Known for Costume & Make-Up
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Percival Harry Westmore (29 October 1904 – 30 September 1970) was a prominent member of the Westmore family of Hollywood make-up artists. He rose to the position of Head of the Warner Bros. make-up department, and with his brothers founded the studio "The House of Westmore" on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. He worked with well-known Hollywood actresses of the period, including Lauren Bacall, Bette Davis and Kay Francis. He was married on four occasions, and collected cuttings relating to the Westmore family throughout his life which were subsequently donated to Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences after his death.
Born
October 29, 1904
Died
September 30, 1970 (age 65)
Birthplace
Canterbury, Kent, England, UK
Filmography
262 films


There Was a Crooked Man...
1970 · 2h 3m · US
A charming but ruthless criminal is sent to a remote Arizona prison, where he enlists the help of his cellmates in an escape attempt with the promise of sharing his hidden loot.


The Good Guys and the Bad Guys
1969 · 1h 31m · US
An aging lawman and an aging outlaw join forces when their respective positions in society are usurped by a younger, but incompetent Marshal, and a younger, but vicious gang leader.


The Blue Veil
1951 · 1h 53m · US
A World War I widow loses her only child and spends the rest of her life as a children's nurse.


Storm Warning
1951 · 1h 33m · US
A fashion model witnesses the brutal assassination of an investigative journalist by the Ku Klux Klan while traveling to a small town to visit her sister.


Three Secrets
1950 · 1h 38m · US
A five-year-old boy is the sole survivor of a devastating plane crash in the mountains of California. When the newspapers reveal the boy was adopted and that the crash occurred on his birthday, three women begin to ponder if it's the son each gave up for adoption. As the three await news of his rescue at a mountain cabin, they recall incidents from five years earlier and why they were forced to give up their son.


Pretty Baby
1950 · 1h 32m · US
A young woman living in Manhattan pretends to be the mother of an infant in order to get a seat on the subway.


The Great Jewel Robber
1950 · 1h 31m · US
A dramatization of the criminal career of notorious jewel thief Gerard Dennis, who targeted wealthy socialites and movie stars.


The Flame and the Arrow
1950 · 1h 28m · US
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.


Return of the Frontiersman
1950 · 1h 14m · US
A sheriff's son is falsely accused of murder, and a friend determines to clear his name and find the real killer.


This Side of the Law
1950 · 1h 14m · US
A man - trapped in a cistern - reflects on the dark events that lead to his lonely entrapment. Told in flashback, we witness his chance encounter with a nefarious lawyer who persuades him to impersonate a wealthy man who went missing 7 years ago.


Bright Leaf
1950 · 1h 50m · US
Two tobacco growers battle for control of the cigarette market.


Colt .45
1950 · 1h 14m · US
Gun salesman Steve Farrell gets two of his new Colt .45 pistols stolen from him by ruthless killer Jason Brett but vows to recover them.


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


The Damned Don't Cry
1950 · 1h 43m · US
Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.


The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
1950 · 1h 44m · US
An Irish horsecar driver's daughter meets New York showman Tony Pastor and goes into vaudeville.


Barricade
1950 · 1h 15m · US
Western remake of Jack London's The Sea Wolf. A sadistic mining camp owner "hires" scoundrels to work the mine. He just won't let them quit.


Perfect Strangers
1950 · 1h 29m · US
Romance at a murder trial with a pair of sequestered jurors who are the only ones who think that the woman in the dock is innocent. Separated from their normal lives, jurors Terry Scott and David Campbell start to fall in love.


Montana
1950 · 1h 16m · US
An Australian sheep man comes to Montana looking for grazing space, is opposed by local ranchers and a wealthy cattle-woman.


Backfire
1950 · 1h 31m · US
When he's discharged from a military hospital, ex-GI Bob Corey goes on a search for his army buddy Steve Connolly. A reformed crook, Connolly is on the lam from a trumped-up murder rap, and Corey hopes to clear his pal. Tagging along is Army nurse Julie Benson, who has fallen for Corey.


