Mrs. Marrable (Geraldine Page) is a bereaved widow who takes to hiring housekeepers then kills them for their money in this...
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1969
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Sr. Bertrille comes up with another of her sure-fire fundraising schemes for Convent San Tanco. This time, she persuades the...
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1967
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While employed at the winery owned by Pete Crandall (James Gregory), Kimble (David Janssen) happens to be on hand when the...
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1966
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Based on the popular children's story by Scott O'Dell, this family movie tells of the true adventures of a young Native...
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1964
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Recognizing the man in a picture snapped by a sidewalk photographer as Richard Kimble (David Janssen), Lt. Gerard (Barry...
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1963
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A Mexican honeymoon turns into a nightmare when Laura Needham (Eileen O'Neill), the young wife of tourist Mark Needham...
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1963
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Elvis Presley stars as Mike Windgren, a former trapeze artist who's suffered from vertigo ever since accidentally dropping...
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1963
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Although it never quite escapes the pitfalls of pretension, this film was Kirk Douglas's bid for the affections of the art...
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1962
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This episode is based on an actual incident in the life of famed Mexican revolutionary and muralist Gerardo Murino Cornado,...
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1961
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San Francisco, 1906: As a fancy downtown hotel prepares for a concert by the legendary Enrico Caruso, overrage bellhop Gerald...
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1960
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1958
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1957
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Western writer/director Charles Marquis Warren makes one of his periodic excursions into horror with The Unknown Terror....
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1957
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In this western, the trouble begins when a ruthless outlaw impersonates a mine owner. When the sheriff begins to suspect...
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1957
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1957
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The premiere episode of Have Gun, Will Travel finds cultured gunslinger Paladin (Richard Boone) already headquartered at a...
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1957
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Blackjack Ketchum, the real-life gunslinger who'd previously been a peripheral character in several westerns, is herein...
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1956
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Loosely based on a novel by James M. Cain, this romantic drama centers on the struggles of a humble vineyard worker...
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1956
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Ray Milland made his directorial debut with the Republic western A Man Alone. Milland also starred in the film, playing...
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1955
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Arriving in the western town of Dry Gulch to cover a rodeo, Lois (Noel Neill) and Jimmy (Jack Larson) attract the attention...
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1955
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Based on a novel by Gwen Bristow, Jubilee Trail is a sprawling, all-star western from the Republic Studio mills. Despite is...
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1954
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1954
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Scott Brady plays a decidedly mature Billy the Kid in this Columbia western programmer. According to this acount, Billy was...
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1954
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Before Indiana Jones there was Harry Steele (Charlton Heston), an idealistic archaeologist determined to return an ancient...
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1954
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Considering its cast, it's surprising that Captain Scarface isn't better known. Filmed during the waning days of the 1950s...
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1953
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1953
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1953
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Daniel Mainwaring took this story right out of the headlines of the day, penning this true story of a mass murderer who was...
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1953
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Even without its 3D/stereophonic sound gimmickry, Second Chance is a crackling good suspenser. Robert Mitchum plays Russ...
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1953
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Reporters Lois Lane (Phyllis Coates) and Jimmy Olsen (Jack Larson) show up in Peru, hoping to find an Incan treasure and...
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1952
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Bela Lugosi plays a mad scientist in the jungle who stumbles across a couple of comedians (intended to resemble Dean Martin...
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1952
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Based on The Mexican, a novel by Jack London, this is the story of a young man whose family, girlfriend and village were...
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1952
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1952
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The Fabulous Senorita in this frothy musical is Republic's resident Latin bombshell Estelita Rodriguez, here billed simply as...
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1952
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1952
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1952
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1952
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Ernest Hemingway could never come to terms with Hollywood's preoccupation with The Happy Ending: he accepted the money for...
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1952
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Based on a true story, 5 Fingers stars James Mason as a man known to his superiors only as Cicero. Ostensibly the valet of...
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1952
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This silly, stagebound but entertaining little monster-mash from Universal horror writer/director Curt Siodmak stars burly...
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1951
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1951
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If ever there was an actor born to play Billy the Kid, it was the combustible Audie Murphy. In Kid from Texas, Murphy is cast...
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1950
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Fr. Antonio
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1950
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Though usually associated with westerns, Columbia producer Harry Joe Brown proved to be up to the challenge of producing a...
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1950
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A Lady Without Passport stars Hedy Lamarr in the title role. Lamarr plays Marianne Lorress, a concentration-camp refugee who...
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1950
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MGM went into the western-programmer business relatively late in the game, but made up for lost time with such laudable...
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1950
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1950
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Cary Grant's utter credibility in the role of a brilliant, world-famous brain surgeon Dr. Eugene Norland Ferguson is the...
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1950
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Carlos Mendoza
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1949
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Gene Autry sings, fights, and sings some more in the Cinecolor "special" The Big Sombrero. Autry comes to the aid of senorita...
