In this western comedy, a bogus evangelist and his assistant travel to the town of Friendly and endeavor to rob the West's...
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1969
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Filmmaker George Stevens chose Monument Valley, Utah for his exterior sequences in The Greatest Story Ever Told, this ($20...
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1965
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Dan Duryea stars in this gritty medium-budget western as an unregenerate killer. His one saving grace is his affection for...
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1964
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The final episode of Maverick finds Bart Maverick (Jack Kelly) crossing the path of his brother Bret's old nemesis Modesty...
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1962
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Bart (Jack Kelly) is determined to force George Parker (Alan Hewitt), the crooked town boss of Parkersville, to repay an...
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1961
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During Ben Cartwright's absence, a woman named Jennifer (Suzanne Lloyd) shows up at the Ponderosa, claiming to be Ben's new...
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1961
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Southern sympathizer Fred Kyle (Cameron Mitchell arrives in Virginia City, hoping to raise money for the Confederate cause....
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1960
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In the final episode of Walt Disney's ten-part miniseries Elfego Baca, frontier lawyer Baca (Robert Loggia) embarks upon a...
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1960
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Arrested and jailed on a charge of murdering a small-town mayor, Bret (James Garner) is none too encouraged by his...
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1960
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Warlock offers us a mean-spirited, mercenary Henry Fonda and an honest, peaceloving Richard Widmark. A Wyatt Earp-like...
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1959
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En route to his next assignment, Paladin is bushwacked, beaten, and stripped of everything he owns. Upon recovering, he...
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1959
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The fourth season of Maverick gets under way minus the series' popular star James Garner, who'd vacated the role of frontier...
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1959
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In the midst of his campaign to bring statehood to his territory, Judge Somervell (John Litel) loses a suitcase which...
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1958
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Created and written by Sam Peckinpah, the premiere episode of The Rifleman stars Chuck Connors and Johnny Crawford as Lucas...
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1958
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Jack Kelly makes his first appearance as Bart Maverick in this episode, in which Bart and brother Bret find themselves broke...
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1957
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Of the many filmed versions of the October 26, 1881, O.K. Corral shootout in Tombstone, Arizona, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral...
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1957
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Mara Corday stars in Undersea Girl as skin-diving journalist Val Hudson. While swimming in Yokohama Bay, Val comes across the...
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1957
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George Stevens' sprawling adaptation of Edna Ferber's best-selling novel successfully walks a fine line between potboiler and...
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1956
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The Lone Ranger was the first of two Technicolor theatrical features based on the popular TV series of the same name. Clayton...
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1956
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1956
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When an entire family is slaughtered in an open field, it appears to be the work of Pawnee renegades. But as Matt (James...
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1956
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The first spaceship to Mars rounds the Red Planet and heads back toward Earth but runs into an unexplained phenomenon in...
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1956
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I Died a Thousand Times is a scene-by-scene remake of the 1941 crime-drama classic High Sierra. Jack Palance steps into the...
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1955
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New York Confidential is based on the Jack Lait-Lee Mortimer bestseller of the same name. Richard Conte plays Nick Magellan,...
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1955
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The life story of West Point athletic director Marty Maher was the inspiration for John Ford's The Long Gray Line. Told in...
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1955
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Who else but Randolph Scott could be the Tall Man Riding in this rugged western? Forced to lay low for several years after...
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1955
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Hal Foster's Sunday-comics saga of a young Viking prince in the service of King Arthur is brought to the screen in...
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1954
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1954
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Famous circus clown Rollo (Billy Wayne) is slated to appear on a charity telethon hosted by Clark Kent (George Reeves)....
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1954
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1954
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In 1945, James Cagney, through his independent production company, bought the rights to a lurid novel by Adria Locke Langley,...
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1953
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"Her Salome Will Steal Your Breath Away" was the classic advertising slogan attached to this opulent Rita Hayworth epic -- a...
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1953
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Wayne Morris plays a Texas ranger who goes undercover to trap a criminal gang. Posing as a wanted killer, Morris is able to...
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1953
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Saginaw Trail is a rare "mid-western" from Gene Autry. Set in 1827, the story takes place in the wilds of Michigan. Autry...
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1953
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Though it isn't obvious at first glance, Three Sailors and a Girl is the fourth screen version of the George S. Kaufman stage...
