This film should have been a press agent's dream: Hollywood's two greatest "big mouths," Joe E. Brown and Martha Raye,...
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1939
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1940
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Alexander Hamilton was not precisely the life story of America's first secretary of the treasury--in fact, it doesn't even...
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1931
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Films set during America's colonial era seldom did well at the box office, and Allegheny Uprising was no exception....
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1939
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Though his parents are street evangelists, Clyde Griffiths (Phillips Holmes) grows up in squalor, but not without ambitions....
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1931
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Bob Kane's 1939 Detective Comics superhero The Batman came to the screens in serial form courtesy of Columbia Pictures and...
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1943
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Banker
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1930
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1931
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A wealthy young heir rebels when his snooty parents refuse to allow him to marry a lovely young secretary. Deciding to teach...
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1935
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Popular silent-screen star Leatrice Joy made an adequate talking-picture debut in MGM's The Bellamy Trial. The film was based...
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1929
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1941
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The Big Executive is Ricardo Cortez, to whom success is less important than the pursuit of success. Having lost as many...
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1933
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The presumed son of a Navajo Indian chief goes in search of the men who killed his father in this average serial produced by...
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1944
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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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1943
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Through a miscarriage of justice, John Ingram (Edward G. Robinson) is convicted of a crime he did not commit and sentenced to...
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1939
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In this rough-and-tumble action comedy, Chuck Connors (Wallace Beery) and Steve Brodie (George Raft) are friendly rivals on...
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1933
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In this drama, a politician must deal with the aftermath of a young girl's damning accusation. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1932
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Inspired by the true story of the leader of the Mormon Church, this film features Dean Jagger in the title role. The members...
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1940
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Just after completing It Happened One Night, director Frank Capra churned out a bread-and-butter picture titled Broadway...
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1934
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This exciting adventure is set in the rugged Australian outback back when the continent was used as a giant penal colony for...
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1939
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It's every man for himself when Charles Laughton bites into the role of infamous 17th century pirate captain William Kidd....
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1945
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Admidst a sea of melodramatic and unbelievable courtroom dramas, Career Woman is distinguished by its comparative realism....
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1936
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1931
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Henry Fonda plays Chad Hanna, a New York country bumpkin of the mid-nineteenth century who joins a travelling circus. He...
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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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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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In this episode of the Three Mesquiteers series of westerns the trio must help two rival sides involved in a range war settle...
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Kansas Jones
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1939
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Two rough-and-ready guys; one beautiful dame; a tough job that has to be done, and "one of us may not come out alive"; the...
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1931
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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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Previously filmed in 1915, David Harum is the story of an upstate New York rancher devoted to trotting races. Will Rogers...
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1934
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You wouldn't know it from the title, but Deadly Ray From Mars is a feature-length abridgement of the 15-episode serial Flash...
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1938
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A 15 chapter Columbia serial, The Desert Hawk employed camels instead of horses and bedouins rather than cowboys, but...
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1944
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This film offers melodrama on the high-seas as it follows the miraculous salvation of a becalmed ship filled with bootleg...
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1933
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The 15-chapter Republic serial Dick Tracy Returns also represents the return of Ralph Byrd in the role of Chester Gould's...
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Pa Stark
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1938
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Long-suffering screen favorite Helen Twelvetrees is Disgraced again in this Paramount soap opera. Twelvetrees is cast as Gay...
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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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1933
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In this 1933 Marx Brothers film, the mythical country of Freedonia is broke and on the verge of revolution. Mrs. Teasdale...
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1933
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In this romance, men board "The Love Boat" (no, not the TV boat) and set sail for China with the hope of buying a Chinese...
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1930
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Buck Jones both produced and starred in this offbeat Western also featuring silent screen icon Louise Brooks. Hoping to turn...
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Cim White
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1937
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In this romance, a greedy poacher travels to a small island in the Bering sea to rob a seal rookery. There he falls for the...
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1929
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Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin' starts off on a tense note as a struggling man is led through the streets of a western town,...
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1948
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A partial remake of Universal's Heroes of the West (1932), this 15 chapter serial was based on pulp writer Peter B. Kyne's...
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1938
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Amid the political chaos sweeping across the world in 1939, a new terror arises -- the Purple Death -- and people around the...
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1940
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1940
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1940
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1940
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1940
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1940
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1940
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1940
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1940
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1940
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1940
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1940
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1940
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In 1936, Flash Gordon was among the most popular comic strip characters in America when Universal Pictures first brought his...
