Drama

<p>Texas-born Audie Murphy, one of the most decorated combat soldiers of World War II, was especially cheered as a hero in his home state. That Lone Star pride was key to the neophyte actor landing his first movie lead in Bad Boy, a sturdily...

<p>If this is overcrowding, squeeze yourself in -- fast. With a clutch of pros spinning comedy gold from a topical situation -- the Washington, DC World War II housing shortage -- The Doughgirls, from Joseph Fields's Broadway hit, starts at a farcical gallop and...

<p>The Two Tymes, Joe ( Jack Carson) and June (Ann Sothern), need to change up their dogeared vaudeville act -- fast! Cue their son Buster (Robert Ellis), a cocky hoofer who bolts from boarding school and joins his parents, propelling the trio into the...

<p>Humphrey Bogart reunites with director Michael Curtiz and other key Casablanca personnel (including costars Claude Rains, Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet) for a tension-swept Passage to Marseille. Bogart plays Jean Matrac, a World War II French patriot who escapes Devil's Island, survives a dangerous...

<p>Heave-to for homicide. While in port, the USS Carolina is chosen for an urgent test of a new electronic firing system due to its shipshape efficiency record. That reputation will be stained -- in blood -- by a saboteur out to scuttle the trial,...

<p>A Navajo raised by whites, Slim Girl (Lupe Velez) returns to the reservation to attend its annual dance, where she meets Laughing Boy (Ramon Novarro), an expert silversmith who's new to the community. Seducing and marrying the youth, Slim Girl convinces him that she...

<p>And it's one, two, three strikes you're out at the old ball game -- forever. The St. Louis Cardinals may be a hard-luck club rallying toward the pennant, but with a killer afoot, they're on a losing streak -- of lives! A brisk, well-played...

<p>Ramon Novarro makes his final appearance as an M-G-M leading man in this sumptuous musical comedy costarring British stage legend Evelyn Laye and featuring the songs of Sigmund Romberg and Oscar Hammerstein II, including the hits "The Night Is Young" and "When I Grow...

<p>Ramon Novarro's word is his bond in Son of India, a lavish Pre-Code romance costarring Madge Evans and Conrad Nagel. When Karim (Novarro) is falsely accused of stealing a priceless diamond left to him by his father, the young man is exonerated by William...

<p>Ramon Novarro sings and charms his way into women's hearts in this Pre-Code musical romance costarring Dorothy Jordan and Lottice Howell. A dashing young playboy who spends more time studying Madrid's lovely ladies than books, Ricardo (Novarro) is sent by his father to rural...

<p>Helen Hayes and Ramon Novarro star in The Son-Daughter, a powerful tale of love and intrigue set in San Francisco during the Xinhai Revolution of 1911. As a major uprising occurs in their homeland, Chinese immigrants prepare to smuggle arms into China, a shipment...

<p>In the not-too-distant future, America has been ravaged by a deadly epidemic. To contain it, the government quarantines the victims and leaves them to die. But now a band of rebels have taken to the streets to save the lives of those in need....

<p>Tim Holt and Bonita Granville expose the Nazi corruption of German youth in this wartime shocker, based on Gregor Ziemer's best-selling book and directed by Edward Dmytryk (Murder, My Sweet). During the Memorial Day celebrations at the American Colony School run by Professor Nichols...

<p>Jane Powell stars as a working girl with too many engagements in this breezy musical comedy directed by Mitchell Leisen. A bank clerk who won't say no, Dodie (Powell) has three fiances and can't decide which one to marry. First there's Pete (Cliff Robertson),...

<p>Lana Turner is swept off her feet to a Latin beat in this frothy musical comedy costarring Ricardo Montalban and directed by Mervyn LeRoy. Blonde, beautiful and fabulously rich, American heiress Nora Taylor (Turner) can't make up her mind if men love her for...

<p>In the second season, the survivors of the Ark discover the world of the secretive race that controls the Mount Weather facility, while continuing to battle the Grounders who live and hunt in the wilds, ninety-seven years after Earth was decimated by nuclear war.</p>

<p>Douglas Sirk (All That Heaven Allows) makes his American directorial debut in this powerful wartime thriller starring John Carradine, Alan Curtis and Patricia Morison. Parachuting near the occupied village of Lidice, Czech soldier Karel Vavra (Curtis) recruits saboteurs in the fight against the Nazis....

