After a string of winners, Roy Rogers faltered a bit with South of Caliente. Rogers, playing himself, is the owner of a...
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1951
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1950
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1949
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In this courtroom drama, two opposing lawyers lead a double life. In the courtroom they are ruthless toward each other, but...
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Porter
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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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1948
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Even after three appearances as oriental sleuth Charlie Chan, Roland Winters showed no interest in taking the role seriously....
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1948
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A post-WWII romantic comedy that explores the effects of the war on American marriage, this film stars Fred MacMurray and...
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1947
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As indicated by the title, Sepia Cinderella is an updated retelling of the classic fairy tale, featuring a cast of...
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Songwriter
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1947
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Under the aegis of veteran program-feature producer Bryan Foy, the fledgling Eagle-Lion company made great strides during its...
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Jackson
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1947
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Charmless films like The Bride Wore Boots helped to kill the postwar revival of the "screwball comedy" genre almost before it...
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1946
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Director William "One Take" Beaudine handles Face of Marble with his usual hasty professionalism. John Carradine stars as...
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Shadrach
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1946
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Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) heads south of the border in this so-so series entry. With the help of Mexican police official...
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Chattanooga Brown
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1946
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In this episode of the popular detective series, Chan, along with Number Two Son, are aboard a ship bound for Pago Pago. On...
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1946
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Columbia Pictures, as usual, cast a lesser-known player -- in this case the handsome but rather stolid Robert Lowery -- in...
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1945
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Willie Shelley
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1945
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Rosalind Russell plays yet another independent career woman in She Wouldn't Say Yes. This time she's a psychiatrist who sees...
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1945
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Yes, even Ida Lupino occasionally starred in screwball comedies during the 1930s and 1940s. Pillow to Post casts Lupino as...
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1945
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Dismissed by critics as corny and obvious in 1944, this overlong but sincere biopic looks pretty good when seen today,...
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1944
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Lorna Gray, shortly before changing her professional name to Adrian Booth, plays the title character in Republic's The Girl...
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1944
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In this touching drama, city-slicker Sparke Thorton goes to live on his aunt and uncle's horse farm in the country. The...
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1944
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Like several other Harry Sherman Productions of the 1942-43 season, The Kansan was originally slated for a Paramount release,...
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1943
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According to this exuberant Paramount musical, famed pre-Civil War minstrel performer Daniel Decatur Emmett looked and...
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1943
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Practically everybody on the Warner Bros. lot shows up in the wartime morale-boosting musical extravaganza Thank Your Lucky...
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1943
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MGM knew it would take a bath on its all-black musical Cabin in the Sky (few Southern theaters of 1943 would touch the film),...
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1943
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For the benefit of those who came in late, the John Robert Powers modelling agency was at one time the most famous and...
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1942
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1942
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The title neatly gives away the ending in RKO Radio's Scattergood Survives a Murder. Guy Kibbee once again stars as...
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1942
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Laurel & Hardy's second starring vehicle for 20th Century-Fox is arguably their weakest feature film, with the laughs few and...
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1942
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Cinderella Swings It was the last in a series of RKO programmers based on the popular radio series Scattergood Baines (its...
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1942
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Everybody seems to have had a good time making the overripe melodrama The Hidden Hand, especially cadaverous Milton Parsons...
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Chauffeur
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1942
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Director Curtis Bernhardt hadn't wanted to make Juke Girl, but he was under contract to Warner Bros. and had to tow the line...
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1942
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The Milton Berle starrer Whispering Ghosts was clearly inspired by the Red Skelton comedy-mystery Whistling in the Dark...
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Euclid White
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1942
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In this drama, a terminally ill college professor with only three months to live asks some younger colleagues what he should...
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1941
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Like MGM's Whistling in the Dark, Warner Bros.' The Smiling Ghost was inspired by the success of Paramount's comedy-mystery...
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1941
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Possibly inspired by Universal's The Invisible Woman, Warner Bros.' The Body Disappears is an agreeably daffy comedy with...
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1941
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1941
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1941
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In this crime drama, a remake of Heat Lightning(1931), a robber kills a bank teller during a robbery and then takes his wife,...
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1941
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1941
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A schoolteacher battles for women's rights in mid 19th century Wyoming. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1941
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Inspired by the long-running (1937-1949) radio series of the same name, Scattergood Baines came to the screen in 1941, with...
