| Title |
Min. |
c | S | M | H | P | V | En | Ed |
| Adventure in Baltimore | 89 | b | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | ||
| Always Leave Them Laughing | 116 | b | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | ||
| Any Number Can Play | 103 | b | 6 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 |
| Barkleys of Broadway, The | 109 | c | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 4 |
| Border Incident | 95 | b | 5 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 5 | ||
| Caught | 88 | b | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 |
| Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, A | 107 | c | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 |
| Criss Cross | 87 | b | 7 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 4 |
| Dear Wife | 88 | b | 6 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | |
| East Side, West Side | 108 | b | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 |
| Easy Living | 77 | b | 6 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| Flaxy Martin | 86 | b | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | ||
| Great Sinner, The | 110 | b | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | ||
| Hellfire | 90 | c | 5 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 4 | |
| It Happens Every Spring | 87 | b | 6 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 4 |
| It's a Great Feeling | 85 | c | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 |
| John Loves Mary | 96 | b | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | ||
| Judge Steps Out, The | 91 | b | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| Lady Takes a Sailor, The | 99 | b | 6 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | ||
| Look for the Silver Lining | 106 | c | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| Love Happy | 85 | b | 5 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 4 |
| Malaya | 95 | b | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | |
| Mighty Joe Young | 94 | b | 6 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 |
| My Dream Is Yours | 101 | c | 6 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 |
| Red Danube, The | 119 | b | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | ||
| Rope of Sand | 104 | b | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 | ||
| Scene of the Crime | 94 | b | 6 | 4 | 5 | 4 | |||
| So Dear to My Heart | 82 | c | 5 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 5 |
| Sorrowful Jones | 88 | b | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 |
| Task Force | 116 | b | 6 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| That Midnight Kiss | 96 | c | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 |
| Threat, The | 66 | b | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 | |
| Tokyo Joe | 88 | b | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 5 |
| Yellow Sky | 98 | b | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 4 |
In 1905 a tolerant minister (Robert Young) raises a liberated daughter (Shirley Temple) who likes to paint, but she has a knack for getting into trouble, especially with her best friend (John Agar).
This old-fashioned comedy explores various social issues
related to sexism, prudery, and gossip.
An ambitious comedian (Milton Berle) struggles for success, falling in love with a chorus girl (Ruth Roman) before getting a break to work with a star comedian (Bert Lahr) and his wife (Virginia Mayo).
This exhausting portrayal of comedy shows the personal sacrifices
and challenges of show business. The egotistic comedian can make
jokes about himself, but he gradually learns that a good comedian
needs heart and originality rather than imitation.
Adapted from Edward Heth's novel, a gambling hall owner (Clark Gable) with a heart condition considers going away with his wife (Alexis Smith) and son (Darryl Hickman; but his brother-in-law (Wendell Corey) is cheating, Ben (Lewis Stone) is losing, and Jim (Frank Morgan) is winning.
The popular sport of gambling is explored while a middle-aged
man comes to realize that with this challenging business he has
been neglecting his wife and son.
Josh Barkley (Fred Astaire) and his wife Dinah (Ginger Rogers) are a successful musical comedy team, but Jacques (Jacques François) lures her into a dramatic role that separates them. Their friend Ezra (Oscar Levant) makes some attempts to get them back together.
This musical has more drama than comedy and reflects the
interest of most for entertainment rather than serious theater.
Couples that quarrel may find themselves vulnerable to being separated.
A Mexican agent (Ricardo Montalban) and a US agent (George Murphy) go undercover to try to capture a criminal gang that is led by Parkson (Howard Da Silva) who exploits the poor Mexicans sneaking into the US illegally even more than the limited bracero program itself.
Although narrated from the perspective of the governments,
the violence and treachery of the criminals still makes this a
thrilling film noir as it portrays the desperate circumstances
of the Mexicans needing work.
Based on a novel by Libbie Block, Leonora (Barbara Bel Geddes) goes to charm school and marries a millionaire (Robert Ryan), but he is a selfish tyrant. So she leaves him and gets a job working for a physician (James Mason), who falls in love with her.
