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• Director
• George Sherman
• Writers
• James Fenimore Cooper(story "Last of the Mohicans")
• Herbert Dalmas(screenplay)
• George H. Plympton(screenplay)
• Stars
• Jon Hall
• Michael O'Shea
• Evelyn Ankers

Columbia's Last of the Redmen is actually the first color film version of James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans. Jon Hall stars as 18th century frontier scout Hawkeye, assigned to escort the offspring of British general Munro (Guy Hedlund) through treacherous Indian country in upstate New York. Along the way, a romance develops between Hawkeye and Alice Monro (Evelyn Ankers), while Alice's sister Cora (Julie Bishop) enters into an ill-fated relationship with Hawkeye's loyal Huron companion Magua (Buster Crabbe). Ric Vallin is evil personified as the treacherous Mohican warrior Uncas, and Michael O'Shea is seen as the equally odious Major Heyward. Diminishing the verbosity of the Cooper novel, Last of the Redmen concentrates on action and suspense.

• Directors
• Walter Lang
• William A. Seiter(uncredited)
• Writers
• Ethel Hill(screen play)
• Walter Ferris(screen play)
• Frances Hodgson Burnett(based on the novel by)
• Stars
• Shirley Temple
• Richard Greene
• Anita Louise

Shirley Temple's first Technicolor feature, The Little Princess was inspired by the oft-filmed novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Set in turn-of-the-century England, the film finds Temple being enrolled in a boarding school by her wealthy widowed father (Ian Hunter), who must head off to fight in the Boer War. At first, Temple is treated like royalty; her behavior couldn't be more down to earth, but this preferential treatment foments resentment. When her father is reported killed in the war, circumstances are severely altered. The spiteful headmistress (Mary Nash) relegates Temple to servant status and forces the girl to sleep in a drafty attic. She keeps her spirits up by hoping against hope that her father will return, and to that end she haunts the corridors of a nearby military hospital. Queen Victoria doesn't have to make a guest appearance in the tearfully joyous closing sequence, but it does serve as icing on the cake to this, one of Temple's most enjoyable feature films. Reliable Shirley Temple flick supporting actors Cesar Romero and Arthur Treacher are back in harness in The Little Princess, while adult leading lady Anita Louise figures prominently in a sugary dream sequence.

• Director
• John Daumery
• Writers
• H.F. Maltby(play "The Youngest of Three")
• Gordon Wellesley
• Stars
• Bobby Howes
• Marian Marsh
• Margaret Bannerman

In this musical comedy, a young man visiting the ultra-modern estate of his aunt falls in love with the old-fashioned, stuffy neighbor's niece. The young lovers encounter trouble, as none of their relatives approve of the match.

Director:

 Peter Medak

Writers:

 John Saul (book), J.D. Feigelson (teleplay)

Stars:

 Patrick Duffy, Cindy Pickett, Lawrence Pressman

In this mystery a psychiatrist and his wife are surprised to find that the quiet seaside town they just moved to is plagued by strange deaths that occur during mysterious storms.

• Director
• Paul L. Stein
• Writers
• Heinrich Berte(opera Das Dreimaderlhaus)
• Roger Burford
• G.H. Clutsam
• Stars
• Richard Tauber
• Jane Baxter
• Carl Esmond

The Lady Vanishes, Alfred Hitchcock's comedy-thriller, came at the end of his British period; this film's success brought Hitchcock to the attention of Hollywood. He would complete only one other British production, Jamaica Inn, before crossing the Atlantic to working for David O. Selznick on Rebecca. The film concerns the young Iris Henderson (Margaret Lockwood), heading home on a train after spending the holidays in the Balkans. Iris becomes friends with a kindly old lady, Miss Froy (Dame May Whitty) after Iris gets hit in the head with a flowerpot meant for Miss Froy. On the train, recovering from the blow, Iris falls asleep. When she awakens, Miss Froy has vanished, replaced by someone else in Miss Froy's clothing. Iris talks to the other passengers, a bizarre collection of eccentrics who think that Iris is crazy for insisting on there even being a Miss Froy -- everyone denies having ever seen the old woman. Finally, Iris finds a young musician, Gilbert (Michael Redgrave), who believes her and the two proceed to search the train for clues to Miss Froy's disappearance.

