James Flavin

biography: American character actor whose career lasted nearly half a century. James Wilson Flavin Jr. was the son of a hotel waiter of Canadian-English extraction and a mother, Katherine, whose father was an Irish immigrant. (Thus Flavin, well-known in Hollywood as an "Irish" type, was only one-quarter Irish.) Flavin was born and raised in Portland, Maine (a fact that may have enrichened his later working relationship with director John Ford, also a Portland native). He attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, but (contrary to some sources) did not graduate. Instead he dropped out and returned to Portland where he drove a taxi. Then as now, summer stock companies flocked to Maine each year, and in 1929 he was asked to fill in for an actor. He did well with the part and the company manager offered him $150 per week to go with the troupe back to New York. Flavin accepted and by the spring of 1930 was living in a rooming house at 108 W. 87th Street in Manhattan. Flavin didn't manage to crack Broadway at this time (his Broadway debut would not occur for another thirty-nine years, in the 1971 revival of "The Front Page," in which Flavin played Murphy and briefly took over the lead role of Walter Burns from star Robert Ryan). He worked his way across the country in stock productions and tours, arriving in Los Angeles around 1932. He quickly made the transition to movies, landing the lead in his very first film, a Universal serial, The Airmail Mystery (1932). He also landed his leading lady, marrying the serial's female star Lucile Browne that same year. However, the serial marked virtually the last time that Flavin would play the lead in a film. Thereafter, he was restricted almost exclusively to supporting characters, many of them without so much as a name. He specialized in uniformed cops and hard-bitten detectives, but played chauffeurs, cabbies, and even a 16th-century palace guard with aplomb. Flavin appeared in nearly four hundred films between 1932 and 1971, and in almost a hundred television episodes before his final appearance, as President Dwight D. Eisenhower in Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident (1976). Flavin died of a heart ailment at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on April 23, 1976. His widow Lucile died seventeen days later. They were survived by their son, William James Flavin, subsequently a professor at the United States Army War College. James and Lucile Brown Flavin were buried at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.

Mister Ed

overview: Wilbur Post and his wife Carol move into a beautiful new home. When Wilbur takes a look in his new barn, he finds that the former owner left his horse behind. This horse is no ordinary horse . . . he can talk, but only to Wilbur, which leads to all sorts of misadventures for Wilbur and his trouble-making sidekick Mister Ed.

original_name: Mister Ed

Burke's Law

overview: Burke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s. The show starred Gene Barry as Amos Burke, millionaire captain of Los Angeles police homicide division, who was chauffeured around to solve crimes in his Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II.

character: Officer Danny Robin

original_name: Burke's Law

Cain's Hundred

overview: A former underworld lawyer goes to work for the Federal Government, determined to bring 100 top criminals to justice.

character: Arnie Kellwin

original_name: Cain's Hundred

December Bride

overview: December Bride is an American sitcom that aired on the CBS television network from 1954 to 1959, adapted from the original CBS radio network series that aired from June 1952 through September 1953.

original_name: December Bride

The Brady Bunch

overview: When widower Mike Brady marries a lovely lady widow Carol Ann, their two families become one. These are the misadventures of this new couple, their six children, a dog named Tiger, and quirky housekeeper Alice.

original_name: The Brady Bunch

The Lucy Show

overview:
The Lucy Show is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1962–68. It was Lucille Ball's follow-up to I Love Lucy. A significant change in cast and premise for the 1965–66 season divides the program into two distinct eras; aside from Ball, only Gale Gordon, who joined the program for its second season, remained. For the first three seasons, Vivian Vance was the co-star.

The earliest scripts were entitled The Lucille Ball Show, but when this title was declined, producers thought of calling the show This Is Lucy or The New Adventures of Lucy, before deciding on the title The Lucy Show. Ball won consecutive Emmy Awards as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for the series' final two seasons, 1966–67 and 1967–68.

character: Sergeant Wilcox

original_name: The Lucy Show

Surfside 6

overview: Surfside 6 was an ABC television series which aired from 1960 to 1962. The show centered on a Miami Beach detective agency set on a houseboat and featured Troy Donahue as Sandy Winfield II; Van Williams as Kenny Madison; and Lee Patterson as Dave Thorne. Diane McBain co-starred as socialite Daphne Dutton, whose yacht was berthed next to their houseboat. Margarita Sierra also had a supporting role as Cha Cha O'Brien, an entertainer who worked at The Boom Boom Room, a popular Miami Beach hangout at the Fontainebleau Hotel, directly across the street from Surfside 6. Surfside 6 was in fact a real address in Miami Beach, where an unrelated houseboat was moored at the time; it can also be seen in the sweeping aerial establishing shot of the Fontainebleu in 1964's Goldfinger.

original_name: Surfside 6

General Electric Theater

overview: General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.

original_name: General Electric Theater

Man with a Camera

overview:
Man with a Camera is an American 1950s television crime drama starring Charles Bronson. Former combat cameraman Mike Kovac (Bronson) is now a freelance photographer in New York City, specializing in difficult and dangerous assignments where he can get the kinds of pictures that other photographers can't, or won't take. He sometimes gets help, often reluctantly, from his contact in the police department, Lt. Donovan, and advice from his immigrant father Anton.

Throughout the 1950s, Bronson spent most of his early acting career performing in TV shows as well as small parts in films, until he landed the lead in this ABC series. This is the only series in which he played the lead role. He would go on to have supporting roles either as a guest star or a recurring character in dozens of TV shows after this series was cancelled.

original_name: Man with a Camera

Hallmark Hall of Fame

overview: Long-running anthology program sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2019, the series received 80 Emmy Awards, 24 Christopher Awards, 11 Peabody Awards, 9 Golden Globes, and 4 Humanitas Prizes. Early seasons were a weekly live drama, eventually transitioning to videotaped and then filmed productions broadcast as occasional specials.

character: Captain Kimble

original_name: Hallmark Hall of Fame

The Twilight Zone

overview: An anthology series containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.

character: 1962 Policeman

original_name: The Twilight Zone

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

overview: A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

character: Joe Felix

original_name: Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Sam Benedict

overview:
Sam Benedict is an American legal drama that aired on NBC from September 1962 to March 1963. The series was created and executive produced by E. Jack Neuman.

Sam Benedict is based on real-life lawyer Jacob W. "Jake" Erlich, who served as technical consultant for the series.

original_name: Sam Benedict

The Millionaire

overview: An anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better or for worse. It told the stories of people who were given one million dollars from a benefactor who insisted they never know him, with one exception.

character: Dan Mulcahy

original_name: The Millionaire

Lux Video Theatre

overview: Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.

original_name: Lux Video Theatre

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

overview: Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.

original_name: Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Richard Diamond, Private Detective

overview: Richard Diamond, Private Detective is an American detective drama which aired on radio from 1949 to 1953, and on television from 1957 to 1960.

character: Sam Cooper

original_name: Richard Diamond, Private Detective

Climax!

overview: Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era to be broadcast in color. Many of the episodes were performed and broadcast live.

character: Hogan

original_name: Climax!

Pete and Gladys

overview: Pete and Gladys is an American situation comedy television series starring Harry Morgan and Cara Williams that aired on CBS on Mondays at 8:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific time for two seasons, beginning on September 19, 1960. The last episode was broadcast on September 10, 1962.

original_name: Pete and Gladys

Lux Video Theatre

character: Heineman

Matinee Theater

overview:
Matinee Theater is an American anthology series that aired on NBC during the Golden Age of Television, from 1955 to 1958. The series, which ran daily in the afternoon, was frequently live. It was produced by Albert McCleery, Darrell Ross, George Cahan and Frank Price with executive producer George Lowther. McCleery had previously produced the live series Cameo Theatre which introduced to television the concept of theater-in-the-round, TV plays staged with minimal sets.

Jim Buckley of the Pewter Plough Playhouse recalled:

When Al McCleery got back to the States, he originated a most ambitious theatrical TV series for NBC called Matinee Theater: to televise five different stage plays per week live, airing around noon in order to promote color TV to the American housewife as she labored over her ironing. Al was the producer. He hired five directors and five art directors. Richard Bennett, one of our first early presidents of the Pewter Plough Corporation, was one of the directors and I was one of the art directors and, as soon as we were through televising one play, we had lunch and then met to plan next week’s show. That was over 50 years ago, and I’m trying to think; I believe the TV art director is his own set decorator —yes, of course! It had to be, since one of McCleery’s chief claims to favor with the producers was his elimination of the setting per se and simply decorating the scene with a minimum of props. It took a bit of ingenuity.

original_name: Matinee Theater

The Pruitts of Southampton

overview: An audit by the Internal Revenue Service about overdue taxes reveals that the supposedly incredibly wealthy Pruitts family is in fact broke. Presumably causing the economic depression, an improbably charitable IRS allows them to continue living in their mansion and maintaining the pretensions of great wealth.

original_name: The Pruitts of Southampton

Navy Log

overview: Navy Log is an American drama anthology series that initially aired for one season on CBS. It relates the greatest survival war stories in the history of the United States Navy. This series premiered on September 20, 1955, but the following year, it was moved to ABC, where it aired until September 25, 1958. The program aired for a total of three seasons and 102 episodes.

character: Col. Flynn

original_name: Navy Log

The Rifleman

overview: The Rifleman is an American Western television program starring Chuck Connors as rancher Lucas McCain and Johnny Crawford as his son, Mark McCain. It was set in the 1880s in the town of North Fork, New Mexico Territory. The show was filmed in black-and-white, half-hour episodes. "The Rifleman" aired on ABC from September 30, 1958 to April 8, 1963 as a production of Four Star Television. It was one of the first prime time series to have a widowed parent raise a child.

original_name: The Rifleman

The Addams Family

overview: A satirical inversion of the ideal of the perfect American nuclear family, they are an eccentric wealthy family who delight in everything grotesque and macabre, and are never really aware that people find them bizarre or frightening. In fact, they themselves are often terrified by "normal" people.

character: Lt. Poston

original_name: The Addams Family

Mr. Novak

overview: Mr. Novak is an American dramatic series starring James Franciscus in the title role, which aired on NBC for two seasons, from 1963 to 1965.

character: Fire Chief Hawkins

original_name: Mr. Novak

Racket Squad

overview:
Racket Squad is an American TV crime drama series starring Reed Hadley as Captain John Braddock, a fictional detective working for the San Francisco, California Police Department.

