Spencer Tracy stars in John Ford's sentimental adaptation of Edwin O'Connor's novel about the final campaign of a big city...
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1958
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The Wings of Eagles is filmmaker John Ford's paean to his frequent collaborator--and, it is rumored, drinking buddy--Cmdr....
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1957
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The Kefauver Committee's ongoing investigation of organized crime spawned several "Torn from Today's Headlines!" films in the...
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1952
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1952
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Raymond Burr stars as Roger Lewis, the ruthless publisher of a Confidential-style scandal magazine. For a fee, Lewis will...
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1950
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A rare comedy from director John Ford, this story about a WWII soldier trying to gain some respect is based on the published...
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1950
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Peggy Brookfield (Diana Lynn) is one of many aspirants for the position of Queen of the annual Tournament of Roses in...
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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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In this drama, an embittered widow, a former concert singer, can't help but blame Lassie for her son's death. Needing help...
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1949
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In 1947, Variety Clubs International, a showbiz charitable organization, was responsible for the frothy musical Variety Girl....
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1949
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Returning from WW II, gambler Joe Miracle (Glenn Ford) discovers that his partner is dead, his gaming house has been sold,...
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1949
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Bob Hope's Technicolor western spoof The Paleface was one of the comedian's biggest box-office hits. Hope plays Painless...
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1948
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Though it is not so frankly identified in the film, an insidious white-slavery racket motivates the plotline of Monogram's...
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1948
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John Muller (Paul Henreid), an intelligent, arrogant criminal who has been a medical student and a phony psychoanalyst,...
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1948
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After serving with a notable lack of distinction in WW2, Corporal Slicker Smith (Bud Abbott) and Private Herbie Brown...
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1947
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This John Wayne adventure is set in South America's rugged Andes Mountains. The Duke has been assigned by a powerful US...
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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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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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Filmed not long after the actual events, The Beginning or the End is a sober, intelligent account of the development and...
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1947
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One of the most ambitious productions ever turned out by Monogram studios, Song of My Heart represented the directorial debut...
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1947
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Tarzan (Johnny Weissmuller) goes on one of his occasional pro-ecological kicks in Tarzan and the Huntress. This time, the...
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1947
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Lucille Ball offers a seminal version of her Lucy Ricardo TV character in Her Husband's Affairs. Ball is cast as Margaret...
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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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1947
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James Thurber wasn't too happy with the Sam Goldwyn film adaptation of his 1939 short story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,...
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1947
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A kind-hearted Native American adopts a homeless, orphaned Chinese boy who has only a horse to his name. This touching...
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1947
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With a little extra effort, Columbia's Key Witness might have been a model B picture. John Beal plays inventor Milton Higby,...
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1947
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Honeymoon stars an attractively grown-up Shirley Temple as Barbara, the sweetheart of a GI corporal named Phil (Guy Madison)....
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1947
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1947
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A change of pace for both director Vincente Minnelli and star Katharine Hepburn, this taut drama features the latter as Ann...
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1946
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The title states the case in Monogram's Don't Gamble with Strangers. It's all about a pair of crooked gamblers, Mike...
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1946
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Columbia's Mr. District Attorney was the second attempt to launch a film series based on the popular radio series of the same...
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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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There's no "valley" in Valley of the Zombies, and only one "zombie," played with relish by Ian Keith. At large in a great...
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Dr. Rufus Maynard
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1946
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In this thriller, psychiatrist Dr. Cross (Vincent Price) kills his wife and expects to get away with murder, until he...
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1946
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The Whistler, mysterious narrator of the radio series of the same name, "knows many things" for he "walks by night." This...
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1946
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1946
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Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) heads south of the border in this so-so series entry. With the help of Mexican police official...
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1946
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Based on a novel by Barry Fleming, Colonel Effingham's Raid stars Charles Coburn in the title role. Upon retiring from the...
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1945
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John Brickley (Robert Montgomery) believes in PT boats, and as a lowly U.S. Navy lieutenant stationed in the Philippines,...
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1945
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Joan Crawford won an Academy Award for her bravura portrayal of the titular heroine in Mildred Pierce. The original James M....
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1945
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In this melodrama, two young lovers secretly elope after the woman is involved in a hit-and-run accident. The young groom...
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1944
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Musical star Ann Miller plays a Broadway leading lady coaxed into reteaming with Larry Parks, her former producer. Parks is...
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1944
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Based on the comic book by the same name, the hero takes on a crazed scientist who creates deadly machines for his own...
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1944
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Former president Ronald Reagan may have genuinely believed that he was referring to a real-life act of selfless wartime...
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1944
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The Fighting Seabees is Republic Pictures' rip-roaring tribute to the US Navy's Construction Batallions (C.B.), without whom...
