Elvis Presley stars as Mike Windgren, a former trapeze artist who's suffered from vertigo ever since accidentally dropping...
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1963
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1961
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Too Much, Too Soon was adapted from the warts-and-all autobiography of actress Diana Barrymore, the troubled daughter of...
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1958
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This Sam Katzman-produced sci-fier was originally released on a double bill with Katzman's Giant Claw. The plot is motivated...
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Gen. Bartes
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1957
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The endearingly awful Shake, Rattle and Rock! serves as a showcase for four top rock-and-roll talents of the 1950s. Fats...
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1957
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Crusading publisher Austin Spenser (Sidney Blackmer) wants to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial...
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1956
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The MGM melodrama These Wilder Years marked the first onscreen pairing of Hollywood stars James Cagney and Barbara Stanwyck....
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1956
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The Korean conflict of the early '50s saw widespread use of psychological torture by the North Korean communists on enemy...
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1956
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Anyone who's seen the 1996 science-fiction lampoon Mars Attacks may have trouble watching Earth vs. the Flying Saucers with a...
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1956
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In this western, an adventurous gambler goes on the lam when he is falsely accused of a riverboat killing. He hides out for...
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1956
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1956
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Adapted by Don M. Mankiewicz from his own novel, Trial is a surprisingly timely story of how justice can sometimes be...
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1955
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A Man Called Peter is the story of Scottish-born Presbyterian minister and world-renowned author Peter Marshall, here played...
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1955
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Once again Edward G. Robinson takes a script from the trash bin and makes it into a palatable movie. A remake of The...
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1955
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1955
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A gangster is killed by a big man who pays no attention to bullets, and who leaves glowing fingerprints. Police scientist...
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1955
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New York Confidential is based on the Jack Lait-Lee Mortimer bestseller of the same name. Richard Conte plays Nick Magellan,...
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1955
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Demetrius and the Gladiators was the sequel to The Robe, and though they were released several months apart, the films were...
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1954
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Though Cannibal Attack is officially an entry in Columbia's "Jungle Jim" B-movie series, star Johnny Weissmuller is cast as...
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Commissioner
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1954
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Matt Parish
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1954
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In this adventure, set in Algiers, a French cabaret singer tries to expose the identity of an Arab leader who is conspiring...
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1953
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1953
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The Vanquished represented another winner from Paramount's Pine-Thomas unit. John Payne plays Rock Grayson, a Civil War POW...
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1953
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In the year 1783, as the British surrender to the colonists, Dr. Carlos Morales (Fernando Lamas) is one of many new Americans...
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1953
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1952
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Hollywood, 1927: the silent-film romantic team of Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) and Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen) is the toast of...
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1952
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During the Civil War, Colonel Kern Shafter (played by Ray Milland) and Captain Edward Garnett (played by Hugh Marlowe) become...
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1952
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At the time of its release, Republic's Desperadoes Outpost was regarded as one of the studio's better Allan "Rocky" Lane...
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1952
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Paramount's immensely successful Pine-Thomas production unit once more struck box-office gold with The Last Outpost....
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1951
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The film traces Naples-born Caruso's ascension from adolescent choir singer to the uppermost ranks of the opera world. Caruso...
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1951
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1951
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Minister Sterling Hayden is able to tend to the needs of his flock, but can do nothing for his alcoholic wife. She kills...
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1951
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Here Comes the Groom was the second collaboration between director Frank Capra and star Bing Crosby. Though not as "socially...
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1951
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1951
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The Desert Fox is a superb filmed biography of German general Erwin Rommel, concentrating on the period between his retreat...
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1951
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With location scenes lensed in Italy, September Affair is consistently good to look at, even when the pacing flags and the...
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1950
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1950
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A Woman of Distinction serves as a tailor-made vehicle for Rosalind Russell. The star is cast as Susan Middlecott, a highly...
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1950
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A submarine commander is determined to use guided missiles on his sub in this war drama. To do so, he defies the edict of...
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1950
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1950
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The Randolph Scott western Colt .45 was retitled for TV so as not to be confused with the TV series of the same name. The new...
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1950
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1950
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MGM's The Reformer and the Redhead was the first directorial collaboration of longtime screenwriting partners Norman Panama...
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1950
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Rod Cameron and Wayne Morris star as Civil War officers who become federal agents. The duo is sent west to investigate a...
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1950
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Charles Starrett once more hits the trail as "The Durango Kid" in Columbia's Across the Badlands. By now, the formula was a...
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1950
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In 1949, Paramount put together a film version of the radio series My Friend Irma. It was assumed that the main attraction...
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1950
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Postwar films were festooned with amnesiac ex-GIs who found themselves mixed up with crime. In The Crooked Way, John Payne...
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1949
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A blend of melodrama and film noir, The Reckless Moment stars Joan Bennett as Lucia Harper, a suburban housewife whose...
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1949
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1949
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This modern-day "Faust" variation benefits from a superb cast. Thomas Mitchell plays Joseph Foster, an honest judge who wants...
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1949
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Warner Baxter plays the title role in Columbia's Prison Warden. A well-known reformer, Victor Burnell (Baxter) is put in...
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1949
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In this wartime drama, an American officer is accused of secretly working as an SS man. Though all evidence is against the...
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1948
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Filmed almost entirely on location, Walk a Crooked Mile was Columbia Pictures' "answer" to 20th Century-Fox's late-1940s...
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1948
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John Garfield, in the best performance of his career, portrays Joe Morse, an ambitious attorney who has long since abandoned...
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1948
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An older soldier enters West Point but remains haunted by nagging guilt. It all began in Tunisia during a tremendous battle....
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Mr. Julian
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1948
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Sharkishly handsome Zachary Scott is right in his element in the Eagle-Lion melodrama Ruthless. Told in flashback, this is...
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1948
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Fairly ambitious for Screen Guild Productions, The Prairie is set at the time of the Louisiana Purchase. Hoping to find their...
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Ishmael Bush
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1948
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One of the more popular movie-review paperbacks sums up Paramount's Isn't it Romantic? with a terse "No." There's actually...
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1948
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In this war movie, set during WW II, a pilot must crash land in the Pacific after he is shot down. As he floats upon the...
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1947
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1947
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Robert Lowery stars as Paul Kimberly, a former newspaperman who takes on a particularly noxious form of corruption. The...
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Vincent Arnold
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1947
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Not precisely the best film of 1947, the Republic comedy-mystery Exposed is nevertheless consistently enjoyable. Adele Mara...
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1947
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"Von Clausewitz said that war is the logical extension of diplomacy; Monsieur Verdoux feels that murder is the logical...
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1947
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Smugglers are working the border between Mexico and California in this action-filled and, of course, tuneful Gene Autry...
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Henry Blackstone
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1947
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District Attorney Girard
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1946
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1946
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The oft-used title The Man Who Dared was applied to an oft-filmed movie plotline in 1946. George Macready, in a respite from...
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1946
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Black Beauty, Anna Sewell's classic tale of a beautiful horse is adapted in a disappointingly flat fashion by independent...
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Squire Wendon
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1946
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Without Reservations has to be the least typical John Wayne picture of the postwar era. Top billing is bestowed upon...
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1946
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Based on a play by Ruth Gordon, Over 21 represents the felicitous teaming of two middle-aged but attractive film favorites....
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1945
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