Previously adapted to film in 1923, Ben Ames Williams' rousing sea adventure All the Brothers Were Valiant was given the...
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1953
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1952
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Mistaken identity and underhanded dealings set the stage for this adventure story based on Anthony Hope's classic novel....
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The Cardinal
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1952
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Young Robert Fontaine, Jr. (Billy Gray) lives with his hard-working father (George Murphy) and mother (Nancy Davis), who is...
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Mr. Wardlaw
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1952
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Peter Lawford goes through his standard "rich, spoiled young playboy" paces in the MGM comedy Just This Once. In danger of...
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Judge Samuel Coulter
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1952
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Bannerline was Don Weis' first solo directorial credit for MGM. Keefe Brasselle stars as cub reporter Mike Perrivale, who...
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Josh
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1951
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Highly respected defense attorney Dwight Bradley Mason (Walter Pidgeon) is able to clear young Rudi Wallchek...
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Judge Holbrook
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1951
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Though not the most profitable baseball comedy ever made, Angels in the Outfield is one of the most likeable and enduring....
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Arnold P. Hapgood
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1951
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Ray Milland plays a happily married college professor whose wife and child perish in a fire. Despondent, Milland loses...
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Dr. Horace Snyder
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1951
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Grounds for Marriage is another attractively packaged sausage from the MGM assembly line. Van Johnson is a doctor, while...
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Dr. Carlton R. Young
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1950
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Stars in My Crown is an episodic movie about a rural Southern community in the 19th century. Though the film features a...
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Dr. D.K. Harris Sr.
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1950
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George Sidney directs this pleasant romantic comedy concerning mayoral love. During a convention of mayors in San Francisco,...
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1950
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Comprised of eight unrelated episodes of inconsistent quality, this anthology piece of American propaganda features some of...
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1950
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In this light drama, Clark Gable once again played his stock-in-trade role of a rogue with a heart of gold. Charlie King...
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1949
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In this drama, an embittered widow, a former concert singer, can't help but blame Lassie for her son's death. Needing help...
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1949
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1948
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For his first post-WWII starring film, 26-year-old Mickey Rooney returned to familiar territory in Love Laughs at Andy Hardy....
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Judge Hardy
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1946
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Even if the film had been released without opening and closing titles, it wouldn't have been hard to identify Three Wise...
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1946
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William Powell plays a cynical con man who graduates from penny-ante operations to a big-time charity racket. The scam...
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Father Nolan
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1946
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College boy Andy continues his studies in this comedy. Well, at least he should be studying. Unfortunately, he seems to be...
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1944
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Incredible as it may seem, rambunctious 18-year-old Andy Hardy (Mickey Rooney) finally makes it to college in Andy Hardy's...
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Judge Hardy
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1942
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MGM's "Andy Hardy" series continued to rake in the bucks with its 12th entry, The Courtship of Andy Hardy. The story takes...
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Judge Hardy
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1942
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Andy is ready to graduate from high school, and, trying to be a big man, he hires a pretty woman to be his social secretary....
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1941
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MGM's The Trial of Mary Dugan was based on the popular stage play by Bayard Vellier, previously filmed as a Norma Shearer...
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1941
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Number ten in MGM's heart-warming (and immensely profitable) "Andy Hardy" series was the 1941 entry Life Begins for Andy...
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Judge Hardy
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1941
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Based loosely on a story by Booth Tarkington, the Warner Bros. B-picture Father's Son puts the talents of character actors...
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1941
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By 1941, Wallace Beery was pretty much confined to playing two characters: The reprobate with the heart of gold, or the...
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1941
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The debutante whom Andy Hardy (Mickey Rooney) meets-after falling in love with her photograph -- is blonde Diana Lewis (the...
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1940
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Directed in 1940 by S. Sylva Simon, Sporting Blood stars Robert Young as racing stable owner Myles Vanders. Shortly after...
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1940
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The fifth of MGM's "Andy Hardy" series, The Hardys Ride High finds the Hardy family outside their usual small-town environs....
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1939
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Comedy, romance, and song hit the ice in this musical. Larry Hall (James Stewart) is a professional ice skater whose act with...
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Douglas Tolliver
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1939
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This sixth installment in MGM's "Andy Hardy" series is among the best, thanks in great part to the breezy direction of...
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1939
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Originally designed for exhibition at the 1939 World's Fair, Land of Liberty is a 137-minute compendium of filmclips from...
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1939
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1939
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If Judge Hardy and Son had been filmed in the 1990s, it would have been titled Andy Hardy VII. In this latest edition of...
