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After the war, southern beauty Elizabeth Lloyd runs away to marry Yankee Jack Sherman. Her father, a Confederate Colonel during the Civil War, stops speaking to his daughter, warning him never to speak to her again. Several years pass and Elizabeth returns to her hometown with her husband and their beautiful daughter (Shirley Temple). The little girl charms and wins over her tough grandfather, and tries to patch things up between the colonel and her mother. Beautiful musical numbers, top-notch entertainment for the whole family. Contains the scene where Shirley Temple dances on the stairs with Bill "Bojangles" Robinson. At the time, it was forbidden for a black person to dance with a white woman, but this scene was allowed because it involved a child. This classic scene was an "opening" to end the racism that was common in films at the time. 📚 The film is based on the novel of the same name by Annie Fellows Johnston. (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/) The Little Colonel Genre: Comedy, Family, Musical Director: David Butler Year of Release: 1935 Country of Origin: USA IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0016029/ (⭐️ 7.0) 🙏 Support this channel via PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=GZ6HDC5REJ7PL

Free wanderer Jerry Day and his beautiful wife Toni are at odds over their lifestyle. Jerry doesn't accept responsibility, but Toni longs for a family and a stable life. Then the Days 'rediscover' Jerry's youngest daughter, Pennie, who lives with his late wealthy wife's family. Pennie seems to be exactly what Jerry needs to mend his fraudulent ways and lead a righteous life. Then a corruptible influence comes into his life. The film was well received by critics. Temple adored Cooper, who nicknamed her 'Wigglebritches'. This is the only film in which Lombard and Temple appeared together. (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/) Now and Forever Genre: Drama, Police, Romance Director: Henry Hathaway Year of Release: 1934 Country of Origin: USA IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025580/ (⭐️ 6.5) 🙏 Support this channel via PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=GZ6HDC5REJ7PL

Tired of looking after the orphan Heidi, her aunt leaves her in the Swiss Alps in the care of her grumpy grandfather, until one day she sells her to a rich family in Frankfurt, where she must keep company with Klara, the couple's paralyzed daughter. Despite these misfortunes, Heidi captivates the entire family, but does not give up on returning to her grandfather. 📚 The film was based on the children's novel of the same name by Johanna Spyri, from 1880. Halfway through filming the film, the dream sequence was added to the script. There were reports that Temple was behind the dream sequence and that she was pushing for it enthusiastically, but in her autobiography she vehemently denied this. Her contract did not give her or her parents any creative control over the films in which she appeared. Although she enjoyed the opportunity to wear braids and be lifted on a tightrope, she saw it as the collapse of any serious attempt by the studio to build on the dramatic role of the previous film Wee Willie Winkie. Temple made another film in 1937, Wee Willie Winkie (See on channel: https://youtu.be/4gWXmTS19SE). The child actress was getting older and the studio questioned how long she could continue playing "cute" roles when Heidi was filmed, but she maintained her position at number one at the box office for the third year in a row. (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/) Heidi Genre: Drama, Family, Musical Director: Allan Dwan Year of Release: 1937 Country of Origin: USA IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028988 (⭐️ 7.2) 🙏 Support this channel via PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=GZ6HDC5REJ7PL

Shirley Temple sings, dances and enchants everyone in a New England fishing village. She plays Star, a 4-year-old girl who has lived with Captain January (Guy Kibbee) since she was saved by him from a shipwreck when she was a baby. But their happy life together is unexpectedly threatened when a city inspector decides to take her away from the lighthouse watch and send her to an orphanage. 📚 The film is based on the 1890 children's book of the same name, by Laura E. Richards. (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/) Captain January Genre: Comedy, Family, Musical Director: David Butler Year of Release: 1936 Country of Origin: USA IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027421/ (⭐️ 7.0) 🙏 Support this channel via PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=GZ6HDC5REJ7PL

In remote Cornwall, on the south coast of England, in 1819, a gang of bloodthirsty marauders causes shipwrecks to keep their cargo, murdering all the surviving crew members. The leader is the owner of the inn "Jamaica Inn" (which exists and is currently a pub, located on Bodmin Moor), the brutal Joss Merlyn. His niece, Mary Yellen, arrives to live there after being orphaned and ends up discovering her uncle's crimes when she saves one of the gang members, James Trehearne, from being hanged. As they flee the inn, she seeks help from friendly neighbor Justice of the Peace Sir Humphrey Pengallan, unaware that the man is hiding a secret that will threaten her life. 📚 The film is adapted from Daphne du Maurier's 1936 novel of the same name. It is the first of three works by du Maurier that Hitchcock adapted (the others were his novel Rebecca and the short story "The Birds"). It stars Charles Laughton and Maureen O'Hara in her first major film role. It is the last film Hitchcock made in the United Kingdom before moving to the United States. (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/) Jamaica Inn Genre: Adventure, Police Director: Alfred Hitchcock Year of Release: 1939 Country of Origin: United Kingdom IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031505/ (⭐️ 6.3) 🙏 Support this channel via PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=GZ6HDC5REJ7PL