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1936
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All-American space hero Flash Gordon (played by Larry "Buster" Crabbe) once again does battle with the devious Ming the...
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1940
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1940
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In their first starring feature away from the Hal Roach studios, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy play a couple of fish peddlers...
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Commandant
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1939
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1935
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This third installment in MGM's "Maisie" series finds eternally stranded showgirl Maisie Revere (Ann Sothern) stuck in a...
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1940
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1937
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The adaptation of Nobel Prize-winner John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of dirt-poor Dust Bowl migrants by 4-time...
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1940
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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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Hatchet Man is a dated but fascinating film set amidst the "tong wars" in San Francisco's Chinatown. Tong hatchet man Wong...
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1932
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Often referred to as an imitation of Warner's legendary prison drama I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932), RKO's stirring...
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1932
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Based on Abel Kandel's 1931 play Hot Money, this delightfully daffy comedy from Warner Bros. is a typical example of that...
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1932
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Movie cowboy Jeffrey Carson (George O'Brien) tries hard to live up to his image in this "backstage western." On location in...
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1937
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Filmed in two weeks at Red Rock Canyon and Lone Pine, California, Hop-Along Cassidy was the opener of one of the best -- and...
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Buck Peters
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1935
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"A house divided against itself cannot stand" declared Abraham Lincoln; proof that a house divided can be repaired is...
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1931
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How Dooo You Do? offers two refugees from radio's Eddie Cantor Show, Bert Gordon and Harry Von Zell, as an erstwhile comedy...
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1946
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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 actioner, a race car driver is recuperating from an accident when he meets a charming waitress and decides to go...
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Mr. Merritt
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1935
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1940
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When scientific mastermind Jack Armstrong is kidnapped by a devious fiend determined to discover the secrets of atom-powered...
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1947
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Jailbreak is a formula Warners "B" with all the attendant stereotypes. Dick Purcell plays a convict accused of murdering a...
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1936
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The real Frank and Jesse James were murderous thugs, light years away from the Robin Hood image imposed on them by...
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1939
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In 1938, Jezebel was widely regarded as Warner Bros.' "compensation" to Bette Davis for her losing the opportunity to play...
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1938
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1948
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Buster Crabbe is a doctor, accompanying a shipment of fever serum to a remote jungle village. The ship is torpedoed by a...
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1941
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The blue grass of Kentucky was seen in three-strip Technicolor for the first time in this rambling racetrack drama. Sally...
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1938
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1946
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Oriental Dream is the TV title for the 1944 Technicolor version of Kismet. Ronald Colman plays Hadji, "king of beggars" in...
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1944
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Republic's program westerns of the 1940s fell into two categories: the Saturday-matinee fare of Roy Rogers,...
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1949
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1934
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Set during the terrible Spanish Civil War, this film avoids political commentary in favor of objectively centering on the...
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1937
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Despite its title and its potent lineup of cowboy talent, RKO Radio's The Law West of Tombstone is more comedy than western....
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1938
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Adapted by director Paul Sloan from the novel by Will James, Lone Cowboy is an "outdoors" epic tailored to the talents of...
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1934
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"There is never a suggestion of subtlety in this tale" was the New York Times' acidic but accurate assessment of the...
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1931
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This science fiction film features the revenge of Ming who vowed to destroy the Earth. ~ Rovi...
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Emperor Ming
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1938
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One of the first major Hollywood films to seriously address America's ongoing mistreatment of its Indian population,...
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1934
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Director William "One Take" Beaudine puts his all-character-actor cast through their paces in Men of San Quentin. J. Anthony...
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Saunderson
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1942
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A Texas Ranger (Tom Mix, in his last film) must stop an evil gang leader (Charles Middleton) who is trying to scare Indians...
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1934
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A minister's daughter finds fame as an evangelist but struggles with her own lack of faith in Frank Capra's impassioned...
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1931
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Fed up with crowded big-city living, advertising executive Mr. Blandings (Cary Grant) decides to seek out a big, roomy house...
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1948
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1934
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The Earl Carroll Vanities, a popular Broadway revue of the 1930s and '40s, is the setting for this murder mystery...
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1934
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The Mystery of Marie Roget is more faithful to its Edgar Allan Poe original than most Universal films of its ilk, even though...
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1942
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The comedic sidekick is shockingly done away with in this unusual and highly atmospheric Western from Fox. George O'Brien, of...
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Henry Steele
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1932
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A wealthy young playboy becomes involved in the hunt for a master criminal when he catches one of the criminal's henchmen in...
