At age 50, Bob Hope was getting a bit too long in tooth for frenzied farces like Off Limits, but his surplus of energy makes...
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1953
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Based on the autobiography by George and Anna Rose, Room for One More is a warm-hearted vehicle for husband-and-wife actors...
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Harry Foreman
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1952
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This last of several movie adaptations of Bret Harte's The Outcasts of Poker Flat stars Cameron Mitchell as a murderous...
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1952
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Cecil B. DeMille's The Greatest Show on Earth is a lavish tribute to circuses, featuring three intertwining plotlines...
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1952
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Lesley Selander took time off from his directorial duties on Tim Holt's RKO western series to helm the Monogram oater Fort...
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Henry Travers
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1952
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Even at age 38, Loretta Young could successfully pull off her ingenue duties in the innocuous comedy Half Angel. Young plays...
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1951
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In the early 1940s, producer Hal Roach turned out several entertaining and profitable "streamliners" (each running...
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1951
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Republic singing cowboy Rex Allen is once again teamed with bucolic Buddy Ebsen in Thunder in God's Country. This...
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1951
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First published in 1932, Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer's speculative novel When Worlds Collide was immediately purchased by...
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1951
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Paramount's immensely successful Pine-Thomas production unit once more struck box-office gold with The Last Outpost....
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1951
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The real Al Jennings was a wizened little man who, after a largely unsuccessful career as a western outlaw, reformed to the...
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1951
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When the Redskins Rode is set during the French and Indian Wars of the mid-18th century. Jon Hall stars as Prince Lennoc, the...
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Christopher Gist
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1951
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Previously filmed in 1931 under its original title, Theodore Dreiser's bulky but brilliant novel An American Tragedy was...
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1951
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Back in the 1930s, '40s and '50s, artist George Petty was famous for his "Petty Girl" illustrations; lovingly detailed...
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1950
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When he's discharged from a military hospital, ex-GI Bob Corey (Gordon MacRae) goes on a search for his army buddy Steve...
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1950
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As indicated by the title, Beauty on Parade is largely an excuse to display beautiful, well-proportioned young women in the...
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Jeffrey Woodstock
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1950
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1950
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1950
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1950
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The Lost Volcano is the 3rd entry in Monogram's "Bomba the Jungle Boy" series. Johnny Sheffield, formerly "Boy" in the Tarzan...
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Barton
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1950
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Former sailor Joe Blake (Bill Williams) is the Rookie Fireman in this Columbia quickie. Though fiercely independent, Blake...
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1950
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As far removed from a "typical" MGM picture as it was possible to get back in 1949, Border Incident is a gritty, realistic...
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1949
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In pageant-like fashion, Warner Bros.' Task Force traces the history of the American aircraft carrier, as experienced by a...
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1949
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1949
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Former "Henry Aldrich" Jimmy Lydon had matured into a capable leading man by the time Tucson went before the cameras. Lydon...
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1949
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1948
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Another of 20th Century-Fox's "drawn from today's headlines" dramas of the late 1940s, Behind the Iron Curtain (a.k.a....
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1948
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In this entry in the long-running "Bowery Boys" series, Slip Mahoney and his boys witness a murder, but cannot identify the...
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1948
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In this wartime drama, an American officer is accused of secretly working as an SS man. Though all evidence is against the...
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1948
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MGM whipped up another musical salad with Luxury Liner, featuring a glittering lineup of contractees including Jane Powell,...
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1948
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This preposterous post-WWII drama stars Flame the dog as a retired military pooch who lost his beloved master to the...
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Walters
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1948
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The 1931 George Arliss vehicle The Millionaire was updated and retailored in 1947 as That Way With Women. Sidney Greenstreet...
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1947
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In this slick melodrama, a sort of film-noir for women, a nightclub singer has an affair with an unhappily married San...
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1947
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Former army pilot Robert Taylor is accused, on the basis of strong circumstantial evidence, of his wife's murder. Suffering...
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1947
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A man's addiction to gambling almost destroys his life in this racetrack adventure. Joe Grange is nearly broke when he buys...
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Ramsey
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1947
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The tense psychological drama Cry Wolf offers a fascinating if not altogether successful change of pace for action star...
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Jackson Laidell
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1947
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A mysterious crook by the name of "The Poet" is robbing Wells Fargo stages and creating havoc in the Old West. The sheriff is...
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1947
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We first meet Joan Crawford, star of the moody flashbackfest Possessed, wandering aimlessly through the city streets, moaning...
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1947
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Eddie Mars
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1946
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Ida "Don't mess with me" Lupino takes a job as a singer in Robert Alda's seedy Santa Monica nitery. Lupino ignores Alda's...
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1946
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A woman struggling to rebuild her life becomes the victim of uncharitable rumors in this sudsy drama. After the recent death...
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Cary Abbott
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1946
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If Paramount could rake in the bucks by teaming singer Bing Crosby and comedian Bob Hope in a series of Road pictures, then...