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1939
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Wallace Beery plays one of his patented good bad guys in this MGM Western. "Trigger" Bill (Beery) is an outlaw with a heart...
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1938
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1938
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The Sidney Howard/Paul de Kruf Broadway play Yellow Jack was transferred to the screen by MGM in 1938. The film is set at the...
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1938
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The sequel to the first Andy Hardy picture, A Family Affair, this light comedy stars Mickey Rooney in the role that would...
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Judge Hardy
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1938
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A sleazy lawyer gains clients by showing up at terrible accidents. His boss is determined to stop him so he hires a pretty...
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1938
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Before he became the high priest of realism, producer/director Andrew L. Stone was fascinated with classical music (he'd...
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1938
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The Hardys are off to Washington DC in this third entry in MGM's "Hardy Family" series. Judge Hardy (Lewis Stone) has been...
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1938
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The title tells the story in this fourth of MGM's "Hardy Family" series. Judge Hardy (Lewis Stone) takes his family to the...
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1938
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An actor creates a devious murder plot in this suspenseful, ironic drama. For many years, the aging thespian has been...
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1937
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Warren William stars as Dr. Phillip Wendel Jones, a doctor whose patient dies under questionable circumstances. He is...
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1937
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The 1937 Thirteenth Chair was the third film version of the 1919 stage melodrama by Bayard Veiller. Dame Mae Whitty dominates...
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1937
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In this western, three desperadoes rob the New Jerusalem Bank and flee across the desert where they find a seemingly...
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1936
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The Unguarded Hour opens with prosecutor Sir Alan Deardon (Franchot Tone) in the midst of a murder trial. He gets his...
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Gen. Lawrence
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1936
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1936
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Suzy is the film in which Cary Grant, overcome by the beauty and vivacity of Jean Harlow, sings her a love ballad! This...
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1936
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In this crime drama a high-school principal's principles are put to the test when he, also a member of a parole board, is...
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1936
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Directed by Edwin L. Marin, Sworn Enemy stars Robert Young as "Hank" Sherman, a law student who earns extra cash by working...
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1936
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One of four MGM "B"-pictures ground out in quick succession by director George B. Seitz, Woman Wanted is a crime melodrama...
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1935
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China Seas proved that the recently imposed Hollywood production code had little if any effect on the popularity of MGM sex...
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Tom Davids
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1935
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This musical drama stars Dick Powell as the son of an admiral (Lewis Stone), who'd rather sing than go to sea. Through the...
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1935
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Big Mike (Wallace Beery) is a tough Army flyer who longs to see his son Little Mike (Robert Young) take to the air like...
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1935
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David Copperfield was MGM's major Christmas release for its 1934-1935 season and also the first of producer...
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1935
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The stringent censorship imposed upon Hollywood of the mid-1930s dictated that gangsters could no longer be the "heroes" in...
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1935
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Adam
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1935
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Capt. Alexander Smollett
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1934
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1934
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In this drama, a woman goes mad with grief after her lover dumps her. Many years pass and the woman remains embittered and...
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1934
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MGM was seldom content to just film a mystery; the story had to be dressed up in some elaborate, unorthodox fashion. Mystery...
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1934
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Although claiming to be based on actual cases, this mild crime drama appears to have been derived more from a screenwriter's...
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Captain Webb
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1933
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If Queen Christina is not the best of Greta Garbo's films (as many Garbo fanatics insist), it is certainly the most...
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Chancellor Axel Oxenstierna
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1933
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1933
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A shopkeeper suffers after he is laid off during the Depression in this drama adapted from the English play Service. He had...
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1933
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A remarried war widow's attempts to raise her son to be a pacifist are thwarted when a second world war (this film was made...
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1933
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Boris Karloff stars as the villainous Dr. Fu Manchu in this wild and wooly -- and wildly racist -- adventure yarn, based on...
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Nayland Smith
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1932
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Directed by Harry Beaumont, the courtroom drama Unashamed stars Robert Young as Dick Ogden, who will do anything to protect...
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1932
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San Francisco's Chinatown provides the setting of this dramatic romance set in 1911. At this time in China, a major uprising...
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1932
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A young boy from a broken home must choose between his real dad and his step-father in this drama. His real dad is...
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1932
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"So much for Carlotta" muses the head of German Espionage (Lewis Stone), shortly after secret agent Karen Morley is put to...
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Andriani
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1932
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Jack Conway complained about being assigned to direct this comedy, claiming that a woman like the title character had almost...
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William Legendre, Sr.
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1932
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Directed by Victor Fleming, Wet Parade chronicles the effects of alcoholism and the Prohibition on the lives of two families...
