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Synopsis: Jason McCord (Chuck Connors) heads to Los Angeles to deliver a gold shipment worth $50,000. At the same time, Mexican teenager Juan Molinera (Jose DeVega) dreams of reviving the memory of notorious bandido Joaquin Murietta. To do this, Juan intends to steal the gold in Jason's possession--a task Read More
Actors: Mary Jane Croft, Carole Cook, Dorothy Konrad, Richard Reeves, Ben Welden
Synopsis: The all-female Danville Volunteer Fire Department needs new uniforms, but there's no money in the treasury. Hoping to raise the necessary funds--and to save her job as fire chief--Lucy (Lucille Ball) organizes a paper drive. Assuming that this undertaking will merely entail collecting old Read More
Synopsis: Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) are on the prowl for the criminals who have been robbing all-night restaurants throughout LA. As usual, Friday demands "just the facts"--and he gets them from one robbery victim, who supplies serial numbers for the stolen cash. This episode features a Read More
Synopsis: Introduced in the previous episode "Divide and Conquer", Professor LaSerne (Everett Glass) returns in this episode to help Superman (George Reeves) sidestep a legal obstacle. It seems that wanted criminal Paul Barton (Bruce Wendell) has evaded arrest for past crimes by sealing himself in a huge Read More
Synopsis: Having invented a "forget gas" in the previous episode, eccentric scientist Professor Pepperwinkle (Phillips Tead) is back with a new creation, a robot named Mr. MacTavish. Unfortunately, the main power source for the robot is Kryptonite, which of course is lethal to the otherwise invulnerable Read More
Synopsis: In order to get an exclusive interview with paroled criminal boss Lank Garrit (Milton Frome), Lois (Noel Neill) stages her own disappearance and sends fellow reporter Clark (George Reeves) off on a wild goose chase. Disguising themselves as domestics, Lois and Jimmy (Jack Larson) manage to Read More
Synopsis: When a city cafe owner buys himself a peaceful country manse to relax in, the Bowery Boys are quite excited. Unfortunately, they arrive to discover the house in a terrible stage of decay and so agree to help fix it up. No sooner do they begin repairs than they find a fortune hidden inside the Read More
Actors: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Anita Ekberg, Pat Crowley, "Slapsie Maxie" Rosenbloom
Synopsis: Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis made their last joint film appearance in the girl-filled musical Hollywood or Bust. The thinnish plot finds inveterate film fan Jerry making a cross-country journey to Tinseltown for the purpose of meeting his favorite screen star, the buxom Anita Ekberg (the film's Read More
Actors: Bruce Bennett, Richard Arlen, John Carradine, Faron Young, Lloyd Corrigan
Synopsis: Hidden Guns is not so much a western as a suspense melodrama. Bruce Bennett plays Stragg, a mean-spirited cardsharp with friends in high places. Though he has ordered the killing of a rival, Stragg is able to escape prosecution by greasing a few local palms. It is up to heretofore ineffectual Read More
Synopsis: This episode marks the first appearance of Phillips Tead) in the role of eccentric scientist Professor Pepperwinkle, whose offbeat inventions invariably cause trouble for Clark Kent (George Reeves) and his fellow "Daily Planet" newshounds. This time, Pepperwinkle has created a device that fools Read More
Synopsis: Future TV western star Chuck Connors appears in this classic episode as a gangly hillbilly who happens to be named Sylvester J. Superman. Arriving in Metropolis to seek his fortune, the clueless Sylvester answers a classified ad for the "real" Superman (George Reeves), and before long has been Read More
Actors: Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Lori Nelson, Byron Palmer, Russell Johnson, Hilo Hattie
Synopsis: The title tells all in this seventh entry in Universal's "Ma and Pa Kettle" series. This time around, Ma (Marjorie Main) and Pa (Percy Kilbride) take their brood to Hawaii, where Pa is to take over management of his cousin's fruit processing operation. The villains are a group of rival businessmen Read More
Actors: Paul Marion, Bud Osborne, Rick Vallin, John Hart, Michael Fox
Synopsis: A long-awaited sequel to Columbia Pictures' popular The Phantom (1943), this film was produced by legendary Hollywood cheapskate Sam Katzman. Katzman refused to pay the owners of the character, King Features, their royalty demands, thus the name change to "Captain Africa." The 1943 Phantom still Read More
Actors: Peter Graves, James Seay, Gaylord "Steve" Pendleton, Barbara Bestar
Synopsis: The Killers from Space in this low-budget sci-fier are a group of aliens bent on conquering the earth. To this end, they overtake the mind and body of atomic scientist Peter Graves, using the poor man as a combination spy and saboteur. When Graves realizes this, he tries to warn mankind, but no Read More
Actors: George Reeves
Actors: Paul Kelly, Maureen O'Sullivan, John Ireland, Lawrence Tierney, Arthur Franz
Synopsis: Like its predecessor Duffy of San Quentin, The Steel Cage is made up of episodes from a never-telecast TV series based on the career of progressive prison warden Clinton T. Duffy. Paul Kelly plays Duffy, while his wife is portrayed by Maureen O'Sullivan. Divided into three separate playlets, the Read More
Synopsis: Ex-mobster Larry McCoy (Billy Nelson) is looking to make a comeback, and finds the means to do so in the work of his eccentric scientist neighbor (terling Holloway), who has invented a super-computer (referred to here as a "thinking machine"). The device, referred to by its maker as "Mr. Kelso," Read More
Actors: James Stewart, Joanne Dru, Gilbert Roland, Dan Duryea, Jay C. Flippen
Synopsis: Thunder Bay was another inspired collaboration between star James Stewart and director Anthony Mann. Stewart plays an ex-GI named Steve, who has a hankering to drill for oil in the Gulf of Mexico. Together with his army buddy Gambi (Dan Duryea, in a rare good-guy role), Steve attains the financial Read More
Synopsis: Superman (George Reeves) rescues Corky, a sweet, playful dog, from the well into which he's fallen, and returns the dog to his owner, Joyce (Dona Drake). He later discovers that the dog has bonded with him and is seeking him out -- the problem is that Corky recognizes him in his Clark Kent guise Read More
Actors: Robert Blake, Victor Mature, Mari Blanchard, Virginia Field, Guy Rolfe, Leon Askin
Synopsis: It's a toss-up as to who looks better unclothed in Universal's Veils of Bagdad: Hero Victor Mature or heroine Mari Blanchard. Mature plays a Robin-Hood type named Antar, who travels with a troupe of jugglers and wrestlers, all of whom double as thieves, pickpockets and second-story men. When the Read More
Actors: Mickey Rooney, Dick Haymes, Peggy Ryan, Ray McDonald, Barbara Bates
Synopsis: Co-written by director Richard Quine and Blake Edwards, All Ashore has so many excellent individual components that one wishes the sum total was better than it is. Mickey Rooney, Dick Haymes and Ray McDonald play a trio of eternally broke sailors, on shore leave at Catalina Island. Because of his Read More
Synopsis: A congressional witness against crime boss Lou Cranek (Dan Seymour) suddenly refuses to testify--then abruptly drops dead. The reason? The unfortunate witness has fallen victim to a deadly mind-controlling machine, created for the "good of mankind" by kindly Dr. Stanton (Griff Barnett), but used Read More
Actors: Robert Clarke, Mary Hatcher, Paul Cavanagh, Wade Crosby, Whit Bissell
