On the eve of the Chinese New Year, three strangers make a pact before a small statue of the Chinese goddess of Destiny. The...
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1946
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A would-be nightclub entertainer finds her life jeopardized after she inadvertently witnesses a gangland murder while...
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1946
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Ayn Rand wrote this adaptation of Chris Massie's book Pity Mr. Simplicity, about a soldier who falls in love with a former...
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1945
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Based on a play by Leslie Storm, Tonight and Every Night is a musical wartime morale booster in which star Rita Hayworth is...
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1945
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1945
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In this high-spirited musical comedy, J. Newport Bates (Eddie Bracken) is a millionaire who finds women are only interested...
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1945
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Kitty is the "Pygmalion" legend, 18th century style. London aristocrat Ray Milland takes it upon himself to make a lady of a...
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1945
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1945
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No production unit at Paramount Pictures was busier in 1944 than the Pine-Thomas unit-and few were as bankable at the...
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1944
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1944
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Ingrid Bergman won her first of three Oscars for this suspense thriller, crafted with surprising tautness by normally genteel...
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1944
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Directed by Fritz Lang, The Woman in the Window, a sadly tragic film noir, is the story of the doomed love of married...
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1944
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Colonel Breckinridge Marshall (Walter Catlett) of Clearwater, GA -- who puts on a big front but is actually only a step away...
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1944
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A strong contender for the title of Universal's worst horror film of the 1940s, Jungle Woman continued the melodramatic...
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1944
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The White Cliffs of Dover is one of those overlong MGM wartime films that everyone seems to have seen a part of, but no one...
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1944
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The career girl in this PRC musical is Joan (Frances Langford), a Kansas City gal with showbiz aspirations. She heads to New...
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1944
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Although National Velvet was the first starring role for 11-year-old Elizabeth Taylor, the early part of the film belongs to...
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1944
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In this melodrama, a doctor returns to his home town to set out his shingle. He was born on the poor side of town and so has...
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1944
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Someone in London has driven several prominent men to madness and suicide. Normally, Scotland Yard would call in Sherlock...
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1944
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The 80-star cast of Forever and a Day would certainly not have been feasible had not most of the actors and production people...
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1943
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For his first independently-produced starring effort, James Cagney chose the sentimental drama Johnny Come Lately. Cagney...
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1943
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The fact that star Errol Flynn had been recently embroiled in a real-life rape trial only served to increase the box-office...
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1943
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A man trying to leave his fame behind discovers the perils of choosing to be the wrong unknown person in this farcical...
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1943
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Female dogs tend to shed while in heat; this is why all the collies who've played doggy heroine Lassie in the movies have...
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1943
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Everything clicks in this tuneful, colorful and profitable Betty Grable musical. The star plays Katie Farley, a gyrating...
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1943
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This wartime melodrama stars George Sanders as Keith Wilson, a disillusioned Britisher who becomes a "Lord Haw Haw"type at a...
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1943
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In this first of Universal's "Inner Sanctum" mysteries, Lon Chaney Jr. plays a neurologist plagued by a faithless wife. He...
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1943
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RKO horror producer Val Lewton dished up seven reels of brooding psychological terror with The Ghost Ship. Richard Dix stars...
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1943
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Action in the North Atlantic is solid wartime propaganda with a rather endearing inner lining of left-wing politics, courtesy...
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1943
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In his last screen appearance, bandleader Glenn Miller plays--are you sitting down?--a bandleader. The film's main plot...
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1942
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The tumultuous presidency of 17th-president Andrew Johnson is chronicled in this biopic. The story begins with Johnson's...
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1942
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No relation to the much-later "Matt Helm" spy comedy of the same name, Pine-Thomas Productions' The Wrecking Crew serves as a...
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1942
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As Academy Award-winning films go, Mrs. Miniver has not weathered the years all that well. This prettified, idealized view of...
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1942
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At the close of World War I, shell-shocked amnesia victim Ronald Colman is sequestered in a London sanitarium; with no...
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1942
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Ernst Lubitsch directs the 1942 political satire classic To Be or Not to Be, which marked the final screen appearance of...
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1942
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No one will ever know what possessed MGM's reigning screen queen Norma Shearer to select the tired old stage farce Her...
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1942
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One of two 20th Century-Fox horror melodramas released in 1942 (Dr. Renault's Secret was the second), The Undying Monster is...
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1942
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In this drama, a has-been stage thespian finds that his alcoholism is ruining his life. When his daughter, a cripple,...
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1942
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With The Mad Martindales, the eight-year association between 20th Century-Fox and child star Jane Withers came to an end....
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1942
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Based on the Ben Hecht/Charlie McArthur play Chicago, Roxie Hart is a short-but-sweet satire of highly publicized court...
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1942
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The Night Before the Divorce is when Lynn Thorndike (Lynn Bari) seeks out her ex-husband George (Joseph Allen Jr.), begging...
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1942
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Eric Knight's wartime novel This Above All was given the Tiffany treatment in the this 20th Century Fox big-budgeter....
