Paladin (Richard Boone) is summoned to New Orleans by the aristocratic Allison Windrom (Dolores Donlon). Ostensibly, Paladin...
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1960
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Set within the popular bohemian coffee houses of the late '50s where beatniks gathered to recite poetry and perform, this...
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1959
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An angry head-shrinker (not a psychiatrist) puts a curse upon a family of white traders in this well-wrought low-budget...
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Kenneth Drake
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1959
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This is the very last entry in the long-running Bowery Boys saga. This time the gang gets involved with English diamond...
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1958
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The secret to immortality is thus: to rejuvenate tired bones and muscles and retain that youthful feeling forever, simply...
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Cooper
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1957
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Hot on the heels of his successful sci-fier Kronos, Kurt Neumann directed the lesser genre entry She Devil. Jack Kelly stars...
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1957
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Prominent surgeon Walter Brennan comes to the conclusion that his talents are on loan from God. He retires from his lucrative...
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1957
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Tired of the humdrum routine at a staid British woman's prison, brassy American chorine Angela Booth (Beverly Michaels) busts...
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Inspector Hedges
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1956
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Though both star Donald O'Connor and director Arthur Lubin had said goodbye to the "Francis the Talking Mule" series,...
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Neil Frazer
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1956
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Lana Turner stars as Diane in this opulent costume drama. Set in 16th century France, the film finds the gorgeous Diane de...
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1955
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The infamous Benedict Arnold affair is the basis of the lively MGM costumer The Scarlet Coat. Arnold is played with suitably...
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1955
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Tony Curtis was by 1955 an accomplished enough actor to get through the costumed derring-do of The Purple Mask minus the...
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1955
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Director Robert Z. Leonard brought his 31-year association with MGM to a rousing close with The King's Thief. Set in England...
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1955
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One critic has noted that The Prodigal was aptly titled, inasmuch as it was all too prodigal with the funds of the...
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1955
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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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John H. Tunstall
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1954
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Based on a true story from the Civil War, this drama follows a band of Confederate POWS who escape from a New England prison...
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1954
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This Kiplingesque adventure yarn stars Richard Egan as a captain in the British lancers. Together with his regiment, Egan is...
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Melville
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1954
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1954
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This second film version of Lloyd C. Douglas' spiritual novel Magnificent Obsession is in its own way as successful as the...
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1954
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Sexy Denise Darcel is the Flame of Calcutta in this Columbia programmer. Set in 18th-century India, the film stars Darcel as...
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Lord Robert Clive
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1953
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1953
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1953
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1953's The Mississippi Gambler was the third Universal Studios film to bear this title--though with a different plot each...
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Edmund Duroux
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1953
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John Kolvac
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1953
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1953
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The Dumas-inspired Blades of the Musketeers began life as an hour-long TV show, produced by Hal Roach Jr. as a possible...
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Richelieu
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1953
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The fine line between love and violence is explored in this three-chapter anthology featuring James Mason and his wife...
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1953
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Jeremy Smithers
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1952
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Though filmed through the facilities of Hal Roach Studios and produced by Hal Roach Jr., Tales of Robin Hood was released by...
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Sir Guy
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1952
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Plymouth Adventure earned a footnote in film history as the last directorial effort by the prolific Clarence Brown....
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1952
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The Desert Fox is a superb filmed biography of German general Erwin Rommel, concentrating on the period between his retreat...
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1951
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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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Klass Von Gelder
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1951
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1951
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1951
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Economically utilizing the Universal Studio itself as a "set," Hollywood Story is a murder mystery centered in the film...
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1951
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1951
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The Son of Dr. Jekyll is Edward Jekyll, played by Louis Hayward. The film's events take place long after the unpleasantness...
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1951
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Iroquois Trail (British title: The Tomahawk Trail) could be classified as a western, but for the fact that the story is set...
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1950
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1950
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Hagen
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1950
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Decked out with leftover sets and stock footage from 1946's Bandit of Sherwood Forest, Columbia's Rogues of Sherwood Forest...
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Sir Giles
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1950
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MGM circumvented the censorship that would otherwise have prevented a film version of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary by...
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1949
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1948
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In this romantic comedy, a wealthy heiress marries hastily and realizes her mistake on her honeymoon in New York. Though it...