The Inspector General
1949 · 1h 41m · US
An illiterate stooge in a traveling medicine show wanders into a strange town and is picked up on a vagrancy charge. The town's corrupt officials mistake him for the inspector general whom they think is traveling in disguise. Fearing he will discover they've been pocketing tax money, they make several bungled attempts to kill him.


Beyond the Forest
1949 · 1h 37m · US
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.


The House Across the Street
1949 · 1h 9m · US
Dave Joslin, the managing editor of a big-city newspaper, is demoted and moved to the Miss Lonely Hearts column-writing department by the newspaper's publisher, J. B. Grennell, because Joslin refuses to desist in printing stories linking a gangster, Matthew Keever, to a murder. But Joslin, aided by Kit Williams, a newspaper woman with whom he is in love, investigate the murder case on their own time.


White Heat
1949 · 1h 54m · US
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.


It's a Great Feeling
1949 · 1h 25m · US
A waitress at the Warner Brothers commissary is anxious to break into pictures. She thinks her big break may have arrived when actors Jack Carson and Dennis Morgan agree to help her.


One Last Fling
1949 · 1h 5m · US
A jealous wife suspects the worst when her dingaling husband hires his former girlfriend for a position at his company.


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


Colorado Territory
1949 · 1h 34m · US
After escaping from jail, outlaw Wes McQueen is convinced by his old partner in crime to do one last heist.


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


Homicide
1949 · 1h 17m · US
Michael Landers, a police lieutenant, sets out to investigate an intricate murder case. But, the case is closed after the only witness is found dead. Will Michael be able to fathom the mystery?


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


Flaxy Martin
1949 · 1h 26m · US
Attorney Walter Colby has ties to the mob, but he begins to regret his criminal affiliations. When his girlfriend, showgirl Flaxy Martin, who also has shady connections, becomes a suspect in a murder, Walter takes the fall. However, on his way to prison, he escapes, determined to bring the real killer to justice.


One Sunday Afternoon
1948 · 1h 30m · US
The third film version of James Hagan's play, this time with songs added, starring Dennis Morgan as a dentist who marries patient and loyal Dorothy Malone despite his constant infatuation with sexy flirt Janis Paige.


Whiplash
1948 · 1h 31m · US
An artist follows a woman from California to New York, where he boxes for her mobster husband.


The Decision of Christopher Blake
1948 · 1h 15m · US
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.


June Bride
1948 · 1h 36m · US
A magazine's staff, including bickering ex-lovers Linda and Carey, cover an Indiana wedding, which goes slightly wrong.


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


Two Guys from Texas
1948 · 1h 26m · US
Two vaudevillians on the run from crooks try to pass themselves off as cowboys.


Embraceable You
1948 · 1h 20m · US
Eddie, a small-time hoodlum is forced to care for Marie, the woman he accidentally hit with his car during a crime. He is broke and hits up his very displeased mob boss for cash. To make matters worse, Eddie and Marie begin to fall for each other.


Key Largo
1948 · 1h 40m · US
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.


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


Romance on the High Seas
1948 · 1h 39m · US
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 · US
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 · US
A repressed poetess and an embittered war hero help each other cope with their problems.


My Girl Tisa
1948 · 1h 35m · US
1905 was a period of heavy immigration from Europe to America before laws were passed restricting the flow of immigrants. Almost every character in this movie is a recent arrival. Tisa has been in America only four months, yet she is holding four jobs to save enough money to pay for her father's boat passage to America. She works in a garment factory in Greenwich Village owned by Mr. Grumbach, who is studying to pass his citizenship test. Denek, a brash young man, tries to help her but gets her into trouble and her deportation is ordered by an immigration judge.


Rope
1948 · 1h 21m · US
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 · US
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.


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


Escape Me Never
1947 · 1h 44m · US
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 · US
The secretary of an affably suave radio mystery host mysteriously commits suicide after his wealthy young niece disappears.


Dark Passage
1947 · 1h 46m · US
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 · US
A woman uncovers deadly secrets when she visits her late husband's family.


Deep Valley
1947 · 1h 44m · US
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 · US
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 · US
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.