The show aired in syndication for a season before being picked up by CBS for three seasons. The series was filmed at Hal Roach Studios in Culver City, California, and was sponsored by cigarette manufacturer Philip Morris, hence there was a pack of the sponsor's brand on Braddock's desk at the beginning and end of the episode, as well as occasional scenes of him or other characters "lighting up".

original_name: Racket Squad

The New Breed

character: Moose

original_name: The New Breed

Public Defender

overview: The Public Defender is a half-hour 69-episode television dramatic series starring Reed Hadley as Bart Matthews, an attorney for the indigent. The series aired on CBS from March 11, 1954 to June 23, 1955, a season and a half.

original_name: Public Defender

Cavalcade of America

overview: Cavalcade of America is an anthology drama series that was sponsored by the DuPont Company, although it occasionally presented a musical, such as an adaptation of Show Boat, and condensed biographies of popular composers. It was initially broadcast on radio from 1935 to 1953, and later on television from 1952 to 1957. Originally on CBS, the series pioneered the use of anthology drama for company audio advertising. Cavalcade of America documented historical events using stories of individual courage, initiative and achievement, often with feel-good dramatizations of the human spirit's triumph against all odds. This was consistent with DuPont's overall conservative philosophy and legacy as an American company dating back to 1802. The company's motto, "Maker of better things for better living through chemistry," was read at the beginning of each program, and the dramas emphasized humanitarian progress, particularly improvements in the lives of women, often through technological innovation.

original_name: Cavalcade of America

Dr. Kildare

overview: The story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession, deal with the problems of his patients, and win the respect of the senior doctor in his specialty, internal medicine.

character: John Dolan

original_name: Dr. Kildare

City Detective

overview: Crime drama starring Rod Cameron as 43-year-old Bart Grant, a tough 1950s New York City police lieutenant.

original_name: City Detective

Dangerous Assignment

overview: A U.S. government agent travels the world on undercover missions in this 1950s series. Star Brian Donlevy originated the role on radio in the '40s.

original_name: Dangerous Assignment

Coronado 9

overview: Dan Adams, former Naval Intelligence officer, works in San Diego as a private detective.

original_name: Coronado 9

The Roaring 20's

overview: The adventures of a newspaper reporter covering the world of cops and gangsters in 1920s Chicago.

character: Robert Howard

original_name: The Roaring 20's

Johnny Midnight

overview: Johnny Midnight is an American crime drama that aired for one season in syndicated from January to December 1960. The series stars Edmond O'Brien as the title character.

original_name: Johnny Midnight

Letter to Loretta

overview:
Letter to Loretta is an American anthology drama series telecast on NBC from September 1953 to June 1961 for a total of 165 episodes. The filmed show was hosted by Loretta Young who also played the lead in various episodes.

Letter to Loretta was sponsored by Procter & Gamble from 1953 through 1960. The final season's sponsor was Warner-Lambert's Listerine.

character: MacNamara

original_name: Letter to Loretta

Alcoa Theatre

overview:
Alcoa Theatre is a half-hour American anthology series telecast on NBC at 9:30 pm on alternate Monday nights from October 7, 1957 to September 16, 1960. The program also aired under the title Turn of Fate, with the stories depicting the difficulties faced by individuals who are suddenly thrust into unexpected and perilous dangers. Alcoa Theatre was syndicated together with Goodyear Theatre as Award Theatre.

In 1955, The Alcoa Hour premiered in a one-hour format aired on Sunday nights, but it was reduced to 30 minutes, retitled Alcoa Theatre, and moved to Monday evening in 1957. The show employed an alternating rotating company of actors: David Niven, Robert Ryan, Jane Powell, Jack Lemmon and Charles Boyer. Each appeared in dramatic and light comedic roles through the first season.

character: Gavin Marshall

original_name: Alcoa Theatre

The Living Christ

overview: The first ever made for TV miniseries documents the story of Jesus Christ from birth to resurrection.

character: Longinus

original_name: The Living Christ

The Twilight Zone

character: Truck Driver

Four Star Playhouse

overview:
Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer Company; Bristol-Myers became an alternate sponsor when it became a weekly series in the fall of 1953. The original premise was that Charles Boyer, Ida Lupino, David Niven, and Dick Powell would take turns starring in episodes. However, several other performers took the lead from time to time, including Ronald Colman and Joan Fontaine.

Blake Edwards was among the writers and directors who contributed to the series. Edwards created the recurring character of illegal gambling house operator Willie Dante for Dick Powell to play on this series. The character was later revamped and spun off in his own series starring Howard Duff, then-husband of Lupino.

The pilot for Meet McGraw, starring Frank Lovejoy, aired here, as did another episode in which Lovejoy recreated his role of Chicago newspaper reporter Randy Stone, from the radio drama Nightbeat.

I Love Lucy

overview: Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead she tries constantly to perform at the Tropicana where he works, and make life comically frantic in the apartment building they share with landlords Fred and Ethel Mertz, who also happen to be their best friends.

Death Valley Days

overview:
Death Valley Days is an American radio and television anthology series featuring true stories of the old American West, particularly the Death Valley area. Created in 1930 by Ruth Woodman, the program was broadcast on radio until 1945 and continued from 1952 to 1970 as a syndicated television series, with reruns continuing through August 1, 1975.

The series was sponsored by the Pacific Coast Borax Company and hosted by Stanley Andrews, Ronald Reagan, Robert Taylor, and Dale Robertson. With the passing of Dale Robertson in 2013, all the former Death Valley Days hosts are now deceased.

The Abbott and Costello Show

overview: Bud and Lou are unemployed actors living in Mr. Fields’ boarding house. Lou’s girlfriend Hillary lives across the hall. Many situations arise leading to slapstick and puns.

State Trooper

overview: State Trooper is an American crime drama set in the 1950s American West, starring Rod Cameron as Rod Blake, an officer of the Nevada Department of Public Safety. The series aired 104 episodes in syndication from September 25, 1956, to June 25, 1959.

It Takes a Thief

overview: Convicted cat burglar Alexander Mundy gets an offer he can't refuse from the United States government: If he puts his formidable thieving skills to work for them, he'll be released from prison. Alexander's dad, Alister, sometimes comes out of retirement as a thief to help his son on special jobs.

Català

biography: James William Flavin Jr. (Portland, Maine, 14 de maig de 1906 - Los Angeles, Califòrnia, 23 d’abril de 1976) va ser un actor de personatges nord-americà la carrera del qual va durar gairebé mig segle. Va estar casat amb l'actriu Lucile Browne.

also_known_as:
James William Flavin Jr.
James Flaven
Jim Flavin

title: King Kong

overview: Adventurous filmmaker Carl Denham sets out to produce a motion picture unlike anything the world has seen before. Alongside his leading lady Ann Darrow and his first mate Jack Driscoll, they arrive on an island and discover a legendary creature said to be neither beast nor man. Denham captures the monster to be displayed on Broadway as King Kong, the eighth wonder of the world.

title: Manpower

overview: Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang. Tensions start to show in the road crew as rivalry between Hank and Johnny increases.

title: Confidentially Connie

overview: Texas cattleman Opie Bedloe comes to Maine to visit his son Joe, a college instructor, and his wife Connie in the hopes of persuading Joe to give up his teaching career and come back to Texas and take over the ranch. When Opie finds out that Connie, who is expecting a baby, can not afford the steaks she yearns for on Joe's salary, Opie, who believes that pregnant women gotta have meat, arranges for the local butcher, Spangenberg to cut his prices in half (with Opie paying the difference) so that Connie can have the meat she desires.

title: Youth Will Be Served

overview: A precocious youngster organizes a show to save a government youth camp from a local entrepreneur.

title: The Most Dangerous Game

overview: When legendary hunter Bob Rainsford is shipwrecked on the perilous reefs surrounding a mysterious island, he finds himself the guest of the reclusive and eccentric Count Zaroff. While he is very gracious at first, Zaroff eventually forces Rainsford and two other shipwreck survivors, brother and sister Eve and Martin Towbridge, to participate in a sadistic game of cat and mouse in which they are the prey and he is the hunter.

title: My Girl Tisa

overview: 1905 was a period of heavy immigration from Europe to America before laws were passed restricting the flow of immigrants. Almost every character in this movie is a recent arrival. Tisa has been in America only four months, yet she is holding four jobs to save enough money to pay for her father's boat passage to America. She works in a garment factory in Greenwich Village owned by Mr. Grumbach, who is studying to pass his citizenship test. Denek, a brash young man, tries to help her but gets her into trouble and her deportation is ordered by an immigration judge.

title: Blondie Hits the Jackpot

overview: Fired for messing up an important contract, Dagwood takes a job as a manual laborer for a construction firm while trying to get his old job back.

title: One Way Ticket

overview: A convict marries the warder's daughter after his escape and she eventually persuades him to finish his sentence.

title: Armored Car Robbery

overview: While executing an armored car heist in Los Angeles, icy crook Dave Purvis shoots policeman Lt. Phillips before he and his cronies make off with the loot. Thinking he got away scot-free, Purvis collects his money-crazy mistress, Yvonne, then disposes of his partners and heads out of town. What Purvis doesn't know is that Phillips' partner, tough-as-nails Lt. Cordell, is wise to the criminal's plans and is closing in on his prey.

title: Here Come the Marines

overview: After Slip is drafted into the Marines, the rest of the gang volunteers so they can be with him. Sach discovers that the colonel knew his father and he is promoted. During a drill that he is putting the rest of the gang through, they find a soldier left for dead on the side of the road. Slip discovers a playing card next to the marine and traces it to Jolly Joe Johnson's gambling house. They suspect that the gambling house is cheating and set out to uncover the proof.

title: Three Loves Has Nancy

overview: A small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically involved with two sophisticated men.

title: Night Passage

overview: Grant MacLaine, a former railroad troubleshooter, lost his job after letting his outlaw, the Utica Kid, escape. After spending five years wandering the west and earning his living playing the accordion, he is given a second chance by his former boss.

title: Mannequin

overview: Jessie, a young working class woman, seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only to find out that he is no better than what she left behind.

title: The Devil's Henchmen

overview: Insurance agent Jesse Arno is posing as a sailor while on the trail of a gang of waterfront thieves, supposedly headed by Tip Banning. Arno is aware that a gang member has been murdered by Rhino, Banning's simple-minded right-hand man, but says nothing when he is questioned by the police, who are unaware of his real profession. Banning, knowing that Jesse knew who the killer was, admits him into the gang.

title: The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

overview: Three childhood friends, Martha, Walter and Sam, share a terrible secret. Over time, the ambitious Martha and the pusillanimous Walter have married. She is a cold businesswoman; he is the district attorney: a perfect combination to dominate the corrupt city of Iverstown at will. But the unexpected return of Sam, after years of absence, deeply disturbs the life of the odd couple.

title: Desert Fury

overview: The daughter of a Nevada casino owner gets involved with a racketeer, despite everyone's efforts to separate them.