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1944
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1944
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Heavenly Days was the last of three RKO Radio film vehicles for the popular radio duo of Fibber McGee and Molly (aka Jim and...
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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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1943
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More so than most wartime films, Mission to Moscow must be viewed within the context of its times. Requested by President...
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1943
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In this wartime comedy drama an ultra-macho but aging Marine sergeant does all he can to keep his men intimidated and towing...
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1943
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In her last 20th Century-Fox vehicle, skating star Sonja Henie plays, Nora, a Norwegian expatriate ice champion. Newly...
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1943
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1943
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Making her first film appearance since 1941, Deanna Durbin plays the title role in The Amazing Mrs. Holliday. Truth to tell,...
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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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1943
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Ray Middleton portrays the title character in Republic's Hurricane Smith. Mistakenly arrested on a holdup charge, Smith...
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1942
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Hope Schuyler is a notorious but never-seen astrologer, inextricably linked with blackmail, political graft and murder....
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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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In this musical comedy, an agent for an advertising agency begins trying to push a new "Blind Date" service and so engages...
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1942
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The winner of four Oscar nominations, Wake Island was one of the first major Hollywood films to deal with America's forced...
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1942
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1942
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This historical drama tells the story of the first class to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. In the...
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1942
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That Other Woman in this 20th Century-Fox programmer turns out to be Emily (Virginia Gilmore), faithful secretary to master...
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1942
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This 20th Century-Fox programmer revolves around the misadventures of two not-overly-bright motorcycle patrolmen. Waitress...
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1941
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Though set in 1865, The Son of Monte Cristo is a thinly disguised indictment against 20th century dictatorships. Louis...
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1941
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There were two separate 1940s film series inspired by Philips H. Lord's radio weekly Mr. District Attorney; the first was...
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1941
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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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In their first 20th Century-Fox vehicle, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are cast respectively as the butler and chauffeur of...
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1941
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The first of director Frank Capra's independent productions (in partnership with Robert Riskin), Meet John Doe begins with...
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1941
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1941
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The Great Lie is Soap Opera Deluxe from Bette Davis' peak period at Warner Bros. Davis plays a socialite who is madly in love...
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1941
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In this serial, onetime football hero Slingin' Sammy Baugh stars as Tom King, a Texas Ranger on the hunt for the Nazis who...
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1941
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The Nurse's Secret is a low-budget remake of Miss Pinkerton (1932), which in turn was based on a play by Mary Roberts...
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1941
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The high batting average of 20th Century-Fox's Michael Shayne detective series remained intact with Blue, White and Perfect....
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1941
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1941
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Strange Alibi offered young Warner Bros. contractee Arthur Kennedy to carry a picture all by himself. The star is cast as...
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1941
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America had not officially gone to war in November of 1941, but try telling that to the producers of the "preparedness" drama...
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1941
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The fourth of 20th Century-Fox's "Michael Shayne" mysteries finds private detective Shayne (Lloyd Nolan) anxiously preparing...
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1941
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1941
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Maintaining Republic Pictures' early-1940s predilection for corny, antiquated titles, Rags to Riches made its national debut...
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1941
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One wonders if the title Too Many Blondes was inspired by the well-publicized romantic peccadilloes of the film's star, Rudy...
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1941
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The Great Mr. Nobody is an easygoing classified ad salesman, appropriately nicknamed Dreamy (Eddie Albert). All Dreamy wants...
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1941
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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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1940
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1940
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Escaped gangster Steve McBirney (Marc Lawrence), vowing to get even with Oriental sleuth Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler), lies in...
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1940
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The debutante whom Andy Hardy (Mickey Rooney) meets-after falling in love with her photograph -- is blonde Diana Lewis (the...
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1940
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1940
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The sailor in this entertaining 20th Century-Fox programmer is Danny Malone (Jon Hall), while the lady is Sally Gilroy...
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1940
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The Fatal Hour was the fourth entry in Monogram's "Mr. Wong" series, based on the gentlemanly oriental detective created by...
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Forbes
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1940
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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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Appointed resident assistant at the Byng State Hospital by his mentor Dr. Leonard Gillespie (Lionel Barrymore), young Doctor...
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1940
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Officially, America had no intention of entering the Second World War in 1940: Why, then, were there so many "preparedness"...
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1940
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Condemned to death for a mercy killing, Dr. John Garth (Karloff) continues to experiment in prison to develop a serum that...
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1940
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1940
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Olivia DeHavilland stars as a music student whose education is secretly subsidized by the aging owner of a phonograph factory...
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1940
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This soapy drama stars Hedy Lamarr as a would be model who meets a research doctor en route to the US from Europe. They meet...
