Pete Sandidge (Tracy), a daredevil bomber pilot, dies when he crashes his plane into a German aircraft carrier, leaving his devoted girlfriend, Dorinda (Irene Dunne), who is also a pilot, heartbroken. In heaven, Pete receives a new assignment: he is to become the guardian angel for Ted Randall (Van Johnson), a young Army flyer. Invisibly, Pete guides Ted through flight school and into combat, but the ectoplasmic mentor's tolerance is tested when Ted falls for ...
WATCHTwo sailors, Joe (Kelly) and Clarence (Sinatra) have four days shore leave in spend their shore leave trying to get a girl for Clarence. Clarence has his eye on a girl with musical aspirations, and before Joe can stop him, promises to get her an audition with José Iturbi. But the trouble really starts when Joe realizes he's falling for his buddy's girl.
WATCHAnthony Adverse is a 1936 American drama film directed by Mervyn LeRoy. The screenplay by Sheridan Gibney is based on the sprawling 1,224-page novel of the same title by Hervey Allen.
WATCHHonest Plush Brannon is a con-man thrown out of the Barbary Coast in San Francisco in the 1880s and headed for the gold rush region of Nevada. He discovers a real mine which lead to several complications.
WATCHBud Hooper, a cadet at Winsocki Military Academy, sends an invitation to movie star Lucille Ball to come to Winsocki's big dance. Ball's publicity-hungry agent convinces her to go in order to boost her career. Complications arise when Bud's girlfriend Helen Schlesinger unexpectedly shows up, too.
WATCHBased on real-life events, Black Fury brings viewers deep into Depression hard times...and into the heart of Joe Radek, a simple, hardworking coal miner used and thrown away by racketeers eager to muscle in on the unions. Paul Muni, who personified 1930s anguish as the doomed hero of I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, makes Joe an unforgettable character: likeable, headstrong, too easily led and finally a towering force for justice as he ...
WATCHGreer Garson received her second Oscar nomination for her moving portrayal of a Texas woman who overcomes the losses of her husband and child and founds a state orphanage. Co- starring Walter Pidgeon. Nominated for four Oscars, including Best Picture, this film won for Best Art Direction. Directed by director/producer Mervyn LeRoy.
WATCHJohn Garfield plays a hardened crook behind bars who comes up against a reform-minded warden. Trouble erupts when Garfield's character encounters the man responsible for his imprisonment.
WATCHConfessions of a Nazi Spy is a brisk connect-the-dots tale that ties German-American Bund operatives to Berlin. Chief among those connecting the dots: FBI Agent Edward Renard (Robinson). Confessions of a Nazi Spy struck a nerve in its era. It remains a milestone of filmmaking commitment today.
WATCHMichael Curtiz's epic Western stars Errol Flynn as Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff who tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.
WATCHDr. Socrates is a 1935 crime film starring Paul Muni as a doctor forced to treat a wounded gangster, played by Barton MacLane.
WATCHBette Davis and Margaret Lindsay portray stepsisters from a society family in this atmospheric tale of crime and punishment in the City by the Bay. One sister is amiable, upright, eager to uphold the family name. The other is volatile, risk-taking, a moth hovering too close to the flame of high-living lowlifes who launder stolen bonds. Care to guess which actress plays her?
WATCHPlayboy and ne'er-do-well Gordon Bates is dead, that's for sure. But whodunit? That's not so sure. There are suspects aplenty. SoFrom Headquarters comes the army of crime specialists – toxicologists, fingerprint experts, ballistic experts, technicians runningdata-card tabulations on Hollerith machines and, for good measure, authorities on the use of invisible ink – that know the howdunitcan point to the who. George Brent and Eugene Pallette portray the lead crime dogs in this swift sniff-out of ...
WATCHRich kid Danny Churchill (Rooney) has a taste for wine, women and song, but not for higher education. So his father ships him to an all-male college out West where there's not supposed to be a female for miles. But before Danny arrives, he spies a pair of legs extending out from under a stalled roadster. They belong to the Dean's granddaughter, Ginger Gray (Garland), who is more interested in keeping the financially strapped college ...