• Director
• George Sherman
• Writer
• Leo Katcher(screenplay)
• Stars
• Guy Madison
• Valerie French
• Lorne Greene

In this western, a Texas Ranger quits his job after he is chastised for bringing back so many dead outlaws. When he gets a deputy sheriff's job, he soon finds himself mixed up in a range war against an avaricious rancher determined to have the whole range for himself. The deputy simultaneously begins an affair with the greedy rancher's wife who wants him to kill her husband. In the end, she kills him herself.

• Director
• Gene Kelly
• Writers
• Arthur Julian(screenplay)
• Joe Morheim(screenplay)
• Harry Kurnitz(screenplay)
• Stars
• Gene Kelly
• Barbara Laage
• Michael Redgrave

American in Paris star Gene Kelly returned to the City of Light as both star and director of The Happy Road. Kelly and Barbara Laage play single parents with one child each. Gene and Barbara don't know each other at the outset, but are drawn together when their kids run away from their Swiss boarding school. Kelly and Laage realize that the two children wouldn't be so unhappy with their lot if their parents would marry again. The parents, having fallen in love, oblige. The Happy Road tends to bludgeon its audience with whimsy at time; Gene Kelly, as always, is charming, and less affected than usual.

• Director
• Alfred J. Goulding
• Writers
• Jack Byrd
• Syd Courtenay
• Stars
• Harry Roy
• Princess Pearl
• Dorothy Boyd

Popular British music-hall and radio entertainer Harry Roy is the central figure in Everything is Rhythm. A spoof of Ruritanian romances, the story revolves around the mutual attraction between orchestra leader Harry Wade (Roy) and mittel-European Princess Paula (played by one Princess Pearl, who claimed to be of noble blood). The Princess' advisors disapprove of the affair and do everything they can to break up the couple, but love triumphs over all in a closing floor show. Essentially a glorified quota quickie, Everything is Rhythm benefits from the engaging performance by Harry Roy, who though no actor, is a winning screen personality. The film was directed by former Hal Roach contractee Alfred Goulding, who managed to secure a plum role for another ex-Roach employee, comedian Syd Crossley.

• Director
• William Castle
• Writer
• Robert E. Kent(story and screenplay)
• Stars
• Dennis Morgan
• Paula Raymond
• Richard Denning

The Gun That Won the West was, of course, the Springfield Rifle, the "central character" in this inexpensive Columbia western. The plot concerns the efforts of the War Department to build up a chain of defense posts to protect railroad workers from Indian attacks. Dennis Morgan stars as real-life frontier scout Jim Bridger, who guides the Army through Sioux Territory. Though Bridger is a friend of Sioux chief Red Cloud (Robert Bice), there's no telling what might happen should the railroad men be left at the mercy of Red Cloud's duplicitous second-in-command, an Indian brave known as Afraid-of-Horses (Michael Morgan). With the aid of the newly developed Springfield, Bridger and his cohort Jack Gaines (Richard Denning) are able to keep the peace. In the tradition of previous Sam Katzman productions, a goodly portion of The Gun That Won the West is comprised of stock footage from previous westerns.

• Director
• Jean Negulesco
• Writers
• Luther Davis
• Nelia Gardner White(article)
• Stars
• Lauren Bacall
• Robert Stack
• Evelyn Rudie

The Gift of Love is a remake of 1946's Sentimental Journey, with Lauren Bacall in the role originated by Maureen O'Hara. Upon learning that she hasn't long to live, Bacall, the devoted wife of Robert Stack, adopts young Evelyn Rudie so that her husband will never be lonely. After his wife's death, however, the pragmatic Stack grows weary of little Evelyn, who prefers a "fantasy world" to real life. Stack returns the girl to the orphanage, whereupon Bacall's spirit intervenes to set things right. The material was maudlin back in 1946, and even more so in 1958; still, it's nice to see that Lauren Bacall could play a sweet, benign role when given the opportunity.

