Eleanor Browne's novel Highway to Romance was the source for this moneyspinning RKO Radio comedy. Obviously inspired by...
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1940
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This third film version of Maxwell Anderson's play Saturday's Children stars Claude Rains as the impecunious but proud father...
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1940
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As indicated by the title, 20 Mule Team is all about pioneering borax miners in territorial Arizona. Wallace Beery goes...
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1940
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Communism-the American variety-is given a hilarious going-over in 20th Century-Fox's Public Deb No. 1. Spoiled society girl...
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1940
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In this low-budget musical, two sets of politically ambitious parents attempt to pair up their youngsters who unfortunately...
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1940
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One of several "naughty" screwball comedies based on the works of Thorne Smith (of Topper fame), Hal Roach's Turnabout stars...
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1940
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Radio humorist Bob Burns plays the title role in Alias the Deacon. Based on a stage play by John B. Hymer and LeRoy Clements...
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1940
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This comedy is the sequel of Brother Rat. The film begins with the three original protagonists after their graduation from...
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1940
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This is the third film based on a story by Lajos Biro and Jules G. Furthman. The first two were silent films,...
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1940
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Although there were Westerns before it, Stagecoach quickly became a template for all movie Westerns to come. Director...
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1939
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This family drama features the same cast and crew from the highly successful Four Daughters, but it isn't actually a sequel....
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1939
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This comedy is based on George M. Cohan's popular play and centers on an American businessman and his family who journey to...
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Hiram Draper
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1939
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This comedy chronicles the further exploits of the hilarious "Higgins Family." In this entry, the father eagerly awaits a...
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1939
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The Hero for a Day is elderly night watchman Frank Higgins (Charley Grapewin), still basking in the memories of his long-age...
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Mr. Dow
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1939
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1939
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In this musical, a composer abandons vaudeville in favor of the legitimate stage. He soon finds himself entangle with a...
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1939
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This murder mystery is set behind-the-scenes of a radio station. the trouble begins when a hated cad of a sponsor is found...
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Kluck
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1938
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Those zany Ritz Brothers are at it again--good news or bad, depending on one's feelings toward the team. This time they're a...
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1938
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Obviously filmed several years before its 1938 release, Meet the Mayor serves as a vehicle for popular Broadway comedian...
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Martin Sloan
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1938
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In this crime comedy, a fortune is stolen and every gangster in town is looking for it. They all end up staying at a young...
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1938
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Contrary to popular belief, the Nelson Eddy-Jeanette MacDonald Technicolor confection Sweethearts is not based on the 1913...
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1938
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In this comedy, a milquetoast office clerk is forcibly betrothed to a woman by her overbearing mother. The trouble begins...
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Sen. Mabby
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1938
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This saga spans the globe as the three young heroes search for the man who killed their much-admired, beloved father, a...
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1938
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In Old Chicago was 20th Century-Fox's spin on MGM's San Francisco--a personal saga played out against the backdrop of a...
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1938
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The cornpone comedy of the Weaver Brothers & Elviry permeates this ramshackle Republic musical. The plot gets under way when...
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1938
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When Marie Dressler died in 1934, the career of her frequent screen partner Polly Moran went into eclipse. Four years later,...
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1938
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After an eccentric young woman (Merle Oberon) is left on her father's estate to keep her from spoiling his Presidential bid,...
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1938
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Fred Stone stars as the mayor of a small town, threatened by "progressive" politicians who plan to radically change the...
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Blueford Smythe
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1938
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Coincidentally, Warner Bros. contractee Jane Wyman made her starring debut in the same year as her husband-to-be...
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Pop Lane
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1937
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It was from this military musical that the US Marine Corps got it's signature anthem, "The Song of the Marines." The story...
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1937
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A strong-willed young man creates a rift with his father when turns down a safe position in the family business and becomes...
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1937
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Wild and Woolly stars young Jane Withers as a hoydenish resident of a modern frontier town. Revelling in the town's 50th...
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1937
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Professional horsewoman Ann Dvorak is the Racing Lady in this hit-and-miss romantic comedy. The story begins breaking into a...
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Judge
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1937
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Hotshot attorney Jimmy Hughes (Preston S. Foster) prides himself on never backing down from a dare. Thus, when he is goaded...
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1937
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The true story of one of Ireland's leading political figures of the late 19th Century inspired this biographical drama....
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1937
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1936
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1936
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This lavish Shirley Temple starrer is set in New York, sometime in the 1850s. While lovable pickpocket "Professor" Eustace...
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1936
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Paul Bernard
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1936
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1936
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Gangster boss Beau Gardner (Douglass Dumbrille) isn't happy about the things being said about him on the radio station owned...
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J.J. Held
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1936
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A lesser but still effective entry in the mid-1930s "prison" cycle, Parole catalogues the many problems facing prisoners...
