Moving to a new Wednesday-night slot for its fourth season, Adam-12 wastes no time getting down to business. This time,...
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1971
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This comedy is notable as the final onscreen appearance (non-speaking) of Edward Everett Horton, a staple comic supporting...
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1971
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Famed anonymous director Alan Smithee (in this case a hybrid of Richard Totten and Don Siegel), directed this turgid western...
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1969
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John Astin and Emmaline Henry, who back in 1962 played husband and wife in the short-lived sitcom I'm Dickens-He's Fenster,...
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1969
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Elizabeth Montgomery appears in the dual role of Samantha Stephens and Sam's lookalike cousin, Serena. When the footloose and...
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1968
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Cissy (Kathy Garver) has been assigned to babysit the twins while Uncle Bill (Brian Keith) is in Hong Kong on business and...
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1968
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Dull, workaday life at the Navy weather station base on Gow Island is broken up -- violently -- when a transport plane from...
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1966
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Although John (Guy Williams) has warned his son Will (Bill Mumy) to stay away from the matter-transfer "maser beam" left...
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1965
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Acting magistrate Ben Cartwright is dismayed when Sundown (Tom Tully), an old reprobate whom he'd helped parole, is suspected...
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1965
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This exploitation crime drama offers a fictionalized account of John Dillinger just before he became known as one of the...
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1965
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Bob Holcomb (Bob Hope) is a widower who worries about his teenage daughter JoJo (Tuesday Weld) in this light romantic comedy....
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1965
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The Seaview is assigned for tests of a new super-computer, with Crane (David Hedison) as an observer, alone aboard the ship....
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1965
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In this western, a cowboy finally returns to his home after a long absence precipitated by his killing a wicked rancher's...
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Tom Morrison
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1964
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Seriously injured in a fall, Hoss Cartwright is in desperate need of medical attention. Alas, the only available doctor is a...
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1962
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Owing his life to Sheriff Coleman (Walter Sande), Bart (Jack Kelly) repays the debt by agreeing to help prevent a murder. It...
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1961
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1960
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Anticipating the real-life political career of Maverick star Jack Kelly, who would serve two terms as mayor of Huntington...
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1960
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1960
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One of only two theatrical features by television director Vincent J. Donahue, Sunrise at Campobello is a biography of...
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1960
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Predictable and a little slow and labyrinthian, this western features Bill Williams as Temple Houston, a gun-toting D.A....
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Rosslyn
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1960
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Judson Curtis (Walter Sande) hopes to gain full control of the circus he co-owns with Jerry Franklin (Robert Clarke) by...
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1960
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Just outside the small town of Pauley, a Native American woman is attacked by two riders on horseback, raped, and killed. Her...
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1959
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This Walt Disney filmization of Esther Forbes' Revolutionary-War novel Johnny Tremain was appropriately released on July 4,...
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1957
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Union army major Drango (Jeff Chandler) is assigned to rebuild a ruined Georgian town in the aftermath of the Civil War....
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1957
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Frontier peacekeeper Sheriff Galt (Sterling Hayden) faces a crisis of conscience in The Iron Sheriff. In the aftermath of a...
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1957
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Anything Goes is a Technicolor-and-Vistavision remake of the 1936 film of the same name, which in turn was based on...
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1956
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Gun Brothers is a rehash of the "Cain and Abel" motif that has been popular amongst screenwriters since time immemorial....
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Yellowstone
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1956
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The higher-ups exert a great deal of pressure on Sgt. Friday's boss Captain Donahoe (Walter Sande) to nab the two men who...
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1956
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Canyon River stars George Montgomery as trail boss Steve Patrick. Reversing the procedure usually depicted in westerns of...
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Maddox
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1956
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Claudette Colbert makes a long-overdue entree into the Western genre in Texas Lady. Looking at least a decade younger than...
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1956
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This powerfully tense, fast-paced suspense drama also yields a grim social message about racial prejudice. Spencer Tracy is...
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1955
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Based on a Zane Grey novel published over a decade after the author's death, The Maverick Queen stars Barbara Stanwyck in the...
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1955
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Filmed around the same time as Gunfight at the OK Corral, Wichita is a more modest--and to some, more entertaining--slant on...