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1949
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Shep Comes Home was the belated sequel to Screen Guild's My Dog Shep (1946). The title pooch is played by "Flame" (who also...
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Manuel
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1949
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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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Based loosely on the Dostoyevsky novel, The Gambler stars Gregory Peck as a sensitive 19th-century Russian author. His "great...
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1949
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Desi Arnaz's bandleader career was in decline when he starred in Columbia's Holiday in Havana. Arnaz essays the difficult...
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1949
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1949
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Republic's program westerns of the 1940s fell into two categories: the Saturday-matinee fare of Roy Rogers,...
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1949
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Federal agent Robert Taylor journeys to a mythical South American community, there to break up a war-surplus contraband...
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1949
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Whenever Monogram wanted to get prestige bookings, the studio released its product through its "class" subsidiary Allied...
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1949
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Sword in the Desert is set in Palestine during World War II. Dana Andrews plays an American seaman engaged in smuggling...
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1949
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1949
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Joe Palooka, comic strip artist Ham Fisher's golden-hearted pugilist, heads South of the Border in The Counterpunch....
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1949
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Even when decked out in a Foreign Legion uniform, Dick Powell looked, talked and acted like an urban private eye. In Rogues'...
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1948
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1948
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In this drama, an egomaniacal producer freely treads upon those around him without regard to the harm he does. The devoted...
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1948
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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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Its poetic title aside, Republic's Madonna of the Desert is a formula murder mystery with an occasional surprise or two. The...
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1948
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When the family land is threatened with foreclosure, honest, hard-working rancher Ross McEwen (Joel McCrea) resorts to bank...
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1948
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1948
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Smugglers are working the border between Mexico and California in this action-filled and, of course, tuneful Gene Autry...
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1947
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Acclaimed playwright George S. Kaufman made his directorial debut with this broad political satire. Senator Melvin G. Ashton...
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1947
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An average "Cisco Kid" Western-adventure, South of Monterey features ace villain Harry Woods as Bennett, a nasty tax...
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1947
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This John Wayne adventure is set in South America's rugged Andes Mountains. The Duke has been assigned by a powerful US...
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1947
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This musical romance is set in the beautiful South American country and chronicles the love affair between a betrothed...
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1947
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The Cisco Kid attempts to break up an arranged marriage in this romantic B-Western from Monogram. Learning that nasty Raoul...
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Pancho
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1947
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1947
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A man down on his luck runs afoul of a beautiful but dangerous woman in this superior low-budget film noir. Mike Lambert...
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1947
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It is said that Henry James' The Aspern Papers were inspired by the romance between Lord Byron and his mistress Claire...
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1947
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Gilbert Roland dominates the action in a colorful performance as the bandit hero the Cisco Kid, this time up against a...
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1946
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In this adventure, set in Old California, a Spanish nobleman journeys to California to claim an inheritance. He soon...
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1946
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Owen Wister's 1902 novel was made into a movie several times, most notably in 1929, with Gary Cooper starring. This 1946...
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1946
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There'd already been a "Cisco Kid" B-picture titled The Gay Caballero, so this Monogram "Cisco" entry was released as The Gay...
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Pancho
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1946
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This A-minus musical stars Evelyn Keyes in the uncharacteristically comic role of Vicki Dean, the divorce-bound wife of...
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1946
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The 87-minute running time of Plainsman and the Lady was evidence aplenty that this was no mere Republic B western....
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1946
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Originally slated for release through Monogram Pictures, The Chase was ultimately distributed by United Artists. Adapted by...
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1946
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1946
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In this heartwarming children's movie, an adorable child finds a darling donkey and decides to make it his pet, but in order...
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1946
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After several years' dormancy, the "Cisco Kid" western-film series returned to the screen with Monogram's The Cisco Kid...
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Pancho
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1945
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1945
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The Technicolor musical Masquerade in Mexico is Mitchell Leisen's remake of his own Midnight. Stranded in Mexico City without...
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1945
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The Kid (Duncan Renaldo) masquerades as a government inspector in this pleasant, and pleasantly tuneful, Cisco Kid series...
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Pancho
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1945
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The second of Monogram's 1945 trio of "Cisco Kid" westerns, In Old New Mexico stars Duncan Renaldo as Cisco and...
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Pancho
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1945
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Filling in for RKO's Western ace Tim Holt, who was fighting the war in Europe, a young Robert Mitchum starred in this fine...
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1945
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A middle-aged Clark Gable returned from active duty in World War II to star in this MGM release that was heavily advertised...
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1945
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In this exciting adventure, a band of treasure hunters sail to the Mexican coast to find a buried treasure. Along the way,...
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Manuel
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1945
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This 91-minute Republic "special" stars Michael O'Shea as Matt Braddock, an aggressive Henry Kaiser-like shipbuilder...
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1944
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It took some doing to persuade the staunchly Catholic Bing Crosby to play a happy-go-lucky priest in Going My Way; luckily he...
