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Jun. 11, 2009 7:26 AM ET (AP)
Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Walter Brooke
Synopsis: Pulp novelist Tobias Finch (Walter Brooke) wants to write "The Saga of the Courageous Cartwrights"-but the courageous Cartwrights want no part of such an exploitive project. Undaunted, Finch decides to pen the life story of over-the-hill lawman Reed Laramore (Bruce Cabot), who revels in being Read More
Synopsis: Woodrow Parfrey guest stars as Bob Wire, a likeable eccentric who decides to capitalize on his given name by becoming a barbed-wire salesman. Unfortunately, there is an abundance of open-range advocates who don't want the territory to be fenced in, and they intend to kill anybody who even mentions Read More
Actors: Richard Chamberlain, Joey Heatherton, Nick Adams, Claude Rains, Joan Blackman
Synopsis: Former TV leading man Richard Chamberlain plays a young lawyer about to take on an important murder case. He is shepherded through this big break by veteran attorney Claude Rains. The client is the disreputable Nick Adams, who seems determined to sabotage his own case. But a last-minute scrap of Read More
Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Jack Betts
Synopsis: Eleven of the twelve jurors in the murder trial of Jamie Wrenn (Jack Betts) have voted for a guilty verdict. The sole holdout is Hoss Cartwright, who harbors the old familiar "reasonable doubts." When it appears as though Hoss has received a bribe, his brother Adam takes a hand in the matter. Also Read More
Actors: Audie Murphy, John Saxon, Zohra Lampert, Vic Morrow, Robert Keith
Synopsis: Audie Murphy plays a gunslinger put in charge of a posse. His quarry is a four-man bandit gang that has robbed the local bank, killed several citizens and abducted leading lady Zohra Lampert. Though Lampert is obviously a New York-based actress, it is John Saxon who plays the tenderfoot Read More
Actors: Diane McBain, Arthur Kennedy, Constance Ford, Claude Akins
Synopsis: In this sleazy melodrama a defiant Southern farm girl marries a poor dirt farmer instead of the wealthy landowner her mother picked out. After her new husband is drafted and leaves, the girl descends into a life of cheap thrills, moving from man to man. She is beautiful and the men fight over her Read More
Synopsis: It looks as if Karen Lewis (Pat Breslin), a minor employee of lipstick manufacturer Silas Vance (James Bell), has been caught red-handed as an industrial spy when a bank book containing two huge deposits and a rival manufacturer's phone number is found in her desk. Her boss accuses Karen of Read More
Synopsis: Burt Reynolds appears in this episode as truck driver Bill Davis, who with his brother Andy is piloting a huge tanker through the desert. When the road is blocked by a stalled car, Bill and Andy climb out of their truck to offer assistance. The disabled auto turns out to be owned by a pair of Read More
Synopsis: Widow Carol Taylor (Rebecca Welles) hires Perry (Raymond Burr) to prove that her late husband didn't steal $130,000 before his death in a plane crash. As it turns out, Carol will need Perry more than she imagined: when Howard Walters (Simon Oakland) turns up murdered, Carol is arrested for the Read More
Synopsis: Wealthy Morgan Gibbs (Robert F. Simon) hires Paladin (Richard Boone) to locate Gibbs' son David (Bud Slater), a fugitive from justice, and bring him back alive. Shortly thereafter, Paladin returns with David's dead body in tow. Accused of murdering the boy in order to collect a $500 body, Paladin Read More
Synopsis: It's late Thursday night at the local paper and a savvy city editor, a world-weary but upright writer, and a beleagured copy boy prepare to put the next day's paper to bed. Suddenly two stories come over the wire. In the first, a young girl has gotten lost in the city's storm drains, and her life Read More
Actors: Fred MacMurray, William Bishop, Nina Shipman, Gloria Talbott, Henry Hull
Synopsis: As the Oregon Territory prepares to welcome settlers in 1846, wagons traveling the Oregon trail face increasing hostility from the Native Americans who have vowed to protect their land. Dispatched to investigate rumors that President Polk is sending troops to the Oregon Territory disguised as Read More
