Released Date:
1935-01-25
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
80 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (337 Reviews)
Director:
Wesley RugglesClaude Binyon (screenplay)
Jack Kirkland (suggested by a story by)
Melville Baker (suggested by a story by)
New York stenographer Marilyn David meets Englishman Charles Gray and they fall in love. But Charles leaves town and Marilyn discovers he is a duke's son and already engaged. Marilyn confides in her platonic friend, reporter Peter Dawes, who publicizes her as the 'No Girl' who refused nobility. So Marilyn cashes in on her unwelcome notoriety by becoming a cafe entertainer; in an unexpected way, she succeeds. But can she decide between her two loves?
Released Date:
1936-12-20
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
84 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (776 Reviews)
Director:
Henry KosterAdele Comandini (original story)
Adele Comandini (screen play)
The three Craig sisters, in Switzerland with their ten-years-divorced mother, run away to New York to prevent their father from marrying calculating socialite Donna Lyons. The overpowering vivacity of the Smart Girls (nominal ages 14-20) sweeps all before it, but a romantic complication between middle sister Kay and their accidental ally, Lord Michael Stuart, threatens shipwreck to their schemes...
Released Date:
1940-11-08
Languages:
English, French, German, Spanish
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
110 min
Rated:
PASSED
IMDB Ratings:
(518 Reviews)
Director:
Mitchell LeisenCharles Brackett (screen play)
Billy Wilder (screen play)
Jacques Thèry (adaptation)
Benjamin Glazer (original story)
Hans Szèkely (original story)
In 1939, American Tom Martin, who fought in the Spanish Civil War, awaits execution at the hands of the Fascist victors when reporter Augusta 'Gusto' Nash, for a scoop, aids him in an audacious escape. Of course, Tom tries to romance Gusto; but though she likes him, her career comes first, and Tom himself prefers freedom-fighting to settling down. Comedy becomes drama as their mixed feelings lead them on a circuitous path through the deepening chaos and catastrophe of the early days of World War II.
Released Date:
1942-12-24
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
100 min
Rated:
PASSED
IMDB Ratings:
7.6 (3937 Reviews)
Director:
Billy WilderCharles Brackett
Billy Wilder
Edward Childs Carpenter (suggested by a play by)
Fanny Kilbourne (from a story by)
New York working girl Susan Applegate is desperate to go home to Iowa but does not have the railway fare so she disguises herself as a child to ride half fare. Enroute she meets Philip Kirby, an Army major teaching at a military school.
Released Date:
1942-06-04
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
123 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (2008 Reviews)
Director:
Cecil B. DeMilleAlan Le May (screenplay)
Charles Bennett (screenplay)
Jesse Lasky Jr. (screenplay)
Thelma Strabel (based on a Saturday Evening Post story by)
Clipper ships taking the shortest route between the Mississippi and the Atlantic often end up on the shoals of Key West in the 1840s. Salvaging the ships' cargos has become a lucrative business for two companies -- one headed by a feisty young woman. Then she falls in love with the captain of a wrecked ship while he recuperates at her home. She travels to Charleston and is charming to the man most likely to be head of the captain's company, thinking she will be able to get the captain the position he wants on the company's first steam ship.
Released Date:
1945-11-16
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
101 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
(22914 Reviews)
Director:
Billy WilderGenres:
DramaCharles R. Jackson (from the novel by)
Charles Brackett (screen play)
Billy Wilder (screen play)
Don Birnam, long-time alcoholic, has been "on the wagon" for ten days and seems to be over the worst; but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother Wick and girlfriend Helen, he begins a four-day bender. In flashbacks we see past events, all gone wrong because of the bottle. But this bout looks like being his last...one way or the other.
Released Date:
1948-04-09
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
95 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
7.7 (5056 Reviews)
Director:
John FarrowJonathan Latimer (screenplay)
Kenneth Fearing (novel)
When powerful publishing tycoon Earl Janouth commits an act of murder at the height of passion, he cleverly begins to cover his tracks and frame an innocent man, whose identity he doesn't know, but who just happen to have contact with the murder victim. That man is a close associate on his magazine whom he enlists to trap this "killer" George Stroud. It's up to George to continue to "help" Janouth, to elude the police and to find proof of his innocence and Janouth's guilt.
