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1955
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One of the finest and most troubling films to come out of Universal-International, The Sleeping City tried to emulate some of...
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1950
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William Gargan and Margaret Lindsay, stars of Columbia's "Ellery Queen" series, were reunited for the like-minded...
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1943
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Though a lesser 20th Century-Fox musical, Hello, Frisco, Hello was one of the studio's most successful wartime efforts. John...
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1943
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Stolen way back in 1880, a sack of United States mail is discovered in an old attic in 1942. The letters are finally...
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1942
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1942
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Roy Rogers champions the cause of Easterner Sylvia Clark (Helen Parrish), who is in danger of losing her father's ranch to...
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1942
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1942
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When MGM made a program western, it generally looked more expensive than an entire years' sagebrusher output at Monogram or...
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1942
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In this wartime drama, a doctor discovers that one of his patients isn't as crazy as he thought, with dangerous consequences...
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1942
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In this western, Roy plays both the villain and the hero. As the bad-guy, he heads a ring of rustlers. The trouble begins...
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Judge Kirby
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1942
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This rambling historical drama covers 109 years in the life of one woman. Encased in convincing old-age makeup,...
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1942
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In this cornball comedy, the Weavers start a Victory garden to help out with the war. The encounter resistance from the...
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1942
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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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The box-office success of Paramount's What a Life (1939), coupled with the popularity of the spinoff Henry Aldrich radio...
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1941
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One of the eerier chillers of its period -- and one of the best ever to come out of Paramount -- Stuart Heisler's Among the...
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1941
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The down-home Weaver family stars in this countrified drama set in Peaceful Valley where if things went any slower they'd be...
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1941
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This Buck Privates knockoff concerns the misadventures of the three Patterson brothers: Charley (Wayne Morris), Eddie (Tom...
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1941
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The oft-used title A Shot in the Dark was affixed in 1941 to this Warner Bros. B-picture. Much of the film takes place in the...
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1941
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Don "Red" Barry's first western of 1941, Wyoming Wildcat told the careworn but still potent story of a war veteran returning...
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1941
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The studio concocted the film as a showcase for its 9-year-old discovery Joan Carroll, here cast as precocious Bridget...
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1941
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In this Gene Autry Western, the valley is threatened by a weed capable of poisoning the cattle. When burning the range proves...
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1941
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The success of 1938's Kentucky prompted 20th Century-Fox to come up with the similar (though not entirely identical)...
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1940
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Inspired by the true story of the leader of the Mormon Church, this film features Dean Jagger in the title role. The members...
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1940
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Singing cowboy Gene Autry makes a rare appearance outside his usual Republic Pictures stamping grounds in 20th Century-Fox's...
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1940
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Though the title character is loosely based on that of the notorious killer/robber Ma Barker, she has been sanitized and...
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1940
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Henry Fonda plays Chad Hanna, a New York country bumpkin of the mid-nineteenth century who joins a travelling circus. He...
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1940
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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 espionage drama, a young woman enrolls in the US Army Intelligence Corps so she can avenge her brother's death. She...
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Col. Shaw
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1939
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Famous filmmaker Jacques Tourneur (known for his compelling film noir and scary horror movies) makes his directorial debut in...
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1939
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The zippy world of auto-racing provided the basis of this off-beat actioner that centers on an auto magnate who is...
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1939
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1939
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1939
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A champion Great Dane is the murder victim in this mystery. Investigating the case is the youthful assistant of a travelling...
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1939
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This remake of Penthouse (33) stars Walter Pidgeon as a smooth attorney with a few embarrassing friends. One of these is a...
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1939
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Ginger Rogers slipped off her dancing shoes to play one of her best comic roles as Polly Parish, a salesgirl at a large...
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1939
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In this, the premiere entry in the "Brass" Bancroft series (starring the man who would-be President, Ronald Reagan), Brass is...
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1939
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The late cinema historian William K. Everson once wrote an article titled "Movies Out of Thin Air", referring to films that...
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1939
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The publisher of a popular gossip magazine causes a scandal of his own when he hires his bastard son as a reporter. The cub...
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1939
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Filmed on a budget of $77,000, Rookie Cop was another attempt by RKO Radio to transform canine star Ace the Wonder Dog into...
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Lane
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1939
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In this drama, an ingenious journalist finds himself at odds with his brother the district attorney over his unconventional...
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1939
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The Mysterious Miss X would have the audience believe that the very American Michael Whalen and Chick Chandler are a pair of...
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Ross
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1939
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Roy Rogers is forced to chase down his own kid brother in this exemplary Republic Pictures oater produced and directed by...
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Tasker
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1939
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RKO Radio's ace short-subjects director Leslie Goodwins graduated to features with the economically produced Crime Ring....
