In this teenage exploitation drama, a young woman secretly marries. The trouble begins after her husband is killed while...
|
|
1957
|
For full appreciation of the culture-clash drama Foxfire, it is crucial that the viewer accept Jeff Chandler as a Native...
|
|
1955
|
A Woman of Distinction serves as a tailor-made vehicle for Rosalind Russell. The star is cast as Susan Middlecott, a highly...
|
|
1950
|
In this musical drama set at the turn-of-the-century, a saloon singer marries a wealthy attorney and then begins fooling...
|
|
1948
|
A loose remake of the 1935 Charlie Ruggles-Mary Boland comedy of the same name, Mama Loves Papa stars Elisabeth Risdon in the...
|
|
1945
|
The ever-reliable Richard Arlen tops the cast of Republic's The Phantom Speaks. Arlen plays a reporter investigating a series...
|
Cornelia Willmont, Housekeeper
|
1945
|
As PRC pictures go, the modest Harvest Melody is practically a spectacular. Rosemary Lane plays former film star Gilda...
|
Nancy
|
1943
|
In this drama, a rural family, displaced by the dust-bowl and the foreclosure of their family farm, moves to the city in...
|
Mrs. Bailey
|
1943
|
Barton MacLane dominates the proceedings in the PRC quickie Man of Courage. Taking a break from his usual gangster and...
|
Joyce Griffith
|
1943
|
When George Sanders announced that he was leaving the "Falcon" series, RKO Radio came up with the perfect replacement:...
|
|
1942
|
Olive Higgins Prouty's popular novel was transformed into nearly two hours of high-grade soap opera by several masters of the...
|
|
1942
|
In providing the "synopsis" for Are Husbands Necessary?, one best-selling film source says merely "And what about this film?"...
|
|
1942
|
Half Way to Shanghai is Burma, according to this Universal B-grade actioner. The film takes place almost in its entirety on a...
|
|
1942
|
This entry in the detective series follows Queen as he investigates the case of a woman's missing husband, a banker. As he...
|
|
1942
|
|
|
1941
|
Married Bachelor is a cute little MGM situation comedy, designed for the bottom half of the studio's double bills....
|
|
1941
|
Lieutenant Commander Joe Blake (Fred MacMurray), Lt. Tim Griffin (Regis Toomey), and Lt. Swede Larson (Louis Jean Heydt) are...
|
|
1941
|
The Great Lie is Soap Opera Deluxe from Bette Davis' peak period at Warner Bros. Davis plays a socialite who is madly in love...
|
|
1941
|
|
|
1941
|
In this episode of the popular medical series, Kildare finds himself involved in a dispute between to competing hospitals....
|
|
1941
|
Number ten in MGM's heart-warming (and immensely profitable) "Andy Hardy" series was the 1941 entry Life Begins for Andy...
|
|
1941
|
Ralph Bellamy made his fourth and final appearance as literary sleuth Ellery Queen in Columbia's Ellery Queen and the Murder...
|
|
1941
|
Former Latin Lover Ricardo Cortez directed this farfetched but fast-paced gambling melodrama in which girl reporter Julie...
|
|
1940
|
Though the peak productivity of Monogram's "rural romance" films was the mid-1930s, the studio continued to put together...
|
Frances
|
1940
|
Though its title suggests a war picture of some sort, MGM's Gallant Sons actually concerns the efforts of a group of kids to...
|
|
1940
|
Though the title character is loosely based on that of the notorious killer/robber Ma Barker, she has been sanitized and...
|
|
1940
|
Parole Fixer is another entry in Paramount's unofficial "J. Edgar Hoover" series, purportedly based on an actual case in the...
|
|
1940
|
A disruptive Annapolis naval cadet refuses to tow the line and so gets booted out of the prestigious academy. Later, he...
|
|
1939
|
Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) once again embarks on a mild romance with a mature woman in this average Western filmed at...
|
Mary Joyce
|
1939
|
Based on the Clare Booth Luce play of the same name, this MGM comedy is famous for its all-female cast and deft direction by...
|
|
1939
|
The third of Warner Bros.' series based on the teenaged sleuth created by Carolyn Keene, Nancy Drew, Trouble Shooter stars...
|
Edna Gregory
|
1939
|
This sequel to Grand National's 1938 actioner Cipher Bureau once again stars Leon Ames as bureau head Major Philip Waring. In...
|
Helen Lane
|
1939
|
This spy thriller is centered upon the actions of the Cipher Bureau, a part of a government agency devoted to intercepting...
|
Helen Lane
|
1938
|
In this socially conscious drama, a man is appointed warden at a boys reformatory on the condition that he can keep unwanted...
|
Adele Webster
|
1938
|
William Boyd, alias "Hopalong Cassidy," dons the guise of fop in order to catch the bad guys in this above-average series...
|
|
1938
|
Harold Lloyd plays a professor of Egyptology, frightened by the notion that he has fallen under an ancient Egyptian curse....
|
|
1938
|
At one time Universal's "prestige" director, James Whale had slipped off the A-list by the end of the 1930s; even so, his...
|
|
1938
|
In this comedy, a WWI veteran gets married after receiving his bonus money from the government. His meddlesome aunts then...
|
Caroline
|
1937
|
The Girl Overboard is Mary Chesebrooke (Gloria Stuart) but she doesn't take her dunk into the deep until the film's final...
|
|
1937
|
|
|
|
1937
|
In this comedy a professor is thought to be a member of a very strange family. They take him right in. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
|
|
1937
|
Hotel barber Joe Jenkins (Jack Haley), who's obsessed with newspaper stories about high-society celebrities, is dragooned...
|
|
1936
|
As originally conceived by detective novelist Frederick Nebel, hotshot girl reporter Torchy Blaine was a male news-hound...
|
|
1936
|
Paramount's first outdoor Technicolor feature, Trail of the Lonesome Pine was the third film version of John Fox Jr.'s novel....
|
|
1936
|
The Calling of Dan Matthews is a modernized and sanitized version of Harold Bell Wright's muckraking novel. Minister Dan...
|
Hope Strong
|
1936
|
In this Western, neighboring sheep farmers engage in a long-standing feud over that results in tragedy. The problem began...
|
Paddy Moore
|
1935
|
The directorial career of D.W. Griffith, "the father of the American cinema," ended on a discordant note with The Struggle,...
|
Nina
|
1931
|
In this drama, a humble Irish lass from New York City's East Side, dreams of ascending the social ladder to escape her...
|
|
1931
|
In this drama, a remake of Sal of Singapore(1929), the captain of a freighter becomes an instant father when his crew rescues...
|
|
1931
|