Two brothers attending Oxford enlist with the RAF when World War I breaks out. Read More »
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The Constant Nymph (1943) Edmund Goulding, Charles Boyer, Joan Fontaine, Brenda Marshall
Fourteen-year-old Tessa is hopelessly in love with handsome composer Lewis Dodd, a family friend. Lewis adores Tessa, but has never shown any romantic feelings toward her. Read More »
Blondie of the Follies (1932) Edmund Goulding, Marion Davies, Robert Montgomery, Billie Dove
Blondie, a New York tenement dweller, and Lurlene are best friends. When Lurlene makes the cast of a big Broadway show, she arranges for Blondie to join the cast as well. Read More »
The Razor’s Edge (1946) Edmund Goulding, Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, John Payne, Drama, Romance
Nightmare Alley (1947) Edmund Goulding, Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray, Drama, Film-Noir
The ambitious Stanton “Stan” Carlisle works in a sideshow as carny and assistant of the mentalist Zeena Krumbein, who is married with the alcoholic Pete. Read More »
Mister 880 (1950) Edmund Goulding, Burt Lancaster, Edmund Gwenn, Dorothy McGuire, Comedy, Crime
The Skipper is a charming old man loved by all his neighbors. What they don’t know is that he is also Mr. 880, an amateurish counterfeiter who has amazingly managed to elude the Secret Service for 20 years.
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The Trespasser (1929) Edmund Goulding, Gloria Swanson, Robert Ames, Purnell Pratt, Drama
A stenographer who works for a lawyer falls in love with and marries a wealthy young man. His family has the marraige annulled, after which she gives birth to a child. Her former boss helps her out to ensure the child’s welfare, which starts gossip that she is a “kept woman.”
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The Great Lie (1941) Edmund Goulding, Bette Davis, George Brent, Mary Astor
Sandra and Pete elope but their marriage is invalid since she’s not yet divorced. Sandra is, however, pregnant by Pete. Pete marries his former fiancée Maggie, then flies to South America where his plane crashes. Maggie pays Sandra to let her adopt Pete’s baby. Pete returns “from the dead”. Sandra and Maggie contend for Pete and the baby.
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