Andy Devine stars as Mr. Frisby, the biggest liar in three counties. Despite his constant gas-bagging about his alleged past...
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1962
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In this comic episode, mail-order huckster Gideon Flinch (Ian Wolfe), alias Homer T. Cranston, fleeces ornery Bullethead...
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1961
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In order to play in a high-stakes poker game, Bret (James Garner) and Bart (Jack Kelly) enter a pair of certified checks,...
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1959
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Accused of murdering her Uncle Martin (Alexander Price), Nadine Marshall (Christine White) makes a detailed confession of the...
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1958
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Cap'n Cobb
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1956
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Wisely cashing in on the enormous (and largely unexpected) success of his 1954 Davy Crockett TV miniseries, Walt Disney...
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1955
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In the second episode of Walt Disney's two-part miniseries The Legends of Davy Crockett, frontiersman Davy Crockett (Fess...
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1955
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Twinkle in God's Eye, Mickey Rooney's second personal production for Republic Pictures, is at the very least an improvement...
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1955
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Produced and directed by star Burt Lancaster, The Kentuckian is a leisurely western occasionally punctuated by spurts of...
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1955
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1954
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Randolph Scott is tall in the saddle once more in the Scott-Brown production Ten Wanted Men. The star is cast as John...
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1954
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Randolph Scott makes his 3-D debut in the stereoscopic western Stranger Wore a Gun. This time, Scott plays Jeff Travis, a...
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1953
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Billy the Kid doesn't really appear in Captive of Billy the Kid, but his memory lingers throughout this Republic "B"-western....
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Skeeter Davis
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1952
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Randolph Scott is the commander of a Confederate raiding party. They rob a Yankee gold shipment and are told by a dying Union...
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1952
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Rancher Randolph Scott rides right into a romantic triangle in this moody western. He is forced to stand by as his mercenary...
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1951
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Rex Allen, aka "The Arizona Cowboy," again stars as himself in Republic's Silver City Bonanza. Allen and his sidekick Gabe...
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1951
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1951
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In Ham Fisher's original Joe Palooka comic strip, Joe's pal Humphrey Pennyworth was a blimp of a man. In Joe Palooka Meets...
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1950
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This whimsical fantasy about a local drunk's 6' 3 1/2" imaginary rabbit pal was a smash hit (and a Pulitzer Prize winner) on...
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1950
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For some reason, whenever Universal used the word "Gal" in a film's title, Yvonne de Carlo usually headed the cast. In Gal...
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1949
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Based on a novel by Charles Huckelmann, Deputy Marshal was a "special" by the standards of cost-conscious Screen Guild...
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1949
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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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1949
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Gene Autry plays a dual role in the above-average Columbia oater Rim of the Canyon. Our hero plays "himself" and his own...
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Loco John
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1949
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1949
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In Portrait of Jennie, Joseph Cotten plays an artist, Eben Adams, who is unable to bring any true feeling to his work. While...
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1948
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Gene Autry goes in search of the man who killed his friend during a blackout in this action-packed western from Columbia....
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1948
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There's a thrill a minute in the economical actioner Highway 13. Robert Lowery plays Hank Wilson, an honest truck driver who...
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Pops
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1948
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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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Texas, Brooklyn and Heaven deserves a historical footnote as director William Castle's only comedy western. Future...
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1948
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1948
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All of his life, Danny Hawkins (Dane Clark) has been taunted and mistreated by most of the people around him, enduring...
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1948
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1947
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Character actor Douglas Fowley earns a rare starring role in this oddball western comedy produced and directed by...
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Shaggy Hartley
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1947
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In this mystery, the Crime Doctor, an amnesiac ex-crook, takes on yet another intriguing psychological murder case. This...
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1947
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Based on the novel by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling is set in post-Civil War Florida. Claude Jarman Jr. plays Jody...
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1946
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In this adventure, a young woman travels across Europe in search of her brother who was listed as missing in action during WW...
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Mr. Pecket
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1946
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According to the MGM publicity department, Gallant Bess was based on a true story, as told by Naval Reserve officer Marvin...
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Smitty
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1946
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The old bromide about a group of avaricious heirs waiting for an old millionaire to die is trotted out in Grissly's Millions....
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1945
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Famed WW1 aviator Eddie Rickenbacker once more entered the public's consciousness during WW2 when, while serving as an Air...
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1945
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Night Club Girl was designed as a feature-length "screen test" for new Universal contractee Vivian Austin. The plot is the...
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1944
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Originally, producer Harry Sherman's Woman of the Town was slated for Paramount release, but that studio was overloaded with...
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1944
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Like several other Harry Sherman Productions of the 1942-43 season, The Kansan was originally slated for a Paramount release,...
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1943
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Author William Saroyan's corn-shucking brand of sentimentality works wonders in this 1943 filmization of his novel. Narrator...
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1943
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This Western is set in the Arizona town and centers on former gunslinger Wyatt Earp who has been recently deputized and is...
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1942
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Aircraft plant worker Robert Cummings is accused of sabotaging his factory and causing the death of a co-worker. Actually,...
