Out West With The Hardys

Out West With The HardysWhen Judge Hardy (Lewis Stone) gets a cry for help from his old school chum Dora (Nana Bryant), he packs the whole clan up and heads out west to help her save her ranch. Landing where the buffalo roam, Judge Hardy sets to "researches and strategizes" for a legal answer to Dora's water rights issues while Andy (Mickey Rooney) tries to pass as a Westerner with disastrous results. And to compound the complications, sister Marian (Cecilia Parker) finds

Barbara Stanwyck stars in this moody melodrama as a widow struggling to rebuild her life despite uncharitable rumors

Only after the war

*Huston: Actor in a supporting role - Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

with the two men climbing towers in a blinding blizzard to repair lines "as hot as an electric chair

Famed newspaperman Ben Hecht co-scripts this tale of money and happiness that is by turns comical and cautionary

including the most striking ensemble seen this side of Freaks and a truly twisted stunner of a finale

witty and scathing portrait

historian Rudy Behlmer

are really part of a gang planning to steal a duchess' pearls

Love and larceny may - or may not - mix when Norma Shearer (The Women) brings her ultrachic manner to the title role and Basil Rathbone (future star of the 1939- 1946 Sherlock Holmes films) plays Dilling in this early talkie based on a celebrated stage hit and directed by Sidney Franklin (The Good Earth)

as his life story is relayed by those who knew him to the police

when Charlotte takes the handbrake off her life and goes Crazy from the Heart