X Marks the Spot was the first of eight brisk wartime-oriented melodramas, each running slightly under an hour, produced and...
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1942
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In this drama, an ex-vaudevillian dancer opens up a dance band agency and help street kids at the same time by hiring them...
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1942
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Misbehaving Husbands was intended as a comeback vehicle for silent-film comedy great Harry Langdon, who after his fall from...
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Grace Norman
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1941
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The marvelous rapport between stars Clark Gable and Lana Turner makes MGM's Honky Tonk seem far more substatianal than it...
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1941
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Stolen Paradise is a melodramatic tale of youth led astray from the director of Reefer Madness, Louis J. Gasnier. No less a...
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1941
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Celebrity fan-dancer Sally Rand, the undraped sensation of the 1933 Chicago World's Fair, was the star of the 1938 Grand...
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1941
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1939
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In this western, a dashing caballero makes a wager with his gang that he can court a beautiful dancer and lure her back to...
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1939
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Based on a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades represented one of the few successful screenwriting efforts of...
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1938
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The titular battle is the one that noisily rages between American legionnaires Big Ben Wheeler (Victor McLaglen) and Chesty...
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1938
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Republic Pictures borrowed heavily from Damon Runyon when they crafted this tuneful Gene Autry series entry, restored to its...
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Duchess
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1938
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Directed by Richard Thorpe, this costume drama stars Luise Rainer as 16-year-old southern belle Gilberta, who, upon her...
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1938
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Herman Bahr's German play The Yellow Nightingale from 1907 became Paramount's 1938 entry in the then-popular operetta cycle....
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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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Despite its title and its potent lineup of cowboy talent, RKO Radio's The Law West of Tombstone is more comedy than western....
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1938
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1937
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Filmed on a budget of about 78 cents, High Hat was a foredoomed attempt to turn radio singer Frank Luther into a movie star....
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1937
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1937
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Love on Toast was one of several mid-1930s Hollywood films helmed by E. A. DuPont, a once-celebrated German filmmaker then on...
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1937
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Jack Holt stars as Robert Bailey, a Henry Ford-like auto industrialist who decides to give his millions away to various...
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1937
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Nettie Horton
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1937
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In MGM's three-hour-plus The Great Ziegfeld, William Powell stars as the titular theatrical impresario, whose show business...
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1936
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1936
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In this drama, Dan is a horse trainer whose winning horse is disqualified when it is discovered that the animal has been...
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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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Wisecracking Public Stenographer Ann McNair (Lola Lane) spends most of her time fending off the Roamin' Fingers and Rushin'...
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Lucille Weston
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1934
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1934
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Although released as an "Allied Pictures Special," Picture Brides revealed its Poverty Row origins in almost all departments,...
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1934
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The party's barely begun for mild-mannered CPA Bruce (Stuart Erwin); browbeaten by his lazy family and his domineering boss,...
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1934
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1934
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Mrs. Johnson-Martini
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1933
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Lionel Barrymore plays a Marshall Field-like Chicago businessman who emerges from the wreckage of the 1871 fire to build a...
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1933
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In this rough-and-tumble action comedy, Chuck Connors (Wallace Beery) and Steve Brodie (George Raft) are friendly rivals on...
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1933
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This drama chronicles the devoted love of a woman who tries to reform her lover, a black marketeer with a compulsive...
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1933
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While U.S. sailor Jimmy Harrigan (James Dunn) is on leave in San Pedro, he unexpectedly falls in love with the beautiful...
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1933
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No relation to the 1955 Cold War melodrama of the same title, the confusing 1933 melange Hell and High Water takes place in a...
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1933
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Two rough-and-ready guys; one beautiful dame; a tough job that has to be done, and "one of us may not come out alive"; the...
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1931
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