Possessed
1947 · 1h 48m · US
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 · US
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 · US
A veterinarian and a novelist compete for the heart of a lady rancher.


Pursued
1947 · 1h 41m · US
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 · US
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 · US
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.


The Beast with Five Fingers
1947 · 1h 28m · US
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.


Humoresque
1947 · 2h 5m · US
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 · US
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 · US
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.


Deception
1946 · 1h 50m · US
After marrying her long lost love, a pianist finds the relationship threatened by a wealthy composer who is besotted with her.


The Verdict
1946 · 1h 26m · US
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.


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


Shadow of a Woman
1946 · 1h 18m · US
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 · US
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.


Two Guys from Milwaukee
1946 · 1h 30m · US
Balkan Prince Henry has two wishes, to meet Lauren Bacall and see the "real" America. He befriends cabbie Buzz Williams and, without knowing the microphone is live, the two stage a debate on democracy versus monarchy broadcast back to the Prince's homeland. A plebiscite there puts Henry out of a job. Flying to Milwaukee to become a beer salesman, he meets Bacall on the seat next to his, but a tap on his shoulder means he must give up his seat (and dream) to Bogie.


Of Human Bondage
1946 · 1h 45m · US
A medical student with a club foot falls for a beautiful but ambitious waitress. She soon leaves him, but gets pregnant and comes back to him for help.


A Stolen Life
1946 · 1h 49m · US
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 · US
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 · US
Judy Jones can claim inheritance only if she marries a genius.


Three Strangers
1946 · 1h 32m · US
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.


San Antonio
1945 · 1h 49m · US
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.


Danger Signal
1945 · 1h 18m · US
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 · US
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 · US
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 · US
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.


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


Conflict
1945 · 1h 26m · US
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 · US
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 · US
An assortment of diverse characters gather at the Hotel Berlin in World War II Germany as the Third Reich falls.


Objective, Burma!
1945 · 2h 22m · US
A group of men parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma with a dangerous and important mission: to locate and blow up a radar station. They accomplish this well enough, but when they try to rendezvous at an old air-strip to be taken back to their base, they find Japanese waiting for them, and they must make a long, difficult walk back through enemy-occupied jungle.


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


The Doughgirls
1944 · 1h 42m · US
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 · US
A guerilla leader falls in love with a mysterious woman in World War II Lisbon.


Crime by Night
1944 · 1h 12m · US
A private eye and his secretary probe a murder and find an international spy.


Arsenic and Old Lace
1944 · 1h 58m · US
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 Mask of Dimitrios
1944 · 1h 35m · US
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 · US
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 · US
A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.


Between Two Worlds
1944 · 1h 52m · US
Passengers on an ocean liner can't recall how they got onboard or where they are going. Soon it becomes apparent that they all have something in common.


Uncertain Glory
1944 · 1h 42m · US
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.


Shine on Harvest Moon
1944 · 1h 52m · US
Biographical movie about the early 20th century broadway stars Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth.


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


Destination Tokyo
1943 · 2h 15m · US
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.


Old Acquaintance
1943 · 1h 50m · US
Two writers, friends since childhood, fight over their books and lives.


Northern Pursuit
1943 · 1h 33m · US
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.


Find the Blackmailer
1943 · 55m · US
A private eye is hired by a mayoral candidate to prevent any sort of adverse publicity. It seems that, somewhere in town, there's a talking blackbird who insists upon saying that the candidate will commit a murder. When the killing occurs, the candidate is implicated, and the detective is off on a hectic pursuit of the incriminating crow and the actual murderer.


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


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


Watch on the Rhine
1943 · 1h 54m · US
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.


This Is the Army
1943 · 2h 1m · US
In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW II his son Johnny Jones, who was before his fathers assistant, gets the order to stage a knew all-soldier show, called THIS IS THE ARMY. But in his pesonal life he has problems, because he refuses to marry his fiancée until the war is over.


Background to Danger
1943 · 1h 20m · US
An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.


The Constant Nymph
1943 · 1h 52m · US
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.


