An Oklahoma family, driven off their farm by the poverty and hopelessness of the Dust Bowl, joins the westward migration to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.
FR #703 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | USA | English, French
Director
Howard Hawks
Writer
Charles Lederer, Ben Hecht, Charles Macarthur
Cast
Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy
Plot
When a newspaper editor's ace reporter ex-wife is about to quit her job and remarry, he buys himself time to win her back by promising her an exclusive interview with a death row convict.
Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand each other, without realizing that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.
FR #1715 | Movie | Adventure, Family | UK, USA | English
Director
Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, Tim Whelan
Writer
Miles Malleson, Lajos Biro, Miklos Rozsa
Cast
Conrad Veidt, Sabu, June Duprez
Plot
After being tricked and cast out of Bagdad by the evil Jaffar, King Ahmad joins forces with a thief named Abu to reclaim his throne, the city, and the Princess he loves.
The wife of a rubber plantation administrator shoots a man to death and claims it was self-defense, but a letter written in her own hand may prove her undoing.
FR #2702 | Movie | Adventure, Action | USA | English
Director
Michael Curtiz
Writer
Howard Koch, Seton I. Miller
Cast
Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Claude Rains
Plot
Geoffrey Thorpe, a buccaneer, is hired by Queen Elizabeth I to nag the Spanish Armada. The Armada is waiting for an attack on England and Thorpe surprises them with attacks on their galleons where he shows his skills with the sword.
The arrival of wealthy bachelors in town causes an uproar when families with single daughters aggressively seek engagements, including the Bennet family, with five eligible daughters.
Judge Roy Bean, a self-appointed hanging judge in Vinegarroon, Texas, befriends saddle tramp Cole Harden, who opposes Bean's policy against homesteaders.
The boyfriend (Cantinflas) of the servant of a rich industrial man, gets into the house in order to kill a mad dog. Suddenly this man appears so the servant tells him that Cantinflas is his wife's brother (Leonardo), who had been ...
FR #4460 | Movie | Crime, Drama | USA | English, Spanish
Director
Raoul Walsh
Writer
Jerry Wald, Richard Macaulay, A.I. Bezzerides
Cast
George Raft, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan
Plot
When one of two truck-driving brothers loses an arm, they both join a transport company where the other is falsely charged as an accessory in the murder of the owner.
FR #4948 | Movie | Romance, Drama | UK, USA | English, German
Director
Carol Reed
Writer
Gordon Wellesley, Sidney Gilliat, Frank Launder
Cast
Margaret Lockwood, Rex Harrison, Paul Henreid
Plot
After Germany invades Czechia, the German and the British intelligence services try to capture Czech scientist Dr. Axel Bomasch (James Harcourt), inventor of a new type of armor-plating.
After the co-workers of an ambitious clerk trick him into thinking he has won $25,000 in a slogan contest, he begins to use the money to fulfill his dreams. What will happen when the ruse is discovered?
FR #5988 | Movie | Biography, Drama | India | Hindi
Director
Vishnupant Govind Damle, Sheikh Fattelal
Writer
Shivram Vashikar
Cast
Shahu Modak, Datta Dharmadhikari, Pandit
Plot
Story of a boy who finds enlightenment by experiencing religious hypocrisy and dogmatism. Dnyaneshwar liberated the "divine knowledge" locked in the Sanskrit language to bring that knowledge into Prakrit (Marathi) and made it avai...
FR #6230 | Movie | Biography, Drama | Germany, France | German, French
Director
Erich Waschneck
Writer
Mirko Jelusich, C.M. Kohn, Gerhard T. Buchholz
Cast
Erich Ponto, Carl Kuhlmann, Albert Lippert
Plot
Anti-semitic Nazi propaganda "biography" of the Rothschilds, a German Jewish family whose members rose to the top of the European banking community during the Napoleonic era.
Twenty years after the murder of Alice Barlow, her house is finally occupied again. However, the husband from the couple who have moved in has a secret which he will do anything to keep hidden.
Oliver suffers a nervous breakdown as a result of working in a horn factory, but after he follows doctor's orders about getting some sea air, he finds an ex-con is aboard.
Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett but Brett, who thinks he is one of the people they lent money to, gives him the name of his par...
FR #8950 | Movie | Comedy, Western | USA | English
Director
Edward Buzzell
Writer
Irving Brecher, Buster Keaton
Cast
Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx
Plot
The Marx Brothers come to the rescue in the Wild West after a young man, trying to settle an old family feud so he can marry the girl he loves, runs afoul of crooks.
Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from Confederate prison and is sent to Virginia City, Nevada, where he finds out that the former commander of his prison, Vance Irby, is planning to send $5 million in gold to save the Confeder...
Tora Nordstrom-Bonnier, Ragnar Hylten-Cavallius, Per Lindberg
Cast
Ingrid Bergman, Gunnar Sjoberg, Olof Widgren
Plot
When Kerstin Norback is shot and gravely wounded by her lover, the trial causes a public scandal, forcing her to move to Stockholm under an assumed name. There she befriends a group of women and attempts to rebuild her life.
