And Then There Were None 1945  N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama / Thriller
Director: Rene Clair
Cast: Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Louis Hayward, June Duprez, Roland Young, C. Aubrey Smith, Judith Anderson, Mischa Auer, Richard Haydn, Queenie Leonard, Harry Thurston
A mysterious host invites 10 people to spend a weekend in a house on a deserted island . Once assembled, the guests hear a record that accuses them all of past murders. Then the guests become murder victims, one by one. From an Agatha Christie story, this was remade several times as "Ten Little Indians." This one, however, remains one of the best.
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The Bishop Murder Case 1930  N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Nick Grinde
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Leila Hyams, Roland Young, Alec B. Francis, Carroll Nye, George F. Marion, Bodil Rosing, Delmer Daves, Charles Quatermaine, Zelda Sears
The body of "Cock Robin" is discovered with an arrow through his heart. He is one of a series of murder victims in which the killer leaves nursery rhymes in his wake. Detective Philo Vance (Basil Rathbone) goes to work and finds the psychopathic killer.
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David Copperfield 1935  N/R, 133 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: George Cukor
Cast: W.C. Fields, Freddie Bartholomew, Frank Lawton, Elizabeth Allan, Basil Rathbone, Roland Young, Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Madge Evans, Edna May Oliver
Mr. Mudstone (Basil Rathbone), Wikins Micawber (W.C. Fields), and Uriah Heap (Roland Young) are all there as David Copperfield starts out as a poor boy and grows up to be a wealthy man in London. The young David is played by Freddie Bartholomew, while Frank Lawton plays the older David.
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 The Flame of New Orleans 1941  N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Comedy / Adventure / Drama / Romance
Director: Rene Clair
Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Bruce Cabot, Roland Young, Mischa Auer, Andy Devine, Laura Hope Crews, Franklin Pangborn, Melville Cooper, Anne Revere, Clarence Muse, Frank Jenks, Eddie Quillan, Theresa Harris
Beautiful Claire Ledoux (Marlene Dietrich) arrives in mid-19th century New Orleans with plans to marry a rich man. Her plot leads her to wealthy banker Charles Giraud (Roland Young), but she then learns that sea captain Robert Latour (Bruce Cabot) is interested in her. Problems arise when Zoltov (Mischa Auer), who knew Claire in Europe, tells people that Claire has a checkered past. Now, Claire assumes two identities to cover her adventurous tracks, but Charles eventually figures out the truth, and Claire ends up with her sea captain.
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The Great Lover 1949 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance / Musical / Thriller
Director: Alexander Hall
Cast: Bob Hope, Rhonda Fleming, Roland Young, Roland Culver, George Reeves, Jim Backus, Richard Lyon, Gary Gray, Sig Arno, Jerry Hunter, Jack Benny, Paul Bryar, Fritz Feld, Norman Leavitt
Freddie Hunter (Bob Hope) chaperones a group of Boy Scouts on an ocean liner traveling to Europe. En route, they run smack into a series of adventures when they face gambler C. J. Dabney (Roland Young) who is also a murderer.
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Here Is My Heart 1934  N/R, 77 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Frank Tuttle
Cast: Bing Crosby, Kitty Carlisle, Roland Young, Alison Skipworth, Reginald Owen, Cecilia Parker, William Frawley, Akim Tamiroff, Charles Arnt, Charles C. Wilson
A radio star (Bing Crosby) pretends to be a waiter to get close to a princess (Kitty Carlisle). "Love is Just Around the Corner" is one of the featured songs in this musical comedy.
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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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Irene 1940 N/R, 101 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Herbert Wilcox
Cast: Anna Neagle, Ray Milland, Roland Young, Alan Marshal, May Robson, Billie Burke, Arthur Treacher, Marsha Hunt, Isabel Jewell, Ethel Griffies
This is the film adaptation of a 1919 Broadway musical in which an Irish lass, Irene O'Dare (Anna Neagle) rises from poverty into the arms of Don Marshal (Ray Milland). The song "Alice Blue Gown" was introduced in this pretty good musical.
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 King Solomon's Mines 1937 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Robert Stevenson
Cast: Paul Robeson, Cedric Hardwicke, Roland Young, Anna Lee, John Loder, Sydney Fairbrother, Frederick Leister, Arthur Sinclair
Kathy (Anna Lee) enlists the aid of Great White Hunter Allan Quartermain (Cedric Hardwicke) when she doesn't hear from her father, Patrick O'Brien (Arthur Sinclair), who has left home in search of the fabled diamond mines. Together, they set off on a trek through Africa to find him and the mines as well.
