Old friends Ward and Phillip both become smitten with Phillip’s mother’s attractive young secretary Stella. Read More »
Tag Archives: W.S. Van Dyke
His Brother’s Wife (1936) W.S. Van Dyke, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Taylor, Jean Hersholt
Rita Wilson meets epidemiologist Chris Claybourne and they fall in love with each other. Read More »
Laughing Boy (1934) W.S. Van Dyke, Ramon Novarro, Lupe Velez, William B. Davidson
There were very few laughs in this phlegmatic film adaptation of the Oliver LaFarge’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel Laughing Boy. Read More »
I Love You Again (1940) W.S. Van Dyke, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Frank McHugh
While alone on a cruise, the upstanding – and mean – teetotaler, Larry Wilson, receives a blow on the head Read More »
The Feminine Touch (1941) W.S. Van Dyke, Rosalind Russell, Don Ameche, Kay Francis
John Hathaway is a professor of psychology at Digby College. His students are bored as he is with the students. Read More »
Trader Horn (1931) W.S. Van Dyke, Harry Carey, Edwina Booth, Duncan Renaldo
A veteran white trader in the darkest Africa of the 1870s mentors a younger companion on the mysteries of the Dark Continent. Read More »
Penthouse (1933) W.S. Van Dyke, Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Charles Butterworth
Racketeer Tony Gazotti is thankful that lawyer Jackson Durant helps him beat a murder rap Read More »
The Devil Is a Sissy (1936) W.S. Van Dyke, Rowland Brown, Freddie Bartholomew, Jackie Cooper, Mickey Rooney
Claude Pierce is delighted to move in with his father, Jay Pierce, a struggling architect living in lower Manhattan Read More »
Tarzan the Ape Man (1932) W.S. Van Dyke, Johnny Weissmuller, Neil Hamilton, C. Aubrey Smith
James Parker and Harry Holt are on an expedition in Africa in search of the elephant burial grounds that will provide enough ivory to make them rich. Read More »
The Cuban Love Song (1931) W.S. Van Dyke, Lawrence Tibbett, Lupe Velez, Ernest Torrence
In 1917, an American ship is about to leave San Francisco for Cuba and marines Terry, Romance and O. O. Jones Read More »
After the Thin Man (1936) W.S. Van Dyke, William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewart
Now back in San Francisco after their holiday in New York, Nick and Nora find themselves trying to solve another mystery. Read More »
I Take This Woman (1940) W.S. Van Dyke, Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr, Verree Teasdale
Georgi has attempted suicide in reaction to an earlier love affair. Now that Dr. Decker has married her he sets out to get her to love him. Read More »
The Thin Man (1934) W.S. Van Dyke, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O’Sullivan
After a four year absence, one time detective Nick Charles returns to New York with his new wife Nora and their dog, Asta. Read More »
Night Court (1932) W.S. Van Dyke, Phillips Holmes, Walter Huston, Anita Page
Judge Moffett is as crooked as they come and the Board of Judicial Corruption is after him. Read More »
Marie Antoinette (1938) W.S. Van Dyke, Julien Duvivier, Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore
The life of Marie Antoinette (1755-1793) from betrothal and marriage in 1770 to her beheading. Read More »