This featurized abridgement of Universal's 12-episode serial Buck Rogers stars Buster Crabbe as Dick Calkins' famed...
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1953
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When scientific mastermind Jack Armstrong is kidnapped by a devious fiend determined to discover the secrets of atom-powered...
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1947
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Based on a popular comic strip, this 15 episode Columbia chapterplay produced by legendary cheapskate Sam Katzman (aka...
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1947
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Looking for all the world like Robin Hood, Robert Shaw starred in this typically threadbare Sam Katzman serial as David...
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1946
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Like Captain Midnight before him, Hop Harrigan came to the serial screens courtesy of Columbia Pictures; and, also like the...
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1946
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1945
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Undoubtedly inspired by Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians, filmed the same year by United Artists as And Then There Were...
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1945
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Based on the popular comic strip by Dale Messick, this Sam Katzman-produced Columbia serial starred the beautiful and...
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1945
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Charles Starrett stars in the lightning-paced Columbia western Riding West. Somebody is planning to sabotage the new Pony...
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1944
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In this wartime western, an evil Nazi and his partner endeavor to sabotage a western gunsight plant. Unfortunately, the...
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1944
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By the time Bowery Champs came out, the East Side Kids had become so domesticated that they actually had jobs. Muggs...
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1944
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In this romantic drama, an office clerk's quiet personal life is disrupted when a sick woman appears at his doorstep in...
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1944
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Teen-Age is another "exposé" film of the 1940s, cheaply made but widely distributed. In the guise of a warning against...
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Jim Murray
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1944
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In this western, a lonesome cowpoke trots into a town and helps clear his pardner's name. The trouble began when the friend...
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1943
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Ghosts on the Loose (which features no ghosts whatsoever) is perhaps the best-known of Monogram's "East Side Kids" series....
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1943
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Amateur fighter and all-around bully Muggs McGinniss (Leo Gorcey) tries to cheat in a pool game with hustler Harry Wycoff...
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1943
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The world of boxing provides the framework for this romantic musical that tells the story of Baby and his manager who is...
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1943
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1943
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Whatever poor Bela Lugosi may have done in a past life, the man did not deserve The Ape Man, arguably the worst of his...
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1943
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Monogram's So's Your Aunt Emma owes whatever success it enjoys to its star, the incomparable ZaSu Pitts. The fluttery ZaSu...
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1942
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Bowery at Midnight casts Bela Lugosi as Professor Brenner, a psychology instructor at New York University (which looks a lot...
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1942
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Medico of Painted Springs was the first of western hero Charles Starrett's appearances as frontier doctor Steven Monroe....
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Fred Burns
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1941
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In this comedy, funny Langdon and Rogers end up working at a bean factory and getting into deep trouble when they...
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1941
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In hopes of cashing in on the popularity of "Number One Cowboy" Gene Autry, a fly-by-night firm called Times Pictures...
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Argo, the High Priest
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1940
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A frequent visitor to contemporary TV cable services, Monogram's Mutiny in the Big House affords stalwart supporting player...
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1939
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Based on a story by Jack London, this film follows the adventures of young Michael Vance (John Carroll) as he travels with...
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1939
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Torture Ship is a strange amalgam of crime thriller and horror chiller that can't quite make up its mind what it wants to be....
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1939
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The war between cattle ranchers and sheepmen once again took center stage in this low-budget Western starring former opera...
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1939
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This science fiction film features the revenge of Ming who vowed to destroy the Earth. ~ Rovi...
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1938
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Based on Will Gould's popular comic strip, the 13-episode Universal serial Red Barry stars Buster Crabbe in the title role....
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1938
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Having eschewed music interludes in his previous Western effort, Gun Packer, Jack Randall returned to warbling a tune or two...
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1938
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Code of the Rangers was one of four Monogram westerns of the 1937-38 season starring the venerable Tim McCoy. In this one,...
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Miller
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1938
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In the rough-and-tumble world of post-Civil War Texas, ex-Confederate soldier Kirk Jordan (Randolph Scott) crosses paths with...
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1938
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All expense was spared in bringing this sleazy "exposé" to the screen. It's all about Mrs. Miller (Martha Chapin), the...
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Lucky Wilder
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1937
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Bank Alarm was one of four low-budget but high-entertainment crime melodramas starring Conrad Nagel and Eleanor Hunt as...
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1937
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Jim Murray
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1937
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A police raid on a roadhouse leads to a war on vice that results in the downfall of a vicious gangster and the sadistic madam...
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1937
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Puritan Pictures, a poverty-row operation devoted in the main to Tim McCoy westerns, turned out a few diverting murder...
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Lt. Douglas Thompson
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1937
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In his second of an unprecedented 131 Westerns for Columbia Pictures, handsome Charles Starrett donned his trademark white...
