FR #36 | Movie | Romance, History | USA | English, German
Director
Michael Curtiz
Writer
Philip G. Epstein, Julius J. Epstein, Howard Koch
Cast
Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid
Plot
A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.
FR #2957 | Movie | Comedy, Romance | USA | English
Director
Billy Wilder
Writer
Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, Edward Childs Carpenter
Cast
Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Rita Johnson
Plot
A frustrated city girl disguises herself as a youngster in order to get a cheaper train ticket home. But little "Sue Sue" finds herself in a whole heap of grown-up trouble when she hides out in a compartment with a handsome Major.
FR #3194 | Movie | Comedy, Romance | USA | English
Director
Preston Sturges
Writer
Preston Sturges, Ernst Laemmle
Cast
Claudette Colbert, Joel Mccrea, Mary Astor
Plot
A New York inventor needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying an eccentric Florida millionaire with a capricious high-society sister.
FR #3204 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | USA | English, Spanish
Director
George Stevens
Writer
Ring Lardner Jr., Michael Kanin, John Lee Mahin
Cast
Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Fay Bainter
Plot
Sportswriter Sam Craig and columnist Tess Harding, with the same New York newspaper, overcome their initial antagonism, fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when he comes to resent her hectic life...
An amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star, only to suffer an accident which restores his original memories but erases his post-war life.
When assassin Philip Raven shoots a blackmailer and his beautiful female companion dead, he is paid off in marked bills by his treasonous employer who is working with foreign spies.
FR #4187 | Movie | Family, Drama | Portugal, UK | Portuguese, English
Director
Manoel De Oliveira
Writer
Manoel De Oliveira, Joao Rodrigues De Freitas, Nascimento Fernandes
Cast
Nascimento Fernandes, Vital Dos Santos, Antonio Palma
Plot
The story takes place in the old streets of Porto and by the banks of the Douro River. A gang of very young kids has just accepted a new member, Carlitos, a shy boy who has "played it tough" by stealing a doll in a shop. Carlitos ...
FR #4950 | Movie | Comedy, Musical | Portugal | Portuguese
Director
Francisco Ribeiro
Writer
Antonio Lopes Ribeiro, Francisco Ribeiro, Vasco Santana
Cast
Maria Das Neves, Vasco Santana, Antonio Silva
Plot
This classic of Portuguese cinema depicts the friendships and rivalries of the inhabitants of a square in downtown Lisbon, where exists a spirit of familiarity between neighbors.
FR #5705 | Movie | Comedy, Musical | USA | English
Director
William A. Seiter
Writer
Michael Fessier, Ernest Pagano, Delmer Daves
Cast
Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Adolphe Menjou
Plot
In Buenos Aires, a man who has decreed that his daughters must marry in order of age allows an American dancer to perform at his club under the condition that he play suitor to his second-oldest daughter.
The dark side and hypocrisy of provincial American life is seen through the eyes of five children as they grow to adulthood at the turn of the century.
FR #7446 | Movie | Biography, Drama | USA | English
Director
Raoul Walsh
Writer
Vincent Lawrence, Horace Mccoy, James J. Corbett
Cast
Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, Jack Carson
Plot
As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert, Jim Corbett, uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the top of the boxing world.
FR #7450 | Movie | Adventure, Action | USA | English, Japanese
Director
John Huston, Vincent Sherman
Writer
Richard Macaulay, Robert Carson
Cast
Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet
Plot
In December 1941, ex-army captain Rick Leland boards a Japanese ship heading to Asia via the Panama Canal where his Japanese hosts show interest in the American defense plans for the canal zone.
FR #8223 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Italy | Italian
Director
Alessandro Blasetti
Writer
Cesare Zavattini, Piero Tellini, Giuseppe Amato
Cast
Gino Cervi, Adriana Benetti, Giuditta Rissone
Plot
A family man travelling for work, Paolo Bianchi, meets on a train a lonely girl, Maria. He sees her again on a bus and she reveals him that she's in troubles: she's pregnant, her baby's father has left her and she doesn't know how...
FR #8957 | Movie | Adventure, Action | UK, India | Dutch, German
Director
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Writer
Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
Cast
Godfrey Tearle, Eric Portman, Hugh Burden
Plot
During a raid on Germany a British bomber crew is forced to bail out after their plane is damaged. They land in Holland and are aided by Dutch civilians.
FR #9444 | Movie | Comedy, Mystery | USA | English
Director
Erle C. Kenton
Writer
Stanley Roberts, Edmund Joseph, John Grant
Cast
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Patric Knowles
Plot
Two dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio station, they end up in the middle of a real murder after the station owner is killed during a broadcast.
When a German saboteur jeeringly predicts to the nation new depredations, via their radio "Voice of Terror", the Intelligence Inner Council summons Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) to help in the crisis.
FR #10693 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA | English
Director
Joseph Barbera, William Hanna
Writer
Cal Howard
Cast
William Hanna, Bob Laztny, Jack Sabel
Plot
As the title implies, Tom and Jerry are in a bowling alley. Both spend a lot of time sliding on the well-polished lanes. Eventually, Jerry takes up residence among the pins and Tom tries to bowl him down.
FR #10710 | Movie | Adventure, Comedy | USA | French, German
Director
Leo Mccarey
Writer
Sheridan Gibney, Leo Mccarey
Cast
Ginger Rogers, Cary Grant, Walter Slezak
Plot
In Europe at the start of World War II, a woman notices that wherever her husband goes, the Germans seem to follow. Meanwhile, a charming reporter is following them.
FR #11205 | Movie | Adventure, Action | USA | English
Director
Cecil B. Demille
Writer
Alan Le May, Charles Bennett, Jesse Lasky Jr.
Cast
Ray Milland, John Wayne, Paulette Goddard
Plot
Florida ship salvager Loxi falls for Jack, captain of a ship wrecked on the Key West shore. However, their romance is complicated by the arrival of another suitor.
FR #11442 | Movie | Mystery, Drama | USA | English
Director
George Cukor
Writer
I.A.R. Wylie, Donald Ogden Stewart
Cast
Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Richard Whorf
Plot
Journalist Steve O'Malley (Spencer Tracy) wants to write a biography of a national hero who died when his car ran off a bridge. Steve receives conflicting reports and tales that make him question what the truth about the hero is.
FR #11448 | Movie | Western, Drama | USA | English
Director
Ray Enright
Writer
Rex Beach, Lawrence Hazard, Tom Reed
Cast
Marlene Dietrich, Randolph Scott, John Wayne
Plot
In Nome, Alaska, miner Roy Glennister and his partner Dextry, financed by saloon entertainer Cherry Malotte, fight to save their gold claim from crooked commissioner Alexander McNamara.
FR #11699 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA | English
Director
Robert Clampett
Writer
Warren Foster, Ernest Gee
Cast
Mel Blanc, Sara Berner, Kent Rogers
Plot
Mama Buzzard wants her children to learn to bring back meat for dinner. One buzzardling is shy and has to be kicked out of the nest. He's told to at least bring back a rabbit.
FR #11989 | Movie | Crime, Drama | France | French
Director
Henri Decoin
Writer
Georges Simenon, Henri-Georges Clouzot
Cast
Raimu, Juliette Faber, Gabrielle Fontan
Plot
Loursat, a lawyer, lives with his daughter Nicole. Abandoned by his wife about 20 years ago, he has sunk into alcoholism. One day, the corpse of a stranger is discovered in the attic of his residence.
FR #13460 | Movie | War, Drama | USA | English, German
Director
Raoul Walsh
Writer
Arthur T. Horman
Cast
Errol Flynn, Ronald Reagan, Nancy Coleman
Plot
When the crew of a downed British bomber escape from their Nazi captors with Top Secret intelligence, they make a desperate journey to get out of Germany alive.
FR #13699 | Movie | Biography, Adventure | UK, Czechia | Italian, German
Director
Leslie Howard
Writer
Henry C. James, Katherine Strueby, Miles Malleson
Cast
Leslie Howard, David Niven, Rosamund John
Plot
Aircraft designer/patriot R. J. Mitchell, alarmed at growing German militarism, works to perfect a defense against the German Messerschmidt at the cost of his health.
In California, Bobo and his mooching pal Tiny are doing odd jobs and getting drunk and they hide a secret about the unsolved murder of sailor Pop Kelly but suicidal waitress Anna, saved by Bobo, unravels the mystery.
Capt. Jim Gordon's command of the famed American volunteer fighter group in China is complicated by the recruitment of an old friend who is a reckless hotshot.
FR #14454 | Movie | Action, Drama | USA | English, Japanese
Director
John Farrow
Writer
W.R. Burnett, Frank Butler, Lawrence Hazard
Cast
Brian Donlevy, Robert Preston, Macdonald Carey
Plot
December, 1941. With no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island base.
FR #14484 | Movie | Documentary, War | Russia | Russian
Director
Ilya Kopalin, Leonid Varlamov
Writer
Pyotr Pavlenko, Albert Maltz, Elliot Paul
Cast
N. Dubravin, Edward G. Robinson, Iosif Stalin
Plot
A number of frontline cameramen shot the footage used in this documentary of the Battle of Moscow, between October 1941 and January 1942,in which a people's war against the German invaders, whose atrocities are shown in graphic de...
FR #14697 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA | English
Director
Joseph Barbera, William Hanna, Michael Lah
Writer
Julian Harmon
Cast
Pinto Colvig, William Hanna, Harry Lang
Plot
Tom is playing with Jerry when someone delivers a cute lady cat for Mammy to take care of. Tom is smitten at first sight, and primps a bit. He offers a fish and a canary, but she's not interested. He then retrieves Jerry (filed un...
A pair of bus drivers accidentally steal their own bus. With the company issuing a warrant for their arrest, they tag along with a playboy on a boat trip that finds them on a tropical island, where a jewel thief has sinister plans...
FR #14726 | Movie | Action, Romance | USA | French, English
Director
Lewis Seiler
Writer
Kenneth Gamet, Tom Reed, George Owen
Cast
Marlene Dietrich, John Wayne, Randolph Scott
Plot
Charles 'Pittsburgh' Markham rides roughshod over his friends, his lovers, and his ideals in his trek toward financial success in the Pittsburgh steel industry, only to find himself deserted and lonely at the top. When his crash c...