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1953
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The Three Stooges are about to be evicted from their apartment in this comic short. To pay the rent, they offer to do some...
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1952
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James Cagney signed on to play Captain Flagg in 20th Century Fox's 1952 remake of the 1926 classic What Price Glory after...
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1952
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The "B"-western field of the 1950s was laid low by increasing budgets and decreasing box-office appeal. Gene Autry's series...
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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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In this western, a U.S. marshal rides into Leadville to get a prisoner and ends up staying to help a needy friend who is in...
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1952
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His Kind of Woman directed by veteran John Farrow, is a convoluted mystery thriller which tries unsuccessfully to combine...
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1951
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Auteur theorists may have trouble discerning the "signature" of director Phil Karlson in the Columbia costume adventure Mask...
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1951
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From the opening credits onward, bombastic comedian Jerry Colonna dominates the proceedings in Kentucky Jubilee. Colonna...
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1951
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For his initial effort from his own Norma Productions, Burt Lancaster picked a winner in Ten Tall Men. Lancaster stars as...
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1951
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A rare comedy from director John Ford, this story about a WWII soldier trying to gain some respect is based on the published...
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1950
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Wagon Master, splendidly directed by John Ford, is a superlative western. The film is the outwardly simple tale of a Mormon...
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1950
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1950
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Betty Grable's Wabash Avenue is an agreeable remake of Grable's 1943 hit Coney Island. The locale is changed from New York to...
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1950
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This unusual, dreamlike John Wayne vehicle is set in the East Indies. The focus of the film is the deadly rivalry between two...
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1949
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Set shortly after the Battle of New Orleans, the film casts John Wayne as John Breen, a Kentucky trooper making the long...
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1949
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1949
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The second of John Ford's "Cavalry Trilogy", She Wore a Yellow Ribbon is the only one of the three to be lensed in...
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1949
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"This boy...and this girl...were never properly introduced to the world we live in." With this superimposed opening title,...
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1949
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Lloyd Bacon's baseball comedy stars Ray Milland as Vernon Simpson, a chemist who develops a product which repels wood....
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1949
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1948
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Yvonne DeCarlo dons 19th century "adventuress" garb once more in River Lady. This time she's a 19th century gambling queen,...
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1948
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That Wonderful Urge is the second remake of Love is News (37), and is much closer to the original than the first remake (the...
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1948
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Only faintly related to the old stage play The Argyle Case, The Argyle Secrets is based on a half-hour radio program...
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1948
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The third talkie version of Dumas' The Three Musketeers, this splashy MGM adaptation is also the first version in...
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1948
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Bearing little resemblance to reality, this musical biography of 19th century Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov takes...
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1947
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In this drama, a desperate bank clerk, teetering on the brink of financial ruin, attempts to save himself by embezzling...
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1947
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Slave Girl is the sort of fare that the Universal higher-ups used to dismiss as "tits and sand;" nonetheless, this kind of...
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1947
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The Abbott & Costello western spoof The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap is predicated on an actual Montana law of the 19th...
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1947
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Tarzan (Johnny Weissmuller) goes on one of his occasional pro-ecological kicks in Tarzan and the Huntress. This time, the...
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1947
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One of the greatest movie Westerns, John Ford's My Darling Clementine is hardly the most accurate film version of the Wyatt...
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1946
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Mitchell Leisen utilizes his stylistic pizzazz to enliven this romantic comedy that proves the old adage "opposites attract"...
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1943
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In a harem in a Middle Eastern palace, the guardian leads the women he protects in telling the tale of Halroun-Al-Raschid...
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1942
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The plot of the RKO Radio programmer The Falcon Takes Over will be instantly recognizable to anyone who has seen the 1944...
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1942
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To say that Behind the Eight Ball is the best of the Ritz Brothers' quartet of Universal vehicles is faint praise indeed, but...
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1942
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While in Hawaii, Velez begins the film as a risque nightclub act and due to her involvement with a group of sailors becomes...
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1941
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1941
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The studio concocted the film as a showcase for its 9-year-old discovery Joan Carroll, here cast as precocious Bridget...
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1941
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The third of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello's starring films, In the Navy was released second; Universal had just made a bundle...
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1941
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Free, Blonde and 21 was one of a handful of films directed by former leading man Ricardo Cortez. Two of 20th Century-Fox's...
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1940
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