The title character in this Beverly Hillbillies episode is billionairess Tracy Richards, played by Martha Hyer. Accustomed...
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1966
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Luckless salesman Herbie Cornwall (Martin West) is envious of his wife Millie's success as a corporate secretary. Truth to...
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1965
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Investment broker Eric Pollard (Lloyd Bochner) seems to have gone off his trolley when he begins suffering from dizzy spells;...
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1964
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Don Gordon stars as Salvatore Ross, a repulsively arrogant young man who thinks that the world owes him a living. When he is...
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1964
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In this offbeat melodrama, a crazed gardener is relegated to a mental hospital after he goes berserk and beheads his wealthy...
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1964
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In the conclusion of a two-part story, railroad president Norman Curtis (Roy Roberts) has decided--for now--not to scrap the...
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1963
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In this offbeat crime drama, Mafia boss Johnny Colini (Marc Lawrence) has run afoul of the law and is being deported back to...
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1963
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Air Patrol is a 62-minute Cinemascope programmer, specifically designed for lower berths in 20th Century-Fox double-feature...
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1962
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Bing Crosby plays a widowed millionaire who decides that it's "high time" he got himself a college education. Enrolling as a...
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1960
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Elliot Ness (Robert Stack) dispatches his team to Calum City, a mob-controlled town 30 miles south of Chicago (and obviously...
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1960
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When Cecil B. DeMille was set to direct a re-make of his 1938 swashbuckler The Buccaneer and suddenly became ill, his...
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1958
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The endearingly awful Shake, Rattle and Rock! serves as a showcase for four top rock-and-roll talents of the 1950s. Fats...
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1957
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This socially conscious drama is comprised of three cautionary tales designed to alert viewers to popular con-artist scams....
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1956
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Based on the Holy Scriptures, with additional dialogue by several other hands, The Ten Commandments was the last film...
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1956
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1956
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Esther Williams' long association with MGM came to an abrupt end with Jupiter's Darling, which even she will admit was her...
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1955
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Wisely cashing in on the enormous (and largely unexpected) success of his 1954 Davy Crockett TV miniseries, Walt Disney...
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1955
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Inspector Hobson
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1954
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The redoubtable Johnny Carpenter is producer, author and star of the low-budget western Lawless Rider. Exploiting his slight...
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Marshal Brady
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1954
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World for Ransom is an unofficial extension of the popular 1950s TV series China Smith. Most of the Smith personnel,...
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1954
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In this romantic drama, a secret love affair becomes the cause of a series of mysterious mishaps involving a philandering...
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1954
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1953
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Whether true or not (evidence indicates "not"), the legend of Captain John Smith and Pochahontas is one of history's great...
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1953
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1953
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A sequel to Bob Hope's 1948 box-office success The Paleface, 1952's Son of Paleface is a superior product in every way,...
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1952
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1952
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Inspector Hobson
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1952
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1952
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Sky Full of Moon gets under way when Vegas gambling-joint owner Al (Keenan Wynn) rescues rodeo rider Harley Williams...
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1952
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In this old-fashioned screwball comedy, Christy Sloane (Eleanor Parker) is a secretary with a large legal firm who is sent to...
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1951
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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello play wrestling promoters whose star attraction, Wee Willie Davis, skips town to return to his...
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Hamud El Khalid
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1950
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Anxious to remain active in the 1950s, director Frank Capra wanted to prove to Paramount Pictures that he could deliver an...
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1950
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The Buccaneer's Girl of the title, played by Yvonne de Carlo, is Deborah McCoy, an entertainer who's been around a bit. While...
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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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1950
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Shot on location in and around Rome, this drama chronicles the tragic love affair between a frustrated artist and the...
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W.C. Hutton
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1949
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Gene Autry's second 1949 release for Columbia was Riders of the Whistling Pines. As was customary for Autry, the title refers...
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Henry Mitchell
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1949
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When a priceless diamond is stolen from a museum exhibition all suspicion falls upon the notorious Lone Wolf, a former jewel...
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1949
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Joe Palooka, comic strip artist Ham Fisher's golden-hearted pugilist, heads South of the Border in The Counterpunch....
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1949
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1949
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1949
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One thing you can say about Alimony: It tackled a subject that virtually everyone in Hollywood was intimately familiar with....
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Burt Crail
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1949
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By the none-too-exacting standards of Screen Guild Productions, Last of the Wild Horses is practically an "A" picture....
