The Skin Game (1931)

The Skin Game (1931)

[5] In this middling, early Alfred Hitchcock film, the aristocratic Hillcrist family battles with the industrialist Hornblower family over a plot of land in a small English village. The Hornblowers want to build a factory and erect unsightly smoke stacks, while the…
Sylvia Scarlett (1935)

Sylvia Scarlett (1935)

[6] In the first and least successful of their screen pairings, Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant star as swindlers who end up running a traveling vaudeville show on the shores of England. Hepburn's character disguises herself as a young man in order…
Anthony Adverse (1936)

Anthony Adverse (1936)

[6] In 18th century Italy, an orphan boy comes of age with the help of nuns and a kindly mentor, falls in love, gets embroiled in the slave trade, and fights for his inheritance in this adaptation of Hervey Allen's sprawling novel.…
Them! (1954)

Them! (1954)

[6] Often regarded the best of the atomic age 'giant critter' flicks, Them! is best in the beginning, during two police officers' discovery of a little girl roaming the desert in a catatonic state. Looking for her family, they come across a…
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

[4] A man named Kris Kringle (Edmund Gwenn) steps in to replace a drunken Santa in Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, and does such a good job that Macy's then hires him to play Santa in their stores during the holiday season. But when…