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- DirectorDorothy ArznerStarsSylvia SidneyFredric MarchAdrianne AllenA drunken newspaperman is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania.
- DirectorWilliam DieterleStarsWilliam HoldenEdmond O'BrienAlexis SmithJerry McKibbon is a tough, no nonsense reporter, mentoring special prosecutor John Conroy in routing out corrupt officials in the city, which may even include Conroy's own police detective father as a suspect.
- DirectorArthur LubinStarsBrian DonlevyElla RainesCharles CoburnA unfaithful wife plots with her lover to kill her husband, but the lover is accidentally killed instead. The husband stays in hiding and lets his wife be charged with conspiracy.
- DirectorJoseph PevneyStarsTony CurtisMarisa PavanGilbert RolandAfter a San Francisco priest is murdered, a policeman, who's a close friend, starts an investigation.
- DirectorJeffrey DellStarsClive BrookClifford EvansJane BaxterWartime commando story based on fact. Allied airman risks return (on the ground) to occupied Belgium for the honour of his regiment.
- DirectorPhil KarlsonStarsGuy MadisonKim NovakBrian KeithFour vets attending college on the GI Bill and a cabaret singer try to rob a Reno Casino and pull off the perfect crime.
- DirectorAlberto CavalcantiStarsStephen MurrayRichard ToddPatricia PlunkettChristy Drew, an aspiring young writer trying to broaden his experience, gets involved with Frankie Ketchen and her two suitors, Herb Logan and Jim Heal. One night, Jim finds Frankie has been with Christy and kills her. Herb is accused of the murder and sentenced to prison. After he gets out, he blames Christy but finally proves Jim to be the real killer, based on a clue provided to him by Christy, now a famous writer.
- DirectorHarold ClurmanWilliam Cameron MenziesStarsSusan HaywardPaul LukasBill WilliamsAfter a woman he meets is murdered, a soon-to-ship-out sailor has until dawn to find the killer, aided by a weary dance hall girl.
- DirectorWilliam K. HowardStarsJames CagneyGrace GeorgeMarjorie MainNewspaper man wanders about and helps older woman save her paper.
- DirectorGeorge P. BreakstonC. Ray StahlStarsSteve ForrestMartha HyerArcher MacDonald"Rocky" Wilson and his sidekick, Archer McGregor, American soldiers en route home from Korea, stop over in Tokyo. They instantly get involved in a sabotage plot and, inadvertently, end up in the possession of some highly-explosive pills. But, with the help of Peggy Barnes, an American airlines hostess, and a crazy magician with hypnotic powers, they put an end to a scheme to take over the world. (Shot entirely in Japan.)
- DirectorWilliam A. SeiterStarsDeanna DurbinKay FrancisWalter PidgeonAn aspiring actress is offered the lead in a major new play, but discovers that her mother, a more seasoned performer, expects the same part. The situation is further complicated when they both become involved with the same man.
- DirectorBen HechtLee GarmesStarsEdward G. RobinsonEddie AlbertMarsha HuntTwo-part story--the first is about a washed-up Broadway actor and his tough daughter, who is a bigger star than he is; the second is about a literary agent whose newest client--a nine-year-old girl--is the author of a borderline pornographic book.
- DirectorTay GarnettStarsLeslie HowardHumphrey BogartJoan BlondellA New York bank plans to sell a Hollywood studio at a big loss. But the head accountant is suspicious and goes to investigate. He finds chicanery, romance, and help to save the studio.
- DirectorHarold CronkStarsSamuel HuntMerritt PattersonBobby CampoThe next amazing chapter of Olympian and World War II hero Louis Zamperini's powerful true story of forgiveness, redemption, and amazing grace.
- DirectorWilliam H. PineStarsJohnny WeissmullerVirginia GreyBuster CrabbeIn the delta county of Louisiana, Johnny Duval is haunted by recurring nightmares of his wartime experiences.
- DirectorRobert SiodmakStarsCharles LaughtonElla RainesDean HarensAn unhappily married man begins a flirtation with a younger woman. When his wife threatens to ruin her, he decides to take action.
- DirectorArnold LavenStarsBroderick CrawfordRuth RomanMartha HyerAn FBI agent investigates the murder of his partner by taking over the 3 cases he was working on, determined to find his killer.
- DirectorArthur LubinStarsJane PowellRalph BellamyConstance MooreYoung Sherry Williams dreams of having a singing career, and she idolizes her older sister Josephine, who has gone to New York to perform on the stage. When Sherry is distraught just before performing at her school, a visiting Broadway producer encourages her by telling her positive things about her sister. Soon afterwards, Sherry decides to make a surprise trip to New York to visit Josephine - but what she finds there is not at all what she expected.
- DirectorHenry HathawayStarsGary CooperAnn HardingJohn HallidayA Victorian-era architect commissioned by the Duke of Towers to design his stables falls in love with the Duchess.
