Drama

A luminous Frances Farmer stars in this superb (The Hollywood Reporter) romantic drama based on the novel by Edna Ferber. Also starring Edward Arnold, Joel McCrea and Walter Brennan in an Oscar-winning performance, this tale of ruthless ambition and...

Four-time Academy Award winner Fred Zinnemann makes his feature film directorial debut in this taut and suspenseful (The Motion Picture Guide) police procedural starring Oscar winner Van Heflin (Supporting Actor, Johnny Eager, 1942) in his first leading...

Three young ladies gossip, wisecrack and love recklessly while working in a swanky New York salon that services wealthy women. Southern belle Letty (Madge Evans), who has been forced to go to work, strikes up an unlikely friendship with well-to-do...

Bette Davis, George Brent and Ricardo Cortez star in this hard-hitting crime drama inspired by the government case against Al Capone. Unable to nail racketeer Alexander Carston (Cortez) for his criminal deeds, the Feds decided to indict him for tax...

Chicago's Steinmetz High School doesn't have a hope of winning the state's academic contest. Their rival, Whitney Young, is a winning school that hand picked it's way to the top. But one teacher and his students know they can succeed with the right...

If 1930s Hollywood needed a man's man who was at ease mixing a martini at a penthouse, the call could go out for Warren William. The star shows his range in the Woman from Monte Carlo (Walter Huston. 1932/65 min.), Don't Bet on Blondes (Claire Dodd,...

When a rodeo cowpuncher lassos a Park Avenue pigeon, and weds and whisks the sophisticated lady to his ramshackle Wyoming ranch, there's Never a Dull Moment - and many funny ones in this unabashedly corny but charming roundup. As a Broadway songwriter...

Two of acting's great alchemists, Lillian Gish and Helen Hayes, take the same role 10 years apart and transform melodrama into art. They each portray Angela Chiaromonte, a sheltered Italian beauty consumed by grief when her soldier sweetheart is reported...

The Star Witness is a gripping crime thriller by way of courtroom drama in this early talkie directed by cinema titan Wild Bill William A. Wellman. The Leeds family (mother Abby, father George and their four children) have just sat down for dinner with...

When American heiress Pearl Saunders (Constance Bennett) marries Sir George Grayston (Alan Mowbray), everyone thinks it's a brilliant match. Sir George is delighted with Pearl's money, and Pearl is in love with her new husband's title in director George...

Wad Million-Mile Madison (Robert Armstrong) is the pilot you want flying your aircraft - sure and steady on the stick, his passengers' safety of utmost concern. Playboy stunt pilot Len Kendrick (Vinton Haworth), however, disregards caution and convention...

John Barrymore stars as a sadistic impresario who will stop at nothing to achieve his ambitions in this wild and wicked pre-Code drama directed by Oscar winner Michael Curtiz (Casablanca, 1943). Crippled in mind and body, half-crazed puppeteer Ivan...