In this documentary-inspired thriller, P.J. McNeal (James Stewart) is a reporter who is asked by his editor to look into a...
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1948
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Joe Palooka, Ham Fisher's famed comic-strip fighter, risks his life to clear the name of his manager in this series entry....
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1948
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1948
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This boxing drama focuses on the manager rather than the fighter. The story begins as a corrupt manager fakes the death of...
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1948
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In this dark crime drama, the trouble begins when a San Francisco bookie attempts to lead an honest life by marrying a...
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1948
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When Loretta Young stepped up to accept her Academy Award for The Farmer's Daughter, the ever-youthful leading lady, who'd...
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1947
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In the RKO swashbuckler Sinbad the Sailor, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. nostalgically emulates his famous father. The first seven...
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1947
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Future TV writer/producer Don Castle heads the cast of Monogram's Perilous Waters. Most of the action takes place aboard the...
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1947
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In this drama, a reporter marries a socialite with a bad ticker. The gold-digging reporter is well aware of her delicate...
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1946
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Invisible Informer serves as a feature-length vehicle for Republic serial queen Linda Stirling. The story is set in motion by...
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1946
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Without Reservations has to be the least typical John Wayne picture of the postwar era. Top billing is bestowed upon...
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1946
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Robert Montgomery is the director and star of the film noir mystery Lady in the Lake, adapted for the screen by source...
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1946
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In this below-average western serial, a Texas ranger goes undercover as "The Scarlet Horseman," a legendary figure for the...
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1946
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Number Three in PRC's "Michael Shayne" B-series was the fair-to-middling Blonde for a Day. Hugh Beaumont stars as Shayne,...
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1946
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Sam White, brother of Columbia Pictures' 2-reel-comedy maven Jules White, served as producer of the quickie Columbia musical...
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1945
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Canadian WW II pilot Gerard (Dick Powell) intends to track down and kill collaborationist Marcel Jarne, the man responsible...
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1945
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1945
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Joan Davis, the daughter of a famed woman detective, has inherited none of her mother's deductive prowess. Nonetheless, Joan...
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1945
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The East Side Kids have become so benign in Docks of New York that they actually go out of their way to help the cops! It all...
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1945
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A scientist possessing the formula for making a nuclear bomb finds himself chased by evil gangsters in this thriller that...
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1945
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Masterfully directed by Fritz Lang, Scarlet Street is a bleak film in which an ordinary man succumbs first to vice and then...
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1945
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In this comedy, a garbage truck driver stumbles across $5,000. He decides to use the money for a wild night on the town. He...
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1945
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After several years' dormancy, the "Cisco Kid" western-film series returned to the screen with Monogram's The Cisco Kid...
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1945
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The third of Columbia's "Whistler" series, Power of the Whistler once more stars Richard Dix as the tortured protagonist....
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1945
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Veteran action specialists Ray Taylor and Lewis D. Collins co-directed this below-average Universal serial featuring brunette...
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1945
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Based on the '30s comic-strip character, Secret Agent X-9 was a black-and-white adventure serial from Universal. This 1945...
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1945
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Though released by Republic Pictures, The Tiger Woman is not a serial, as might be assumed from the title. Adele Mara stars...
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1945
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Released by Monogram, A WAVE, a WAC and a Marine was packaged by Biltmore Productions, a partnership consisting of Abbott and...
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1944
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Like many PRC films, Lady in the Death House was run incessantly in the early days of television, then disappeared into the...
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1944
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1944
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The Whistler was the first of eight Columbia "B" thrillers based on the popular radio series of the same name. The Whistler,...
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1944
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Oriental Dream is the TV title for the 1944 Technicolor version of Kismet. Ronald Colman plays Hadji, "king of beggars" in...
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1944
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The Last Ride was also the last production to emanate from Warner Bros.' B-picture division. The plot involves the illicit...
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1944
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Charlie Chan's second mystery for Poverty Row company Monogram, The Chinese Cat is one of the inscrutable detective's better...
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1944
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Melodramatic gangster action characterizes this tough and freely fictionalized biography of notorious, murderous Chicago...
