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- DirectorJean YarbroughStarsWalter BrennanEdgar BuchananAndy DevineA retired Texas Ranger and his three aging pals are hired to clean up a lawless town.
- DirectorEdward F. ClineStarsJackie CooperThomas MeighanJackie SearlYoung boy Bill Peck adores his father and tries to be good, but the arrival of Bill's cousin Horace upsets Bill's plans. Horace's brattish ways result in Bill rather than Horace getting in trouble.
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsJean ArthurJames StewartLionel BarrymoreThe son of a snobbish Wall Street banker becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family not realizing that his father is trying to force her family from their home for a real estate development.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsMerle OberonLaurence OlivierDavid NivenA servant in the house of Wuthering Heights tells a traveler the unfortunate tale of lovers Cathy and Heathcliff.
- DirectorRobert StevensonStarsOrson WellesJoan FontaineMargaret O'BrienAfter a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house, to care for his young daughter.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsMyrna LoyDana AndrewsFredric MarchThree World War II veterans, two of them traumatized or disabled, return home to the American midwest to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.
- DirectorVictor FlemingGeorge CukorSam WoodStarsClark GableVivien LeighThomas MitchellA sheltered and manipulative Southern belle and a roguish profiteer face off in a turbulent romance as the society around them crumbles with the end of slavery and is rebuilt during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsLaurence OlivierJoan FontaineGeorge SandersA self-conscious woman juggles adjusting to her new role as an aristocrat's wife and avoiding being intimidated by his first wife's spectral presence.
- DirectorGeorge CukorStarsCary GrantKatharine HepburnJames StewartWhen a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.
- StarsWendell CoreyMarsha HuntPatty McCormackTorey Peck is a twelve year old who's curiosity and impulsiveness often leads to trouble. Steve and Jennifer are her parents with Roger her brother. Trudy and Francesca are close friends.
- DirectorEdward F. ClineStarsTommy KellyAnn GillisEdgar KennedyTrouble-prone Billy Peck and his gang descend on a traveling circus that has just hit town, and before long their antics are causing the circus owner all kinds of problems.
- DirectorArthur CohenStarsBill RandleFranny BeecherBill BlackElvis Presley's first film is a documentary reportedly highlighting concert footage filmed at Brooklyn High School in Cleveland OH, during Sept. 1955, hosted by disc jockey Bill Randle. Randle, in the 1950s, was as well known as Alan Freed. Due to legal problems over ownership of the film, this movie was only shown in public once, and has yet to be released officially. Universal Studios reportedly still has the negatives in its vaults.
- DirectorIrving PichelStarsJimmy DuranteTerry MooreTom DrakeA little squirrel with lots of charm accidentally helps two poor, down-but-NOT-out families overcome their obstacles.
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsJames StewartJean ArthurClaude RainsA naive youth leader is appointed to fill a vacancy in the U.S. Senate. His idealistic plans promptly collide with corruption at home and subterfuge from his hero in Washington, but he tries to forge ahead despite attacks on his character.
- DirectorHoward BrethertonStarsFrankie DarroMantan MorelandDick PurcellBuzzy O'Brien is a bellhop in a hotel where a guest is murdered. The police blame Kitty Monahan and Buzzy succeeds in helping her escape and hides her at his home with his mother.
- DirectorPreston SturgesStarsJoel McCreaVeronica LakeRobert WarwickHollywood director John L. Sullivan sets out to experience life as a homeless person in order to gain relevant life experience for his next movie.
- DirectorMelville ShavelsonStarsCary GrantSophia LorenMartha HyerA widower, his three young children, and an Italian nanny get to know each other better when circumstances have them living together aboard a badly neglected houseboat.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsJudy GarlandGeorge MurphyCharles WinningerIrish colleen Nellie is in love with handsome Jerry Kelly, even though her father objects. Nellie and Jerry soon marry and announce plans to move to New York, which again angers Nellie's father. Still, fear of never seeing his daughter again convinces the old man to also head to the States. In New York, Jerry becomes a policeman, although fighting crime seems to be easier than fighting with his father-in-law. Tragedy strikes when Nellie dies in childbirth. Jerry and the meddling old man continue to live together and have constant battles over how to raise young Nellie, who grows up to look exactly like her mother.
