A heartless actor scrambles to the top of show business' sleazy summit in this drama. Frank Fane (Stephen Boyd) is a...
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1966
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The inherent trashiness of Reform School Girl is redeemed by the sincere performance of Gloria Castillo and the...
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David Lindsay
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1957
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Domineering Hermione Carpenter (Isobel Elsom) wants to take a trip to America and then return home to home to England for...
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1956
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One of Dodge's finest citizens is shot down in cold blood on Front Street. Marshal Matt Dillon (James Arness) soon discovers...
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1956
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Project Moonbase is a "feature film" cobbled together from several episodes of the unsold TV science fiction series "Ring...
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Maj. Moore
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1953
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In this musical, a determined young woman with stars in her eyes defies her auntie and heads for Hollywood where she gets a...
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1952
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In this musical western, a rancher sends a man to prevent the marriage of his daughter. When the man arrives he finds a dude...
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1952
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These two episodes from the '50s TV series ("Vacation Plans," "Texas Ranch") include the commercials shown during their...
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1952
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1951
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Allan "Rocky" Lane takes on a crooked landowner in Republic's Rough Riders of Durango. The villain intends to drive several...
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1951
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The title Street Bandits refers to the crooked slot machines peddled by racketeer Monk Walter (Roy Barcroft). Struggling...
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Tom Reagan
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1951
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He's a Cockeyed Wonder stars Mickey Rooney as the title character. Try as he might, Freddy Frisby (Rooney) can't succeed at...
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Ralph Caldwell
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1950
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Peggy Donovan (Joyce Reynolds) inherits a tidy sum of ill-gotten gains from her gambler father. Fearing that her late...
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Barry Sheppard
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1950
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A submarine commander is determined to use guided missiles on his sub in this war drama. To do so, he defies the edict of...
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1950
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Frisco Tornado stars Allan "Rocky" Lane in his usual guise as a U.S. marshal. The lawman's target this time is a dishonest...
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Paul Weston
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1950
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The upsurge in commercial air travel in the postwar years resulted in several films dealing with the trials and tribulations...
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Dennis Hogan
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1949
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Quickie king Sam Katzman was responsible for the 64-minute swashbuckler Barbary Pirate. Set mostly in the bay of Tripoli in...
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Sam Ridgeway
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1949
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Filmed in 1947, Warner Bros. Night Unto Night wasn't released until 1949. Based on a novel by Philip Wylie, the film stars...
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1949
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Gloria Henry, best known to modern viewers as Alice Mitchell in TV's Dennis the Menace, was the winsome leading lady of Law...
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1949
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A "new" Lassie (once again, a male collie in drag) starred in A Challenge to Lassie, MGM's fourth entry in their series based...
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1949
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Columbia kept insisting upon placing its hottest new star Larry Parks in swashbucklers, and though Parks wasn't really suited...
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1948
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In this war drama, set in New Guinea circa 1943, a squadron of fliers, stationed near Port Moresby must keep the Japanese at...
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Skipper
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1948
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Love leads a man to his most evil deeds and forces him to change his ways in this Western. After being handed a dishonorable...
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1948
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Susan Peters, a fine actress of the 1940s whose career was curtailed by an accident which left her wheelchair-bound, utilizes...
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1948
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A rapidly maturing Gloria Jean is the star of the Columbia musical Manhattan Angel. She's cast at Madison Avenue copywriter...
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Eddie Swenson
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1948
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The long-running "Blondie" series was slowly heading into the homestretch when Blondie's Reward came out in 1948. After...
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1948
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Just as she had in High Sierra (1941), Ida Lupino enjoys a brief moment of bliss with a man on the run in this highly...
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1947
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The Warner Bros. musical My Wild Irish Rose purports to tell the life story of popular 19th century balladeer Chauncey...
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1947
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John Van Druten's Broadway hit The Voice of the Turtle was purchased by Warner Bros. as a vehicle for...well, in all...
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1947
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1947
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In this slick melodrama, a sort of film-noir for women, a nightclub singer has an affair with an unhappily married San...
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1947
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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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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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The Last Ride was also the last production to emanate from Warner Bros.' B-picture division. The plot involves the illicit...
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1944
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More so than most wartime films, Mission to Moscow must be viewed within the context of its times. Requested by President...
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1943
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At 49 minutes, Murder on the Waterfront was the shortest-ever Warner Bros. B picture. Alas, brevity is not the soul of wit in...
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1943
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On December 6, 1941, a squadron of nine B-17 bombers takes off for Hickam Field, HI. The crew of the Mary Ann, including two...
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1943
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The splashy, star-studded This is the Army is based on the Irving Berlin Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was...
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1943
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