This spoof makes fun of a certain famous German shepherd movie star from the 1920s. The mayhem begins when the head honcho...
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1976
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This crime drama is the fourth in Roger Corman's series of sexy "nurseploitation" films. Three curvaceous health care workers...
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1973
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In this episode from The Man from U.N.C.L.E. series, the two good guy spies must stop a criminal mastermind from altering the...
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1966
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Enrico Bacio (Anthony Caruso), tyrannical patriarch of a Sicilian-American clan, is convinced that a charming young scoundrel...
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1965
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In this beach movie, a group of teenagers hang out at the Silver Palms everyday after school. Because things can get quite...
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1964
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The Rat Pack packed it in after this sprightly musical comedy that owes more than it should to Damon Runyon's stories and...
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1964
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Damon Runyon's story "Little Miss Marker" gets a mid-'60s update in this comedy. Steve McCluskey (Tony Curtis) is the manager...
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1963
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Will Ballard (Rod Cameron) is the longtime foreman of the Hatcher ranch, a spread renowned for its size and the wealth it...
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1953
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When the continual bickering of a married couple threatens to tear them apart, an angel is sent to help them get back...
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1950
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James Hadley Chase's 1939 bestseller reached the screen for the first time -- which a lot of critics of the book would have...
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Slim Grisson
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1948
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In this drama set in the Canadian wilderness, Red North is a pilot who makes his living flying in and out of the bush...
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1947
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1947
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Gilbert Roland made his penultimate appearance as the Cisco Kid in Monogram's Robin Hood of Monterrey. Roland is joined in...
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1947
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Director Joseph Kane adapted his own story Diamond Carlisle for the screenplay of In Old Sacramento--the third film version...
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1946
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This fast-paced western, geared entirely to the small-fry, was the first in Republic Pictures' long-running "Red Ryder"...
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1946
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The first "Road" picture in three years (the last was The Road to Morocco), Road to Utopia is set during the Alaskan gold...
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1946
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Most of this Republic B-plus mystery yarn is set in a penthouse, next door to a music hall where a strange song-and-dance...
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1946
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1945
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In this crime comedy, a prominent judge's vacation is interrupted during a sudden storm that forces him to seek refuge in a...
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Bow Tie
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1945
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Canadian WW II pilot Gerard (Dick Powell) intends to track down and kill collaborationist Marcel Jarne, the man responsible...
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1945
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RKO Radio's first film in the three-color Technicolor process was the standard-issue swashbuckler The Spanish Main. Paul...
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1945
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While younger, handsomer actors were off fighting WW2, pudgy, middle-aged James Dunn suddenly found himself playing leading...
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Maletti
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1944
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1944
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PRC's Machine Gun Mama is the sort of comedy that tries to get laughs by invoking the name of Brooklyn. Wallace Ford and El...
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Jose
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1944
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No production unit at Paramount Pictures was busier in 1944 than the Pine-Thomas unit-and few were as bankable at the...
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Mike Zomano
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1944
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The East Side Kids are back in Follow the Leader, one of their most consistently funny outings. While on leave from the Army,...
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1944
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The Last Ride was also the last production to emanate from Warner Bros.' B-picture division. The plot involves the illicit...
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Joe Genna
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1944
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Mike Hallett (Barton MacLaine) is A Gentle Gangster in this satisfactory Republic programmer. A big shot during prohibition,...
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Hugo
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1943
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No relation to the 1935 Lon Chaney Jr. vehicle of the same name, Republic's A Scream in the Dark is based on...
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1943
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The world of boxing provides the framework for this romantic musical that tells the story of Baby and his manager who is...
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1943
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Lee Tracy once more plays a fast-talking, slightly amoral newspaper reporter in PRC's The Payoff. Tracy is cast as Brad...
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John Angus
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1943
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The second entry in Monogram's low-budget "Trail Blazers" B-Western series, The Law Rides Again marked the final directorial...
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Duke Dillon
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1943
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Two tuneful gamblers gambol across the country in a struggle for the money they need to run their respective casinos. It all...
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1943
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In their last starring film, The Ritz Brothers play the Three Funny Bunnies, a trio of nightclub comedians. The plot...
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Joey
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1943
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A playboy imprisoned for a bank robbery he didn't commit gets involved with a convict who's determined to make a daring...
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1943
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An amoral gambler tries to beat a murder rap by adopting an orphaned newsboy in this drama. He takes in the lad to show the...
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Taylor
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1943
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In this frothy musical, a sultan's lovely daughter finds herself courted by a handsome American. WW II erupts and her father...
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1943
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1943
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Originally slated for release through Paramount Pictures but ultimately distributed by United Artists, American Empire is a...
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1942
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In this drama, a wealthy playboy decides to "slum it" for a while to see how regular people live. Trouble ensues when he...
