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1964
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With Five Weeks in a Balloon, 20th Century-Fox hoped to cash on the success of the studio's earlier Jules Verne adaptation...
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1962
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This uneven farce by director Richard Quine has its hilarious and witty moments as American diplomat William Gridley...
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1962
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In flashback, Sgt. Saunders (Vic Morrow), Lt. Hanley (Rick Jason) and the men of King Company recall the events surrounding...
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1962
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1962
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Dana Andrews is ad-man Clint Lorimer in this uneven drama, the last feature film by director Bruce Humberstone, released...
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1962
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This colorful remake of the 1935 version again concerns the crew and treatment of the HMS Bounty by a cold hearted sadistic...
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1962
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Walter Pidgeon is the nominal star of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, portraying Admiral Harriman Nelson, the designer of...
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1961
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Michael Curtiz's The Comancheros was a deceptively complex movie -- so enjoyable, that it masked some of the best character...
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1961
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In the third episode of Walt Disney's eight-part miniseries The Swamp Fox, Revolutionary War hero Francis Marion...
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1960
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In the fifth episode of Walt Disney's eight-part miniseries The Swamp Fox, the guerilla forces under the leadership of...
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1960
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In the fourth episode of Walt Disney's eight-part miniseries The Swamp Fox, Continental Army guerilla leader Francis Marion...
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1960
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Maverick launches its third season with one of the series' best and most fondly remembered episodes, in which James Garner...
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1959
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An angry head-shrinker (not a psychiatrist) puts a curse upon a family of white traders in this well-wrought low-budget...
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Dr. Zurich
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1959
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1958
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For its time, The Sun Also Rises was a reasonably frank and faithful adaptation of the 1926 Ernest Hemingway novel. Its main...
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1957
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1957
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Future "Master of Disaster" Irwin Allen produced this curious but inarguably fascinating adaptation of...
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1957
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Mister Cory represented the first of several successful collaborations between star Tony Curtis and director Blake Edwards....
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1957
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Having just recovered from a heart attack, fabled British barrister Sir Wilfred Robards (Charles Laughton) has been ordered...
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1957
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This meticulous and unusually long cinemadaptation of Sloan Wilson's best-selling novel The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit...
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1956
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This filmed biography of Vincent Van Gogh was adapted by Norman Corwin from the best-selling novel by Irving Stone, which was...
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1956
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Irregularly scheduled on NBC from 1954 through 1957, Producers' Showcase was a series of lavish, full-color 90 minute...
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1956
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Lana Turner stars as Diane in this opulent costume drama. Set in 16th century France, the film finds the gorgeous Diane de...
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1955
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One critic has noted that The Prodigal was aptly titled, inasmuch as it was all too prodigal with the funds of the...
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1955
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Based on the novel by Mika Waltari and helmed by Casablanca director Michael Curtiz, The Egyptian, a lavish period soaper,...
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1954
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1951
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The Buccaneer's Girl of the title, played by Yvonne de Carlo, is Deborah McCoy, an entertainer who's been around a bit. While...
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1950
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Long before he became a highly respected Wall Street financial adviser, Richard Ney was a minor-league film star. In Secret...
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Maj. Edward Chevenish
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1949
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This unusual, dreamlike John Wayne vehicle is set in the East Indies. The focus of the film is the deadly rivalry between two...
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1949
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Siren of Atlantis is the third movie version of Pierre Benoit's fantasy novel L'Atlantide, first film in 1921. Jean-Pierre...
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Blades
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1948
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Douglas Fairbanks Jr. is the title character, a young king exiled by evil conspirators. Forced to live far from his homeland,...
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1947
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Song of Love is the MGM-ified version of the lives and loves of 19th century musicians Clara Wieck Schumann (Katharine...
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Franz Liszt
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1947
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The Technicolor swashbuckler Bandit of Sherwood Forest stars Cornel Wilde as Robert of Nottingham, son of the legendary Robin...
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The Regent
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1946
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Prof. Moriarty
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1945
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Vicki Baum, the author of the novel Grand Hotel, also wrote this similarly structured tale about a group of disparate...
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1945
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It's every man for himself when Charles Laughton bites into the role of infamous 17th century pirate captain William Kidd....
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1945
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1945
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Dr. Wolfe "Toddy" MacFarlane
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1945
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Brockelhurst
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1944
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Mr. Simmons
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1944
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More so than most wartime films, Mission to Moscow must be viewed within the context of its times. Requested by President...
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1943
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An expansion of, and improvement upon, Lillian Hellman's stage play of the same name, Watch on the Rhine stars Paul Lukas,...
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1943
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One of the silliest and most unbelievable of the Universal Sherlock Holmes series, Sherlock Holmes in Washington is also...
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William Easter
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1943
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Capt. Stafford
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1942
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From the first frame of its opening credits, Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror promises (and subsequently delivers)...
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1942
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This final entry in 20th Century-Fox's "Charlie Chan" series is set in a huge mansion, smack-dab in the middle of the Mojave...
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Watson King
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1942
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At the close of World War I, shell-shocked amnesia victim Ronald Colman is sequestered in a London sanitarium; with no...
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1942
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This espionage drama, a remake of the 1935 original, set in WW II, follows the exploits of an Englishman who kills his...
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1942
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Better known as Reunion in France, this women's-magazine-style romantic melodrama was the first major production for director...
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1942
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An expert cast of farceurs goes through its customary paces in MGM's The Feminine Touch. Don Ameche plays college...
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1941
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A remake of the Swedish film of the same name (see entry 55092), MGM's A Woman's Face was reshaped into one of Joan...
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1941
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This quickie RKO musical is the second retread of Street Girl (1929); the 1937 musical That Girl from Paris was the first...
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1941
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The fourth of 20th Century-Fox's "Michael Shayne" mysteries finds private detective Shayne (Lloyd Nolan) anxiously preparing...
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1941
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We open on Philadelphia socialite C.K. Dexter Haven (Cary Grant) as he's being tossed out of his palatial home by his wife,...
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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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In the 1580s, the Sea Hawks -- the name given to the bold privateers who prowl the oceans taking ships and treasure on behalf...
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1940
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"This is the story of the period between two world wars--an interim during which insanity cut loose, liberty took a nose...
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Garbitsch
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1940
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It is no secret that Bette Davis and Errol Flynn were at each other's throats throughout the filming of The Private Lives of...
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1939
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A violin-playing British doctor's life changes forever after he takes in a distraught Austrian ballerina who tries to kill...
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1939
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Both film versions of Phillip Barry's stage comedy Holiday have their merits, but the 1938 version has the added advantage of...
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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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Sam Wood directed this fourth version of the Alexandre Bisson weeper, buffed to a high gloss by shimmering M.G.M. production...
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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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Prof. Marvin Griswald
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1937
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Gen. Savary
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1937
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The 1937 Thirteenth Chair was the third film version of the 1919 stage melodrama by Bayard Veiller. Dame Mae Whitty dominates...
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1937
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Greta Garbo enjoyed one of her greatest triumphs in this glossy adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' oft-filmed romantic tragedy....
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1936
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The Unguarded Hour opens with prosecutor Sir Alan Deardon (Franchot Tone) in the midst of a murder trial. He gets his...
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1936
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In this satire, two mythical countries decide to bolster their flagging economies by declaring war on each other. The...
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1934
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In this entry in the Lone Wolf series, the first to have a soundtrack, the jealousies of the King and the coquettish Queen...
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1930
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1929
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The brilliant (and ultimately tragic) Broadway actress Jeanne Eagels made her second and last talking-picture appearance in...
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Clement
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1929
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