Anxious to remain active in the 1950s, director Frank Capra wanted to prove to Paramount Pictures that he could deliver an...
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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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This full-blooded saga of the 19th century whaling industry stars Lionel Barrymore as tough old salt Captain Bering Joy and...
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1949
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Of the many film versions of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, this 1949 MGM adaptation is by far the prettiest. Set in New...
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1949
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Judge MacKenzie Meredith
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1949
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Eagle-Lion studios inaugurated its new "big budget" western policy with 1948's The Man From Texas. James Craig stars as the...
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1948
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In this drama, a poor young boy must choose between his divorcing parents. With the help of a kind judge, he tries to get...
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1948
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That Lady in Ermine tells two parallel stories, both taking place in the small Mittel-European duchy of Bergamo, but one set...
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1948
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Jeanette MacDonald made her first screen appearance in five years in the MGM confection Three Daring Daughters. Looking at...
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Dr. Cannon
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1948
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Deanna Durbin's career was clearly on the downswing when she starred in For the Love of Mary. Durbin plays a switchboard...
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1948
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Veterinarian Ronald Reagan contracts anthrax from treating diseased cows in this horsey melodrama from Warner Bros. In fact,...
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1947
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When Loretta Young stepped up to accept her Academy Award for The Farmer's Daughter, the ever-youthful leading lady, who'd...
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Dr. Matthew Sutven
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1947
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Judge Myrna Loy decides that the best way to curb the excesses of playboyish art teacher Cary Grant is to force him to do...
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1947
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A young girl is adopted into a small town family, but instead of finding happiness, she finds her life a living nightmare due...
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1947
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Fans of William "Wild Bill" Elliot vastly prefer his B westerns to his big-budget Republic "specials", though the latter...
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1947
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In this drama, two brothers from the North inherit a southern plantation and find themselves unwelcome by the locals. They...
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Maj. Denning
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1947
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1947
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Even if the film had been released without opening and closing titles, it wouldn't have been hard to identify Three Wise...
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1946
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In this romantic comedy, a soldier is granted a two-week furlough and returns home to discover that his girlfriend is...
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1946
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Jed Potter (Fred Astaire) is a popular radio personality who was once a famous dancer. He also used to be friends with Johnny...
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1946
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This is the one where Lassie plays a war veteran with amnesia. Actually Lassie isn't even Lassie, but a male collie named...
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Judge Payson
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1946
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Barbara Hale landed her first A-picture starring role in the engaging romantic comedy Lady Luck. Hale is cast as Mary Audrey,...
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1946
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You shouldn't be able to go wrong with a title like A Boy, a Girl, and a Dog, but this 51-minute cheapie comes perilously...
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Gramps
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1946
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Republic Pictures certainly didn't believe in obscure or misleading film titles, as G.I. War Brides amply proves. Ann Lee...
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Grandpa Giles
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1946
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Dr. Harry
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1946
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The Enchanted Forest concerns Old John (Harry Davenport), an elderly hermit who lives in a hollowed-out redwood tree, the...
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Old John
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1945
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1945
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In this wartime romance, two young newlyweds must reluctantly part when the young man is called to war. He spends the next...
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Judge Boller
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1945
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A middle-aged Clark Gable returned from active duty in World War II to star in this MGM release that was heavily advertised...
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1945
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Rosalind Russell plays yet another independent career woman in She Wouldn't Say Yes. This time she's a psychiatrist who sees...
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1945
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1945
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This fifth entry in MGM's off-and-on "Thin Man" series maintains the high production and story values of the first four. Per...
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Dr. Bertram Charles
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1944
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Oriental Dream is the TV title for the 1944 Technicolor version of Kismet. Ronald Colman plays Hadji, "king of beggars" in...
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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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Sally Benson's short stories about the turn-of-the-century Smith family of St. Louis were tackled by a battalion of MGM...
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1944
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Musical producer Joe Pasternak moved from Universal to MGM in the early 1940s, taking his pet director Henry Koster (the two...
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1944
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Produced on behalf of the U.S. government, December 7th is just as slick and professional as any of director John Ford's...
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1943
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1943
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Making her first film appearance since 1941, Deanna Durbin plays the title role in The Amazing Mrs. Holliday. Truth to tell,...
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Commodore
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1943
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Olivia De Havilland hadn't wanted to star in RKO's Government Girl, but was forced to do so by her home studio Warner Bros....
