Algiers 1938  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Cromwell
Cast: Charles Boyer, Sigrid Gurie, Hedy Lamarr, Joseph Calleia, Alan Hale, Gene Lockhart, Walter Kingsford, Paul Harvey, Johnny Downs, Robert Greig
Suave French jewel thief Pepe le Moko (Charles Boyer) is safe within the Casbah confines where he plays cat-and-mouse games with Inspector Slimane (Joseph Calleia). But when he meets the beautiful Gaby (Hedy Lamarr), her very presence represents the world at large that he can no longer enter, and Inspector Slimane just bides his time. Charles Boyer was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar and Gene Lockhart was nominated for Best Supporting Actor.
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Calling Dr. Kildare 1939  N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Harold S. Bucquet
Cast: Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day, Nat Pendleton, Lana Turner, Samuel S. Hinds, Lynne Carver, Emma Dunn, Walter Kingsford, Alma Kruger
In this second episode of the series, Dr. Kildare (Lew Ayres) is sent to a clinic by his gruff mentor, Dr. Gillespie (Lionel Barrymore). Kildare gets in trouble when he removes a bullet from a suspected murderer at the request of the patient's beautiful sister (Lana Turner). But Dr. Kildare believes the man is innocent and sets out to prove it.
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Carefree 1938 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Mark Sandrich
Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Ralph Bellamy, Luella Gear, Jack Carson, Clarence Kolb, Franklin Pangborn, Walter Kingsford, Hattie McDaniel, Tom Tully
Psychiatrist Dr. Tony Flagg (Fred Astaire) falls in love with his patient, Amanda Cooper (Ginger Rogers). There is just one problem: Amanda is the fiancee of Flagg's friend, Stephen Arden (Ralph Bellamy).
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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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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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Double or Nothing 1937 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Theodore Reed
Cast: Bing Crosby, Martha Raye, Andy Devine, Mary Carlisle, William Frawley, Fay Holden, Benny Baker, Samuel S. Hinds, William Henry, Walter Kingsford
With a million dollars at stake, Lefty Boylan (Bing Crosby), Liza Lou Lane (Martha Raye), Half-Pint (Andy Devine), and Peterson (William Frawley) all compete for the prize in this zany musical/ comedy.
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Dr. Kildare Goes Home 1940  N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Harold S. Bucquet
Cast: Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day, Samuel S. Hinds, Gene Lockhart, John Shelton, Nat Pendleton, Emma Dunn, Alma Kruger, Walter Kingsford
Dr. Kildare (Lew Ayres) completes his internship at Blair General and must return home to help his father who is overworked due to other doctors having moved out of his small town. Kildare has what he considers to be a great idea: open a clinic using underutilized doctors from Blair. Not all the townsfolk agree with the plan.
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Dr. Kildare's Crisis 1940 N/R, 74 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Harold S. Bucquet
Cast: Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day, Robert Young, Emma Dunn, Nat Pendleton, Walter Kingsford, Alma Kruger, Bobs Watson, Nell Craig
Dr. Kildare's (Lew Ayres) fiancee, nurse Mary Lamont (Laraine Day), has a problem when her brother comes for a visit. His behavior is strange, and Kildare thinks it may be due to epilepsy. If it is, then the marriage may be in jeopardy. Kildare tries to get to the real problem, and the grumpy Dr. Gillespie (Lionel Barrymore) comes up with the diagnosis–an injury from an accident. A simple operation fixes the problem, and the wedding plans continue.
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Dr. Kildare's Strange Case 1940 N/R, 76 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Harold S. Bucquet
Cast: Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day, Shepperd Strudwick, Samuel S. Hinds, Emma Dunn, Nat Pendleton, Walter Kingsford, Alma Kruger, John Eldredge
In this episode of Dr. Kildare (Lew Ayres) and his crusty mentor Dr. Gillespie (Lionel Barrymore), brain surgeon Gregory Lane (Sheppard Strudwick) comes under fire for problems with patients after surgery. Dr. Lane also vies for the attention of Dr. Kildares's girlfriend (Laraine Day). Dr. Kildare gets to the bottom of the problem in an episode that hit it big in 1940 for its graphic depiction of hospital procedures.
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Dr. Kildare's Victory 1941 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Cast: Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Anne Ayars, Robert Sterling, Jean Rogers, Alma Kruger, Walter Kingsford, Nell Craig, Edward Gargan, Marie Blake
Two hospitals are feuding, which results in an intern being fired for bringing a patient to the wrong hospital. Dr. Kildare (Lew Ayres) successfully performs surgery on the beautiful patient, Edith (Ann Ayres). She then proceeds to fall in love with Kildare, but he still grieves for his fiancee, who died (in the previous episode). With several members of the cast of the earlier films missing, this was the appropriate time to end the series.