- DirectorArthur PiersonStarsJeffrey LynnDonald CrispMarjorie ReynoldsAfter failing to be re-elected, politician Blake Washburn returns home and becomes editor of the local newspaper. When he notices the influence the paper has on the public, he uses it to appeal to potential voters in the next election.
- DirectorHarve FosterWilfred JacksonStarsRuth WarrickBobby DriscollJames BaskettThe kindly story-teller Uncle Remus tells a young boy stories about trickster Br'er Rabbit, who outwits Br'er Fox and slow-witted Br'er Bear.
- DirectorLeslie GoodwinsStarsMartha O'DriscollNoah Beery Jr.Hattie McDanielPatty Callahan (Martha O'Driscoll) and Jeff Peters (Noah Beery, Jr.) win a "Happiest GI Couple" contest but there is a problem...they are not married.
- DirectorWilliam KeighleyStarsJack BennyAnn SheridanCharles CoburnWhen Bill and Connie Fuller are forced to move out of their Manhattan apartment because of their pet dog, Connie purchases a dilapidated old Pennsylvania house where George Washington allegedly slept, and persuades Bill to renovate it.
- DirectorEdward LudwigStarsMarjorie ReynoldsCharles RugglesFay BainterRuggles isn't providing enough money to have his family live well. His wife takes over and goes to work.
- DirectorHenry KingStarsWalter BrennanFay BainterBrenda JoyceA woman tormented by the hunting death of her husband forbids her son to have anything to do with horses. But when he falls for the daughter of his father's trainer, he defies his mother by entering the Maryland Hunt.
- DirectorClaude BinyonStarsClaudette ColbertFred MacMurrayRita JohnsonA bachelor marries a widow and her three kids join the honeymoon.
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsRobert HuttonEdward ArnoldAnn HardingJanie is a scatterbrained, high spirited teenage girl living in the small town of Hortonville. World War II causes the establishment of an Army camp just outside town. Janie and her bobby-soxer friends have their hearts set aflutter by the prospect of so many young soldiers residing nearby. Which fella will they choose? But if Janie's family has a say in the matter.
- DirectorVincent ShermanStarsJoan LeslieRobert HuttonEdward ArnoldMarried life isn't as blissful as either Dick or Janie had hoped. Dick is hired to write filler for his father-in-law's newspaper, but is never allowed to prove his real worth. Janie has to do housekeeping while dealing with a "well-meaning" mother and mother-in-law. When Dick invites an army buddy to stay with them, and that buddy turns out to be a girl, the situation takes a turn for the worse.
- DirectorLewis SeilerStarsJohnny DownsShirley DeaneJane DarwellBy the time daughter and son-in-law have their second child, mother-in-law learns not to be so domineering.
- DirectorDavid ButlerStarsShirley TempleLionel BarrymoreEvelyn VenableIn the post-Civil war south, a darling little girl attempts to restore the peace between her parents and her plantation owner grandfather.
- DirectorLeigh JasonStarsBarbara StanwyckGene RaymondRobert YoungThe ups and downs of newlyweds on a tight budget.
- DirectorGeorge MarshallStarsJane WithersSlim SummervilleHelen WoodWithers and her father Summerville arrive at a Southern mansion and turn the cotton pickers into entertainers to raise money to save the place.
- DirectorGordon DouglasStarsOliver HardyHarry LangdonBillie BurkeA visiting circus man calls on a Southern country doctor to cure his sick elephant; afterwards, the grateful beast becomes so attached to the doctor that it starts to follow him everywhere.
- DirectorJohn G. BlystoneStarsJane WithersTom BrownMarsha HuntA shy newspaperman (Brown) nearly gives up when his girlfriend (Hunt) falls for the new guy in town (Meeker) till Withers sets things right.
