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, 1h10
Directed by Lew Landers
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Robert Barrat, Noah Beery, Jr, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Paul Hurst, Andy Clyde, Robert Coote
Rating59%
In 1875, a posse headed by sheriff Sheriff Bill Cummings (Robert Barrat) is held at bay by Apache warriors. The posse members are decimated one by one, until only the Sheriff is left.

Directed by Norman Foster
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Crime
Themes Children's films
Actors Sidney Toler, Cesar Romero, Victor Sen Yung, Douglas Fowley, Pauline Moore, Donald MacBride
Rating71%
Charlie and Jimmy Chan are traveling by plane to San Francisco. Jimmy befriends insurance executive Thomas Gregory. Charlie's friend, novelist Paul Essex, dies aboard the aircraft after receiving a radiogram warning him not to ignore "Zodiac". His briefcase mysteriously disappears. Charlie meets with Deputy Police Chief J.J. Kilvaine, and runs into reporter and old friend Peter Lewis. Charlie also meets noted local magician Fred Rhadini, and discusses Essex's death with the three men. Rhadini tells Charlie about Dr. Zodiac, a psychic preying on the rich in San Francisco. Charlie, Rhadini, and Lewis go to Dr. Zodiac's home, where Dr. Zodiac who conducts an eerie séance. Lewis' fiancée, Eve Cairo, has been meeting with Dr. Zodiac, angering Lewis. Later, Kilvaine reveals that Essex was poisoned, but can't rule out suicide. Jimmy spends the afternoon following Thomas Gregory, whom he believes stole Essex's briefcase when leaving the plane. He discovers Essex's manuscript in Gregory's hotel room.

, 56minutes
Directed by Bernard B. Ray
Origin USA
Actors Evelyn Brent, Grant Withers, Dorothy Short, Dave O'Brien, Richard Loo, Harry Harvey, Sr.
Rating47%
Ralph Dickson is an FBI agent assigned to investigate the killing of a colleague. He is chosen to investigate due to an uncanny likeness to the presumed killer. Dickson goes undercover and learns the identity of the gang leader, Carney, who is also known as "the Illustrious One" and the "Daughter of the Tong." Carney stays holed up at the Oriental Hotel while she has her henchmen doing her dirty work.

Directed by William Witney, John English
Origin USA
Genres Action, Crime
Actors Ralph Byrd, Irving Pichel, Jennifer Jones, Walter Miller, Kenneth Harlan, Ted Mapes
Rating64%
International spy, Zarnoff, in the employ of "The Three Powers" (presumably a fictionalized reference to the Axis) is captured by Dick Tracy at the start of the serial, tried and sentenced to death. However, through the use of a rare drug embedded by his agents in the evening newspaper, he escapes from the gas chamber. His men pick up his "corpse" by ambushing the hearse and administering another counter-drug. He continues his espionage plans, while taking the opportunity of revenge on Tracy.

, 1h28
Directed by Richard Wallace
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Gloria Jean, Robert Cummings, Nan Grey, C. Aubrey Smith, Beulah Bondi, Virginia Weidler
Rating65%
L'histoire est adaptée par Grover Jones à partir d'une histoire tirée d'une magazine de l'auteur australien Wylie. Gloria est envoyée dans un camp d'été pour des filles de familles aisées. Elle est d'abord harcelée par les autres filles mais elle se défend et gagne le cœur de tout le monde.

, 1h25
Directed by Alfred L. Werker
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Sherlock Holmes films, Buddy films, Children's films
Actors Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Ida Lupino, George Zucco, Alan Marshal, Henry Stephenson
Rating72%
The film begins with Moriarty and Holmes verbally sparring on the steps outside the Old Bailey where Moriarty has just been acquitted on a charge of murder due to lack of evidence. Holmes remarks, "You've a magnificent brain, Moriarty. I admire it. I admire it so much I'd like to present it, pickled in alcohol, to the London Medical Society". "It would make an impressive exhibit", replies Moriarty.

