An offbeat 1970s black-comic Western with an all-star cast, this Joseph L. Mankiewicz film is set in 1883 in Arizona. Paris...
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1970
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The ongoing war between the planets Argon and Zinan is slated to be resolved in a winner-take-all battle, to be held on the...
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1970
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Charley (Dan Blocker) is the kindly but simple-minded blacksmith who sends a year's earnings back East for a mail-order...
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1970
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Light-years removed from her work on Golden Girls, Betty White appears in this episode as Adelle Colby, Hooterville's...
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1969
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Hooterville's annual Founders Day celebration may be cancelled this year due to some serious generation-gap issues. It all...
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1969
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Steve (Mike Minor) is given a lucrative job offer that will require him to move to New York. Will Betty Jo (Linda Kaye...
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1969
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Uncle Joe (Edgar Buchanan) may have finally gone too far when he arranges a race between the Hooterville Cannonball and a...
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1969
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Hooterville is thrown into a tizzy when Dr. Janet Craig (June Lockhart) announces her plan to leave town in order to study...
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1969
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It looks as though the government will put Sam Drucker's (Frank Cady) post office out of commission. With uncharacteristic...
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1969
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Comic musician Jack Sheldon appears as self-styled fundraiser Freddie Kirby, who breezes into Hooterville with plans to raise...
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1969
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After years of industrious laziness, Uncle Joe (Edgar Buchanan) suddenly announces his retirement. This declaration results...
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1969
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Betty Jo (Linda Kaye Henning) and Steve (Mike Minor) have chosen Dr. Janet Craig (June Lockhart) to be godmother at the...
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1969
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Impressionist Rich Little guest stars as Rick Wayne, a big-city comedian in whose nightclub act singer Billie Jo (Meredith...
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1969
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The Bradley sisters, alias the "Singing Sweethearts", are signed sight unseen to perform on the TV show hosted by Buddy...
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1968
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June Lockhart makes her first series appearance as Dr. Janet Craig, the new replacement for Hooterville's Doc Stuart (Regis...
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1968
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Despite her reluctance, new mother Betty Jo (Linda Kaye Henning) agrees to out on the town with husband Steve (Mike Minor)...
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1968
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Charles Lane makes his final Petticoat Junction appearance in the role of nasty railroad executive Homer Bedloe. As the last...
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1968
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Mobile officer Pete Malloy (Kent McCord) is a bit tired of his partner Jim Reed (Kent McCord) extolling the joys of married...
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1968
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Although the rest of the community has been won over by Dr. Janet Craig (June Lockhart), Uncle Joe (Edgar Buchanan) is still...
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1968
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Season Six of Petticoat Junction begins as Betty Jo (Linda Kaye Henning, now billed under her full given name) and her...
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1968
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Continuing the story arc established in the previous episode, Dr. Janet Craig (June Lockhart) is still encountering...
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1968
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Buddy Rogers and Richard Arlen, who costarred in the very first Oscar-winning movie Wings, are reunited in this episode. The...
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1968
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With train conductor Wendell Gibbs (Byron Foulger) fast asleep, no one is around to pilot the Hooterville Cannonball when the...
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1968
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1967
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Through a series of misunderstandings, Lucy (Lucille Ball) is assumed to be a notorious jewel thief called "The Red Flash"...
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1967
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Not technically a feature film, Aliens from Another Planet consists of two 60-minute episodes from the vintage Irwin Allen...
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1967
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Having escaped the clutches of mad scientist Vito Scotti in the previous week's episode "Case of the Missing Monkee," the...
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1967
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Jess Pearson, who played Conrad Birdie in the 1963 film version of Bye Bye Birdie, is here cast as celebrated...
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1966
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Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) is taken by surprise when a young woman (Mary Mitchell) sweeps into his office, begging him to...
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1965
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A couple's marriage is nearly destroyed by their attempts to save it in this farcical comedy. Dan and Valerie Edwards...
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1965
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Bobbie Jo (Lori Saunders) wants to win a school spelling bee, and is pinning her hopes on the "good luck" ring in her...
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1965
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The great character actor Sig Ruman, best known for his appearances with the Marx Brothers and his performance as...
