Nearly bankrupt because of his wife's gambling debts, ad executive Herman Albright (Erik Rhodes) tries to forget his problems...
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1961
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The only person who can clear Perry's client Robert Crane (Denver Pyle) of a murder charge is his sister Helen (Constance...
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1958
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While overseeing the atomic tests in the Nevada desert, Army colonel Glenn Manning (Glenn Langan) is exposed to extensive...
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1957
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The endearingly awful Shake, Rattle and Rock! serves as a showcase for four top rock-and-roll talents of the 1950s. Fats...
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1957
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1956
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One of the many "exposes" of corporate corruption filmed in the 1950s, Houston Story was ground out with stingy efficiency by...
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1956
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The Bowery Boys--Slip (Leo Gorcey), Sach (Huntz Hall) et. al.--are suckered into buying a uranium mine near the western town...
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1956
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The lovely assistant of an evil hypnotist has no idea that she is the descendant of a horrifying prehistoric sea monster she...
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1956
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Lois (Noel Neill) writes a story about the discovery of an ancient necklace with alleged magic powers. It is said that...
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1955
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Having forsaken westerns for detective melodramas in Dial Red O, William "Wild Bill" Ellliot continues in this vein in Sudden...
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1955
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Self-style western star John Carpenter is the "auteur" of the low-budget hayburner Outlaw Treasure. Carpenter not only stars...
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1955
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Highway Dragnet is best known to modern movie buffs as the first film to carry Roger Corman's name in the credits. Corman...
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1954
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1953
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Mr. Walkie Talkie was the second attempt by producer Hal Roach Jr. to revive the popular series of William Tracy/Joe Sawyer...
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1952
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Johnny Sims, a two-bit burglar and sneak-thief, breaks into the apartment of Clark Kent (George Reeves) and chances upon the...
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1952
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Through an incredible series of circumstances, the Bowery Boys sign up for a hitch in the Navy. While clumsily going about...
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1951
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Rex Allen, aka "The Arizona Cowboy," again stars as himself in Republic's Silver City Bonanza. Allen and his sidekick Gabe...
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1951
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"Arizona Cowboy" Rex Allen and his faithful horse Koko head the cast of Republic's Utah Wagon Train. Allen plays a modern-day...
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1951
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Charles Starrett once more plays the masked, do-gooding Durango Kid in Pecos River. While in mufti, however, Starrett is a...
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1951
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Mercedes McCambridge plays a singing waitress named Cash-and-Carry Connie in The Scarf. This alone should be enough to keep...
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1951
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1951
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I Was an American Spy is a true story, based on a series of autobiographical Reader's Digest articles written by Claire...
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1951
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Back in the 1930s, '40s and '50s, artist George Petty was famous for his "Petty Girl" illustrations; lovingly detailed...
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1950
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1950
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Filmed under the title Highway Patrol, Lippert's Motor Patrol stars Don Castle as Ken, a rookie policeman. When his fiancee's...
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1950
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1950
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Frank Johnson (Ross Elliott), a window-dresser and struggling artist, accidentally witnesses a mob-related rub-out of a...
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Detective Shaw
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1950
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Arrogant Mike Brannan (Clark Gable) is a famous driver of midget race cars and is the type of man crowds love to hate. He...
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1950
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Lucky Losers is an uncharacteristically dramatic entry in Monogram's "Bowery Boys" comedy series. Incredibly enough, Slip...
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1950
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This film, which is one of a series based on the characters from the Blondie comic strip, finds Dagwood entering the Army...
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1950
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Shep Comes Home was the belated sequel to Screen Guild's My Dog Shep (1946). The title pooch is played by "Flame" (who also...
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1949
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Ham Fisher's comic-strip pugilist Joe Palooka is once more visualized on-screen in Monogram's Winner Take All. In this one,...
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1948
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In this family farce, an older couple falls in love and decide to marry and embark upon a peaceful honeymoon without the...
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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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The long-running "Blondie" series was slowly heading into the homestretch when Blondie's Reward came out in 1948. After...
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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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Mike Connors
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1948
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Blonde Savage was directed by one "S. K. Seeley"-who at closer examination turns out to be Steve Sekely hiding behind an...
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Hoppy Owens
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1947
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The popular wartime catchphrase "Kilroy Was Here" was affixed to this minor campus comedy. Jackie Cooper plays peripatetic...
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Butch Miller
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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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Louie Koblentz
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1947
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Ernie Clark
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1947
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S.S. Van Dine's gentleman detective is reduced to an ordinary "hard boiled" gumshoe in this inexpensive mystery. Philo Vance...
