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1946
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Universal's 1946 The Dark Horse is not a remake of the 1932 Warner Bros. film of the same name, though both deal with a long...
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1946
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Someone in London has driven several prominent men to madness and suicide. Normally, Scotland Yard would call in Sherlock...
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1944
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Strange but true: Norma Shearer turned down the title role in Mrs. Miniver to star instead in the insignificant trifle We...
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1942
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In this Alaskan adventure, a surgeon becomes a pilot after he messes up an operation. Unfortunately, he crashes during a...
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1942
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The beauty-parlor craze of the early 1930s was given a good going-over in MGM's Beauty for Sale. Madge Evans,...
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1933
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This droll, sophisticated comedy stars Constance Bennett as Venice Muir, a shy young lady with no "past" of any kind -- and...
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1932
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James Cagney stars as a popular prizefighter who loses his winnings through too much partying and too many women. Cagney's...
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1932
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Maggie Warren (Marie Dressler) is the matriarch of a banking family who has run the Warren Bank for years, until she turns it...
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1932
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This was the next-to-last entry of the Cohens and Kellys series, which were becoming increasingly more tiresome with each...
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1932
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1930
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Ahead of its time for liberated thinking, this is still really just a classic romance with a love triangle thrown in on the...
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1930
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1929
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Its title and 1929 vintage notwithstanding, Dream Melody was a silent picture. John Roche plays Richard Gordon, an aspiring...
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Richard Gordon
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1929
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This comedy-mystery is famed director Frank Capra's first all-talking film. It tells the story of a bungling police inspector...
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1929
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In this comedy, a lonesome fellow returns from Peru with a fortune and begins looking for a wife. While still single, he has...
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1929
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A group of Londoners gather at the home of their host in order to solve the murders of two company officers. Once assembled...
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1929
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Jerry (John Harron), a $40-a-week working stiff, is in love with Peggy (June Marlowe). But while attending a weekend society...
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Cora's Fiance
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1928
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German actress Lena Malena starred in this lavishly budgeted and potentially intriguing melodrama about the influence of a...
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1928
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A minor silent comedy-drama, Her Big Night featured Grace Darmond, a blond former serial queen, as the secretary of a...
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1926
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Historically important as the first film to carry a Vitaphone sound track (consisting of music and sound effects, but no...
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1926
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Belle Bennett stars as Odette, who early in life is forced to give up all dreams of love so that she can look after her...
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1926
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The venerable David Belasco stage piece The Return of Peter Grimm was first brought to the screen in 1926, with...
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Frederick Grimm
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1926
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1926
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Monte Blue stars in this mystery, which was based on a novel by Earl Derr Biggers. Geoffrey West (Blue) is a soldier of...
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1926
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Husband Huntley Gordon has convinced himself that he's the head of the household, but the viewer knows full well that wifey...
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1926
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As their 25th anniversary approaches, Stuart Borden (Huntley Gordon) and his wife (Irene Rich) are not exactly happily...
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Spencer Hobart
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1925
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This romance is based on the best-selling novel by Robert Keable, which was a sequel to yet another novel, Simon Called...
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Dr. Sampson
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1925
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One of the final films bearing the Vitagraph stamp before that company was completely absorbed by Warner Bros., this silent...
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Ward Ralston
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1925
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Maurice Ferriere
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1925
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This mystery was based on a novel written by 20 popular authors, each of whom contributed a chapter. The point of each...
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Saltonstall Adams
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1925
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Winsome Shirley Mason stars in this routine Fox melodrama. The naïve Grace Whitney (Mason) attends a wild party being held by...
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1925
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Edward Everett Horton is well cast in this simple little romance, which was based on the play The Nest Egg by Anne Caldwell...
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John Smith No.1
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1925
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Wilbur Crane
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1925
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Sidney Page (Virginia Valli) is studying to be a nurse. All the young men are in love with her in the small town where she...
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Dr. Max Wilson
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1924
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1924
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Because of the recent Tea Pot Dome scandal, oil fields were a big topic of discussion in early 1924. Even though this...
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Buddy Briskow
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1924
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1924
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Irene Rich plays a selfish and tragic figure in this drama based on a best-selling novel by Willa Cather. Marian (Rich) is...
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Frank Ellinger
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1924
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This low-budget Finis Fox drama marked the film debut of Gloria Grey. Grey is Hope Anthony, the motherless daughter of an old...
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Hal Tracy
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1924
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Lest exhibitors didn't think the source material's title (based on a novel by then-popular writer Kathleen Norris) was...
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1923
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After the success of 1920's Humoresque, it only made sense to put together all the same elements -- a story by Fanny Hurst,...
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1922
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