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1965
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In the first episode of the two-part story, despicable railroad executive Homer Bedloe (Charles Lane) has managed to become...
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1965
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Under the alias "Tom Nash", fugitive Richard Kimble (David Janssen) goes to work as a bodyguard for self-made millionaire...
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1965
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Lucy's old school pal Rosie Hannigan (Ann Sothern), now known as the Countess Framboise, would like to open a charm school in...
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Fred Dunbar
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1965
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It is time again for Founder's Day in Mayberry, and on this occasion a mobile museum has arrived in town. Meanwhile, deputy...
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1965
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Stumbling upon a satchel containing $250,000 in stolen bank money, Barney uses the dough to bring the bandits out into the...
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1965
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Uncle Joe (Edgar Buchanan) has decided that the Shady Rest Hotel needs a new water heater. Not only would it be more...
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1965
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Byron Foulger is cast as meek Commerce Bank bookkeeper Leroy Lester. After 40 years' faithful service, Leroy is put out to...
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1965
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1964
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Slim Pickens makes a return appearance in the role of shifty, slovenly mountaineer Jim Leyton. Incredibly, Jim has become...
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1964
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Son of Flubber represented the first time that Walt Disney ever attempted a theatrical feature sequel: in this case, the...
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1963
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1962
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Way back in 1942, the ex-husband of Angela Fernaldi left her baby at an orphanage. Twenty years have passed, and now Angela...
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1962
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All previous lawmen hired to escort the outlaw Wilder brothers (James Griffith, Harry Dean Stanton) to their hanging in...
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1962
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1961
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1960
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The story of America's most notorious gangster mother is chronicled in this crime drama. The tale starts in Oklahoma during...
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1960
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In the final episode of Walt Disney's ten-part miniseries Elfego Baca, frontier lawyer Baca (Robert Loggia) embarks upon a...
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1960
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Taking a few small steps into her rented country house, Ruth Graham (June Vincent) prompty vanishes, never to be seen again....
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1960
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Elliot Ness (Robert Stack) is frustrated when a case that he has been building against mob functionary Theodore Newberry (Ken...
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1959
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An old-fashioned western, King of the Wild Stallions features a pretty widow in distress, a handsome foreman who comes to her...
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1959
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One the finest of all Twilight Zone episodes, "Walking Distance" benefits not only from a superb Rod Serling script and a...
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Charlie
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1959
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Bret (James Garner) is among the participants when the lovely but larcenous Samantha Crawford (Diane Brewster) organizes a...
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1958
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In this occult obscurity, an old hillbilly named Pete Jensen (Ed Nelson) makes a pact with the Devil and returns to the town...
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1958
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While often regarded as one of America's greatest novelists, William Faulkner produced work that did not always translate...
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1958
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This is the very last entry in the long-running Bowery Boys saga. This time the gang gets involved with English diamond...
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1958
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Making the acquaintance of pretty Abigail Taylor (Joanna Barnes) in the lobby of a Denver hotel, Bret (James Garner) cannot...
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1958
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Singer Molly Bee once commented ruefully that her films were shown only to captive audiences in jails and reformatories. One...
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1958
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A bank robber's avarice and obsessive quest for freedom lead to his downfall in this adventure-packed crime drama that was...
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1957
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Adapted from his own TV play by Reginald Rose, Dino stars Sal Mineo (who also appeared in the TV version) in the title role....
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1957
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In this entry in the long-running "Bowery Boys" series Sach sells his soul to the Devil so he can atone for spending a...
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1957
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Patricia Medina plays the title character in The Buckskin Lady. Medina is cast as female gambler Angela Medley, who is forced...
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1957
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Gun Battle at Monterey begins where most other westerns would end: with outlaw Turner (Sterling Hayden) double-crossed and...
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1957
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Shortly before committing himself to the TV sitcom Mr. Adams and Eve, Howard Duff starred in the dust-caked western Sierra...
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1957
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1956
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In this western, a young man tries to walk the straight and narrow, but he is impeded by his past. The trouble begins when...
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1956
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The Spoilers is the fourth and (very likely) last film version of Rex Beach's rugged Alaskan adventure yarn. Set during the...