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1943
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This is a restored, 82-minute version of 1943's December 7th, originally commissioned by the U.S. Navy to document the events...
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Mr. Conscience
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1943
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In this drama, set at a WW II munitions plant, the lives of five workers are chronicled. Their stories are told via...
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1943
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This patriotic WW II-era bit of anti-Japanese propaganda centers on a white Texas college student who becomes such good...
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1943
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A princess finds love with a regular American Joe in this patriotic romantic comedy. A European diplomat (Charles Coburn) is...
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1943
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This ambitious filmed biography of writer-adventurer Jack London is somewhat compromised by its too-tight budget....
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Prof. Hilliard
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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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Doc Herndon
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1943
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This historical drama tells the story of the first class to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. In the...
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1942
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Ray Middleton portrays the title character in Republic's Hurricane Smith. Mistakenly arrested on a holdup charge, Smith...
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Robert Ingersoll Reed
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1942
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Tales of Manhattan is a sumptuous multipart film centered around a formal tailcoat. The coat is specially designed for stage...
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1942
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This parody of gangster flicks centers on an incarcerated gangster who decides to reform after he is released from Sing...
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1942
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1942
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A seemingly quiet Midwestern town is the hiding place for a number of sordid secrets in this melodrama based on Henry...
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1941
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Three disparate young men struggle to become Army Air Corps pilots in this rousing drama that earned an Oscar for its...
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1941
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The first of director Frank Capra's independent productions (in partnership with Robert Riskin), Meet John Doe begins with...
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1941
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Ernst Lubitsch's That Uncertain Feeling was previously filmed by the director in 1925 as Kiss Me Again; both versions were...
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1941
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Neither James Cagney nor Bette Davis were particularly pleased with the outdated screwball comedy The Bride Came C.O.D., but...
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1941
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Author Hartzell Spence's popular biography of his preacher father was the source for One Foot in Heaven. Fredric March stars...
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1941
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Edward G. Robinson portrays real-life German medical researcher Paul Erlich, the man who discovered and perfected "Formula...
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1940
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The W. Somerset Maugham play Home and Beauty was successful Americanized as Too Many Husbands (British title: My Two...
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George
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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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Fourteen scriptwriters spent five years toiling over a movie adaptation of war correspondent Vincent Sheehan's...
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1940
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Lewis Milestone directs the lightweight romantic comedy Lucky Partners, based on a story by Sacha Guitry. David Grant (Ronald...
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1940
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Venerable character actor Harry Davenport (best remembered as Dr. Meade in Gone with the Wind) takes center stage in the...
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Grandpa
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1940
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Though one would never know it, the bucolic comedy-mystery Granny Get Your Gun was based on one of Erle Stanley Gardner's...
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Nate
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1940
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Earl of Puddlestone was released minus a director credit out of respect for megger Gus Meins, who committed suicide shortly...
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Grandpa
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1940
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An incredibly long but never dull adaptation of the Rachel Field best-seller, All This and Heaven Too was based on a...
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1940
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Gone With the Wind boils down to a story about a spoiled Southern girl's hopeless love for a married man. Producer...
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1939
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This comedy chronicles the further exploits of the hilarious "Higgins Family." In this entry, the father eagerly awaits a...
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Grandpa Higgins
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1939
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Exile Express was the last film produced by Grand National Pictures, and a worthy farewell it was. Anna Sten, former Sam...
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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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In this entry in the comedy series the "Higgins Family," the group must cancel a cruise to South America after the check...
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Grandpa
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1939
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1939
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1939
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This fictionalized biography of the famed American inventor's life provided actor Don Ameche with his signature role. For...
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1939
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Juarez was originally designed to concentrate almost exclusively on the tragedy of Hapsburg Emperor Maximillian, whose...
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1939
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Henry Sharon
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1939
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My Wife's Relatives is an easy-to-take entry in Republic's "Higgins Family" series. It all begins when Joe Higgins (James...
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1939
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In this drama, an young, orphaned heir is dismayed to discover that his inheritance will no longer cover the tuition and...
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Doc Ramsey
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1939
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The exploits of female pilots are followed in this high-flying drama. These women are extremely competitive and will stop at...
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1939
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This late-30s gem is an engaging spoof that features the U.S. film debut of the French acting beauty Daniell Darrieux. She...
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1938
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With The Higgins Family, Republic Pictures launched its own economical variation on MGM's popular "Andy Hardy" series. The...