<p>It's Secret Squirrel! This truly super spy is ready to tackle the top secret miscreants of the world, regardless of locale. Thanks to his dazzling array of high-tech devices and his invaluable underground assistant, the fez-wearing Morocco Mole (voice of Paul Frees), Secret (Mel...

<p>John Barrymore stars as a sadistic impresario who will stop at nothing to achieve his ambitions in this wild and wicked pre-Code drama directed by Oscar winner Michael Curtiz (Casablanca, 1943). Crippled in mind and body, half-crazed puppeteer Ivan Tsarakov (Barrymore) fulfills his dream...

<p>John Barrymore delivers the vote and a terrific performance in this whimsical gem, directed by Garson Kanin (Bachelor Mother). A widower with two small children (Peter Holden and Virginia Weidler), former scholar Gregory Vance (Barrymore) has given up his books for booze. Fired from...

<p>Myrna Loy is merely the bridesmaid while Rosalind Russell assumes the bridal honors to partner with Myrna's former flame Walter Pidgeon on this occasion. But perennial screen wife Myrna is not one to take also-ran status without many a brittle barb -- or a...

<p>An island paradise becomes a scarred paradise lost in the spectacular South Seas adventure Rapa Nui, co-produced by Kevin Costner. Jason Scott Lee (Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story) and Esai Morales (La Bamba) play boyhood friends turned fierce rivals in this tumultuous tale of...

<p>A movie matchup for the ages starts here. This first of five teamings of velvet-voiced Irene Dunne and composer Jerome Kern is a lushly tuneful Gay Nineties musical about the trials of Adeline Schmidt (Dunne), a singer who could rise from headlining at her...

<p>World-weary police Lt. Tunner (Barry Sullivan) and the fugitive Creole convict named Jory (Vittorio Gassman), whom he hotly pursues to his Southern hometown, are on opposite sides of the law. But strangely, they're also kindred souls, both extremely devoted to their wives, yet worn...

<p>It's every family's nightmare. Young Bobby Ware and Mickey Goodwin are two happy-golucky pals who trudge up an unstable mountain and suddenly get unlucky -- sliding down a reverse slope onto a ledge from which it's too steep to climb out. An unpretentious, tightly...

<p>Colley Dawson (Ray Milland) leads a daring double life. On weekdays, he's an expert -- and entirely law-abiding -- locksmith with unequaled skills at designing impregnable safes and lives in a drab London flat with his mother. Come the weekends, collaborating with a shady...

<p>Susan Starrling (Gigi Perreau) sees something no child should ever see: her stepmother's murder. Traumatized and withdrawn, she cannot help her imprisoned father (Zachary Scott), who's been wrongly convicted of the crime and faces execution, and she retains only the troubling image of the...

<p>"She's a great kid. You can always trust her to double-cross you." Flaxy Martin is one of the most fatal of femme fatales ever to sear the screen -- and provides a white-hot showcase role for the undersung Virginia Mayo, ounce for ounce matching...

<p>Two-time Oscar winner* Helen Hayes gives a powerhouse performance in this acclaimed Pre-Code adaptation of Rose Franken's hit play, costarring Robert Montgomery and Louise Closser Hale. After eloping with her new husband, Victor (Montgomery), free-spirited artist Stella Hallam (Hayes) finds the honeymoon's over when...

<p>Mary Ann Taylor of Mercury, New Mexico, is a small-town photographer with bigcity dreams. She's drawn to Jack Parker, a car-racing enthusiast who's seen the world and knows it can get cold out there; he craves the hometown comforts Mary Ann is striving to...

<p>Helen Hayes and Robert Montgomery suffer a star-crossed love in this Victorian-era romantic drama based on the novel by Hugh Walpole. On the eve of their wedding, Vanessa Paris (Hayes) wrongfully blames Benjie Herries (Montgomery) for her father's death and banishes him forever. Discovering...

<p>Return with us now to those naughty days of yesteryear in this ninth volume of Forbidden Hollywood, containing a quartet of pre-Code wonders plus a special post-Code bonus film! Joan Blondell stars as a free-wheeling chorus girl who hooks up with the ultimate hick...

<p>Early 1930s tabloids screamed out the nefarious activities of the Purple Gang, the Detroit mob that viciously controlled regional bootlegging and vice rackets. By 1935, when the Purple leadership had finally come to justice, Hollywood's gritty, hard-hitting answer to true events came in this...

