The Secret Garden (1949)
The Secret Garden (1949) When cholera takes the parents of Mary Lennox, she is shipped from India to England to live with her Uncle Craven. Archibald Craven's house is dark and drafty, with over 100 rooms built on the edge of the moors. Mary finds that her Uncle does not wish to see her, which is fi
Murder! (1930)
Murder! (1930) The police find the actress, Diana Baring, near the body of her friend. All the circumstantial proofs seems to point to her and, at the end of the trial, she is condemned. Sir John Menier, a jury member, suspects Diana's boyfriend, who works as an acrobat wearing a dresses.
The Letter (1940)
The Letter (1940) The wife of a rubber plantation administrator shoots a man to death and claims it was self-defense. Her poise, graciousness and stoicism impress nearly everyone who meets her. Her husband is certainly without doubt; so is the district officer; while her lawyer's doubts may be a nat
Angel (1937)
Angel (1937) A woman and her husband take separate vacations, and she falls in love with another man.
The Enchanted Cottage (1945)
The Enchanted Cottage (1945) A homely maid and a scarred ex-GI meet at the cottage where she works and where he was to spend his honeymoon prior to his accident. The two develop a bond and agree to marry, more out of loneliness than love. The romantic spirit of the cottage, however, overtakes them.
Trouble in Paradise (1932)
Trouble in Paradise (1932) High class European thief Gaston Monescu meets his soul mate Lily, a pickpocket masquerading as a countess. The two join forces and come under the employ of Mme. Colet, the beautiful owner of the Colet perfume company. Gaston works as Mme. Colet's personal secretary under
The Little Foxes (1941)
The Little Foxes (1941) The ruthless, moneyed Hubbard clan lives in, and poisons, their part of the deep South at the turn of the 20th century. Regina Giddons née Hubbard has her daughter under her thumb. Mrs. Giddons is estranged from her husband, who is convalescing in Baltimore and suffers from
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Foreign Correspondent (1940) Johnny Jones is an action reporter on a New York newspaper. The editor appoints him European correspondent because he is fed up with the dry, reports he currently gets. Jones' first assignment is to get the inside story on a secret treaty agreed between two European coun
The Good Fairy (1935)
The Good Fairy (1935) Young, naive Luisa Ginglebusher, who loves fairy tales, leaves the Budapest orphanage to become a movie usherette. Soon she befriends paternal waiter Detlaff and not so paternal Konrad, a meat-packing millionaire. Uninterested in Konrad's rich gifts, Luisa schemes to be a "
Gog (1954)
Gog (1954) Scientists working on induced hibernation for space travel are killed, apparently by machines acting independently. Security agent Sheppard arrives at the secret underground space research base to investigate possible sabotage. He finds that the whole base is coordinated by supercomputer
CrackUp (1946)
CrackUp (1946) George Steele, art curator at a small museum, has an apparent mental breakdown one night, convinced he was in a train wreck...which never happened. In flashback, shortly after proposing to x-ray some old master paintings the museum has on loan, Steele is called on an unplanned nocturn
A Bottle of Wine (1957)
A Bottle of Wine (1957) The Judge and Wallace Donaldson sit in the former's drawing room, drink amontillado and have a painfully civilized conversation. What makes it painful, on both sides, is that young Mr. Donaldson is about to take away the old judge's young, beautiful wife. The tense meeting is
Mad About Music (1938)
Mad About Music 1938 A young woman at a girls school in Switzerland makes up stories about and writes herself letters from an imaginary explorer adventurer father and is eventually put in a position where she has to produce him Interesting things happen as she talks a visiting Englishman into helpin
Little White Frock (1958)
Little White Frock (1958) Colin Brackner is an elderly actor who invites playwright Adam Longsworth and his wife over to dinner. During dinner Colin talks about a long lost love. The tale deeply affects both Adam and his wife, practically reducing them to tears. Colin reveals that the tale is a dece
The Letter (1929)
The Letter 1929 Jeanne Eagels plays the bored and restless Leslie Crosbie who turns to another man, Geoffrey Hammond Herbert Marshall for attention when neglected by her husband Robert Reginald Owen Robert decides to go out for the evening to pick up a new rifle Leslies calm vanishes as she awaits a
The Underworld Story (1950)
The Underworld Story 1950 Mike Reese, yellow journalist and antihero, prints a story that leads to a gang killing, and is blacklisted from the city papers under suspicion of ties with racketeer Carl Durham So, with a shrug, he makes the suspicion come true, then elbows his way into the editorship of
The Unseen (1945)
The Unseen 1945 Governess Elizabeth Howard fears that David, both her widowed employer and the man she loves, could be the strangler thats stalking women in the small New England town where they live So do the police His little son Barnaby knows who the killer is but wont tell Elizabeth becomes conv
Four Frightened People (1934)
Four Frightened People 1934 Four passengers escape their bubonic plague infested ship and land on the coast of a wild jungle In order to reach safety they have to trek through the jungle, facing wild animals and attacks by primitive tribesmen