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1941
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Kisses for Breakfast is a dumbed-down remake of the 1930 marital comedy The Matrimonial Bed, itself based on a British stage...
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1941
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The successful producer-director combination of Walter Wanger and Tay Garnett served up another winner with Slightly...
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1940
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Based on a novel by Medora Field, Who Killed Aunt Maggie? would appear to be an attempt by Republic Pictures to launch a new...
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1940
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This soapy drama stars Hedy Lamarr as a would be model who meets a research doctor en route to the US from Europe. They meet...
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1940
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This is the celebrated Blondie episode that costars Rita Hayworth, who in 1940 was still just another Columbia contract...
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1940
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1940
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Alex
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1940
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The third of Warner Bros.' series based on the teenaged sleuth created by Carolyn Keene, Nancy Drew, Trouble Shooter stars...
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1939
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A distinct letdown from their previous MGM films, the Marx Bros.' At the Circus nonetheless contains intermittent moments of...
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1939
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In this entry in the comedy series the "Higgins Family," the group must cancel a cruise to South America after the check...
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1939
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1939
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The Saint Strikes Back was the second in the series of films featuring Simon Templay, better known as The Saint, and the...
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1939
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Through a miscarriage of justice, John Ingram (Edward G. Robinson) is convicted of a crime he did not commit and sentenced to...
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1939
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Michael Curtiz directs this Technicolor Western based on the familiar story by Clements Ripley about the rivalry between...
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1938
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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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1938
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Goddbye Broadway is wrapped up by two stage & screen veterans, Alice Brady and Charles Winninger. The stars play...
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1938
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When Columbia Pictures secured the movie rights to Chic Young's popular comic strip Blondie, the studio executives probably...
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1938
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This eighth (and final) entry in 20th Century-Fox's "Mr. Moto" series once again stars Peter Lorre as J. P. Marquand's...
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1938
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Andrea Leeds, whose career had shifted into hyperdrive after her brilliant performance in Stage Door (1937), stars in the...
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1938
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A novel by Arthur Stringer was the source for this two-fisted Universal programmer. When a giant utility company begins...
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McTavish
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1937
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1937
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Framed by the fast-paced world of horse racing, this romance centers upon the wealthy young owner of a racing stable who...
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1937
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1937
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Super Sleuth stars Jack Oakie as an egotistical movie actor who specializes in detective roles. Despite the gentle...
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1937
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Professional horsewoman Ann Dvorak is the Racing Lady in this hit-and-miss romantic comedy. The story begins breaking into a...
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1937
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The low-budget football drama Saturday's Heroes is remarkably frank and timely -- at least for the first 4 reels or so....
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1937
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When Edna May Oliver decided to leave RKO Radio's "Hildegarde Withers" series, the studio came up with an unorthodox...
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1936
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When New York police commissioner Lewis J. Valentine instructed his men that the best way to handle criminals was to "muss...
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1936
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Having successful moved his top comedians Laurel & Hardy from short subjects to features, producer Hal Roach endeavored to do...
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1936
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1936
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1936
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Newlywed Carolyn Martin (Barbara Stanwyck) has been raised to expect the finer things in life, but these are things that...
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1936
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In this romantic mystery, based on the beloved characters of P.G. Wodehouse, the ever-impeccable, unflappable butler Jeeves...
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1936
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Anne Shirley is the teenaged "lady" in this filmization of Elizabeth Jordan's novel My Daddy and I. Shirley plays the...
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1936
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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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Noah
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1936
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The old Edward Peble play The Littlest Rebel was gussied up in 1935 as a Shirley Temple vehicle. The curly-topped child star...
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1935
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In this adaptation of author de la Roche's chronicle of the passionate lives of the strange Whiteoaks of Jalna, their...
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1935
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The Arizonian came at a time when Richard Dix's popularity was slipping, providing a welcome shot in the arm for the star and...
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1935
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1935
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Perhaps the most memorable of all of the movies based on Damon Runyon's story because of the winning presence of...
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1934
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1933
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Virtuous Husband was adapted from Apron Strings, a play by Dorrance Davis. Though his mother has been dead several years,...
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1931
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Harold Lloyd's second talkie finds The Bespectacled One playing a shoe clerk in Honolulu. Harboring dreams of becoming an...
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1930
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