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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Leo Frank Forbstein (October 16, 1892 – March 16, 1948) was an American film musical director and orchestra conductor who worked on more than 550 projects during a twenty-year period. Forbstein was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He was attracted to music as a child, learning the violin at the age of four. As a conductor at the Royal Theater in St. Joseph, he synchronized the orchestra with the action in silent films; he then became principal conductor at the Newman Theatre in Kansas City, where the organist was future Warner Bros. colleague Carl W. Stalling. In the mid-1920s, Forbstein relocated to Hollywood to head the symphony orchestra at Grauman's Egyptian Theatre. He signed with Warner Bros. as one of the directors of its Vitaphone Orchestra, alongside Erno Rapee (then Warners' general music director), Louis Silvers, and David Mendoza; Forbstein's first screen credit was The Squall in 1929. In 1931, Warners dismissed Rapee and Mendoza in a consolidation and economy move and Forbstein became the company's general music director. In 1936, Forbstein and composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold were write-in candidates for the Oscar for Best Music, Score for their work on Captain Blood. The following year, he was nominated officially for The Charge of the Light Brigade and Anthony Adverse, winning for the latter. He was nominated again for The Life of Emile Zola in 1938. Forbstein was married to the former Bess Gallas from October 16, 1914 until his death from a heart attack in Los Angeles, California. They had one daughter, Harriett (born 1915), who married assistant director Melvin Dellar. Leo Forbstein was entombed in the Corridor of Immortality at Home of Peace Cemetery.
Born
October 16, 1892
Died
February 12, 1948 (age 55)
Birthplace
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Filmography
309 films


The Big Punch
1948 · 1h 20m
country: United States
Gangsters frame a boxer for murder when he refuses to throw a fight.


Romance on the High Seas
1948 · 1h 39m
country: United States
Georgia Garrett is sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as herself while she secretly stays home to catch her husband cheating. Meanwhile equally suspicious husband Michael Kent has sent a private eye on the same cruise to catch his wife cheating. Love and confusion ensues along with plenty of musical numbers.


Silver River
1948 · 1h 50m
country: United States
Unjustly booted out of the cavalry, Mike McComb strikes out for Nevada, and deciding never to be used again, ruthlessly works his way up to becoming one of the most powerful silver magnates in the west. His empire begins to fall apart as the other mining combines rise against him and his stubbornness loses him the support of his wife and old friends.


Winter Meeting
1948 · 1h 44m
country: United States
A repressed poetess and an embittered war hero help each other cope with their problems.


Rope
1948 · 1h 21m
country: United States
Two young men attempt to prove they committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party for the family of a classmate they just strangled to death.


The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1948 · 2h 6m
country: United States
Two jobless Americans convince a prospector to travel to the mountains of Mexico with them in search of gold. But the hostile wilderness, local bandits, and greed all get in the way of their journey.


Escape Me Never
1947 · 1h 44m
country: United States
A penniless composer marries a young widow with a baby—even though he is in love with his brother's fiancée.


The Unsuspected
1947 · 1h 43m
country: United States
The secretary of an affably suave radio mystery host mysteriously commits suicide after his wealthy young niece disappears.


Dark Passage
1947 · 1h 46m
country: United States
A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence.


Cry Wolf
1947 · 1h 23m
country: United States
A woman uncovers deadly secrets when she visits her late husband's family.


Deep Valley
1947 · 1h 44m
country: United States
A shy California farm girl falls head-over-heels in love with Barry Burnett, a fugitive from a chain gang building a road through the wilderness.


The Unfaithful
1947 · 1h 49m
country: United States
Christine Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer that it was an act of self-defense. It's later revealed that he was actually her lover and she had posed for an incriminating statue he created.


Possessed
1947 · 1h 48m
country: United States
After being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor the complex story of how she wound up there.


Love and Learn
1947 · 1h 23m
country: United States
A wealthy socialite bored with her life meets and falls in love with a struggling songwriter on the verge of leaving New York and quitting the music business.


Stallion Road
1947 · 1h 37m
country: United States
A veterinarian and a novelist compete for the heart of a lady rancher.


Pursued
1947 · 1h 41m
country: United States
A boy haunted by nightmares about the night his entire family was murdered is brought up by a neighboring family in the 1880s. He falls for his lovely adoptive sister but his nasty adoptive brother and mysterious uncle want him dead.


The Two Mrs. Carrolls
1947 · 1h 39m
country: United States
Struggling artist Geoffrey Carroll meets Sally while on holiday in the country. A romance develops, but he doesn't tell her he's already married. Suffering from mental illness, Geoffrey returns home where he paints an impression of his wife as the angel of death and then promptly poisons her. He marries Sally but after a while he finds a strange urge to paint her as the angel of death too and history seems about to repeat itself.


Nora Prentiss
1947 · 1h 51m
country: United States
Quiet, organised Dr. Talbot meets nightclub singer Nora Prentiss when she is slightly hurt in a street accident. Despite her misgivings, they become heavily involved, and Talbot finds himself faced with the choice of leaving Nora or divorcing his wife. When a patient expires in his office, a third option seems to present itself.


Humoresque
1947 · 2h 5m
country: United States
A classical musician from a working class background is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy, neurotic socialite.


The Man I Love
1946 · 1h 36m
country: United States
Tough torch singer Petey Brown, visiting her family, finds a nest of troubles: her sister, brother, and the neighbor's wife are involved in various ways with shady nightclub owner Nicky Toresca. Petey has what it takes to handle Nicky, but then she meets San Thomas, a formerly great jazz pianist now on the skids, and falls hard for him.