A relationship develops between a smart New York girl and a good taxi driver, but other problems come their way, including financial problems and murder. Virtue Genre: Drama, Police, Romance Director: Edward Buzzell Release Date: 1939 Country of Origin: USA IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023659/ (⭐️ 6,9) 🙏 Support this channel via PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=GZ6HDC5REJ7PL

French painter and American singer fall in love during a cruise, but agree to meet just six months later, to have time to sort out their lives. Film nominated for an Oscar (1939), in the categories of Best Film, Best Actress (Irene Dunne), Best Supporting Actress (Maria Ouspenskaya), Best Original Screenplay, Best Art Direction, Best Original Song. It would be remade by McCarey himself in 1957 as An Affair to Remember. In 1994, Love Affair (1994) appeared, in the version by Glenn Gordon Caron. (https://pt.wikipedia.org/) Love Affair Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance Director: Leo McCarey Release Date: 1939 Country of Origin: USA IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031593/ (⭐️ 7.4) 🙏 Support this channel via PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=GZ6HDC5REJ7PL

In the sleepy lighthouse town of Piedras Blancas, California, Sturges (Harmon), the lighthouse keeper, is very superstitious and concerned about the safety of his teenage daughter, Lucy (Carmen). He leaves food for a sea monster that lives in a nearby cave. The natives disregard him at first, but begin to notice when the bodies of the people killed by the monster are found on the beach. A local scientist identifies a scale found near one of the bodies as belonging to a "diplovertebron", a prehistoric amphibious reptile long thought to be extinct. (https://en.wikipedia.org/) The Monster of Piedras Blancas Genre: Science Fiction, Horror Director: Irvin Berwick Release Date: 1959 Country of Origin: USA IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051947/ (⭐️ 5.4) 🙏 Support this channel via PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=GZ6HDC5REJ7PL

A veteran homicide detective who witnessed his socialite girlfriend kill her husband finds his inexperienced brother assigned to the case. The Man Who Cheated Himself Genre: Crime, Drama, Film Noir Director: Felix E. Feist Release Date: 1950 Country of Origin: USA IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042707/ (⭐️ 6.8) 🙏 Support this channel via PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=GZ6HDC5REJ7PL

Assistant District Attorney Cleve Marshall falls in love with the mysterious Thelma Jordon when she seeks help solving burglaries at her aunt's property. 📚 Ketti Frings' script was based on an unpublished short story by Marty Holland. (https://en.wikipedia.org/) The File on Thelma Jordon Genre: Crime, Drama, Film Noir Director: Robert Siodmak Release Date: 1949 Country of Origin: USA IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041368/ (⭐️ 6.9) 🙏 Support this channel via PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=GZ6HDC5REJ7PL

Two undercover agents infiltrate a drug smuggling ring in Mexico, but neither knows the other's identity. Borderline Genre: Crime, Drama, Film Noir Director: William A. Seiter Release Date: 1950 Country of Origin: USA IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042274/ (⭐️ 6.1) 🙏 Support this channel via PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=GZ6HDC5REJ7PL

After a pretty but unsophisticated girl is seduced by a traveling pianist and gives up her child out of wedlock, her guilt compels her to kidnap another child. (https://en.wikipedia.org/) Not Wanted Genre: Drama Director: Elmer Clifton, Ida Lupino Release Date: 1949 Country of Origin: USA IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041700/ (⭐️ 6.8) 🙏 Support this channel via PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=GZ6HDC5REJ7PL

Experiences of two Air Force sergeants during the 1948 Berlin Airlift. The Big Lift production team arrived in Berlin in May 1949, just as the blockade was lifted by the Russians, and triggered real airlift activity at both terminals. Principal photography began in July. Montgomery Clift became available after he dropped out of the film Sunset Blvd., in which he was supposed to be the lead, before filming began in June. Even so, all scenes involving him were filmed first to allow him to return to the United States to begin filming on location for A Place in the Sun in October. As the film was shot in Berlin in 1949, as well as using newsreel footage of the actual airlift, it offers a contemporary glimpse into the post-war state of the city as its people struggled to recover from the devastation caused by the Second World War. Aerial sequences were performed, often in bad weather to demonstrate the conditions under which the airlift was carried out, using a Fairchild C-82 Packet as a camera platform, taking advantage of its removable rear fuselage to take panoramic photos of up to 170 degrees. Seaton reported that he eventually overcame political complications with Soviet authorities to complete filming inside the Brandenburg Gate, which was in the Soviet zone, but that on the day of the shooting the Soviets installed loudspeakers to harass the set with propaganda. The scene was filmed without sound and the dialogue was added later via dubbing. (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/) The Big Lift Genre: Drama, War Director: George Seaton Release Date: 1950 Country of Origin: USA IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042249/ (⭐️ 6.5) 🙏 Support this channel via PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=GZ6HDC5REJ7PL