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1948
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Even star Joan Bennett and director Fritz Lang regarded The Secret Beyond the Door as the weakest of their collaborative...
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1948
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The Plan 9 From Outer Space of baseball biopics, The Babe Ruth Story is definitely in the "So Bad It's Good" category. An...
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1948
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In this drama, Madeleine Damien (Hedy Lamarr) is a successful magazine editor with a free-spirited private life, but a number...
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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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In this period drama, Joan Fontaine stars as Ivy Lexton, a woman with an unusual hunger for men. Though she already has a...
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Dr. Berwick
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1947
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Faced with the challenge of writing a screenplay based on the life of fabulously wealthy, fabulously successful composer Cole...
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Bart McClelland
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1946
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If Grecian storyteller Aesop really did exist, he was most likely a black slave. He wasn't an Austrian actor with an Egyptian...
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1946
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Fannie Hurst's novel Humoresque is the lachrymose tale of a famed Jewish-American violinist who forgets all about his friends...
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Victor Wright
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1946
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Edgar G. Ulmer's Club Havana is Grand Hotel, PRC style. The titular club is a popular nightspot where everyone who is anyone...
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1946
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In this crime drama, a fading movie star plays a similar character in her farewell film, a B crime-drama about a...
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1946
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The novel The Big Bow Mystery by Israel Zangwill had been filmed in 1928 as The Perfect Crime and again in 1934 as The Crime...
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1946
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Sir George Fenwick
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1945
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Simon Merrivale
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1945
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Ned Trumpet (Wallace Beery), the chief pilot of a Navy blimp, is given to weaving accounts of the fighting prowess of his...
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1945
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Though it is not based on any Conan Doyle story, The Scarlet Claw is regarded by Baker Street aficionados as the best of...
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Lord William Penrose
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1944
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Robert Z. Leonard, who must have taken room and board at MGM, was the directorial hand behind this slight domestic drama....
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1944
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In this eighth film in MGM's "Maisie" series, Ann Sothern is back as ever-stranded chorus girl Maisie Revier. As the story...
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Roger Pelham
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1944
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A scientist discovers that he can live forever by receiving gland transplants every ten years. Unfortunately, the unwilling...
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Dr. Henry Latimer
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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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Sheik Ahmid Bel Nor
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1943
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1942
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James Cagney made his first Technicolor appearance in the morale-boosting aviation flick Captains of the Clouds. Cagney plays...
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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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Dr. Wolf
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1942
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With America's Air Force not completely mobilized in mid-1942, Universal paid tribute to those foresighted Yankee flyboys who...
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1942
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Pacific Rendezvous is a B-picture remake of the 1935 MGM A-picture Rendezvous, updated to accommodate WW2. Lee Bowman plays...
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Commander Charles Brennan
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1942
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In this dark drama an iron-willed older sister forcibly thrusts her only modestly talented younger sister into a Broadway...
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1942
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Out of work as usual, showgirl Maisie Revier (Ann Sothern) takes a job as the maid for a wealthy family. She wins over the...
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1941
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This thriller, set aboard a transatlantic ship heading for America during WW II, chronicles the endeavors of a cagey...
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Max Armand
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1941
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In this comedy, a crime novelist spins a yarn to impress the apple of his eye. He tells her that he has been involved in a...
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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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Reynolds
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1941
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This soapy drama stars Hedy Lamarr as a would be model who meets a research doctor en route to the US from Europe. They meet...
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1940
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The Under-Pup served to introduce Universal's new preteen songstress--and potential Deanna Durbin replacement--Gloria Jean....
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1939
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In this crime drama, a thieving employee sticks her stolen goods into the locker of a co-worker and causes all sorts of...
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"English Eddie"
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1939
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The rise of the popular Nevada city is chronicled in this epic drama that begins when Reno was a tiny silver-mining town and...
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John Banton
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1939
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Romance in Flanders is the American title of the British Lost on the Western Front. Set during WWI, the first part of the...
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John Morley
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1937
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Like Rick's Café Americain, the Café Colette is a rendezvous for virtually every spy in Europe. Greta Nissen stars as Russian...
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Ryan
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1937
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In this British gangster movie, a Chicago gang goes to cool their heels in London. There they try to overtake the town....
