Known for Sound
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Maximilian Raoul "Max" Steiner (May 10, 1888 – December 28, 1971) was an Austrian-born American composer of music for theatre and films. He was a child prodigy who conducted his first operetta when he was twelve and became a full-time professional, either composing, arranging or conducting, when he was fifteen. Steiner composed over 300 film scores with RKO and Warner Brothers, and was nominated for 24 Academy Awards, winning three: The Informer (1935), Now, Voyager (1942), and Since You Went Away (1944). Besides his Oscar-winning scores, some of Steiner's popular works include King Kong (1933), Little Women (1933), Jezebel (1938), Casablanca (1942), The Searchers (1956), A Summer Place (1959), and the film score for which he is possibly best known, Gone with the Wind (1939). He was also the first recipient of the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, which he won for his score to Life with Father. Steiner was a frequent collaborator with some of the most famous film directors in history, including Michael Curtiz, John Ford, Howard Hawks, William Dieterle, William Wyler, Raoul Walsh, John Huston, Irving Pichel, King Vidor, and Frank Capra.
Born
May 10, 1888
Died
December 28, 1971 (age 83)
Birthplace
Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
Filmography
324 films, 1 show


The Letter
1982 · 1h 36m
country: United States
The wife of a Malaysian planter kills an employee of her husband one night, but her motive begins to appear not entirely truthful.


Two on a Guillotine
1965 · 1h 47m
country: United States
The daughter of a dead magician who accidentally killed his wife, her mother, while performing a guillotine trick must spend the night in his house in order to collect her inheritance. Is the house haunted or is it all magic?


Those Calloways
1964 · 2h 11m
country: United States
Story of Cam Calloway and his family, who live in a densely wooded area in New England. Cam dreams of building a sanctuary for the geese that fly over the area each year, and he tries several schemes to buy a nearby lake for this santuary. He is thwarted at every attempt, it seems; he and his son try to get enough furs from their trapping venture to get the money, but the bottom falls out of the fur market. He uses the little money they get for a down payment on the lake, thereby losing their house when he can't make the mortgage payment. They move to the lake, where their friends help them build a cabin. A salesman stops in town, and tries to get the people to sell their land for a tourist venture; Cam is outraged at his tactics and takes desperate measures after he himself is tricked.


Youngblood Hawke
1964 · 2h 17m
country: United States
An unknown Kentucky writer comes to New York and pursues fame and women.


A Distant Trumpet
1964 · 1h 57m
country: United States
In 1883, US Cavalry lieutenant Matthew Hazard, newly graduated from West Point, is assigned to isolated Fort Delivery on the Mexican border of Arizona, where he meets commanding officer Teddy Mainwarring's wife Kitty, whom he later rescues from an Indian attack.


Spencer's Mountain
1963 · 1h 58m
country: United States
Clay Spencer and his wife, Olivia, live in a small town deep in the mountains. When Clay isn't busy drinking with his buddies or railing against the town minister, he's building the house he's always promised Olivia. He is overjoyed when he learns his eldest son will be the first Spencer to attend college, if he can resist the charms of a pretty local girl and rustle up the money for tuition.


FBI Code 98
1963 · 1h 34m
country: United States
A bomb is discovered in the luggage of a businessman traveling aboard a plane.


Rome Adventure
1962 · 1h 59m
country: United States
Prudence resigns from her teaching position after being criticized for giving a student her copy of a romance novel. She sails for Italy, takes a job at a small bookstore in Rome, and meets Don, who has just broken up with his girlfriend. Prudence and Don tour Italy together, and romance naturally follows.


A Majority of One
1961 · 2h 36m
country: United States
A gentle love story about a Japanese businessman and widower, and a Brooklyn widow. But before a happy ending can ensue, they must learn again the lessons of tolerance, kindness and forgiveness.


Susan Slade
1961 · 1h 56m
country: United States
A pregnant teen allows her mother to pass her secret baby off as her own.


Parrish
1961 · 2h 18m
country: United States
Parrish McLean lives with his mother Ellen on Sala Post's tobacco plantation in the Connecticut River Valley. His mother winds up marrying Sala's rival Judd Raike, ruthless planter who wants to drive Sala out of business. Judd insists that Parrish learn the business from the ground up.


Portrait of a Mobster
1961 · 1h 48m
country: United States
A vicious hood rises to the top of the rackets in Depression-era New York in this account of the life of Dutch Schultz.


The Sins of Rachel Cade
1961 · 2h 4m
country: United States
A female doctor in the Congo is torn between two loves.


The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
1960 · 2h 4m
country: United States
In Oklahoma in the 1920s, Rubin Flood loses his job as a traveling salesman when the company goes bankrupt. This adds to his worries at home. His wife Cora is frigid because of trying to make ends meet. His teenage daughter Reenie is afraid of going out on dates, but eventually makes friends with a troubled Jewish boy Sammy Golden, and his son is a mama's boy. He finally storms out of the house when Cora falsely accuses him of having an affair with Mavis Pruitt.


Cash McCall
1960 · 1h 42m
country: United States
Wealthy hotshot Cash McCall makes his money by purchasing unsuccessful businesses, whipping them into shape and then selling them for a huge profit. When Cash comes across Austen Plastics, a small manufacturing corporation on its last legs, he realizes it might be a gamble to buy the company. But when Cash finds out that the company's owner is the father of his old flame, Lory, he buys the business just to get a second chance at romance.


Ice Palace
1960 · 2h 23m
country: United States
Alaska: America's last great wilderness frontier. A land of primitive grandeur, of glaciers, mountains and ice-fields. And of ambitious cannery tycoon Zeb "Czar" Kennedy and rugged activist leader Thor Storm, two rough-hewn men whose bitter 40-year rivalry mirrored their powerful land's struggle for statehood.


A Summer Place
1959 · 2h 10m
country: United States
A self-made businessman rekindles a romance with a former flame while their two teenage children begin a romance of their own with drastic consequences for both couples.


The FBI Story
1959 · 2h 29m
country: United States
A dedicated FBI agent recalls the agency's battles against the Klan, organized crime and Communist spies.


John Paul Jones
1959 · 2h 6m
country: Spain
The career of Revolutionary War naval hero John Paul Jones, from his youth in Scotland through his service to Catherine the Great of Russia.