This melodrama shows that wealth is only one small part
of happiness and that those who seek it ruthlessly may cause themselves
and others much suffering.
In this musical version of Mark Twain's fantasy novel, Hank Martin (Bing Crosby) finds himself captured by the knight Sagramore (William Bendix). Hank escapes execution by showing King Arthur (Cedric Hardwicke) that he is a wizard, and he is dubbed Sir Boss. Alisande (Rhonda Fleming) and Sagramore help Hank, but they are opposed by Merlin (Murvyn Vye) and jealous Lancelot (Henry Wilcoxon).
The songs and story imply that American inventiveness can
improve on old British traditions.
Adapted from Don Tracy's novel, Steve (Burt Lancaster) tries to get back together with his ex-wife Anna (Yvonne De Carlo), but she marries gangster Dundee (Dan Duryea) who treats her badly. Although he is warned by a police detective (Stephen McNally), Steve offers to be the inside man in an armored-car robbery.
In this film noir Steve seems to be fatally pulled toward
crime and violence by his desire for Anna even though he knows
they have trouble getting along.
In this sequel to Dear Ruth, Miriam Wilkins (Mona Freeman) gets Bill Seacroft (William Holden) to run for the state senate in the primary against Judge Wilkins (Edward Arnold), leaving Ruth Seacroft (Joan Caulfield) caught between her husband and her father.
This comedy has fun with family conflicts and jealousy;
but the disruptions are resolved rather absurdly.
Based on Marcia Davenport's novel, Brandon (James Mason) is married to Jessie (Barbara Stanwyck). He had an affair with Isabel (Ava Gardner), and she is back in town and wants him. Jessie quickly becomes friends with Mark (Van Heflin) and has to decide whether to forgive Brandon again.
This well-acted drama includes a murder mystery but is mostly
about human relationships. The honesty and sensitivity of Mark
helps Jessie to realize how foolish Brandon is.
Professional quarterback Pete (Victor Mature) learns he has a bad heart while his wife Liza (Lizabeth Scott) enjoys the night life as an aspiring interior decorator. The ambitious coach (Lloyd Nolan) complains Pete's playing has deteriorated, but his secretary (Lucille Ball) gives Pete kind understanding.
This drama reflects the early years of professional football
when players made little money and had to face a major career
adjustment after just a few years.
A lawyer (Zachary Scott) for a gangster (Douglas Kennedy) lets himself be framed by the attractive blonde Flaxy (Virginia Mayo), but he escapes, is helped a more ethical brunette (Dorothy Malone), and fights off a thug (Elisha Cook Jr.).
This film noir entertains with unusual twists and turns
in a dark underworld of crime; but the lawyer finds hope from
two people who are kind and helpful.
A famous writer (Gregory Peck) is lured into gambling by beautiful Pauline Ostrovsky (Ava Gardner). He has beginner's luck but then loses like so many others including her father (Walter Huston), his mother (Ethel Barrymore), and Pitard (Frank Morgan).
This melodrama exposes how gamblers can ruin their lives
because of their addiction to the intermittent reward of winning.
Only by creating something of real value in his writing is he
able to salvage his soul.
Card shark Zeb Smith promises a dying preacher (H. B. Warner) he will build his church. So he goes after the reward for the wanted criminal, Doll Brown (Marie Windsor), but his friend, Marshall Bucky McLean (Forrest Tucker) is also looking for her.
This religious western mixes the usual violence with a gunman's
attempt to follow a Christian path, and he learns that "a
man never starts killing until he stops thinking."
A chemistry professor (Ray Milland) lucks into a formula that repels wood and becomes a star baseball pitcher helped by his catcher (Paul Douglas) while trying to keep his fiancé (Jean Peters) and her father (Ray Collins) from finding out.
This escapist fantasy seems oblivious to the ethical issues
that would eventually develop in sports as athletes take extraordinary
measures to improve their skills in order to win and make money.
Jack Carson and Dennis Morgan satirize themselves while competing for the attention of a studio employee (Doris Day) they hope to make into a star.
In this musical comedy the Hollywood film business makes
fun of itself with numerous cameo appearances while selling the
dream that almost anyone can become a movie star.
