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“Of Human Bondage” is a 1934 American drama film directed by John Cromwell and is widely regarded by critics as the film that made Bette Davis a star. The screenplay by Lester Cohen is based on the 1915 novel of the same title by W. Somerset Maugham.

Sensitive, club-footed artist Philip Carey is an Englishman who has been studying painting in Paris for four years. His art teacher tells him his work lacks talent, so he returns to London to become a medical doctor, but his moodiness and chronic self-doubt make it difficult for him to keep up in his schoolwork. Philip falls passionately in love with vulgar tearoom waitress Mildred Rogers, even though she is disdainful of his club-foot and his obvious interest in her. Although he is attracted to the anemic and pale-faced woman, she is manipulative and cruel toward him when he asks her out. Her constant response to his romantic invitations is “I don’t mind,” an expression so uninterested that it infuriates him – which only causes her to use it all the more. His daydreams about her (her image appears over an illustration in his medical school anatomy textbook, and a skeleton in the classroom is transformed into Mildred) cause him to be distracted from his studies, and he fails his medical examinations.

When Philip proposes to her, Mildred declines, telling him she will be marrying a loutish salesman Emil Miller instead. The self-centered Mildred vindictively berates Philip with nasty insults for becoming romantically interested in her. Philip begins to forget Mildred when he falls in love with Norah, an attractive and considerate romance writer working under a male pseudonym. She slowly cures him of his painful addiction to Mildred. But just when it appears that Philip is finding happiness, Mildred returns, pregnant and claiming that Emil has abandoned her. Philip provides an apartment for her, arranges to take care of her financially, and breaks off his relationship with Norah. Norah and Philip admit how bondages exist between people (Philip was bound to Mildred, as Norah was to Philip, and as Mildred was to Miller). Philip’s intention is to marry Mildred after her child is born, but a bored and restless Mildred is an uninterested mother, and gives up the baby’s care to a nurse.

At a dinner party celebrating their engagement, one of Philip’s medical student friends, Harry Griffiths, flirts with Mildred, who somewhat reciprocates. After Philip confronts Mildred, she runs off with Griffiths for Paris. A second time, Philip again finds some comfort in his studies, and with Sally Athelny, the tender-hearted daughter of one of his elderly patients in a charity hospital. The Athelny family is caring and affectionate, and they take Philip into their home. Once again, Mildred returns with her baby, this time expressing remorse for deserting him. Philip cannot resist rescuing her and helping her to recover from another failed relationship. Things take a turn for the worse when Mildred moves in, spitefully wrecks his apartment and destroys his paintings and books, and burns the securities and bonds he was given by an uncle to finance his tuition. Philip is forced to quit medical school, but before he leaves the institution, an operation corrects his club foot. The Athelnys take Philip in when he is unable to find work and is locked out of his flat, and he takes a job with Sally’s father as a window dresser.

As time progresses, a letter is sent to Philip which informs him that his uncle has died, leaving a small inheritance. With the inheritance money, Philip is able to return to medical school and pass his examinations to become a qualified doctor. Later, Philip meets up with Mildred, now sick, destitute, and working as a prostitute. Mildred’s baby has died, and she has become distraught and sick with tuberculosis. Before he can visit her again, she dies in a hospital charity ward. With Mildred’s death, Philip is finally freed of his obsession, and he makes plans to marry Sally.

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Directed by John Cromwell, produced by Pandro S. Berman, written by Lester Cohen,
based on the novel by W. Somerset Maugham, starring Leslie Howard, Bette Davis and Frances Dee.

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Source: “Of Human Bondage (1934 film)” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 15 August 2012. Web. 31 August 2012. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Of_Human_Bondage_(1934_film).

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Nancy Drew… Reporter is a 1939 American film directed by William Clemens and starring Bonita Granville, as Nancy Drew. Nancy Drew, competing in the local newspaper’s amateur reporter contest, clears a girl named Eula Denning of murder charges.

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Directed by William Clemens, produced by Bryan Foy, Hal B. Wallis and Jack L. Warner, written by Mildred Wirt Benson (stories) and Kenneth Gamet (screenplay), starring Bonita Granville as Nancy Drew, John Litel as Carson Drew, Frankie Thomas as Ted Nickerson, Mary Lee as Mary Nickerson, Dickie Jones as Killer Parkins, Larry Williams as Miles Lambert, Betty Amann as Eula Denning, Thomas E. Jackson as City Editor Bostwick, Olin Howland as Sergeant Entwhistle and Sheila Bromley as Bonnie Lucas.

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Source: “Nancy Drew… Reporter” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 21 June 2012. Web. 28 August 2012. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Drew…_Reporter.

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Starring Barbara Stanwyck, Sterling Hayden and Raymond Burr.

