Year 1931
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- DirectorJohn G. AdolfiStarsGeorge ArlissDoris KenyonDudley DiggesWith the end of the Revolutionary War in 1783, General George Washington took Colonel Hamilton with him into the newly formed government. While the main disagreements in the early days was over paying the soldiers who had fought in the War, Hamilton also dedicated his energies towards a national bank so that the United States would be able to trade with other countries. He fought eight long years for his Assumption Bill while considering the new Residence Bill. While he is engaged in running a clean treasury, his arch rival, Senator Roberts, takes every opportunity to slander and cast Alexander as a dishonorable man.
- DirectorJosef von SternbergStarsPhillips HolmesSylvia SidneyFrances DeeA poor factory worker employed by a wealthy uncle falls in love with a beautiful heiress, but his happiness and promising future are jeopardized by a previous affair with a coworker he impregnated.
- DirectorGeorge B. SeitzStarsLaura La PlanteJohn WayneJune ClydeBob refuses to marry his girlfriend and leaves her. She marries his close friend out of revenge.
- DirectorJohn FordStarsRonald ColmanHelen HayesRichard BennettA medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine.
- DirectorLowell ShermanStarsLowell ShermanIrene DunneMae MurrayA New York playboy dates wild woman until he falls for a hard-working stenographer.
- DirectorRobert Z. LeonardStarsMarion DaviesRalph ForbesC. Aubrey SmithOld man invites three of his illegitimate children to live with him.
- DirectorTay GarnettStarsHelen TwelvetreesRicardo CortezJohn GarrickRicardo Cortez plays a ruthless, near-psychotic gangster who withal follows his own code of honor. Helen Twelvetrees co-stars as a trusting young woman who marries mob lawyer John Garrick, never dreaming that both her husband and her brother Frank Conroy are involved in the rackets. When she does learn the horrible truth, it is she who determines to "cleanse" her family of the tinge of crime by dealing directly with Cortez--and she means directly.
- DirectorFrank BorzageStarsJames DunnSally EilersMinna GombellA man and woman, skeptical about romance, nonetheless fall in love and are wed, but their lack of confidence in the opposite sex haunts their marriage.
- DirectorHobart HenleyStarsConrad NagelSidney FoxBette DavisMarianne falls in love with a con artist who has a hidden agenda.
- DirectorJohn S. RobertsonEdward H. GriffithStarsWilliam BoydJames GleasonLew CodyFour battle-weary American soldiers under fire reflect on the women they left behind.
- DirectorWilliam A. SeiterStarsLoretta YoungFrank AlbertsonRicardo CortezThanks to her ability and her legs, Claire McIntyre rises in the business world.
- DirectorHamilton MacFaddenStarsWarner OlandSally EilersBela LugosiThe unsolved murder of a Hollywood actor several years earlier and an enigmatic psychic are the keys to help Charlie solve the Honolulu stabbing death of a beautiful actress.
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsJames CagneyJoan BlondellLouis CalhernThe adventures of an egoistic con man and his glamorous accomplice.
- DirectorArchie MayoStarsConstance BennettBen LyonRichard BennettWorking-class girl Stephanie Dale dreams of living a better life and a chance to break into high society is more important than anything else for her.
- DirectorJohn FordStarsSally O'NeilAlan DinehartFrank AlbertsonA society novelist brings a brash young chorus girl home in order to study her for inspiration for his new novel. His family is distraught, but soon her behavior has forever altered their snobbish ways.
- DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsJoe E. BrownOna MunsonWilliam Collier Jr.Jack's father is sending him away to keep him from gambling, booze, girls, and late nights. He has Ossie go as Jack's companion, not knowing that Ossie does the same things as Jack. They decide to go to California and the trip is long as Jack stops for every girl he sees. In a restaurant in the southwest, they meet Poncho. It seems that every time Ossie sees Pancho, he does something that almost gets him into a fight. When they get to Pasadena, the boys meet Connie and Penny and Aunt Polly. After a few days, Jack proposes and Connie accepts. However, that is that day that Mabel, Jack's jilted fiancée from New York, appears.
- DirectorHobart HenleyStarsMary BrianJohn HallidayKay StrozziAn ordinary man is confronted by gangsters who have reason to believe a treasure is buried somewhere on his property.
- DirectorAlan CroslandStarsFay WrayVictor VarconiCharles JudelsVictor Varconi plays a charming Mexican bandit gets involved in several conflicting paradoxical relations, including an alliance with a crooked rival bandit and a beautiful daughter of the governor.
- DirectorWilliam A. SeiterStarsBert WheelerRobert WoolseyDorothy LeeWheeler and Woolsey play two unemployed vaudevillians who get involved in helping an old lady save her moribund drug store. Problems and laughs begin when the villain spikes the Lemon Sodas they are selling.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsWallace BeeryJackie CooperIrene RichAn alcoholic ex-boxer struggles to provide a good living for his son.
- DirectorAllan DwanStarsDouglas Fairbanks Jr.Rose HobartAnthony BushellTwo brothers on leave fall for the same girl in World War I London.
- DirectorGeorge AbbottBerthold ViertelStarsTallulah BankheadHarvey StephensIrving PichelWoman in debt makes an impulsive investment which doesn't go her way.
- DirectorWesley RugglesStarsRichard DixIrene DunneEstelle TaylorA newspaper editor settles in an Oklahoma boom town with his reluctant wife at the end of the nineteenth century.
- DirectorRouben MamoulianStarsGary CooperSylvia SidneyPaul LukasMan joins a gang to free his girlfriend from prison.
- DirectorPaul L. SteinStarsConstance BennettJoel McCreaLew CodyYoung Valerie models for an American painter who tries to make a future in Paris and they fall in love.