Based on Norman Krasna's play, the soldier John (Ronald Reagan) returns to his sweetheart Mary (Patricia Neal). He has married Lilly (Virginia Field) so that she could come to the United States, divorce him, and marry John's best friend (Jack Carson), but his wife is having a baby. They pay Victor (Wayne Morris) to play a lieutenant to fool Mary and her father (Edward Arnold).
This situation comedy is based on complications that arise
from trying to get around immigration delays while keeping others
from finding out. Underlying the tension is a marriage that has
already been delayed four years by the war.
Judge Tom Bailey (Alexander Knox) in Boston sees a doctor (Whitford Cane) and follows his advice to leave his wife Evelyn (Frieda Inescourt). Tom gets a job in California as a cook working for Peggy (Ann Sothern), and they fall in love. He tries to help her get custody of an orphan. Tom goes back to Boston to try to reverse his own custody decision and to divorce his wife.
Giving up his profession, the judge found freedom and joy
in a California lifestyle; but he finally realizes that he has
to renounce that midlife affair to find a more realistic fulfillment
as a higher judge.
Jennifer Smith (Jane Wyman) is a high-powered executive given large grants to make scientific product endorsements, but she happens to discover Bill Craig (Dennis Morgan) in a secret submarine. He lies to her and takes her film, and her uncorroborated story ruins her credibility and career.
This screwball comedy is based on the US military using
disinformation to protect secrets, reflecting the cold war and
the national security state. Another theme satirizes the attempt
to use truth to help consumers find good commercial products.
This biography of musical star Marilyn Miller (June Haver) shows her relationship to her overbearing but comical father (Charles Ruggles), the dancer Jack Donahue (Ray Bolger) who helped her, and her husbands Frank Carter (Gordon MacRae) and Henry Doran (Dick Simmons).
This musical stays on the sunny side of her life by leaving
out her marriages that ended in divorce with Jack Pickford and
Jack Donohue, who was actually ten years younger than Marilyn.
Miller was her stepfather's name, and she combined Mary Ellen
into Marilyn, the name chosen by Norma Jeane to go with Monroe.
Narrated by detective Sam Grunnion (Groucho Marx), while a poor musical show hires Faustino the Great (Chico Marx), Harpo (Marx) steals from Throckmorton (Melville Cooper) a can of sardines containing valuable gems for which Madame Egelichi (Ilona Massey) has married eight times to get her hands on.
This last film of Marx brothers mayhem still has their inimitable
style and farcical comedy that makes life seem sublimely ridiculous.
A newspaper editor (Lionel Barrymore) in charge of getting rubber and an FBI agent (John Hodiak) arrange for reporter John Royer (James Stewart) and convicted smuggler Carnaghan (Spencer Tracy) to smuggle rubber out of Japanese-occupied Malaya with help from a saloon owner (Sydney Greenstreet), Romano (Gilbert Roland), and the US Navy.
This adventure reflects the importance of certain raw materials
for the war machine and the use of any methods that will work
to obtain them. Patriotism and greed for gold are used as motives
to gain the result.
Producer Max O'Hara (Robert Armstrong) goes to Africa with cowboy Gregg (Ben Johnson), and they bring back the giant gorilla Joe Young, who has been raised to be tame by Jill Young (Terry Moore). Joe is presented in a nightclub, but Jill wants to take him home to Africa.
This fantasy reflects the desire to tame wild beasts, which
represent the desire to be physically strong. This adventure story
satirizes civilization that is fascinated by such shows while
panicking when things go wrong.
Singer Gary Mitchell (Lee Bowman) dumps his agent Doug Blake (Jack Carson), who discovers singer Martha Gibson (Doris Day) and tries to promote her with help from Vivian (Eve Arden). Martha turns to Gary for romance, but his career recedes quickly because of his drinking.
This musical comedy shows the fine line between success
and failure in radio singing and on the trivial things by which
they may turn as seen by the devices the agent uses to get his
client heard.
