Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

Director: Frank Capra

Starring: Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold

Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed on a lark by the spineless governor of his state. He is reunited with the state’s senior senator–presidential hopeful and childhood hero, Senator Joseph Paine. In Washington, however, Smith discovers many of the shortcomings of the political process as his earnest goal of a national boys’ camp leads to a conflict with the state political boss, Jim Taylor. Taylor first tries to corrupt Smith and then later attempts to destroy Smith through a scandal.

King Kong (1933)

Directors: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack

Starring: Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot, Noble Johnson

An adventure film about a film crew in search of a monster on a remote island. The crew finds King Kong and decides to take him back to New York as a money making spectacle. The film is a masterpiece of Stop-Motion in filmmaking history and inspired a line of King Kong films.

Jezebel (1938)

Director: William Wyler

Starring: Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent, Margaret Lindsay

A haughty headstrong Southern Belle in Antebellum Louisiana loses her fiance due to her stubborn vanity and pride and vows to get him back.

Dark Victory

USA-1939

104min

B&W

Directed by Edmund Goulding

Cast: Bette Davis, George Brent, Humphrey Bogart, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Ronald Reagan

A young socialite is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, and must decide whether she’ll meet her final days with dignity.

Stagecoach (1939)

Directed by John Ford

Cast: John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Thomas Mitchell, George Bancroft, John Carradine, Andy Devine, Donald Meek, Louise Platt, Berton Churchill, Tim Holt, Tom Tyler

A simple stagecoach trip is complicated by the fact that Geronimo is on the warpath in the area. The passengers on the coach include a a drunken doctor, two women, a bank manager who has taken off with his client’s money, and the famous Ringo Kid, among others.

Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938)

Directed by George B. Seitz

Cast: Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Lana Turner, Ann Rutherford, Fay Holden, Lewis Stone

A 1938 romantic comedy film which tells the story of a teenage boy who becomes entangled with three different girls all at the same time.

Heidi (1937)

Directed by Allan Dwan

Cast: Shirley Temple, Jean Hersholt, Helen Westley, Arthur Treacher

Heidi is orphaned and her selfish maternal Aunt Dete takes her to the mountains to live with her grumpy old paternal grandfather, Adolph Kramer. Heidi brings her grandfather back into mountain society…through her angelic ways and sheer love. When Aunt Dete steals Heidi away to be the companion of a rich man’s invalid daughter, the grand-father is enraged and sets out to get her back.

Freaks (1932)

Directed by Tod Browning

Cast: Madame Rose Dion) Dione,Daisy Earles, Henry Victor, Wallace Ford, Roscoe Ates

A circus’ beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.

Gone with the Wind (1939)

An American classic in which a manipulative woman and a roguish man carry on a turbulent love affair in the American south during the Civil War and Reconstruction.

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and a tin man as they make their way along the yellow brick road to talk with the Wizard and ask for the things they miss most in their lives. The Wicked Witch of the West is the only thing that could stop them.