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Walter Huston stars as an idealistic bank president who has been making loans to depositors without sufficient collateral. When there's a run on his bank, his loyal staff rallies local small businessmen to make more deposits which moves the directors to keep the bank afloat. Released shortly after FDR's New Deal, this film whole-heartedly espoused Roosevelt's ideals.

Arriving at Rio Galdez's (Fernando Lamas) Amazonian trading post, Alice Parker (Rhonda Fleming) expects to find her fiancé, Jerry, and the plantation he's promised her. Instead, Rio explains, Jerry became obsessed with finding gold and disappeared into the jungle. Their quest to find Jerry takes the pair into the heart of headhunter country and the darkness of the human spirit. Brian Keith and Pascual García Peña co-star.

He was a riverboat pilot, reporter, penniless prospector, Civil War dropout, would-be entrepreneur, loving family man, world traveler, pomposity burster and raconteur. It turns out the man who created adventures for Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn and a Connecticut Yankee led a mighty adventurous life himself.

Heads: He wins. Tails: You lose. Joe Adams doesn't play the odds. He makes them. Who would think Cupid would turn the odds against him? With roguish charm and dialogue spiked with Cockney rhyming slang, Cary Grant portrays Joe in a wartime romantic comedy from the director of Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House. Luck is on Joe's side when he dodges the draft by taking another man's 4-F status. And he seems to hold all aces when he worms his way into a war relief group and plans to pocket its funds. But larceny gives way to love. Joe finds he's in deep with a winsome charity worker (Laraine Day). And that puts him in deep, deep trouble with fellow con artists. Lucky at cards, unlucky in love? Say it ain't so, Joe!

Joe Adams doesn't play the odds; He makes them. Who would think Cupid would turn the odds against him? Luck is on Joe's side when he dodges the draft by taking another man's 4-F status. But when Joe finds himself deep in love with a winsome charity worker. And that puts him in deep, deep trouble with fellow con artists.

One of a number of films based on W. Somerset Maugham's tragic novel, director John Cromwell's 1934 version is notable for catapulting Bette Davis to stardom as coarse Cockney waitress Mildred Rogers. When clubfooted Philip Carey (Leslie Howard) -- a cerebral but weak-willed young man pursuing a medical degree -- becomes obsessed with the heartless Mildred, his passion threatens to destroy his career and any chance for a happy future.

It's the 1930s, the Depression era, and the Board of Directors of Thomas Dickson's bank want Dickson to merge with New York Trust and resign. He refuses. One night, Dickson's bank is robbed of $100,000. The suspect is Matt Brown, an ex-convict whom Dickson hired and appointed Chief Teller. Brown, who's very loyal to Dickson, refuses to say where he was that night. He actually has two witnesses for his alibi, Mrs. Dickson and fellow worker Cyril Cluett, but Brown is protecting Dickson from finding out that Mrs. Dickson was with Cluett having a romantic evening. Cluett, who has a $50,000 gambling debt, is actually responsible for the robbery, but lets Brown take the rap. Will Brown's loyalty to Mr. Dickson pay off, or send him back to prison?

Walter Huston stars as an idealistic bank president who has been making loans to depositors without sufficient collateral. When there's a run on his bank, his loyal staff rallies local small businessmen to make more deposits which moves the directors to keep the bank afloat. Released shortly after FDR's New Deal, this film whole-heartedly espoused Roosevelt's ideals.

A man is bewitched by the mysterious Madam Satan he meets at a lavish masquerade ball. Does this mean the end of his marriage to the demure spouse he left at home? Not likely, because the temptress is really his wife in disguise!