Synopsis: Though filmed through the facilities of Hal Roach Studios and produced by Hal Roach Jr., Tales of Robin Hood was released by Lippert Pictures. Robert Clarke stars as the young Earl of Huntington, who after losing his property and title to the invading Normans heads to Sherwood Forest. Here he Read More
Actors: Gene Autry, Pat Buttram, Virginia Huston, Thurston Hall, Judy Nugent
Synopsis: Gene Autry and Pat Buttram are innovatively cast as Gene Autry and Pat Buttram in Night Stage to Galveston. Set during the wild-and-wooly days when the Texas Rangers were supplanted by various local corrupt police officials, the story finds Gene at odds with crooked police chief Gen. Slaydon (Robert Livingston Read More
Actors: Helen Walker, Willard Parker, Elizabeth Risdon, Emory Parnell
Synopsis: Mickey Rooney made his directorial debut with My True Story. Per its title, the film is based on an article which first appeared in the pages of True Story magazine. Jewel thief Ann Martin (Helen Walker) is paroled thanks to some string-pulling by criminal boss George Trent (Wilton Graff). Ann Read More
Actors: Bob Hope, Marilyn Maxwell, Lloyd Nolan, Jane Darwell, Andrea King, Fred Clark
Synopsis: Damon Runyon's Broadway fable The Lemon Drop Kid was filmed twice by Paramount Pictures, but only the 1934 version with Lee Tracy paid more than lip service to the original Runyon story. The second version, filmed in 1951, was completely retooled to accommodate the talents of Bob Hope. Known far Read More
Actors: Ben Welden
Synopsis: Ricky (Desi Arnaz) brings home a 3,250-dollar mink coat that he has rented for his nightclub act. Jumping to conclusions as usual, Lucy (Lucille Ball) assumes that Ricky has purchased the coat for her anniversary present. In desperation, Ricky inveigles Fred (William Frawley) into posing as a Read More
Synopsis: In the third entry of his long-running television series, Gene Autry comes across a man murdered by a silver arrow. In Cottonwood, Autry and sidekick Pat Buttram learn that the victim was one of four men responsible for sending Randy Edwards (Jim Frasher) up the river for a crime he may not have Read More
Synopsis: "Sing Me a Song of the Saddle," warbles Gene Autry in this, the premiere episode of his five-season-long television series. Autry was powerful enough in 1950 to disobey his feature film employer Columbia Pictures, who, in concert with the rest of the Hollywood establishment, looked upon television Read More
Actors: Yvonne De Carlo, Phillip Friend, Robert Douglas, Elsa Lanchester, Andrea King
Synopsis: The Buccaneer's Girl of the title, played by Yvonne de Carlo, is Deborah McCoy, an entertainer who's been around a bit. While visiting New Orleans, Deborah falls in love with aristocratic Frederick Baptiste (Philip Friend), who turns out to be a pirate. Baptiste is basically a decent fellow: his Read More
Actors: Jon Hall, Susan Cabot, Raymond Greenleaf, Henry Marco, Al Kikume
Synopsis: In On the Isle of Samoa, beefcake star Jon Hall plays Kenneth Crandall, an unsavory gambler who absconds with his partner's money in a stolen plane. He crashes on an unchartered island, where he comes across a tribe of English-speaking natives, benevolently overseen by selfless missionary Peter Read More
Actors: Yvonne De Carlo, Richard Greene, Jackie Gleason, George Macready, Rock Hudson
Synopsis: The Desert Hawk deserves to be seen on the basis of its cast alone. No more believable than any of Universal's other sword-and-sand epics, this one stars Yvonne de Carlo as Princess Shaharazade (sic) and Richard Greene as Omar, aka the Desert Hawk. By day a humble blacksmith, the Desert Hawk Read More
Actors: Gene Autry, Gloria Henry, Pat Buttram, Mary Beth Hughes, Robert Livingston
Synopsis: Gene Autry enjoyed considerable success with his recording of Stan Jones' haunting "Riders in the Sky". He then parlayed this success into a film, which proved to be one of Autry's best postwar efforts. The basic plot concerns Autry's efforts to clear rancher Ralph Lawson (Steve Darrell) of a Read More
Actors: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, Frankie Darro, Billy Benedict
Synopsis: In this entry in the long running comedy-drama series, the boys get into the world of prizefighting. When one of Slip's pals is killed in the ring, he and the boys plot their revenge against the gangster responsible. They enlist the aid of the late fighter's boozy brother, who was also a fighter. Read More
Actors: Marsha Hunt, John Litel, June Vincent, Harry Shannon
Synopsis: Marsha Hunt seems far too mature and intelligent for the pulpish goings-on in Mary Ryan, Detective. Still, Hunt was a pro (for that matter, she still is), and she managed to survive this Columbia "B" without egg on her face. Assigned to get the goods on a notorious fence, detective Mary Ryan Read More
Actors: Brian Donlevy, Ella Raines, Charles Coburn, Helen Walker
Synopsis: Though he doesn't know it at first, industrialist Walter Williams (Brian Donlevy) shouldn't trust his wife Irene (Helen Walker) any farther than he can throw her. Irene schemes with her lover Jim Torrance (Tony Barrett) to kill Walter in an "accidental" car crash. The plan fails, and it is Jim who Read More
Actors: Marjorie Steele, Steve Brodie, Marc Lawrence, Ben Welden
Synopsis: William "One Take" Beaudine warms the director's chair for Lippert Pictures' Tough Assignment. The film is essentially a combination western and contemporary crime yarn, with Don Barry cast as Dan Reilly, a frontier journalist. With the help of his wife Margie (Marjorie Steele), Dan tries to get Read More
Actors: Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, William Demarest, Mary Jane Saunders, Bruce Cabot, Thomas Gomez
Synopsis: This second of four film adaptations of Damon Runyon's Little Miss Marker is tailored to the talents of Bob Hope. A shifty Broadway bookie, Sorrowful Jones (Hope) becomes a reluctant foster parent when an anxious gambler leaves behind his little girl Martha Jane (Mary Jane Saunders) as a "marker," Read More
Actors: John Calvert, Albert Dekker, Myrna Dell, Douglas Fowley
Synopsis: Search for Danger was the last entry in the "Falcon" film series, which began at RKO in 1941 and was sequestered at low-budget Film Classics by the end of the 1940s. Professional magician John Calvert stars as the debonair amateur sleuth known to friend and foe alike as The Falcon. This time our Read More
Actors: Richard Denning, Frances Rafferty, Lora Lee Michel, Ralph Dunn, Nana Bryant
Synopsis: The direction of Lady at Midnight is credited to Sherman Scott, who was really our old friend Sam Newfield, aka Peter Stewart, possibly the most prolific director in "B"-picture history. Radio newscaster Peter Wiggins (Richard Denning) and his wife Ellen Wiggins (Frances Rafferty) hope to adopt Read More
Actors: Stanley Andrews, Ben Baker, Billy Benedict, Betty Caldwell
Synopsis: 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 a gambler is murdered shortly after winning $50,000 in a card game. As the other cardplayers scramble around in search of the money, Slip Mahoney (Leo Gorcey) and Sach Jones Read More
Actors: Eddie Albert, Binnie Barnes, Catherine Doucet, Dick Elliott, Tom Fadden
Synopsis: In this western comedy, a milquetoast gunsmith from the East Coast goes to Arsenic City, Arizona because he has heard that everybody their carries guns. His trip West is an exercise in misfortune. Everything that could go wrong on the journey, does. At least he meets a pretty woman, also en route Read More
Actors: Virginia Mayo, Bruce Bennett, Tom D'Andrea, Richard Rober, Helen Westcott