Actors: Robert Wagner, Dana Wynter, Jeffrey Hunter, Hope Lange, Bradford Dillman
Synopsis: Based on the Anton Myrer novel The Big War, In Love and War is an entertaining showcase for several of 20th Century-Fox's younger contract players. Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter and Bradford Dillman plays three young San Francisco residents who sign up for the Marines at the outbreak of WW2. The Read More
Synopsis: Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) is intrigued when he receives a $2500 check from one Lucille Allred (Anna Lee), with no explanation why. Contacting Lucille's husband Bernard (Neil Hamilton), Perry is told that the woman has run off with another man. The situation becomes even more vexing when Bernard Read More
Synopsis: Harriet Bain (Virginia Vincent) is accused of murdering J.J. Stanley (James Bell), the man who had embezzled a huge sum of money from the Texas National Bank in collaboration with Harriet's father Ned (Carl Benton Reid). It seems that, just before his death, Stanley had approached Ned and Read More
Actors: Ethel Barrymore, Cecil Kellaway, Carolyn Jones, Jesse White, Rand Harper
Synopsis: In this gentle, non-melodramatic drama, an elderly, wealthy widow will not leave her apartment even after her building is slated to be converted into a dormitory by the university that purchased it. She refuses to leave because she is convinced that her son, who disappeared 27 years before after Read More
Actors: Henry Fonda, Anthony Perkins, Betsy Palmer, Michael Ray, Neville Brand, Lee Van Cleef
Synopsis: Taciturn marshal-turned-bounty hunter Henry Fonda rides into a small town where greenhorn deputy Anthony Perkins is sole representative of the law. Sensing that the boy could use some seasoning, Fonda makes it his mission to teach Perkins how to protect himself against the criminal element. Though Read More
Actors: Jack Palance, Anthony Perkins, Neville Brand, Robert Middleton, Elisha Cook, Jr.
Synopsis: Based on a 1941 movie entitled Shepherd of the Hills, this is the story of a gunfighter who decides to return home after 17 years to make amends with his son. The son blames him for his mother's death and the reconciliation is difficult. Although there are many side action lines -- old enemies Read More
Actors: Peggie Castle, Arthur Franz, Marsha Hunt, Don Haggerty, Marianne Stewart
Synopsis: In this routine possession potboiler, Peggie Castle plays a suburban housewife being slowly driven mad by the intrusive, restless spirit of her husband's first wife, whose soul has been tainted by her participation in a Satanic cult headed by high priest Father Renall (Otto Reichow). The woman's Read More
Actors: Claudette Colbert, Barry Sullivan, Ray Collins, John Litel, James Bell, Horace McMahon
Synopsis: Claudette Colbert makes a long-overdue entree into the Western genre in Texas Lady. Looking at least a decade younger than her 50 years, Ms. Colbert plays Prudence Webb, who arrives in the wide-open town of Fort Ralston, Texas, to assume control of her late father's newspaper. Her first major Read More
Actors: Dale Robertson, Mara Corday, Jock Mahoney, Jan Merlin
Synopsis: A Day Of Fury stars Jock Mahoney as town marshal Alan Burnett, whose life is saved by a stranger he meets on the trail. His rescuer turns out to be Jagade (Dale Robertson), a gunslinger just returned after years away, who finds when he gets into town that he can't abide the peace that has been Read More
Actors: George Nader, Julie Adams, Sydney Chaplin, Marianne Cook, Elsa Martinelli, Gia Scala, Helene Stanton
Synopsis: Four Girls in Town is essentially an excuse by Universal-International to test out several of their newer contractees. The plot is motivated by a worldwide movie talent hunt, which naturally arouses the attentions of a bevy of pretty young aspiring actresses. The four girls of the title are Kathy Read More
Actors: George Montgomery, Mona Freeman, John Baer, James Bell
Synopsis: Adapted by Stirling Silliphant from his own novel, Huk was filmed on location in the Philippines. George Montgomery heads the cast as a plantation owner who struggles to fend off native insurrectionists (the "Huks" of the title). He is aided in this effort by fellow planter John Baer, whose wife Read More
