The MGM melodrama These Wilder Years marked the first onscreen pairing of Hollywood stars James Cagney and Barbara Stanwyck....
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1956
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This children's sci-fi adventure chronicles the friendship between an 11-year-old and his grandfather's robot Tobor, who was...
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1954
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1954
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At the height of their TV fame, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz were contracted by MGM to make two theatrical films. The first of...
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1954
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1953
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Rex Allen, the last of Republic's singing cowboys, stars in Red River Shore. This time, it's up to Allen to prevent a major...
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1953
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1953
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Something for the Birds is a toothless satire of Washington, filmed during the McCarthy era. For lack of a political target...
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1952
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Sex symbol Marilyn Monroe went dramatic in 1952's Don't Bother to Knock. Monroe plays Nell Forbes, a beautiful but suicidal...
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1952
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In Roy Rogers' final big-screen effort, the cowboy hero plays a U.S. Border Patrolman assigned to prevent a herd of diseased...
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1952
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The Young Man with Ideas in this MGM production is idealistic lawyer Maxwell Webster (Glenn Ford). Too self-effacing for his...
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1952
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1952
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With a Song in My Heart is the story of popular 1930s songstress Jane Froman, here portrayed by Susan Hayward. We first see...
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1952
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Jim Tolman
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1951
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Follow the Sun is the filmed biography of golf champion Ben Hogan. Glenn Ford, no mean duffer himself, stars as Hogan, here...
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1951
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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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Highly respected defense attorney Dwight Bradley Mason (Walter Pidgeon) is able to clear young Rudi Wallchek...
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1951
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The title Street Bandits refers to the crooked slot machines peddled by racketeer Monk Walter (Roy Barcroft). Struggling...
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1951
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Stanley Clements stars in Republic's Pride of Maryland as an ambitious jockey named Frankie (an inside joke: most movie...
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1951
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In this entry in the "Henry Latham" comedy series, the parsimonious Henry protests the rising cost of meat and decides to...
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1950
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1949
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Columbia's "Rusty" series was entering the homestretch with 1949's Rusty Saves a Life. The eponymous doggie hero, portrayed...
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1949
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Warren Douglas is Post Office Investigator Bill Mannerson in this diligent Republic programmer. Top billing, however, is...
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1949
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In Roy Rogers' Down Dakota Way, the deadly hoof-and-mouth disease has struck the herd owned by evil rancher H. T. McKenzie...
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1949
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Singing cowboy Monte Hale rides back into view in Republic's South of Rio. Borrowing a page from Hollywood's gangster-flick...
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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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1949
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Robert Lowery stars in the 65-minute actioner Arson Inc. Lowery plays a fireman in search of a seemingly random arsonist--or...
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1949
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In her second film appearance, Marilyn Monroe stars as Peggy Martin, a second-generation showgirl who begins a romance with a...
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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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Film historian Leonard Maltin has labelled this final entry in Monogram's "Charlie Chan" series as "embarrassing," but it's...
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1949
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Robert Rockwell, Republic Pictures' resident all-purpose hero, stars in Alias the Champ. This time, Rockwell plays Lt. Ron...
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1949
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Cover-Up transfers the metropolitan "film noir" milieu to a small Midwestern town. Dennis O'Keefe plays Sam Donovan, an...
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1949
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1949
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Allan Lane goes in search of his dead friend's brother in this fast-paced Western from Republic Pictures. Instead of finding...
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1948
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In this high-flying musical, a flight attendant dreams of singing in a band. Just as her career takes off she finds it...
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1948
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Smugglers' Cover was Number Eleven in Monogram's moneymaking "Bowery Boys" series. Terence Aloysius "Slip" Mahoney...
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1948
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"Boys Town" goes to turn-of-the-century St. Louis in this moving drama that chronicles the love of a determined priest...
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1948
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This third film version of James Hagan's stage play One Sunday Afternoon was directed by Raoul Walsh, who helmed the second...
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1948
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Docks of New Orleans was Roland Winters' second appearance as aphorism-spouting oriental sleuth Charlie Chan -- and like the...
