Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)

Summary: The dramatic lives of trapeze artists, a clown, and an elephant trainer are told against a background of circus spectacle.

Genres: Drama, Family, Romance

Director: Cecil B. DeMille

Writers: Fredric M. Frank

, Barré Lyndon

, Theodore St. John

Runtime: 2 h 32 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Paramount Pictures

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 4,000,000

Domestic: $ 36,000,000

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)

Summary: Wrongly convicted James Allen serves in the intolerable conditions of a Southern chain gang, which later comes back to haunt him.

Release Date: November 28, 1932

Genres: Drama, Crime, Film-Noir

Director: Mervyn LeRoy

Writers: Robert E. Burns

, Howard J. Green

, Brown Holmes

Runtime: 1 h 32 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Warner Bros.

Distributor: Associated Artists Productions (AAP), Dominant Pictures Corporation, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 195,845

Knute Rockne All American (1940)

Summary: The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.

Release Date: October 05, 1940

Genres: Drama, Sport, Biography

Directors: Lloyd Bacon

, William K. Howard

Writers: Robert Buckner

, Mrs. Knute Rockne

Runtime: 1 h 38 min

MPAA: G

Production: Warner Bros.

Distributor: Warner Bros., Dominant Pictures Corporation, Associated Artists Productions (AAP), MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, Stream Go Media

Country: United States

Language: English

The Scarlet Empress (1934)

Summary: A German noblewoman enters into a loveless marriage with the dim-witted, unstable heir to the Russian throne, then plots to oust him from power.

Release Date: September 07, 1934

Genres: Drama, Romance, History

Director: Josef von Sternberg

Writers: Manuel Komroff

, Eleanor McGeary

Runtime: 1 h 44 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: Paramount Pictures

Distributor: MCA/Universal Pictures, MCA/Universal Home Video, The Criterion Collection

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 900,000

The Lone Ranger (1949)

Summary: The adventures of the masked hero and his Native American partner.

Release Date: September 15, 1949

Genre: Western

Runtime: 0 h 30 min

MPAA: TV-G

Production: Apex Film Corp., Wrather Productions

Country: United States

Language: English

TV Series budget: $ 12,000

The Bishop's Wife (1947)

Summary: A debonair angel comes to Earth to help an Episcopalian bishop and his wife in their quest to raise money for the new church.

Release Date: February 16, 1948

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Director: Henry Koster

Writers: Robert E. Sherwood

, Leonardo Bercovici

, Robert Nathan

Runtime: 1 h 49 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: The Samuel Goldwyn Company

Distributor: RKO Radio Pictures, MGM Home Entertainment, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), HBO Max, Home Box Office Home Video (HBO), Nelson Entertainment, Pioneer Entertainment, Samuel Goldwyn Home Entertainment, Warner Archive Collection

Country: United States

Language: English

High Sierra (1940)

Summary: After being released from prison, notorious thief Roy Earle is hired by his old boss to help a group of inexperienced criminals plan and carry out the robbery of a California resort.

Release Date: February 17, 1941

Genres: Action, Adventure, Crime

Director: Raoul Walsh

Writers: John Huston

, W.R. Burnett

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Warner Bros.

Distributor: Warner Bros., Dominant Pictures Corporation, Associated Artists Productions (AAP), Key Video, CBS/Fox, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Turner Entertainment, MGM Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, The Criterion Collection, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 455,000

Santa Fe Trail (1940)

Summary: In 1854, Jeb Stuart, George Custer and other graduates from West Point are posted to Kansas to help pacify the territory before railroad construction to Santa Fe can resume.

Release Date: December 28, 1940

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Biography

Director: Michael Curtiz

Writer: Robert Buckner

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Warner Bros.

Distributor: Associated Artists Productions (AAP), Warner Home Video, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Reel Media International, Penteo Films S.L.

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,000,000

Summer Stock (1950)

Summary: A small-town farmer, down on her luck, finds her homestead invaded by a theatrical troupe invited to stay by her ne'er-do-well sister.

Release Date: January 05, 1951

Genres: Musical, Romance

Director: Charles Walters

Writers: George Wells

, Sy Gomberg

Runtime: 1 h 48 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Country: United States

Language: English

High Wall (1947)

Summary: After a brain-damaged man confesses to murder and is committed, Dr. Ann Lorrison tries to prove his innocence.

Release Date: December 17, 1947

Genres: Drama, Crime, Film-Noir

Director: Curtis Bernhardt

Writers: Sydney Boehm

, Lester Cole

, Alan R. Clark

Runtime: 1 h 39 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,844,000

The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)

Summary: Charles 'Slim' Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his New York to Paris flight the first solo transatlantic crossing.

Release Date: April 20, 1957

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Biography

Director: Billy Wilder

Writers: Charles A. Lindbergh

, Billy Wilder

, Wendell Mayes

Runtime: 2 h 15 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Leland Hayward Productions, Billy Wilder Productions

Distributor: Warner Home Video, National Broadcasting Company (NBC), SFM Entertainment, Image Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 6,000,000

Parnell (1937)

Summary: The life of Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell, following from 1880 onward his struggle to secure Home Rule, pursued in prison, Parliament, and elsewhere. Emphasis is on the relationship with married Katie O'Shea which threa...

Release Date: June 04, 1937

Genres: Drama, Romance, Biography

Director: John M. Stahl

Writers: John Van Druten

, S.N. Behrman

, Elsie T. Schauffler

Runtime: 1 h 58 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,547,000

Jesse James (1939)

Summary: After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.

Release Date: January 27, 1939

Genre: Western

Directors: Henry King

, Irving Cummings

Writers: Nunnally Johnson

, Gene Fowler

, Curtis Kenyon

Runtime: 1 h 46 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Twentieth Century Fox

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,600,000

The Gay Sisters (1942)

Summary: Three wealthy orphans attempt to defend their ownership of their family's property, but financial and romantic problems set in.

Release Date: August 01, 1942

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Irving Rapper

Writers: Lenore J. Coffee

, Stephen Longstreet

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Warner Bros.

Distributor: Warner Bros., Associated Artists Productions (AAP)

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 779,000

Two Sisters from Boston (1946)

Summary: A high society Boston girl goes from the Bowery to the opera with the help of her sister.

Genres: Comedy, Musical, Romance

Director: Henry Koster

Writers: Myles Connolly

, James O'Hanlon

, Harry Crane

Runtime: 1 h 52 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), MGM/UA Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,223,000

Along Came Jones (1945)

Summary: A good-natured saddle tramp traveling with his sidekick is mistaken for a ruthless outlaw with a price on his head.

Release Date: July 19, 1945

Genres: Comedy, Romance, Western

Director: Stuart Heisler

Writers: Nunnally Johnson

, Alan Le May

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: International Pictures (I)

Distributor: RKO Radio Pictures

Country: United States

Language: English