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1955
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1955
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The infamous Benedict Arnold affair is the basis of the lively MGM costumer The Scarlet Coat. Arnold is played with suitably...
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1955
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Filmed on location at Montana's Glacier National Park, Cattle Queen of Montana makes excellent use of the diverse talents of...
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1954
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Next to Slightly Scarlet, Silver Lode is the best of the many 1950s collaborations between producer Benedict Bogaeus and...
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1954
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Curt Siodmak's The Magnetic Monster (1953) is a truly novel science fiction film, in terms of its rather cerebral plot and...
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1953
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1953
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1953
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More sensitive than usual -- if such a thing is possible -- Lucy (Lucille Ball) becomes convinced that everyone has forgotten...
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"Friends of the Friendless" Leader
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1953
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A Big Apple nightclub singer inherits a riverboat from his late grandfather and learns, via flashback, the interesting story...
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1953
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1953
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The Dumas-inspired Blades of the Musketeers began life as an hour-long TV show, produced by Hal Roach Jr. as a possible...
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1953
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1953
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In this Republic western, Allan "Rocky" Lane plays a Texas Ranger endeavoring to bring progress to the prairies. A natural...
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1953
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Disreputable wanderer Wes Anderson (Fred MacMurray) has been thrown in a frontier town calaboose, accused of being a...
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1953
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The Bowery Boys go to college in Hold That Line. Things haven't changed much since the Marx Bros. went to college in...
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1952
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1952
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1952
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Stanley Kramer's production unit at Columbia Pictures was known for its willingness to tackle subject matter that was not...
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1952
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Having supped full of success with the multi-storied O. Henry's Full House, 20th Century-Fox assembled another all-star...
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1952
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The "B"-western field of the 1950s was laid low by increasing budgets and decreasing box-office appeal. Gene Autry's series...
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1952
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Cripple Creek is an excellent example of Columbia's "A-minus/B-plus" Technicolor westerns of the 1950s. Government agent Bret...
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1952
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Prof. Kardin
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1952
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Home Town Story was commissioned as a pro-Big Business tract by General Motors. The story revolves around Blake Washburn, a...
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1951
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Gasoline Alley was based on Frank King's popular comic strip of the same name. The strip's central characters, service...
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1951
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In this old-fashioned screwball comedy, Christy Sloane (Eleanor Parker) is a secretary with a large legal firm who is sent to...
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1951
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Superman, the comic-book "Man of Steel" created in 1938 by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, made his feature-film debut in...
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1951
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1951
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This Republic "special" stars Rod Cameron as deep-sea diver Gunner McNeil. When his partner (James Brown) drowns under...
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1951
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In their last feature film, the Cisco Kid (Duncan renaldo) and Pancho (Leo Carrillo) come up against a vicious gang who is...
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Cal
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1950
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Return of Jesse James is an excellent example of how to get full value for money from an attenuated budget. John Ireland...
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1950
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Anxious to remain active in the 1950s, director Frank Capra wanted to prove to Paramount Pictures that he could deliver an...
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1950
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1950
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George Sidney directs this pleasant romantic comedy concerning mayoral love. During a convention of mayors in San Francisco,...
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1950
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This comedy stars Ronald Colman as Beauregard Bottomley, a self-styled genius in need of a job. He applies for a position...
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1950
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Allan "Rocky" Lane rides again in Salt Lake Raiders. This time, action takes a back seat to mystery and suspense. Lane...
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John Sutton
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1950
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Experiment Alcatraz stars John Howard as a doctor who develops a serum to cure radioactive poisoning. He tests it on several...
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1950
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Arrogant Mike Brannan (Clark Gable) is a famous driver of midget race cars and is the type of man crowds love to hate. He...
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1950
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1950
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Don Barry stars as the Pecos Kid in Red Desert. The Kid is a federal agent, assigned by President Ulysses S. Grant to locate...
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Sparky Johnson
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1950
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Satan's Cradle was the fourth of producer Phil Krasne's "Cisco Kid" programmers for United Artists. Anyone who remembers the...