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1955
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Several large markets have been robbed by a bandit who hides his features with something resembling a black mask. After...
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1955
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Working in cooperation with a US Postal Service inspector (Douglas Kennedy), Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander)...
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1955
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A number of drugstores have been robbed of money and narcotics. Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) step up their...
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1955
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) go on the prowl for a holdup man who has hit several bars in a period of a few...
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1954
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) receive a tip that the Plaza Royale, a fancy downtown hotel, is being used as a...
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1954
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Working out of the Bunco division, Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) make it their personal mission to capture two...
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1954
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In the first episode of a two-part story, Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) zero in on Gus Valentine (Harlan...
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1954
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Claude Akins is cast as Mr. Ellis, whose wife's dead body has been found in a vacant lot. As Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith...
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1954
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1954
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) investigate when 33 small businessmen have been victimized by forged checks...
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1954
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In the conclusion of a two-part story, Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) rush to the small sanitarium where...
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1954
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Rookie officer Russell Clark (Todd Karns) is accused of robbing and assaulting a drunken man at a prizefight arena. The...
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1953
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There's no obvious motive when a police officer is killed in a drive-by shooting on the steps of his own house. But after...
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1953
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A video of two television dramas: "One Way Out" and "Witness." ~ Rovi...
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1953
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It's business as usual for police detectives Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) when two AWOL marines are robbed...
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1953
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Originating during the science-fiction/Red-Scare boom of the '50s, Invaders From Mars is an entertaining little picture that...
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1953
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H.G. Wells's War of the Worlds had been on the Paramount Pictures docket since the silent era, when it was optioned as a...
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1953
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Several genuine Native Americans dot the cast of Universal's The Great Sioux Uprising. The scene is the frontier outpost of...
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1953
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Despite the lighthearted promotional campaign mounted by 20th Century-Fox when the film was first released,...
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1953
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A climactic donnybrook between hero Allan Lane and ace Republic villain Roy Barcroft is the highlight of this otherwise...
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1953
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In one of the most famous Dragnet episodes of all time, Joe Friday (Jack Webb) and Frank Smith (Ben Alexander) investigate...
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1953
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1953
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Director Edward Dmytryk returned from a few unhappy years on the Blacklist in the early 1950s, to direct a handful of...
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1952
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A husband-and-wife scientist team (Peter Graves, Andrea King) are experimenting with a "hydrogen tube" invention (which he...
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Adm. Carey
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1952
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Jungle Girl was the 7th entry in Monogram's "Bomba the Jungle Boy" series, based on the pulp novels by Roy Rockwood. This...
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1952
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A group of vicious claim-jumpers is killing the miners in a Western settlement. Their latest victim is Cromwell...
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1952
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Joseph Cotten plays a assistant bank manager who steals $500,000 from the safe late on a Friday. He plans to fly to Brazil...
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1952
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The first three episodes of the popular Lone Ranger television series are edited together to form this Wild West adventure...
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1952
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When Margaret Mitchell originally submitted her manuscript for Gone with the Wind, its title was Tomorrow Is Another Day. The...
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1951
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Upon beginning production on his Korean-war drama I Want You, producer Sam Goldwyn lamented "I've just brought those boys...
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1951
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The title tells all in Realart's Basketball Fix. Talented young basketball star Johnny Long (Marshall Thompson) allows...
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1951
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The rugged Colorado Territory provides the setting for this epic Civil War-era western chronicle of a Southern rebel who...
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1951
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In this western, a cowboy rides out to avenge the death of his fiancee. Three outlaws are responsible for the murder. He...
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1951
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Fort Worth stars Randolph Scott as gunfighter-turned-newspaperman Ned Britt. Setting up shop in the eponymous Texas town,...
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1951
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Billed "Jack Mahoney" for the occasion, former stunt man Jock Mahoney steps up to the plate as a leading man in this average...
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Mr. Dennison
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1951
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Previously filmed in 1931 under its original title, Theodore Dreiser's bulky but brilliant novel An American Tragedy was...
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1951
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1951
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1951
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Just before filming All About Eve, Bette Davis starred in the marital melodrama Payment on Demand. Davis plays Joyce Ramsey,...