The Hanging Tree
1959 · 1h 47m
country: United States
Joseph "Doc" Frail is a doctor with a past he's trying to outrun. While in Montana, he comes across a mining camp with a hanging tree and rescues a man named Rune from the noose. With Rune as his servant, Frail decides to settle down, and he takes over as town doctor. He meets Elizabeth, who is suffering from shock, and the two soon fall in love. But when Elizabeth is attacked, Frail's attempt to help her lands them both in trouble.


Marjorie Morningstar
1958 · 2h 3m
country: United States
While working as a counselor at a summer camp, college-student Marjorie Morgenstern falls for 32-year-old Noel Airman, a would-be dramatist working at a nearby summer theater. Like Marjorie, he is an upper-middle-class New York Jew, but has fallen away from his roots, and Marjorie's parents object among other things to his lack of a suitable profession. Noel himself warns Marjorie repeatedly that she's much too naive and conventional for him, but they nonetheless fall in love.


Fort Dobbs
1958 · 1h 33m
country: United States
Eluding a sheriff's posse, an escaped man saves a farming family from a Comanche attack and escorts it to the nearby Fort Dobbs.


Darby's Rangers
1958 · 2h 1m
country: United States
Stationed in Scotland, Maj. William Darby and the men under his command are trained by British commandos, becoming the U.S. Army's 1st Ranger Battalion. Their drilling period is rigorous, but the men find time to romance local women before being deployed to fight the Nazis. U.S. forces battle from French North Africa to Italy, but when a surprise attack decimates the 1st and 3rd Battalions at the Battle of Cisterna, Darby and the 4th Battalion must come to their aid.


Escapade in Japan
1957 · 1h 33m
country: United States
A plane is forced to land at sea just off the Japanese coast. A young American boy is later befriended by a fisherman's son, with the two setting off on an unintended journey across the country.


All Mine to Give
1957 · 1h 43m
country: United States
This is a story based on fact that follows a husband and wife who emigrate from Scotland to Wisconsin in the 1850s. They work very hard and become welcome citizens of their new town, Eureka. They have six children. They prosper in the husband's boat-building business. But when their eldest is 12, tragedy strikes the family, and the 12-year-old is burdened with a terrible task which he handles as well as any adult could.


Band of Angels
1957 · 2h 5m
country: United States
Living in Kentucky prior to the Civil War, Amantha Starr is a privileged young woman. Her widowed father, a wealthy plantation owner, dotes on her and sends her to the best schools. When he dies suddenly Amantha's world is turned upside down. She learns that her father had been living on borrowed money and that her mother was actually a slave and her father's mistress.


China Gate
1957 · 1h 37m
country: United States
Near the end of the French phase of the Vietnam War, a group of mercenaries are recruited to travel through enemy territory to the Chinese border.


Death of a Scoundrel
1956 · 1h 59m
country: United States
A Czech refugee uses women to advance his business interest.


Bandido!
1956 · 1h 32m
country: United States
American arms dealer Kennedy hopes to make a killing by selling to the "regulares" in the 1916 Mexican revolution. American mercenary Wilson favors the rebel faction headed by Escobar, and they plot to hijack Kennedy's arms; but Wilson also has his eye on Kennedy's wife. Raids, counter-raids, and escapes follow in a veritable hail of bullets.


The Searchers
1956 · 1h 59m
country: United States
As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable.


Come Next Spring
1956 · 1h 32m
country: United States
Matt Ballot has returned home after 12 years of hard-drinking in all 48 states. His wife has managed to raise their 14-year-old daughter and 12-year-old son nicely without his help. Matt is considered a disgrace to the town he came from and now he finds himself trying to win the love of his children, his wife, and the respect of the townspeople. Set in Arkansas in the 1920s.


Helen of Troy
1956 · 2h 1m
country: United States
Prince Paris of Troy, shipwrecked on a mission to the king of Sparta, meets and falls for Queen Helen before he knows who she is. Rudely received by the royal Greeks, he must flee...but fate and their mutual passions lead him to take Helen along. This gives the Greeks just the excuse they need for much-desired war.


Hell on Frisco Bay
1955 · 1h 38m
country: United States
A cop framed for a murder he did not commit hunts the San Francisco waterfront for the Mob racketeers who are responsible.


Illegal
1955 · 1h 28m
country: United States
A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find out later he was innocent. Now the drunken attorney only seems to represent criminals and low lifes.


The McConnell Story
1955 · 1h 46m
country: United States
Joe McConnell was sure that he was meant to be a pilot, but was stuck as a restless army private. It seemed that his ambition was blocked at every step.


The Last Command
1955 · 1h 50m
country: United States
During the Texas War of Independence of 1836 American frontiersman and pioneer Jim Bowie pleads for caution with the rebellious Texicans. They don't heed his advice since he's a Mexican citizen, married to the daughter of the Mexican vice-governor of the province and a friend to General Santa Anna since the days they had fought together for Mexico's independence. After serving as president for 22 years, Santa Anna has become too powerful and arrogant. He rules Mexico with an iron fist and he would not allow Texas to self-govern. Bowie sides with the Texans in their bid for independence and urges a cautious strategy, given Santa Anna's power and cunning. Despite the disagreement between the Texicans and Bowie regarding the right strategy they ask Bowie to lead them in a last-ditch stand, at Alamo, against General Santa Anna's numerically superior forces.


Battle Cry
1955 · 2h 29m
country: United States
The dramatic story of US Marines in training, in combat, and in love, during World War II. The story centers on a major who guides the raw recruits from their training to combat.


The Violent Men
1955 · 1h 36m
country: United States
A former Union Army officer plans to sell out to Anchor Ranch and move east with his fiancée, but the low price offered by Anchor's crippled owner and the outfit's bullying tactics make him reconsider. When one of his hands is murdered he decides to stay and fight, utilizing his war experience. Not all is well at Anchor with the owner's wife carrying on with his brother who also has a Mexican woman in town.


King Richard and the Crusaders
1954 · 1h 54m
country: United States
Based on Sir Walter Scott's The Talisman, this is the story of the romantic adventures of Christians and Muslims during the battle for the Holy Land in the time of King Richard the Lionheart.


The Caine Mutiny
1954 · 2h 4m
country: United States
When a US Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardize his ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court martial for mutiny.


The Boy from Oklahoma
1954 · 1h 27m
country: United States
A town despot makes a guileless patsy the sheriff, lives to regret it.