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Charlie Cooper
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1949
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This episodic holiday film centers around a rich spinster aunt whose greedy nephew is attempting legal action to take her...
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1947
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Radio actor Kenny Delmar created the character of bombastic Southern Senator Claghorn for a 1945 installment of...
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Dan Healey
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1947
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Blonde Savage was directed by one "S. K. Seeley"-who at closer examination turns out to be Steve Sekely hiding behind an...
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Mark Harper
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1947
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In this drama, Madeleine Damien (Hedy Lamarr) is a successful magazine editor with a free-spirited private life, but a number...
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1947
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In this suspenseful, convoluted low-budget mystery, a Scotland Yard inspector travels to the Big Apple to investigate the...
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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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The Italian-American Her Wonderful Lie is based on the novel Latin Quarter by Murger. This literary work is better known as...
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1947
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If Grecian storyteller Aesop really did exist, he was most likely a black slave. He wasn't an Austrian actor with an Egyptian...
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1946
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The first of the Bowery Boys' "haunted house" comedies, Spook Busters casts the boys as recent graduates of Exterminators'...
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1946
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The first "Road" picture in three years (the last was The Road to Morocco), Road to Utopia is set during the Alaskan gold...
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Ace Larson
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1946
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Republic's Under Nevada Skies blends equal parts music and action, resulting in a treat for fans of both. Roy Rogers stars as...
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Arthur Courtney
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1946
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Horror films were not Republic Pictures' forte, as one can see while watching the stylish but pedestrian Catman of Paris....
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Henry Borchard
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1946
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Advertised as a typical Universal horror film, The Cat Creeps is more of a crime melodrama, and not a particularly...
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Tom McGalvey
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1946
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Monsieur Beaucaire, Booth Tarkington's novel about an 18th-century French barber who poses as a swashbuckling aristocrat, was...
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1946
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An installment from Universal's "Inner Sanctum" series (whose trademark featured an introduction narrated by a spooky...
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1945
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John Steinbeck cowrote this sometimes hilarious, sometimes heart-wrenching study of small-town hypocrisy. Shiftless Benny...
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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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In this action western, the notorious Dalton Boys have decided to go straight and move to Argentina. Just before they leave,...
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1945
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Flame of the West has always attracted more attention than most of Johnny Mack Brown's Monogram westerns, if for no other...
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Nightlander
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1945
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1945
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Though it's not readily obvious from the title, Lumberjack is the 52nd entry in the long-running "Hopalong Cassidy" series....
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1944
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A strong contender for the title of Universal's worst horror film of the 1940s, Jungle Woman continued the melodramatic...
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1944
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Lost in a Harem is arguably the best of Abbott & Costello's trio of MGM films; it's certainly the silliest, with any number...
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Nimativ
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1944
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In this swashbuckler, a princess is raised by gypsies and becomes their queen. The trouble really begins when a count is...
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1944
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Uncertain Glory finds Errol Flynn atypically cast as French criminal Jean Picard, a craven coward whose many misdeeds have...
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1944
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In this entry in the long-running western series, Hoppy is running for sheriff and is beaten by the yellow-belly who had...
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Tad Hammond
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1944
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The racy, ribald Cole Porter musical Du Barry Was a Lady is here given a thorough dry-cleaning by prudish MGM....
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1943
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A young Bar 20 cowboy is killed in this fine Hopalong Cassidy Western directed by the efficient George Archainbaud. Having...
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1943
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Bud Abbott & Lou Costello invade the wild west in Ride 'Em Cowboy. The boys play Duke and Willoughby, a couple of rodeo...
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1942
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1942
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This historical drama tells the story of the first class to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. In the...
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1942
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This final entry in 20th Century-Fox's "Charlie Chan" series is set in a huge mansion, smack-dab in the middle of the Mojave...
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Manderley
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1942
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In this crime drama, a remake of Forgotten Faces (1936), a convict busts out of prison to protect his daughter from her...
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1942
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1942
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Rear Admiral Stephen Thomas' (Charles Laughton) spoken tribute to "the finest Naval officer I knew" provides the framework...
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1942
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With a little extra effort, Washington Melodrama might have passed muster as an A picture. Frank Morgan stars as millionaire...
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1941
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Originally written as a stage vehicle for corpulent character actor Macklyn Arbuckle, Ernest Day's The Roundup was first...
