The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
An Oklahoma family, driven off their farm by the poverty and hopelessness of the Dust Bowl, joins the westward migration to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression
All Through the Night (1942)
Runyonesque Broadway gamblers turn patriotic when they stumble onto a cell of Nazi saboteurs
The Lemon Drop Kid (1951)
A New York City swindler has until Christmas to come up with the 10,000 he owes a gangster, prompting him to go into scamming overdrive