title: Nora Prentiss

overview: Quiet, organised Dr. Talbot meets nightclub singer Nora Prentiss when she is slightly hurt in a street accident. Despite her misgivings, they become heavily involved, and Talbot finds himself faced with the choice of leaving Nora or divorcing his wife. When a patient expires in his office, a third option seems to present itself.

title: Nobody Lives Forever

overview: A con artist falls for the rich widow he's trying to fleece.

title: Charlie Chan at the Race Track

overview: When a friend of Charlie's is found kicked to death by his own race horse on board a Honolulu-bound liner, the detective discovers foul play and uncovers an international gambling ring.

title: Abbott and Costello Go to Mars

overview: Lester and Orville accidentally launch a rocket which is supposed to fly to Mars. Instead it goes to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. They are then forced by bank robber Mugsy and his pal Harry to fly to Venus where they find a civilization made up entirely of women, men having been banished.

title: Wild Is the Wind

overview: A widowed Nevada rancher goes to Italy and marries the sister of his deceased wife and brings her back to the ranch, but his haunting memories of his lost love and her tendency to drift away to other men cause the two to have a tough time at keeping a marriage together.

title: Destination Murder

overview: Laura Mansfield catches a glimpse of mob hit man Jackie Wales after he shoots her businessman father. At the police station, Laura identifies Jackie as the murderer, but the policeman in charge of the case, Lt. Brewster, lets him go, citing a lack of corroborating evidence. Outraged, Laura worms her way into the unsuspecting Jackie's heart, trying to snare him and mob-connected club owner Armitage in her trap.

title: The Savage Horde

overview: A charismatic gunfighter who is on the run takes refuge in a frontier cattle town and attempts to help a group of ranchers against a wealthy cattle baron.

title: McKenna of the Mounted

overview: Jones played Tom McKenna, a disgraced Royal Canadian Mountie who turns highway robber to pay off his gambling debt. He joins a gang of outlaws led by Morgan (Niles Welch) and to prove his loyalty is assigned to rob a safe belonging to the father (Ralph Lewis) of his former girlfriend, Shirley (Greta Grandstedt).

title: Alexander's Ragtime Band

overview: Classical violinist Roger Grant disappoints his family and teacher when he organizes a jazz band, but he and the band become successful. Roger falls in love with the band's singer, Stella, but his reluctance to lose her leads him to thwart her efforts to become a solo star. When the World War separates them in 1917, Stella marries Roger's best friend and, when Roger returns home after the war, an important concert at Carnegie Hall brings the corners of the romantic triangle together.

title: Cloak and Dagger

overview: Italian partisans help a professor sent by the OSS to find an atomic scientist held by Nazis.

title: Cheyenne Autumn

overview: A reluctant cavalry Captain must track a defiant tribe of migrating Cheyenne.

character: Ft. Robinson Sergeant of the Guard (uncredited)

title: Born to Be Wild

overview: Truck drivers Steve Hackett and Bill Purvis are fired from their jobs with the West Coast Trucking company for not using second-gear going down steep grades. Davis, the company vice-president, surprisingly asks them to carry a load of merchandise to Arrowhead and offers a $1000 bonus. He tells them it is a load of lettuce. Several miles out of Los Angelese, they are stopped by a mob of lettuce-farm workers on strike. When the first crate is tossed off the truck, it explodes and the two pals learn their merchandise is a cargo of dynamite. The workers let them proceed and they crash into a car driven by Mary Stevens, whom they had met at a restaurant. She and her dog, "Butch" (played by a Credited dog named Stooge), join them and they deliver their cargo, and learn unscrupulous real-estate operators have jammed the locks on the dam in order to ruin the ranchers and farmers and take over their property.

title: The Shanghai Cobra

overview: Someone is attempting to steal radium stored in a bank. Death by cobra venom connects a number of murders. Charlie Chan investigates.

title: Hot News

overview: An ex-prize fighter -- now reporter -- tries to expose a gambling ring after an uneven bout in the ring kills a pugilist.

title: Footsteps in the Night

overview: Two detectives investigate the strangulation murder of a man whom everyone seemed to like.

title: Fingers at the Window

overview: In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders, apparently committed by a lunatic.

title: Mighty Joe Young

overview: A young woman, Jill Young, grew up on her father's ranch in Africa, raising a large gorilla named Joe from an infant. Years later, she brings him to Hollywood to become a star.

title: Kathleen

overview: Kathleen is a twelve-year-old who lives in a big house with a nanny, a butler, maids, no mother and a father who is working most of the time. She dreams of a family with a mother, father and her, and tells everyone that she has such a family. Because of this story, she cannot invite any friends over as they will see that it is not true.

title: Homicide

overview: Michael Landers, a police lieutenant, sets out to investigate an intricate murder case. But, the case is closed after the only witness is found dead. Will Michael be able to fathom the mystery?

title: In Cold Blood

overview: After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their vile atrocity.

title: Wild Gold

overview: A young man desperately in love with a nightclub singer sees an opportunity to spend some time alone with her when they're traveling through the Nevada gold country, and he takes the carburetor off her car and throws it in the river, stranding them there. They wind up staying at the cabin of a crusty old prospector, and soon the manager of a nightclub act shows up with his bevy of beautiful showgirls.

title: It Happened on Fifth Avenue

overview: A New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with the actual home owners.

title: Belle Starr

overview: After her family's mansion is burned down by Yankee soldiers for hiding the rebel leader Captain Sam Starr Belle Shirley vows to take revenge. Breaking Starr out of prison, she joins his small guerrilla group for a series of raids on banks and railroads, carpetbaggers and enemy troops. Belle's bravado during the attacks earns her a reputation among the locals as well as the love of Starr himself. The pair get married, but their relationship starts to break down when Sam Starr lets a couple of psychotic rebels into the gang, leaving Belle to wonder if he really cares about the Southern cause.

title: Man on the Flying Trapeze

overview: Hard-working, henpecked Ambrose Ambrose Wolfinger takes off from work to go to a wrestling match with catastrophic consequences.

title: The Further Adventures of Gallegher

overview: The young copyboy helps the town’s first female newspaper reporter, who is writing a series on confidence men. The swindlers are caught up in a sting, but they catch on and the reporter and Gallegher have to subdue them in order to escape and write their article.

title: Mr. Wong in Chinatown

overview: A pretty Chinese woman, seeking help from San Francisco detective James Lee Wong, is killed by a poisoned dart in his front hall, having time only to scrawl "Captain J" on a sheet of paper. She proves to be Princess Lin Hwa, on a secret military mission for Chinese forces fighting the Japanese invasion. Mr. Wong finds two captains with the intial J in the case, neither being quite what he seems; there's fog on the waterfront and someone still has that poison-dart gun...

title: Dragonfly Squadron

overview: A Korean War film with a secondary plot of the training of South Korean pilots, to fly fighters in air defense, by American Air Force instructors,led by Major Brady, a famed and skilled-but-grounded pilot, assigned to the Kongku base.

title: Francis in the Haunted House

overview: A Ha-Ha-Haunted House Has Got 'Em! ...and it's every ghost for himself!

title: The Murder Man

overview: Steve Grey, reporter for the Daily Star, has a habit of scooping all the other papers in town. When Henry Mander is investigated for the murder of his shady business partner, Grey is one step ahead of the police to the extent that he often dictates his story in advance of its actual occurrence. He leads the police through an 'open and shut' case resulting in Mander being tried, convicted and sentenced to death. Columnist Mary Shannon is in love with Steve but she sees him struggle greatly with his last story before Mander's execution. When she starts typing out the story from his recorded dictation, she realizes why.

character: Policeman at Merry-Go-Round (uncredited)

title: Rendezvous

overview: A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.

title: Sailor Beware

overview: Meeting in a navy recruiting line, Al Crowthers and Melvin Jones become friends. Al has tried to enlist before, but was always rejected. He keeps trying so that he can impress women. Melvin, is allergic to women's cosmetics and his doctor prescribed ocean travel, so he decided to join the navy.

title: God Is My Co-Pilot

overview: Robert L. Scott has dreamed his whole life of being a fighter pilot, but when war comes he finds himself flying transport planes over The Hump into China. In China, he persuades General Chennault to let him fly with the famed Flying Tigers, the heroic band of airmen who'd been fighting the Japanese long before Pearl Harbor. Scott gets his chance to fight, ultimately engaging in combat with the deadly Japanese pilot known as Tokyo Joe.

title: The Naked Street

overview: To make an honest woman of his pregnant sister, Rosalie, callous New York mobster Phil Regal intimidates witnesses and bribes a store clerk to get Rosalie’s condemned boyfriend, Nicky Bradna, out of prison. But Regal’s meddling deeds soon backfire.

title: How to Behave

overview: Two men working below a manhole cover wonder what they would do if a woman was to fall in. This leads to one of the workers saying that Robert Benchley always has the best advice about any social situation. Hilarity ensues.

title: So Proudly We Hail

overview: During the start of the Pacific campaign in World War II, Lieutenant Janet Davidson is the head of a group of U.S. military nurses who are trapped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Davidson tries to keep up the spirits of her staff, which includes Lieutenants Joan O'Doul and Olivia D'Arcy. They all seek to maintain a sense of normal life, including dating, while under constant danger as they tend to wounded soldiers.

title: Reap the Wild Wind

overview: The Florida Keys in 1840, where the implacable hurricanes of the Caribbean scream, where the salvagers of Key West, like the intrepid and beautiful Loxi Claiborne and her crew, reap, aboard frail schooners, the harvest of the wild wind, facing the shark teeth of the reefs to rescue the sailors and the cargo from the shipwrecks caused by the scavengers of the sea.

title: I Dood It

overview: Constance Shaw, a Broadway dance star, and Joseph Rivington Reynolds, a keen fan of hers, marry after she breaks up with her fiancé. Connie thinks Joseph owns a gold mine, but he actually works as a presser at a hotel valet shop. When everyone learns what he really is, Joseph is banned from the theater. When he sneaks in again, he learns of a plot to set off a bomb in the adjoining munitions warehouse.

title: The Missing Lady

overview: While investigating the theft of a valuable jade statue known as "The Missing Lady" -- and the subsequent murder of an art dealer -- imperceptible sleuth Lamont Cranston aka the Shadow finds himself being blamed for the crime. It doesn't help the Shadow's claims of innocence when more bodies begin piling up. Good thing he knows exactly who's guilty among an increasingly smaller group of suspects.

title: Riot Squad

overview: The constant battling over the same woman gets two detectives demoted to what's considered the toughest job in the Police Department--the Riot Squad.

title: Flamingo Road

overview: A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society.

