In the fifth episode of Walt Disney's eight-part miniseries The Swamp Fox, the guerilla forces under the leadership of...
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1960
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In the third episode of Walt Disney's eight-part miniseries The Swamp Fox, Revolutionary War hero Francis Marion...
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1960
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Seven Ways from Sundown is a well-wrought western by director Harry Keller, starring Audie Murphy in the title role (his...
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1960
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One of producer Walt Disney's more blatant efforts to duplicate the success of his early TV miniseries Davy Crockett, the...
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1959
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In the second episode of Walt Disney's eight-part miniseries The Swamp Fox, the Redcoats have retaliated against the raids of...
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1959
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Audie Murphy heads the cast of the better-than-usual oater Ride a Crooked Trail. It all begins when gunslinger Joe Maybe...
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1958
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Missouri Traveler was one of a handful of independent films distributed by Disney's Buena Vista corporation. Brandon De Wilde...
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1958
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1956
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In this drama, a man is falsely accused of committing two murders, one of which is committed at the dog-track. Now he is...
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1956
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A too-tough Army major gets himself sent to run an ROTC program at a Santa Barbara military school after he calls unwanted...
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1955
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The highly variable Audie Murphy delivers his best screen performance as "himself" in Universal's To Hell and Back. Based on...
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1955
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An unusually matronly Jane Wyman plays the title character in Lucy Gallant. Adapted from a novel by Margaret Cousins, the...
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1955
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1954
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In this comedy, a housewife schemes to make her dreams of feeling the soft touch of mink on her hardworking shoulders a...
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1953
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1952
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Cecil B. DeMille's The Greatest Show on Earth is a lavish tribute to circuses, featuring three intertwining plotlines...
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1952
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Something to Live For is the last of director George Stevens' "small" films, before he concentrated full-time on such...
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1952
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To call The Barefoot Mailman episodic would be understating the issue: the film's story stops and starts so often that it...
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1951
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Somewhat similar to John Ford's Wagon Master (1950), Passage West deals with a band of religious pioneers, led by a...
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1951
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1950
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Even allowing for the fact that it owed its existence to the popularity of Life with Father (1947), Cheaper by the Dozen is...
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1950
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In this comedy, a local citizen, miffed by the mayor's new milk tax, buys his own cow. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1950
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Though the Mark Twain original has been refashioned into a Bing Crosby vehicle, this 1949 musical adaptation of A Connecticut...
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1949
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Bejabbers! Sure an' some heathen has gone and stolen the Blarney Stone. Yes, Top O' the Morning is set in Ireland, or at...
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1949
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1949
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The first of Monogram's "Father" series was Henry, the Rainmaker, assembled in a fast seven days. Raymond Walburn stars as...
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1949
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Clifton Webb has the role of a lifetime as Lynn Belvedere, self-styled genius and expert on everything. Belvedere accepts the...
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Librarian
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1948
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1948
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Something seems fishy when a married man finds new adventure and romance in this comic fantasy. Arthur Peabody (William...
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1948
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A Song is Born is a musical remake of the 1941 comedy Ball of Fire, with the same producer (Sam Goldwyn) and director...
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1948
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1948
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Hoping for a success commensurate with his previous Show Business (1945), comedian Eddie Cantor poured a lot of his own money...
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1948
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George Seaton's 1948 comedy Chicken Every Sunday was based on the play by Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein as well as...
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1948
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This cute film is Doris Day's film debut and in it she plays Georgia Garrett, a substitute traveller on an ocean cruise. Her...
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1948
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1947
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The longest-running non-musical play in Broadway history, Life With Father was faithfully filmed by Warner Bros. in 1947....
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1947
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In this comedy, a scatter-brained professor nearly starts a riot when he writes a book claiming that women like to be...
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1947
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Out of the Past is so perfect a film noir that it is considered practically a textbook example of the genre. In his first...
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1947
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Though not readily apparent at first, The Unfaithful is a remake of the 1940 Bette Davis vehicle The Letter, which in turn...
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1947
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Reminiscent of the classic "screwball" comedy-mysteries of the prewar years, Columbia's The Corpse Came C.O.D stars Warner...
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1947
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Edmund Gwenn plays Kris Kringle, a bearded old gent who is the living image of Santa Claus. Serving as a last-minute...
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1947
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1947
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1947
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A curmudgeonly small-town doctor resents the presence of a new younger physician and his newfangled ways. He is especially...
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1947
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Barbara Stanwyck headlines this romantic tearjerker as a free-spirited concert pianist dying of tuberculosis. She checks into...
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1947
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A sharecropper's son grows up to be the governor of Louisiana in this rags-to-riches bio-pic that tells the story of...
