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- DirectorKing VidorStarsWallace BrennanRobert GordonRuth HamptonA young boy answers the call to arms by winning a slacker as a recruit for the army.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsThomas BellamyRuth HamptonErnest Butterworth Jr.A black boy is denied membership in an all-white club.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsRuth HamptonThomas BellamyErnest Butterworth Jr.Two boys take an automobile ride without the owner's permission. They are arrested, and although both tell plausible lies, their stories do not quite agree. However, the judge allows them to go free, and in the end they confess the truth.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsRuth HamptonThomas BellamyErnest Butterworth Jr.A number of boys are enjoying themselves at the old swimming hole in the bend of the creek, disporting themselves on the bank and in the water minus bathing suits: clad only in nature's garb. Tad and Mark, two urchins, are not members of the swimming hole gang. Mark, by showing he can do stunts, becomes a regular member, but forgets poor Tad, and helps the gang drive him away. Later, Tad, while stealing a swim all by himself, rescues the daughter of the owner of the surrounding land, and as a reward is given title to the swimming pool. In the meantime the boys are arrested by the former owner, and in court it looks as if it will go hard with them, when Tad rushes in, proves to the judge that he is the owner, and returns good for evil by declaring that he gave the gang permission to swim. Earnest Butterworth appears as Tad, Guy Hayman as Mark, and Ruth Hampton as the girl Tad rescues.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsRuth HamptonThomas BellamyErnest Butterworth Jr.The difficulties encountered by a young boy in getting his dad safely married.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsRuth HamptonThomas BellamyErnest Butterworth Jr.The story of a boy whose wistful opposition to a disliked suitor for his mother's hand took the form of a "haunting" campaign.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsRuth HamptonThomas BellamyErnest Butterworth Jr.The efforts of a small group of boys to escape from what they consider home bondage of the direst sort.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsRuth HamptonThomas BellamyErnest Butterworth Jr.Antionetta directs a gang of slum boys who steal milk from houses with no children to distribute to poor mothers in the tenements.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsRuth HamptonThomas BellamyErnest Butterworth Jr.The preacher's son, Charles Raymond, is caught in a night window-breaker raid conducted by a gang of boys. Charles is taken before the judge next morning. He tells the judge that his father, the minister, uses the rod freely when he has displeased him. The minister promises to give his son another good beating but the judge directs that his son be sent to the country to visit relatives. Raymond soon makes the acquaintance of the boys of his neighborhood and astonishes them when he recounts what a fighter and racer his father, the minister, is. The townsmen needs the services of a new minister and upon Charles' account of his father's reputation, his father is engaged to fill the place. Charles tells his father about the reputation he has given him, and his father, like the good sport that he is, acts the part. He meets every demand of the church committee. Charles has done his "bit."
- DirectorKing VidorStarsRuth HamptonThomas BellamyErnest Butterworth Jr.A juvenile patriotic story, in which a youngster finds a new way to aid his government.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsGeorge NicholsLloyd HughesWinter HallPaul Perry, the son of Perryville's wealthiest citizen, marries Reverend Matthew Barker's younger daughter Evelyn, while her sister June, who disputes her father's sermons preaching that it is God's will that sends affliction, hides her own love for Paul. When Evelyn dies in childbirth, Paul nearly goes insane. His questions to Reverend Barker about God's role in Evelyn's death shake Barker's faith. Barker's new sermons, focusing on God's love, arouse his wealthy congregation to dismiss him. Meanwhile, Paul searches for God's truth but becomes a derelict in Chicago. June takes Paul's child Bob to Chicago, but returns after being fired for refusing her employer's advances. Paul's father Hamilton, who denies wage increases at his iron works, is about to be shot by his employees, when Bob, now six, visits with his six puppies. His lovable nature subdues the workers, and Hamilton, also softened, complies with their requests. After Paul returns and learns that Bob, whose philosophy of love has touched him, is his own son, his happiness returns.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsZasu PittsDavid ButlerJack McDonaldNancy Scroggs, the daughter of the owner of a once-famous but now-struggling hotel, hatches a plan to draw in new customers. She picks up Peter Alstyne, a young man following his doctor's orders of a strict diet and a relaxing vacation, at the train station and convinces him--using the philosophy of Christian Science--to disregard his doctor's orders and stay at their hotel and eat all he wants. Soon he and Nancy fall in love and the hotel begins to pick up business again. But soon Peter receives a letter that changes everything for both him and Nancy.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsFlorence VidorCharles MeredithZasu PittsDonald Trent, the son of an iron-works owner, loses his belief in class distinction and recognizes his debt to others while fighting in the trenches. At home he tells his father, who abhors sentiment in business, that he wants to start at the bottom and becomes a mill hand, working near his Army buddy Colonel Jimmy, a machinist. While Donald and his sweetheart Katherine Boone are helping Jimmy care for his sick girlfriend Jennie Jones, known as "The Jazz Kid," Donald learns that his father has died and that he must take over the business. Donald's attitude soon changes, and when Jimmy, now foreman, demands repairs be made to protect lives, Donald refuses. When a wall collapses on Jimmy and he goes temporarily blind, the men strike. Katherine refuses to marry Donald, and works for an uplifting newspaper popular among the poor. After an article by Katherine changes Donald, he orders reforms and they marry. Jimmy's sight returns and he marries Jennie.