In this 1955 Otto Preminger film, Gary Cooper stars as World War I hero Brigadier General Billy Mitchell. The film recounts...
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1955
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1953
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1953
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Red Skelton does his best with the situation-comedy trappings of Half a Hero. A sort of poor man's...
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Mr. Bascomb
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1953
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1952
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Wallace Beery's final film was the curiously endearing "black comedy" Big Jack. Set in 1820, a time when "science was a crime...
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1949
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Hoping for a success commensurate with his previous Show Business (1945), comedian Eddie Cantor poured a lot of his own money...
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Mr. Whitley
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1948
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1948
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1948
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1947
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Janet Leigh made an impressive film-debut in MGM's The Romance of Rosy Ridge. Though the title suggests a lighthearted...
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John Dessark
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1947
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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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C.J. Chesley
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1947
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1946
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1946
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This movie is an early horror film classic and certainly one that a well-rounded horror movie aficionado should not miss. An...
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1946
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Even if the film had been released without opening and closing titles, it wouldn't have been hard to identify Three Wise...
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1946
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Otto Preminger directed this romantic musical (something of a change of pace for the rather serious-minded director) set in...
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1946
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Alexandre Dumas' famous fictional count gets revenge in this lively sequel to the original story. The Monte Cristo count...
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Danglars
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1946
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1946
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This screwball comedy stars Claudette Colbert as Mary, the wife of bumbling but likeable banker Chris (Dick Foran). Foreign...
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Worth
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1945
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John Steinbeck cowrote this sometimes hilarious, sometimes heart-wrenching study of small-town hypocrisy. Shiftless Benny...
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1945
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At 88 minutes, Here Come the Co-Eds is one of the longest of Abbott & Costello's Universal starring vehicles, and though not...
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1945
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In this touching drama, city-slicker Sparke Thorton goes to live on his aunt and uncle's horse farm in the country. The...
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1944
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The title Together Again referred to the fact that frequent costarsIrene Dunne and Charles Boyer were once more united on...
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1944
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This film gives a fictionalized version of how the popular real-life radio program of the title began. A promoter has an...
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Mr. Gates
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1944
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1943
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The Song of Bernadette is a reverent recounting of the life of St. Bernadette of Lourdes. As a teen-aged peasant girl growing...
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1943
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The Norwegian resistance to the Nazi occupation of their country inspired several wartime films from Hollywood, including...
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1943
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Mabel Paige, one of Hollywood's most beloved character actresses, was given her one-and-only starring role in this Republic...
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Jim Parsonss
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1943
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A romantic triangle between two best friends and a beautiful woman provides the basis of this romantic comedy. The girl in...
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Bradford Crane
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1943
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Andrew Holmes
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1942
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1942
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When Lew Ayres' wartime conscientious-objector status caused MGM to drop the actor like a hot potato, Ayres' "Dr. Kildare"...
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1942
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In providing the "synopsis" for Are Husbands Necessary?, one best-selling film source says merely "And what about this film?"...
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Duncan Atterbury
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1942
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The tumultuous presidency of 17th-president Andrew Johnson is chronicled in this biopic. The story begins with Johnson's...
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1942
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Unable to convince their isolationist New York editor (Charles Dingle) that America must be alerted to the threat of...
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1942
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Playwright Lillian Hellman first wrote of the horrible Hubbard family in her 1939 play The Little Foxes. In this lavish 1941...
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Ben Hubbard
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1941
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If Edward G. Robinson thought he'd get away from tough-guy roles by moving from Warners to MGM, he was sorely mistaken....
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1941
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Robert Taylor toughened up his image considerably with this gangster movie, which was unusual both in its plot and origins,...
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1941
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Adapted from a play which was originally produced by the Federal Theatre Project (part of the WPA), this is a film from the...
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1939
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