Mary Shelley reveals the main characters of her novel survived: Baron Henry Frankenstein, goaded by an even madder scientist, builds his monster a mate.
FR #720 | Movie | Crime, Mystery | UK, USA | English
Director
Alfred Hitchcock
Writer
John Buchan, Charles Bennett, Ian Hay
Cast
Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim
Plot
A man in London tries to help a counter-espionage agent, but when the agent is killed and the man stands accused, he must go on the run to save himself and stop a spy ring that is trying to steal top-secret information.
FR #964 | Movie | Comedy, Musical | USA | English, Italian
Director
Sam Wood, Edmund Goulding
Writer
George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, James Kevin Mcguinness
Cast
Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Sig Ruman
Plot
A sly business manager and the wacky friends of two opera singers in Italy help them achieve success in America while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.
FR #985 | Movie | Biography, Adventure | USA | English, Polynesian
Director
Frank Lloyd
Writer
Talbot Jennings, Jules Furthman, Carey Wilson
Cast
Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone, Donald Crisp, Henry Stephenson, Spring Byington
Plot
First mate Fletcher Christian leads a revolt against his sadistic commander, Captain Bligh, in this classic seafaring adventure, based on the real-life 1789 mutiny.
FR #1470 | Movie | Adventure, Action | USA | French, English
Director
Michael Curtiz
Writer
Rafael Sabatini, Casey Robinson
Cast
Errol Flynn, Olivia De Havilland, Lionel Atwill, Basil Rathbone, Guy Kibbee, Henry Stephenson, Robert Barrat, Donald Meek
Plot
After treating a Monmouth rebel against King James II in 1680s England, a young Irish doctor is exiled as a slave to Jamaica where he captures a Spanish galleon and becomes the most feared pirate of the Caribbean.
FR #3708 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA | English
Director
Wilfred Jackson
Cast
Pinto Colvig, Clarence Nash
Plot
Mickey is a frustrated bandleader dealing with obnoxious ice cream seller and flute player Donald, who tries to persuade the band to play "Turkey in the Straw," when a tornado hits during the concert.
FR #3951 | Movie | Crime, Drama | France | French, Italian
Director
Jean Renoir
Writer
Jean Renoir, Jacques Levert, Carl Einstein
Cast
Charles Blavette, Celia Montalvan, Jenny Helia
Plot
In the 1920s, the Provence is a magnet for immigrants seeking work in the quarries or in agriculture. Many mingle with locals and settle down permanently - like Toni, an Italian who has moved in with Marie, a Frenchwoman. Even a w...
FR #3964 | Movie | Horror, Romance | USA | English
Director
Karl Freund
Writer
Maurice Renard, Florence Crewe-Jones, Guy Endore
Cast
Peter Lorre, Frances Drake, Colin Clive
Plot
In Paris, a demented surgeon's obsession with a British actress leads him to secretly replace her concert-pianist husband's mangled hands with those of a guillotined murderer with a gift for knife-throwing.
Ronald Colman, Elizabeth Allan, Edna May Oliver, Reginald Owen, Basil Rathbone, Henry B. Walthall
Plot
A pair of lookalikes, one a former French aristocrat and the other an alcoholic English lawyer, fall in love with the same woman amidst the turmoil of the French Revolution.
FR #5731 | Movie | Documentary, Short | Germany | German
Director
Leni Riefenstahl
Writer
Leni Riefenstahl
Cast
Hermann Goring, Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler
Plot
After German generals complained about the army's lack of presence in Leni Riefenstahl's "Triumph of the Will", she produced this propaganda piece for them.
Greta Garbo, Fredric March, Freddie Bartholomew, Basil Rathbone, Reginald Owen
Plot
The married Anna Karenina falls in love with Count Vronsky despite her husband's refusal to grant a divorce, and both must contend with the social repercussions.
FR #6208 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA | English
Director
Wilfred Jackson
Writer
Aesop, Larry Clemmons
Cast
Pinto Colvig, Dorothy Compton, Marcellite Garner
Plot
Big race. Hare, fast and in lead, stops to loaf and show off to girl bunnies. Tortoise, plodding along at steady, slow pace, wins, although hare tries a last minute burst of speed.
James Cagney, Margaret Lindsay, Ann Dvorak, Barton Maclane, Lloyd Nolan
Plot
James Cagney helped jump-start the gangster genre as The Public Enemy. Outcries against movies that glorified underworld criminals put Cagney on the side of the law in 'G' Men.
After the events in Them Thar Hills (1934), Stan and Ollie encounter their old nemesis, whose grocery shop is next to their home-appliances store. Nobody can let bygones be bygones, and a war breaks out. Will those tit-for-tat bat...