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1936
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Stodgily directed by actor Russell Hopton, this low-budget oil-drilling melodrama was one of three action-adventures teaming...
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J.G. Anderson
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1936
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In this musical comedy, a woman runs a boardinghouse for washed up thespians. She puts them on their best behavior when her...
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Dad Hackett
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1936
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Three confidence men set up in a luxury hotel, but wind up as their own victims when several swindles backfire. ~ John Bush,...
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1936
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Otto Preminger was able to make his directorial debut on Under Your Spell solely because Darryl Zanuck couldn't care less...
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1936
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In this drama, a mild-mannered bookkeeper has trouble asserting himself in both his personal and professional life. His boss...
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Mr. Bates
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1935
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Simon Parker
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1935
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Ellery Queen, the scholarly amateur detective created in 1928 by cousins Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee (who also used...
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Judge Macklin
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1935
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William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan Productions moved from MGM to Warners with Page Miss Glory--along with Cosmopolitan's...
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1935
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Two of America's most distinguished humorists, Oklahoma's Will Rogers and Kentucky's Irvin S. Cobb, costar in Steamboat Round...
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1935
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George Ade's turn-of-the-century stage success The County Chairman was retailored as a Will Rogers vehicle in 1935. Set in...
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1935
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Anxious to graduate from 2-reel comedies to feature films, producer Hal Roach began phasing out his short-subject manifest in...
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R.D. Spear
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1935
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There's nary a serious moment in the loopy Warner Bros. programmer A Night at the Ritz. William Gargan stars as Duke Regan, a...
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1935
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In this mystery, an international news correspondent is fatally shot with three bullets. Now three men stand accused of the...
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1935
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This tuneful melodrama is set upon a college campus and follows the attempts of a pretty young woman who slyly helps her...
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1935
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Though Busby Berkeley is the director of I Live for Love, there isn't a dancer or dance number anywhere to be seen....
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Howard Fabian
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1935
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Former child actor Johnny Downs acts his first adult lead in this nonsensical but charming little musical which benefits...
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1935
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Will Rogers stars as Judge William "Billy" Priest, the common-sense Kentucky jurist created by humorist Irvin S. Cobb. The...
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1934
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1934
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As the title song says, you go to those shows to see those beautiful dames--and there's dames aplenty in this 1934...
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1934
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Brooklyn tugboat worker Eddie (Eddie Cantor), bullied and cowed by his tough-guy stepfather and stepbrothers (a la...
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1934
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Warner Bros. grabbed up the rights to Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis' satirical novel of middle America, soon after publication in...
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1934
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1934
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In this British comedy, a mild mannered editorial writer for a right-wing newspaper becomes fed up with the constant...
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1934
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1934
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Not to be confused with Universal's 1932 The Menace, Paramount's 1934 Menace does however included a "revenge" motif similar...
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1934
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A story by Earl Derr Biggers, of Charlie Chan fame, was the springboard for the Monogram melodrama Take the Stand. An...
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1934
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An above-average Monogram programmer, Red Head stars the gorgeous Grace Bradley as a good-hearted photographer's model. After...
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Mr. Brown
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1934
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Pembrook
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1934
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After several years' faithful service in RKO Radio's short-subject department, director George Stevens was rewarded with his...
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Big Barney
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1934
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Harry Beaumont, a director-composer most closely associated with MGM's musical product, does a nice job handling the...
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1934
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Six writers were involved in the RKO Radio musical comedy Strictly Dynamite; ironically, the plot concerns a radio comedian...
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1934
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1933
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One of ten films that Fay Wray made in 1993 (including King Kong), Master of Men casts her as Kay Walling, a woman who is...
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Mr. Walling
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1933
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The end of prohibition spells the end of business as usual for Chicago gangster Bugs Ahearn (Edward G. Robinson in this...
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1933
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One wonders if William Wyler ever gave Her First Mate a second thought when he was busy directing such subsequent films as...
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Davis
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1933
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Warren William plays a high-powered ambitious executive who unflinchingly steamrolled his way to the top without regard for...
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1933
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Hard to Handle stars James Cagney as a fast-talking promoter who pounces upon every current fad and foible to make a quick...
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1933
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1933
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A play by Nina Wilcox Putnam was the source for the empire-building drama Golden Harvest. Chester Morris stars as ambitious...
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1933
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Frequently misidentified as Ladies Must Love, this Universal musical represents one of the few screen appearances of Broadway...
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1933
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Perennial sidekick George E. Stone is given the leading role in The Big Brain. Stone plays a small-town barber, short of...
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1933
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Distantly related to Frederick Lewis Allen's non-fiction book of the same name, Only Yesterday uses fictional characters to...
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1933
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The world of horse racing provides the backdrop for this episodic drama. Much of the story is set at the Luray Springs Hotel...
