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The Man Who Found Himself (1937) Lew Landers

Young Jim Stanton is a conscientious surgeon, but spends too many off-duty hours Read More »
Judge Dee and the Monastery Murders (1974) Jeremy Kagan, Khigh Dhiegh, Mako, Soon-Tek Oh

China, 7th century. On their way to a provincial centre Judge Dee Read More »
Edison, the Man (1940) Clarence Brown, Spencer Tracy, Rita Johnson, Lynne Overman

Hoored at a banquet for his sixty year career as an inventor, scientist, and businessman Read More »
Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence (1939) Ricardo Cortez, Jean Rogers, Raymond Walburn, Marjorie Rambeau

During the Depression, New York City store clerk Joe Riley saves money and buys a piece of land in Arizona. Read More »
Mrs. Miniver (1942) William Wyler, Greer Garson

The Minivers, an English “middle-class” family experience life in the first months of World War II. Read More »
The Stooge (1952) Norman Taurog, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Polly Bergen

Bill Miller is an unsuccessful Broadway performer until his handlers convince him to enhance his act with a stooge – Ted Rogers Read More »
Grand Slam (1933) William Dieterle, Paul Lukas, Loretta Young, Frank McHugh

After waiter and would-be novelist Peter Stanislavsky marries Marcia Read More »
On the Yard (1978) Raphael D. Silver, John Heard, Thomas G. Waites, Mike Kellin

In prison, one prisoner buys some smokes from another. Read More »
Sweethearts of the U.S.A. (1944) Lewis D. Collins, Una Merkel, Harry Parke, Donald Novis

While working in a defense plant, Patsy (Merkel) is rendered unconscious-or at least Read More »