Often mistakenly identified as a sequel to My Friend Flicka, Thunder in the Valley actually has more in common with the...
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1947
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In this period drama, Joan Fontaine stars as Ivy Lexton, a woman with an unusual hunger for men. Though she already has a...
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1947
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In this improbable romantic drama set in Gay Nineties London, a member of Parliament jeopardizes his career when he falls in...
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1947
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In this drama, a desperate bank clerk, teetering on the brink of financial ruin, attempts to save himself by embezzling...
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1947
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Writer/director Albert Lewin, ever on the lookout for esoteric story material that would accommodate his fascination with...
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1947
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In this inventive fantasy, a group of enthusiastic youths endeavor to stage a Broadway show. Things are difficult until the...
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1945
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Based on a play by Leslie Storm, Tonight and Every Night is a musical wartime morale booster in which star Rita Hayworth is...
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1945
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The Lodger was the third film version of Mrs. Marie Belloc-Lowndes' classic "Jack the Ripper" novel, and in many eyes it was...
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1944
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A typical war time Republic Pictures serial, G-Men vs. the Black Dragon featured the combined efforts of three allied...
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1943
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Granite-jawed Jack Holt plays himself-or at least the screen version of "himself"-in the 15-chapter Columbia serial Holt of...
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1942
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"It's box office poison," producer Samuel Goldwyn is said to have exclaimed when he heard the idea of filming the life story...
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1942
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1942
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A "B" picture with "A" aspirations, Bombay Clipper mostly takes place on a flight from India to San Francisco. Someone has...
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1942
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At the close of World War I, shell-shocked amnesia victim Ronald Colman is sequestered in a London sanitarium; with no...
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1942
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On a secluded base in Arizona, veteran World War One pilot Steve Britt (Preston Foster) trains flyers to fight in World War...
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1942
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This action film is set in Asia during World War II and follows the exploits of a truck driver who must investigate the...
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1941
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Hard Guy (British title: Professional Bride) stars singer Mary Healy (later of "Peter Lind Hayes and?" fame) as Julie, a...
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1941
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A sequel to The Green Hornet, The Green Hornet Strikes Again is a 15-chapter serial that was based upon characters from the...
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1941
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Jack Benny brings his own distinctive touch to Brandon Thomas' venerable (and oft-filmed) stage farce Charley's Aunt....
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1941
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In this fast-paced sci-fi serial from Republic, a crazed, megalomaniacal scientist attempts to use his many deadly robots to...
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1940
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Though the 1931 Fox release Charlie Chan Carries On apparently no longer exists, modern viewers can get a general idea of the...
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1940
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The schizophrenic screenplay of The Earl of Chicago is rendered even more bizarre by the uneven performance by Robert...
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1940
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Adapted from the novel by Howard Spring, My Son My Son stars Brian Aherne as a self-made success determined to give his son...
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1940
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The Cisco Kid attempts to prove that reports of his death are greatly exaggerated in this western programmer. Cisco...
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1940
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Eduardo Cianelli (his first name changed to "Edward" on this occasion) is the not-so-mysterious title character in the...
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Prof. Scott
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1940
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Twentieth Century-Fox borrowed Spencer Tracy, from MGM for the sprawling (yet economically produced) historical drama Stanley...
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1939
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After starring in two successful serials as All-American Boy in Outer Space Flash Gordon, Larry "Buster" Crabbe found himself...
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1939
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Basil Rathbone's real-life son, John Rodion, has his head chopped off early on in this historical melodrama often mistakenly...
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1939
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In 1824, Benito Juarez (Carlton Young), the president of the new Mexican Republic, worries that vitally important gold...
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1939
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Veteran character star Charles B. Middleton ("Ming the Merciless") escapes from a penitentiary after 15 years of imprisonment...
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1939
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Japanese detective Mr. Moto finds himself hip-deep in international espionage in this adventure tale. In Port Said, a pair of...
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1939
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Allan Dwan's comedic musical adaptation of the classic Dumas story sticks close to the original tale, yet it augments it with...
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1939
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1939
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Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure tale of a young 18th century boy betrayed by his wicked uncle didn't need a romantic...
