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- DirectorJean RenoirStarsMarcel DalioNora GregorPaulette DubostA bourgeois life in France at the onset of World War II, as the rich and their poor servants meet up at a French chateau.
- DirectorDudley MurphyStarsSylvia SidneyLeif EricksonMyron McCormickA fire in a run-down tenement building injures young Joey Rogers. Wealthy passerby Peter Cortlant rushes the boy and his attractive older sister Mary to the hospital and pays the medical expenses for the poverty-stricken family. Only later does Peter learn that the firetrap tenement is one of his own vast real estate holdings. Faced with his own unwitting complicity in the deaths and injuries resultant from the fire and with his growing attachment to Mary, Peter decides to tear down his tenements and erect decent affordable housing. But his family is aghast at his plan and plots to wreck it.
- DirectorLewis MilestoneStarsLon Chaney Jr.Burgess MeredithBetty FieldA mentally disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America.
- DirectorLeo McCareyStarsIrene DunneCharles BoyerMaria OuspenskayaA French playboy and an American former nightclub singer fall in love aboard a ship.
- DirectorErnst LubitschStarsGreta GarboMelvyn DouglasIna ClaireA stern Soviet woman sent to Paris to supervise the sale of jewels seized from Russian nobles finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
- DirectorJohn FordStarsJohn WayneClaire TrevorAndy DevineA group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo and learn something about each other in the process.
- DirectorJohn CromwellStarsCary GrantCarole LombardKay FrancisAfter a wealthy man finds out his wife is a gold digger, he meets and falls for a widowed mother, and complications ensue.
- DirectorJohn CromwellStarsCarole LombardJames StewartCharles CoburnWhile on a business trip, an ambitious young lawyer meets and immediately falls in love with a stranger. They wed the following day, and tragedy soon strikes.
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsJames StewartJean ArthurClaude RainsA naive youth leader is appointed to fill a vacancy in the U.S. Senate. His idealistic plans promptly collide with corruption at home and subterfuge from his hero in Washington, but he tries to forge ahead despite attacks on his character.
- DirectorGeorge MarshallStarsMarlene DietrichJames StewartMischa AuerDeputy sheriff Destry tames the town of Bottle Neck, including saloon singer Frenchy.
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsErrol FlynnOlivia de HavillandAnn SheridanA Texas cattle agent witnesses first hand, the brutal lawlessness of Dodge City and takes the job of sheriff to clean the town up.
- DirectorGeorge StevensStarsCary GrantJoan FontaineVictor McLaglenIn 19th century India, three British soldiers and a native waterbearer must stop a secret mass revival of the murderous Thuggee cult before it can rampage across the land.
- DirectorRaoul WalshStarsJames CagneyHumphrey BogartPriscilla LaneThree men attempt to make a living in Prohibitionist America after returning home from fighting together in World War I.
- DirectorEdward L. CahnStarsOur GangRobert BlakeGloria BrowneAlfalfa fantasizing about a football career at the expense of his homework and the resulting consequences.
- DirectorEdward L. CahnStarsOur GangRobert BlakeGeorge 'Spanky' McFarlandMr. Henry owns a service station next to young Mrs. Baker's lunch counter. He is too shy to get the words out and tell Widow Baker that he loves her and her young son. The day of the town's annual fathers and sons picnic arrives. The Our Gang ask Mr. Henry to take Mickey Baker along since the boy's father is dead. The picnic goes well and Mr. Henry gets the courage to ask Mrs. Baker for her hand in marriage, and she happily accepts.
- DirectorEdward L. CahnStarsOur GangRobert BlakeTommy BondAn abandoned old show boat is moored in a lazy creek. Our Gang puts the old vessel back to use when they stage a show featuring "Darla's Dancin' Dandies" and a "meller dramer" entitled "Out in the Snow You Go". All is not smooth sailing, however, as Butch seeks revenge for having been excluded from the cast.
- DirectorEdward L. CahnStarsDarla HoodEugene 'Porky' LeeGeorge 'Spanky' McFarlandThe "Our Gang" kids are working on their vehicle for the Kidmobile Race Classic taking place this afternoon at 2:45. They are certain they will win with their invention, the supercharged rocket powered tire attachments. Their adversaries, Butch and Woim, find out their secret. Using the dogcatcher to take away their unlicensed dog, Whiskers, to the pound as a distraction, Butch and Woim are able to sabotage the Kids' vehicle. So the Kids both have to win the race with what they don't know is their now sabotaged vehicle, but also get to the pound before 3:00 when Whiskers will be taken away and put down unless he is claimed and his license paid.
- DirectorGeorge SidneyStarsDarla HoodEugene 'Porky' LeeGeorge 'Spanky' McFarlandThe Gang owes 37 cents to Butch, so they try to raise money by rounding up stray dogs for the reward, but nearly get busted for dognapping.
- DirectorEdward L. CahnStarsEugene 'Porky' LeeGeorge 'Spanky' McFarlandCarl 'Alfalfa' SwitzerThe Boys Scouts give a demonstration of their camping skills, but the Our Gang kids are excluded from participating because they are not yet old enough to be members. Undeterred, the boys head off on their own unsupervised camping adventure, with comically disastrous results.
- DirectorGeorge SidneyStarsDarla HoodEugene 'Porky' LeeGeorge 'Spanky' McFarlandAlfalfa introduces his prissy, snooty cousin Wilbur to the gang. He instantly gets on everyone's bad side. Especially Alfalfa.
- DirectorGeorge SidneyStarsDarla HoodEugene 'Porky' LeeGeorge 'Spanky' McFarlandThe Our Gang kids put on a circus in the barn to raise money to help Porky's family pay the rent and avoid getting evicted.
- DirectorGeorge SidneyStarsOur GangAllan RandallRuth TobeyWhile under a hypnotic spell, Alfalfa thinks he's one of the Three Musketeers and challenges Butch to a duel.
- DirectorGeorge SidneyStarsDarla HoodEugene 'Porky' LeeGeorge 'Spanky' McFarlandAlfalfa "trades in" his whining baby brother for another baby--who turns out to be a midget criminal.
- DirectorGeorge SidneyStarsOur GangBarbara BedfordMarie BlakeAlfalfa thinks that his own aunt is plotting to murder him.
- DirectorA. Edward SutherlandStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyJean ParkerOllie has fallen in love with the innkeeper's daughter in Paris. The only problem - she's very much in love with her husband. To forget her he joins the Foreign Legion with Stan. Bad idea.