Synopsis: Despite the film's title, socialite Linda Vickers (Virginia Mayo) isn't smart enough to steer clear of the gambling den operated by gangster Marty Fain (Bruce Bennett). Forced to join Fain's operation, Linda gets mixed up with duplicity and murder-not to mention a torrid romance with the gangster Read More
Actors: Chester Morris, June Vincent, Richard Lane, Patricia White, Edward Norris
Synopsis: Who better to guard a priceless pearl necklace than an ex-thief? That's the logic behind Trapped by Boston Blackie, starring Chester Morris in the title role. Blackie finds himself posing as a guard at a society party, where the hostess (Sarah Selby) intends to display her new necklace. The Read More
Actors: Lou Costello, Bud Abbott, Cathy Downs, Joseph Calleia, Leon Errol
Synopsis: For their first independently-produced vehicle, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello chose to appear in a remake of the 1939 Universal programmer For Love or Money. Bud and Lou are cast as Ted and Tommy, two bumbling window washers hired by gangster Mike Craig (Joseph Calleila) to collect a $50,000 Read More
Actors: David Alexander, Sam Bernard, Peter Brocco, Rudolph Cameron, Robert Cherry
Synopsis: The positive public response to such productions as Crossfire and Gentleman's Agreement led to a mini-cycle of postwar anti-prejudice films. One of these was The Vicious Circle, based on a true incident which had previously been dramatized in G. W. Pabst's The Trial. In the late-19th century, an Read More
Actors: John Calvert, Catherine Craig, Jack Reitzen
Synopsis: Appointment with Murder is the second of three "Falcon" mysteries produced by bargain-basement Film Classics Productions in the late 1940s. Professional magician John Calvert assumes the leading role of private eye Michael Lanyard, aka The Falcon. Working for an insurance company, Lanyard travels Read More
Actors: Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Benny Goodman, Hugh Herbert, Steve Cochran
Synopsis: A Song is Born is a musical remake of the 1941 comedy Ball of Fire, with the same producer (Sam Goldwyn) and director (Howard Hawks) at the helm. It will be recalled that the original film, co-scripted by Billy Wilder, was an amusing spin on "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," wherein seven Read More
Actors: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Maureen O'Hara, Walter Slezak, Anthony Quinn, Jane Greer, George Tobias
Synopsis: In the RKO swashbuckler Sinbad the Sailor, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. nostalgically emulates his famous father. The first seven voyages of Sinbad have come and gone: now he is on an eighth mission, in search of the island where Alexander the Great allegedly hid his treasure. Participants in the Read More
Actors: Frank Albertson, Stanley Andrews, Stuart Erwin, Dorothy Granger, Anne Gwynne
Synopsis: Screen Guild's Killer Dill trods a comedy path previously taken by such films as Mr. Lemon of Orange and The Whole Town's Talking. Stuart Erwin stars as Johnny Dill, milquetoast door-to-door salesman who happens to be the exact double of a notorious Prohibition gangster. When the bad guy murders a Read More
Actors: Stuart Erwin, Glenda Farrell, Russ Vincent, Irene Ryan, Milburn Stone
Synopsis: In this comedy, a realtor at the end of his rope is grossly misdiagnosed as having three months to live. The already hyper-nervous man is therefore convinced that he will die. Later some of his clothing is recovered from a local creek and his family and friends assume that the poor man took his Read More
Actors: Ernie S. Adams, John Bagni, Alan Carney, Catherine Craig
Synopsis: Albert Dekker plays a crooked investment agent who embezzles a large sum from an estate, hoping to cover his crime by marrying the estate's heiress (Catherine Craig). The girl is already engaged, so Dekker arranges to have the fiance killed. The hit man's only means of identifying the victim-to-be Read More
Actors: Hugh Beaumont, Trudy Marshall, Ralph Dunn, Claire Carleton, Charles Mitchell
Synopsis: PRC's "Michael Shayne" series came to an unsatisfying end with Too Many Winners. This time, flippant private eye Mike Shayne (Hugh Beaumont) hopes to leave crime-solving behind while taking a vacation. His quietude is short-lived when a woman who has information on a gang of racetrack-ticket Read More
Synopsis: In this musical, an orphan is under the false impression that her newly found relatives are filthy rich. Lacking the heart to tell her the truth, the relatives move into an abandoned mansion to entertain her and her fiance. Songs include: "That's Good Enough for Me", "A Man Is a Brother to a Read More
Actors: Esther Williams, Akim Tamiroff, Ricardo Montalban, John Carroll, Mary Astor
Synopsis: Esther Williams moves from the swimming pool to the bull ring in this musical drama. Antonio Morales (Fortunio Bonanova) was once a champion bullfighter; now in retirement, Antonio and his wife (Mary Astor) have high hopes that their son Mario (Ricardo Montalban) will follow in his father's Read More
Actors: Ida Lupino, Robert Alda, Andrea King, Martha Vickers, Bruce Bennett
Synopsis: Ida "Don't mess with me" Lupino takes a job as a singer in Robert Alda's seedy Santa Monica nitery. Lupino ignores Alda's advances to cultivate a romance with pianist Bruce Bennett. Alda uses his connections with the Mob to break up the relationship--and also, hopefully, to break up Bennett into Read More
Synopsis: In this drama, it is up to two young lawyers to save a business executive who has been framed for embezzlement. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Don "Red" Barry, Ann Savage, Adele Mara, Tom Powers, Sheldon Leonard
Synopsis: Republic contractee Don Barry plays private eye Tom Dwyer, whose ability to irritate both cops and crooks alike hides his keen deductive skills. Dwyer takes on the case of a missing $300,000, stolen from a bank by three robbers who were subsequently killed in a car accident. Before he can recover Read More
Actors: Paul Muni, Anne Baxter, Claude Rains, Onslow Stevens, George Cleveland
Synopsis: In this comedy, Paul Muni plays a recently murdered gangster who finds himself roasting in Hell. Muni can't believe that he's in for All Eternity and keeps trying to "bust out," which brings him to the attention of the Head Man (Claude Rains), who calls himself Nick. Nick strikes a bargain with Muni Read More
Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers, Charles D. Brown
Synopsis: The definitive Humphrey Bogart/Lauren Bacall vehicle, The Big Sleep casts Bogart as Raymond Chandler's cynical private eye Philip Marlowe. Summoned to the home of the fabulously wealthy General Sternwood (Charles Waldron), Marlowe is hired to deal with a blackmailer shaking down the General's Read More
Actors: Jimmy Aubrey, Danny Beck, Billy Benedict, Sammy Cohen, Gabriel Dell
Synopsis: Mr. Hex was the first Bowery Boys epic in which the goofy Sach (Huntz Hall) is given superhuman powers. Hypnotized by a carnival magician (Ian Keith), Sach becomes a powerful boxer. Head Bowery boy Slip (Leo Gorcey) parlays this talent into a lucrative ring career for Sach, culminating in the Read More
Actors: Fred Allen, Jack Benny, William Bendix, Binnie Barnes, Robert Benchley
Synopsis: Based on the popular Russian novel The Twelve Chairs, this stars Fred Allen as flea-circus impresario Fred Floogle. Learning that he's inherited $12 million from his uncle, Fred also discovers that the money has been stuffed in one of thirteen chairs that he's sold at auction. The rest of the film Read More
Actors: Michael O'Shea, Lloyd Nolan, Trudy Marshall, Billy Cummings, Ruth Ford
