The Last Days of Pompeii (1935)

The Last Days of Pompeii (1935)

[6] Innovative producer/directors Ernest B. Schoedsack and Merian C. Cooper (King Kong, Dr Cyclops) tackle a religious parable that ends in the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius with The Last Days of Pompeii. Preston Foster stars as a poor blacksmith hardened…
Annie Oakley (1935)

Annie Oakley (1935)

[8] George Stevens (Gunga Din, A Place in the Sun) directs this romanticized tale of an American western legend -- Annie Oakley, the woman sharpshooter who could beat any man at gunplay. While the real Annie Oakley was surely rougher…
Ladies They Talk About (1933)

Ladies They Talk About (1933)

[5] Pre-Code bad girl Barbara Stanwyck stars in this hybrid of a love story and a prison movie. Stanwyck plays Nan, a woman who works with a team of mobsters who rob banks. She goes in and distracts the security…