Joan Crawford is appropriately cast as the title character in This Woman is Dangerous. Crawford plays master criminal Beth...
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1952
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1950
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In this three-hanky movie, an orphaned newsboy decides to care for a crippled young girl after her alcoholic mother is...
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1949
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The Dore Schary regime at MGM brought a much-needed dose of stark realism to the venerable studio. Van Johnson sheds his...
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1949
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In her second film appearance, Marilyn Monroe stars as Peggy Martin, a second-generation showgirl who begins a romance with a...
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1949
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In this courtroom drama, two opposing lawyers lead a double life. In the courtroom they are ruthless toward each other, but...
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1948
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The Accused is a mystery melodrama with a predictable plot involving blackmail, attempted rape and murder. Loretta Young...
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1948
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After turning down several other Hollywood producers, playwright William Saroyan sold the film rights of his whimsical...
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Sidekick
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1948
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A man who dreams of seeing the future discovers the horrible burden that it can carry in this film noir suspense story....
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1948
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One of several low-budget mellers directed by scriptwriter Maxwell Shane, Fear in the Night was based on the short story...
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1947
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1947
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In this drama, a seductive woman uses her wiles upon both a traveling bank examiner and a manager to whom she is married....
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1946
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The moody mystery melodrama Nocturne was produced by longtime Alfred Hitchcock associate Joan Harrison. The film wastes no...
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1946
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1946
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1946
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Sidney Toler seems listless and barely awake throughout the intrigues of the Monogram "Charlie Chan" opus Shadows over...
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1946
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Abbott and Costello's The Naughty Nineties offers a million laughs and a nickel's worth of plot. Most of the film takes place...
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1945
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Radio legend and 3-D pioneer Arch Oboler brings his story, Alter Ego, to the screen in a low-budget yarn that benefits from a...
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1945
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There Goes Kelly is a followup of sorts to Monogram's 1943 comedy Here Comes Kelly, with Jackie Moran taking over for Eddie...
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1945
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1945
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One of the last of Universal's "pocket" musicals, Under Western Skies packs a surplus of entertainment value into its brief...
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1945
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Based on a play by Ruth Gordon, Over 21 represents the felicitous teaming of two middle-aged but attractive film favorites....
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1945
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This tender but fluffy romantic comedy centers on the romantic travails of a beautiful European princesss who goes to New...
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1945
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Let's Go Steady was Columbia's annual "audition" musical, spotlighting the studio's latest crop of young contractees. Cheated...
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1945
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The career girl in this PRC musical is Joan (Frances Langford), a Kansas City gal with showbiz aspirations. She heads to New...
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1944
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1944
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1944
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The sparkling screwball comedy And So They Were Married was originally released as Johnny Doesn't Live Here Any More....
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1944
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For their first film in a year, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello played it safe with a medley of old burlesque routines and...
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1944
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Reckless Age is a by-the-numbers Universal musical, elevated by the presence of perky songstress Gloria Jean. The star plays...
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1944
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To fully appreciate The More the Merrier, it is important to know that, during WW2, there was an acute housing shortage in...
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1943
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1943
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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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1942
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1942
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1942
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This musical -- a concoction of comedy, songs, dancing, and war-time patriotism mixed together with a spy spoof plot -- opens...
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1942
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Dr. Jim Kildare (Lew Ayres) plays Good Samaritan with potentially disastrous results in The People vs. Dr. Kildare. Happening...
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1941
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In this romance, a hospital nurse marries a West Point football hero. She soon gets pregnant, but this doesn't stop her from...
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1941
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Robert Taylor toughened up his image considerably with this gangster movie, which was unusual both in its plot and origins,...
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1941
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Another of Universal's Richard Arlen-Andy Devine actioners, Lucky Devils casts the mismatched duo as a pair of intrepid...
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1941
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A schoolteacher battles for women's rights in mid 19th century Wyoming. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1941
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Dr. Kildare's Crisis is actually one suffered by his fiancee, nurse Mary Lamont (Laraine Day). Mary's financier brother...
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1940
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The schizophrenic screenplay of The Earl of Chicago is rendered even more bizarre by the uneven performance by Robert...
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1940
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The sailor in this entertaining 20th Century-Fox programmer is Danny Malone (Jon Hall), while the lady is Sally Gilroy...
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1940
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1940
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MGM's third follow-up to its landmark Broadway Melody is short on story, but that's okay, since the plot is merely a...
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1940
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In this episode of the Higgins Family series, pandemonium ensues when Ma enters a dog biscuit contest. The prize is a...
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1940
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This domestic comedy is the final episode of the 17-film "Jones Family" series. The story begins as restless Father decides...
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1940
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An heiress gets a crash course in the simple life when she marries a penniless man in this comedy. Calvin Jordan (Henry...
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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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1939
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A model of precision and economy, the MGM "B" thriller Tell No Tales represented the feature-film directorial debut of former...
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1939
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Following up their successful film Love Affair, Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne team up again for the romantic melodrama When...
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1939
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In this comedy/drama, a feisty taxi-dancer (Lana Turner in her first starring role) takes on a sorority full of snooty...
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1939
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There's That Woman Again was the second and last entry in Columbia's own spin on MGM's "Thin Man" series. Virginia Bruce and...
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1938
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Inasmuch as diminutive Frankie Darro was Hollywood's foremost portrayer of jockeys, it should come as no surprise that Darro...
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Phyllis Reynolds
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1938
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1938
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Inasmuch as the film was based on a novel by Swedish author Sigrid Boo, Fox's Servant's Entrance is logically set in Sweden....
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1934
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1934
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In this musical, a Kansas City family despises their stepmother who selfishly moves them to New York so she can make her...
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Nellie
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1933
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When a patient dies of heart failure, society doctor Michael Travers (Lew Cody), takes an interest in her 14-year-old...
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1933
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I Have Lived takes place in a New York penthouse, a Broadway theater, and a seedy speakeasy, though not necessarily in that...
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1933
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Sing, Sinner, Sing is one of several 1930s films based on the notorious, well-publicized romance between nightclub singer...
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1933
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The charming and effervescent continental film star Lillian Harvey made her Hollywood debut in My Weakness. Borrowing a page...
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1933
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