George Lessey

Embezzler, shill, all around confidence man S. Quentin Quale is heading west to find his fortune; he meets the crafty but simple brothers Joseph and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Groucho Marx

After losing nearly all of an inheritance to taxes, sisters Kay and Barbara Latimer, waitresses at a drive-in restaurant in Texas, scheme to find...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Don Ameche

Judge Hardy takes his family to New York City, where Andy quickly falls in love with a socialite. He finds the high society life too expensive, and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lewis Stone

This final Carter film is a lot of fun, with Nick (unwillingly, at first) taking on a ring of Fifth Columnists (since this was filmed before the US...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Walter Pidgeon

Edna marries Texan Sam Gladney, operator of a wheat mill. They have a son, who is killed when very young. Edna discovers by chance how the law treats...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Greer Garson

A café in Chicago, 1942. On a rainy night, veteran reporter Homer Howard tells an increasing audience the story of Roxie Hart and the crime...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ginger Rogers

This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short looks at the U.S. Department of Immigration's efforts to halt the smuggling of illegal aliens into the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Addison Richards

A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Lew Ayres

Thanhouser's version of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

Genre: Drama

Cast: George Lessey

When a teenager's father is accused of murder, the boy and his high-school classmates set out to find the real killer.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Jackie Cooper

Professor Pierre is assigned to find a missing heiress whose fortune will go to a worthless relative if she isn't found. He uses most of his dialect...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Willie Howard

A troubled youth is offered the opportunity to serve as a Senate page in Washington, DC.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Herbert Marshall

A waitress falls for a foreign businessman (Mohr), while receiving attention from a pair of motorcycle cops, Curtis and Defore. She soon realizes...

Genre: Action

Cast: Lynn Bari

The son of a sheriff is caught in the eternal battle between sheepmen and cattle ranchers.

Genre: Western

Cast: Yakima Canutt

A remake of a 1917 Dustin Farnum Western, Durand of the Bad Lands is the story a rancher falsely accused of a crime actually committed by Sheriff...

Genre: Western

Cast: Buck Jones

Part of MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series, this short film focuses on crimes revolving around pension scams.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ralph Morgan

Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman. McMasters and Sand come to oil...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Clark Gable

Ruby Keeler teams with the Nelsons (of TV and radio fame) as the singer in Ozzie's band. The setting is a college campus which is suffering from...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ruby Keeler

Scout William F. Cody (Joel McCrea) marries a U.S. senator's daughter (Maureen O'Hara), fights the Cheyenne and leads a Wild West show.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joel McCrea

Humorist Robert Benchley discusses the issue of food and how different situations can affect one's ability to consume and digest food, using his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Robert Benchley

This western, with its simple story set in a gold mining camp, recycles many of the elements found in David Belasco's influential play, THE GIRL OF...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: William West

A random passer-by is invited to a bachelor party of rich men where he tells a tale of loss to those present.

Genre: Drama

Cast: George Lessey

The theft of an important document from the ambassador's residence leads his daughter to investigate the crime.

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Cast: Miriam Nesbitt

Henry and his pal Dizzy become Boy Scout leaders, but a spoiled brat in their troop quickly proves to cause them no end of trouble.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jimmy Lydon

Myles Vanders feuds with hardnosed stable owner Davis Lockwood. Myles takes revenge by romancing and marrying Lockwood's daughter Linda. But as the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Young

This short promotes the premise that movies often create a demand for the fashions seen in them. It starts with a vignette in rural America. A mother...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ann Morriss

A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man she meets on a cruise.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Bette Davis

The negligent owner of a tenement slum becomes romantically involved with one of the building's residents.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sylvia Sidney

Roger Hudson, a wealthy businessman who has moved to Washington to work for the government as a "dollar a year man," is late for a radio broadcast...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lois Andrews

In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New...

Genre: History

Cast: Spencer Tracy

Two tuneful gamblers gambol across the country in a struggle for the money they need to run their respective casinos. It all begins when gangsters...

Genre: Music

Cast: Ruth Terry

The eldest of three sisters protects their Fifth Avenue mansion from a developer she once married.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Barbara Stanwyck

Jimmy and Mary get a group of kids together to play in a school orchestra. A huge contest between schools is coming up and they have a hard time...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mickey Rooney

A radio actor faces trouble when a science-fiction story causes the audience to panic.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frank Morgan

Kildare tries brain surgery, advised by Dr. Gillespie, and faces a rival for nurse Lamont.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lew Ayres

Spies from Japan conspire to steal the Channing "preparedness" fortune and invade the United States, beginning in New York, then allying themselves...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Irene Castle

A short comedy about the romance between Margaret and John. At a masked ball at the home of John's mother, Margaret is suspected of stealing...

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Cast: George Lessey

Lieutenant John Miller, U.S.A., receives a note from his southern sweetheart chiding him for not getting through the enemy's lines to visit her. His...

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Cast: Augustus Phillips

After graduating from Harvard University, Peter Siner returns to his small Tennessee hometown, where he hopes to start a school for black children.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Carman Newsome

Alfalfa and the gang decide to turn to a life of crime, but Spanky tries to trick them with a fake burglary.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Carl Switzer

A writer of pulp Westerns cranks out more words than his editor and publisher want to pay for.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: John Shelton

Father Flanagan raises funds, helps a disabled boy, and saves an older boy from reform school.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Spencer Tracy

Through flashbacks, the story of a Nazi war criminal is exposed.

Genre: War

Cast: Marsha Hunt

Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.

Genre: War

Cast: Walter Huston

The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gary Cooper

The staggeringly wealthy Norah Hunter, a shipyard owner, too often finds herself the romantic target of gold-digging men. To attract a suitor whose...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alan Marshal

Susan Miller works behind the girdle counter in a department store and dreams about the beautiful clothes and glamour she can never hope to have....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Henry Fonda

This silent mystery is considered a lost film.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Arthur Hohl

Why did the Governor want to resign?

Genre: Drama

Cast: Otto Kruger

Hired actors posing as Russian royalty complicate a social-climbing mother's efforts to fix up her son with the daughter of a wealthy Texas rancher.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jinx Falkenburg

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Cast: Owen Moore

Genre: Drama

Cast: George Lessey

An elderly bank clerk declines to donate money to a tuberculosis fund, but soon his daughter comes down with the disease.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gertrude McCoy

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles Ogle

Genre: Drama

Cast: King Baggot

Genre: Drama

Cast: King Baggot

Genre: Drama

Cast: King Baggot

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Cast: Richard Tucker

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hobart Henley

Genre: Drama

Cast: Augustus Phillips

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Cast: Marc McDermott

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ben F. Wilson

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ben F. Wilson