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1940
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Knute Rockne-All American was Pat O'Brien's finest hour: thanks to intensive rehearsals and numerous makeup applications, he...
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1940
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This fine adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic tale about a cursed family opens with a title card that reveals how the...
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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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Trail of the Vigilantes was conceived as a straight action picture, but was reshaped during filming into a comedy western in...
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1940
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Egyptian mystic Andoheb (George Zucco) is ordered by his High Priest (Eduardo Ciannelli) to stand guard over the sacred mummy...
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1940
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1940
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Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Our Town is given the Hollywood treatment in this adaptation directed by...
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1940
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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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On the verge of superstardom, Rita Hayworth played in scores of minor dramas like Homicide Bureau, an entertaining little...
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1939
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Undercover Doctor, like the other entries in Paramount's "FBI" series, could lay claim to being "drawn from today's...
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1939
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A disruptive Annapolis naval cadet refuses to tow the line and so gets booted out of the prestigious academy. Later, he...
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1939
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In this romance, a young woman journeys from Syracuse to New York to see her sweetheart, a prominent architect. She is...
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1939
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Bold for its time (just prior to World War II), Confessions of a Nazi Spy is an expose of a genuine Nazi espionage ring...
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1939
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1939
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1939
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1939
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Tropic Fury is one of several Universal programmers built around the box-office appeal of handsome Richard Arlen and...
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1939
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Idealism vs. Practicality is the Disputed Passage in this lavishly mounted soap opera. Based on a novel by Lloyd C. Douglas...
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1939
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It may sound like a teenage-romance comedy, but Boy Trouble is actually a sentimental effort about middle-aged parents....
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1939
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The "Lady" of the title is horse-farm owner Penelope Hollis (Ellen Drew), but during the first half of this film, bookie...
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1939
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It's "Never the Twain Shall Meet" time again in the MGM romantic melodrama Lady of the Tropics. The lady in question is...
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1939
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In this interesting drama, a highly respected straight-arrow Irish cop is pleased when his son follows him onto the force....
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1939
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Akim Tamiroff plays the title role, an underworld leader who controls all illicit operations in Chinatown. Tamiroff is...
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1939
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A remake of Dr. Socrates (1935), this middling melodrama features Kay Francis as Carol Nelson, a medical doctor blaming...
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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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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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1939
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Otis Ferguson has said of Each Dawn I Die that "the story is of the kind you would have to see to disbelieve." And to be...
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1939
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This musical presents a romantic and sanitized biography of distinguished American songwriter Stephen Foster. The story...
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1939
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This fictionalized biography of the famed American inventor's life provided actor Don Ameche with his signature role. For...
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1939
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Wealthy socialite Melsa Manton (Barbara Stanwyck) is taking her pooches for a walk in the dead of the night when she stumbles...
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1938
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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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Brash and vigorous director William Wellman always had a place in his filmography for movies glorifying the early years of...
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1938
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Every so often, the delightful Dorothea Kent would break away from dumb-blonde roles to play a "straight" romantic lead. One...
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1938
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Boris Karloff starred in this rather static whodunit from the Warner Bros. B-unit as Jeffries, a civilian employee at a...
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1938
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In this crime drama, an undercover cop infiltrates a crime syndicate being run by an incarcerated mob boss who conducts his...
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1938
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The first of the "splinter" groups to emerge from the Dead End Kids was the Little Tough Guys, consisting of veteran...
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1938
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Both film versions of Phillip Barry's stage comedy Holiday have their merits, but the 1938 version has the added advantage of...
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1938
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A standard-issue "screwball comedy" of the 1930s, Four's a Crowd starred a quartet of Warner Bros' biggest stars:...
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1938
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Nancy Drew -- Detective was the first in a series of breezy B-pictures based on the teenaged sleuth created by Carolyn Keene....
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1938
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In this gangster movie set in the Big Apple, a crime lord strong arms teamsters into paying him protection money. One young...
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1938
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1938
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1938
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This entry in the Dead End Kids series of adventures makes critical comments about the failings of reform schools. The story...
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1938
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Gang Bullets was one of a myriad of late-1930s Monogram crime pictures, bearing such interchangable titles as...
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Wayne
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1938
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In this tearful crime melodrama, a waitress becomes so taken with her dream of living in posh luxury and comfort that she...
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1938
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Thanks for Everything is an unjustly forgotten lampoon of media promotional stunts. Jack Haley wins a contest sponsored by an...
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1938
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1938
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Set during World War I, Submarine Patrol stars Preston S. Foster as a naval officer demoted for dereliction of duty. He is...