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Henry Lane
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1949
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Western star Donald Barry was both producer and leading man of The Dalton Gang. Barry is cast as straight-arrow marshal Larry...
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Amos Boling
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1949
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"This boy...and this girl...were never properly introduced to the world we live in." With this superimposed opening title,...
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1949
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This musical comedy stars William Powell as Emery Slade, who was once a major film star but lately isn't getting much work....
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1949
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In this western, a lawman looks into a series of murders involving ranchers. A war between Indians and the local land and...
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1949
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1949
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This dark, gloomy Western chronicles the shame and self-destruction of Bob Ford, the real-life James Gang member that...
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1949
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Robert Lowery stars in the 65-minute actioner Arson Inc. Lowery plays a fireman in search of a seemingly random arsonist--or...
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1949
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1949
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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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Former "Henry Aldrich" James Lydon acquits himself nicely in a serious role in Republic's Out of the Storm. Lydon plays...
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1948
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In this whimsical fantasy, a young girl suddenly discovers that her horse is really a reincarnation of her beloved uncle who...
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1948
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The "He" of the title is Richard Basehart, a clever but psychopathic burglar (based on real-life criminal Erwin Walker)...
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1948
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1948
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Based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque, Arch of Triumph is a complicated war romance directed by Lewis Milestone. Dr....
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1948
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Newly arrived at Columbia, quickie producer Sam Katzman tried his hand at a musical with I Surrender Dear. Gloria Jean stars...
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1948
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The third talkie version of Dumas' The Three Musketeers, this splashy MGM adaptation is also the first version in...
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1948
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1948
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Sexual harassment can work both ways as can be seen in this romantic comedy when ad man endeavors to maneuver out of a...
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1948
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In this funny tale of deception and romantic fireworks, a rather prissy New England school marm finally gets a chance to...
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1948
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In this period musical, Ricardo (Frank Sinatra) is the son of a Mexican innkeeper who has come to California to take over a...
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1948
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Bells of San Fernando was advertised as a romantic adventure, but it plays more like a Western. Donald Woods plays an Irish...
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Garcia
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1947
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Based upon the French film Le Jour Se Lève, The Long Night opens in the in the midst of a dire situation: ex-serviceman Joe...
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1947
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Song of Love is the MGM-ified version of the lives and loves of 19th century musicians Clara Wieck Schumann (Katharine...
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1947
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Irving Pichel's They Won't Believe Me is the flashback unfolding of Larry Ballentine's (Robert Young) witness-stand testimony...
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1947
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One of the many Bowery Boys movies, in this one Slip and Sach are mistaken for two private investigators and risk their lives...
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1947
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Roland Winters takes over the role of wily oriental sleuth Charlie Chan in the so-so Monogram programmer The Chinese Ring....
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1947
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Barry Fitzgerald's distinctive brand of Irish blarney, which was wonderful in small doses, leaned towards the precious and...
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1947
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1947
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Adventures of Don Coyote is the third of five "streamliners", a group of under-an-hour features made by Mary Pickford and...
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1947
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In this comedy, a scatter-brained professor nearly starts a riot when he writes a book claiming that women like to be...
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1947
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PRC's "Michael Shayne" series came to an unsatisfying end with Too Many Winners. This time, flippant private eye Mike Shayne...
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1947
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Jon Hall, Universal's beefcake kid, usually comported himself in South Seas or Arabian nights outfits. In Michigan Kid (based...
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Mr. Porter
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1947
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In this comedy, a novelist visits a local nightclub to do some research for her upcoming novel. Her husband, away on a...
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Book Shop Owner
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1947
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In Dead Reckoning, Rip Murdock (Humphrey Bogart) recites the film's plotline to a priest in the confessional. Murdock and...
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1947
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The 87-minute running time of Plainsman and the Lady was evidence aplenty that this was no mere Republic B western....
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Simmons
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1946
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By 1946, MGM's musical output was in the hands of two men: the incisive, progressive Arthur Freed, and the sentimental,...
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1946
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This marked the first starring role for Rondo Hatton, previously seen in a few Sherlock Holmes films as the spine-snapping...
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1946
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This is the one where Lassie plays a war veteran with amnesia. Actually Lassie isn't even Lassie, but a male collie named...