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1933
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1933
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Jenny (Ruth Chatterton) becomes pregnant by a young man who is killed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Bearing her child...
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1933
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In this war comedy, the reluctant hero finds himself drafted and forced to fight the Germans whom he feels he has nothing...
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1933
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In this comedy, a popular head porter at the Paris Ritz finds trouble when he falls in love with a wealthy widow who stays...
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1933
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1933
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What isn't Heroes for Sale about? Within its 71-minute time frame, this film (co-written by "professional cynic"...
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1933
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Joe E. Brown plays Elmer Kane, a rookie ballplayer with the Chicago Cubs whose ego is matched only by his appetite. Because...
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1933
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Will Rogers is Dr. Bull, a small-town physician with precious little book learning. This doesn't stop him from ministering to...
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Herbert Banning
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1933
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Those who only know Pat O'Brien from his later, slightly more avuncular roles may be surprised to see him pumping out almost...
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1933
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Ruth Robbins (Mae Clarke) is already a cynic about marriage, and well she should be -- at age 19, she's the...
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1932
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1932
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This adaptation of the Puccini opera jettisons all the music and retains only David Belasco's timeworn libretto. American...
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1932
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1932
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A talented cast does its best with a nonsensical script in The Rich are Always With Us. Ruth Chatterton stars as a witty...
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1932
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In this comedy, a shady jockey, Marty Black, teams up with Silk Henley to con the punters at little racetracks. Marty goes...
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1932
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In this crime drama, an assistant DA must scramble to save the life of an innocent man he mistakenly sent to the chair....
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1932
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In this comedy, a convict uses his skills as a masseur and a fight manager to get out of prison and become the private gym...
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1932
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Alfred E. Green directs the political satire The Dark Horse, starring Bette Davis early in her career. The progressive party...
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1932
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The factual story of H.A.W. Tabor and "Baby Doe" was the inspiration of Silver Dollar. Edward G. Robinson plays the Tabor...
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1932
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Undoubtedly inspired by Charles Lindbergh's unprecedented sudden fame (but not the ensuing tragedy), Mary McCall's 1932 novel...
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1932
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In this newspaper drama, a dedicated small-town reporter works hard and becomes the editor of a major New York paper....
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1932
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World War I flying aces, American Bill (Lloyd Hughes) and German Otto (Norman Kerry), now perform for a carnival, and both...
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1932
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1932
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Bank president Thomas Dickson (Walter Huston) has instituted a lending policy that shows great faith in ordinary people but...
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1932
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Directed by Victor Fleming, Wet Parade chronicles the effects of alcoholism and the Prohibition on the lives of two families...
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1932
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Henry Harrison Kroll's novel Cabin in the Cotton was an attack on wealthy southern landowners who exploited their...
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Lane Norwood
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1932
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The "Crooked Circle" gang consists of a dozen or so hooded villains, all of whom have sworn revenge on the Sphinx Club, a...
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1932
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In this melodrama, a sleazy plastic surgeon from Chicago bungles an operation and causes the amputation of his patient's...
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Dr. J.B. Parker
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1932
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A huge box office success and a key film in James Cagney's rise to stardom, this drama stars Cagney as Matt Nolan, a gritty...
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1932
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An early comedy about the generation gap, this 1932 movie was written by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who went on to write and...
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1932
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Similar in theme to Ambrose Bierce's classic story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," this odd melodrama chronicles the...
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1932
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1932
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Eric Linden is a bellhop who has the extreme misfortune of being in the wrong place at the wrong time in gangster era of...
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1932
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Forgotten Commandments is a well-meaning but clumsy attempt to explore the consequences of communism. The story takes place...
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1932
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As indicated by its "catchphrase" title, Okay America is one of several early-1930s films based on the exploits of gossip...
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1932
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In this political melodrama, an idealistic freshman congressman swears to do his best to get relief for his impoverished...
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1932
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Perhaps most noteworthy for the first onscreen performance by future Academy Award winner Hattie McDaniel, this politcal...
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1932
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Warner Bros.' hard-hitting chain-gang movie was a faithful adaptation of the similarly titled autobiography of Robert Elliot...
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1932
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In this romance, a recently impoverished but formerly wealthy young woman ends up working as a nightclub hostess. There she...
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1932
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In this drawing room drama, an impetuous heiress goes on a cruise and ends up marrying a Latin gigolo on a whim. Her father...
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1931
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The patience of a long-suffering wife is finally rewarded in this drama. The devoted wife has known that her husband has...
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1931
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This second of three film versions of the durable James Montgomery stage farce Nothing But the Truth was also the first...
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E.M. Burke
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1929
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An attorney (Thomas Meighan) becomes the intermediary between an Indian tribe and the territory's settlers in this fine...
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Boland
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1924
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This comedy was based on the stage success by William Anthony McGuire and features several of the actors who appeared in it...
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1923
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