FR #2190 | Movie | Film-Noir, Drama | USA | English
Director
John M. Stahl
Writer
Jo Swerling, Ben Ames Williams
Cast
Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain
Plot
A writer falls in love with a young socialite and they're soon married, but her obsessive love for him threatens to be the undoing of them both as well as everyone around them.
Seven guests, a newly hired secretary and two staff are gathered at a manor house on an isolated island by an unknown absentee host and are killed off one-by-one. They work together to determine who the killer is before it's too l...
At a big city Catholic school, Father O'Malley and Sister Benedict indulge in friendly rivalry, and succeed in extending the school through the gift of a building.
FR #3454 | Movie | Romance | USA | English, German
Director
Peter Godfrey
Writer
Lionel Houser, Adele Comandini, Aileen Hamilton
Cast
Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet
Plot
A food writer who has lied about being the perfect housewife must try to cover her deception when her boss and a returning war hero invite themselves to her home for a traditional family Christmas.
FR #4452 | Movie | Adventure, Action | USA | English, Japanese
Director
Raoul Walsh
Writer
Ranald Macdougall, Lester Cole, Alvah Bessie
Cast
Errol Flynn, James Brown, William Prince
Plot
A platoon of special ops are tasked to parachute into the remote Burmese jungle and destroy a strategic Japanese radar station, but getting out isn't as easy.
Sherlock Holmes investigates when young women around London turn up murdered, each with a finger severed. Scotland Yard suspects a madman, but Holmes believes the killings to be part of a diabolical plot.
FR #6195 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | USA | English, Italian
Director
Vincente Minnelli, Fred Zinnemann
Writer
Robert Nathan, Joseph Schrank, Paul Gallico
Cast
Judy Garland, Robert Walker, James Gleason
Plot
In 1945, during a 48-hour leave, a soldier accidentally meets a girl at Pennsylvania Station and spends his leave with her, eventually falling in love with the lovely New Yorker.
FR #7464 | Movie | Biography, Drama | USA | English, Italian
Director
William A. Wellman
Writer
Leopold Atlas, Guy Endore, Philip Stevenson
Cast
Burgess Meredith, Robert Mitchum, Freddie Steele
Plot
At the close of WWII, Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent Ernie Pyle travels with, and reports on, the U.S. Army's 77th Infantry Division during their liberation of Italy.
Julia Ross secures employment through a rather nosy employment agency with a wealthy widow, Mrs. Hughes, and goes to live at her house. 2 days later, she awakens - in a different house, in different clothes and with a new identity...
FR #7948 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA | English
Director
Joseph Barbera, William Hanna
Writer
William Hanna, Joseph Barbera, Cal Howard
Cast
Billy Bletcher, William Hanna, Harry Lang
Plot
The bulldog wants to take a nap. Tom wants to chase Jerry around the house. Naps and noise don't mix, and so the bulldog threatens Tom to keep quiet or else.
FR #8230 | Movie | Adventure, Action | Russia, Argentina | Russian, Spanish
Director
Aleksandr Rou
Writer
Aleksandr Rou, Vladimir Shvejtser
Cast
Sergey Stolyarov, Aleksandr Shirshov, Galina Grigoreva
Plot
An epic tale filmed during the Second World War. Russian heroes Nikita Kozhemyaka and Bulat Balagur save the Russian land from the enemy hordes of Kashchei the Immortal and free the beautiful Marya Morevna.
FR #8694 | Movie | War, Drama | USA | English, Italian
Director
Lewis Milestone
Writer
Harry Brown, Robert Rossen
Cast
Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, George Tyne
Plot
During WWII, a platoon of American soldiers trudge through the Italian countryside in search of a bridge they have been ordered to blow up, encountering danger and destruction along the way.
In 1942, after the fall of the Philippines to the Japanese, U.S. Army Col. Joseph Madden stays behind to organize the local resistance against the Japanese invaders.
FR #9483 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | France | French
Director
Jacques Becker
Writer
Maurice Auberge, Jacques Becker, Maurice Griffe
Cast
Raymond Rouleau, Micheline Presle, Jean Chevrier
Plot
Philippe Clarence, a famous Parisian dressmaker, seduces his friend's fiancee. But, for the first time in his life, this is for real. The film is also a sharp picture of the fashion world.
FR #9701 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA | English
Director
Joseph Barbera, William Hanna
Writer
Jerry Mann
Cast
Billy Bletcher, William Hanna, Harry Lang
Plot
Jerry Mouse gets tired of living the country life and decides to head to the big city. However, the experience doesn't turn out quite like Jerry had expected.
FR #9731 | Movie | History, Drama | Germany | German, French
Director
Veit Harlan, Wolfgang Liebeneiner
Writer
Veit Harlan, Alfred Braun, Joseph Goebbels
Cast
Heinrich George, Kristina Soderbaum, Horst Caspar
Plot
During Napoleon's German campaign, the city of Kolberg is isolated from Prussian forces. Residents organize resistance against the French army besieging and bombarding the city, refusing to surrender.