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1946
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MGM's Till the Clouds Roll By is the musicalized, and highly fictionalized, life story of beloved composer Jerome Kern, who...
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1946
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William Powell plays a cynical con man who graduates from penny-ante operations to a big-time charity racket. The scam...
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1946
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Morgan Conway made his final screen appearance as Chester Gould's granite-jawed detective Dick Tracy in this RKO Radio...
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1946
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James M. Cain's novel received its first authorized screen treatment in this MGM production. Drifter Frank Chambers...
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1946
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If Republic's skating star Vera Hruba Ralston could go "dramatic", so too could Monogram's skating star Belita. Produced by...
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1946
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Director Frank Borzage and star Ginger Rogers both came acropper in the lavish but dull historical biopic Magnificent Doll....
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1946
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Previously filmed in 1926 and 1934, George Kelly's venerable stage comedy The Show-Off was dusted off as a Red Skelton...
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1946
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1946
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French Key is a Republic Pictures murder mystery with all of the studio's genre trademarks: Good cast, reasonably good...
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1946
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The old bromide about a group of avaricious heirs waiting for an old millionaire to die is trotted out in Grissly's Millions....
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1945
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The Hidden Eye was the second of two MGM films featuring mystery writer Baynard Kendrick's blind detective Duncan McLain. As...
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1945
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The Blonde From Brooklyn is perky Susan Parker (Lynn Merrick), gainfully employed as a "jukebox singer", back in the days...
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1945
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Let's Go Steady was Columbia's annual "audition" musical, spotlighting the studio's latest crop of young contractees. Cheated...
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1945
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Amos Baxter
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1945
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Weekend at the Waldorf is an unabashed remake of MGM's 1932 Oscar-winner Grand Hotel: in fact, at several points in the...
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1945
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A snooty blue-blooded English family learns a bitter lesson about the realities of lower class living in this British comedy....
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1945
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1945
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Billy Wilder's searing portrait of an alcoholic features an Oscar-winning performance by Ray Milland as Don Birnam, a writer...
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1945
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The bland performance of star George Raft is the only drawback of this splashy 20th Century-Fox musical. Set in...
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1945
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Danny Kaye plays the first of his cinematic dual roles in Goldwyn's Wonder Man. Kaye appears as timid librarian Edwin Dingle...
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1945
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In this crime drama, a naive, honest young woman falls for a louse who takes her to illicit gambling houses. When one of...
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1945
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Canadian WW II pilot Gerard (Dick Powell) intends to track down and kill collaborationist Marcel Jarne, the man responsible...
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1945
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A middle-aged Clark Gable returned from active duty in World War II to star in this MGM release that was heavily advertised...
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1945
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Circumstantial Evidence is so expertly acted and directed that the audience is willing to forget its gaping logic holes....
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1945
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There were some theatres in 1946 that refused to display the anagramatic title of this film on their marquees: it was, after...
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1945
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In this comedy, a barge captain with an Electra complex marries two women. He married the first because she laughed like his...
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1945
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Masterfully directed by Fritz Lang, Scarlet Street is a bleak film in which an ordinary man succumbs first to vice and then...
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1945
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Also known as Ladies in Washington, this 61-minute quickie utilizes the services of several 20th Century-Fox contractees. Set...
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1944
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The world's nosiest telephone operator is at it again in this murder mystery. This time Kitty overhears the plans for three...
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1944
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In this musical comedy, a pair of small-potatoes performers try to make it to the big-time after winning an amateur talent...
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1944
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1944
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An innocent man is drawn into a web of espionage when he unwittingly comes into possession of a crucial piece of microfilm in...
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1944
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Female musicians Sally Richards (Jane Frazee) and Sue Ford (Judy Clark) are Beautiful but Broke in this frantic Columbia...
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1944
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In this eighth film in MGM's "Maisie" series, Ann Sothern is back as ever-stranded chorus girl Maisie Revier. As the story...
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1944
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The exciting world of the cosmetic industry provides the basis of this lively low-budget musical comedy that centers on the...
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1944
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Robert Z. Leonard, who must have taken room and board at MGM, was the directorial hand behind this slight domestic drama....
