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Arsenic and Old Lace

(1944)

Comedy, Crime

Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!

Runtime:

118 min

Director:

Frank Capra

Cast:

Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey, Jack Carson

8.0

82%

N/A

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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

(1936)

Comedy, Drama, Romance

Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.

Runtime:

115 min

Director:

Frank Capra

Cast:

Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, George Bancroft, Lionel Stander, Douglass Dumbrille

7.9

91%

N/A

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High Sierra

(1941)

Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort.

Runtime:

100 min

Director:

Raoul Walsh

Cast:

Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis, Arthur Kennedy, Joan Leslie

7.6

94%

N/A

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The Hunchback of Notre Dame

(1939)

Drama, Horror, Romance

Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a gypsy young girl. The hunchback Quasimodo, Frollo's protege and bell-ringer of Notre Dame, lives in peace among the bells in the heights of the immense cathedral until he is involved by the twisted magistrate in his mal...

Runtime:

117 min

Director:

William Dieterle

Cast:

Charles Laughton, Cedric Hardwicke, Thomas Mitchell, Maureen O'Hara, Edmond O'Brien

7.9

100%

N/A

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Young Mr. Lincoln

(1939)

Drama, History

In this dramatized account of his early law career in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln is born into a modest log cabin, where he is encouraged by his first love, Ann Rutledge, to pursue law. Following her tragic death, Lincoln establishes a law practice in Springfield, where he meets a young Mary Todd. Lincoln's law skills are put to the test...

Runtime:

100 min

Director:

John Ford

Cast:

Henry Fonda, Alice Brady, Marjorie Weaver, Arleen Whelan, Eddie Collins

7.6

100%

N/A

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They Died with Their Boots On

(1941)

Drama, History, Romance, War, Western

The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains the 7th Cavalry, appeases Chief Crazy Horse and later engages in bloody battle with the Sioux nation.

Runtime:

140 min

Director:

Raoul Walsh

Cast:

Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Arthur Kennedy, Charley Grapewin, Gene Lockhart

7.2

82%

N/A

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The Raven

(1935)

Horror

A brilliant but deranged neurosurgeon becomes obsessively fixated on a judge's daughter who in no way wants him. With the help of an escaped criminal whose face he has surgically deformed, the mad man lures her, her father, and her fiancé to his isolated castle-like home, where he has created a torture chamber with the intent of tortur...

Runtime:

61 min

Director:

Louis Friedlander

Cast:

Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lester Matthews, Irene Ware, Samuel S. Hinds

7.0

80%

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Dodge City

(1939)

Action, Western

In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.

Runtime:

104 min

Director:

Michael Curtiz

Cast:

Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Ann Sheridan, Bruce Cabot, Frank McHugh

7.1

100%

N/A

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It's a Gift

(1934)

Comedy

After he inherits some money, Harold Bissonette ("pronounced bis-on-ay") decides to give up the grocery business, move to California and run an orange grove. Despite his family's objections and the news that the land he bought is worthless, Bissonette packs up and drives out to California with his nagging wife Amelia and children.

Runtime:

68 min

Director:

Norman Z. McLeod

Cast:

W.C. Fields, Kathleen Howard, Jean Rouverol, Julian Madison, Tommy Bupp

7.4

100%

N/A

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Hold That Ghost

(1941)

Comedy, Horror

Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked when they are stranded in a haunted house along with several other strangers.

Runtime:

86 min

Director:

Arthur Lubin

Cast:

Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Richard Carlson, Joan Davis, Mischa Auer

7.4

100%

N/A

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Remember the Night

(1940)

Comedy, Drama, Romance

When Jack, an assistant District Attorney, takes Lee, a shoplifter caught in the act, home with him for Christmas, the unexpected happens and love blossoms.

Runtime:

94 min

Director:

Mitchell Leisen

Cast:

Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Beulah Bondi, Elizabeth Patterson, Willard Robertson

7.7

100%

N/A

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Santa Fe Trail

(1940)

Action, Western

As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assigned to the 2nd Cavalry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth. While there they aid in the capture and execution of the abolitionist, John Brown following the Battle of Harper's Ferry.

Runtime:

110 min

Director:

Michael Curtiz

Cast:

Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Olivia de Havilland, Alan Hale, Ronald Reagan

6.3

63%

N/A

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Virginia City

(1940)

Action, Drama, History, Romance, Western

Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 million in gold destined for Confederate coffers. A Confederate sympathizer and a Mexican bandit, each with their own stake in the loot, stand in his way.

Runtime:

121 min

Director:

Michael Curtiz

Cast:

Errol Flynn, Miriam Hopkins, Randolph Scott, Humphrey Bogart, Frank McHugh

6.8

N/A

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Our Town

(1940)

Drama, Romance

Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. We see birth, life and death in this small community.