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1951
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A Woman of Distinction serves as a tailor-made vehicle for Rosalind Russell. The star is cast as Susan Middlecott, a highly...
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1950
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Although Marie Windsor plays the title role in Dakota Lil, she is shunted away to third billing, right after male leads...
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1950
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1950
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If ever there was an actor born to play Billy the Kid, it was the combustible Audie Murphy. In Kid from Texas, Murphy is cast...
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1950
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Filmed on location in the Canadian Rockies, this historical adventure spins a fanciful account of the building of the...
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1949
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Gene Autry plays a dual role in the above-average Columbia oater Rim of the Canyon. Our hero plays "himself" and his own...
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Jake Fargo
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1949
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The film career of actress Leslie Brooks lasted long enough for her to contribute several mesmerizingly bitchy performances....
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Hack Doyle
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1949
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In 1947, Variety Clubs International, a showbiz charitable organization, was responsible for the frothy musical Variety Girl....
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1949
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1949
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The "B"-picture unit at 20th Century-Fox was slowly being phased out when Miss Mink of 1949 was produced. Lois Collier heads...
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1949
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Joe Palooka, comic strip artist Ham Fisher's golden-hearted pugilist, heads South of the Border in The Counterpunch....
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1949
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Former "Henry Aldrich" Jimmy Lydon had matured into a capable leading man by the time Tucson went before the cameras. Lydon...
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1949
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Robin Hood (Jon Hall) acosts Sir Allan Claire (Michael Duane) and his sister Lady Marian (Patricia Morison) in Sherwood...
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1948
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In this mystery, a detective encounters a woman in a nightclub. He finds that she is being blackmailed by a dancer who is...
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Mac
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1948
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In this comedy, two stepsisters fight for the love of the same man. One of the sisters is good-looking and vivacious. She is...
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1948
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In one of his first "adult" roles (he made his last Andy Hardy vehicle only a year earlier), Mickey Rooney plays Tommy McCoy,...
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1947
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A WWII Coast Guard veteran, Lt. Scott Burnett (Robert Ryan), is plagued by nightmares of his combat days. One day, he meets a...
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Otto Wernecke
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1947
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Future TV writer/producer Don Castle heads the cast of Monogram's Perilous Waters. Most of the action takes place aboard the...
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1947
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Alan Ladd and Robert Preston star as Joe Madigan and Jim Davis, rival grain harvesters in the Midwest's wheat country. The...
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1947
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1947
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1947
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This episodic holiday film centers around a rich spinster aunt whose greedy nephew is attempting legal action to take her...
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1947
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This neat, fast-paced perfectly cast film noir reflects the hard-boiled, grim wit of the author of its screenplay,...
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1946
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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 WWII musical, a young hero and his buddy decide to celebrate his receiving the Medal of Honor by partying. He is...
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1946
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Gary Cooper added "producer" alongside "star" on his resume with this light-hearted Western about a mild-mannered cowboy...
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1945
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In this mystery, a detective and his partner are hired by a carnival psychic to help her find her long-lost sister who...
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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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1945
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Stiff Banks
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1944
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In this comic western, a Broadway star leaves his musical revue to go West and help out his troubled friend. While there,...
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1944
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Humphrey Bogart plays Harry Morgan, owner-operator of charter boat in wartime Martinique. Morgan's right-hand man is Eddie...
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1944
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Opening in England during the middle of World War II, A Guy Named Joe tells the story of Pete Sandidge (Spencer Tracy), a...
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1944
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Son of Dracula represents a felicitious creative collaboration between director Robert Siodmak and his screenwriter-brother...
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1943
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Though technically a Republic "B", the 58-minute The Purple V has glossy production values commensurate to a top-of-the-bill...
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1943
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In this provocative WW II drama, an American agent sneaks into a Nazi spy ring to learn the identities of certain...
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1943
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Beverly Ross (nn Miller) is a would-be radio personality, but the closest she gets to being on the air is running the...
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1943
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In this romantic musical, a chipper radio crooner does everything she can and is still unable to get a break. Later her...
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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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Accepted in 1943 as standard wartime propaganda, Gung Ho can be seen today as an outrageous exercise in raging machismo....