Never Say Goodbye
1946 · 1h 37m
country: United States
Phil and Ellen Gayley have been divorced for a year, and their 7-year old daughter, Flip, is very unhappy that her parents are not together. Flip starts a correspondence with a Marine, sending a picture of her beautiful mother as the author of Flip's flirtatious letters. When the Marine shows up to meet his pen pal, Ellen takes the opportunity to make her ex-husband jealous.


The Verdict
1946 · 1h 26m
country: United States
After an innocent man is executed in a case he was responsible for, a Scotland Yard superintendent finds himself investigating the murder of his key witness.


Shadow of a Woman
1946 · 1h 18m
country: United States
Brooke's brief marital life with Eric takes a downturn when she starts suspecting that he is starving his son from a prior marriage to death in order to claim his inheritance.


The Big Sleep
1946 · 1h 54m
country: United States
Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the complex case is over, Marlowe sees murder, blackmail, deception, and what might be love.


A Stolen Life
1946 · 1h 49m
country: United States
When a woman’s twin sister is drowned, she assumes her identity in order to be close to the man she feels her sister took from her years before.


Devotion
1946 · 1h 47m
country: United States
In Victorian England, literary siblings Emily and Charlotte Brontë vie for the affection of the Rev. Arthur Nicholls. Along with their sister Anne, Emily and Charlotte also try to help their tormented brother Branwell, a gifted artist whose life is being destroyed by alcohol.


Cinderella Jones
1946 · 1h 30m
country: United States
Judy Jones can claim inheritance only if she marries a genius.


Three Strangers
1946 · 1h 32m
country: United States
On the eve of the Chinese New Year, three strangers, Crystal Shackleford, married to a wealthy philanderer; Jerome Artbutny, an outwardly respectable judge; and Johnny West, a seedy sneak thief, make a pact before a small statue of the Chinese goddess of Destiny. The threesome agree to purchase a sweepstakes ticket and share whatever winnings might accrue.


Danger Signal
1945 · 1h 18m
country: United States
After robbing and murdering his married lover and then making her death look like suicide, conniving philanderer Ronnie Mason relocates to Los Angeles. Under a new identity and claiming to be a writer, Ronnie finds lodging at the home of Hilda Fenchurch and her mother. He woos Hilda, knowing she has money, but when he discovers that Hilda's sister, Anne, has just inherited $25,000, he switches his attentions to her.


Mildred Pierce
1945 · 1h 51m
country: United States
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.


Pride of the Marines
1945 · 1h 59m
country: United States
Marine hero Al Schmid is blinded in battle and returns home to be rehabilitated. He readjusts to his civilian life with the help of his soon to be wife.


Christmas in Connecticut
1945 · 1h 42m
country: United States
While recovering in a hospital, war hero Jefferson Jones grows familiar with the "Diary of a Housewife" column written by Elizabeth Lane. Jeff's nurse arranges with Elizabeth's publisher, Alexander Yardley, for Jeff to spend the holiday at Elizabeth's bucolic Connecticut farm with her husband and child. But the column is a sham, so Elizabeth and her editor, Dudley Beecham, in fear of losing their jobs, hasten to set up the single, childless and entirely nondomestic Elizabeth on a country farm.


Conflict
1945 · 1h 26m
country: United States
Unhappily married Richard Mason concocts a meticulous scheme to kill his shrewish wife so that he'll be free to marry her sister.


The Corn Is Green
1945 · 1h 55m
country: United States
When a teacher reads an essay written by Morgan Evans, one of the boys, moved by his rough poetry she decides to hold classes in her house and believes that Morgan is smart enough to attend Oxford.


Hotel Berlin
1945 · 1h 38m
country: United States
An assortment of diverse characters gather at the Hotel Berlin in World War II Germany as the Third Reich falls.


To Have and Have Not
1945 · 1h 40m
country: United States
A Martinique charter boat skipper gets mixed up with the underground French resistance operatives during WWII.


The Doughgirls
1944 · 1h 42m
country: United States
Newlyweds Arthur and Vivian arrive to their honeymoon suite in Washington D.C., only to find it occupied. Arthur goes to meet Slade, his new boss, and when he returns, he finds three girls in his suite. He orders Vivian to get rid of them, but they are friends of Vivian's and as time goes by, it looks more like Grand Central Station than the quiet suite Arthur expected. As long as there's anyone else in the suite, Arthur will not stay and there will be no honeymoon.


The Conspirators
1944 · 1h 41m
country: United States
A guerilla leader falls in love with a mysterious woman in World War II Lisbon.


The Mask of Dimitrios
1944 · 1h 35m
country: United States
A mystery writer is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose dead body was found washed up on the shore in Istanbul. He decides to follow the career of Dimitrios around Europe, in order to learn more about the man. Along the way he is joined by the mysterious Mr. Peters, who has his own motivation.


Make Your Own Bed
1944 · 1h 22m
country: United States
Walter and Vivian live in the country and have a difficult time keeping servants. Walter then hires a private detective who has been fired for arresting the District Attorney. They only way that Walter can get Jerry to work for him is to tell Jerry that his life is in danger; the neighbor is trying to take his wife; and that Nazi spies are everywhere. Jerry needs a cook for his 'cover' so he gets his fiancée Susan to work with him. To keep Jerry working, Walter sends the threatening letters to himself and hires actors to play the spies but when a real group of spies disguised as a troupe of radio actors appears on the scene, events quickly spiral out of control.


