Symphony in Slang
At the gates of Heaven, the admitting officials have a hard time understanding a newcomer’s life story with all his contemporary slang.
Daredevil Droopy
Droopy and Spike are applying for the job of Dare Devil Dog at the Circus, and the one who give the best performance in a variety of “feats of strength…
My Favorite Spy
A burlesque comic doubles for a spy in Tangier and meets the spy’s girlfriend, who is also a spy.
David and Bathsheba
King David enters into an adulterous affair with the beautiful Bathsheba, which has tragic consequences for his family and Israel.
The Lavender Hill Mob
A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country.
Ginza Cosmetics
Italy is usually cited as the anchor of the neo-realist movement in cinema, but Mikio Naruse’s Ginza Cosmetics (1951) is a reminder that Japan had its own output equally rooted…
Awaara
A petty thief is put on trial for the attempted murder of a lawyer. Through a series of flashbacks, the intertwining lives of the thief, the lawyer, and the thief’s…
You’re in the Navy Now
When Lt. John Harkness is assigned as the new skipper of a submarine chaser equipped with an experimental steam engine, he hopes that the U.S.S. Teakettle’s veterans will afford him…
Death of a Salesman
Willy Loman is an aging salesman who was recently fired from his job. Dealing with feelings of failure, Willy begins to relive events from the past that involve his older…
Insurance Investigator
When a businessman who has had a double indemnity policy taken out on him dies mysteriously, his insurance company sends an undercover investigator to town to determine exactly what happened.
Silver Canyon
At the close of the Civil War, a band of Southern guerillas disguised themselves as Union soldiers, the better to perform acts of sabotage in Utah. Autry plays a cavalry…
Roadblock
An insurance agent’s greedy girlfriend with a taste for mink leads him to a life of crime.
Close to My Heart
A Millionaire for Christy
Christy Sloane is sent on a business trip to inform radio personality Peter Lockwood that his uncle has died and left him $2 million. Christy, who’s in financial straits, decides…
Chicago Calling
Bill Cannon (Dan Duryea) loses everything to alcohol: his job, his family, his self-respect. Soon after his wife and daughter leave him, he receives word his little girl has been…
Crosswinds
A sailor gets his boat stolen from him after he’s set up for a crime.
Lady Godiva Rides Again
Marjory Clark wins a competition in her Midland town and finds herself in a Festival of Britain procession as Lady Godiva – though not in the buff. This leads by…
Storm Warning
On the way to her new job, Marsha Mitchell takes the opportunity to visit her sister Lucy, whom she has not seen in a few years. There she not only…
Call Me Mister
A G.I. in occupied Japan tries to re-woo his old love, who’s putting on a show for the troops.
The House on Telegraph Hill
Concentration camp survivor Victoria Kowelska finds herself involved in mystery, greed, and murder when she assumes the identity of a dead friend in order to gain passage to America.
The Long Dark Hall
A devoted family man tries to help a beautiful alcoholic showgirl with her life, and becomes the the only suspect when someone else murders her.
The Great Caruso
Loosely traces the life of tenor Enrico Caruso (1873-1921). He loves Musetta, in his home town of Naples, and then Dorothy, the daughter of one of the Metropolitan Opera’s patrons….
Starlift
Air Force fliers Rick Williams and Mike Nolan attempt to meet film star Nell Wayne, with whom Rick shares a hometown but not much else. Fellow film stars Doris Day…
Gunplay
Landry has Sam Martin killed. When Tim and Chito find Martin and his son, Chip says Matt Potter was responsible. But when Tim and Chito start their search, no ones…
Bedtime for Bonzo
College prof Peter Boyd tries to salvage his professional and personal reputation by using a lab chimp to prove that environment trumps heredity in behavioral development.
Criminal Lawyer
A drunken attorney tries to sober up in order to defend a friend in murder case.
Father’s Little Dividend
In this sequel to Father of the Bride, newly married Kay Dunstan announces that she and her husband are going to have a baby, leaving her father having to come…
Ghost Chasers
A ghost helps the Bowery Boys capture a gang of crooks led by a mad doctor.
My Forbidden Past
An 1890s New Orleans heiress tries to buy a married doctor’s love with her tainted family fortune.
Heart of the Rockies
Roy is put in charge of a highway construction project. A rancher tries to stop Roy from putting a highway across his land because he fears that the authorities are…
Kind Lady
Mary Herries has a passion for art and fine furniture. Even though she is getting on in years, she enjoys being around these priceless articles. One day she meets a…
Appointment with Venus
At the outbreak of WWII the British realise they can’t prevent the invasion of the Channel Islands. However, someone realises that a prize cow is on the islands and the…
The Hoodlum
Vincent Lubeck is a vicious ex-convict. His criminal activities are despised by his family, but he uses and abuses them in the course of his crimes. Eventually his own brother…
Too Young to Kiss
Eric Wainwright (Van Johnson), a busy impresario, is besieged by hordes of wannabe concert stars, eager for their big break. One of them is Cynthia Potter (June Allyson), a talented…
In Old Amarillo
A drought is about to end the cattle business. The owner of a canning factory wants to buy all the remaining cattle cheap. He plans to ruin the cattlemen’s plans…
Across the Wide Missouri
In the 1830’s beaver trapper Flint Mitchell and other white men hunt and trap in the then unnamed territories of Montana and Idaho. Flint marries a Blackfoot woman as a…
The Model and the Marriage Broker
A marriage broker can’t resist meddling in the life of a model, with disastrous results.
You Never Can Tell
Ex-police/army dog Rex inherits a fortune from an eccentric millionaire. But someone poisons him for his fortune. He gets to go back to earth as a human detective to bring…
Apache Drums
A gambler is thrown out of a western town, but returns when the town is suddenly threatened by a band of marauding Apaches.