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Your #1 was Bride of Frankenstein (#1).
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Dir. James Whale · Boris Karloff · Colin Clive · Valerie Hobson · Ernest Thesiger
Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive after being attacked by an angry mob. The now-chastened scientist attempts to escape his past, but a former mentor forces him to assist with the creation of a new creature.
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Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · Robert Donat · Madeleine Carroll · Lucie Mannheim · Godfrey Tearle
Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed - with a knife in her back. Having a bit of trouble explaining it all to Scotland Yard, he heads for the hills of Scotland to try to clear his name by locating the spy ring known as The 39 Steps.
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Dir. Sam Wood · Groucho Marx · Chico Marx · Harpo Marx · Kitty Carlisle
The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera singers help them achieve success while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.
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Dir. Frank Lloyd · Charles Laughton · Clark Gable · Franchot Tone · Herbert Mundin
Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty. However, Bligh returns one year later, hell bent on revenge.
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Dir. Mark Sandrich · Fred Astaire · Ginger Rogers · Edward Everett Horton · Erik Rhodes
Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel room, much to the annoyance of sleeping Dale Tremont below. She goes upstairs to complain and the two are immediately attracted to each other. Complications arise when Dale mistakes Jerry for Horace.
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Dir. Michael Curtiz · Errol Flynn · Olivia de Havilland · Lionel Atwill · Basil Rathbone
Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.
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Dir. Leo McCarey · Charles Laughton · Mary Boland · Charles Ruggles · Zasu Pitts
In this comedy of an Englishman stranded in a sea of barbaric Americans, Marmaduke Ruggles - a gentleman's gentleman and butler to an Earl - is lost in a poker game to an uncouth American cattle baron. Ruggles' life is turned upside down as he's taken to the USA, is gradually assimilated into American life, accidentally becomes a local celebrity, and falls in love along the way.
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Dir. Richard Boleslawski · Fredric March · Charles Laughton · Cedric Hardwicke · Rochelle Hudson
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
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Dir. Karl Freund · Peter Lorre · Frances Drake · Colin Clive · Ted Healy
An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with those of a knife-throwing murderer.
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Dir. John Ford · Victor McLaglen · Heather Angel · Preston Foster · Margot Grahame
Gypo Nolan is a former Irish Republican Army man who drowns his sorrows in the bottle. He's desperate to escape his bleak Dublin life and start over in America with his girlfriend. So when British authorities advertise a reward for information about his best friend, current IRA member Frankie, Gypo cooperates. Now Gypo can buy two tickets on a boat bound for the States, but can he escape the overwhelming guilt he feels for betraying his buddy?
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Dir. John Ford · Edward G. Robinson · Jean Arthur · Arthur Hohl · James Donlan
Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He's never late for work and nothing interesting ever happens to him. One day everything changes: he oversleeps and is fired as an example, he's then mistaken for evil criminal killer Mannion and is arrested. The resemblance is so striking that the police give him a special pass to avoid a similar mistake. The real Mannion sees the opportunity to steal the pass and move around freely and chaos results.
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Dir. George Cukor · Freddie Bartholomew · Frank Lawton · Edna May Oliver · Jessie Ralph
A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relationships.
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Dir. William Keighley · James Cagney · Margaret Lindsay · Ann Dvorak · Robert Armstrong
James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused to get involved with the underworld. When a friend of his is gunned down by a notorious criminal, Brick decides to abandon the exercise of the law and join the Department of Justice to capture the murderer.
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Dir. George Stevens · Katharine Hepburn · Fred MacMurray · Fred Stone · Evelyn Venable
In the lower-middle-class Adams family, father and son are happy to work in a drugstore, but mother and daughter Alice try every possible social-climbing stratagem despite snubs and embarrassment. When Alice finally meets her dream man Arthur, mother nags father into a risky business venture and plans to impress Alice's beau with an "upscale" family dinner. Will the excruciating results drive Arthur away?
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Dir. Clarence Brown · Greta Garbo · Fredric March · Freddie Bartholomew · Maureen O'Sullivan
In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.
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Dir. Henry Hathaway · Gary Cooper · Franchot Tone · Richard Cromwell · Guy Standing
In the Northwest Frontier of India, the 41st Bengal Lancers led by the harsh Colonel Tom Stone are having trouble with the rebellious leader Mohammed Khan. Surly McGregor and wry, blue-blooded Forsythe are officers in charge of newcomer Lieutenant Stone, the commanding officer’s inexperienced son. Motivated by a grudge toward his father, Lt. Stone allows himself to be captured by the enemy.
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Dir. William Dieterle · Ian Hunter · Verree Teasdale · Hobart Cavanaugh · Dick Powell
Four young people escape Athens to a forest where the king and queen of the fairies are quarreling, while meanwhile, a troupe of amateur actors rehearses a play. When the fairy Puck uses a magic flower to make people fall in love, the whole thing becomes a little bit confused...
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Dir. Roy Del Ruth · Jack Benny · Eleanor Powell · Robert Taylor · Una Merkel
Lovely, gifted Irene Foster hopes that her childhood sweetheart-turned Broadway producer Robert Gordon will recognize her--and her talent. Gordon is too busy sparring with a dirt-dishing gossip columnist to notice, but his wisecracking, heart-of-gold secretary certainly does. She and Irene must use their wits to show him what he's missing!
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Dir. W.S. Van Dyke · Jeanette MacDonald · Nelson Eddy · Frank Morgan · Elsa Lanchester
In order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and escapes to colonial New Orleans, where she finds an unlikely true love.
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