Released Date:
1949-06-01
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
87 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
(1278 Reviews)
Director:
Lloyd BaconValentine Davies (screen play)
Shirley W. Smith (based on a story by)
Valentine Davies (based on a story by)
A college professor is working on a long term experiment when a baseball comes through the window destroying all his glassware. The resultant fluid causes the baseball to be repelled by wood. Suddenly he realizes the possibilities and takes a leave of absence to go to St. Louis to pitch in the big leagues where he becomes a star and propels the team to a World Series appearance.
Released Date:
1952-10-15
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
85 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (613 Reviews)
Director:
Russell RouseClarence Greene (written for the screen by)
Russell Rouse (written for the screen by)
Interesting, but sometimes slow film about a nuclear physicist working in Washington DC who also spies for some unnamed foreign country. It does have a rather funny, patriotic/propagandist ending. It's most interesting aspect is that it is filmed entirely without dialogue.
Released Date:
1954-05-29
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
105 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
8.2 (93546 Reviews)
Director:
Alfred HitchcockFrederick Knott (screen play)
Frederick Knott (adapted from his play)
In London, wealthy Margot Mary Wendice had a brief love affair with the American writer Mark Halliday while her husband and professional tennis player Tony Wendice was on a tennis tour. Tony quits playing to dedicate to his wife and finds a regular job. She decides to give him a second chance for their marriage. When Mark arrives from America to visit the couple, Margot tells him that she had destroyed all his letters but one that was stolen. Subsequently she was blackmailed, but she had never retrieved the stolen letter. Tony arrives home, claims that he needs to work and asks Margot to go with Mark to the theater. Meanwhile Tony calls Captain Lesgate (aka Charles Alexander Swann who studied with him at college) and blackmails him to murder his wife, so that he can inherit her fortune. But there is no perfect crime, and things do not work as planned.
Released Date:
1962-03-07
Languages:
English, French
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
81 min
Rated:
UNRATED
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (2251 Reviews)
Director:
Roger CormanCharles Beaumont (screenplay)
Ray Russell (screenplay)
Edgar Allan Poe (story)
Emily Gault arrives at the Carrell mansion determined to rekindle an old relationship with Guy Carrell, despite the disapproval of his sister, Kate. Guy overcomes his all-consuming fear of being buried alive long enough to marry Emily but soon becomes obsessed again, building a crypt designed to guarantee that he will not fall prey to his most dreaded nightmare. Trying to prove that he has been cured of his phobia, he opens his father's tomb and is shocked into a catatonic state. His worst fears are realized as he is lowered into a grave and covered over, apparently never to learn that the treachery of someone very dear to him was directly responsible for his predicament.
Released Date:
1970-12-16
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
99 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (21515 Reviews)
Director:
Arthur HillerHarvard Law student Oliver Barrett IV and music student Jennifer Cavilleri share a chemistry they cannot deny - and a love they cannot ignore. Despite their opposite backgrounds, the young couple put their hearts on the line for each other. When they marry, Oliver's wealthy father threatens to disown him. Jenny tries to reconcile the Barrett men, but to no avail. Oliver and Jenny continue to build their life together. Relying only on each other, they believe love can fix anything. But fate has other plans. Soon, what began as a brutally honest friendship becomes the love story of their lives.
Released Date:
1973-05-01
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
93 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
(232 Reviews)
Director:
Georg FenadyJameson Brewer (screenplay)
Andrew J. Fenady (story)
The murder of a Wax Museum proprietor and some other strange goings-on in the vicinity prompt a police investigator to determine whether the killer is one of the principles who wants to own the museum or if Jack the Ripper has returned to killing after a hiatus of ten years.
Released Date:
1974-10-16
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK
Runtime:
120 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
5.7 (1254 Reviews)
Director:
Peter R. HuntWilbur Smith (screenplay)
Stanley Price (screenplay)
Wilbur Smith (novel)
Rod Slater is the newly appointed general manager of the Sonderditch gold mine, but he stumbles across an ingenious plot to flood the mine, by drilling into an underground lake, so the unscrupulous owners to make a killing in the international gold market.
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