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"Melodrama casts noirish shadows in this portrait of maternal sacrifice from Hollywood master Michael Curtiz. Its iconic performance by Joan Crawford as Mildred, a single mother hell-bent on freeing her children from the stigma of economic hardship, solidified Crawford's career comeback and gave the actor her only Oscar. But as Mildred pulls herself up by the bootstraps, first as an unflappable waitress and eventually as the well-heeled owner of a...

A New York City waitress is hired to impersonate a famous Russian dancer, where she finds that her love interest is engaged to another woman. Her own love of dancing leads her to star in a Broadway musical.

In Three's a Crowd (63 min.; 1927), a slum-dweller invites a freezing woman, pregnant with another man's child, into his home. The Chaser (63 min.; 1928) is a dark, slightly kinky comedy in which carousing Harry is ordered by a judge to swap domestic duties with his wife.

Arsenic and old lace (Side A, 118 min.): A drama critic about to marry discovers insanity runs in his family. A night at the opera (Side B, 91 min.): A New York scandal, a riot on a ship, and an evening of insanity in a concert hall are some of the problems resulting from Groucho's outrageous business schemes. The goal-- to bring Milan's finest opera stars to Manhattan.

First, A man stands up during a WWI battle and becomes a hero, but he doesn't get the credit. He becomes injuried and soon gets hooked on morphine, causing him to fall apart when he returns home. He eventually marries, but soon the Depression hits. Last, Tom and Ed are high school students whose parents, thanks to the Depression, have lost their jobs. Wanting to help make money, they set off on the rails looking for work. They finally end up in New...

Six P-40 fighters come shrieking out of the sun, guns blazing. They're outnumbered and outgunned by the 18 enemy Zeros below them. But they won't be outfought. Scott an inexperienced 'textbook pilot' asks to fly with the all-volunteer, battle-seasoned Flying Tigers headed by Gen. Claire Chennault. Fighting to keep the critical Burma Road supply line open, Scott becomes an ace. He's cool under fire and convinced he's flying on his own skill and courage....

"Richard Mason [is] married to nagging Katherine but in love with her sunny sister. Shortly after a fifth-year wedding celebration at the home of a friend, Richard decides to remove the obstacle to his happiness. He kills Katherine, carefully leaving no evidence of his guilt. Or at least he thinks he killed her -- until mysterious events cause Richard to fear Katherine is very much alive"--Container.

"Matrimony means different things to different people. For temperamental artist Geoffrey Carroll, it means he's in his element. And out of his mind. Geoffrey [is] making a habit of poisoning one wife and marrying another when the former no longer inspires his canvases. Current wife Sally puts two and two together and comes up with six -- as in six feet under, the place she'll be if she continues to accept the glass of milk Geoffrey regularly offers...

A tong executioner allows his wife to run off with a gangster only to learn she's been sold into prostitution.

The FBI investigates a German international spy ring in the days leading up to World War II. The story is a brisk connect-the-dots tale that ties German-American Bund operatives (Francis Lederer, George Sanders and Paul Lukas among others) to Berlin. Chief among those connecting the dots: FBI Agent Edward Renard.