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Oct. 14, 2009 11:00 PM ET (AP)
Actors: Russell Johnson, Bartlett Robinson, Paul Hartman, James Gavin, John Lasell
Synopsis: After speculating on the possibility that a person can travel back in time and change history, Peter Corrigan (Russell Johnson) bids farewell to his friends and prepares to head home from his club. As he walks through the doors, he is unexpectedly transported from 1961 to 1865. Once he gets his Read More
Actors: James Brown, John Wilder, Walter Coy, Robert Karnes, Joe Haworth
Synopsis: One more stock western in a long line stretching back to the turn of the 20th century, this oater by peripatetic director Edward L. Cahn has nothing particularly distinctive in its story about a group of outlaws. Billy Wade (played by the athletic James Brown) is an ex-gunslinger who is approached Read More
Actors: Sue Randall, Rusty Stevens, Jeri Weil, Danny Richards, Jr., John Eldredge
Synopsis: Beaver (Jerry Mathers) and Larry (Rusty Stevens) are placed in charge of their classroom's cookie fund. Enter older kid Roger (Danny Richards Jr.), who cons three dollars out of the boys by weaving an elaborate sob story about his starving sister. Of course, when Beav and Larry approach Roger the Read More
Actors: Tom Tryon, Gloria Talbott, Peter Baldwin, Ken Lynch, John Eldredge, Robert Ivers, Alan Dexter, Chuck Wassil
Synopsis: It has now become a film-review clich to preface a write-up for I Married a Monster From Outer Space with the cautionary "Don't be misled by the title." The fact remains, however, that this one of the better and more intelligent horror outings of the late 1950s. The "I" of the title is Marge Read More
Synopsis: Curvaceous cult actress Joi Lansing appears in this episode as policewoman Helen O'Hara, who upon meeting Superman (George Reeves) evidently exudes such an attraction that the Man of Steel instantly proposes marriage! This of course is all part of a scheme to bring elusive criminal mastermind Mr. Read More
Actors: Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Eva Marie Saint, Nigel Patrick, Lee Marvin
Synopsis: Conceived as a Gone With the Wind for the CinemaScope generation, Raintree County wasn't quite as successful as its role model, but it still proved a moneyspinner for MGM. Elizabeth Taylor stars as a spoiled Southern belle who falls in love with pacifistic Indiana youth Montgomery Clift. Though Clift Read More
Actors: Joseph Kearns, Jody Warner, Doris Packer, John Eldredge, Gladys Hurlbut
Synopsis: Lucy (Lucille Ball) wants to return to New York for a fancy dinner and a Broadway show. As luck would have it, the Ricardos and the Mertzes have managed to get four tickets for the sold-out Frank Loesser musical The Most Happy Fella. Unfortunately, those tickets are only for a matinee performance Read More
Actors: Ginger Rogers, Barry Nelson, Carol Channing, David Brian, James Arness, Clint Eastwood
Synopsis: Ginger Rogers ended her 23-year association with RKO Radio with the indifferent musical comedy western The First Travelling Saleslady. Ginger and Broadway favorite Carol Channing (whose only starring film this was) play a pair of corset salespersons who head westward in 1897 to hawk their wares. Read More
Actors: Paul Newman, Anna Maria Pier Angeli, Everett Sloane, Eileen Heckart, Sal Mineo
Synopsis: Once you get past the fact that handsome Paul Newman could never pass for plug-ugly boxer Rocky Graziano in real life, you will be able to accept Somebody Up Their Likes Me as one of the more accomplished movie biopics of the 1950s. Based on Graziano's autobiography (co-written with Rowland Read More
Synopsis: Wealthy and spoiled Myra Van Clever (Gloria Talbott) hires Superman (George Reeves) to entertain at a party. What Myra doesn't know is that she has been manipulated into a criminal scheme cooked up by her guardian Jonas Rockwell (John Eldredge), who intends to use Superman as an unwitting courier Read More
Actors: Dane Clark, Lita Milan, Anthony Caruso, Ross Elliott, Myrna Dell
Synopsis: This adventurous crime drama is set in exotic Latin America and chronicles a lawman's attempt to bust up the ring of Yankee gun-smugglers who have been supplying arms to war-torn Central America. To stop them, the American agent must masquerade as a smuggler and join the gang. Meanwhile a young Read More
Actors: Bill Williams, Jean Porter, George Cleveland, John Eldredge
Synopsis: Produced, directed and cowritten by former child star Wesley Barry, Racing Blood was distributed in the US by 20th Century-Fox. Jimmy Boyd, a juvenile singer who'd risen to fame with the hit single "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus", stars as a sensitive stable boy. When a colt is born with a split Read More
Actors: Van Johnson, Joanne Dru, Richard Boone, Milburn Stone, Jeff Morrow
Synopsis: Siege of Red River stars Van Johnson as a Confederate officer, who "appropriates" a shipment of gatling guns from the Northern troops in the waning days of the Civil War. Posing as a medicine show entrepreneur, Johnson smuggles the guns through enemy lines in his wagon. Renegade rebel Richard Boone Read More
Actors: George Reeves
Actors: Barry Sullivan, Charles McGraw, Dorothy Malone, Don Haggerty, Mary Beth Hughes
Synopsis: Bank teller Mike Donovan (Barry Sullivan) takes the first step on the road to Perdition when he fails to report a $49,000 shortage. Accused of theft, Donovan is fired from his job. He is then prevented from finding other employment by Javert-like insurance investigator Gus Slavin (Charles McGraw). Read More
Actors: Helena Carter, Arthur Franz, Jimmy Hunt, Leif Erickson, Hillary Brooke
Synopsis: Originating during the science-fiction/Red-Scare boom of the '50s, Invaders From Mars is an entertaining little picture that holds up reasonably well. David MacLean (Jimmy Hunt) is a 12-year-old astronomy buff who is stunned to see a flying saucer landing in the sand pit beyond his backyard. His Read More
Actors: Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Ray Collins, Bodil Miller, Sig Rumann
Synopsis: This fifth entry in Universal's "Ma and Pa Kettle" series finds the Kettle family taking a trip to Paris (courtesy of the Universal back lot). All the standard "innocents abroad" gags are in attendance, including Pa Kettle's (Percy Kilbride) efforts to extinguish a flaming serving of crepes Read More
Synopsis: This slam-bang episode opens with a montage of highlights from previous Superman entries, illustrating a crime wave that has swept over Metropolis. Declaring war against every racketeer in town, Superman (George Reeves) rounds up such hoodlums as Nick Marone (Phil Van Zandt and Big Ed Bullock (Al Read More
Synopsis: A frantic woman named Harriet Hopper (Vera Marshe) bursts into the offices of the "Daily Planet" demanding to speak to Superman--and makes a beeline to the office of Clark Kent (George Reeves! How has Harriet managed to tumble to Clark's secret identity? Well, it seems that her nephew Alan (played Read More
Actors: Adolphe Menjou, Arthur Franz, Gerald Mohr, Marie Windsor, Frank Faylen
Synopsis: The "regeneration" of blacklisted director Edward Dmytryk was expedited when he was hired by producer Stanley Kramer to helm the location-filmed melodrama The Sniper. In the interests of political expediency, Dmytrk was required to direct Adolphe Menjou, one of the most virulent Red-baiters of the Read More
Actors: Stewart Granger, Eleanor Parker, Janet Leigh, Mel Ferrer, Henry Wilcoxon
Synopsis: This delightful adaptation of Rafael Sabatini's swashbuckling novel stars Stewart Granger as Andre Moreau, an 18th-century French nobleman who is publicly humiliated by the Marquis de Maynes (Mel Ferrer). Challenged to a sword duel by the Marquis, Andre, who knows nothing about fencing, runs away Read More
Actors: Richard Denning, Audrey Long, John Eldredge, Hillary Brooke, Reed Hadley
Synopsis: Richard Denning is Insurance Investigator Tom Davison in this Republic second feature. Davison has been assigned to look into a huge double-indemnity claim. Nancy Sullivan (Audrey Long), the victim's daughter, thinks that her father's death was no accident. As it turns out, Nancy is right on the Read More
Actors: Penny Edwards, Robert Clarke, Ross Ford, Roy Barcroft, John Eldredge
Synopsis: The title Street Bandits refers to the crooked slot machines peddled by racketeer Monk Walter (Roy Barcroft). Struggling attorney Fred Palmer (Robert Clarke), in need of ready money, aligns himself with Walter. This sits not at all well with Palmer's partner Tom Reagan (Ross Ford), nor with his Read More
Actors: Ray Milland, John Hodiak, Nancy Davis, Lewis Stone, Jean Hagen
Synopsis: Ray Milland plays a happily married college professor whose wife and child perish in a fire. Despondent, Milland loses himself in drink, despite the efforts of his friends and fellow faculty members. He is on the verge of suicide before he is salvaged the love of Nancy Davis (who off-screen was Read More
Actors: Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Georges Guetary, Nina Foch
Synopsis: Gene Kelly does his patented Pal Joey bit as Jerry Mulligan, an opportunistic American painter living in Paris' "starving artists" colony. He is discovered by wealthy Milo Roberts (Nina Foch), who becomes Jerry's patroness in more ways than one. Meanwhile, Jerry plays hookey on this setup by Read More
Actors: Greer Garson, Michael Wilding, Sr., Fernando Lamas, Marjorie Main, Hayden Rorke
Synopsis: The Law and the Lady is the third film version of the venerable Frederick Lonsdale stage play The Last of Mrs. Cheyney. Greer Garson follows in the footsteps of Norma Shearer and Joan Crawford as a beautiful confidence trickster, working in concert with a suave jewel thief (Michael Wilding). Jane Read More
Actors: Robert Rockwell, Barbara Fuller, Raymond Burr, Hillary Brooke, Paul Harvey
Synopsis: Raymond Burr stars as Roger Lewis, the ruthless publisher of a Confidential-style scandal magazine. For a fee, Lewis will keep certain names out of his rag. From blackmail it is one short step to murder: after killing his mistress, Lewis uses his magazine to frame the woman's husband for the Read More
Actors: Allan Lane, Claudia Barrett, Eddy Waller, Roy Barcroft
Synopsis: Lawman Allan “Rocky” Lane is mistaken for a hired killer in this average western from Republic Pictures. Assuming the identity of his captive, Clune (Stuart Randall), when the latter is killed by mistake by fellow outlaw Murray (John Cason), Rocky learns that Murray’s cohort Leo Straykin (Roy Read More
Actors: Dorothy Patrick, John Eldredge, Barbara Fuller, Robert Rockwell, Ann Doran
Synopsis: Dorothy Patrick, the sweetheart of Republic Pictures' "B" unit, stars in Lonely Hearts Bandits. Patrick plays Louise Curtis, a petty crook who teams with mobster Tony Morelli (John Eldredge) to fleece the lonely. Victim number one is a lovelorn farmer, who is summarily robbed and murdered by Read More
Actors: Roland Winters, Keye Luke, Mantan Moreland, Tim Ryan, Milburn Stone
Synopsis: Film historian Leonard Maltin has labelled this final entry in Monogram's "Charlie Chan" series as "embarrassing," but it's not quite as bad as its reputation would indicate. True, star Roland Winters steadfastly refuses to take his characterization of Charlie Chan seriously, but that's part of Read More
Actors: Rod Cameron, Gale Storm, Johnny Mack Brown, Don Castle, Donald Curtis
Synopsis: Stampede is a choice example of the Lesley Selander B-plus westerns of the late 1940s/early 1950s. Rod Cameron and Don Castle star as feuding brothers who own separate cattle ranches. The siblings find themselves on opposite sides of a water-rights battle, in which settlers are being deprived Read More
Actors: Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald, Ann Blyth, Hume Cronyn, Eileen Crowe
Synopsis: Bejabbers! Sure an' some heathen has gone and stolen the Blarney Stone. Yes, Top O' the Morning is set in Ireland, or at least Hollywood's idea of Ireland. American detective Bing Crosby arrives on the Auld Sod to investigate the theft of the Stone, while the local constabulary, represented by Barry Fitzgerald Read More
Actors: Mary Beth Hughes, Wally Vernon, Spade Cooley, John Eldredge
Synopsis: Lippert's Square Dance Jubilee was aimed squarely at the rural movie market. Don Barry and Wally Vernon play a pair of talent scouts, searching for authentic country-western performers to appear on Spade Cooley's TV show. Somehow, the duo finds time to rescue a lovely young rancher (Mary Beth Hughes 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: Leo Gorcey, Billy Benedict, David Gorcey, Frankie Darro
Synopsis: Angels Alley was the ninth entry in Monogram's Bowery Boys series. This time around, Slip Mahoney (Leo Gorcey) welcomes his cousin Jimmy (Frankie Darro) into his home. Fresh out of jail, Jimmy takes a job with a ring of car thieves. Slip covers for Jimmy to the extent of confessing to a crime that Read More
Actors: Stanley Andrews, Ben Baker, Billy Benedict, Betty Caldwell
Synopsis: Jinx Money is not so much a Bowery Boys vehicle as a murder mystery that happens to star the Bowery Boys. It all begins when a gambler is murdered shortly after winning $50,000 in a card game. As the other cardplayers scramble around in search of the money, Slip Mahoney (Leo Gorcey) and Sach Jones Read More
Actors: Iris Adrian, Brian Aherne, Constance Bennett, Willie Best, Lee Bonnell
Synopsis: In this courtroom drama, two opposing lawyers lead a double life. In the courtroom they are ruthless toward each other, but once the day is over they become passionate lovers. Unfortunately their newest case may well threaten their relationship as the defense attorney is defending a corrupt Read More
Actors: Alan Ladd, Brenda Marshall, Robert Preston, Donald Crisp, William Demarest
Synopsis: This fact -based western follows a soft-spoken railroad detective (Alan Ladd) as he brings a murderous ring of robbers to justice and rekindles an old flame. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Richard Denning, Catherine Craig, Russell Hayden, Ann Doran
Synopsis: A plane crash over the Pacific leaves seven survivors stranded in a life raft in this war-time disaster movie. One of the passengers is a captured Japanese official en route to stand trial for war crimes. Two of the survivors spent time in a Japanese prison camp. Both pilots survived as did a Read More
Synopsis: In this outtake from the "Hal Roach Comedy Carnival," a talking dog lends support to a harried husband (Walter Abel). ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Kent Taylor, Louise Currie, Dennis Hoey, Larry Blake, Ann Doran
Synopsis: In this crime melodrama, two would-be jewel thieves conspire to pull a heist, but are frustrated because the police are able to successfully anticipate their every move and stop them. Later the thieves fall in love and it is then that the female thief admits that she is a detective who was hired Read More
Actors: Jean Rogers, Larry Blake, John Eldredge, Leonard Strong
Synopsis: This minor 20th Century-Fox B picture received a great deal of TV play in the late 1950s. In a series of flashbacks, the audience learns that attorney John Morland (John Eldredge) has given a lift to a hitchhiker (Douglas Fowley) who turns out to be a murderer. As a result, Morland himself is Read More
Actors: Beverly Simmons, Fay Holden, Frank McHugh, Dorothy Morris
Synopsis: In this comedy, a spoiled, temperamental and filthy rich aunt is committed to an asylum by her nephew after he learns that she has willed her fortune to her dog. Fortunately, the aunt escapes and is sheltered by the family of a poor barber. It is the barber's daughter that soothes the savage Read More
Actors: Kane Richmond, Stephanie Bachelor, Adele Mara, Gerald Mohr
Synopsis: In this comedy-mystery, an advertising executive begins looking into a touchy situation involving two brothers who are embezzling from his company. Also involved are two vicious thugs who are pursuing the brothers. When the ad man releases his new campaign, "The Three Springs," the brothers, whose Read More
Synopsis: British character actor Lionel Atwill, in his final performance, appeared as a power-mad Englishman attempting to rule the world in this 13 chapter Universal serial. Sir Eric Hazarias (Atwill) is searching the mountains of Himalaya for Metorium 245, the only known antidote to the Bomb. Sir Eric is Read More
Actors: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, Billy Benedict, William Frambes
Synopsis: This initial entry in Monogram's Bowery Boys series is also the second remake of the 1933 film He Couldn't Take It (the original script was by no less than Dore Schary, billed for reasons best known to himself as Jeb Schary). Leo Gorcey stars as Slip Mahoney, a pugnacious type whose volatile Read More
Actors: Ann Sothern, George Murphy, Hillary Brooke, Horace McNally, Ray Collins
Synopsis: MGM's first "Maisie" entry in two years, Up Goes Maisie once more stars Ann Sothern as eternally stranded showgirl Maisie Revere. Our heroine manages to secure a job as secretary to inventor Joseph Morton (George Murphy), who has developed a revolutionary new helicopter. A rival aircraft Read More
Actors: Albert Dekker, Mike Mazurki, Evelyn Ankers, John Eldredge, Frank Fenton
Synopsis: French Key is a Republic Pictures murder mystery with all of the studio's genre trademarks: Good cast, reasonably good direction, fairly good sets and middling story values. Albert Dekker plays a private eye who is framed for murder. With the police breathing down his neck, it's up to the Read More
Synopsis: In this musical, a struggling young singer falls in love with a nightclub owner whose father mistakes her for someone else and tries to convince her to serve a summons at the club. Fortunately, the love between the youngsters prevails. Music and happiness ensues. Songs include: Stormy Weather" Read More
Actors: Merle Oberon, George Brent, Charles Korvin, Paul Lukas, Lenore Ulric
Synopsis: Temptation is an appropriately moody romantic melodrama, providing a golden opportunity for some memorable histrionics by star Merle Oberon. Set in Egypt (courtesy of the Universal backlot), the film casts Oberon as Ruby, the new wife of wealthy archaeologist Nigel (George Brent). Unbeknownst to Read More
Actors: Anne Gwynne, Robert Shayne, Roscoe Karns, Pierre Watkin, Harry Shannon
Synopsis: Set at a major newspaper, this crime drama centers on a fellow who returns to newspaper reporting after he bombs as a playwright. Believing his grown son is in danger of marrying a gold digger, the paper's publisher assigns his new reporter to expose her. In order to do so, he cons the gal's maid Read More
Synopsis: In this episode of the popular detective series, Chan learns that fake fingerprints have caused innocent people to go to prison. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: James Craig, Signe Hasso, Edmund Gwenn, Audrey Totter, Mabel Paige
Synopsis: In this a briefcase containing four wills is found next to the unconscious body of a man. He lies beside a plane crash. Each of the wills is made out to the man. Meanwhile a recent widow and a man work together to get the money her husband died for. They almost get it when they are accosted by the Read More
Actors: Ann Miller, William Wright, Ray Walker, Charles D. Brown
Synopsis: Eve Knew Her Apples is an pinchpenny musical reworking of Frank Capra's Oscar-winning It Happened One Night. Musical star Ann Miller takes over the Claudette Colbert role; this time she's not a runaway heiress but a runaway radio star, escaping her stuffy fiance rather than her autocratic father. William Wright Read More
Synopsis: Set on the Mexican border in 1850, Bad Men of the Border was the first of seven Universal Westerns starring handsome Kirby Grant, a former singer from Montana who had earlier acted under the name Robert Stanton. The series, Universal's last attempt at competing with Republic Pictures' many Read More
Actors: Michael O'Shea, Lloyd Nolan, Trudy Marshall, Billy Cummings, Ruth Ford
Synopsis: Circumstantial Evidence is so expertly acted and directed that the audience is willing to forget its gaping logic holes. Pugnacious family man Joe Reynolds (Milo O'Shea), blowing his top as usual, threatens violence to an unlikeable storekeeper (Ben Welden). When the latter is killed, Joe is Read More
Actors: Robert Lowery, Phyllis Brooks, Charles Arnt, Jack LaRue, Victor Kilian
Synopsis: No production unit at Paramount Pictures was busier in 1944 than the Pine-Thomas unit-and few were as bankable at the box-office. In Pine-Thomas' Dangerous Passage, Joe Beck (Robert Lowery), an easygoing resident of Central America, is summoned to Texas to claim his share of an inheritance. Making Read More
Actors: Preston S. Foster, Ann Rutherford, Charles Butterworth, Jean Howard
Synopsis: This 20th Century-Fox programmer stars Preston Foster as breezy detective Steve Carromond. When a man dies of a suspicious heart attack, the victim's niece, Constance Martin (Ann Rutherford), hires Steve to investigate. The solution to the mystery lies in a tontine-like arrangement, wherein six Read More
Actors: Joan Davis, John Hubbard, Jane Frazee, Judy Clark, Bob Haymes
Synopsis: Female musicians Sally Richards (Jane Frazee) and Sue Ford (Judy Clark) are Beautiful but Broke in this frantic Columbia musical comedy. Sally and Sue's violinist pal Dottie Duncan (Joan Davis) is equally broke, though not quite as beautiful. The three girls try pass themselves off as an all-girl Read More
Synopsis: In this crime drama, an ambitious law student begins working for a corrupt finance company and becomes the neighborhood pennypincher. He is romantically interested in a wealthy young woman, but unfortunately, he is being pursued by a neighborhood girl. His company assigns him to repossess the Read More
Actors: James Ellison, Virginia Gilmore, Franklin Pangborn, Paul Harvey, Lynne Carver
Synopsis: The Carter Case was the second and last Republic film based on the popular radio series Mister District Attorney. Like the first entry, this one is played mostly for laughs, with Radio's Mister District Attorney. James Ellison replacing Dennis O'Keefe as feckless assistant DA P. Cadwallader Jones. Read More
Actors: Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings, Norman Lloyd, Otto Kruger, Vaughan Glaser, Murray Alper
Synopsis: Aircraft plant worker Robert Cummings is accused of sabotaging his factory and causing the death of a co-worker. Actually, Cummings is the fall guy for a clever ring of Nazi spies, headed by above-suspicion American philanthropist Otto Kruger. Our hero goes on a cross-country chase after genuine Read More
Actors: Una Merkel, Lionel Atwill, Nat Pendleton, Claire Dodd, Richard Davies
Synopsis: Considering the fact that it was the only Universal horror film directed by cult favorite Joseph H. Lewis, it's a shame that Mad Doctor of Market Street isn't better than it is. Lionel Atwill dominates the proceedings as Dr. Benson, an addlepated medico obsessed with the notion of restoring the Read More
Actors: Constance Bennett, Don Porter, John Litel, Edward S. Brophy, John Eldredge
Synopsis: This remake of the 1934 WW I melodrama Madame Spy has been updated to the WW II era. Once again accepting a role unworthy of her talents, Constance Bennett stars as Joan Bannister, the wife of globe-trotting war correspondent David Bannister (Don Porter). Returning to the US, Bannister becomes Read More
Actors: Basil Rathbone, Hugh Herbert, Broderick Crawford, Bela Lugosi, Gale Sondergaard
Synopsis: 1941's The Black Cat is neither a remake of the 1934 Karloff-Lugosi film of the same name, nor does it bear the slightest relation to the same-named Edgar Allan Poe story (as if the 1934 picture did!) The fact that the heroes are played by Hugh Herbert and Broderick Crawford is indication enough Read More
Actors: Deanna Durbin, Charles Laughton, Robert Cummings, Guy Kibbee, Margaret Tallichet
Synopsis: A man trying to make his dying father happy makes his love life very complicated indeed in this musical comedy starring Deanna Durbin. Jonathan Reynolds Jr. (Robert Cummings) is the playboy son of multi-millionaire business magnate Jonathan Reynolds, Sr. (Charles Laughton). Junior has told his Read More
Actors: Dick Foran, Leo Carrillo, Peggy Moran, Fuzzy Knight, John Eldredge
Synopsis: It has been alleged that Horror Island was the least expensive of Universal's 1940s horror films. While it certainly looks that way, it remains an enjoyable outing from fade-in to fade-out. In the tradition of "Ten Little Indians", a group of disparate types are lured to a supposedly haunted Read More
Actors: Geraldine Fitzgerald, Thomas Mitchell, Jeffrey Lynn, James Stephenson, Mona Maris
Synopsis: In this drama, a terminally ill college professor with only three months to live asks some younger colleagues what he should do with the rest of his life. One advises him to murder someone who deserves to die. The professor likes the idea and chooses to off a conniving seductress who really enjoys Read More
Actors: Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Fay Holden, Ann Rutherford
Synopsis: Number ten in MGM's heart-warming (and immensely profitable) "Andy Hardy" series was the 1941 entry Life Begins for Andy Hardy. Upon his graduation from high school, Andy (Mickey Rooney) decides to seek his fortune in New York City without benefit of a college education, much to the consternation Read More
Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino, Arthur Kennedy, Joan Leslie, Alan Curtis
Synopsis: In a manner of speaking, Humphrey Bogart had George Raft to thank for his ascendancy to stardom: after all, if Raft hadn't turned down both High Sierra and The Maltese Falcon, Bogart might have continued playing second-billed gangsters to the end of his days. Adapted from W. R. Burnett's novel by Burnett Read More
Actors: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Felix Bressart, Marsha Hunt, Fay Holden
Synopsis: Greer Garson is dignity and integrity personified in the role of the real-life Edna Gladney. After several life experiences which rival daytime drama for unrelenting misery and melodrama, Edna marries flour-mill owner Sam Gladney (Walter Pidgeon). They have a baby, who dies shortly after Edna Read More
Actors: Rosemary Lane, George Reeves, John Eldredge, Virginia Brissac, Francis Pierlot
Synopsis: Stalwart Warner Bros. contract player George Reeves, better known as TV's Superman, was given an early opportunity to "carry" a picture in the 1940 quickie Always a Bride. Wealthy Rosemary Lane, dissatisfied with her dishwater-dull fiance John Eldredge, throws him over in favor of Reeves. To make Read More
Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, Fuzzy Knight, Nell O'Day, Robert E. Homans
Synopsis: In this exciting western, Roaring Dan is the meanest old cuss around. He and his "son" are constantly bickering. But things are not as they seem as the young man is only pretending to be Dan's son so they can find the killers of the young man's real father. Among the guilty are two women. In the Read More
Actors: Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day, Shepperd Strudwick, Samuel S. Hinds
Synopsis: This fourth entry in MGM's "Dr. Kildare" series once again stars Lew Ayres as Kildare, Laraine Day as his sweetheart Mary Lamont, and Lionel Barrymore as crusty Dr. Gillespie. In this outing, surgeon Gregory Lane (Sheppard Strudwick) begins pitching woo at Mary himself, much to Kildare's dismay. Read More
Actors: Richard Dix, Chester Morris, Lucille Ball, Steffi Duna, John Eldredge
Synopsis: Set in the Central American jungle, Lucille Ball plays plantation owner Joan Grant in The Marines Fly High. When a platoon of US Marines need a safe place to stay, Joan (Ball) allows them inside of her home, oblivious to the fact that two of the Marines would later compete for her affections. All Read More
Actors: Chester Morris, Ralph Bellamy, Ann Dvorak, Joan Perry, Melville Cooper
Synopsis: Blind Alley, directed by Charles Vidor is a chilling psychological drama in the film-noir tradition reminiscent of the fine melodrama The Desperate Hours. Hal Wilson (Chester Morris) is an escaped killer who hides out in the home of noted psychologist Dr. Shelby (Ralph Bellamy). While Wilson's Read More
Actors: Lloyd Nolan, Janice Logan, J. Carrol Naish, Heather Angel, Broderick Crawford
Synopsis: Undercover Doctor, like the other entries in Paramount's "FBI" series, could lay claim to being "drawn from today's headlines." The film was loosely based on the career of Dr. Joseph P. Moran, who violated the ethics of his profession by tending to the gunshot wounds of gangster Eddie Krator Read More
Actors: William Henry, Judith Barrett, William Collier, Sr., Richard Denning, John Eldredge
Synopsis: In this espionage drama, an inventor creates a way to send television broadcasts across the country and finds himself pursued by international spies. Eventually the enemy succeeds in stealing the plans. But in the end, he gets it back and even falls in love with his former partner's daughter, with Read More
Actors: Jane Wyman, Dick Foran, Gloria Dickson, "Slapsie Maxie" Rosenbloom, John Ridgely
Synopsis: Probably as a reward for her energetic performance in Torchy Plays with Dynamite, pert Jane Wyman was given another Glenda Farrell-like leading role in Private Detective. Wyman plays gorgeous P.I. Myrna Winslow, the principal rival of male gumshoe Jim Rickey (Dick Foran). The case at hand concerns Read More
Actors: Lynne Overman, Patricia Morison, J. Carrol Naish, William Henry, Helen Twelvetrees
Synopsis: In this crime drama, a young hood and a seductress team up and rob a gas station. As she requires an opulent, exciting existence, more robberies ensue until they get really greedy and attempt a kidnapping. Unfortunately, they chose an unusually perceptive victim who is able to recall the flight Read More
Actors: Humphrey Bogart, James Stephenson, John Eldredge, Jessie Busley
Synopsis: A remake of Dr. Socrates (1935), this middling melodrama features Kay Francis as Carol Nelson, a medical doctor blaming gangster Joe Gurney (Humphrey Bogart) for the death of her husband (John Eldredge) during a police raid. Determined to get even, Dr. Nelson sets up practice in a small town where Read More
Actors: Kay Francis, Pat O'Brien, Ralph Forbes, Melville Cooper, Thurston Hall
Synopsis: Though Kay Francis' Warner Bros. vehicle had slipped from "A" attractions to B-plus programmers by 1938, she was still worth watching. A typical Francis vehicle of the time was Women are Like That, in which the star is cast as businesswoman Claire King, the daughter of a powerful advertising Read More
Actors: Allan Lane, Warner Oland, Katherine de Mille, Pauline Moore, Keye Luke, C. Henry Gordon
Synopsis: Actual footage of the 1936 Berlin Olympics is rabbeted into the action of this superior Charlie Chan entry. Assigned by the U.S. Navy to track down a gang of international spies, Charlie Chan (Warner Oland) heads to Berlin, where as luck would have it his son Lee (Keye Luke) is representing the Read More
Actors: Kenny Baker, Alice Brady, Jane Wyman, Henry O'Neill, Ferris Taylor
Synopsis: In this satire, an electrician from a tiny town impresses a New York radio sponsor with his booming baritone singing voice. He immediately contracts the worker to come to the Big Apple. Unfortunately, he suffers from bronchitis that changes him into a tenor. He still goes on the air, but everyone Read More
Actors: J. Edward Bromberg, Betty Furness, John Payne, Victor Kilian, Billy Burrud
Synopsis: Chunky character actor J. Edward Bromberg carries the weight of Fair Warning on his burly shoulders. Bromberg is cast as Matthew Jerico, a sheriff in the Death Valley region of California, at present assigned to solve the murder of a wealthy miner. The killing took place at a swank tourist resort Read More
Actors: George Brent, Charles Winninger, Anita Louise, Henry O'Neill
Synopsis: An intrepid amputee must pass a test to prove his devotion to his sweetie in this romantic drama. The hero lost his leg during the crash of a navy dirigible. Later he gets a job with a lumber company. He soon falls for the boss's daughter. Unfortunately, the general manager is also interested in Read More
Actors: James Dunn, Jean Rogers, Andy Devine, John Eldredge, Hobart Cavanaugh
Synopsis: James Dunn is once more cast as a reporter, this one named Murphy. On the outs with practically every newsroom in America, Murphy finds a chance for redemption when he stumbles into a mysterious murder case. Most of the story takes place during a train-ferry ride down the Mississippi. By the time Read More
Actors: Jane Withers, Tony Martin, Leah Ray, Joan Davis, El Brendel
Synopsis: Is it any surprise that hoydenish child star Jane Withers plays the title role in The Holy Terror? This time she plays Corky Wallace the irrepressible daughter of Naval Air Service Lt. Commander Wallace (John Eldredge), spending her spare time staging all-aviator musical shows. One of these Read More
Actors: Claire Trevor, Sally Blane, Douglas Fowley, Fredi Washington
Synopsis: Within the framework of a conventional newspaper yarn, One Mile From Heaven raises several controversial issues. Scoop-happy reporter Lucy "Tex" Warren (Claire Trevor) senses a big story in the plight of Flora Jackson (Fredi Washington), a young black woman who claims to be the mother of a white Read More
Actors: Hugh Herbert, Allen Jenkins, Marcia Ralston, John Eldredge, George Rosener
Synopsis: Sh! The Octopus is a low-budget remake of Ralph Spence's oft-filmed stage melodrama The Gorilla. The old-dark-house setting of the original has been changed to a lonely lighthouse, while Spence's marauding gorilla has metamorphosed into a giant special-effects octopus. Detectives Kelly (Hugh Herbert Read More
Actors: George Brent, Genevieve Tobin, Glenda Farrell, Patricia Ellis, Frank McHugh
Synopsis: In this comedy, a blocked writer decides he needs a little peace and quiet to spark his creativity so that he can write the final act of his play. Unfortunately, he no sooner settles down in his remote cabin when his first wife comes to call. She is followed by his second wife. A real ruckus Read More
Actors: Lyle Talbot, Marguerite Churchill, Claire Dodd, Virginia Brissac
Synopsis: Nurse Sarah Keate, the middle-aged crime-solver created by mystery novelist Mignon Eberhardt, was reshaped as a much younger and prettier woman in Murder by an Aristocrat. Marguerite Churchill is the white-clad heroine, here rechristened Sarah Keating, while Lyle Talbot is her doctor boyfriend Read More
Actors: Kay Linaker, Ricardo Cortez, Mary Astor, John Eldredge, Joseph Crehan
Synopsis: The Murder of Dr. Harrigan is based on a "Nurse Sarah Keats" mystery novel by Mignon Eberhardt. The middle-aged protagonist of the novel has been transformed into pretty, young nurse Sally Keating (Kay Linaker), in love with handsome doctor George Lambert (Ricardo Cortez). The founder of the Read More
Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Taylor, Jean Hersholt, Joseph Calleia, John Eldredge
Synopsis: In this polished soap opera from MGM, Robert Taylor plays Chris Claybourne, a dedicated scientist researching a possible cure for spotted fever. However, Chris has a dark side; he has a weakness for gambling and has fallen into debt with a gangster named Fish Eye (Joseph Calleia). While visiting Read More
Actors: Marion Talley, Michael Bartlett, Nigel Bruce, Luis Alberni, Henrietta Crosman
Synopsis: Casting an envious eye towards the huge box-office take of Columbia's Grace Moore vehicles, Republic hoped to strike gold in a similar fashion by fashioning a screen property for Kansas-born Metropolitan Opera diva Marion Talley. As it turned out, Follow Your Heart was Talley's first and last Read More
Actors: Pat O'Brien, Josephine Hutchinson, Jean Muir, Lyle Talbot, John Eldredge
Synopsis: This drama about corporate treachery was based on the best-selling novel by Alice Tisdale Hobart. Stephen Chase (Pat O'Brien) is a salesman and inventor with an American oil company who is sent to China to reach that nation's untapped market. While Stephen is often told that his company looks Read More
Actors: Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Barton MacLane, Raymond Brown, Robert H. Barrat, John Eldredge, Ralph M. Remley
Synopsis: Paul Muni is a prominent physician who is kidnapped by gangsters and forced to tend the needs of head crook Barton MacLaine. MacLaine takes a liking to the intellectual doctor and allows him to go home after his job is done. Muni finds himself the reluctant "staff physician" for the gangster, thus Read More
Actors: Bette Davis, Franchot Tone, Margaret Lindsay, Alison Skipworth, John Eldredge
Synopsis: Not even considered a good film back in 1935, Dangerous is held together by the mesmerizing performance of Bette Davis. The star is cast as alcoholic, self-destructive stage actress Joyce Heath, a character obviously based on Jeanne Eagels. Wealthy architect Don Bellows (Franchot Tone) becomes Read More
Actors: Kay Francis, George Brent, Genevieve Tobin, John Eldredge, Claire Dodd
Synopsis: In this bedroom farce, an ex-wife overhears her former hubby's new wife and her lover planning a tryst for the weekend while the husband is away on a business trip. Hoping that the husband will catch them in the act, the ex creates an elaborate scheme whereby the lovers' plans are foiled and they Read More
Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Gene Raymond, Genevieve Tobin, Phillip Reed
Synopsis: In this romantic drama, a horsewoman is forced to work in a society dame's stable. There she meets and falls in love with a destitute polo-player who has curried the favor of his lovely employer. The matron gets jealous of the budding relationship between the horsewoman and the player. A wealthy Read More
Actors: Jean Muir, Ricardo Cortez, Ruth Donnelly, Minna Gombell, Walter Kingsford
Synopsis: Based on a mystery novel by Mignon Eberhart, The White Cockatoo concerns three mysterious murders at a French chateau. The villain seems determined to bump off all the friends and relatives of Sue Talley (Jean Muir) and Jim Sundean (Ricardo Cortez), hoping thereby to get his (or her) hands on the Read More
Actors: Bette Davis, Ian Hunter, Colin Clive, Alison Skipworth, John Eldredge
Synopsis: The fourth screen version of Hubert Henry Davies' 1914 play Outcast, this comedy-drama stars Bette Davis as Miriam Brady, a shop girl offered 100 dollars to keep drunken socialite Geoffrey Sherwood (Ian Hunter) out of trouble. The next morning, alas, Miriam discovers that she has become Mrs. Read More
Actors: Barton MacLane, Mary Astor, John Eldredge, Dorothy Peterson, Joseph Crehan
Synopsis: Though usually a supporting player in Warner Bros' A pictures, Barton MacLane was permitted an occasional leading role in the studio's B-picture product. Man of Iron casts MacLane as a blue-collar factory worker who, through hard work and initiative, is promoted to vice president. Unfortunately Read More
Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Mary Astor, Ricardo Cortez, Louis Calhern
Synopsis: The Man with Two Faces is based on The Dark Tower, a stage comedy-mystery by Alexander Woollcott and George S. Kaufman. Edward G. Robinson is at his hammy best as flamboyant, temperamental, but withal endearing theatrical actor-manager Dawson Wells. Mary Astor co-stars as Damon's beloved actress Read More
Actors: Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Pat O'Brien, Ross Alexander, Glen Boles, John Eldredge
Synopsis: Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler reunite once again for this musical salute to the West Point Military Academy, including many scenes shot at West Point with "the full cooperation of the United States Army." Powell is Canary Dorcey, a private at a Hawaiian army post where he meets the perky Kitt Fits (Ruby Keeler Read More
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