, 1h35
Directed by Edmund Goulding
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Melodrama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, George Brent, Donald Crisp, Jane Bryan, James Stephenson
Rating73%
Set during the American Civil War, the story focuses on Charlotte Lovell and her cousin Delia, whose wedding day is disrupted when her former fiance Clem Spender returns following a two-year absence. Delia proceeds to marry Jim Ralston, and Charlotte comforts Clem, who enlists in the Union Army and is later killed in battle. Shortly after his death, Charlotte discovers she is pregnant with Clem's child, and in order to escape the stigma of an illegitimate child, she journeys West to have her baby, a daughter she names Clementina (or "Tina").

, 58minutes
Directed by Sam Newfield
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Tim McCoy, Joyce Bryant, Ben Corbett, Ted Adams, Budd Buster, Dave O'Brien
Rating53%
El Puma, un guide mexicain du désert, escorte une expédition archéologique dirigée par le professeur Lucious Lloyd (Forrest Taylor à travers les badlands indiens du Mexique. Marian (Joyce Bryant (I) '), le professeur; la nièce de s accompagne le parti car elle seule peut traduire les écritures aztèques dans le journal de son père, assassiné lors d'une expédition similaire six ans auparavant. Le professeur est assassiné par un couteau et l'arme est reconnue comme la propriété d'El Puma. Magpie (Ben Corbett), un enquêteur fédéral, sait qu'El Puma est vraiment "Lightnin 'Bill' Carson (Tim McCoy), un ancien agent fédéral qui a disparu depuis que le père de Marian a été tué. La réticente Magpie croit que son vieil ami est coupable. Carson tente de prouver le contraire.

Directed by Anthony Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors George Coulouris, Whitford Kane, Jennifer Jones, Robert Lindsay, Norman Lloyd, Lee Parry
Rating59%

, 1h6
Directed by Sidney Salkow
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Musical, Romance
Actors Jean Parker, Robert Armstrong, Noah Beery, Jr, Harlan Briggs, Helen Lynd, Barbara Pepper
Rating55%

, 1h38
Directed by Lloyd Richards, Herbert Wilcox, James Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Actors Anna Neagle, Edna May Oliver, George Sanders, May Robson, Zasu Pitts, H. B. Warner
Rating64%
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, 1h23
Directed by Marcel Varnel
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Adventure, Crime
Actors Will Hay, Graham Moffatt, Moore Marriott, Peter Gawthorne, Herbert Lomas, Cyril Chamberlain
Rating73%
Will Hay plays Sergeant Samuel Dudfoot, an inept policeman, stagnating in the sleepy village of Turnbotham Round (pronounced Turnbottom), where there has been no crime for a decade. After the Chief Constable tells them that there is not enough local criminal activity to justify their station's existence, three incompetent policemen decide to start manufacturing crimes to "fiddle the figures". Dudfoot, together with Albert Brown (Graham Moffatt) and Jerry Harbottle (Moore Marriott) create a crime wave by framing motorists in a speed trap and concocting false evidence.

, 2h14
Directed by George Cukor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy
Themes Feminist films, Films about sexuality, Théâtre, LGBT-related films, Political films, Films based on plays, Buddy films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Paulette Goddard, Mary Boland, Joan Fontaine
Rating76%
The Women follows the lives of Manhattan women, focusing in particular on Mary Haines (Norma Shearer), the cheerful, contented wife of Stephen and mother of Little Mary (Virginia Weidler). After a bit of gossip flies around the salon these wealthy women visit, Mary's cousin Sylvia Fowler (Rosalind Russell) goes to a Salon to get the newest, exclusive nail color: Jungle Red. She learns from a manicurist that Mary's husband has been having an affair with a predatory perfume counter girl named Crystal Allen (Joan Crawford). A notorious gossip, Sylvia delights in sharing the news with Mary's friends; she sets up Mary with an appointment with the same manicurist so that she hears the rumor about Stephen's infidelity.

, 8minutes
Directed by Jack King
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Films about television, Films about birds, Mise en scène d'un canard, Children's films
Actors Clarence Nash, Billy Bletcher, Sara Berner
Rating70%
Donald se faufile dans un important studio d'Hollywood et tente d'obtenir, en esquivant régulièrement un agent de la sécurité, les autographes de vedettes telles que Greta Garbo, Mickey Rooney, Sonja Henie ou Shirley Temple. Il finit par être reconnu comme étant lui-même une « star » et se voit obligé de signer à son tour des autographes.