What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) In a tale that almost redefines sibling rivalry, faded actresses Blanche and 'Baby' Jane Hudson live together. Jane was by far the most famous when she performed with their father in vaudeville but as they got older, it was Blanche who became the finer actress
Mildred Pierce (1945)
After her cheating husband leaves her, Mildred Pierce proves she can become independent and successful, but cannot seem to win the approval of her spoiled daughter.
Johnny Guitar (1954)
Johnny Guitar (1954) Vienna has built a saloon outside of town, and she hopes to build her own town once the railroad is put through, but the townsfolk want her gone. When four men hold up a stagecoach and kill a man the town officials, led by Emma Small, come to the saloon to grab four of Vienna's
Queen Bee (1955)
Queen Bee (1955) Eva Phillips is a Southern socialite whose manipulation and ruthlessness ruins the lives of everyone around her. The question is, will anyone be able to stop her?
Female on the Beach (1955)
Female on the Beach (1955) Lynn Markham moves into her late husband's beach house...the morning after former tenant Eloise Crandall fell (or was pushed) from the cliff. To her annoyance, Lynn finds both her real estate agent and Drummond Hall, her muscular beachcomber neighbor, making themselves qui
Reunion in France (1942)
Reunion in France (1942) Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get him safely out of the country.
The Women (1939)
The Women (1939) Wealthy Mary Haines is unaware her husband is having an affair with shopgirl Crystal Allen. Sylvia Fowler and Edith Potter discover this from a manicurist and arrange for Mary to hear the gossip. On the train taking her to a Reno divorce Mary meets the Countess and Miriam (in an aff
Trog (1970)
Trog (1970) Anthropologist Dr. Brockton (Joan Crawford) unearths a troglodyte (an Ice Age 'missing link" half-caveman, half-ape) and manages to domesticate him - until he's let loose by an irate land developer (Michael Gough) to go on a rampage and kidnap a little girl. Crawford's last feature
Grand Hotel (1932)
Grand Hotel (1932) Berlin's plushest, most expensive hotel is the setting where in the words of Dr. Otternschlag "People come, people go. Nothing ever happens.". The doctor is usually drunk so he missed the fact that Baron von Geigern is broke and trying to steal eccentric dancer Grusinska
Montana Moon (1930)
Montana Moon (1930) While returning to Montana from a fling in New York, wealthy Joan Prescott leaves the train, intending to return to the big city. She runs into handsome cowboy Larry and gets engaged. On their wedding night she does a sultry dance with Jeff which ends with a prolonged kiss. Larry
A Womans Face (1941)
A Womans Face (1941) Anna Holm is a blackmailer, who because of a facial scar, despises everyone she encounters. When a plastic surgeon performs an operation to correct this disfigurement, Anna becomes torn between the hope of starting a new life, and a return to her dark past.
Humoresque (1946)
Humoresque (1946) Paul Boray comes from a working class background. He has been interested in the violin since he was a child, which his father disliked since he felt it a waste of money, but which his mother supported. Into his adult life, Paul wants to become a concert violinist, and although he s
Daisy Kenyon (1947)
Daisy Kenyon (1947) Commercial artist Daisy Kenyon is involved with married lawyer Dan O'Mara, and hopes someday to marry him, if he ever divorces his wife Lucille. She meets returning veteran Peter, a decent and caring man, whom she does not love, but who offers her love and a more hopeful relation
Torch Song (1953)
Torch Song (1953) Jenny Stewart is a tough Broadway musical star who doesn't take criticism from anyone. Yet there is one individual, Tye Graham, a blind pianist who may be able to break through her tough exterior.
