"If they move, kill 'em!" Beginning and ending with two of the bloodiest battles in screen history, Sam Peckinpah's classic...
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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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Barney Sturgess
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1968
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Set amidst the steamy underworld of Bermuda and Jamaica, this spy adventure chronicles the exploits of a female spy trying...
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Walter Ludeker
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1967
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The IMF is faced with an assignment that virtually requires them to be in two places at once. First, they must prevent the...
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1966
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1966
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One of the most fearsome of the Japanese monsters to hit the screen in the early 60's makes his debut in sci-fi thriller. As...
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Secretary of Defense
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1965
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Don Murray stars as a humble cowboy with aspirations for bigger things. He borrows money from his dance-hall girlfriend...
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Conrad
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1959
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Although a mood of melancholy or worse pervades this excellent western, it remains an honest and hard-hitting look at the...
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1959
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Scripter Paddy Chayevsky altered his successful stageplay for this routine cinematic version of Middle of the Night,...
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Walter Lockman
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1959
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1959
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In this lush, lurid adaptation of the 1957 Tennessee Williams one-act, Elizabeth Taylor and Katharine Hepburn play a...
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Dr. Hockstader
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1959
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Filmed in 1958 and released by United Artists in 1959, Machete is set on vast Puerto Rican plantation. Juano Hernandez plays...
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Don Luis Montoya
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1958
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Hot on the heels of his successful sci-fier Kronos, Kurt Neumann directed the lesser genre entry She Devil. Jack Kelly stars...
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Dr. Rach
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1957
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Once again Edward G. Robinson takes a script from the trash bin and makes it into a palatable movie. A remake of The...
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Frank Garland
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1955
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Regarded by many critics as the ultimate film noir, and by many more as the finest movie adaptation of a book by...
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Dr. Soberin
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1955
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This truncated screen version of John Steinbeck's best-seller was the first starring vehicle for explosive 1950s screen...
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1955
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Paul Newman made his screen debut in the gloriously nonsensical costume epic The Silver Chalice. Freely adapted from a novel...
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1954
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The upbeat title belies the film's often melancholy subject matter. Based on a novel by Ferdinand Reyher, Nellie stars...
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Lloyd Slocum
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1952
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1952
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Luciano Emmer, one of Italy's foremost purveyor of art-oriented short subjects, collaborated with Lauro Venturi on the...
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1952
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Based on a story by Paddy Chayefsky, this is the tale of a man who is being forced to retire from his job, at the age of 65,...
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1951
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If ever there was an actor born to play Billy the Kid, it was the combustible Audie Murphy. In Kid from Texas, Murphy is cast...
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Alexander Kain
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1950
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Producer-director Edward L. Cahn's Prominent Pictures produced this low-budget thriller-noir which was then sold outright to...
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Armitage
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1950
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1950
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Search for Danger was the last entry in the "Falcon" film series, which began at RKO in 1941 and was sequestered at...
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Kirk
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1949
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After Ray Milland turned down the leading role in Bride of Vengeance, Paramount contractee John Lund stepped into the role of...
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Vanetti
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1949
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Lex Barker first stepped into the loincloth of the Lord of the Jungle in Tarzan's Magic Fountain. The story gets under way...
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White Hunter
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1949
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In this musical drama set at the turn-of-the-century, a saloon singer marries a wealthy attorney and then begins fooling...
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Mark Brady
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1948
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In this western the two sons of the commanding officer of an outpost attempt to clear their father's name after he is...
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1948
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Adapted by Moss Hart from the novel by Laura Z. Hobson, this film stars Gregory Peck as recently widowed journalist Phil...
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1947
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Albert Dekker plays a crooked investment agent who embezzles a large sum from an estate, hoping to cover his crime by...
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1947
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Slave Girl is the sort of fare that the Universal higher-ups used to dismiss as "tits and sand;" nonetheless, this kind of...
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Pasha
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1947
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Promoted from Republic B westerns to "A" productions, William "Wild Bill" Elliot found himself in the sort of roles...
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1947
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Fans of William "Wild Bill" Elliot vastly prefer his B westerns to his big-budget Republic "specials", though the latter...
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1947
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1947
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Big Jim Colfax
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1946
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Mr. Pike
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1946
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French Key is a Republic Pictures murder mystery with all of the studio's genre trademarks: Good cast, reasonably good...
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Johnny Fletcher
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1946
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Based on a famous book by Richard Henry Dana, Jr., this grueling saga of shipboard oppression is set in the mid-19th century....
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1946
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If Republic's skating star Vera Hruba Ralston could go "dramatic", so too could Monogram's skating star Belita. Produced by...