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1932
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1932
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Based on a novel by Marie Belloc Lowndes, this drama chronicles the tangled web woven by a poisonous New York socialite who...
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1932
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New Morals for Old was the teasing title for a somewhat sedate film about the ongoing rejection of middle-class values by the...
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1932
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1932
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Night Court is one of those pictures that "hooks" the viewer with one audacious plot twist after another. Walter Huston is...
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1932
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My Past is based on a novel called Ex-Mistress, a title that was rejected outright by the Hollywood censors. Even so, what...
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1931
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Not every Greta Garbo film is an imperishable classic; this was seldom truer than in the case of her repetitious 1931 vehicle...
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1931
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In this melodrama, a magician finds himself accused of murdering his lover's father. He flees and the lover marries her...
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1931
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Bootleggers Louis Scorpio (Wallace Beery) and Johnny Franks (Ralph Bellamy), with the advice of their alcoholic lawyer...
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1931
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Based on a story by Booth Tarkington, Father's Son stars juvenile actor Leon Janney in the title role. Thanks to his...
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1931
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1931
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In the space of 74 minutes, Helen Hayes goes from naïve French country lass to elderly harridan in Sin of Madelon Claudet. Is...
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1931
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1931
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Not the first of the prison pictures, but the one that truly put the genre on the map. Playboy Kent (Robert Montgomery),...
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Warden James Adams
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1930
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In this drama, a two wealthy cousins find themselves involved in an unfortunate love triangle. The trouble begins when the...
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1930
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Strictly Unconventional offers two subplots united by irony. British wife Elizabeth (Catherine Dale Owen), weary of her much...
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1930
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Illicit office romances provide the basis of this melodrama. The story centers around an older man's secretary who drops her...
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1930
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Greta Garbo appears here (in her second talking film) as an Italian singer who seduces a young priest into falling for her....
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1930
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In this well-executed courtroom drama, a Broadway chorine is accused of stabbing her wealthy boy friend to death. The girl...
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1929
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Stage favorite Peggy Wood (later the star of the popular TV series Mama) made her screen debut in the MGM part-talkie Wonder...
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1929
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Alexandre Brisson's weepy 1906 play had already been filmed three times when the 1929 talkie Madame X made its debut....
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Floriot
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1929
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In this silent film, the beautiful Lili Sterling (Greta Garbo) meets up with the enchanting Prince de Gace (Nils Asther)...
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John Sterling
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1929
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Yet another early talkie about love, jealousy and divorce among the upper classes, Their Own Desire remains a dramatically...
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1929
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Michael Arlen's notorious novel The Green Hat was considered such a hot potato censor-wise that the property's title could...
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Dr. Hugh Trevelyan
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1928
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Lewis Stone, best known to modern viewers as kindly Judge Hardy from the "Andy Hardy" series, was on occasion not so kindly...
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1928
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Ernst Lubitsch, well-known for his sophisticated romantic comedies, proved that he was equally adept at historical drama in...
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Count Pahlen the "Patriot"
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1928
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Colonel Destinn
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1928
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Based on a story which originally appeared in the pages of Liberty magazine, Prince of Headwaiters stars Lewis Stone as the...
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Pierre
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1927
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The lonesomest of the titular lonesome ladies is Polly Fosdick (Anna Q. Nilsson), the wife of wealthy John Fosdick...
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John Fosdick
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1927
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1927
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Menelaus
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1927
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This routine drama was spiced up by a good cast and solid directing. A clerk (Lloyd Hughes) loses his job, so his wife,...
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1927
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The dignified Lewis Stone lets down his hair in a comedy role in the rollicking Too Much Money. Thanks to a series of...
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Robert Broadley
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1926
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1926
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The tragic Barbara LaMarr made her final film appearance in The Girl From Montmartre. LaMarr is cast as Parisian cabaret...
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Jerome Hautrix
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1926
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Famed concert pianist Johann Aradi (Lewis Stone) has earned a "Don Juan" reputation because of his love-'em-and-leave-'em...
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Johann Aradi
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1926
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Betrayed by his wife and disillusioned by the world in general, British nobleman Lord Gervas Carew heads to Algeria, there to...
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1926
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A novel by Stephen French Whitman was the source for First National's The Blonde Saint. Lewis Stone stars as Sebastian Maure,...
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Sebastian Maure
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1926
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During a carnival in Venice, Horace Pierpont, a wealthy American (Lewis Stone), falls in love with Fay Kennion (Virgina...
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Horace Pierpont
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1925
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Fashions for Men was a satirical play by Franz Molnar. In the hands of film company First National, it became a sincere,...
