Another entry in the 3D sweepstakes, Hannah Lee is all but forgotten today. That's too bad, because the film at least has...
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1953
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Treasure of the Golden Condor is a Technicolor remake of 1942's Son of Fury; both films were based on the same novel by...
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1953
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Above and Beyond is the story of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, as told from the perspective of the man who flew the...
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1952
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Director Edward Dmytryk returned from a few unhappy years on the Blacklist in the early 1950s, to direct a handful of...
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1952
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Richard Denning is Insurance Investigator Tom Davison in this Republic second feature. Davison has been assigned to look into...
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1951
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The rugged Colorado Territory provides the setting for this epic Civil War-era western chronicle of a Southern rebel who...
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1951
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Sword of Monte Cristo picks up where the Dumas original leaves off. The titular sword is not only valuable in itself, but...
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1951
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Bob Hope is up to his famous nose in danger in this espionage comedy. Second-rate burlesque comic Peanuts White (Hope) is...
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1951
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Beautiful Adele Mara, who Republic Pictures took for granted for far too long, finally gets a chance to shine in this fine...
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1950
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Though filmed in Hollywood, The Vicious Years is set in postwar Italy. Tommy Cook plays a homeless orphan named Mario, who...
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1950
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William Elliot is the multitextured hero of the deluxe Republic western Savage Horde. Elliot plays a gunslinger named Ringo,...
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1950
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Beauty contest winner Patricia Knight's one bid for screen stardom was Columbia's Shockproof. Knight plays Jenny Wright, a...
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1949
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Columbia's "Crime Doctor" series drew to a close with 1949's Crime Doctor's Diary. A visibly weary but still virile...
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1949
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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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While under contract to Warner Bros., George Raft turned down picture after picture as being "unimportant" and thus unworthy...
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1949
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1949
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Even star Joan Bennett and director Fritz Lang regarded The Secret Beyond the Door as the weakest of their collaborative...
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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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1947
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Burt Lancaster had one of his first starring roles in this hard-hitting prison drama. Capt. Munsey (Hume Cronyn) is a cruel,...
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1947
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This story of two young hopefuls who come to Hollywood is merely a thin device to feature almost every star working for...
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1947
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A post-WWII romantic comedy that explores the effects of the war on American marriage, this film stars Fred MacMurray and...
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1947
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Fans of William "Wild Bill" Elliot vastly prefer his B westerns to his big-budget Republic "specials", though the latter...
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1947
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Chased by a posse to a remote cabin, Jeb (Robert Mitchum) is joined by his fearful wife Thorley (Teresa Wright), awaiting the...
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1947
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Barry Fitzgerald's distinctive brand of Irish blarney, which was wonderful in small doses, leaned towards the precious and...
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1947
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A man down on his luck runs afoul of a beautiful but dangerous woman in this superior low-budget film noir. Mike Lambert...
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1947
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Set during WWII, this taut and suspenseful espionage outing chronicles the courage of a brand-new cadre of specially trained...
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1946
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1946
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Alexandre Dumas' famous fictional count gets revenge in this lively sequel to the original story. The Monte Cristo count...
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1946
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Based on a famous book by Richard Henry Dana, Jr., this grueling saga of shipboard oppression is set in the mid-19th century....
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1946
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1946
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Faced with the challenge of writing a screenplay based on the life of fabulously wealthy, fabulously successful composer Cole...
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1946
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1946
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Like the same-named 1934 and 1935 films, RKO Radio's 1945 musical George White's Scandals uses the eponymous Broadway revue...
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1945
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"You can live a long time in three days -- sometimes when you're in a tight spot, you can live a year in ten seconds." US...
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1945
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It all begins when popular actress Susan Darrell (Joan Fontaine) returns from a USO tour to marry business exectuive Richard...
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1945
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1945
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Several of Paramount Pictures brightest stars make cameo appearances in this comedy set in "Duffy's Tavern," a favorite...
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1945
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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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Though the filmmakers claimed they were writing a biography of Nazi minister Dr. Joseph Goebbels, this film is actually...
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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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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 most obvious discrepancies concerning this otherwise well-remembered cliffhanger from genre specialist Republic Pictures...
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1944
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From a novel of the same name by "Elizabeth", the film begins in 1914, with Bette Davis cast as vain, flighty society woman...
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1944
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1944
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1944
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Humphrey Bogart plays Harry Morgan, owner-operator of charter boat in wartime Martinique. Morgan's right-hand man is Eddie...
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1944
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Edmund Lowe was old enough to know better when he starred in the anachronistic Monogram crime comedy Oh, What a Night! Lowe...
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1944
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Mike Hallett (Barton MacLaine) is A Gentle Gangster in this satisfactory Republic programmer. A big shot during prohibition,...
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1943
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In this bit of WWII propaganda (designed to boost support of America's alliance with Russia against Germany), Kolya...
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1943
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In this unique murder mystery, that reveals the killer at the beginning of the film. The story concerns some women living in...
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1943
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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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1942
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Directed by serial specialist Spencer Gordon Bennet, They Raid by Night is a PRC "special" dealing with the activities of the...
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1942
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In this drama, a woman performs a mercy killing and ends up in jail. To clear her name, she escapes and ends up hiding out...
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1942
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This modestly produced film version of Gregor Ziemmer's book Education for Death surprised everyone at RKO--and in the film...
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1942
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In a harem in a Middle Eastern palace, the guardian leads the women he protects in telling the tale of Halroun-Al-Raschid...
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1942
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In this espionage caper, a government spy must keep enemy agents from spying upon a defense plant. His work is made easier...
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1942
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One of the best serials ever made, Spy Smasher has managed to find favor even among non-serial aficionados. Like his fellow...
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1942
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The lachrymose PRC drama Prison Girls was based on the Octavious Roy Cohen short story Gallant Lady, which was also the...
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1942
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Underground is an average Warner Bros. suspenser, given a boost by its unrelenting portrayal of Nazis as verminous...
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1941
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Invisible Killer was the second effort from Producers Distributing Corporation, the enterprising poverty-row movie firm that...
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1940
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In this espionage drama, an inventor creates a way to send television broadcasts across the country and finds himself...
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1939
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In their first starring feature away from the Hal Roach studios, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy play a couple of fish peddlers...
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1939
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Also known as Beasts of Berlin and Hitler: Beast of Berlin, this was the inagural effort of Producers Distributing...
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1939
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1938
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