Mr. Skeffington
1944 · 2h 25m
country: United States
A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.


Uncertain Glory
1944 · 1h 42m
country: United States
In occupied France, a convicted thief and murderer escapes the guillotine when a bombing raid strikes the prison, but is quickly re-captured by the inspector of the Surete responsible for his original arrest. Fearing the guillotine more than his actual death, the convict inveigles the inspector to help him with a plan to rescue 100 Frenchmen taken by the Gestapo following an act of sabotage: he will confess to being the saboteur and allow himself to be executed by firing squad, the Gestapo's method of execution, thus freeing the 100 men.


Passage to Marseille
1944 · 1h 49m
country: United States
A freedom-loving French journalist sacrifices his happiness and security to battle Nazi tyranny.


Destination Tokyo
1943 · 2h 15m
country: United States
During World War II, Captain Cassidy and his crew of submariners are ordered into Tokyo Bay on a secret mission. They are to gather information in advance of the planned bombing of Tokyo. Along the way, the crew learn about each other as they face the enemy and some of them lose their lives.


Northern Pursuit
1943 · 1h 33m
country: United States
Canadian Mountie Steve Wagner captures a German Luftwaffe officer on a spy mission, who later escapes from the prison camp. To catch the spy ring, the Mounties employ a ruse so that the spies, believing Steve to be sympathetic, enlist him in their plans.


Princess O'Rourke
1943 · 1h 34m
country: United States
A down-to-earth pilot charms a European princess on vacation in the United States.


Thank Your Lucky Stars
1943 · 2h 7m
country: United States
An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.


Oklahoma Outlaws
1943 · 20m
country: United States
In this short western, a gang of outlaws plots to gain control of the town of Tulsa, Oklahoma.


Watch on the Rhine
1943 · 1h 54m
country: United States
On the eve of World War II, the German Kurt Müller, his American-born wife Sara, and their three children, having lived in Europe for years, visit Sara's wealthy mother near Washington, DC. Kurt secretly works for the anti-Nazi resistance. A visiting Romanian count, becoming aware of this, seeks to blackmail him.


Background to Danger
1943 · 1h 20m
country: United States
An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.


The Constant Nymph
1943 · 1h 52m
country: United States
The daughter of a musical mentor adores a promising composer, who is quite fond of the adolescent. When her father dies, an uncle arrives with his own grown daughter, who begins a romance with the composer which culminates in marriage but creates an emotional rivalry that affects the three.


Edge of Darkness
1943 · 1h 59m
country: United States
The film pivots around the local Norwegian doctor and his family. The doctor's wife (Ruth Gordon) wants to hold on to the pretence of gracious living and ignore their German occupiers. The doctor, Martin Stensgard (Walter Huston), would also prefer to stay neutral, but is torn. His brother-in-law, the wealthy owner of the local fish cannery, collaborates with the Nazis. The doctor's daughter, Karen (Ann Sheridan), is involved with the resistance and with its leader Gunnar Brogge (Errol Flynn). The doctor's son has just returned to town, having been sent down from the university, and is soon influenced by his Nazi-sympathizer uncle. Captain Koenig (Helmut Dantine), the young German commandant of the occupying garrison, whose fanatic determination to do everything by the book and spoutings about the invincibility of the Reich hides a growing fear of a local uprising.


Air Force
1943 · 2h 4m
country: United States
The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines.


Casablanca
1943 · 1h 42m
country: United States
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.


The Hard Way
1943 · 1h 49m
country: United States
Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.


Gentleman Jim
1942 · 1h 44m
country: United States
As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world.


George Washington Slept Here
1942 · 1h 33m
country: United States
New Yorkers Bill and Connie Fuller have to move from their apartment. Without Bill's knowledge, Connie purchases a delapidated old farmhouse in Pennsylvania, where George Washington was supposed to have actually slept during the American Revolution.


Now, Voyager
1942 · 1h 57m
country: United States
A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and from an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man she meets on a cruise.


Wings for the Eagle
1942 · 1h 24m
country: United States
Aircraft workers during during World War II become involved in a love triangle.


The Big Shot
1942 · 1h 22m
country: United States
Duke Berne, former big shot but now a three-time loser, fears returning to crime because a fourth conviction will mean a life sentence. Finally, haunted by his past and goaded by his cohorts, he joins in planning an armoured car robbery.


Spy Ship
1942 · 1h 2m
country: United States
A radio reporter begins to suspect that a commentator at his station may be using her position to broadcast shipping information to enemy spies. With the help of the girl's sister, he sets out to expose the spy and her Nazi gang.


Always in My Heart
1942 · 1h 32m
country: United States
A man is pardoned from prison and returns to Santa Rita, CA to be with his family, but discovers his children have been told he's dead and his wife is in love with another man.


The Male Animal
1942 · 1h 41m
country: United States
The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists. Trustee Ed Keller has also threatened mild mannered English Professor Tommy Turner, because he plans to read a controversial piece of prose in class. Tommy is upset that his wife Ellen also suggested he not read the passage. Meanwhile, Ellen's old boyfriend, the football player Joe Ferguson, comes to visit for the homecoming weekend. He takes Ellen out dancing after the football rally, causing Tommy to worry that he will lose her to Joe.


