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Directed by Mervyn LeRoyOrigin USAGenres DramaThemes Films about education,
Prison films,
Films about capital punishmentActors Claude Rains,
Gloria Dickson,
Edward Norris,
Lana Turner,
Otto Kruger,
Allyn JoslynRating71%
A southern town is rocked by scandal when teenager Mary Clay is murdered on Confederate Memorial Day. A district attorney with political ambitions, Andrew Griffin, sees the crime as way to the Senate if he can find the right scapegoat to be tried for the crime. He seeks out Robert Hale, Mary's teacher at the business school where she was killed. Even though all evidence against Hale is circumstantial, Hale happens to be from New York (Leo Frank was a Southerner from Texas, but he was Jewish and had been raised in New York), and Griffin works with reporter William Brock to create a media frenzy of prejudice and hatred against the teacher. The issue moves from innocence or guilt to the continuing bigotry and suspicion between South and North, especially given the significance of the day of the murder., 21minutes
Directed by Roy MackOrigin USAGenres MusicalThemes Musical filmsActors Hal Le Roy,
June Allyson,
Phil SilversRating59%
An elevator operator Harry Smith (Hal Le Roy), who works in a luxury hotel, courts the hotel president's daughter June Dailey (June Allyson). She is engaged to another, but when her fiance leaves on a business trip, Harry asks her to join him for dinner., 1h2
Directed by Phil RosenOrigin USAGenres Drama,
CrimeActors Marian Marsh,
Gordon Oliver,
Miles Mander,
Margaret Dumont,
Milburn Stone,
Peggy ShannonRating62%
'Bobbie' Blake, (Marian Marsh), and Phillip Henderson, (Gordon Oliver), are complete strangers, looking in a jewellery store window, when a hood known as “The Sparkler”, (Miles Mander), sets them up to take the wrap, stashing some of the loot in their pockets, as the gang makes their getaway., 58minutes
Directed by Joseph KaneOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Action,
WesternActors Gene Autry,
Smiley Burnette,
Ronald Sinclair,
Judith Allen,
Guy Usher,
Wild Bill ElliottRating56%
Following the death of his father, Edward (Ronald Sinclair), the young Earl of Granville, travels from England with his solicitor, Henry Wyndham (John Ward), to his father's ranch in the Western United States. There he is welcomed by ranch foreman Gene Autry (Gene Autry) and his sidekick Frog Millhouse (Smiley Burnette) who promised their late friend that they would make a real Westerner of his son. Gene is surprised by Edward's arrogant demeanor and dismayed to learn that Wyndham plans to sell the ranch, which is deeply in debt., 1h32
Directed by Gregory La Cava,
James AndersonOrigin USAGenres Drama,
ComedyThemes Films about television,
Films based on playsActors Katharine Hepburn,
Franklin Pangborn,
Ginger Rogers,
Adolphe Menjou,
William Corson,
Pierre WatkinRating76%
Terry Randall (Katharine Hepburn) moves into the Footlights Club, a theatrical rooming house in New York. Her polished manners and superior attitude make her no friends among the rest of the aspiring actresses living there, particularly her new roommate, flippant, cynical dancer Jean Maitland (Ginger Rogers). From Terry's expensive clothing and her photograph of her elderly grandfather, Jean assumes she has obtained the former from her sugar daddy, just as fellow resident Linda Shaw (Gail Patrick) has from her relationship with influential theatrical producer Anthony Powell (Adolphe Menjou). In truth however, Terry comes from a very wealthy, upper class, Midwest family. Over the strong objections of her father, Henry Sims (Samuel S. Hinds), she is determined to try to fulfill her dreams on her own. In the boarding house, Terry's only supporter is aging actress Catherine Luther (Constance Collier), who appoints herself Terry's mentor., 1h43
Directed by Dorothy ArznerOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
Romantic comedy,
RomanceActors Joan Crawford,
Franchot Tone,
Robert Young,
Billie Burke,
Reginald Owen,
Agostino BorgatoRating63%
In a Trieste gambling casino, the cynical Count Armalia (George Zucco) tells his snobbish friend Rudi Pal (Robert Young) that the only thing separating aristocrats from peasants is luck. Later, in a waterfront cafe, he decides to prove his point by offering the club's singer, Anni Pavlovitch (Joan Crawford), money and a wardrobe to stay at an upper class resort hotel in the Alps for two weeks and pose as his friend Anne Vivaldi, an aristocrat's daughter. When Anni first arrives, she meets Giulio (Franchot Tone), a philosophical postal clerk who has no desire for wealth. She also meets her old friend Maria (Mary Philips), who is happy being a maid in the hotel and warns Anni not to become the victim of Armalia's joke on his friends.