So Big
1953 · 1h 41m
country: United States
A girl of wealth comes to a Dutch community outside Chicago as a schoolteacher, and while there falls in love with a poor but big-hearted farmer.


So This Is Love
1953 · 1h 41m
country: United States
Film biography of opera star Grace Moore, released in 1953.


The Charge at Feather River
1953 · 1h 35m
country: United States
A frontier scout leads prisoners on a death mission to save a railroad and rescue two women.


The Desert Song
1953 · 1h 50m
country: United States
Shiek Yousseff, poses as a friend of the French while secretly plotting to overthrow them. Apposing Yousseff are the Riffs, whose secret leader, The Red Shadow, is Paul Bonnard, a professor who is studying the desert, and whose attacks on the supply trains intended for Yousseff keep the Riff villages in food. Foreign Legion General Birabeau arrives to conduct an investigation, accompanied by his daughter, Margot. Birabeau hires Bonnard to tutor her, and she is attracted to a Legionaire captain, Claud Fontaine. While the general, Bonnard and Fontaine pay a visit to Yousseff, an American newspaper man, Benji Kidd, discovers a secret way in and out of Yousseff's palace, with the aid of Azuri, a dancing girl in love with Bonnard. The latter is forced to resume his role as the Riffs leader, and kidnap Margot until he can convince her of Yousseff's treachery. But Yousseff's men attack the Riff camp and take Margot prisoner.


Trouble Along the Way
1953 · 1h 50m
country: United States
Struggling to retain custody of his daughter following his divorce, football coach Steve Williams finds himself embroiled in a recruiting scandal at the tiny Catholic college he is trying to bring back to football respectability.


The Jazz Singer
1953 · 1h 47m
country: United States
A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer.


The Iron Mistress
1952 · 1h 50m
country: United States
In this biopic, Jim Bowie goes to New Orleans, where he falls for Judalon and befriends her brother, Narcisse. Soon, Jim is forced to avenge Narcisse's murder, but Judalon takes up with another man. Jim eventually has another romantic interlude with Judalon and is forced to kill one of her suitors in self-defense. Jim leaves town, and falls for the daughter of a Texas politician, but his entanglement with Judalon continues to bedevil him.


Springfield Rifle
1952 · 1h 33m
country: United States
Major Lex Kearney, dishonourably discharged from the army for cowardice in battle, volunteers to go undercover to try to prevent raids against shipments of horses desperately needed for the Union war effort. Falling in with the gang of jayhawkers and Confederate soldiers who have been conducting the raids, he gradually gains their trust and is put in a position where he can discover who has been giving them secret information revealing the routes of the horse shipments.


This Is Cinerama
1952 · 1h 55m
country: United States
Designed to introduce the then-new widescreen process Cinerama, audiences experience the roller coaster at Rockaways' Playland, the temple dance from Aida, Niagara Falls, a Viennese choir, the canals of Venice, a military tattoo in Edinburgh, a bullfight, and more. The film concludes with a view from the nose of a low-flying B-25 while America the Beautiful plays.


The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima
1952 · 1h 42m
country: United States
In 1917, three shepherd children living just outside Fatima, Portugal have visions of a lovely lady in a cloud. The anticlerical government wishes to squelch the Church; reports of religious experiences are cause for serious concern. Yet the children stand by their story, and the message of peace and hope the Lady brings. In the last vision, attended by thousands of people, the Lady proves her reality with a spectacular miracle that is seen by everyone present. Based on actual events at Fatima in the summer of 1917.


The Lion and the Horse
1952 · 1h 23m
country: United States
After selling it to a cruel rodeo owner, a cowboy attempts to buy back the wild stallion he snared.


Mara Maru
1952 · 1h 38m
country: United States
An American salvage diver plunges into dangerous intrigue around a sunken treasure in the Philippines.


Room for One More
1952 · 1h 38m
country: United States
Anne and "Poppy" Rose have three quirky kids. Anne has a generous heart and the belief in the innocence of children. To the unhappy surprise of her husband she takes in the orphan Jane, a problem child who already tried to kill herself once.


Distant Drums
1951 · 1h 41m
country: United States
After destroying a Seminole fort, American soldiers and their rescued companions must face the dangerous Everglades and hostile Indians in order to reach safety


Close to My Heart
1951 · 1h 30m
country: United States
A journalist's wife insists on adopting an abandoned child.


Jim Thorpe – All-American
1951 · 1h 47m
country: United States
The triumph and tragedy of Native American Jim Thorpe, who, after winning both the pentathlon and decathlon in the same Olympics, is stripped of his medals on a technicality.


Force of Arms
1951 · 1h 39m
country: United States
During the winter of 1943, the German Army halted the American advance in the mountains of Italy; back-and-forth combat decimates Joe Peterson's platoon. On leave in Naples, Joe meets WAC lieutenant Eleanor MacKay; initially cool, she begins to melt during a bombing raid. Their romance develops despite Joe's periodic returns to the front. But whether he'll come back in the end becomes more than doubtful.


On Moonlight Bay
1951 · 1h 35m
country: United States
The Winfield family moves into a new house in a small town in Indiana. Tomboy Marjorie Winfield begins a romance with William Sherman who lives across the street. Marjorie has to learn how to dance and act like a proper young lady. Unfortunately William Sherman has unconventional ideas for the time. His ideas include not believing in marriage or money, which causes friction with Marjorie's father, who is the local bank vice president


I Was a Communist for the FBI
1951 · 1h 23m
country: United States
A fact-based story about a man who posed as an American Communist for years as part of a secret plan to infiltrate their organization.


Lightning Strikes Twice
1951 · 1h 31m
country: United States
Sent to a dude ranch in the west to recover her health, a New York actress falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of the murder of his wife.


Sugarfoot
1951 · 1h 20m
country: United States
The lawless west had never met a gun-throwing gent like...


Operation Pacific
1951 · 1h 51m
country: United States
During WWII, Duke E. Gifford is second in command of the USS Thunderfish, a submarine which is firing off torpedoes that either explode too early or never explode at all. It's a dilemma that he'll eventually take up personally. Even more personal is his quest to win back his ex-wife, a nurse; but he'll have to win her back from a navy flier who also happens to be his commander's little brother.


Dallas
1950 · 1h 34m
country: United States
After the Civil War, Confederate soldier Blayde Hollister travels to Dallas to avenge the savage murder of his family. Discovering his enemy is now an esteemed citizen, Hollister plots to expose the outlaw and his syndicate.


