Youngblood Hawke
An unknown Kentucky writer comes to New York and pursues fame and women.
Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte
An aging, reclusive Southern belle plagued by a horrifying family secret descends into madness after the arrival of a lost relative.
Return to Peyton Place
Residents of the small town of Peyton Place aren’t pleased when they realize they’re the characters in local writer Allison MacKenzie’s controversial first novel. A sequel to the hit 1957…
The Power and the Prize
An ambitious executive jeopardizes his career to marry a European refugee.
A Kiss Before Dying
A college student tries to get rich quick by wooing two wealthy sisters.
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott’s autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord Mass in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the civil war, the sisters: Jo, Meg,…
Any Number Can Play
When illegal casino owner Charley Kyng develops heart disease, he is advised by a doctor to spend more time with his family. However, he finds it difficult to keep his…
Act of Violence
A former prisoner of war, Frank Enley is hailed as a hero in his California town. However, Frank has a shameful secret that comes back to haunt him when fellow…
Fiesta
When a matador leaves town to focus on his music, his twin sister takes on his identity in the bullfighting ring.
Desert Fury
The daughter of a Nevada casino owner gets involved with a racketeer, despite everyone’s efforts to separate them.
Cynthia
Sheltered by her conservative parents, a small-town teenager finally goes out on a date.
Cass Timberlane
Judge Cass Timberlane marries a girl from the wrong side of the tracks, Virginia Marshland. A baby is stillborn and she turns more and more to attorney friend of of…
Meet Me in St. Louis
Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family up to the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair.
Thousands Cheer
Acrobat Eddie Marsh is in the army now. His first act is to become friendly with Kathryn Jones, the colonel’s pretty daughter. Their romance hits a few snags, including disapproval…
The Palm Beach Story
A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry (Geraldine), decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying an eccentric…
Across the Pacific
Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-martialed out of the army and boards a Japanese ship for…
The Maltese Falcon
A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.
The Great Lie
After a newlywed’s husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for his affections is pregnant with his child.
Brigham Young
Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to settle in Salt Lake City….
Midnight
An unemployed showgirl poses as Hungarian royalty to infiltrate Parisian society.
Woman Against Woman
A newlywed unhappily discovers that her husband’s scheming ex-wife still has a controlling influence in his life and home.
There’s Always a Woman
An investigator for the District Attorney’s office quits to open his own detective agency. However, business is so bad that he finally decides to give it up and go back…
Paradise for Three
A businessman mingles with German laborers to learn more about their lives.
Listen, Darling
To stop Pinkie’s widowed, struggling mother Dottie from marrying a well-off older man they know she doesn’t love, teenager Pinkie and her best friend Buzz kidnap her in the family…
The Prisoner of Zenda
An Englishman who resembles the king of a small European nation gets mixed up in palace intrigue when his look-alike is kidnapped.
The Hurricane
A Polynesian sailor is separated from his wife when he’s unjustly imprisoned for defending himself against a colonial bully. Members of the community petition the governor for clemency but all…
Dodsworth
A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.
And So They Were Married
A bitter widow and a grumpy widower find themselves stuck in a hotel that is cut off from the outside by a snowstorm. Although both have no intention of getting…
Red Hot Tires
Dinky
A mother sends her young son to military school so he won’t find out she’s been sentenced to a prison term on a framed fraud charge.
The Man with Two Faces
Actress Jessica Wells, sister of actor Damon Wells, is on top of her form except when her husband Vance is around. When Vance takes her to the apartment of a…
The Case of the Howling Dog
A very nervous man named Cartwright comes into Perry’s office to have the neighbor arrested for his howling dog. He states that the howling is a sign that there is…
The Little Giant
Prohibition is ending so bootlegger Bugs Ahearn decides to crack California society. He leases a house from down-on-her-luck Ruth and hires her as social secretary. He rescues Polly Cass from…
Red Dust
Dennis, owner of a rubber plantation in Cochinchina, is involved with Vantine, who left Saigon to evade the police. When his new surveyor arrives along with his refined wife Dennis…
The Lost Squadron
When World War I comes to an end, three pilots find themselves on hard times. They wind up in Hollywood, where they work as stunt fliers for a sadistic director.
Holiday
A young man is torn between his free-thinking lifestyle and the tradition of his wealthy fiancée’s family.
Two Arabian Knights
During World War I, two American soldiers fight to escape the Germans while squabbling over a beautiful harem girl. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with University of…