title: Law and Order

overview: Story follows three generations of a family in the New York City Police Department.

title: Never Say Goodbye

overview: In present-day U.S., Dr. Michael Parker, a prominent surgeon, unexpectedly runs into his German-born wife whom he thought was dead. Victor, an artist and his "dead" wife's now boyfriend, berates Dr. Parker for "killing" her. The bulk of the story flashes back to Austria during World War II as we learn how Dr. Parker met and married his wife, and the one mistake that may have cost him his family.

title: Prison Warden

overview: The new warden of a bad prison finds his biggest problem is his wife.

title: Abroad with Two Yanks

overview: Biff and Jeff, two American G.I.'s on furlough in Australia during The Second World War, are enjoying their time the way most soldiers on leave do. When they meet the beautiful Joyce, however, they both fall head over heels for her, and start competing for her attentions. As their R&R time begins to run out, the schemes they each come up with to win her affection and foil the other's plans to do the same become more and more outrageous.

title: Hold That Hypnotist

overview: When one of the Boys agrees to be hypnotized, he discovers he led a past life in the 1600s as a British tax collector.

title: Murder on the Waterfront

overview: A sailor and his wife become involved in a murder investigation.

title: Wives Under Suspicion

overview: A merciless district attorney prosecutes a case that mirrors his own life.

title: Boys' Ranch

overview: A juvenile delinquent is sent to a rehabilitation ranch, but he immediately proves to be a troublemaker.

title: The Cisco Kid and the Lady

overview: An orphan whose father has been killed by bandits inherits a mine. Cisco saves the mine and the child and also finds the child's real mother.

title: Girls Can Play

overview: The Hollywood Post's sports writer, Jimmy Jones (Charles Quigley), yearns to be a crime reporter, and thus looks for foul play on even the most routine assignments. In writing a piece about a girl's softball team, Jimmy discovers that their sponsor, Foy Harris (John Gallaudet), is a notorious racketeer who has supposedly gone straight. Jimmy suspects Foy is still up to no good. He begins hanging around the team to do a bit of snooping, and also to be near the cute new pitcher, Ann Casey (Jacqueline Wells).

title: O. Henry's Full House

overview: Five O. Henry stories, each separate. The primary one from the critics' acclaim was "The Cop and the Anthem". Soapy tells fellow bum Horace that he is going to get arrested so he can spend the winter in a nice jail cell. He fails. He can't even accost a woman; she turns out to be a streetwalker. The other stories are "The Clarion Call", "The Last Leaf", "The Ransom of Red Chief", and "The Gift of the Magi".

character: Cop (segment "The Cop and the Anthem") (uncredited)

title: They All Come Out

overview: A down on his luck young man stumbles into a gang of robbers who all get landed in prison. Will he be reformed, or is he ensnared into a life of crime?

title: Apache Ambush

overview: Two former enemies find themselves together on a cattle drive and fighting marauding Apaches and Mexican bandits.

title: Follow the Sun

overview: A biographical film of Ben Hogan, from his start as a golf caddy to being considered one of golf's greatest players.

title: The Brand of Hate

overview: Trouble starts when Bill Larkins and his two sons move in with his brother Joe. They start rustling cattle and then kill Rod's father with Joe's gun. The Sheriff and Rod think they did it and are after proof.

title: We Go Fast

overview: A waitress falls for a foreign businessman (Mohr), while receiving attention from a pair of motorcycle cops, Curtis and Defore. She soon realizes that Mohr is actually a crook and goes back to flirting with her fast cop friends.

title: Convicts at Large

overview: An innocent man is bamboozled into trading places with a dangerous escaped convict.

title: Irish Luck

overview: A spunky young bellhop investigates the murder of a hotel guest.

title: Hello, Sister!

overview: While Peggy deeply falls in love with Jimmy, her best friend Millie becomes increasingly frustrated with men and very jealous with Peggy, so she tries everything to destroy the new love.

title: Anchors Aweigh

overview: Two sailors on shore leave head out for four days of partying – only to become involved in the affairs of an aspiring singer and her precocious nephew.

title: Mississippi Rhythm

overview: On board a riverboat bound for Creek City, singer Jimmie Davis, who is going to become half-owner of a land development company willed to him by his uncle, shares a cabin with traveling salesman Dixie Dalrymple. After Dixie invites Jimmie to perform in a concert he is putting on for the other passengers, Jimmie is persuaded to participate in a crooked card game run by Judge Homer Kenworthy and his associates. However, with Dixie's intervention, Jimmie wins handsomely, then accuses the gamblers of trying to cheat him.

title: Lightning Carson Rides Again

overview: Lightning Carson's nephew has been falsely accused of murder. To get in with the gang, Lightning poses as a Mexican. He also appears as himself making his costume changes at his sister's ranch. Just as he about to bring in the gang, a henchman finds evidence of his masquerade and arrives to expose the hoax.

title: While New York Sleeps

overview: Newspaperman (Whalen) looks into the deaths of bond-carriers while romancing a show girl (Rogers).

title: Massacre Canyon

overview: A band of renegade Apaches attempts to steal a shipment of rifles being transported to Fort Collins.

title: Operation Pacific

overview: During WWII, Duke E. Gifford is second in command of the USS Thunderfish, a submarine which is firing off torpedoes that either explode too early or never explode at all. It's a dilemma that he'll eventually take up personally. Even more personal is his quest to win back his ex-wife, a nurse; but he'll have to win her back from a navy flier who also happens to be his commander's little brother.

title: The Eddie Cantor Story

overview: Film biography of entertainer Eddie Cantor, with Keefe Brasselle starring as the popular stage, radio and movie comic.

title: Oh! Susanna

overview: Unable to keep peace between frontier Indians and the US Cavalry, a heroic Captain risks court-martial to prevent bloodshed.

title: A Yank on the Burma Road

overview: A celebrated New York cabbie is pressed into service for a perilous journey through World War II China.

title: The Affairs of Cellini

overview: The 16th-century sculptor woos the Duchess of Florence despite the duke.

title: The Devil's Pipeline

overview: A secretary sends a coded plea for help in her monthly report; two detectives investigate and find out that men are jailed on phony charges, forced to work in oil fields and then murdered if they try to escape.

title: Sleep, My Love

overview: A woman wakes up in the middle of the night on board a train, but she can't remember how she got there. Danger and suspense ensue.

title: Pot o' Gold

overview: Jimmy, the owner of a failed music shop, goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. Before he gets there, he befriends an Irish family who happens to be his uncle's worst enemy because of their love for music and in-house band who constantly practices. Soon, Jimmy finds himself trying to help the band by getting them gigs and trying to reconcile the family with his uncle.

title: They Met in a Taxi

overview: A cab driver takes in a young woman who claims to be a reluctant bride, and becomes involved in the search for a stolen necklace.

title: My Dear Miss Aldrich

overview: A young woman inherits a newspaper whose editor refuses to hire lady reporters.

title: Midnight Taxi

overview: A federal agent goes to work for a taxi company believing it to be a front for a gang of counterfeiters.

title: Live, Love and Learn

overview: A starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love on first sight and immediately get married. She loves his outrageous behaviour, his strange room-mate and the best apartment poverty can buy.

title: Blondie

overview: Blondie and Dagwood are about to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary but this happy occasion is marred when the bumbling Dagwood gets himself involved in a scheme that is promising financial ruin for the Bumstead family.

title: Night Spot

overview: A young singer, Marge Dexter, becomes involved in trouble when she works in a nightclub in which two of the band-members are in reality undercover-police officers who believe that the club is the headquarters of a dangerous gang of crooks.

title: Woman Wanted

overview: Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into another car. Ann escapes and ends up in lawyer Tony Baxter's car. Tony realizes Ann is innocent, so he vows to help her prove it, risking his neck in the process. Tony and Ann are pursued by the police and by Smiley Gordon, a mob boss who engineered Ann's escape thinking that she can lead him to a $250,000 stash.

title: Tell No Tales

overview: A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.

title: Everybody's Doing It

overview: Gangsters are attempting to control the solutions (and winning) of the puzzles in a national newspapers picture puzzles contest craze.

title: According to Mrs. Hoyle

overview: A retired teacher sells her apartment to a group of gangsters.

title: Life Begins at Eight-Thirty

overview: Kathy lives in a cramped New York flat with her father Madden Thomas, a celebrated actor brought down by drink. Lame from an early age and feeling trapped with her father in her small world, Kathy is delighted to meet fellow tenant Robert. When Madden is offered the lead in a new King Lear and Robert lands a composing job in Hollywood, better times seem for a while to beckon.

title: The Airmail Mystery

overview: A pilot and a gold mine owner go up against the evil Black Hawk, who has invented a plane that can take off and land without using a runway.

title: Back Street

overview: A woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets" of his life.

title: Start Cheering

overview: After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled.

title: Carrie

overview: In the late 1890s, the ambitious, innocent Carrie arrives in Chicago’s South Side and stays with her nagging, dullish married sister. She then runs for help to traveling salesman Charles Drouet. She soon becomes his mistress, but falls in love with married restaurant manager George Hurstwood.

title: Broadway Melody of 1940

overview: Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett, but Brett, who thinks he is one of the people they lent money to, gives him the name of his partner.

title: Manhattan Heartbeat

overview: A couple can't make ends meet. He is an airplane mechanic and makes extra money testing planes. When the baby arrives things get better.

title: Jesse James

overview: After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.

title: Good Times

overview: Given the opportunity to headline their own feature film by studio executive Mr. Mordicus, Sonny and Cher have three days to come up with an idea for a hit movie or they'll have to use the studio's hackneyed script.

title: The Ice Follies of 1939

overview: Mary and Larry are are a modestly successful skating team. Shortly after their marriage, Mary gets a picture contract, while Larry is sitting at home, out of work.

title: Union Pacific

overview: One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?

title: Rose of Washington Square

overview: Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets deeper in trouble.

title: They Shall Have Music

overview: The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step father breaks his violin, ending up sleeping in the basement of a music school for poor children.

title: The Gracie Allen Murder Case

overview: Super-sleuth Philo Vance faces the zaniest case of his career when Gracie Allen "helps" him try to solve the murder of an escaped convict. As she attempts to clear the name of a friend accused of the killing, her wacky, scatterbrained ways constantly impede the investigation.

title: Each Dawn I Die

overview: A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.

title: Christmas Holiday

overview: A young femme fatale realizes that the man she married is an incorrigible wastrel.

title: Sergeant Madden

overview: A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.

