Michael Curtiz

John Barrymore plays a crippled Russian dancer turned puppeteer, who raises a young boy to achieve the success that escaped him.

A newspaper reporter (Lee Tracy) falls for the daughter (Fay Wray) of a suspicious scientist (Lionel Atwill) he’s assigned to investigate.

Richard Barthelmess plays a tenant farmer’s son who finds himself caught between worlds after the plantation owner affords him an education and job in the company store.

Spencer Tracy plays a smart but arrogant young convict entering New York’s Sing Sing prison, where he’s set to serve five to thirty years for armed robbery. There, he clashes with the incorruptible warden, but time sees the two develop a mutual respect and trust. This trust is tested when the warden grants Tracy twenty-four hours leave to visit his ailing girlfriend, played by Bette Davis.

William Powell plays an American agent operating in Paris. An exfiltration mission goes awry, resulting in his apprehension and deportation. But just as his ship reaches New York harbor, the captain receives word to return Powell to France. Powell jumps ship and swims ashore. Disavowed by the government and unable to find work, he finagles his way into a private investigator job, only to fall for a gambler played by Margaret Lindsay, who’s targeted for a frame-up job by a crooked casino operator.

After three years, William Powell returns as amateur detective Philo Vance for the fourth and final time. This installment sees him investigate a ruthless businessman’s apparent suicide.

A shady genealogist (James Cagney) tries to class up his act to impress a former employee (Bette Davis).

In 1920 Dublin, during the Irish War of Independence, Colin Clive plays a British Army Intelligence Officer whose outwardly happy marriage is crumbling. Edna Best plays his wife, who still carries a torch for a man she had a brief affair with in England before marrying Clive a few years earlier. These unresolved feelings stand poised to drive the couple apart.

A British doctor is forced into slavery in the West Indies by the tyrannical King James, only to escape and become the most feared pirate on the high seas.

A scientist (Edmund Gwenn) revives a man (Boris Karloff) framed and executed by a group of racketeers for a crime he didn’t commit.

Humphrey Bogart plays Frank Taylor, a senior machinist and family man who loses an expected promotion to a younger co-worker from an immigrant family. Feeling angry and cheated, Frank falls in with the titular Legion, a black-robed hate group.

In her first film following her failed lawsuit to escape her contract, Bette Davis stars in a plot ripped from contemporary headlines.

Looking to get back at a hood (Humphrey Bogart), a boxing promoter (Edward G. Robinson) and his girlfriend (Bette Davis) discover a bellhop (Wayne Morris) with a killer right.

Nobleman Robin of Locksley (Errol Flynn) turns outlaw to save England and Maid Marian (Olivia de Havilland) from the villainous Sir Guy of Gisbourne (Basil Rathbone) and Prince John (Claude Rains).

Once childhood friends, a gangster (James Cagney) and a priest (Pat O’Brien) now vie for control of a gang of kids.

Queen Elizabeth I (Bette Davis) loves the dashing, yet ambitious Earl of Essex (Errol Flynn).

In the waning days of the Civil War, Union spy Errol Flynn travels to Virginia City, Nevada to prevent Confederate agent Randolph Scott from smuggling out millions of dollars’ worth of gold.

A 16th century privateer (Errol Flynn) raids Spanish ships for the good of England.

Fresh out of West Point, officers Jeb Stewart (Errol Flynn) and George Custer (Ronald Reagan) track radical abolitionist John Brown (Raymond Massey) and woo the beautiful Kit Carson Holliday (Olivia de Havilland).

During World War II, cynical café owner Humphrey Bogart rediscovers his idealism when former love Ingrid Bergman arrives on the arm of a famed resistance leader.

During World War II, Bogart leads a group of patriotic French convicts who escape from Devil’s Island in order to join the fight to free France from the Nazis.

Night and Day is a highly fictionalized biography of Cole Porter, the composer of such American standards as “Anything Goes”, “My Heart Belongs to Daddy”, “Don’t Fence Me In”, “I Get a Kick Out of You”, and “I’ve Got You Under My Skin”.

William Powell plays the titular father, the patriarch of a four-son clan in 1883 Manhattan. The plot sees Powell beset by comedic familial drama, from the never-ending search for a maid, to his eldest son taking an interest in a pretty girl from out of town, and his wife, played by Irene Dunne, insisting he get baptized.

William Holden plays an infantry Sergeant in Italy during World War II. He falls for a WAC Lieutenant, played by Nancy Olson. With his thoughts on his future with her, Holden proves reluctant to take risks on the battlefield. This leads to the death of his friend, a fellow officer, and lands him in the hospital. His injury grants him a ticket back to the states, but his guilty conscience forces him to rejoin his unit.

A disgraced football coach (John Wayne) tries to save a Catholic University and retain custody of his daughter.

On turn-of-the-century Devil’s Island, three escaped convicts (Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov, and Aldo Ray) end up aiding a shopkeeper they initially intended to rob.

A fugitive gambler (Stuart Whitman) helps a Texas Ranger (John Wayne) uncover a group of white renegades running guns and liquor to the Comanche.