The infamous Benedict Arnold affair is the basis of the lively MGM costumer The Scarlet Coat. Arnold is played with suitably...
|
|
1955
|
Who else but Esther Williams could star in a romantic drama (with musical numbers) bearing a title like this? In Million...
|
|
1952
|
Two real-life events were incorporated into the plot of the 1951 MGM musical Royal Wedding. One, the marriage of...
|
|
1951
|
|
|
|
1950
|
The third talkie version of Dumas' The Three Musketeers, this splashy MGM adaptation is also the first version in...
|
|
1948
|
After supervising several of the best "psychological" horror films ever made, producer Val Lewton shifted his base of...
|
|
1948
|
In this adventure, a devoted fiancee journeys to the jungle to take on the terrifying Amazon women who have been holding her...
|
|
1947
|
|
|
1945
|
Based on a play by Leslie Storm, Tonight and Every Night is a musical wartime morale booster in which star Rita Hayworth is...
|
|
1945
|
Taking place almost exclusively on a transatlantic ocean liner, this easygoing Sherlock Holmes entry finds Holmes...
|
|
1945
|
The White Cliffs of Dover is one of those overlong MGM wartime films that everyone seems to have seen a part of, but no one...
|
|
1944
|
Ingrid Bergman won her first of three Oscars for this suspense thriller, crafted with surprising tautness by normally genteel...
|
|
1944
|
The Lodger was the third film version of Mrs. Marie Belloc-Lowndes' classic "Jack the Ripper" novel, and in many eyes it was...
|
|
1944
|
|
|
1944
|
A scientist discovers that he can live forever by receiving gland transplants every ten years. Unfortunately, the unwilling...
|
|
1944
|
An innocent man is drawn into a web of espionage when he unwittingly comes into possession of a crucial piece of microfilm in...
|
|
1944
|
|
|
1943
|
As for the opening reels, the principal motivating factor is money. After a deliberately confusing pre-credit sequence (not...
|
|
1942
|
14-year-old Shirley Temple receives her first on-screen kiss in this innocuous romantic comedy. Temple is cast as the titular...
|
|
1942
|
Monty Woolley plays an irascible Englishman who insists that he dislikes children. While on a vacation in France, the Nazis...
|
|
1942
|
In this comedy, a slightly addled young advertising executive works for his father's radio-advertising agency. His first job...
|
|
1942
|
If Selznick could make a Gone With the Wind, reasoned Paramount Pictures in 1941, anyone can. Paramount's own spin on Scarlet...
|
|
1941
|
In this humorous adventure, a Puerto Rican explorer shares a drink with his oddball millionaire double. For a lark, they...
|
|
1941
|
|
|
1941
|
|
|
|
1941
|
Angry natives or a beautiful widow -- which poses the greater threat? Keith Brandon (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) is an...
|
|
1940
|
In the 1830s, despite the development of the steamboat at the outset of the 19th century, all trans-Atlantic travel was still...
|
|
1939
|
Virtually a textbook example of Howard Hawks' "macho" mode, Only Angels Have Wings takes place high in the Peruvian Andes....
|
|
1939
|
|
|
|
1938
|
Contrary to popular belief, the Nelson Eddy-Jeanette MacDonald Technicolor confection Sweethearts is not based on the 1913...
|
|
1938
|
|
|
1938
|
In this comedy, a dull statistician changes his life after winning a pile of money after successfully determining the number...
|
|
1938
|
The Shadow, the famed radio and pulp-novel hero with the mysterious power to "cloud men's minds" so that they cannot see him,...
|
|
1937
|
Paramount's answer to Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) also involved mutiny and romance on the high seas. Gary Cooper stars as...
|
|
1937
|
Set in the land Down Under but filmed at Sunland, CA, and on Catalina Island, this low-budget action-adventure stars one of...
|
|
1937
|
|
|
|
1937
|
Bank Alarm was one of four low-budget but high-entertainment crime melodramas starring Conrad Nagel and Eleanor Hunt as...
|
|
1937
|
Claudette Colbert is a young freethinking woman living in Salem, Massachusetts during the notorious 17th century "witch...
|
|
1937
|
Financier J.B. Ball (Edward Arnold) -- known in the press as "the Bull of Broad Street" -- may be one of the wealthiest...
|
|
1937
|
An actor creates a devious murder plot in this suspenseful, ironic drama. For many years, the aging thespian has been...
|
|
1937
|
In this black comedy, a twitchy hypochondriac ends up conned into giving up his $500,000 inheritance in exchange for $50,000...
|
|
1937
|
In this highly acclaimed adaptation of Sinclair Lewis's novel, Walter Huston plays Sam Dodsworth, a good-hearted, middle-aged...