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1948
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When Republic moved its popular star William Elliot from "B" series westerns to "A" frontier specials, a lot of the fun and...
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1948
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Lucille Ball offers a seminal version of her Lucy Ricardo TV character in Her Husband's Affairs. Ball is cast as Margaret...
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1947
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In this musical comedy a young man and woman base their love on lies that eventually manage to come true. Songs include:...
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1947
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Though 20th Century-Fox was phasing out its B-picture unit in the late 1940s, a few inexpensive films, some made in England...
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1947
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1947
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1947
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Regular "Red Ryder" series villain Roy Barcroft took a well-earned breather in Homesteaders of Paradise Canyon. The equally...
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1947
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1947
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Bearing little resemblance to reality, this musical biography of 19th century Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov takes...
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1947
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1947
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I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now is the heavily laundered musical biopic of sentimental songwriter Joe E. Howard. As played by...
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1947
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News Hounds has more plot than usual for a "Bowery Boys" film-too much plot, so far as diehard fans of the series were...
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1947
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The Warner Bros. musical My Wild Irish Rose purports to tell the life story of popular 19th century balladeer Chauncey...
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1947
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1946
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French Key is a Republic Pictures murder mystery with all of the studio's genre trademarks: Good cast, reasonably good...
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1946
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MGM knew it had a valuable property in Red Skelton, but the studio never really knew how to handle his unique talents --...
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1946
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Though legendary entertainer Al Jolson was a highly visible presence on the U.S.O. circuit during World War II, he was...
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1946
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In this crime drama, a sorority girl is photographed hanging around with known criminals in illicit gambling dens. The...
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1946
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In this episode of the popular detective series, Chan, along with Number Two Son, are aboard a ship bound for Pago Pago. On...
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1946
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1946
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In this episode of the popular mystery series, the crook turned sleuth must clear his name after he is accused of murder. To...
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1946
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The Shadow Returns was the first of three above-average Monogram features based on the popular radio melodrama The Shadow....
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1946
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The fun in this musical comedy begins when a popular swing singer mysteriously vanishes and a group of prank-loving college...
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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 wonderful newfangled world of television provides the backdrop for this musical. The tale begins as an advertising...
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1946
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One of the most entertaining serials to be released by Republic Pictures, this mystery employed yet another inscrutable...
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1946
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Like Captain Midnight before him, Hop Harrigan came to the serial screens courtesy of Columbia Pictures; and, also like the...
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1946
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Although Bowery Bombshell was the third entry in Monogram's "Bowery Boys" series, it was released second in several regions....
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1946
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This musical is a remake of a 1933 film. Like the first, it is set on campus and chronicles the romantic travails of the...
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1946
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Two secret agents must somehow prevent a group of post WW II Nazis hiding in the Hartz mountains from successfully making an...
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1946
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Director Frank Borzage and star Ginger Rogers both came acropper in the lavish but dull historical biopic Magnificent Doll....
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1946
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Inspired by the radio program of the same name, Night Editor features Charles D. Brown as the editor of the New York Star. In...
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1946
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Billy Wilder's searing portrait of an alcoholic features an Oscar-winning performance by Ray Milland as Don Birnam, a writer...
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1945
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In this western, a Montana cattle rancher travels to San Francisco's notorious Barbary Coast and ends up falling in love...
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1945
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This odd combination of roughneck comedy and serious domestic drama was adapted by Louise Randall Pierson from her own...
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1945
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The title The Lady Confesses is slightly misleading, since it's the hero of the film is accused of murder. On the eve of his...
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Capt. Brown
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1945
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In this musical, a young woman from a small town heads for New York where she hopes to become a famous singer. She has no...
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1945
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Joan Davis, the daughter of a famed woman detective, has inherited none of her mother's deductive prowess. Nonetheless, Joan...
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1945
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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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1945
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It is altogether typical of Republic Pictures that the studio's 1945 horror effort The Vampire's Ghost was interrupted...
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1945
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John Brickley (Robert Montgomery) believes in PT boats, and as a lowly U.S. Navy lieutenant stationed in the Philippines,...