FR #10203 | Movie | Romance, Drama | USA | English
Director
Raoul Walsh
Writer
Grover Jones, Lionel Houser, F. Hugh Herbert
Cast
Claire Trevor, John Wayne, Walter Pidgeon
Plot
In Kansas during the Civil War, opposing pro-Union and pro-Confederate camps clash and visiting Texan Bob Seton runs afoul of William Cantrell's Raiders.
FR #10229 | Movie | Mystery, Drama | USA | English, Spanish
Director
Gregory La Cava
Writer
Allan Scott, Gregory La Cava, Robert L. Buckner
Cast
Ginger Rogers, Joel Mccrea, Marjorie Rambeau
Plot
A young woman from a family of prostitutes falls in love with a hard-working man, but after he finds out the truth about her background, their romance becomes jeopardized.
After retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and his former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.
FR #10960 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | USA | English
Director
King Vidor, Jack Conway, W.S. Van Dyke
Writer
Laurence Stallings, Talbot Jennings, Kenneth Roberts
Cast
Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, Walter Brennan
Plot
Langdon Towne and Hunk Marriner join Major Rogers' Rangers as they wipe out an Indian village. They set out for Fort Wentworth, but when they arrive they find no soldiers and none of the supplies they expected.
Dr. Sovac transplants the brain of a gangster into his professor friend's body to save his life, but there is a side effect that causes a dangerous split personality.
Danny is a content truck driver, but his girl Peggy shows potential as a dancer and hopes he too can show ambition. Danny acquiesces and pursues boxing to please her, but the two begin to spend more time working than time together.
FR #15486 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Germany | German
Director
Helmut Kautner
Writer
Gottfried Keller, Helmut Kautner
Cast
Heinz Ruhmann, Hertha Feiler, Hilde Sessak
Plot
The daydreaming tailor Wenzel is fired from his job, because the fancy frock he was supposed to cut for the mayor, he instead made for himself. He is allowed, however, to take the frock, which he appropriated for himself and he pu...
FR #16188 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA | English
Director
Clyde Geronimi
Writer
Nick George, George Hill, Dick Kinney
Cast
Elvia Allman, Billy Bletcher, Walt Disney
Plot
Mickey and Pluto are taking a trip on the train, but Conductor Pete won't allow Pluto aboard. After sneaking Pluto onto the train in his luggage, Mickey must do some quick thinking and don a few disguises to keep from getting kick...
Donald Duck is a window washer who has problems, from his hat and tail feather being trimmed to waking up Pluto to break the window. And finally tormenting a bee, getting tied up on the platform only to have his rear end stung by ...
FR #16699 | Movie | Biography, Drama | USA | English
Director
John Cromwell
Writer
Robert E. Sherwood, Grover Jones
Cast
Raymond Massey, Gene Lockhart, Ruth Gordon
Plot
Humble Abraham Lincoln gains the respect of his Illinois neighbors, growing in stature and respect until he is elected President in 1860 and departs for Washington.
In 1854, Jeb Stuart, George Custer and other graduates from West Point are posted to Kansas to help pacify the territory before railroad construction to Santa Fe can resume.
FR #16731 | Movie | Comedy, Musical | Sweden | Swedish
Director
Schamyl Bauman
Writer
Hasse Ekman, Schamyl Bauman
Cast
Adolf Jahr, Alice Babs, Solveig Hedengran
Plot
At school, a music teacher is testing the pupil's ability to sing. The 16-year old Inga Danell starts to sing a song so catchy that everybody in the classroom starts to sing. The singing is interrupted by the principal, who thinks...
FR #16942 | Movie | Comedy, Musical | USA, India | Hindi, English
Director
Busby Berkeley
Writer
John Monks Jr., Fred F. Finklehoffe, Herbert Fields
Cast
Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Paul Whiteman
Plot
A high school boy wants to become a professional musician, and his gal pal wants to become his best girl. They work together staging big band shows with fellow classmates in the hopes of hitting it big.
FR #16979 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | France | French
Director
Henri Decoin
Writer
Michel Duran, Max Kolpe, Hans Wilhelm
Cast
Danielle Darrieux, Claude Dauphin, Andre Luguet
Plot
Danielle Darrieux plays an impoverished reform-school escapee who finds a new lease on life when she enrolls in a school for pickpockets run by Fagin-like Saturnin-Fabre.
An escaped convicted murderer hides out at a New York wax museum where he hopes to get plastic surgery, which will help him revenge himself on Charlie Chan.