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Brophy
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1936
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Like most of Kermit Maynard's "northerns" for Ambassador Films, Timber War is ostensibly based on a story by James Oliver...
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Murdock
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1936
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An average low-budget Western from short-lived Puritan Pictures, Roarin' Guns starred Tim McCoy as Tim Corwin, an agent for...
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Walton
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1936
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Cowboy star Kermit Maynard's rope-twirling skills are seen to good advantage in Song of the Trail. Maynard is cast as a...
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Arnold
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1936
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Tim McCoy's western series for Puritan Pictures were pretty shabby production-wise, but nearly always delivered the goods in...
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1936
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An airborne serial killer terrorizes a group of war veterans in this ultra-cheap but fairly engrossing whodunit produced by...
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1936
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In their first serial effort, newcomers Republic Pictures went with the tried and true: beloved animal trainer Clyde Beatty,...
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1936
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In his second Western for low-budget Puritan Pictures, Tim McCoy comes to the aid of a pretty ranch owner whose property is...
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De Long
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1936
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Although slow-moving at times, Aces and Eights is nevertheless a fine little Western and certainly the best of the ten Tim...
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Ace Morgan
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1936
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Eccentric professor Einfeld (Lee Kohlmar) is lecturing a select group of scientists at a darkened planetarium when one of the...
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1936
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A cowboy turned G-Man looks into a series of mysterious plane crashes in this low-budget but fairly engrossing B-Western...
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Kincaid
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1936
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"Suggested" by the notorious trial of gangster Lucky Luciano, this typical low-budget sexploitation-melodrama came complete...
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1936
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Saved from electrocution by the sudden appearance of a trap door operated by the traitorous Lord Argo (Wheeler Oakman), Gene...
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1935
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Seconds before his automobile crashes over a cliff, Gene Autry is saved by Frankie (Frankie Darro), Betsy (Betsy Ross King)...
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1935
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On Queen Tika's orders, a lifeless Gene Autry) is brought to Murania's Radium Reviving Room, the queen (Dorothy Christy)...
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1935
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Gene Autry, Frankie (Frankie Darro) and Betsy (Betsy Ross King) all escape the tunnel explosion courtesy of the Junior...
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1935
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In his first starring role, Gene Autry must perform daily on Radio Ranch or forfeit his contract. Meanwhile, local kids...
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1935
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Ostensibly based on James Oliver Curwood's Caryl of the Mountain, but bearing little or no resemblance to the 1935...
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1935
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Undercover Men concerns a man who attempts to regain his honor after behaving like a coward when the bank where he worked as...
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1935
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This typically lightning-paced Mascot Studios production stars Heather Angel as the title character, a thrill-seeking...
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1935
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Both Frankie (Frankie Darro) and Betsy (Betsy Ross King) survive the airplane crash no worse for wear but are quickly picked...
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1935
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In this western about the adventures of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, a fur trapper is robbed and killed by a local...
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1935
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In G Men, Warner Bros. "bad boy" James Cagney plays James "Brick" Davis, a young lawyer whose education has been financed by...
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1935
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Both Frankie (Frankie Darro) and Betsy (Betsy Ross King) manage to parachute to safety. Meanwhile, 25,000 feet below the...
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1935
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In the opening chapter of the Mascot serial The Phantom Empire, a stagecoach is held up for its content -- musical...
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1935
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Despite the deadly radium beam, Frankie Baxter (Frankie Darro) manages to pull the lever that opens the surface entrance to...
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1935
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In this his penultimate Western for Columbia Pictures, Tim McCoy played Tim Baxter, a cowboy returning to the old homestead...
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1935
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Although the Thunder Riders sever his rope, Gene Autry manages to grab hold of a tree limb, climb to safety and return to...
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1935
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Gene Autry is saved in the nick of time by Frankie Frankie Darro, who smartly pulls him off the conveyor belt. Murania is now...
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1935
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1935
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After a burst of creativity in 1933 and 1934, independent Majestic Pictures had settled into the usual "B"-picture rut by...
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1935
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In the final chapter of The Phantom Empire, Gene Autry is saved by Oscar (Smiley Burnette) and Pete (William Moore), who...
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1935
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Having recently left Universal Pictures in a huff, mercurial cowboy star Ken Maynard stopped briefly at Mascot Studios for a...
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Tracy
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1934
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Written (under the pseudonym of Jimmy Hawkey) and directed by Robert F. Hill, this very low-budget Western from poverty row...
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1934
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The Lost Jungle is a feature-length version of the 12-episode Mascot serial of the same name. Legendary animal trainer...
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Kirby
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1934
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Lyle Talbot stars as "Three Star" Halsey, a hotshot West Coast aviator with a reputation for recklessness. Time and time...
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1934
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If you can accept blonde, blue-eyed Marion Davies disguising herself in blackface, chances are you'll swallow the rest of...
