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Directed by James WhaleOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
Musical,
RomanceThemes Théâtre,
Films based on playsActors Elissa Landi,
Paul Lukas,
Nils Asther,
Dorothy Revier,
Lawrence Grant,
Esther RalstonRating66%
During a European train journey, a nobleman's butler Josef (Paul Lukas) is mistaken for his employer Prince Alfred von Rommer (Nils Asther) by a beautiful woman, Marie (Elissa Landi), and he does nothing to disillusion her. In due course, the Prince himself arrives and is mistaken for his servant., 1h29
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy,
James Whale,
Rowland LeighOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
Romantic comedy,
RomanceThemes Films about television,
Films based on playsActors Brian Aherne,
Olivia de Havilland,
Edward Everett Horton,
Melville Cooper,
Lionel Atwill,
Luis AlberniRating67%
In London in 1750, renowned English actor David Garrick announces onstage that he has been invited to Paris to work with the prestigious Comédie-Française. A person in the audience jeers that the French want him to teach them how to act. The playwright Beaumarchais (Lionel Atwill) returns to the Comédie-Française and attributes the remark to Garrick himself. The outraged French actors, led by their president, Picard (Melville Cooper), decide to make him an object of public ridicule. They take over a wayside inn where he will be staying, and Beaumarchais devises a plot intended to humiliate Garrick by frightening him into returning to England., 1h21
Directed by James WhaleOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
RomanceThemes Films about sexuality,
Erotic films,
Films about prostitution,
Films based on playsActors Mae Clarke,
Douglass Montgomery,
Doris Lloyd,
Bette Davis,
Frederick Kerr,
Enid BennettRating73%
Unable to find work in London at the height of World War I, American chorus girl Myra Deauville resorts to prostitution to support herself. She meets her clients on Waterloo Bridge, the primary entry point into the city for soldiers on leave. During an air raid, she meets fellow American Roy Cronin, a member of the Canadian Army, and he joins Myra in her apartment., 2h
Directed by James WhaleOrigin United-kingdomGenres Drama,
WarThemes Théâtre,
Political films,
Films based on playsActors Colin Clive,
Billy Bevan,
David Manners,
Ian Maclaren,
Charles K. Gerrard,
Anthony BushellRating68%
On the eve of a battle in 1918, a new officer, Second Lieutenant Raleigh (David Manners), joins Captain Stanhope's (Colin Clive) company in the British trench lines in France. The two men knew each other at school: the younger Raleigh hero-worshipping Stanhope, while Stanhope has come to love Raleigh's sister. But the Stanhope whom Raleigh encounters now is a changed man who, after three years at the front, has turned to drink and seems close to a breakdown. Stanhope is terrified that Raleigh will betray Stanhope's decline to his sister, whom Stanhope still hopes to marry after the war. An older officer, the avuncular Lieutenant Osborne (Ian Maclaren), desperately tries to keep Stanhope from cracking. Osborne and Raleigh are selected to lead a raiding party on the German trenches where a number of the British forces are killed, including Osborne. Later, when Raleigh too is mortally wounded, Stanhope faces a desperate time as, grief-stricken and without close friends, he prepares to face another furious enemy attack., 1h21
Directed by James WhaleOrigin USAGenres Drama,
MelodramaThemes Films based on playsActors Wallace Beery,
Frank Morgan,
Maureen O'Sullivan,
John Beal,
Jessie Ralph,
Etienne GirardotRating59%
In the French port of Marseille, a lovely young woman named Madelon (Maureen O'Sullivan) is in love with a young sailor, Marius (John Beal). Madelon in turn is loved by Honore Panisse (Frank Morgan), a well-to-do middle-aged sailmaker. When Marius finds out he must go to sea for three years, he leaves without saying goodbye to Madelon; in a note he tells her that it would break his heart to tell her in person. She rushes to the dock, but sees his ship sailing away and faints. Marius's father Cesar, (Wallace Beery) who already thinks of Madelon as one of the family, carries her to her home., 1h11