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Earl Of Denham
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1925
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This drama was based on the novel Joseph Greer and His Daughter by Henry Kitchell Webster. Inventor Joseph Greer (Lewis...
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1925
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This adventure virtually butchers its source, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel. But with stop-motion photography and...
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1925
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When Dick Tyler (Conrad Nagel) becomes a partner in the firm of Knight and Tyler, he marries his sweetheart, Doris...
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1925
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This drama, based on the play by Marion Fairfax, concerns a woman who talks big, but does not practice what she preaches....
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Harry Lennox
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1925
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Director Victor Sjöström gave MGM this well-crafted adaptation of Alphonse Daudet's novel, Kings in Exile. The King of...
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King
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1925
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Inez Laranotta (Anna Q. Nilsson) is an actress who is notorious for her vamp roles and for the wild parties she attends. But...
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1924
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Producer Samuel Goldwyn gave his usual top-drawer treatment to Cytherea, making this pulpish romance seem more important than...
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1924
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This comedy-drama was based on the successful play by Avery Hopwood, who was known for his tales of domestic turmoil. It...
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1924
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Tully Marshall plays "the Stranger," an outcast who works in a saloon frequented by Peggy Bowlin, a poor girl suffering...
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1924
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1924
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After a promising start (not to mention a really good cast), this stylish society drama gets bogged down in overwrought...
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Garth McBride
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1923
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This silent era classic was based on the swashbuckling adventure novel by Rafael Sabatini, the author whose works later...
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The Marquis de la Tour d'Azyr
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1923
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The normally low-key William C. deMille veers into the territory of his younger brother, Cecil B. DeMille, with this highly...
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John Elliot
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1923
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Both Ramon Novarro and Barbara LaMarr had just appeared in Prisoner of Zenda and their careers were on the ascendant when...
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1922
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Future Judge Hardy Lewis Stone plays a restless middle-aged man in this drama. After 20 years of marriage, Mary Emerson (Cleo...
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1922
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With the Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle scandal and the William Desmond Taylor murder still fresh in people's minds, it's a wonder...
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John Schuyler
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1922
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This epic-scale silent adaptation of the popular novel by Anthony Hope concerns Rudolph (Lewis S. Stone), a member of the...
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Rudolf Rassendyll/King Rudolf
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1922
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This was the second time Edward Rose's play was committed to celluloid (the first was in 1915). This Jerome Storm-directed...
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Father Brian Kelly
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1922
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This awkwardly titled drama makes for an interesting look into the morals of the first part of the 20th century. On her...
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1921
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Author Gertrude Atherton wrote this story especially for the screen; it is supposedly based on a true story that happened in...
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Langdon Masters
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1921
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Louis Joseph Vance, creator of the fictional detective hero The Lone Wolf, wrote the story upon which Beau Revel was based....
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1921
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Director Edward H. Sloman had only himself to blame for this melodramatic misfire: he also wrote the script. A now forgotten...
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Lord Ellingham
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1921
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This sophisticated light comedy was based on a successful stage play by Herman Bahr. Augustus Martinot (Lewis Stone) is a...
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Augustus
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1921
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Even in 1921, tales of the Northwest Mounted Police had already been done countless times before, so this drama -- based on a...
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Sergeant Phillip Raine
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1921
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Author James Oliver Curwood's tales of the Northwest were made into so many motion pictures that it seems like he alone is...
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1920
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William Gilette's romantic Civil War melodrama is capably brought from stage to screen here. When Southerner Rachel Hayne...
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1920
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For the first film under his independent contract with First National, director Marshall Neilan strayed from his usual homey...
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1920
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This picture, based on the play by Arnold Bennett and Edward Knoblock, begins in 1862 England with John Rhead (Lewis Stone),...
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1920
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Lewis Stone (yes, the future Judge Hardy) both wrote and starred in this Northwest lumber drama. Tom Denton (Stone) comes...
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1919
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Several years before assuming the role of gentle patriarch Judge Hardy in MGM's Andy Hardy series, Lewis Stone was a virile,...
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1918
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This was one of an endless parade of pictures shot during World War I which used its intrigues as a backdrop. English Army...
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1918
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Before he became a dignified general-purpose actor, Captain E. H. Calvert was a busy silent film director. Made in 1916,...
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1916
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C. Gardner Sullivan's screenplay for the Ince production Honor's Altar borrowed liberally from several then-popular Broadway...
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1916
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Successful railroad executive Craig (Lewis Stone) shares a stenographer, Kate (Gladys Hanson) with the not-so-successful...
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1916
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1914
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