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1938
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This science fiction film features the revenge of Ming who vowed to destroy the Earth. ~ Rovi...
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1938
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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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This is an epic Darryl F. Zanuck production that plays fast and loose with historical facts regarding early 19th century...
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1938
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This standard crime meller from the Columbia assembly line stars Paul Kelly as police lieutenant Tony Roberts. Hoping to...
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1937
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In this romantic adventure, a wealthy Arab sheik has a reputation for breeding some of the fastest horses in the world....
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1937
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1937
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The Frame-Up is a timely and typically tacky crime meller from the Columbia film factory. There's dirty work at the...
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1937
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Produced by the Halperin Brothers, the folks responsible for the early-talkie horror classic White Zombie, Nation Aflame is...
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1937
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In this tuneful, romantic drama, an Australian opera star (Grace Moore) wants to perform in a major U.S. festival but cannot...
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1937
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1936
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"Every time Paul Muni parts his beard and looks through a microscope, we lose a million dollars." Producer Jack Warner's...
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1936
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Ostensibly based on the life of World War I flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker, whose smiling visage opened each of the 13...
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1936
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The Leathernecks Have Landed is an adventure yarn revolving around three boisterous marines. Lew Ayres is the headstrong one,...
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1936
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Ann Sothern essays the title role in My American Wife. The story opens in Smelter City, Arizona, where the richest man in...
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1936
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The Unguarded Hour opens with prosecutor Sir Alan Deardon (Franchot Tone) in the midst of a murder trial. He gets his...
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1936
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This truly offbeat filmization of Jean Bart's stage drama The Man Who Reclaimed His Head has been misleadingly released to TV...
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1935
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One of the first releases of newly-formed Republic Pictures, Two Sinners was adapted from The Black Sheep, a serialized...
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1935
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Train Passenger
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1935
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It is a tale known well, filmed many times over the years, but never better than this early black and white version from the...
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1935
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This big-budget 1936 RKO Studios picture lost money, perhaps due to a cool box-office reception to the idea of leading lady...
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1935
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MGM was seldom content to just film a mystery; the story had to be dressed up in some elaborate, unorthodox fashion. Mystery...
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1934
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In this drama, a fighter's fiancee refuses to marry him until he can overcome his insane jealousy. He does and they marry....
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1934
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A few unique touches aside -- notably the opening costume-party scene, in which the revellers are dressed as insects -- Rip...
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1934
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1934
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Honolulu detective Charlie Chan (Warner Oland) spends an eventful weekend at an English country estate in this fog-bound...
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1934
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The Sisters Under the Skin in this Columbia "continental" romantic seriocomedy are middle-aged Elinor Yates (Doris Lloyd) and...
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1934
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In this WW I melodrama, a British officer is forced to return to the front soon after he is married. On the battle lines, he...
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1934
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Virtually everybody except President Roosevelt was in the lavish MGM backstage musical Dancing Lady. Joan Crawford stars as...
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1933
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The only Academy Award winning picture for Fox Studios (in its pre-20th Century-Fox era), Cavalcade is a stately film...
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1933
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1933
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1932
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This film version of the Jack DeLeon-Jack Celestin play Silent Witness stars Lionel Atwill in his original stage role of Sir...
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1932
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This version of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famed tale is set in contemporary London and follows Holmes and Watson as they seek...
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1932
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Boris Karloff stars as the villainous Dr. Fu Manchu in this wild and wooly -- and wildly racist -- adventure yarn, based on...
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1932
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Drafted into the army during World War I, those muddled misfits Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy make a shambles of Training Camp...
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1932
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Even as his parent studio MGM was gearing up for talkies, popular western star Tim McCoy ground out four silent vehicles...
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1929
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Child star Frank "Junior" Coghlan's final film on his DeMille-Pathe contract was the military-academy drama Square Shoulders....
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1929
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Irving Cummings was a good choice to direct this third Charlie Chan feature, the first to use sound, as he had previously...
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1929
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Based on Zane Grey's Collier's short story, this fine Paramount Western starred the underrated Nancy Carroll as an Eastern...
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1928
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