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Bathing beauty (1944 ; 101 min.): Songwriter Steve Elliott is about to marry Caroline Brooks. A strange woman, who has been paid by Steve's agent to say she is his wife, interrupts the ceremony. An angry Caroline leaves Steve at the alter and gets her old job back teaching at a girl's college. Determined to win her back, Steve enrolls in the school to become its only male student.
Neptune's daughter (1949 ; 93 min.): Scatterbrained Betty Barrett...
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The war is just beginning and France has not yet surrendered to the Germans. A French vessel picks up five semi-conscious men in a canoe. All ex-convicts, they have escaped from Devil's Island to do their bit for France. The tensions aboard the Marseille-bound ship slowly build to a shattering clash of wills between the men and the ship's Nazi sympathizer.
4) China seas
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Collection includes: China Seas (1935); and Wife Vs. Secretary (1936).
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Local hero: Comedy about an American oil company representative and the sleepy seaside Scottish village he must buy.
Seven days in May: It happens with startling swiftness and violence. An armed cadre seizes state control. Fortunately, a coup d'etat can't happen here. Or can it? ...At odds are a popular general and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman and an unpopular President with a pacifist agenda. At stake is the survival of the Republic. A vigilant...
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The long, long trailer: Lucy and Desi play newlyweds who hit the honeymoon road with a 40-foot trailer in tow.
Forever darling: A couple experiences difficulty in their marriage. Then a Guardian Angel appears with a few surprises to set them on the road to marital bliss.
Room service: A riotous romp about a cash-strapped theatrical troupe trying to nail down a backer for their new Broadway venture.
Du Barry was a lady: Their friendship is a perfect...
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A streetcar named Desire: Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her.
Julius Caesar: The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for the idealist and the republic.
The teahouse of the August moon: Okinawa 1946- occupied by American troops whose assignment is to bring democracy to...
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Babes in arms: A teen-age boy puts on a show with his friends to avoid being sent to a work farm. Strike up the band: Jimmy Connors is a hot-shot drummer for his desultory high school band, with his "pal" Mary Holden a singer who dreams of snagging Jimmy for her own. When Jimmy learns that the band is in debt, he suggests to the principal that they disband the brass band, and create a modern dance orchestra, so they can throw a dance to pay off...
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The swashbuckling romantic lover Don Juan is sent back to Spain in disgrace, where he discovers the oppression of the people and wins the heart of the queen; set in seventeenth-century England, a surgeon becomes a pirate after he is arrested and condemned to slavery for caring for a rebel against the king; Lord Robin of Locksley protects the Saxon peasants from the Norman lords and wins the heart of Maid Marian; in the days when England controlled...
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Mr. Blandings builds his dream house: Cary Grant plays a successful New York advertising executive who wants to escape his current living situation. He decides to design his own dream house in the suburbs and the project turns wrong when the bills never end and the problems never stop.
My favorite wife: A funny thing happens to Nick on his way to his honeymoon suite. He meets his wife. No, not his bride. He meets the wife that was lost at sea seven...
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Morning glory: An aspiring actress is mentored to success by several Broadway veterans.
Little women: Follows the lives of the four March sisters living with their mother in Concord, Massachusetts, while their father is ministering to Union troops during the American Civil War.
Stage door: A group of aspiring actresses share a boardinghouse in New York City.
Philadelphia story: A socialite's wedding plans are complicated by the appearance of her...
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Dark passage: Vincent Parry, a man unjustly accused of murdering his wife, escapes from San Quentin and sets out to clear his name, but he needs the help of someone he can trust. He finds both help and love in Irene, a San Francisco artist who is convinced he's innocent.
Key Largo: A hurricane swells outside, but that is nothing compared to the storm that rages inside the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up, holding...
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The shop around the corner: The setting is pre-World War II Budapest. Bickering co-workers in a gift shop don't realize they're lonelyhearts penpals.
The Stratton story: The true story of Chicago White sox pitcher, Monty Stratton. Stratton suffers a devastating hunting accident which leads to the amputation of one leg. Learning to walk with an artificial limb, he struggles to resume his career.
Biography of Charles Lindbergh from his days of precarious...
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Young man with a horn: A lonely little boy peeks into the window of a Skid Row dive. Mesmerized by the soaring magic played by a small jazz combo, he longs to create the same sounds. So with the guidance of a brilliant bluesman, the boy develops into a superb artist but as man, struggles with an impossible note trapped in his mind.
Bad and the beautiful: Biting drama that tells the story of a ruthless, manipulatve movie producer who lets nothing...
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Boys Town : Follows the story of Father Flanagan and his founding of Boys Town, a home for juvenile delinquents.
Captains courageous : When a rich brat falls overboard at sea, he's rescued by a Portuguese fishing boat, and eventually forms a bond with one of the crewmen.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde : One man is a paragon of virtue, the other a murderous creature of the London night. They are the same person. This version of Robert Louis Stevenson's...
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For me and my gal: Musical comedy about a vaudeville song-and-dance team who buck tough times and World War I on their way to success in show business.
The Harvey girls: Susan meets a cheery group of young women traveling out to open a 'Harvey House' restaurant at a remote whistle stop to provide good cooking and wholesome company for railway travelers.
In the good old summertime: A musical version of "The shop around the corner" tells the story...
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Somebody up there likes me: The inspiring tale about Rocky Graziano's rise from poverty and rage to the middleweight title.
Harper: Lew Harper, a cool private investigator, is hired by a wealthy California matron to locate her kidnapped husband.
Cool hand Luke: Prisoner loner Luke Jackson wins the respect of his fellow inmates when he refuses to cower before the chain gang boss.
The mackintosh man: A British Intelligence agent assumes a fictitious...
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Blackboard jungle: Urban drama about an idealistic teacher in a slum area who fights doggedly to connect with his unruly students. Based on Evan Hunter's novel.
Edge of the city: If you need a job Charlie Malik can find a spot for you in the dockside railyards. All he needs in return is that you show up on time, work hard, and kick back part of your pay. Two New York City longshoremen, Axel Nordmann, and Army deserter, and Tommy Tyler, an easy-going...
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