Sidney Miller

Wild Boys of the Road

William A. Wellman

Frankie Darro, Edwin Phillips

At the height of the Great Depression, Tommy's mother has been out of work for months when Eddie's father loses his job. Eager not to burden their parents, the two high school Sophomores decide to hop the freight trains and look for work.

City for Conquest

Jean Negulesco, Anatole Litvak

James Cagney, Ann Sheridan

The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?

Boys Town

Norman Taurog

Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney

Devout but iron-willed Father Flanagan leads a community called Boys Town, a different sort of juvenile detention facility where, instead of being treated as underage criminals, the boys are shepherded into making themselves better people. But hard-nosed petty thief and pool shark Whitey Marsh, the impulsive and violent younger brother of an imprisoned murderer, might be too much for the good father's tough-love system.

Lucy Moves to NBC

Lucille Ball, Robert Alda

Contacted by Fred Silverman, the President of NBC, Lucille Ball accepts to go back to work as a producer. With the help of her faithful production assistant, Gale Gordon, she starts working on a new series titled "The Music Mart".

The Sniper

Edward Dmytryk

Adolphe Menjou, Arthur Franz

Eddie Miller struggles with his hatred of women, he's especially bothered by seeing women with their lovers. He starts a killing spree as a sniper by shooting women from far distances. In an attempt to get caught, he writes an anonymous letter to the police begging them to stop him.

Three on a Match

Mervyn LeRoy

Virginia Davis, Joan Blondell

Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs.

Yours, Mine and Ours

Melville Shavelson

Lucille Ball, Henry Fonda

When a widower with ten children marries a widow with eight, can the twenty of them ever come together as one big happy family?

Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland

William T. Hurtz, Masami Hata

Gabriel Damon, Mickey Rooney

A little boy whose dreams transcend reality is sucked into his own fantasy, which is everything he has dreamed of, until he unleashes an old secret that may not only destroy this perfect dream world but reality itself.

Top Man

Charles Lamont

Donald O'Connor, Susanna Foster

In this WW II musical, a young man suddenly finds himself in charge of his family when his father is called to war. To help the flagging spirits of local factory workers, the plucky lad, his siblings and his schoolmates put on a lively little show. With a little work, he even convinces Count Basie to come with his band.

Our Daily Bread

King Vidor

Karen Morley, Tom Keene

John and Mary Sims are city-dwellers hit hard by the financial fist of The Depression. Driven by bravery (and sheer desperation) they flee to the country and, with the help of other workers, set up a farming community - a socialist mini-society based upon the teachings of Edward Gallafent. The newborn community suffers many hardships - drought, vicious raccoons and the long arm of the law - but ultimately pull together to reach a bread-based Utopia.

Get Hep to Love

Charles Lamont

Gloria Jean, Donald O'Connor

Orphan prodigy singer runs away from her oppressive aunt and tricks a rural couple into adopting her.

The Mayor of Hell

Archie Mayo

James Cagney, Madge Evans

Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner, arrives and takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. Thompson needs a quick way to discredit him.

Hi, Nellie!

Mervyn LeRoy

Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell

Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield with embezzlement of the bank. He considers Frank a straight shooter and he goes easy on the story. Every other paper goes with the story that Frank took the money and Brad is demoted, by the publisher, to the Heartthrob column - writing advice to the lovelorn. After feeling sorry for himself for two months, he takes the column seriously and makes it the talk of the town. But Brad still wants his old job back so he will have to find Canfield and the missing money.

Penguin Pool Murder

George Archainbaud

Edna May Oliver, Robert Armstrong

New York schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers assists a detective when a body of unscrupulous stockbroker Gerald Parker suddenly appears in the penguin tank at the aquarium.

Patrick the Great

Frank Ryan

Donald O'Connor, Donald Cook

A famous stage actor hopes to land the lead role in a big new Broadway musical, but he's unaware his teenage son has already been given the part.

Strike Up the Band

Busby Berkeley

Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland

Jimmy and Mary get a group of kids together to play in a school orchestra. A huge contest between schools is coming up and they have a hard time raising money to go to Chicago for the contest.