Captains of the Clouds
1942 · 1h 54m
country: United States
Inspired by Churchill's Dunkirk speech, brash, undisciplined Canadian bush pilot Brian MacLean and three friends enlist in the RCAF.


The Man Who Came to Dinner
1941 · 1h 52m
country: United States
An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a Midwestern family.


Steel Against the Sky
1941 · 1h 7m
country: United States
Steel-worker brothers compete for the same woman.


The Maltese Falcon
1941 · 1h 40m
country: United States
A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.


Sergeant York
1941 · 2h 14m
country: United States
Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI.


Nine Lives Are Not Enough
1941 · 1h 3m
country: United States
A reporter is constantly in trouble for jumping to conclusions.


Dive Bomber
1941 · 2h 12m
country: United States
A military surgeon teams with a ranking navy flyer to develop a high-altitude suit which will protect pilots from blacking out when they go into a steep dive.


Manpower
1941 · 1h 44m
country: United States
Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang. Tensions start to show in the road crew as rivalry between Hank and Johnny increases.


Kisses for Breakfast
1941 · 1h 22m
country: United States
A newlywed develops amnesia and can't remember his wife.


Underground
1941 · 1h 35m
country: United States
A World War II Hollywood propaganda film detailing the dark underside of Nazism and the Third Reich set between two brothers, Kurt and Erik Franken, whom are SS officers in the Nazi party. Kurt learns and exposes the evils of the system to Erik and tries to convince him of the immoral stance that marches under the symbol of the swastika.


Affectionately Yours
1941 · 1h 28m
country: United States
A married reporter's assignments carry him all over the world, which gives him ample opportunity to put the moves on the local females.


The Wagons Roll at Night
1941 · 1h 24m
country: United States
An escaped circus lion provides the impetus for the meeting of carnival owner Nick Coster and Matt Varney, a small-town man who suddenly becomes a lion tamer when he manages to subdue the big cat. While acclimating to carnival life, Matt begins a romance with Nick's sister, Mary, causing tension between Matt and Nick. The latter must also juggle his stormy relationship with glamorous circus star Flo Lorraine.


The Great Lie
1941 · 1h 48m
country: United States
After a newlywed's husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for his affections is pregnant with his child.


The Sea Wolf
1941 · 1h 40m
country: United States
Shipwrecked fugitives try to escape a brutal sea captain who's losing his mind.


Meet John Doe
1941 · 2h 3m
country: United States
As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it's worth, until the made-up "John Doe" philosophy starts a whole political movement.


Footsteps in the Dark
1941 · 1h 36m
country: United States
A high-society gent has a secret life - he writes murder mysteries and hangs out with the police attempting to solve crimes. This causes him no end of problems when his wife wants to know about his little disappearances and exceptionally late nights out.


The Strawberry Blonde
1941 · 1h 37m
country: United States
Biff Grimes is desperately in love with Virginia, but his best friend Hugo marries her and manipulates Biff into becoming involved in his somewhat nefarious businesses. Hugo appears to have stolen Biff's dreams, and Biff has to deal with the realisation that having what he wants and wanting what another has can be very different things.


The Great Mr. Nobody
1941 · 1h 11m
country: United States
A publicity man promotes his newspaper, but finds his boss always steals the credit.


Flight from Destiny
1941 · 1h 15m
country: United States
After his doctor informs him he will die in six months, Professor Henry Todhunter decides to spend his last days killing someone who contributes nothing but harm to society. When Henry learns that his friend Betty's husband, Michael, has been painting forgeries of ancient paintings for gallery owner Ketti Moret, he investigates the fraudulent dealer's life. Judging that Ketti is truly evil, Henry prepares to murder her.


Honeymoon for Three
1941 · 1h 15m
country: United States
Noted writer Kenneth Bixby, in love with his witty secretary Anne Rogers, is on a book tour when he meets up with a former college fling with a loopy Danish girl which he barely remembers. She remembers him, very well.


Four Mothers
1941 · 1h 26m
country: United States
Four married sisters face motherhood, financial, marital and family issues together.


Santa Fe Trail
1940 · 1h 50m
country: United States
As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assigned to the 2nd Cavalry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth. While there they aid in the capture and execution of the abolitionist, John Brown following the Battle of Harper's Ferry.


She Couldn't Say No
1940 · 1h 2m
country: United States
Two big city lawyers are handed an important case but then find it requires them to deal with the oddball and very shrewd characters in a small town.


The Letter
1940 · 1h 35m
country: United States
After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.


South of Suez
1940 · 1h 26m
country: United States
Greedy diamond mine owner Eli Snedeker, resentful that his ex-foreman John Gamble stopped him from taking over kindly, but drunken, mine owner Roger Smythe's mine just as he was about to strike it rich, kills Smythe and blames it on Gamble. Grabbing the diamonds, Gamble flees Africa to England where he changes his name and begins a new life. What he hasn't counted on, though, is meeting and falling in love with Smythe's daughter Katherine, who falls in love with him but can't marry him until she can deal with her hatred of John Gamble, the man she believes killed her father.


Knute Rockne All American
1940 · 1h 38m
country: United States
The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.


They Drive by Night
1940 · 1h 35m
country: United States
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success of their transport company.


The Man Who Talked Too Much
1940 · 1h 15m
country: United States
A young law graduate joins his older brother's legal practice, only to discover the firm's clients are mostly mobsters.