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The Lady Has Plans 1942  N/R, 77 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Cast: Paulette Goddard, Ray Milland, Roland Young, Albert Dekker, Margaret Hayes, Cecil Kellaway, Addison Richards, Edward Norris, Charles Arnt, Gerald Mohr
This story is set in Lisbon where Ken Harper (Ray Milland) and his aide, Sidney Royce (Paulette Goddard), walk into the middle of World War II's espionage, and Sidney is mistaken for a spy.
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One Hour with You 1932 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Comedy / Musical
Director: George Cukor, Ernst Lubitsch
Cast: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Genevieve Tobin, Charles Ruggles, Roland Young, Josephine Dunn, Richard Carle, George Barbier, Barbara Leonard, Charles Judels, Eric Wilton, Donald Novis, Mae Questel
Andre and Colette (Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald) are happily married. Andre, a doctor, has had chances to be unfaithful due to come-on's by his female patients, but when he meets Colette's best friend, Mitzi (Genevieve Tobin), the matrimonial mix-ups begin. Lots of music in this good remake of 1924's "The Marriage Circle," also directed by Ernst Lubitsch. The film received a Best Picture Oscar nomination.
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 The Philadelphia Story 1940 N/R, 112 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: George Cukor
Cast: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart, John Howard, Ruth Hussey, Roland Young, John Halliday, Mary Nash, Virginia Weidler, Henry Daniell, Lionel Pape, Rex Evans, Hillary Brooke, Lee Phelps, Claude King
Philadelphia's elite citizens are the subject of this romantic comedy. Katharine Hepburn plays socialite Tracy Lord who is divorced from C.K. Dexter Haven (Cary Grant) and is about to marry stuffed-shirt George Kittredge (John Howard). James Stewart plays reporter Macaulay Connor who has arrived on the scene to cover the wedding, but he falls in love with the bride-to-be. Stewart carried away an Academy Award for Best Actor. An Academy Award was also given for Best Writing, and nominations were received for Best Picture, Actress (Hepburn), Supporting Actress (Ruth Hussey for her role as Macaulay's girlfriend), and Director.
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Ruggles of Red Gap 1935 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Leo McCarey
Cast: Charles Laughton, Mary Boland, Charles Ruggles, Zasu Pitts, Roland Young, Leila Hyams, Maude Eburne, Lucien Littlefield, James Burke, Dell Henderson, Leota Lorraine, Clarence Wilson, Heinie Conklin, Frank Rice, Rolfe Sedan
American cattle baron Egbert (Charles Ruggles) and his society-minded wife Effie (Mary Boland) win English manservant Marmaduke Ruggles (Charles Laughton) in a poker game, and the fun begins. Ruggles is not happy to be heading off to the Wild West, but after going to a "beer bust" with Egbert, Ruggles begins to change his mind. Effie passes off Ruggles as an upper-class British officer, and he ends up a town celebrity. Later, Ruggles decides to open his own restaurant and gain independence. A fine rendition of Harry Leon Wilson's story that was filmed twice before and made again in 1950 as "Fancy Pants." The film was nominated for an Oscar as Best Picture.
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St. Benny the Dip 1951 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Escape If You Can
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer
Cast: Dick Haymes, Nina Foch, Roland Young, Lionel Stander, Freddie Bartholomew, Oscar Karlweis, William A. Lee, Dick Gordon, Jean Casto, Eddie Wells, Dort Clark, James Bender
Three con artists (Dick Haymes, Roland Young, and Lionel Stander) disguise themselves as clergymen, and the ploy works. In fact, it works so well that they are accepted as real clergymen at a skid row mission and end up going straight.
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Standing Room Only 1944 N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Cast: Fred MacMurray, Paulette Goddard, Edward Arnold, Hillary Brooke, Roland Young, Anne Revere, Clarence Kolb, Porter Hall, Isabel Randolph, Marie McDonald
When unable to find lodging because of the wartime housing shortage in Washington, D.C., a couple go to work as domestic servants in order to get a roof over their heads.
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They All Kissed the Bride 1942 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Alexander Hall
Cast: Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas, Roland Young, Billie Burke, Allen Jenkins, Andrew Tombes, Helen Parrish, Emory Parnell, Mary Treen, Nydia Westman
This entertaining comedy is centered on the inane premise that a man could be arrested for kissing the bride during her wedding festivities.
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This Is the Night 1932 N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Frank Tuttle
Cast: Lili Damita, Roland Young, Charles Ruggles, Thelma Todd, Cary Grant, Irving Bacon, Claire Dodd, Davison Clark, Gino Corrado, Rolfe Sedan
In this feature film debut of Cary Grant, romantic intrigue and pretensions go awry. A bachelor (Roland Young) tries to lure the husband (Cary Grant) of the woman he is attracted to into the arms of another.