• Director
• Lewis Seiler
• Writers
• Bertram Millhauser(original screenplay)
• Abem Finkel(original screenplay)
• Daniel Fuchs(original screenplay)
• Stars
• Humphrey Bogart
• Irene Manning
• Richard Travis

Just because Humphrey Bogart had been promoted to the A-list by way of The Maltese Falcon (1941), that didn't mean that he was completely free of such minor potboilers as The Big Shot. Bogart stars as mob leader Duke Berne, a three-time loser who tries in vain to reorganize his old gang upon being sprung from prison. Falling in love with Lorna Fleming (Irene Manning), the wife of crooked attorney Martin Fleming (Stanley Ridges), Berne ends up back behind bars for life, thanks to the vengeful Fleming's courtroom chicanery. Escaping during a prison variety show (dominated by Chick Chandler as an incarcerated blackface comedian), Berne makes a beeline for Lorna, who deserted the duplicitous Fleming when the latter railroaded an innocent young man into jail. Hoping to find happiness in a remote mountain hideaway, Berne ultimately realizes that he's no good for Lorna and spends the rest of the picture atoning for past sins.

• Director
• Frederic Zelnik
• Writers
• Jack Davies(uncredited)
• Clifford Grey(adaptation)
• Frank Miller(adaptation)
• Stars
• Clifford Mollison
• Zelma O'Neal
• W.H. Berry

The Cinderella story is turned upside down in this musical. This time, the story focuses upon an impoverished young man related to a wealthy family. The family treats him terribly while doing all they can to marry their two sons to a wealthy American heiress. To find out more about the fellows, she disguises herself as a household servant. In the end she saves the poor fellow from a frame-up and eventually marries him.

• Director
• Jacques Tourneur
• Writers
• Elliot West(screenplay)
• Chris Appley(screenplay)
• Darwin L. Teilhet(novel)
• Stars
• Dana Andrews
• Dick Foran
• Marilee Earle

In this drama, a Korean war veteran, a victim of brainwashing while he was a POW, finally goes back to his home in Washington, DC, where he resumes his job at a public relations-opinion research firm. He soon discovers that his company is being run by communists after his partner mysteriously died. Now pro-communist propaganda seems to be their primary business. To stop them, the vet begins cooperating in a full-scale Senate investigation.

• Director
• Basil Dean
• Writers
• Basil Dean(uncredited)
• Dorothy Farnum(adaptation)
• Dodie Smith(play "Autumn Crocus")
• Stars
• Ivor Novello
• Fay Compton
• Muriel Aked

British matinee idol Ivor Novello carries the weight of Autumn Crocus on his handsome shoulders. Novello plays an alpine innkeeper, happily married and the father of a cute little daughter. He seriously considers kicking over the traces when he meets beautiful British schoolteacher Fay Compton, who is vacationing in the mountains. Both Novello and Compton become too deeply involved with each other to accommodate a happy ending. Autumn Crocus was adapted from the long-running West End stage production by C. L. Anthony.

• Director
• Godfrey Grayson
• Writers
• James Daplyn(original story)
• Patrick Kirwan(screenplay)
• Bridget Boland(uncredited)
• Stars
• Dennis O'Keefe
• Coleen Gray
• Hugh Williams

In this crime drama an American is assigned to guard a US art exhibit in London to protect one of da Vinci's most priceless paintings, "Madonna and Child." A series of art thefts has put the museum officials on red alert and they anxiously await the painting's arrival. Unfortunately, the painting is stolen en route to the show and replaced by an imitation. The intrepid guard follows the thieves to a private gallery run by a wealthy criminal. The film contains some useful and interesting information on art forgeries.

