You Can't Take It with You (1938)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
A man from a family of rich snobs becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family.
Starring: Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Edward Arnold, Mischa Auer, Ann Miller
Director: Frank Capra
And Then There Were None (1945)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Rene Clair's adaptation of the Agatha Christie classic. Ten people are invited to a distant mansion by a mysterious host. When the host fails to appear, they settle down to dinner and find themselves all accused of murder by a disembodied voice on a gramophone player. Then a guest turns up dead, then another, and another, and as the surviving accused struggle to discover which among their number is responsible for the killings, the corpses continue to surface with disarming regularity.
Starring: Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Roland Young, Louis Hayward, June Duprez, Mischa Auer
Director: René Clair
Destry Rides Again (1939)
Comedy | Western
Kent, the unscrupulous boss of Bottleneck has Sheriff Keogh killed when he asks one too many questions about a rigged poker game that gives Kent a stranglehold over the local cattle rangers. The mayor, who is in cahoots with Kent appoints the town drunk, Washington Dimsdale, as the new sheriff assuming that he'll be easy to control. But what the mayor doesn't know is that Dimsdale was a deputy under famous lawman, Tom Destry, and is able to call upon the equally formidable Tom Destry Jr to be his deputy. Featuring a career reviving performance from Marlene Dietrich as bar singer Frenchie, which could well have been the inspiration for Madeline Kahn's "Blazing Saddles" character, Lili Von Schtupp.
Starring: Marlene Dietrich, James Stewart, Mischa Auer, Charles Winninger, Brian Donlevy, Allen Jenkins
Director: George Marshall