Action in the North Atlantic
1943 · 2h 6m · US
Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged with getting a supply vessel to Russian allies as part of a sea convoy. When the group of ships comes under attack from a German U-boat, Rossi and Jarvis navigate through dangerous waters to evade Nazi naval forces. Though their mission across the Atlantic is extremely treacherous, they are motivated by the opportunity to strike back at the Germans, who sank one of their earlier ships.


Edge of Darkness
1943 · 1h 59m · US
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 · US
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.


The Mysterious Doctor
1943 · 57m · US
The citizens of a tiny Cornish village are tormented during World War II by a headless ghost which is haunting the local tin mine.


The Gorilla Man
1943 · 1h 4m · US
A wounded soldier discovers his hospital is secretly run by the Nazis.


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


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


Gentleman Jim
1942 · 1h 44m · US
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 · US
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 · US
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 · US
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.


Busses Roar
1942 · 58m · US
A sergeant saves the day when Axis agents plant a bomb on a bus bound for California oil fields.


Secret Enemies
1942 · 57m · US
FBI agents Carl Becker and John Trent raid a New York City hotel, sending Nazi spies to an upstate hunting lodge.


Across the Pacific
1942 · 1h 37m · US
Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact that he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-martialed out of the army and boards a Japanese ship for the Orient in late 1941. But has Leland really been booted out, or is there some other motive for his getting close to fellow passenger Doctor Lorenz?


The Big Street
1942 · 1h 28m · US
After her abusive gangster boyfriend pushes her down a flight of stairs, self-absorbed nightclub torch singer Gloria Lyons becomes paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair. Despite her bitter treatment of him, busboy Little Pinks selflessly takes her in and cares for her as she alienates others.


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


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


The Big Shot
1942 · 1h 22m · US
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 · US
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.


Juke Girl
1942 · 1h 30m · US
During the depths of the Great Depression a hitch-hiker Steve Talbot and juke-joint hostess Lola Mears stumble into Cat-Tail Florida where farmers and pickers struggle under the buyer who rules by monopoly, dirty contracts and violence. Steve helps organize against the buyer, leading to further escalation ending in a lynch mob.


Yankee Doodle Dandy
1942 · 2h 6m · US
A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. Cohan.


In This Our Life
1942 · 1h 37m · US
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 · US
When a prisoner on Death Row is "accidentally" killed just before his execution, a reporter smells something fishy...


I Was Framed
1942 · 1h 1m · US
A reporter runs from charges by a corrupt politician only to face them years later.


Lady Gangster
1942 · 1h 2m · US
An actress gets involved with a criminal gang and winds up taking the rap for a $40,000 bank robbery. Before being sent to prison, she steals the money from her partners and hides it, thinking to use it as a bargaining chip to be released from prison. However, her former partners have different ideas.


Always in My Heart
1942 · 1h 32m · US
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 · US
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.


Bullet Scars
1942 · 59m · US
Dr. Steven Bishop is taken to the hideout of Frank Dillon and his gang to treat the wounded Joe Madison. Joe's nurse sister Nora Madison is also taken. Dillon tells Bishop that if Joe dies, he will be killed, but Bishop knows he will be either way. Joe dies, but Nora and Steve conceal it from Dillon and send a plea for help in a prescription that Bishop writes in Latin.


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


Kings Row
1942 · 2h 7m · US
Five young adults in a small American town face the revelations of secrets that threaten to ruin their hopes and dreams.


All Through the Night
1942 · 1h 47m · US
Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship.


You're in the Army Now
1941 · 1h 19m · US
Incompetent door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesmen become enlisted without their knowledge.


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


Dangerously They Live
1941 · 1h 17m · US
A New York City doctor tries to rescue a young woman from Nazi agents.


Steel Against the Sky
1941 · 1h 7m · US
Steel-worker brothers compete for the same woman.


The Body Disappears
1941 · 1h 12m · US
Wealthy scion Peter DeHaven, about to marry socialite Christine Lunceford, wakes up after bachelor party revelry to find he's been turned invisible by eccentric college professor Reginald Shotesbury. An unbelievable series of events is revealed by several witnesses testifying in a "mystery trial" to determine the reason for DeHaven's "disappearance".