FR #7993 | Movie | Animation, Short | Germany | German
Director
Oskar Fischinger
Plot
This is an abstract film in which every motion is in strict synchronization with music, so the description must be read in terms of the overall impression it gives. Within a deep blue environment, one red cube slowly drifts on a r...
FR #8478 | Movie | Documentary, Short | France | French
Director
Jean Painleve
Writer
Jean Painleve
Plot
Examines the sea horse, the only fish that swims upright. We watch it use its prehensile tail to wrap around plants and other sea horses. A frontal bulge houses organs including an air ballast. Three fins propel this fish. We see ...
FR #9988 | Movie | Romance, Drama | France | French
Director
Julien Duvivier
Writer
Pierre Mac Orlan, Julien Duvivier, Charles Spaak
Cast
Annabella, Jean Gabin, Robert Le Vigan
Plot
Pierre Gilieth has committed a murder in Paris. He flees to Barcelona, where he runs out of money. He joins the Spanish Foreign Legion and there he meets two fellow countrymen, Mulot and Lucas. He tries to forget his crime, but Lu...
FR #10708 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA | English
Director
Ben Sharpsteen
Writer
Webb Smith
Cast
Pinto Colvig, Walt Disney, Marcellite Garner, Clarence Nash, Clarence Nash
Plot
Mickey and friends have various levels of enjoyment skating on a frozen river. As Mickey and Minnie glide romantically, Donald plays tricks on Pluto and ends up in trouble himself with a kite, from which Mickey must save him.
FR #10966 | Movie | Fantasy, Drama | USA | English, Cantonese
Director
Stuart Walker
Writer
John Colton, Robert Harris, Harvey Gates
Cast
Henry Hull, Warner Oland, Valerie Hobson, Spring Byington
Plot
After botanist Wilfred Glendon travels to Tibet in search of a rare flower, the Mariphasa, he returns to a London haunted by murders that can only be the work of bloodthirsty werewolves.
A Russian outpost in Eastern Siberia comes under threat of attack by the Japanese. Aerograd is a new town with a strategically located airfield of vital interest to the government.
Ignoring an ancient prophecy, evil brother Gregor seeks to maintain his feudal power on his his Tyrolean estate by murdering and impersonating his benevolent younger twin.
FR #12447 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | USA | English, German
Director
William A. Wellman
Writer
Jack London, Gene Fowler, Leonard Praskins
Cast
Clark Gable, Loretta Young, Jack Oakie, Reginald Owen
Plot
During the Klondike Gold Rush, a traveler purchases a dog to lead the way toward the treasure, but reconsiders his journey when he finds a stranded widow.
FR #12487 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Sweden | Swedish
Director
Gustaf Edgren
Writer
Oscar Rydqvist, Gustaf Edgren
Cast
Lars Hanson, Karin Kavli, Victor Sjostrom, Ingrid Bergman
Plot
Lena Bergström works in an office and is unhappily in love with her boss, Johan Borg. She decides to quit. Borg's wife won't have any children, and when she becomes pregnant she has an illegal abortion. For some reason, Lena's fat...
The man who broke the jug, the judge, is trying a case who determine who broke the jug. Long before the evidence becomes conclusive against the suspects, it becomes apparent that the blustering and bullying - and naive - village j...
After an endless cycle of dish washing, Ollie makes a withdrawal, ending up in the hospital after buying a grandfather clock. Only a generous blood transfusion can help him bounce back; however, is modern medicine prepared for the...
FR #13732 | Movie | History, Drama | Russia | Russian
Director
Grigoriy Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg
Writer
Leonid Trauberg, Grigoriy Kozintsev
Cast
Boris Chirkov, Valentina Kibardina, Mikhail Tarkhanov
Plot
A 1935 USA trade-paper reviewer called it... "an impressive and technically outstanding historical drama dealing with czarist terrorism and revolutionary boiling in the days of 1907. Picture is one of the Soviet prize winners and ...
FR #13965 | Movie | Comedy, Musical | USA | English
Director
Busby Berkeley
Writer
Manuel Seff, Peter Milne, Robert Lord
Cast
Dick Powell, Adolphe Menjou, Gloria Stuart, Frank Mchugh
Plot
Romantic antics abound among the guests at a luxury hotel, including a stage director, an eccentric millionaire, and the daughter of a financial backer.