Rocky Mountain
1950 · 1h 23m
country: United States
A Confederate troop, led by Captain Lafe Barstow, is prowling the far ranges of California and Nevada in a last desperate attempt to build up an army in the West for the faltering Confederacy. Because the patrol saves a stagecoach, with Johanna Carterr as one of the passengers, from an Indian attack, and is marooned on a rocky mountain, it fails in its mission but the honor of the Old South is upheld.


The Breaking Point
1950 · 1h 37m
country: United States
A fisherman with money problems hires out his boat to transport criminals.


The Glass Menagerie
1950 · 1h 47m
country: United States
An aging Southern Belle complicates life for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her own warped views of what life should be.


The Flame and the Arrow
1950 · 1h 28m
country: United States
Dardo, a Robin Hood-like figure, and his loyal followers use a Roman ruin in Medieval Lombardy as their headquarters as they conduct an insurgency against their Hessian conquerors.


Caged
1950 · 1h 36m
country: United States
A single mistake puts a 19-year old girl behind bars, where she experiences the terrors and torments of women in prison.


Mrs. Mike
1949 · 1h 39m
country: United States
This film is based on the novel, Mrs. Mike, which is based on the real life woman, Kathy O'Fallon Flannigan. A Boston teenager is sent to live with her uncle in frontier Canada because of her fragile health. She eventually falls in love with one of the few young, white males in the region. They marry and depart for the northern wilderness to set up house and home. The rest of the movie is about her struggles and joys of living and travelling in this rugged country.


The Lady Takes a Sailor
1949 · 1h 39m
country: United States
Jennifer Smith heads a "Consumer Reports"-type company and her reputation for honesty is her greatest asset. While out boating one day she encounters a secret prototype submarine piloted by Bill Craig. Trying to explain her absence after her boat sinks becomes very difficult as Bill and his cohorts attempt to discredit her story.


Without Honor
1949 · 1h 9m
country: United States
Jane, a housewife, is confronted during her daily chores by Dennis, her married lover with whom she has had a long affair. Dennis tells Jane that he has to break off their relationship. She threatens suicide, but when she picks up a shish kabob skewer, the two struggle and Dennis is stabbed in the chest and collapses. Jane hides the body in the house. Before she can leave, her brother-in-law arrives and tells her that he knows about the affair and that he has invited her husband, her lover, and his wife to her house that evening so that he can tell them about the affair.


Beyond the Forest
1949 · 1h 37m
country: United States
Rosa, the self-serving wife of a small-town doctor, gets a better offer when a wealthy big-city man insists she get a divorce and marry him instead. Soon she demonstrates she is capable of rather deplorable acts -- including murder.


White Heat
1949 · 1h 54m
country: United States
A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After the heist, events take a crazy turn.


The Fountainhead
1949 · 1h 52m
country: United States
An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards.


Flamingo Road
1949 · 1h 34m
country: United States
A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society.


A Kiss in the Dark
1949 · 1h 27m
country: United States
Eric Phillips's manager buys him a building with tenants, one of whom catches his eye.


South of St. Louis
1949 · 1h 28m
country: United States
With the advent of the American Civil War, three partners in a ranch see how this is destroyed. Needing money, will join the Confederate troops, each for their particular motivations.


The Decision of Christopher Blake
1948 · 1h 15m
country: United States
A young boy begins to have fantasies when he learns his parents are planning to divorce. Director Peter Godfrey's 1948 drama stars Ted Donaldson, Alexis Smith, Robert Douglas, Cecil Kellaway, John Hoyt, Mary Wickes and Harry Davenport.


Fighter Squadron
1948 · 1h 36m
country: United States
During World War II, an insubordinate fighter pilot finds the shoe on the other foot when he's promoted.


Johnny Belinda
1948 · 1h 42m
country: United States
A small-town doctor helps a deaf-mute farm girl learn to communicate.


Key Largo
1948 · 1h 40m
country: United States
A hurricane swells outside, but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up - and holds at gunpoint hotel owner James Temple, his widowed daughter-in-law Nora, and ex-GI Frank McCloud.


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.


The Woman in White
1948 · 1h 49m
country: United States
A young painter stumbles upon an assortment of odd characters at an English estate where he has been hired to give art lessons to beautiful Laura Fairlie. Among them are Anne Catherick, a strange young woman dressed in white whom he meets in the forest and who bears a striking resemblance to Laura; cunning Count Fosco, who hopes to obtain an inheritance for nobleman Sir Percival Glyde, whom he plans to have Laura marry; Mr. Fairlie, a hypochondriac who can't stand to have anyone make the slightest noise; and eccentric Countess Fosco who has her own dark secret. The artist also finds himself drawn to Marion Halcomb, a distant relation to Laura for whom the Count also has plans.


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


April Showers
1948 · 1h 34m
country: United States
A married couple who have a song-and-dance act in vaudeville are in trouble. Their struggling act is going nowhere, they're almost broke and they have to do something to get them back on top or they'll really be in trouble. They decide to put their young son in the act in hopes of attracting some new attention. The boy turns out to be a major talent, audiences love him and the act is on its way to the top. That's when an organization whose purpose is to stop children from performing on stage shows up, and they're dead set on breaking up the act.


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.


The Voice of the Turtle
1947 · 1h 43m
country: United States
An aspiring Broadway actress falls in love with a soldier on leave during a weekend in New York City.


My Wild Irish Rose
1947 · 1h 41m
country: United States
Musical biography of Irish 19th century tenor Chauncey Olcott.


Life with Father
1947 · 1h 58m
country: United States
A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.


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.


Cheyenne
1947 · 1h 39m
country: United States
Slick gambler James Wylie is apprehended by the law and given the option to forgo a prison sentence if he poses as a bandit. His mission is to uncover the identity of the Poet, a notorious outlaw who has been holding up bank-owned stagecoaches and leaving verses at the crime scenes to taunt the authorities. James finds time to woo the Poet's lovely wife, Ann, who initially cold-shoulders him. But, as a romance develops, they partner up to find the robber.


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.


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 Beast with Five Fingers
1947 · 1h 28m
country: United States
Locals in an Italian village believe evil has taken over the estate of a recently deceased pianist where murder has taken place. The alleged killer: the pianist's severed hand.


Cloak and Dagger
1946 · 1h 46m
country: United States
Italian partisans help a professor sent by the OSS to find an atomic scientist held by Nazis.