They Died with Their Boots On
1941 · 2h 20m · US
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.


One Foot in Heaven
1941 · 1h 48m · US
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.


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


Law of the Tropics
1941 · 1h 16m · US
Jim Conway, who works on a South American rubber plantation, leaves to meet a girl from the United States whom he is to marry. But he receives a telegram from her telling him she has married someone else. He goes to a waterfront café where he meets a singer, Joan Madison, and tells her his troubles. He asks her to marry him and return to the plantation with him using the name of the girl he was to marry. This strikes her as a great idea as she is a wanted fugitive.


Sergeant York
1941 · 2h 14m · US
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 · US
A reporter is constantly in trouble for jumping to conclusions.


The Smiling Ghost
1941 · 1h 11m · US
Elinor Bentley Fairchild's previous three grooms-to-be have either died or been maimed. Her aunt hires Lucky Downing to become engaged to her for a month to break the curse. But Lucky becomes a target of what appears to be the ghost of one of the former fiances.


Passage from Hong Kong
1941 · 1h 1m · US
In this comedy, a crime novelist spins a yarn to impress the apple of his eye. He tells her that he has been involved in a murder.


Dive Bomber
1941 · 2h 12m · US
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 Little Foxes
1941 · 1h 57m · US
In 1900, a clan attempts to strike a deal with a Chicago industrialist to get him to build cotton mills in their Deep South town.


Manpower
1941 · 1h 44m · US
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.


Highway West
1941 · 1h 4m · US
A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.


The Bride Came C.O.D.
1941 · 1h 32m · US
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.


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


Underground
1941 · 1h 35m · US
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.


Out of the Fog
1941 · 1h 25m · US
A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves rather than complain to the police.


Million Dollar Baby
1941 · 1h 40m · US
A sudden windfall has unexpected consequences on a working class girl during the Great Depression.


Affectionately Yours
1941 · 1h 28m · US
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 · US
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.


A Shot in the Dark
1941 · 57m · US
A reporter and a police detective sort through the clues in a night-club owner's murder.


The Great Lie
1941 · 1h 48m · US
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 · US
Shipwrecked fugitives try to escape a brutal sea captain who's losing his mind.


Here Comes Happiness
1941 · 57m · US
Jessica leaves her upper class home to assume an anonymous working class identity. She meets a blue collar guy, Chet and falls in love with the poor but ambitious man. Chet observes a series of suspicious, clandestine meetings with her rich father and his chauffeur which makes him think she is stringing along a "Sugar Daddy" on the side. Financial trickery and sequences of misunderstandings and coincidences culminate with a wedding that turns out much differently than planned.


Footsteps in the Dark
1941 · 1h 36m · US
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.


Shadows on the Stairs
1941 · 1h 4m · US
Occupants of a London boarding house become suspects as a string of murders are discovered.


The Strawberry Blonde
1941 · 1h 37m · US
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 · US
A publicity man promotes his newspaper, but finds his boss always steals the credit.


Flight from Destiny
1941 · 1h 15m · US
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.


High Sierra
1941 · 1h 40m · US
Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort.


Honeymoon for Three
1941 · 1h 15m · US
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.


The Case of the Black Parrot
1941 · 1h · US
Sandy Vantine and her uncle, Paul Vantine, return from Europe with an antique cabinet purchased during their trip. Jim Moore, a reporter who had met Sandy and fallen for her during the voyage, suspects something odd about the cabinet. His suspicions are confirmed when people who have touched the cabinet mysteriously die. Jim and Sandy set out to solve the mystery before anyone else can become a victim.


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


Santa Fe Trail
1940 · 1h 50m · US
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 · US
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.


Lady with Red Hair
1940 · 1h 21m · US
An actress hopes to regain her lost son by making it to the top.


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


Father Is A Prince
1940 · 58m · US
Carpet-sweeper manufacturer John Bower has no patience with inefficiency, lawyers, or vacuum cleaners. He's a bit of a skinflint, too. His family thinks he works too hard. He feels inferior for not having gone to college, so now he doesn't want his children going, either. His daughter Connie is afraid to break the news of her engagement to Gary Lee, especially since not only is Gary a lawyer and a college grad, but his father owns a vacuum-cleaner company, too.


South of Suez
1940 · 1h 26m · US
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.


Tugboat Annie Sails Again
1940 · 1h 17m · US
Two rival tugboat captains compete for local business.


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


City for Conquest
1940 · 1h 44m · US
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?


No Time for Comedy
1940 · 1h 38m · US
An aspiring playwright finds himself an overnight Broadway success.


Flowing Gold
1940 · 1h 21m · US
In the American oilfields, a fugitive from justice's destiny is intertwined with the fortunes and the misfortunes of a small oil company that hires him as a roughneck.


Money and the Woman
1940 · 1h 7m · US
An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.


The Sea Hawk
1940 · 2h 7m · US
Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures.


Ladies Must Live
1940 · 58m · US
A small town farmer, who happens to be very wealthy, meets and falls for an actress, but his friends warn him she's only interested in his money.


They Drive by Night
1940 · 1h 35m · US
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 · US
A young law graduate joins his older brother's legal practice, only to discover the firm's clients are mostly mobsters.


My Love Came Back
1940 · 1h 25m · US
Amelia is a gifted violinist who is in danger of quitting the Brissac Academy of Music. Julius arranges to have a scholarship given to her through his employee Tony so that Julius can escort Amelia to every musical event in the city. The trouble begins when he cannot meet her one night and Tony goes in his place. Tony believes that Julius and Amelia are a couple and then son Paul thinks that Tony and Amelia are a couple as he is sending her the money. The worst part is that Amelia might leave classical music for swing music with classmates Dusty, Joy and the band.


All This, and Heaven Too
1940 · 2h 21m · US
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.


Brother Orchid
1940 · 1h 28m · US
When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.


Torrid Zone
1940 · 1h 28m · US
A Central American plantation manager and his boss battle over a traveling showgirl.


An Angel from Texas
1940 · 1h 9m · US
A pair of slick Broadway producers con a wealthy cowboy into backing their show.


It All Came True
1940 · 1h 37m · US
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 · US
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 · US
German scientist Paul Ehrlich makes remarkable advancements in the field of medical diagnostics with his research in cellular staining with dyes. His work results in new knowledge about tuberculosis, but also leads to his contraction of the disease. Ehrlich travels to Egypt, where he investigates diphtheria and earns more accolades. Eventually, his research in treating diseases leads to the development of a 'magic bullet' treatment for syphilis.


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


The Fighting 69th
1940 · 1h 30m · US
Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the regimental chaplain, has faith that he'll prove himself in the end.


Invisible Stripes
1939 · 1h 21m · US
A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.
Old Hickory
Old Hickory
1939 · 17m · US
Four key incidents in the public life of Andrew Jackson (1767-1845), seventh President of the United States.


Four Wives
1939 · 1h 39m · US
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.


We Are Not Alone
1939 · 1h 52m · US
A British doctor and his son's Austrian governess have an affair and are accused of killing his wife.


The Return of Doctor X
1939 · 1h 2m · US
When news reporter Walter Garrett arrives at the hotel room of bombshell actress Angela Merrova to conduct an interview, he finds her dead from multiple stab wounds. He returns with the police to find the hotel empty and the body vanished. Garrett writes about the incident but is fired when Merrova, alive and well, goes to the paper to complain. Now his only chance to get his job back is to find the truth, which involves the grisly scheme of a madman.


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


The Roaring Twenties
1939 · 1h 44m · US
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.


Espionage Agent
1939 · 1h 23m · US
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 · US
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 · US
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 Bill of Rights
1939 · 21m
This short subject is a lavish costumed color production which dramatizes the birth of the American Bill of Rights. It depicts leading political figures of the American Revolution and the despotic British colonial rule which led to the creation of the Bill of Rights.