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1947
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In this musical set in late 19th-century Boston, a suffragette secretary finds that her political beliefs are standing in the...
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1947
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Song of the South is a blend of live action and animation, based on the popular "Uncle Remus" stories of Joel Chandler...
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Mrs. Favers
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1946
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1946
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MGM knew it had a valuable property in Red Skelton, but the studio never really knew how to handle his unique talents --...
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1946
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Barbara Hale landed her first A-picture starring role in the engaging romantic comedy Lady Luck. Hale is cast as Mary Audrey,...
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1946
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The title states the case in Monogram's Don't Gamble with Strangers. It's all about a pair of crooked gamblers, Mike...
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1946
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This grade-A example of "film noir" stars Mark Stevens as Brad Galt, an embittered ex-convict who returns to the private...
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1946
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This marked the first starring role for Rondo Hatton, previously seen in a few Sherlock Holmes films as the spine-snapping...
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1946
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In this comedy, an adaptation of the play The Animal Kingdom, a liberal, social reformist photographer falls in love with a...
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1946
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Most of this Republic B-plus mystery yarn is set in a penthouse, next door to a music hall where a strange song-and-dance...
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1946
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Director Allan Dwan moved to Republic Pictures in 1946, there to make the same sort of marital farce he'd been specializing...
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1946
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With the profits of the Abbott & Costello films in decline, Universal decided to experiment with the comedians' standard...
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1946
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It all begins when popular actress Susan Darrell (Joan Fontaine) returns from a USO tour to marry business exectuive Richard...
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1945
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Ayn Rand wrote this adaptation of Chris Massie's book Pity Mr. Simplicity, about a soldier who falls in love with a former...
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1945
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Danny Kaye plays the first of his cinematic dual roles in Goldwyn's Wonder Man. Kaye appears as timid librarian Edwin Dingle...
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1945
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This follow-up to the classic Hollywood ghost story The Uninvited doesn't quite measure up to its predecessor. Joel McCrea...
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1945
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1944
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Four Jills in a Jeep is the (mostly) true story of a four-girl USO team, entertaining American troops overseas. Kay Francis,...
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1944
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Port of 40 Thieves is a so-so suspenser completely dominated by the formidable Stephanie Bachelor. The statuesque,...
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1944
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The sparkling screwball comedy And So They Were Married was originally released as Johnny Doesn't Live Here Any More....
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1944
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1944
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From a novel of the same name by "Elizabeth", the film begins in 1914, with Bette Davis cast as vain, flighty society woman...
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1944
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Bumbling high schooler Henry Aldrich (Jimmy Lydon) finds himself in hot water once more when he offends school principal Mr....
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1944
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Also known as Ladies in Washington, this 61-minute quickie utilizes the services of several 20th Century-Fox contractees. Set...
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1944
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An innocent man is drawn into a web of espionage when he unwittingly comes into possession of a crucial piece of microfilm in...
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1944
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Though a lesser 20th Century-Fox musical, Hello, Frisco, Hello was one of the studio's most successful wartime efforts. John...
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1943
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In this wartime comedy drama an ultra-macho but aging Marine sergeant does all he can to keep his men intimidated and towing...
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1943
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Overloaded with unreleased films in 1942 and 1943, Paramount Pictures cleaned house by diverting several pictures to United...
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1943
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Hoping to achieve a brilliant career as a violinist, Julia Seabrook (Ann Sothern) divorces her husband Jeff (Melvyn Douglas),...
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1943
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Florrie Bendix
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1943
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A princess finds love with a regular American Joe in this patriotic romantic comedy. A European diplomat (Charles Coburn) is...
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1943
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Olive Higgins Prouty's popular novel was transformed into nearly two hours of high-grade soap opera by several masters of the...
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1942
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14-year-old Shirley Temple receives her first on-screen kiss in this innocuous romantic comedy. Temple is cast as the titular...
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1942
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As Academy Award-winning films go, Mrs. Miniver has not weathered the years all that well. This prettified, idealized view of...
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1942
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The first "Mexican Spitfire" entry of 1942, Mexican Spitfire at Sea is set mainly on a Hawaii-bound ocean liner. Combining...
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1942
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A woman's attempt to disguise herself as an underage girl mushrooms into a series of humorous deceptions in this romantic...
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1942
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The winner of four Oscar nominations, Wake Island was one of the first major Hollywood films to deal with America's forced...
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1942
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Some 25 years before his "discovery" in In Cold Blood, 9-year-old Bobby (later Robert) Blake made his feature-film starring...
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1942
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1942
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In this espionage drama, a battle-fatigued British commando is diagnosed as clinically insane by doctors who are in reality,...
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1942
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This was the first of five profitable RKO Radio quickies based on the popular radio series The Great Gildersleeve. Harold...