<p>From Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winner Sinclair Lewis, creator of Babbitt, Dodsworth and Elmer Gantry, comes a progressive modern heroine who opts for self-fulfillment in social causes rather than via "women's wiles." The role of Ann Vickers is a smart fit for Irene Dunne, who...

<p>Shopgirl Mary Brown and newspaperman Rollo Porter agree "It's a swell night for a cry." When they meet after their respective sweethearts marry others, all they seek is a convenient shoulder for consolation. Fresh off early career breakthroughs in her Cimarron and his The...

<p>They say crime doesn't pay. Private detective Philip Marlowe knows better. The fat wad of folding money warming his breast pocket is the kind of thing that keeps him going through thick and thicker as he wades chin-deep into a mystery involving a missing...

<p>The belles and boys are back as Hart of Dixie continues for a fourth fun-filled season. At the end of season three, Zoe finally admits to herself and the town of quirky BlueBell, Alabama that she is in love with Wade, who decides to...

<p>When M-G-M proposed a film about the development of the atom bomb and its inherent dangers, President Harry Truman provided the title himself, advising producer Samuel Marx to make a good picture and "tell the people of this nation that for them it is...

<p><strong>The Last of the Curlews: </strong>Fred Bodsworth's classic novel about a species on the brink inaugurated ABC's famed Afterschool Specials to much-deserved acclaim.<br />

<p>Spenser: For Hire's third and final season sees the wheel of fate keep spinning for Boston's favorite cop-for-hire and company. Spenser's independently minded inamorata, Susan Silverman, returns from the West Coast, determined to bridge their sundered relationship. Spenser's longtime friend and valued ally in...

<p>Jamaica, 1840s. In the untold tale of the madwoman in the attic of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, Antoinette Cosway (Karina Lombard) falls madly in love with her newly arrived groom-to-be, Edward Rochester (Nathaniel Parker) - and awakens sexually in a steamy world of erotic...

<p>After years behind bars, Max Dembo faces Straight Time. He hopes it will mean a new life, a job, a place to call home, perhaps even a girl of his own. Instead, it's a one-way ticket to disaster. Dustin Hoffman plays Max, a freed...

<p>William Powell makes a rare return to the shady characters he played prior to Philo Vance and Nick Charles in this powerful drama set during the Roaring Twenties. Coming home from the Great War without a job or prospects, reporter Terry O'Neill (Powell) crashes...

<p>Silent screen idol John Gilbert leads a stellar cast in this "all-talking" adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's classic play The Living Corpse. Infatuated with Lisa (Eleanor Boardman), the fiancee of his best friend Victor (Conrad Nagel), Russian wastrel Fedya (Gilbert) woos and marries her, but...

<p>Silent screen legend John Gilbert sets sail for love in this "all-talking" comedy adventure costarring Wallace Beery and vagabond author Jim Tully (Beggars of Life) in his only screen appearance. Whenever Jack (Gilbert) sets anchor in London, the rowdy seaman heads off to see...

<p>John Gilbert is cast against type as a rum-running gangster in this riveting gangland saga directed by Mervyn LeRoy (Little Caesar). While planning his wedding to socialite Marjorie Channing (Leila Hyams), dashing playboy Jack Thomas (Gilbert) learns from his guardian that his real name...

<p>Kay Francis wrings the last tear from this heart-wrenching drama about love and sacrifice costarring Ian Hunter. When a blackmailer (Barton MacLane) suddenly appears in her dressing room and threatens to expose her dark past, London stage star Stella Parish (Francis) goes into hiding,...

<p>An escape artist (John Gilbert) attempts to clear his name after being convicted of murder in this imaginative mystery thriller based on the novel Cheri-Bibi et Cecily by Gaston Leroux (The Phantom of the Opera). When the father (C. Aubrey Smith) of the woman...

<p>Kay Francis portrays a woman who dedicates her life to humanity in this stirring true story of Victorian England's greatest heroine. Trained in Europe as a professional nurse, Florence Nightingale (Francis) finds no hospital in London will hire her. Defying the tradition that wartime...

<p>Kay Francis suffers unspeakable hardships in this "well acted and directed" (Film Daily) drama costarring Basil Rathbone and Ian Hunter. It's been 15 years since Vera Kowalska (Francis) last saw her daughter Lisa. A famed opera star, Vera was compromised by womanizing concert pianist...