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1943
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Reformed criminal Boston Blackie (Chester Morris) meets his former lover Betty Barnaby (Ann Savage), who wants his help for...
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1943
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Randolph Scott was the star of Corvette K-225, a tribute to the World War II corvette escorts which guided Allied convoys...
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1943
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This lively entry in the "Boston Blackie" series finds Blackie (Chester Morris) acting as spiritual leader of a group of...
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1943
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Timber is a typical Universal Pictures amalgam of he-man virility and endless spools of stock footage from earlier films....
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1942
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1942
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The bucolic, down-home novels and short stories of Gene Stratton-Porter had been fodder for Monogram's screenwriting staff...
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1942
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Rosalind Russell plays aspiring Ohio journalist Ruth Sherwood, who heads for New York to seek her fortune, accompanied by her...
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1942
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In this musical comedy, an agent for an advertising agency begins trying to push a new "Blind Date" service and so engages...
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1942
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Columbia's belated effort to cash in on the popularity of Abbott & Costello's Buck Privates was the raucous and generally...
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1942
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Pennington
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1942
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Ex-thief Boston Blackie (Chester Morris) brings a variety show up to his old prison alma mater for Christmas Eve. In...
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1942
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Lt. Com. Frank V. Martinek's widely circulated comic strip Don Winslow of the Navy was brought to the screen in this...
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1942
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Scripted by Irwin Shaw from a story by C. S. Forester (of "Captain Horatio Hornblower" fame), Commandos Strike at Dawn is a...
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1942
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One of the first big-studio productions to acknowledge America's entry into WWII, 20th Century-Fox's To the Shores of Tripoli...
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1942
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Like the John Steinbeck novel on which it is based, Tortilla Flat is not so much a movie as a series of warm-hearted...
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1942
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When World War I hero Alvin York agreed to sell the movie rights to his life story to Warner Bros., it was on three...
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1941
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The 1940 peacetime draft spawned a whole slew of military and naval comedies, the most successful of which was Abbott and...
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1941
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Chester Morris makes his second screen appearance as crook-turned-detective Boston Blackie in this superior series entry....
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1941
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There's something very odd about Romano (John Litel), a notorious gangster serving time in the federal pen. For one thing,...
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1941
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One of silent serial queen Pearl White's best efforts, The Iron Claw was remade by Columbia Pictures starring brunette Joyce...
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1941
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Down in San Diego was previewed as Young Americans, which is why prints still exist bearing both titles. The film is...
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1941
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Orson Welles first feature film -- which he directed, produced, and co-wrote, as well as playing the title role -- proved to...
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1941
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Next to Ann Miller, few Columbia contractees made more B musicals than Jinx Falkenberg. In Sing for Your Supper, Falkenberg...
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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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Lieutenant Commander Joe Blake (Fred MacMurray), Lt. Tim Griffin (Regis Toomey), and Lt. Swede Larson (Louis Jean Heydt) are...
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1941
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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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In the RKO programmer You Can't Fool Your Wife, Lucille Ball gets mixed up in a storyline that would have been right at home...
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1940
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Spunky Joan Blondell is practically the whole show in the diverting comedy Good Girls Go to Paris. Blondell is cast as...
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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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1939
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Arson Gang Busters was a slick little Republic programmer highlighted by several well-staged miniature sequences, courtesy of...
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1938
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A longtime admirer of Broadway impresario Flo Ziegfeld, Hollywood producer Sam Goldwyn hoped to emulate the success of...
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1938
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Wealthy socialite Melsa Manton (Barbara Stanwyck) is taking her pooches for a walk in the dead of the night when she stumbles...
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1938
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When Marie Dressler died in 1934, the career of her frequent screen partner Polly Moran went into eclipse. Four years later,...
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1938
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In this drama, a 12-year-old boy becomes an orphan after seeing a detective shoot his father. Later the detective feels bad...
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1938
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If not for the lachrymose presence of Our Gang member Robert Blake (still in his whiny, squeaky-voiced stage), the one-reel...
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1938
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Anything Goes is a fun-filled but hardly faithful adaptation of the same-named Cole Porter Broadway musical, with additional...
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1936
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