Anthony Adverse 1936  N/R, 136 min.
Genre: Drama / Adventure / Romance
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: Fredric March, Olivia de Havilland, Edmund Gwenn, Claude Rains, Anita Louise, Gale Sondergaard, Donald Woods, Akim Tamiroff, J. Carrol Naish, Louis Hayward, Steffi Duna, Ralph Morgan, Fritz Leiber, Luis Alberni, Billy Mauch
When Doug Redfern (Bob Steele) is wrongfully accused of a bank robbery by the dastardly Harvey (Karl Hackett), Doug is convicted and then paroled. Now Doug sets out to clear his name and gets help from government agent Lucky Gosden (Horace Murphy) and Joan Blackman (Kathleen Eliot). Lots of action.
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Hitler--Beast of Berlin 1939  N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Beasts of Berlin
Hitler: Beast of Berlin
Director: Sam Newfield
Cast: Roland Drew, Steffi Duna, Greta Granstedt, Alan Ladd, Lucien Prival, Vernon Dent, John Ellis, George Rosener, Bodil Rosing, Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, Willy Kaufman, Hans Joby, Frederick Giermann, Crane Whitley
World War I veteran Hans Memling (Roland Drew) secretly opposes the Nazis and distributes foreign radio broadcasts through Germany. Memling is captured and, with his cohorts, is sent to a concentration camp. He escapes but is determined to help rebuild the anti-Nazi organization. This film was made before the U.S. entered World War II and was banned at first but rereleased later as "Beasts of Berlin."
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Law of the Pampas 1939  N/R, 74 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Nate Watt
Cast: William Boyd, Steffi Duna, Russell Hayden, Sidney Toler, Glenn Strange, Sidney Blackmer, Pedro de Cordoba, Eddie Dean, William Duncan, Martin Garralaga
On a cattle drive to South America, Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) has problems with villains as well as his own foreman.
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Waterloo Bridge 1940  N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: Vivien Leigh, Robert Taylor, Lucile Watson, Virginia Field, C. Aubrey Smith, Janet Shaw, Leo G. Carroll, Maria Ouspenskaya, Leonard Mudie, Halliwell Hobbes, Janet Waldo, Steffi Duna, Virginia Carroll, Eleanor Stewart, Wyndham Standing
Set amidst the bombings of London during World War II, this is the love story of ballerina Myra (Vivien Leigh) and soldier Roy Cronin (Robert Taylor). They fall in love instantly and make plans to marry. When Roy leaves for the battlefront, Myra misses a dance recital in order to bid him farewell and loses her job. Soon, the newspaper reports that Roy has been killed, and Myra turns to prostitution to support herself. Roy wasn't killed, but when he returns to Myra a tragic end to their romance lies ahead.
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Way Down South 1939 N/R, 62 min.
Genre: Musical / Drama
Director: Bernard Vorhaus
Cast: Bobby Breen, Alan Mowbray, Ralph Morgan, Clarence Muse, Steffi Duna, Sally Blane, Edwin Maxwell, Charles Middleton, Robert Greig, Jack Carr, Marguerite Whitten, Lillian Yarbo
Set in New Orleans during the 1850s, this story involves the efforts of a young orphan, Tim Reed (Bobby Breen), to save his family's plantation and prevent the slaves from being sold by the executor of the estate, Martin Dill (Edwin Maxwell).
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| 1. Anthony Adverse (1936)
2. Hitler--Beast of Berlin (1939)
aka: Beasts of Berlin
aka: Hitler: Beast of Berlin
3. Law of the Pampas (1939)
4. Waterloo Bridge (1940)
5. Way Down South (1939)
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