Syncopation
A young trumpeter rises through the jazz world and finds love.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. The hunchback Quasimodo, Frollo's protege and bell-ringer of Notre Dame, lives in peace among the bells in the heights of the immense cathedral until he is involved by the twisted magistrate in his malicious plans to free himself from Esmeralda's alleged spell, which he believes to be the devil's work.
Juarez
The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juárez and democracy.
The Story of Louis Pasteur
A true story about Louis Pasteur, who revolutionized medicine by proving that much disease is caused by microbes, that sanitation is paramount and that at least some diseases can be cured by vaccinations.
Rope of Sand
Story of a South African diamond mine watched over by a sadistic policeman tasked with looking out for smugglers.
The Accused
A prim psychology professor fights to hide a murder she committed in self-defense.
Tennessee Johnson
The tumultuous presidency of 19th-president Andrew Johnson is chronicled in this biopic. The story begins with Johnson's boyhood and covers his early life. During the Civil War, Johnson stays a staunch Unionist and upon Lincoln's reelection in 1864, becomes his Vice President. After Lincoln's assassination, Johnson becomes the President and became the first U.S. president ever to be impeached.
Fashions of 1934
When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Snap and fashion designer Lynn Mason to provide discount shops with cheap copies of Paris couture dresses.
Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam was one of the greatest Persian poets. He was also a brilliant mathematician. Though his quatrains were written in the 11th century, they are still popular the world over. The details of his life are unknown, so this movie invents a biography for him and includes in it his real achievements - the invention of a new calendar and the penning of those epigrammatic poems. This film has him romancing a sultan's bride and foiling the assassin sect's plot to kill the sultan's son.
The Life of Emile Zola
A fictionalized account of famous French writer Emile Zola and his involvement in the Dreyfus Affair. After struggling to establish himself, Zola wins success writing about the unsavory side of Paris and settles into a comfortable upper-class life. However, Zola's complacency is shaken when Jewish officer Alfred Dreyfus is imprisoned for being a spy. Realizing that Dreyfus is an innocent victim of anti-Semitism, Zola boldly pens a newspaper article exposing the truth, is charged with libel and must defend himself in a dramatic courtroom testimony.
Love Letters
When a man asks another man more facile with words to do his wooing for him, there are always complications. The man with no talent for writing marries the girl, confesses one night he didn't write the letters and ends up with a knife in his back. The writer of the letters fell in love with the woman he wrote to and wants to become her second husband even if she did murder husband number one. Singleton doesn't remember the murder or anything about the first 22 years of her life as Victoria Remington. Then at her second wedding she wonders why she said "I take you, Roger," instead of "I take you, Allen."
Elephant Walk
Colonial tea planter John Wiley (Peter Finch), visiting England at the end of World War II, wins and weds lovely English rose Ruth (Dame Elizabeth Taylor) and takes her home to Elephant Walk, Ceylon, where the local elephants have a grudge against the plantation. Ruth's delight with the tropical wealth and luxury of her new home is tempered by isolation as the only white woman in the district; her husband's occasional imperious arrogance; a mutual physical attraction with plantation manager Dick Carver (Dana Andrews), and the hovering, ominous menace of the hostile elephants.
Portrait of Jennie
A mysterious girl inspires a struggling artist.
The Prince and the Pauper
Two boys – the prince Edward and the pauper Tom – are born on the same day. Years later, when young teenage Tom sneaks into the palace garden, he meets the prince. They change clothes with one another before the guards discover them and throw out the prince thinking he's the urchin. No one believes them when they try to tell the truth about which is which. Soon after, the old king dies and the prince will inherit the throne.
The Devil and Daniel Webster
Farmer Jabez Stone, about to lose his land, agrees to sell his soul to the devil, known as Mr. Scratch, who gives Jabez seven years to enjoy the fruits of his sale before he collects. Over that time, Jabez pays off his debts and helps many neighboring farmers, then becomes an advocate for the upstanding Sen. Daniel Webster. When Jabez's contract with Mr. Scratch concludes, he desperately turns to Webster to represent him in a trial for his soul.
The Turning Point
Special prosecutor John Conroy hopes to combat organized crime in his city and appoints his cop father Matt as chief investigator. John doesn't understand why Matt is reluctant, but cynical reporter Jerry McKibbon thinks he knows: he's seen Matt with mob lieutenant Harrigan. Jerry's friendship with John is tested by the question of what to do about Matt, and by his attraction to John's girl Amanda. Meanwhile, the threatened racketeers adopt increasingly violent means of defense.
Dark City
Gamblers who "took" an out-of-town sucker in a crooked poker game feel shadowy vengeance closing in on them.
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William Dieterle
Director
Adolphe Menjou
as
George Latimer
Sonny Bupp
as
Newsboy
Frank Jenks
as
Smiley Jackson
Walter Baldwin
as
Tom Jones
Walter Hampden
as
Archdeacon
Maureen O'Hara
as
Esmeralda
Charlie Hall
as
Mercury
Louis Jean Heydt
as
Minor Role
Gilbert Roland
as
Colonel Miguel Lopez
Martin Garralaga
as
Negroni
Jason Robards Sr.
as
(uncredited)
Walter Kingsford
as
Napoleon III
Bill Elliott
as
Reporter
Sam Jaffe
as
Dr. Francis Hunter
John Roy
as
Police Officer
Nestor Paiva
as
Ship's Captain
Peter Lorre
as
Toady
Harry Harvey
as
Dr. Odolard
Wendell Corey
as
Lt. Ted Dorgan
Regis Toomey
as
Blackstone McDaniel
Lloyd Corrigan
as
Mr. Secretary
Dane Clark
as
Wirts
Bette Davis
as
Lynn Mason
Nella Walker
as
Mrs. Van Tyle
Reginald Owen
as
Oscar Baroque
Armand Kaliz
as
Paris Cafe Manager
Margaret Hayes
as
Queen Zarada
Don Diamond
as
Trooper Captain
Abraham Sofaer
as
Tutush
Donald Crisp
as
Maitre Labori
Pierre Watkin
as
Prefect of Police
Joseph Cotten
as
Alan Quinton
Gladys Cooper
as
Beatrice Remington
Mary Field
as
Nurse in Italy
Ian Wolfe
as
Vicar
Abner Biberman
as
Dr. Pereira
Noel Drayton
as
Planter Atkinson
Norma Varden
as
Shop Customer
Brian Keith
as
Ice-Skating Extra
Amzie Strickland
as
Ice-Skating Extra
Lillian Gish
as
Mother Mary of Mercy
Barton MacLane
as
John Canty
Forrester Harvey
as
Meaty Man
Errol Flynn
as
Miles Hendon
Thomas Mitchell
as
Daniel Webster in some long shots
Charles Herzinger
as
Old Farmhand
Gene Lockhart
as
Squire Slossum
Tom Moore
as
Drugstore Owner
Don DeFore
as
Arthur Winant
Walter Burke
as
George - Bartender
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