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


The Man in the Iron Mask
1939 · 1h 52m · US
Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis, Athos and Porthos, have fought together with their friend, D'Artagnan. But with the tyrannical King Louis using his power to wreak havoc in the kingdom while his twin brother, Philippe, remains imprisoned, the Musketeers reunite to abduct Louis and replace him with Philippe.


Daughters Courageous
1939 · 1h 47m · US
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 · US
The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juárez and democracy.


The Gorilla
1939 · 1h 8m · US
When an escaped circus gorilla appears to have gone on a murderous rampage, a threatened attorney calls on the detective trio of Garrity, Harrigan and Mullivan to act as bodyguards. In short order, we discover that there is more to the attorney than meets the eye, and the ape may be innocent after all. When a pretty young heiress faces peril, it's up to our heroic trio to save the day.


Dodge City
1939 · 1h 44m · US
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 · US
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.


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


Angels with Dirty Faces
1938 · 1h 37m · US
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.


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


Boy Meets Girl
1938 · 1h 26m · US
Two lazy screenwriters need a story for the studio's cowboy star. A studio waitress turns out to be pregnant. This gives them the idea for a movie about a cowboy and a baby. The waitress's baby becomes the star. The cowboy and his agent run off with the waitress and her valuable asset. The writers retaliate by hiring an unemployed extra to impersonate the baby's father. But the extra already knows the waitress...


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


The Great Garrick
1937 · 1h 29m · US
Celebrated 18th-century British actor David Garrick receives an invitation from the Comédie-Française in Paris, but they mistakenly hear that he plans to give them acting lessons. Insulted, the troupe arranges to stay at his inn and put on an outlandish performance to convince him of their skills. When Countess Germaine de la Corbe, fleeing an arranged marriage, arrives, Garrick believes that her romantic advances are part of the plot.


The Life of Emile Zola
1937 · 1h 56m · US
A fictionalized account of famous French writer Émile Zola and his involvement in the Dreyfus Affair. After struggling to establish himself, Zola wins success documenting the unsavory side of Paris and settles into a comfortable upper-class life. However, his complacency is shaken when Jewish officer Alfred Dreyfus is imprisoned for espionage. Realizing that Dreyfus is an innocent victim of anti-Semitism, Zola boldly pens an exposé, only to be charged with libel and now he must defend himself in a dramatic courtroom testimony.


Anthony Adverse
1936 · 2h 21m · US
Based on the novel by Hervey Allen, this expansive drama follows the many adventures of the eponymous hero, Anthony Adverse. Abandoned at a convent by his heartless nobleman father, Don Luis, Anthony is later mentored by his kind grandfather, John Bonnyfeather, and falls for the beautiful Angela Giuseppe. When circumstances separate Anthony and Angela and he embarks on a long journey, he must find his way back to her, no matter what the cost.


The Walking Dead
1936 · 1h 6m · US
Down-on-his-luck John Ellman is framed for a judge's murder. After he's convicted and sentenced to death, witnesses come forth and prove his innocence. But it was too late for a stay to be granted and Ellman is executed. A doctor uses an experimental procedure to restore him to life, though the full outcome is other than expected.


Ceiling Zero
1936 · 1h 35m · US
War veteran pilots Dizzy Davis, Texas Clark and Jake Lee are working in an airline. Dizzy is fooling with one of the younger pilot's girl-friend and due to this he changes flights with Texas.


Mutiny on the Bounty
1935 · 2h 12m · US
Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty. However, Bligh returns one year later, hell bent on revenge.


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


The St. Louis Kid
1934 · 1h 8m · US
Trucker Eddie Kennedy gets involved with the law when he has an car accident with Ann Reid and knocks the owner of a dairy out. He evades a penalty when he claims, that he had done it as an act of solidarism with the farmers. The farmers start an boycott action against this dairy, so the owner has to bring milk from elsewhere to his dairy, but the farmers closed the road, and Kennedy is arrested once more. He leaves jail at night to meet Ann, but meanwhile the owner has asked some mobsters to deliver the milk. One of the farmers is murdered, Ann Reid is missing and Eddie Kennedy is accused of murder.


Jimmy the Gent
1934 · 1h 7m · US
An unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and tea-drinking manners to win back the sweetheart who now works for his seemingly upright competitor.


