Review the history of black show-business. Music, dance and comic routines are featured in this six volume set. ~ Rovi...
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1991
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This crime drama is the fourth in Roger Corman's series of sexy "nurseploitation" films. Three curvaceous health care workers...
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1973
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In this touching adventure, a remake of the popular 1940 film, two Georgia boys ignore their racial differences to team up...
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1972
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African-American activist and actor Melvin Van Peebles directed this comedy-drama starring Godfrey Cambridge as Jeff Gerber,...
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Cashier
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1970
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Carl Reiner's semi-autobiographical novel Enter Laughing makes a largely successful transition to the screen. Reni Santoni...
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1967
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Toward the end of Jerry Lewis's Paramount studio period, Lewis slapped together this bitter comedy about Hollywood phoniness...
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1964
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1964
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Rockin' the Blues was one of the last films to be specifically aimed at all-black theatres in segregated communities. Little...
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1955
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1955
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1955
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1954
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Film historian Leonard Maltin has labelled this final entry in Monogram's "Charlie Chan" series as "embarrassing," but it's...
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Birmingham Brown
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1949
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In this entry in the long-running mystery series, Chan must find out who has been killing people over rare antiques. ~...
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1948
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1948
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1948
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Even after three appearances as oriental sleuth Charlie Chan, Roland Winters showed no interest in taking the role seriously....
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Birmingham Brown
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1948
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The Golden Eye is a Charlie Chan mystery set on a Southwestern ranch. A once-dormant mine mysteriously begins to yield gold,...
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Birmingham Brown
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1948
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Docks of New Orleans was Roland Winters' second appearance as aphorism-spouting oriental sleuth Charlie Chan -- and like the...
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1948
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Juke Joint is one of the better-known films, produced especially for African-American audiences in the 1930s and 1940s....
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1947
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In this mystery, Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) helps out an actress justly terrified for her own life after her fellow actors...
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1947
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Roland Winters takes over the role of wily oriental sleuth Charlie Chan in the so-so Monogram programmer The Chinese Ring....
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Birmingham Brown
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1947
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1947
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In this episode of the popular detective series, Chan learns that fake fingerprints have caused innocent people to go to...
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1946
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Set upon the mighty Mississippi, this comedy chronicles the travails of a showboat captain trying to keep his operation...
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1946
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This all-black-cast musical showcases the singers, dancers and comedians who perform at Harlem's Golden Slipper Club. The...
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1946
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Sidney Toler seems listless and barely awake throughout the intrigues of the Monogram "Charlie Chan" opus Shadows over...
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Birmingham Brown
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1946
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Birmingham Brown joins pal Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) in solving this missing government documents mystery, set at a New...
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1945
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Just as Edgar C. Ulmer would at PRC around the same time, young Phil Karlson turned Monogram's almost nonexistent production...
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Birmingham Brown
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1945
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More tightly scripted than most of the Monogram Charlie Chan whodunits, The Scarlet Clue is set in a radio station that,...
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Birmingham Brown
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1945
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In this mystery, a detective and his partner are hired by a carnival psychic to help her find her long-lost sister who...
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1945
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Rosalind Russell plays yet another independent career woman in She Wouldn't Say Yes. This time she's a psychiatrist who sees...
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1945
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This tale of two tugboats focuses upon the rivalries between two operators competing to win a major shipping contract....
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Pinto
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1945
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In this musical comedy, a soldier falls in love with a very young woman who in turn has a crush on an older, more...
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1944
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Despite the film's title, Pin-Up Girl offers surprisingly few glimpses of the famed Betty Grable "gams." This lively...
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1944
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Having ended its 11-year run at 20th Century-Fox, the "Charlie Chan" series set up shop at Monogram with the singularly...
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Birmingham Brown
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1944
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In this musical romance, a young couple is still in love, but find themselves facing insurmountable turmoil in their...
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1944
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Charlie Chan's second mystery for Poverty Row company Monogram, The Chinese Cat is one of the inscrutable detective's better...
