Classic Movies Watchlist

Jack, a sailor, persistently pursues Joan with gifts and marriage trickery despite her rejections. After marrying under false pretenses, Joan leaves Jack. He then tries to win her back amidst rocky circumstances.

Old man invites three of his illegitimate children to live with him.

Against her friends wishes, Lisbeth moves to Mexico to live with her lover.

Haines plays the role of a festive British nobleman whose relatives have arranged a marriage for him. He goes to a European summer resort and poses as a gigolo to meet the girl they have chosen, learn what she is like, and apply the "acid test."

An American ambassador arrives in a small country that is being convulsed by political intrigue and civil unrest. He befriends the young boy who is to be the country's king, to ensure that the boy is prepared to take on the role and also to see that he lives long enough to assume the crown.

The adventures of an egoistic con man and his glamorous accomplice.

After losing his hearing, a musician uses lip-reading to help others.

A fireman falls for his train driver's daughter while a fired coworker plots revenge on the Flying Scotsman express during the driver's final journey.

A Goodwin Sands lifeboatman rescues a shipwrecked girl who tries to win him away from his fiancée.

After a trapeze performer is injured during an accident, she is moved to a minister's house where they both fall in love.

Max Clement and his father rely on wealthy women's generosity. Max pursues Lady Joan but falls for Rosine Brown at Joan's house. After winning Rosine's hand, his father's gambling debt forces him to consider marrying Joan instead.

A man poisons his nephew out of desperation for money.

Teashop proprietors inherit fortune, crash society, and thwart Chicago gangsters.

Yacht owner is stranded on island with her socialite friends, a wacky husband and wife research team, and a singing sailor.

Egotistical nightclub dance performer Raoul has the determination to succeed at all costs, and the only woman in his life who truly matters to him is a dancing partner named Helen.

Gracie Allen assumes the "management" of the shop owned by her papa Horatio Allen, turning it into a radio station and then an aviary, with the usual Gracie Allen logic. While distracted, Papa is trying to get younger daughter, beauty contest winner Florence, married before she can head to Hollywood and get into the movies. The story moves to Hollywood, where, with Gracie around, kidnappers get kidnapped and the chatter between her and George Burns even takes a few satirized shots at Filmland, in addition to their usual unusual routines. Guy Lombardo, top-billed on the ads and posters with Burns and Allen but not the cast listings, and dance team Frank Veloz and Yolanda, fill in where needed between the cracks of the mostly on-the-fly plot, and they don't seem to be taking their gigs all that seriously either. Burns and Allen Radio fans, the few of us that still remember "radio", will love it, while others are likely to give it a "say what" or "duh", especially if they were raised on television comedy of the past twenty years.

A detective who has "four hours to kill" before delivering his prisoner, an escaped killer, spends the time in the lobby of a Broadway theater where a musical is playing. The film focuses on the relationship between the two men, and also among various characters in the theater audience, staff, and cast.

A stenographer becomes a famed entertainer and is courted by an English nobleman and an informal American reporter.

When the romance between radio-singer Eddie Blake and Bessie Dunn goes sour through a series of misunderstanding, Bessie packs to take a week-end trip with the station boss,Stephen Barclay, and Eddie proposes to Hazel, who appears to be open to any kind of proposal. With all of the principals involved and in the office elevator, a cable breaks and the elevator is suspended between floors...and the resolvements begin.

A taxi-dancer agrees to pose as a girl who had been kidnapped as a child 18 years before.

Ed Beaumont, a close friend and bodyguard to political boss Paul Madvig, faces a murder case, risking his life and reputation to uncover the killer.

A young married couple's relationship becomes strained when he is assigned overseas as a foreign correspondent and she becomes a major stage star.

In order to give up her life of crime and go straight, renowned jewel thief Sophie Lang fakes her own death and retires to London. She soon finds a job as a companion to a wealthy old lady who is also a jewel collector. One day her employer decides to take an ocean trip to the US, taking Sophie with her. She also takes along a $200,000 diamond, which she locks up in the ship's safe. Of course, the diamond is soon stolen from the safe. A reporter also happens to be aboard the ship, and he has had his suspicions about who Sophie really is. Sophie has to find the real thief and recover the jewel before the ship docks in New York, because an investigation could reveal her true identity.

Three sisters scheme to reunite their divorced parents before their wealthy father marries a conniving gold digger.

Christopher Powell is in Malaysia with his fiancée and her father, capturing wild animals. While out hunting, he is attacked by a tiger, and his native guides run away, leaving him for dead. But the tiger is the pet of Ulah, a beautiful young woman who grew up by herself in the jungle. She rescues Chris and takes him back to her cave, where she nurses him to health and falls in love with him. When he eventually returns to camp, she follows. The fiancée is jealous, and the natives don't like Ulah or her pet tiger either, all of which leads to a lot of trouble.