Movie Listings by Genre

Director: Lewis Milestone    More Info
Starring: Richard Widmark, Jack Palance, Robert Wagner, Karl Malden, Reginald Gardiner, Richard Boone, Philip Ahn, Skip Homeier, Jack Webb, Bert Freed

 U.S. Marine struggles in the Pacific theater of World War II are enacted in this tense war film.

Director: Gordon Douglas    More Info
Starring: James Cagney, Barbara Paxton, Helena Carter, Ward Bond, Luther Adler, Barton MacLane, William Frawley, Steve Brodie, Rhys Williams, Kenneth Tobey

 Shades of the B movie days, this fast-paced gangster film highlights Cagney as the ruthless gangster Ralph Cotter. Cotter and his cronies break out of jail and return to their life of crime.

Director: Ray Enright    More Info
Starring: Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, S.Z. Sakall, Douglas Kennedy, James Brown, Ian MacDonald, Monte Blue, Charles Irwin, Paul E. Burns, Lester Matthews

 Morgan Lane (Errol Flynn) is an Australian sheepherder who arrives in the Montana territory where he plans to graze his sheep. But, cattle ranchers–including Maria Singleton (Alexis Smith) and Rodney Ackroyd (Douglas Kennedy)–are already there and lead the neighboring cattlemen against the intruders. Battles ensue. But, later, Morgan and Maria find time for love and agree that cattle ranchers and sheepherders are able to live together.

Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet    More Info
Starring: Buster Crabbe, Lois Hall, Symona Boniface, Gene Roth, Tristram Coffin, Stanley Price, Marshall Reed, I. Stanford Jolley, Terry Frost, Pierce Lyden

 There's a lot happening on a tropical island what with pirates raiding the place and the search for a cache of diamonds stolen by Nazis during World War II (among other goings-on). The pirate ship is particularly troublesome since it can turn into a submarine. Things change for the good guys when Navy-buddy Jeff (Buster Crabbe) is called in by his friends in this cheap, but fun, 15-episode serial.

Director: William Keighley    More Info
Starring: Errol Flynn, Patrice Wymore, Scott Forbes, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Slim Pickens, Sheb Wooley, Yakima Canutt, Dickie Jones, Howard Petrie, Chubby Johnson

 While a band of Confederate soldiers, led by Captain Lave Barstow (Errol Flynn), is in California trying to recruit soldiers, they rescue Johanna (Patrice Wymore) who is aboard a stage coach that is being attacked by Indians. Johanna is the fiancee of Union soldier Lt. Rickey (Scott Forbes), and Barstow uses her as the bait to lure Rickey and his patrol of Union soldiers into battle. They capture the Union soldiers, but the Indians launch their own attack, and Barstow allows the Union soldiers and Johanna to escape the Indian massacre.

Director: Rudolph Mate    More Info
Starring: William Holden, Nancy Olson, Barry Fitzgerald, Lyle Bettger, Jan Sterling, Allene Roberts, James Seay, Herbert Heyes, Fred Graham, Parley Baer

 Following the kidnapping of a woman, Chicago police Lieutenant William Calhoun (William Holden) leads fellow cops in a suspense-filled effort to trap the kidnapper.

Director: Lewis Allen    More Info
Starring: Alan Ladd, Phyllis Calvert, Paul Stewart, Jan Sterling, Jack Webb, Harry Morgan, David Wolfe, Geraldine Wall, Dan Riss, Harry Antrim

 Postal inspector Al Goddard (Alan Ladd) investigates murder and mail fraud in this good film. "Dragnet" fans will enjoy Jack Webb and Harry Morgan portraying villains.

Director: Budd Boetticher    More Info
Starring: Robert Stack, Joy Page, Gilbert Roland, Virginia Grey, John Hubbard, Katy Jurado, Rodolfo Acosta

 A skeet-shooting champion (Robert Stack) wants to become a bullfighter in order to impress a beautiful lady (Joy Page). A popular matador (Gilbert Roland) teaches him the art of bullfighting and, later, he is responsible for the death of his mentor. The new matador fights another bull in his friend's honor. John Wayne was the producer.

Director: Bretaigne Windust    More Info
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Zero Mostel, Ted de Corsia, Everett Sloane, Roy Roberts, King Donovan, Bob Steele, Don Beddoe, Michael Tolan, Adelaide Klein

 This is one good flick about district attorney Martin Ferguson's (Humphrey Bogart) attempt to break up the mob-system of "killers for hire."