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1944
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The usual modus operandi for Hollywood "through the years" sagas was to gradually age its young actors in the course of the...
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1944
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Paramount's "Henry Aldrich" series came to a quiet conclusion with 1944's Henry Aldrich's Little Secret. The titular secret...
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1944
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MGM's popular Dr. Kildare series spanned 1938-47. Lew Ayres played the title character, but parted in 1942. Though crusty and...
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1944
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The Whistler was the first of eight Columbia "B" thrillers based on the popular radio series of the same name. The Whistler,...
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1944
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Though the filmmakers claimed they were writing a biography of Nazi minister Dr. Joseph Goebbels, this film is actually...
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1944
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Wally Brown and Alan Carney, RKO's own Abbott and Costello ripoffs, star in the comedy western The Girl Rush. As usual, Brown...
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1944
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This wild, once-controversial comedy stars Betty Hutton as Trudy Kockenlocker, a man-crazy single girl whose favorite pastime...
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1944
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After producing, writing and directing one hit film after another, Preston Sturges finally misfired with the biopic The Great...
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1944
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Melodramatic gangster action characterizes this tough and freely fictionalized biography of notorious, murderous Chicago...
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1944
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This Pine-Thomas actioner stars Robert Lowery as two-fisted forest ranger Don Bradley. Promoted to supervisor, Bradley finds...
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1944
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A machine able to extract gold from the ocean floor is desired by both Axis powers and the FBI in this 13 chapter Universal...
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1944
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When he finds out his ex-wife has just had his child and plans to give her up for adoption, a timid English instructor dashes...
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1944
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In this tuneful western, two curious actresses head West to find out the name of their secret admirer. Songs include: "Amor,"...
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1944
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Summer Storm is a remarkably effective Hollywood filmization of Anton Chekhov's The Shooting Party. Linda Darnell stars as...
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1944
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In his book on "screwball" comedies, the late William K. Everson described What a Woman as "indistinguishable from a dozen...
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1943
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The Black Raven is one of a trio of PRC horror-melodramas starring George Zucco. The title refers to a remote country inn,...
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Horace Weatherby
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1943
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Everything clicks in this tuneful, colorful and profitable Betty Grable musical. The star plays Katie Farley, a gyrating...
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1943
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This Roy Rogers musical western gets off to a grim start when rancher Jerry Johnson (Jerome Cowan) is murdered by...
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1943
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In Old Oklahoma is better known today by its reissue title, War of the Wildcats. John Wayne heads the cast as oil man Dan...
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1943
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Hangmen Also Die is set in Czechoslovakia during the Nazi occupation. Czech loyalist Brian Donlevy assassinates the vicious...
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1943
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1943
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Clare Booth Luce's once-timely stage comedy Margin for Error was indifferently transferred to the screen in 1943....
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1943
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In the tradition of Hellzapoppin', Hi Diddle Diddle is an all-stops-out "screwball comedy" populated by certifiable zanies....
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1943
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With Dorothy Arzner in the director's chair, it's no wonder that First Comes Courage has a more feminist slant than most WWII...
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1943
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1943
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Author William Saroyan's corn-shucking brand of sentimentality works wonders in this 1943 filmization of his novel. Narrator...
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1943
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Tom Conway makes his second appearance as amateur sleuth Tom Lawrence, aka "The Falcon", in RKO Radio's The Falcon Strikes...
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1943
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Like several other Harry Sherman Productions of the 1942-43 season, The Kansan was originally slated for a Paramount release,...
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1943
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1943
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1943
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Lois Andrews, best known in 1943 as the ex-wife of comedian Georgie Jessel, plays the title character in this cinemadaptation...
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1943
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Magazine writer and editor Fulton Ousler's stern police commissioner Thatcher Colt came to the screen in April of 1942...
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Everett Digberry
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1942
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Released in late August of 1942, Sabotage Squad was the last of Columbia's B-budget wartime melodramas of the 1941-42 season....
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1942
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An unusually sentimental endeavor from rough-and-ready Monogram pictures, Road to Happiness stars former 20th Century-Fox...
