 Charlie Chan in London 1934  N/R, 79 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama / Thriller
Director: Eugene Forde
Cast: Warner Oland, Drue Leyton, Ray Milland, Mona Barrie, Douglas Walton, Alan Mowbray, George Barraud, E.E. Clive, Reginald Sheffield, Murray Kinnell, Paul England, Madge Bellamy, Perry Ivins, Walter Johnson, Elsa Buchanan
After Paul's (Douglas Walton) arrest for murder, his sister Pamela Ward (Drue Leyton) calls in Charlie Chan (Warner Oland) to solve the crime and free her brother. Chan heads for Geoffrey Raymond's (Alan Mowbray) country estate where the murder occurred. He has only 65 hours to expose the real murderer before Paul is scheduled to be executed.
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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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Kiss the Blood Off My Hands 1948  N/R, 79 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Blood on My Hands
Director: Norman Foster
Cast: Joan Fontaine, Burt Lancaster, Robert Newton, Lewis L. Russell, Jay Novello, Aminta Dyne, Reginald Sheffield, Leyland Hodgson, Grizelda Harvey, Colin Keith-Johnston
Escaping from the law after killing a man in a London pub, Bill Saunders (Burt Lancaster) seeks refuge with a very understanding Jane Warton (Joan Fontaine). Jane's hopes for their future together are dashed when Bill is blackmailed by Harry Carter (Robert Newton) into performing a criminal act.
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Of Human Bondage 1934  N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Cromwell
Cast: Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Frances Dee, Kay Johnson, Reginald Owen, Reginald Denny, Alan Hale, Reginald Sheffield, Desmond Roberts, Tempe Pigott
This screen version of the W. Somerset Maugham story tells the tale of a young medical student (Leslie Howard) who is obsessed with a promiscuous waitress (Bette Davis). The relationship comes close to destroying his personal, as well as professional, life.
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Second Chance 1953  N/R, 81 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Rudolph Mate
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Linda Darnell, Jack Palance, Sandro Giglio, Rodolfo Hoyos Jr., Reginald Sheffield, Roy Roberts, Salvador Baguez, Dan Seymour, Fortunio Bonanova
Russ Lambert (Robert Mitchum) is a boxer who ends up helping a gangster's ex-girlfriend (Linda Darnell) escape from a hit man assigned the task of killing her.
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Secret of Treasure Mountain 1956  N/R, 68 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Seymour Friedman
Cast: Valerie French, Raymond Burr, William Prince, Lance Fuller, Susan Cummings, Pat Hogan, Reginald Sheffield, Rodolfo Hoyos Jr., Paul McGuire, Tom Hubbard
Two-hundred years ago, a Spaniard buried a fortune in gold in Apache territory. The Apaches killed the intruder and put a curse on the gold. Now a band of characters search for the gold, but the curse seems to still be effective.
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Splendor 1935 N/R, 76 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Elliott Nugent
Cast: Miriam Hopkins, Joel McCrea, Paul Cavanagh, Helen Westley, Billie Burke, Katharine Alexander, David Niven, Arthur Treacher, Ivan F. Simpson, Reginald Sheffield
When wealthy Brighton Lorrimore (Joel McCrea) brings home his new wife Phyllis (Miriam Hopkins), the family has problems accepting her lower social status.
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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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Tonight We Raid Calais 1943 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Action / Drama
Director: John Brahm
Cast: Annabella, John Sutton, Lee J. Cobb, Beulah Bondi, Blanche Yurka, Howard Da Silva, Marcel Dalio, Ann Codee, Nigel De Brulier, Robert Lewis, Richard Derr, Leslie Denison, William Edmunds, Lester Matthews, Reginald Sheffield
British Commando Geoffrey Carter (John Sutton) sneaks behind enemy lines to destroy a German munitions plant in Nazi-occupied France. While on his mission, Carter meets Odette (Annabella) whose father (Lee J. Cobb) is a patriotic farmer and is aiding Carter by allowing him to pose as a family member. But Odette fears reprisals against her relatives and wants her family out of the conflict. As a result, she represents a threat to the success of Carter's mission.
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| 1. Charlie Chan in London (1934)
2. The Green Goddess (1930)
3. Gunga Din (1939)
4. Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1948)
aka: Blood on My Hands
5. Of Human Bondage (1934)
6. Second Chance (1953)
7. Secret of Treasure Mountain (1956)
8. Splendor (1935)
9. Suspicion (1941)
10. Tonight We Raid Calais (1943)
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