Actors: Teresa Wright, Louis Hayward, Nancy Gates, Kenneth Tobey, Richard Anderson
Synopsis: The Search for Bridey Murphy was inspired by the purportedly true story of a Colorado housewife named Virginia Tighe, who while under hypnosis insisted that she'd lived a previous life as an 18th century Irish housemaid named Bridey Murphy. The hypnosis sessions were conducted under the Read More
Actors: James Cagney, Don Dubbins, Stephen McNally, Irene Papas, Vic Morrow
Synopsis: The catch-all title Tribute to a Bad Man had been floating around MGM for years (at one point, it was the working title for The Bad and the Beautiful) before it was finally affixed to this big-budget western. Originally intended as a vehicle for Spencer Tracy, the film was recast with James Cagney Read More
Actors: Judy Canova, Robert Lowery, Jill Jarmyn, Jacqueline De Wit, Richard Deacon
Synopsis: In this musical comedy, a young woman endures the drudgery of working as a charwoman in her aunt's hotel. She is not paid much for her hard work. To make her drab existence a little more exciting, she enrolls in a correspondence charm course, which unbeknownst to her is a scam. Soon the swindlers Read More
Actors: Liberace, Joanne Dru, Dorothy Malone, Alex Nicol, William Demarest
Synopsis: At the height of his TV fame, flamboyant pianist Liberace starred in the lavish Warner Bros. production Sincerely Yours. A remake of the old George Arliss vehicle The Man Who Played God, the film casts "Mr. Showmanship" as famed concert pianist Anthony Warren, who at the height of his popularity Read More
Actors: Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair, Esther Minciotti, Augusta Ciolli, Joe Mantell
Synopsis: Paddy Chayefsky's Oscar-winning slice-of-life drama is a heartwarming story about Marty Pilletti (Ernest Borgnine), a lonely Bronx butcher. Marty is a burly but gentle man, easing into middle age without much hope for romance or a career. He lives at home with his mother (Esther Minciotti), a kind Read More
Actors: Randolph Scott, Angela Lansbury, Warner Anderson, Jean Parker, Wallace Ford
Synopsis: Up until its surisingly mundane finale, A Lawless Street is one of the best of the Randolph Scott westerns of the 1950s. Scott plays famed marshal Calem Ware, whose strenous activities on behalf of law and order have exacted a toll on his personal life. Keeping the peace in the town of Medicine Read More
Actors: James Stewart, June Allyson, Frank Lovejoy, Barry Sullivan, Alex Nicol
Synopsis: Inspired in part by the true story of baseball great Ted Williams, who after serving in World War II was drafted to serve in the Korean War just as his baseball career was taking off, Strategic Air Command stars James Stewart as "Dutch" Holland, a star third baseman with the St. Louis Cardinals. Read More
Actors: Joel McCrea, Kevin McCarthy, John McIntire, Nancy Gates
Synopsis: Adapted from a novel by Louis L'Amour, Stranger on Horseback is one of Joel McCrea's shorter western vehicles, zipping merrily along at a mere 66 minutes. McCrea plays a travelling judge who makes it his mission in life to clean up the town of Bannerman. This proves difficult, in that the town is Read More
Actors: Tommy Cook, Mollie McCart, Sue England, Frank Griffin, James Bell
Synopsis: The "juvenile delinquent" film cycle of the 1950s, sparked by The Blackboard Jungle, resulted in such hastily assembled B-flicks as Columbia's Teenage Crime Wave. The "crime wave" of the title consists of the criminal activities of teenager Mike Denton (Tommy Cook). After escaping from reform Read More
Synopsis: Chester Abbott (James Bell) tells the police that his wife is missing. Abbott's 17-year-old stepson, however, suspects that his mom was murdered by his stepdad. But when Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) try to question the boy, he can't be located--and worse, Abbott has "lawyered up" Read More
Synopsis: Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) are summoned to the Nevada Hotel, where tenant Theodore Benham (James Bell) claims that he took a shot at a burglar who then killed Benham's wife. A witness across the hall confirms that she saw an apparently wounded man was fleeing the scene of the Read More
Actors: Randolph Scott, Wayne Morris, Joan Weldon, Joe Sawyer, James Millican