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1942
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One of the most often revived of Abbott & Costello's early-1940s films, Pardon My Sarong casts Bud and Lou as Chicago bus...
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1942
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This entry in the detective series follows Queen as he investigates the case of a woman's missing husband, a banker. As he...
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1942
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X Marks the Spot was the first of eight brisk wartime-oriented melodramas, each running slightly under an hour, produced and...
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Marty Clark
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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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Mickey Roma
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1941
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Hard Guy (British title: Professional Bride) stars singer Mary Healy (later of "Peter Lind Hayes and?" fame) as Julie, a...
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Vic
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1941
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Veteran screen menace Jack LaRue is the unlikely hero of Monogram's Gentleman From Dixie--and no one seems more surprised at...
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Thad Terrill
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1941
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Broke and stranded once more, golden-hearted showgirl Maisie Revere (Ann Sothern) finds herself in upstate New York in...
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1941
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Footsteps in the Dark is a comedy/mystery, starring Errol Flynn as a wealthy investment counselor who secretly doubles as a...
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1941
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Even those film buffs who derive pleasure from the output of poverty-row PRC Pictures are hard put to say anything nice about...
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Pete
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1941
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Charlie Chan in Panama was the first entry in the "Chan" series to capitalize on WW2. Sidney Toler stars as the wily oriental...
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1940
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In this drama, set in New York City, two brothers fight it out over a girl. The boys were raised by their Italian mother....
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1940
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In this espionage adventure, a courageous millworker must prove himself innocent of treason charges after the title spies...
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1940
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Originally released in England in 1938 as Murder in Soho, this moody melodrama was advertised in America as "The rapid-fire...
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Steve Marco
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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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An innocent young woman is accused of murder by her wicked stepmother. The poor lass ends up in prison. Fortunately, a...
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1940
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Good-ol' sheriff Holt is determined to prove that prisoners can be rehabilitated and released into society in this prison...
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1940
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1939
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As in all his early westerns, Roy Rogers battles true Old West outlaws in the fine In Old Caliente. He is, as usual, Roy...
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Delgado
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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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Mike Luger
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1939
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1938
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Veteran cinematographer Karl Brown also had several directorial efforts to his credit. Most were on a par with Monogram's...
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Ricardo
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1938
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1938
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This third film version of Peter B. Kyne's Valley of the Giants benefits from the breahtaking Technicolor location...
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1938
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Jack LaRue goes through his usual unsavory paces in the not-bad cheapie I Demand Payment. The film is one of several...
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Smiles Badolio
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1938
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Arson Gang Busters was a slick little Republic programmer highlighted by several well-staged miniature sequences, courtesy of...
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Morgan
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1938
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Hoping to ape the success of Sol Lesser's Bobby Breen musicals, Republic Pictures fashioned Dangerous Holiday as a movie...
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Got/enger
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1937
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Two brothers exchange lifestyles in this drama. The older brother, a gambler, wants to lead a clean, crime-free life while...
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1937
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In this western, a citified writer of pulp westerns decides to head into the West to experience it first hand....
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Killer Madden
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1937
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A boy learns life-changing lessons about the importance of friendship and the dignity of labor in this adventure saga based...
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1937
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In this adventure, a young man allows criminals to talk him into cracking a safe. He is caught and sent to prison. After...
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Charlie
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1937
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Though not the most versatile of actors, granite-jawed Jack Holt does just fine with a dual role in Columbia's...
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Drake
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1937
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In this drama, a Boy Scout leader hosts a local gossip show. Trouble ensues when he predicts a politician's murder just...
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Cruger
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1937
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Musical comedy star Eddie Cantor stars in this story, well suited to his talents, as Eddie Pink, a meek gentleman who works...
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1936
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The title may be Bridge of Sighs, but don't expect any location shots of Venice in this Invincible Studios cheapie. Heroine...
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Arny Norman
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1936
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1936
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Dancing Pirate was the second feature-length production by Pioneer Pictures, whose earlier effort Becky Sharp was the first...
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1936
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Playwright Greg Stone (Reginald Denny) spends most of his spare time at the theater where his latest effort is in rehearsals....
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Smiley
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1936
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From low-rent company Invincible comes this hardy survivor, a cheap-looking but fairly engrossing account of a convicted bank...
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1936
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Having peaked as a big-studio leading man, Conrad Nagel accepted a brief contract at cost-conscious Pacific Pictures in 1936....
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Al Perrelli
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1936
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In this western-style musical, a rakish gaucho rides off across the Argentine pampas to Buenos Aires in search of his stolen...
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1935
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In this rather black comedy, a nervous office worker goes to a local quack for a check up and learns that he has only three...
