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1957
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Carrie is based on Sister Carrie, a novel by Theodore Dreiser. Dreiser's clumsy, unwieldy prose is streamlined into a neat...
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1952
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1952
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Fort Defiance stars Dane Clark as Civil War deserter Johnny Tallon. Despite his checkered past, Johnny is idolized by his...
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1951
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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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1950
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When in doubt, drag out the "old dark house/mad scientist" formula. That's the philosophy of Master Minds, the 16th entry in...
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1949
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1948
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Quick-draw legend Bat Masterson is summoned to Kansas to end a small-town feud between local farmers and criminal ranch...
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1947
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Three years after song-and-dance man Dick Powell reshaped his nice-guy image by playing hard-boiled gumshoe Phillip Marlowe...
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1947
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A grizzled old prospector literally stumbles over General Santa Ana's missing payroll treasure in this average "Durango Kid"...
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1946
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If Grecian storyteller Aesop really did exist, he was most likely a black slave. He wasn't an Austrian actor with an Egyptian...
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1946
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Joan Davis, the daughter of a famed woman detective, has inherited none of her mother's deductive prowess. Nonetheless, Joan...
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1945
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This peppy wartime musical stars Bing Crosby as radio crooner Johnny Cabot, the heartthrob of millions. To escape his...
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1944
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In one of their most genial comedies -- based on a Damon Runyon story -- Bud Abbott and Lou Costello have to help one friend...
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1943
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1943
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Produced by silent-film comedian Harold Lloyd, My Favorite Spy is a vehicle for bespectacled bandleader Kay Kyser, who...
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1942
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Though released before Atlantic Convoy, Columbia's Parachute Nurse didn't make it to New York until after Convoy had already...
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1942
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1941
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When World War I hero Alvin York agreed to sell the movie rights to his life story to Warner Bros., it was on three...
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1941
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While in Hawaii, Velez begins the film as a risque nightclub act and due to her involvement with a group of sailors becomes...
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1941
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In this 15-episode serial, Detective Spike Holland must solve the mystery of Garr Castle. He does so after he is hired to...
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1940
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Roy Rogers plays an outlaw out to avenge the murder of his brother in this fine Republic Western directed by one of the...
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1940
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Producer Walter Wanger's House Across the Bay serves as an excellent showcase for Wanger's then-wife Joan Bennett. She is...
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1940
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The Man From Sundown is cut from the same cloth as all previous Charles Starrett westerns. The hero, Texas Ranger Larry...
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1939
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In his sixth and final Western release of 1939, diminutive Bob Steele played a cowboy, who, searching for his father's...
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1939
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Radio crooner Tex Fletcher was given a one-time-only chance at western stardom in Grand National's Six-Gun Rhythm. The plot...
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1939
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In this western, a U.S. marshal impersonates an outlaw and rides to Texas to find the looters who have been raiding supply...
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1939
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Following up his movie portrayal of Wild Bill Hickok, Bill Elliot stars as famed trailblazer John "Frontier" Freeman in...
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1939
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In their first starring feature away from the Hal Roach studios, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy play a couple of fish peddlers...
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1939
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On the verge of superstardom, Rita Hayworth played in scores of minor dramas like Homicide Bureau, an entertaining little...
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1939
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Directed by the veteran J.P. McGowan, Where the West Begins was the fourth of 22 Westerns -- some with music -- starring Jack...
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1938
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In this entry in the long-running series of westerns, the Three Mesquiteers transform their ranch into a prison farm to...
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1938
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Code of the Rangers was one of four Monogram westerns of the 1937-38 season starring the venerable Tim McCoy. In this one,...
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1938
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Also known as People's Enemy, this is a low-budget surprise movie which depicts a convicted racketeer on his way across...
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1938
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This film is one of acclaimed director Fritz Lang's less noted achievements, a mixture of romance, comedy, drama, and satire....
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1938
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1938
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Harold Lloyd plays a professor of Egyptology, frightened by the notion that he has fallen under an ancient Egyptian curse....
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1938
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Frontier Scout was one of a handful of western vehicles for opera star George Houston, who adapted surprisingly well to his...
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1938
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Featuring the husband-and-wife team of Jack Randall and Louise Stanley, this lukewarm Monogram Western eschewed the musical...
