Pat (Katharine Hepburn), a college phys-ed instructor, enters into professional competition as a golf and tennis player. Mike...
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1952
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Painting the Clouds with Sunshine was a remake of the 1929 musical Gold Diggers of Broadway, which no longer exists for...
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1951
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Tea for Two is a Technicolor adaptation of the 1924 Broadway musical No No Nanette, previously filmed under its own title in...
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1950
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1949
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In this improbable romantic drama set in Gay Nineties London, a member of Parliament jeopardizes his career when he falls in...
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1947
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Roundly blasted upon its release because of the extreme liberties it takes with the truth, Devotion is better as cinema than...
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1945
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The Dolly Sisters is the heavily Hollywoodized biopic of Jennie and Rosie Dolly, Hungarian-born entertainers who took...
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1945
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In this murder mystery, a Scotland Yard inspector investigates the murder of a prominent matron. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1945
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Kitty is the "Pygmalion" legend, 18th century style. London aristocrat Ray Milland takes it upon himself to make a lady of a...
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1945
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Four Jills in a Jeep is the (mostly) true story of a four-girl USO team, entertaining American troops overseas. Kay Francis,...
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1944
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The Lodger was the third film version of Mrs. Marie Belloc-Lowndes' classic "Jack the Ripper" novel, and in many eyes it was...
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1944
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Warner Bros.' The Constant Nymph was the third filmization of Margaret Dean's 1924 novel; the first two were filmed in...
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1943
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A Warner Bros. attempt to ape the success of the Universal horror films, The Mysterious Doctor is a moody little piece...
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1943
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This wartime weeper could just as well have been titled Stardom for Margaret, inasmuch as it solidified the popularity of...
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1942
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There are moments in Columbia's Flight Lieutenant that approach "high camp"; indeed, one is hard pressed to remember if any...
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1942
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If you're wondering what Citizen Kane might have looked like had it been produced by MGM, we submit for your approval Keeper...
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1942
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1941
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Made just before America's entry into World War II, Paris Calling is one of the earliest French Underground adventures. When...
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1941
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1941
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In this melodrama, a loyal research psychologist escapes from Budapest after the nature of his work is discovered. He...
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1941
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In the 1580s, the Sea Hawks -- the name given to the bold privateers who prowl the oceans taking ships and treasure on behalf...
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1940
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The schizophrenic screenplay of The Earl of Chicago is rendered even more bizarre by the uneven performance by Robert...
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1940
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Fourteen scriptwriters spent five years toiling over a movie adaptation of war correspondent Vincent Sheehan's...
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1940
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South of Suez is where diamond-mine foreman John Gamble (George Brent) plies his trade. When his boss is murdered, Gamble is...
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1940
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A violin-playing British doctor's life changes forever after he takes in a distraught Austrian ballerina who tries to kill...
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1939
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1939
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1938
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In this comedy drama, a Yale tennis star endeavors to be a good sport at every turn. He finds a girl and together they...
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1938
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1938
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In this frothy comedy-drama, a businesswoman owns a successful service bureau for the filthy rich. Her service does...
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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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This B-budget outing from co-directors Crane Wilbur and Joseph H. Lewis served as a vehicle for now-forgotten 1930s star...
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1937
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In this North western, a Mountie is assigned to patrol the Canadian and US border. He also stops the evil outlaws that have...
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1936
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Virtually all of the Chesterfield Pictures efforts of the 1930s served as starring vehicles for Hollywood's best character...
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1936
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Playwright Greg Stone (Reginald Denny) spends most of his spare time at the theater where his latest effort is in rehearsals....
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1936
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1936
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In this drama, a teen is adopted from a reform school by a wealthy couple. They own horses and the boy becomes a jockey. His...
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1936
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1935
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This truly offbeat filmization of Jean Bart's stage drama The Man Who Reclaimed His Head has been misleadingly released to TV...
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1935
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The 1932 publication of Charles Nordhoff and James Norton Hall's Mutiny on the Bounty sparked a revival of interest in the...
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1935
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The great wilderness explorer Daniel Boone has many exciting adventures in this family-oriented outdoor actioner that...
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1935
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Kay Francis stars as Stella Parish, a London stage favorite who suddenly disappears without a trace. British news...
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1935
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A man who has ruined a woman's life attempts to make good on his debt to her (and his conscience) in this sudsy drama based...
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1935
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Perhaps the most memorable of all of the movies based on Damon Runyon's story because of the winning presence of...
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1934
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Filmed between the original Thin Man and the first of its sequels, Evelyn Prentice re-teamed William Powell and Myrna Loy as...