WATCHGOLD IS WHERE YOU FIND IT is fairly standard Western fare concerning gold miners versus farmers in 19th century California, but it's elevated by a strong cast and is a polished Warner Bros. production.
WATCHThe Christmas-season romance of a young widow and a sales clerk who (thanks to her) is unemployed.
WATCHOn his release from prison, a crook tries to stop his brother from following in his footsteps.
WATCHSpoiled, strong-willed New Orleans belle Julie Marsden (Bette Davis) is engaged to banker Preston 'Pres' Dillard (Henry Fonda). In retaliation for Pres refusing to drop his work and accompany her while she shops for a dress, she orders a brazen red one for the most important ball of the year, one where white dresses for unmarried women are expected. All of Julie's friends are shocked, but no one can convince her to give up her ...
WATCHA woman murders her husband's mistress and someone else gets accused of the crime.
WATCHThe story of three men - Benito Juarez, Napoleon III and Emperor Maximilian - driven by political passions and of a woman, Empress Carlota, driven to madness.
WATCHThe story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.
WATCHAn ex-gangster tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal activities after he accidentally becomes a movie star.
WATCHA crusading DA persuades clip joint "party girl" Mary Dwight to testify against her mobster boss after her innocent sister is accidentally murdered during one of his unsavory "parties."
WATCHRodeo stunt rider Richard Barthelmess (as Joe "Chief" Thunder-Horse) thrills crowds at the Chicago "World's Fair" celebrating a century of progress in Native American Indian affairs. An assimilated Sioux, Mr. Barthelmess receives word that back on the Reservation his father is dying. Barthelmess takes time out to fulfill a sexual fantasy with shapely blonde Claire Dodd (as Norma), then drives to the Reservation with his happy-go-lucky manservant. On the way, he is attracted to red-skinned ...
WATCHA penniless pregnant woman takes over the identity of a rich woman killed in a train crash.
WATCHA story about a yuppie couple who gets busted for speeding in a small town and enter a comic nightmare as they try to escape from the town's ancient judge and his law-and-order Sheriff.
WATCHAs 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'.
WATCHNick and Nora are at their wise-cracking best as they investigate murder and racketeering at a local race-track.
WATCHNot long after Pearl Harbor, the U.S. scrambles for ships to put to sea – ships like the dry-docked WWI destroyer Warren. An "old Noah's Ark," scoffs Lt. Gregg Masterman (Robert Taylor), a Harvard-schooled Bostonian ensconced in a cushy desk job. Care to guess who will be volunteered to be the aged ship's executive officer? The character of a callow young man who ultimately proves his worth is one Taylor had played before, notably in ...
WATCHWhat makes a criminal tick? For Dr. Clitterhouse, there's only one way to find out. Eager to study the physical and mental states of lawbreakers, he joins a gang of jewel thieves. "Amazing - really amazing," the doc says about the end result of his life of crime. His words apply equally well to this gats-and-gags gambol. Edward G. Robinson plays the title role, giving his viceland screen persona a sly comic kick. Claire Trevor ...
WATCHThe melodramatic plot of the Warner Bros. release centers on Jimmy Morrell and Norma Nelson, who plan to wed as soon as their neighborhood pharmacy begins to show a profit. The opportunity arises when former bootlegger Dutch Barnes offers Jimmy a job duplicating name brand toothpaste and cosmetics that can be made cheaply and then sold in the bottles and jars of reputable pharmaceutical companies at regular prices. When Dutch asks him to copy the ...
WATCHA braggart soldier learns the true meaning of heroism when he joins World War I's all-Irish unit.
WATCHHis role in the plight of an unemployed man (Humphrey Bogart) and his disabled daughter profoundly affects an intractable Irish policeman (Pat O'Brien).
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