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1942
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Rear Admiral Stephen Thomas' (Charles Laughton) spoken tribute to "the finest Naval officer I knew" provides the framework...
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1942
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This Monogram "special" stars Frank Albertson as the title character, a police reporter named Larry Doyle. Our hero solves a...
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1942
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As for the opening reels, the principal motivating factor is money. After a deliberately confusing pre-credit sequence (not...
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1942
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1942
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In this drama, a dedicated forest ranger begins suspecting that a recent series of fires has been caused by arson. He...
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1942
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Columbia Pictures evidently felt that ex-boxer "Slapsy" Maxie Rosenbloom was the funniest man on earth, despite the fact that...
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1942
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No relation to the much-later "Matt Helm" spy comedy of the same name, Pine-Thomas Productions' The Wrecking Crew serves as a...
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1942
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1942
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Pacific Rendezvous is a B-picture remake of the 1935 MGM A-picture Rendezvous, updated to accommodate WW2. Lee Bowman plays...
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1942
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14-year-old Shirley Temple receives her first on-screen kiss in this innocuous romantic comedy. Temple is cast as the titular...
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1942
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A public library at night is the setting for this fast-moving crime caper. George Sanders is a gentleman crook specializing...
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1942
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Ruby Keeler made her final screen starring appearance in the Columbia musical Sweetheart of the Campus. Keeler plays Betty...
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1941
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In this romantic comedy, a blue-blooded girl falls in love with a wealthy rake who wants to settle down and marry her....
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1941
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A daffy romantic comedy released in Great Britain under the title Good Morning Doctor, this film reunites the two stars of...
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1941
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Mystery Ship was one of the last of Columbia's pre-Pearl Harbor "preparedness" melodramas. Paul Kelly and Larry Parks are...
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1941
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Boston Blackie, the suave crook-turned-detective created in 1910 by pulp writer Donald Boyle, had been popping up...
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1941
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Previously filmed with Mabel Normand in 1920, the old Rose Melville stage property Sis Hopkins was trotted out in 1941 for...
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1941
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Originally slated as a Boris Karloff-Bela Lugosi vehicle, Man Made Monster emerged on screen as a tour de force for Lon...
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1941
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1941
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1941
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Gene Autry gets help from teenage singer Mary Lee and fetching tap dancer Carol Adams in this tuneful Republic songfest...
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1941
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MGM was doing so well in 1941 that it could afford the occasional "prestige" film with little box-office appeal. Based on the...
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1941
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In this crime drama, a ruthless gangster's son is soon following in his father's footsteps. When his daddy kills an FBI...
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1941
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Tim Holt is, of course, a true red-blooded cowboy in this overly tuneful RKO Western and only pretends to be the title...
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1941
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Fools of Desire is a tacky but entertaining "exploitationer", originally filmed in 1938 or thereabouts as...
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Wilbur Crane
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1941
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Though Republic Pictures had discontinued its "Higgins Family" series in 1940, the studio continued filming its stray...
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1941
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Another MGM Our Gang comedy that has next to nothing to do with Our Gang, the one-reel Helping Hands gets under way when...
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1941
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Despite its alluring title, Bedtime Story is an innocent little domestic comedy about a bickering married couple....
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1941
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Parole Fixer is another entry in Paramount's unofficial "J. Edgar Hoover" series, purportedly based on an actual case in the...
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1940
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A fast-paced, enjoyable entry in the long-running Three Mesqueteers Western series, Heroes of the Saddle featured the three...
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1940
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Responding to star George Sanders' complaint that his role of "modern Robin Hood" Simon Templar was becoming a bore, RKO...
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1940
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Ironically, the marriage between Dick Powell and Joan Blondell was beginning to fall apart at the time they co-starred in...
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1940
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Dr. Kildare's Crisis is actually one suffered by his fiancee, nurse Mary Lamont (Laraine Day). Mary's financier brother...
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1940
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A courageous doctor braves a fierce blizzard in the Canadian wilderness to save a remote community from a deadly epidemic....
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1940
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Wrongfully accused of stealing, an angry Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer decides to get even with his parents by embarking upon a life...