- DirectorMontgomery TullyStarsTony WrightPatricia DaintonSandra DorneA novelist and his sexy lover plot to kill the novelist's wife so he can inherit her fortune including her house that happens to be haunted.
- DirectorAubrey ScottoStarsMarion TalleyMichael BartlettNigel BruceAn eccentric musical family is kept in order by a talented daughter with modest ambitions.
- DirectorJoseph SantleyStarsDouglass MontgomeryEvelyn VenableAdrienne AmesThe life and loves of composer Stephen Foster, from his early success through his decline, degradation, and death from alcoholism.
- DirectorR.G. SpringsteenStarsGeorge BernardBert BernardRobert HuttonSalty Conners and Sparks Johnson, two sailors assigned to a Naval weather observation station on a lonely South Pacific island, have worked out a scheme to earn extra money. They attach notes along with the name and photo of their good-looking superior officer, Lt. Steven F. Smith, to the station's weather balloons, requesting pen pals. Hundreds of women retrieve the notes and respond generously with friendly letters and homemade goodies, which Salty claims as he sorts the stations' mail, while leaving Steve in the dark about his following of well-wishers. Salty and Sparks then sell the homemade treats to the other sailors at exorbitant prices. In spite of the financial success of their scheme, Salty and Sparks have been evading C.P.O. Mike Donovan, who is pressing them to repay a gambling debt. Later, when their unit is ordered stateside, Salty and Sparks pack up the station's materials and hide their savings and the secret pen pal list inside a trunk containing weather reports. When the ship docks in San Francisco, a mob of love-hungry "pen pals" greets the bewildered Steve. Witnessing this reception is Steve's fiance, Betty Lou Prentice, who immediately breaks their engagement. As Betty Lou's father, Senator Prentice, is heading a committee that is threatening to slash Navy appropriations, Steve's commanding officer, Comm. Gerrens, urges Steve to make it up to Betty Lou. To provide an opportunity for reconciliation, Gerrens orders Steve personally to deliver the trunk of reports to Washington, D.C. via the same train on which Prentice and Betty Lou are riding and assigns Mike to assist him. Salty and Sparks give up their week of liberty and also board the train, hoping to retrieve the list and money before their scheme is discovered. However, their efforts to get into the trunk are impeded by their need to avoid Mike, who would confiscate their money, and a bratty child, Bertram, who thinks there is candy in the trunk. Meanwhile, a sultry Russian spy, Sonja DuBois, who believes the trunk contains top secret government information, pursues Steve and has him firmly in a clinch when Betty Lou walks by and sees them. Feeling guilty about their part in Steve and Betty Lou's breakup, Salty and Sparks try to talk to Betty Lou, but cannot get past Prentice, who is suspicious of anyone in a Navy uniform. Needing civilian clothes, they steal another passenger's suitcase, which, to their dismay, turns out to belong to a woman. Undaunted, they change clothes and present themselves to the Prentices as "Mabel" and "Myrtle." After sending Prentice out on the pretext of finding "Myrtle's" purse, Salty and Sparks convince Betty Lou to give Steve another chance. However, their attempt to change back into uniform is hampered when they are barred from the men's dressing room. Meanwhile, the overbearing Mrs. Pursell, owner of the suitcase, has initiated a search for her belongings. When she and the porter find the suitcase under Mike's chair, where Salty and Sparks inadvertently put it, she tries to have Mike arrested. At the next train station, Bertram attempts to abscond with the unattended trunk, but Sonja and her cohorts, Ivan and Peter, seeing the small child dragging the large trunk, steal it and head away. Finally back in uniform, Sparks and Salty spot the spies with the trunk and pursue them. Mike, who has evaded arrest, sees Sparks and Salty leave and reports it to Steve, who then delays his elopement with Betty Lou to instigate a search for them. When the spies realize they are unable to "decode" the military secrets that they believe are in the weather reports, they abduct Steve to interrogate him at their hideout. Watching from the street through a window, Salty and Sparks hear the spies telephone for interrogation "specialists" to deal with Steve, then disguised in clothes they find hanging on a clothesline, try to rescue Steve by posing as the interrogators. They succeed in gaining entrance to the hideout, but are taken captive when the real interrogators arrive. On the street outside the hideout, Betty Lou and Mike, who have been looking for the missing sailors, and Prentice, who has been looking for Betty Lou, see them through the window. Realizing the sailors are in danger, they call for the police, who arrive and round up all the spies. Salty and Sparks tell Prentice that Steve successfully set up a trap for the spy ring, so Steve and Betty Lou's romance, as well as the Navy, is given Prentice's blessing. Later, the Prentices and the sailors continue their train journey to Washington.
- DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsEdward G. RobinsonDouglas Fairbanks Jr.Glenda FarrellA small-time criminal moves to a big city to seek bigger fortune.
- DirectorMichael CarrerasStarsKerwin MathewsNadia GrayDonald HoustonAn American painter has an affair with a bar owner in a French village and agrees to help murder her husband, who has escaped from a prison for the criminally insane.