On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front.

Any Number Can Play

1949

English

6.9

♡ 3

14%

Mervyn LeRoy Director

Barbara Billingsley as Gambler

Darryl Hickman as Paul Enley Kyng

Wendell Corey as Robbin Elcott

Douglas Fowley as Smitty

When illegal casino owner Charley Kyng develops heart disease, he is advised by a doctor to spend more time with his family. However, he finds it difficult to keep his work separate from his life at home. His son, Paul, feels ashamed of Charley's career and gets into a fight at his prom because of it. Meanwhile, Charley's brother-in-law, Robbin, who works at the casino, begins fixing games due to his extreme gambling debts.

Million Dollar Mermaid

1952

English

6.5

♡ 10

86%

Mervyn LeRoy Director

Patrick Whyte as Barge Man

Charlie Hall as Minor Role

Betty Lynn as Minor Role

Dean Smith as Swimmer

After overcoming polio, Annette Kellerman achieves fame and creates a scandal when her one-piece bathing suit is considered indecent.

Gypsy

1962

English

7.1

♡ 11

69%

74%

Action

based on play or musical

Mervyn LeRoy Director

Kenneth Gibson as Audience Member

Karl Malden as Herbie Sommers

Jack Benny as Jack Benny

Frank Sully as Wichita Burlesque Audience Member

Gypsy's mother Rose dreams of a life in show business for her daughters, but Louise becomes a huge burlesque star. Stage musical loosely based on the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee.

Madame Curie

1943

English

7.2

♡ 4

78%

Mervyn LeRoy Director

Gene Lockhart as Bit Part

Edward Fielding as Board Member

Robert Walker as David Le Gros

Gigi Perreau as Eve at 18 Months

Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concerning her abilities, but is eventually offered a research placement in Pierre Curie's lab. The scientists soon fall in love and embark on a shared quest to extract, from a particular type of rock, a new chemical element they have named radium. However, their research puts them on the brink of professional failure.

Gold Diggers of 1933

1933

English

7.7

♡ 8

100%

Mervyn LeRoy Director

Billy Barty as Baby in 'Pettin' in the Park' Number

June Gittelson as Fat Woman in 'Pettin' in the Park' Number

Dorothy Coonan Wellman as Gold Digger

Bill Elliott as Night Club Patron

When all Broadway shows are shut down during the Depression, a trio of desperate showgirls scheme to bilk a repugnant high society man of his money to keep their show going.

Tonight or Never

1931

English

6.5

♡ 8

33%

Mervyn LeRoy Director

Melvyn Douglas as Jim Fletcher

Alison Skipworth as Marchesa Bianca San Giovanni

Gloria Swanson as Nella Vago

Boris Karloff as Waiter

A young opera singer finds her career stalled because of her cold and passionless performances, until she finds romance with a handsome admirer.

The Bad Seed

1956

English

7.4

♡ 16

64%

Mervyn LeRoy Director

William Hopper as Col. Kenneth Penmark

Eileen Heckart as Hortense Daigle

Dayton Lummis as The Doctor

Frances Bavier as Woman in dinner party scene

Air Force Colonel Kenneth Penmark and his wife, Christine, adore their daughter Rhoda, despite her secret tendency for selfishness. Christine keeps her knowledge of her daughter's darker side to herself, but when a schoolmate of Rhoda's dies mysteriously, her self-deception unravels.

Elmer, the Great

1933

English

6.0

♡ 1

Mervyn LeRoy Director

George Chandler as Cubs Player

Gus Leonard as Nosey Townsman

Gale Gordon as Radio Announcer

Douglass Dumbrille as Stillman

Elmer does not want to leave Gentryville, because Nellie is the one that he loves. Even when Mr. Wade of the Chicago Cubs comes to get him, it is only because Nellie spurns him that he goes. As always, Elmer is the king of batters and he wins game after game. When Nellie comes to see Elmer in Chicago, she sees him kissing Evelyn and she wants nothing to do with him anymore. So Healy takes him to a gambling club, where Elmer does not know that the chips are money. He finds that he owes the gamblers $5000 and they make him sign a note for it. Sad at losing Nellie, mad at his teammates and in debt to the gamblers, Elmer disappears as the Cubs are in the deciding game for the Series.

Moment to Moment

1966

English

6.4

♡ 2

Mervyn LeRoy Director

Honor Blackman as Daphne Fields

Jean Seberg as Kay Stanton

William Hudson as Officer

Peter Robbins as Timmy Stanton

When an erring wife's supposedly dead lover turns up an amnesiac, it's her unsuspecting shrink husband who's enlisted to get those memories back.

Strange Lady in Town

1955

English

6.1

♡ 2

Drama

parent child relationship

Western

Mervyn LeRoy Director

Walter Hampden as Father Gabriel Mendoza

Robert J. Wilke as Karg

Cameron Mitchell as Lt. David Garth

Jack Williams as Rebstock

Julia Garth, a female doctor, plans to introduce modern techniques of medicine to old Santa Fe in 1880, but is opposed by an established doctor, Rourke O'Brien.

No Time for Sergeants

1958

English

7.5

♡ 4

60%

Mervyn LeRoy Director

Malcolm Atterbury as Bus Driver with Applications

Murray Hamilton as Irving S. Blanchard

Jamie Farr as Lt. Gardelli - Co-Pilot

Thomas Browne Henry as Senator

Georgia farm boy Will Stockdale is about to bust with pride. He’s been drafted. Will’s ready. But is Uncle Sam ready for Will?

The Devil at 4 O'Clock

1961

English

6.4

♡ 3

67%

Mervyn LeRoy Director

BarBara Luna as Camille

Bernie Hamilton as Charlie

Kerwin Mathews as Father Joseph Perreau

Jean Del Val as Louis

A crusty, eccentric priest recruits three reluctant convicts to help him rescue a children's leper colony from a Pacific island menaced by a smoldering volcano.

Little Women

1949

English

7.2

♡ 12

75%

82%

Action

based on novel or book

Mervyn LeRoy Director

June Allyson as Jo

Janet Leigh as Meg

Connie Gilchrist as Mrs. Kirke

Ellen Corby as Sophie

Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord Mass in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the civil war, the sisters: Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth are at home with their mother - a very outspoken women for her time. The story is of how the sisters grow up, find love and find their place in the world.

Little Caesar

1931

English

7.2

♡ 26

Action

based on novel or book

Mervyn LeRoy Director

Sidney Blackmer as Big Boy

Armand Kaliz as De Voss

Edward G. Robinson as Little Caesar - Alias 'Rico'

William Collier Jr. as Tony Passa

A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

1932

English

8.2

♡ 15

96%

91%

Action

based on a true story

Mervyn LeRoy Director

Allen Jenkins as Barney Sykes

Irving Bacon as Bill - Barber

Douglass Dumbrille as District Attorney

Everett Brown as Sebastian T. Yale

A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

1944

English

7.2

♡ 2

100%

Mervyn LeRoy Director

Don DeFore as Charles McClure

Robert Walker as David Thatcher

Myrna Dell as Girl in Officers' Club

Louis Jean Heydt as Lieut. Miller

In the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret bombing mission which will take the war to the Japanese homeland.

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Waterloo Bridge

Any Number Can Play

Million Dollar Mermaid

Gypsy

Madame Curie

Gold Diggers of 1933

Tonight or Never

The Bad Seed

Elmer, the Great

Moment to Moment

Strange Lady in Town

No Time for Sergeants

The Devil at 4 O'Clock

Little Women

Little Caesar

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo