Robert Stack stars in this sea-faring historical epic as John Paul Jones, the first great hero of the American Navy. While...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1959
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Bob Hope plays a 19th-century insurance agent whose miserable sales record prompts his boss to send him out West, where he...
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Director
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1959
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More noted in its day for its underwater photography than for any distinction in its script or characters, this simple crime...
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Stuart Godfrey
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1959
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In this crime thriller a young woman marries a wealthy vintner. Soon afterward, she falls in love with a handsome rodeo...
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Director, Producer
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1957
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Director, Producer
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1956
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Razzle-dazzle showman Michael Todd hocked everything he had to make this spectacular presentation of Jules Verne's 1872 novel...
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Screenwriter
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1956
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John Wayne plays anti-Nazi Prussian sea captain Karl Erlich in Sea Chase, one of the many film commentaries released post...
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Director, Producer
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1955
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A young woman (Jean Simmons) manages a remote California sheep ranch with her father (Brian Aherne). A plane carrying a...
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Director
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1954
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Set in the southernmost regions of Texas, Ride, Vaquero stars Robert Taylor as a steely-eyed gunman named Rio. In league with...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1953
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Framed for robbery, 18th century medical student Alan Ladd is sentenced to a New South Wales penal colony. En route to the...
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Director
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1953
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Director
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1953
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Hondo is so "perfect" a John Ford western that many people assume it was directed by John Ford--or at the very least,...
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Director
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1953
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1953
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Director
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1951
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His Kind of Woman directed by veteran John Farrow, is a convoluted mystery thriller which tries unsuccessfully to combine...
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Director
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1951
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Faith Domergue, the latest of Howard Hughes' protegees, made her film debut in 1950's Where Danger Lives. Domergue plays...
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Director
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1950
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Set just after the close of the Civil War, a former Confederate officer (Ray Milland) joins a vaudeville target-shooting show...
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Director
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1950
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This modern-day "Faust" variation benefits from a superb cast. Thomas Mitchell plays Joseph Foster, an honest judge who wants...
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Director, Producer
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1949
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Taken (as far as possible) from the Cole Porter musical comedy of the same name, Red, Hot and Blue stars Betty Hutton as an...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1949
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Director, Producer
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1948
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A man who dreams of seeing the future discovers the horrible burden that it can carry in this film noir suspense story....
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Director
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1948
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An older soldier enters West Point but remains haunted by nagging guilt. It all began in Tunisia during a tremendous battle....
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Director
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1948
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In this aerial melodrama, four brothers working as stunt pilots for a flying circus leave their jobs to become mail pilots....
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Director
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1947
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Alan Ladd stars in Calcutta as devil-may-care pilot Neale Gordon. With his equally fearless partners Pedro Blake...
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Director
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1947
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Barry Fitzgerald's distinctive brand of Irish blarney, which was wonderful in small doses, leaned towards the precious and...
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Director
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1947
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Based on a famous book by Richard Henry Dana, Jr., this grueling saga of shipboard oppression is set in the mid-19th century....
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Director
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1946
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Director
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1946
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"You can live a long time in three days -- sometimes when you're in a tight spot, you can live a year in ten seconds." US...
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Director
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1945
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Though it takes several liberties with facts and motivations, The Hitler Gang is a reasonably absorbing chronicle of Hitler's...
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Director
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1944
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Set in Japanese-occupied China shortly before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, this action/drama stars Alan Ladd as Mr. Jones, a...
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Director
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1943
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Scripted by Irwin Shaw from a story by C. S. Forester (of "Captain Horatio Hornblower" fame), Commandos Strike at Dawn is a...
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Director
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1942
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The winner of four Oscar nominations, Wake Island was one of the first major Hollywood films to deal with America's forced...
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Director
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1942
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A creaky remake of the 1932 film of the same name, Bill of Divorcement tells of the effect an emotionally disturbed father's...
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Director
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1940
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Festooned with flashbacks, Married and in Love is a minor domestic drama given Tiffany treatment by director John Farrow....
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Director
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1940
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Kay Francis was anxious to complete her Warner Bros. contract when she agreed to appear in this lower-berth drama. Francis...
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Director
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1939
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The Saint Strikes Back was the second in the series of films featuring Simon Templay, better known as The Saint, and the...