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1941
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Marjorie Weaver, frequently cast as the "Girl Friday" in 20th Century-Fox's Michael Shayne pictures, is permitted to solve a...
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Carter Stevenson
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1941
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In the last of the Marx Brothers' MGM films, The Big Store, Groucho Marx plays two-bit detective Wolf J. Flywheel, hired by...
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1941
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1941
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Ralph Bellamy makes the third of four appearances as "master detective" Ellery Queen in Columbia's Ellery Queen and the...
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1941
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Promoted as a follow-up to the popular 1939 western Dodge City (which, indeed, was left wide open for a sequel in its closing...
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1940
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Beefcake star Jon Hall shows off his sleek physique in the exotic melodrama South of Pago Pago. The son of an island...
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1940
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The successful producer-director combination of Walter Wanger and Tay Garnett served up another winner with Slightly...
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1940
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Brett Halliday's flippant Irish-American private eye Michael Shayne was first brought to the screen by 20th Century-Fox in...
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1940
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In this episode of the popular detective series, Chan attends a WW I reunion in Paris. While catching up with his buddies,...
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1939
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1939
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This exciting adventure is set in the rugged Australian outback back when the continent was used as a giant penal colony for...
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1939
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Movie buffs are nearly unanimous in agreement: Charlie Chan at Treasure Island is the best of the Sidney Toler "Charlie Chan"...
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1939
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Thunder Afloat is set during the first world war. Wallace Beery plays an veteran tugboat captain who harbors a grudge against...
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District Commander
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1939
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Holloway
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1939
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Allan Dwan's comedic musical adaptation of the classic Dumas story sticks close to the original tale, yet it augments it with...
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1939
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This timely entry in Fox's Charlie Chan series is set in Paris during the Munich Crisis of 1938. Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler)...
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1939
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A model of precision and economy, the MGM "B" thriller Tell No Tales represented the feature-film directorial debut of former...
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Matt Cooper
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1939
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This being a Republic picture, it should come as no surprise that Storm Over Bengal was filmed in its entirety in the San...
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Khan
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1938
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The blue grass of Kentucky was seen in three-strip Technicolor for the first time in this rambling racetrack drama. Sally...
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John Dillon, 1861
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1938
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The oft-filmed Zane Grey story The Mysterious Rider was given another go-round by Paramount Pictures in 1938. Produced by...
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Pecos Bill/Ben Wade
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1938
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Before he became the high priest of realism, producer/director Andrew L. Stone was fascinated with classical music (he'd...
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1938
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Fast Company was another attempt by MGM to match the success of its "Thin Man" films. Melvyn Douglas and Florence Rice star...
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1938
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1938
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Sharpshooters was the initial entry in what was to have been a series of six "Camera Daredevils" adventures. Brian Donlevy...
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Count Maxim
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1938
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When this politically charged crime drama came out in 1938, many viewers saw that the themes therein echoed those of the...
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J.J. Grant
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1938
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Baroness Orczy, author of The Scarlet Pimpernel, came up with the story upon which The Emperor's Candlesticks was based. As...
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1937
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1937
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In this romantic crime drama, a newspaper reporter and his female rival learn that a priceless Rembrandt, believed to have...
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Jerome Culver
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1937
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Joan Perry plays the title role in Columbia's Counterfeit Lady. She is cast as Phyllis, a country lass with a rare talent for...
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1937
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1937
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Autograph hound Al Babson (Eddie Cantor) accidentally disrupts the filming of a movie about Ali Baba, and is injured in the...
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1937
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Loosely based on a story by frontier writer Bret Harte, this romantic western drama tells the story of an innocent, carefree...
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Lou Ellis
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1936
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Gangster boss Beau Gardner (Douglass Dumbrille) isn't happy about the things being said about him on the radio station owned...
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Beau Gardner
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1936
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The 1936 comedy-mystery The Princess Comes Across might well have been inspired by a real-life incident during the...
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Lorel
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1936
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In this western, a Spanish-American war veteran cannot find gainful employment. In desperation, he becomes a cattle rustler...
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Bill Mason
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1936
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Harry Richman was a major stage and radio star of the 1930s, but his overbearing personality never clicked in films. After...
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Bishop
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1936
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With her RKO Radio contract nearing an end, Ann Harding had little choice but accept such trifles as The Witness Chair....