|
|
1936
|
Dancing Feet stars Joan Marsh as Judy, a society deb who lands a job as a dime-a-dance girl to spite her wealthy grandfather...
|
|
1936
|
The "Crime Club" detective-novel series spawned a film counterpart in 1935, which for the next four years bounced around such...
|
|
1936
|
Former Miss America Irene Ware stars in the standard Chestefield Pictures social drama False Pretenses. Ware is cast as...
|
|
1935
|
Legendary stage actress Pauline Lord made but a few films, but was always worth watching whenever she took command of the...
|
|
1935
|
In the tradition of the classic scare piece Banquo's Chair, The Ghost Walks features one phony spectre and one supposedly...
|
|
1934
|
This second and final "Bulldog Drummond" film to star Ronald Colman, finds the famed sleuth in the midst of a sinister plan...
|
|
1934
|
|
|
|
1934
|
|
|
1934
|
In this thriller, a young woman marries a dashing young man who, unbeknownst to her, is a jewel thief. After his latest job,...
|
|
1934
|
Another of director William Wyler's "apprenticeship" films, Glamour is based on a story by Edna Ferber. The original story...
|
|
1934
|
In this handsomely-staged adaptation of the story by Emile Zola, Anna Sten plays Nana, a woman of the streets who is spotted...
|
|
1934
|
The basic difference between the Chesterfield and Invincible productions of the 1930s is that most of the Chesterfields were...
|
|
1934
|
|
|
|
1933
|
While Tonart Studios is filming a gangster movie, one of the actors is killed in a shooting accident. After several other...
|
|
1933
|
The Big Executive is Ricardo Cortez, to whom success is less important than the pursuit of success. Having lost as many...
|
|
1933
|
When a patient dies of heart failure, society doctor Michael Travers (Lew Cody), takes an interest in her 14-year-old...
|
|
1933
|
|
|
|
1932
|
|
|
|
1932
|
A rather bleak comedy-drama from Frank Capra, Platinum Blonde basically starts where Capra's later and much more buoyant It...
|
|
1931
|
In this drama, a woman with dubious past finds herself blackmailed when she makes plans to marry a senator's son. She finds...
|
|
1931
|
Magnificently restored by UCLA to its original "Grandeur" wide-screen format The Bat Whispers may not be a cinematic...
|
The Butler
|
1930
|
|
|
|
1930
|
The third in a succession of film adaptations of author E.W. Hornung's novel Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman, this version was...
|
|
1930
|
Clara Bow's career as one of Hollywood's liveliest leading ladies was drawing to a close when she made this early sound...
|
|
1930
|
Tired of his sedentary postwar existence, Col. Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond (Ronald Colman) offers his services as adventurer for...
|
|
1929
|
Untamed was touted by MGM as Joan Crawford's talking-picture debut, even though she'd already been heard as well as seen in...
|
|
1929
|
|
|
|
1929
|
In this comedy, a lonesome fellow returns from Peru with a fortune and begins looking for a wife. While still single, he has...
|
|
1929
|
Though filmmaker Erich Von Stroheim's notorious profligacy had made him virtually unhirable in the US by 1929, screen-star...
|
|
1929
|
Lewis Stone, best known to modern viewers as kindly Judge Hardy from the "Andy Hardy" series, was on occasion not so kindly...
|
|
1928
|
|
|
|
1928
|
|
|
|
1928
|
|
|
|
1928
|
Those who believe that misleadingly titled "instant" movies produced in the wake of earth-shaking news events are an...
|
|
1927
|
|
|
|
1927
|
|
|
1927
|
Vampy Margaret Livingston and stalwart Earl Foxe seem miscast in this farce comedy. Foxe plays a young hypochondriac who...
|
|
1926
|
Mary Carr, Hollywood's favorite "martyr mother," does her usual in The Midnight Message. Carr plays the widowed, impoverished...
|
|
1926
|
Cecil B. DeMille's century-hopping extravaganza The Road to Yesterday begins in the present (1925, that is). Wealthy...
|
|
1925
|
Piccadilly Charlie (Gladden James) and his female associate (Evelyn Brent) are on the run from the police after a jewel...
|
|
1925
|
Unable to rely upon Oscar Wilde's epigrammatic dialogue to carry the day (this was, after all, the silent-film era), director...
|
|
1925
|
Cecil B. DeMille's first screen version of The Ten Commandments is only peripherally a Biblical story. The film's first 45...
|
|
1923
|
Robin Hood, Douglas Fairbanks' biggest (though not necessarily best) production of the silent era, represents the first time...
|
|
1922
|