Homer Bedloe (Charles Lane) returns to Hooterville, still bound and determined to put the Hooterville Cannonball out of...
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1968
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Worried that Elly May will never land a husband if she doesn't learn how to cook, Granny hatches a clever scheme. Entering a...
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1966
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One of a steady stream of eccentric visitors to Hooterville interferes with Oliver (Eddie Albert)'s Herculean efforts to work...
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Roland Weatherby
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1965
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Toward the end of Jerry Lewis's Paramount studio period, Lewis slapped together this bitter comedy about Hollywood phoniness...
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1964
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Professor Julius F. Kelp (Jerry Lewis) is an addle-brained, absent-minded chemistry instructor always incurring the wrath of...
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1963
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1962
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1961
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Lt. Anderson
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1959
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This fact-based episode is set in 1912, just before Grace Farley (Barbara Lord) is to embark on her honeymoon with new...
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1959
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While enjoying a leisurely ocean cruise in the company of secretary Della (Barbara Hale), Perry (Raymond Burr) is approached...
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1958
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Thornton Wilder's 1938 stage play The Merchant of Yonkers was based on an old British stage farce by John Oxenford (which in...
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1958
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Chicago Confidential may not have been the best of the late-1950s "expose" films, but it certainly boasted one of the most...
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1957
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1957
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This Walt Disney filmization of Esther Forbes' Revolutionary-War novel Johnny Tremain was appropriately released on July 4,...
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1957
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1956
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"I waited there with a dead head sitting on a dead spine waiting for the crack of doom." This is how young businessman Mason...
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1956
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The Rudolf Friml operetta The Vagabond King was first filmed in 1930, with Dennis King in the lead. On both sides of this...
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1956
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Based on the Holy Scriptures, with additional dialogue by several other hands, The Ten Commandments was the last film...
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1956
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This Bowery Boys opus gets under way when Sach (Huntz Hall) is informed that he is heir to a fortune. Sach and his buddy Slip...
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1955
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As a gift to his young wife Ethel (Janet Ward), real estate agent Ralph Montgomery (Everett Sloane) hires a cook named Mrs....
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1955
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Like Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938), 20th Century-Fox's There's No Business Like Show Business is a "catalogue" film, its...
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1954
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White Christmas, Paramount's belated follow-up to the 1942 hit Holiday Inn, was the studio's first VistaVision production. A...
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1954
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1954
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In this romantic drama, a secret love affair becomes the cause of a series of mysterious mishaps involving a philandering...
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1954
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Oliver Tennant
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1947
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Three on a Ticket was the fourth entry in PRC's "Michael Shayne" series, and arguably the best of the batch. Hugh Beaumont,...
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1947
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1946
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Otto Preminger directed this romantic musical (something of a change of pace for the rather serious-minded director) set in...
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1946
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By PRC Studios standards, Mr. Celebrity is decidedly an "all-star" picture. The title character is a prize race horse,...
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Travers
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1942
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Thanks to the canny production team of Maurice and Franklin King, I Killed That Man is superior to the general run of...
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1942
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Paper Bullets (aka Crime Inc.) was the first production by former slot-machine entrepreneurs Maurice and Frank Kozinski,...
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1941
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Stars-on-the-downslide Wallace Ford and Marian Marsh briefly rallied in the above-average Monogram melodrama Murder by...
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1941
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It's Wild Bill Elliot as Wild Bill Hickok in the Columbia B-western Lone Star Vigilantes. This time out, Elliot is teamed...
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1941
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Wealthy, sheltered Joan Fontaine is swept off her feet by charming ne'er-do-well Cary Grant. Though warned that Grant is...
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1941
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Toothy, ukelele-plucking British comedian dominates the proceedings in I See Ice. The nonsensical story concerns the...
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1938
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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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Gregory Dupont Jr.
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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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In this high-seas adventure, an assistant state's attorney must serve a subpoena upon a wealthy yacht owner. To do this the...
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Forsythe
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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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1937
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The second screen version of Anna Katherine Green's 1878 whodunit stars Donald Cook as Dr. Truman Hartnell, a dedicated...
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1936
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In this comedy, an amnesiac takes off with a young woman. This causes the woman's father to hire a detective to find them....
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1936
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1935
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This greatest of all Frankenstein movies begins during a raging thunderstorm. Warm and cozy inside their palatial villa, Lord...
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1935
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William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan Productions moved from MGM to Warners with Page Miss Glory--along with Cosmopolitan's...
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1935
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In this romance, a social worker employed by Traveler's Aid finally is able to show her love to a construction foreman...
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1935
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Paul Muni stars in this drama about a romantic triangle that leads to madness and murder. Overly enthusiastic Mexican...
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1935
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A homely woman gets the best kind of revenge upon her philandering husband in this drama. Tired of his constant cheating,...
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Philip
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1935
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In this action film, Wallace Storm, ace race car driver, gets into real trouble when he is accused of killing his partner...
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Robert Griffin
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1935
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Like the contemporaneous Columbia feature Party Wire, RKO Radio's Grand Old Girl paints a surprisingly bleak and cynical...
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1935
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This story of espionage in World War I is based on a true story. Marthe McKenna (Madeleine Carroll) is a nurse from Belgium...
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1934
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Josephine Hutchinson is a beautiful heiress bored by her stifling lifestyle. She bolts her family mansion on New Years' Eve...
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1934
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1934
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Adapted by director Paul Sloan from the novel by Will James, Lone Cowboy is an "outdoors" epic tailored to the talents of...
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Jim Weston
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1934
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Of the two 1934 film versions of the life of Russia's Catherine the Great, Josef von Sternberg's The Scarlet Empress was the...
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1934
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Ruth Chatterton tears up the screen in this fast-paced, lusty comedy. Alison Drake is an automobile magnate, a hard-nosed,...
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1933
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The Mystery of the Wax Museum begins in London in the 1920s. Lionel Atwill plays Ivan Igor, a brilliant sculptor who manages...
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George Winton
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1933
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True love makes French buy the film company that owns the contract to his love, actress Margot Grahame. Grahame isn't the...
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1933
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Hard to Handle stars James Cagney as a fast-talking promoter who pounces upon every current fad and foible to make a quick...
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1933
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Dr. Robert Strike
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1933
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Before it became one of Hollywood's busiest B-picture mills, Monogram Pictures had a fondness for literary adaptations...
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Capt.Jordan
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1933
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Gary Curtis, aka Farnsbarns (Richardo Cortez), is really a former hoodlum hired to retrieve some compromising letters from...
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1932
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Bank president Thomas Dickson (Walter Huston) has instituted a lending policy that shows great faith in ordinary people but...
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Cyril Cluett
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1932
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In this detective drama, a gumshoe falls in love with a torch singer who is unfortunately, involved with a crook. The two...
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Georgie Perry
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1932
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Constance Bennett suffers nobly in this outdated but fairly engrossing melodrama in which a seemingly hardened debutante...
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Victor Linley
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1932
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In this historical drama, set in 1775, the hardships faced by a courageous band of settlers traveling from Virginia to...
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Evan Muir
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1931
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Actor Robert Montgomery would serve as a lieutenant in the U.S. Naval Reserve during WWII, but he was just a lowly seaman in...
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1931
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Greta Garbo appears here (in her second talking film) as an Italian singer who seduces a young priest into falling for her....
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Tom Armstrong
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1930
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A somewhat primitive early talkie version of Rex Beach's lusty 1909 novel of Alaska salmon fishers, RKO's The Silver Horde...
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1930
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Lt. Allen
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1929
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1929
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