Fashions of 1934
1934 · 1h 18m · US
When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Snap and fashion designer Lynn Mason to provide discount shops with cheap copies of Paris couture dresses.


Lady Killer
1933 · 1h 16m · US
An ex-gang member tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal influence after he suddenly becomes a Hollywood movie star.


Footlight Parade
1933 · 1h 44m · US
A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when he tries to produce live musicals for movie-going audiences.


Wild Boys of the Road
1933 · 1h 8m · US
At the height of the Great Depression, Tommy's mother has been out of work for months when Eddie's father loses his job. Eager not to burden their parents, the two high school sophomores decide to hop the freight trains and look for work.


The Mayor of Hell
1933 · 1h 30m · US
Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner, arrives and takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. Thompson needs a quick way to discredit him.


Gold Diggers of 1933
1933 · 1h 37m · US
When all Broadway shows are shut down during the Depression, a trio of desperate showgirls scheme to bilk a repugnant high society man of his money to keep their show going.


Picture Snatcher
1933 · 1h 17m · US
An ex-con uses his street smarts to become a successful photojournalist.


42nd Street
1933 · 1h 29m · US
Broadway director Julian Marsh needs just one more hit show so he can retire and recover his health. It looks like he just may pull it off until temperamental star Dorthy Brock breaks her ankle on the eve of the show's premiere and has to be replaced by her understudy Peggy.


Mystery of the Wax Museum
1933 · 1h 18m · US
A wax sculptor opens a new museum years after he is severely injured during a fire that destroyed his original collection. The disappearance of both people and corpses coincides with this grand reopening and leads a reporter to start investigating.


Hard to Handle
1933 · 1h 18m · US
A hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads.


Doctor X
1932 · 1h 16m · US
A wisecracking reporter investigates the cannibalistic 'Moon Killer' murders tied to a medical academy, culminating in a chilling reenactment experiment.


The Crowd Roars
1932 · 1h 25m · US
Famous auto racing champion Joe Greer returns to his hometown to compete in a local race, discovering that his younger brother has aspirations to become a racing champion.


The Man Who Played God
1932 · 1h 20m · US
While giving a private performance for a visiting monarch, concert pianist Montgomery Royle is deafened when a bomb is detonated in an attempt to assassinate the foreign ruler. With his career over as a result of his injury, Royle returns to New York City with his sister Florence, close friend Mildred Miller, and considerably younger fiancée Grace Blair. After abandoning thoughts of suicide, Montgomery discovers he can lip read, and he spends his days observing people in Central Park from his apartment window. As he learns of people's problems, he tries to help them anonymously and becomes absorbed in his game of "playing God".


Taxi!
1932 · 1h 9m · US
Amidst a backdrop of growing violence and intimidation, independent cab drivers struggling against a consolidated juggernaut rally around hot-tempered Matt Nolan. Nolan is determined to keep competition alive on the streets, even if it means losing the woman he loves.


The Star Witness
1931 · 1h 8m · US
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.


Night Nurse
1931 · 1h 12m · US
Lora Hart manages to land a job in a hospital as a trainee nurse. Upon completion of her training she goes to work as a night nurse for two small children who seem to be very sick, though something much more sinister is going on.


The Doorway to Hell
1930 · 1h 18m · US
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.


Maybe It's Love
1930 · 1h 12m · US
A college flirt lures the nation's best football players to join her school's team.


Seven Footprints to Satan
1929 · 1h 17m · US
Before a planned African expedition, Jim's fiancée Eve worries her father's guest plans to steal one of her father's rubies. The couple are kidnapped and held prisoner at a mysterious, creepy house, where strange things are afoot.


Don Q Son of Zorro
1925 · 1h 51m · US
Don Cesar De Vega crosses swords with a vicious member of the Queen's Guard, and steals the affection of a young heiress. When the officer frames the young upstart for murder, Don Cesar fakes his own death and retreats to the crumbling ruins of the family castle, where he plots his vengeance.


The Lost World
1925 · 1h 44m · US
The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.