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1946
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In this drama, an amoral, manipulative womanizer gets his comeuppance. The story begins as the handsome cad is witnessed...
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1945
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John Garfield stars as Al Schmid, a true-life marine who served in World War II. Schmid becomes a hero at Guadalcanal,...
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Jim Merchant
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1945
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Such was the prevailing mood among filmgoers in 1943 that God Is My Co-Pilot was allowed to show a spiritual shaft of light...
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1945
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The West Coast's answer to Broadway's Stage Door Canteen, the Hollywood Canteen was created as a GI morale-booster by film...
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1944
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The wartime housing shortage in Washington DC is the basis for this comedy. Several attractive young ladies rent a single DC...
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1944
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1944
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The fact that star Errol Flynn had been recently embroiled in a real-life rape trial only served to increase the box-office...
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Jim Austen
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1943
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Though its purely propagandastic aspects are never far from surface, Destination Tokyo must rank as one of the most...
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Reserve Officer Raymond
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1943
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On December 6, 1941, a squadron of nine B-17 bombers takes off for Hickam Field, HI. The crew of the Mary Ann, including two...
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Capt. Michael A. Quincannon
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1943
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1942
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Made in 1942 but released early in 1943, Secret Enemies is a Warner Bros. espionage quickie, putting the studio's...
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John Trent
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1942
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Although Warner Bros. "officially" disbanded its B-picture unit in 1941, the studio continued to grind out lower-berth...
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Hank O'Connor
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1942
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In this wartime drama, a doctor discovers that one of his patients isn't as crazy as he thought, with dangerous consequences...
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1942
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Wings for the Eagle is an overbaked but sincere tribute to the wartime defense workers at the Lockheed Aircraft Plant, where...
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1942
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Neither James Cagney nor Bette Davis were particularly pleased with the outdated screwball comedy The Bride Came C.O.D., but...
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1941
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In this boxing drama, champion fighter Johnny Rocket decides to leave the ring to please his new bride. Unfortunately, his...
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1941
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Though history is distorted almost beyond recognition in Warner Bros.' They Died With Their Boots On, audiences in 1941 ate...
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1941
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Strange Alibi offered young Warner Bros. contractee Arthur Kennedy to carry a picture all by himself. The star is cast as...
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Tex
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1941
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In the 1930s and 1940s, Warner Bros. developed a positive genius for remaking earlier films in new, disguised fashion,...
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1941
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The Great Mr. Nobody is an easygoing classified ad salesman, appropriately nicknamed Dreamy (Eddie Albert). All Dreamy wants...
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1941
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Perhaps nine lives weren't enough, but 63 minutes was plenty of time to relate the plot of this Ronald Reagan vehicle. Reagan...
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1941
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In this crime drama, a remake of Heat Lightning(1931), a robber kills a bank teller during a robbery and then takes his wife,...
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1941
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The brazen audaciousness with which Bryan Foy's B-picture unit at Warner Bros. remade the studio's old properties was seldom...
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1941
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1941
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In this upbeat drama, a lovely European heiress is disturbed to discover from her lawyer that her father made his fortune by...
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1941
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The 1940 peacetime draft spawned a whole slew of military and naval comedies, the most successful of which was Abbott and...
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1941
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1941
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A Child is Born is a remake of 1932's Life Begins, softened to conform to stricter movie censorship and lengthened to qualify...
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1940
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This 55-minute remake of the 75-minute Warner Bros. crime drama Special Agent retains a surprising amount of the original's...
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1940
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1940
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Previously filmed in 1920 and 1931, James Oliver Curwood's River's End was given a third go-round by Warner Bros. in 1940....
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1940
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Stereotypes abound in this drama that follows the attempts of a Scottish lad to marry a pretty Irish lassie and join the...
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1940
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Father is a Prince is a scaled-down remake of the 1934 comedy-drama Big Hearted Herbert, itself based on a play by Sophie...
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1940
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Invisible Stripes is a cookie-cutter Warners prison drama which rounds up the usual suspects. George Raft and...
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1940
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1940
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The notoriously temperamental Miriam Hopkins is ideally cast as equally contentious theatrical prima donna...
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1940
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A barely disguised rip-off of 20th Century-Fox's all-female Tail Spin (39), Warner Bros.' Flight Angels is an inexpensive...
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1940
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1940
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1940
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1940
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Edward G. Robinson plays orchid-loving gangster Little John Sarto, who aspires to "real class." During a power struggle with...
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1940
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S.N. Behrman's hit Broadway show about a guy who writes hit Broadway shows comes to the screen in this comedy. Gaylord...
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1940
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This slightly laundered remake of the 1932 courtroom classic The Mouthpiece stars George Brent as brilliant but unprincipled...
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1940
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Knute Rockne-All American was Pat O'Brien's finest hour: thanks to intensive rehearsals and numerous makeup applications, he...