Directed by James WhaleOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Science fiction,
Fantastic,
HorrorThemes Films about computing,
Théâtre,
Films based on science fiction novels,
Frankenstein films,
Films based on plays,
Cyberpunk filmsActors Colin Clive,
Mae Clarke,
John Boles,
Boris Karloff,
Edward Van Sloan,
Dwight FryeRating77%
In a European village Henry Frankenstein, a young scientist, and his assistant Fritz, a hunchback, piece together a human body, the parts of which have been collected from various sources. Frankenstein desires to create human life through electrical devices which he has perfected., 1h46
Directed by William A. SeiterOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
Musical,
RomanceThemes La mode,
Films about music and musicians,
Théâtre,
Musical films,
Films based on plays,
Films based on musicalsActors Irene Dunne,
Fred Astaire,
Ginger Rogers,
Randolph Scott,
Claire Dodd,
Victor VarconiRating69%
John Kent (Randolph Scott), a former star football player at Harvard, goes to Paris with his friend Huck Haines (Fred Astaire) and the latter's dance band, the Wabash Indianians. Alexander Voyda (Luis Alberni) has booked the band, but refuses to let them play when he finds the musicians are not the Indians he expected, but merely from Indiana (Huck Haines and his Indianians Band)., 1h33
Directed by Busby BerkeleyOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
MusicalThemes Dance films,
Films about music and musicians,
Musical films,
Films based on plays,
Films based on musicalsActors Mickey Rooney,
Judy Garland,
Charles Winninger,
Henry Hull,
June Preisser,
Guy KibbeeRating62%
In 1921 vaudeville performer Joe Moran (Charles Winninger) announces the birth of a son; but after the advent of talking pictures in 1928, vaudeville fails. His son Mickey Moran (Mickey Rooney) writes songs, and Patsy Barton (Judy Garland) sings "Good Morning." Mickey sells the song for $100. He gives Patsy his pin and kisses her. Mickey learns that his parents Joe and Florrie (Grace Hayes) are going on the road without the children, and he disagrees. Patsy and Molly Moran (Betty Jaynes) sing "You Are My Lucky Star" and "Broadway Rhythm," but Joe says no to their going. So Mickey proposes the kids put on a show, and Don Brice (Douglas McPhail) sings "Babes in Arms" as they march and make a bonfire. Joe dismisses Mickey., 1h40
Directed by Walter LangOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Musical,
RomanceThemes Films about music and musicians,
Musical films,
Films based on plays,
Children's filmsActors Jeanne Crain,
Dana Andrews,
Dick Haymes,
Vivian Blaine,
Charles Winninger,
Fay BainterRating69%
The Frake family is getting ready for the Iowa State Fair - each with their own hopes for the trip ("Our State Fair"). Daughter Margy (Jeanne Crain) is in a melancholy mood as she packs for the fair, singing "It Might As Well Be Spring". Margy muses about how the Fair will at least give her a break from seeing and doing the same old things every day on the farm. Father Abel (Charles Winninger) tends to his pig Blue Boy and bets his neighbor Dave Miller (Percy Kilbride) five dollars that the pig will win at the fair, and that the Frake family will all have a good time at the fair with no bad experiences. Mother Melissa (Fay Bainter) is preparing pickles and mincemeat to enter in the cooking competition. The mincemeat recipe calls for brandy, but Melissa objects to adding it because she doesn't believe in cooking with alcohol, even though Abel disagrees and thinks the brandy is essential to the recipe. When Melissa goes to the phone, Abel secretly puts some brandy in the mincemeat. The phone call is for son Wayne (Dick Haymes), whose girlfriend Eleanor is calling to tell him that she cannot go to the fair with him because her mother has been ill. Melissa comes back from the phone to her mincemeat and, not knowing Abel already added brandy, adds even more. Harry, Margy's fiance, tells her he can't go to the fair with her because he has to take care of his cows. He describes the new modern farm he wants to have after they are married, with a farmhouse made out of prefabricated plastic with linoleum floors throughout. Margy, who thinks old houses are charming, is not enthusiastic about Harry's ideas or about Harry himself.