 The Cabin in the Cotton (1932) - Bette Davis at the beginning of her career, and Richard Barthelmess near the end of his, star as the daughter of a landowner and the son of a sharecropper tangled up in this somewhat dated drama set in the South in the 1930s. Directed by Michael Curtiz and featuring the famous Davis line, "I'd like to kiss ya, but I just washed by hair."
 The Canterville Ghost (1944) - Charles Laughton is sufficiently comical as the disgraced Sir Simon de Canterville, bricked up in his castle by his father for cowardice and cursed to haunt the place until one of his relatives is willing to redeem him by an act of courage. Based on a short story by Oscar Wilde, and adapted for a WWII audience. Also starring Robert Young and Margaret O'Brien.
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 The Cariboo Trail (1949) - Randolph Scott and Gabby Hayes fight it out with the bad guys so they can raise cattle in British Columbia during the gold rush there. Good scenery and exciting shoot-outs. It was also Gabby's last film. Available in the original Cinecolor.
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 The Catered Affair (1956) - A great cast (Bette Davis, Ernest Borgnine, Debbie Reynolds, Barry Fitzgerald, Rod Taylor) shines in Gore Vidal's screen adaptation of the Paddy Chayefsky play about a working class family from the Bronx struggling mightily with the wedding of their daughter to a rich boy.
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 Chatterbox (1936) - A vehicle for Anne Shirley (the almost forgotten actress who took her stage name from her role as "Anne of Green Gables"), who plays a stage-struck young girl who leaves home to become an actress, in spite of her grandfather's disapproval. The character bears some resemblance to that character, and the movie has been compared to Morning Glory. A young Lucille Ball and a pre-Oz Margaret Hamilton both have strong supporting roles.
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 Child of Manhattan (1933) - Based on an early Preston Sturges writing effort, this is a pre-Code melodrama starring a young Nancy Carroll as a dance-hall girl and John Boles as the millionaire who falls in love with her. Featuring Betty Grable in a supporting role and funny turns by supporting players Jesse Ralph as "Aunt Minnie" and Tyler Brooke as an openly gay fashion store proprietor.
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 China (1943) - Alan Ladd and William Bendix play a couple of tough American entrepreneurs who travel to China to sell oil to the invading Japanese, but experience a major change of heart after meeting American missionary Loretta Young and witnessing Japanese atrocities. It was clearly made to sway the opinions of the American public in favor of the suffering Chinese during World War II, and was outrageously overhyped in its promotion, but it is nevertheless an enjoyable action yarn.
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 China Girl (1942) - Henry Hathaway directed this World War II adventure/romance starring George Montgomery as an American news cameraman in the Orient just before the attack on Pearl Harbor. He escapes from a Japanese prison camp and falls in love with Gene Tierney (who wouldn't?). Co-starring Lynn Bari, Victor McLaglen, and 9-year-old Robert Blake as a Burmese child!
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 Christmas Holiday (1944) - With a title like this, and stars like Deanna Durbin and Gene Kelly, audiences might have expected a colorful song-and-dance holiday musical. Instead, this is one of Director Robert Siodmak's earliest black and white ventures into film noir! Based on Somerset Maugham's novel, it's a dark moody murder mystery with Durbin's greatest dramatic role.
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 College Coach (1933) - Pat O'Brien plays a coach who loses his wife because of his need to win football games. Look for John Wayne as an unnamed football player six years before "Stagecoach."
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 Come to the Stable (1949) - Two nuns (Loretta Young, Celeste Holm) from a French convent arrive in the small New England town of Bethlehem with a plan to build a children's hospital, enlisting the help of several colorful characters, including a struggling artist, a popular composer, and a renowned racketeer. Also starring Hugh Marlowe, Thomas Gomez, and Elsa Lanchester. Received seven Oscar nominations, including best writing by Clare Booth Luce.
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 Comrade X (1940) - Clark Gable and Hedy Lamarr star in their second film together, a goofy comedy set in the Soviet Union, reminiscent of Ninotchka, but not at all the same story. Features an excellent supporting cast and a well-done chase scene involving massed Russian tanks!
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 Confidential Agent (1945) - This atmospheric spy thriller based on Graham Greene's novel stars Charles Boyer and Lauren Bacall, with good supporting performances by Wanda Hendrix and Peter Lorre. Set during the Spanish Civil War, this was Bacall's second film, and was compared unfavorably to her luminous debut opposite Bogart in To Have and Have Not, not to mention her followup with Bogie in The Big Sleep, but she's really not bad, and Boyer is excellent as usual.
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 The Conspirators (1944) - A WW II thriller reminiscent of Casablanca (though not in the same class) boasts a great cast that includes Hedy Lamarr, Paul Henreid, Sidney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre. The three men were in the latter film, of course, while Lamarr was reportedly considered for the Bergman part, but either turned it down or was denied the part by MGM, which held her contract. She is the best thing in this movie.
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 Coquette (1929) - Mary Pickford's first talkie features her as a young Southern belle (she was almost 40 at the time) courting three different men, played by Matt Moore, George S. Irving and Johnny Mack Brown. Pickford won a Best Actress Oscar for the part.
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 Cornered (1945) - Edward Dmytryk directed this complex, noirish tale of intrigue set in post-war Argentina, with a grizzled Dick Powell, his dancing shoes put away, doing battle with Nazis and Nazi collaborators, including an appropriately menacing Walter Slezak.
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 Cotton Candy (1978 - TV) - It's a DVD copy of a videotape made from a 28-year-old TV broadcast, so don't expect "A" or even "B" quality, but this is the only copy of this I've ever found. And considering that it was directed by the great Ron Howard, who I'm sure would like to see it buried forever, it's worth watching if only for the historical significance. Not to mention an impassioned performance by Charles Martin Smith, of American Grafitti fame, as the leader of the high school rock band that gives the movie its title. Definite guilty pleasure.
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 The Count of Monte Cristo (1934) - One of Robert Donat's greatest roles (and his only lead in an American-made picture) came in the first sound version of this classic Alexandre Dumas tale of the prisoner Edmond Dantes, who is transformed into a nobleman and seeks revenge against those who imprisoned him. Elissa Landi, Louis Calhern, Sidney Blackmer and Raymond Walburn co-star. Recently upgraded from the previous copy we offered. In black and white, not colorized.
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 The Criminal Code (1931) - Prison film nominated for a Best Writing Oscar stars Walter Huston, with a strong supporting appearance by Boris Karloff. James Whale reportedly cast Karloff as Frankstein's monster after seeing him in this film.
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 Cry Havoc (1943) - World War II nurses Margaret Sullavan, Ann Sothern, Joan Blondell, Fay Bainter, Ella Raines, and Marsha Hunt face bombing raids and potential capture by the enemy on Bataan in this dramatic film set mostly in an underground bunker and based on a stage play of the same name. It distinguishes itself from other films of that era by the fact that there are hardly any appearances by men.
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 Cry of the City (1948) - A thrilling noir starring Richard Conte as a gangster and Victor Mature as the cop (and childhood pal) pursuing Conte relentlessly. Hope Emerson turns in a strong supporting performance, and Richard Siodmak's direction is one of the best of the genre. Debra Paget, Shelley Winters and Fred Clark also co-star.
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 Cry Wolf (1947) - Errol Flynn and Barbara Stanwyck (their only film together) in a thriller/melodrama/noir involving an old, dark house, menacing secrets, and hidden identities. It's well photographed, and the stars do a decent job with a poor script.
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