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1945
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For at least 63 of its 68 minutes, Republic's The Woman Who Came Back is an exciting and compelling journey into the realm of...
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1945
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A tuneful Roy Rogers Western, Along the Navajo Trail finds Dale Evans' Lazy A Ranch under siege from nasty J. Richard Bentley...
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1945
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Filmed some 18 months before its release, Conflict is one of two melodramas in which Humphrey Bogart self-consciously...
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1945
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Several of Paramount Pictures brightest stars make cameo appearances in this comedy set in "Duffy's Tavern," a favorite...
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1945
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An interesting entry in Republic Pictures' long-running "Red Ryder" B-Western series, this film is not about hardy settlers...
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1945
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In this comedy, a barge captain with an Electra complex marries two women. He married the first because she laughed like his...
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1945
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This Republic programmer stars Lynne Roberts as a country gal who is slickered by a couple of city-fied jewel thieves, played...
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1945
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An interesting idea falls somewhat flat in this average Allan Lane Western, in which the young sister (Twinkle Watts) of a...
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1945
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In his first film in two years, James Cagney stars as Nick Condon, the American editor of a pre-WW2 Tokyo newspaper. When two...
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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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Masterfully directed by Fritz Lang, Scarlet Street is a bleak film in which an ordinary man succumbs first to vice and then...
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1945
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Most cowboy leading men have only a single leading lady: in Utah, Roy Rogers is literally surrounded by delectable females,...
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1945
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Jack Oakie and Peggy Ryan head the cast of the Universal "B plus" musical On Stage Everybody. As indicated by the title, this...
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1945
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Incendiary Blonde is a highly entertaining if historically suspect biopic of "Queen of the Nightclubs" Texas Guinan. As...
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1945
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1945
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Comprised of 15 episodes from one of Republic Studio's favorite sci-fi serials, this chiller follows the terrifying exploits...
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1945
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Directed by Lewis Collins and Ray Taylor, Raiders of Ghost City is a 13-chapter serial account revolving around the highly...
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1944
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Freely adapted from a successful Broadway musical by Moss Hart, this story stars Ginger Rogers as Liza Elliott, the editor of...
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1944
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Paramount Pictures did their patriotic duty with this World War II era musical, with a number of the studio's biggest stars...
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1944
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This Technicolor musical biopic stars Argentina-born Dick Haymes as Irish-American composer Ernest R. Ball. Climbing to fame...
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1944
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In this musical, two young people inherit their foster father's nightclub. The joint teeters on the brink of bankruptcy...
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1944
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This 1940s drama implies that children do indeed learn what they live as it tells the story of a teenage girl who runs away...
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1944
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The Yellow Rose of Texas is, at least in the case of this Roy Rogers vehicle, both the title of a song and the name of a...
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1944
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Roy Rogers and Dale Evans weren't yet husband and wife when they co-starred in Song of Nevada, but the rapport and chemistry...
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1944
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The year is 1942: Mr. Winkle (Edward G. Robinson), a mild-mannered bank clerk, decides to quit his job and open a fix-it shop...
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1944
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Female musicians Sally Richards (Jane Frazee) and Sue Ford (Judy Clark) are Beautiful but Broke in this frantic Columbia...
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1944
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The still very undead mummy experiences insane jealousy in this the third of Universal's Kharis thrillers. Although he was...
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1944
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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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1944
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If one were forced to choose, Swingtime Johnny may well be the best of the Andrews Sisters' 1940 "B"-musicals. Patty, Maxine...
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1944
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MGM's Our Gang series had fallen into such disrepute by 1944 that the studio released the series' valedictory offering, Tale...
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1944
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In this melodrama, two young lovers secretly elope after the woman is involved in a hit-and-run accident. The young groom...
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1944
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Singing, dancing, and ice skating are featured in this musical that focuses on ice-skating sensation Belita. The story...
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1944
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It's nearly the End of the Road for condemned prisoner Chris Martin (John Abbott), slated to be executed for a murder he says...
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1944
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Night Club Girl was designed as a feature-length "screen test" for new Universal contractee Vivian Austin. The plot is the...
