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1951
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Cuban Fireball is a vehicle for the combustible talents of Estelita Rodriguez, here cast as "herself." The plot finds...
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1951
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Forget what you've been led to believe: Bedtime for Bonzo is a most enjoyable film, and Ronald Reagan is not outacted by the...
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1951
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In this musical, an ambitious young singer and her band leave their small hometown to head for the Big Apple in hopes of...
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1950
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1950
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1950
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After several supporting and guest appearances, Latino singer-actress Estelita Rodriguez was given her own Republic starring...
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1950
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Spencer Tracy received an Oscar nomination for his performance in this classic comedy. Stanley T. Banks (Tracy) is a securely...
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1950
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Infused with religious themes, this crime drama is considered a minor example of film noir. Set in Los Angeles, it tells the...
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1949
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Hold That Baby! was the 14th entry in Monogram's money-spinning "Bowery Boys" series. Ever in search of spare change, the...
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1949
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1949
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The beauteous blonde Wilde Twins -- Lynn and Lee -- star in the Republic musical programmer Campus Honeymoon. Richard Crane...
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1948
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In this romantic comedy, a wealthy heiress marries hastily and realizes her mistake on her honeymoon in New York. Though it...
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1948
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Bearing little relation to the 1946 MGM production Gallant Bess, The Adventures of Gallant Bess is a heartwarming...
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1948
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The Pine-Thomas action/adventure assembly line put together another winner with Waterfront at Midnight. Hoping to put the...
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1948
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Daredevils in the Clouds was one of Republic's several attempts to transform former cowboy star Robert Livingston into a...
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Tapit Bowers
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1948
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In this western comedy, a milquetoast gunsmith from the East Coast goes to Arsenic City, Arizona because he has heard that...
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1948
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1948
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Though the title sounds like something from a Big Band era tune, it actually refers to commands used during the training of...
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Ted
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1948
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In this courtroom drama, two opposing lawyers lead a double life. In the courtroom they are ruthless toward each other, but...
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1948
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Wildcatters in search of a gusher during the late 1920s provide the basis of this comedy-drama that centers on a...
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1948
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Only faintly related to the old stage play The Argyle Case, The Argyle Secrets is based on a half-hour radio program...
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1948
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An unimportant but likeable Republic drama, Web of Danger revolves around the rivalry between two hardhat bridge-builders....
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1947
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In this musical comedy, a gang of con artists swindle a group of naive, starstruck investors into backing a dreadful musical...
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Mike
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1947
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1947
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Saddle Pals hits a new low for Gene Autry's postwar Republic westerns, containing literally no action at all. Autry is drawn...
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1947
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In this comedy, a scatter-brained professor nearly starts a riot when he writes a book claiming that women like to be...
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1947
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The Ghost Goes Wild is a low-cost but high-rolling farce starring James Ellison and Anne Gwynne. It starts off with Ellison,...
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1947
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In this comedy, a novelist visits a local nightclub to do some research for her upcoming novel. Her husband, away on a...
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Frankie
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1947
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It Happened On Fifth Avenue was easily the most ambitious movie made by the then-newly-organized Allied Artists for at least...
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1947
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In this musical, an orphan is under the false impression that her newly found relatives are filthy rich. Lacking the heart...
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1947
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Not precisely the best film of 1947, the Republic comedy-mystery Exposed is nevertheless consistently enjoyable. Adele Mara...
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1947
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In this mystery, a private detective is falsely accused of murder by his secretary who wants to protect her little sister...
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1946
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Art critic and forgery expert George Steele (Pat O'Brien) is apprehended by the police as he desperately tries to break into...
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1946
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1946
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With the profits of the Abbott & Costello films in decline, Universal decided to experiment with the comedians' standard...
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1946
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Deadline at Dawn represented not only the sole film directorial effort of Broadway's Harold Clurman, but also the only...
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1946
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Daisy, the Bumstead's mischievous mutt, makes the family a little extra cash when she wins a contest to become a model for...
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1946
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Crooked newspaper columnist Jeff Mann (James Cardwell), who apparently was blackmailing half the criminal gangs in the city,...
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1946
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According to the MGM publicity department, Gallant Bess was based on a true story, as told by Naval Reserve officer Marvin...
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1946
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The biggest surprise in Republic's Gay Blades is that the studio's resident skating star Vera Hruba Ralston doesn't appear....
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1946
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The Beautiful Cheat was one of the last B pictures produced by Universal studios before its merger with International...
