Sergeant Victor comes to the French Foreign Legion after taking the blame for his brother’s crime. Read More »
Tag Archives: Claudette Colbert
Honor Among Lovers (1931) Dorothy Arzner, Claudette Colbert, Fredric March, Monroe Owsley
Jerry Stafford, a businessman, is in love with his secretary but she deserts him for another man. Read More »
Let’s Make It Legal (1951) Richard Sale, Claudette Colbert, Macdonald Carey, Zachary Scott
The divorce of Hugh and Miriam Halsworth becomes final at midnight. Read More »
Destinées (1954) Christian-Jaque, Jean Delannoy, Claudette Colbert, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Mirko Ellis
Three stories, very different in space and time. Lysistrata, a dancer from ancient times Read More »
Torch Singer (1933) Alexander Hall, George Somnes, Claudette Colbert, Ricardo Cortez, David Manners, Drama, Musical, Romance
Sally Trent has an illegitimate child, but cannot support her and gives the baby up for adoption. Read More »
Four Frightened People (1934) Cecil B. DeMille, Claudette Colbert, Herbert Marshall, Mary Boland, Adventure, Drama
Four passengers escape their bubonic plague-infested ship and land on the coast of a wild jungle. Read More »
She Married Her Boss (1935) Gregory La Cava, Claudette Colbert, Melvyn Douglas, Michael Bartlett, Comedy
A super-efficient secretary in a department store falls for and marries her boss Read More »
The Secret Heart (1946) Robert Z. Leonard, Claudette Colbert, Walter Pidgeon, June Allyson, Drama, Romance
Brillant pianist Larry Addams allows his frustrated ambitions to ruin his life and commits suicide, leaving his wife, Lee, and two small children Read More »
Remember the Day (1941) Henry King, Claudette Colbert, John Payne, Shepperd Strudwick
Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Dan Hopkins, the man she married and lost. Read More »
Maid Of Salem (1937) Frank Lloyd, Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Harvey Stephens, Drama
Young lovers fall afoul of repressive society as Salem elders get caught up in the witch hunts and trials of 17th century Massachusetts. Read More »
Zaza (1938) George Cukor, Claudette Colbert, Herbert Marshall, Bert Lahr, Drama, Romance
A sexy singer in a French music hall falls in love with a handsome, but married, aristocrat. Read More »
The Secret Fury (1950) Mel Ferrer, Claudette Colbert, Robert Ryan, Jane Cowl, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller
During the ceremony marrying Ellen and David, a stranger stands up when that phrase “if anyone knows why these two may not be joined…” is spoken. Read More »
Three Came Home (1950) Jean Negulesco, Claudette Colbert, Patric Knowles, Florence Desmond, War, Drama
The true story of Agnes Newton Keith’s imprisonment in several Japanese prisoner-of-war camps from 1941 to the end of WWII. Read More »
The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) Ernst Lubitsch, Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert, Miriam Hopkins, Comedy, Romance, Musical
Lieutenant Niki of the Austrian royal guard has a new girlfriend, Franzi. He’s crazy about her and is smiling at her while on duty in the street.
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Thunder on the Hill / Tempête sur la Colline (1951) Douglas Sirk, Claudette Colbert, Ann Blyth, Robert Douglas, Drama, Mystery
Sister Mary Bonaventure is in charge of the hospital ward of a convent in the county of Norfolk, England. She is troubled by her own sister’s suicide, which she confides to her Mother Superior. A torrential rain closes nearby roads, causing Sergeant Melling of the police to bring condemned murderer Valerie Carns there. She is being taken to prison. Valerie was convicted of poisoning her brother Jason, a pianist. Jason’s physician, Dr. Jeffreys, is head of the hospital where Sister Mary now works. Valerie still proclaims her innocence, but Jeffreys insists that she gave Jason a fatal overdose of his medicine…
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