Aline MacMahon Movies

Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered...

A murder happens when greedy relatives gather to await the demise of their wealthy and very ill family patriarch.

A betrayed queen takes a terrible revenge.

It's the Hatfields vs. the McCoys in this 1949 film, with Farley Granger and Joan Evans as the hillbilly Romeo and Juliet whose forbidden romance...

A poor New York plumber's wife and children hope to move "uptown" from their lower East Side neighborhood after he sells his new invention.

A spinster dressmaker falls for a ne'er-do-well.

Archive footage from Potemkin (1925), with English dialogue dubbed in by American actors, is combined with new footage to tie together the brave...

Short film about nurse service in wartime. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

A farmer strikes it rich out West, then leaves his wife for a young beauty.