Director: Lloyd Bacon    More Info
Starring: Richard Widmark, Dana Andrews, Gary Merrill, Jeffrey Hunter, Warren Stevens, Robert Wagner, Harvey Lembeck, Robert Rockwell, Henry Slate, Robert Adler

 LCdr. John Lawrence (Richard Widmark) commands a Navy Underwater Demolition Team whose members are resentful of him. But, their opinions change after he risks his life to neutralize a live torpedo. The Film received Academy Award nominations for Best Story and Cinematography.

Director: Phil Karlson    More Info
Starring: John Derek, Anthony Quinn, Jody Lawrance, Arnold Moss, Trevor Bardette, Tristram Coffin, Harry Cording, Gregory Gaye, Minerva Urecal, Philip Van Zandt

 When Captain Renato Dimorna (John Derek) returns from the war, he learns that his father has been killed. He then puts on a black mask and vows to avenge the murder.

Director: Curtis Bernhardt    More Info
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Marta Toren, Lee J. Cobb, Everett Sloane, Gerald Mohr, Onslow Stevens, Zero Mostel, Nick Dennis, Ludwig Donath, Harry Guardino

 Gunrunner Harry Smith (Humphrey Bogart) operates in the middle of the 1925 war between the French and the Syrians in Damascus.

Director: Melvin Frank    More Info
Starring: Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker, James Whitmore, Larry Keating, Larry Gates, Marilyn Erskine, Jim Backus, Stephen Dunne, Robert Burton, Hayden Rorke

 This biographical drama is about Air Force Colonel Paul Tibbetts' (Robert Taylor) training and preparation for his B-29 bombing mission that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and helped bring an end to World War II.

Director: Felix E. Feist    More Info
Starring: Lex Barker, Lon Chaney Jr., Berry Kroeger, Roy Roberts, Helen Westcott, Ramsay Hill, Guy Teague

 Believing they can awaken the King of France to their cause and fearing encroachment of the British, Chief Pontiac and the Indians wage a war in the 1760s against the Lake Erie fortresses.

Director: William Beaudine    More Info
Starring: Bela Lugosi, Duke Mitchell, Sammy Petrillo, Charlita, Muriel Landers, Al Kikume, Mickey Simpson, Martin Garralaga, Milton Newberger, Steve Calvert

 Dr. Zabor (Bela Lugosi) is conducting evolution experiments on a jungle island when into his world come the zany Duke and Sammy (Duke Mitchell and Sammy Petrillo) who literally fall from a plane. Well, Doctor, do something to rid us of these irritating rip-offs of Martin and Lewis. In fact, Jerry Lewis sued the duo. Clearly a candidate for the "10 worst movies" list.

Director: Felix E. Feist    More Info
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Eve Miller, Patrice Wymore, Edgar Buchanan, John Archer, Alan Hale Jr., Roy Roberts, Ellen Corby, Charles Meredith, Harry Cording

 Set around 1900, this remake of "Valley of the Giants" features Kirk Douglas as greedy lumberjack Jim Fallon who wants to use California's Redwood Forest for his own profit. Confronted by Quaker environmentalists, Fallon is finally convinced to save the trees.

Director: Robert Siodmak    More Info
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Eva Bartok, Nick Cravat, Leslie Bradley, Christopher Lee, Frederick Leister, Torin Thatcher, James Hayter, Margot Grahame, Frank Pettingell

 This film has developed a cult following for its thrills and laughter as it verges on satire of the action genre. The Crimson Pirate, Captain Vallo (Burt Lancaster) does it all; he intercepts a cargo ship, swings his sword, and wins the fair lady Consuelo (Eva Bartok).

Director: Lesley Selander    More Info
Starring: Sterling Hayden, Richard Carlson, William Phipps, John Bromfield, Keith Larsen, William Schallert, Todd Karns, Phyllis Coates, Dave Willock, Walter Coy

 World War II newsreel photographs enhance this story of daring exploits of the pilots aboard an aircraft carrier.

Director: Lewis Foster    More Info
Starring: Ronald Reagan, Rhonda Fleming, Nigel Bruce, Marvin Miller, Mary Somerville, Lowell Gilmore, Lee Marvin

 Jeff Williams (Ronald Reagan) takes possession of a valuable gold idol. He later changes his ways and helps to save the orphan from whom he obtained the idol when others try to get their hands on it.

