Ben Taggart

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Penny Serenade -- A couple's big dreams give way to a life full of unexpected sadness and unexpected joy.

The Durango Kid is a sort of Robin Hood of the West who helps the lovely Walters (who replaced Starrett's usual love-interest, Iris Meredith), the daughter of a homesteader, defeat the evil MacDonald who has been terrorizing the decent citizens with his gang of rustlers.

Stars Boris Karloff as a kindly doctor whose noble experiments go awry, causing much death and despair. In this outing, the elderly Dr. Garth (Karloff) searches for a cure for mortality via plasma injections. Sentenced to death for a mercy killing, Garth is allowed to continue his experiments in prison.

Things really get shaken up when an aspiring opera singer becomes involved with a bawdy saloon owner and his high-society rival during the devastating earthquake of 1906. Spectacular special effects are second only to the stellar performances of Oscar-winner Clark Gable ("Gone With the Wind", "It Happened One Night"), Oscar-winner Spencer Tracy ("Mutiny on the Bounty," "Adam's Rib") and Jeanette MacDonald ("Love Me Tonight"). Nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Writing and Director. Spencer Tracy received his first of nine nominations. Look for The Three Stooges in one of their few feature appearances. With buildings crumbling, streets opening up, and fires erupting, this is the disaster picture that set the standard.

Matt Braddock (Michael O'Shea), a brash shipbuilder operating on the West Coast in the 1880s, bumps heads with established builder Joel Kennedy (Gene Lockhart), who has loyal employees, including his daughter, Diana (Anne Shirley), and foreman, Jim (Dan Duryea). When Braddock loses local support, his plans for big-time success may have to give into his rival. Meanwhile, he forges a rocky affair with Diana. Robert Florey directs this robust drama.

J. Hamilton Gibbs and Madame Gloria run two competing body building facilities, with Gibbs a traditionalist, while Madame Gloria believes in developing psychic-like mental abilities to win fights. Jimmy Conley is Gibb's physical training director, who can't win any professional fights, and is engaged to Gloria's secretary, Pat. Jimmy agrees to quit fighting for Pat if he loses one more fight. Miraculously, Jimmy knocks out the local champion, who claims that Jimmy "hexed" him. Jimmy is then dubbed the "Hex Kid," and begins to win every fights. Unknown to Jimmy, every fight has been fixed. Pat discovers this, and Jimmy decides that the fighting life is not for him. One of the zaniest, screwball comedy fighting films you are sure to see.

J. Hamilton Gibbs and Madame Gloria run two competing body building facilities, with Gibbs a traditionalist, while Madame Gloria believes in developing psychic-like mental abilities to win fights. Jimmy Conley is Gibb's physical training director, who can't win any professional fights, and is engaged to Gloria's secretary, Pat. Jimmy agrees to quit fighting for Pat if he loses one more fight. Miraculously, Jimmy knocks out the local champion, who claims that Jimmy "hexed" him. Jimmy is then dubbed the "Hex Kid," and begins to win every fights. Unknown to Jimmy, every fight has been fixed. Pat discovers this, and Jimmy decides that the fighting life is not for him. One of the zaniest, screwball comedy fighting films you are sure to see.

Julie (Irene Dunne) and Roger (Cary Grant) are a love-struck married couple who desperately want to have a child. Unfortunately, an earthquake causes a pregnant Julie to lose the baby she's carrying. The two attempt to rise above it and adopt to fulfill their dreams of parenthood, but when tragedy strikes again, it threatens to tear them apart for good. One of Hollywood's Golden Age directors, George Stevens, helms this sincere all-star classic.

Grant and Dunne adopt a baby after their unborn baby dies. Dunne contemplates divorce, recollecting the joys and griefs she has shared with her husband.

Grant and Dunne adopt a baby after their unborn baby dies. Dunne contemplates divorce, recollecting the joys and griefs she has shared with her husband.

As Julie prepares to leave her husband Roger, she begins to play through a stack of recordings, each of which reminds her of events in their lives together. One of them is the song that was playing when she and Roger first met in a music store. Other songs remind her of their courtship, their marriage, their desire for a child, and the joys and sorrows that they have shared. A flood of memories comes back to her as she ponders their present problems and how they arose.