Bill (Brian Keith) grimly assumes all responsibility when a bridge on which he was working collapses, costing millions of...
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1969
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1968
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The most interesting aspect of The Swinger is the name of the character played by Ann-Margret: the former Ann Margaret Olsson...
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Detective Sgt. Hooker
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1966
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1963
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Back on the job during the fourth and final season of the gritty New York-filmed cop drama Naked City are series regulars...
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Lt. Mike Parker
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1962
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Greenwich Village poet Duncan Kleist (Burgess Meredith) goes on a violent rampage early one morning, accosting people he...
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1962
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Scoring a significant success in its new hour-long format, the gritty cop drama Naked City entered its third season on ABC....
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Lt. Mike Parker
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1961
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Scriptwriter Rod Serling had intended the June 3, 1960, Twilight Zone episode as the pilot for a TV series starring...
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Bartender
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1960
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Off the air since its cancellation in the fall of 1959, the location-filmed cop drama Naked City returned to ABC's prime-time...
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Lt. Mike Parker
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1960
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Only one of three films directed by screenwriter Charles Lederer, known for movies as disparate as The Thing (1951) and...
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1959
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"There are eight million stories in The Naked City...This has been one of them." These words were intoned by producer...
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Lt. Mike Parker
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1958
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The location-filmed cop drama Naked City was seen in a half-hour format during its inaugural season, which originally ran on...
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Lt. Mike Parker
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1958
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New York City is known for choosing colorful characters for its mayors. One its most illustrious was the wisecracking,...
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1957
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Jerry Lewis' first solo effort was also his first headlong plunge into pathos. The Delicate Delinquent stars Jerry as...
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Capt. Riley
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1956
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Claudette Colbert makes a long-overdue entree into the Western genre in Texas Lady. Looking at least a decade younger than...
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Stringy Winfield
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1956
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My Sister Eileen is a Technicolor, musicalized remake of the 1942 comedy of the same name. It is not, however, the film...
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1955
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In this gritty urban drama, war veteran Richard Dadier (Glenn Ford) wants to begin his career as a teacher and is given an...
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1955
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Susan Slept Here is the only feature film in Hollywood history ever to be narrated by an Academy Award. After introducing...
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1954
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Duffy of San Quentin is an Allied Artists low-budgeter based on the life of the warden who first introduced reforms in the...
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1954
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In this musical comedy, a young woman inherits a race horse. She wants to race it but encounters difficulty with its trainer...
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1953
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They don't really go to Mars, they go to Venus, but first they go to New Orleans. While working at a missile base,...
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Mugsy
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1953
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Arnie
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1953
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Based on William Fay's short story The Disappearance of Dolan, Champ for a Day stars Alex Nicol as young pugilist George...
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1953
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Sidney Kingsley's Broadway play Detective Story was praised for its realistic view of an event-filled day in a single police...
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1951
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In this whimsical fantasy, a young girl suddenly discovers that her horse is really a reincarnation of her beloved uncle who...
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1948
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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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Joe Palooka, Ham Fisher's famed comic-strip fighter, risks his life to clear the name of his manager in this series entry....
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1948
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The Pine-Thomas action/adventure assembly line put together another winner with Waterfront at Midnight. Hoping to put the...
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1948
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This film is not only a revealing glimpse into the workings of the O.S.S. (Office of Strategic Services) during WW II, but it...
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1946
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Nostalgic and sweet, this tuneful comedy centers on a mother's reminiscence of her wild time as a 1920s teenage flapper....
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1946
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Melodramatic gangster action characterizes this tough and freely fictionalized biography of notorious, murderous Chicago...
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1944
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Timber Queen is another of Pine-Thomas' rugged low-budget adventure films of the 1940s, most of which (like this one) starred...
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1944
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In this musical, a convict finds his life calling after a prison show is staged and he discovers a talent for stage...
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1942
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Rather shaky as history, Birth of the Blues delivers the goods in terms of entertainment, thanks to the unbeatable star...
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1941
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Hoping to cash in on the success of Universal's Buck Privates, Republic Pictures hastily commissioned an imitation, Rookies...
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1941
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James Stewart's last Hollywood film before entering military service, Come Live with Me teams Stewart with the hauntingly...
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1941
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A partial remake of 1936's Wanted: Jane Turner, Lady Scarface is a seedy but entertaining tour de force for the great...
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1941
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In this comedy, a mob of gangsters find themselves in charge of a nursery. The crime boss finds he likes the idea and...
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1941
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A gangster and his mob buy a small-town in this warm comedy. They, tired of trying to make it as big city hoods, buy the...
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1941
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The 1940 peacetime draft spawned a whole slew of military and naval comedies, the most successful of which was Abbott and...
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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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In this crime drama, a young man becomes a criminal lawyer after witnessing the police shooting of his father, a thief. Most...
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1940
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Universal Studios had their "B" musicals down to a science in the 1940s. All that was needed was a cast of talented...
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1940
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This fourth entry in MGM's "Dr. Kildare" series once again stars Lew Ayres as Kildare, Laraine Day as his sweetheart Mary...
