The Whistler was the first of eight Columbia "B" thrillers based on the popular radio series of the same name. The Whistler,...
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Gorman
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1944
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In this musical romance, a young couple is still in love, but find themselves facing insurmountable turmoil in their...
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Hat Blake
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1944
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Unusually elaborate for a PRC film, Minstrel Man is a lively musical drama built around the talents of veteran vaudevillian...
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Lew Dunn
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1944
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Released by Monogram, A WAVE, a WAC and a Marine was packaged by Biltmore Productions, a partnership consisting of Abbott and...
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Producer R.J.
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1944
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The sparkling screwball comedy And So They Were Married was originally released as Johnny Doesn't Live Here Any More....
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1944
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Edmund Lowe was old enough to know better when he starred in the anachronistic Monogram crime comedy Oh, What a Night! Lowe...
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Detective Norris
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1944
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Ostensibly a vehicle for RKO Radio's new comedy duo Wally Brown and Alan Carney, Seven Days Ashore actually casts Brown &...
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1944
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After an absence of three years, Mae West returned to the screen in the musical comedy The Heat's On. La West is cast as Fay...
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1943
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In this lively romantic farce, a Broadway producer's Girl Friday must make sure that her recent marriage is kept secret. If...
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1943
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1943
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When the profits of their various film series began slumping in the mid-1940s, Columbia Pictures tried to broaden the appeal...
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1943
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In his book on "screwball" comedies, the late William K. Everson described What a Woman as "indistinguishable from a dozen...
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Pat O'Shea
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1943
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In this comedy, set in WW II, a Venezuelan rubber planter's son must travel to New York to try and secure a loan for the...
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Charles Barrett
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1942
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The successful producer-director combination of Walter Wanger and Tay Garnett served up another winner with Slightly...
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1940
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A remake of Racetrack, King of the Turf stars Adolphe Menjou as a seedy, alcoholic bookie with a long-dormant streak of...
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Grimes
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1939
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Sonja Henie, the Norwegian skating star, reportedly played second fiddle to no one at Fox in the late '30s, and this...
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1939
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In this romance, a young woman journeys from Syracuse to New York to see her sweetheart, a prominent architect. She is...
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1939
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A remake of Paul Leni's The Last Warning (1929), this "Crime Club" series entry once again presents the spectacle of an actor...
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Joseph Morton
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1939
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1939
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Jackie Cooper and Freddie Bartholomew, both recent graduates of the MGM production factory, are reteamed in Universal's Two...
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Bill Hallet
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1939
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20th Century Fox's Christmas gift to moviegoers in 1939, this fanciful comedy-drama features the studio's darling of the ice,...
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1939
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Two imprisoned con men become ace football players on the prison team in this comedy. They get into real trouble when the...
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1938
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20th Century-Fox's first "Jones Family" series entry for 1938 was the six-reel Love on a Budget. Back in their usual screen...
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1938
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Previously filmed in 1917 and 1932, Kate Douglas Wiggins' bucolic novel Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm is herein refashioned--and...
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1938
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Fifteen thousand dollars may have been a fortune back in 1938, but to high-powered literary agent Lynn Conway...
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Samuel Z. Walker
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1938
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Larry Edwards
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1937
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In this romance, a detective goes undercover as a jewel thief and boards a trans-atlantic cruise ship. There he joins a ring...
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Julien Stevens
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1937
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1937
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Sometimes it seemed as if Brian Donlevy played nothing but G-men during his years at 20th Century-Fox. In Midnight Taxi,...
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Philip Strickland
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1937
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Autograph hound Al Babson (Eddie Cantor) accidentally disrupts the filming of a movie about Ali Baba, and is injured in the...
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1937
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Don Ameche is called upon to testify in his married friends' divorce case. Unwilling to take sides, he skips town and hides...
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1937
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Cedric B. Cromwell
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1937
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An earnest, honest newspaper sports editor single-handedly launches a campaign to clean up the shadowy, crooked world of...
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Richards
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1937
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An airy screwball comedy, Danger--Love at Work explores the lives of a wealthy but wacky family. Ann Sothern plays the...
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1937
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Mercy killing is the primary topic of this crime drama when a doctor, who is disabled after a terrible accident begs his...
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1936
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En route from Honolulu to Los Angeles by steamship, Charlie Chan (Warner Oland) is pressed into action when a fellow...
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1936
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1936
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Based on a novel by Kathleen Shepard, Human Cargo is a lively, tongue-in-cheek melodrama purporting to expose the alien...
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Lionel Crocker
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1936
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Everybody's Old Man looks like a stray Will Rogers project, temporarily shelved when Rogers was killed in a 1935 plane crash....
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Frederick Gillespie
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1936
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Ray Jennings
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1936
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1936
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Becker
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1936
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A never-completed stage musical was the source for the MGM superproduction Born to Dance. The plot is another...
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1936
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Italian immigrant George Raft uses his wits and his fists to rise to prominence in a local political machine. He falls in...
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Rodman Drake
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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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Richard K. Mallard
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1936
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Jonesy
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1935
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In this drama, a mild-mannered bookkeeper has trouble asserting himself in both his personal and professional life. His boss...
