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An unknown Kentucky writer comes to New York and pursues fame and women.

Residents of the small town of Peyton Place aren’t pleased when they realize they’re the characters in local writer Allison MacKenzie’s controversial first novel. A sequel to the hit 1957…

An ambitious executive jeopardizes his career to marry a European refugee.

A college student tries to get rich quick by wooing two wealthy sisters.

When illegal casino owner Charley Kyng develops heart disease, he is advised by a doctor to spend more time with his family. However, he finds it difficult to keep his…

A former prisoner of war, Frank Enley is hailed as a hero in his California town. However, Frank has a shameful secret that comes back to haunt him when fellow…

Sheltered by her conservative parents, a small-town teenager finally goes out on a date.

The daughter of a Nevada casino owner gets involved with a racketeer, despite everyone’s efforts to separate them.

When a matador leaves town to focus on his music, his twin sister takes on his identity in the bullfighting ring.

Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family up to the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair.

Acrobat Eddie Marsh is in the army now. His first act is to become friendly with Kathryn Jones, the colonel’s pretty daughter. Their romance hits a few snags, including disapproval…

Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-martialed out of the army and boards a Japanese ship for…

A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry, decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying an eccentric Florida…

A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.

After a newlywed’s husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for his affections is pregnant with his child.

An unemployed showgirl poses as Hungarian royalty to infiltrate Parisian society.

To stop Pinkie’s widowed, struggling mother Dottie from marrying a well-off older man they know she doesn’t love, teenager Pinkie and her best friend Buzz kidnap her in the family…

A newlywed unhappily discovers that her husband’s scheming ex-wife still has a controlling influence in his life and home.

A businessman mingles with German laborers to learn more about their lives.

An investigator for the District Attorney’s office quits to open his own detective agency. However, business is so bad that he finally decides to give it up and go back…

A Polynesian sailor is separated from his wife when he’s unjustly imprisoned for defending himself against a colonial bully. Members of the community petition the governor for clemency but all…

A kingdom’s ascending heir, marked for assassination, switches identities with a lookalike, who takes his place at the coronation. When the real king is kidnapped, his followers try to find…

A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.

A bitter widow and a grumpy widower find themselves stuck in a hotel that is cut off from the outside by a snowstorm. Although both have no intention of getting…

A mother sends her young son to military school so he won’t find out she’s been sentenced to a prison term on a framed fraud charge.

An escaped convict redeems himself by becoming an auto racing champion.

A very nervous man named Cartwright comes into Perry’s office to have the neighbor arrested for his howling dog. He states that the howling is a sign that there is…

Actress Jessica Wells, sister of actor Damon Wells, is on top of her form except when her husband Vance is around. When Vance takes her to the apartment of a…

Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broken Chinese vase provides an important clue.

Prohibition is ending so bootlegger Bugs Ahearn decides to crack California society. He leases a house from down-on-her-luck Ruth and hires her as social secretary. He rescues Polly Cass from…

Dennis, owner of a rubber plantation in Cochinchina, is involved with Vantine, who left Saigon to evade the police. When his new surveyor arrives along with his refined wife Dennis…

A young man is torn between his free-thinking lifestyle and the tradition of his wealthy fiancée’s family.

During World War I, two American soldiers fight to escape the Germans while squabbling over a beautiful harem girl. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with University of…