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1944
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At least 30 percent of Universal's "vest-pocket" musicals of the 1940s included the word "Hi" in the title. Such was the case...
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1944
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1944
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A priest relates the tale of his friend, a WWI veteran, to the Post-War Planning Committee. Unable to get a job upon his...
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1944
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In this musical comedy, a vaudevillian father, wanting a better life for his son, fires the youth from their act. The deeply...
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1944
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Country-western star Roy Acuff is top-billed in the Republic musical comedy O, My Darling Clementine. The story concerns a...
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1943
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Dick Foran and Harriet Hilliard (aka Harriet Nelson) top the cast of the Universal musical quickie Hi, Buddy. Foran plays GI...
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1943
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In this romantic musical, a chipper radio crooner does everything she can and is still unable to get a break. Later her...
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1943
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Clare Booth Luce's once-timely stage comedy Margin for Error was indifferently transferred to the screen in 1943....
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1943
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The title of this low-budget Universal musical was lifted from the Andrew Sisters' hit song, introduced in 1941's...
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1943
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Lois Andrews, best known in 1943 as the ex-wife of comedian Georgie Jessel, plays the title character in this cinemadaptation...
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1943
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In this comedy, a milque-toast bookkeeper buckles under his overbearing girl friend's constant nagging and begins investing...
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1943
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Hangmen Also Die is set in Czechoslovakia during the Nazi occupation. Czech loyalist Brian Donlevy assassinates the vicious...
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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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Kelly (Eddie Quillan) is a tough little wiseacre who can't keep his fists to himself. As a result, he loses one job after...
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1943
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Honeymoon Lodge is a musical variation on the old Awful Truth plotline. Divorce-bound Bob and Carol Sterling (David Bruce,...
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1943
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In this western a pugnacious cowboy tries to prevent a city-slicker from conning the local ranchers and the utility company....
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1943
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The budget for this fine Roy Rogers Western was doubled and the title changed from Starlight on the Trail to the more...
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1943
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The wartime leading-man shortage obliged Republic Pictures to star draft-proof supporting player Frank Albertson in Mystery...
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1943
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In this tuneful comedy, a would-be actor and playwright is deeply in debt, and to keep away from his creditors, begins...
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1943
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The East Side Kids come face to face with High Society in Mr. Muggs Steps Out. Ordered by a judge to get a job, Muggs...
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1943
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When Lew Ayres' wartime conscientious-objector status caused MGM to drop the actor like a hot potato, Ayres' "Dr. Kildare"...
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1942
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The tumultuous presidency of 17th-president Andrew Johnson is chronicled in this biopic. The story begins with Johnson's...
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1942
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1942
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Ray Middleton portrays the title character in Republic's Hurricane Smith. Mistakenly arrested on a holdup charge, Smith...
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1942
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Maybe Errol Flynn was never the war hero that he often played, but he was a capable boxer, and Gentleman Jim makes full use...
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1942
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In this drama, a truck driver begins wooing a young woman who still lives with her father who constantly brags how he, not...
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1942
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Strange but true: Norma Shearer turned down the title role in Mrs. Miniver to star instead in the insignificant trifle We...
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1942
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Top Sergeant was the third of four inexpensive Universal action films top-billing Leo Carrillo, Andy Devine and Don Terry....
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1942
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In this musical comedy, a country bumpkin spends most of his free time watching movies and becomes such an expert that he can...
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1942
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James Cagney made his first Technicolor appearance in the morale-boosting aviation flick Captains of the Clouds. Cagney plays...
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1942
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The Lady Bodyguard of the title is pretty but somewhat physically frail A. C. Baker (Anne Shirley). An advertising...
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1942
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The Andrews Sisters headline this musical. They play the lead act at a popular nightclub. The trouble begins when they hire a...
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1942
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Our Gang member Billy "Buckwheat" Thomas has told so many lies that no one believes his claim of seeing a marauding monkey in...
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Circus Official
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1942
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1942
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This second entry in MGM's "Whistling" series is more elaborate than the first (Whistling in the Dark) and equally as funny....