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1938
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When mild-mannered bank clerk Wilbur Meely (Joe Penner) finds himself stuck in a speeding trailer after a bank robbery gone...
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1938
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The old west collides with the new in this fine remake of RKO's 1932 Come On, Danger!. Or, rather, veteran RKO star...
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1938
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A remake of 1933's One Man's Journey, A Man to Remember was the auspicious film directorial debut of Garson Kanin. Told in...
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1938
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James Stewart and Ginger Rogers were "an item" when Vivacious Lady was filmed, and their obvious real-life affection for one...
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1938
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Another of RKO's movie vehicles for radio comic Joe Penner ("You na-a-a-asty man!"), Mr. Doodle Kicks Off stars Penner as the...
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1938
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The Saint, Leslie Charteris' charming but deadly criminal-turned-sleuth, made his first film appearance in RKO Radio's...
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1938
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A French sculptor travels to LA and, with the help of Ace the Wonder Dog, pretends to be blind so he can sneak into a museum...
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1938
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In this comedy, designed to exploit the then current national craze for picture puzzles, an alcoholic advertising exec...
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1938
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1938
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Joan Fontaine was still two years away from full stardom when she appeared in the B-plus comedy Maid's Night Out. Future...
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1938
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When two lovers are framed for a jewelry store robbery in which the clerk was killed, the only person capable of saving them...
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1938
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Better known today as the father of actors Bob Einstein and Albert Brooks, comedian Harry Einstein achieved radio fame in the...
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1938
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Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant star in this inspired comedy about a madcap heiress with a pet leopard who meets an...
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1938
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In this comedy, a marriage-license clerk is proud of the fact that during his 20-year career not one of the couples he has...
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1938
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Fred Stone stars as the mayor of a small town, threatened by "progressive" politicians who plan to radically change the...
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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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1938
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"Ripped from today's headlines", RKO Radio's Smashing the Rackets was inspired by the career of colorful New York district...
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1938
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Outcasts of Poker Flat is an adaptation of Bret Harte's western story of the same name, with elements of Harte's...
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1937
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1937
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A doctor (John Beal) who loses faith in his skills renounces his profession and hides himself in a variety of jobs. He takes...
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1937
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Professional horsewoman Ann Dvorak is the Racing Lady in this hit-and-miss romantic comedy. The story begins breaking into a...
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Bradford
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1937
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RKO Radio's "Hildegarde Withers" series, based on the mystery stories by Stuart Palmer, ground to a half with 40 Naughty...
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1937
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A veterinarian and his wife leave their small burg and move to the Big Apple after he inherits a million dollars. His social...
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1937
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Set amidst the tense and suspenseful world of men who transport large amounts of nitroglycerin, used to put out fires in oil...
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Rocky Sanders
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1937
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Allegedly based on two factual works, Bouck White's The Book of Daniel Drew and Matthew Josephson's The Robber Barons, RKO's...
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1937
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A newspaper reporter vies with his arch rival, who is also his girl friend, for the scoop on a recent bank robbery. The race...
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1937
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The "they" who want to marry in this RKO Radio programmer are news photographer Jim Tyler (Gordon Jones) and cute society deb...
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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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Attorney Lee Tracy gains renown for his flamboyant courtroom tactics, which nearly always result in acquittal for his...
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1937
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This back-stage crime comedy, a remake of Lights Out (1923), takes a healthy satirical stab at the powerful studio system of...
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1937
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In this comedy drama (a remake of 1932's Ladies of the Jury), an apparently bubble-headed but mule-stubborn jurist is...
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1937
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In this crime drama, a highly superstitious racehorse owner spends his time off the track helping the less fortunate in any...
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1937
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Hotshot attorney Jimmy Hughes (Preston S. Foster) prides himself on never backing down from a dare. Thus, when he is goaded...
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1937
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Sam Ransome
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1937
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A couple of American soldiers of fortune are hired by the wife of a Chinese general to deliver a priceless diamond to a...
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1937
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Browning
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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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Dr. Mason
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1936
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1936
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Wanted: Jane Turner was inspired by an actual robbery-murder case of 1926. A gang of thieves use the Post Office's...
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Banks
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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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Future best-selling novelist Irwin Shaw made his screenwriting bow with the modest RKO Radio sports drama The Big Game. The...
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1936
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Loosely based on a story by frontier writer Bret Harte, this romantic western drama tells the story of an innocent, carefree...
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1936
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The Commodore (Fred Stone), an average man in an average small town, is incensed that killers and thieves are able to use...
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Taylor
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1936
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In this drama, a flamboyant womanizing airline pilot competes with another, rather dull, pilot for the love of a fetching...
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1936
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1934
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