While this original movie version of Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning play may have dated somewhat, it was groundbreaking...
|
Editor
|
1961
|
|
Editor
|
1959
|
Man on the Prowl was produced by Jo and Art Napoleon, the same team responsible for TV's The Whirlybirds. James Best stars as...
|
Editor
|
1957
|
This emotional drama concerns a WWII medic who marries a German woman but leaves her in a jealous rage, taking their baby...
|
Editor
|
1956
|
Razzle-dazzle showman Michael Todd hocked everything he had to make this spectacular presentation of Jules Verne's 1872 novel...
|
Editor
|
1956
|
To say that Lady Godiva is historically inaccurate is a moot point, since most historians agree that the whole Lady Godiva...
|
Editor
|
1955
|
The splendid physique of Tony Curtis is given generous screen exposure in the boxing melodrama The Square Jungle. Curtis...
|
Editor
|
1955
|
|
|
Editor
|
1955
|
The Spoilers is the fourth and (very likely) last film version of Rex Beach's rugged Alaskan adventure yarn. Set during the...
|
Editor
|
1955
|
Gorilla At Large is a more-or-less self-explanatory title for this thriller, set at an amusement park. The major attraction...
|
Editor
|
1954
|
The strangest aspect of the low-budget fantasy effort The Rocket Man is the fact that one of its screenwriters was...
|
Editor
|
1954
|
Juvenile delinquency is the subject of the misleadingly titled Universal-International potboiler Girls in the Night....
|
Editor
|
1953
|
It Came From Outer Space is one of a handful of science fiction films from the 1950s that plays as well today as it did on...
|
Editor
|
1953
|
|
|
Editor
|
1953
|
Lone Hand benefits immensely from the genuine Colorado locations seen throughout. Zachary Hallock (Joel McCrea) and his son...
|
Editor
|
1953
|
At the time of its release the RKO "B"-western Road Agent raised eyebrows, not because of its violent content, but because of...
|
Editor
|
1952
|
Back at the Front is the second of two film comedies based on the wartime cartoons of Bill Mauldin. As in Up Front, the...
|
Editor
|
1952
|
Director Leslie Selander pulls out all the stops in this the last of RKO's Tim Holt Westerns. A wounded parolee, Carver...
|
Editor
|
1952
|
Adapted from the stage thriller The Man (itself based upon a half-hour radio drama), Beware My Lovely is a taut suspenser...
|
Editor
|
1952
|
It's always a pleasure to see ace western director Leslie Selander in action, and Riders of Vengeance is no exception....
|
Editor
|
1952
|
|
Editor
|
1951
|
Webb Garwood (Van Heflin) is a cynical policeman who believes that success comes from lucky breaks. Responding to a prowler...
|
Editor
|
1951
|
Though At War With the Army was the third film appearance of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, it was the team's first starring...
|
Editor
|
1950
|
Dick Powell stars as Canadian Mountie Sgt. Mike Flannagan. When Boston-bred Kathy O'Fallon (Evelyn Keyes) marries Mike, she...
|
Editor
|
1949
|
In this romantic comedy, a wealthy heiress marries hastily and realizes her mistake on her honeymoon in New York. Though it...
|
Editor
|
1948
|
Young model Jean Dexter is knocked unconscious and drowned in her own bathtub in her Manhattan apartment, and a lot of...
|
Editor
|
1948
|
In this drama, an egomaniacal producer freely treads upon those around him without regard to the harm he does. The devoted...
|
Editor
|
1948
|
Long before he became the foremost purveyor of ultra-realistic melodramas, writer/producer/director Andrew Stone turned out a...
|
Editor
|
1947
|
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay was based on the lighthearted joint autobiography of actress Cornelia Otis Skinner and humorist...
|
Editor
|
1944
|
Let's Face It is adapted from the Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was based on the old Norma Mitchell/...
|
Editor
|
1943
|
Star-Spangled Rhythm is a typical wartime all-star musical-comedy melange, this time from Paramount Pictures. The slender...
|
Editor
|
1942
|
In this, the third screen adaptation of the musical revue Sailor Beware, William Holden plays Casey Kirby, a shy sailor who...
|
Editor
|
1942
|
In this drama, a dedicated forest ranger begins suspecting that a recent series of fires has been caused by arson. He...
|
Editor
|
1942
|
|
|
Editor
|
1941
|
Rather shaky as history, Birth of the Blues delivers the goods in terms of entertainment, thanks to the unbeatable star...
|
Editor
|
1941
|
The very first Disney feature to include live-action footage, this behind-the-scenes documentary about the studio's animation...