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Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day 1941 N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Mary Names the Day
Director: Harold S. Bucquet
Cast: Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day, Red Skelton, Alma Kruger, Fay Holden, Samuel S. Hinds, Nils Asther, Walter Kingsford, Emma Dunn
The wedding day finally arrives for Dr. Kildare (Lew Ayres) and nurse Mary Lamont (Laraine Day). But shortly after the ceremony, Mary is killed by a speeding truck. Now it is up to crusty Dr. Gillespie (Lionel Barrymore) to bring Kildare back from his grief to continue helping others. Laraine Day was on the way up and the studio (MGM) decided to end her role on the Kildare films.
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Fingers at the Window 1942 N/R, 79 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Charles Lederer
Cast: Lew Ayres, Laraine Day, Basil Rathbone, Walter Kingsford, Miles Mander, Charles D. Brown, Cliff Clark, James Flavin, William Tannen, Russell Hicks
Oliver Duffy (Lew Ayres) and his girlfriend, Edwina Brown (Laraine Day), sleuth out an axe-murderer who tried to kill Edwina.
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Flight for Freedom 1943 N/R, 101 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Lothar Mendes
Cast: Rosalind Russell, Fred MacMurray, Herbert Marshall, Eduardo Ciannelli, Walter Kingsford, Hugh Beaumont, Tom Dugan, Matt McHugh, Mary Treen, Theodore von Eltz
A woman pilot, Tonie Carter (Rosalind Russell), is romanced by Randy Britton (Fred MacMurray) before she sets off on a flight to look for Japanese strongholds in the Pacific.
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Frankie and Johnnie 1936  N/R, 66 min.
Genre: Drama / Musical
Director: John H. Auer, Chester Erskine
Cast: Helen Morgan, Chester Morris, Lilyan Tashman, Florence Reed, Walter Kingsford, Cora Witherspoon, William Harrigan, John Larkin
Based on the title song, this is the story of the romance and marriage of cat-house singer Frankie (Helen Morgan) and country boy Johnnie (Chester Morgan). Shortly after the marriage, Johnnie begins fooling around with Nellie Bly (Lilyan Tashman)–an affair that ends in Johnnie's murder.
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Hi Diddle Diddle 1943 N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Try and Find It
Diamonds and Crime
Director: Andrew L. Stone
Cast: Adolphe Menjou, Martha Scott, Pola Negri, Dennis O'Keefe, Billie Burke, Walter Kingsford, Barton Hepburn, Georges Metaxa, Eddie Marr, Paul Porcasi, Bert Roach, June Havoc, Chick Chandler, Richard Hageman, Ellen Lowe
The honeymoon of newlyweds Janie (Martha Scott) and Sonny (Dennis O'Keefe) is interrupted when the bride's mother (Billie Burke) learns that she has been swindled by a suitor (Barton Hepburn) she has turned down. To the rescue comes the groom's father (Adolphe Menjou) who steps in to save the day.
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If I Were King 1938 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Frank Lloyd
Cast: Ronald Colman, Basil Rathbone, Frances Dee, Ellen Drew, Henry Wilcoxon, Sidney Toler, Paul Harvey, Heather Thatcher, Stanley Ridges, Walter Kingsford
Poet Francois Villon (Ronald Colman) and Louis XI (Basil Rathbone) match wits as Louis grants Villon one week as a grand constable before enacting his sentence of death.
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The Invisible Ray 1936 N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Lambert Hillyer
Cast: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Frances Drake, Frank Lawton, Beulah Bondi, Walter Kingsford, Nydia Westman, Georges Renavent, Frank Reicher, Paul Weigel
After being exposed to a radioactive meteor containing Radium X, research scientist Dr. Janos Rukh (Boris Karloff) discovers that his touch is enough to kill. With this knowledge, his intended victims are his wife and her lover.
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Kitty Foyle 1940  N/R, 108 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Sam Wood
Cast: Ginger Rogers, Dennis Morgan, James Craig, Eduardo Ciannelli, Gladys Cooper, Ernest Cossart, Odette Myrtil, Mary Treen, K.T. Stevens, Walter Kingsford
For her role as Kitty Foyle, Ginger Rogers won the Oscar for Best Actress. This is the story of Kitty's intimidation by the snobby, social class of her husband (Dennis Morgan) and her eventual happiness with another man (James Craig). The film also received four nominations, including Best Picture and Director.
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The Lone Wolf in Paris 1938 N/R, 67 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Albert S. Rogell
Cast: Francis Lederer, Frances Drake, Walter Kingsford, Leona Maricle, Olaf Hytten, Albert Dekker, Bess Flowers, Eddie Fetherston, Dick Curtis
Francis Lederer takes on the role of the jewel-thief-turned-sleuth in this second of the series, three years after the first entry. Weaker that the original, the Lone Wolf helps a Princess in retrieving the crown jewels from the dastardly Grand Duke.