Director: Richard Thorpe    More Info
Starring: Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Emlyn Williams, Robert Douglas, Finlay Currie, Felix Aylmer, Sebastian Cabot, Francis De Wolff

 Ivanhoe (Robert Taylor) is a knight whose quest is to save King Richard the Lionhearted (Norman Wooland) who has been captured during his return home from the Crusades. King Richard is imprisoned in Austria, and Ivanhoe plans to enter a tournament to raise ransom money to rescue him when Ivanhoe's evil brother Prince John (Guy Rolfe) refuses to pay for Richard's release. The lovely Rebecca (Elizabeth Taylor) pays Ivanhoe's entry fee for the tournament because Ivanhoe had rescued her Jewish father Isaac (Felix Aylmer) from the anti-Semites. But, Prince John's cohort De Bois-Guilbert (George Sanders) wants Rebecca for himself and kidnaps her. Action and chivalry abound, and, by story's end, good overtakes evil.

Director: Joseph M. Newman    More Info
Starring: Richard Widmark, Constance Smith, Jeffrey Hunter, Richard Boone, Warren Stevens, James Griffith, Joe Sawyer, Richard Crenna, Ralph Reed, Charles Bronson

 Forest firefighters lose their lives in the line of duty, and their leader, Cliff Mason (Richard Widmark), tries to remember if he must take the blame for the tragedy.

Director: Frank Tashlin    More Info
Starring: Bob Hope, Jane Russell, Roy Rogers, Douglass Dumbrille, Bill Williams, Harry von Zell, Iron Eyes Cody, Cecil B. DeMille, Bing Crosby, Lloyd Corrigan

 This sequel to "Paleface" adds Roy Rogers to the cast and is even funnier than the original. Bob Hope plays Peter "Junior" Potter who is the son of his original character. He heads West to claim his inheritance, but it appears that all he has been left with are debts. When he tells the creditors that his father's gold is hidden, he gains the attention of saloon owner Mike (Jane Russell) and federal agent Roy Barton (Roy Rogers) who is on Mike's trail believing that she is the leader of a gang of bandits. A highlight: Bob Hope and Trigger share the same bed!

Director: Raoul Walsh    More Info
Starring: Gregory Peck, Ann Blyth, Anthony Quinn, John McIntire, Andrea King, Eugenie Leontovich, Hans Conried, Rhys Williams, Sig Ruman, Carl Esmond

 Set in the 1850s, this film is about a sea captain, Jonathan Clark (Gregory Peck), who illegally hunts seals. He falls in love with a beautiful Russian princess, the Countess Marina (Ann Blyth), while helping her flee from an arranged marriage to Prince Semyon (Carl Esmond). Now, Clark and the Countess are about to wed, but the Countess is kidnapped by Prince Semyon and taken to Alaska. After recovering from a drunken stupor, Clark races fellow seal hunter Portugee (Anthony Quinn) to Alaska, but they are both arrested by the Russians. In an effort to save them, Countess Marina says she will marry Semyon when he orders the release of Clark and Portugee.

Director: Robert D. Webb    More Info
Starring: Robert Wagner, Terry Moore, Gilbert Roland, J. Carrol Naish, Richard Boone, Peter Graves, Jacques Aubuchon, Harry Carey Jr., Jay Novello, Angela Clarke

 Romance reigns as Tony (Robert Wagner) and Gwyneth (Terry Moore) find love while sponge diving off the Florida coast. Not only do Tony and Gwyneth have to battle the elements, they must also contend with the feud between their diving families.

Director: Thomas Carr    More Info
Starring: Richard Greene, Leonora Amar, Nedrick Young, Manuel Fabregas, Eduardo Noriega, Carlos Muzquiz, Isabel del Puerto, Jorge Trevino

 Set in France right after Napoleon's defeat, this story revolves around the efforts of returning soldier Captain Scarlett (Richard Greene) to regain his land that has been confiscated by the evil Count Villiers (Eduardo Noriega). First, Scarlett saves Princess Maria (Leonora Amar) who has been taken hostage by the Count, and then he joins forces with Pierre DuCloux (Nedrick Young), and, together, they fight to recover what rightfully belongs to them.