Oscar-winning legend Bette Davis ("All About Eve," "Jezebel") and Oscar-nominee Charles Boyer ("Gaslight") star in this romantic drama about a French nobleman who falls in love with his childrens governess, causing a tragic scandal in 19th-century France. Nominated for three Oscars, including Best Picture. Co-star Barbara O'Neil ("Gone with the Wind") was nominated for Best Supporting Actress.
WATCHSongbirds and lovebirds Carl and Sarah happily starve in a 19th-century Viennese garret, waiting the day the world will cheer Carl's operetta. But a lecherous baron with an eye for Sarah and a taste for duels threatens to turn their hope to tragedy.
WATCHThe 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?
WATCHHarold Lloyd plays well-liked, common-sense country doctor Jack Jackson, who cares for the incurable Sick-Little-Well-Girl and takes on the fraudulent Dr. Ludwig von Saulsbourg in this upbeat silent comedy.
WATCHSpencer Tracy stars in this biography of Thomas Edison, the famous inventor who rose from poverty to invent the electric light bulb. With Charles Coburn and Gene Lockhart and Henry Travers.
WATCHAlfred Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent was an extension of his work on The 39 Steps and The Lady Vanishes -- but this time out, he was working in Hollywood with top American (and British) talent at his disposal. The result was his first international-scale thriller, carrying us across the Atlantic with a hapless hero (Joel McCrea) trying to stay in front of a glib-tongued spy-master (Herbert Marshall), all of it strangely anticipatory of the director's North ...
WATCHThe Gold Diggers are headed for Paris, bringing their feathers, frills, New Yawk tank - and ballet shoes! A French diplomat has mistaken 43rd Street's Club Balle for the American Academy Ballet, and the chorus cuties aren't going to turn down a free trip to the City of Light over such a tiny misunderstanding.
WATCHForced by her mean-spirited father, Lord Chief Justice James O'Brien (Hobart Bosworth), to marry a man she doesn't love, Connaught O'Brien (June Collyer) gives up hope of ever with her true love, Dermot McDermot (Larry Kent). After her father dies and a hunted rebel leader (Victor McLaglen) returns to town, however, Connaught finds a renewed hope that the tides of oppression will shift and she might again find happiness. This silent romantic drama, set in ...
WATCHJames Cagney dazzles the masses with his rat-a-tat patter in this rip-roaring pre-Code comedy costarring Mary Brian, Ruth Donnelly and Allen Jenkins. No matter what the product is, Lefty Merrill (Cagney) can sell it. A fast-talking press agent, Lefty puts his mouth where the money is as he tries to prove to his prospective mother-in-law (Donnelly) that he can support both her and her daughter (Brian) in style. Hustling everything from phony treasure hunts to ...
WATCHThe Duke plays a young, ambitious pharmacist who moves into a brawling frontier town but locks horns with a local crime lord, bent on keeping the town for himself. The pharmacist must prove his innocence when he is framed for the death of a citizen after the crime lord poisons his medicine.
WATCHJean Arthur, James Stewart and Claude Rains star in Frank Capra's Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, the award-winning 1939 classic about an idealistic, small town senator who heads to Washington and suddenly finds himself single-handedly battling ruthless politicians out to destroy him. When Frank Capra decided to film the novel "The Gentleman From Montana", he ran into an obstacle Director Rouben Mamoulian owned the rights to the story. Unwilling to sell, Mamoulian eventually traded the ...
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'.
WATCHThe Extra Girl follows the misadventures of Sue Graham, a small-town lass who escapes her romantic entanglements by heading for the green pastures of Hollywood.
WATCHKatharine Hepburn is the snooty daughter of a wealthy Philadelphia family and about to marry for the second time. Things get hilariously complicated when her cunning ex-husband Cary Grant enters the scene with tabloid reporter James Stewart in tow. While Stewart falls helplessly in love with Hepburn, she rejects her stuffed-shirt fiance and realizes she's still in love with Grant. One of the greatest romantic comedies ever produced, it was recently selected as one of ...
WATCHWhen He Learns That Jesse'S Killers Have Been Pardoned By The Governor, Younger Brother Frank Reluctantly Leaves The Ranch With Vengeance On His Mind.
WATCHErrol Flynn ("The Adventures of Robin Hood") stars in this romanticized biography of General George Armstrong Custer and his last stand. Oscar and Golden Globe-winner and Emmy-nominee Olivia de Havilland ("Gone with the Wind," "The Heiress") and Oscar-nominee and Golden Globe-winner Arthur Kennedy ("Bright Victory") co-star in this wonderful portrayal of a significant historical event. This film also marks the last time that Flynn and de Havilland worked together.
WATCHDirector Frank Lloyd's sprawling 1937 western about the creation of the express mail service stars Joel McCrea, Frances Dee, Bob Burns, Henry O'Neill, Harry Davenport, Robert Cummings, Ralph Morgan, Mary Nash, Clarence Kolb, Johnny Mack Brown, Lloyd Nolan, Porter Hall, Granville Bates, Stanley Fields and Peggy Stewart.
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