• Director
• Jacques Tourneur
• Writers
• Richard Matheson(screenplay)
• Elsie Lee(novel)
• Stars
• Vincent Price
• Peter Lorre
• Boris Karloff

On the verge of bankruptcy, undertaker Vincent Price hits upon a novel method of drumming up business. Together with his cringing assistant Peter Lorre, Price sneaks into the homes of wealthy old men under cover of night and smothers the sleeping occupants to death--then collects a hefty commission when the victims' relatives come calling. At home, Price is continually frustrated in his efforts to poison his senile father-in-law Boris Karloff, who owns the undertaking business. Meanwhile, Price's neglected wife Joyce Jameson takes quite a shine to the shy Lorre. The homicidal undertaker's best-laid schemes go terribly awry when his latest "customer," wealthy Basil Rathbone, doggedly refuses to stay dead. Joe E. Brown has a cameo as a cockney graveyard attendant.

• Directors
• Basil Dean
• Thorold Dickinson(uncredited)
• Writers
• John Galsworthy(play "Loyalties")
• W.P. Lipscomb(screen adaptation)
• Stars
• Basil Rathbone
• Miles Mander
• Alan Napier

In this British drama, based on a popular play, a wealthy young Jew goes to a weekend house party and finds himself victimized by anti-Semitic guests. To add insult to injury, his wallet is then stolen. The fellow exposes the pilferer and threatens to take him to court until the other guests, terrified of scandal, offer to make him a member of their exclusive club. It seems, like a good offer until the other members express their racist reservations about his joining. The angered fellow decides to take it to court after all. The distraught thief is found guilty and subsequently suicides.

• Director
• Jesse Peretz
• Writers
• Thomas Bidegain(idea)
• Jesse Peretz
• Stars
• Paul Rudd
• Romany Malco
• Sylvie Testud

Two siblings with practically nothing in common are brought together by a real estate deal that threatens to leave them even more at odds than they were before in this semi-improvised comedy. Graham (Paul Rudd) and Rex (Romany Malco) are about as different as two brothers can get -- Graham is sloppy, lackadaisical, and in a state of puzzled wonderment about the world around him, while Rex (his real name is Alan, but he thinks Rex sounds better) is a tightly focused aspiring e-commerce tycoon. Graham and Rex also don't look much like brothers; Rex is adopted, which explains why he's black and Graham isn't. Graham and Rex don't see much of each other, but when a distant relative passes on and bequeaths them joint ownership of a home in the South of France, they fly out together to take a look at their new property. Graham and Rex discover that the estate is in dire need of repair and that the house's domestic staff -- butler Jean (Didier Flamand), cook Sabrine (Maria Verdi), caretaker Pierre (Philippe Mahon), and pretty maid Isabelle (Sylvie Testud) -- is still on hand and expecting to be kept on. Graham magnanimously promises the staff that they'll still have their jobs, but Rex discovers that the previous owner was deep in debt, and the only way to pay off the bills is to sell the place. So now they have to find a buyer who is willing to take the employees along with the home, none of which is helped by the fact that both Graham and Rex are vying for the attentions of Isabelle. The Chateau was shot using digital video equipment, then transferred to 35 mm film for its theatrical engagements.

• Director
• Graham Cutts
• Writers
• John Harlow(adaptation)
• Jerome K. Jerome(novel)
• Reginald Purdell(adaptation)
• Stars
• William Austin
• Edmund Breon
• Billy Milton

The comic adventures of three friends and a dog when they take a boating holiday on the River Thames.

• Director
• Ray Nazarro
• Writers
• Ray Buffum(screenplay)
• DeVallon Scott(screenplay)
• Stars
• Gary Merrill
• Wanda Hendrix
• John Bromfield

Gary Merrill heads the cast of the unorthodox western The Black Dakotas. The story is set during the Civil War, as President Lincoln tries to mollify the Sioux Indians in order to free up soldiers for more important fighting. Disguised as a Northerner, Brock Marsh (Gary Merrill) intercepts Lincoln's emissary and heads into Sioux territory himself, hoping to steal Union gold for the Southern cause, and to stir up an Indian war between the Sioux and the Dakotas, who have already cast their lot with the North. It soon develops that Marsh doesn't care who wins the war; he wants to abscond with the gold himself. Wanda Hendrix, who despite her divorce from Audie Murphy was still regularly employed in westerns, costars as the daughter of Southern spy Fay Roope, and the sweetheart of good-guy stagecoach driver John Bromfield.