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1934
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In this handsomely-staged adaptation of the story by Emile Zola, Anna Sten plays Nana, a woman of the streets who is spotted...
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1934
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Produced by Gower Gulch maverick Robert L. Lippert and filmed in not-so-glorious two-strip Cinecolor near Idyllwild,...
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1946
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James Cagney stars in the humorous Western The Oklahoma Kid, set during the land rush of 1893. John Kincaid (Hugh Sothern)...
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1939
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Universal's three Flash Gordon serials have, over the years, been edited down to feature-length form. In 1991, these various...
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Ming the Merciless
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1991
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An earnest rural melodrama set among Norwegian immigrants in Wisconsin, Our Vines Have Tender Grapes is a slightly updated...
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1945
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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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Eddie Cantor plays Eddie Simpson, a shy and jumpy young fellow who spontaneously bursts into song whenever he gets nervous....
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1931
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In one of his few movie leading roles, Victor Jory plays an unmarried small-town creamery owner. Jory falls in love with...
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1935
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Nyoka Gordon (Kay Aldridge) leads an expedition into the most remote part of the Libyan desert in search of her father,...
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1942
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Legendary songwriter and vaudevillian George M. Cohan made his first appearance in a sound film with this satiric musical...
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1932
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In this romantic drama, an ex-con conceals her criminal past and starts a new life with a kindly cab driver. Together, the...
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1933
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Albert Dekker plays a crooked investment agent who embezzles a large sum from an estate, hoping to cover his crime by...
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1947
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First filmed in 1910, the venerable Helen Hunt Jackson novel Ramona was remade in 1936 in full Technicolor (20th...
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1936
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1940
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Reckless is a delightfully breezy screwball comedy from the same director (Victor Fleming) and star (Jean Harlow) responsible...
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1935
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Poverty-row director Wallace Fox came up in the world a bit when he signed on to helm RKO Radio's Red Morning. Steffi Duna,...
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1935
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Warner Bros' Road Gang is a retread of themes first explored (and stock footage first seen) in the studio's earlier...
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1936
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Road to Rio was the first of three "Road" pictures jointly produced by stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. On the run from the...
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1947
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Despite a troubled production that witnessed the exits of both leading man (Phillips Holmes) and director (George...
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1932
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In this sci-fi film, Flash Gordon and friends take on Mongo's sea monster, deadly ray guns, and robots to keep the evil...
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1936
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A young Barbara Stanwyck was considered for the starring role as the exiled call-girl in this extremely frank pre...
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1931
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Santa Fe Trail, Errol Flynn's third western, has precisely nothing to do with the titular trail. Instead, the film is a...
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1940
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Usually associated with erudite, urbane comedies, the legendary screen team of Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy goes...
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1947
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When World War I hero Alvin York agreed to sell the movie rights to his life story to Warner Bros., it was on three...
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1941
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Harold Bell Wright's bestselling novel The Shepherd of the Hills had been previously filmed in 1919 and 1928 before Paramount...
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1941
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Ships of Hate was one of the lesser entries in the "skullduggery-at-sea" genre of the early-talkie era. Hero Bart Wallace...
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Capt. Lash
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1931
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Singing cowboy Gene Autry makes a rare appearance outside his usual Republic Pictures stamping grounds in 20th Century-Fox's...
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1940
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1936
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Director Cecil B. DeMille returned to Paramount Pictures for this typically epic production, which became his first box...
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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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1937
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Three guesses as to the profession of the heroine in Sob Sister. That's right: Jane Ray (Linda Watkins) is a girl reporter,...
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1931
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This crime drama is set in the fictional San Francisco eatery, Mary Grady's Chowder House which is presided over by the...
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1936
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The second of singing cowboy Dick Foran's Warner Bros. westerns, Song of the Saddle was a decided improvement on the first...
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Phineas P. Hook
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1936
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Paramount's answer to Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) also involved mutiny and romance on the high seas. Gary Cooper stars as...
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1937
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In this entry in the "Flash Gordon" sci-fi series, the ever wicked Ming causes the dreaded space plague "The Purple Death,"...
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1940
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In 1936, Universal Pictures created a sensation with Flash Gordon, a 13-part adventure serial based on the popular comic...
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Ming the Merciless
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1936
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The agent of the title is George Brent, a journalist sent by the Government to get the goods on a crime syndicate. Brent...
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1935
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The first of the Bowery Boys' "haunted house" comedies, Spook Busters casts the boys as recent graduates of Exterminators'...