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1946
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Universal's 1946 The Dark Horse is not a remake of the 1932 Warner Bros. film of the same name, though both deal with a long...
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1946
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Broadway producer Earl Carroll was a Ziegfeld-like entrepreneur who staged lavish revues featuring attractive young ladies....
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1945
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Pine-Thomas Productions' High Powered is the mixture as before, a two-fisted adventure tale with a melodramatic "tortured...
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1945
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This tender but fluffy romantic comedy centers on the romantic travails of a beautiful European princesss who goes to New...
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1945
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Laurel & Hardy's last American film is a marked improvement over their previous 20th Century-Fox features, though still not...
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1945
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In this a briefcase containing four wills is found next to the unconscious body of a man. He lies beside a plane crash. Each...
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1945
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Abbott and Costello's The Naughty Nineties offers a million laughs and a nickel's worth of plot. Most of the film takes place...
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1945
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Danny Kaye plays the first of his cinematic dual roles in Goldwyn's Wonder Man. Kaye appears as timid librarian Edwin Dingle...
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1945
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Bearing little relation to the hit Broadway play on which it was based, See My Lawyer was the last and least of Olsen and...
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1945
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In this musical comedy, an arrogant war journalist is sailing back to the Big Apple after the end of WW II. En route, he has...
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1945
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Follow That Woman is a tad more light-hearted than most Pine-Thomas adventure efforts. William Gargan plays private eye Sam...
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1945
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Jane Randolph, the star of several Val Lewton projects at RKO, goes the "spoiled heiress" route in Republic's Sporting...
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1945
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The real Diamond Horseshoe was a Las Vegas nightclub created by impresario Billy Rose, which spotlighted old-time stars from...
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1945
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Rosalind Russell plays yet another independent career woman in She Wouldn't Say Yes. This time she's a psychiatrist who sees...
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1945
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This fifth entry in MGM's off-and-on "Thin Man" series maintains the high production and story values of the first four. Per...
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1944
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The murder of a wealthy, much-married rancher (Lyle Talbot) in a posh Manhattan nightclub is the catalyst for The Falcon Out...
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1944
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1944
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The first of two Monogram comedy-mysteries built around the talents of perky Jean Parker, Detective Kitty O'Day casts Parker...
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Mike Storm
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1944
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Roy Rogers and Dale Evans still weren't man and wife when they costarred in Republic's San Fernando Valley. As always,...
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1944
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Don "Red" Barry took a break from westerns to star in the fair-to-middling sentimental drama The West Side Kid. Barry is cast...
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1943
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Tom Conway makes his second appearance as amateur sleuth Tom Lawrence, aka "The Falcon", in RKO Radio's The Falcon Strikes...
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1943
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The Abbott & Costello vehicle Hit the Ice started life as satire of health clinics, with Lou Costello cast as a hypochondriac...
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1943
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Practically everybody on the Warner Bros. lot shows up in the wartime morale-boosting musical extravaganza Thank Your Lucky...
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1943
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In Old Oklahoma is better known today by its reissue title, War of the Wildcats. John Wayne heads the cast as oil man Dan...
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1943
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1943
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A princess finds love with a regular American Joe in this patriotic romantic comedy. A European diplomat (Charles Coburn) is...
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1943
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Duke
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1943
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When an instructor dies mysteriously at an exclusive girl's school, Tom Lawrence (Tom Conway), a devil-may-care sleuth known...
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1943
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In this entry, the detective must find two missing industrialists. They and $100,000 suddenly vanished while flying in a...
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1943
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Irene Dunne plays a flibbetygibbet socialite who inherits a farm in Arizona. She can't seem to manage either her money or her...
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1942
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Taxi, Mister (AKA Two Mugs from Brooklyn was the first in a brief series of roughhouse comedies starring William Bendix and...
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1942
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Joan Crawford is the kissable bride of the title--but when the film opens, matrimony is the farthest thing from her mind....
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1942
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When George Sanders announced that he was leaving the "Falcon" series, RKO Radio came up with the perfect replacement:...
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1942
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1942
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This lighthearted romantic comedy stars William Holden as working stiff Michael Stewart and Frances Dee as wealthy socialite...
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1942
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Anxious to do her bit for the war effort, Blondie (Penny Singleton) joins the Housewives of America, a home defense league....
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1942
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Laurel & Hardy's second starring vehicle for 20th Century-Fox is arguably their weakest feature film, with the laughs few and...
