The Wedding Night
While working on a novel in his country home in Connecticut, married writer Tony Barrett (Cooper) becomes attracted to Manya (Sten), the daughter of a neighboring farmer. Manya is unhappily…
Beyond the Forest
Rosa, the self-serving wife of a small-town doctor, gets a better offer when a wealthy big-city man insists she get a divorce and marry him instead. Soon she demonstrates she…
Comrade X
An American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Communist leave the country.
Our Daily Bread
John and Mary sims are city-dwellers hit hard by the financial fist of The Depression. Driven by bravery (and sheer desperation) they flee to the country and, with the help…
Street Scene
The setting is a city block during a sweltering summer, where the residents serve as representatives of the not-very-idealized American melting pot. There is idle chitchat, gossip, jealousy, racism, adultery,…
Hallelujah
A black laborer turns preacher after accidentally killing a man.
Billy the Kid
Billy, after shooting down land baron William Donovan’s henchmen for killing Billy’s boss, is hunted down and captured by his friend, Sheriff Pat Garrett. He escapes and is on his…
Bird of Paradise
When a young South Seas sailor falls overboard, the beautiful daughter of a Polynesian king dives in and saves his life. Thus begins the romance of Johnny and Luana. Though…
Ruby Gentry
A sexy but poor young girl marries a rich man she doesn’t love, but carries a torch for another man.
On Our Merry Way
Oliver Pease gets a dose of courage from his wife Martha and tricks the editor of the paper (where he writes lost pet notices) into assigning him the day’s roving…
The Texas Rangers
Two down-on-their-luck former outlaws volunteer to be Texas Rangers and find themselves assigned to bring in an old friend, now a notorious outlaw.
Stella Dallas
After divorcing a society man, a small-town woman tries to build a better life for their daughter.
The Champ
A broken-down alcoholic prizefighter struggles to keep custody of his adoring son.
Lightning Strikes Twice
Richard Trevelyan was convicted of murdering his wife, given an 11th-hour Death Row reprieve and freed under unusual circumstances after a retrial. But his past does not matter to Shelley…
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
A man who lived his life as he was was told he should, not as he would have chosen to, is brought out of his shell by a beautiful young…
Duel in the Sun
Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father’s first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad.
Solomon and Sheba
Under the principle of King David, Israel is combined and rewarding although surrounded by opponents such as Egypt and its own allies. The aging King David favors his younger boy,…
Man Without a Star
The Fountainhead
The Wizard of Oz
Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world in which she makes friends with a guy, a scarecrow and a tin person since they make their way across the yellow…
The Big Parade
The narrative of an idle rich boy who joins the US Army’s Rainbow Division and can be shipped to France to fight in World War I, becomes friends with two…