title: Fast and Furious

overview: Joel & Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York, take a vacation to Seaside City. At Seaside, Joel's pal, Mike Stevens is managing and preparing for their beauty pageant. Joel is made one of the judges plus he has invested $5,000 in it, to Garda's dismay. Eric Bartell, promoter, arrives to dupe Stevens. When Ed Connors, New York racketeer arrives, Bartell is mysteriously murdered. Joel and Garda set out to investigate the murder.

character: Policeman Guarding Entrance (uncredited)

title: The Roaring Twenties

overview: After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.

title: A Stolen Life

overview: When a woman’s twin sister is drowned, she assumes her identity in order to be close to the man she feels her sister took from her years before.

title: The Wild Man of Borneo

overview: A medicine show man tries to con people into believing he's a legitimate stage actor.

title: Lucky Cisco Kid

overview: Cisco and Gordito arrive to find there is an outlaw operating in the area who is assumed to be the Cisco Kid. When a reward is offered for his capture and a large shipment of money goes out, Cisco is on hand. Seeing the gang rob the stage he goes after them only to be wounded. The gang leader leaves Cisco's handkerchief at the scene and now he is wanted for the murder he tried to break up.

title: South of Pago Pago

overview: Sent by cutthroat pirates to turn Kehane’s head while they loot his island paradise of a fortune in pearls, Ruby instead falls for the young chief.  Together, the two save Kehane’s people and their island home from the rapacious picaroons but at the tragic cost of their own future together.

title: Secrets of Chinatown

overview: Private detective Donegal Dawn is summoned by the police commissioner to solve the reasons for a crime wave in Chinatown.

title: When Willie Comes Marching Home

overview: When Willie leaves home to join the war effort he is all ready to become a hero, but he is only frustrated when his posting ends up to be in his home town, and he is recruited into training, keeping him from the action. However, when he finds himself accidently behind enemy lines he unexpectedly becomes a hero after all.

title: The Grapes of Wrath

overview: Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.

title: Bedtime Story

overview: A Broadway playwright wants to keep on writing plays for his wife to star in, but all she wants is to retire to Connecticut and, following a few 'worlds-apart" discussion of the issue, they get a divorce. The actress marries a banker in a fit of pique only to quickly discover the divorce was not valid. She communicates this information to her not-yet ex-husband and he, to prevent consummation of the invalid marriage rescues her by sending plumbers, waiters, porters, chambermaids, bellhops, desk clerks, exterminators and, finally, a crowd of roistering conventioneers to the suite to ensure no bedtime story would take place there

title: Air Force

overview: The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines.

title: Dangerously Yours

overview: A detective poses as a jewel thief and joins a bunch of other crooks sailing from Europe to New York in search a famous gem. He falls in love with one of the crooks.

title: You Can't Take It with You

overview: Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.

title: I Am the Law

overview: With the aid of his former law students, a professor-turned-prosecutor battles corruption and organized crime.

title: Miracle Money

overview: In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, doctors scam patients with a fake cure for cancer.

title: Unconquered

overview: England, 1763. After being convicted of a crime, the young and beautiful Abigail Hale agrees, to escape the gallows, to serve fourteen years as a slave in the colony of Virginia, whose inhabitants begin to hear and fear the sinister song of the threatening drums of war that resound in the wild Ohio valley.

title: Uncertain Glory

overview: In occupied France, a convicted thief and murderer escapes the guillotine when a bombing raid strikes the prison, but is quickly re-captured by the inspector of the Surete responsible for his original arrest. Fearing the guillotine more than his actual death, the convict inveigles the inspector to help him with a plan to rescue 100 Frenchmen taken by the Gestapo following an act of sabotage: he will confess to being the saboteur and allow himself to be executed by firing squad, the Gestapo's method of execution, thus freeing the 100 men.

title: Mildred Pierce

overview: A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.

title: Treat 'Em Rough

overview: When his father is accused of graft, a former boxer returns home to clear his name.

title: The Daring Young Man

overview: The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by his rival, sob sister Martha Allen (Mae Clarke). After several reels of double-crossing one another, hero and heroine give in to the inevitable and fall in love. But as Martha waits at the altar in her wedding gown, McLane is off on another crusade, this time getting himself arrested to expose corruption within the prison system.

title: Remember the Night

overview: Unexpected love blossoms when an assistant district attorney agrees to take a recidivist shoplifter home so she doesn't have to spend Christmas alone in jail.

title: Sentimental Journey

overview: An actress becomes taken with Hitty, a young orphan prone to dreaming. Julie soon finds out that she is ill and has only a short time to live. She decides to adopt the child so that her husband Bill will not be alone when she dies. Unfortunately, Bill is not charmed by Hitty.

title: The Fighting 69th

overview: Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the regimental chaplain, has faith that he'll prove himself in the end.

title: Brother Orchid

overview: When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.

character: Parking Attendant at Fat Dutchy's (uncredited)

title: Dakota Lil

overview: Female outlaw helps lawmen trap railroad bandits.

title: Hold Back the Dawn

overview: Romanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota system, he decides to marry an American, then desert her and join his old partner Anita, who's done likewise. But after sweeping teacher Emmy Brown off her feet, he finds her so sweet that love and jealousy endanger his plans.

title: Bungalow 13

overview: In this detective drama, a gumshoe must find a priceless hunk of jade. His several leads evaporate when the police succeed in killing all of the suspects.

title: Laura

overview: A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.

title: Johnny Apollo

overview: Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's release. As assistant to mobster Mickey Dwyer, then falls for Dwyer's girl Lucky. He winds up in the same prison as his father.

title: Everybody's Baby

overview: The Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to lecture on the topic.

title: Saboteur

overview: Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane flees across the United States after he is wrongly accused of starting the fire that killed his best friend.

title: Ship of Wanted Men

overview: A shipful of fugitives from justice pulls up on a Pacific Island where there are no extradition laws. The island is a magnet for the scum of the earth, as well as a few honest guys who were framed. Into this den of iniquity swims socialite Dorothy Sebastian, who jumped off a yacht after apparently murdering her lecherous host. To remain on the Island, Sebastian is told that she must pay $5,000 to head honcho Fred Kohler -- and if she hasn't got the money, it is implied, there are other methods of collection.

title: Thru Different Eyes

overview: A celebrated district attorney reflects on the way circumstantial evidence impacted a famous murder case.

title: The Night of January 16th

overview: Accused of killing her employer, financier Bjorn Faulkner, Kit is championed by wisecracking sailor-on-leave Steve Van Ruyle, who has a vested interest in the outcome of the trial.

title: When the Daltons Rode

overview: Young lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas to visit his prosperous rancher friends the Daltons, just as the latter are in danger of losing their land to a crooked development company. When Tod tries to help them, a faked murder charge turns the Daltons into outlaws, but more victims than villains in this fictionalized version. Will Tod stay loyal to his friends despite falling in love with Bob Dalton's former fiancée Julie?

title: Ride on Vaquero

overview: The Cisco Kid is captured while keeping a rendezvous with cantina dancer Dolores but is released by his captor, the commander of a U.S. Army regiment, to help break up a kidnap ring. On his way to Las Tables with his pal, Gordito, he makes a stop at the Martinez Rancho, where they learn that his friend Carlos has been kidnapped, from his wife Marquerita. At the Crystal Palace Saloon, Cisco runs into an old girlfriend, Sally, who he once jilted for a tight-rope walker, but she doesn't betray him when the sheriff and an army officer enter searching for Cisco.

title: North West Mounted Police

overview: Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder. He wanders into the midst of the Riel Rebellion, in which Métis (people of French and Native heritage) and Natives want a separate nation. Dusty falls for nurse April Logan, who is also loved by Mountie Jim Brett. April's brother is involved with Courbeau's daughter Louvette, which leads to trouble during the battles between the rebels and the Mounties. Through it all Dusty is determined to bring Corbeau back to Texas (and April, too, if he can manage it.)

title: Code of the Streets

overview: Frankie Thomas plays Bob Lewis, leader of a gang consisting of Sailor, Murph, Monk, Trouble and Yap. The son of disgraced police officer Lt. Lewis, Bob vows to clear his dad's name, and also to prove that accused murderer Tommy Shay is innocent.

title: Baby Take a Bow

overview: Eddie Ellison is an ex-con who spent time in Sing-Sing prison. Kay marries him as soon as he serves his time. Five years later, Eddie and his ex-convict buddy Larry, have both gone straight, and Eddie and Kay have a beautiful little girl named Shirley. However, Welch has kept a close eye on them for years. He believes in "once a criminal, always a criminal." Then, when Eddie's employer's wife's pearls go missing, it comes out that Eddie and Larry both spent time in prison, and they're fired. Welch suspects that Eddie and Larry have something to do with the theft of the pearls. Will Welch prove that Eddie and Larry had something to do with the theft, or will the truth prevail?

title: Gateway

overview: Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in her being detained at Ellis Island.

title: Tin Pan Alley

overview: Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new song to Nora Bayes. All are reunited when the boys, now in the army, show up in England.

title: The Long Voyage Home

overview: The crew of the merchant ship Glencairn hope to survive a transatlantic crossing during World War II. Adapted from four Eugene O'Neill one-act plays.

title: One Touch of Venus

overview: A window dresser's kiss brings a statue of the Roman goddess of love to life.

title: Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident

overview: The story of Francis Gary Powers, a U-2 pilot for the CIA who was shot down in his spy plane over Russia, captured and imprisoned.

original_title: Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident

title: Gentleman Jim

overview: As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world.

title: Castle on the Hudson

overview: A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.

title: It All Came True

overview: After crooked nightclub owner murders a police informant, he blackmails his piano player to allow him to stay at his eccentric mother's boarding house.

title: Knute Rockne All American

overview: The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.

title: Florian

overview: Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by their love of Lippizan horses.

title: The Golden Fleecing

overview: A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.

title: And One Was Beautiful

overview: A teenager falls hard for an irresponsible playboy.

title: Girl in 313

overview: A priceless necklace goes missing at a plush party. Police close in on the jewel thieves but is one cop getting too close to one of the crooks?

title: The Ghost Breakers

overview: After intrepid working girl Mary Carter becomes the new owner of a reputedly haunted mansion located off the Cuban coast, a stranger phones warning her to stay away from the castle. Undaunted, Mary sets sail for Cuba with a stowaway in her trunk—wise-cracking Larry Lawrence, a radio announcer who helps Mary get to the bottom of the voodoo magic, zombies and ghosts that supposedly curse the spooky estate.

title: Rhythm on the River

overview: Popular songwriter Oliver Courtney has been getting by for years using one ghost writer for his music and another for his lyrics. When both writers meet at an inn, they fall in love and then try to sell their songs under their own name. The problem is every song publisher thinks they're copying Courtney's style.