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Stanley Whittaker
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1936
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When a car crash ends the life of a fabulously wealthy patron of the arts, the decedent's $20,000,000 fortune is inherited by...
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John Cedar
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1936
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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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Hardy
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1936
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"I'll See You in My Dreams" could well have been the theme music of Peter Ibbetson, the second film version of...
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Col. Forsythe
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1935
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1935
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The Unknown Woman is Helen Griffith (Marian Marsh), who unbeknownst to everyone but the audience is a Federal agent. Young...
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Phil Gardner
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1935
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Generous stock footage from such previous Columbia aviation epics as Flight and Dirigible helped to make Air Hawks (working...
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Arnold
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1935
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Released generally as Cardinal Richelieu, this George Arliss vehicle was based on the popular 19th-century blank-verse play...
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1935
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1935
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Uncle
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1935
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Gary Cooper stars in this rousing adventure saga of three British officers of the 41st Regiment of Bengal Lancers of India....
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1935
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In this lively comedy, a cocky reporter follows a gangster aboard an ocean liner. While on board, the overconfident fellow...
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Tonelli
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1935
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1935
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Wounded criminal Lucky Wilson (Robert Montgomery) takes refuge in a small Connecticut farm. He falls in love with...
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1934
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Harvey Dawes
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1934
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1934
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The real-life career of the notorious female spy known as "Fraulein Doktor" inspired several films of the 1930s. Stamboul...
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1934
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A Hollywood version of Jacques Deval's 1933 French drama Un Vie Perdue, Journal of a Crime stars Ruth Chatterton as Françoise...
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Germaine Cartier, Attorney General
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1934
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One of the first major Hollywood films to seriously address America's ongoing mistreatment of its Indian population,...
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1934
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Just after completing It Happened One Night, director Frank Capra churned out a bread-and-butter picture titled Broadway...
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Eddie Morgan
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1934
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Cited by film historian William K. Everson as one of the fastest-moving crime melodramas of the 1930s (if not the fastest)...
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1934
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First adapted for the screen in 1928, Carl Ed's popular comic strip Harold Teen was cinematized a second time in 1934. This...
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1934
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If you can accept blonde, blue-eyed Marion Davies disguising herself in blackface, chances are you'll swallow the rest of...
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1934
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1933
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In this campy adventure, a man raised in the mysterious African jungles by a pride of lions is captured by circus people and...
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Ed Peters
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1933
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This drama is set aboard a cross-country train bound for New York. Aboard this train is a silk manufacturer from Seattle who...
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1933
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In this romantic musical, a carnival knife thrower's assistant falls for a Parisian tour guide who earns money wearing a...
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1933
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The Man Who Dared was inspired by the career of Chicago mayor Anton Cermak, here called "Jan Novak" and played by...
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1933
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Ruth Chatterton tears up the screen in this fast-paced, lusty comedy. Alison Drake is an automobile magnate, a hard-nosed,...
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1933
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1933
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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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1933
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Hard to Handle stars James Cagney as a fast-talking promoter who pounces upon every current fad and foible to make a quick...
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1933
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The life and times of one of France's most influential authors and philosophers receives the romantic treatment from director...
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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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1933
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What isn't Heroes for Sale about? Within its 71-minute time frame, this film (co-written by "professional cynic"...
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1933
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Joe E. Brown plays Elmer Kane, a rookie ballplayer with the Chicago Cubs whose ego is matched only by his appetite. Because...
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1933
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In this comedy drama, a wealthy shoe magnate is bored with his life. The trouble really begins when his chief rival dies....
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1933
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Perennial sidekick George E. Stone is given the leading role in The Big Brain. Stone plays a small-town barber, short of...
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1933
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We first lay eyes on Jimmy Cagney in Lady Killer while he's working as a movie theater usher. This job lasts just long enough...
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1933
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A young football hero learns valuable life lessons on the way to becoming a pro in this sports drama. Tommy is a promising...
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Adams
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1932
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Warner Bros.' hard-hitting chain-gang movie was a faithful adaptation of the similarly titled autobiography of Robert Elliot...
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1932
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Margaret Hughes (Claudette Colbert) returns from a trip abroad to discover that her sweetheart, crusading attorney David...
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1932
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1932
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In this drama, a remake of Sal of Singapore(1929), the captain of a freighter becomes an instant father when his crew rescues...
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1931
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