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1971
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Deputy Sheriff
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1970
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John Wayne toplines this biography of the cattle owner John Simpson Chisum, a controversial figure who was the most powerful...
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1970
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Keeping officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) on their toes in this episode is a very clever--and...
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1970
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After a debut on Broadway in 1951, Paramount spent an estimated 17 to 20 million dollars in production costs for this Lerner...
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1969
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Melissa Murphy is cast as Jenny Winters, who claims she can identify the outlaw Logan gang as the men who robbed a...
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1969
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On trial for murder, Hoss Cartwright may well be sent to the gallows on circumstantial evidence. Worse still, Hoss is...
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1968
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The title character in this episode is a female amnesia victim, played by the versatile Vera Miles. While searching for...
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1968
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Long before he scored with the epic Ragtime, novelist E.L. Doctorow wrote a minor novel upon which this stark 1967 film is...
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1967
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1966
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Future Hill Street Blues star Dan Travanti (still billing himself as "Travanty") is cast as Barney Austin, the abrasive host...
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1966
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In the first episode of a two-part story, Jason (Chuck Connors) intervenes when ruthless cattle baron Aaron Shields (Gary...
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1965
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In the conclusion of a two-part story, ruthless cattle baron Aaron Shields (Gary Merrill) arranges for Jason (Chuck Connors)...
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1965
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There has never been any love lost between handsome, dissolute playboy Ernest Mullett (Peter Lawford) and his homely,...
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1965
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The seventh volume in a collection culled from the 1963-1965 science fiction anthology series focuses on a surveillance...
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1964
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Season eight of Perry Mason begins with Perry (Raymond Burr) in the middle of a natsy child-custody battle between divorcing...
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1964
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G-2 orders Lt. Hanley (Rick Jason) on a secret intelligence mission with three espionage specialists: Morgan (Skip Homeier,...
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1964
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Posing as "Johnny Sherman", Richard Kimble (David Janssen) befriends his fellow worker Gus Priamos (Gilbert Roland), who...
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1963
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This episode of The Untouchables was intended as the pilot for a spinoff series starring Scott Brady as celebrated war...
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1962
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Dr. Moody (Alan Baxter) prevails upon Paladin (Richard Boone) to locate Johnny Tully (James Stacy, the son of Moody's former...
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1962
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After the end of World War II, the world gradually became aware of the full extent of the war crimes perpetrated by the Third...
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1961
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Following the example of his sworn enemy Elliot Ness (Robert Stack), Frank Nitti sets up his own team of "Untouchables" to...
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1961
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Now working as a health club instructor, former college athletic star Ward Nichols (Ed Nelson) hopes to marry Casey Daniels...
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1961
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Major Baldwin (James Stewart) leads an eight member team of demolition experts through China. Their mission is to stop the...
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1960
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In big trouble after delivering some "hot" money, Lucy Stevens (Connie Hines) fakes her own suicide by driving her empty car...
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1960
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Sixty-year-old gardener Phil Canby (Tom Tully) woos neither wisely nor well when he falls in love with 18-year-old Sue...
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1960
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In this crime drama, an American author living in London gets involved with the wicked wife of a well-known jewel fence. The...
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1959
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Even with the guiding hand of talented action director Paul Wendkos, and good performances by the cast, this routine western...
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Reed Williams
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1959
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Small-minded small town 1950's mores threaten a youthful romance in this sudsy melodrama based on the play Teach Me How to...
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1958
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Actually, this retelling of the life of outlaw Jesse James is only as true as its predecessor, the highly fanciful 1939...
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1957
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This seedy anti-marijuana tract was distributed as She Shoulda Said No. The star is one Lila Leeds, who gained notoriety in...
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Markey
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1949
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As shown by the clock face that opens and closes the film, The Set-Up takes place within a compact 72 minutes, with the...
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Little Boy
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1949
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Fairly ambitious for Screen Guild Productions, The Prairie is set at the time of the Louisiana Purchase. Hoping to find their...
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Paul Hover
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1948
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Filmed entirely on location in New York, Close-Up affords a rare starring role for character actor Alan Baxter. While on...
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Phil Sparr
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1948
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Moss Hart's hit Broadway play Winged Victory was brought to the screen in 1944, with most of its original cast intact. The...
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1944
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The luridly titled Women in Bondage was Monogram's "answer" to RKO Radio's wartime melodrama Hitler's Children. The plot...
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1943
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Pilot No. 5 is an oddly liberal-minded film to come from conservative old MGM. Franchot Tone plays an army pilot stationed in...
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Winston Davis
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1943
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Author William Saroyan's corn-shucking brand of sentimentality works wonders in this 1943 filmization of his novel. Narrator...
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1943
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In this wartime drama, an ex-gangster proves himself a decent man when he helps defeat the Nazis while he is hiding out on a...