Synopsis: In this western, a shotgun rider on a stagecoach must clear his reputation after some outlaws accuse him of being a crook. Gunplay ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Sterling Hayden, Gene Nelson, Phyllis Kirk, Ted de Corsia
Synopsis: A car with two men visible in it pulls up to a Los Angeles service station at night, with a single attendant (Dub Taylor) working. As he starts to pump the gas, he doesn't see the third man come around the side until it's too late and he's knocked cold. The trio carries out their robbery but Read More
Actors: James Stewart, June Allyson, Charles Drake, George Tobias, Henry Morgan
Synopsis: The Glenn Miller Story traces Miller's rise from pit-orchestra trombone player to leader of the most successful big band of his era. June Allyson is on hand as Miller's wife, Helen, who learns the value of patience when Glenn spends his wedding night jamming with Gene Krupa and Louis Armstrong. Read More
Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Peter Graves, Jean Parker, Milburn Stone, Warren Stevens
Synopsis: On the eve of his execution, killer Edward G. Robinson busts out of prison with the help of his girlfriend (Jean Parker) and a crook posing as a reporter (Warren Stevens). Robinson takes along five hostages, including the daughter of the murdered head guard (Sylvia Findley), a real reporter (Jack Kelly Read More
Actors: Shirley Booth, Robert Ryan, Marjie Millar, Alex Nicol, Sammy White
Synopsis: Shirley Booth followed up her Oscar-winning performance in Come Back Little Sheba with the high-gloss soap opera About Mrs. Leslie. Based on a novel by Vina Delmar, the film casts Booth as a philosophical boarding house keeper who recalls her life and loves in a long, long flashback. Born on the Read More
Actors: Brian Donlevy, Rod Cameron, Ella Raines, Forrest Tucker, Barbara Britton
Synopsis: Will Ballard (Rod Cameron) is the longtime foreman of the Hatcher ranch, a spread renowned for its size and the wealth it contains. When owner Phil Evarts dies suddenly, the speculation in the territory is that Hatcher will be broken up, especially since it was Evarts' determination coupled with Read More
Actors: Broderick Crawford, John Derek, Charles Bickford, Wanda Hendrix, Warner Anderson
Synopsis: After his Oscar win for All the King's Men, Broderick Crawford found himself working out his Columbia contract in a string of rapidly deteriorating films. The Last Posse was a middling western, the sort that the studio sent out as bottom-of-bill attractions for their prestige pictures. The posse Read More
Actors: Robert Taylor, Stewart Granger, Ann Blyth, Keenan Wynn
Synopsis: Previously adapted to film in 1923, Ben Ames Williams' rousing sea adventure All the Brothers Were Valiant was given the prestige MGM treatment in 1953. Robert Taylor and Stewart Granger star as seafaring siblings Joel and Mark Shore. When Mark disappears during a whaling expedition, Joel and his Read More
Actors: Virginia Mayo, Dale Robertson, Stephen McNally, Arthur Hunnicutt, Robert Keith
Synopsis: RKO Radio's second 3D production, Devil's Canyon is a combination western and jail-break picture. The scene is Arizona Territorial Prison, wherein 500 desperate men are incarcerated. The inmates become even more desperate when female outlaw Abby Nixon (Virginia Mayo) is likewise locked up. As the Read More
Actors: Michael Chapin, Eilene Janssen, James Bell, Richard Avonde, Roy Barcroft
Synopsis: Wild Horse Ambush was the last of four Republic westerns starring juvenile actors Michael Chapin and Eilene Janssen. Once again, Chapin plays Red, the grandson of venerable sheriff Tom White (James Bell), while Judy (Eilene Janssen) is Red's friend and confidante. And once again, the two kids join Read More
Actors: Shirley Yamaguchi, Don Taylor, Cameron Mitchell, Marie Windsor, James Bell
Synopsis: Filmmaker King Vidor does wonders with the unpromising material at hand in Japanese War Bride. Don Taylor stars as Jim Sterling, a Korean war officer who is wounded and hospitalized in Japan. Sterling falls in love with his Japanese nurse Tae Shimizu (Shirley Yamaguchi), eventually marrying her. Read More
Actors: Esther Williams, Victor Mature, Walter Pidgeon, David Brian, Donna Corcoran