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1940
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Officially, America had no intention of entering the Second World War in 1940: Why, then, were there so many "preparedness"...
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1940
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This third film version of Maxwell Anderson's play Saturday's Children stars Claude Rains as the impecunious but proud father...
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1940
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1940
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1940
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Based upon an idea by Broadway columnist Mark Hellinger, The Roaring Twenties opens during World War I as doughboys Eddie...
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1939
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A remake of Dr. Socrates (1935), this middling melodrama features Kay Francis as Carol Nelson, a medical doctor blaming...
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1939
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This final entry in Warner Bros.' Nancy Drew series is the only one actually based on a novel by Nancy Drew creator...
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1939
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In this drama, a remake of The Crowd Roars, two auto racing brothers become rivals on the racetrack when the older brother...
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1939
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1939
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A singing waiter with a wonderful operatic voice finds himself in the squared circle facing heavyweight boxers after he gets...
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1939
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Banking on the popularity of the Warner Bros.' boxing saga Kid Galahad (37), the studio rushed into production with another,...
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1939
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Donald Norton
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1939
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Humphrey Bogart makes his first and last appearance in a horror movie in this film. Though the title implies that it is a...
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1939
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It's Swing Music vs. the Classics in the easy-to-take Warners tunefest Naughty But Nice. Dick Powell dons the obligatory...
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1939
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This minor but entertaining screen version of the Monte Barrett-Russell E. Ross comic strip The Adventures of Jane Arden...
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1939
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They Made Me a Criminal opens in New York, depicting the latest victory in the ring for Johnny Bradfield (John Garfield), a...
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1939
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Bette Davis earned an Oscar nomination for her role in this classic four-hanky tearjerker. Judith Traherne (Bette Davis) is a...
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1939
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In this, the premiere entry in the "Brass" Bancroft series (starring the man who would-be President, Ronald Reagan), Brass is...
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1939
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Ace Secret Service agent Lt. Brass Bancroft is on the case in this crime drama. This time he is assigned to break up a major...
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1939
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Bold for its time (just prior to World War II), Confessions of a Nazi Spy is an expose of a genuine Nazi espionage ring...
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1939
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Louis Armstrong steals the show as the groom to Jeepers Creepers, a skittish racehorse that can only settle down and run when...
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1939
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In this entry in the long-running series, one of the Kids goes to military school and learns, with the help of his late...
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1939
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A tough football scout thinks he has finally found a potential star quarterback when he sees a burly country-store stock boy...
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1939
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Filmed on-location at the Naval Air Training Stations in San Diego, CA, and Pensacola, FL, this black-and-white Warner Bros....
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1939
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Torchy Plays with Dynamite was the final entry in Warner Bros.' "Torchy Blane" series, based on characters created by...
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1939
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Otis Ferguson has said of Each Dawn I Die that "the story is of the kind you would have to see to disbelieve." And to be...
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1939
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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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1939
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A young punk hooks up with a mobster and helps him rob a gas station in this crime drama. From there the crimes become more...
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1939
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In this family-style comedy, the trouble begins when a good father loses his job at the local newspaper when the publication...
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1939
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1938
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Once a staple of summer stock and community theatres, Bella and Samuel Spewack's Broadway farce Boy Meets Girl dates rather...
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1938
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With Glenda Farrell having temporarily taken leave of Warner Bros., the actress' signature role of fast-talking girl reporter...
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1938
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After directing the first few Bob Baker westerns for Universal, Joseph H. Lewis passed the cudgel to George Waggner, who did...
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Ben
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1938
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This entry in the Dead End Kids series of adventures makes critical comments about the failings of reform schools. The story...
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1938
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In this entry in the "Torchy Blane" series, the plucky young reporter tries to expose a ring of counterfeiters led by a man...
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1938
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Dick Powell stars as a Brooklynite who becomes a cowboy in spite of himself. Drifting into a small western town, Powell takes...
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1938
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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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1938
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In this comedy, a milquetoast office clerk is forcibly betrothed to a woman by her overbearing mother. The trouble begins...
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1938
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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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1938
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In this youth-oriented western, a young man's father is wrongfully accused of murder. Unfortunately, his pa can't prove it...
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1938
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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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1938
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Blondes at Work is number four in Warner Bros.' lively "Torchy Blane" series. Glenda Farrell returns as girl reporter Torchy...
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1938
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Fight manager Nick Donati (Edward G. Robinson) has just lost his best fighter to crooked promoter Turkey Morgan...
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1937
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This hard-hitting Warner Bros. courtroom drama begins with the usual "Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is...
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1937
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In this lighthearted musical comedy from legendary director Busby Berkeley, Henry Bowers (Dick Powell) is a saxophonist in a...
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1937
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With the considerable input of ex-Navy officer Frank Wead (who wrote the script) and technical adviser Cmdr. G. W. D....
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1937
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