Untamed (1929)
Untamed (1929) When her rich oilman father is killed, Bingo, raised in the wilds of South America, inherits the company. Her guardians Ben and Howard send her to New York for civilizing but on the way she meets Andy, wonderful in every way but wealth. He can't live off her money, he says, as he turn
I Saw What You Did (1965)
I Saw What You Did (1965) When two teenagers make prank phone calls to strangers, they become the target for terror when they whisper "I Saw What You Did, And I Know Who You Are!" to psychopath Steve Marek who has just murdered his wife. But somebody else knows of the terrible crime that w
StraitJacket (1964)
StraitJacket (1964) Lucy Harbin has been in an asylum for 20 years after axing her husband and his mistress during a crime of passion, witnessed by her young daughter, Carol. While trying to renew ties with Carol, who is now a young woman about to be married, heads begin to roll again. Is Lucy repea
Strange Cargo (1940)
Strange Cargo (1940) Verne wants nothing more than to escape from a penal colony located off the northern coast of South America. He tries to involve Julie, a saloon girl, in his plans but she turns him in to the authorities. On Verne's next try, he piggybacks on the escape of six other convicts and
Berserk (1967)
Berserk (1967) Monica Rivers is the owner and ringmaster of a traveling circus, and she'll stop at nothing to draw bigger audiences. When a series of mysterious murders begins to occur and some of her performers die gruesomely, her profits soar. She hires high-wire walker Frank Hawkins, impressed by
Possessed (1947)
Possessed (1947) A woman wanders the streets of Los Angeles in some sort of emotional distress. She is also under some delusion as she approaches many men, strangers who she calls "David". Eventually, an ambulance is called, the attendants who take her to the hospital, where she is eventua
Pilot (1969)
Pilot 1969 In the pilot of the television series Night Gallery 1969, Rod Serling introduces three separate paintings, each with its own story of uncanny vengeance against evil to tell The first, The Cemetery, involves a black sheep nephew Roddy McDowall who murders his rich uncle to inherit his fort
Sudden Fear (1952)
Sudden Fear (1952) Actor Lester Blaine has all but landed the lead in Myra Hudson's new play when Myra vetoes him because, to her, he doesn't look like a "romantic leading man." On a train from New York to San Francisco, Blaine sets out to prove Myra wrong...by romancing her. Is he sincere
The Bride Wore Red (1937)
The Bride Wore Red (1937) Count Armalia believes that the luck of birth is all that separates the rich from the poor. To test his theory, he sends Anni, who is a singer in a dive, to a ritzy resort for two weeks. With fancy new clothes and ersatz status, Anni decides that she likes the rich life. Bu
The Damned Dont Cry (1950)
The Damned Dont Cry (1950) The murder of gangster Nick Prenta touches off an investigation of mysterious socialite Lorna Hansen Forbes, who seems to have no past, and has now disappeared. In flashback, we see the woman's anonymous roots; her poor working-class marriage, which ends in tragedy and her
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1937)
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1937) Mrs. Fay Cheyney, a rich American widow, insinuates herself into London society. Two men in particular -- middle-aged Lord Kelton and Lord Arthur Dilling, a young playboy -- pursue her. All are present at a large weekend house party, and though both men press their su
The Story of Esther Costello (1957)
The Story of Esther Costello (1957) Eighteen-year-old Esther has been deaf and blind since the accident which killed her mother. Wealthy Margaret Landi, a native of Esther's village in Ireland, is talked into helping to educate and possibly heal Esther. Margaret grows to love Esther as a daughter, b
Autumn Leaves (1956)
Autumn Leaves (1956) Millicent Wetherby is a middle-aged woman whose life is devoid of love and affection. Millicent's solitary existence changes when she encounters Burt Hansen a charismatic younger man. As Burt successfully woos her and wins her hand in marriage, rumors begin to surface that Milli
The Karate Killers (1967)
The Karate Killers (1967) U.N.C.L.E. agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin travel around the globe in an effort to track down a secret formula that was divided into four parts and left by a dying scientist with his four daughters, all of whom live in different countries. Evil THRUSH agent Randolph
Flamingo Road (1949)
Flamingo Road 1949 Carnival dancer Lane Bellamy finds herself stranded in a southern town ruled by corrupt political boss Titus Semple Lane becomes romantically involved with sheriff Fielding Carlisle, a weakling whose career is being driven by Titus Seeing Lane as a liability to his own political a
The Unknown (1927)
The Unknown 1927 Alonzo is an armless knife thrower and gun shooter for a circus or so he appears He is actually a criminal with his arms intact He and his accomplice, Cojo a little person, are hiding from the police Alonzo views his disguise as perfect, especially since it keeps from view an unusua
The Boob (1926)
The Boob 1926 Idealistic farm boy Peter loves Amy whose fancy is urbane Harry He discovers Harry is a rum runner and turns him over to prohibition agents, including Jane May is at last impressed with Peter
Our Dancing Daughters (1928)
Our Dancing Daughters 1928 Diana is outwardly the hit of the party but inwardly virtuous and idealistic Her friend Ann is thoroughly selfish and amoral Both are attracted to Ben Blaine, soon to be millionaire He takes Dianas flirtations with other boys as a sign of disinterest in him and marries Ann
Dance, Fools, Dance (1931)
Dance, Fools, Dance 1931 After her father Stanley Jordan loses his wealth in market, Bonnie Joan Crawford goes to work as a cub reporter Her brother Rodney William Bakewell is the wheelman in a gangland massacre Bert Cliff Edwards, a reporter on Bonnies paper, is murdered while investigating Bonnie
Rain (1932)
Rain 1932 For residents on the idyllic South Seas island of Pago Pago, life is simple until a boat arrives carrying two couples, the Davidsons who are missionaries, the MacPhails and a prostitute named Sadie Thompson Davidson is more than just a religious zealot hes a mad man When the boat, which wa
Possessed (1931)
Possessed 1931 Marion is a factory worker who hopes to trade the assembly line, for a beautiful penthouse apartment Mark Whitney, a wealthy and influential lawyer can make her dreams come true, but there is only one problem, he will give her everything but a marriage proposal Will this affair ever l