• Director
• Frank Cadman
• Writer
• Fred Karno(story)
• Stars
• Bud Flanagan
• Chesney Allen
• Florence Harwood

Comedy short - Two incompetent Bailiffs men reposess the wrong house.

• Director
• Carol Reed
• Writers
• Anthony Kimmins(screen play)
• J.B. Priestley(play)
• Gordon Wellesley(scenario editor)
• Stars
• Edmund Gwenn
• Cedric Hardwicke
• Victoria Hopper

Laburnum Grove. A quiet, residential address in one of the newer north London suburbs, Nice houses. Nice people.Mr Radfern, decent, respectable citizen and householder spends his Sunday evenings in his greenhouse who would think he is a forger working for criminals.......

• Director
• Walter Forde
• Writers
• Frank Harvey(play)
• Angus MacPhail(screen play)
• John Dighton(screen play)
• Stars
• Gordon Harker
• Elizabeth Allan
• Mervyn Johns

Director Walter Forde, a past master at blending mystery, melodrama and comedy (vide The Ghost Train and Bulldog Jack), is at his best with Saloon Bar. Most of the action takes place during one busy evening in an English pub, with a rich variety of believable comic characters weaving in and out of the scene. A murder is committed, and everyone falls under suspicion. Hero and heroine Gordon Harker and Elizabeth Allen solve the mystery with becoming modesty (compare this to the wisecracking protagonists in similar American films). Saloon Bar was based on a long-running stage play by Frank Harvey.

• Director
• Robert Hamer
• Writers
• Dorothy Christie(play)
• Campbell Christie(play)
• Robert Hamer(screenplay)
• Stars
• Eric Portman
• Cecil Parker
• Helen Cherry

In this British drama a veteran laborer rises above the turmoil of unionization to become the governor of Artista, an industrial island that finds itself further embroiled in a terrible fight over low pay and terrible working conditions. A strike ensues, but the new governor remembers what it feels like to be an abused working stiff and so refuses to call out troops to break the strike. He tries to use his experiences on both sides of the fence to mediate between the angry laborers, but it's to no avail and the governor must make a difficult decision.

• Director
• Graham Cutts
• Writers
• Henrik Ege(play "The Silver Spoon")
• F. McGrew Willis(adaptation)
• Hugh Brooke(screenplay)
• Stars
• Charles 'Buddy' Rogers
• June Clyde
• Claire Luce

Silent-film leading man (and third husband of Mary Pickford) Charles "Buddy" Rogers was a popular band leader at the time he appeared in the British Let's Make a Night of It. Here's the deal: Buddy owns a nightclub; his wife June Clyde runs a rival night spot. That's about it for the plot. The main attraction of Let's Make a Night of It is its cornucopia of guest stars, including impressionist Afrique, legendary Yiddish stage star Molly Picon, and band leaders Jack Jackson, Jack Harris, Sydney Lipton, Joe Loss, Eddie Carroll, Harry Acres and Rudy Starita (all major names on the British entertainment scene of 1937). Let's Make a Night of It was inspired by Henrik N. Ege's radio play The Silver Spoon.

Travel show.

Episodes: Zurich, Barcelona, Croatia, Ibiza, Macau

• Director
• George Cukor
• Writers
• Anita Loos(screen play)
• Rachel Crothers(based on the celebrated play by)
• Stars
• Joan Crawford
• Fredric March
• Ruth Hussey

