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Directed by Gregory RatoffOrigin USAGenres ThrillerThemes Children's filmsActors Peggy Cummins,
Victor Mature,
Ethel Barrymore,
Vincent Price,
Patricia Medina,
George ZuccoRoles Threadbare Little Man (uncredited)
Rating66%
Set in Victorian London, the story concerns a music hall chorus girl, Belle Adair, aka Rose Lynton, who blackmails a gentleman, Michael Drego, after seeing him leave the house where another dancer, Daisy Arrow, was found murdered. Instead of accepting money she demands to be invited to the man's stately home to experience the life of a lady. The woman becomes friends with the man's mother, Lady Margaret Drego, his fiancée, Audrey Ashton, but her peace is disturbed when the police inspector, Deputy Inspector Evans, arrives to question them further about the murder. Then another murder is committed in similar circumstances., 1h31
Directed by George MarshallOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
CrimeActors Fred MacMurray,
Helen Walker,
Marjorie Main,
Jean Heather,
Porter Hall,
Peter WhitneyRoles Old Deaf Townsman (uncredited)
Rating68%
Peter Marshall (Fred MacMurray), who works for the Trotter Poll ("like the Gallup Poll, but not as fast"), is sent out to find a missing co-worker, Hector Smedley. He goes to see the last family the man was supposed to interview, the nutty and murderous Fleagles. There he runs afoul of Mert and Bert Fleagle (both played by Peter Whitney), the gun-toting twin sons of Mamie Fleagle Smithers Johnson (Marjorie Main)., 2h6
Directed by Clarence BrownOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
RomanceThemes Political filmsActors Irene Dunne,
Alan Marshal,
Roddy McDowall,
Elizabeth Taylor,
Frank Morgan,
Gladys CooperRoles English Cabbie (uncredited)
Rating69%
At the height of World War II, Lady Susan Ashwood (Irene Dunne) is a nurse in a British hospital, awaiting the arrival of some wounded men. She thinks back to how she came to Britain many years before., 1h26
Directed by Fritz LangOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Spy,
Noir,
CrimeThemes Spy films,
Political filmsActors Ray Milland,
Marjorie Reynolds,
Carl Esmond,
Dan Duryea,
Hillary Brooke,
Alan NapierRoles Tailor's Delivery Man (uncredited)
Rating70%
In wartime England during the Blitz, Stephen Neale (Ray Milland) is released from Lembridge Asylum. While waiting for a train to London, Neale visits a village fête hosted by the Mothers of Free Nations charity. He guesses the weight of a cake for a shilling, and is urged to go to the palm reader's tent to have his fortune told by Mrs. Bellane (Aminta Dyne), an older woman. He asks her to ignore the past and tell the future, which startles her. She cryptically tells him to take another guess at the weight of the cake at 4 pounds 15½ ounces. Neale does so and wins the prize. Then a young blond man hurries to see Mrs. Bellane. People try to persuade Neale to give the cake to the blond man, but he refuses., 1h32
Directed by Robert StevensonOrigin USAGenres Drama,
RomanceThemes Films about children,
Children's filmsActors Orson Welles,
Joan Fontaine,
Elizabeth Taylor,
Margaret O'Brien,
Sara Allgood,
Henry DaniellRoles Guard
Rating74%
Orphaned, unloved, and unwanted ten-year-old Jane Eyre (Peggy Ann Garner) lives with her cruel and selfish, uncaring paternal aunt, Mrs. Reed (Agnes Moorehead) of Gateshead Hall. Jane is ecstatic when Mrs. Reed, eager to be rid of the child, arranges for Jane to be sent to Lowood Institution, a charity boarding school for young girls, run by the disciplinarian Reverend Brocklehurst (Henry Daniell)., 1h44
Directed by Cedric Hardwicke,
Frank Lloyd,
Victor Saville,
Robert Stevenson,
René Clair,
Edmund Goulding,
Herbert WilcoxOrigin USAGenres Drama,
HistoricalThemes Transport films,
Aviation films,
Political filmsActors Kent Smith,
George Kirby,
Ruth Warrick,
Merle Oberon,
Ray Milland,
Reginald GardinerRoles First Cockney Air Raid Watcher
Rating69%
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret (Kent Smith) is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble (Ruth Warrick), tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families., 1h58
Directed by Anatole LitvakOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
Romantic drama,
RomanceThemes Political films,
Children's filmsActors Tyrone Power,
Joan Fontaine,