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1938
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RKO Radio's ace short-subjects director Leslie Goodwins graduated to features with the economically produced Crime Ring....
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1938
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Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan (James Cagney) and Jerry Connelly (Pat O'Brien) grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky...
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1938
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A lovely stenographer, tired of men falling all over her, tries to make herself homely in this comedy. With her horn rim...
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1937
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In this WW II era drama, a timid, pacifistic clerk is befriended by a gutsy circus barker while they are in the military....
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1937
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In this romantic comedy, a rookie reporter works for his uncle's newspaper and gets assigned to write a story about an...
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1937
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1937
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Exiled to Shanghai uses the then-waging wars in Spain and China as backdrops for a familiar "rival reporters" yarn....
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1937
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The low-budget football drama Saturday's Heroes is remarkably frank and timely -- at least for the first 4 reels or so....
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1937
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The most enjoyable of the Warner Bros.-Dick Foran singing Westerns, this film pitches lawyer Foran against unscrupulous land...
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1937
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1937
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New York-based actress Claudia Morgan, best known for her interpretation of Nora Charles in the radio-series version of...
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1937
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The notorious Orient Express provides the setting for this romance involving two rival reporters in pursuit of a munitions...
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1937
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The 1937 Thirteenth Chair was the third film version of the 1919 stage melodrama by Bayard Veiller. Dame Mae Whitty dominates...
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1937
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Gat Brady (John Litel) is a wealthy gangster, though he's never killed anyone, an he is devoted to his teenaged daughter...
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1937
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1937
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In this thriller, an ex-pilot develops a useful new navigating device and decides to test it out. Unfortunately the test-run...
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1937
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The Dangerous Number of the title is madcap showgirl Elinor (Ann Sothern). Notorious throughout Manhattan for her zany...
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1937
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A boy learns life-changing lessons about the importance of friendship and the dignity of labor in this adventure saga based...
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1937
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1937
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1936
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1936
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The Gorgeous Hussy purports to be based on the life of Margaret "Peggy" O'Neill, the controversial wife of early 19th-century...
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1936
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The fast-paced world of Indy car racing provides the backdrop for this drama. The story centers on a test driver who works...
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1936
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1936
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Moonlight Murder takes place virtually in its entirety at the Hollywood Bowl. Despite dire warnings by a sinister mystic...
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1936
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Warner Baxter does a variation of his Oscar-winning "Cisco Kid" characterization in Robin Hood of El Dorado. Baxter plays the...
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1936
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Despite its title, things get pretty noisy in MGM's Absolute Quiet. Lionel Atwill heads the cast as reclusive financier G. A....
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1936
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A never-completed stage musical was the source for the MGM superproduction Born to Dance. The plot is another...
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1936
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We Went to College is a perceptive spoof of alumni "homecoming" reunions. Hugh Herbert plays a daffy economics professor, who...
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1936
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Edmund Lowe made his only screen appearance as S. S. Van Dine's dilettante sleuth Philo Vance in The Garden Murder Case. The...
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1936
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In MGM's three-hour-plus The Great Ziegfeld, William Powell stars as the titular theatrical impresario, whose show business...
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1936
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Magazine publisher Clark Gable is happily married to Myrna Loy. Clark's devoted, super-efficient secretary Jean Harlow may...
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1936
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Former newspaperman Martin Mooney based his script for Exclusive Story on the racket-busting activities of New York district...
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1936
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Calm Yourself starts off as ace advertising man Pat (Robert Young) is fired from his job when he offends the highly...
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1935
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Jack Benny is cast against type as a small-time con man in this lightweight MGM programmer. Whenever he manages to outsmart...
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1935
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Spencer Tracy plays a hard-driving newsman with a special instinct for solving sensational murders before the police can....
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1935
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This espionage thriller with romantic comedy touches was loosely based on the book American Black Chamber by the real-life...
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1935
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In his first American film, Peter Lorre portrays egg-bald Dr. Gogol. A brilliant and highly respected surgeon, Gogol would...
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1935
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Before establishing himself as a top western star, Charles Starrett bided his time in such boiled-shirt dramas as Damaged...
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1931
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Mr. Dowling
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1931
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Murder, blackmail and honor are the principal plot motivations of Silence. Clive Brook stars as Jim Warren, a gentleman thief...
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1931
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Phil Roberts
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1931
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1926
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This Sam Goldwyn "special" was based on the popular novel by Robert F. McLaughlin. The title character, played by...
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1919
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Anatole France's famous Egyptian courtesan came to the screen in December of 1917, courtesy of the Goldwyn company and opera...
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1917
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Actual, nationwide prohibition was still five years in the future when this reform-minded 5-reeler was released in 1915....
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1915
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