This landmark juvenile-delinquent drama scrupulously follows the classic theatrical disciplines, telling all within a 24-hour...
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1955
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Intending to spend their summer vacation in Maine, where Ricky (Desi Arnaz) and his band have been booked into a lodge...
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Mrs. Hammond
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1954
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1954
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Cameron Hawley's novel of corporate in-fighting and gamesmanship was brought to the screen by producer John Houseman and...
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1954
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1954
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Acting on an anonymous tip, Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) investigate the apparent beating death of Hazel...
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1953
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Edith Curtis (Virginia Brissac) informs the police that her son Jeff has been murdered in his own home. Detectives Friday...
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1953
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1953
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Republic Pictures' notion of an "epic", Fair Wind to Java manages to pack in enough entertainment value to send the adventure...
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1953
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Despite its ebullient title and the presence of lightweight dancing star Dan Dailey, Meet Me at the Fair has a lot more meat...
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1952
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During the Civil War, Colonel Kern Shafter (played by Ray Milland) and Captain Edward Garnett (played by Hugh Marlowe) become...
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1952
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Ruth Hussey stars in this big-budget Republic actioner. She plays Christine Powell, the grasping, conniving sister of...
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1952
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1951
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Set during WW II, this film casts John Wayne as Duke Gifford, two-fisted submarine commander. Patricia Neal co-stars as Mary...
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1951
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1951
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1950
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A woman is torn between a comfortable lie and the painful truth in this drama. After she is abandoned by her unfaithful...
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1950
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1950
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Even allowing for the fact that it owed its existence to the popularity of Life with Father (1947), Cheaper by the Dozen is...
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1950
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Randolph Scott both co-produced and starred in this above average Western chronicling the career of one of the last of the...
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1949
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1949
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1949
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Republic's program westerns of the 1940s fell into two categories: the Saturday-matinee fare of Roy Rogers,...
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1949
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Also known as California Outpost, Old Los Angeles stars Bill Elliot in one of his expanded-budget Republic "specials." The...
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1948
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All cruel jokes aside, actor Sonny Tufts did on occasion deliver something resembling a good screen performance. In the...
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1948
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"A woman loses her mind and is confined to a mental institution." That's the usual TV-listing encapsulation of The Snake Pit...
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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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In this provocative drama, a stern hard-liner judge commits euthanasia to save his terminally ill wife from further...
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1948
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So often wasted in passive roles, Evelyn Keyes is virtually the whole show in The Mating of Millie. Keyes is cast as pretty...
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1948
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Jeanette MacDonald made her first screen appearance in five years in the MGM confection Three Daring Daughters. Looking at...
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1948
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Miss Hawley
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1948
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Chased by a posse to a remote cabin, Jeb (Robert Mitchum) is joined by his fearful wife Thorley (Teresa Wright), awaiting the...
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1947
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"Von Clausewitz said that war is the logical extension of diplomacy; Monsieur Verdoux feels that murder is the logical...
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Carlotta Couvais
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1947
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In this big-budget historical adventure, Tyrone Power stars as Pedro De Vargas, a young and impetuous nobleman in 16th...
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1947
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1946
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The Mysterious Mr. Valentine is a neat-and-tidy thriller from the Republic B-picture mills. Lovely Linda Stirling is driving...
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1946
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1946
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Whenever budget-conscious Columbia laid out good money for Technicolor in the 1940s, it was usually for a musical or an "A"...
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1946
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In this drama two wandering WW II vets visit the family of a former buddy who had been killed in action. Finding the family...
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1946
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In this romantic comedy, set during WW II, an newlywed army couple are unable to consummate their marriage, as on their...
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1945
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More tightly scripted than most of the Monogram Charlie Chan whodunits, The Scarlet Clue is set in a radio station that,...
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1945
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Three's a Crowd is the misleadingly lighthearted title for this tense Republic murder mystery. When her fiance is...
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Cary Whipple
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1945
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1945
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This aquatic musical is set at a mountain resort in the beautiful Sierra Nevadas where a heroic Army Air Corpsman has come...
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1945
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Birmingham Brown joins pal Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) in solving this missing government documents mystery, set at a New...
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1945
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The Dolly Sisters is the heavily Hollywoodized biopic of Jennie and Rosie Dolly, Hungarian-born entertainers who took...
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1945
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Famed WW1 aviator Eddie Rickenbacker once more entered the public's consciousness during WW2 when, while serving as an Air...
