A police investigator is forced to rely on the man he's been instructed to apprehend in this cold war thriller. Sir James...
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1968
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In this adventurous chase film, three orphans head for the US. Unbeknownst to them, they carry with them important...
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1965
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Former vaudeville headliner Rudolph Bitzner (Franchot Tone) has been washed up for years, reduced to running a cheap motel....
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Rudolph Bitzner
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1965
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Dr. Daniel Niles Freeland
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1965
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In Harm's Way, based on James Bassett's novel Harm's Way, has enough plot in it for four movies or a good miniseries (when it...
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1965
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Often described as a French New Wave film made in Hollywood, Arthur Penn's 1965 art movie enters the unsettlingly paranoid...
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1965
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In this romantic drama, a middle-aged gambler tells a casino croupier her life story. The story is told in flashback and...
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1964
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The first of Allen Drury "all names changed to protect the guilty" political novels, Advise and Consent was brought to the...
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1962
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Host
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1961
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Fed up with the loud and incessant talking of fellow men's club member Jamie Tennyson (Liam Sullivan), pompous Col. Archie...
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Col. Archie Taylor
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1961
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B-picture auteur Jacques Tourneur served as director for the October 15, 1960 Bonanza episode "Denver McKee." The title...
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Denver McKee
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1960
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Washed-up actor Oliver Mathews (Franchot Tone) would rather dally with a pretty wardrobe girl than spend time with his...
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1959
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Using his own money, actor Franchot Tone mounted this courageous film version of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya. The cast is the...
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Director, Producer, Dr. Mikhail Lvovich Astroff
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1958
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Hollywood's archetypal "good woman" Greer Garson pulls off an astonishing about-face as the wicked, scheming Regina Giddens...
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1956
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Cornell Woolrich, whose written works have served as the basis for many an Alfred Hitchcock production, was the author of...
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1956
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1953
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Here Comes the Groom was the second collaboration between director Frank Capra and star Bing Crosby. Though not as "socially...
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Wilbur Stanley
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1951
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Though hampered by a small budget that shrank with each shooting day, director Burgess Meredith fashioned a serviceable film...
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Radek
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1949
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Made on a miniscule budget primarily financed by its star Franchot Tone, Jigsaw is a strange little crime film. Howard Malloy...
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Howard Malloy
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1949
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Dennis Williams
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1949
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Roger Sanford
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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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William Weldon
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1947
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The second Hollywood-filmed effort from the British-based Eagle Lion company, Lost Honeymoon is a decided improvement on the...
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The Amnesiac
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1947
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Private detective Franchot Tone is hired by a prominent politician (Tom Powers) to run a background check on the politician's...
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Stuart Bailey
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1947
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Honeymoon stars an attractively grown-up Shirley Temple as Barbara, the sweetheart of a GI corporal named Phil (Guy Madison)....
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David Flanner
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1947
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As appealing as ever in 1946, Deanna Durbin was admittedly getting a bit long in tooth for her ingenue-like role in Because...
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Paul Taylor
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1946
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In this musical comedy, a young singer becomes so desperate to appear on Broadway that she goes to a prominent producer and...
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The Producer
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1945
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Engineer Scott Henderson (Alan Curtis) is at a seedy midtown Manhattan bar early one evening, drowning his sorrows over a...
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Jack Marlow
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1944
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Jim Hetherton (Franchot Tone), the scion of an aristocratic rural English family, was traumatized from boyhood by a shooting...
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Jim Hetherton
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1944
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Dr. George Grover
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1944
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Pilot No. 5 is an oddly liberal-minded film to come from conservative old MGM. Franchot Tone plays an army pilot stationed in...
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George Braynor Collins
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1943
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Billy Wilder's Five Graves to Cairo is the third take on Lajos Biro's theatrical tale of romance and espionage, Hotel...
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John J. Bramble
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1943
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True to Life stars Dick Powell as a radio writer in search of saleable material. He comes up with a weekly sitcom about a...
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Fletcher Marvin
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1943
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In this frothy musical comedy, Ann Carter (Deanna Durbin) is an aspiring singer from the Midwest who decides to move to New...
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Charles Gerard
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1943
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Star-Spangled Rhythm is a typical wartime all-star musical-comedy melange, this time from Paramount Pictures. The slender...
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1942
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In this WW II spy comedy, an American pilot stationed in England is flying a routine mission when the Nazis shoot down his...
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Christopher Reynolds
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1942
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Nice Girl? answers its own question by casting the relentlessy nice Deanna Durbin in the title role. In her first truly adult...
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Richard Calvert
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1941
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In this romantic comedy, a blue-blooded girl falls in love with a wealthy rake who wants to settle down and marry her....
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Mark Willows
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1941
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One would never know it from the title, but This Woman is Mine is a virile seafaring yarn dealing with the northern fur...