FR #13993 | Movie | Comedy, Romance | Sweden | Swedish
Director
Edvin Adolphson, Sigurd Wallen
Writer
Siegfried Fischer, Arthur Fischer, Gosta Stevens
Cast
Valdemar Dalquist, Julia Caesar, Sigurd Wallen, Ingrid Bergman
Plot
In one of the narrow streets of the Old town of Stockholm lies hotel City. It's inhabited by mysterious characters such as 'Greven', 'Blomman' and others. The police inspector Göransson is chasing a jewel thief, 'Diamond-Lasse'.
FR #14447 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | USA | English, French
Director
George Cukor
Writer
Gladys Unger, John Collier, Mortimer Offner
Cast
Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Brian Aherne
Plot
When her father decides to flee to England, young Sylvia Scarlett must become Sylvester Scarlett and protect her father every step of the way, with the questionable help of plenty others.
FR #14687 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | USA | English
Director
Howard Hawks
Writer
Ben Hecht, Charles Macarthur, Edward Chodorov
Cast
Miriam Hopkins, Edward G. Robinson, Joel Mccrea, Walter Brennan, Brian Donlevy, Donald Meek
Plot
Mary Rutledge arrives from the East, finds her fiance dead, and goes to work at the roulette wheel of Louis Charnalis' Bella Donna, a rowdy gambling house in 1850s San Francisco.
Ebenezer Scrooge is a mean old miser who wants nothing to do with Christmas. The Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come visit Scrooge on Christmas Eve, taking him on a journey into the very spirit and magic of Christmas...
Patterson Mcnutt, Arthur J. Beckhard, William M. Conselman
Cast
Shirley Temple, John Boles, Rochelle Hudson
Plot
Wealthy Edward Morgan becomes charmed with a curly-haired orphan and her pretty older sister Mary and arranges to adopt both under the alias of "Mr. Jones." As he spends more time with them, he soon finds himself falling in love w...
When she reaches adulthood, a precocious young woman sets out to find her biological father, who, as her mother tells her, abandoned them for another woman.
FR #15193 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA | English
Director
Wilfred Jackson
Writer
Pinto Colvig, Earl Hurd, Ted Sears
Plot
The princess violin from the sleepy Land of Symphony is chased by a more lively alto saxophone from the Isle of Jazz. Soon the queen (a viola) discovers them and locks the sax in the metronome.
Beatrice Hagen, Elvia Allman, Pinto Colvig, Walt Disney, Walt Disney, Clarence Nash, Clarence Nash
Plot
Mickey, Donald and Goofy are firefighters. As you might expect, their attempts at fighting a boarding house fire are not particularly effective. They hear Clarabelle singing in the bathtub and rescue her, tub and all, against her ...
FR #15206 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA | English
Director
Walt Disney
Writer
Albert Hurter
Cast
Billy Bletcher, Mary Moder, Clarence Nash
Plot
A dwarf grants the king's wish that everything he touches will turn to gold. When the king finds that he cannot eat, he is no longer happy with the gift. By giving up his worldly property, he finds happiness going from riches to r...
FR #15438 | Movie | Comedy, Musical | USA | English, French
Director
Roy Del Ruth, W.S. Van Dyke
Writer
Jack Mcgowan, Sid Silvers, Moss Hart
Cast
Jack Benny, Eleanor Powell, Robert Taylor
Plot
A Broadway producer is reluctant to hire his high school sweetheart for the leading role in a new show, so she decides to take advantage of a rumor started by a gossip columnist.
FR #15446 | Movie | Adventure, Action | USA | English, Mandarin
Director
Tay Garnett
Writer
Jules Furthman, James Kevin Mcguinness, Crosbie Garstin
Cast
Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, C. Aubrey Smith
Plot
When earthy Dolly Portland is rejected by Captain Gaskell in favor of a socialite, she aids Jamesy McCardle, in league with Malay pirates, in his plot to seize Gaskell's ship.
Edward T. Lowe Jr., Stuart Anthony, Philip Macdonald
Cast
Warner Oland, Mary Brian, Thomas Beck, John Qualen
Plot
Hired to investigate forged bonds, Charlie is thwarted by the murder of his undercover agent, but the arrival of son Lee helps him uncover the true culprits.
While investigating the theft of antiquities from an ancient tomb excavation, Charlie discovers the body of the expedition's leader concealed inside the mummy's wrappings.
FR #16958 | Movie | Drama, Musical | USA | English
Director
Robert Z. Leonard, W.S. Van Dyke
Writer
Rida Johnson Young, John Lee Mahin, Frances Goodrich
Cast
Jeanette Macdonald, Nelson Eddy, Frank Morgan, Douglass Dumbrille, Akim Tamiroff
Plot
In order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and escapes to colonial New Orleans, where she finds an unlikely true love.
