Ella Bishop is an inhibited girl whose frustrations grow as she approaches womanhood. As a women, her ambitions to teach cause her to lose her only opportunity for true love. Ella's life becomes one of missed chances and wrong choices. As she reaches old age, she reflects back and realizes she allowed the years to go by without achieving what she believes to be her true fulfillment. However, her years have not been without glory, and her moment of triumph arrives when her numerous now-famous students from over the years, return to honor their beloved Miss Bishop.

The Reluctant Dragon

1941

English

6.7

♡ 18

100%

live action and animation

Hamilton Luske Director

Frank Faylen as Frank - Orchestra Leader

Norman Ferguson as Norm Ferguson

Lester Dorr as Slim

Henry Hall as Studio Policeman

Humorist Robert Benchley attempts to find Walt Disney to ask him to adapt a short story about a gentle dragon who would rather recite poetry than be ferocious. Along the way, he is given a tour of Walt Disney Studios, and learns about the animation process.

Among the Living

1941

English

6.4

♡ 1

46%

Stuart Heisler Director

Harry Carey as Dr. Ben Saunders

Frances Farmer as Elaine Raden

Susan Hayward as Millie Pickens

Frank Hagney as Neighbor

A mentally unstable man, who has been kept in isolation for years, escapes and causes trouble for his identical twin brother.

Ladies in Retirement

1941

English

7.1

♡ 2

72%

Charles Vidor Director

Ida Lupino as Ellen Creed

Elsa Lanchester as Emily Creed

Evelyn Keyes as Lucy

Queenie Leonard as Sister Agatha

Ellen Creed is a housekeeper who looks after Leonora Fiske, a retired actress living in the English countryside. When Ellen's eccentric sisters visit their sibling at Leonora's home, tensions soon lead to murder.

Stormy Waters

1941

French

7.2

♡ 3

68%

Jean Grémillon Director

Michèle Morgan as Catherine

Fernand Ledoux as Kerlo, le bosco

Jean Dasté as Le radio

Madeleine Renaud as Yvonne Laurent

A married tugboat captain falls for a woman he rescues from a sinking ship.

Penny Serenade

1941

English

7.1

♡ 10

94%

George Stevens Director

Edgar Buchanan as Applejack

Ann Doran as Dotty

Cy Schindell as Elmer - the Bootlegger

Fred 'Snowflake' Toones as Porter

Julie and Roger are a love-struck married couple who desperately want to have a child. Tragedy after tragedy gets in their way, as the two attempt to rise above their troubles and fulfill their dreams of parenthood.

Caught in the Draft

1941

English

6.5

♡ 2

75%

David Butler Director

Irving Bacon as Cogswell

June Gittelson as Fat Hitchhiker

Murray Alper as Make-Up Man

George Lynn as Pilot

Don Bolton is a movie star who can't stand loud noises. To evade the draft, he decides to get married...but falls for a colonel's daughter. By mistake, he and his two cronies enlist. In basic training, Don hopes to make a good impression on the fair Antoinette and her father, but his military career is largely slapstick. Will he ever get his corporal's stripes?

The Great Man's Lady

1941

English

6.5

♡ 4

44%

William A. Wellman Director

George Chandler as Forbes

John Roy as Man in Saloon

Lloyd Corrigan as Mr. Cadwallader

Irving Bacon as Parson

In Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt (who lives in the last residence among skyscrapers) is at last persuaded to tell her story to a 'girl biographer'. Flashback: in 1848, teenage Hannah meets and flirts with pioneer Ethan; on a sudden impulse, they elope. We follow their struggle to found a city in the wilderness, hampered by the Gold Rush, star-crossed love, peril, and heartbreak. The star "ages" 80 years.

L'enfer des anges

1941

French

6.9

♡ 2

Action

Drama

Christian-Jaque Director

Bernard Blier as Freddy, la patron du bistro

Lucien Gallas as Jean Ballard

Dorville as Le père La Loupe

Sylvia Bataille as Simone

Abandoned children, left to their own devices and a life of danger, are adopted by a kind man.