FR #15697 | Movie | Romance, Drama | USA | English
Director
John Cromwell
Writer
Philip Dunne, Edison Marshall, Jacques Monteux
Cast
Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, George Sanders
Plot
Cheated out of his estate by his sadistic uncle, young Benjamin Blake goes to the South Seas to make his fortune so he can return to claim his birthright.
Nunnally Johnson, Maurine Dallas Watkins, Ben Hecht
Cast
Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, George Montgomery
Plot
Roxie Hart signs a murder confession in order to attract publicity for her dancing career as dames don't swing in Cook County. Will everything go as planned?
FR #15728 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | Italy | Italian
Director
Goffredo Alessandrini
Writer
Ayn Rand, Corrado Alvaro, Orio Vergani
Cast
Fosco Giachetti, Alida Valli, Rossano Brazzi
Plot
The time is the Russian Revolution. The place is a country burdened with fear - the midnight knock at the door, the bread hidden against famine, the haunted eyes of the fleeing, the grublike fat of the appeasers and oppressors. In...
FR #16480 | Movie | Comedy, Fantasy | France | French
Director
Marcel L'Herbier
Writer
Louis Chavance, Maurice Henry, Henri Jeanson
Cast
Fernand Gravey, Micheline Presle, Saturnin Fabre
Plot
Denis is distracted: he's studying all day for philosophy exams and working all night at the flower market; plus, whenever he closes his eyes, he dreams of a mysterious woman in white. His girlfriend Nina is annoyed at him for his...
FR #16696 | Movie | Animation, Comedy | USA | English
Director
Tex Avery
Writer
Rich Hogan
Cast
Leone Le Doux, Sara Berner, Pinto Colvig
Plot
Yet another variation on the Three Little Pigs theme, this time told as WW2 anti-German propaganda (the US had just entered the war), with the wolf as a thinly-disguised Hitler.
FR #17231 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Germany | German
Director
Rolf Hansen
Writer
Hans Flemming, Peter Groll, Rolf Hansen
Cast
Zarah Leander, Grethe Weiser, Viktor Staal
Plot
During a leave in Berlin, Lieutenant Paul Wendlandt, a young Luftwaffe pilot, falls for Anna Holberg, a famous singer, who returns his love. But in time of war it is hard to live on love only. The lovers keep being separated on ac...
When Bill and Connie Fuller are forced to move out of their Manhattan apartment because of their pet dog, Connie purchases a dilapidated old Pennsylvania house where George Washington allegedly slept, and persuades Bill to renovat...
Fearing life in prison for a fourth offense, convict Duke Berne pulls out of an armored car robbery, planned by his crooked lawyer, but he is framed for the robbery anyway.
FR #17697 | Movie | Documentary, Short | UK | German, English
Director
Humphrey Jennings, Stewart Mcallister
Writer
Humphrey Jennings, Stewart Mcallister
Cast
Leonard Brockington, Joseph Macleod, Bud Flanagan
Plot
A depiction of life in wartime England during the Second World War. Director Humphrey Jennings visits many aspects of civilian life and of the turmoil and privation caused by the war, all without narration.
Arthur T. Horman, Richard Macaulay, Norman Reilly Raine
Cast
James Cagney, Dennis Morgan, Brenda Marshall
Plot
Inspired by Churchill's Dunkirk speech, brash, undisciplined bush pilot Brian MacLean and three friends enlist in the RCAF but are deemed too old to be fliers.
FR #17959 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA | English
Director
Jack Kinney
Writer
Webb Smith, Ralph Wright
Cast
Pinto Colvig, John Mcleish
Plot
In his attempt to demonstrate swimming, Goofy first has trouble undressing in the small locker room but then manages to showcase diving and swimming techniques.
FR #18193 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA | English
Director
Robert Clampett
Writer
Warren Foster
Cast
Mel Blanc, Tedd Pierce
Plot
Babbit and Catstello, take-offs on Bud Abbott and Lou Costello try to catch the little Tweety bird, using everything from stilts to dynamite. Trouble is, the tiny bird has a vicious streak in him.
FR #18453 | Movie | Comedy, Romance | USA | Spanish, English
Director
Victor Fleming
Writer
John Lee Mahin, Benjamin Glazer, John Steinbeck
Cast
Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr, John Garfield
Plot
Danny, a poor northern Californian Mexican-American, inherits two houses from his grandfather and is quickly taken advantage of by his vagabond friends.
Anna Jobst is the daughter of a rich, conservative farmer. Living on the bank of the Moldau, she wishes nothing more than follow the river to Prague, the "Golden City".
FR #18946 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA | English
Director
Friz Freleng
Writer
Michael Maltese
Cast
Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan
Plot
Elmer Fudd and his dogs are hunting for Bugs Bunny in the woods. As Fudd is about to shoot Bugs, he receives a telegram telling him that his uncle is leaving him three million dollars on the condition he doesn't harm any animals.
