1937 Movies

Sherlock Holmes

Directed by: Guy Ritchie

Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Rachel McAdams, Mark Strong

Country: United States of America

Outline: Detective Sherlock Holmes and his stalwart partner Watson engage in a battle of wits and brawn with a nemesis whose plot is a threat to all of England.

Lost Horizon

Directed by: Frank Capra

Starring: Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, Edward Everett Horton, John Howard

Country: United States of America

Outline: A plane crash delivers a group of people to the secluded land of Shangri-La - but is it the miraculous utopia it appears to be?

A Day at the Races

Directed by: Sam Wood

Starring: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Allan Jones

Country: United States of America

Outline: A veterinarian posing as a doctor and a race-horse owner and his friends struggle to help keep a sanitarium open with the help of a misfit race-horse.

Stella Dallas

Directed by: King Vidor

Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles, Anne Shirley, Barbara O'Neil

Country: United States of America

Outline: A working-class woman is willing to do whatever it takes to give her daughter a socially promising future.

Broadway Melody of 1938

Directed by: Roy Del Ruth

Starring: Robert Taylor, Eleanor Powell, George Murphy, Binnie Barnes

Outline: 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 star, not a newcomer. ...

Saratoga

Directed by: Jack Conway

Starring: Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Lionel Barrymore, Frank Morgan

Country: United States of America

Outline: After winning a stud farm in lieu of gambling debts, bookie Duke Bradley turns an eye to the daughter of the now deceased gambler and her millionaire fiancée.

Confession

Directed by: Joe May

Starring: Kay Francis, Basil Rathbone, Ian Hunter, Jane Bryan

Outline: Aging down on her luck cabaret singer murders a respectable composer. On trial she slowly gives in and explains her crime. They had a complicated history.

The Awful Truth

Directed by: Leo McCarey

Starring: Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Ralph Bellamy, Alexander D'Arcy

Country: United States of America

Outline: Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other's attempts to find new romance.

Stage Door

Directed by: Gregory La Cava

Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, Gail Patrick

Country: United States of America

Outline: A chronicle of the ambitions, dreams, and disappointments of aspiring actresses who all live in the same boarding house.

Pépé le Moko

Directed by: Julien Duvivier

Starring: Jean Gabin, Gabriel Gabrio, Saturnin Fabre, Fernand Charpin

Country: United States of America

Outline: A wanted gangster is both king and prisoner of the Casbah. He is protected from arrest by his friends, but is torn by his desire for freedom outside. A visiting Parisian beauty may just tempt his fate.

Way Out West

Directed by: James W. Horne

Starring: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Sharon Lynn, James Finlayson

Country: United States of America

Outline: Stanley and Ollie are enlisted to deliver the deed to a goldmine in a small village, only for it to be stolen.

Tim Tyler's Luck

Directed by: Ford Beebe, Wyndham Gittens

Starring: Frankie Thomas, Frances Robinson, Jack Mulhall, Al Shean

Outline: A 12-episode serial in which Tim Tyler goes to Africa in search of his father in gorilla country. He meets up with Lora, who is after Spider Webb who has framed her brother. Webb causes the...

Shall We Dance

Directed by: Mark Sandrich

Starring: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton, Eric Blore

Country: United States of America

Outline: A budding romance between a ballet master and a tap dancer becomes complicated when rumors surface that they're already married.

Bizarre, Bizarre

Directed by: Marcel Carné

Starring: Louis Jouvet, Françoise Rosay, Michel Simon, Jean-Pierre Aumont

Outline: In Victorian London, a Crime Novelist and his Wife fake their disappearance in order to hide from an uptight Anglican Bishop who is leading a campaign against the "evils" of crime fiction.

You Only Live Once

Directed by: Fritz Lang

Starring: Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda, Barton MacLane, Jean Dixon

Country: United States of America

Outline: The public defender's secretary and an ex-convict get married and try to make a life together, but a series of disasters sends their lives spiraling out of control.

The Edge of the World

Directed by: Michael Powell

Starring: Niall MacGinnis, Belle Chrystall, John Laurie, Eric Berry

Country: United States of America

Outline: A way of life is dying on an Outer Hebridean island fishing port, but some of the inhabitants resist evacuating to the mainland.

Dead End

Directed by: William Wyler

Starring: Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, Humphrey Bogart, Wendy Barrie

Country: United States of America

Outline: The lives of a young man and woman, an infamous gangster and a group of street kids converge one day in a volatile New York City slum.

Angel

Directed by: Ernst Lubitsch

Starring: Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, Melvyn Douglas, Edward Everett Horton

Country: United States of America

Outline: A woman and her husband take separate vacations, and she falls in love with another man.

Night Must Fall

Directed by: Richard Thorpe

Starring: Merle Tottenham, Kathleen Harrison, May Whitty, Rosalind Russell

Country: United States of America

Outline: When a rich but cantankerous dowager on an isolated estates hires an engaging handyman, her niece/companion becomes suspicious of his motives.

Kid Galahad

Directed by: Michael Curtiz

Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Wayne Morris

Country: United States of America

Outline: Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid' falls for his sister.

They Won't Forget

Directed by: Mervyn LeRoy

Starring: Claude Rains, Gloria Dickson, Edward Norris, Otto Kruger

Country: United States of America

Outline: A politically ambitious district attorney, unscrupulous tabloid journalists, and regional prejudice combine to charge a teacher with the murder of his student.

The Life of Emile Zola

Directed by: William Dieterle

Starring: Paul Muni, Gale Sondergaard, Joseph Schildkraut, Gloria Holden

Country: United States of America

Outline: The biopic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfuss Affair.

Heidi

Directed by: Allan Dwan

Starring: Shirley Temple, Jean Hersholt, Arthur Treacher, Helen Westley

Country: United States of America

Outline: A plucky little orphan girl gets dumped abruptly into her gruff, hermit grandfather's care, then later gets retaken and delivered as a companion for an injured girl.