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Robert Stevens
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1941
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Trail of the Vigilantes was conceived as a straight action picture, but was reshaped during filming into a comedy western in...
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"Kansas" Tim Mason
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1940
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Thunder Afloat is set during the first world war. Wallace Beery plays an veteran tugboat captain who harbors a grudge against...
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1939
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Harry Kurnitz' fictional book-dealer/detectives Joel and Garda Sloane appeared in three MGM "B"s of the late 1930s, each with...
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Joel Sloane
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1939
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Based upon the book The Four Marys, by Fanny Heaslip Lea, Man-Proof involves members of the smart and sophisticated set of...
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Jimmy Kilmartin
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1938
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Love may be a headache, but without it, how would MGM programmers like this one ever have been made? Franchot Tone is cast as...
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Peter Lawrence
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1938
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Nancy, a jilted bride-to-be, is played by Janet Gaynor in one of her last starring films. The three loves are novelist...
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Robert Hansen
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1938
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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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Otto Koster
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1938
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"Discovered" for American films by Cecil B. DeMille, popular Hungarian actress Franceska Gaal made the last of her three...
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Paul Wagner
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1938
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Dr. Valentine Brown
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1937
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1937
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In this WW II era drama, a timid, pacifistic clerk is befriended by a gutsy circus barker while they are in the military....
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Jimmy Davis
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1937
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Giulio
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1937
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The tempestuous love affair between a young surgeon and a pretty but married nurse provides the basis for this melodrama....
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Allan Meighan
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1937
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Barnabas Pells
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1936
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The Gorgeous Hussy purports to be based on the life of Margaret "Peggy" O'Neill, the controversial wife of early 19th-century...
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John Eaton
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1936
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Josef Von Sternberg, past directorial master of movie exotica, came down to earth with The King Steps Out, a major studio...
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Emperor Franz Josef
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1936
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The Unguarded Hour opens with prosecutor Sir Alan Deardon (Franchot Tone) in the midst of a murder trial. He gets his...
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Sir Alan Deardon
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1936
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Suzy is the film in which Cary Grant, overcome by the beauty and vivacity of Jean Harlow, sings her a love ballad! This...
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Terry Moore
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1936
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Former newspaperman Martin Mooney based his script for Exclusive Story on the racket-busting activities of New York district...
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Dick Barton
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1936
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In this western, a cowpoke from Wyoming rides into the big city to look for a wife. Instead he finds himself investigating...
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Foxhall
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1935
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MGM regularly churned out films in the 1930s that were all "star power" and very little plot. No More Ladies is a good...
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James Salston
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1935
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Gary Cooper stars in this rousing adventure saga of three British officers of the 41st Regiment of Bengal Lancers of India....
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Lt. John Forsythe
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1935
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Not even considered a good film back in 1935, Dangerous is held together by the mesmerizing performance of Bette Davis. The...
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Don Bellows
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1935
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The 1932 publication of Charles Nordhoff and James Norton Hall's Mutiny on the Bounty sparked a revival of interest in the...
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Roger Byam
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1935
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Reckless is a delightfully breezy screwball comedy from the same director (Victor Fleming) and star (Jean Harlow) responsible...
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Bob Harrison
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1935
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Douglas Hall
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1934
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T.R. Paige Jr
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1934
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Bob Bailey
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1934
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Based on John Golden's stage play Four Walls, MGM's Straight is the Way offers the monumentally miscast Franchot Tone as...
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Benny
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1934
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In the tradition of Fox Studios' Oscar-winning Cavalcade, The World Moves On covers over one hundred years in the lives of...
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Richard Girard, 1924, 1914
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1934
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MGM's Sadie McKee is a superb example of how the "committee" system of moviemaking in the 1930s could sometimes yield...
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Michael Alderson
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1934
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Virtually everybody except President Roosevelt was in the lavish MGM backstage musical Dancing Lady. Joan Crawford stars as...
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Tod Newton
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1933
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In 1933, at the height of the bleakness and desperation of the Depression, MGM released this genuine curiosity piece --...
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Hartley Beekman
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1933
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Loaned to MGM by her home studio of Warner Bros., Loretta Young suffers her way through the title role in Midnight Mary. A...
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Tom Mannering
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1933
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A love triangle forms the basis of this drama set during WWI. The screenplay was written by the story's original author...
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Ronnie Boyce-Smith
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1933
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Jean Harlow is the "bombshell" of the title, a popular movie actress named Lola. Though she seemingly has everything a girl...
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Gifford Middleton
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1933
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After the death of her circus-aerialist husband, Kitty Lorraine (Alice Brady) dedicates herself to transforming her daughter...
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Warren Foster
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1933
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Based on a novel by Phil (State Fair) Stong, The Stranger's Return is one of the most accomplished projects of director...
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Guy Crane
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1933
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Margaret Hughes (Claudette Colbert) returns from a trip abroad to discover that her sweetheart, crusading attorney David...
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1932
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