lambert (Harold Lloyd) is scheduled to go on trial, but there is a delay in the court proceedings, and he will miss an expedition to Egypt if he waits. Instead, he skips bail and heads out from Los Angeles to New York City. And the chase is on when he hops a train for the trip to New York during which he evades police, meets and is attracted to Jane (Phyllis Welch), and has adventures with hoboes.
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The Remarkable Andrew 1942 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Stuart Heisler
Cast: William Holden, Ellen Drew, Brian Donlevy, Rod Cameron, Porter Hall, Montagu Love, Jimmy Conlin, Richard Webb, Frances Gifford, Nydia Westman
Andrew Jackson's ghost (Brian Donlevy) helps Andrew Long (William Holden) achieve justice when he is framed on a charge of embezzlement.
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Rulers of the Sea 1939 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Drama / Adventure
Director: Frank Lloyd
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Margaret Lockwood, Will Fyffe, George Bancroft, Montagu Love, David Torrence, Alan Ladd, Mary Gordon, Vaughan Glaser, Lester Matthews
In this historical drama, John Shaw (Will Fyffe) and David Gillespie (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) search for financial support to produce a steam engine for use on transatlantic voyages that will cut the time at sea in half.
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 The Sea Hawk 1940  N/R, 124 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Romance
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Claude Rains, Flora Robson, Alan Hale, Donald Crisp, Gilbert Roland, William Lundigan, Montagu Love, Francis McDonald, Henry Daniell, Una O'Connor, James Stephenson, Julien Mitchell, J.M. Kerrigan
Errol Flynn is definitely at his swashbuckling best as 1850s' British pirate Geoffrey Thorpe leads the Sea Hawk pirates on raids and captures more than 50 Spanish ships. In the process, he learns that the Spanish are planning to attack England and have placed spies in Queen Elizabeth's (Flora Robson) court. But, Elizabeth does not approve of Thorpe's pirating tactics and demands that he change his ways. Meanwhile, Thorpe falls in love with Dona Maria (Brenda Marshall), and now he must expose the treachery to save his country and win the love of Dona Maria. 1 User Review
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 Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror 1942 N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: John Rawlins
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Evelyn Ankers, Reginald Denny, Montagu Love, Henry Daniell, Thomas Gomez, Olaf Hytten, Lon Chaney Jr., Leyland Hodgson
Set in World War II Europe, this story involves efforts to stop a Nazi radio broadcast whose propaganda is throwing terror into the hearts of courageous Britons.
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Shining Victory 1941 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Irving Rapper
Cast: James Stephenson, Donald Crisp, Montagu Love, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Barbara O'Neil, Sig Ruman, G.P. Huntley, Bruce Lester, Leonard Mudie, Doris Lloyd
A psychologist is so involved with his research that he has no time for his research assistant who is devoted to him.
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The Son of Monte Cristo 1941 N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Rowland V. Lee
Cast: Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett, George Sanders, Florence Bates, Lionel Royce, Montagu Love, Ian Wolfe, Clayton Moore, Ralph Byrd, Georges Renavent, Michael Visaroff, Rand Brooks
In 1865, when Grand Duchess Zona (Joan Bennett) seeks aid from France to regain her family's rule of Lichtenburg, the Count of Monte Cristo (Louis Hayward) helps in toppling the regime of General Gurko Lanen (George Sanders).
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The Son of the Sheik 1926 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: George Fitzmaurice
Cast: Rudolph Valentino, Vilma Banky, George Fawcett, Montagu Love, Karl Dane, Bull Montana, Agnes Ayres, Charles Requa, Bynunsky Hyman, William Donovan
In this follow-on to "The Sheik," Rudolph Valentino plays both the sheik and his son, Ahmed. Ahmed falls in love with a street dancer, Yasmine (Vilma Banky), but he is then kidnapped and told that she was responsible for his kidnapping. After Ahmed is rescued by his men, he seeks revenge on Yasmine. All ends well in Valentino's last movie.
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Tennessee Johnson 1942 N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: The Man on America's Conscience
Director: William Dieterle
Cast: Van Heflin, Ruth Hussey, Lionel Barrymore, Marjorie Main, Regis Toomey, Montagu Love, Porter Hall, Charles Dingle, J. Edward Bromberg, Grant Withers
The life of President Andrew Johnson is told–with Van Heflin in the title role. Johnson's life from his backwoods boyhood through his impeachment is covered. Good cast.
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Tovarich 1937 N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Anatole Litvak
Cast: Claudette Colbert, Basil Rathbone, Charles Boyer, Anita Louise, Melville Cooper, Isabel Jeans, Maurice Murphy, Morris Carnovsky, Gregory Gaye, Montagu Love
After fleeing Russia during the revolution, a couple (Claudette Colbert and Charles Boyer) arrives in Paris and find employment as domestic servants. They have with them a fortune from the czar, but their honesty prevents them from using it for their own comforts.
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The Wind 1928 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Drama / Western
Director: Victor Sjostrom
Cast: Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson, Montagu Love, Dorothy Cumming, Edward Earle, William Orlamond, Carmencita Johnson, Leon Janney, Billy Kent Schaefer
This is one of the last great silent films, and perhaps Lillian Gish's best performance. Letty Mason (Gish) moves to a barren dust bowl town in Texas to stay with relatives. She fights off the wind and sand, as well as husband Lige (Lars Hanson) who disgusts her, and a rapist. The desert storm climax is a classic.
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Wings Over the Pacific 1943  N/R, 59 min.
Genre: Action / Drama
Director: Phil Rosen
Cast: Inez Cooper, Edward Norris, Montagu Love, Robert Armstrong, Henry Guttman, Ernie Adams, Santini Pualoa, John Roth, Alex Havier, Jody Gilbert, Jimmy Lono
World War I veteran Jim Butler (Montagu Love) and daughter Nona (Inez Cooper) are spending their days during World War II on a remote island in the Pacific. Peacefulness reigns–until American pilot Allan Scott (Edward Norris) and German pilot Kurt Heinmann (Henry Guttman) crash-land their planes on the island.
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| 1. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
2. All This, and Heaven Too (1940)
3. Bulldog Drummond (1929)
4. The Constant Nymph (1943)
5. The Crusades (1935)
6. The Devil and Miss Jones (1941)
7. Devotion (1946)
8. A Dispatch from Reuters (1940)
9. The Divine Lady (1929)
10. Don Juan (1926)
11. Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940)
12. Gunga Din (1939)
13. His Double Life (1933)
14. Kismet (1930)
15. The Lone Wolf Strikes (1940)
16. The Man in the Iron Mask (1939)
17. The Mark of Zorro (1940)
18. The Menace (1932)
19. The Prince and the Pauper (1937)
20. The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
21. Professor Beware (1938)
22. The Remarkable Andrew (1942)
23. Rulers of the Sea (1939)
24. The Sea Hawk (1940)
25. Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942)
26. Shining Victory (1941)
27. The Son of Monte Cristo (1941)
28. The Son of the Sheik (1926)
29. Tennessee Johnson (1942)
aka: The Man on America's Conscience
30. Tovarich (1937)
31. The Wind (1928)
32. Wings Over the Pacific (1943)
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