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 Topper 1937 N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Comedy / Fantasy / Romance
Director: Norman Z. McLeod
Cast: Cary Grant, Roland Young, Constance Bennett, Billie Burke, Alan Mowbray, Eugene Pallette, Arthur Lake, Hedda Hopper, Virginia Sale, J. Farrell MacDonald, Theodore von Eltz, Elaine Shepard, Doodles Weaver, Si Jenks, Irving Bacon
George and Marion Kerby (Cary Grant and Constance Bennett) die in a car crash, but they must perform a good deed before they can go to Heaven. Cosmo Topper (Roland Young) is the stuffy president of the bank in which George and Marion are stockholders, and they decide that he should be the one who will receive their services. The good deed is to show Topper how to loosen up and enjoy life–but the deed will not come without problems from Topper's wife Clara (Billie Burke) and his butler (Alan Mowbray). Young received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
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Topper Returns 1941 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Comedy / Fantasy / Mystery / Romance
Director: Roy Del Ruth
Cast: Joan Blondell, Roland Young, Carole Landis, Billie Burke, Dennis O'Keefe, Patsy Kelly, H.B. Warner, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, George Zucco, Donald MacBride, Trevor Bardette, Rafaela Ottiano, George Lloyd, Duke York, Eddy Chandler
Cosmo Topper (Roland Young) is back in this final episode of the series. The fun-loving ghost of Gail Richards (Joan Blondell) seeks the aid of Cosmo in finding her killer before the killer finds her friend who was the intended victim. The search ends up in a dark, old house with all the creepy attributes. Some very funny scenes. A Special Effects Academy Award nomination was received.
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Topper Takes a Trip 1938 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Norman Z. McLeod
Cast: Constance Bennett, Roland Young, Billie Burke, Alan Mowbray, Verree Teasdale, Franklin Pangborn, Alexander D'Arcy, Paul Hurst, Spencer Charters, Irving Pichel, Armand Kaliz, Eddie Conrad, Leon Belasco, Georges Revanent, Wade Boteler
This film picks up where the original "Topper" left off (without Cary Grant, except in a flashback). Cosmo Topper's (Roland Young) wife Clara (Billie Burke) heads to France, intending to divorce Cosmo, thinking that he had an affair with Marion Kerby (Constance Bennett), who was, in reality, a ghost trying to do a good deed. Cosmo chases after Clara, hoping to change her mind, and Marion shows up with her ghost dog to help him out. Excellent special effects, especially for the 1930s.
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The Unholy Night 1929 N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Lionel Barrymore
Cast: Ernest Torrence, Roland Young, Dorothy Sebastian, Boris Karloff, Natalie Moorhead, Sidney Jarvis, Polly Moran, Sojin
Veterans of a British regiment, who had served in India, are being systematically murdered. Now, they try to figure out who is the murderer before more killings occur.
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You Gotta Stay Happy 1948 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: H.C. Potter
Cast: Joan Fontaine, James Stewart, Eddie Albert, Roland Young, Willard Parker, Percy Kilbride, Porter Hall, Halliwell Hobbes, Mary Forbes, Stanley Prager
A millionaire (Joan Fontaine) forsakes her bridegroom in search of greener pastures with Marvin Payne (James Stewart).
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The Young in Heart 1938 N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Richard Wallace
Cast: Janet Gaynor, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Paulette Goddard, Roland Young, Billie Burke, Richard Carlson, Minnie Dupree, Lya Lys, Henry Stephenson, Eily Malyon
An elderly woman, Miss Fortune (Minnie Dupree), convinces a family of con artists to mend their ways.
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| 1. And Then There Were None (1945)
2. The Bishop Murder Case (1930)
3. Call It a Day (1937)
4. David Copperfield (1935)
5. Dulcy (1940)
6. The Flame of New Orleans (1941)
7. The Great Lover (1949)
8. Here Is My Heart (1934)
9. His Double Life (1933)
10. Irene (1940)
11. King Solomon's Mines (1937)
12. The Lady Has Plans (1942)
13. One Hour with You (1932)
14. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
15. Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)
16. St. Benny the Dip (1951)
aka: Escape If You Can
17. Standing Room Only (1944)
18. They All Kissed the Bride (1942)
19. This Is the Night (1932)
20. Topper (1937)
21. Topper Returns (1941)
22. Topper Takes a Trip (1938)
23. The Unholy Night (1929)
24. You Gotta Stay Happy (1948)
25. The Young in Heart (1938)
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