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Ferranza
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1935
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Venerable character actor Ferdinand Gottschalk dominates the proceedings in the Universal crime meller Secret of the Chateau....
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1935
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Richard Cromwell stars in Columbia's Men of the Hour as dedicated newsreel cameraman Dave Durkin. When Dave and his...
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Nick Thomas
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1935
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In this family comedy, the wealthy executive of a steel company must endure life with a strict, teetotaling wife, a wild...
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Larry Romero
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1935
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In this drama, a prominent Broadway producer's daughter inherits a fortune when her father dies. Included in the estate is a...
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1935
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In her first starring role, 18-year-old Ann Rutherford plays Joan, a singer in a cheap waterfront café. Gambling-ship...
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1935
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In the wake of Shirley Temple, every Hollywood studio scrambled to find a child star who might possibility match Temple's...
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Jack Dore
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1935
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In the wake of The Thin Man, every studio in Hollywood scrambled to churn out sophisticated mystery-comedies wherein murders...
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1935
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In this tuneful crime drama, a falsely convicted man escapes from prison and hides out with a comely chorine. She discovers...
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Mitch
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1935
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The second of eight low-budget versions of Peter B. Kyne short stories, Hot Off the Press starred Jack LaRue as Bill Jeffry,...
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1935
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1935
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Calling All Cars was the title of a popular radio anthology of the mid-1930s, broadcast exclusively on the West Coast. The...
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1935
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This typically lightning-paced Mascot Studios production stars Heather Angel as the title character, a thrill-seeking...
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Zarias
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1935
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Ellery Queen, the scholarly amateur detective created in 1928 by cousins Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee (who also used...
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1935
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The agent of the title is George Brent, a journalist sent by the Government to get the goods on a crime syndicate. Brent...
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Andrews
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1935
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After being framed in a warehouse robbery, a police officer goes undercover as a drunk in order to get the goods on the real...
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1934
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In this drama, two carneys, a card-sharp, and a peep-show performer, find themselves booted out of the show and decide to...
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Blush Brown
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1934
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Based on John Golden's stage play Four Walls, MGM's Straight is the Way offers the monumentally miscast Franchot Tone as...
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1934
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German actress Dorothea Wieck, who achieved international fame in Maedchen in Uniform, was given a brief shot at Hollywood...
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1934
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A story by Earl Derr Biggers, of Charlie Chan fame, was the springboard for the Monogram melodrama Take the Stand. An...
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1934
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Previously filmed in 1923, Zane Grey's To the Last Man manages to pack plenty of A-level production values into what was...
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Jim Daggs
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1933
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Headline Shooter is a brisk comedy/melodrama about a newsreel photographer (William Gargan). He prefers to risk his neck to...
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Ricci
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1933
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William Powell is a poor East Side lawyer who works his way up the ladder to assistant prosecutor. He isn't too particular...
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1933
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Often (and accurately) described as a model of the whodunit genre, The Kennel Murder Case stars William Powell, making his...
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1933
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A professional gambler masquerading as a businessman boards a train and sets off across the country. During the journey he...
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Pete Manning
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1933
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William Faulkner's novel Sanctuary was a notorious bestseller upon its publication in 1931, and while it was successful...
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Trigger
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1933
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In this suspenseful mystery, a murderous psychopath aboard a luxury liner begins a series of grisly but creative murders....
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1933
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1933
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1933
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A large urban hospital provides the setting for this drama. The staff there has seen it all and this is reflected in their...
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1933
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We first lay eyes on Jimmy Cagney in Lady Killer while he's working as a movie theater usher. This job lasts just long enough...
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1933
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The quintessential "backstage" musical, 42nd Street traces the history of a Broadway musical comedy, from casting call to...
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1933
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Night World is an astonishingly compact 57-minute extravaganza, all of which takes place at the upscale (but somewhat...
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1932
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The Priest
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1932
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The title Virtue should be a good tip-off that the central character is a step below virtuous. Carole Lombard, still not...
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Toots
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1932
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In this crime drama, an assistant DA must scramble to save the life of an innocent man he mistakenly sent to the chair....
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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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1932
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Warner Bros.' hard-hitting chain-gang movie was a faithful adaptation of the similarly titled autobiography of Robert Elliot...
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1932
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A star football player in college, Garry King (Richard Arlen) finds post-college life very different; he betrays the trust of...
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1932
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Blessed Event is one of several early-1930s films inspired by the meteoric rise to fame of gossip columnist Walter Winchell...
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1932
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1932
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The concept of radio patrol cars was still brand-spanking new when this fast-moving programmer came off the Universal...
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1932
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While Paris Sleeps is a grim expose of the European white slave trade. To save his daughter Manon (Helen Mack) from falling...
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Julot
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1932
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1930
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