Synopsis: Who else but Esther Williams could star in a romantic drama (with musical numbers) bearing a title like this? In Million Dollar Mermaid, Williams plays Annette Kellerman, a real-life Australian swimming star who took up the sport as a child to strengthen her legs, which were severely weakened by a Read More
Actors: Michael Chapin, Eilene Janssen, Hugh O'Brian, James Bell, Gaylord "Steve" Pendleton
Synopsis: Ever in pursuit of novelty, Republic Pictures assembled a series of westerns in the early 1950s starring youngsters Michael Chapin and Eileen Janssen. In Buckaroo Sheriff of Texas, the kids are left virtually alone when their elders ride off to war. Bad guy Tristram Coffin tries to take advantage Read More
Actors: Michael Chapin, Eilene Janssen, James Bell, Lucille Barkley, Roy Barcroft
Synopsis: Arizona Manhunt was the second entry in Republic's "Rough Ridin' Kids" series. Michael Chapin returns as Red, the precocious grandson of Sheriff White (James Bell), while Eilene Janssen likewise reappears as Red's best friend Judy. Once again, the two kids get involved with grown-up western Read More
Actors: Alan Ladd, Lizabeth Scott, Arthur Kennedy, John Ireland, Jeff Corey
Synopsis: The rugged Colorado Territory provides the setting for this epic Civil War-era western chronicle of a Southern rebel who sets off to join Captain Quantrill's raiders. Along the way, the rebel kills a Union supporter who had stolen the rebel's land. Unfortunately, he leaves a different Confederate Read More
Actors: Michael Chapin, Eilene Janssen, James Bell, Margaret Field
Synopsis: The Dakota Kid was the first of four Republic westerns built around the talents of preteen performers Michael Chapin and Eilene Jansen. In each of these films, Chapin played Red, the grandson of sheriff Tom White (James Bell), while Jansen co-starred as Judy, the boy's best friend and severest Read More
Actors: John Wayne, Robert Ryan, Don Taylor, Janis Carter, Jay C. Flippen
Synopsis: The Technicolor adventure epic Flying Leathernecks offers two things that film cultists can never get enough of: star John Wayne and director Nicholas Ray. Filmed at the behest of RKO chieftain Howard R. Hughes, Leathernecks is a paean to the Marine Flying Corps of World War II. Wayne plays Major Read More
Actors: Lizabeth Scott, Jane Greer, Dennis O'Keefe, Fay Baker, John Hoyt
Synopsis: Jane Greer plays a hard-boiled dame so well in The Company She Keeps that the film's outcome remains in doubt right up to the end. Placed in the custody of parole officer Joan (Lizabeth Scott), Diane (Greer) immediately makes a play for Joan's boyfriend, newspaper columnist Larry (Dennis O'Keefe). Read More
Actors: Marshall Thompson, Virginia Field, Sam Levene, Leon Ames
Synopsis: Louis B. Mayer's nephew Gerald proved himself an able director with the MGM "B" thriller Dial 1119. Marshall Thompson stars as an emotionally disturbed young man who pulls out a gun at a bar and holds the patrons hostage. As the police gather outside, the film concentrates on the various bar Read More
Actors: Robert Sterling, Gloria Grahame, Claude Jarman, Jr., John Ireland, Jeff Donnell
Synopsis: Hovering somewhere between an "A" and "B" production, RKO's Roughshod is an expert blend of western and film noir. Robert Sterling and Claude Jarman Jr. star as young cattleman Clay Phillips and his kid brother Steve. Stalked across the Sonora Pass by an ex-con who has vowed to kill Clay, the Read More
Actors: William Holden, William Bendix, MacDonald Carey, Mona Freeman, Stanley Ridges
Synopsis: Streets of Laredo is a streamlined and Technicolorful remake of Paramount's 1936 box-office champ The Texas Rangers. William Holden, William Bendix and MacDonald Carey star as roguish outlaws Jim Dawkins, Wahoo Jones and Lorn Remming. After rescuing a little girl named Rannie Carter from a wicked Read More
Actors: Ruth Hussey, John Carroll, Vera Ralston, John Howard, Gene Lockhart
Synopsis: In this courtroom drama, a French girl stands trial for murder. Flashbacks tell the grim story of how, during the Great War she got involved with a wealthy soldier and married him. He disappeared after the war. She then came to the U.S. There she finds him married to another woman. To cover Read More