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1942
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The plot of the RKO Radio programmer The Falcon Takes Over will be instantly recognizable to anyone who has seen the 1944...
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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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The "Flyer" in question is William Marshall, a young man falsely accused of a crime. Escaping the clutches of the law, he...
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1942
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Universal and producer/director Henry Koster had plans to make Diana Barrymore, the daughter of John Barrymore, into another...
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1942
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1942
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Bob Hope's first starring vehicle for producer Sam Goldwyn borrows the title of Bob's 1942 autobiography They Got Me Covered...
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1942
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14-year-old Shirley Temple receives her first on-screen kiss in this innocuous romantic comedy. Temple is cast as the titular...
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1942
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In this episode of the popular medical series, Kildare finds himself involved in a dispute between to competing hospitals....
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1941
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In this comedy, a grandmother decides to help her naive grandson get the money he needs to marry his girl by allowing him to...
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1941
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In this upbeat drama, a lovely European heiress is disturbed to discover from her lawyer that her father made his fortune by...
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1941
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The second of Hal Roach's "streamliners" (feature films running 45 minutes or so), Niagara Falls serves as a showcase for...
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1941
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Meet the Chump is an hour's worth of nonsense ideally suited to the talents of Hugh "Woo Woo" Herbert. The star plays Hugh...
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1941
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This second entry in RKO Radio's "Falcon" series begins with Gay Lawrence (George Sanders), aka the Falcon, promising to give...
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1941
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In this drama, a terminally ill college professor with only three months to live asks some younger colleagues what he should...
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1941
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Previously brought to the screen as a Marion Davies vehicle in 1927, Russ Westover's long-running comic strip Tillie the...
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1941
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Affectionately Yours offers the spectacle of glamorous Merle Oberon and gorgeous Rita Hayworth jockeying for the best camera...
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1941
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The brazen audaciousness with which Bryan Foy's B-picture unit at Warner Bros. remade the studio's old properties was seldom...
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1941
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In this crime drama set on the seedy waterfront of San Francisco, a longshoreman studies in his spare time to become an...
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1941
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The 1940 peacetime draft spawned a whole slew of military and naval comedies, the most successful of which was Abbott and...
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1941
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This comedy-drama is adapted from a story by Damon Runyon and centers on a mobster with unusually large feet. The trouble...
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1941
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The 1924 George Gershwin stage hit Lady Be Good was brought to the screen by MGM; any resemblance (beyond the Gershwin score)...
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1941
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This comedy is the sequel of Brother Rat. The film begins with the three original protagonists after their graduation from...
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1940
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1940
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In this drama, a transient farm worker suffering from amnesia gets in trouble with the cops. One day he drifts into a town,...
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1940
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Charlie Chan in Panama was the first entry in the "Chan" series to capitalize on WW2. Sidney Toler stars as the wily oriental...
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1940
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1940
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In this crime drama, a brilliant lawyer is renowned for getting guilty-as-sin-but-powerful crime figures acquitted. He has...
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1940
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In this drama, a devoted, caring physician leaves his home and moves to Alaska to escape arrest after he performs euthanasia...
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1940
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A Child is Born is a remake of 1932's Life Begins, softened to conform to stricter movie censorship and lengthened to qualify...
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1940
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There are three key characters in Anatole Litvak's filmization of Aben Kandel's novel City for Conquest, as opposed to the...
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1940
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British army pilot Stephen (George Brent) falls in love with jewel-thief Felice (Isa Miranda), tricking her out of some...
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1940
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An Angel from Texas was the fourth of five film versions of the venerable George S. Kaufman stage farce The Butter and Egg...
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1940
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Rachel Crothers' thoughtful stage play Susan and God was tastefully adapted for the screen by Anita Loos. Joan Crawford stars...
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1940
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Warren William is back as suave thief-turned-sleuth Michael Lanyard, alias the Lone Wolf, in Columbia's The Lone Wolf Keeps a...
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1940
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Tugboat Annie Sails Again stars Marjorie Rambeau as the rambunctious female skipper created by Norman Reilly Raine. In this...
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1940
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Fiercely independent authoress June Cameron (Loretta Young) has no time for men in her life. Chauvinistic medical college...
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1940
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1940
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1940
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In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman (Deanna Durbin) attends a fair in Austria and buys a card from a...
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1940
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Kenneth Roberts' fact-based novel Northwest Passage would seem too raw and explicit a book to be considered for an MGM film...
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1940
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Though the title character is loosely based on that of the notorious killer/robber Ma Barker, she has been sanitized and...