Rachel Crothers' thoughtful stage play Susan and God was tastefully adapted for the screen by Anita Loos. Joan Crawford stars as Susan, whose unquestioning devotion to various religious organizations causes a great deal of strain between herself and her family. When Susan embraces a "New Thought" theological movement, she decides to apply the tenets of this new philosophy to patch up the unhappy marriages within her own social circles. She succeeds only in making things worse, and in further harming her own relationship with husband Barrie (Fredric March) and daughter Blossom (Rita Quigley). But it is the unadorned, unpretentious religious faith of little Blossom that ultimately brings Susan and Barrie together again. When Susan and God was first released in 1940, Joan Crawford's performance was occasionally compared unfavorably to that of Gertrude Lawrence, who created the role of Susan on Broadway; it was suggested by some that Crawford patterned her portrayal exactly on Lawrence's, right down to the line delivery. Modern audiences, denied the opportunity to see Lawrence's interpretation, are less inclined to downgrade Crawford's work, which rates among her best.

• Director
• Brian Desmond Hurst
• Writers
• Ivor Novello(play)
• Dudley Leslie(adaptation)
• Hugh Brooke(adaptation)
• Stars
• Mary Ellis
• Otto Kruger
• Victor Jory

The popular Ivor Novello musical play Glamorous Night was given a conservative film treatment in 1937--minus much of the Novello score that had made it famous. Opera singer Mary Ellis plays an opera singer (why not?) who falls in with a band of roguish but likeable gypsies. Mary manages to convince her Bohemian cohorts to rescue the King from the machinations of his ambitious prime minister. As "cast insurance" to make certain that Glamorous Night would get American bookings, Hollywood character actors Otto Kruger and Victor Jory are given leading roles. The US distributors also sliced the film down from 81 to 65 minutes, through the simple expedient of removing several songs.

• Director
• Lucio Fulci
• Writer
• Adriano Bolzoni(screenplay)
• Stars
• Giuliano Gemma
• Sven Valsecchi
• Ettore Manni

Young boy who sees his father gunned down kills the assassin. Years later, he has grown up to be a successful bounty hunter who is feared by many. And then one day he discovers secrets to his past...

• Director
• Frederic Zelnik
• Writers
• Jacques Bachrach(play "Es war einmal ein Musikus")
• Alfred Hahm(play "Es war einmal ein Musikus")
• Frank Launder(adaptation)
• Stars
• Stanley Lupino
• Laddie Cliff
• Will Fyffe

Too expensive for a "quota quickie" but not quite costly enough to qualify as an "A" picture, Happy is a shapeless but generally satisfying vehicle for several of England's top music-hall attractions. Stanley Lupino (Ida's dad) and Laddie Cliff star as Frank and George, a pair of nightclub musicians living in an attic owned by irascible Scotsman Simmy (Will Fyffe). Hoping to get rich quick, Frank invents a device that, when attached to an automobile, will immediately alert the police if the car is stolen. A millionaire car manufacturer is interested in the device, but agrees to purchase it only after his pretty daughter falls in love with Frank. Balking at the idea of marrying the girl for her money and influence, Frank nearly throws away his chance for true happiness, but it's all smiles and happy songs at the end.

• Director
• Lowell Sherman
• Writers
• Mae West(by)
• Harvey F. Thew(screen play)
• John Bright(screen play)
• Stars
• Mae West
• Cary Grant
• Owen Moore

"I'm the finest woman who walked the streets," declares bejeweled, hip-swishing Lady Lou (Mae West) at the beginning of She Done Him Wrong. Lou works as a singer at the Gay Nineties saloon of Gus Jordan (Noah Beery Sr.), who plies her with diamonds to keep her by his side. She runs afoul of stalwart mission captain Cummings (Cary Grant), who warns her that she's on the road to perdition. Mae West's first starring film, She Done Him Wrong literally saved Paramount Pictures from bankruptcy. It would remain the best of her feature films, most of which were severely watered down by the Production Code (whose renewed stringency of 1933 was brought about in great part by West herself). She Done Him Wrong was based on West's own stage play, Diamond Lil, which ran on Broadway for 97 weeks. West sings "Frankie and Johnny," "I Like a Man Who Takes His Time," and ""I Wonder Where My Easy Rider's Gone.""