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Ernie Clark
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1947
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Former army pilot Robert Taylor is accused, on the basis of strong circumstantial evidence, of his wife's murder. Suffering...
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1947
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In this melodrama, a self-absorbed mother unwittingly teaches her daughter some terrible habits. From her, the girl learns...
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Joe
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1946
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Blondie's Lucky Day, indeed! Not only must Blondie Bumstead (Penny Singleton) put on a brave face when her husband Dagwood...
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1946
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In this comedy, a Chicago team of radio scriptwriters must split up when he takes a job with his bride-to-be's father, and...
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1946
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In this comedy drama, a butler and a crap-shooting chauffeur find themselves having the run of their employer's mansion...
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1946
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A policeman teams up with a drama critic to solve a mystery in this drama. They look into a case involving a wealthy, famous...
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Romeo Taxi Driver
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1945
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Her Favorite Patient is the TV title for Bedside Manner, an improbable comedy directed by future master of "realism"...
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1945
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The motivating factor of The Missing Corpse is a feud between rival newspapermen Kruger (J. Edward Bromberg) and McDonald...
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Hogan
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1945
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In this comedy, a bookish kid sister reads a psychology book and comes to believe that, according to the book, she is...
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Burglar
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1945
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In this romantic comedy, set during WW II, an newlywed army couple are unable to consummate their marriage, as on their...
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Blubber
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1945
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1945
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In this crime comedy, a prominent judge's vacation is interrupted during a sudden storm that forces him to seek refuge in a...
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1945
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Two Girls and a Sailor is another of those all-star, no-plot wartime musicals turned out by the bushel basket in the 1940s....
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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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All but forgotten today, Ladies Courageous was one of the more successful wartime morale-boosters. Loretta Young heads the...
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1944
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This irresistably-titled comedy is arguably the best of RKO Radio's Wally Brown-Alan Carney vehicles. The daffy duo is cast...
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1944
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In this comic murder mystery, two bail bondsmen try to help out a man who is suspected of stealing bonds from his partner....
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Eddie Jones
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1944
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In this domestic comedy, a housewife nervously awaits the return of her husband from military service. They married after a...
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1944
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Eddie
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1944
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This delightful entry in RKO Radio's "Falcon" series finds amateur Tom Lawrence (Tom Conway), aka The Falcon, tring to solve...
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1944
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In this romance, a GI falls in love with his pen-pal. Believing her to be a wealthy, beautiful girl, he goes to see her...
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1944
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Ever so slightly, the quality of PRC Pictures' film output improved as the 1940s rolled on. In PRC's Dixie Jamboree,...
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1944
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A game show provides the backdrop for this drama that centers on an earnest young husband who desperately needs $1,000 to...
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1944
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In this romantic wartime comedy, four female defense plant workers share a house with four male workers. The situation is on...
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Kelly Kennedy
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1944
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In this musical comedy, a soldier falls in love with a very young woman who in turn has a crush on an older, more...
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1944
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In this mystery, the artist behind a detective cartoon strip solves real police cases on the side. The police are rather...
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1944
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Melodramatic gangster action characterizes this tough and freely fictionalized biography of notorious, murderous Chicago...
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1944
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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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1943
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For his first directorial assignment at RKO Radio, Edward Dmytryk was handed the mile-a-minute topical meller Seven Miles...
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Jimbo
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1943
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In this comedy, Gildersleeve is assigned to be a contentious jury foreman who refuses, despite the opinions of all the other...
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1943
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Outdistancing all competing studios, tiny PRC managed to register the title Corregidor for copyright within hours after the...
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Sgt. Mahoney
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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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Joe Elliott
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1943
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Deadpan Weaver
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1943
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Author William Saroyan's corn-shucking brand of sentimentality works wonders in this 1943 filmization of his novel. Narrator...
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1943
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Though Republic's Shantytown keeps threatening to become a musical, it's essentially a romantic drama built around the...
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1943
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Storywise, Thousands Cheer is thin stuff indeed. Insouciant PFC Eddy Marsh (Gene Kelly) wants to put on a Big Show for his...
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1943
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This musical chronicles the history of jazz music and features many of the most popular musical acts from the early 1940s,...
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1942
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The combination of Ann Sothern and Red Skelton pays off in giggles, chortles and guffaws in Maisie Gets Her Man. Broke and...
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1942
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The Two Yanks in Trinidad are gangsters Tim Reardon (Pat O'Brien) and Vince Barrows (Brian Donlevy), who split up over a...
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1942
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A combat picture was virtually a license to print money in 1942, and RKO Radio's The Navy Comes Through was no exception (net...
