, 1h37 Directed byMichael Curtiz OriginUSA GenresDrama, Thriller, Action, Crime ThemesFilms about religion, Films about capital punishment, Gangster films ActorsJames Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, George Bancroft, Billy Halop Roles Laury - as a Child Rating78% Rocky Sullivan (James Cagney) and Jerry Connolly (Pat O'Brien) are childhood friends who robbed a railroad car as kids. Rocky saved Jerry's life during the chase by pulling him out of the way of a steam train while running from the guards that saw them. Rocky was then caught by the police, but Jerry—who could run faster—escaped. Rocky, after being sent to reform school, grew up to become a notorious gangster, while Jerry became a religious priest who mentored at-risk youth.
, 2h29 Directed byJacques Tourneur, W. S. Van Dyke, Julien Duvivier OriginUSA GenresDrama, Historical, Romance ThemesPolitique, Marie-Antoinette, Political films, Films about capital punishment, Histoire de France, French Revolution films, Films about royalty ActorsNorma Shearer, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore, Robert Morley, Anita Louise, Joseph Schildkraut Roles Princesse Therese Rating72% In Vienna, 15-year-old Marie Antoinette (Norma Shearer) is informed by her mother, Empress Marie Therese of Austria (Alma Kruger), that Marie is to marry the future King of France, the Dauphin Louis XVI (Robert Morley). The young princess is excited to meet her future husband and live as a queen, but the Dauphin she married is actually a shy man, more at home with locksmithing than attending parties at the court at Versailles. After they are married, Marie tries desperately to please her husband, and after some trepidation, the Dauphin realizes he can trust Marie and tells her he cannot produce heirs. Without children to occupy her time and attention, Marie is bored and associates with the power-hungry Duc d'Orleans (Joseph Schildkraut), even though the Dauphin does not like him.
, 1h3 Directed byKarl Brown OriginUSA GenresDrama, Action, Adventure ActorsJackie Moran, Marcia Mae Jones, Marilyn Knowlden, Ralph Morgan, Claire Windsor, Frank Puglia Roles Julia Blaine Rating55% Kenneth Hale, a pampered, snobbish young boy is sent by his father, John Hale, who has served time in prison for a crime he did not commit, down to the country farm of an old friend, Calvin Whittaker. The barefooted, honest and plucky Billy Whittaker, his girlfriend, Pige Bennett, and punky Kenneth get involved with a "haunted" house and a gang of crooks, while Billy helps make a "better man" out of Kenneth.
, 1h10 Directed byIrving Cummings, Robert D. Webb OriginUSA GenresDrama, Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical ThemesFilms about music and musicians, Musical films, Children's films ActorsShirley Temple, Charles Farrell, Claude Gillingwater, Joan Davis, Amanda Duff, Bert Lahr Roles Gwendolyn (uncredited) Rating64% La petite Penny Hale quitte son pensionnat pour retrouver son père, Jeff Hale, un architecte, habitant le penthouse d'une résidence de New York. Mais elle découvre en arrivant dans l'appartement, qu'il est occupé par une autre famille car son père, ruiné est devenu électricien et habite désormais le sous-sol. Ayant changé de statut dans l'immeuble, Penny est plusieurs fois réprimandée le concierge, puis se lie d'amitié avec Milton Ramsby, le jeune fils de la famille habitant désormais le penthouse.
, 1h53 Directed byJames Whale OriginUSA GenresDrama, Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance ThemesFilms about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals ActorsIrene Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles Winninger, Paul Robeson, Helen Morgan, Helen Westley Roles Kim as a Child Rating73% The musical's story spans about forty years, from the late 1880s to the late 1920s. Magnolia Hawks is an eighteen-year-old on her family's show boat, the Cotton Palace which travels the Mississippi River putting on shows. She meets Gaylord Ravenal, a charming gambler, falls in love with him, and eventually marries him. Together with their baby daughter, the couple leaves the boat and moves to Chicago, where they live off Gaylord's gambling winnings. After about ten years, he experiences an especially bad losing streak and leaves Magnolia, out of a sense of guilt that he is ruining her life because of his losses. Magnolia is forced to bring up her young daughter alone. In a parallel plot, Julie LaVerne (the show boat's leading actress, who is part African-American, but "passing" as white) is forced to leave the boat because of her background, taking Steve Baker (her white husband, to whom, under the state's law, she is illegally married) with her. Julie is eventually also abandoned by her husband, and she becomes an alcoholic. Magnolia's becomes a success on the stage in Chicago. Twenty-three years later Magnolia and Ravenal are reunited at the theater in which Kim, their daughter, is appearing in her first Broadway starring role.
, 1h28 Directed byMark Sandrich OriginUSA GenresDrama, Historical, Romance ThemesFilms about writers, Films about journalists ActorsKatharine Hepburn, Herbert Marshall, Donald Crisp, Elizabeth Allan, David Manners, Lucile Watson Roles Flora at Age 9 (uncredited) Rating64% Pamela defies her autocratic father (Donald Crisp), and has a baby out of wedlock with her lover, Gerald Waring (Van Heflin, in his screen debut). Pamela raises her illegitimate daughter as her niece after her pregnant sister (Elizabeth Allan) falls and dies over the death of her young husband and becomes a crusading journalist for women's rights. Eventually she agrees to marry diplomat Thomas Lane (Herbert Marshall) after being unfairly named as co-respondent in Waring's divorce. Hepburn's performance as the defiant young woman is considered the epitome of her feminist characterizations of the 1930s.