Based on a novel by Bruce Marshall, in post-war Vienna, Col. Nicobar (Walter Pidgeon) and Major McPhimister (Peter Lawford) with help from a Mother Superior (Ethel Barrymore) try to keep from turning over ballerina Maria Buhlen (Janet Leigh) to Russian Col. Piniev (Louis Calhern) for repatriation to the Soviet Union.
This romantic drama challenges the policy of forcibly repatriating
displaced nationals after the war and shows the responsibility
of the western allies' capitulation as well as the tyranny of
Soviet domination.
A sadistic commandant (Paul Henreid) tries to keep adventurers like Mike Davis (Burt Lancaster) away from a South African desert with diamonds while Martingale (Claude Rains) uses seductive Suzanne Renaud (Corinne Calvet) to try to find out where they are.
This adventure drama shows how people can be led astray
and manipulated by greed, lust, and revenge.
A police detective Mike (Van Johnson) with help from a veteran (John McIntire) and a rookie (Tom Drake) investigates an underworld murder of a moonlighting police detective and romances a suspect (Gloria DeHaven) while his loving wife (Arlene Dahl) worries.
This film noir portrays the excitement, dangers, and problems
of police detectives trying to catch criminals.
A boy (Bobby Driscoll) raises a black lamb that gets into trouble. His grandma (Beulah Bondi) warns him about neglecting things of the Spirit to seek money and prizes, and his uncle (Burl Ives) helps him go to the county fair.
Music and limited animation highlight this Disney film that
emphasizes spiritual values such as love, responsibility, and
perseverance.
In this remake of Little Miss Marker (1934), Sorrowful (Bob Hope) takes care of the marker Martha Jane (Mary Jane Saunders) with help from singer Gladys (Lucille Ball) while trying to deal with the bullying tactics of Big Steve (Bruce Cabot).
Humor stems from the parsimonious Sorrowful and his insult
contests with Gladys that puncture both their egos. Once again
the innocence of a child makes a stark contrast to the adult underworld
of crooked gamblers.
Pilot Jonathan Scott (Gary Cooper) and air officer Pete Richard (Walter Brennan) spend their careers promoting naval aviation and aircraft carriers. Mary (Jane Wyatt) loses her husband but falls in love with Scott. The climax is the battle of Midway which was a key turning point in the war against Japan.
This dramatized history of aircraft carriers combining documentary
film with a story of those selling naval aviation was supported
by US Navy cooperation. The propaganda suggests that advances
in ways to kill and destroy human enemies is an improvement; but
if war-making outpaces peacemaking, what will the future be?
Wealthy Abigail Budell (Ethel Barrymore) starts an opera company for her talented granddaughter Prudence (Kathryn Grayson) with Jose Iturbi (himself). Prudence discovers truck-driver Johnny Donnetti (Mario Lanza) is a great tenor and falls in love with him.
This musical comedy includes opera, serenading, slapstick
comedy, and romantic complications with the message that young
talent may do better than an aging and egotistical star.
Kluger (Charles McGraw) escapes from prison and kidnaps the two men who had convicted him-the district attorney (Frank Conroy) and detective Ray Williams (Michael O'Shea). Kluger also takes Carol (Virginia Grey), whom he suspects took the money.
This suspenseful drama follows the cruel Kluger's attempt
to get away with two accomplices with the usual result that shows
the futility of violence.
Joe (Humphrey Bogart) returns to Tokyo, where his nightclub has been put off limits by US occupation forces. He finds his wife Trina (Florence Marly) has divorced him and married Mark Landis (Alexander Knox). Joe stays to try to win her back, gets blackmailed into smuggling, and learns he has a daughter.
This unusual film noir reflects the despair in defeated
Japan and the entangling bureaucracy by which a foreign military
tries to run the government while in mortal dread of Communists.
Based on W. R. Burnett's novel, six men led by Stretch (Gregory Peck) rob a bank, escape into the desert, and clash with a pretty woman (Anne Baxter) and her Grandpa (James Barton), who have a gold mine. Stretch agrees to share half, but Dude (Richard Widmark) and the others want all the gold.
This western combines the usual violence, greed, and lust.
The woman was brought up by Apaches and is wild, but Stretch tries
to tame her and suddenly shows unusual integrity in order to win
her.