On his 81st birthday, grandpa George Burns, bemoans the fact that he's wasted his life, and wishes he had it to do all over...
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1988
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A humorous and skilful parody of the cliches and plot contrivances of 50's horror films, this monster movie is set in...
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1987
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With a cast starring such comic veterans as Harvey Korman, Anne Meara, Jack Weston and Tim Conway (who also wrote the...
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1986
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Although penned by the same screenwriter, David S. Ward, this sequel to The Sting (1973) is tarnished by comparisons to its...
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1983
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Prominently displaying red-white-and-blue title colors, this subtly patriotic fact-based movie about kids who succeed is...
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1983
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After a retired police officer is found beaten, Kojak discovers that the ex-cop had been keeping an over-the-hill...
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1978
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A number of wealthy, lonely women have been photographed in compromising positions for blackmail purposes by a seedy dance...
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1977
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A boy (Robby Benson) is forced to become a man when he is left orphaned in the Old West. ~ Jason Ankeny, Rovi...
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1972
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The Old West is just not the same, what with so few cattle being run, and law-abiding folk running around like they own...
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1971
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In the conclusion of a two-part story, Ironside (Raymond Burr) is still in Montreal, still trying to determine if a group of...
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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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In this satirical comedy, Fred Amidon (Dick Van Dyke) is a Fifth Avenue bank teller waiting for his divorce to be finalized...
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1969
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In this romantic comedy, a rebellious East German athlete forgoes her dowdy uniforms in favor of daring miniskirts. Soon the...
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1967
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This final episode of F Troop's first season--and the final one filmed in black and white--opens with a takeoff of the TV...
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1966
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Larry Storch pulls double duty in this episode as both Corporal Randolph Agarn and his lookalike cousin, Mexican bandit El...
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1966
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Usually cited as the absolute nadir of Bob Hope's film career, Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! is by no means a classic, but...
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1966
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Frontier con artist Sgt. O'Rourke (Forrest Tucker) meets his match in the curvaceous form of Lilli O'Reilly (Lee Meriwether)....
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1965
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Paul Drake (William Hopper) is hired to investigate when an unusually high number of heart attacks threaten to bankrupt the...
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1965
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It looks like curtains for Captain Parmenter (Ken Berry) when he manages to offend the notorious outlaw Sam Urp (played by...
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1965
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Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) is in Reno, helping Pete Warren (Peter Breck) finalize his divorce from his wife Myrna. When an...
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1965
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In this beach movie, a group of teenagers hang out at the Silver Palms everyday after school. Because things can get quite...
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1964
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John Flickenger (Benny Baker) takes no chances in planning the robbery of the trucking company where his sister Sylvia...
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1963
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This charming tale is about a young girl's father and his slightly erratic behavior after sampling a refreshing alcoholic...
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1963
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1958
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Mac Hyman's hilarious barracks novel No Time for Sergeants was adapted for TV by Ira Levin in 1955, with newcomer...
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1958
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Bret (James Garner) befriends a charming young couple, Molly Gleason (Karen Steele) and Ralph Jordan (a pre-Mannix Michael...
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1957
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Red Skelton's final film starring vehicle is an expansion of an hour-long TV play, which also starred Skelton when it was...
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1957
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Despite the fact that he's lost his lunch money three times this week, Beaver (Jerry Mathers) begs his dad Ward...
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Stanley the Barber
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1957
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In this entry in the long running "Bowery Boys" series, one of the boys is bequeathed a farm in Kentucky. The boys go there...
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1952
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Loan Shark was one of several independently-produced films made by George Raft in the early 1950s. Raft plays Joe Gargan, a...
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1952
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Not to be confused with a 1942 20th Century-Fox aviation actioner with the same title, Thunderbirds is a Republic Pictures...
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1952
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1952
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The satirical bite of Gogol's play The Government Inspector is dispensed with in favor of traditional Danny Kaye buffoonery...
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1949
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1949
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Monogram's low-budget, high-grossing "Joe Palooka" series carries on in this 66-minute entry. Joe Kirkwood plays Joe Palooka,...
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1949
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Adapted by Allen Boretz from Lucille S. Plumbs and Sara B. Smith's stage play Ever the Beginning, My Girl Tisa is set in New...
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1948
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In this courtroom drama, two opposing lawyers lead a double life. In the courtroom they are ruthless toward each other, but...