title: The Way of All Flesh

overview: Paul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town, and the happy husband of Anna and the father of four children. He is sent to New York to deliver some securities for the bank. There, he is tagged as easy-pickings by a con-game gang and Mary Brown, gang accomplice, proves he is. Waking up in the morning he discovers he has been robbed of the securities and, when he confronts the gang, he is hit on the head and taken out to be left on a railroad track. He comes to, struggles with the henchman and the man is killed when a train comes roaring by. Paul escapes but his watch is found and he is reported as the dead man. But he can't go home again.

title: The Great Profile

overview: An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne, Lionel Atwill and Edward Brophy.

title: Women Without Names

overview: Joyce and Fred MacNeil's honeymoon comes to an abrupt and unsatisfying halt when Fred is accused of murder. Railroaded into prison through the efforts of politically ambitious assistant DA Marlin, Fred awaits his doom on Death Row, while Joyce works overtime on the outside to clear her husband's name

title: Thank Your Lucky Stars

overview: An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.

title: The Lost Spider Pit Sequence

overview: What the "spider-pit" sequence from the original King Kong (1933) probably looked like (the original sequence was cut out of the original movie because it was deemed "too gruesome" and was subsequently lost).

title: Angel on My Shoulder

overview: The Devil arranges for a deceased gangster to return to Earth as a well-respected judge to make up for his previous life.

title: Rock Island Trail

overview: A greedy businessman tries to block the building of a new railroad in his area.

title: Easy to Wed

overview: When a newspaper accuses a wealthy socialite of being a homewrecker, she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit. The publication's frazzled head editor now must find a way to discredit her.

title: Robin Hood Of Texas

overview: When the bank is robbed, Gene and the boys are singing nearby and the Chief arrests them as gang members but lets them go thinking they will lead them to the others.

title: Chinatown Squad

overview: Police search for the killer of a man who misused $700,000 intended for the Chinese Communists.

title: La Conga Nights

overview: In this comedy, actor Hugh Herbert plays six different roles. Only one of the roles is a man. The story centers around a dizzy music lover, who has grown rich through real estate deals. Also figuring in the story are a cab driver/performer, and a down-on-her-luck, aspiring singer. They meet when she hails his cab as she skips out on her former boarding house because she cannot pay rent.

title: Captain Hurricane

overview: Zenas Brewster is a seafaring man with a bad reputation. Notorious for his tempestuous nature, Brewster has earned the nickname of "Captain Hurricane." Brewster is smitten with neighbor Abbie Howland, but she doesn't like his temperament. After a period of retirement, a bad investment puts Brewster back at work on the sea. And when fire overtakes his ship, Hurricane proves heroic, selflessly rescuing his crew from a grisly and deadly fate.

title: Trouble Along the Way

overview: Struggling to retain custody of his daughter following his divorce, football coach Steve Williams finds himself embroiled in a recruiting scandal at the tiny Catholic college he is trying to bring back to football respectability.

title: I Beheld His Glory

overview: Cornelius is a Roman Centurion who, upon orders from the Apostle Thomas, is sent to proclaim the glories of Christ. Cornelius recounts Jesus' Entry in Jerusalem, the Last Supper, Crucifixion, and His appearance before Mary Magdalene.

title: Tough as They Come

overview: The 'Dead End Kids & Little Tough Guys' are working as collectors for a finance company, when they discover the company's illegal activities and try to stop them.

title: Four Mothers

overview: Four married sisters face motherhood, financial, marital and family issues together.

title: The Plunderers

overview: Hero Rod Cameron kills Sheriff Sam Borden at point-blank range and in front of several witnesses in the opening of this Republic Pictures Western, released in the company's patented Trucolor system. The "killing," however, is merely a ruse set up to allow army agent Johnny Drum to infiltrate a gang of highway robbers.

title: Western Union

overview: When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor.  Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2000.

title: Ride 'Em Cowboy

overview: Two peanut vendors at a rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train heading west. They get jobs as cowboys on a dude ranch, despite the fact that neither of them knows anything about cowboys, horses, or anything else.

title: Star of Texas

overview: Ed Ryan is a Texas ranger who goes undercover to trap a criminal gang headed by Luke Andrews. Posing as the wanted killer Robert Larkin, Ed is able to move freely amongst the town riffraff. Marshal Bullock learns that the brains behind the gang of Luke Andrews is a group of supposed respectable businessmen.

title: Ten Gentlemen from West Point

overview: This historical drama tells the story of the first class to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. In the early 19th Century, Congress appropriated the money to build the school, but opponents who believed it to be an illegitimate expansion of the powers of the federal government decided to sabotage the school. They put the hard-as-nails Major Sam Carter in charge of the academy, and he ruthlessly put the recruits through grueling training -- until only ten prospective soldiers remained. They include Dawson, a patriotic farm boy and Howard Shelton, a selfish playboy who has come to West Point only because of its prestige. The two vie for Carolyn Bainbridge, while they, along with the other eight, try convince Carter that the school is worth keeping.

title: Texas

overview: Two Virginians are heading for a new life in Texas when they witness a stagecoach being held up. They decide to rob the robbers and make off with the loot. To escape a posse, they split up and don't see each other again for a long time. When they do meet up again, they find themselves on different sides of the law. This leads to the increasing estrangement of the two men, who once thought of themselves as brothers.

title: Johnny Rocco

overview: Gangster and police look for a gangster's son who witnessed a murder.

title: Shockproof

overview: Jenny Marsh, recently released from prison for killing a man, finds herself under the watchful eye of her parole officer, Griff Marat, who helps her secure a job caring for his ailing mother.

title: Big Town Czar

overview: When gangster Phil Daley gets rid of his chief Paul Burgess he has everything that money can buy, except the respect of his parents and his sweetheart Susan Warren. His younger brother Danny quits college and forces Phil to make him part of the gang. The overly-ambitious Danny fixes a prize-fight on which rival gang-leader Mike Luger loses heavily and, thinking that Phil has double-crossed him, sends gunmen out to kill Phil. They kill Danny instead and the frightened Phil flees to a country hideout. His chief lieutenant, Sid Travis, sets a trap for Phil when he returns.

title: Big Town Girl

overview: When a department store songstress becomes a radio star she keeps her identity secret, as the "Masked Countess", because he estranged husband is a crook.

title: Double Alibi

overview: A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect.

title: New York Town

overview: Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter Stefan Janowski. The big city doles out joy and misery indiscriminately: In the apartment below Victor and Steve, Gus Nelson learns that his wife has given birth to quintuplets, while the lonely tenant in the apartment below Gus has given up on life and committed suicide.

title: Angel's Holiday

overview: Lively June, teen-aged daughter of mystery writer Waldo Everett, who calls her "Angel," becomes involved in intrigue centering on movie star Pauline Kaye and her companion Stivers. Reporter Nick Moore, once sweet on Pauline, is convinced that her sudden disappearance is a publicity stunt, which is true -- until gangster Bat Regan decides to get involved.

title: Dangerous Number

overview: Hank Medhill, artificial silk manufacturer, has returned to the U.S. from Japan to learn that his former girlfriend, Eleanor Breen is about to marry. Hank convinces Eleanor to leave the groom-to-be and marry him. Shortly after the marriage, they discover that they have nothing in common. They separate. Hank decides to pick any name from the phone book and date them. That date results in a wild and frightful night for Hank, thanks to Eleanor's clever plan.

title: Shipmates Forever

overview: An admiral's son with no interest in carrying on the family tradition is a successful crooner. He finally joins the Navy to prove he can, but with no real love in it.

title: I Wake Up Screaming

overview: A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitress while out with ex-actor Robin Ray and gossip columnist Larry Evans.

title: Million Dollar Mermaid

overview: After overcoming polio, Annette Kellerman achieves fame and creates a scandal when her one-piece bathing suit is considered indecent.

title: Fighting Coast Guard

overview: Story of how the Coast Guard trained to help win World War II.

title: Tars and Spars

overview: Howard Young is a coast guardsman who has been on shore duty for three years despite his efforts to be sent into action. His nearest approach to sea duty was on a harbor-moored life raft for 21 days as part of an experiment with a new type of vitamin gum for the government. He meets Christine Bradley, a SPAR, sent to take over his communications job and, by things he leaves unsaid, she thinks his life-raft experience was the result of a ship-wreck at sea.

title: Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff

overview: Lost Caverns Hotel bellhop Freddie Phillips is suspected of murder. Swami Talpur tries to hypnotize Freddie into confessing, but Freddie is too stupid for the plot to work. Inspector Wellman uses Freddie to get the killer (and it isn't the Swami).

original_title: Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff

title: Once Upon a Time

overview: Broadway producer Jerry Flynn is anxious to recapture the magic and reclaim the crowds after a set of costly flops. Outside his theater one night, Flynn meets a young boy who just might save the day. Inside a small box the boy shows Flynn his pride and joy: a caterpillar named Curly that dances to Yes Sir, That's My Baby. Word quickly spreads about the amazingly talented hoofer, and the caterpillar becomes a symbol of hope for wartime America. Soon, offers are pouring in to capitalize on this sensational insect.

title: Song of the Thin Man

overview: Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club.

title: Affectionately Yours

overview: A married reporter's assignments carry him all over the world, which gives him ample opportunity to put the moves on the local females.

title: Action in the North Atlantic

overview: Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged with getting a supply vessel to Russian allies as part of a sea convoy. When the group of ships comes under attack from a German U-boat, Rossi and Jarvis navigate through dangerous waters to evade Nazi naval forces. Though their mission across the Atlantic is extremely treacherous, they are motivated by the opportunity to strike back at the Germans, who sank one of their earlier ships.

character: Merchant Marine School Lieutenant-Commander (uncredited)

title: The Big Race

overview: Bob Hamilton gets into trouble when crooks cause the defeat of his father's horse in the Derby, and it is reported he is in with the crooks. The old man disowns him and his sweetheart, Patricia , breaks their engagement. So Bob and "Skipper", the also-suspected trainer, head for the western tracks, taking with them the horse Hamilton Senior forced them to buy, determined to make good and prove they are on the level.

title: Corvette K-225

overview: The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.

title: Circumstantial Evidence

overview: A man waits on death row while his son and friend try to prove that he did not kill a grocer with an ax.

title: Hot Water

overview: The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous newspaper article.

title: Something to Shout About

overview: A press agent, a composer and a landlord of a theatrical boardinghouse revive vaudeville on Broadway.

title: Heaven Can Wait

overview: Spoiled playboy Henry van Cleve dies and arrives at the entrance to Hell, a final destination he is sure he deserves after living a life of profligacy. The devil, however, isn't so sure Henry meets Hell's standards. Convinced he is where he belongs, Henry recounts his life's deeds, both good and bad, including an act of indiscretion during his 25-year marriage to his wife, Martha, with the hope that "His Excellency" will arrive at the proper judgment.