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1942
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Weighing themselves on a penny machine, the Our Gang kids receive a fortune card predicting that they will receive...
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1942
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You cannot keep a good mummy down forever and Kharis is back in this sequel to The Mummy's Hand, which itself was something...
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1942
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Like the John Steinbeck novel on which it is based, Tortilla Flat is not so much a movie as a series of warm-hearted...
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1942
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Not quite as exciting as it should be, Stardust on the Sage is still a serviceable Gene Autry vehicle. This time, Gene is...
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1942
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Despite its alluring title, Bedtime Story is an innocent little domestic comedy about a bickering married couple....
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1941
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William Powell and Myrna Loy re-team for this (literally) crazy screwball comedy about a happily married couple who, thanks...
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1941
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Originally titled Emergency Landing, PRC's Robot Pilot affords an early leading-man opportunity to Forrest Tucker. He plays a...
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Doc
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1941
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The high batting average of 20th Century-Fox's Michael Shayne detective series remained intact with Blue, White and Perfect....
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1941
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1941
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The illustrious National Music Camp in Interlochen, Michigan provides the backdrop for this musical that chronicles the ups...
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1941
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A schoolteacher battles for women's rights in mid 19th century Wyoming. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1941
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Talented B-picture director Joseph H. Lewis wasn't yet in the "auteur" class when he helmed the PRC quickie Criminals Within....
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1941
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Another MGM Our Gang comedy that has next to nothing to do with Our Gang, the one-reel Helping Hands gets under way when...
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1941
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In this entry in the long-running "Higgins" series of comedy dramas, Papa Higgins throws his family into turmoil when he...
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1941
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One of the most schizophrenic films ever to come out of the Paramount "B" mill, The Monster and the Girl starts out as a...
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1941
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Dangerous Lady is yet another variation on the "Thin Man" formula, courtesy this time from bargain-basement PRC Pictures....
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Dr. Grayson
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1941
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It has been alleged that Horror Island was the least expensive of Universal's 1940s horror films. While it certainly looks...
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1941
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You'll Never Get Rich was the first of two films made by Fred Astaire at Columbia, and also the first in which he was paired...
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1941
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No relation to the Cracked Nuts he directed in 1931, this hokey sci-fi-comedy from director Edward F. Cline stars Stuart...
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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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Though based on a stage play by Laurence Gross and Edward Childs Carpenter (previously filmed as an Ernest Truex vehicle in...
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1941
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Escaped gangster Steve McBirney (Marc Lawrence), vowing to get even with Oriental sleuth Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler), lies in...
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1940
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Margie is one of the fast and funniest of Universal's pocket musicals, though its two-director dichotomy hardly seems...
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1940
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Santa Fe Trail, Errol Flynn's third western, has precisely nothing to do with the titular trail. Instead, the film is a...
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1940
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1940
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Though the 1931 Fox release Charlie Chan Carries On apparently no longer exists, modern viewers can get a general idea of the...
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1940
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Manhattan Heartbeat is a somewhat toned-down remake of the pre-Production Code melodrama Bad Girl (1931). Newlyweds Johnny...
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1940
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An inordinate number of Hollywood detective films--including virtually the entire Bulldog Drummond series--extracted humor...
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1940
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1940
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1940
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Producer Walter Wanger's House Across the Bay serves as an excellent showcase for Wanger's then-wife Joan Bennett. She is...
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1940
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Hollywood films about the Revolutionary War almost invariably lost money at the box office, and The Howards of Virginia was...
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1940
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Officially, America had no intention of entering the Second World War in 1940: Why, then, were there so many "preparedness"...
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1940
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W.C. Fields plays Egbert Souse, a bibulous denizen of Lompoc who supports his family by winning radio contests. When a...
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1940
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Wrongfully accused of stealing, an angry Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer decides to get even with his parents by embarking upon a life...
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1940
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1940
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The sailor in this entertaining 20th Century-Fox programmer is Danny Malone (Jon Hall), while the lady is Sally Gilroy...
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1940
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This musical drama follows a young ghetto kid who dreams of being a classical musician like his idol Jascha Heifetz. He first...