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1944
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Wally Brown and Alan Carney, RKO's own Abbott and Costello ripoffs, star in the comedy western The Girl Rush. As usual, Brown...
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1944
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In the penultimate "Trail Blazers" B-Western, the often difficult Ken Maynard found himself summarily replaced by Chief...
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1944
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In this mystery, a detective and his secretary go on vacation and end up solving a murder. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1944
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1944
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This lively entry in the "Boston Blackie" series finds Blackie (Chester Morris) acting as spiritual leader of a group of...
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1943
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Reformed criminal Boston Blackie (Chester Morris) meets his former lover Betty Barnaby (Ann Savage), who wants his help for...
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Joe Herschel
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1943
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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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1943
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In this taut crime thriller, a quiet bank clerk spends his little vacation in Indianapolis and then returns to his little...
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1943
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In this Victorian-era adventure, a blue-blooded girl is dismayed to discover that her recently deceased father, a compulsive...
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1942
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Brian Aherne stars as a successful murder-mystery novelist; his wife, Loretta Young, wishes Aherne would switch to writing...
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1942
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This happy musical chronicles the exploits of a suicidal composer who is desolate after someone swiped his newest musical...
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1942
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Having accidentally caused a merchant ship to blow up, stowaways Bob Hope and Bing Crosby are shipwrecked on the African...
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1942
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The innovative direction of Robert Siodmak lifts the inexpensive imitation-Hitchcock Fly By Night well above the ordinary....
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1942
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In this WW II spy comedy, an American pilot stationed in England is flying a routine mission when the Nazis shoot down his...
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1942
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Ex-thief Boston Blackie (Chester Morris) brings a variety show up to his old prison alma mater for Christmas Eve. In...
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1942
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This final "Tarzan" entry from the MGM assembly line is arguably one the least effective of the series, though it certainly...
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1942
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Robin Hood of the Pecos was set immediately after the Civil War, when most of Texas was under the thumb of corrupt northern...
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1941
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The famous outlaw rides again in this fictionalized western that chronicles Billy's turn from criminal to fine upstanding...
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1941
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Robert Taylor toughened up his image considerably with this gangster movie, which was unusual both in its plot and origins,...
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1941
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The marvelous rapport between stars Clark Gable and Lana Turner makes MGM's Honky Tonk seem far more substatianal than it...
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1941
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Tim Holt is mistaken for a notorious gunslinger in this average Western, which RKO filmed at Kanab, UT, in tandem with the...
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Kane
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1941
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Corn Cob Kelly (Marvin Stephens) is a young jockey whose ambition is dwarfed only by his ego. All set to ride in his first...
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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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Mystery Ship was one of the last of Columbia's pre-Pearl Harbor "preparedness" melodramas. Paul Kelly and Larry Parks are...
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1941
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The 13-episode Universal serial The Green Hornet is based on the radio series of the same name. Gordon Jones stars as Britt...
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1940
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Producer Walter Wanger's House Across the Bay serves as an excellent showcase for Wanger's then-wife Joan Bennett. She is...
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1940
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In this musical comedy, a young woman is sent to a National Youth Administration camp after her father is arrested for...
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1940
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It is perhaps unnecessary to point out that the MGM programmer Hullabaloo bears no relation to the 1960s rock-and-roll series...
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1940
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Few studios churned out prison pictures with as much frequency as Columbia Pictures. In Men Without Souls, young Johnny Adams...
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1940
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The Dead End Kids fight alongside the government to find a famed scientist who has been abducted by wartime traitors. ~ Jason...
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1940
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The debutante whom Andy Hardy (Mickey Rooney) meets-after falling in love with her photograph -- is blonde Diana Lewis (the...
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1940
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1940
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1940
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The last of MGM's "Nick Carter" trilogy, Sky Murder is a tad too cute and clever for its own good, but its mystery angle...
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1940
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Leo McCarey was supposed to both produce and direct My Favorite Wife, but an illness forced him to relinquish the director's...
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1940
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In this patriotic spy adventure, a young gangster joins an enemy espionage agency and agrees to enlist in the Marine Corps...