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1940
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Stereotypes abound in this drama that follows the attempts of a Scottish lad to marry a pretty Irish lassie and join the...
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1940
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In this comedy, a young woman is determined to spend a weekend with her lover before he takes off to Europe for his new job....
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1939
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In this crime drama, a shyster lawyer makes his living earning acquittals for his guilty clients. Most recently he freed a...
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1939
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George Burns and Gracie Allen made their last screen appearance together in the 1939 MGM musical Honolulu; indeed, it would...
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1939
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The Saint Strikes Back was the second in the series of films featuring Simon Templay, better known as The Saint, and the...
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1939
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Famous filmmaker Jacques Tourneur (known for his compelling film noir and scary horror movies) makes his directorial debut in...
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George Jacklin/Bugs
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1939
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An heiress gets a crash course in the simple life when she marries a penniless man in this comedy. Calvin Jordan (Henry...
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1939
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A transport pilot is ordered to fly a risky mission. The pilot, Scott, refuses the dangerous mission and is fired from his...
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1939
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Carnival promoter Fixer Dugan (Lee Tracy) is so named because of his ability to mollify angry customers and process-serving...
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1939
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The "Little Tough Guys" get involved in a circulation war between a paper with underhanded tactics and a paper being...
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1939
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This film should have been a press agent's dream: Hollywood's two greatest "big mouths," Joe E. Brown and Martha Raye,...
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1939
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Three years after the second Thin Man entry, MGM brought back the property by popular demand with Another Thin Man. As ever,...
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1939
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In this domestic comedy, a husband and wife manage an apartment building owned by the husband's pal. Meanwhile they must...
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1939
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To dim-bulb accountants find themselves working for a bookie in this comedy. Their jobs and their lives are placed in...
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1939
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1939
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In this comedy set during WW I, two crazy vaudevillians try their new act out on their agent. He thinks it is a real dud and...
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1939
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Zany actress Annabel goes on a promotional tour in this lively comedy, the second in the Annabel series. During her tour,...
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1938
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1938
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Edward G. Robinson shines in a fine comic role as Dr. Clitterhouse, a brilliant psychiatrist doing research into the criminal...
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1938
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1938
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Two imprisoned con men become ace football players on the prison team in this comedy. They get into real trouble when the...
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1938
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This late-30s gem is an engaging spoof that features the U.S. film debut of the French acting beauty Daniell Darrieux. She...
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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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In this collegiate romance, the love affair between two seniors is threatened by their different graduation plans. The...
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1938
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In the rough-and-tumble world of post-Civil War Texas, ex-Confederate soldier Kirk Jordan (Randolph Scott) crosses paths with...
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1938
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In this musical comedy, the Ritz Brothers inherit a racehorse but are unable to make money from him because they cannot come...
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1938
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This melodrama chronicles the enduring friendship between four boys in New York's Hell's Kitchen. As boys, the made a pact...
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1938
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While New York Sleeps is when fast-talking reporter Barney Callahan (Michael Whalen) prowls the night beat for a great...
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1938
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Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant star in this inspired comedy about a madcap heiress with a pet leopard who meets an...
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1938
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1938
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In this comedy drama (a remake of 1932's Ladies of the Jury), an apparently bubble-headed but mule-stubborn jurist is...
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1937
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A doctor (John Beal) who loses faith in his skills renounces his profession and hides himself in a variety of jobs. He takes...
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1937
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Girl with Ideas was Universal Pictures' version of MGM's matchless Libeled Lady. Wendy Barrie plays a society girl miffed at...
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1937
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An intrepid amputee must pass a test to prove his devotion to his sweetie in this romantic drama. The hero lost his leg...
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1937
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High, Wide and Handsome almost defies classification: Perhaps it's best referred to as a historical musical western comedy...
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1937
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In this detective story, a super sleuth is hired by an insurance company to find a stolen emerald belonging to a rich man's...
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1937
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New York-based actress Claudia Morgan, best known for her interpretation of Nora Charles in the radio-series version of...
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1937
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The Big City is an improbable urban melodrama which takes place during a "taxi war" between honest independent cabdrivers and...
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1937
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Set amidst the tense and suspenseful world of men who transport large amounts of nitroglycerin, used to put out fires in oil...
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1937
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The hyped-up 1930s radio feud between bandleader Ben Bernie and columnist Walter Winchell is all but forgotten today, but...