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Director
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1939
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Often cited as a "model" B picture, Five Came Back is set in motion when the twelve-seat passenger plane "Southern Star"...
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Director
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1939
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In this thriller, a man is brutally murdered and an innocent man takes the rap. The real murderer later confesses his crime...
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Director
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1939
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Sorority House is based on Mary Coyle Chase's short story Chi House. Anne Shirley plays a middle-class college student who is...
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Director
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1939
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The rise of the popular Nevada city is chronicled in this epic drama that begins when Reno was a tiny silver-mining town and...
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Director
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1939
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Boris Karloff starred in this rather static whodunit from the Warner Bros. B-unit as Jeffries, a civilian employee at a...
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Director
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1938
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In this heartwarming tearjerker, an adorable orphan becomes determined to find her father, whom she is convinced is still...
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Director
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1938
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Broadway Musketeers is a remake of the 1932 Warner Bros. drama Three on a Match, with numerous concessions made to the now...
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Director
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1938
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The ever-suffering Kay Francis once again makes an assault on the audience's tear ducts in My Bill. Francis is cast as Mary...
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Director
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1938
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Director John Farrow was always at his best when dealing with desperate men in desperate situations. One of Farrow's lesser...
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Director
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1937
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In this lively adventure aimed at youthful audiences, a wiseacre fireman soon finds himself in trouble with his fire captain...
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Director
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1937
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In this drama, the third remake of a popular play by Porter Emerson Browne, General Wu Yen Fang, "the White Tiger," is an...
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Director
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1937
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Eskimo actor Ray Mala (real name: Ray Wise) relocates to the South Seas in Last of the Pagans. Mala (as he is billed) is cast...
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Screen Story, Screenwriter
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1936
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Produced under the working title The Capture of Tarzan, Tarzan Escapes was completely refilmed before release, eviscerating...
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Screenwriter
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1936
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Screenwriter
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1932
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In this dramatic adventure a shady lady becomes a spy for the Austrian intelligence agency and ends up involved with a man...
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Play Author, Screenwriter
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1931
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A wealthy man's mistress abandons her luxurious life as a kept woman to be with the struggling Paris artist she has come to...
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Screenwriter
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1931
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Out of sympathy, a grown lad fighting for Canada in World War I agrees to let an older childless woman adopt him, becoming...
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Screenwriter
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1930
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In this suspenseful crime drama a woman is threatened by an angry husband and a man comes to her aid. Unfortunately, after...
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Screenwriter
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1930
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In this melodrama, a dancer works in a sleazy Marseilles portside dive that is really the front for a bordello. While...
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Screen Story
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1930
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Earl Derr Biggers, the creator of Charlie Chan, was responsible for the international-espionage yarn Inside the Lines. The...
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Dialogue Writer, Screenwriter
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1930
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The "dangerous woman" of the title is Tania Gregory, played by the magnificent Olga Baclanova. The Russian-born wife of...
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Screenwriter
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1929
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In his second talking picture, Richard Dix is cast as British officer Capt. Leslie Yeullat, at present on leave in London....
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Screenwriter
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1929
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If Hollywood gossip columnists can be believed, Gary Cooper and Lupe Velez were lovers -- and very passionate ones -- when...
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Screenwriter
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1929
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The principal lady in Ladies of the Mob is jazz-baby Clara Bow. After her father is executed, Bow goes to heck in a...
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Screenwriter
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1928
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This was the third screen version of A.E.W. Mason's oft-filmed novel about one soldier's triumph over cowardice and was the...
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Intertitle Writer
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1928
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Intertitle Writer, Screen Story
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1928
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Victorien Sardou's 1882 stage play Fedora was transformed by future director John Farrow into the Pola Negri vehicle The...
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Screenwriter
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1928
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Screenwriter
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1928
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The Clara Bow vehicle Three Week Ends was based on a story by Elinor Glyn, the romance novelist who bestowed the "It Girl"...
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Screenwriter
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1928
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It would seem that Warner Bros. was trying to develop hoydenish Louise Fazenda and diminutive Clyde Cook into a screen team,...
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Screenwriter
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1927
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Wreck of the Hesperus was "suggested" by the poem of the same name by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. It will be recalled that...
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Screenwriter
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1927
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Confined to two basic sets and six characters, White Gold may well be the most claustrophobic western ever made. This sense...
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Intertitle Writer
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1927
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