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1948
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In this thriller, a young couple gets married while the groom is on a weekend furlough with the Navy. The newlyweds have...
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1948
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A rapidly maturing Gloria Jean is the star of the Columbia musical Manhattan Angel. She's cast at Madison Avenue copywriter...
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1948
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Jinx Money is not so much a Bowery Boys vehicle as a murder mystery that happens to star the Bowery Boys. It all begins when...
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Augie Pollack
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1948
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It is said that producer Sam Goldwyn had a habit of addressing his new star of the 1940s, Danny Kaye, as "Eddie", confusing...
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1944
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James Cagney made his first Technicolor appearance in the morale-boosting aviation flick Captains of the Clouds. Cagney plays...
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1942
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Next to Ann Miller, few Columbia contractees made more B musicals than Jinx Falkenberg. In Sing for Your Supper, Falkenberg...
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1941
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Imagine the dismay of those hapless TV station managers who've booked the 1940 Martha Raye vehicle The Farmer's Daughter in...
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1940
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Lana Turner (a mere 19 years old at the time) stars in this lighthearted musical comedy as Patty Marlow, a dancer fighting...
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1939
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This comedy is set in New York and centers upon a singing Irish cop who causes quite a sensation among two producers when he...
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Sidney
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1939
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It can be said with some certainty that Paramount's Touchdown, Army is not a baseball picture. Taking time out from his...
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1938
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In this comedy, a milquetoast clerk is betrothed to the socialite whose aunt holds a big account with his company. When the...
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1938
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Tip-Off Girls is a worthwhile entry in Paramount's "FBI" series, based on the various writings of
J. Edgar Hoover. The title...
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1938
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In this drama, a Boy Scout leader hosts a local gossip show. Trouble ensues when he predicts a politician's murder just...
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Sparrow
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1937
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1937
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Love on Toast was one of several mid-1930s Hollywood films helmed by E. A. DuPont, a once-celebrated German filmmaker then on...
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Egbert
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1937
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Johnny Downs takes a break from his usual campus musicals to play a small-town songsmith in Blonde Trouble. Attempting to...
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Maxie Schwartz
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1937
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Another of Paramount's efforts to transform Metropolitan Opera diva Gladys Swarthout into a popular movie star, Champagne...
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1937
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In this crime drama, a tightwad accountant for a newspaper becomes friends with a reporter. The bookkeeper goes on vacation,...
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1937
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In this comical murder mystery, three playwrights use $500 in advance money to get an apartment in which to write a mystery....
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Horace Smith
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1937
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In this lively musical, an eccentric philanthropist's will dictates that four people receive $5,000 with the stipulation...
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1937
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In this sports drama, framed by the annual Army-Navy football game, a freshman footballer at the Naval Academy falls in love...
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Stuffy Miller
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1937
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Although Larry "Buster" Crabbe earns top billing, the hero of Drift Fence is former Western star Tom Keene as Jim Travis,...
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Jim Traft
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1936
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In her much vaunted screen debut, Metropolitan Opera star Gladys Swarthout takes on David Belasco's 30-year-old operetta...
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1936
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Actual footage of the 1936 Rose Bowl game is cleverly (if not seamlessly) integrated into the action of this sports-oriented...
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Dutch Schultz
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1936
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Charismatic Polish opera singer Jan Kiepura made his Hollywood debut in Give Us This Night. His thick Slavic accent...
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Tomasso
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1936
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Barney
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1936
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Sometimes referred to as a "baseball picture," Columbia's Panic in the Air is only peripherally involved in the sport....
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Andy
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1936
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Gail Patrick plays a young woman framed for murder. Luckily the newsman on the courtroom beat is ace photographer Lew Ayres....
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1936
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Piano Player
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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 title doesn't refer to mosquitoes but to the amount of money that could be earned in the radio business of the 1930s....
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1935
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After a false start in 1932, Paramount's Big Broadcast series was jump-started in late 1935 with The Big Broadcast of 1936....
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1935
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Love in Bloom ostensibly stars George Burns and Gracie Allen,but the team is actually comedy relief for the romantic leads,...
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1935
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1935
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Never mind the title and the musical content: College Scandal is at heart a murder mystery, and a pretty suspenseful one at...
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Cuffie Lewis
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1935
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Scrappy society belle Geraldine (Ann Sothern) is The Hell Cat in this peppy Columbia potboiler. Fed up with the intrusions of...
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Snapper Dugan
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1934
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1934
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