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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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In this drama, an unlucky family find themselves plagued by murderous mobsters after they inadvertently witness a crime that...
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1939
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Following up their successful film Love Affair, Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne team up again for the romantic melodrama When...
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1939
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Despite its comparatively upbeat ending, Let Us Live is one of the darkest and gloomiest films of the late 1930s. As working...
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1939
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Twentieth Century-Fox borrowed Spencer Tracy, from MGM for the sprawling (yet economically produced) historical drama Stanley...
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1939
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Bold for its time (just prior to World War II), Confessions of a Nazi Spy is an expose of a genuine Nazi espionage ring...
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1939
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Dorothy Lamour had been playing "sarong girls" long enough to parody her screen character in 1939's Best of the Blues. Tired...
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1939
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Unlike many another pre-WW II spy melodramas, Espionage Agent clearly identifies the villains as Germans. Joel McCrea plays...
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1939
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Pat O'Brien is his usual likably obnoxious self in the Warner Bros. newspaper yarn Off the Record. While trying to smash a...
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1939
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Otis Ferguson has said of Each Dawn I Die that "the story is of the kind you would have to see to disbelieve." And to be...
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1939
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In this crime drama, a grizzled cabbie is scammed out of his life savings by a fake finance company. He tries to no avail to...
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1939
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In his last film assignment, portly Walter Connolly fills the title role (in more ways than one) in The Great Victor Herbert....
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1939
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Kay Francis was anxious to complete her Warner Bros. contract when she agreed to appear in this lower-berth drama. Francis...
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1939
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Maisie stars Ann Sothern as a worldly showgirl stranded in Wyoming when her show fails. She accepts a job at a carnival...
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1939
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As indicated by its title, Thou Shalt Not Kill is a strange blend of religiosity and crime melodrama. Charles Bickford plays...
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1939
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Filmed on-location at the Naval Air Training Stations in San Diego, CA, and Pensacola, FL, this black-and-white Warner Bros....
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1939
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In this melodrama, the acting warden at a correctional facility must make a difficult choice when he comes across some...
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1939
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Banking on the popularity of the Warner Bros.' boxing saga Kid Galahad (37), the studio rushed into production with another,...
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1939
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I Am Not Afraid was the preview title for the 60-minute Warner Bros. crime melodrama The Man Who Dared. A remake of 1931's...
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1939
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In this wartime drama, cavalry private Dennis Murphy purchases a nervous horse, Sergeant, after it is deemed unfit for...
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1938
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20th Century-Fox's Meet the Girls was the vanguard of an intended series about the misadventures of two trouble-prone chorus...
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1938
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Its somewhat risible title aside (how can a saddle have rhythm?), this is one of the better Gene Autry westerns of the late...
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1938
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In this tearful crime melodrama, a waitress becomes so taken with her dream of living in posh luxury and comfort that she...
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1938
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In this crime drama, an innocent wife has no idea that her husband makes his living by hijacking trucks. When she finds out...
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1938
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Despite the presence of Busby Berkeley in the director's chair, Comet Over Broadway contains nary a single musical number....
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1938
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Kay Francis fights off tears, deprivations and a mediocre script in Warner Bros.' Secrets of an Actress. La Francis plays Fay...
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1938
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In this mystery programmer, a prizefighter dies in the midst of a match, but evidence suggests that it was a dose of poison...
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1938
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Though not the first Dr. Kildare film ever made, this is the first entry in MGM's long-running series set at Blair General...
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1938
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A troubled young girl vents her frustrations upon her poor butler in this sentimental drama. The teen is angry because her...
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1938
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Dick Powell stars as a Brooklynite who becomes a cowboy in spite of himself. Drifting into a small western town, Powell takes...
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1938
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In this drama, a young man aspires to a life of wealth and power in the newspaper business. Unfortunately, it takes time and...
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1938
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In this musical comedy, two star-struck small town kids head for the Big Apple and become famous for their jitterbug act....
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1938
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Lively June (Jane Withers), teen-aged daughter of mystery writer Waldo Everett (Jon Qualen), who calls her "Angel," becomes...