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsFlorence VidorLillian LeightonWilliam De VaullDorothy Perkins, the eldest daughter of a simple, wholesome country family, leaves for the big city to study architecture. After winning a competition, she is a success, and meets Monty Rhodes, the son of aristocratic parents. Despite his parents' objections, Monty and Dorothy marry, but Mrs. Rhodes continually humiliates Dorothy for her lack of breeding. When she finally succeeds in driving the heartbroken Dorothy back to her own family, Monty realizes his mistake, and follows her to the country, where he finds happiness with his wife and their poor relations.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsFlorence VidorRoscoe KarnsBen AlexanderBeverly Tucker, the daughter of an impoverished aristocratic Southern family, has scraped together her last pennies to put her brother Dal through college in the hope that he will support the family after graduation. However, Dal harbors no such ambition and instead spends his time gambling and drinking in a saloon owned by the town's mayor, Curran. During a raid led by Curran's crusading son Merle, a detective is killed and Dal is accused of the crime. When his case seems hopeless, one of the witnesses finally comes forth to testify that the saloon manager committed the killing and Dal is cleared. After this harrowing experience, Dal reforms and Beverly and Merle marry.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsF.A. TurnerHarry ToddBobby KelsoA lonely old riverboat man is left a child by a dying mother. The old man and the boy grow to love each other. The village snoop feels that the boy would be better off in an orphanage, and the sheriff is sent to try to take him away.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsJohn BowersColleen MooreDavid ButlerThe sky pilot is a preacher who helps Gwen walk again after a near-fatal accident.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsLloyd HughesMadge BellamyJoseph BennettJohn and Tilly's happy marriage is ruined when Tilly's father finds out about the scandalous past of John's mother. John, unaware of his father-in-law's meddling, thinks Tilly has left him, and he leaves town. Her father leads Tilly to believe that John has died in an accident, and he pushes her to marry someone else.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsFlorence VidorClyde FillmoreNellie Peck SaundersFollowing her marriage to wealthy lawyer Rodney Aldrich, Rose Stanton realizes that he is uninterested in her intellect. She takes up law studies to help him in his work, and when he scoffs at the idea, she leaves him, determined to prove herself an equally-intelligent marriage partner. In New York, Rose becomes a chorus girl, then seizes the opportunity to design costumes for Broadway shows. Soon she opens a salon and is very successful, but realizes that whatever a man's interest in a woman's work, his deepest concern will be with her as a woman. As she is about to sign a Broadway contract, Rodney confesses his admiration and respect for her, and she agrees to return to the career of wife and mother.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsFlorence VidorJack MulhallTruman Van DykeA young woman's split personality creates a complicated life.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsFlorence VidorBert SprotteMathilde BrundageWealthy, spoiled society girl Judith Stafford accepts a marriage proposal from rich European Count Henri and adopts his arrogance and contempt for American "barbarians". This angers her father Tobias, who arranges for Judith and a cowboy friend of his, Larry Saunders, to be marooned on a South Sea island to teach her a lesson and break her spirit. At first the "test" has no effect on her, but she soon begins to warm to Larry--until her snobbish fiance' shows up.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsLaurette TaylorMahlon HamiltonRussell SimpsonA young Irish lass subsisting in a shanty is forced to spend three years in England training to be a proper lady in order to collect her inheritance.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsClara Kimball YoungJohn BowersKathryn McGuireSculptor Leonard Hunt is urged by his wife Vivian to compete for a million dollar prize competition for a Victory Memorial commemorating the First World War. Sylvia Morton models for Hunt, and they become romantically involved. In an attempt to save her marriage, Vivian persuades him to close the studio and go on a second honeymoon. But Hunt is unable to forget Sylvia, so he leaves Vivian. Vivian threatens to kill Sylvia unless she promises to give up Hunt. Months later, Hunt returns, remorseful and begging forgiveness, saying that Sylvia has married someone else.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsClaude GillingwaterEleanor BoardmanWilliam H. CraneThree elderly bachelors adopt a girl who's the daughter of the woman they were in love with in their youth.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsFrank MayoVirginia ValliFord SterlingMillie Stope lives with her grandfather on a remote island. Her grandfather fled there for political reasons. But they're not alone. An escaped prisoner, Nicholas, is terrorizing them, and further more, he's interested in Mllie. John Woolfolk has lost his wife in an accident and tries to forget by sailing in his yacht aimlessly on the ocean. By chance he drops anchor in a bay of that island. He soon finds out that something is wrong on that island, and furthermore, he falls in love with Millie, who sees in him a chance to get off that island. But Nicholas has threatened her with rape and murder if she tries to escape, and he has found out about her plans...