Thomas Mitchell,
Henry Stephenson,
Nigel Bruce,
Philip MerivaleRoles Hubert
Rating65%
Spending leave together on the South Coast during the Battle of Britain and the beginning of the blitz, Clive and Prudence have an affair. Having survived Dunkirk, but having a crisis of conscience over what the war is being fought for and disgusted at the incompetence of the ruling elite, Clive decides not to return to the Army and to go absent without leave., 2h14
Directed by William WylerOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
RomanceThemes Films about families,
Politique,
Transport films,
Aviation films,
Documentary films about war,
Documentary films about historical events,
Political films,
Documentary films about World War IIActors Greer Garson,
Walter Pidgeon,
Teresa Wright,
Richard Ney,
May Whitty,
Reginald OwenRoles William (uncredited)
Rating75%
Kay Miniver (Greer Garson) and her family live a comfortable life at a house called 'Starlings' in Belham, a fictional village outside London. The house has a large garden, with a private landing stage on the River Thames at which is moored a motorboat belonging to her devoted husband Clem (Walter Pidgeon), a successful architect. They have three children: the youngsters Toby (Christopher Severn) and Judy (Clare Sandars) and an older son Vin (Richard Ney) a student at a university. They have live-in staff: Gladys (Brenda Forbes) the housemaid and Ada (Marie De Becker) the cook., 1h49
Directed by Arthur LubinOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
RomanceThemes Transport films,
Aviation films,
Political filmsActors Robert Stack,
Diana Barrymore,
John Loder,
Jon Hall,
Nigel Bruce,
Eddie AlbertRoles Cockney
Rating60%
As war breaks out in Europe, young Americans Chuck S. Brewer (Robert Stack), Johnny M. Coe (Leif Erickson) and Wadislaw Borowsky (Edgar Barrier) cross the Atlantic to join the Royal Air Force. Assigned to the Eagle Squadron, made up of other American pilots, they make friends with Squadron Leader Paddy Carson (John Loder), and women flyers Anne Partridge (Diana Barrymore) and Nancy Mitchell (Evelyn Ankers). Chuck is immediately attracted to Nancy, but she already has a boyfriend, Hank Starr (Jon Hall), another pilot in the squadron., 1h22
Directed by John H. AuerOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Crime,
RomanceActors John Wayne,
Frances Dee,
Wallace Ford,
Edward Ellis,
Kay Hughes,
Ward BondRoles Beggar Outside Club Inferno (uncredited)
Rating59%
Johnny Smith, un joueur de basket, fête la victoire de son équipe dans le Club Inferno de Temple City. Il se rend compte que les dés avec lesquels il joue sont pipés. Lorsqu'il s'en prend au propriétaire du club, T. Amato, il est abattu par le frère de celui-ci. À cause de ses connexions avec Amato, Tom Cameron, un homme politique qui craint pour sa réélection, fait en sorte que la mort de Johnny soit enregistrée comme un suicide. Lynn Hollister, un avocat ami de Johnny, a des doutes sur ce verdict et se rend à Temple City pour enquêter., 1h48
Directed by Mervyn LeRoyOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
RomanceThemes Films about sexuality,
Théâtre,
Erotic films,
Films about prostitution,
Political films,
Films based on plays,
Erotic thriller filmsActors Robert Taylor,
Vivien Leigh,
Lucile Watson,
Virginia Field,
Maria Ouspenskaïa,
C. Aubrey SmithRoles Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Rating76%
After Britain's declaration of World War II, Roy Cronin (Robert Taylor), an army colonel, is being driven to London's Waterloo Station en route to France, and briefly alights on Waterloo Bridge to reminisce about events which occurred during the First World War when he met Myra Lester (Vivien Leigh) whom he had planned to marry. While Roy gazes at a good luck charm, a billiken that she had given him, the story unfolds., 1h27
Directed by Victor Saville,
Richard ThorpeOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy-dramaActors Robert Montgomery,
Edward Arnold,
Reginald Owen,
Edmund Gwenn,
E. E. Clive,
Ronald SinclairRoles Mayor (uncredited)
Rating61%
To remedy the ill doings of his past, Robert "Silky" Kilmount, ex-Chicago bootlegger who has opened up his own legal distillery, hires Quentin "Doc" Ramsey as manager of his company. Seven years ago, Silky got Doc sent to prison after framing him for a crime he didn't commit.