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- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsGary CooperRay MillandRobert PrestonThree adopted English brothers join the French Foreign Legion in North Africa after one of them steals their adoptive family's famous heirloom sapphire.
- DirectorPreston SturgesStarsBrian DonlevyMuriel AngelusAkim TamiroffDan McGinty has great success in his chosen field of crooked politics, but he endangers it all in one crazy moment of honesty.
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsHumphrey BogartIngrid BergmanPaul HenreidA cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco."We'll always have Paris"
- DirectorJames WhaleStarsBoris KarloffElsa LanchesterColin CliveMary Shelley reveals the main characters of her novel survived: Baron Henry Frankenstein, goaded by an even madder scientist, builds his monster a mate.Elsa Lanchester as Mary Shelley , tells us the story ( then pops up as the title character , sic. )
- DirectorWilliam K. HowardStarsSpencer TracyColleen MooreRalph MorganThe tragic life story of a power-hungry industrialist is recounted in the aftermath of his death.
- DirectorMax OphülsStarsJoan FontaineLouis JourdanMady ChristiansA pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember, who may hold the key to his downfall.Louis Jourdan reads the letter , and we go into the past , at various times ( Joan Fontaine even plays herself as a child ! ).
- DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsToshirô MifuneMachiko KyôMasayuki MoriThe rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost and a woodcutter.Multiple flashbacks of the same incident .
- DirectorDavid LeanStarsOmar SharifJulie ChristieGeraldine ChaplinThe life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
- DirectorMitchell LeisenStarsCharles BoyerOlivia de HavillandPaulette GoddardStopped in Mexico by U.S. Immigration, Georges Iscovescu hopes to get into the country by marrying a citizen.
- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsGinger RogersAdolphe MenjouGeorge MontgomeryRoxie Hart signs a murder confession in order to attract publicity for her dancing career as dames don't swing in Cook County. Will everything go as planned?George Montgomery as an old man tells the story to a young reporter , with a punchline at the end .
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsHumphrey BogartClaude RainsMichèle MorganFive patriotic convicts are helped to escape imprisonment in Devil's Island so they can fight for occupied Free French forces against the Nazis.Claude Rains tells a reporter the story , then multiple flashbacks tell the back story of the main characters .
- DirectorRobert HamerStarsDennis PriceAlec GuinnessValerie HobsonA distant poor relative of the Duke D'Ascoyne plots to inherit the title by murdering the eight other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession.
- DirectorGuy HamiltonStarsAlastair SimArthur YoungOlga LindoA wealthy family is visited by a police inspector, who questions the family about the suicide of a young working-class woman.
- DirectorBernard McEveetyStarsChuck ConnorsMichael RennieKathryn HaysAfter an 11-year absence, a buffalo hunter returns home with lots of money in his saddlebags only to be robbed at gunpoint by a trio of no-good town citizens, prompting an eventual revenge quest.Starts and ends with a lame framing device about a census taker .
- DirectorArthur PennStarsDustin HoffmanFaye DunawayChief Dan GeorgeJack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Native Americans and fighting with General Custer.Told to us by Dustin Hoffman a hundred years later .
- DirectorLaslo BenedekStarsFredric MarchMildred DunnockKevin McCarthyAn over-the-hill salesman faces a personal turning point when he loses his job and attempts to make peace with his family.
- DirectorHal WalkerStarsBing CrosbyBob HopeDorothy LamourTwo vaudeville flops pose as bad guys and join the Klondike gold rush with a saloon singer.Told to us by Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour in old age , with a punchline at the end .
- DirectorDel LordStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardThe stooges are salesman selling a weight reducing machine. They have no luck until they show up at the house of an eccentric inventor where they are hired as caretakers. When the scientist goes to Washington to demonstrate his death-ray machine to the government, the boys are left to guard his house and must contend with enemy spies and a mysterious pie thrower.Professor J. O. Dunkfeather tells the story to a reporter , but , who threw those pies ?
- DirectorHarold YoungStarsLon Chaney Jr.Dick ForanJohn HubbardThe ancient Egypt Mummy, Kharis, is transported from his homeland with the high priest Mehemet to wreak vengeance on the family who has defiled the sacred tomb of his beloved Princess Ananka.Dick Foran as an old man relates the story of The Mummy's Hand 1940 , as an excuse to show footage from the film and save a few quid .
- DirectorHerbert BrenonStarsFrank McCormickRalph ForbesLester VailAn American joins the French Foreign Legion in order to rescue a boyhood friend.Starts in the penal colony dungeon , flashes back to childhood , then to just before the film starts , with a flashback in a flashback by Loretta Young , then the events up to the beginning .
- DirectorHal WalkerStarsBing CrosbyBob HopeDorothy LamourTwo unemployed show-biz pals accept treasure-diving work in Bali for a local princess and they find treasure, love and trouble.Dorothy Lamour flashes back to when she had a chimp that looks just like Bob Hope ...
- DirectorJohn H. AuerStarsGeorge BrentVera RalstonBrian AherneAn expedition exploring the Amazon jungle comes across a jungle goddess who lives among the animals and fears none of them--and apparently has found the secret of eternal youth.Several mysterious flashbacks
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsKirk DouglasLauren BacallDoris DayA young trumpet player is torn between an honest singer and a manipulative heiress.
- DirectorReginald Le BorgStarsEvelyn AnkersJ. Carrol NaishSamuel S. HindsPaula the ape woman (Acquanetta) is alive and well, and running around a creepy old sanitarium run by the kindly Dr. Fletcher (J. Carrol Naish), also reverting to her true gorilla form every once in a while to kill somebody.Told in flashback in court , using lots of footage from the previous episode , Captive Wild Woman 1943 .
- DirectorGuy GreenStarsMaria SchellStuart WhitmanRod SteigerA man who served prison time for intent to molest a child tries to build a new life with the help of a sympathetic psychiatrist.