A Fugitive from Justice
1940 · 53m
country: United States
Leslie is being chased by the gangsters, the police and the insurance investigators. He is on the run. Falsely accused of a murder, he embarks upon a life-and-death journey to save his family.


It All Came True
1940 · 1h 37m
country: United States
After crooked nightclub owner murders a police informant, he blackmails his piano player to allow him to stay at his eccentric mother's boarding house.


Virginia City
1940 · 2h 1m
country: United States
Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 million in gold destined for Confederate coffers. A Confederate sympathizer and a Mexican bandit, each with their own stake in the loot, stand in his way.


Castle on the Hudson
1940 · 1h 17m
country: United States
A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.


Invisible Stripes
1939 · 1h 21m
country: United States
A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.


Four Wives
1939 · 1h 39m
country: United States
In this sequel to Four Daughters, Ann struggles to move on after the death of her husband as she falls in love with Felix, but on the day of her engagement discovers that she carries Mickey's child.


The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
1939 · 1h 46m
country: United States
This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be King of England.


Espionage Agent
1939 · 1h 23m
country: United States
When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic service to go undercover to route out an espionage ring planning to destroy American industrial capability.


Dust Be My Destiny
1939 · 1h 28m
country: United States
Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man's death due to a weak heart. Joe and Mabel go on the run as he thinks no-one would believe a nobody like him.


Angels Wash Their Faces
1939 · 1h 26m
country: United States
A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life. However, he gets mixed up with the local mob boss and corrupt politicians and soon finds himself being framed for an arson and murder he didn't commit.


Each Dawn I Die
1939 · 1h 32m
country: United States
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.


The Old Maid
1939 · 1h 35m
country: United States
The lives of two cousins are complicated by the return of an ex-boyfriend and an illegitimate child.


Indianapolis Speedway
1939 · 1h 25m
country: United States
A champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession rather than finish school.


Daughters Courageous
1939 · 1h 47m
country: United States
Nan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam Sloane, businessman. Out of the blue her first husband Jim returns after deserting the family 20 years earlier. The worldly wanderer Jim gets a cool family reception at first but his warm personality gradually wins the affections of his four daughters. In fact, youngest daughter Buff, who has her eye on a maverick of her own in Gabriel Lopez, is pleased when Jim grants his stamp of approval on her relationship. Buff plans to elope with Gabriel on her mother's wedding day, but 'unpredictable' is Gabriel's middle name.


Juarez
1939 · 2h 5m
country: United States
The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juárez and democracy.


Dark Victory
1939 · 1h 44m
country: United States
Socialite Judith Traherne lives a lavish but emotionally empty life. Riding horses is one of her few joys, and her stable master is secretly in love with her. Told she has a brain tumor by her doctor, Frederick Steele, Judith becomes distraught. After she decides to have surgery to remove the tumor, Judith realizes she is in love with Dr. Steele, but more troubling medical news may sabotage her new relationship, and her second chance at life.


Women in the Wind
1939 · 1h 3m
country: United States
A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.


Dodge City
1939 · 1h 44m
country: United States
In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.


You Can't Get Away with Murder
1939 · 1h 29m
country: United States
Johnnie learns crime from petty thug Frank Wilson. When Wilson kills a pawnbroker with a gun stolen from Johnnie's sister Madge's fiance Fred Burke, Fred goes to Sing Sing's death house. Wilson uses all the pressure can to keep Johnnie silent, even after he and Johnnie themselves wind up in the big house.


The Oklahoma Kid
1939 · 1h 25m
country: United States
McCord's gang robs the stage carrying money to pay Indians for their land, and the notorious outlaw "The Oklahoma Kid" Jim Kincaid takes the money from McCord. McCord stakes a "sooner" claim on land which is to be used for a new town; in exchange for giving it up, he gets control of gambling and saloons. When Kincaid's father runs for mayor, McCord incites a mob to lynch the old man whom McCord has already framed for murder.


Wings of the Navy
1939 · 1h 29m
country: United States
Jerry tries to out compete his older brother Cass, a lieutenant Naval aviator. Cass is both tough on and protective of his brother, but Jerry can give it right back.


Off the Record
1939 · 1h 11m
country: United States
After a socially conscience reporter adopts a slum orphan after she causes his brother's gang to go to prison.


King of the Underworld
1939 · 1h 7m
country: United States
Physician Carole Nelson, suspected of having ties to notorious gangster Joe Gurney, must prove her innocence or the Medical Board will revoke her license. When Gurney seeks her out for treatment after being shot, it could be the break Nelson needs. Now she has a chance to use her medical know-how to outwit Gurney and his goons and reestablish her professional reputation.


Going Places
1938 · 1h 24m
country: United States
A sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he bargained for.


The Dawn Patrol
1938 · 1h 43m
country: United States
In 1915 France, Major Brand commands the 39th Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps. The young airmen go up in bullet-riddled "crates" and the casualty rate is appalling, but Brand can't make the "brass hats" at headquarters see reason. Insubordinate air ace Captain Courtney is another thorn in Brand's side...but finds the smile wiped from his face when he rises to command the squadron himself. Everyone keeps a stiff upper lip.


Heart of the North
1938 · 1h 23m
country: United States
A two-fisted Canadian Mountie leads lawmen in pursuit of the thieves who stole an Edmonton-bound freighter's cargo.


Comet Over Broadway
1938 · 1h 9m
country: United States
A rising stage star's ambition causes trouble.