- DirectorKing VidorStarsLaurette TaylorPat O'MalleyHedda HopperThe adventures of a young shopgirl who learns that having money is not the key to happiness.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsEleanor BoardmanJames MorrisonJohnnie WalkerUnlike earlier generations of Marys who used every trickery to secure husbands, Mary the Third questions the validity of marriage in her search for adventure. Unable to decide between quiet, polite Lynn and aggressive Hal, she follows her suitors, along with sweethearts Max and Tish, on an outing, but an attempted seduction sends her home, where she becomes disillusioned by the quarreling of her parents. When they are reconciled, however, she regains her ideals and accepts Lynn.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsAileen PringleJohn GilbertEmily FitzroyGritzko (John Gilbert) is a Russian nobleman and Tamara (Aileen Pringle) is the object of his desire.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsEleanor BoardmanJohn GilbertAileen PringleGifted but neurotic novelist Jeffrey Dwyer is attracted to young, innocent Joan Converse, but neglects her when he meets sultry Inez Martin. After a short, passionate affair, Inez discards Jeffrey in favor of Harry Todd, whom she marries; Jeffrey turns to drink and debauchery and no longer writes. When he realizes the waste and futility of his life, he marries Joan, rents a lodge in the mountains, and writes a second successful novel. He and Joan are happy until Inez, whose marriage has failed, decides that she wants to resume her relationship with him. She rents a lodge near his, and after a sharp conflict between the idealistic and the sensual in his nature, Jeffrey leaves a letter for Joan, telling her that he is deserting her, and goes to Inez. Quickly realizing, however, that his infatuation with Inez is over, he returns to Joan, who forgives him and gladly welcomes him home again.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsEleanor BoardmanPat O'MalleyHarrison FordAn aristocrat who was raised in Spain returns to the United States and falls in love with a plumber.
- DirectorKing VidorGeorge W. HillStarsJohn GilbertRenée AdoréeHobart BosworthA young American soldier witnesses the horrors of the Great War.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsLillian GishJohn GilbertRenée AdoréeA group of starving artists try to survive in 1830s Paris, including a seamstress and the would-be playwright she loves.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsJohn GilbertEleanor BoardmanRoy D'ArcyIn the reign of King Louis XIII, dashing rogue and libertine Marquis de Bardelys is entranced by Roxalanne de Lavedan. Against a background of knavery and intrigue he sets out to woo and win her.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsEleanor BoardmanJames MurrayBert RoachThe life of a man and woman together in a large, impersonal metropolis through their hopes, struggles, and downfalls.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsMarion DaviesOrville CaldwellMarie DresslerAn awkward teenager hopelessly in love with her older sister's boyfriend tries to make him notice her.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsMarion DaviesWilliam HainesDell HendersonA young lady from Georgia goes to Hollywood in the hopes of becoming an actress.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsDaniel L. HaynesNina Mae McKinneyWilliam FountaineA sharecropper decides to become a preacher after falling for a vamp from the city.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsMarion DaviesElliott NugentRaymond HackettNot-so-smart chatterbox Dulcy Parker does and says all the wrong things, but they right themselves to prove she's not so dumb after all.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsJohnny Mack BrownWallace BeeryKay JohnsonIn this version of the Billy the Kid legend, Billy, after shooting down land baron William Donovan's henchmen for killing Billy's boss, is hunted down and captured by his friend, Sheriff Pat Garrett. He escapes and is on his way to Mexico when Garrett, recapturing him, must decide whether to bring him in or to let him go.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsSylvia SidneyWilliam Collier Jr.Estelle TaylorTwenty-four hours elapse on the stoop of a Hell's Kitchen tenement as a microcosm of the American melting pot interconnects during a summer heatwave.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsWallace BeeryJackie CooperIrene RichAn alcoholic ex-boxer struggles to provide a good living for his son.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsDolores Del RíoJoel McCreaJohn HallidayA native girl falls for a visitor to her island, but she's chosen to be sacrificed to the volcano god.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsRonald ColmanKay FrancisPhyllis BarryLondon barrister's marriage is under strain after his affair with a shop-girl who is out to have him. Told in flashback.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsLionel BarrymoreMiriam HopkinsFranchot ToneA divorcée leaves New York to visit her grandfather's farm and recover in the Midwest, where she unexpectedly falls in love with a married farmer.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsKaren MorleyTom KeeneBarbara PepperA group of down-on-their-luck workers combine their abilities to make a Gallafentian-style commune... and bread!