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1934
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We Live Again was based on Tolstoy's Resurrection; the title was changed upon producer Sam Goldwyn's theory that it meant the...
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1934
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1934
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The Lost Jungle is a feature-length version of the 12-episode Mascot serial of the same name. Legendary animal trainer...
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1934
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Distantly related to Frederick Lewis Allen's non-fiction book of the same name, Only Yesterday uses fictional characters to...
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1933
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A Navy boxer falls in love with a popular dance-hall girl in this romantic drama. The man really should be spending all his...
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1933
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1933
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In this melodrama a Lower East Side doctor struggles to earn enough money to pay for his son's tuition in a prestigious...
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1933
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Fed up with her doctor husband's ceaseless charity work, Mary Harris (June Clyde) leaves her Midwest "tank town" in favor of...
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1933
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Thirteen years after a dinner party where the wealthy host dropped, the thirteen guests are invited to reassemble at the...
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1932
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This ultra-cheap murder mystery stars Jack Mulhall as Devlin, a dapper police detective with a quick wit and a way with the...
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Judge McLeod
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1932
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Claude Morgan
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1932
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On something of a "literary binge" in the early 1930s, low-budget Monogram Pictures acquired the screen rights for the...
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1932
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Like many low-budgeters of the early talkie era, Sally of the Subway is not so much a film as a reunion of several former...
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1932
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Western Limited is another of the "Grand Hotel on wheels" films so popular in the early 1930s. Stealing a valuable diamond at...
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1932
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Barbara Stanwyck, displayed in all her pre-Code glory, once again plays "damaged goods" in Warner Bros.' The Purchase Price....
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1932
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A judge investigating two Wall Street brokers accused of stock manipulations learns of a mysterious invention, a "DXL...
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Arnstein
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1932
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1932
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In this mystery-thriller, set on Broadway, a cynical reporter looks into the killing of a New York actor who was found...
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Alvin Merle
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1931
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Silent screen serial star Charles Hutchison produced and directed this low-budget marital drama, which benefitted from one of...
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1931
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This melodrama tells the tale of young American pilots who felt strongly about WWI before the US intervened. These men...
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1931
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Adhering to a formula that would later be popularized further in Grand Hotel, Transatlantic is one of the best of the...
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1931
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1931
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Though he plays an Italian-American character in Ladies Love Brutes, George Bancroft refreshingly avoids the ethnic...
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1930
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A remake of the 1925 Lon Chaney melodrama of the same name, 1930's The Unholy Three makes several concessions to the newly...
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1930
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The Girl of the Port is a showgirl (Sally O'Neil), who finds herself stranded on the island of Fiji. While seeking a way...
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1930
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First filmed in 1926, the venerable stage melodrama Three Faces East was remade as a talkie in 1930. Set during WWI, most of...
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Gen. Hewlett
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1930
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Other Men's Wives, a play by Walter Hackett, was the source for this early-talkie comedy-melodrama. The scene is a sinister...
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1930
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This thriller begins in 1889 as a lover kills another in a mansion. The film then jumps ahead to 1929 as an eccentric...
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The Lover
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1930
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In this mystery, a man and woman have been corresponding through a "personal" column under the names Lord Strawberries and...
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1930
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Ronald Colman plays the "black sheep" of a wealthy British family, sent to South Africa so that he'll be as far away from...
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1930
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1929
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1929
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A typical interim serial, the ten-chapter Ace of Scotland Yard was released in both a silent version and as a part-talkie....
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Angus Blake
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1929
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The disastrous 1929 Stock Market crash was still several months in the future when Wolf of Wall Street made its screen debut....
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1929
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1929
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In one of his few film leading roles, dependable British character actor Holmes Herbert plays Peter Dwight, whose wife...
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Frank Deering
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1929
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This early talkie, set in French Indochina, centers around the conflict between a French magistrate's wife and his lecherous...
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1929
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Man-about town
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1928
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The ebullient Eddie Quillan made his talking-picture bow in the Pathe part-talkie Show Folks. After a chance meeting with...
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McNary
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1928
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1928
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Director Charles Hutchinson makes lemonade from the poverty-row lemon Out with the Tide. Cullen Landis plays a newspaper...
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1928
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A young woman grows up innocent of the fact that her gentlemanly father is the head of a notorious ring of thieves. This...
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The Duke
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1928
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In this silent crime drama, an innocent would-be gambler loses to card sharps and hands them a post-dated check for $50,000...
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Henry Ryder
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1928
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Captain Arnaud
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1928
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Wallflowers was based on a novel by Temple Bailey. The central character, a scheming social climber played by...
