Dale Messick's inexplicably popular Brenda Starr has to be one of the lamest comic strips ever perpetrated on an unsuspecting...
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1976
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Guest stars Torin Thatcher and May Britt are cast as Rados and Eva Gollan, respectively the exiled dictator of a South...
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1969
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Mission: Impossible launched its third season on September 29 1968 with the episode titled "The Heir Apparent." To save a...
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1968
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In this made-for-television version of Stevenson's classic tale of terror and suspense, a crazy doctor develops a formula...
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1968
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1967
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Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock must save Lt. Sulu from a form of communal alien mind-control in this episode of the 1960s...
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1967
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Veteran movie heavy Torin Thatcher guest stars as The Trader, an intergalactic con artists who arrives on the Robinsons'...
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1966
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1966
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The story of revolutionary Victorian nurse Florence Nightingale is told in this drama. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1965
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Nelson discovers the scientific team that he was supposed to meet in Scotland has been killed, apparently in an encounter...
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1965
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1965
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1965
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A wealthy mercenary lives in blissful solitude upon his private island in the Philippines. This actioner chronicles what...
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1964
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Newly married to his boss' daughter, George Maxwell (Patrick O'Neal) takes a taxi to the home of his former girlfriend,...
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Hardwicke
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1964
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Spliced together with plentiful strips of old footage from previous films set in Africa, this routine romantic drama takes...
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Jack Cuortemayn
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1963
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The latest quarry of Elliot Ness (Robert Stack) is Ed "The Duke" Monte (Torin Thatcher), who has broken out of a Federal...
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1963
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Pendragon
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1962
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This colorful remake of the 1935 version again concerns the crew and treatment of the HMS Bounty by a cold hearted sadistic...
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1962
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While Ben Cartwright nurses his son Adam through a high fever, his thoughts drift back to Adam's late mother, Ben's first...
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1961
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In the late nineteenth century, Inspector Gannon (Robert Ryan) is a member of the Northwest Mounted Police (forerunners of...
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Master Sgt. McGregor
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1961
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Wealthy Walter Frazer (Torin Thatcher) has always held his daughter-in-law Sue Ellen (Diana Millay), a former nightclub...
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1961
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In 17th century Scotland, the Earl of Culdane (Torin Thatcher) accuses a young woman named Harriet (Fintan Meyler) of being a...
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1959
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Heavily in debt, John Manbridge (Denholm Elliott) cannot wait to inherit the money promised him by his wealthy uncle Felix...
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1959
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Whatever the "miracle" is in this story, set back in the 19th century, it tends to be buried underneath the multiple romances...
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1959
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1958
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Sokurah the Magician
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1958
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1957
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In this adventure, a remake of Singapore (1947), a hero finds a bracelet containing 13 precious gems while visiting Istanbul....
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Douglas Fielding
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1957
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This presentation of The DuPont Show of the Month represented the first time that a novel by A.J. Cronin had been adapted for...
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1957
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Having just recovered from a heart attack, fabled British barrister Sir Wilfred Robards (Charles Laughton) has been ordered...
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1957
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A strangler is plaguing fog-bound London, and each time the culprit strikes, two men are the first to arrive at the murder...
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1957
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Rossana Podesta may not quite possess the face that would launch a thousand ships, but she is otherwise convincing in the...
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1955
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To say that Lady Godiva is historically inaccurate is a moot point, since most historians agree that the whole Lady Godiva...
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Lord Godwin
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1955
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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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Based on the autobiographical novel by Han Suyin, Love is a Many Splendored Thing was evocatively location-filmed in Hong...
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Mr. Palmer-Jones
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1955
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The muscular physique of Rock Hudson is given plenty of screen exposure in the British-India actioner Bengal Brigade. Adapted...
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Col. Morrow
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1954
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Langston
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1954
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Tony Curtis always seemed a little uncomfortable in costume epics, but this trait serves him well in Black Shield of...
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1954
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Barney
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1953
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Historically important as the first CinemaScope feature film, 20th Century-Fox's The Robe is fine dramatic entertainment in...