FR #11449 | Movie | Comedy, Fantasy | USA | English, French
Director
H. Bruce Humberstone
Writer
Don Hartman, Melville Shavelson, Philip Rapp
Cast
Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Vera-Ellen
Plot
After being murdered by gangsters, an exuberant nightclub entertainer returns as a ghost to persuade his meek twin brother to help bring his killers to justice.
FR #11994 | Movie | Drama | Sweden, Russia | Swedish, Russian
Director
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Writer
W.O. Somin, Herbert Grevenius, Carl Theodor Dreyer
Cast
Wanda Rothgardt, Georg Rydeberg, Gabriel Alw
Plot
Set entirely in one room, an innocent young man is accused of plagiarizing the work of an old professor. Later, he will be blamed for the professor's murder.
FR #12943 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA | English
Director
Joseph Barbera, William Hanna
Writer
Jerry Mann
Cast
Sara Berner, Anita Brown, William Hanna
Plot
Tom invites Toots to an elegant dinner. However, he's made the mistake of trying to put Jerry to work, as a serving boy, a corkscrew, and other tasks. Jerry puts up with a little of this, but mostly gets revenge on Tom, mostly inv...
Recent widow Mercedes nostalgically recalls her years of marriage with deadly-dull Ramón and concludes that she was unhappy. While traveling by train to Madrid, a psychic makes her see that there was a time she could have chosen a...
FR #13960 | Movie | Biography, Comedy | UK | English
Director
Gabriel Pascal
Writer
George Bernard Shaw
Cast
Claude Rains, Vivien Leigh, Stewart Granger
Plot
At the height of the Roman Civil War, a young Cleopatra (Vivien Leigh) meets a middle-aged Julius Caesar (Claude Rains), who teaches her how to rule Egypt.
FR #13990 | Movie | Drama, Thriller | USA | Spanish, English
Director
Herman Shumlin
Writer
Graham Greene, Robert Buckner
Cast
Charles Boyer, Lauren Bacall, Katina Paxinou
Plot
In 1937, agents from the opposing sides of the Spanish Civil War travel to the neutral UK to secure coal contracts and to undermine each other's efforts.
FR #14228 | Movie | Family, Drama | Sweden | Swedish
Director
Rolf Husberg
Writer
Laura Fitinghoff, Rolf Husberg
Cast
Hans Lindgren, Siv Hansson, Anders Nystrom
Plot
Northern Sweden in the middle of the 19th century. Seven children lose their parents, and to avoid the poor-house, they start on a long trek over the mountains to find a better life. 12-year old Ante has promised their mother to t...
FR #14450 | Movie | Film-Noir, Drama | USA | English, Spanish
Director
Edward Dmytryk
Writer
John Paxton, John Wexley, Ben Hecht
Cast
Dick Powell, Walter Slezak, Micheline Cheirel
Plot
Canadian flyer Laurence Gerard finds that his wife has been murdered by a French collaborator. His quest for justice leads him to Switzerland and Argentina.
When their captain is swindled out of his riverboat by a trio of gamblers, stage show star Abbott and his bumbling sidekick Costello must put things right.
FR #14686 | Movie | Comedy, Romance | USA, UK | English
Director
Harold S. Bucquet
Writer
Philip Barry, Donald Ogden Stewart, Frances Marion
Cast
Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Lucille Ball
Plot
In Washington, D.C. during World War II, Jamie Rowan enters into a loveless marriage with scientist Pat Jamieson and becomes his assistant. Struggles bring them closer together.
FR #14947 | Movie | Comedy, Mystery | USA | English
Director
George Marshall
Writer
Lou Breslow, Jack Moffitt
Cast
Fred Macmurray, Helen Walker, Marjorie Main
Plot
Professional pollster Pete Marshall gets more than he bargained for when he heads deep into the Ozarks to investigate the disappearances of several of his colleagues.
FR #14961 | Movie | Romance, Drama | UK, USA | English
Director
Anthony Asquith
Writer
Terence Rattigan, Anatole De Grunwald, Richard Sherman
Cast
Michael Redgrave, John Mills, Rosamund John
Plot
The wartime daily routine on a British bomber base in southeastern England is revealed through the eyes of newly arrived Flying Officer Peter Penrose (Sir John Mills).
FR #15689 | Movie | Biography, Drama | USA | English, Japanese
Director
Delmer Daves
Writer
Albert Maltz, Marvin Borowsky, Roger Butterfield
Cast
John Garfield, Eleanor Parker, Dane Clark
Plot
Marine hero Al Schmid is blinded in battle and returns home to be rehabilitated. He readjusts to his civilian life with the help of his soon to be wife.