Synopsis: Circumstantial Evidence is so expertly acted and directed that the audience is willing to forget its gaping logic holes. Pugnacious family man Joe Reynolds (Milo O'Shea), blowing his top as usual, threatens violence to an unlikeable storekeeper (Ben Welden). When the latter is killed, Joe is Read More
Actors: J. Edward Bromberg, Isabel Randolph, Eric Sinclair, Frank Jenks, Paul Guilfoyle
Synopsis: The motivating factor of The Missing Corpse is a feud between rival newspapermen Kruger (J. Edward Bromberg) and McDonald (Paul Guilfoyle). While Kruger tries to play fair, McDonald, a mob-connected slimeball who uses his publication for blackmailing purposes, does not. Before long, McDonald is Read More
Actors: Warner Baxter, Nina Foch, George Zucco, Minor Watson, Lester Matthews
Synopsis: Shadows in the Night was the third entry in Columbia's Crime Doctor series, starring Warner Baxter as crook-turned-criminologist Dr. Robert Ordway. Nina Foch delivers a superb performance as Lois Garland, a beautiful young heiress being driven to insanity and possible suicide. Poor Lois resides in Read More
Actors: John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Dennis O'Keefe, William Frawley, Leonid Kinskey
Synopsis: The Fighting Seabees is Republic Pictures' rip-roaring tribute to the US Navy's Construction Batallions (C.B.), without whom no plane would ever have gotten off the ground during WW2. John Wayne stars as Wedge Donovan, head of civilian construction company stationed in a pre-Pearl Harbor South Read More
Synopsis: A 15 chapter Columbia serial, The Desert Hawk employed camels instead of horses and bedouins rather than cowboys, but remained a "Western" at heart. Gilbert Roland played Kasim, the honorable Caliph of Abad who is kidnapped by his evil identical twin, Hasson (also Roland). Kasim manages to get Read More
Actors: Al Pearce, Dale Evans, Frank Albertson, Gloria Stuart, Wally Vernon
Synopsis: This musical comedy stars radio star Al Pearce has a double role playing himself and Elmer Blurt, the leader of a small-town band that struggles toward stardom in the big city. Their journey begins when Elmer decides to eject their female singer because she isn't really right. Unfortunately, her Read More
Actors: John Hubbard, Virginia Grey, Lloyd Corrigan, Robin Raymond, Miles Mander
Synopsis: In this wartime espionage drama, Nazis open up a covert operation in the US. Outwardly it is a high-class dress shop, but inside it is really a counterfeiting operation in which the leader and his henchman make fake savings stamps in the hope of busting the morale of the good clients who spend Read More
Actors: Robert Taylor, Brian Donlevy, Marilyn Maxwell
Synopsis: Rear Admiral Stephen Thomas' (Charles Laughton) spoken tribute to "the finest Naval officer I knew" provides the framework for the wartime flag-waver Stand By For Action. Robert Taylor stars as Gregg Masterman, a flippant socialite who comes to realize his obligation to his country when he is Read More
Actors: Regis Toomey, Adele Longmire, Howard Da Silva, Ben Welden, John Ridgely
Synopsis: Although Warner Bros. "officially" disbanded its B-picture unit in 1941, the studio continued to grind out lower-berth features for the next three years. One of these was Bullet Scars, which had the look of a 1930s gangster meller which somehow escaped filming at the time of its inception. Decked Read More
Actors: Ann Sothern, Red Skelton, Leo Gorcey, Allen Jenkins, Donald Meek
Synopsis: The combination of Ann Sothern and Red Skelton pays off in giggles, chortles and guffaws in Maisie Gets Her Man. Broke and stranded once more, showgirl Maisie Revere briefly works as the wrong end of a knife-throwing act, then dedicates herself to helping would-be comedian Hap Hixby (Skelton) Read More
Actors: John Garfield, Nancy Coleman, Raymond Massey, Lee Patrick, Esther Dale, Moroni Olsen
Synopsis: In this wartime drama, a doctor discovers that one of his patients isn't as crazy as he thought, with dangerous consequences for the whole world. Dr. Michael Lewis (John Garfield) is an intern at a hospital where a woman named Jane (Nancy Coleman) is admitted. Jane was injured in a car wreck, and Read More
Actors: William Gargan, Margaret Lindsay, Charles Grapewin, Ralph Morgan, Kay Linaker
Synopsis: William Gargan takes over from Ralph Bellamy as the title character in Columbia's A Close Call for Ellery Queen. Unlike Bellamy, who played the role of Ellery Queen for laughs, Gargan adopts a more sober approach, much to the overall benefit of the film. The story takes place at the lavish country Read More
Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Conrad Veidt, Kaaren Verne, Jane Darwell, Frank McHugh
Synopsis: Humphrey Bogart plays Gloves Donahue, a rough-hewn but essentially decent New York gambler. The Runyonesque plot gets moving when Gloves tries to find out what's holding up his favorite restaurant's daily shipment of cheesecake. Paying a call on the bakery, Gloves stumbles into a Nazi spy ring Read More
Actors: Arthur Kennedy, Joan Perry, John Ridgely, Howard Da Silva, Jonathan Hale, Florence Bates
Synopsis: Strange Alibi offered young Warner Bros. contractee Arthur Kennedy to carry a picture all by himself. The star is cast as detective Joe Geary, who is suddenly and unexpectedly fired from the police force. Appararently embittered, Geary joins a criminal gang. Actually, it's all part of a scheme Read More
Actors: Dennis O'Keefe, Florence Rice, Peter Lorre, Stanley Ridges, Minor Watson
Synopsis: There were two separate 1940s film series inspired by Philips H. Lord's radio weekly Mr. District Attorney; the first was produced by Republic, the second by Paramount's Pine-Thomas unit. Republic's inaugural entry, appropriately titled Mr. District Attorney, eschews the sobriety of the radio Read More
Actors: Ronald Reagan, Joan Perry, James Gleason, Howard Da Silva, Faye Emerson
Synopsis: Perhaps nine lives weren't enough, but 63 minutes was plenty of time to relate the plot of this Ronald Reagan vehicle. Reagan plays a newspaper reporter who has a story "that'll break this town wide open!" The story involves a mysterious, unsolved boarding house murder. The suspects include the Read More
Actors: Ida Lupino, John Garfield, Thomas Mitchell, Eddie Albert, George Tobias
Synopsis: Out of the Fog is the film version of the Irwin Shaw play The Gentle People, refashioned to mollify the Hollywood censors by expert wordsmiths Robert Rossen, Jerry Wald, and Richard Macaulay. Humphrey Bogart lobbied strenuously to play the leading role of charming but ruthless waterfront loan Read More
Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Marlene Dietrich, George Raft, Alan Hale, Frank McHugh
Synopsis: Manpower was Warner Bros' latest reworking of 1932's Tiger Shark, with power-company linemen substituting for tuna fisherman. While repair some downed lines in a heavy thunderstorm, Hank McHenry (Edward G. Robinson) saves the life of his best pal Johnny Marshall (George Raft). While Johnny emerges Read More
Actors: Arthur Kennedy, Olympe Bradna, Virginia Field, Anthony Quinn, Cliff Edwards
Synopsis: In this boxing drama, champion fighter Johnny Rocket decides to leave the ring to please his new bride. Unfortunately, his greedy manager, unwilling to get off the gravy train engineers things so that the fighter cannot find work and must return to the squared circle to make a living. His ploy Read More
Actors: Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Lee J. Cobb, Larry Nunn, Bobs Watson, Darryl Hickman
Synopsis: In this sequel to the 1938 boxoffice hit Boys Town, Spencer Tracy repeats his Oscar-winning role of Father Flanagan, with Mickey Rooney likewise reprising his characterization of reformed hoodlum Whitey Marsh. Still operating on the theory that "No boy is bad, if given a chance", Father Flanagan Read More