Actors: William Bishop, Virginia Patton, Gordon Jones, James Bell
Synopsis: Black Eagle was based on The Passing of Black Eagle, a short story by O. Henry. William Bishop stars as Jason Bond, who stays out of trouble by the simple expedient of avoiding other people. Unfortunately, the plot dictates that Bond must come into contact with several characters, all of whom end Read More
Actors: Ray Milland, Florence Marly, Broderick Crawford, Ludwig Donath
Synopsis: In this wartime drama, an American officer is accused of secretly working as an SS man. Though all evidence is against the officer, one Army prosecutor is not convinced of the man's guilt and begins working to prove his innocence. He is assisted by a beautiful woman who knows the defendant is Read More
Actors: Van Johnson, Joyce Arling, Janet Leigh, James Bell, William Bishop, Thomas Mitchell, Jim Davis, Charles Dingle
Synopsis: Janet Leigh made an impressive film-debut in MGM's The Romance of Rosy Ridge. Though the title suggests a lighthearted musical, the film is actually a fairly sober adaptation (with slight comic undertones) of a novel by Mackinlay Kantor. In the days following the Civil War, a Missouri farming Read More
Actors: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Walker, Melvyn Douglas, Phyllis Thaxter
Synopsis: Usually associated with erudite, urbane comedies, the legendary screen team of Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy goes intensely dramatic in the expensive western Sea of Grass. Tracy plays cattle baron Colonel James Brewton, who staunchly opposes opening the western frontier to homesteaders. Read More
Actors: James Bell, Humphrey Bogart, Lizabeth Scott, Morris Carnovsky, William Prince, George Chandler, Charles Cane, Wallace Ford, Marvin Miller
Synopsis: In Dead Reckoning, Rip Murdock (Humphrey Bogart) recites the film's plotline to a priest in the confessional. Murdock and Johnny Drake (William Prince) are Congressional Medal of Honor recipients, en route to Washington by train. Drake hops off and disappears, leading Murdock on a hectic manhunt. Read More
Synopsis: Chester Morris plays a mystery writer who bears a grudge against his publisher. Morris is mad enough to get blind drunk, but is he mad enough to kill? When the publisher is indeed murdered, Morris tops the suspect list. To clear himself, he uses his own skills as a writer of whodunits to ascertain Read More
Actors: Mickey Rooney, Brian Donlevy, Ann Blyth, James Dunn, Tom Tully
Synopsis: In one of his first "adult" roles (he made his last Andy Hardy vehicle only a year earlier), Mickey Rooney plays Tommy McCoy, a dancer who performs in a going-nowhere nightclub act with his alcoholic father, Brian (James Dunn). Johnny Martin (Mickey Knox), a lightweight boxing champ who is Read More
Actors: James Bell, Walter Brennan, Dean Jagger, Natalie Wood, Hobart Cavanaugh, Howland Chamberlain
Synopsis: Allan Dwan directs the family-oriented drama Driftwood, starring nine-year-old Natalie Wood. Orphan Jenny Hollingsworth (Wood) is found in a rural small town in Nevada that is ravaged by Rocky Mountain fever. She meets the local doctor, Steve Webster (Dean Jagger), who is working on a research Read More
Actors: Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford, Yvonne De Carlo, Ann Blyth
Synopsis: Burt Lancaster had one of his first starring roles in this hard-hitting prison drama. Capt. Munsey (Hume Cronyn) is a cruel, corrupt prison guard who has his own less-than-ethical ways of dealing with inmates, enough so that Joe Collins (Lancaster) -- the toughest inmate in the cell block -- has Read More
Actors: Alan Curtis, Sheila Ryan, Tala Birell, Frank Jenks, James Bell
Synopsis: S.S. Van Dine's gentleman detective is reduced to an ordinary "hard boiled" gumshoe in this inexpensive mystery. Philo Vance (Alan Curtis) is hired by a magazine publisher, ostensibly as a technical advisor for a crime periodical. This is a cover for his "secret mission": to learn the truth behind Read More
Synopsis: In this mystery, the Crime Doctor, an amnesiac ex-crook, takes on yet another intriguing psychological murder case. This time he is on vacation, but the kindly fellow cannot help but look into a murder to help a troubled soul. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, Ethel Barrymore, Kent Smith, Rhonda Fleming