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Fuller
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1935
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In their never-ending efforts to transform contract actress Pat Paterson a major star, Fox Studios cast the lovely lady...
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1935
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Oklahoma's own Will Rogers stars in In Old Kentucky. The storyline is in the grand tradition of most films about the...
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1935
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One of the last Fox releases before the studio's merger with 20th Century, Redheads on Parade stars John Boles and Dixie Lee...
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George Magnus
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1935
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A sharp satire of small-town politics, Thanks a Million stars Dick Powell as the leading man of a travelling musical show....
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1935
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The hero of The Pay-Off is somewhat denser than usual, making his ultimate victory all the more amazing. James Dunn plays...
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Marty Bleuler
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1935
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In a rare starring role, character comedian Edward Everett Horton is top-billed in Your Uncle Dudley. Horton is a...
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Charlie Post
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1935
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James Cagney runs a shady missing-heir tracing service, occasionally providing phony heirs in order to collect his fee. He...
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James J. Wallingham
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1934
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A Very Honorable Guy is an interesting if not terribly funny change of pace for comedy star Joe E. Brown. This Damon Runyon...
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The Brain
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1934
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Shirley Temple's first starring vehicle casts her as the button-cute daughter of ex-convict Eddie Ellison (James Dunn) and...
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Welch
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1934
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Nils Asther stars as Dr. Callendar, a modern-day Svengali who hypnotizes women to do his eeeevil bidding. Callendar is...
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Roger Loft
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1934
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Although it is included in TV's "Shock Theater" passage, there's nothing overtly frightening about the heavily plotted...
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Inspector Thomas
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1934
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Harold Lloyd plays Ezekial Cobb, a missionary's son who has spent his entire life in China. Cobb is sent to his father's home...
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1934
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Dore Schary, then just cutting his teeth in the movie biz, was one of the scripters of Columbia's Fury of the Jungle. The...
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Taggart
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1934
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In this off-beat crime drama, a philandering husband murders his wife in the midst of a department store by skewering her...
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Steve
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1934
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A boozy newspaper reporter is booted out of his job for drinking too much. A few fateful twists later, he becomes partners...
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Perkins
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1933
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Having confessed to murder, Nora Moran (Zita Johann) sits sadly on death row, waiting her date with the electric chair. In...
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John Grant
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1933
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When the actress girlfriend of a rich man is pursued by a producer, the rich man hires bodyguard Lowe to protect her, but...
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1933
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Lionel Barrymore plays a Marshall Field-like Chicago businessman who emerges from the wreckage of the 1871 fire to build a...
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Thane Pardway
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1933
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Paul Bavian
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1933
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William Powell is a poor East Side lawyer who works his way up the ladder to assistant prosecutor. He isn't too particular...
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Granville Bentley
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1933
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This well-wrought drama chronicles the rise and fall of a midwestern family dynasty from the mid 1800s through the Great...
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Ogden Jarrett
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1933
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I Have Lived takes place in a New York penthouse, a Broadway theater, and a seedy speakeasy, though not necessarily in that...
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Thomas Langley
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1933
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Although claiming to be based on actual cases, this mild crime drama appears to have been derived more from a screenwriter's...
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1933
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Wade Valentine
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1933
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Sherlock Holmes and Watson solve a puzzling case in which a bloody foreign word is found beside a murder victim. The plot...
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Thaddeus Merrydew
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1933
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1933
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In this complicated drama, a husband begins an affair. His new mistress has a handsome brother who ends up falling for the...
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Larry Baldwin
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1932
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Running a swift 55 minutes, Trial of Vivienne Ware packs in more sheer entertainment value than its longer, more prestigious...
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1932
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Bachelor Andrew Hoyt (Adolphe Menjou), beginning to feel his age, convinces himself that he can become rejuvenated if he...
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Luke Radcliff
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1932
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In this political melodrama, an idealistic freshman congressman swears to do his best to get relief for his impoverished...
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Norton
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1932
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As indicated by its "catchphrase" title, Okay America is one of several early-1930s films based on the exploits of gossip...
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Jones
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1932
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College football is satirized in this comedy that begins as racketeer "Knucks" McGoin buys Canarsie College and fills it...
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Counsellor Sultsfeldt
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1932
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Inspector Slante
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1932
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Gabby Denton (Edmund Lowe) is a slightly down-on-his-luck bettor with a taste for alcohol and the ladies. To tide himself...
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1932
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The troubled career of a luckless motorcycle cop provides the basis for this police drama. His difficulties begin when he...
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1932
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Three guesses as to the profession of the heroine in Sob Sister. That's right: Jane Ray (Linda Watkins) is a girl reporter,...
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1931
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High-class call girls provide the focus of this intelligent romantic comedy that takes a rather scathing look at the...
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1931
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Wicked stars Elissa Landi as Margot Rande, a basically decent woman led down the path to perdition by her bank-robber husband...
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Blake
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1931
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Arguably John Ford's weakest film, The Brat was based on a popular 1917 stage play written by and starring Maude Fulton,...
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MacMillan Forester
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1931
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Kay Francis and Lilyan Tashman portray what used to be euphemistically labelled "good time girls". They work the convention...
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Jerry Chase
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1931
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