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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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My Favorite Blonde 1942 N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Cast: Bob Hope, Madeleine Carroll, Gale Sondergaard, George Zucco, Victor Varconi, Lionel Royce, Walter Kingsford, Edward Gargan, Charles Cane, Bing Crosby, Otto Reichow, Esther Howard, James Burke, Dooley Wilson, Milton Parsons
Vaudeville entertainer Larry Haines (Bob Hope) performs on the stage with his trained penguin. While on a train bound for Los Angeles, Larry meets Karen (Madeleine Carroll) who is a spy. She talks Larry into helping her escape from Nazi agents, and he agrees. Now both of them are on the lam trying to escape their pursuers while the penguin, unbeknownst to Larry, is used by Karen to carry secret documents. Watch for Bing Crosby in his cameo appearance as the man giving Larry and Karen directions.
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My Forbidden Past 1951 N/R, 81 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Stevenson
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Ava Gardner, Melvyn Douglas, Lucile Watson, Will Wright, Janis Carter, Gordon Oliver, Basil Ruysdael, Clarence Muse, Walter Kingsford
This movie, set in New Orleans, is about a scheming woman (Ava Gardner) who has her eyes set on a young physician (Robert Mitchum), and she will stop at nothing to gain his attentions.
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 Naughty Marietta 1935 N/R, 106 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Cast: Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Frank Morgan, Elsa Lanchester, Douglass Dumbrille, Joseph Cawthorn, Cecilia Parker, Walter Kingsford, Akim Tamiroff, Edward Brophy
Victor Herbert's 1910 operetta is brought to the screen and includes the first-time pairing of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy. The plot involves a French princess escaping an arranged marriage and fleeing to New Orleans where she meets and falls in love with a dashing mercenary.
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The People vs. Dr. Kildare 1941 N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: My Life Is Yours
Director: Harold S. Bucquet
Cast: Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day, Bonita Granville, Alma Kruger, Red Skelton, Paul Stanton, Diana Lewis, Walter Kingsford, Nell Craig
After saving a skater's life by performing surgery, Dr. Kildare (Lew Ayres) is sued for malpractice because the skater's leg is paralyzed. Thanks (again) to Dr. Gillespie (Lionel Barrymore), the true cause of the paralysis is diagnosed, and a second surgery is successful in restoring the leg to as-good-as-new status.
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Say It in French 1938 N/R, 67 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Andrew L. Stone
Cast: Ray Milland, Olympe Bradna, Irene Hervey, Janet Beecher, Mary Carlisle, Holmes Herbert, Walter Kingsford, William Collier Sr., Billy Lee, Erik Rhodes, G.P. Huntley
After a whirlwind courtship in France, golf pro Richard Carrington Jr. (Ray Milland) marries Julie (Olympe Bradna) but finds problems with his family when he returns home to the United States.
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The Secret of Dr. Kildare 1939 N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Harold S. Bucquet
Cast: Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Lionel Atwill, Helen Gilbert, Nat Pendleton, Laraine Day, Sara Haden, Samuel S. Hinds, Emma Dunn, Walter Kingsford
Dr. Kildare (Lew Ayres) has his hands full in this, the third, episode in the series. Dr. Gillespie (Lionel Barrymore) collapses from overwork (and cancer, which is cured), and Kildare comes to the rescue. At the same time, he cures a woman who is blind.
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 Speed 1936 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Action / Drama
Director: Edwin L. Marin
Cast: James Stewart, Wendy Barrie, Una Merkel, Weldon Heyburn, Ralph Morgan, Patricia Wilder, Robert Livingston, Ted Healy, Walter Kingsford, Charles Trowbridge, William Tannen, Claudelle Kaye, George Chandler, Jack Clifford, Don Brodie
Terry Martin (James Stewart) and his crew at an auto plant have invented a new carburetor that they want to use in the upcoming Indianapolis 500 race. The plant owner's daughter Jane (Wendy Barrie) suggests that Terry let her engineer friend Frank (Weldon Heyburn) help in perfecting the carburetor. Frank steps in, but problems arise between Terry and Frank because they both are falling for Jane. When the carburetor is tested, it turns out to be a disaster, and the car crashes nearly killing the driver, Gadget (Ted Healy) and Terry. Frank saves them, and, together, they work to perfect the carburetor. They succeed and enter the car in the big race where the new carburetor earns the respect of all, and Terry ends up with Jane.
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Tarzan's Peril 1951 N/R, 79 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Byron Haskin
Cast: Lex Barker, Virginia Huston, George Macready, Douglas Fowley, Dorothy Dandridge, Alan Napier, Edward Ashley, Walter Kingsford, Glenn Anders, Frederick O'Neal
Tarzan (Lex Barker) comes to the rescue when gunrunners supply weapons and stir up trouble between warring tribes.