• Director
• Otto Preminger
• Writers
• Graham Greene
• George Bernard Shaw(play)
• Stars
• Richard Widmark
• Richard Todd
• Anton Walbrook

After an extensive talent search, producer-director Otto Preminger selected a 17-year-old unknown from Iowa, Jean Seberg, to play Joan of Arc, a role traditionally portrayed by actresses twice to three times Seberg's age. Seberg is cast opposite such venerable pros as Richard Todd (as Dunois), Anton Walbrook (the Bishop of Beauvais), John Gielgud (Earl of Warwick) and Felix Aylmer (The Inquisitor). Cast as the vacillating Dauphin is Richard Widmark. Graham Greene's screenplay refashions the original Shaw text in the form of a flashback. Seberg eventually became an accomplished actress by virtue of her appearances in such nouvelle vague films as Breathless, but it was too late to salvage Saint Joan, which was figuratively burned at the stake by critics and filmgoers alike.

• Director
• Jack Couffer
• Writers
• Jack Couffer(screenplay)
• Bill Travers(screenplay)
• Gavin Maxwell(book)
• Stars
• Bill Travers
• Virginia McKenna
• Peter Jeffrey

When a man buys an otter for a pet, he gets more than he bargained for as he tries to keep the animal in his bathtub. He and his pet soon find life in London is not the place for such and animal, so the two head for the coast. The man enlists the help of a local female doctor to help in the care and feeding of his beloved otter in this family feature from the writers of Born Free.

• Directors
• David Lowell Rich
• Alex Segal
• Writer
• Ernest Kinoy
• Stars
• Timothy Bottoms
• Anthony Quayle
• Norman Rodway

Warren William stars as Dr. Phillip Wendel Jones, a doctor whose patient dies under questionable circumstances. He is acquitted of murder, but is discredited in the eyes of his community. Dr. Jones settles in another town under an assumed name, where he sets up practice and falls in love with Margaret Stevens (Karen Morley). When his past is revealed, Dr. Jones is rescued from a angry mob by cantankerous old lawyer Anthony Abbott (Lewis Stone). The Outcast is a minor entry given major treatment through the ever-fascinating direction of Robert Florey.

• Director
• Bernard McEveety
• Writers
• Al Dewlen(novel "The Night of the Tiger")
• Andrew J. Fenady
• Stars
• Chuck Connors
• Michael Rennie
• Kathryn Hays

Told via flashback by a saloon keeper to a census taker in a tiny Texas town, this brutal, adult-oriented western offers the tale of a drifter who settles down to marry a woman he doesn't love so he can get at her inheritance. When that is exposed, the drifter flees and does not return for eleven years. He rides back into town with a fortune that he earned while hunting buffalo. The town's crooked banker and two thugs ride out to greet him. Thinking that the only way the reprobate could have gotten so much money is from rustling cows, they engineer a brutal reception that results in his being branded with a big "T." Naturally, the drifter passes out during his painful ordeal and when he finally comes to and learns the truth about the situation immediately gallops off to get his bloody revenge.

• Directors
• Gene Gerrard
• Frank Miller
• Writers
• Walter Ellis(play "A Little Bit of Fluff")
• Gene Gerrard(scenario)
• Frank Miller(scenario)
• Stars
• Gene Gerrard
• Viola Lyel
• Claude Hulbert

In this romantic comedy, a philandering husband buys his lover an expensive necklace. When she accidentally breaks the clasp, he takes it to have it repaired. Unfortunately, his wife finds the bauble and believes that he bought it for her. She then apologizes for accusing him of adultery. Unable to bear the thought of breaking her heart with the truth, the cheating lout decides to fake an injury so he can collect insurance money and pay to buy his lover a new necklace. Unfortunately, things go awry and mayhem ensues.

Vic Alavi explores a country that is said to be the new gateway to the Middle East, with a look at what Qatar is doing to prepare for the World Cup of 2022.