Angels with Dirty Faces
1938 · 1h 37m
country: United States
Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky matures into a prominent gangster, while Jerry becomes a priest, tending to the needs of his old tenement neighborhood.


Torchy Gets Her Man
1938 · 1h 3m
country: United States
A notorious counterfeiter passes himself off as a Secret Service agent to Steve and gets him to unwittingly help him bilk the racetrack out of tens of thousands.


The Sisters
1938 · 1h 39m
country: United States
Three daughters of a small down pharmacist undergo trials and tribulations in their problematic marriages between 1904 and 1908.


Valley of the Giants
1938 · 1h 12m
country: United States
A lumberman takes on a sleezy corporate giant wanting to move in and do whatever it takes to drive everyone else out of business.


Secrets of an Actress
1938 · 1h 10m
country: United States
Two architects lose their heads over a glamorous actress.


Four Daughters
1938 · 1h 30m
country: United States
Musician Adam Lemp and his four equally musical daughters, Emma, Ann, Kay, and Thea, live happily together. Each daughter has an upstanding young man for whom she cares. However, the arrival of a cynical, slovenly young composer named Mickey Borden turns the household upside-down, and romantic and tragic complications ensue.


Four's a Crowd
1938 · 1h 33m
country: United States
A public relations man falls for his most difficult client's granddaughter.


Racket Busters
1938 · 1h 11m
country: United States
A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.


My Bill
1938 · 1h 4m
country: United States
An impoverished widow fights scandal for the sake of her four children.


Men Are Such Fools
1938 · 1h 9m
country: United States
Linda works at an advertising agency, but, unlike the other women in the secretarial pool, she hopes to succeed in the business rather than just find a husband. She rises through the ranks, becoming a copywriter, and attracts the attention of Jimmy, an amorous coworker who wants to marry her. But Jimmy is jealous of Linda's career and of Harry, a radio executive who works with Linda, and their marriage gets off to a very rough start.


The Adventures of Robin Hood
1938 · 1h 42m
country: United States
Robin Hood fights nobly for justice against the evil Sir Guy of Gisbourne while striving to win the hand of the beautiful Maid Marian.


Crime School
1938 · 1h 25m
country: United States
In the slums, teenager Frankie Warren hangs out with a rowdy gang who one day knock him out in a fight. In court, the boys refuse to reveal who struck the knockout blow, and all are subsequently sentenced to a reformatory, cruelly run by two corrupt guards. New deputy commissioner Mark Braden arrives determined to change things, but despite the help of Frankie's sister, Mark's reform plans -- and Frankie's future -- may be sabotaged from within.


Jezebel
1938 · 1h 43m
country: United States
In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her.


A Slight Case of Murder
1938 · 1h 25m
country: United States
Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with foreclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.


Hollywood Hotel
1938 · 1h 49m
country: United States
After losing a coveted role in an upcoming film to another actress, screen queen Mona Marshall (Lola Lane) protests by refusing to appear at her current movie's premiere. Her agent discovers struggling actress Virginia Stanton (Rosemary Lane) -- an exact match for Mona -- and sends her to the premiere instead, with young musician Ronnie Bowers (Dick Powell). After various mishaps, including a case of mistaken identity, Ronnie and Virginia struggle to find success in Hollywood.


Tovarich
1937 · 1h 38m
country: United States
When upper-class Parisian Charles Dupont and his family hire Tina and Michel as their servants, they have no idea that the domestics are in fact Tatiana, the Grand Duchess Petrovna, and her husband, Mikail, Prince Ouratieff. Recent exiles from the Russian Revolution, Tatiana and Mikail befriend the Dupont family, keeping their true identities a secret -- until one night when Soviet official Gorotchenko arrives for dinner.


First Lady
1937 · 1h 23m
country: United States
A politician's wife plots for her husband to become the next U.S. President.


The Great Garrick
1937 · 1h 29m
country: United States
A British actor insults a French acting group only to fall victim to a prank that might destroy his career.


It's Love I'm After
1937 · 1h 30m
country: United States
An infatuated debutante renews a Shakespearean actor's running feud with his leading lady.


The Life of Emile Zola
1937 · 1h 56m
country: United States
A fictionalized account of famous French writer Emile Zola and his involvement in the Dreyfus Affair. After struggling to establish himself, Zola wins success writing about the unsavory side of Paris and settles into a comfortable upper-class life. However, Zola's complacency is shaken when Jewish officer Alfred Dreyfus is imprisoned for being a spy. Realizing that Dreyfus is an innocent victim of anti-Semitism, Zola boldly pens a newspaper article exposing the truth, is charged with libel and must defend himself in a dramatic courtroom testimony.


That Certain Woman
1937 · 1h 33m
country: United States
A gangster's widow fights for love despite society's disapproval.


Back in Circulation
1937 · 1h 21m
country: United States
Morning Express ace reporter 'Timmy' Blake uses her wiles and charms to get the scoop on rival papers, and keep her editor happy. When the Express gets a tip that a wealthy old man was poisoned and 'Timmy' spots the young widow in a nightclub only a day later, she descends on the town where the death took place to dig out the facts. When her reporting results in the arrest of the young widow, 'Timmy' continues to dig, since she isn't quite convinced that the facts she reported cover all the angles.


Confession
1937 · 1h 27m
country: United States
Vera Kowalska is put on trial for murdering concert pianist Michael Michailow. In court it is revealed that some years earlier Michael ruined Vera's life.