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Trouble for Two 1936 N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Mystery
aka: The Suicide Club
Director: J. Walter Ruben
Cast: Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Frank Morgan, Reginald Owen, Louis Hayward, E.E. Clive, Walter Kingsford, Ivan F. Simpson, Robert Greig, Pedro de Cordoba
Taken from Robert Louis Stevenson's "Suicide Club" stories, this lighthearted mystery promises much, but falls short in the end. Prince Florizel (Robert Montgomery) is heir to the throne of Karovia. He joins a mysterious Suicide Club and must survive a series of lethal traps to gain the crown and regain his princess (Rosalind Russell).
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Two Dollar Bettor 1951 N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Beginner's Luck
Director: Edward L. Cahn
Cast: John Litel, Marie Windsor, Steve Brodie, Barbara Logan, Robert E. Sherwood, Barbara Bestar, Walter Kingsford, Don Shelton, Kay Lavelle, Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer, Isabel Randolph, Ralph Reed
Addicted gambler John Hewitt (John Litel) is conned by Rick and Mary (Steve Brodie and Marie Windsor), embezzles funds, and is murdered. But, in a twist of fate, he is saved from disgrace.
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Unholy Partners 1941 N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Edward Arnold, Marsha Hunt, Don Beddoe, William T. Orr, Charles Dingle, Frank Faylen, Jay Novello, Laraine Day, Walter Kingsford
Edward G. Robinson plays a struggling editor of a scandal magazine who needs financial support and accepts money (with strings attached) from mob boss Merrill Lambert (Edward Arnold).
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The Velvet Touch 1948 N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: John Gage
Cast: Rosalind Russell, Leo Genn, Claire Trevor, Sydney Greenstreet, Leon Ames, Frank McHugh, Walter Kingsford, Lex Barker, Irving Bacon, Dan Tobin
Actress Valerie Stanton (Rosalind Russell) commits the perfect crime (or did she?) as Captain Danbury (Sydney Greenstreet) tries to uncover the truth.
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Walking My Baby Back Home 1953 N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Cast: Donald O'Connor, Janet Leigh, Buddy Hackett, Lori Nelson, Scatman Crothers, Kathleen Lockhart, George Cleveland, John Hubbard, Walter Kingsford, Sidney Miller
Three ex-GIs form a Dixieland jazz band in this musical comedy that is saved by Buddy Hackett antics.
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Young Dr. Kildare 1938 N/R, 81 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Harold S. Bucquet
Cast: Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Lynne Carver, Nat Pendleton, Jo Ann Sayers, Samuel S. Hinds, Emma Dunn, Walter Kingsford, Monty Woolley, Pierre Watkin, Truman Bradley, Nella Walker
This is the first in a series of nine Dr. Kildare movies. All films star Lew Ayres as the title character and Lionel Barrymore as Dr. Gillespie, his mentor. The setting is Blair General Hospital. In this episode, Dr. Kildare, upon graduation, decides not to join his father's practice in a small town; rather, he chooses a large hospital in NYC. He gets in trouble right away when he is blamed for the death of an important politician. The wheel-chair-bound Dr. Gillespie helps prove Kildare's innocence and, by story's end, becomes his mentor.
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| 1. Algiers (1938)
2. Calling Dr. Kildare (1939)
3. Carefree (1938)
4. The Devil and Miss Jones (1941)
5. A Dispatch from Reuters (1940)
6. Double or Nothing (1937)
7. Dr. Kildare Goes Home (1940)
8. Dr. Kildare's Crisis (1940)
9. Dr. Kildare's Strange Case (1940)
10. Dr. Kildare's Victory (1941)
11. Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day (1941)
aka: Mary Names the Day
12. Fingers at the Window (1942)
13. Flight for Freedom (1943)
14. Frankie and Johnnie (1936)
15. Hi Diddle Diddle (1943)
aka: Try and Find It
aka: Diamonds and Crime
16. If I Were King (1938)
17. The Invisible Ray (1936)
18. Kitty Foyle (1940)
19. The Lone Wolf in Paris (1938)
20. The Man in the Iron Mask (1939)
21. My Favorite Blonde (1942)
22. My Forbidden Past (1951)
23. Naughty Marietta (1935)
24. The People vs. Dr. Kildare (1941)
aka: My Life Is Yours
25. Say It in French (1938)
26. The Secret of Dr. Kildare (1939)
27. Speed (1936)
28. Tarzan's Peril (1951)
29. Trouble for Two (1936)
aka: The Suicide Club
30. Two Dollar Bettor (1951)
aka: Beginner's Luck
31. Unholy Partners (1941)
32. The Velvet Touch (1948)
33. Walking My Baby Back Home (1953)
34. Young Dr. Kildare (1938)
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