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Birmingham Brown
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1944
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Newspaper reporter Marion Hargrove's best-selling novel was adapted to the screen by MGM as a vehicle for Robert Walker. The...
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1944
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This mystery is set upon the mighty Mississippi and within the dark bayous of Louisiana. Originally it was a 13- episode...
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1944
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Meeting at Midnight is the reissue title of Black Magic, a Charlie Chan "B" effort from Monogram Studios. A murder occurs...
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1944
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Two Bowery vaudevillians compete to be the first to produce shows on Broadway. They might be friends were they not so...
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1944
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1944
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An engagingly silly Charlie Chan whodunit from Poverty Row company Monogram, The Jade Mask mixed science fiction with Old...
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Birmingham Brown
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1944
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Universal's yearly quota of cheap, 60-minute musicals occasionally yielded such likeable diversions as South of Dixie. David...
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1944
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A musical comedy star whose career is just starting to take off returns home from military school. En route, he meets a...
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1944
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A romantic triangle between two best friends and a beautiful woman provides the basis of this romantic comedy. The girl in...
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1943
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In most of his movie vehicles, bandleader Kay Kyser played a bandleader named Kay Kyser. In Swing Fever, however, Kyser is...
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1943
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MGM knew it would take a bath on its all-black musical Cabin in the Sky (few Southern theaters of 1943 would touch the film),...
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1943
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1943
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This murder mystery is based on a forties radio program. It chronicles the exploits of a mail order detective who...
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1943
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The seemingly ageless Eddie Quillan heads the cast of the Monogram musical Melody Parade. Eddie plays Jimmy Tracy, a...
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Skidmore
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1943
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The title of this low-budget Universal musical was lifted from the Andrew Sisters' hit song, introduced in 1941's...
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1943
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This patriotic WW II-era bit of anti-Japanese propaganda centers on a white Texas college student who becomes such good...
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1943
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The second of Monogram's "zombie" thrillers, Revenge of the Zombies is better than the first, if only because of its...
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Jeff
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1943
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Moving slightly up the poverty-row ladder from PRC to Monogram, Burlesque queen Ann Corio starred in the musical comedy...
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Maxwell
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1943
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This airy bit of MGM fluff stars Lana Turner as small-town soda clerk Peggy Evans. After telling off the self-important new...
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1943
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The Abbott & Costello vehicle Hit the Ice started life as satire of health clinics, with Lou Costello cast as a hypochondriac...
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1943
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The bucolic, down-home novels and short stories of Gene Stratton-Porter had been fodder for Monogram's screenwriting staff...
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Jeff
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1942
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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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1942
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1942
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Laurel & Hardy's second starring vehicle for 20th Century-Fox is arguably their weakest feature film, with the laughs few and...
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1942
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1942
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Edward Arnold made the first of his two screen appearances as Bayard Kendrick's blind detective Captain Duncan McLain in...
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1942
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Victor Mature plays an arrogant champion boxer who opts for an acting career on Broadway. He falls in love with his costar...
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1942
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In this comedy, set in WW II, a Venezuelan rubber planter's son must travel to New York to try and secure a loan for the...
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1942
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1942
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Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost looks more like a Columbia two-reel comedy than an RKO feature film. Star Lupe Velez, her...
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1942
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As for the opening reels, the principal motivating factor is money. After a deliberately confusing pre-credit sequence (not...
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1942
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This final "Tarzan" entry from the MGM assembly line is arguably one the least effective of the series, though it certainly...
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1942
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In this murder mystery, a re-working of The Sphinx, a distract attorney is determined to prove that the community's most...
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1942
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The Monogram publicity machine advertised Gang's All Here as a story of "Young Americans Fighting for Their Rights." Young...
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Jeff
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1941
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The comic effusions of Hugh "woo woo" Herbert helps to keep this otherwise forgettable farce afloat. It all begins when Bob...