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1942
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Handed the exploitive title Cat People, RKO producer Val Lewton opted for a thinking man's thriller--a psychological mood...
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1942
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1942
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One of the most frequently revived of the Pine-Thomas productions of the 1940s, Wildcat is set amongst the oil fields of...
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1942
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Wealthy, sheltered Joan Fontaine is swept off her feet by charming ne'er-do-well Cary Grant. Though warned that Grant is...
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1941
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1941
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In this melodrama, a loyal research psychologist escapes from Budapest after the nature of his work is discovered. He...
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1941
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This second entry in RKO Radio's "Falcon" series begins with Gay Lawrence (George Sanders), aka the Falcon, promising to give...
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1941
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1941
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1941
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Faith, Hope and Charity motivate the wacky storyline of Columbia's Three Girls About Town--or to be more exact, gorgeous...
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1941
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1941
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A sequel to the zany backstage comedy Curtain Call, RKO Radio's Footlight Fever once again stars Alan Mowbray and Donald...
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1941
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1940
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In the 1580s, the Sea Hawks -- the name given to the bold privateers who prowl the oceans taking ships and treasure on behalf...
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1940
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Filmed with the full cooperation of the Golden Gloves Tournament Association, this Paramount programmer stars...
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1940
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This Victorian-era drama is based upon the classic novel by Thomas Hughes. It follows the exploits of a young boy forced to...
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1940
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The schizophrenic screenplay of The Earl of Chicago is rendered even more bizarre by the uneven performance by Robert...
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1940
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Though he doesn't speak his first line of dialogue until the film's final ten minutes, Peter Lorre spiritually dominates the...
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1940
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Stereotypes abound in this drama that follows the attempts of a Scottish lad to marry a pretty Irish lassie and join the...
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1940
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Though the title character is loosely based on that of the notorious killer/robber Ma Barker, she has been sanitized and...
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1940
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The second entry in MGM's three-film "Nick Carter" series, Phantom Raiders is undeniably the best, and not just by default....
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1940
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As part of his new contract with Warner Bros., Edward G. Robinson agreed to appear in the gangster comedy Brother Orchid on...
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1940
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Lola Lane and James Craig play explorers working on behalf of the British government. Lane and Craig have been assigned to...
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1940
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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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1939
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Regarded as the best of Columbia's "Lone Wolf" B-picture series, The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt stars Warren William as Michael...
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1939
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Frank Capra's classic comedy-drama established James Stewart as a lead actor in one of his finest (and most archetypal)...
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1939
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Bold for its time (just prior to World War II), Confessions of a Nazi Spy is an expose of a genuine Nazi espionage ring...
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1939
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In this domestic comedy, a husband and wife manage an apartment building owned by the husband's pal. Meanwhile they must...
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1939
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In the 1830s, despite the development of the steamboat at the outset of the 19th century, all trans-Atlantic travel was still...
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1939
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1939
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In this espionage drama, a young woman enrolls in the US Army Intelligence Corps so she can avenge her brother's death. She...
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1939
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In its never-ending efforts to find a "rustic" screen personality to replace the late Will Rogers, Hollywood turned to...
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1938
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It's Double Danger for detective-story writer Robert Crane (Preston Foster) whenever he pursues his "secret life" as a suave...
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1938
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If I Were King is a delightful costume adventure tale set in 14th century France, during the reign of Louis XI, and inspired...
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1938
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In this comedy, a woman is left destitute after her father dies. To make ends meet, she begins working as a secretary to a...
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1938
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James Stewart and Ginger Rogers were "an item" when Vivacious Lady was filmed, and their obvious real-life affection for one...
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1938
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1937
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In this crime comedy, a lazy feller and his family take-up residence in an abandoned house. The squatters have no idea that...
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1937
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A couple of American soldiers of fortune are hired by the wife of a Chinese general to deliver a priceless diamond to a...
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Harvey, Durand's Valet
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1937
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Super Sleuth stars Jack Oakie as an egotistical movie actor who specializes in detective roles. Despite the gentle...
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1937
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This back-stage crime comedy, a remake of Lights Out (1923), takes a healthy satirical stab at the powerful studio system of...
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1937
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Director Anatole Litvak's first Hollywood film was a remake of his French success L'Equipage, itself based on a novel by...
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1937
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Wise Girl is a medium-level screwball comedy with faintly serious undertones. Miriam Hopkins plays an heiress whose millions...
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Dermont O'Neal, Antique Dealer
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1937
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A doctor (John Beal) who loses faith in his skills renounces his profession and hides himself in a variety of jobs. He takes...
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1937
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In this comedy, the shady editor of a newspaper does all he can to keep his best reporter from marrying a journalist from a...
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1937
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Maxwell Anderson combined the Sacco-Vanzetti story with elements of the still-unsolved disappearance of Judge Crater, and the...
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1936
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This light-hearted musical romance follows the exploits of Nikki Martin (Lily Pons), a beautiful French opera star who stows...
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1936
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1936
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The 1932 publication of Charles Nordhoff and James Norton Hall's Mutiny on the Bounty sparked a revival of interest in the...
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1935
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