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1942
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A bit higher-budgeted than most of Universal's "pocket" musicals, Get Hep to Love runs a full 79 mintues rather than the...
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1942
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Eric Knight's wartime novel This Above All was given the Tiffany treatment in the this 20th Century Fox big-budgeter....
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1942
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The second and last of the Fred Astaire-Rita Hayworth vehicles, You Were Never Lovelier takes place in Argentina (courtesy of...
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1942
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In this grim melodrama, Barbara Stanwyck plays the eldest of three wealthy sisters who become orphans when their father dies...
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1942
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The girl is stenographer Dot Duncan (Lucille Ball); the guy is her boss, stuffy young shipping magnate Stephen Herrick...
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1941
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1941
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Spencer Tracy and Ingrid Bergman headline this screen version of Robert Louis Stevenson's tale, directed by Gone with the...
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1941
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Author Hartzell Spence's popular biography of his preacher father was the source for One Foot in Heaven. Fredric March stars...
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1941
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Shadows on the Stairs is a slimmed-down adaptation of Frank Vosper's stage play Murder on the 2nd Floor. There's dirty work...
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1941
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This 12-chapter Universal serial is one of several that Universal made featuring the Dead End Kids (also known as The East...
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1941
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Wild Geese Calling is one of those 20th Century-Fox star vehicles which used to pop up all the time on TV before the Carsons,...
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1941
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The Great Mr. Nobody is an easygoing classified ad salesman, appropriately nicknamed Dreamy (Eddie Albert). All Dreamy wants...
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1941
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Spanning 50 years, director John Ford's How Green Was My Valley revolves around the life of the Morgans, a Welsh mining...
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1941
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A semi-sequel to the 1933 Universal horror masterwork The Invisible Man, The Invisible Man Returns stars Vincent Price in the...
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1940
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W.C. Fields plays Egbert Souse, a bibulous denizen of Lompoc who supports his family by winning radio contests. When a...
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1940
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Hollywood films about the Revolutionary War almost invariably lost money at the box office, and The Howards of Virginia was...
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1940
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In this musical, a sharp witted press agent teams up with an unemployed chorine and dubs her "Miss Manhattan" to promote a...
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1940
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Adapted from the novel by Howard Spring, My Son My Son stars Brian Aherne as a self-made success determined to give his son...
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1940
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Convicted Woman was Columbia's annual "all girl" B picture, allowing studio executives to decide which of their female...
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1940
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An above-average entry in Republic Pictures' long-running "Three Mesqueteers" series, The Trail Blazers is something as...
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1940
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The lives of female hoboes in the Great Depression are chronicled in this interesting drama. In order to fully understand...
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1940
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MGM's third follow-up to its landmark Broadway Melody is short on story, but that's okay, since the plot is merely a...
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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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This fictionalized biography of the famed American inventor's life provided actor Don Ameche with his signature role. For...
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1939
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Lana Turner (a mere 19 years old at the time) stars in this lighthearted musical comedy as Patty Marlow, a dancer fighting...
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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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Stunt Pilot is a typically lively entry in Monogram's "Tailspin Tommy" series. Hired to work on an aviation picture, ace...
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1939
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A remake of a 1930 Universal film, Little Accident was the third starring vehicle for androgynous juvenile star Baby Sandy....
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1939
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1939
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1939
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When German director Joe May was working on such silent classics as The Indian Tomb and Asphalt, he probably never imagine...
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1939
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Following up their successful film Love Affair, Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne team up again for the romantic melodrama When...
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1939
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In this interesting drama, a highly respected straight-arrow Irish cop is pleased when his son follows him onto the force....
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1939
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Spunky Joan Blondell is practically the whole show in the diverting comedy Good Girls Go to Paris. Blondell is cast as...
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1939
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1938
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Dick Powell stars as a Brooklynite who becomes a cowboy in spite of himself. Drifting into a small western town, Powell takes...
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1938
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Heiress Virginia Bruce tries to prove her worth by taking a job as a shopgirl in the store owned by her family. The pampered...
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1938
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In this comedy, a milquetoast clerk is betrothed to the socialite whose aunt holds a big account with his company. When the...
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1938
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Edward G. Robinson shines in a fine comic role as Dr. Clitterhouse, a brilliant psychiatrist doing research into the criminal...
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1938
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"Father" is British blowhard George Carney, a well-to-do cheese manufacturer. Despite his business savvy, Carney falls victim...
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1937
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In 1882, Mark Twain published a delightful fairy tale "for young people of all ages"; 45 years later, Warner Bros., inspired...
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1937
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Call It a Day is a Warner Bros. attempt at British light comedy. Nothing much happens of any consequence in this story of a...
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1937
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