Synopsis: The wonderfully suspenseful psychological drama Spiral Staircase is the prototype of the "old dark house, lady in distress" thriller, full of dark corners, flickering candles and featuring a mysterious, menacing killer whose true identity remains hidden until the end. Helen Capel (Dorothy Read More
Actors: Karen Morley, Jim Bannon, Jeff Donnell, Robert Scott, Robert Wilcox
Synopsis: The Unknown was the last of three Columbia programmers based on the legendary radio series I Love a Mystery. Carried over from the radio version are Jim Bannon and Barton Yarborough as Jack Packard and Barton Yarborough, adventurers for hire. The plot concerns the efforts of amnesiac Nina Arnold Read More
Actors: Roddy McDowall, Preston S. Foster, Rita Johnson, Diana Hale, James Bell
Synopsis: This sequel to 1943's My Friend Flicka stars Roddy McDowell, recreating his role in the earlier film. The son of a horse rancher (Preston S. Foster), McDowell takes it upon himself to train Thunderhead, a white colt with the same rebellious streak that distinguished its mother (Flicka). Read More
Actors: James Cagney, Sylvia Sidney, Wallace Ford, Porter Hall, Robert Armstrong, John Emery, Rosemary de Camp
Synopsis: In his first film in two years, James Cagney stars as Nick Condon, the American editor of a pre-WW2 Tokyo newspaper. When two of his best friends are horribly murdered, Condon suspects that the "peaceful" Japanese military government is up to no good. He dedicates himself to getting his hands on Read More
Actors: Ruth Nelson, Dorinda Clifton, Loren Tindall, Gloria Holden, Ernest Cossart
Synopsis: A widow's grief turns to blind maniacal rage against the daughter she holds responsible for her husband's death in this, the second of three melodramatic films based on a novel by Gene Stratton Porter. In her anger, the mad mother abuses and torments her off-spring at every turn. ~ Sandra Brennan Read More
Actors: Paulette Goddard, Sonny Tufts, Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Sande, Beulah Bondi, Ann Doran
Synopsis: Paulette Goddard and Sonny Tufts, two of the stars of director Mark Sandrich's wartime morale-booster So Proudly We Hail, were reunited in Sandrich's I Love a Soldiers. Looking gorgeous in bib overalls, Goddard plays defense-plant welder Eva Morgan, who avoids romance but gives generously of her Read More
Actors: Tom Conway, Frances Dee, James Ellison, Edith Barrett, Christine Gordon, James Bell
Synopsis: RKO producer Val Lewton seemed to thrive upon taking the most lurid film titles and coming up with pocket-edition works of art. Saddled with the studio-dictated title I Walked With a Zombie, Lewton, together with scripters Curt Siodmak and Ardel Wray, concocted a West Indies variation on Jane Read More
Actors: Margo, John Carradine, Robert Ryan, Amelita Ward, William Terry
Synopsis: In this drama, set at a WW II munitions plant, the lives of five workers are chronicled. Their stories are told via flashback. Though they all ride together to work everyday, and they think they know each other very well, the stories they tell show them otherwise. The group of workers is made up Read More
Actors: Dennis O'Keefe, Margo, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell, James Bell
Synopsis: Adapted from the Cornell Woolrich novel Black Alibi, The Leopard Man is a lesser but still fascinating psychological-horror effort from producer Val Lewton. Someone has been killing off the citizens of a small New Mexico town, and the most likely suspect is a huge leopard, purchased for a local Read More
Actors: Roddy McDowall, Preston S. Foster, Rita Johnson, Jeff Corey, James Bell
Synopsis: An utterly enchanting Technicolor filmization of Mary O'Hara's novel, My Friend Flicka is the story of a beautiful colt and the boy (Roddy McDowell) who loves her. The boy's rancher father (Preston S. Foster) isn't keen on the horse that his son chooses to train: Flicka, the offspring of a Read More
Actors: Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard, Veronica Lake, George Reeves, Barbara Britton
Synopsis: Paramount's So Proudly We Hail, like MGM's Cry Havoc, is a tribute to the Red Cross nurses trapped behind enemy lines in the early days of the Pacific war. Claudette Colbert is the self-sacrificing head nurse, struggling to minister to the wounded and to keep her staff (including Paulette Goddard, Veronica Lake Read More
