D: Clarence Brown. Lionel Barrymore, Lewis Stone, Benita Hume, Elizabeth Allan, Phillips Holmes, Colin Clive, Doris Lloyd. Stone gives one of his best performances as a man trying to keep his London department store (founded by his family 200 years ago) afloat during the depths of the Depression; Barrymore is a mousy clerk who's been with the store for 40 years. Superficial but pleasant drama boasts that its title came from a speech by F.D.R.

D: Clarence Brown. John Barrymore, Helen Hayes, Clark Gable, Lionel Barrymore, Robert Montgomery, Myrna Loy, William Gargan, C. Henry Gordon, Leslie Fenton, Frank Conroy. During the inaugural 24 hours of a night airmail service in South America, the hard-nosed boss pushes pilots to fly over treacherous mountains in the fog and rain to deliver serum to a hospital, while their women anxiously wait for their return. Absorbing and well made, with a poetic and arty quality that's unusual for an MGM blockbuster, yet somehow falls short of greatness. The all-star cast members rarely share the screen together. Based on the novel Vol de Nuit by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, who based it on his experiences as airmail pilot in France.

D: Irving Rapper. Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Gig Young, Nancy Coleman, Donald Crisp, Gene Lockhart, Anne Revere. Stanwyck secretly marries Brent to gain inheritance money in thin soaper, immensely aided by Fitzgerald and Coleman as her sisters. Young took his name from the character he plays in this.