Ever Since Eve
1937 · 1h 20m
country: United States
Madge Winton, a beautiful secretary, makes herself look homely in order to avoid advances by lecherous bosses. When her new employer, writer Freddy Matthews, accidentally sees her without her disguise, she has to pretend to be her roommate Sadie.


Another Dawn
1937 · 1h 13m
country: United States
Colonel John Wister, on duty with the British army in the desert region of Dubik, returns to England on leave. There he falls in love with Julia Ashton, who cares deeply for him but believes herself incapable of love following the death of her fiancé; some time before. Wister convinces her that he loves her enough to live without her romantic love and that she should marry him. She does so and returns to Dubik with him. There she meets his adjutant, Captain Denny Roark. Roark is a dashing young man who reminds Julia thoroughly of her lost love. Soon she finds she is indeed capable of love, but it is Roark with whom she falls in love, not her husband. As warfare with the local tribes heats up and as Wister gains awareness of the unconsummated romance growing between his wife and best friend, tragedy lurks.


Kid Galahad
1937 · 1h 42m
country: United States
Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid' falls for his sister.


The Go-Getter
1937 · 1h 32m
country: United States
A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.


The Prince and the Pauper
1937 · 1h 58m
country: United States
Two boys – the prince Edward and the pauper Tom – are born on the same day. Years later, when young teenage Tom sneaks into the palace garden, he meets the prince. They change clothes with one another before the guards discover them and throw out the prince thinking he's the urchin. No one believes them when they try to tell the truth about which is which. Soon after, the old king dies and the prince will inherit the throne.


Call It a Day
1937 · 1h 30m
country: United States
The various members of the middle-class Hilton family have a series of romantic misadventures during one eventful spring day.


Marked Woman
1937 · 1h 36m
country: United States
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.


Ready, Willing and Able
1937 · 1h 33m
country: United States
Two starving songwriters will only get funding if they get British actress Jane Clarke to star in their show.


Green Light
1937 · 1h 25m
country: United States
A brilliant young surgeon takes the blame for a colleague when a botched surgery causes a patient's death and buries himself at a wilderness research facility.


Stolen Holiday
1937 · 1h 20m
country: United States
A young model is set up with her own fashion business by a crooked financier, who sells worthless bonds.


God's Country and the Woman
1937 · 1h 25m
country: United States
Hard-nosed Jefferson Russett runs a logging company; his brother, Steve, is the prodigal son. Steve becomes stranded on the competition's property and slowly learns the business and of his brother's dirty tricks.


Gold Diggers of 1937
1936 · 1h 41m
country: United States
The partners of stage-producer J. J. Hobart gamble away the money for his new show. They enlist a gold-digging chorus girl to help get it back by conning an insurance company. But they don’t count on the persistence of insurance man Rosmer Peck and his secretary Norma Perry.


Sing Me a Love Song
1936 · 1h 15m
country: United States
A young playboy inherits a financially-troubled New York City department store. To learn the business, he poses as a store clerk, and quickly falls for a pretty employee in the store's music department. Comedy with songs.


The Charge of the Light Brigade
1936 · 1h 51m
country: United States
In 1853, as the British and Russian empires compete to gain and maintain their place in the dreadful Great Game of political intrigues and alliances whose greatest prize is the domination of India and the border territories, Major Geoffrey Vickers must endure several betrayals and misfortunes before he can achieve his revenge at the Balaclava Heights, on October 25, 1854, the most glorious day of the Crimean War.


Give Me Your Heart
1936 · 1h 28m
country: United States
An American lawyer's wife is reunited with her child and his father, an English nobleman.


Stage Struck
1936 · 1h 31m
country: United States
A Broadway show is forced to bow to the whims of a talentless, whacky, but rich, Broadway actress with a contract.


Satan Met a Lady
1936 · 1h 14m
country: United States
In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief.


The White Angel
1936 · 1h 32m
country: United States
In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurses when it was considered a disreputable profession.


Road Gang
1936 · 1h 1m
country: United States
A crusading young reporter planning a series of articles about a corrupt politician is framed for a crime and sentenced to serve five years at a prison farm.


King of the Islands
1936 · 20m
country: United States
In this musical short, a shipwrecked sailor is washed up on the shores of a tropical island and falls in love with a beautiful princess.


The Story of Louis Pasteur
1936 · 1h 26m
country: United States
A true story about Louis Pasteur, who revolutionized medicine by proving that much disease is caused by microbes, that sanitation is paramount and that at least some diseases can be cured by vaccinations.


The Petrified Forest
1936 · 1h 22m
country: United States
Gabby, the waitress in an isolated Arizona diner, dreams of a bigger and better life. One day penniless intellectual Alan drifts into the joint and the two strike up a rapport. Soon enough, notorious killer Duke Mantee takes the diner's inhabitants hostage. Surrounded by miles of desert, the patrons and staff are forced to sit tight with Mantee and his gang overnight.


Freshman Love
1936 · 1h 7m
country: United States
A star rower is forced to join a good school under a pseudonym because his wealthy dad doesn't like schools that have high academic standards.


The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
1936 · 1h 7m
country: United States
A young doctor is determined to expose the killer when a surgeon is found stabbed to death in a hospital elevator.


Miss Pacific Fleet
1935 · 1h 6m
country: United States
A down-on-her-luck showgirl sets her eyes on the cash prize that comes with winning the title "Miss Pacific Fleet".