FR #17487 | Movie | Comedy, Fantasy | Czech | Czech
Director
Otakar Vavra
Writer
Felix De La Camara, Otakar Vavra, Oldrich Nov12
Cast
Lida Baarova, Oldrich Nov12, Ruzena Slemrova
Plot
Many local dignitaries are gathered at an auction organized by the notary Dr Jan Karas (Oldrich Nový) at LucÃn castle to sell off the belongings of the late count. Most interest is aroused by a portrait of a beautiful noble girl, ...
FR #17730 | Movie | Biography, Drama | Russia | Russian
Director
Mark Donskoy
Writer
Maxim Gorky, Mark Donskoy, Ilya Gruzdev
Cast
Nikolai Valbert, Stepan Kayukov, Nikolai Dorokhin
Plot
The last installment of Russian director Mark Donskoy's Maxim Gorky trilogy. Having endured a painful youth in Gorky 1: The Childhood of Maxim Gorky (1938) and a torturous sojourn as a serf in My Apprenticeship, future writer Maxi...
FR #18721 | Movie | War, Drama | Spain, France | Spanish
Director
Andre Malraux, Boris Peskine
Writer
Max Aub, Andre Malraux, Denis Marion
Cast
Andres Mejuto, Nicolas Rodriguez, Jose Santpere
Plot
1937, during the spanish civil war, at Teruel. The fight of the Republicans (with very poor means but high commitment) against fascist army of General Franco. Can be seen as romanticized witness of director and writer Andre Malrau...
FR #18732 | Movie | Biography, Drama | Germany | German
Director
Wolfgang Liebeneiner
Writer
Rolf Lauckner, Wolfgang Liebeneiner
Cast
Paul Hartmann, Friedrich Kayssler, LIL Dagover
Plot
A biographical film of Otto von Bismarck, the Prime Minister of Prussia, and how he and his policies - including aggressive war - helped to unite Germany.
FR #18978 | Movie | Drama | France, Russia | French, Russian
Director
Max Ophuls
Writer
Carl Zuckmayer, Marcelle Maurette, Curt Alexander
Cast
Edwige Feuillere, John Lodge, Aime Clariond
Plot
In the late 1800's, Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian empire, falls for Sophie Chotek, a Czech countess. He's already a problem to the Crown because of his political ideas; this love affair with someone not of royal bl...
Arnost Benda gets a job in the baron Prasil's family as he is secretly married to baron's daughter Karlicka. The baron takes Arnost for his illegitimate son. The grotesque chaos is solved by arrival of real Arnost's parents.
Banished from various U.S. protectorates in the Pacific, a saloon entertainer uses her femme-fatale charms to woo politicians, navy personnel, gangsters, riff-raff, judges and a ship's doctor in order to achieve her aims.
FR #19195 | Movie | Western, Drama | USA, UK | English, Spanish
Director
Wesley Ruggles
Writer
Claude Binyon, Clarence Budington Kelland
Cast
Jean Arthur, William Holden, Warren William
Plot
In Tucson of the 1860s, a pioneer woman struggles to succeed in the freight and cattle business while at risk at the hands of corrupt and violent local businessmen and rampaging Indians.
FR #19197 | Movie | Adventure, Family | USA | English
Director
Walter Lang
Writer
Maurice Maeterlinck, Ernest Pascal, Walter Bullock
Cast
Shirley Temple, Spring Byington, Nigel Bruce
Plot
Mytyl and her brother Tyltyl, a woodchopper's children, are led by the Fairy Berylune on a magical trip through the past, present, and future to locate the Blue Bird of Happiness.
FR #19442 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA | English
Director
Clyde Geronimi
Cast
Walt Disney, Clarence Nash, Danny Webb
Plot
As Mickey, Donald and Goofy are preparing their tugboat to head out to sea, they receive a distress call from a sinking ship. This program is presented as originally created.
FR #19953 | Movie | Romance, Drama | USA | English
Director
Cecil B. Demille
Writer
Alan Le May, Jesse Lasky Jr., C. Gardner Sullivan
Cast
Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll, Paulette Goddard
Plot
In 1885, a Texas Ranger travels to Canada to arrest a trapper who's wanted for murder and who's stirring up the Natives in a rebellion against the Canadian government.
In a small coal-mining village Bob Fenwick leads a strike over safety standards at the local colliery. Meanwhile his son, David, goes off to university with the hope one day to return to help the miners with their working conditions.
Radha (Sardar Akhtar) is an indomitable woman, toiling away to feed her three sons and to pay off Sukhilala (Kanhaiyalal), the village's rapacious moneylender. When she learns that she is pregnant again, her husband, Shamu (Arun K...
FR #20954 | Movie | Adventure, Action | USA | English
Director
Ford Beebe, Ray Taylor
Writer
Alex Raymond, Basil Dickey, George H. Plympton
Cast
Buster Crabbe, Carol Hughes, Charles Middleton
Plot
A ravaging plague has struck the Earth threatening no less than global extinction. This alien disease is believed to be the evil spawn of Ming, the merciless Emperor of Planet Mongo. The world's only hope now rests with Flash Gordon.