In a flashback to a 'Rebecca'-style beginning: Ellen Foster, visiting her aunt on the California coast, meets neighbor Jeff Cohalan and his ultramodern clifftop home. Ellen is strongly attracted to Jeff, who is being plagued by unexplainable accidents, big and small. Bad luck, persecution... or paranoia? The Second Woman Genre: Drama, Film Noir, Mystery Director: James V. Kern Release Date: 1950 Country of Origin: USA IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044013/ (⭐️ 6.4) 🙏 Support this channel via PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=GZ6HDC5REJ7PL

Hollywood actor Charles Castle is pressured by his studio boss to cover up a crime to protect his valuable career. 📚 The film was based on the 1949 play The Big Knife by Clifford Odets and won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival. (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/) The Big Knife Genre: Crime, Drama, Film Noir Director: Robert Aldrich Release Date: 1955 Country of Origin: USA IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047880/ (⭐️ 6.8) 🙏 Support this channel via PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=GZ6HDC5REJ7PL

In 1890, Judge Priest is an eccentric judge in a small Kentucky town. Although his wife has been dead for 19 years, he shows no interest in getting married again. He sometimes stumbles with his words, but shows his intelligence. The judge, despite all the talk about being a Confederate veteran, thinks his best friend is Jeff Poindexter, a black man. Judge Priest prides himself on his tolerance of others. (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/ ) Judge Priest Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance Director: John Ford Release Date: 1934 Country of Origin: USA IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025335/ (⭐️ 6.3) 🙏 Support this channel via PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=GZ6HDC5REJ7PL

A telephone operator ends up drunk and at the mercy of a scoundrel in her apartment. The next morning, she wakes up with a hangover and a terrible fear that she is a murderer. 📚 The film is based on the novel The Gardenia, by Vera Caspary. (https://en.wikipedia.org/) The Blue Gardenia Genre: Drama, Film Noir, Police Director: Fritz Lang Year of Release: 1953 Country of Origin: USA IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045564/ (⭐️ 6.9) 🙏 Support this channel via PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=GZ6HDC5REJ7PL

Police lieutenant Sam Carson investigates a political murder after the victim is dumped at the door of police headquarters. Behind Green Lights Genre: Drama, Film Noir, Mystery Director: Otto Brower Release Date: 1946 Country of Origin: USA IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038346/ (⭐️ 6.4) 🙏 Support this channel via PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=GZ6HDC5REJ7PL

In California, Bobo and Tiny are doing odd jobs and getting drunk. They hide a secret about the unsolved murder of sailor Pop Kelly, but suicidal waitress Anna, saved by Bobo, solves the mystery. Film based on the novel written by Willard Robertson, Moon Tide (1940). Shortly after filming began, director Fritz Lang left the project, reportedly due to friction he had with Gabin regarding Marlene Dietrich, who had been involved with both men. It is not known which footage was first filmed by Lang or replacement director Archie Mayo. Surrealist Salvador Dali was hired to create the drunkard montage at the top of the story, but his sketches were considered too bizarre, and the scene was filmed with only a little of his influence (probably the close-up of the clock, the headless woman ) intact. Nominated for an Oscar for Best Cinematography, Black and White. (https://en.wikipedia.org/) Moontide Genre: Crime, Drama, Film Noir Director: Archie Mayo, Fritz Lang Release Date: 1942 Country of Origin: USA IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035082/ (⭐️ 6.9) 🙏 Support this channel via PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=GZ6HDC5REJ7PL

Lovelessly married to alcoholic prosecutor Walter O'Neil, Martha Ivers is now at the head of an industrial empire in small Iverstown (Pennsylvania), but her past was violent: eighteen years earlier, she had accidentally killed her aunt, who had stopped her of running away with Sam Masterson, a poor boy who lived on the streets. Now, Sam is back, a wanderer and a gambler, and his path crosses with that of Toni Marachek, a young woman in trouble with the police. When seeking help from Walter, he reawakens Martha's passion, which results in a spiral of jealousy, blackmail, manipulation and death. The film was based on the short story "Love Lies Bleeding" by playwright John "Jack" Patrick. Produced by Hal B. Wallis, the film stars Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott and features Kirk Douglas in his film debut. Robert Rossen's screenplay was based on the short story Love Lies Bleeding, by playwright John Patrick, and was nominated for an Oscar for Best Screenplay. The film was entered into the 1947 Cannes Film Festival. (https://en.wikipedia.org/) The Strange Love of Martha Ivers Genre: Drama, Film Noir, Romance Director: Lewis Milestone Release Date: 1946 Country of Origin: USA IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038988/ (⭐️ 7.4) 🙏 Support this channel via PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=GZ6HDC5REJ7PL