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1934
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Kirby
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1934
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One is Guilty was an entry in Columbia's "Inspector Trent" mysteries, all starring the ubiquitous Ralph Bellamy. A...
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1934
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Adhering to an old Hollywood tradition, Tim McCoy's dog, Silver King, earned billing above the heroine, 1931 WAMPAS Baby Star...
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1933
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Tim McCoy played the classic good/bad man in this average B-Western from Columbia Pictures filmed in about a week and on a...
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1933
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In his first Western of 1933, Columbia Pictures' Tim McCoy once again played a Texas Ranger, this time investigating the...
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1933
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In this comedy, a young couple are forced to marry after they are accidentally locked in a store overnight. Unfortunately...
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1933
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Hopscotching between westerns and modern-dress actioners in 1933, Tim McCoy once more finds himself at large in the Big City...
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Abbott
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1933
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A notorious crook and a Parisian ballet dancer get involved with international intrigue in this low-budget action-adventure...
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Spike Maguire
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1933
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This dark, brooding ancestor to Hang 'Em High features Buck Jones as a happy-go-lucky cowpoke who is duped by a gang of...
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Laughing Maxie
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1933
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Much of this exciting crime drama is set aboard an airplane in which a brave hero does battle with a gang of smugglers....
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George
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1933
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1933
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Before he moved to MGM, director Richard Thorpe virtually lived at the tiny production firm of Chesterfield-Invincible....
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Fremont
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1932
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Future Academy Award-winner Hattie McDaniel briefly brightened the proceedings in this, one of her two B-Western appearances...
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Holt Narbrough
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1932
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A typical low-budget but competently made Columbia Western, The Riding Tornado featured Tim McCoy as a famous rodeo champ...
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Hatch Engle
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1932
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An average entry in Columbia Pictures' Tim McCoy Western series, The Western Code features perennial Bad Guy Wheeler Oakman...
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Nick Grindell
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1932
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Penned by prolific pulp writer William Colt MacDonald, this Tim McCoy Columbia Western may have been the forerunner of...
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Bob Russell
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1932
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Lloyd Hughes, a silent star on the downslide, heads the cast of the 1932 programmer Heart Punch. Hughes plays a boxer who...
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1932
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It may be hard to believe, but Gorilla Ship is almost as ludicrous as its title. Wheeler Oakman plays Mr. Wells, a...
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Mr. Wells
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1932
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Tim McCoy played a cavalry officer dishonorably discharged for selling weapons to the Indians in this arguably his finest...
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1932
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1932
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In this his first Western of 1932, Tim McCoy is supported by a young John Wayne. Learning that he is a dead ringer for...
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1932
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In this newspaper drama, a cub reporter is puzzled when he is consistently scooped out of big crime stories by a rival. His...
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Roger Bradley
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1932
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1932
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A cast of silent-film veterans distinguishes the pedestrian crime drama First Aid. Grant Withers stars as a doctor who is...
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1931
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Former silent star Vera Reynolds plays the title role in this low-budget thriller from Poverty Row studio Chesterfield. She...
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1931
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In this crime drama, a moll tells her imprisoned gangster lover that she is leaving him for another whom she really loves....
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1931
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Sky Raiders may be a talkie, but its plotting and performances are strictly from the silent era. Lloyd Hughes plays Bob, a...
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Willard
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1931
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Originally slated for release through Tiffany Pictures, James Cruze Production's The Costello Case ended up being distributed...
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Gangster
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1930
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Hoot Gibson is left with a foundling on his hands while trying to fend off an evil land-grabber in this slow-moving early...
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Ramsey Kane
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1930
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Produced by Fox Studios, The Big Fight was ultimately released by a lesser firm, Sono-Art. Lola Lane stars as manicurist...
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1930
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In this drama, a New York dressmaker struggles to make it big so she can provide a good life for her beloved son. As her son...
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1930
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George M. Cohan's 1904 musical came to the screen a second time in 1930 courtesy of Warner Bros., who cast light leading man...
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George Wyman
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1930
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This comedy-mystery is famed director Frank Capra's first all-talking film. It tells the story of a bungling police inspector...
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1929
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Tom Bennett
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1929
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Director William Wyler made the move up to talking pictures with this blend of action and comedy. Dave Roberts (James Murray...
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Manager
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1929
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Mary Nolan, whose own private life was as sensationally scandalous as any of her screen roles, starred in this...
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Repen
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1929
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A phonograph recorder provides incriminating evidence in this mystery that centers upon a widower and his 10-year old child...
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Anton Lebau
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1929
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Escaping from a revolution, the King (Joseph Swickard) of a mythical Balkan country heads to the United States. Here he finds...
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Nicholay
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1929
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This early talkie antique is a backstage musical from Warner Bros. The plot involves the out-of-town tryout of a new musical...
