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1961
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Marguerite Henry's beloved novel Misty of Chincoteague is given a charmingly old fashioned cinemadaptation in this 1961...
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1961
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A young Native American boy saves the day in this competent children's western by director George Sherman. Little...
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1960
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1960
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A must-see for students of 1950s pop culture, Rock, Pretty Baby was Universal-International's earliest acknowledgement of the...
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1956
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Our Miss Brooks had been a radio and TV sitcom hit thanks to the considerable input of star Eve Arden. The film version of...
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1956
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Four Girls in Town is essentially an excuse by Universal-International to test out several of their newer contractees. The...
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1956
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Released two years after This is Cinerama, Cinerama Holiday is the second feature-length demonstration of the famed...
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1955
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Mike Hammer, author Mickey Spillane's brutal-but-eloquent private eye, made his screen debut in this cleaned-up...
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1953
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1953
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The modest MGM programmer Code Two follows a group of police academy aspirants from the grueling training process to their...
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1953
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Peter Lawford goes through his standard "rich, spoiled young playboy" paces in the MGM comedy Just This Once. In danger of...
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1952
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Sky Full of Moon gets under way when Vegas gambling-joint owner Al (Keenan Wynn) rescues rodeo rider Harley Williams...
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1952
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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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Bannerline was Don Weis' first solo directorial credit for MGM. Keefe Brasselle stars as cub reporter Mike Perrivale, who...
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1951
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Grounds for Marriage is another attractively packaged sausage from the MGM assembly line. Van Johnson is a doctor, while...
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1950
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A Lady Without Passport stars Hedy Lamarr in the title role. Lamarr plays Marianne Lorress, a concentration-camp refugee who...
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1950
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Comprised of eight unrelated episodes of inconsistent quality, this anthology piece of American propaganda features some of...
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1950
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Nobody sits on the fence so far as The Big Hangover is concerned. Leonard Maltin considers it "predictable, as well as silly...
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1950
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Though one might have expected friction between MGM's resident "nice lady" Greer Garson and Warner Bros. notorious "bad boy"...
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1949
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In this wartime comedy drama an ultra-macho but aging Marine sergeant does all he can to keep his men intimidated and towing...
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1943
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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 once-notorious theatrical chestnut White Cargo was toned down for public consumption in this 1942 MGM-ized adaptation...
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1942
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1942
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Advertised as a sort of sequel to MGM's Babes in Arms (1939), Babes on Broadway reunites the two stars of the earlier film:...
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1941
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The 1924 George Gershwin stage hit Lady Be Good was brought to the screen by MGM; any resemblance (beyond the Gershwin score)...
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1941
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Broke and stranded once more, golden-hearted showgirl Maisie Revere (Ann Sothern) finds herself in upstate New York in...
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1941
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In this sequel to the 1938 boxoffice hit Boys Town, Spencer Tracy repeats his Oscar-winning role of Father Flanagan, with...
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1941
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Out of work as usual, showgirl Maisie Revier (Ann Sothern) takes a job as the maid for a wealthy family. She wins over the...
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1941
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1940
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This third installment in MGM's "Maisie" series finds eternally stranded showgirl Maisie Revere (Ann Sothern) stuck in a...
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1940
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This is the second episode in the Maisie series, which focused upon the exploits of a feisty, clever, smooth-talking...
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1940
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Judy Garland performs her only on-screen death scene early in the proceedings of Little Nellie Kelly. But despair not!...
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1940
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Originally filmed in Sepiatone, Let Freedom Ring is a satisfying Nelson Eddy musical with patriotic overtones. Set in the...
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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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In this offbeat western, a cowboy heads into the genteel East to fulfill his dream of becoming a polo player. While there,...
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1939
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Three years after the second Thin Man entry, MGM brought back the property by popular demand with Another Thin Man. As ever,...
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1939
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Merlini the Magician, Clayton Rawson's crime-solving illusionist, has been singularly ill-used by Hollywood, having appeared...
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1939
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Viennese-born Luise Rainer plays a young Parisian girl who attends an exclusive drama school, working nights at a factory to...
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1938
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James Whale directed this screen adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's French classic Fanny. Madelon (Maureen O'Hara) is a lovely...
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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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1938
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Fast Company was another attempt by MGM to match the success of its "Thin Man" films. Melvyn Douglas and Florence Rice star...
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1938
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The true story of one of Ireland's leading political figures of the late 19th Century inspired this biographical drama....
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1937
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The Big City is an improbable urban melodrama which takes place during a "taxi war" between honest independent cabdrivers and...
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1937
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Mannequin stars Joan Crawford as Jessie Cassidy, a girl of the tenements (though this being an MGM film, her slum dwellings...
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1937
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Falsely convicted Lionel Barrymore escapes from Devil's Island with fellow prisoner H.B. Walthall. A brilliant scientist,...
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1936
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1936
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A romantic triangle heats up the Alaskan tundra in this romantic comedy. Bascom Dinsmore (Robert Montgomery) is a radio...
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1936
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Rome Express is a fast-moving British imitation of Hollywood's Grand Hotel formula. The film concentrates on the various...
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1933
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The Truth About Youth is the third film version of Henry V. Esmond's play, When We Were Twenty-One. Richard Dane (David...
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1930
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In this youthful sports comedy two football jocks, Eddie Smith and Tiny Courtlay are grid iron rivals competing to win the...
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1930
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"Sweet Mamma," a phrase popularized in the Barney Google comic strip, referred to a pretty girl, usually blonde, who attached...
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1930
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