Joyfully preparing for her high-school graduation, and her 18th birthday, Gail Macauley (Ann Blyth) stumbles across a family...
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1950
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Though not readily apparent at first, The Unfaithful is a remake of the 1940 Bette Davis vehicle The Letter, which in turn...
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1947
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At 88 minutes, Here Come the Co-Eds is one of the longest of Abbott & Costello's Universal starring vehicles, and though not...
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1945
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Pat Donahue, Sr.
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1945
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Duke
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1945
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Set in a brooding old home, this musical mystery chronicles the endeavors of a young couple attempt to solve a mysterious...
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Steve Randall
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1944
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Two Bowery vaudevillians compete to be the first to produce shows on Broadway. They might be friends were they not so...
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1944
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1943
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Bruce
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1937
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Beware of Ladies is a lightweight attempt at romantic comedy from the Republic studio mills. Donald Cook, who'd just finished...
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George Martin
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1937
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Charles Jerome
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1937
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Ring Around the Moon was based on the once-popular novel by Vera Hobart. The story endeavors to invite comparisons between...
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Ross Graham
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1936
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1936
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This musical satire parodies Southern living as it follows the exploits of a traveling medicine show that ends up on a...
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1936
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The Calling of Dan Matthews is a modernized and sanitized version of Harold Bell Wright's muckraking novel. Minister Dan...
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Blair
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1936
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The second screen version of Anna Katherine Green's 1878 whodunit stars Donald Cook as Dr. Truman Hartnell, a dedicated...
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Dr. Harwell
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1936
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The ambitious Republic melodrama The Girl From Mandalay was based on Tiger Valley, a novel by Reginald Campbell. The title...
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Kenneth Grainger
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1936
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From low-rent company Invincible comes this hardy survivor, a cheap-looking but fairly engrossing account of a convicted bank...
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1936
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Ward Cameron
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1935
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Ellery Queen, the scholarly amateur detective created in 1928 by cousins Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee (who also used...
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Ellery Queen
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1935
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Treasury agent Dave Elliot (Donald Cook) dedicates himself to smashing a crime syndicate, especially after his best friend is...
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Dave Elliot
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1935
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S. S. Van Dine's intelligent, insufferable amateur sleuth Philo Vance is the protagonist of The Casino Murder Case....
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Lynn
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1935
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In this romance, set during the Great Depression, an impoverished socialite is forced to work by her financial situation....
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Gregg Emerson
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1935
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In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an unscrupulous music...
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1935
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Hoping to finish his latest play in peace, writer Ricardo Souchet (Gilbert Roland) loses his train of thought when dizzy...
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Tom Lennox
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1935
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Having gained considerable audience attention for his appearance in the 1935 "Crime Does Not Pay" 2-reeler Buried Loot, new...
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1935
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After a burst of creativity in 1933 and 1934, independent Majestic Pictures had settled into the usual "B"-picture rut by...
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Barry Webster
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1935
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1935
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In this drama, a fighter's fiancee refuses to marry him until he can overcome his insane jealousy. He does and they marry....
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Mark Lambert
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1934
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Dore Schary, then just cutting his teeth in the movie biz, was one of the scripters of Columbia's Fury of the Jungle. The...
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Allen
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1934
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In this thriller, a young woman marries a dashing young man who, unbeknownst to her, is a jewel thief. After his latest job,...
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Jack Howard
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1934
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John Barrymore is the Long Lost Father in this lightweight seriocomedy. Barrymore is felicitously cast as Carl Bellairs, who...
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Dr. Bill Strong
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1934
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No relation to the 1949 20th Century-Fox melodrama of the same name, Columbia's 1934 Whirlpool stars Jack Holt as a shifty...
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Bob Andrews
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1934
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Eight people, many of them strangers to one another, are summoned to a ritzy Manhattan penthouse apartment by an unidentified...
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Jim Daley
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1934
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An impoverished waitress marries a rich college boy against the wishes of his parents. Shortly after bearing his son, the...
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1934
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A far from factual filmed biography of Mexican patriot Pancho Villa, Viva Villa! was written by lengendary screenwriter Ben...
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Don Felipe
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1934
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This complicated murder mystery is set aboard a fog-bound ocean liner. Eccentric millionaire Alonzo Holt (Robert McQuarrie)...
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Wentworth Brown
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1934
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Jenny (Ruth Chatterton) becomes pregnant by a young man who is killed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Bearing her child...
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Dan Reynolds
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1933
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Horror film icon James Whale directed this well-detailed thriller about a man questioning his wife's honesty after a friend...
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1933
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A vicious spiral of revenge in a traveling circus is the basis for this fast-paced thriller. The circus has stopped to...
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Sebastian
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1933
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This turn-of-the-century tragedy chronicles the sorrowful travails of a woman who endures a series of devastating losses. ~...
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Lester Kane
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1933
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Baby Face is a good example of the kind of spitfire lead female characters that appeared in the cinema of pre-code Hollywood....
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Stevens
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1933
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In this adventure, a brave hero races across Middle-Eastern desert dunes to win the love his best friend's wife, the manager...
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Corew
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1933
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A nightclub singer with a strong work ethic marries a freeloading heir in this romantic drama. Trouble ensues when the...
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Franklin Deane
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1933
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In this war comedy, the reluctant hero finds himself drafted and forced to fight the Germans whom he feels he has nothing...
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Lt. Gregg
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1933
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This well-wrought drama chronicles the rise and fall of a midwestern family dynasty from the mid 1800s through the Great...
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Richard Nordholm
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1933
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Edna May Oliver makes the first of three appearances as Hildegarde Withers, the schoolteacher/sleuth created by mystery...
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1932
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This Depression-era morale-booster looks at the ups and downs of a banking family from the 1870s to the 1930s (and borrows...
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1932
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A huge box office success and a key film in James Cagney's rise to stardom, this drama stars Cagney as Matt Nolan, a gritty...
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1932
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New Morals for Old was the teasing title for a somewhat sedate film about the ongoing rejection of middle-class values by the...
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1932
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George Arliss is a world-renowned pianist, engaged to a young woman (Bette Davis) much younger than himself. An explosion...
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1932
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Joe Smith and Charlie Dale, the Jewish-dialect comedy team famous for their "Dr. Kronkheit" sketch, provide comic relief in...
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1932
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Running a swift 55 minutes, Trial of Vivienne Ware packs in more sheer entertainment value than its longer, more prestigious...
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John Sutherland
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1932
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The delightful Winnie Lightner was afforded her own movie vehicle in Side Show. Lightner stars as Pat, one of several members...
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Joe
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1931
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A socially prominent wife must choose between avoiding scandal and her own happiness in this British drama. According to...
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Terry Houston
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1931
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William Wellman's landmark gangster movie traces the rise and fall of prohibition-era mobster Tom Powers. We are first shown...
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Mike Powers
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1931
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Based on a novel by Geoffrey Barnes, Party Husband is a weak-tea drawing room comedy utterly dependant upon the charms of its...
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Horace Purcell
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1931
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More of a follow-up than a sequel to 1931's popular Svengali, this drama centers on the attempts of a club-footed and...
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Fedor
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1931
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A young Barbara Stanwyck was considered for the starring role as the exiled call-girl in this extremely frank pre...
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Carl Bergen
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1931
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