The stooges are inept deliverymen at a brewery. When they learn about a company golf tournament, they sneak onto a golf course to get some practice. They quickly proceed to bother the other golfers and destroy the course. Forced t...
FR #17199 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA | English
Director
David Hand
Writer
William Cottrell, Joe Grant
Cast
Billy Bletcher, Don Brodie, Pinto Colvig, Walt Disney, Walt Disney, Clarence Nash, Clarence Nash, Clarence Nash, Clarence Nash
Plot
Pluto chases a kitten through a window and right into Mickey's lap. Mickey scolds him, and goes off to wash the kitten. Pluto falls asleep in front of the fire, and dreams of a hell ruled by cats where he is put on trial for all h...
A serious case of emotional neglect brings door-to-door Christmas cards salesmen, Stan and Ollie, at the house of an inconsolable wife who is convinced that her artist husband doesn't love her anymore.
FR #17979 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | France | French
Director
Marcel Pagnol
Writer
Marcel Pagnol
Cast
Henri Poupon, Andre Pollack, Annie Toinon
Plot
Merlusse is a teacher in an all-boys boarding school - pupils hate him since he smells, has a glass eye and is very strict. When Christmas Eve arrives most boys leave school to spend the holidays with their families but a small gr...
A drama set amid an earthquake in Bihar. Miss Renee (Khote) looks after the victims while her lover, the businessman Sardar (Mohanned), wants to make money from the disaster. She comes under the spell of the blind itinerant Musafi...
FR #18702 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA | English
Director
David Hand
Writer
William Cottrell, Joe Grant
Cast
Sara Berner, Harriette Haddon, Purv Pullen
Plot
Three orphan kittens are entering a society house in winter and ruin the furniture. But when they're caught by the maid, the young daughter of the house "rescues" them from the cold out outside.
FR #18723 | Movie | Comedy, Romance | Italy | Italian
Director
Mario Camerini
Writer
Mario Camerini, Giaci Mondaini, Ivo Perilli
Cast
Vittorio De Sica, Assia Noris, Luigi Almirante
Plot
Gold is a millionaire tired of the hypocrisy that surrounds him. After saving a homeless man's life, he gets hold of his clothes by wandering around town in search of someone who appreciates him for who he really is, not for his m...
Devdas, the son of Zamindar Narayan Mukherjee, was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. He grew up in the lush village of Taj Sonapur, where he spent his childhood, indulged by his lovely playmate Paro. They grew up sharing a sp...
Prague in the 1860s: Balduin is a popular, handsome student, the best fencer in town, in amicable rivalry with his friend Dahl for the affections of Lydia, the innkeeper's niece. While the students are celebrating Lydia's birthday...
Will Rogers, Anne Shirley, Irvin S. Cobb, Eugene Pallette
Plot
A Louisiana con man enters his steamboat into a winner-take-all race with a rival while trying to find a witness to free his nephew, about to be hanged for murder.
FR #21730 | Movie | Fantasy, Sci-Fi | Russia | Russian
Director
Aleksandr Andriyevsky
Writer
Georgiy Grebner, Karel Capek
Cast
Sergei Vecheslov, Vladimir Gardin, Mariya Volgina
Plot
In an unnamed English-speaking capitalist land, a young engineer invents inexhaustible giant robots to replace the fragile human workers on high-volume assembly-lines, and soon finds his invention co-opted by the military-industri...
The stooges are down and out. With a cop chasing them, they flee into an artists studio where they are mistaken for students. The cop continues to hunt for them and they use a variety of disguises and tactics to elude him. A wild ...
Shirley Temple's father, a rebel officer, sneaks back to his rundown plantation to see his family and is arrested. A Yankee takes pity and sets up an escape. Everyone is captured and the officers are to be executed. Shirley and "B...
FR #22714 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | France | French
Director
Julien Duvivier
Writer
Julien Duvivier
Cast
Harry Baur, Jean Gabin, Robert Le Vigan
Plot
The final days of Jesus from the time he enters the city of Jerusalem. Viewed as a threat, it is decided that he must be captured, tried, and executed as a criminal, a plan aided and abetted by disciple Judas Iscariot.
FR #22727 | Movie | Comedy, Fantasy | Germany | German
Director
Reinhold Schunzel
Writer
Moliere, Titus Maccius Plautus, Reinhold Schunzel
Cast
Willy Fritsch, Paul Kemp, Kathe Gold
Plot
Lamenting Thebian women are waiting for the men to come back from war. God Jupiter is attracted to one of them: Alkmene. He goes to earth and tries to seduce her as himself: an old man. Failing in this, he disguises himself as Amp...