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1945
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In this action western, the notorious Dalton Boys have decided to go straight and move to Argentina. Just before they leave,...
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1945
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In this crime drama a young woman leaves her unhappy life at home to become a sophisticated night club singer. Her first job...
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1945
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1945
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Radio legend and 3-D pioneer Arch Oboler brings his story, Alter Ego, to the screen in a low-budget yarn that benefits from a...
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1945
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Brad Taylor, Republic's newest leading man (after a long tenure at Columbia as "Stanley Brown"), heads the cast of the...
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Cornelia Blake
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1944
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The title Together Again referred to the fact that frequent costarsIrene Dunne and Charles Boyer were once more united on...
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1944
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In this musical comedy, a soldier falls in love with a very young woman who in turn has a crush on an older, more...
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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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Night Club Girl was designed as a feature-length "screen test" for new Universal contractee Vivian Austin. The plot is the...
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1944
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Engineer Scott Henderson (Alan Curtis) is at a seedy midtown Manhattan bar early one evening, drowning his sorrows over a...
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1944
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In this entry in the "Dead End Kids" series (later they would reappear as "The Bowery Boys") the lads encounter a terribly...
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1943
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There's a joke currently making the rounds amongst underpaid civil servants in the state of Vermont: "Moonlight in Vermont-or...
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1943
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Mabel Paige, one of Hollywood's most beloved character actresses, was given her one-and-only starring role in this Republic...
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1943
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The Iron Major is the saga of WW1 hero-cum-football coach Frank Cavanaugh, played with his usual no-nonsense professionalism...
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1943
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Teresa Wright plays Charlie, a small-town high-schooler who enjoys a symbiotic relationship with her favorite uncle, also...
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1943
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This second entry in Columbia's "Crime Doctor" series once again stars Warner Baxter as Dr. Ordway, a former criminal turned...
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1943
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1942
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In this crime drama, an ambitious law student begins working for a corrupt finance company and becomes the neighborhood...
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1942
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You cannot keep a good mummy down forever and Kharis is back in this sequel to The Mummy's Hand, which itself was something...
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1942
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A bit higher-budgeted than most of Universal's "pocket" musicals, Get Hep to Love runs a full 79 mintues rather than the...
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1942
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The direction of Warner Bros.' Lady Gangster is credited to one "Florian Roberts," who on closer examination turns out to be...
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1942
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Lucky Jordan (Alan Ladd) is a tough but good-natured New York racketeer who tries to finagle his way out of Army service....
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1942
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Take a Letter, Darling is from the "boss lady" school of 1940s comedies. Fred MacMurray is Darling (that's his last name), an...
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1942
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Star-Spangled Rhythm is a typical wartime all-star musical-comedy melange, this time from Paramount Pictures. The slender...
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1942
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The Great Lie is Soap Opera Deluxe from Bette Davis' peak period at Warner Bros. Davis plays a socialite who is madly in love...
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1941
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With a little extra effort, Washington Melodrama might have passed muster as an A picture. Frank Morgan stars as millionaire...
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1941
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Playwright Lillian Hellman first wrote of the horrible Hubbard family in her 1939 play The Little Foxes. In this lavish 1941...
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1941
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Rather than play famous outlaw Cole Younger in this film, Warner Bros. contract star Humphrey Bogart chose suspension....
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1941
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The Hollywood "establishment" had been waiting a long time for maverick director Gregory La Cava to fall from grace, and when...
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1941
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The Nurse's Secret is a low-budget remake of Miss Pinkerton (1932), which in turn was based on a play by Mary Roberts...
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1941
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Author Hartzell Spence's popular biography of his preacher father was the source for One Foot in Heaven. Fredric March stars...
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1941
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What's a modern guy to do when his wife's ideas about marriage are a bit too modern for his taste? Andre Casall...
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1941
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1941
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The fourth of 20th Century-Fox's "Michael Shayne" mysteries finds private detective Shayne (Lloyd Nolan) anxiously preparing...
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1941
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Though history is distorted almost beyond recognition in Warner Bros.' They Died With Their Boots On, audiences in 1941 ate...
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1941
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A Child is Born is a remake of 1932's Life Begins, softened to conform to stricter movie censorship and lengthened to qualify...
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1940
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1940
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The notoriously temperamental Miriam Hopkins is ideally cast as equally contentious theatrical prima donna...