title: Mission to Moscow

overview: Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.

title: Rendezvous with Annie

overview: A homesick American soldier stationed in England during World War II makes an unauthorized  trip to see his wife and returns to England with only two people knowing he was home for a few hours. When she learns that she is pregnant, she does not disclose that her husband had paid her a visit as to not get him into trouble. The townspeople are unanimous in their condemnation of her. But, after his discharge, he enlists the aid of a nightclub singer, the only other person who knew he came home.

title: I Promise to Pay

overview: A man goes to a loan shark to finance his family's vacation.

title: Murder, He Says

overview: Pete Marshall is sent as a replacement to the mountain district town of Plainville when a public opinion surveyor who went there goes missing. Visiting the hillbilly family of Mamie Fleagle, Pete begins to suspect that she and her two sons have murdered the surveyor. Pete also believes that Mamie is slowly poisoning wealthy Grandma Fleagle, who has put a vital clue to her fortune in a nonsensical embroidered sampler.

title: Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President

overview: Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead their mailman's case to the President himself.

original_title: Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President

title: Strange Affair

overview: Eminent psychiatrist Dr. Brenner invites cartoonist Bill Harrison and his wife, Jack, to a banquet honoring war refugees. Bill volunteers to pick up fellow psychiatrist Dr. Baumler at the train station, but the man vanishes when he has Bill stop so he can use a pay phone. At the dinner, Bill and Jack are seated with Brenner's daughter, Freda, and, to Bill's surprise, another man is introduced as Baumler -- who dies moments later.

title: Only Yesterday

overview: On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young businessman is about to commit suicide. With a note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his hand, he notices an envelope addressed to him on his desk. As he begins to read, we're taken back to World War One and his meeting with a young woman named Mary Lane.

title: The Duke of West Point

overview: A cocky new West Point cadet from Cambridge is given the cold shoulder by his classmates because of his rule-breaking antics.

title: My Favorite Brunette

overview: Ronnie Jackson is a lowly baby photographer who secretly fantasizes about being a private detective. When a lovely baroness actually mistakes him for one and asks him to help locate her missing husband, Baron Montay, Ronnie finds himself agreeing. Several days later he is on death row whiling away the hours until his execution by recounting to a group of reporters the bizarre tale of how he ended up there.

title: 'G' Men

overview: James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused to get involved with the underworld. When a friend of his is gunned down by a notorious criminal, Brick decides to abandon the exercise of the law and join the Department of Justice to capture the murderer.

title: Public Hero Number 1

overview: G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the jailbreak of the gang's leader, Crane joins him in a Dillinger-like flight across the country.

title: Hollywood Canteen

overview: Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas. Club founders Bette Davis and John Garfield give talks on the history of the place.

title: Special Agent

overview: A federal tax agent goes undercover as a reporter and, working with a mobster's pretty bookkeeper, infiltrates a crime ring to catch the racketeer. When she agrees to testify, an informant exposes them and she's kidnapped.

title: Dishonored Lady

overview: Art editor Madeleine Damian carries on numerous loveless affairs. After a failed relationship with advertiser Felix Courtland, the increasingly depressed Madeleine attempts suicide. When Jack Garet, her secretary and former lover, tries to blackmail her, Madeleine resigns and seeks a reclusive life. Neighbor David Cousins befriends Madeleine, but soon Courtland and Garet discover her whereabouts and disrupt her new life.

title: Buck Privates

overview: Petty con artists Slicker Smith and Herbie Brown mistakenly join the Army evading the cops. The cop chasing them winds up as their drill instructor. A rich young man and his former working class chauffeur are not only in the same unit, they're vying for a pretty girl who seems attracted to both.

title: It Ain't Hay

overview: Abbot and Costello must find a replacement for a woman's horse they accidentally killed after feeding it some candy. They head for the racetrack, find a look-a-like and take it. They do not realize that the nag is "Tea Biscuit," a champion racehorse.

title: Night in New Orleans

overview: A policeman's family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under interrogation.

title: Over 21

overview: A woman screenwriter lives in a shabby bungalow in order to be near her husband, a 39-year-old newspaper editor who has just joined the army.

title: Mister Roberts

overview: Mr. Roberts is a Navy officer who's yearning for battle but is stuck in the backwaters of World War II on a non-commissioned ship run by the bullying Captain Morton.

title: Private Affairs

overview: A girl decides to consult her natural father, whom she's never seen, for advice on her mixed-up love life.

title: The Noose Hangs High

overview: Two window washers who are mistaken by Nick Craig, a bookie, as the messengers he sent for to pick up $50,000. Now the person he sent them to sent two of his men to get the money back but they found out about it. So they try to mail to Craig but a mix up has the money sent somewhere else and the woman who got it spent it. Now Craig needs the money to pay off one of his clients.

title: Pot o' Gold

title: You Only Live Once

overview: Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is framed for murder, Taylor is forced to flee with his wife Joan Graham and baby. While escaping prison after being sentenced to death, Taylor becomes a real murderer, condemning himself and Joan to a life of crime and death on the road.

title: Riding High

overview: No relation to the 1950 Frank Capra film of the same name, the 1943 Technicolor musical Riding High is a by-the-numbers vehicle for Dorothy Lamour and Dick Powell. Lamour stars as Ann Castle, a former burlesque queen who heads westward to claim her father's silver mine. Powell plays mining engineer Steve Baird, who like Ann has a vested interest in the worked-out mine. With the help of genial counterfeiter Mortimer J. Slocum (Victor Moore), Steve and Ann are able to peddle mining stock, thus saving her from bankruptcy. The stockholders are in a lynching mood when it appears that they've been flim-flammed, but a last minute "miracle" saves the day. Featured in the cast are Paramount stalwarts Cass Daley and Gil Lamb, the former doing her quasi-Martha Raye act and the latter swallowing his harmonica for the millionth time. Production values are excellent and the songs are exuberantly performed; it's only in its hackneyed plot that Riding High slows to a clip-clop.

title: The Spider

overview: An ex-cop is suspected of murder after he is found with a dead woman. The private detective is on the run -- attempting to prove his innocence.

title: The Restless Breed

overview: Texas-border gunrunners kill a federal agent, whose son comes looking for revenge.

title: My Man Godfrey

overview: Fifth Avenue socialite Irene Bullock needs a "forgotten man" to win a scavenger hunt, and no one is more forgotten than Godfrey Park, who resides in a dump by the East River. Irene hires Godfrey as a servant for her riotously unhinged family, to the chagrin of her spoiled sister, Cornelia, who tries her best to get Godfrey fired. As Irene falls for her new butler, Godfrey turns the tables and teaches the frivolous Bullocks a lesson or two.

title: Joe Palooka in the Knockout

overview: The third of the Monogram series based on Ham Fisher's "Joe Palooka" comic strip, opens with Knobby Walsh, the manager of Joe Palooka trying to talk his way out of a traffic citation, and the story leading to that point is told in flashback as narrated by Walsh. Heavyweight champion Joe, after knocking out an opponent who later died in his dressing room, feels responsible and threatens to give up boxing. But the dead fighter's fiance thinks he died as the result of a drug that was given to him by a gang of gamblers, who made a rich haul betting on Palooka. Joe, Knobby and the police unite to run down the gamblers, but not before Joe also is nearly murdered by the same means...a poisoned mouthpiece. Elyse Knox is along as Joe's sweetheart Anne Howe, although Anne and Joe had long been married in the comic strip.

title: Rhubarb

overview: Rich, eccentric T.J. Banner adopts a feral cat who becomes an affectionate pet he names Rhubarb. Then T.J. dies, leaving to Rhubarb most of his money and a pro baseball team, the Brooklyn Loons. When the team protests, publicist Eric Yeager convinces them Rhubarb is good luck. But Eric's fiancée Polly seems to be allergic to cats, and the team's success may mean new hazards for Rhubarb.

character: O'Leary, Manhattan Police Chief (uncredited)

title: Young Widow

overview: A young bride tries to rebuild her life after she learns her husband has been killed in the war.

title: Ziegfeld Girl

overview: Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband cannot endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading her glamor in skimpy costumes.

title: Okay, America!

overview: A gossip columnist's rise to fame. Based closely on the real life of Walter Winchell.

title: Kid Glove Killer

overview: Van Heflin stars as the head of a city crime lab who tries to solve the murder of the town mayor by scientifically analyzing evidence.

character: Keenan - Detective Grilling Eddie (uncredited)

title: Beloved

overview: Story about four generations in a family of musicians.

title: Queen of the Mob

overview: Ma Webster (Blanche Yurka) and her boys rob a bank on Christmas Eve; G-men stop them with Tommy guns.

title: Mickey the Kid

overview: A bank robber and his boy make a run for it during winter in a bus full of children.

title: The All-American

overview: The story of the rise and fall of an All-American football player.

title: Swing Shift Maisie

overview: Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin. Breezy, however, falling in love with and getting engaged to Maisie's conniving roommate Iris, doesn't realize she's using him and it's up to Maisie to convince him.

title: Secret Service Investigator

overview: Lloyd Bridges plays a flying ace war hero who gets sucked into a counterfeiting scheme by opposing gangs of crooks.

title: The Velvet Touch

overview: After accidentally killing her lecherous producer, a famous actress tries to hide her guilt.

title: Step by Step

overview: Marine veteran Johnny Christopher meets and is immediately drawn to beautiful Evelyn Smith one day on the beach. Evelyn's new job as secretary to a U.S. senator in California soon brings unexpected intrigue and trouble for her and Johnny. The machinations of a sinister group of Nazi spies lead to mysteries and mistaken identities, and the two soon find themselves framed for murder!

title: Nightmare Alley

overview: A roustabout joins a traveling carny and schemes to figure out the mind-reading act of Mademoiselle Zeena and her alcoholic husband.

character: Hoatley / First Carnival Owner (uncredited)

title: Hot Steel

overview: Matt Morrison gets his old college chum Frank Stewart a job at the steel foundry where he works. Trouble quickly ensues.

title: Test Pilot

overview: Jim is a test pilot. His wife Ann and best friend Gunner try their best to keep him sober. But the life of a test pilot is anything but safe.

title: South Sea Sinner

overview: A tramp steamer lands sick crewman Jake Davis on rubber-growing island Oraka, from which voluptuous, bedroom-eyed saloon singer Coral is about to be ejected because "men like her too much." But Coral's slimy boss Cognac gets her a reprieve so she can learn Jake's secret.

title: The Last Hurrah

overview: In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle, Frank Skeffington, a veteran and honest politician, mayor of a New England town, tries to be reelected while bankers and captains of industry conspire in the shadows to place a weak and manageable candidate in the city hall.