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1944
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The presumed son of a Navajo Indian chief goes in search of the men who killed his father in this average serial produced by...
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1944
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Originally slated for PRC release, Voice in the Wind was eventually distributed by United Artists. The film was directed by...
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1944
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With his performance in the offbeat sagebrusher The Laramie Trail, Bob Livingston makes his final appearance in a Republic...
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1944
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In this episode of the Cisco Kid saga, Cisco and Pancho must prove that they are not kidnappers. They are only protecting a...
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1944
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The year is 1942: eight American airmen crash-land during the Doolittle bombing raid on Tokyo and are taken prisoner. Though...
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1944
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Not to be confused with the 1971 film of the same name, this World War II espionage drama was the second to last film from...
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1944
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Its wartime setting notwithstanding, the fast-paced Warner Bros. B-picture Adventures in Iraq is a remake of the 1930...
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1943
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Perhaps Hollywood's greatest success du scandal of the 1940s, this odd psychological Western became a box office hit largely...
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1943
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Based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls is a romantic drama set against the turbulent tapestry of the...
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1943
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With its slight resemblance to Destry Rides Again (1939) -- probably not entirely coincidental -- this rousing Western from...
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1942
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Long underappreciated by film buffs, The Lady Has Plans is a screwball comedy disguised as an espionage melodrama. The title...
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1942
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Undercover Man was the first of the "Hopalong Cassidy" series to be released by United Artists rather than Paramount. William...
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1942
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One of the most beloved American films, this captivating wartime adventure of romance and intrigue from director...
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1942
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Bill Elliot took time out from his "Wild Bill Hickok" westerns series to essay the title role in Son of Davy Crockett. During...
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1941
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Hungarian actress Ilona Massey stars as an operative for the Axis in this slightly tongue-in-cheek wartime melodrama. She...
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1941
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1941
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Retired frontier postal inspector Dan Clark (George O'Brien) is summoned back to active duty when the stagecoach line owned...
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1940
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Filmed at Palmdale, California, this Tex Ritter Western continued a recent trend of limiting Ritter's trademark music numbers...
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Pablo
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1940
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1940
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In this melodramatic historical drama, the lives of Mexico's Maximilian and Carlotta are chronicled. The story follows their...
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1940
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George O'Brien's first 1940 western release, Legion of the Lawless uses its frontier trappings for a plea against vigilante...
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1940
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Code of the Secret Service was the second of Warner Bros. "Brass Bancroft" series, starring Ronald Reagan as troubleshooting...
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1939
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Juarez was originally designed to concentrate almost exclusively on the tragedy of Hapsburg Emperor Maximillian, whose...
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1939
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Controversy over ancient Spanish land grants takes center stage in this exciting George O'Brien Western from RKO. Presented...
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1939
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South-of-the-border singing sensation Tito Guizar stars in Cuando Canta la Ley. Guizar is cast as Mexican secret-service...
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Adobe
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1939
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Three years after the second Thin Man entry, MGM brought back the property by popular demand with Another Thin Man. As ever,...
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1939
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If not the best of the Hopalong Cassidy films, Law of the Pampas is certainly one of the better-known entries. This time...
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1939
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Latin-American singing sensation Tito Guizar is the sole raison d'etre for the Spanish-language musical Mi Dos Amores (My Two...
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1938
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The first Tex Ritter Western from Monogram Pictures, Starlight Over Texas contained the singing cowboy's trademark mix of...
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1938
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1938
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Singing cowboy Bob Baker starred in this average music western as a cavalry officer assigned to investigate the murders of...
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1938
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In this detective adventure, a young woman is accused of stealing a valuable necklace from her boss and takes off for Spain...
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1937
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This average Tex Ritter music Western provided the former radio and Broadway performer with not one but two comedy sidekicks:...
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1937
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The title of this Errol Flynn vehicle sprang from an "inside" joke at Warner Bros. Whenever the studio depicted a marquee or...
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1937
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The first entry in a proposed series of six Westerns starring Ken Maynard and produced for Grand National by M.H. Hoffman,...
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1937
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1936
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When David O. Selznick produced the film version of the 1000-plus page novel Gone with the Wind, he declared he could not...
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1936
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1936
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The last of Fox Studios' Hollywood-made Spanish-language films, Rose de Francia (Rose of France) stars Rosita Diaz as the...
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1936
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The real "message to Garcia" was delivered by an American lieutenant to Cuban rebel General Garcia, asking for the General's...
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1936
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In this western-style musical, a rakish gaucho rides off across the Argentine pampas to Buenos Aires in search of his stolen...
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1935
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In the seventh of his nine Westerns for Gower Gulch company Spectrum, former silent screen cowboy Bill Cody played a U.S....
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1935
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1935
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In this western, an eastern football star inherits the cattle ranch that paid his way through college. Unfortunately, he...
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1932
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