Runtime:

90 min

Director:

Sam Wood

Cast:

William Holden, Martha Scott, Fay Bainter, Beulah Bondi, Thomas Mitchell

6.6

86%

N/A

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Tobacco Road

(1941)

Comedy, Drama

Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors were once wealthy planters. Their slapstick existence is threatened by a bank's plans to take over the land for more profitable farming.

Runtime:

84 min

Director:

John Ford

Cast:

Charley Grapewin, Marjorie Rambeau, Gene Tierney, William Tracy, Elizabeth Patterson

6.5

N/A

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In Old Chicago

(1938)

Action, Drama

The O'Leary brothers -- honest Jack and roguish Dion -- become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in Chicago on the eve of its Great Fire.

Runtime:

110 min

Director:

Henry King

Cast:

Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Alice Brady, Andy Devine

6.9

67%

N/A

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Movie Crazy

(1932)

Comedy, Family, Romance

After a mix-up with his application photograph, an aspiring actor is invited to a screen test and goes off to Hollywood.

Runtime:

96 min

Director:

Clyde Bruckman, Harold Lloyd

Cast:

Harold Lloyd, Constance Cummings, Kenneth Thomson, Louise Closser Hale, Spencer Charters

7.2

N/A

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Whoopee!

(1930)

Comedy, Music

Western sheriff Bob Wells is preparing to marry Sally Morgan; she loves part-Indian Wanenis, whose race is an obstacle. Sally flees the wedding with hypochondriac Henry Williams, who thinks he's just giving her a ride; but she left a note saying they've eloped! Chasing them are jilted Bob, Henry's nurse Mary (who's been trying to seduc...

Runtime:

93 min

Director:

Thornton Freeland

Cast:

Eddie Cantor, Ethel Shutta, Paul Gregory, Eleanor Hunt, Jack Rutherford

7.7

100%

N/A

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Moon Over Miami

(1941)

Comedy, Music, Romance

After losing nearly all of an inheritance to taxes, sisters Kay (Betty Grable) and Barbara Latimer (Carole Landis), waitresses at a drive-in restaurant in Texas, scheme to find rich husbands. With the aid of their aunt Susan (Charlotte Greenwood), the sisters take the last of their money and head to a well-known Miami resort where they...

Runtime:

91 min

Director:

Walter Lang

Cast:

Don Ameche, Betty Grable, Robert Cummings, Jack Haley, Carole Landis

7.1

N/A

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Crime School

(1938)

Crime, Drama

In the slums, teenager Frankie Warren hangs out with a rowdy gang who one day knock him out in a fight. In court, the boys refuse to reveal who struck the knockout blow, and all are subsequently sentenced to a reformatory, cruelly run by two corrupt guards. New deputy commissioner Mark Braden arrives determined to change things, but de...

Runtime:

85 min

6.8

N/A

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Topper Takes a Trip

(1938)

Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

Mrs Topper's friend Mrs Parkhurst has convinced Mrs topper, to file for a divorce from Cosmo, due to the strange circumstances of his trip with ghost Marion Kirby. Marion comes back from heaven's door to help Cosmo again, this time only with dog Mr. Atlas. Due to a strange behavior of Cosmo, the judge refuses to divorce them, so Mrs Pa...

Runtime:

80 min

Director:

Norman Z. McLeod

Cast:

Constance Bennett, Roland Young, Billie Burke, Alan Mowbray, Verree Teasdale

6.7

N/A

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Palmy Days

(1931)

Comedy, Music, Romance

Musical comedy antics in an art deco bakery (motto: "Glorifying the American Doughnut") with Eddie Cantor as an assistant to a phoney psychic, who is mistaken for an efficiency expert and placed in charge. Complications ensue when the psychic and his gang attempt to rub the payroll.

Runtime:

77 min

7.9

N/A

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Murder on a Honeymoon

(1935)

Comedy, Mystery

A schoolteacher and amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a seaplane gets sick and dies. The third and final film with Edna May Oliver and James Gleason as the astute schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers and the New York Police Inspector Oscar Piper busy solving crimes.

Runtime:

74 min

Director:

Lloyd Corrigan

Cast:

Edna May Oliver, James Gleason, Lola Lane, George Meeker, Dorothy Libaire

6.8

N/A

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Three Faces West

(1940)

Drama, Romance

Viennese surgeon Dr. Braun and his daughter Leni come to a small town in North Dakota as refugees from Hitler. When the winds of the Dust Bowl threaten the town, John Phillips leads the townsfolk in moving to greener pastures in Oregon. He falls for Leni, but she is betrothed to the man who helped her and her father escape from the Thi...

Runtime:

79 min

Director:

Bernard Vorhaus

Cast:

John Wayne, Sigrid Gurie, Charles Coburn, Spencer Charters, Helen MacKellar

6.3

N/A

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Banjo on My Knee

(1936)

Comedy, Romance

A young husband leaves his river shantyboat community in Pecan Point, Tennessee and travels to New Orleans in search of his runaway wife.