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1940
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Wesley Ruggles's Arizona is an epic western set in an impoverished Arizona outpost. It tells the story of the feisty,...
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1940
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Man with Nine Lives (released in England as Behind the Door) is the second of Columbia's unofficial "Mad Doctor" series...
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1940
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The moral of Preston Sturges' first directorial effort The Great McGinty seems to be: If you're a crook, stay a crook,...
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1940
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Ralph Bellamy made the first of four appearances as fictional sleuth Ellery Queen in Columbia's...
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1940
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1940
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1940
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The last of MGM's "Nick Carter" trilogy, Sky Murder is a tad too cute and clever for its own good, but its mystery angle...
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1940
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In this espionage drama, an inventor creates a way to send television broadcasts across the country and finds himself...
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1939
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Frank Capra's classic comedy-drama established James Stewart as a lead actor in one of his finest (and most archetypal)...
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1939
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A scientist's greatest invention proves to be his darkest curse in this thriller that was part of Columbia and star...
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1939
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Based on Memory of Love, a novel by Bessie Breuer, In Name Only is soap opera par excellence, blessed with a peerless cast....
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1939
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Despite its comparatively upbeat ending, Let Us Live is one of the darkest and gloomiest films of the late 1930s. As working...
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1939
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A talented South American singer heads for New York to keep her innocent brother from being convicted of arson in this...
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1939
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In this crime drama, a gangster uses an innocent newsboy to manipulate the jury just prior to his manslaughter trial. The...
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1939
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Exile Express was the last film produced by Grand National Pictures, and a worthy farewell it was. Anna Sten, former Sam...
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1939
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This sixth installment in MGM's "Andy Hardy" series is among the best, thanks in great part to the breezy direction of...
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1939
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In this crime drama, a shyster lawyer makes his living earning acquittals for his guilty clients. Most recently he freed a...
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1939
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In this third installment of MGM's "Dr. Kildare" series, Dr. James Kildare (Lew Ayres) comes to the rescue when his...
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1939
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No relation to the 1932 W.C. Fields comedy of the same name, Million Dollar Legs is a college picture starring most of...
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1939
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The gang's beloved teacher Miss Pipps (Sara Haden) is fired by crabby old school board chairman Mr. Pratt (Clarence Wilson),...
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1939
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Cecil B. DeMille takes us back to the 1860s, then rebuilds the first intercontinental railroad in Union Pacific. The...
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1939
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One part high-seas adventure and one part western, Mutiny on the Blackhawk opens as a pair of heroes take a stand against...
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1939
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This RKO Radio "expose" film is loosely based on the career of evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, who'd previously gotten the...
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1938
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Drawing heavily on both Madame X and Stella Dallas, this cheap exploitation-melodrama was produced by the ill-named...
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1938
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1938
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In this drama, a 12-year-old boy becomes an orphan after seeing a detective shoot his father. Later the detective feels bad...
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1938
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Test Pilot is one of those irresistible MGM potboilers of the 1930s that coast along on sheer star power. Clark Gable plays a...
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1938
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In this drama, a young man aspires to a life of wealth and power in the newspaper business. Unfortunately, it takes time and...
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1938
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In this comedy, an American golf pro falls in love with a woman while visiting France; before long they are married and in...
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1938
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1938
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Too old to play the cute MGM urchin any longer, 16-year-old Jackie Cooper signed with Monogram for a group of above-average...
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1938
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Absolutely no relation to the 1960s rock-n-roll tune of the same name, Born to be Wild is a fast-paced Republic programmer...
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1938
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1937
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Carole Lombard stars as Helen Bartlett, a compulsive liar who always tips the audience to an oncoming whopper by sticking her...
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1937
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1937
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1937
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Larceny on the Air is a Republic B-plus picture "drawn from today's headlines." In this instance, the news event pounced upon...
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1937
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In this melodrama a championship boxer retires and marries a rich, aristocratic woman. The woman's father is furious, but...
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1937
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While not a box-office success, this drama, directed by Leo McCarey, developed a potent reputation among film critics and...
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1937
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Based on the novel and play by James M. Barrie, The Little Minister turned out to be Katharine Hepburn's best vehicle since...
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1934
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