
The Great Garrick (Brian Aherne) is the most celebrated London theater actor of his day (eighteenth century) and is invited to Paris to star at the Comedie Francaise, the most important theatre in France. Read More »
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The Divorcee (1930) Robert Z. Leonard, Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery, Chester Morris, Romance, Drama

Jerry and Ted are young, in love, and part of the New York ‘in-crowd’. Jerry’s decision to marry Ted crushes a yearning Paul. Read More »
The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945) Leo McCarey, Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman, Henry Travers, Drama, Family

Father O’Malley, the unconventional priest from ‘Going My Way’, continues his work for the Catholic Church. Read More »
The Clock (1945) Vincente Minnelli, Fred Zinnemann, Judy Garland, Robert Walker, James Gleason, Drama, Romance

Soldier Joe Allen is on a two-day leave in New York, and there he meets Alice. She agrees to show him the sights and they spend the day together. Read More »
Calling Homicide (1956) Edward Bernds, Bill Elliott, Don Haggerty, Kathleen Case, Crime, Drama

The third of five films (Dial Red-O, Sudden Danger, Calling Homicide, Chain of Evidence, and Footsteps in the Night in release order and released across a full period of three years) in which Bill Elliott played a detective lieutenant Read More »
Breaking Home Ties (1987) John Wilder, Jason Robards, Eva Marie Saint, Doug McKeon, Drama

Inspired by a Norman Rockwell painting, this 1950s coming of age drama centers on a young man leaving home to attend college, where he will learn the lessons in becoming a man. Read More »
Mysterious Island (1961) Cy Endfield, Michael Craig, Joan Greenwood, Michael Callan

During the US Civil War, Union POWs escape in a balloon and end up stranded on a South Pacific island, inhabited by giant plants and animals. Read More »
Her Highness and the Bellboy (1945) Richard Thorpe, Hedy Lamarr, Robert Walker, June Allyson, Comedy, Romance

A bellboy at a swanky New York hotel starts to ignore his girlfriend after meeting a beautiful European princess.
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The Working Man (1933) John G. Adolfi, George Arliss, Bette Davis, Theodore Newton, Comedy, Drama, Romance

Successful wealthy shoe manufacturer John Reeves takes a vacation, leaving his business in the hands of his nephew. Read More »
The Man from Down Under (1943) Robert Z. Leonard, Charles Laughton, Binnie Barnes, Richard Carlson, Drama, War

A crusty old Sargent of the Queen’s Australian army in World War I befriends a small orphaned boy and his tiny sister on the night he is to go back to Australia. Read More »