2024-10-05
Adaptation of the long-running Broadway hit stars Best Actor nominee William Powell as a blustery but goodhearted 1880s Wall Street broker, who thinks he runs his household by-the-book, but becomes unsettled when his wife learns that he is not baptized, even though he grouses that they "can't keep me out of heaven on a technicality.".
The father (Jack Holt) of a boy injured by a horse (Champion) vows to kill the animal. Gene Autry, Gloria Henry, Dick Jones, Pat Buttram, Rufe Davis, Eddy Waller, John McGuire, Rodd Harper, Jack Ingram. Alan James directed.
Texas Rangers try to clear the territory of a gang of cattle rustlers. Dave O'Brien, Jim Newill, Guy Wilkerson, Ellen Hall, I. Stanford Jolley.
Gene Autry sings, fights and rides the range. Smiley Burnette, Judith Allen.
A boozy, unkempt apple seller in Depression-era New York learns her long-overseas daughter, who believes her to be a wealthy dowager, is returning with her fiancé to visit, so the old gal gets help from a gangster in transforming into a society matron. Frank Capra retooled his own 1933 hit "Lady for a Day" for this Runyonesque yarn. The film's title tune was nominated for a Best Song Oscar.
An engaged Parisienne hides an American pilot stuck in Nazi-occupied France, and tries to help him escape.
A peace-loving former Union officer strives to sell his ranch and retire, but goes head to head with a scheming businessman who wants his land cheap. The former officer sets aside his pacifist ways as one of his ranch hands is murdered. Based on the novel "Smoky Valley" by Donald Hamilton.
Randolph Scott as a vengeance-seeking cowboy. Tate: John Carroll. Lucy: Karen Steele. Ruby: Valerie French. Sam: Noah Beery. Storrow: John Archer. A minor gem, breaking many formula rules; perhaps Scott's best Western. Directed by Budd Boetticher.
A Confederate officer is out to recruit soldiers in a disinterested California. Meanwhile, he saves a Union man and his fiancée from an Indian massacre.
David Lean's epic won seven Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Alec Guinness as the leader of British POWs forced to build a railroad bridge in World War II Indochina. Filmed in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Oscar-winning screenplay by Carl Foreman.
Classic Hitchcock about a Canadian visitor to London who becomes a murder suspect and tries to elude police while tracking down a spy ring that leads him to Scotland with an innocent young woman in tow.