- DirectorKing VidorStarsGary CooperAnna StenRalph BellamyBecause his finances are low and he is seeking background for a new book, author Tony Barratt and his wife Dora return to his country home in Connecticut. While he is finding material for his book on the lives and customs of the local immigrant tobacco farmers, his wife returns to New York and, alas, his Japanese servant deserts him. He meets neighboring farm girl Manya Novak and hires her to cook his meals and clean his house. They soon fall in love, but following the customs of the old country, her father has entered a 'marriage bargain' for her to wed Fredrik Sobieski, a man not of her choosing.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsMargaret SullavanWalter ConnollyRandolph Scott"So Red the Rose" is King Vidor's quietly-affecting Civil War romance starring Margaret Sullavan as a Southern aristocrat, the mistress of a Southern plantation, whose sheltered life is torn apart by the War between the States. During the war's darkest days she is sustained by her love for a distant cousin, a Confederate officer played by Randolph Scott.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsFred MacMurrayJack OakieJean ParkerTwo down-on-their-luck former outlaws volunteer to be Texas Rangers and find themselves assigned to bring in an old friend, now a notorious outlaw.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsBarbara StanwyckJohn BolesAnne ShirleyA working-class woman is willing to do whatever it takes to give her daughter a socially promising future.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsRobert DonatRosalind RussellRalph RichardsonAn enthusiastic young doctor happily embarks on his career, but it isn't long before he finds out what being a doctor really entails.
- DirectorVictor FlemingKing VidorStarsJudy GarlandFrank MorganRay BolgerYoung Dorothy Gale and her dog Toto are swept away by a tornado from their Kansas farm to the magical Land of Oz, and embark on a quest with three new friends to see the Wizard, who can return her to her home and fulfill the others' wishes.
- DirectorKing VidorJack ConwayW.S. Van DykeStarsSpencer TracyRobert YoungWalter BrennanLangdon Towne and Hunk Marriner join Major Rogers' Rangers as they wipe out an Indian village. They set out for Fort Wentworth, but when they arrive they find no soldiers and none of the supplies they expected.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsClark GableHedy LamarrOscar HomolkaAn American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Communist leave the country.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsHedy LamarrRobert YoungRuth HusseyA man who lived his life as he was advised to do, not how he would have chosen to, is brought out of his shell by a beautiful young woman.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsBrian DonlevyAnn RichardsWalter AbelStefan Dangos immigrates to America and works his way up from the iron mines and steel mills to become a great American success story as an industrialist.
- DirectorKing VidorOtto BrowerWilliam DieterleStarsJennifer JonesJoseph CottenGregory PeckBeautiful, biracial Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between two brothers, one good and the other bad.
- DirectorLeslie FentonKing VidorJohn HustonStarsPaulette GoddardBurgess MeredithJames StewartThree short stories revolving around the topic of the daily question posed by the roving reporter to the readers of a daily newspaper.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsGary CooperPatricia NealRaymond MasseyAn uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsBette DavisJoseph CottenDavid BrianResentful of her small-town life, a married woman schemes to run off with a rich businessman.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsRichard ToddRuth RomanMercedes McCambridgeSent to a dude ranch in the west to recover her health, a New York actress falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of the murder of his wife.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsShirley YamaguchiDon TaylorCameron MitchellKorean War veteran returns home to rural Salinas, California with his new Japanese wife, whom he met at a war hospital. The couple are forced to deal with the sometimes subtle, sometimes overt racism of his family and the townspeople, especially after the birth of their son.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsJennifer JonesCharlton HestonKarl MaldenA sexy but poor young girl marries a rich man she doesn't love, but carries a torch for another man.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsKirk DouglasJeanne CrainClaire TrevorSharpshooting drifter Dempsey Rae comes back to Wyoming to work for beautiful rancher Reed Bowman. But Reed's plan to fence in her land's wide open spaces angers other ranchers and soon embroils Dempsey in a bloody range war.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsAudrey HepburnHenry FondaMel FerrerNapoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia, including his disastrous 1812 invasion, serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two aristocratic families.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsYul BrynnerGina LollobrigidaGeorge SandersAfter becoming king of ancient Israel, Solomon faces threats coming from his jealous dispossessed brother Adonijah, the Egyptian Pharaoh and the scheming Queen of Sheba.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsKing VidorA meditation or film-essay on metaphysics, perception, and the purpose and progress of mankind.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsTony DuquetteKing VidorKing Vidor films a glittering exhibit of design jewelry, assemblage, fabric mosaics, sculpture and other art objects by noted artist-designer Tony Duquette.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsKing VidorAndrew WyethBetsy WyethA short documentary about painting.