- DirectorJames TinlingStarsJane WithersThomas BeckLouise HenryAn orphan girl becomes adopted by a group of old men and is placed in the home of one of them. She sings and dances and helps out where she can.
- DirectorMalcolm St. ClairStarsJed ProutyShirley DeaneSpring ByingtonThe Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to lecture on the topic.
- DirectorNoel M. SmithStarsJune TravisWilliam HopperJohnnie DavisInjured Carlton College quarterback Ken Thomas promises his girlfriend that he will not play again; when she relents, he is kidnapped by crooks hoping to make money from The Big Game.
- DirectorJohn FordStarsWill RogersTom BrownAnita LouiseJudge Priest, a proud Confederate veteran, uses common sense and considerable humanity to dispense justice in a small town in the Post-Bellum Kentucky.
- DirectorLewis D. CollinsStarsScott KolkJean RogersJ. Scott SmartEager to take advantage of a new oil boom, "Lucky" Conlon leaves his gas station and diner for Texas, with his wife Helen's blessing. In Texas, Lucky wins enough money in roulette to lease a parcel of land, and he and his friend "Smiley" begin drilling. Julia Frayne, whom Lucky met while gambling, turns out to be the daughter of oil tycoon Tom Frayne, who is eager to buy out the leases of the growing number of independent drillers, called "wildcatters," in order to hold a monopoly on the local oil fields. When he runs out of money, Lucky "shoots" his well, trying to force the oil up using explosives, but gets only smoke. Julia then hires Lucky to drill her lease, thereby abandoning his own. She hopes Lucky's friends will follow his example and, seeing the futility of their drilling, sell to Frayne Oil Company. Helen, meanwhile, visits and gets a job at a beauty shop, while Lucky spends his nights out on the town with Julia, believing he is winning favor with Frayne. When the papers announce that Frayne is withdrawing from the area, the land values recede, and most of the wildcatters abandon their leases, which Frayne then buys at a bargain. Lucky and his crews work diligently and strike oil too early, however, and Frayne fails to retrieve the leases of those wildcatters who have held out. All those who hold leases are now forced to work twenty-four hours a day, lest their leases expire before they have struck oil. Lucky's crews, meanwhile, are angry at him for betraying them and spending his nights with Julia. One night, Frayne orders Julia to keep Lucky occupied at nightclubs while Frayne's men sabotage the wildcatters' rigs. In the morning, the wildcatters prepare to lynch Lucky, unaware that his wells are really Frayne's. Smiley and Helen promise the men that Lucky will be able to clear himself in an hour. Lucky, meanwhile, goes to Frayne, who bought the wildcat leases the day before and is planning to foreclose them today, and threatens him unless he fixes the rigs. Lucky then goes out to the fields, and the men mob him and Smiley. They are about to lynch them, when Lucky's friend Johnson, who was going to kill Lucky himself until he learned the truth, arrives and tells the men they can save their rigs if they get them working by the next day. The sheriff then arrives with Frayne, and Lucky tells him all his wells are rigged to be shot. As Lucky had been drilling past an underground waterfall, he warns Frayne that if he shoots the wells, he will get only water, not oil. Frayne gives in, offering Lucky a permanent position with him, but Lucky accepts Johnson's offer to become his partner. Helen then reveals that she has already sold their gas station and has $3,000 to put toward working capital for Johnson's rig. Lucky finally realizes what a heel he has been and how swell his wife is.
- DirectorWesley RugglesStarsCarole LombardFred MacMurrayJohn BarrymoreA lawyer defends his wife, a pathological liar, in a murder trial.
- DirectorLewis SeilerStarsClaire TrevorJane DarwellArline JudgeBlind Mrs. Lind comes to American to visit her three children whom she thinks are successful.
- DirectorHarve FosterWilfred JacksonStarsRuth WarrickBobby DriscollJames BaskettThe kindly story-teller Uncle Remus tells a young boy stories about trickster Br'er Rabbit, who outwits Br'er Fox and slow-witted Br'er Bear.