• Director
• Alexander Esway
• Writers
• Marcus McGill(novel "Hide And I'll Find You")
• Frank Miller(uncredited)
• L. du Garde Peach(adaptation)
• Stars
• Gene Gerrard
• Helen Chandler
• Judy Kelly

In this drama, a reporter loses his job after he writes a story criticizing the police department for their inefficiency in locating missing people. He then takes a wager from a rival reporter who claims that he cannot stay in hiding for a month. If he wins, he will have a new job at a rival paper. If he loses, he must give up a sweepstakes ticket. En route to his hiding place, his car is hijacked and used in a robbery. As a result his picture is put in every newspaper. He begins drifting about and even works in a carnival for a while. He finally meets a lovely girl who helps him win the bet and get a newspaper job. His sweepstakes ticket wins him $150,000. Later he marries the girl.

• Director
• Terence Young
• Writers
• Richard Maibaum(screenplay)
• Frank S. Nugent(screenplay)
• Sy Bartlett(screen adaptation)
• Stars
• Alan Ladd
• Leo Genn
• Susan Stephen

After causing the needless death of another officer during a near-miss air disaster, a distraught army officer resigns from the military. Still, the American wants to serve in the war effort and so, calling himself a Canadian, enlists in the British military to train as a paratrooper. Revealing nothing about his past, he proves himself obedient and exceptionally skilled. This rouses the suspicion of his commanding officer who starts investigating the trooper. Later, the trooper more than proves himself during a dangerous mission to North Africa.

• Directors
• Henry Hathaway(segment The Clarion Call)
• Howard Hawks(segment The Ransom of Red Chief)
• Henry King(segment The Gift of the Magi)
• Writers
• Lamar Trotti(screen play)
• Richard L. Breen(screen play)
• Ivan Goff(screen play)
• Stars
• Fred Allen
• Anne Baxter
• Jeanne Crain

John Steinbeck introduces a quintet of five of O. Henry's most celebrated stories from his New York Period (1902-1910) in this anthology film.

• Director
• Lupino Lane
• Writers
• Fred Karno(sketch Mumming Bird)
• Herbert Sargent(scenario)
• Con West(scenario)
• Stars
• George Lacy
• Betty Ann Davies
• Dennis Hoey

An actor masquerades as the duchess of a stately home to impress a wealthy American producer and his daughter.

• Director
• Basil Dean
• Writers
• Margaret Kennedy
• Gordon Wellesley(scenario)
• Stars
• Stephen Haggard
• Victoria Hopper
• John Loder

The oft-filmed life of Viennese composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is again cinematized in this elaborate but ponderous British production. Stephen Haggard plays Mozart, the former child prodigy who becomes the fair-haired boy of Austria, only to lose it all and die in poverty before his 40th birthday. The screenplay, by Margaret Kennedy (The Constant Nymph), chooses to sidestep the less-savory aspects of Mozart's life and death, choosing to end on a note of triumph as the composer's The Magic Flute temporarily rescues him from bankruptcy. Conspicuous by his absence is the composer Salieri, whose rivalry with Mozart formed the basis of the 1984 Oscar-winner Amadeus. Completed in the late 1930s, Mozart was released in 1940, as the last non-documentary effort by director Basil Dean (whose wife Victoria Hopper appears as Mrs. Mozart).

• Director
• Carl Theodor Dreyer
• Writers
• Carl Theodor Dreyer
• Svend Rindom(play "Tyrannens fald")
• Stars
• Johannes Meyer
• Astrid Holm
• Karin Nellemose

Originally titled Du Skal Aere Din Hustru, Master of the House was also released as Thou Shalt Honor Thy Wife. By any title, the film was arguably the most successful Scandinavian film of the silent era, playing to turn-away business throughout Europe. Based on a play by Sven Rindon, the film centers upon Johannes Meyer, an insensitive bully who browbeats his wife and children beyond all reason. The big jerk is taught a lesson by his own nanny, now an aging crone, who begins giving him a dose of his own medicine. This humiliating experience enables Meyer to stage a warm reunion with his wife, who had previously walked out on him. It may seem like basic sitcom material, but Master of the House apparently struck a nerve in the chauvinistically inclined Europe and Denmark of 1925.