Frisco Kid
1935 · 1h 17m
country: United States
After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him rise to a position of power in the vice industry of the infamous Barbary Coast.


I Found Stella Parish
1935 · 1h 25m
country: United States
A blackmailer preys on an actress who is trying to protect her daughter from her past.


Shipmates Forever
1935 · 1h 49m
country: United States
An admiral's son with no interest in carrying on the family tradition is a successful crooner. He finally joins the Navy to prove he can, but with no real love in it.


A Midsummer Night's Dream
1935 · 2h 23m
country: United States
Four young people escape Athens to a forest where the king and queen of the fairies are quarreling, while meanwhile, a troupe of amateur actors rehearses a play. When the fairy Puck uses a magic flower to make people fall in love, the whole thing becomes a little bit confused...


The Case of the Lucky Legs
1935 · 1h 17m
country: United States
A con man who stages phony "lucky legs" beauty contests and leaves town with the money is found with a surgical knife in his heart by Mason.


The Goose and the Gander
1935 · 1h 5m
country: United States
When Georgiana Summers learns that the woman who stole and married her husband is planning a romantic tryst with a new love, she hatches a giddy plot to expose the rendezvous and pay her back.


Keystone Hotel
1935 · 20m
country: United States
The Keystone Hotel hosts a very prestigious beauty contest. When the cross-eyed judge presents the first prize to an elderly cleaning woman, angry members of the audience respond by hurling custard pies. The Keystone Kops are summoned, and arrive just in time to get plastered with pastry.


We're in the Money
1935 · 1h 6m
country: United States
Ginger and Dixie are process servers for goofy lawyer Homer Bronson. The two friends want to quit, but they're offered a thousand dollars to serve four subpoenas in a breach of promise suit against rich C. Richard Courtney. Little does Ginger realize, C. Richard Courtney and her mysterious park bench boyfriend 'Carter' are one and the same.


The Irish in Us
1935 · 1h 24m
country: United States
A boxer and his policeman brother feud over a police captain's daughter.


Broadway Gondolier
1935 · 1h 39m
country: United States
A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.


Don't Bet on Blondes
1935 · 59m
country: United States
Owen, a small time bookie, decides to open an insurance business as it involves lesser risk. His first client is Colonel Youngblood who insures his daughter, Marilyn, against marriage.


Going Highbrow
1935 · 1h 7m
country: United States
A ditzy wife yearns to join "high society" when she and her husband become suddenly wealthy.


Stranded
1935 · 1h 12m
country: United States
A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.


Alibi Ike
1935 · 1h 12m
country: United States
Idiosyncratic new recruit Francis "Ike" Farrell tries to help the Cubs to the pennant with his pitching and hitting.


'G' Men
1935 · 1h 23m
country: United States
James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused to get involved with the underworld. When a friend of his is gunned down by a notorious criminal, Brick decides to abandon the exercise of the law and join the Department of Justice to capture the murderer.


Go Into Your Dance
1935 · 1h 29m
country: United States
An irresponsible Broadway star gets mixed up with gambling and gangsters.


The Case of the Curious Bride
1935 · 1h 20m
country: United States
After giving the District Attorney another stinging defeat, Perry plans to take a vacation in China. That is, he was, until Rhoda, his old flame, meets him at a restaurant. It seems that her husband Moxley, who had been allegedly dead for four years, is alive and demanding money as she has married into wealth. The case escalates when the police find the body of Moxley and charge her with the murder.


The Florentine Dagger
1935 · 1h 9m
country: United States
A playwright descended from the Borgia family becomes a murder suspect.


Traveling Saleslady
1935 · 1h 3m
country: United States
A toothpaste magnate's mischievous daughter, tired of her father's traditional ways of conducting business, joins forces with her father's rival and a crazy inventor. Together they create "Cocktail Toothpaste". The new concoction tastes like whiskey in the morning, a martini at suppertime, and champagne at night.


A Night at the Ritz
1935 · 1h 2m
country: United States
A PR man talks a swanky hotel into hiring his girlfriend's brother as chef.


The Man with Two Faces
1934 · 1h 13m
country: United States
Actress Jessica Wells, sister of actor Damon Wells, is on top of her form except when her husband Vance is around. When Vance takes her to the apartment of a theatrical producer she comes home incoherent and Vance is found dead in the vanished producer's hotel suite.


Side Show
1931 · 1h 6m
country: United States
A circus side show performer tries to discourage her younger sister from following in her footsteps.


The Star Witness
1931 · 1h 8m
country: United States
A tough District Attorney goes after a murderous crime gang, only to find that his witnesses, an innocent family, have clammed up in fear of reprisals.


Smart Money
1931 · 1h 21m
country: United States
Two brothers' trip to the big city to do a little gambling results in a fateful turn of events.


Too Young to Marry
1931 · 1h 7m
country: United States
In this comedy drama set in a small town, a milque-toast gets a backbone and stands up to his overbearing wife. Only one of his daughters is on his side. The family is amazed and shocked by his sudden change. At first they rebel, but when he defies his wife and allows his good daughter to marry the grocery boy she loves, they finally come to respect him.


The Doorway to Hell
1930 · 1h 18m
country: United States
A vicious crime lord decides that he has had enough and much to the shock of his colleagues decides to give the business to his second in command and retire to Florida after marrying his moll. Unfortunately, he has no idea that she and the man are lovers.