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.


One More Tomorrow
1946 · 1h 27m
country: United States
Shiftless playboy Tom Collier lives to jump from party to party — until he meets photographer Christie Sage. Through Christie, Tom takes over the ownership of The Bantam, a liberal magazine that opposes everything his family represents. As Tom and Christie's relationship deepens, love blooms and he proposes to her. Realizing that she could never fit in with Tom's social circle, Christie says no, a decision she later regrets. But Tom isn't left alone for long — scheming gold-digger Cecelia Henry wastes no time in catching Tom on the rebound and forcing him into a disastrous marriage.


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.


Tomorrow Is Forever
1946 · 1h 45m
country: United States
In 1918, Elizabeth MacDonald learns that her husband, John Andrew, has been killed in the war. Elizabeth bears John's son and eventually marries her kindly boss. Unknown to her, John has survived but is horribly disfigured and remains in Europe. Years later, on the eve of World War II, Elizabeth refuses to agree to her son's request to enlist and is stunned when an eerily familiar stranger named Kessler arrives from abroad and becomes involved.


My Reputation
1946 · 1h 34m
country: United States
Tongues begin to wag when a lonely widow becomes romantically involved with a military man. Problems arise when the gossip is filtered down to her own children.


San Antonio
1945 · 1h 49m
country: United States
Rancher Clay Hardin arrives in San Antonio to search for and capture Roy Stuart, notorious leader of a gang of cattle rustlers. The vicious outlaw is indeed in the Texan town, intent on winning the affections of a beautiful chanteuse named Jeanne Starr. When the lovely lady meets and falls in love with the charismatic Hardin, the stakes for both men become higher.


Saratoga Trunk
1945 · 2h 15m
country: United States
An opportunistic Texas gambler and the exiled Creole daughter of an aristocratic family join forces to achieve justice from the society that has ostracized them.


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.


Rhapsody in Blue
1945 · 2h 41m
country: United States
Fictionalized biography of George Gershwin and his fight to bring serious music to Broadway.


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.


Roughly Speaking
1945 · 1h 57m
country: United States
In the 1920s, enterprising Louise Randall is determined to succeed in a man's world. Despite numerous setbacks, she always picks herself back up and moves forward again.


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


Arsenic and Old Lace
1944 · 1h 58m
country: United States
Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!


The Adventures of Mark Twain
1944 · 2h 10m
country: United States
A dramatised life of Samuel Langhorn Clemens, or Mark Twain.


Since You Went Away
1944 · 2h 57m
country: United States
In 1943, several people enter, re-enter, and exit the difficult life of a Midwestern family whose patriarch has been called up to war, leaving behind his wife and two teen daughters.


Up in Arms
1944 · 1h 45m
country: United States
Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted and accidentally smuggles his girlfriend aboard his Pacific-bound troopship.


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


Why We Fight: The Battle of Britain
1943 · 53m
country: United States
The fourth of Frank Capra's Why We Fight series of seven propaganda films, which made the case for fighting and winning the Second World War. It was released in 1943 and concentrated on the German bombardment of the United Kingdom in anticipation of Operation Sea Lion, the planned German invasion.


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.


Mission to Moscow
1943 · 2h 4m
country: United States
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.


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


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.


Desperate Journey
1942 · 1h 47m
country: United States
A British bomber crew, including Australian and American, is shot down over Germany during a bombing run. The five make their way across a perilous Germany, intent on reaching the UK with the war secrets they have learned, battling Nazis along the way.


The Gay Sisters
1942 · 1h 50m
country: United States
The eldest of three sisters protects their Fifth Avenue mansion from a developer she once married.


In This Our Life
1942 · 1h 37m
country: United States
An unhappy, self-centered woman runs off with her sister's husband, wreaking havoc and ruining the lives of those around her.


Murder in the Big House
1942 · 59m
country: United States
When a prisoner on Death Row is "accidentally" killed just before his execution, a reporter smells something fishy...


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.


They Died with Their Boots On
1941 · 2h 20m
country: United States
The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains the 7th Cavalry, appeases Chief Crazy Horse and later engages in bloody battle with the Sioux nation.


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.


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.


The Bride Came C.O.D.
1941 · 1h 32m
country: United States
A financially-strapped charter pilot hires himself to an oil tycoon to kidnap his madcap daughter and prevent her from marrying a vapid band leader.


Shining Victory
1941 · 1h 20m
country: United States
In a Scottish sanitarium, a brilliant research psychiatrist works on a treatment for dementia praecox. He falls for his altruistic female lab assistant and they begin a passionate, tragic relationship.


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.


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.


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


A Dispatch from Reuters
1940 · 1h 30m
country: United States
German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.


City for Conquest
1940 · 1h 44m
country: United States
The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?


All This, and Heaven Too
1940 · 2h 21m
country: United States
When lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the debonair Duc de Praslin, a royal subject to King Louis-Philippe and the husband of the volatile and obsessive Duchesse de Praslin, she instantly incurs the wrath of her mistress, who is insanely jealous of anyone who comes near her estranged husband. Though she saves the duchess's little son from a near-death illness and warms herself to all the children, she is nevertheless dismissed by the vengeful duchess as the attraction between the duke and Henriette continues to grow.


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.


Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
1940 · 1h 43m
country: United States
True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphilis.


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.


Gone with the Wind
1939 · 3h 58m
country: United States
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.


Intermezzo: A Love Story
1939 · 1h 10m
country: United States
A concert violinist becomes charmed with his daughter's talented piano teacher. When he invites her to go on tour with him, they make beautiful music away from the concert hall as well. He soon leaves his wife so the two can go off together.


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.


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.


Confessions of a Nazi Spy
1939 · 1h 44m
country: United States
FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.


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.


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.


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.


They Made Me a Criminal
1939 · 1h 32m
country: United States
A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.


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.


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.


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.


The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
1938 · 1h 27m
country: United States
A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming one himself. He joins a gang of thieves and proceeds to wrest leadership of the gang away from its extremely resentful leader.


White Banners
1938 · 1h 32m
country: Unknown
A homeless woman named Hannah drifts into the lives of the kindly Ward family, in a small Indiana town in 1919. Hannah makes herself useful as a cook and housekeeper and stays with the Wards... but her real interest is in meeting their neighbor, teenager Peter Trimble. It turns out that Peter is the son she bore out of wedlock and gave up for adoption, and now Hannah has returned to town to see what sort of young man her son has become.