Actors: Robert Sterling, Marsha Hunt, Virginia Weidler, Paul Kelly, Fay Holden
Synopsis: The title I'll Wait for You effectively gives away the ending of this MGM second feature. Robert Sterling plays a gangster on the lam who heads for the safety of the country. He accepts the hospitality of a farm family, who has no knowledge of his true identity. Reformed by the family's daughter Marsha Hunt Read More
Actors: Victor McLaglen, Jon Hall, Frances Farmer, Olympe Bradna, Gene Lockhart
Synopsis: Beefcake star Jon Hall shows off his sleek physique in the exotic melodrama South of Pago Pago. The son of an island chieftan, young Kehane (Hall) defiantly opposes the efforts by crooked pearl hunter Bucko Larson (Victor McLaglen) to invade his domain. Larson and his minions hope to dissuade our Read More
Actors: Edmund Lowe, Rose Hobart, James Stephenson, Jerome Cowan, William Demarest
Synopsis: In this crime drama, a brilliant lawyer is renowned for getting guilty-as-sin-but-powerful crime figures acquitted. He has never lost a case until he defends an innocent man. The hapless client ends up imprisoned and executed for killing a policeman. The loss traumatizes the lawyer and compels him Read More
Actors: Dennis Morgan, John Payne, Gloria Dickson, George Reeves, Frank Wilcox
Synopsis: Warner Bros. Tear Gas Squad manages to pack thrills, comedy, romance and songs into a neat 55-minute package. Dennis Morgan plays cocky nightclub entertainer Tommy McCabe, who gets his jollies out of making fun of the local police force. This does not prove amusing to pretty Jerry Sullivan (Gloria Read More
Actors: Robert Montgomery, Edward Arnold, Reginald Owen, Edmund Gwenn, E.E. Clive
Synopsis: The schizophrenic screenplay of The Earl of Chicago is rendered even more bizarre by the uneven performance by Robert Montgomery. He plays Silky Kilmont, a Runyonesque American gangster who inherits a British title (Earl of Gorley) and mansion. Taking charge of his new estate, Silky has an amusing Read More
Actors: Jack Holt, Noah Beery, Jr., Cecilia Callejo, "Slapsie Maxie" Rosenbloom
Synopsis: Another of Columbia's myriad of Jack Holt actioners, Passport to Alcatraz casts the star as supposed enemy saboteur George Hollister. In truth, Hollister is on "our side", merely posing as a foreign spy to get the goods on a sabotage ring. The story reaches its peak in an explosives factory which Read More
Actors: Jack Holt, Harry Carey, Sig Rumann, Eduardo Ciannelli, Donald Briggs
Synopsis: In this crime drama, a government investigator looks into a counterfeiting ring that passes its fake bills through a gambling boat. During one evening, a murder occurs and the captain immediately sails the boat three miles off the coast where authorities have no jurisdiction. When the crew Read More
Actors: James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Frank Craven, Donald Crisp, Arthur Kennedy
Synopsis: There are three key characters in Anatole Litvak's filmization of Aben Kandel's novel City for Conquest, as opposed to the six or more in the book -- but the real star, to a large extent, is New York City and its entire population. For purposes of the movie, however, the dramatic arc is linked to James Cagney Read More
Actors: Alice Faye, Don Ameche, J. Edward Bromberg, Alan Curtis, Stuart Erwin
Synopsis: Hollywood Cavalcade was a fictionalized history of silent films and the growth of the movie industry. Don Ameche portrays a character based on equal portions of Mack Sennett and D. W. Griffith, while Alice Faye's silent star is an amalgam of Mabel Normand and Gloria Swanson. Ameche breaks into Read More
Actors: Wallace Beery, Tom Brown, Alan Curtis, Laraine Day, Fay Holden
Synopsis: In this interesting drama, a highly respected straight-arrow Irish cop is pleased when his son follows him onto the force. Unfortunately, the son is more interested in promotions than in upholding the law and he makes few friends among his peers. When he shoots a child caught stealing, the others Read More
Actors: Ida Lupino, Warren William, Robert Wilcox, Rita Hayworth, Virginia Weidler, Ralph Morgan
Synopsis: Regarded as the best of Columbia's "Lone Wolf" B-picture series, The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt stars Warren William as Michael Lanyard, a onetime criminal known as the Lone Wolf. He is determined to remain reformed for the sake of his daughter (Virginia Weidler), but a gang of foreign spies abducts Read More
Actors: Wallace Beery, Robert Taylor, Florence Rice, Helen Broderick, Charles Bickford
Synopsis: Directed with customary haste by Woody Van Dyke, Stand Up and Fight is an excellent dual vehicle for veteran Wallace Beery and up-and-coming Robert Taylor. Set in the American west in the mid-19th century, the story concerns the efforts of empire-building Blake Cantrell (Taylor) to construct a Read More
Actors: Frankie Darro, Grant Withers, David Durand, Warren McCollum
Synopsis: Boys' Reformatory was the third of Frankie Darro's tough-guy vehicles for Monogram Pictures. Darro is cast as orphaned teenager Tommy, who to avoid breaking his foster-mother's heart takes the rap for a crime committed by his foster-brother Eddie (Frank Coghlan Jr.). Sent to a dismal reform Read More
Actors: Robert Livingston, John Gallaudet, June Travis, Ben Welden
Synopsis: This prison film features an inventive escape from Alcatraz. They do it by planning a phony wedding in a prison chapel. The fugitives are soon captured by a brave hero who stops them by crashing his car into their getaway plane. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Al Jolson, William Frawley, Joyce Compton
Synopsis: This barely-disguised portrait of singer Fanny Brice led to Brice's lawsuit against 20th Century Fox for defamation of character, a case which was settled out of court. Alice Faye plays Rose Sargent, a New York singer of the 1920s who falls for handsome, cocky wheeler-dealer Bart Clinton (Tyrone Power Read More
Actors: Jack Holt, Patricia Ellis, Stanley Fields, Arthur Hohl, Weldon Heyburn
Synopsis: Granite-jawed Jack Holt plays a dual role in Columbia's Fugitives at Large. Civil engineer George Storm (Holt) finds himself in dutch with the Law thanks to the activities of his lookalike, outlaw Tom Farrow (also Holt). Arrested by the authorities after being framed by Farrow, Storm escapes to Read More
Actors: Dorothy Babbs, Bing Crosby, Louise Campbell, Linda Ware, Ned Sparks, Laura Hope Crewes
Synopsis: The Star Maker is the story (with variations) of vaudeville enterpreneur Gus Edwards, here played by Bing Crosby. Determining that he can attain the uppermost showbiz rungs by spotlighting new, untried talents, Edwards rises to fame by hiring preteen boys and girls for his touring acts, the most Read More
Actors: Barton MacLane, Beverly Roberts, Clarence Kolb, Janet Beecher
Synopsis: In this crime drama a wealthy business tycoon serves a sentence for tax fraud. While there he becomes good friends with his cellmates and after they are all released, the magnate appoints them both as executives in his company. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Ann Gillis, Robert Kent, June Travis, John Farrell MacDonald, J.M. Kerrigan
Synopsis: Harold Gray's long-running comic strip Little Orphan Annie was first brought to the screen in 1932, with Mitzi Green as Annie. This 1938 version was produced by Paramount, with Ann Gillis (best known for her performance as Becky Thatcher in Selznick's Adventures of Tom Sawyer) as Gray's Read More
Actors: Henry Wilcoxon, Marian Marsh, Bernadene Hayes, Ben Welden, Ray Mayer