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1928
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Blindfold is a crime drama that gets off to a lively (if unbelievable) start when a dedicated cop deliberately gets himself...
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1928
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Bruce Mitchell
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1927
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Pint-sized juvenile actor Frankie Darro essays the title role in FBO's Little Mickey Grogan. Though officially the leading...
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1927
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Roger Whitney
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1927
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Lord Dryden
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1927
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Based on a story by Kathleen Norris, Mother stars Belle Bennett in the title role. In the tradition of her previous screen...
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1927
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Unlike most "collegiate" films of the 1920s, College Days paints a fairly realistic portrait of campus life. To be sure, the...
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1926
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Directed in the manner of a lamp-lighted melodrama by Louis J. Gasnier, That Model From Paris was based on the old Goveneur...
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1926
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While studying dance in Hungary, British ballerina Leonide Sturdee (Jacqueline Logan) suffers a crippling accident. Enter...
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1926
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Lawrence Duncan
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1926
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1925
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Metro Goldwyn Mayer produced this drama with the cooperation of the Navy Department, and many of the scenes -- including the...
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Basil Courtney
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1925
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Earl Derr Biggers' novel was made into a play by George M. Cohan and had already come to the screen twice before (once with...
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Bentley
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1925
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Motion Picture News warned that this melodrama, which was sentimental to the point of "hokum," would be better appreciated in...
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Charley Weldon
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1925
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For this romantic drama, author and Hollywood tastemaker Elinor Glyn began with the premise that a woman does one of three...
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1925
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Bertram Winthrope
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1925
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1924
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Corinne Griffith stars in this emotional drama based on the stage play by William Hurlburt. Although Walter Harker (Crauford...
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1924
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Egbert Van Alyn
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1924
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Paul Gilmore
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1924
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A bachelors' club is shaken when one of its members forfeits his five thousand dollar fee to wed. Then another member adopts...
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William Rivers
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1924
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Irene Short (Agnes Ayers) tries to help her husband Donald (Edward Burns) further his career in architecture by running...
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Seaton Davies
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1924
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Because of the recent Tea Pot Dome scandal, oil fields were a big topic of discussion in early 1924. Even though this...
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Henry Nelson
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1924
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Early silent screen matinee idol James Kirkwood starred in this romantic Western, which also offered a good role for veteran...
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1923
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Since his British accent remained conveniently unheard during the silent era, Reginald Denny made a wonderful all-American...
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1923
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One of the opening titles to this drama was "A mother-in-law is just a mother with another child to love" -- rather an...
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Alden Van Buren
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1923
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This poorly made domestic drama was called "a program picture for program theaters" by trade paper Motion Picture News. Tim...
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1923
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Stalwart Conway Tearle is a soldier of fortune in this seafaring adventure film. Captain Dick Carson (Tearle) is headed for...
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Andrews
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1922
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Shirley Mason is well-cast as Nita, an acrobatic circus dancer, in this romantic melodrama. Nita's guardian is Max, owner of...
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James Blackthorne
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1922
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Rupert Lewis
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1922
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George Eliot's tale of redemption had been filmed before in the silent era, most notably in 1917 by the underrated Thanhouser...
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Silas Marner
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1922
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Former Follies girl Justine Johnston is well cast as the star of this drama, which contrasts the bright lights of Broadway...
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Dr. Jennings
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1921
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Hugo Ballin directed his wife Mabel Ballin in this slow and unmoving adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's oft-filmed novel. Jane...
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1921
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Beautiful ex-Follies girl Olive Thomas both wrote the story for and starred in this drama. She would die mysteriously in...
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1920
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A more exotic story than 1920s audiences had come to expect from D.W. Griffith, The Love Flower nonetheless adheres to...
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1920
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Like all small town girls in the movies, Mary Horton (Alice Brady), has to make a go of it in the big city. She can't find...
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1920
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1918
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This drama was based on the Miriam Michelson novel Michael Thwaite's Wife, and it gave Alice Brady the chance to play a dual...
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1918
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1918
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Written by Edmund Goulding (who later went on to a substantial directing career), The Ordeal of Rosetta was tailor-made to...
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1918
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The always reliable Elsie Ferguson stars in Danger Mark. Made before the advent of nationwide Prohibition, the film is a...
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1918
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Alice Brady stars in this ordinary little programmer. Naive Doris Shaw (Brady) lives in a fishing village with her father, a...
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1918
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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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1917
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Less than two reels into Love's Toll, heroine Marian Lane (Rosetta Brice) joins the ranks of those simple-minded country...
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1916
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Edwin Arden stars as British member of Parliament Simon de Gex, known as "Simon the Jester" because of his biting, cynical...
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1915
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1915
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