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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1968
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Film star Lylah Clare is dead, but her legend lives on. Movie-producer Barney Sheean (Ernest Borgnine) hires Elsa Brinkmann...
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1968
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Steve McQueen received his only Academy Award nomination for his performance in this epic-scale war drama, based on the novel...
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1966
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Filmed in Cinerama and Technicolor, Circus World may have drawn the crowds for various reasons -- not the least, perhaps, for...
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1964
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1964
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In this family-oriented comedy, Snow White is taken to the woods to be killed at the behest of her evil stepmother and ends...
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1961
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1959
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When Alistair Cooke shows up to introduce Three Faces of Eve, we know that the fact-based story will bear more than a little...
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1957
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The Girl Most Likely owns the distinction of being the last RKO Radio picture ever produced at the studio's Hollywood...
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1957
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The King and Four Queens was the first (and last) project from Clark Gable's own production company, GABCO. Gable stars as...
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1956
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A Man Called Peter is the story of Scottish-born Presbyterian minister and world-renowned author Peter Marshall, here played...
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1955
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1955
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1954
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Gorilla At Large is a more-or-less self-explanatory title for this thriller, set at an amusement park. The major attraction...
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1954
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Robert Jordan is a television star. Robert Jordan likes things orderly, on time and properly executed. In his world children...
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1953
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1953
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Although a few character names and minor details are different, Vicki is a fairly faithful remake of the 1941 murder...
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1953
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Tonight we Sing is the life story of legendary impresario Sol Hurok, impersonated herein by David Wayne. A lover of the arts,...
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1953
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The upbeat title belies the film's often melancholy subject matter. Based on a novel by Ferdinand Reyher, Nellie stars...
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1952
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Dale Robertson stars as Sam Crockett, a widowed rancher trying to make a go of his small spread with his father...
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1952
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Given to violent, unpredictable behavior, composer Richard Morton (Gary Merrill) is an accident waiting to happen. Attempting...
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1952
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After surviving the hell of a Nazi death camp, a refugee faces even greater dangers in America in this tale of murder,...
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1951
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The model (Jeanne Crain) is stuck in an unhappy relationship with a married man. The marriage broker (Thelma Ritter) doesn't...
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1951
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1951
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Hovering somewhere between an "A" and "B" production, RKO's Roughshod is an expert blend of western and film noir....
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1949
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Casting Frank Sinatra as a Pennsylvania priest is but one of the many miscalculations made by the producers of Miracle of the...
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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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Much of Mystery in Mexico was filmed on location through the facilities of RKO Radio's Churubusco Studios. William Lundigan...
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1948
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Station West may look like a western, but it sure sounds like a contemporary film noir. Dick Powell stars as Haven, a...
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1948
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The success of 1947's Badman's Territory prompted RKO Radio to assemble another "outlaw rally," Return of the Badmen....
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1948
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The Broadway musical Beat the Band was boiled down to B-picture terms in this RKO Radio programmer. The plot concerns Damon...
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1947
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No relation to the 1935 Jean Harlow-Spencer Tracy vehicle of the same name, RKO Radio's Riff-Raff is an action-packed vehicle...
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1947
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So Well Remembered was the first of a proposed series of Anglo-American co-productions underwritten by Hollywood's RKO Radio...
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1947
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The moody mystery melodrama Nocturne was produced by longtime Alfred Hitchcock associate Joan Harrison. The film wastes no...
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1946
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In this is '40s western a U.S. marshal chases a band of big-name bandits into no-man's territory (land outside of U.S....
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1946
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In this espionage drama, a WW II veteran teams up with a government secretary and begins hunting a gang of Nazi agents who...
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1946
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Deadline at Dawn represented not only the sole film directorial effort of Broadway's Harold Clurman, but also the only...
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1946
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Art critic and forgery expert George Steele (Pat O'Brien) is apprehended by the police as he desperately tries to break into...
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1946
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In this WW II romance, a small-time nightclub singer who works in a little Manhattan nightclub has a one-night stand with a...
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1946
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Canadian WW II pilot Gerard (Dick Powell) intends to track down and kill collaborationist Marcel Jarne, the man responsible...
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1945
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A journalist for a popular travel magazine goes looking for interesting stories in Latin America and finds love instead in...