Superman: The Mad Scientist

1941

English

7.3

♡ 2

Dave Fleischer Director

Joan Alexander as Lois Lane

Grant Richards as Narrator

Jackson Beck as Perry White

Jack Mercer as The Mad Scientist

After The Daily Planet receives a letter from a mad scientist threatening to wreak destruction with his Electrothanasia Ray, Lois Lane heads out in the hopes of getting more information for a news story.

Superman: The Mechanical Monsters

1941

English

7.4

♡ 6

Dave Fleischer Director

Bud Collyer as Clark Kent / Superman / Scientist

Joan Alexander as Lois Lane

Jackson Beck as Narrator

Superman battles a criminal mastermind and his robot army.

The Devil and Miss Jones

1941

English

7.6

♡ 7

90%

Sam Wood Director

Regis Toomey as 1st Policeman

Edmund Gwenn as Hooper

Amzie Strickland as Shopper at Neeley's

Edwin Maxwell as Withers

The wealthiest man in the world, John P. Merrick, is a private person who likes to stay anonymous. One of his many assets is Neeley's Department Store. There is labor unrest at the store, and the employees' anger is directed at him, who they hang in effigy outside the store despite not knowing what he looks like. Merrick, not happy at what he sees going on, decides to mete out the rabble-rousers. So he goes undercover as a sales clerk in the shoe department.

Nothing But the Truth

1941

English

7.1

♡ 7

44%

Elliott Nugent Director

Paulette Goddard as Gwen Saunders

Will Wright as Mr. Bart Prichard

Bob Hope as Steve Bennett

Edward Arnold as T.T. Ralston

A stockbroker bets his new partners $10,000 that he can tell the truth, and only the truth, for twenty-four hours.

Western Union

1941

English

6.7

♡ 14

75%

Fritz Lang Director

Irving Bacon as Barber

Addison Richards as Captain Harlow

Chief John Big Tree as Chief Spotted Horse

Barton MacLane as Jack Slade

When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2000.

Buck Privates

1941

English

7.0

♡ 9

76%

Arthur Lubin Director

Samuel S. Hinds as Major General Emerson

John Deering as Narrator

Harold Goodwin as Sergeant Leading Recruits Through Train Station

Carleton Young as Supply Sergeant

Petty con artists Slicker Smith and Herbie Brown mistakenly join the Army evading the cops. The cop chasing them winds up as their drill instructor. A rich young man and his former working class chauffeur are not only in the same unit, they're vying for a pretty girl who seems attracted to both.

In the Navy

1941

English

6.7

♡ 3

Arthur Lubin Director

Eddie Hall as Bare-Chested Sailor

Edward Fielding as Commander Giving Speech

Richard Crane as Office Boy

Bobby Barber as Sailor

Popular crooner Russ Raymond abandons his career at its peak and joins the Navy using an alias, Tommy Halstead. However, Dorothy Roberts, a reporter, discovers his identity and follows him in the hopes of photographing him and revealing his identity to the world. Aboard the Alabama, Tommy meets up with Smoky and Pomeroy, who help hide him from Dorothy, who hatches numerous schemes in an attempt to photograph Tommy/Russ being a sailor.

You'll Never Get Rich

1941

English

6.7

♡ 4

80%

Sidney Lanfield Director

Harold Goodwin as Capt. Nolan

Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams as Kewpie Blain

Lester Dorr as Photographer at Crystal Room

John Hubbard as Tom Barton

A Broadway choreographer gets drafted and coincidentally ends up in the same army base as the boyfriend of his object of affection.

Law of the Range

1941

English

5.7

♡ 3

Ray Taylor Director

Frank Hagney as Deputy

Herman Hack as Deputy

Jack Tornek as Henchman

Charles King as Henchman Walt

The Wolverine Kid kills a man and it looks like Steve Howard did it. But Steve's father recognizes the bullet as coming from the gun owned by the Kid.

Swamp Water

1941

English

7.0

♡ 4

70%

Irving Pichel Director

Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams as Bud Dorson

John Carradine as Jesse Wick

Anne Baxter as Julie

Ward Bond as Tim Dorson

A hunter happens upon a fugitive and his daughter living in a Georgia swamp. He falls in love with the girl and persuades the fugitive to return to town.