Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

[7] Cary Grant leads a wacky ensemble for director Frank Capra's film adaptation of Joseph Kesselring's crowd-pleasing stage play, Arsenic and Old Lace. Grant plays Mortimer Brewster, a newlywed stopping by the Brooklyn home of the two elderly aunts who raised him…
Invisible Agent (1942)

Invisible Agent (1942)

[5] Jon Hall plays the grandson of the original Invisible Man, played by Claude Rains in 1933. In this third sequel, Hall is pressured to take his grandfather's transparency potion to serve the United States as a secret agent in Nazi Germany.…
Dr. Cyclops (1940)

Dr. Cyclops (1940)

[5] Ernest B. Schoedsack (King Kong, The Most Dangerous Game) directs this schlocky sci-fi matinee flick about a mad scientist (Albert Dekker) who summons colleagues to his South American jungle laboratory. Once there, the guests discover he is using radium to shrink…
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

[8] Teresa Wright (Mrs. Miniver) plays a bored teenager who's over-joyed when her favorite Uncle (The Third Man's Joseph Cotton) comes to stay with her family. But the warmth of family reunion soon gives way to cold suspicion when Cotton starts hiding…
My Favorite Wife (1940)

My Favorite Wife (1940)

[6] Cary Grant plays a widower who remarries seven years after his first wife (Irene Dunne) disappears at sea. While on his honeymoon with wife number two (Gail Patrick), he's shocked to discover Dunne survived her ordeal and is ready to rejoin…
Mildred Pierce (1945)

Mildred Pierce (1945)

[7] Joan Crawford won her Oscar for playing the title character in this noir-melodrama from director Michael Curtiz (Casablanca). Based on the book by James M. Cain, Mildred Pierce is told largely in flashback, with Crawford spilling the beans to police after…
Dark Passage (1947)

Dark Passage (1947)

[7] Humphrey Bogart escapes from San Quentin to try and prove he's innocent of killing his wife. Lauren Bacall plays the woman who believes him and gives him shelter. He resorts to plastic surgery to hide his identity from the police and…
Ball of Fire (1941)

Ball of Fire (1941)

[8] Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck star in this lively screwball comedy from director Howard Hawks. Cooper is working on a new encyclopedia with seven other scholars when he realizes the group is woefully uneducated in the world of contemporary slang. So…
Dr. Renault’s Secret (1942)

Dr. Renault’s Secret (1942)

[6] An American (John Shepperd) visits his fiancée (Lynne Roberts) and her father in their rural chateau at the same time a series of murders begins. The father's brutish gardener with a criminal past is a prime suspect. And so is his…
Black Friday (1940)

Black Friday (1940)

[3] Boris Karloff stars as a doctor who transplants the brain of a gangster into the body of a dying professor (both played by Stanley Ridges), then tries to get the convalescing professor to remember -- with his new brain -- where…