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Grandpa
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1938
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M.G.M.'s opulent costume drama Marie Antoinette marked a return to the screen after a two-year absence for reigning Queen of...
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1938
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1938
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Michael Curtiz directs this Technicolor Western based on the familiar story by Clements Ripley about the rivalry between...
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1938
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Fifteen thousand dollars may have been a fortune back in 1938, but to high-powered literary agent Lynn Conway...
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Uncle Dawson
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1938
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After an eccentric young woman (Merle Oberon) is left on her father's estate to keep her from spoiling his Presidential bid,...
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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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1938
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In this romance, a wealthy heiress decides that she wants a man who loves her for herself and not for her money. She finds...
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Cannon
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1938
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1938
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Joel Bentham
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1938
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In the tradition of such earlier Universal serials as Flash Gordon and Jungle Jim, the 12-chapter Radio Patrol was based on a...
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1937
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Jed Carson
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1937
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Director James Whale, well known for his witty horror films, tackled comedy head-on in this period piece, set in the 18th...
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1937
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A young wife butts head with her beautiful best friend after her husband hires the latter to be his personal secretary and...
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1937
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In this romantic comedy, a rookie reporter works for his uncle's newspaper and gets assigned to write a story about an...
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Archduke Julio
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1937
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In this depressing drama, even though she is an adult, the eldest daughter of a hillbilly clan headed by a brutal patriarch...
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1937
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The second of Paul Muni's biographical films for Warner Bros., the Oscar-winning The Life of Emile Zola is by far the best,...
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1937
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Based on a popular novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams, this screwball comedy stars Errol Flynn in the title-role, the heir to an...
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1937
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Based on the 1935 Broadway play by George S. Kaufman and Katharine Dayton, First Lady is not, as might be assumed, the story...
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1937
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Pap Craig
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1937
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In this anti-Japanese WW II propaganda film, Japanese invaders attempt to raid Alaska and are totally obliterated. The...
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Clem Adams
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1937
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For a studio specializing in glossy soap operas, costume pictures and musicals, MGM made an inordinate number of "B"-grade...
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1937
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In this satire, an electrician from a tiny town impresses a New York radio sponsor with his booming baritone singing voice....
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1937
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1937
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This hard-hitting Warner Bros. courtroom drama begins with the usual "Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is...
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1937
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1937
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Less than a week after the press preview of his second starring feature Man in Blue, Robert Wilcox was seen on-screen in his...
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1937
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This is the second entry in the Torch Blane reporter series. In this episode, ace reporter Torchy, wanting to impress her...
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1937
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King of Hockey was one of three low-budget hockey films released during the 1936-37 season, each one produced by a different...
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1936
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1936
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Legion of Terror was the first in a cycle of "exposé" films inspired by the upsurge in such hate groups as the KKK, the...
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1936
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Warner Bros.' "Perry Mason" series quietly slipped from the "A" to the "B" category with this adaptation of...
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1936
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Four Days Wonder is adapted from the A. A. Milne novel of the same name. New Universal contractee Jeanne Dante stars as...
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1936
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This modern "Flying Dutchman" story stars actor/playwright Noel Coward as a class-A heel. Coward uses his position as a...
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1935
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1933
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In all three of her 1931-32 movie vehicles, Tallulah Bankhead played variations of that familiar soap opera standby, the...
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Roger Metcalf
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1931
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In this drama, a remake of Sal of Singapore(1929), the captain of a freighter becomes an instant father when his crew rescues...
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1931
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Elisha Cook Jr. made his screen debut in this early exploitation talkie from De Forest Phonofilm. Cook and Pauline Drake...
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1930
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Director
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1917
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If the name "Tillie" appears in the title and the film is made in the latter half of the 1910s, it's a sure bet that...
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Director
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1917
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This Northwoods drama stars Ruth Sinclair and Irving Cummings. Ruth (Sinclair) is an orphan who lives with her foster-father,...
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1917
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After his wife has run off with another man, New Yorker Bide Bennington (Lionel Barrymore) decides to stay in Europe. After...
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Director
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1917
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Antonio Moreno stars in this wooden Vitagraph drama as Sandy Morley, a young man from the South who can no longer stand...
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Director
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1917
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Alice Brady plays a farm girl who marries the son of her next-door neighbor. Her dreams of a gay social whirl are shattered...
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Director
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1917
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Director
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1915
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Although this brutal story of the sea was not written by Jack London, it clearly was inspired by the author's books. Captain...
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Director
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1915
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