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1940
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Henry Fonda plays Chad Hanna, a New York country bumpkin of the mid-nineteenth century who joins a travelling circus. He...
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1940
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Rosalind Russell and Brian Aherne go through their customary farcical paces in the formula romantic comedy Hired Wife....
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1940
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1940
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1940
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Told in flashback as Dr. Ernest Sovac (Boris Karloff) is marched into the gas chamber, Black Friday concerns kindly college...
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1940
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In It's a Date, the teenage diva Deanna Durbin is cast as Pamela Drake, the daughter of celebrated stage actress Georgia...
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1940
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Producer Walter Wanger's House Across the Bay serves as an excellent showcase for Wanger's then-wife Joan Bennett. She is...
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1940
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1940
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An incredibly long but never dull adaptation of the Rachel Field best-seller, All This and Heaven Too was based on a...
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1940
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Radio humorist Bob Burns plays the title role in Alias the Deacon. Based on a stage play by John B. Hymer and LeRoy Clements...
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1940
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Hey, gang! Let's put on a swell show and call it Strike Up the Band! Yes, it's the irrepressible Mickey Rooney, teamed up...
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1940
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In this western, two disparate twins ride the range. One is a real troublemaker while the other is a government agent. When...
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1940
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Stalwart Warner Bros. contract player George Reeves, better known as TV's Superman, was given an early opportunity to "carry"...
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Lucy Bond
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1940
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John Ford's fine direction distinguishes this highly fictionalized account of the early life of Abraham Lincoln. The film...
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1939
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Sigrid Gurie, the Swede from Brooklyn who in 1938 was touted as Sam Goldwyn's answer to Garbo, was taking whatever work she...
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1939
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In this crime drama, a grizzled cabbie is scammed out of his life savings by a fake finance company. He tries to no avail to...
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1939
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This musical drama follows a young ghetto kid who dreams of being a classical musician like his idol Jascha Heifetz. He first...
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1939
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Humphrey Bogart makes his first and last appearance in a horror movie in this film. Though the title implies that it is a...
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1939
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According to Hollywood, the parents were generally at fault when good kids went bad. This theory is elucidated in Columbia's...
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1939
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The real Frank and Jesse James were murderous thugs, light years away from the Robin Hood image imposed on them by...
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1939
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1939
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In this romance, a young woman journeys from Syracuse to New York to see her sweetheart, a prominent architect. She is...
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1939
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Bette Davis earned an Oscar nomination for her role in this classic four-hanky tearjerker. Judith Traherne (Bette Davis) is a...
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1939
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In this cautionary tale from the late 1930s, a woman surgeon must rush to the hospital on her wedding anniversary to save a...
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1939
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Tom Destry (James Stewart), son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn't believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the object...
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1939
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Drawing heavily on both Madame X and Stella Dallas, this cheap exploitation-melodrama was produced by the ill-named...
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1938
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Though not the first Dr. Kildare film ever made, this is the first entry in MGM's long-running series set at Blair General...
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1938
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The slick Universal programmer Secrets of a Nurse was based on a Collier's Magazine story by distinguished journalist Quentin...
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1938
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In their third crime-solving adventure, smart-aleck newspaper woman Torchy Blane (Glenda Farrell) and slightly dense homicide...
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1937
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Jack Benny had one of his first starring film roles in this breezy comedy with plenty of music. Benny plays Mac Brewster, an...
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1937
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1937
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Signed for a series of B pictures by Universal in 1936, John Wayne alternated between westerns and modern-day adventure...
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1937
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In this depressing drama, even though she is an adult, the eldest daughter of a hillbilly clan headed by a brutal patriarch...
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1937
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In this drama, a teen is adopted from a reform school by a wealthy couple. They own horses and the boy becomes a jockey. His...
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1936
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Nurse Sarah Keate, the middle-aged crime-solver created by mystery novelist Mignon Eberhardt, was reshaped as a much younger...
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Adela Thatcher
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1936
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In this western, three desperadoes rob the New Jerusalem Bank and flee across the desert where they find a seemingly...
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1936
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The Big Noise is retired textile manufacturer Julius Trent (Guy Kibbee). Seeking a new outlet for his entrepreneurial...
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1936
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Universal contractee Henry Hunter never became a big star, but during his brief stay at the studio he appeared in a quite a...
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1936
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This drama is set at a struggling radio station. To drum up more listeners, the station owner dredges up an old mystery and...
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1936
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