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1945
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In this drama, an amnesiac awakens and finds himself accused of murder. Fortunately, a female cabbie helps prove his...
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1945
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Robert Young stars as a WW2 pilot named Hank, who accompanies his pal Jerry (Bill Williams, in his film debut) on a furlough....
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1945
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Every so often, RKO Radio got the notion to launch a series of annual musical extravaganzas a la MGM's Broadway Melody and...
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1945
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1945
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Edward Dmytryk's Back to Bataan stars John Wayne as Colonel Joe Madden. After General MacArthur decides to follow his order...
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1945
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1945
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In this drama, a remake of Hat, Coat and Glove (1934), a hard working attorney is upset when he learns that his...
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1944
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Cary Grant delivered Oscar-calibre performances all his life, but only when he played against type in None But the Lonely...
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1944
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In this adventure the young lively daughter of wealthy Virginia parents bridles under the stern tutelage of her new English...
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1944
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In this musical comedy, a pair of small-potatoes performers try to make it to the big-time after winning an amateur talent...
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1944
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Jim Lacy (Robert Mitchum), Chito Rafferty (Richard Martin), and Dusty (Guinn "Big Boy" Williams) are three cowpokes working...
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1944
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The murder of a wealthy, much-married rancher (Lyle Talbot) in a posh Manhattan nightclub is the catalyst for The Falcon Out...
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1944
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The Master Race argues persuasively that, although it appeared that the Nazis would lose WW2, it was foolish to assume that...
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1944
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Heavenly Days was the last of three RKO Radio film vehicles for the popular radio duo of Fibber McGee and Molly (aka Jim and...
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1944
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The Falcon in Mexico wastes no time getting started: within the first ten minutes, amateur sleuth Tom Lawrence (Tom Conway),...
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1944
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The last and least of RKO Radio's B-series based on radio's "Great Gildersleeve", Gildersleeve's Ghost is a standard "scare"...
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1944
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1943
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Tom Conway makes his second appearance as amateur sleuth Tom Lawrence, aka "The Falcon", in RKO Radio's The Falcon Strikes...
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1943
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1943
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A bit treacly at times, Tender Comrade is nonetheless a fascinating distillation of the American mindset during WW2. Ginger...
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1943
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When an instructor dies mysteriously at an exclusive girl's school, Tom Lawrence (Tom Conway), a devil-may-care sleuth known...
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1943
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Gildersleeve on Broadway was the third in a series of RKO B-pictures inspired by the radio sitcom The Great Gildersleeve....
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1943
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A major moneymaker for RKO Radio, Bombardier stars Pat O'Brien and Randolph Scott as trainers at a school for bomber pilots....
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1943
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One of Cary Grant's most financially successful 1940s vehicles, Mr. Lucky finds Grant atypically cast as a shifty,...
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1943
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1943
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Written by Dudley Nichols and directed by French expatriate director Jean Renoir, This Land is Mine is one of those...
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1943
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Victor Mature and Lucille Ball top the star-studded cast of RKO Radio's Seven Days Leave. Mature plays Johnny Grey, an...
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1942
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This modestly produced film version of Gregor Ziemmer's book Education for Death surprised everyone at RKO--and in the film...
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1942
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When George Sanders announced that he was leaving the "Falcon" series, RKO Radio came up with the perfect replacement:...
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1942
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Handed the exploitive title Cat People, RKO producer Val Lewton opted for a thinking man's thriller--a psychological mood...
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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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A combat picture was virtually a license to print money in 1942, and RKO Radio's The Navy Comes Through was no exception (net...
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1942
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In this drama, an ex-vaudevillian dancer opens up a dance band agency and help street kids at the same time by hiring them...
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1942
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Lucille Ball delivers the finest dramatic performance of her career in this satisfying adaptation of Damon Runyon's The Big...
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1942
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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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Even non-fans of RKO Radio's "Mexican Spitfire" series will garner a few healthy laughs from Mexican Spitfire's Baby. This...
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1941
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George Sanders makes his final appearance as crook-turned-detective Simon Templar, a.k.a. "The Saint," in The Saint in Palm...
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1941
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In this patriotic war drama, a unit of Army recruits train for a parachute corps. One is an arrogant football star who finds...