Runtime:

95 min

Director:

John Cromwell

Cast:

Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Walter Brennan, Buddy Ebsen, Helen Westley

6.4

N/A

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Blondie Plays Cupid

(1940)

Comedy

The Bumstead family is off to see relatives in the country when Blondie runs into Charlie and Millie, an eloping couple needing her help.

Runtime:

72 min

Director:

Frank R. Strayer

Cast:

Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Daisy, Jonathan Hale, Daisy

6.7

N/A

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The Match King

(1932)

Drama

Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden. There, via ongoing continuing deceit and manipulation, he gradually attains a monopoly on the matchstick market in several countries and becomes an influential international figure. Based on the true story of Ivar Kreuger.

Runtime:

79 min

7.1

N/A

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The St. Louis Kid

(1934)

Drama, Romance

Trucker Eddie Kennedy gets involved with the law when he has an car accident with Ann Reid and knocks the owner of a dairy out. He evades a penalty when he claims, that he had done it as an act of solidarism with the farmers. The farmers start an boycott action against this dairy, so the owner has to bring milk from elsewhere to his da...

Runtime:

68 min

6.8

N/A

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The Goose and the Gander

(1935)

Comedy, Drama, Romance

When Georgiana Summers learns that the woman who stole and married her husband is planning a romantic tryst with a new love, she hatches a giddy plot to expose the rendezvous and pay her back.

Runtime:

65 min

Director:

Alfred E. Green

Cast:

Kay Francis, George Brent, Genevieve Tobin, John Eldredge, Claire Dodd

6.6

N/A

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Lonely Wives

(1931)

Comedy

A highly respectable lawyer becomes a sexual animal after working hours. Live-in mother-in-law tries to keep him in line.

Runtime:

85 min

Director:

Russell Mack

Cast:

Edward Everett Horton, Esther Ralston, Laura La Plante, Patsy Ruth Miller, Spencer Charters

6.4

N/A

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Second Fiddle

(1939)

Comedy

Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Minnesota but he follows her.

Runtime:

85 min

6.5

N/A

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The Crooked Circle

(1932)

Comedy, Crime, Mystery

A group of amateur detectives sets out to expose The Crooked Circle, a secretive group of hooded occultists.

Runtime:

70 min

Director:

H. Bruce Humberstone

Cast:

Zasu Pitts, James Gleason, Ben Lyon, Irene Purcell, C. Henry Gordon

6.4

N/A

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In Person

(1935)

Comedy, Romance

Carol Corliss, a beautiful movie star so insecure about her celebrity that she goes around in disguise, meets a rugged outdoorsman who is unaffected by her star status.

Runtime:

87 min

Director:

William A. Seiter

Cast:

Ginger Rogers, Alan Mowbray, George Brent, Grant Mitchell, Samuel S. Hinds

6.3

N/A

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Three Blind Mice

(1938)

Comedy, Romance

Three sisters take their small inheritance and move from Kansas to California in search of rich husbands. To start with Pamela poses as a socialite and Moira and Elizabeth pretend to be her staff.

Runtime:

75 min

Director:

William A. Seiter

Cast:

Loretta Young, Joel McCrea, David Niven, Stuart Erwin, Marjorie Weaver

6.7

N/A

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Don't Bet on Blondes

(1935)

Comedy, Romance

Owen, a small time bookie, decides to open an insurance business as it involves lesser risk. His first client is Colonel Youngblood who insures his daughter, Marilyn, against marriage.

Runtime:

59 min

6.2

N/A

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Pick a Star

(1937)

Comedy, Music

A Cinderella story of a young country girl who comes to Hollywood and achieves movie stardom with the help of a publicity man.

Runtime:

76 min

Director:

Edward Sedgwick

Cast:

Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Patsy Kelly, Jack Haley, Rosina Lawrence

5.5

N/A

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Danger - Love at Work

(1937)

Comedy

A New York City lawyer finds himself falling in love with the daughter of a screwball South Carolina family.

Runtime:

84 min

Director:

Otto Preminger

Cast:

Ann Sothern, Jack Haley, Mary Boland, Edward Everett Horton, John Carradine

6.4

N/A

Blind Date

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Blind Date

(1934)

Comedy, Romance

A young woman is torn between a wealthy suitor who wants her body and the honest young man who wants what's best for her.

Runtime:

72 min

6.1

N/A

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Colleen

(1936)

Drama, Romance

Musical about dingaling millionaire businessman Cedric Ames and his various employees

Runtime:

89 min

6.0

N/A

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Back in Circulation

(1937)

Comedy, Drama, Mystery

Morning Express ace reporter 'Timmy' Blake uses her wiles and charms to get the scoop on rival papers, and keep her editor happy. When the Express gets a tip that a wealthy old man was poisoned and 'Timmy' spots the young widow in a nightclub only a day later, she descends on the town where the death took place to dig out the facts. Wh...

Runtime:

81 min

Director:

Ray Enright

Cast:

Pat O'Brien, Joan Blondell, Margaret Lindsay, John Litel, Eddie Acuff

6.4

N/A

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