Search results for "1937"
Quality Street

Quality Street

Quality Street
IMDb: 6.2
83

In the 1810s, an old maid poses as her own niece in order to teach her onetime beau a lesson.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Dead End

Dead End

Dead End
IMDb: 7.2
93

Mobster “Baby Face” Martin returns home to visit the New York neighborhood where he grew up, dropping in on his mother, who rejects him because of his gangster lifestyle, and…

Command Performance

Command Performance

Command Performance
IMDb: 5.8
84

Arthur Tracy and Lilli Palmer star in this 1930’s British romantic drama. With his voice faltering due to nerves, celebrated stage performer “The Street Singer” (Tracy) parts company with the…

Genre: Drama, Music
Zula Hula

Zula Hula

Zula Hula
IMDb: 5.6
7

Disabled in a thunderstorm, Betty Boop and Grampy’s plane lands on a tropic island where Grampy soon re-invents the comforts of home… until hostile, racially-stereotyped natives intrude.

Genre: Animation, Short
The Foxy Hunter

The Foxy Hunter

The Foxy Hunter
IMDb: 5.7
7

Junior and Pudgy slip away from Betty Boop’s care to go hunting with a pop-gun.

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
IMDb: 6.4
98

A chic American jewel thief falls in love with one of her marks, an English lord.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Brief Ecstasy

Brief Ecstasy

Brief Ecstasy
IMDb: 6.3
69

A remarkable story of love lost and found, as a young couple are separated by circumstance, and plunged into emotional turmoil by a reunion…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Confession

Confession

Confession
IMDb: 7.3
87

Vera Kowalska is put on trial for murdering concert pianist Michael Michailow. In court it is revealed that some years earlier Michael ruined Vera’s life.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Devil’s Playground

Devil’s Playground

Devil’s Playground
IMDb: 6
74

A remake of Frank Capra’s Submarine (1928), Devil’s Playground is a snappy Columbia “B plus” picture starring Richard Dix and Chester Morris. Submarine officers Dorgan (Dix) and Mason (Morris) battle…

Genre: Drama, Romance
It’s Love I’m After

It’s Love I’m After

It’s Love I’m After
IMDb: 7.3
90

An infatuated debutante renews a Shakespearean actor’s running feud with his leading lady.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Fight for Your Lady

Fight for Your Lady

Fight for Your Lady
IMDb: 5.4
66

Wrestling trainer puts himself in charge of a singer’s love life when the singer is jilted by a rich girl.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Conquest

Conquest

Conquest
IMDb: 6.5
113

A Polish countess is dispatched by her country to become Napoleon Bonaparte’s mistress at the urging of Polish leaders, who feel she might influence him to support Polish independence.

Love Is on the Air

Love Is on the Air

Love Is on the Air
IMDb: 5.4
59

A newscaster gets demoted for exposing the town’s criminal activities over the airwaves.

High, Wide and Handsome

High, Wide and Handsome

High, Wide and Handsome
IMDb: 6.4
104

The setting is a small town in 1870s Pennsylvania. Sally Waterson and her father have stopped in town with their traveling medicine show, but when their wagon catches fire, they…

Oh, Mr. Porter!

Oh, Mr. Porter!

Oh, Mr. Porter!
IMDb: 7.4
85

Comedy in which a bungling railway worker is given the job of stationmaster at a rundown station in rural Ireland, where his sidekicks are a toothless old gaffer and a…

Lancer Spy

Lancer Spy

Lancer Spy
IMDb: 6.2
78

An Englishman impersonates an imprisoned German officer and “returns” to Germany to become a national hero. A female German spy is assigned to check him out but falls in love…

Slave Ship

Slave Ship

Slave Ship
IMDb: 6.3
92

Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo.

Genre: Adventure, Drama
She’s Got Everything

She’s Got Everything

She’s Got Everything
IMDb: 6.1
72

The day after Carol returns from a European trip, she wakes up to find her dead father’s creditors hauling everything away. Her aunt wants her to marry a millionaire, but…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
You Can’t Have Everything

You Can’t Have Everything

You Can’t Have Everything
IMDb: 6.3
100

Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon to buy her ridiculous play “North Winds” just…

The Show Goes On

The Show Goes On

The Show Goes On
IMDb: 6.2
93

A mill worker with show biz dreams catches a big break when she’s discovered by an ailing composer who’s seeking the right singer for his songs.

Genre: Musical
O.H.M.S.

O.H.M.S.

