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City for Conquest
The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?
Jean Negulesco
Anatole Litvak
Casts & Crew
James Cagney
Ann Sheridan
Frank Craven
Donald Crisp
Frank McHugh
Arthur Kennedy
George Tobias
Jerome Cowan
Elia Kazan
Anthony Quinn
Lee Patrick
Blanche Yurka
George Lloyd
Joyce Compton
Thurston Hall
Ben Welden
John Arledge
Edward Keane
Selmer Jackson
Joseph Crehan
Murray Alper
Walter Bacon
Harris Berger
Ward Bond
Wade Boteler
James Carlisle
Steve Carruthers
Hugh Chapman
James Conaty
Oliver Cross
Dudley Dickerson
John Dilson
James Dime
Warren Douglas
Jay Eaton
Frank Faylen
Pat Flaherty
George Ford
Edward Gargan
Joe Gilbert
Malvern Gilmartin
David Gorcey
Joe Gray
Harrison Greene
Kit Guard
Robert Haines
Margaret Hayes
Sam Hayes
Oscar 'Dutch' Hendrian
Arthur Housman
George Humbert
John Indrisano
Danny Jackson
Thomas E. Jackson
Lois James
Payne B. Johnson
Colin Kenny
Victor Kilian
Joseph La Cava
Mike Lally
Charles Lane
Paula Lane
Ethelreda Leopold
Carl M. Leviness
Michael Mark
William Marshall
Eric Mayne
Pat McKee
Sidney Miller
Hans Moebus
Bert Moorhouse
Jack Mower
William Newell
William H. O'Brien
George O'Hanlon
Garry Owen
Paul Panzer
Sally Payne
Jack Perry
Lee Phelps
William Phillips
Bernice Pilot
Alexander Pollard
Fred Rapport
Jackie Salling
Scott Seaton
John Sheehan
Charles Sherlock
Buster Slaven
Stephen Soldi
Bob Steele
Larry Steers
Charles Sullivan
Elliott Sullivan
Frank Sully
Dale van Sickel
Billy Wayne
Dick Wessel
Leo White
Frank Wilcox
Charles C. Wilson
Tom Wilson
Robert Winkler
Also Directed by Jean Negulesco
On the eve of the Chinese New Year, three strangers, Crystal Shackleford, married to a wealthy philanderer; Jerome Artbutny, an outwardly respectable judge; and Johnny West, a seedy sneak thief, make a pact before a small statue of the Chinese goddess of Destiny. The threesome agree to purchase a sweepstakes ticket and share whatever winnings might accrue.
A pretty Parisian law student falls in love with her boyfriend's uncle.
A classical musician from a working class background is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy, neurotic socialite.
Phaedra is a poor sponge diver on the lovely Greek isle of Hydra. While diving, she discovers an ancient brass and gold stature of a boy riding a dolphin, which is said to have the magical power to grant wishes. Her shiftless boyfriend wants to sell it to an unscrupulous art collector, but Phaedra wants to give it to anthropologist Jim Calder, who would return it to the Greek government.
A trio of gorgeous American tourists hope to find love while vacationing in Spain. Secretary Maggie Williams falls hard for a married newsman named Paul Barton while fighting off the advances of one of his employees. Singer Fran Hobson sets her sights on a handsome European doctor. And coed Susie Higgins receives an unexpected proposal from smooth-talking womanizer Emilio Lacaya.
The US Marine Corps Band and chorus perform several songs associated with the Marines and the Navy. As the songs are played, we see monuments in Washington, DC, various battle scenes, planes in flight, and other scenes designed to instill patriotism in the audience.
A fallen woman seeks redemption at a Singapore rubber plantation. Melodrama.
After their orphanage burns down, a group of children are being transported west by train to Manitoba. All of them are available for adoption and at a stop at Scourie, Ontario little Patsy meets Victoria McChesney. Victoria and her husband Patrick have no children and she immediately decides to adopt the girl. The only condition imposed on them is that as Patsy has been baptized a Roman Catholic the Protestant McChesneys agree to raise her as a Catholic. Patsy is a well-behaved little girl whose only real problem is a school bully, also one of the orphans, who spreads stories that she set their orphanage on fire.
This short traces the history of sound in the movies, beginning with French scientist Leon Scott's experiments in 1857. Featured are snippets from early sound pictures.
Young Gloria's father and mother go out for the evening to see a television broadcast. Gloria's grandfather entertains her with stories about his days in vaudeville.
Also Directed by Anatole Litvak
Dany Longo is blonde, beautiful, disturbed, passionate--and nearsighted. As she speeds through the south of France in a purloined Thunderbird on an errand for her employer and his wife, no one, including Dany herself, knows where she is headed--or why she is going there.
Leona Stevenson is confined to bed and uses her telephone to keep in contact with the outside world. One day she overhears a murder plot on the telephone and is desperate to find out who is the intended victim.
Prelude to War was the first film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series, commissioned by the Pentagon and George C. Marshall. It was made to convince American troops of the necessity of combating the Axis Powers during World War II. This film examines the differences between democratic and fascist states.
A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming one himself. He joins a gang of thieves and proceeds to wrest leadership of the gang away from it's extremely resentful leader.
An unusual World War II crime thriller about a Nazi investigation into the murder of a prostitute. Major Grau finds himself focusing on three suspects: the Generals Tanz, Kahlenberg and Seydlitz-Gabler – all three of whom, it seems, are also involved in a plot to kill Hitler
Russian exiles in Paris plot to collect ten million pounds from the Bank of England by grooming a destitute, suicidal girl to pose as heir to the Russian throne. While Bounin is coaching her he comes to believe she is really Anastasia. In the end the Empress must decide her claim.
The third film of Frank Capra's 'Why We Fight" propaganda film series, dealing with the Nazi conquest of Western Europe in 1940.
Part VII of the "Why We Fight" series of wartime documentaries. This entry attempts to describe the factors leading up to America's entry into the Second World War.
A French sleeping-car attending with an eye for the ladies hooks up with a wealthy widow and they get married. What he doesn't know is that she married him because she wants to stay in France. Complications ensue.
Your Job In Germany is a short film made for the United States War Department in 1945 just before Victory in Europe Day (VE). It was shown to US soldiers about to go on occupation duty in Germany. The film was made by the military film unit commanded by Frank Capra and was written by Theodor Geisel, better known by his pen name Dr. Seuss.