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Frank Leonard
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1946
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Officially based on a novel by Margaret Carpenter, Experiment Perilous would seem to be more inspired by MGM's psychological...
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Claghorne
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1945
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Inspector Callahan
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1945
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This campy little drama launched the career of B-girl Yvonne De Carlo. It is set during the Franco-Prussian war and...
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Von Bohlen
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1945
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Incendiary Blonde is a highly entertaining if historically suspect biopic of "Queen of the Nightclubs" Texas Guinan. As...
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Cadden
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1945
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Originally, producer Harry Sherman's Woman of the Town was slated for Paramount release, but that studio was overloaded with...
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1944
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Originally slated for Paramount release, Buckskin Frontier was ultimately distributed by United Artists. Richard Dix stars as...
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Gideon Skene
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1943
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Like several other Harry Sherman Productions of the 1942-43 season, The Kansan was originally slated for a Paramount release,...
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Steve Barat
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1943
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In Old Oklahoma is better known today by its reissue title, War of the Wildcats. John Wayne heads the cast as oil man Dan...
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Jim Hunk Gardner
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1943
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Long underappreciated by film buffs, The Lady Has Plans is a screwball comedy disguised as an espionage melodrama. The title...
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Baron Von Kemp
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1942
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In this musical comedy, a country bumpkin spends most of his free time watching movies and becomes such an expert that he can...
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Bugsie Malone
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1942
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In this drama, a dedicated forest ranger begins suspecting that a recent series of fires has been caused by arson. He...
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Twig Dawson
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1942
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With its slight resemblance to Destry Rides Again (1939) -- probably not entirely coincidental -- this rousing Western from...
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1942
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A solid Jonathan Latimer screenplay is one of the "plusses" of the medium-budget mystery A Night in New Orleans....
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Lt. Richards
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1942
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The winner of four Oscar nominations, Wake Island was one of the first major Hollywood films to deal with America's forced...
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Shad McCloskey
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1942
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Star-Spangled Rhythm is a typical wartime all-star musical-comedy melange, this time from Paramount Pictures. The slender...
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1942
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The surrealistic opening sequence, featuring a WW2 calendar as written "by A. Hitler", should be indication enough that Once...
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Gaston Leblanc
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1942
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One of the eerier chillers of its period -- and one of the best ever to come out of Paramount -- Stuart Heisler's Among the...
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John Raden
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1941
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Filmed independently in 1939, The Great Commandment finally attained released in 1942 via 20th Century-Fox. Set in 30 AD, the...
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Longinus
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1941
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Phil Hendricks
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1941
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Wessel Smitter's semicomic novel FOB Detroit was the source material for Reaching for the Sun. Joel McCrea plays a North...
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Herman
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1941
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Bandleader Orrin Tucker and his featured vocalist "Wee" Bonnie Baker are the stars of the Paramount pocket musical You're the...
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Luke Laramie
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1941
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The marvelous rapport between stars Clark Gable and Lana Turner makes MGM's Honky Tonk seem far more substatianal than it...
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Brazos Hearn
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1941
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A gangster and his mob buy a small-town in this warm comedy. They, tired of trying to make it as big city hoods, buy the...
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Louie
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1941
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George Bird
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1940
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"Strange" is right: this mystical MGM melodrama has to be the oddest of the studio's Clark Gable-Joan Crawford vehicles. When...
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1940
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Dr. Thorkel
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1940
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Set in the South Seas, Seven Sinners stars Marlene Dietrich as a cabaret singer whose reputation as a troublemaker has gotten...
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Dr. Martin
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1940
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Bob Hope and an all-star cast have great fun in this frothy romantic comedy about a wealthy tycoon who learns that he only...
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1939
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This second of three movie versions of P.C. Wren's adventure novel Beau Geste is a virtual scene-for-scene remake of the 1927...
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1939
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Man in the Iron Mask is independent producer Edward Small's 1939 edition of the much-filmed Dumas classic. The title...
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1939
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In this drama, a vengeful woman searches for the man she blames for her sister's suicide. To get at him, the woman...
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1939
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1938
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After a three-year absence, Columbia's "Lone Wolf" series resumed with the uneven The Lone Wolf in Paris. Francis Lederer...
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1938
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The plot of She Married an Artist is summed up by the title, as was often the case in such 1930s romantic comedies. European...
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1938
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M.G.M.'s opulent costume drama Marie Antoinette marked a return to the screen after a two-year absence for reigning Queen of...
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1938
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Extortion was designed as a sort of trial balloon for Columbia's new contractees Scott Colton and Mary Russell. The story...
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1938
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Director James Whale, well known for his witty horror films, tackled comedy head-on in this period piece, set in the 18th...
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1937
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