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1940
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Beautifully restored to its original theatrical length of 84 minutes by the Gene Autry Foundation, Melody Ranch is a bright,...
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1940
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In this boxing drama, the trouble begins when a fight breaks out at a local gym. When a boxing promoter sees that Dick, who...
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1940
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This upbeat domestic drama chronicles the struggles of a newlywed couple as they try to keep their marital status secret from...
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1940
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In this musical comedy, a traveling salesman gets mixed up with a bratty heiress after she gets in a car wreck as she heads...
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1940
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Margie is one of the fast and funniest of Universal's pocket musicals, though its two-director dichotomy hardly seems...
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1940
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The physically challenged bride of the title is played by Lynne Roberts, but it's reporter Ted North who's the film's true...
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1940
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The title of Millionaires in Prison (which begs for the rejoinder "about time!") pertains to four individuals. Two of the...
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1940
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Set in the Central American jungle, Lucille Ball plays plantation owner Joan Grant in The Marines Fly High. When a platoon of...
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1940
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Leo McCarey was supposed to both produce and direct My Favorite Wife, but an illness forced him to relinquish the director's...
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1940
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This prison film features an inventive escape from Alcatraz. They do it by planning a phony wedding in a prison chapel. The...
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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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Ginger Rogers slipped off her dancing shoes to play one of her best comic roles as Polly Parish, a salesgirl at a large...
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1939
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The "Little Tough Guys" get involved in a circulation war between a paper with underhanded tactics and a paper being...
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1939
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A longtime fan of comedians George Burns and Gracie Allen, "Philo Vance" creator S. S. Van Dyne wrote a tailor-made...
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1939
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1939
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In this entry in the "Jones Family" comedy series, the Jones have just arrived from a Hollywood vacation when they receive a...
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1939
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In this drama, a waitress leaves her husband after getting sick of being alone while her husband, a commercial pilot, plies...
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1939
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A disruptive Annapolis naval cadet refuses to tow the line and so gets booted out of the prestigious academy. Later, he...
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1939
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District attorney Walter Pidgeon pursues the conviction of criminals so diligently that word has gone out in the state prison...
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1939
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Lucille Ball plays young starlet Sandra Sand in That's Right -- You're Wrong, the 1939 musical comedy directed by...
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1939
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This barely-disguised portrait of singer Fanny Brice led to Brice's lawsuit against 20th Century Fox for defamation of...
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1939
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To dim-bulb accountants find themselves working for a bookie in this comedy. Their jobs and their lives are placed in...
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1939
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It was once said of actor Barton MacLane that he never spoke when shouting would do. Cast as the title character in Big Town...
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1939
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In this interesting drama, a highly respected straight-arrow Irish cop is pleased when his son follows him onto the force....
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1939
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In this crime drama a wealthy business tycoon serves a sentence for tax fraud. While there he becomes good friends with his...
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1939
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This comedy is set in New York and centers upon a singing Irish cop who causes quite a sensation among two producers when he...
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1939
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In this patriotic wartime drama set during WW II, a test plane crashes killing all aboard and causes the locals to accuse...
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1939
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In this drama, a young man aspires to a life of wealth and power in the newspaper business. Unfortunately, it takes time and...
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1938
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The slick Universal programmer Secrets of a Nurse was based on a Collier's Magazine story by distinguished journalist Quentin...
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1938
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When Marie Dressler died in 1934, the career of her frequent screen partner Polly Moran went into eclipse. Four years later,...
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1938
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In this drama, a 12-year-old boy becomes an orphan after seeing a detective shoot his father. Later the detective feels bad...
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1938
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I Am the Law is arguably the best of the late-1930s films inspired by the racket-busting career of New York district attorney...
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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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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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Broadway Musketeers is a remake of the 1932 Warner Bros. drama Three on a Match, with numerous concessions made to the now...
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1938
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When G-Men Step In is Columbia's spin on Paramount's "FBI" B-picture series. On this occasion, the feds are after a gang of...
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1938
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In this crime drama, a young couple decides to rob the bank where the woman works as a teller. They get 100,000 dollars and...
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1937
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Marked Woman was the most famous of the late-1930s films based on New York DA Thomas Dewey's attack on vice lord Lucky...
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1937
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Coincidentally, Warner Bros. contractee Jane Wyman made her starring debut in the same year as her husband-to-be...
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1937
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1937
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A tough sailor bets his pals that he can win the love of a prissy librarian and so masquerades as a candidate for the Naval...
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1937
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Fight manager Nick Donati (Edward G. Robinson) has just lost his best fighter to crooked promoter Turkey Morgan...
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1937
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Girl with Ideas was Universal Pictures' version of MGM's matchless Libeled Lady. Wendy Barrie plays a society girl miffed at...
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1937
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Edward G. Robinson offers an excellent turn as a crime lord obsessed with the welfare of his son in this melodramatic crime...
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1937
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Truck driver Spencer Tracy claims he's "too lazy to work and too nervous to steal", but he gets mixed up in racketeering all...
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1931
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