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.


Gold Is Where You Find It
1938 · 1h 34m
country: United States
Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a new method developed during the gold rush of the 1870's, which is flooding the area's prosperous farmlands. Despite Ferris' political stance, Jared Whitney, a mining engineer from the East, becomes friends with the colonel's son Lance and falls in love with his daughter Serena. Family tensions deepen when the colonel's brother Ralph gives up farming to go to San Francisco to work for his wife Rosanna's father, Harrison McCooey, a leader in the mining venture. When Lance follows Ralph, the colonel, focusing his anger on Jared, forbids him to see Serena.


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.


Submarine D-1
1937 · 1h 34m
country: United States
Butch Rogers and Sock McGillis are old submarine hands stationed in Panama. On land, Butch and Sock battle over pretty Ann Sawyer. At sea and underwater, however, our two heroes are inseparable.


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.


Slim
1937 · 1h 25m
country: United States
Expert lineman Red takes Farm-boy Slim under his wing and teaches him the dangerous, migratory trade of putting up transmission lines. They both love their work, and the same girl, who hates their dangerous profession.


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.


A Star Is Born
1937 · 1h 51m
country: United States
Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her idol Norman Maine, is sent for a screen test, and before long attains stardom as newly minted Vicki Lester. She and Norman marry, though his career soon dwindles to nothing due to his chronic alcoholism.


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.


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.


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.


The Garden of Allah
1936 · 1h 19m
country: United States
The star-crossed desert romance of a cloistered woman and a renegade monk.


The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
1936 · 1h 22m
country: United States
A doctor is driven into an investigation of sinister goings-on at a horse race track by his mystery writer ex-wife.


Little Lord Fauntleroy
1936 · 1h 42m
country: United States
An American boy turns out to be the heir of a wealthy British earl. He is sent to live with the irritable and unsentimental aristocrat, his grandfather.


Chatterbox
1936 · 1h 8m
country: United States
Teenage orphan Jenny Yates becomes starstruck when a revival of an old Victorian melodrama passes through her small New England town, to the disapproval of her stern grandfather, Uriah. Stowing away in the car of Philip Greene, a wealthy young man working with the theater troupe, Jenny talks her way into the play's lead role. But director Archie Fisher doesn't tell her that the new version of the play is meant as a spoof.


I Dream Too Much
1935 · 1h 37m
country: United States
Opera student Annette Monard meets composer Jonathan Street, and in a buoyant, alcohol-fueled evening, the couple marries. Sincerely falling in love, Jonathan encourages the talented Annette to sing — yet when his own attempt at an opera fails, Jonathan lashes out at Annette's success. Despite her husband's jealousy, Annette embarks on a successful career that allows her to secretly fund Jonathan's opera, bringing their marriage to a crisis.


The Three Musketeers
1935 · 1h 36m
country: United States
In 17th century France, young d'Artagnan wants to join the King's Musketeers, but instead befriends three legendary musketeers — Athos, Porthos, and Aramis — and together, they become embroiled in the political intrigue surrounding King Louis XIII and his adversaries, particularly the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.


Alice Adams
1935 · 1h 39m
country: United States
In the lower-middle-class Adams family, father and son are happy to work in a drugstore, but mother and daughter Alice try every possible social-climbing stratagem despite snubs and embarrassment. When Alice finally meets her dream man Arthur, mother nags father into a risky business venture and plans to impress Alice's beau with an "upscale" family dinner. Will the excruciating results drive Arthur away?


She
1935 · 1h 41m
country: United States
Leo Vincey, told by his dying uncle of a lost land visited 500 years ago by his ancestor, heads out with family friend Horace Holly to try to discover the land and its secret of immortality, said to be contained within a mystic fire. Picking up Tanya, a guide's daughter, in the frozen Russian arctic, they stumble upon Kor, revealed to be a hidden civilization ruled over by an immortal queen, called She, who believes Vincey is her long-lost lover John Vincey, Leo's ancestor.


The Informer
1935 · 1h 31m
country: United States
Gypo Nolan is a former Irish Republican Army man who drowns his sorrows in the bottle. He's desperate to escape his bleak Dublin life and start over in America with his girlfriend. So when British authorities advertise a reward for information about his best friend, current IRA member Frankie, Gypo cooperates. Now Gypo can buy two tickets on a boat bound for the States, but can he escape the overwhelming guilt he feels for betraying his buddy?


The Little Minister
1934 · 1h 50m
country: United States
The stoic, proper Rev. Gavin Dishart, newly assigned to a church in the small Scottish village of Thrums, finds himself unexpectedly falling for one of his parishioners, the hot-blooded Gypsy girl Babbie. A village-wide scandal soon erupts over the minister's relationship with this feisty, passionate young woman, who holds a secret about the village's nobleman, Lord Milford Rintoul, and his role in an increasingly fractious labor dispute.


The Age of Innocence
1934 · 1h 21m
country: United States
An engaged attorney and a divorcee fall for each other in 1870s Manhattan.


The Fountain
1934 · 1h 23m
country: United States
Set during the first World War in neutral, but pro-German, Holland, Lewis Allison, an interned British officer, is paroled to the castle of Baron Von Leyden and finds living there, but now married to German officer Rupert Von Narwitz, his childhood sweetheart Julie. Long discussions between Julie and Allison, centering on family conflicts that kept them apart, take place before the severely wounded Von Narwitz returns to the castle and more long discussions ensue.


Of Human Bondage
1934 · 1h 23m
country: United States
A young man finds himself attracted to a cold and unfeeling waitress who may ultimately destroy them both.


Murder on the Blackboard
1934 · 1h 11m
country: United States
There are plenty of guilty secrets at the school where Hildegarde Withers teaches. When she finds the body of the pretty music teacher, she calls in her old friend Inspector Piper, who promptly arrests the obvious suspect. Clues multiply and everyone looks suspicious as Piper and Miss Withers continue their battle of the sexes.


The Life of Vergie Winters
1934 · 1h 22m
country: United States
A small town politician, kept from marrying the love of his life, eventually marries another woman and his career ascends, but he secretly continues the relationship with his true love.