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Big Joe
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1939
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Through a miscarriage of justice, John Ingram (Edward G. Robinson) is convicted of a crime he did not commit and sentenced to...
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1939
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Granite-jawed Jack Holt plays a dual role in Columbia's Fugitives at Large. Civil engineer George Storm (Holt) finds himself...
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1939
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An outbreak of cholera threatens a luxury liner in this surprisingly low-budget melodrama from RKO. En route from Shanghai to...
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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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1939
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Another worthwhile entry from the RKO Radio B-picture division, 12 Crowded Hours stars stalwart Richard Dix as crime-busting...
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Costain
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1939
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In this western, a real estate agent takes everything from a bank and then frames the banker for the crime. The evil agent...
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1939
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Though it may be difficult for modern audiences to understand or appreciate the appeal of canary-voiced boy soprano...
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1938
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The Next Time I Marry stars actress Lucille Ball as an heiress who can only receive her 20 million dollar inheritance by...
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1938
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This entry in the Dead End Kids series of adventures makes critical comments about the failings of reform schools. The story...
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1938
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Boris Karloff starred in this rather static whodunit from the Warner Bros. B-unit as Jeffries, a civilian employee at a...
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1938
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Singing cowboy Smith Ballew is the nominal star of Rawhide, but the audience only had eyes for Ballew's co-star:...
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1938
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This third film version of Peter B. Kyne's Valley of the Giants benefits from the breahtaking Technicolor location...
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1938
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In this action-packed crime drama, an ace reporter declares war on the mobsters that killed his best friend, helps a...
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1938
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Michael Curtiz directs this Technicolor Western based on the familiar story by Clements Ripley about the rivalry between...
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1938
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1938
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In this heartwarming tearjerker, an adorable orphan becomes determined to find her father, whom she is convinced is still...
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1938
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Edward G. Robinson offers an excellent turn as a crime lord obsessed with the welfare of his son in this melodramatic crime...
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1937
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A cast of Warner Bros. B-movie players struggles valiantly with a leaden script in this medical drama about foster brothers...
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1937
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The saga of the Jones Family continues in 1937's Borrowing Trouble. When Pa Jones's drugstore is robbed, the evidence points...
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1937
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This hard-hitting Warner Bros. courtroom drama begins with the usual "Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is...
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Detective Laneart
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1937
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Coincidentally, Warner Bros. contractee Jane Wyman made her starring debut in the same year as her husband-to-be...
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1937
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Lively June (Jane Withers), teen-aged daughter of mystery writer Waldo Everett (Jon Qualen), who calls her "Angel," becomes...
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1937
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1937
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1937
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In response to Republic's Gene Autry westerns of the late 1930s, Warner Bros. created its own singing cowboy, Dick Foran, for...
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1937
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John Wayne stars in this Western as a law student seeking revenge on the ruthless land baron who killed his parents; after he...
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1936
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In this comedy a sneaky salesman tries to sell an inventor's newest product, a water-based fuel. Before the inventor can...
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1936
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The Lonely Trail, directed by Joseph Kane, stars John Wayne as veteran Union officer John Ashley. Ashley (Wayne), upon his...
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Benedict Holden
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1936
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The MGM historical "spectacular" San Francisco was allegedly based on a three-sentence synopsis, submitted verbally to...
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1936
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Ace reporter Casey (Stu Erwin) and city editor Blaine (Paul Kelly) are agreed on only one point: women are trouble! This is...
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Inspector Matson
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1936
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Dancing Pirate was the second feature-length production by Pioneer Pictures, whose earlier effort Becky Sharp was the first...
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1936
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Directed by Edwin L. Marin, Sworn Enemy stars Robert Young as "Hank" Sherman, a law student who earns extra cash by working...
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1936
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Based on Danny Ahearn's short story "Back in Circulation", Republic's Bulldog Edition stars Ray Walker as Ken Dwyer,...
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Enright
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1936
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John Wayne steered clear of westerns for the most part during his year-long contract with Universal Pictures. In The Sea...
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1936
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The all-purpose title Man Hunt was trotted out for this 1936 Warner Bros. "B". Aging country newspaper editor Chic Sale is...
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1936
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