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“Blood on the Sun” (1945) is a film starring James Cagney and Sylvia Sidney. The film is based on a fictional history behind the Tanaka Memorial document. The film won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction for a Black & White (Wiard Ihnen, A. Roland Fields) film in 1945.

Nick Condon (James Cagney) is a journalist for the Tokyo Chronicle. He prints a story disclosing Japan’s plan to conquer the world. The newspaper is seized by Japanese officers. Condon gets the Tanaka Plan, a paper in which all the plans are described. The Japanese spies who follow him think that Ollie and Edith Miller (Wallace Ford and Rosemary DeCamp) are the ones who discovered the plan because they suddenly have a lot of money and are coming back to the USA. When Condon goes to the ship to bid them farewell, he finds Edith dead. He can only see a woman’s hand with a ring with a huge ruby. Back home, he finds Ollie, in terrible condition. He gets from Ollie the Tanaka plan.

Premier Giichi Tanaka (John Emery) wants his plans to remain secret, and sends Col. Hideki Tojo (Robert Armstrong) Capt. Oshima (John Halloran) and Hijikata (Leonard Strong) to follow him everywhere. Condon loses the document with the Tanaka plan. Ollie’s disappeared, and the police arrest them in terms of scandal and much noise while having a party with two girls in his apartment, which is a complete lie.

Condon meets Iris Hilliard (Sylvia Sidney), half American and half Chinese. At first, he suspects her of being the lady in the ship, then he doesn’t. They fall in love. She seems to be betraying him, especially when Condon sees the ring with the ruby in her hand.

At the end, it turns out she’s been sent by a politician who wants peace and was present when the Tanaka plan was devised. Condon leaves his job after ten days. When he’s about to leave Japan, he meets the politician and Iris in the harbour. The politician signs the document to prove it’s real. They are discovered by the Japanese army.

Iris runs away with the document in a cargo ship which will take her out of Japan. To distract the Japanese officers, Condon fights his greatest enemy and tries to reach the American Embassy. He’s shot at by spies dressed in street clothes, but he’s not killed. The consular adviser goes out of the Embassy and takes Condon inside still alive, and the Japanese officers can’t prevent it, because they couldn’t find the Tanaka document when registering Condon.

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Directed by Frank Lloyd, produced by William Cagney, written by Garrett Fort and Lester Cole, starring James Cagney, Sylvia Sidney and Porter Hall.

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Source: “Blood on the Sun” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 27 May 2012. Web. 5 August 2012. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_on_the_Sun.

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“Dishonored Lady” (1947) is a film starring Hedy Lamarr, Dennis O’Keefe, John Loder, William Lundigan, and Natalie Schafer, directed by Robert Stevenson, and released by United Artists. The film is based on the play Dishonored Lady (1930) by Edward Sheldon and Margaret Ayer Barnes.

Madeleine Damien is the fashion editor of a slick Manhattan magazine by day and a lively party girl by night. Unfortunately, the pressures of her job, including kowtowing to a hefty advertiser, and her bad luck with men are driving her to a breakdown. She seeks the help of a psychiatrist, and under his orders, quits her job and moves into a smaller flat under a new identity. She becomes interested in painting and a handsome neighbor. He soon finds out about her past when an ex-suitor implicates her in a murder.

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Directed by Robert Stevenson, produced by Jack Chertok and Hunt Stromberg, written by
Edward Sheldon and Margaret Ayer Barnes (play) and Edmund H. North (screenplay), starring Hedy Lamarr as Madeleine Damien, Dennis O’Keefe as Dr. David Cousins, John Loder as Felix Courtland, William Lundigan as Jack Garet, Morris Carnovsky as Dr. Richard Caleb, Natalie Schafer as Ethel Royce, Paul Cavanagh as Victor Kranish, Douglas Dumbrille as District Attorney, Margaret Hamilton as Mrs. Geiger, landlady and Nicholas Joy as Defense Attorney

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Source: “Dishonored Lady” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 21 June 2012. Web. 6 August 2012. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dishonored_Lady.

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Dick Barton’s (Don Stannard) plans for a relaxing seaside holiday with his friends are thwarted when they stumble upon a sinister Nazi plot to unleash a deadly chemical virus and bring the nation to its knees. Will Dick, Snowey and friends be able to save the day?

Directed by Alfred J. Goulding with cinematography by Stanley Clinton

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River policemen go undercover as husband and wife to expose a smuggling ring. Their enquiries lead them to the most notorious part of town and the night-club with a reputation to match. There they gain the confidence of the owner and skilfully match the evidence with the crime but before they can inform their superiors their cover is blown and they are on their own against the most ruthless criminals the underworld has to offer.

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