|
Editor
|
1941
|
|
Editor
|
1940
|
Hollywood films about the Revolutionary War almost invariably lost money at the box office, and The Howards of Virginia was...
|
Editor
|
1940
|
Remedy for Riches was the fourth in RKO Radio's six-entry "Dr. Christian" series. Jean Hersholt returns as Dr. Christian, the...
|
Editor
|
1940
|
A longtime fan of comedians George Burns and Gracie Allen, "Philo Vance" creator S. S. Van Dyne wrote a tailor-made...
|
Editor
|
1939
|
In the 1830s, despite the development of the steamboat at the outset of the 19th century, all trans-Atlantic travel was still...
|
Editor
|
1939
|
|
|
Editor
|
1939
|
This film is one of acclaimed director Fritz Lang's less noted achievements, a mixture of romance, comedy, drama, and satire....
|
Editor
|
1938
|
In its never-ending efforts to find a "rustic" screen personality to replace the late Will Rogers, Hollywood turned to...
|
Editor
|
1938
|
|
|
Editor
|
1937
|
Another of Paramount's efforts to transform Metropolitan Opera diva Gladys Swarthout into a popular movie star, Champagne...
|
Editor
|
1937
|
This happy-go-lucky musical comedy is set in beautiful Hawaii and follows a public relations man who works for a pineapple...
|
Editor
|
1937
|
Carole Lombard stars as Helen Bartlett, a compulsive liar who always tips the audience to an oncoming whopper by sticking her...
|
Editor
|
1937
|
Ann Sothern essays the title role in My American Wife. The story opens in Smelter City, Arizona, where the richest man in...
|
Editor
|
1936
|
In this comedy a persistent, pesky fountaineer takes to following two government agents in hopes of becoming one of them....
|
Editor
|
1936
|
|
|
Editor
|
1936
|
The 1936 comedy-mystery The Princess Comes Across might well have been inspired by a real-life incident during the...
|
Editor
|
1936
|
In this romantic costume drama, a man in the service of a king finds that falling in love with the queen can carry a high...
|
Editor
|
1935
|
|
|
Editor
|
1935
|
A romantic triangle during WW I provides the basis of this drama. The trouble begins when a young wife gets involved with a...
|
Editor
|
1935
|
Previously filmed in 1929, Philip MacDonald's novel Patrol was lensed by director John Ford as The Lost Patrol in 1934....
|
Editor
|
1934
|
Legendary Broadway impresario George White made his Hollywood debut with this musical, which he wrote, co-directed, and...
|
Editor
|
1934
|
John Barrymore is the Long Lost Father in this lightweight seriocomedy. Barrymore is felicitously cast as Carl Bellairs, who...
|
Editor
|
1934
|
|
|
Editor
|
1933
|
|
|
Editor
|
1933
|
Based on a novel by Rian James, Hat Check Girl stars Sally Eilers as the title character, a pert little number named Gerry...
|
Editor
|
1932
|
The comedic sidekick is shockingly done away with in this unusual and highly atmospheric Western from Fox. George O'Brien, of...
|
Editor
|
1932
|
Locomotive engineer Edmund Lowe falls head-over-heels in love with musical-comedy dancer Mae Clarke. When he finds out that...
|
Editor
|
1931
|
Surrender is yet another triangular romance set against the backdrop of WWI. French POW Dumaine (Warner Baxter) is...
|
Editor
|
1931
|
This melodrama tells the tale of young American pilots who felt strongly about WWI before the US intervened. These men...
|
Editor
|
1931
|
John Ford directed this undersea adventure from the early days of the sound era; it features talking sequences along silent...
|
Editor
|
1930
|
Despite his precarious health, silent film idol Milton Sills insisted upon tackling one of the most challenging roles of his...
|
Editor
|
1930
|
Burgeoning western star George O'Brien starred in this lavishly mounted but otherwise quite commonplace Northwest melodrama...
|
Editor
|
1930
|
Warner Baxter, who had won an Academy Award for playing the Cisco Kid in In Old Arizona (1929), is at it again, fake Spanish...
|
Editor
|
1930
|
|
|
Editor
|
1929
|
|
|
Editor
|
1929
|
In one of his few surviving Westerns, silent screen cowboy hero Art Acord plays Bill Strong, a U.S. Marshal witnessing Red...
|
Editor
|
1929
|
In this early, early talkie containing only 15 minutes of spoken word, an aging nightclub performer takes a young woman...
|
Editor
|
1929
|
|
|
Editor
|
1928
|
|
|
Editor
|
1928
|
|
|
Editor
|
1928
|