Synopsis: The title character in Republic's Prison Nurse is a "woman in white" named Judy, played by Marian Marsh. Together with her friend Pepper (Bernardine Hayes), Judy hires on at a maximum-security prison smack dab in the middle of flood country. When she's not braving the elements and fending off the Read More
Actors: Shirley Temple, George Murphy, Jimmy Durante, Phyllis Brooks, Edna May Oliver
Synopsis: Child star Shirley Temple was getting a bit long in the tooth (at age 10!) by the time she made Little Miss Broadway. Facing the possibility that Temple's appeal was beginning to slip, the producers overstocked the film with top musical-comedy performers and character actors. The curly-topped Read More
Actors: Bruce Cabot, Beverly Roberts, Tommy Ryan, Ben Welden
Synopsis: In this drama, a 12-year-old boy becomes an orphan after seeing a detective shoot his father. Later the detective feels bad and offers to become his friend, but his intentions are not entirely honorable as the detective really wants to know the location of the loot his father stashed during a Read More
Actors: The Ritz Brothers [Al, Jimmy, Harry], Richard Arlen, Ethel Merman, Phyllis Brooks, George Barbier
Synopsis: In this musical comedy, the Ritz Brothers inherit a racehorse but are unable to make money from him because they cannot come up with the $1,000 needed to enter him in the big race. The two get involved with the race anyway when they overhear a group of Russian jockeys conspiring to ruin the race. Read More
Actors: Chester Morris, Frances Mercer, Bruce Cabot, Rita Johnson, Donald Douglas
Synopsis: "Ripped from today's headlines", RKO Radio's Smashing the Rackets was inspired by the career of colorful New York district attorney Thomas E. Dewey. Chester Morris plays the Dewey character, here rechristened Jim Conway. Starting out as a G-Man, Conway is appointed special prosecutor of a Read More
Actors: Phyllis Brooks, Ricardo Cortez, Robert Wilcox, Douglas Fowley, Chick Chandler
Synopsis: In this tearful crime melodrama, a waitress becomes so taken with her dream of living in posh luxury and comfort that she leaves her honest boyfriend the district attorney to take up with a notorious gangster who lavishes her with stolen furs and fabulous diamonds. She has no idea that the crook Read More
Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Cesar Romero
Synopsis: Former doctor Jim Howard (Herbert Marshall) helps desperate Margot Weston (Barbara Stanwyck), pregnant and unmarried; when her son is born, Jim helps her place the baby with Phil Marshall (Ian Hunter) and his wife, on the condition that neither the Marshalls nor the child ever know Margot is his Read More
Actors: Louis Hayward, Kay Sutton, Sig Rumann, Jonathan Hale, Jack Carson
Synopsis: The Saint, Leslie Charteris' charming but deadly criminal-turned-sleuth, made his first film appearance in RKO Radio's The Saint of New York. Faithful to Charteris' original concept, this first movie Saint is a cold-blooded murderer, redeemed by the fact that all of his victims are notorious Read More
Actors: Allan Lane, Frances Mercer, Clara Blandick, Inez Courtney, Bradley Page
Synopsis: RKO Radio's ace short-subjects director Leslie Goodwins graduated to features with the economically produced Crime Ring. Allan Lane plays a hotshot newspaperman who takes on a phony spiritualist ring. The crooked soothsayers are in league with a band of stock swindlers, coercing the gullible into Read More
Actors: Robert Livingston, June Travis, Robert Armstrong, Ben Welden, Lucien Littlefield
Synopsis: In this action-packed crime drama, an ace reporter declares war on the mobsters that killed his best friend, helps a disenchanted hit man steal back his brother's iron lung from gangsters by hiding inside it during transport, busts up two other gangs, discovers a whiskey-smuggling ring, almost Read More
Actors: Dick Purcell, Ann Sheridan, Anne Nagel, William Hopper, Anthony Averill
Synopsis: Mystery House is a perfunctory Warner Bros. programmer which coasts along on the appeal of its stars. When a prominent banker is murdered while on a hunting trip, the dead man's daughter, Gwen Kingery (Anne Nagel), calls in private eye Lance O'Leary (Dick Purcell) to investigate. No sooner has he Read More
Actors: Sonja Henie, Don Ameche, Jean Hersholt, Ethel Merman, Cesar Romero
Synopsis: Happy Landing was another Sonja Henie moneyspinner from the 20th Century-Fox film factory. The story gets under way when skirt-chasing bandleader Duke Sargent (Cesar Romero) pitches woo to Trudy Ericksen (Sonja Henie) while on a tour of Norway. To Duke, it's just another harmless flirtation, but Read More
Actors: Kay Francis, Errol Flynn, Ian Hunter, Frieda Inescort, Herbert Mundin
Synopsis: The title of this Errol Flynn vehicle sprang from an "inside" joke at Warner Bros. Whenever the studio depicted a marquee or poster of a fictional film in one of their productions, the film's title was inevitably Another Dawn. When time came to shoot this Flynn epic, the studio, stuck for Read More
Actors: Charles Starrett, Rosalind Keith, Edward Keane, Arthur Stone
Synopsis: In this exciting western, a lawman and a postmistress work together to bring the outlaws to justice. The outlaws have been bothering her because they want her land which sits next to the villain's mined out gold mine. The woman refuses to sell because she promised her father she wouldn't. Rootin' Read More
Actors: Ann Sheridan, Mary Maguire, Dick Purcell, Addison Richards, George E. Stone
Synopsis: Gat Brady (John Litel) is a wealthy gangster, though he's never killed anyone, an he is devoted to his teenaged daughter Annabel (Mary Maguire). When he's arrested for tax evasion on the eve of a European trip, he has Annabel's governess Flo Allen (Ann Sheridan) continue on the trip with the girl Read More
Actors: Dick Powell, Fred Waring, Priscilla Lane, Walter Catlett, Ted Healy
Synopsis: If you're wondering which Warners musical featured the songs "Old King Cole" and "Have You Got Any Castles?," we refer you to Varsity Show. Dick Powell stars as a musical producer, called back to his alma mater to stage the annual college variety show. Uptight dean Walter Catlett is dead set Read More
Actors: Fernand Gravey, Joan Blondell, Edward Everett Horton, Alan Mowbray, Jane Wyman
Synopsis: Groucho Marx received co-writer credit (along with his old friend Norman Krasna) for King and the Chorus Girl, though very little Marxian wit is in evidence. What remains is a fun but forgettable comedy about a European monarch (Fernand Gravet) who woos and wins a down-to-earth American chorine (Joan Blondell Read More
Actors: John Litel, Dick Purcell, Jean Dale, William Haade
Synopsis: The racket-busting activities of New York DA Thomas E. Dewey was the inspiration for several late-1930s crime films, including Warner Bros.' Missing Witnesses. The Dewey counterpart this time out is Inspector Lane (John Litel), assigned to drive all organized crime out of his community. But Lane Read More
Actors: Pat O'Brien, Joan Blondell, Margaret Lindsay, John Litel, Ben Welden
Synopsis: In this newsroom drama, a tabloid's ace reporter's investigations lead to a chorine's conviction for murdering her husband. The trouble begins when the reporter digs a little deeper and realizes that the showgirl is really innocent. Now, despite the objections of her editor, the reporter must Read More
Actors: Walter Winchell, Ben Bernie, Simone Simon, Bert Lahr, Joan Davis
Synopsis: Before sitting down to watch Love and Hisses, it's important to know that columnist Walter Winchell and bandleader Ben Bernie were engaged in a phony but highly publicized feud in the late 1930s. For the purposes of this film, the source of the Winchell-Bernie contretemps is pretty nightclub Read More