A clumsy young man feeds a plant and discovers that it is carnivorous, forcing him to kill to feed it. The film's concept is believed to be based on "Green Thoughts," a 1932 story by John Collier about a man-eating plant. Dennis McDougal suggests that the script may have been influenced by Arthur C. Clarke's science fiction short story "The Reluctant Orchid" (which in turn was inspired by H.G. Wells' 1905 story "The Flowering of the Strange Orchid") ). Jack Nicholson's film debut. (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/) The Little Shop of Horrors Genre: Comedy, Horror Director: Roger Corman Release Date: 1960 Country of Origin: USA IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054033/ (⭐️ 6.7) 🙏 Support this channel via PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=GZ6HDC5REJ7PL

Detective Michael Shayne and his girlfriend Joanne are on their way to get married when a scream from a nearby hotel room draws his attention to a pair of stage murders. The film was based on The Dead Take No Bows, a mystery novel by Richard Burke. (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/) Dressed to Kill Genre: Crime, Film Noir, Mystery Director: Eugene Forde Release Date: 1941 Country of Origin: USA IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033558/ (⭐️ 6.5) 🙏 Support this channel via PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=GZ6HDC5REJ7PL

📚 Based on the play of the same name by Philip Barry, this sophisticated comedy is about a man who tries to justify his love for his wife and his mistress. Like the play, the film is set in New York and Connecticut in 1930. Although the play emphasizes the estrangement between Tom and his father, who has never visited his son's home before; and that Owen, her only "respectable gentleman" friend, introduced Cecelia to Tom, these two elements are not as significant in the film. (https://en.wikipedia.org/) The Animal Kingdom Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance Director: Edward H. Griffith, George Cukor Release Date: 1932 Country of Origin: USA IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022628/ (⭐️ 6.4) 🙏 Support this channel via PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=GZ6HDC5REJ7PL

A young woman arrives in Hollywood with dreams of stardom, and realizes them only with the help of an alcoholic actor whose best days are behind her. The story is very similar to the previous What Price Hollywood? (1932), released by RKO Radio Pictures. The original name of the 1932 film was "The Truth About Hollywood", from a story by Adela Rogers St. Johns. St. Johns loosely based his text on the experiences of actress Colleen Moore and her husband, alcoholic producer John McCormick (1893–1961), and the life and death of director Tom Forman, who committed suicide after a nervous breakdown. Four years after What Price Hollywood? was released, producer Selznick went to director George Cukor and asked if he would like to direct A Star Is Born. Cukor thought the script was too similar to What Price Hollywood? and didn't accept it. RKO executives considered suing Selznick International Pictures for plagiarism but decided against it. Cukor later directed the remake as a musical in 1954, starring Judy Garland. A common myth in Hollywood was that Lana Turner appeared as an extra in one of the scenes. Turner denied this rumor for years, saying that she was discovered months after that production ended. (source: https://pt.wikipedia.org/) Film nominated for an Oscar for Best Cinematography, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Original Story (Won), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Assistant Director, Honorary Academy Award (Won). It won the 9th National Board of Review Award for Top Ten Films of 1937. Nominated at the Venice International Film Festival for Best Foreign Film. A Star Is Born Genre: Drama, Romance Director: William A. Wellman, Jack Conway Release Date: 1937 Country of Origin: USA IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029606/ (⭐️ 7.3) 🙏 Support this channel via PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=GZ6HDC5REJ7PL

When a small-town girl is diagnosed with a rare and deadly disease, an ambitious journalist wants to turn her into a national hero. Nothing Sacred presents the first use in a color film of process effects, montage and rear screen projection. The backgrounds for the rear projection were filmed on the streets of New York. Paramount Pictures and other studios refined this technique in their subsequent color features. One of the reasons the film is considered one of the most celebrated screwball comedies is that beneath the humor, it incorporates strongly cynical themes of corruption and dishonesty. This film, along with Hecht's The Front Page (1931) and his 1940 remake His Girl Friday with Cary Grant, caricatures the chicanery that some newspapers resorted to in order to get a "hot" story. (https://en.wikipedia.org/) Nothing Sacred Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy Director: William A. Wellman Release Date: 1937 Country of Origin: USA IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029322/ (⭐️ 6.9) 🙏 Support this channel via PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=GZ6HDC5REJ7PL