Stingaree
1934 · 1h 17m
country: United States
A young lady named Hilda who works as a servant for the wealthy Clarksons, sheep farmers, and dreams of being a great singer. An upcoming visit by Sir Julian, a famous composer arriving from London, drives jealous Mrs. Clarkson (an interfering biddy who fancies she can sing - but can't) to send away Hilda, so he doesn't hear Hilda has a good voice. Meanwhile, an infamous outlaw named Stingaree has just arrived in town and kidnaps Sir Julian, then poses as him at the Clarksons, where he meets Hilda a few hours before she is to leave.


The Lost Patrol
1934 · 1h 13m
country: United States
A World War I British Army patrol is crossing the Mesopotamian desert when their commanding officer, the only one who knows their destination, is killed by the bullet of unseen bandits. The patrol's sergeant keeps them heading north on the assumption that they will hit their brigade. They stop for the night at an oasis and awaken the next morning to find their horses stolen, their sentry dead, the oasis surrounded and survival difficult.


The Son of Kong
1933 · 1h 10m
country: United States
Beleaguered adventurer Carl Denham returns to the island where he found King Kong.


Little Women
1933 · 1h 55m
country: United States
Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.


The Right To Romance
1933 · 1h 7m
country: United States
Against her better judgment, a dedicated and hard-working plastic surgeon (Ann Harding) finds herself falling in love with a playboy (Robert Young). Drama.


Morning Glory
1933 · 1h 14m
country: United States
Wildly optimistic chatterbox Eva Lovelace is a would-be actress trying to crash the New York stage. She attracts the interest of a paternal actor, a philandering producer, and an earnest playwright. Is she destined for stardom, or will she fade like a morning glory after its brief blooming?


Melody Cruise
1933 · 1h 16m
country: United States
A bachelor millionaire on a cruise is protected by a friend from the avid attentions of a crowd of husband (and fortune) seeking girls.


The Silver Cord
1933 · 1h 14m
country: United States
A domineering matriarch is less than happy when her son brings home his new bride. She immediately sets to work at sabotaging their marriage as well as the engagement of her younger and weaker son.


Diplomaniacs
1933 · 1h 1m
country: United States
Barbers Willy Nilly and Hercules Glub have opened a barbershop in an Indian reservation, where they have no customers. When suddenly a white man asks for a shave, several Indians of the Oopadoop nation also enter, hearing the usual barbershop banter about foreign debts, they force them to be ambassadors of their nation at the Peace conference in Geneva. Ammunition industry executive Winkelreid is scheming to prevent their mission becoming an success, but the vamp Dolores aboard the ship fails, falling in love with Nilly, and so does Fifi, the toughest person of the world in Paris, falling for Glub. Although Winkelreid is able to steal their secret papers, Nilly and Glub don't give up after being reminded by constant observation of their Indians and enter the Peace conference, which turns out to be a battlefield...


Sweepings
1933 · 1h 20m
country: United States
Daniel Pardway, starting with almost nothing after the great Chicago fire, builds the biggest department store in town. He wants to pass on the business to his three sons and daughter, but has to deal with their lack of interest or aptitude.


King Kong
1933 · 1h 40m
country: United States
Adventurous filmmaker Carl Denham sets out to produce a motion picture unlike anything the world has seen before. Alongside his leading lady Ann Darrow and his first mate Jack Driscoll, they arrive on an island and discover a legendary creature said to be neither beast nor man. Denham captures the monster to be displayed on Broadway as King Kong, the eighth wonder of the world.


Christopher Strong
1933 · 1h 18m
country: United States
A romance develops between a happily married middle-aged British politician and an adventurous young aviatrix.


Lucky Devils
1933 · 1h 10m
country: United States
Two Hollywood stuntmen compete for the same pretty extra.


The Cheyenne Kid
1933 · 54m
country: United States
Chasing a gambler that stole money, Tom Larkin gets his horse shot out from under him. Meeting an outlaw with a horse, after a fight Tom rides away on that horse. Arriving in town he is mistaken for the outlaw and offered a job of killing a man. But the man is the father of the girl that Tom's money was to go to but was stolen by the gambler.


The Monkey's Paw
1933 · 58m
country: United States
A mother wishes for the return of her dead son, a wish that is granted by the severed paw of a dead monkey.


The Animal Kingdom
1932 · 1h 25m
country: United States
Tom Collier has had a great relationship with Daisy, but when he decides to marry, it is not Daisy whom he asks, it is Cecelia. After the marriage, Tom is bored with the social scene and the obligations of his life. He publishes books that will sell, not books that he wants to write. Even worse, he has his old friend working as a butler and Cecelia wants him fired. When Tom tries to get back together with Daisy to renew the feelings that he once felt, Daisy turns the tables on him and leaves to protect both of them.


The Half-Naked Truth
1932 · 1h 17m
country: United States
A carnival pitchman (Tracy) finagles his girlfriend, a fiery hoochie dancer (Vélez), into a major Broadway revue under the auspices of an impresario (Morgan).


The Penguin Pool Murder
1932 · 1h 10m
country: United States
New York schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers assists a detective when a body of unscrupulous stockbroker Gerald Parker suddenly appears in the penguin tank at the aquarium.


The Conquerors
1932 · 1h 26m
country: United States
A newlywed couple journeys west to make their fortune, and begins a banking empire.


Little Orphan Annie
1932 · 1h 10m
country: United States
Millionaire Daddy Warbucks goes bust in the Great Depression and is forced to abandon his adopted daughter, Annie. While he's out west working on another fortune, Annie finds an orphaned boy on the streets and helps him find a home.


A Bill of Divorcement
1932 · 1h 10m
country: United States
A World War I veteran returns home after fifteen years in an asylum and finds that everything has changed — his daughter is grown and about to marry.


The Most Dangerous Game
1932 · 1h 3m
country: United States
When legendary hunter Bob Rainsford is shipwrecked on the perilous reefs surrounding a mysterious island, he finds himself the guest of the reclusive and eccentric Count Zaroff. While he is very gracious at first, Zaroff eventually forces Rainsford and two other shipwreck survivors, brother and sister Eve and Martin Towbridge, to participate in a sadistic game of cat and mouse in which they are the prey and he is the hunter.


Thirteen Women
1932 · 59m
country: United States
Thirteen women who were schoolmates ask a swami to cast their horoscopes. The news they receive is not good for any of them.


