1937 Movies

Momma parrot is teaching her young-uns to say “Polly want a cracker” but little Peter doesn’t want a cracker, he wants to be a sailor like dad. Mom tells him…

The setting is a small town in 1870s Pennsylvania. Sally Waterson and her father have stopped in town with their traveling medicine show, but when their wagon catches fire, they…

A man is accused of a series of murders that were actually committed by a crazed killer called “The Tiger.” He must prove his innocence and catch the murderer.

Paradiset is a boarding house in the archipelago of Stockholm, run by the strict Elvira Pettersson, and with a large variety of guests. Her maid Lotta quits her job but…

The Vicar of Bray is a satirical description of an individual fundamentally changing his principles to remain in ecclesiastical office as external requirements change around him. The religious upheavals in…

An early Technicolor musical that concentrates on the fashions of the late 1930s, this film was reissued under the title All This and Glamour Too. The top models of the…

‘The Penny Pool’ (1937) features Duggie Wakefield and his Crazy Gang who come to the assistance of young lovers Tommy Bancroft and Renee Harland, who have been sacked from their…

An ex-gambler hooks up with an old flame after his old habit resurfaces and drives off his wife.

Paris, 1937. Winckler kills his enemy Gordon, a Chicago mobster, from the stage of a Parisian music hall, where he performs telepathy. He pays another artist, Helene, so that she…

After a mine cave in, the rescue crew risks their lives to search for two trapped miners.

The story of seven people: their lives and love affairs in Madrid during the Civil War.

Warning of the dangers of sexually transmitted diseases, specifically syphilis.

A singing cowboy (Dick Foran) thwarts a thieving judge and courts a woman (Anne Nagel) in Texas.

A gangster’s widow fights for love despite society’s disapproval.

A general must come to terms with a crime he commited years earlier.

British agent working in Russia is forced to remain longer than planned once the revolution begins. After being released from prison in Siberia he posses as a Russian Commissar. Because…

Hank Medhill, artificial silk manufacturer, has returned to the U.S. from Japan to learn that his former girlfriend, Eleanor Breen is about to marry. Hank convinces Eleanor to leave the…

A man writes a check for $1,000 to cover a gambling debt. The problem is that he doesn’t have enough money in his bank account to cover it. The check…

Waldo and Irene have been living with Margit for the four years that they have been engaged. Margit has planned the wedding and the honeymoon – in fact, Margit plans…

Count Armalia believes that the luck of birth is all that separates the rich from the poor. To test his theory, he sends Anni, who is a singer in a…

Lady Alyce Marshmorton must marry soon, and the staff of Tottney Castle have laid bets on who she’ll choose, with young Albert wagering on “Mr. X.” After Alyce goes to…

It’s 1805 England, specifically on Quality Street, where a gentleman passerby is an event, not only for the lady being called upon, but also for the ever watching nosy female…

Angry that police detective Steve McBride is giving preferential treatment to his fiancée, reporter Torchy Blane, reporters from a rival newspaper plan a fake murder with the idea that Torchy’s…

Set in New York City, Mae West is Peaches O’Day, a con artist who befriends Captain Jim McCarey (Edmund Lowe), a cop who must turn her in unless she leaves…

The stooges become trainers of “Bustoff”, a champion wrestler. The big boss has a lot of money bet on Bustoff and orders the boys to take good care of him….

A high-school girl gets involved with a ring of teenage marijuana smokers and starts down the road to ruin. A reporter poses as a soda jerk to infiltrate the gang…

Sherlock Holmes takes a vacation and visits his old friend Sir Henry Baskerville. His vacation ends when he suddenly finds himself in the middle of a double-murder mystery. Now he’s…

Four bored ghosts find a newspaper ad for Mickey, Donald, and Goofy’s Ghost Hunting service, and they decide it would be fun to give them a try, but the results…

Jerry Cummings, a mining engineer, has pledged a large diamond on a short-term note to a pair of crooked loan sharks, Crone and Jan Jaffin, and heads for Mexico. His…

Bulldog Drummond goes up against foreign agents trying to steal plans for a top-secret aircraft.

Abstract animation drawn directly on Technicolor film, some with underlying real life footage of unrelated subjects. Various colorful shapes and patterns move and interact, set to upbeat music.

This black and white movie is based on Rudyard Kipling’s “Toomai, of the Elephants”, in which a small native lad claims he knows the congregating place of the elephant hordes.

It’s race day, and first prize is $2 million (less $1,999,998.37 in taxes). Porky’s little car is matched against cars driven by stars of yesteryear, including Laurel and Hardy and…

While at summer camp in the Maine woods, little Bobby Breen befriends composer Basil Rathbone, who left the city to try and break his creative block, and is soon playing…

The Dead End Kids are introduced in their intricate East Side slum, overlooked by the apartments of the rich. Their antics, some funny, some vicious, alternate with subplots: unemployed architect…

Mr Moto competes with a gang of ruthless treasure-hunters for possession of seven scrolls which, when brought together, form a map which reveals the location of the tomb of Genghis…

A film about Captain Wallace Caswell Jr. who does all in his power to protect game fish from illegal fishing and natural predators such as sharks, octopi and whales.

After a cowardly raid on Dad Summers’ freight-wagons, in which Summers is killed and his freight shipment burned, Tex Archer and his sidekick, “Duke” Evans, arrive on the scene in…

Playboy Jonathan Blair wakes up after a night on the town to find that Texan Valentine Ransome has escorted him home. Val is attracted to Jonathan but, finding that his…

Raymond Dabney returns to his family after trouble with the law. He convinces the sheriff to give him a job watching the house and furniture of widow Crystal Wetherby without…