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1929
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The Girl From Woolworth's was an appropriate title for this bargain-counter musical. Alice White stars as Pat King, a...
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Lawrence Mayfield
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1929
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Even as his parent studio MGM was gearing up for talkies, popular western star Tim McCoy ground out four silent vehicles...
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John Bland
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1929
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Presently unavailable for public reappraisal, the biting and cynical melodrama Power of the Press would seem to be a...
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Van
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1928
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Luther Spence
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1928
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Defying her strait-laced aunt, country lass Pauline Garon heads to New York, where she gets a job as a cabaret dancer....
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1928
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Contrary to popular belief, no one speaks into microphones hidden in vases in this, the first 100% "all-talking" feature...
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Hawk Miller
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1928
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For a humble "B" picture, The Broken Mask was able to assemble an impressive cast. Cullen Landis stars as an Argentine dancer...
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1928
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Lon Chaney Sr. eschews his trademarked makeup in the MGM crime melodrama While the City Sleeps. The plot is sparked by the...
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Skeeter
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1928
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At 9 reels, The Good-Bye Kiss was comedy producer Mack Sennett's most ambitious feature to date. Eschewing the usual Sennett...
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Sgt. Hoffman
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1928
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Bebe Daniels once again plays an intrepid -- and somewhat foolhardy -- girl reporter in Paramount's What a Night!. A spoiled...
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Mike Corney
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1928
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Silent screen western hero Hoot Gibson played a private investigator hired by a rancher to get the goods on a disagreeable...
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1927
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Fate is a funny thing: If young physician John Graham (Reginald Denny) had not been stuck in a faulty elevator overnight with...
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1927
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Jack Nichols
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1927
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The identical twin of a murdered prospector tracks down the killer in this silent Western produced by Sam Bischoff....
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1927
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1926
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Fangs of Justice stars yet another Rin Tin Tin competitor, Silverstreak. The canine hero spends most of his time saving his...
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1926
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Paula (Fritzi Brunette), a chorus girl, marries into an aristocratic family. Unfortunately, her husband is a drunk. When he...
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1925
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Mary E. Hamilton, a well-known New York policewoman in charge of welfare work, sponsored this highly melodramatic offering,...
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1925
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This domestic drama may sound tiresome, but it was considered solid entertainment in 1923. Just before he gets married,...
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Clint Morbray
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1923
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This heart-warming drama was one of Colleen Moore's first films for First National, but her star would not ascend until later...
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Slippy McGee
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1923
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Edith Roberts improbably stars as an Indian maiden in this Northwoods drama, based on the story by Jack London. Prospector...
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Scruff Mackenzie
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1922
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This murky, rambling Western was an adaptation of the stage play by Oliver Morosco. Cattle buyer Delmar Spavinaw (Wheeler...
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Delmar Spavinaw
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1922
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After his appearance in The Kid, little Jackie Coogan was obviously destined for stardom. For his first starring role, he was...
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Man in the Case
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1921
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One of the earliest of the "psychological" crime yarns, Outside the Law stars Priscilla Dean as "Silk Moll" Madden, daughter...
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1921
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In the '20s, the Turkish empire was considered a lawless and barbaric place by Westerners who didn't understand the people's...
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1920
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Nell Shipman stars in this handsomely mounted James Oliver Curwood production as Dolores LeBeau, a child of nature on a...
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1919
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Viola Dana was Metro Pictures' top star when False Evidence came out in 1919. Promised in marriage to wealthy Lot Gordon...
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1919
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Once again, Madlaine Traverse plays a long-suffering woman in this drama. Lady Marion Chatham (Traverse) and her husband, Sir...
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1919
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Alma Rubens, at the time still a fresh face in motion pictures, starred in this Triangle melodrama. French artistJules Mardon...
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1918
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The seeker of the eponymous revenge in this five-reel western is Alva Leigh (Edith Storey), whose fiancé was killed under...
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Dick Randall
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1918
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Mickey was comedienne Mabel Normand's first full-length feature film and it was perhaps her finest moment. Normand is Mickey,...
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Herbert Thomhill
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1918
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One of the most overused titles in the history of films, Betrayed was affixed to this early effort from director Raoul Walsh....
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1917
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Parts of this adventure/drama, written by Rex Beach, were actually shot at the Panama Canal during and after its...
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1916
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Kathlyn Williams, who starred in the 1913 serial The Adventures of Kathlyn (the very first serial made in the U.S.), also...
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1915
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The 1914 version ofThe Spoilers, the first of five movie adaptations of Rex Beach's two-fisted Alaska Gold Rush novel, was...
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1914
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Selig Polyscope Company's doe-eyed leading lady Bessie Eyton both wrote and starred in the title-role in this one-reel...
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1914
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A highly charged early silent melodrama, Phantoms starred French-born Eugenie Besserer as a stage star who spurns her devoted...
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1913
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1913
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