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1937
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In this crime drama, a highly superstitious racehorse owner spends his time off the track helping the less fortunate in any...
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1937
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The Commodore (Fred Stone), an average man in an average small town, is incensed that killers and thieves are able to use...
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1936
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Anything Goes is a fun-filled but hardly faithful adaptation of the same-named Cole Porter Broadway musical, with additional...
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1936
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First-time director Lew Ayres performs miracles on a tiny budget in the Civil War drama Hearts in Bondage. The story offers a...
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1936
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1936
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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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1936
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1936
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On New Year's Eve, aspiring actress Julia Wayne (Joan Bennett) and chronic gambler Larry Stevens (Joel McCrea), both flat...
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1936
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In this bedroom farce, a writer rails against marriage and touts the benefits of staying single. He then convinces his...
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1936
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Otto Preminger was able to make his directorial debut on Under Your Spell solely because Darryl Zanuck couldn't care less...
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1936
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After retiring from a boxing career, Johnny Cave (James Cagney) accepts an appointment to serve as head of the Bureau of...
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1936
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In this adventure, a wealthy socialite falls in love and decides to stow away on her would-be lover's airplane as it takes...
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Andy
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1936
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In this melodrama the captain of a decrepit boat must get it to port but finds that racketeers are trying to prevent him...
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1936
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Small-town waiter Will Wright (Edward Everett Horton) can't help but feel that his Kansas community has lost its civic pride....
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1936
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1935
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1935
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Former Miss America Irene Ware stars in the standard Chestefield Pictures social drama False Pretenses. Ware is cast as...
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Mike O'Reilly
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1935
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Based on an obscure stage comedy, the Paramount musical Two for Tonight stars Bing Crosby as would-be composer and playwright...
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1935
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Ruthless criminal attorney Raymond Cortell (Sidney Blackmer) is not above bending and twisting the law to suit his purposes,...
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1935
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W.C. Fields plays Ambrose Wolfinger, the henpecked husband to end all henpecked husbands. A widower, Ambrose married a second...
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1935
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1935
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This fast-paced Warner Bros. comedy stars James Cagney and Pat O'Brien as brothers who fight over the same girl. Mrs. O'Hara...
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1935
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In this romantic comedy, Marilyn David (Claudette Colbert) is a stenographer who has become good friends with Peter Dawes...
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1935
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In this drama, a gun moll eludes the pursuing police by hiding out on a fishing vessel. There she meets and falls in love...
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1935
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A wealthy young heir rebels when his snooty parents refuse to allow him to marry a lovely young secretary. Deciding to teach...
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1935
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After nearly a decade of nominal "leading lady" roles, Carole Lombard landed her first genuine starring vehicle with Hands...
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1935
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Marshall Neilan, a great silent film director on the verge of obscurity, had one last big-studio stand with The Lemon Drop...
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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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Previously filmed in 1915, David Harum is the story of an upstate New York rancher devoted to trotting races. Will Rogers...
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1934
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Flamboyant, egomaniacal theatrical impresario Oscar Jaffe (John Barrymore) transforms chorus girl Mildred Plotka...
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1934
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1934
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This off-beat romantic melodrama contains elements of comedy not usually found in the genre as it tells the story of the love...
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1934
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Robert Young had to be the busiest leading man in Hollywood in 1934. He appeared in no fewer than nine pictures, four of them...
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1934
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In this drama, two carneys, a card-sharp, and a peep-show performer, find themselves booted out of the show and decide to...
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1934
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Sally Bates ($Isabel Jewell) is a young Texas woman trying to make it to Hollywood on too little money and driving a car...
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1934
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In this sudsy hospital melodrama, a married nurse finds herself falling in love with one of two surgeons when her husband...
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1934
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A professional gambler masquerading as a businessman boards a train and sets off across the country. During the journey he...
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1933
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A large urban hospital provides the setting for this drama. The staff there has seen it all and this is reflected in their...
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1933
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Three-Cornered Moon is regarded by many film buffs as the first of the genuine "screwball comedies." Claudette Colbert stars...
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1933
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In this melodrama, a female physician encounters professional and personal turmoil when she finds herself having an affair...
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1933
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If Queen Christina is not the best of Greta Garbo's films (as many Garbo fanatics insist), it is certainly the most...
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1933
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Though he'd been given top billing at other studios, Charles Ruggles attained star status at his home lot of Paramount for...
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1931
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Renowned American-born London stage star Tallulah Bankhead made her feature sound film debut in this drama based on...
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1931
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