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1941
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Working girl Ginger Rogers (who dresses like movie star Ginger Rogers, despite her meager salary!) cannot decide which of her...
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1941
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A partial remake of 1936's Wanted: Jane Turner, Lady Scarface is a seedy but entertaining tour de force for the great...
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1941
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This second entry in RKO Radio's "Falcon" series begins with Gay Lawrence (George Sanders), aka the Falcon, promising to give...
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1941
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Festooned with flashbacks, Married and in Love is a minor domestic drama given Tiffany treatment by director John Farrow....
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1940
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In her third film for innovative director Gregory LaCava, Ginger Rogers briefly turns her back on her established screen...
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1940
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Set in the Central American jungle, Lucille Ball plays plantation owner Joan Grant in The Marines Fly High. When a platoon of...
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1940
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Though he doesn't speak his first line of dialogue until the film's final ten minutes, Peter Lorre spiritually dominates the...
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1940
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A creaky remake of the 1932 film of the same name, Bill of Divorcement tells of the effect an emotionally disturbed father's...
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1940
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Seven years after helping to rescue RKO Radio from bankruptcy as the heroine of King Kong, Fay Wray returned to the studio as...
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1940
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1940
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Though Ginger Rogers' starring vehicles always turned a profit for RKO Radio, many filmgoers thought of Rogers only in terms...
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1940
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Another worthwhile entry from the RKO Radio B-picture division, 12 Crowded Hours stars stalwart Richard Dix as crime-busting...
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1939
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Filmed on a budget of $77,000, Rookie Cop was another attempt by RKO Radio to transform canine star Ace the Wonder Dog into...
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1939
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RKO's Conspiracy attempts to be an up-to-date (for 1939) espionage drama without using such problematic words as "Nazi" or...
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1939
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The Saint Strikes Back was the second in the series of films featuring Simon Templay, better known as The Saint, and the...
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1939
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In this crime drama, a shyster lawyer makes his living earning acquittals for his guilty clients. Most recently he freed a...
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1939
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Thanks to a practical joker, hotshot radio newscaster Steve (Kent Taylor) announces that prominent financier Pomeroy (Morgan...
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1939
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Fred Stone stars as the mayor of a small town, threatened by "progressive" politicians who plan to radically change the...
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1938
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When mild-mannered bank clerk Wilbur Meely (Joe Penner) finds himself stuck in a speeding trailer after a bank robbery gone...
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1938
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Ace the Wonder Dog, RKO's Rin Tin Tin-wannabe, plays Picardy Max, a mongrel dog adopted by Dan Preston (James Ellison) when...
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1938
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Better known today as the father of actors Bob Einstein and Albert Brooks, comedian Harry Einstein achieved radio fame in the...
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1938
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Zany actress Annabel goes on a promotional tour in this lively comedy, the second in the Annabel series. During her tour,...
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1938
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Lucille Ball landed her first starring comedy role in the mile-a-minute farce The Affairs of Annabel. Lucy of course plays...
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1938
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Ageing, alcohol-benumbed John Barrymore had one last great performance left in him before his death in 1942, and The Great...
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1938
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Based upon Arthur Kober's play (which was subsequently musicalized onstage as Wish You Were Here, Having Wonderful Time stars...
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1938
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Having paid $255,500 for the rights to John Murray and Allen Boretz' Broadway hit Room Service, RKO Radio then scouted about...
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1938
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This RKO Radio "expose" film is loosely based on the career of evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, who'd previously gotten the...
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1938
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When two lovers are framed for a jewelry store robbery in which the clerk was killed, the only person capable of saving them...
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1938
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Annapolis Salute is the 1937 remake of RKO's 1933 film Midshipman Jack. Lensed on location at the Annapolis Naval Academy,...
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1937
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This back-stage crime comedy, a remake of Lights Out (1923), takes a healthy satirical stab at the powerful studio system of...
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1937
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The low-budget football drama Saturday's Heroes is remarkably frank and timely -- at least for the first 4 reels or so....
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1937
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Guy Kibbee, moviedom's archetypal small-town bigshot, stars in RKO Radio's Don't Tell the Wife. On this occasion, Kibbee,...
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1937
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1937
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