Backed by the "American GI Chorus", Nelson Eddy made his final screen appearance in the unusually elaborate Republic musical...
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1947
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Alan Ladd and Robert Preston star as Joe Madigan and Jim Davis, rival grain harvesters in the Midwest's wheat country. The...
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1947
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1944
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Not to be confused with the 1971 film of the same name, this World War II espionage drama was the second to last film from...
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1944
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1942
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This quickie RKO musical is the second retread of Street Girl (1929); the 1937 musical That Girl from Paris was the first...
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1941
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John Ford welded four of Eugene O'Neill's one-act plays about the sea, Bound East for Cardiff, The Long Voyage Home, The...
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1940
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1940
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Winfield Sheehan, former head of Fox studios, owned the only Austrian Lippizan horses in the U.S. In 1940, MGM bought the...
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1940
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This film should have been a press agent's dream: Hollywood's two greatest "big mouths," Joe E. Brown and Martha Raye,...
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1939
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In this crime drama, a grizzled cabbie is scammed out of his life savings by a fake finance company. He tries to no avail to...
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1939
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A singing waiter with a wonderful operatic voice finds himself in the squared circle facing heavyweight boxers after he gets...
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1939
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Originally filmed in Sepiatone, Let Freedom Ring is a satisfying Nelson Eddy musical with patriotic overtones. Set in the...
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1939
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Harold Lloyd plays a professor of Egyptology, frightened by the notion that he has fallen under an ancient Egyptian curse....
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1938
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20th Century-Fox's Meet the Girls was the vanguard of an intended series about the misadventures of two trouble-prone chorus...
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1938
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1938
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Paramount's answer to Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) also involved mutiny and romance on the high seas. Gary Cooper stars as...
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1937
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Working on the theory that the only thing funnier than Laurel and Hardy is two sets of Laurel and Hardys, Our Relations milks...
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1936
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Warner Bros' Road Gang is a retread of themes first explored (and stock footage first seen) in the studio's earlier...
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1936
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1936
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It's the wild and woolly waterfront world of San Francisco in the late 1800s in this rambling tale of an outrageous nightclub...
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1935
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High-rolling gambler "Odds" Owen (Warren William) establishes an American insurance agency created along the lines of Lloyd's...
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1935
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1935
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In this bouncy musical, a sax-playing ex-convict joins a swing band and embarks upon a cross-country tour. He does really...
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1935
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1935
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1935
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Lon Chaney Jr.-- still billed under his given name of Creighton Chaney -- was afforded one of his earliest leading roles in...
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1934
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Brooklyn tugboat worker Eddie (Eddie Cantor), bullied and cowed by his tough-guy stepfather and stepbrothers (a la...
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1934
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Will Rogers stars as Judge William "Billy" Priest, the common-sense Kentucky jurist created by humorist Irvin S. Cobb. The...
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1934
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In this melodrama, a female physician encounters professional and personal turmoil when she finds herself having an affair...
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1933
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Hoping to immediately cash in on its blockbuster hit King Kong (1933). RKO Radio commissioned producers Willis O'Brien and...
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1933
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The second film version of Ben Ames Williams' magazine serial Jubilo, and the second to star Will Rogers, Too Busy to Work...
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Axel
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1932
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Movie Crazy was Harold Lloyd's best-received sound film. It is the semi-autobiographical tale of an idealistic aspiring movie...
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1932
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1932
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Ships of Hate was one of the lesser entries in the "skullduggery-at-sea" genre of the early-talkie era. Hero Bart Wallace...
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1931
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In this comedy, a bumbling rube from a small town manages to get involved in a gang war. The trouble really begins when one...
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1931
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Ronald Colman's second talking picture, Condemned is a snail's-pace melodrama set on a Devil's Island. The evils of the...
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1929
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If Hollywood gossip columnists can be believed, Gary Cooper and Lupe Velez were lovers -- and very passionate ones -- when...
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Rube Thatcher
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1929
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Billie Dove stars as Marcia Kane, whose head is turned by the charming but sinister Grand Duke Sergei (Montague Love)....
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Gorki
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1927
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1927
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1927
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Harold Lloyd plays a wealthy young spendthrift who is upset that his name is being used to bring parishioners into a...
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1926
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