Actors: Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, John Barrymore, Herman Bing, Tom Brown
Synopsis: The third of MGM's profitable Jeanette MacDonald/Nelson Eddy songfests, Maytime opens in the early 20th century, with a young girl arguing with her boyfriend over her wishes to become an opera singer. The girl's neighbor, a lonely old woman whom we gradually recognize as a convincingly "aged" Read More
Actors: Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Isabel Jewell, Eduardo Ciannelli, Lola Lane, Rosalind Marquis
Synopsis: Bette Davis' famous walk-out from her home studio of Warner Bros. may have hurt her financially, but in the long run it paid off with bigger parts in better films. Like many Warners films of the period, Marked Woman was "torn from today's headlines." Specifically, it was inspired by the recent Read More
Actors: Ronald Reagan, Eddie Acuff, Robert H. Barrat, Raymond Hatton, Willard Parker
Synopsis: The first of three remakes of the 1933 Paul Muni picture Hi, Nellie, Love is on the Air is historically important as the screen debut of Ronald Reagan. In the original Hi, Nellie, a Winchellesque newspaper reporter is demoted to writing the "advice to the lovelorn" column when he steps on too many Read More
Actors: Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, Ian Hunter, Anita Louise, Donald Crisp
Synopsis: Edmund Goulding directed this remake of his own 1929 The Trespasser, which starred Gloria Swanson. Here Bette Davis assumes the lead role of Mary Donnell, a young innocent married to a bootlegger. When her husband is killed, she decides to pursue a better life and gets a job as a secretary to Read More
Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Wayne Morris, Jane Bryan
Synopsis: Fight manager Nick Donati (Edward G. Robinson) has just lost his best fighter to crooked promoter Turkey Morgan (Humphrey Bogart). During a party at Donati's apartment, a bellhop (Wayne Morris) kayos Morgan's boxer, who has insulted the honor of Donati's girlfriend, Louise "Fluff" Phillips (Bette Davis Read More
Actors: Edward G. Robinson, James Stewart, Rosa Stradner, Lionel Stander, Douglas Scott
Synopsis: Edward G. Robinson offers an excellent turn as a crime lord obsessed with the welfare of his son in this melodramatic crime story. The lad is born while the notorious Robinson serves 10 years. Unfortunately, the press hound the babies mother and constantly derider her until a kinder reporter takes Read More
Actors: Richard Arlen, Lilli Palmer, Antoinette Cellier, Barry Mackay, Roy Emerton
Synopsis: The building of the great Canadian-Pacific Railroad that stretched from Montreal to Vancouver is chronicled in this realistic drama. Amidst the country's wild grandeur, two gambling vagabonds find themselves in a railroad boomtown where they hope to win a lot of the workers' money. While there Read More
Actors: Heather Angel, Genevieve Tobin, Joseph Crehan
Synopsis: In this melodrama a championship boxer retires and marries a rich, aristocratic woman. The woman's father is furious, but comes to accept the situation. When the father gets in trouble for making a major business mistake, the dutiful boxer returns to the ring and wins the money his father-in-law Read More
Actors: Brian Aherne, Olivia de Havilland, Edward Everett Horton, Melville Cooper, Lionel Atwill, Lana Turner
Synopsis: Director James Whale, well known for his witty horror films, tackled comedy head-on in this period piece, set in the 18th Century. David Garrick (Brian Aherne) is a gifted but supremely arrogant British actor whose fame is exceeded only by his ego. After finishing a starring run at London's Drury Read More
Actors: Kay Francis, Ian Hunter, Basil Rathbone, Donald Crisp
Synopsis: German director Joe May brought a decidedly Teutonic ambience to his American film Confession--no surprise, since the film was based on the 1935 German production Mazurka. Kay Francis plays a onetime singer who confesses to the murder of her pianist, Basil Rathbone. In flashback, we learn that Read More
Synopsis: A Scotland Yard Inpsector sets off to prove that prominent director is really an American gangster in disguise. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: American actor Noah Beery Sr. heads the cast of the British meller The Avenging Hand. Beery is one of several persons skulking about a mysterious inn. The plot is motivated by a reserve of stolen money, hidden somewhere on the premises. One by one, the bad guys (and bad girls) are decimated by an Read More
Synopsis: In this comedy, a spoiled brat of a young socialite finds herself tossed out of finishing school. This does not cure her of her selfish, manipulative ways, and perhaps it is for the best as everything the woman wants she gets, including her dream lover. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: In this drama, a British journalist is invited to be a guest journalist with a Chicago paper. He is en route to the Windy City aboard a ship when he mistakenly identifies some passengers as dangerous criminals. The addled reporter then mistakes an heiress for a cabaret singer resulting in the Read More
Actors: Yvonne Arnaud, Hugh Wakefield, Wilfred Caithness, Arthur Finn, Gerald Barry
Synopsis: The Improper Duchess is never as naughty as its title, or else it wouldn't have made it to the screen in 1936. Yvonne Arnaud heads the cast as the Duchess of Tann, who comes to Washington D.C. on matters of state. In her efforts to secure a much-needed loan for her country, our heroine must first Read More
Actors: Henry Kendall, Jeanne Stuart, Eve Gray, Lewis Shaw, Garry Marsh
Synopsis: Befitting its title, Death on the Set takes place in a British film studio (thereby saving on set-construction costs!). Little does anyone suspect that autocratic film director Cayley Morden (Henry Kendall) is in reality an American fugitive from justice. His secret is ultimately discovered by Read More
Actors: Godfrey Tearle, Isla Bevan, Russell Thorndike, Michael Hogan, Kynaston Reeves
Synopsis: Richard Sabine (Godfrey Tearle) at first appears in Wolves of the Underworld as a mysterious sidelines character. He is pressed into service by beautiful Joan Harding (Isla Bevan), who wants to clear her uncle of a murder charge. Another resident of Joan's household is an escaped convict, likewise Read More
Actors: Arthur Wontner, Ian Fleming, Leslie Perrins, Jane Carr
Synopsis: The fourth of Arthur Wonter's quintet of Sherlock Holmes films, Triumph of Sherlock Holmes was a fairly faithful adaptation of Conan Doyle's The Valley of Fear. This time, Holmes (Wontner) and Dr. Watson (Ian Fleming -- not the James Bond author!) investigate a mysterious murder at Birlstone Read More
Synopsis: This 53-minute British "quota quickie" was released in the U.S. by MGM. Frederick Bradshaw plays an eccentric inventor wrongly accused of a crime. He escapes, scurrying away to the inn of the title. Here he locates the thieves responsible for the crime for which he was blamed. The leading lady of Read More
Actors: Wynne Gibson, Gordon Harker, Anthony Bushell, George Curzon, Joan White
Synopsis: Admirals All was based on the British stage farce by Ian Hay and Stephen-King-Hall. Wynne Gibson takes over from the stage version's Laura La Plante as temperamental American movie star Gloria Gunn. While on board a battleship for publicity purposes, Gloria is kidnapped by a band of comic-opera Read More
Actors: Jack Buchanan, Fay Wray, James Carew, Olive Blakeney, Fred Emney
Synopsis: Alice Duer Miller's 1921 play Come out of the Kitchen was filmed during the silent era with Marguerite Clark, then musicalized (and Americanized) by Paramount in 1930 as Honey with Nancy Carroll. A second musical version, with brand-new songs, surfaced five years later as Come Out of the Pantry. Read More