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Joe Morgan
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1943
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Veteran film actor Tully Marshall makes his final appearance in PRC's Behind Prison Walls. A reworking of a familiar theme,...
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Jonathan MacGlennon
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1943
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1942
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Aircraft plant worker Robert Cummings is accused of sabotaging his factory and causing the death of a co-worker. Actually,...
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1942
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The macabre, overripe war melodrama Prisoner of Japan was produced and directed by the always fascinating Arthur Ripley....
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David Bowman
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1942
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Chinese Boy
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1942
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Unable to sign boxer Joe Louis to movie contract, Republic Pictures had to make do with the losers of Louis' heavyweight...
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Joe Barton
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1941
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Columbia Pictures put a goodly number of its contract starlets to work in the mild exploitationer Under Age. Fresh out of...
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Tap Manson
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1941
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This fourth entry in MGM's Thin Man series could just as well have been titled "Nick and Nora Charles Go to the Races"....
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1941
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Maintaining Republic Pictures' early-1940s predilection for corny, antiquated titles, Rags to Riches made its national debut...
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Jimmy Rogers
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1941
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Rather than play famous outlaw Cole Younger in this film, Warner Bros. contract star Humphrey Bogart chose suspension....
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1941
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Alan Baxter, usually seen as a neurotic villain in A pictures, gets to play the good guy in Monogram's Borrowed Hero. Baxter...
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Roger Andrews
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1941
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In this entry in the long-running series, the reformed master jewel thief rushes to help a lovely heiress whose pearl...
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Jim Ryder
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1940
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The Grand Hotel formula that was so overworked in the 1930s made an encore appearance in 1940's Escape to Glory. The story is...
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Larry Perrin
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1940
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This slightly laundered remake of the 1932 courtroom classic The Mouthpiece stars George Brent as brilliant but unprincipled...
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1940
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1940
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Free, Blonde and 21 was one of a handful of films directed by former leading man Ricardo Cortez. Two of 20th Century-Fox's...
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1940
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Santa Fe Trail, Errol Flynn's third western, has precisely nothing to do with the titular trail. Instead, the film is a...
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1940
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Pat O'Brien is his usual likably obnoxious self in the Warner Bros. newspaper yarn Off the Record. While trying to smash a...
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Joe Fallon
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1939
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Based on Memory of Love, a novel by Bessie Breuer, In Name Only is soap opera par excellence, blessed with a peerless cast....
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1939
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Otis Ferguson has said of Each Dawn I Die that "the story is of the kind you would have to see to disbelieve." And to be...
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1939
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Former police chief Tim Halloran Sr. (Willard Robertson) fully expects his son Tim Jr. (Alan Baxter) to follow in his...
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Tim Halloran, Jr.
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1939
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Despite its comparatively upbeat ending, Let Us Live is one of the darkest and gloomiest films of the late 1930s. As working...
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Joe Lindon
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1939
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In this crime drama, an undercover cop infiltrates a crime syndicate being run by an incarcerated mob boss who conducts his...
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Dancer
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1938
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In this crime comedy, a fortune is stolen and every gangster in town is looking for it. They all end up staying at a young...
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Tony
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1938
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Boy Slaves is an effective indictment of the exploitation of reform school labor. Several troublesome boys are offered an...
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Graff
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1938
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An undying love is chronicled in this "women's picture." The sweeping tale begins in a quiet New England village during the...
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1938
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Edward G. Robinson offers an excellent turn as a crime lord obsessed with the welfare of his son in this melodramatic crime...
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1937
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Director John Farrow was always at his best when dealing with desperate men in desperate situations. One of Farrow's lesser...
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Danny
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1937
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In this crime thriller, an old, ailing scientist has been robbed of the burglar alarm he invented by his partner, who owns a...
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1937
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It Could Happen to You is one of those captivating "little" pictures whose reputation is built up via word of mouth....
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Bob Ames
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1937
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James Mead
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1937
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Framed by the fast-paced world of horse racing, this romance centers upon the wealthy young owner of a racing stable who...
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1937
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Joan Bennett is a manicurist who becomes a newspaper reporter. She joins forces with jaunty detective Cary Grant to get the...
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1936
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A lesser but still effective entry in the mid-1930s "prison" cycle, Parole catalogues the many problems facing prisoners...
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1936
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When wealthy Mr. Ames is murdered, his beautiful wife Hope (Madeleine Carroll) is the principal suspect. She is acquitted...
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Lou
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1936
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Making a transcontinental plane flight in only thirteen hours was quite an achievement when this film was made in 1936 -- but...
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1936
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Paramount's first outdoor Technicolor feature, Trail of the Lonesome Pine was the third film version of John Fox Jr.'s novel....
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1936
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An innocent but admittedly none-too-bright victim of circumstance, Mary Burns (played by perennial movie victim...
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"Babe" Wilson
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1935
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