FR #15950 | Movie | Adventure, Action | USA | English
Director
Kurt Neumann
Writer
Hans Jacoby, Marjorie L. Pfaelzer, Edgar Rice Burroughs
Cast
Johnny Weissmuller, Brenda Joyce, Johnny Sheffield
Plot
A group of archaeologists asks Tarzan to help them find an ancient city in a hidden valley of women. He refuses, but Boy is tricked into doing the job. The queen of the women asks Tarzan to help them.
FR #16452 | Movie | Drama, Short | USA | English, Italian
Director
Don Siegel
Writer
Robert Finch, Saul Elkins, Don Siegel
Cast
J. Carrol Naish, Donald Woods, Rosina Galli
Plot
Three cowboys riding across the desert with gifts for no particular recipient see a distant bright light, and find it comes from the Star Auto Court sign where the owners and guests work together to help a young expectant couple.
FR #16944 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA | English
Director
Joseph Barbera, William Hanna
Writer
Pinto Colvig
Cast
Frank Graham, William Hanna
Plot
Tom is all set to eat Jerry when a hawk swoops down and grabs Jerry. To get Jerry back, Tom poses as a female hawk and quickly finds his new lover to be more than he bargained for.
A dull married couple, separated by their enlistment during World War II, reunite after three years to find that they have become very different people.
Originally made with a German soundtrack for screening in occupied Germany and Austria, this film was the first documentary to show what the Allies found when they liberated the Nazi extermination camps: the survivors, the conditi...
FR #19198 | Movie | Film-Noir, Drama | USA | English
Director
Robert Siodmak
Writer
Stephen Longstreet, Keith Winter, Thomas Job
Cast
George Sanders, Ella Raines, Geraldine Fitzgerald
Plot
Bachelor Harry Quincey, head designer in a small-town cloth factory, lives with his selfish sisters, glamorous hypochondriac Lettie and querulous widow Hester. His developing relationship with new colleague Deborah Brown promises ...
FR #19229 | Movie | Documentary, History | Russia | Russian, German
Director
Yuli Raizman
Writer
Yuli Raizman, Mykola Shpykovskyi
Cast
Leonid Khmara, Rudolf Boettger, Vasiliy Chuikov
Plot
Over 40 Army cameramen from the 1st Belorussian and the 1st Ukrainian Fronts contributed footage of this remarkable documentary of the fall of Berlin, including captured German footage.
FR #19454 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA | English
Director
Tex Avery
Writer
Heck Allen
Cast
Sara Berner, Billy Bletcher, Pinto Colvig
Plot
Bored with chasing Red Riding Hood, the Wolf decides to go after Cinderella, but her fairy godmother takes a shine to him instead - and has an arsenal of magical powers to help achieve her ends.
Kiyone Sakurai, an apprentice swordmaker makes a sword for his guardian, Kozaemon Onoda. Onoda breaks the sword while defending his lord which eventually leads to his death at the hands of Naito, when Naito demands to marry his da...
FR #20478 | Movie | Romance, Drama | France | French
Director
Raymond Leboursier, Marcel Pagnol
Writer
Emile Zola, Marcel Pagnol
Cast
Fernandel, Jacqueline Pagnol, Raymond Pellegrin
Plot
Toine, the local hunchback, works at the tile manufacturing plant, but during the summer, he gives a hand to Micoulin, the farmer, thereby being able to spend more time close to Nais, Micoulin's daughter. That summer, the estate o...
FR #20686 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA | English
Director
Chuck Jones
Writer
Tedd Pierce
Cast
Mel Blanc, Dave Barry, Dick Nelson
Plot
Bugs is working as part of an outdoor display in a department store window when the store manager decides to have him stuffed as part of the Taxidermy department.
In rural Spain, a new family arrives in town to work a parcel (barraca), the townsfolk are very hostile to the idea of "another" working the land that once belonged to one of them.
FR #21445 | Movie | Comedy, Fantasy | USA | English
Director
Raoul Walsh
Writer
Sam Hellman, James V. Kern, Aubrey Wisberg
Cast
Jack Benny, Alexis Smith, Dolores Moran
Plot
A trumpet player in a radio orchestra falls asleep during a commercial and dreams he's Athanael, an angel deputized to blow the Last Trumpet at exactly midnight on Earth, thus marking the end of the world.
FR #21652 | Movie | History, Drama | India | Hindi
Director
Mehboob Khan
Writer
Agha Jani Kashmiri, Waqif
Cast
Ashok Kumar, Veena, Nargis
Plot
Badshah Babar arrives in India from Iran, drives out Ibrahim Lodhi, makes peace with the Hindus and rules Delhi. He also adopts Rajkumari as his daughter and treats like his very own child, even though he has two sons, Humayun and...