Actors: Bela Lugosi, Shirley Grey, Arthur Margetson, Edmund Willard, George Mozart
Synopsis: This chiller speculates upon a haunting real-life mystery that occurred off the English coast on December 5, 1872 where the American ship Marie Celeste was found drifting with her sails set at half-mast with absolutely no one on board. According to the film, the crewmen were murdered by Read More
Synopsis: In this comedy, two dopey sailors serve aboard the Improbable and get involved in all sorts of slapstick trouble while trying to deal with a ring of smugglers and their petty chief petty officer. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: His Hollywood career a thing of the past, director Herbert Brenon returned to his native England in 1934, where he continued making films until his retirement in 1940. Brenon's first project upon his arrival in London was the feature-length documentary Royal Cavalcade. Covering a 25-year period Read More
Synopsis: In this comedy, a young husband tires of living off of his mother-in-law's money and decides to allow a film crew to use his mansion in exchange for a small fortune. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Dame Cicely Courtneidge, Sam Hardy, Phyllis Clare, Billy Milton, Hartley Power
Synopsis: Originally titled Aunt Sally, Along Came Sally is one of many cheerful musical vehicles for the delightful British film fave Cicely Courtneidge. Courtneidge plays a dual role here: an aspiring nightclub singer and a famous French stage star. In the latter guise, she foils a gang of American Read More
Actors: Florence Desmond, Sophie Tucker
Synopsis: The plotline of the Audrey and Waveney Carlton play Gay Love was so well known in 1934 that Variety considered a synopsis "a waste of time." For the benefit of those not familiar with the story, here's a quick run-down: Music-hall comedienne Gloria Fellows (Florence Desmond) falls in love with her Read More
Actors: Lyn Harding, Betty Stockfeld, Leslie Perrins, Ben Welden, Aubrey Mather
Synopsis: This British Edgar Wallace derivation was originally released as The Man Who Changed His Name. That ripe old barnstormer Lyn Harding plays Shelby Clive, who has been obliged to shorten his last name so that he won't be confused with a notorious (and never-apprehended) wife murderer. Not long Read More
Synopsis: One doesn't expect much from British programmers of the 1930s, so it comes as a relief that River Wolves has a great deal of entertainment value. Michael Hogan plays a sea captain who aspires to become a novelist. Hogan decides to soak up "local flavor" in a small waterfront community. He and Read More
Synopsis: Philip Godfrey's Gothic novel The Grange Mystery was the basis for the British melodrama The Black Abbott. John Stuart heads a gang of crooks who break into the home of British nobleman Richard Cooper. The plan is to hold Cooper for ransom in his own home, but to make it seem as though everything Read More
Synopsis: In this comedy, a junior business partner must take a Scottish buyer out on the town. During dinner, the two get outrageously drunk and the partner's wallet is stolen. He is then mistaken for a jewel thief and ends up involved with a band of dangerous criminals. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Gordon Harker, Binnie Hale
Synopsis: In this comedy, the owners of a teahouse inherit a fortune from their uncle and head for London to live the highlife. Unfortunately, they find themselves entangled with a gang of Chicago mobsters and their leader. Fortunately, the hapless duo end up destroying the gang. It is then that they learn Read More
Actors: Henry Edwards, David Horne, Ben Welden, Fred O'Donovan
Synopsis: Based on a play by George A. Birmingham, General John Regan is a remake of the 1921 film of the same name. Henry Edwards, who also directed, stars as Dr. O'Grady, general practitioner of a small Irish village. As a gag, O'Grady convinces a visiting American newspaper publisher (played by future Read More
Actors: Arthur Margetson, Victor Stanley, Lawrence Hanray, Barry Livesey, Ben Welden
Synopsis: In this romance, a butler falls in love with his master's snooty daughter who will have nothing to do with him because he is but a commoner. The butler's life is about to dramatically change when he learns that he is to be the next Duke of Marlow. He keeps that news to himself as he wants the girl Read More
Synopsis: This comedy, centers around identical twin brothers. One of them is a highly competent policeman; the other is a dim-bulbed bungler. The trouble begins when the cop decides to become a circus strongman. Rather than lose his job, he has his brother take his place on the force. Somehow, the chronic Read More
Actors: John Stuart, Marie Ney, Sydney Fairbrother
Synopsis: In this crime drama, a mining engineer is preparing to leave his recent South American job and return to England when he receives a depressing letter from his wife telling him that she has found a new lover with whom she wants to run away with. While her husband makes the long voyage home, the Read More
Synopsis: When shy bank clerk Stuart inherits a large sum of money he heads to Monte Carlo until he comes to his senses and invests his money in a film company. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: Oliver Sandys' novel Mops was the inspiration for the easy-to-take British musical Born Lucky. Rene Ray stars as a servant girl who happens to possess a thrilling voice. With the aid of handsome John Longden, Ray rises to fame as a radio singer. The film is of interest as an early directorial Read More
Actors: Arthur Wontner, Ian Fleming, Francis L. Sullivan, Dino Galvani
Synopsis: Saturnine Arthur Wontner makes his second screen appearance as Conan Doyle's master sleuth Sherlock Holmes in The Missing Rembrandt. The plot is motivated by the perfidious Baron von Guntermann (Francis L. Sullivan), "the worst man in London." Using blackmail as his principal weapon, the Baron Read More
Synopsis: An early example of the British musical film, His Lordship is in the long line of musicals in which a commoner finds himself elevated to the peerage, with comic results. In His Lordship, the commoner is a happy cockney plumber by the name of Bert Gibbs. Bert comes into contact with the celebrated Read More
Synopsis: Chinese guerrilla pirates commandeer a passenger ship in this drama. After hijacking the vessel, they demand a huge ransom and order the execution of a major. Fortunately, the marine rescue squad shows up and saves the passengers and crew. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: In this British crime comedy, an Englishman is bequeathed a Chicago dairy by his late uncle. Once there, he learns that the operation is a front for racketeers. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Dennis Neilson-Terry, Malcolm Keen, Betty Stockfeld, Cecil Humphreys
Synopsis: Based on the play by Walter Hackett, this film has Neilson-Terry taking Stockfeld out to his house - but the place has been turned into an impromptu casino in his absence. Blackmail against Stockfeld's brother keeps Stockfeld from reporting this indignity. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Bernard Nedell, Joyce Kennedy, O.B. Clarence, Billy Milton, Dodo Watts
Synopsis: In this British crime drama, a Yankee crook uses a garage owner's son as his alibi after he robs a bank and shoots a cop. A Scotland Yard investigator is behind him. He is just about to catch the crook, when the crook shoots him. The police then close in on the killer, but then his girl friend Read More
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