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1942
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Lucky Jordan (Alan Ladd) is a tough but good-natured New York racketeer who tries to finagle his way out of Army service....
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1942
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In this drama, a dedicated forest ranger begins suspecting that a recent series of fires has been caused by arson. He...
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1942
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1942
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The Lady Bodyguard of the title is pretty but somewhat physically frail A. C. Baker (Anne Shirley). An advertising...
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1942
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James Cagney made his first Technicolor appearance in the morale-boosting aviation flick Captains of the Clouds. Cagney plays...
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1942
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So far as W.C. Fields fans are concerned, Ann Hegan Rice's sentimental 1901 novel Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch was...
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1942
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In this lighthearted musical comedy, Marjory Stuart (Mary Martin) is a girl who works in the hatcheck room at a Manhattan...
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1942
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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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Like MGM's Whistling in the Dark, Warner Bros.' The Smiling Ghost was inspired by the success of Paramount's comedy-mystery...
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1941
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Eli Potter
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1941
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1941
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Midnight Angel was the title of this Paramount actioner when it was first released in December of 1941. But by the time the...
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1941
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John Wayne stars in this hard-driving oater which was co-written by character actor Paul Fix. Wayne plays Rocklin, a...
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1941
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A young, naive schoolteacher gets in over her head when the advances of a suitor grow too ardent. To escape his unwanted...
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1940
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This touching romance is based on a play by Rachel Crothers. An aging sea captain squanders his fortune on a bad business...
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1940
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Poor Mr. Trippe, a spineless spouse, finds himself brow-beaten by his overbearing nag of a wife who constantly reminds him...
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1940
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In this drama, a devoted, caring physician leaves his home and moves to Alaska to escape arrest after he performs euthanasia...
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1940
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Though one would never know it, the bucolic comedy-mystery Granny Get Your Gun was based on one of Erle Stanley Gardner's...
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Smokey
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1940
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1940
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As indicated by the title, 20 Mule Team is all about pioneering borax miners in territorial Arizona. Wallace Beery goes...
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1940
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1940
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A courageous doctor braves a fierce blizzard in the Canadian wilderness to save a remote community from a deadly epidemic....
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1940
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1940
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In addition to being a fine Western in its own right, this film served to introduce perhaps Hollywood's oddest romantic...
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1940
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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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Banking on the popularity of the Warner Bros.' boxing saga Kid Galahad (37), the studio rushed into production with another,...
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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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In this domestic comedy, a husband and wife manage an apartment building owned by the husband's pal. Meanwhile they must...
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Smokestack Smiley
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1939
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In this courtroom drama a countrified prosecutor deliberately fails in his attempt to convict a notorious gangster so he can...
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Zeke
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1939
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Directed with customary haste by Woody Van Dyke, Stand Up and Fight is an excellent dual vehicle for veteran Wallace Beery...
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1939
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A tough football scout thinks he has finally found a potential star quarterback when he sees a burly country-store stock boy...
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1939
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In this entry in the long-running series, the Dead End Kids are freshly out of reform school when they find themselves...
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1939
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They Made Me a Criminal opens in New York, depicting the latest victory in the ring for Johnny Bradfield (John Garfield), a...
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1939
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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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Even geniuses have to eat, and when Mark Twain was offered a substantial sum of money to slap together a quickie sequel to...
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1939
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Thunder Afloat is set during the first world war. Wallace Beery plays an veteran tugboat captain who harbors a grudge against...
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1939
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1939
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With comedian Stan Laurel temporarily off his payroll due to a contract dispute, Hal Roach hastily put together a solo...
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1939
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Finishing out her Paramount Pictures contract, opera star Gladys Swarthout sings not a single note in the tense little...
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1939
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This landmark western -- which, along with Stagecoach, has often been credited with revitalizing what had become a stagnant...
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1939
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This tuneful campus comedy features aging star John Barrymore as a sly, blustery Southern governor with his eye on the Senate...
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1938
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Despite the presence of Busby Berkeley in the director's chair, Comet Over Broadway contains nary a single musical number....
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1938
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1938
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Once a staple of summer stock and community theatres, Bella and Samuel Spewack's Broadway farce Boy Meets Girl dates rather...
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1938
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In this lighthearted drama, a lazy trumpeter has developed a sure-fire system for making big bucks in the stock market. His...
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1938
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1938
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1937
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Allegedly based on two factual works, Bouck White's The Book of Daniel Drew and Matthew Josephson's The Robber Barons, RKO's...
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1937
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Signed for a series of B pictures by Universal in 1936, John Wayne alternated between westerns and modern-day adventure...
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1937
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The Big City is an improbable urban melodrama which takes place during a "taxi war" between honest independent cabdrivers and...
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1937
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1936
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Set in the woodlands of Wisconsin, Come and Get It stars Edward Arnold as a logger-turned-lumber tycoon. In his rise to the...
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1936
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This tragic melodrama is a remake of Griffith's 1920 film, Way Down East. The story centers upon a starving, impoverished...
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1935
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