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1953
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This highly fanciful but immensely entertaining biopic stars Tony Curtis as legendary magician/escape-artist Harry Houdini....
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Otto
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1953
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Half affectionate parody and half enthusiastic tribute to the swashbuckling pirate epics of the 1930's and 40's, The Crimson...
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Humble Bellows
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1952
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Ernest Hemingway could never come to terms with Hollywood's preoccupation with The Happy Ending: he accepted the money for...
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1952
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Robert Newton exhibits absolutely no shame in his portrayal of the title character in Blackbeard the Pirate. If you thought...
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Sir Henry Morgan
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1952
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In this romantic spy thriller, a nightclub performer plys her trade in her husband's Trinidad bar. He is murdered by a...
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Inspector Smythe
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1952
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Low-hanging clouds and low-cut blouses dominate the brooding British melodrama Jassy. Margaret Lockwood is at her...
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1948
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Adapted from the Graham Greene story The Basement Room, director Carol Reed's The Fallen Idol is told almost completely from...
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1948
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Lensed in lavish Technicolor, The Man Within is a rousing tale of smugglers, betrayal and redemption. The story is told from...
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1947
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Years ago a woman discovers that she married a bigamist and gives her baby boy to a couple for adoption. Now she has...
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1947
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East Indian actor Sabu is consistently better than his material in the sociological melodrama End of the River. The story...
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1947
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Immediately grabbing the audience's attention with a heart-stopping opening scene in a dark graveyard, acclaimed British...
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1946
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I See a Dark Stranger manages to be both an absorbing espionage yarn and a slyly amusing send-up of the entire genre....
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1946
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The phrase "Loose Lips Sink Ships" takes on a new and special meaning in the cautionary British war drama Next of Kin. In...
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1942
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Aircraft plant worker Robert Cummings is accused of sabotaging his factory and causing the death of a co-worker. Actually,...
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1942
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George Bernard Shaw's satiric comedy about wealth and poverty is brought to the screen with wonderful performances by...
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1941
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The popular British troupe The Crazy Gang do their zany thing in this fast-paced comedy adventure. The story begins as the...
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1940
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Let George Do It is one of the best and most successful of the George Formby vehicles. The toothy, guitar-strumming Formby...
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1940
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In this actioner, a flashy young lawyer successfully defends some saboteurs. His friends and family are appalled as are the...
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1940
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The Danish freighter Helvig approaches English waters in early 1940 and, in keeping with the needs of British security, it is...
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1940
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1940
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Rex Harrison astonished his fans by donning a Nazi uniform in the British suspenser Night Train (originally titled Night...
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1940
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The semidocumentary war film The Lion Has Wings states its case in broad strokes, juxtaposing images of rampaging...
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1940
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In this entry in the long-running British comedy series, boisterous Irish washerwoman Mother Riley loses her laundry job and...
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1939
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It took two directors to bring this modest British thriller to the screen. The story concerns a gang of international jewel...
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1939
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The Spy In Black is the story of a German World War I submarine captain (Conrad Veidt) who is given a mission to discover...
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1939
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A stage play by the astonishingly prolific Edgar Wallace was the source for the British melodrama Case of the Frightened...
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1939
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Originally conceived as a musical (called Asking for Trouble) to showcase the talents of leading lady Jessie Matthews,...
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1938
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As early as 1937's Young and Innocent, Alfred Hitchcock was beginning to repeat himself, but audiences didn't mind so long as...
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1937
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1937
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The French revolutionary Robespierre vows to get revenge on the Scarlet Pimpernel who has been helping the aristocracy escape...
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1937
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As a result of a discussion between a trio of gods over the true worthiness of Earth, a retiring British shop assistant is...
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1936
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1936
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Oskar Homolka plays a London movie-theatre owner who maintains a secret life as a paid terrorist. Homolka's wife...
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1936
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1935
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In this melodrama set within an Irish hospital, a handsome young physicician is pursued by two women. He is attracted to one...
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1934
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1933
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