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1946
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In this his penultimate Western for Columbia Pictures, Tim McCoy played Tim Baxter, a cowboy returning to the old homestead...
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1935
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James Cagney manages to retain his pre-Code cockiness within post-Code limitations in the likeable St. Louis Kid. Cagney and...
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1934
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Station West may look like a western, but it sure sounds like a contemporary film noir. Dick Powell stars as Haven, a...
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1948
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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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In this drama, a New York physician takes a much-needed vacation down South. Unfortunately, he encounters a nurse working in...
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1939
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After several years' faithful service in supporting parts, Frank Jenks and Dorothea Kent were promoted to leading roles in...
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1938
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Molly Louvain (Ann Dvorak) is a young woman working as a clerk at a hotel. The product of a broken home, abandoned by her...
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1932
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In this low-budget thriller, a ferry captain named Douglas (Charles Middleton) is accused of a murder he did not commit and...
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Douglas (Strangler of the Swamp)
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1945
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Sunset of Power is regarded as one of Buck Jones' more meritorious Universal westerns. The heavy of the piece, grim-visaged...
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Neil Brannum
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1936
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In this western, a US marshal goes undercover to bust up a bunch of rustlers. The history behind the film is as interesting...
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1933
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Cecil B. DeMille's This Day and Age was perhaps the most Draconian entry in Hollywood's early-1930s "vigilante" film cycle....
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1933
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As indicated by its title, Thou Shalt Not Kill is a strange blend of religiosity and crime melodrama. Charles Bickford plays...
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1939
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Tomorrow at Seven is one of those "you will die at the appointed hour" murder mysteries which flooded the market in the early...
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1933
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The second film version of Ben Ames Williams' magazine serial Jubilo, and the second to star Will Rogers, Too Busy to Work...
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1932
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In this romantic comedy, two warring neighbors are aghast when their respective daughter and son fall in love and plan to...
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1945
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Paramount's first outdoor Technicolor feature, Trail of the Lonesome Pine was the third film version of John Fox Jr.'s novel....
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1936
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Two Gun Law perpetuated the cinematic winning streak established early in 1937 by western star Charles Starrett and director...
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Wolf Larson
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1937
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The title of this "Lum 'N' Abner" comedy isn't explained until the film is half over. Chester Lauck and Norris Goff repeat...
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1943
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1947
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Promoted as a follow-up to the popular 1939 western Dodge City (which, indeed, was left wide open for a sequel in its closing...
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1940
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Way Down South ranks as among the better Bobby Breen musicals, if only because of its impressive production credits. The film...
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1939
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1930
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In this newspaper farce, an editor loses his voice and his job after he tires of being tormented by the practical jokes of...
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1936
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This comedy classic is the sound-film debut of enormously popular and brilliant silent comedian Harold Lloyd. He plays a...
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John Thorne,The Dragon
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1929
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A curmudgeonly small-town doctor resents the presence of a new younger physician and his newfangled ways. He is especially...
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1947
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In this comedy drama (a remake of 1932's Ladies of the Jury), an apparently bubble-headed but mule-stubborn jurist is...
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1937
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20th Century-Fox's Western Union was loosely based on a story by Zane Grey. The basic historical facts behind the connecting...
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1941
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Based on a story by Zona Gale, When Strangers Meet concentrates on a small, interrelated community separated down the middle...
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John Tarman
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1934
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In this campy "adult-oriented" drama from the early 1930s, the ruthless manager of a Malaysian rubber plantation marries a...
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1933
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Inspired by the Titanic tragedy, Whom the Gods Destroy is a tour de force for character actor Walter Connolly. The star is...
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1934
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Undoubtedly inspired by Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians, filmed the same year by United Artists as And Then There Were...
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1945
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It's hard to believe that Wild Bill Hickok Rides is a Warner Bros. picture-and harder still to believe that Constance Bennett...
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1941
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Wild Geese Calling is one of those 20th Century-Fox star vehicles which used to pop up all the time on TV before the Carsons,...
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1941
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Promoted from Republic B westerns to "A" productions, William "Wild Bill" Elliot found himself in the sort of roles...
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1947
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Forever keeping apace of current headlines, Republic's "Three Mesquiteers" series came up with the 1939 entry Wyoming Outlaw....
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1939
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The prolific Jack Natteford wrote this unusual Gene Autry Western -- or, to be accurate, "Eastern" -- which reportedly...
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Autry Sr.
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1937
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