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1942
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Cesar Romero plays an outwardly tough prohibition-era gangster who in reality wouldn't hurt a fly. He maintains his "killer"...
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1941
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1941
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1941
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Scattergood Meets Broadway was the third of RKO's film series based on the long-running radio favorite Scattergood Baines....
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Bent
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1941
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In this musical comedy, a motley band of musicians have only their extreme poverty in common. They end up writing a hit and...
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1941
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Teenaged soprano Gloria Jean plays the Little-Miss-Fixit heroine in Universal's Little Bit of Heaven. The most precocious...
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1940
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1940
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Future Universal contractees Robert Paige and Grace MacDonald (in her film debut) star in the Paramount mini-musical Dancing...
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Phil Miller
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1940
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Jane Frazee made her starring film debut in the Republic B-plus musical Melody and Moonlight. The plot is motivated by the...
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Butch Reilly
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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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It was once said of actor Barton MacLane that he never spoke when shouting would do. Cast as the title character in Big Town...
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Sid Travis
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1939
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1939
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When German director Joe May was working on such silent classics as The Indian Tomb and Asphalt, he probably never imagine...
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Emery
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1939
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Best remembered as the film in which 17-year-old Deanna Durbin receives her first screen kiss, First Love is a modernized...
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1939
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The Under-Pup served to introduce Universal's new preteen songstress--and potential Deanna Durbin replacement--Gloria Jean....
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1939
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Peaches Jackson
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1939
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In his starring film for Universal Pictures, W.C. Fields plays circus manager and all-around flim flam man Larson E....
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1939
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Goddbye Broadway is wrapped up by two stage & screen veterans, Alice Brady and Charles Winninger. The stars play...
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Harry Clark
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1938
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1938
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This harmless Universal musical comedy is worth having as one of the few filmed records of legendary Broadway comedian...
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Freddie
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1938
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After several years' faithful service in supporting parts, Frank Jenks and Dorothea Kent were promoted to leading roles in...
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Nick Denby
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1938
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1938
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Andrea Leeds, whose career had shifted into hyperdrive after her brilliant performance in Stage Door (1937), stars in the...
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Frank Munson
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1938
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Doc Williams
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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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Sam
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1938
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Doc Williams
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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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1938
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The low-budget football drama Saturday's Heroes is remarkably frank and timely -- at least for the first 4 reels or so....
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1937
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In this musical, the only one singer/dancer Alice Faye, made for Universal, a Broadway producer is in a quandary when he...
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1937
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Its title notwithstanding, We Who Are About to Die has nothing to do with Roman Gladiators. Rather, the film is based on the...
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1937
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In this romance, a detective teams up with a count and travels to Budapest in search of an embezzler. While there, the two...
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Smitty
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1937
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The Westland Case was the opening volley in Universal's "Crime Club" series. The film was based on Headed for a Hearse, a...
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Doc Williams
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1937
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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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In this comedy, the shady editor of a newspaper does all he can to keep his best reporter from marrying a journalist from a...
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Tate
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1937
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A novel by Arthur Stringer was the source for this two-fisted Universal programmer. When a giant utility company begins...
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Steve
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1937
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The girl is teenaged singing sensation Deanna Durbin; the one hundred men are out-of-work musicians. Still in her "little...
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1937
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On the whole, Joe E. Brown's vehicles for independent producer David L. Loew were distinct retrogressions from his films at...
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1937
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Ann Sothern is a magazine model looking for a rich husband. Wealthy Gene Raymond attends a photo shoot; Sothern mistakes him...
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1936
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With her RKO Radio contract nearing an end, Ann Harding had little choice but accept such trifles as The Witness Chair....
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1936
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In this homespun comedy, a farm family in Iowa lead a pastoral existence until old Ma decides that they must pull up stakes...
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1936
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In this crime drama a high-school principal's principles are put to the test when he, also a member of a parole board, is...
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1936
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In this musical comedy, a strong-willed young woman hires a student to impersonate a boorish French count and brings him home...
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1936
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This lesser Astaire/Rogers vehicle is one of several screen versions of the venerable Hubert Osborne stage play Shore Leave....
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1936
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This light-hearted musical romance follows the exploits of Nikki Martin (Lily Pons), a beautiful French opera star who stows...
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1936
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After 25 years, notorious western outlaw Harry Carey is released from prison. He returns to his frontier home town, only to...
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1936
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In this remake of the 1920 Will Rogers comedy Honest Hutch, Wallace Beery stars as the eponymous Hutch, the ne'er-do-well...
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1936
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The sixth of RKO's Fred Astaire -Ginger Rogers pairings of the 1930s, Swing Time starts off with bandleader Astaire getting...
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1936
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