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1941
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Universal's "Baby Sandy" series officially ended with Sandy Gets Her Man, but the infant star still had one picture left on...
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1941
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This quickie RKO musical is the second retread of Street Girl (1929); the 1937 musical That Girl from Paris was the first...
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1941
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The all-black Mr. Washington Goes to Town is purely and simply a vehicle for the screamingly funny comedy team of F. E....
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Schenectady
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1941
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In this collegiate drama, a team of college oarsmen promise their gals that they will win the big race. Unfortunately, it...
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Jeff
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1941
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Set in the Caribbean shortly before the U.S. was drawn into WWII, this zombie chiller tells the tale of an American special...
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Jeff
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1941
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Like the first entry in Columbia's "Ellery Queen" series, Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery depicts its amateur-criminologist...
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1941
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The curious but harmonious screen team of Frankie Darro and Mantan Moreland are back again in You're Out of Luck. Elevator...
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Jeff
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1941
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In this drama, a young woman shows two dogs at the championship competition at Madison Square Garden and when the two dogs...
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Ben
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1941
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1941
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1941
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No relation to the Cracked Nuts he directed in 1931, this hokey sci-fi-comedy from director Edward F. Cline stars Stuart...
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1941
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The fourth of 20th Century-Fox's "Michael Shayne" mysteries finds private detective Shayne (Lloyd Nolan) anxiously preparing...
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1941
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A man trying to make his dying father happy makes his love life very complicated indeed in this musical comedy starring...
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1941
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A hapless young socialite attempts to overcome an embarrassing romantic problem in this silly crime comedy. It seems every...
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1940
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Monogram's Laughing at Danger finds page-boy Frankie Kelly (Frankie Darro) trying to solve a murder at a fancy beauty salon....
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Jefferson
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1940
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The success of 1938's Kentucky prompted 20th Century-Fox to come up with the similar (though not entirely identical)...
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1940
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Twixt and tween his Dick Tracy movies, Ralph Byrd plays a Foreign Legionnaire in Drums of the Desert. Byrd and his pal...
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Sgt. Williams
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1940
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1940
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As conceived, Monogram's On the Spot was meant to be purely a Frankie Darro vehicle, with black comedian Mantan Moreland as...
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Jefferson
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1940
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Diminutive Frankie Darro was always a lot of fun to watch when given his head in a leading role. In Monogram's Chasing...
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1940
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Seventeen-year-old Linda Darnell received her first big break in the appropriately titled 20th Century Fox production Star...
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1940
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1940
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In this fast paced mystery, an eager page boy for a radio station tries to convince the owners to let him do a comedy show...
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Jeff
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1940
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1940
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The Tex Ritter Monogram Westerns had a change of directors with Riders of the Frontier, Spencer Gordon Bennet having replaced...
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1939
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A model of precision and economy, the MGM "B" thriller Tell No Tales represented the feature-film directorial debut of former...
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1939
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Irish Luck was one of a handful of Monogram actioners starring Frankie Darro as a crimesolving bellboy. The son of...
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1939
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In this all African-American family drama, Father Brown encounters problems when his family throws him out for his laziness....
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1939
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The Next Time I Marry stars actress Lucille Ball as an heiress who can only receive her 20 million dollar inheritance by...
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Tilby
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1938
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The first of three all-black music Westerns released by white-operated Sack Amusement Enterprises, Two Gun Man from Harlem...
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1938
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There's That Woman Again was the second and last entry in Columbia's own spin on MGM's "Thin Man" series. Virginia Bruce and...
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1938
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World heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis stars in Spirit of Youth. Often mistakenly referred to as a biography of Louis,...
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1938
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As indicated by the title, Harlem on the Prairie was aimed at the "all-colored" theaters which flourished in the 1930s. The...
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1938
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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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The seventh of RKO's Fred Astaire--Ginger Rogers musicals, Shall We Dance casts Astaire as a world-renowned ballet dancer and...
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1937
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