Wealthy American society matron, Stella Hadley refuses to sacrifice her material comforts to aid the war effort until she realizes that her selfishness is cheating the boys overseas who are…

Blind detective Duncan Maclain gets mixed up with enemy agents and murder when he tries to help an old friend with a rebellious stepdaughter.

A crusading newsman starts up a tabloid with a gangster as his 50-50 partner.

After the American Civil War, Jim Fisk, a former peddler and cotton smuggler, arrives in New York, along with his partners Nick and Luke, where he struggles to make his…

A stockbroker bets his new partners $10,000 that he can tell the truth, and only the truth, for twenty-four hours.

As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed “John Doe,” who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire…

A charming racketeer seduces the DA’s stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.

Farmer Jabez Stone, about to lose his land, agrees to sell his soul to the devil, known as Mr. Scratch, who gives Jabez seven years to enjoy the fruits of…

A newsman (Walter Pidgeon) falls in love on Cape Cod with the judge (Rosalind Russell) his angry boss (Edward Arnold) expects him to discredit.

Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.

Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father’s release. As assistant to mobster…

A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley.

J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife’s just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on…

After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. Soon, the naive and earnest new senator has to battle political corruption.

A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.

Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match….

After a baron steals his scientific discoveries, runs away with his wife, and slaps him in public, a man joins a Parisian circus sideshow as a clown whose act consists…

A European princess arrives in New York City to secure a much-needed loan for her country. She contracts the mumps, and an actress who looks exactly like her is hired…

According to a legend, the mansion’s “blue room” is cursed — everyone who has ever spent the night in that room has met with an untimely end. The three suitors…

The story of corrupt, power-hungry, manipulative Grigori Rasputin’s influence on members of the Russian Imperial family and others, and what resulted.

Former student Raskolnikov is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police, Raskolnikov struggles between trying to…

An Arab prince masquerades as a tour guide for rich women in order to enrich himself.

Wounded criminal Lucky Wilson takes refuge in a small Connecticut farm. He falls in love with the farmer’s daughter who at first is unaware of his criminal record. Lucky is…

A mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster, who hopes to enlist their help in devising the perfect murder.

A kind-hearted young man is thrown out of his corrupt home town of West Rome, Oklahoma. He falls asleep and dreams that he is back in the days of olden…

Bold performer Tira works as dancing beauty and lion tamer at a fair. Out of an urgent financial need, she agrees to a risky new number: she’ll put her head…

A maid has romances with a two-timer, a boozing millionaire and the master of the house.