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Inspector Gary
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1936
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"Champagne" Charlie Courtland (Paul Cavanaugh) is a smooth, sophisticated and highly unethical gambler, plying his trade...
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Charlie Cortland
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1936
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In this melodramatic adventure, a young woman is abducted by Chinese bandits. One of them is a free-lance pilot in need of...
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1935
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Binnie Barnes stars as Rina Sorel, a glamorous kleptomaniac who steals for the thrill of it. Specializing in uncut diamonds,...
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Lavassor
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1935
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Mae West is Goin' to Town in this elegant post-Production Code vehicle. West plays Cleo Borden, a nouveau riche cattle...
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Edward Carrington
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1935
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Most of the Fox productions of the 1930s had a "continental" flavor, and Thunder in the Night was no exception. Edmund Lowe...
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Count Alvinczy
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1935
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This romantic comedy-drama is set -- typical for producer Samuel Goldwyn at the time -- among the upper class. Joel McCrea...
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Martin Deering
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1935
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1934
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Martin Arlington
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1934
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Female executive Doris (Genevieve Tobin) is hardly "uncertain" in the business world, but she's not so secure in her home...
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Bruce
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1934
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Before its absorption into the newly-formed 20th Century-Fox corporation in 1935, feisty little Majestic Pictures turned out...
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Wylie Thornton
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1934
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Glamorous American jewel-thief Sophie Lang (Gertrude Michael) not only regularly outwits Scotland Yard, but has great fun...
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Max Bernard
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1934
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Not to be confused with Universal's 1932 The Menace, Paramount's 1934 Menace does however included a "revenge" motif similar...
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Colonel Crecy
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1934
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Often (and accurately) described as a model of the whodunit genre, The Kennel Murder Case stars William Powell, making his...
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1933
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Having confessed to murder, Nora Moran (Zita Johann) sits sadly on death row, waiting her date with the electric chair. In...
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Bill Crawford
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1933
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Prince Keri
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1933
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In this drama, set in 1929 when the stock market crashed, a selfish, money-grubbing wife ruins her husband, an accountant...
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Ronald Sanderson
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1932
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Katharine Hepburn made her auspicious film debut in the otherwise undistinguished A Bill of Divorcement. Based on a play by...
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1932
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1932
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Carlson
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1932
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The Calcutta Sweepstakes is the unifying factor of The Devil's Lottery. Among the winners of the sweepstakes are Evelyn...
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Maj. Hugo Beresford
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1932
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In this drama, a bored wife amuses herself with a lover from Spain. Later she writes a letter to her spouse explaining her...
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Robert Maury
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1931
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This drama, set in Vienna during WW I, a soldier endures ostracism from his commanding officers after he travels over enemy...
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Capt. Wolke
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1931
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A WWI American nurse stationed in London (Constance Bennett) meets a handsome flier and finds only sorrow in this three-hanky...
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Sir Wilfred Drake
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1931
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A socially prominent wife must choose between avoiding scandal and her own happiness in this British drama. According to...
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Ronald
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1931
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Cecil B. DeMille's third remake of his debut film, this was the first sound version of Edwin Milton Royle's stage western...
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Lord Henry Kerhill
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1931
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Previously filmed in 1916 and 1922, Langdon McCormick's theatrical chestnut Men Without Skirts was pulled out of mothballs...
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Dave Stewart
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1930
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The Virtuous Sin was adapted from The General, a novel by Lajos Zilahy. Kay Francis plays Marya, the wife of overly sensitive...
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1930
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Strictly Unconventional offers two subplots united by irony. British wife Elizabeth (Catherine Dale Owen), weary of her much...
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Ted
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1930
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George Cukor received his first film directorial credit for Grumpy, though he was contractually bound to share billing with...
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Jarvis
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1930
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Ronald Colman plays the "black sheep" of a wealthy British family, sent to South Africa so that he'll be as far away from...
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1930
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Princess Priscilla has been promised in matrimony to the prince of Savona, but she is not of the mind to go through with a...
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1929
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In this drama, a Russian dancer marries a shell-shocked WW I veteran. She has a baby, but it belongs to the fellow's best...
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Lenane
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1928
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