Actors: Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Virginia Dale, Marjorie Reynolds, Walter Abel
Synopsis: Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire star in Holiday Inn as a popular nightclub song-and-dance team. When his heart is broken by his girlfriend, Crosby decides to retire from the hustle-bustle of big city showbiz. He purchases a rustic New England farm and converts it to an inn, which he opens to the Read More
Actors: Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone, Richard Cromwell, Guy Standing, C. Aubrey Smith
Synopsis: Gary Cooper stars in this rousing adventure saga of three British officers of the 41st Regiment of Bengal Lancers of India. The story begins as Lt. McGregor (Gary Cooper) accepts two new officers to his company -- the brash Lt. Fortesque (Franchot Tone) and Lt. Stone (Richard Cromwell), the son of Read More
Actors: Jimmy Durante, Charles Butterworth, Maxine Doyle, Phil Regan, Florine McKinney
Synopsis: Student Tour looks like an MGM musical two-reeler that was expanded to feature length as it went along. Charles Butterworth and Jimmy Durante are teamed respectively as fey philosophy professor Lippincott and brash athletic coach Hank. The two comics shepherd a co-ed college rowing team on a world Read More
Actors: William Powell, Margaret Lindsay, Ruth Donnelly, Gordon Westcott, James Bell
Synopsis: Romance throws a spanner into the works of a con game in this light drama. Donald Free (William Powell) is a private detective whose career in on the skids. Dan Hogan (Arthur Holh) is another, less scrupulous shamus who persuades Free to help him frame Janet Reynolds (Margaret Lindsay), a wealthy Read More
Actors: Richard Dix, Madge Evans, Conway Tearle, Una Merkel, Stuart Erwin
Synopsis: In this brutal prison drama a hen-pecked husband is sentenced to prison after getting caught with his hand in the company till. He is sent to a high-rise facility in LA. It seems the fellow was only following the instructions of his domineering, constantly nagging wife who, as soon as he is put Read More
Actors: George Arliss, Florence Arliss, Marjorie Gateson, Dudley Digges, Dick Powell
Synopsis: One of George Arliss' "smaller" vehicles, The King's Vacation casts the eminent British stage star (always billed as "Mr. George Arliss") as an abdicating monarch. Seeking the simple life, he comes to America in search of the wife (Marjorie Gateson) he'd been forced to divorce years earlier in Read More
Actors: Charles Laughton, Carole Lombard, Charles Bickford, Kent Taylor, Percy Kilbride
Synopsis: In this campy "adult-oriented" drama from the early 1930s, the ruthless manager of a Malaysian rubber plantation marries a singer facing deportation. He offers her a miserable existence of abuse and loneliness. She finds a bright spot with a handsome plantation worker. Unfortunately, her jealous Read More
Actors: Ivan Simpson, C. Aubrey Smith, Bramwell Fletcher, Betty Lawford
Synopsis: An old man learns the sad truth of the old saw about being careful what you wish for in this horror outing that is based on the enduring cautionary tale. It all begins with an army sergeant who is given a magical monkey's paw while fighting in India. He learns that the paw contains three wishes. Read More
Actors: Chester Morris, Genevieve Tobin, Victor Jory, Elizabeth Patterson, James Bell
Synopsis: The infernal machine in question is a bomb controlled by a wireless operator and set aboard a New York bound ocean liner. No one knows it is there. Meanwhile the passengers go about their business. One of them, a stowaway pretends to be a classy fellow so he can pitch woo to a sophisticated lady. Read More
Actors: Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson, Noel Francis, Preston S. Foster, Edward McNamara
Synopsis: Warner Bros.' hard-hitting chain-gang movie was a faithful adaptation of the similarly titled autobiography of Robert Elliot Burns. Paul Muni plays World War I veteran James Allen, whose plans of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Flat broke, Allen is Read More
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