O.H.M.S.
IMDb: 5.6
87

American racketeer Jimmie Dean travels to England, where he assumes the identity of a Canadian whom he has been falsely accused of murdering. Jimmie is then forced to join the…

Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
High Flyers

High Flyers

High Flyers
IMDb: 5.8
70

Two men running a carnival airplane ride are hired to fly to retrieve what they think are photos for a reporter. Actually, they are retrieving diamonds stolen from a noted…

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Musical
The Great Garrick

The Great Garrick

The Great Garrick
IMDb: 6.7
89

A British actor insults a French acting group only to fall victim to a prank that might destroy his career.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
New Faces of 1937

New Faces of 1937

New Faces of 1937
IMDb: 5.3
100

A crooked producer makes money from Broadway flops by selling more than 100% interest to multiple parties. He only fails if it makes a profit.

Super-Sleuth

Super-Sleuth

Super-Sleuth
IMDb: 5.7
70

A movie actor playing a detective gets carried away with his role and starts trying to solve real-life crimes.

Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Ready, Willing and Able

Ready, Willing and Able

Ready, Willing and Able
IMDb: 5.7
93

Two starving songwriters will only get funding if they get British actress Jane Clarke to star in their show.

Thunder in the City

Thunder in the City

Thunder in the City
IMDb: 6.1
87

A visiting American engages in a bold business promotion, the likes of which the British have not seen.

Rosalie

Rosalie

Rosalie
IMDb: 6
125

West Point cadet Dick Thorpe falls in love with a girl, who turns out to be a princess from an European kingdom.

Genre: Drama, Music, Musical
Slim

Slim

Slim
IMDb: 6.4
85

Expert lineman Red takes Farm-boy Slim under his wing and teaches him the dangerous, migratory trade of putting up transmission lines. They both love their work, and the same girl,…

Genre: Drama, Romance
They Gave Him a Gun

They Gave Him a Gun

They Gave Him a Gun
IMDb: 6.3
94

With no other prospects, a World War I veteran puts the skills they taught him in the War to use.

Swing High, Swing Low

Swing High, Swing Low

Swing High, Swing Low
IMDb: 6.1
92

In Panama, Maggie King meets soldier Skid Johnson on his last day in the army and reluctantly agrees to a date to celebrate. The two become involved in a nightclub…

When You’re in Love

When You’re in Love

When You’re in Love
IMDb: 6.2
110

An Australian opera singer hires a husband so she can work in the U.S. Moore sings “Minnie the Moocher” in one scene.

True Confession

True Confession

True Confession
IMDb: 6.6
85

A writer takes a job as a secretary because her scrupulous husband isn’t bringing in the dough as an attorney. When her new employer is murdered, she can’t seem to…

Genre: Comedy, Crime
Pick a Star

Pick a Star

Pick a Star
IMDb: 5.5
76

A Cinderella story of a young country girl who comes to Hollywood and achieves movie stardom with the help of a publicity man.

Nobody’s Baby

Nobody’s Baby

Nobody’s Baby
IMDb: 5.7
68

Kitty Reily (Patsy Kelly) and Lena Marchetti (Lyda Roberti) meet each other at an amateur Radio Show. Kitty quickly learns to greatly dislike incompetent Lena. They keep running into each…

The Case of the Stuttering Bishop

The Case of the Stuttering Bishop

The Case of the Stuttering Bishop
IMDb: 6.2
70

A Bishop from Australia comes to Perry to ask him to take a case of a woman wrongly accused of manslaughter 22 years before. The case would involve the wealthy…

Café Metropole

Café Metropole

Café Metropole
IMDb: 6.6
84

An American posing as a Russian prince woos a visiting Ohio heiress.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Broadway Melody of 1938

Broadway Melody of 1938

Broadway Melody of 1938
IMDb: 6.7
110

Steve Raleight wants to produce a show on Broadway. He finds a backer, Herman Whipple and a leading lady, Sally Lee. But Caroline Whipple forces Steve to use a known…

Breakfast for Two

Breakfast for Two

Breakfast for Two
IMDb: 6.4
67

After a night on the town, Jonathan Blair wakes to find that Texan Valentine Ransome has escorted him home. Valentine is attracted to Jonathan and sets out first to reform…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Woman Chases Man

Woman Chases Man

Woman Chases Man
IMDb: 6.5
71

A pretty architect devises a wild scheme to convince a handsome millionaire to fund a new housing development project.

Genre: Comedy, Romance