Jason Robards Sr.

The Second Woman -- In flashback from a 'Rebecca'-style beginning: Ellen Foster, visiting her aunt on the California coast...

The Second Woman -- Robert Young, Betsy Drake, John Sutton. A young woman dies accidentally, and her fiancee is tormented by her father and his own feelings...

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.

Horror-meister Boris Karloff ("Frankenstein," "The Mummy") stars as the cruel head of a mental asylum who has an actress committed when she tries to bring much-needed reforms to his institution. Atmospheric chiller co-stars Anna Lee ("The Sound of Music," TV's "General Hospital"). Film critic Leonard Maltin awards it three stars.