Bird of Paradise
1932 · 1h 20m
country: United States
When a young South Seas sailor falls overboard, the beautiful daughter of a Polynesian king dives in and saves his life. Thus begins the romance of Johnny and Luana. Though Luana is promised to another man, Johnny whisks her away, and for a brief time the lovers live very happily together. But, when a local volcano threatens their lives, Luana knows that she must sacrifice herself to the volcanic gods in order to save her island.


What Price Hollywood?
1932 · 1h 28m
country: United States
Sassy and ambitious waitress Mary Evans amuses and befriends amiable seldom-sober Hollywood film director Max Carey when he stumbles into her restaurant. Max invites Mary to his film premiere and, after a night of drinking and carousing, Mary is granted a screen test. A studio contract follows. Just as Mary finds her dreams coming true, Carey’s life and career begins its descent.


Is My Face Red?
1932 · 1h 6m
country: United States
William Poster writes a gossip column for the Morning Gazette. He will write about anyone and everyone as long as he gets the credit. He gets most of his information from his showgirl gal-pal, Peggy. Eventually Bill's reckless tattling gets him in deep trouble with friends and enemies, putting his career and life in jeopardy.


State's Attorney
1932 · 1h 19m
country: United States
Corrupt alcoholic attorney Tom Cardigan is one of the best lawyers around, commanding the courtroom like a stage and often winning his cases. Mobster Valentine Powers, who employs Cardigan and put him through school, asks him to represent a woman, June Perry, accused of prostitution. Cardigan agrees. But he never expected to fall for her, which is problematic since he's angling to become governor and will need the right kind of wife.


Symphony of Six Million
1932 · 1h 34m
country: United States
A young doctor escapes the slums of New York City to make his fortune as a Park Avenue doctor. When a fatal mistake results in tragedy his resolve to continue working is severely tested. Based on a novel by Fannie Hurst.


The Lost Squadron
1932 · 1h 19m
country: United States
When World War I comes to an end, three pilots find themselves on hard times. They wind up in Hollywood, where they work as stunt fliers for a sadistic director.


Girl of the Rio
1932 · 1h 18m
country: United States
A café dancer bluffs a Mexican landowner to save her lover.


Peach-o-Reno
1931 · 1h 3m
country: United States
After a quarrel at their 25th wedding anniversary, Joe and Aggie Bruno decide to divorce each other, and both leave for Reno. So do their daughters Prudence and Pansy, but they want to get their parents back together. Joe and Aggie, accidentally, are becoming clients at the same law-firm, Wattles and Swift, which is the biggest and most successful in town.


Consolation Marriage
1931 · 1h 21m
country: United States
A sportswriter jilted by his globe-trotting girlfriend marries a woman jilted by her boyfriend.


Secret Service
1931 · 1h 8m
country: United States
In 1864 a Secret Service agent for the Union army goes undercover in Richmond and pretends to be a Confederate captain.


Way Back Home
1931 · 1h 21m
country: United States
A rural Maine farmer fights for custody of the boy who he's raised as his own.


Are These Our Children?
1931 · 1h 24m
country: United States
A tale of juvenile delinquency, about a high-school student neglecting his studies, partying hard, falling in with the wrong crowd and finally finding himself on trial for murder committed during a robbery.


Fanny Foley Herself
1931 · 1h 22m
country: United States
A vaudeville performer has trouble dividing her time equally between her career and her two daughters.


Friends and Lovers
1931 · 1h 8m
country: United States
British Army captain Geoff Roberts carries on an affair with Alva, the wife of the cruel Victor Sangrito. Sangrito, however, is well aware of the affair, as he uses his beautiful wife to lure men into romance with her, then blackmailing them to save their careers.


The Gay Diplomat
1931 · 1h 7m
country: United States
Captain Orloff is sent to Bucharest to capture a Mata Hari type of spy, but many different women fit the bill and are attractive enough to make one question one's allegiance.


The Runaround
1931 · 1h 22m
country: United States
Filmed in an early Technicolor process, The Runaround tells the story of Broadway dancer Evelyn who refuses to play the gold-digging games indulged in by her fellow chorines


High Stakes
1931 · 1h 12m
country: United States
High Stakes is a 1931 American Pre-Code comedy drama produced and released by RKO Pictures. The picture was directed by Lowell Sherman who also stars and marks the last starring screen appearance of silent screen diva Mae Murray. It is based on a 1924 Broadway play that starred Sherman playing the same role he plays in this film.


The Public Defender
1931 · 1h 9m
country: United States
A mysterious phantom who calls himself The Reckoner vows to expose the crooked bankers who embezzled their company's funds.


Transgression
1931 · 1h 10m
country: United States
When British mining engineer Robert Maury is sent to India on an extended business trip, his wife Elsie finds romance with a Spanish playboy.


Cracked Nuts
1931 · 1h 5m
country: United States
To impress his fiancee's aunt, a young man tries to become king in a small kingdom, but the people there have already crowned one, who has won this honor by gambling. So he plans a coup d'etat. He tries to achieve this with a bomb, but then something goes wrong...


Bachelor Apartment
1931 · 1h 16m
country: United States
A New York playboy, Wayne Carter, dates wild women until he falls for a hard-working stenographer, Helene Andrews.


Kept Husbands
1931 · 1h 16m
country: United States
A former All-American football star, now working as a steel mill supervisor in New Jersey, falls in love with the mill owner's wealthy, very spoiled daughter.


Cimarron
1931 · 2h 3m
country: United States
When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless Yancey Cravat claims a plot of the free land for himself and moves his family there from Wichita. A newspaperman, lawyer, and just about everything else, Cravat soon becomes a leading citizen of the boom town of Osage. Once the town is established, however, he begins to feel confined once again, and heads for the Cherokee Strip, leaving his family behind. During this and other absences, his wife Sabra must learn to take care of herself and soon becomes prominent in her own right.


Beau Ideal
1931 · 1h 22m
country: United States
An American joins the French Foreign Legion in order to rescue a boyhood friend.


Dixiana
1930 · 1h 40m
country: United States
A circus performer falls in love with the son of a plantation owner in antebellum New Orleans. When the young man's stepmother objects to the wedding, the couple break apart and go their separate ways for a time. Also in the mix are two circus comics who feud over the heart of another Southern belle.


The Delightful Rogue
1929 · 1h 11m
country: United States
A modern-day pirate vies with a society playboy for the love of a dancer.


Side Street
1929 · 1h 14m
country: United States
Three New York Irish brothers cross paths as policeman, doctor and bootlegger.