character: Police Capt. Michael J. Shanahan (uncredited)

title: Return of the Dead

overview: A teenage girl is charged with the attempted murder of a gangland figure. Her mother has also been shot. To further complicate matters, the girl's father, who went missing in action in WW2 fifteen years ago, has suddenly reappeared.

title: The Luckiest Girl in the World

overview: A wealthy society girl must live on $150 a month to prove to her father that she can stand being married to a poor man.

title: Broadway

overview: Gangsters, nightclubs and the Roaring '20s.

title: Johnny Angel

overview: George Raft plays a sailor who sets out to solve his father's mysterious death.

title: Straight from the Heart

overview: In this romance, a slightly crooked and highly ambitious mayoral candidate convinces a woman to help him blackmail the incumbent by using a little baby as evidence in a paternity suit. The girl goes along with it until she learns that the mayor is innocent.

title: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

overview: A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself.

title: Hold That Blonde!

overview: Ogden Spencer Trulow III is a wealthy kleptomaniac who turned to stealing when he was spurned by a girl. His psychoanalyst advises him to find another girl for a cure. He fastens his interest upon Sally Martin, who happens to be engaged in helping some crooks steal a valuable necklace.

title: As We Forgive

overview: Fighting juvenile delinquency the Family Films way!

title: When Tomorrow Comes

overview: A waitress destined for a better life falls in love with a handsome stranger, only to find that he is already married.

title: Critic's Choice

overview: Parker Ballantine is a New York theater critic and his wife writes a play that may or may not be very good. Now Parker must either get out of reviewing the play or cause the breakup of his marriage.

title: Fighter Attack

overview: World War II film set in German occupied Italy. A US fighter pilot is shot down in enemy territory during a raid against a German supply depot. He receives from Italian partisans in laying the groundwork for a new attack by his squadron.

title: Come Fill the Cup

overview: Alcoholic newspaperman Lew Marsh hits bottom, loses his job and is rehabilitated by Charley Dolan. After six years on the wagon he gets his job back and devotes himself to other recovering alcoholics.

title: Too Hot to Handle

overview: While in Shanghai reporting on the Sino-Japanese war, Chris Hunter, a shrewd news reporter, meets pilot Alma Harding. She does not trust him, but he manages to hire her as his assistant. During an adventurous expedition through the jungles of South America, her opinion of him begins to change.

title: The Strawberry Blonde

overview: Biff Grimes is desperately in love with Virginia, but his best friend Hugo marries her and manipulates Biff into becoming involved in his somewhat nefarious businesses. Hugo appears to have stolen Biff's dreams, and Biff has to deal with the realisation that having what he wants and wanting what another has can be very different things.

title: Air Mail

overview: A group of air mail pilots risk their lives to deliver important mail through bad weather conditions.

title: There's Something About a Soldier

overview: Five officer candidates fight to prove their mettle during training.

title: Mr. Winkle Goes to War

overview: Wilbert Winkle, a henpecked, mild-mannered, middle-aged bank clerk and handyman finds himself in the midst of battle in the South Pacific.

title: The Wings of Eagles

overview: The story of Frank W. "Spig" Wead - a Navy-flyer turned screenwriter.

title: King Kong

title: Manpower

title: Confidentially Connie

title: Youth Will Be Served

title: The Most Dangerous Game

title: My Girl Tisa

title: Blondie Hits the Jackpot

title: One Way Ticket

title: Armored Car Robbery

title: Here Come the Marines

title: Three Loves Has Nancy

title: Night Passage

title: Mannequin

title: The Devil's Henchmen

title: The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

title: Desert Fury

title: Nora Prentiss

title: Nobody Lives Forever

title: Charlie Chan at the Race Track

title: Abbott and Costello Go to Mars

title: Wild Is the Wind

title: Destination Murder

title: The Savage Horde

title: McKenna of the Mounted

title: Alexander's Ragtime Band

title: Cloak and Dagger

title: Cheyenne Autumn

title: Born to Be Wild

title: The Shanghai Cobra

title: Hot News

title: Footsteps in the Night

title: Fingers at the Window

title: Mighty Joe Young

title: Kathleen

title: Homicide

title: In Cold Blood

title: Wild Gold

title: It Happened on Fifth Avenue

title: Belle Starr

title: Man on the Flying Trapeze

title: The Further Adventures of Gallegher

title: Mr. Wong in Chinatown

title: Dragonfly Squadron

title: Francis in the Haunted House

title: The Murder Man

title: Rendezvous

title: Sailor Beware

title: God Is My Co-Pilot

title: The Naked Street

title: How to Behave

title: So Proudly We Hail

title: Reap the Wild Wind

title: I Dood It

title: The Missing Lady

title: Riot Squad

title: Flamingo Road

title: Law and Order

title: Never Say Goodbye

title: Prison Warden

title: Abroad with Two Yanks

title: Hold That Hypnotist

title: Murder on the Waterfront

title: Wives Under Suspicion

title: Boys' Ranch

title: The Cisco Kid and the Lady

title: Girls Can Play

title: O. Henry's Full House

title: They All Come Out

title: Apache Ambush

title: Follow the Sun

title: The Brand of Hate

title: We Go Fast

title: Convicts at Large

title: Irish Luck

title: Hello, Sister!

title: Anchors Aweigh

title: Mississippi Rhythm

title: Lightning Carson Rides Again

title: While New York Sleeps

title: Massacre Canyon

title: Operation Pacific

title: The Eddie Cantor Story

title: Oh! Susanna

title: A Yank on the Burma Road

title: The Affairs of Cellini

title: The Devil's Pipeline

title: Sleep, My Love

title: Pot o' Gold

title: They Met in a Taxi

title: My Dear Miss Aldrich

title: Midnight Taxi

title: Live, Love and Learn

title: Blondie

title: Night Spot

title: Woman Wanted

title: Tell No Tales

title: Everybody's Doing It

title: According to Mrs. Hoyle

title: Life Begins at Eight-Thirty

title: The Airmail Mystery

title: Back Street

title: Start Cheering

title: Carrie

title: Broadway Melody of 1940

title: Manhattan Heartbeat

title: Jesse James

title: Good Times

title: The Ice Follies of 1939

title: Union Pacific

title: Rose of Washington Square

title: The Gracie Allen Murder Case

title: They Shall Have Music

title: Each Dawn I Die

title: Christmas Holiday

title: Sergeant Madden

title: Fast and Furious

title: The Roaring Twenties

title: A Stolen Life

title: The Wild Man of Borneo

title: Lucky Cisco Kid

title: South of Pago Pago

title: Secrets of Chinatown

title: When Willie Comes Marching Home

title: The Grapes of Wrath

title: Bedtime Story

title: Air Force

title: Dangerously Yours

title: You Can't Take It with You

title: I Am the Law

title: Miracle Money

title: Unconquered

title: Uncertain Glory

title: Mildred Pierce

title: Treat 'Em Rough

title: The Daring Young Man

title: Remember the Night

title: Sentimental Journey

title: The Fighting 69th

title: Brother Orchid

title: Dakota Lil

title: Hold Back the Dawn

title: Bungalow 13

title: Laura

title: Johnny Apollo

title: Everybody's Baby

title: Saboteur

title: Ship of Wanted Men

title: Thru Different Eyes

title: The Night of January 16th

title: When the Daltons Rode

title: Ride on Vaquero

title: North West Mounted Police

title: Code of the Streets

title: Baby Take a Bow

title: Tin Pan Alley

title: Gateway

title: The Long Voyage Home

title: One Touch of Venus

title: Gentleman Jim

title: Castle on the Hudson

title: It All Came True

title: Knute Rockne All American

title: Florian

title: The Golden Fleecing

title: And One Was Beautiful

title: Girl in 313

title: The Ghost Breakers

title: Rhythm on the River

title: The Way of All Flesh

title: The Great Profile

title: Women Without Names

title: Thank Your Lucky Stars

title: The Lost Spider Pit Sequence

title: Angel on My Shoulder

title: Rock Island Trail

title: Easy to Wed

title: Robin Hood Of Texas

title: Chinatown Squad

title: La Conga Nights

title: Captain Hurricane

title: Trouble Along the Way

title: I Beheld His Glory

title: Tough as They Come

title: Four Mothers

title: The Plunderers

title: Western Union

title: Ride 'Em Cowboy

title: Star of Texas

title: Ten Gentlemen from West Point

title: Texas

title: Johnny Rocco

title: Shockproof

title: Big Town Czar

title: Big Town Girl

title: Double Alibi

title: New York Town

title: Angel's Holiday

title: Dangerous Number

title: Shipmates Forever

title: I Wake Up Screaming

title: Million Dollar Mermaid

title: Fighting Coast Guard

title: Tars and Spars

title: Once Upon a Time

title: Song of the Thin Man

title: Affectionately Yours

title: Action in the North Atlantic

title: The Big Race

title: Corvette K-225

title: Circumstantial Evidence

title: Hot Water

title: Something to Shout About

title: Heaven Can Wait

title: Mission to Moscow

title: Rendezvous with Annie

title: I Promise to Pay

title: Murder, He Says

title: Strange Affair

title: Only Yesterday

title: The Duke of West Point

title: My Favorite Brunette

title: 'G' Men

title: Public Hero Number 1

title: Hollywood Canteen

title: Special Agent

title: Dishonored Lady

title: Buck Privates

title: It Ain't Hay

title: Night in New Orleans

title: Over 21

title: Mister Roberts

title: Private Affairs

title: The Noose Hangs High

title: Pot o' Gold

title: You Only Live Once

title: Riding High

title: The Spider

title: The Restless Breed

title: My Man Godfrey

title: Joe Palooka in the Knockout

title: Rhubarb

title: Young Widow

title: Ziegfeld Girl

title: Okay, America!

title: Kid Glove Killer

title: Beloved

title: Queen of the Mob

title: Mickey the Kid

title: The All-American

title: Swing Shift Maisie

title: Secret Service Investigator

title: The Velvet Touch

title: Step by Step

title: Nightmare Alley

title: Hot Steel

title: Test Pilot

title: South Sea Sinner

title: The Last Hurrah

title: Return of the Dead

title: The Luckiest Girl in the World

title: Broadway

title: Johnny Angel

title: Straight from the Heart

title: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

title: Hold That Blonde!

title: As We Forgive

title: When Tomorrow Comes

title: Critic's Choice

title: Fighter Attack

title: Come Fill the Cup

title: Too Hot to Handle

title: The Strawberry Blonde

title: Air Mail

title: There's Something About a Soldier

title: Mr. Winkle Goes to War

title: The Wings of Eagles