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1938
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In Early Arizona was western star Bill Elliot's first effort for Columbia Pictures. Not yet "Wild Bill" Elliot (as he would...
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1938
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Released by Monogram in 1937, Shadows of the Orient was actually produced independently several years earlier by...
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1937
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In this bouncy musical, a sax-playing ex-convict joins a swing band and embarks upon a cross-country tour. He does really...
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1935
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Released in the wake of the bizarre Big Calibre (1935), this below-average Bob Steele Western directed by his father Robert...
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1935
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It's the wild and woolly waterfront world of San Francisco in the late 1800s in this rambling tale of an outrageous nightclub...
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1935
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Set up essentially to produce cheap westerns, low-budget Puritan Pictures occasionally ground out a contemporary actioner...
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1935
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Produced by parsimonious Majestic Pictures, Reckless Roads stars Regis Toomey as perennial wise-guy Speed Demming. To gain...
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1935
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Harold Lloyd plays Ezekial Cobb, a missionary's son who has spent his entire life in China. Cobb is sent to his father's home...
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1934
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Just after completing It Happened One Night, director Frank Capra churned out a bread-and-butter picture titled Broadway...
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1934
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Frank Capra's seminal screwball comedy, which won all five major Academy Awards for 1934, is still as breezy and beguiling...
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1934
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1934
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Mischa Auer's fake Swami Yomurda of Sinister Hands returned in Sucker Money, a crime drama set among newspaper reporters....
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janitor
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1933
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A couple of demoted cops fight over a gangster's moll in this cheap crime drama produced and directed by Harry S. Webb. A...
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1933
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In this drama, a recently convicted criminal boards a train bound for the prison where he will be hanged. His wife rides...
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1933
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B-Western perennial Bob Steele made attempts at diversifying in 1933 by playing a circus acrobat in The Gallant Fool and a...
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1933
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The son of a famed race car driver is so traumatized by witnessing his father's fatal racetrack crash that he refuses to...
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1933
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A young blue-blood gets jilted on his wedding day after his bride-to-be discovers that he lost his fortune during the...
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1933
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In this rough-and-tumble action comedy, Chuck Connors (Wallace Beery) and Steve Brodie (George Raft) are friendly rivals on...
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1933
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In this mystery, a detective is called in to investigate the fate of a derelict ship that was found floating off the coast...
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1932
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1932
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Thirteen years after a dinner party where the wealthy host dropped, the thirteen guests are invited to reassemble at the...
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1932
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William Wyler directed this melodramatic story about a boy who, after growing up in the shadow of his father, learns the old...
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1932
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Johnny Mack Brown stars in Flames as a cocksure young firefighter named Charlie. After rescuing a cat from a burning...
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1932
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Sky Raiders may be a talkie, but its plotting and performances are strictly from the silent era. Lloyd Hughes plays Bob, a...
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Pete
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1931
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Assigned by the police commissioner to catch a notorious gangster, a young police captain discovers that his adversary is a...
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1931
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Cowboy hero Tom Tyler dispenses Two-Fisted Justice in this energetic western. At the outbreak of the Civil War, President...
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1931
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1931
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In this heartwarming drama, an amiable department store worker gets more than he bargained for when he accidentally slips a...
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1930
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This late-20s gangster movie features Carole Lombard as a young gal who agrees to marry a smooth-talking gangster in exchange...
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1929
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A groom's heart breaks when he discovers that his new wife loves another. To ease his pain, the husband joins the Army and...
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Slim, Leroy's Pal
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1928
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Professor Griswald
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1928
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No, Dead Man's Curve does not star Jan and Dean-mainly because it was filmed before either one of them was born. The film...
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Goof Goober
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1928
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This routine drama, produced by F.B.O., was based on a story by Laura Jean Libbey. Although they'd both been in pictures for...
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Blunty
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1927
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Prizefighter Danny Martin (Danny O'Shea) wants to marry pretty Charlotte Hamilton (Mary Brian), but her wealthy father John...
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Kit Goodwin
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1927
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1927
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Real-life college gridiron hero Red Grange heads the cast of the football drama One Minute to Play. Though his father wants...
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1926
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