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1937
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Fight manager Nick Donati (Edward G. Robinson) has just lost his best fighter to crooked promoter Turkey Morgan...
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1937
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Making his debut with Warner Brothers, Henry Fonda plays an apprentice high-voltage lineman working with the no-nonsense, but...
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1937
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1937
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1937
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Bette Davis' famous walk-out from her home studio of Warner Bros. may have hurt her financially, but in the long run it paid...
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1937
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One of a slew of prison reform picture that flourished during the Great Depression, this melodrama was banned in Finland....
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1937
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Actual footage of the 1936 Berlin Olympics is rabbeted into the action of this superior Charlie Chan entry. Assigned by the...
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1937
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The Warner Bros. custom of casting their Dick Foran singing Westerns with whomever was available from the studio's large...
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Ace Cain
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1937
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1937
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1937
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This is the second entry in the Torch Blane reporter series. In this episode, ace reporter Torchy, wanting to impress her...
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1937
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1937
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1936
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1936
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For a change of pace, Warner Bros. contract tenor James Melton sings no opera in Sing Me A Love Song -- nor does he sing...
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1936
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A horse and a dog share the same birthday in this exciting children's drama. Both are born in captivity, but end up escaping...
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Mason
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1936
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Margaret Lindsay stars in the title role, playing a young woman imprisoned for a crime which she didn't commit. The real...
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1936
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Aspiring actress Cicely Tyler (Margaret Sullavan) puts her career on hold when she marries ambitious newsman Christopher...
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1936
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Based on the true story of Pan American Airlines, China Clipper was released only a year after the first transpacific flight...
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1936
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Crime reporter George Melville (Joel McCrea) arrogantly repeated accurate predictions about jewel robberies. He befriends...
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1936
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1936
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In this comedy, a waitress at a local lunch counter inadvertently foils a bank robbery and finds herself turned into a...
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1935
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When he's shipped off to prison on a tax-evasion charge, millionaire Van Dyke (Walter Connolly) breathes a sigh of relief: at...
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1935
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The film that revived Edward G. Robinson's career after a string of flops, along with A Slight Case of Murder (1938), it was...
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1935
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The indomitable May Robson is firmly in the driver's seat of this Runyonesque comedy-drama. While riding through Central...
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1935
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In this drama, an amateur pilot is driven to living life in the fast lane after he pilots that plane that crashed and killed...
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1935
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1935
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This musical drama stars Dick Powell as the son of an admiral (Lewis Stone), who'd rather sing than go to sea. Through the...
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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 romance, a social worker employed by Traveler's Aid finally is able to show her love to a construction foreman...
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1935
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Based on Frederick Hazlett Brennan's play Battleship Gertie, Miss Pacific Fleet is short and snappy "gobs and gals" affair....
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1935
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In G Men, Warner Bros. "bad boy" James Cagney plays James "Brick" Davis, a young lawyer whose education has been financed by...
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1935
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Kay Francis stars as Stella Parish, a London stage favorite who suddenly disappears without a trace. British news...
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1935
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The agent of the title is George Brent, a journalist sent by the Government to get the goods on a crime syndicate. Brent...
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1935
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This musical chronicles the rise to stardom of a humble bellhop after he is discovered by a talent agent. Though he becomes a...
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1935
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Though Busby Berkeley is the director of I Live for Love, there isn't a dancer or dance number anywhere to be seen....
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1935
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1935
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William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan Productions moved from MGM to Warners with Page Miss Glory--along with Cosmopolitan's...
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1935
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Birdlike ZaSu Pitts and gangly Slim Summerville are together again in the Universal programmer Love Birds. The stars are cast...
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Forbes
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1934
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Notorious as the movie that gangster John Dillinger attended on the night he was killed, Manhattan Melodrama has weathered...
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1934
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Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler reunite once again for this musical salute to the West Point Military Academy, including many...
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1934
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From low-budget Mayfair Pictures Corp., this robust action-melodrama starred Larry "Buster" Crabbe as an oil prospector whose...
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1934
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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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1934
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