Search results for "1950"

Johnny Casar runs away from the orphanage to start a successful career as a roller skater and after setbacks learns to curb his ruthlessness and ambition.

In 1805, the United States battles the pirates of Tripoli as the Marines fight to raise the American flag.

From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Margo Channing. Eve maneuvers…

American soldiers stranded in the Philippines after the Japanese invasion form guerrilla bands to fight back. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation…

Hazel Woods, a beautiful and young Welsh girl, lives a wild, rustic life and loves animals — in particular, her pet fox. She is hotly desired by Jack Reddin, a…

Droopy and Gorgeous Gorillawitz (Spike) are competing for the title of King of Sports and for a kiss from the Queen of Sports. Spike cheats as much as possible but…

A deranged killer escapes from a mental institution, intent on locating the psychiatrist whose testimony sent him to the asylum, holds the patrons of a bar hostage.

A gunfighter takes part in a scheme to bilk a wealthy cattle family out of half a million dollars by pretending to be their son, who was kidnapped as child.

A wealthy, possessive husband’s investigation reignites his young wife’s past love, leading them to plot against him. As obstacles fall away, their passion faces a new test.

For decades, pirates roamed the seas, searching for booty to plunder and coastal villages to terrorize. Who were these men and women? As you dig beneath the myth of Blackbeard,…

After her father is murdered, a girl joins the police force in an effort to track down the killers.

A perfectionist woman’s devotion to her home drives away friends and family.

The real-life deportation of gangster Lucky Luciano was the inspiration for this romanticized and slightly crackbrained crime drama. Jeff Chandler plays the Luciano counterpart, who once he arrives in Italy…

Bill Lawrence wins a bevy of prizes from a radio program, but ends up having to sell them in order to pay the taxes incurred.

Crusading newspaperman Cliff Roberts masquerades as a prison guard to document inhuman conditions.

When Professor Willingdon becomes wary of the nuclear weapons he is helping build, he steals a warhead and threatens to detonate it in London in seven days unless the government…

The Bowery Boys open a nightclub after Sach has his tonsils out and wakes up with a singing voice.

The Second World War is over, and the Miniver family is trying to keep themselves together in post-War Britain, among continuing shortages and growing tensions within the family.

Swashbuckler about the adventures of pirate Jean Lafitte after he helped save New Orleans from a British invasion during the War of 1812.

Mota is a Martian representative, who has come to impose interplanetary law on the Earth (which has become too dangerous); opposing his authority is Kent Fowler, who resists the alien…

The love that Judy, a young painter, feels for Alan, a promising doctor to whom she is engaged, falters when Bill, an old friend, suddenly appears.

A young man builds a hot rod despite the disapproval of his father, a Juvenile Court judge. Circumstantial evidence points to the innocent teenager when his car is involved in…

A five-year-old boy is the sole survivor of a devastating plane crash in the mountains of California. When the newspapers reveal the boy was adopted and that the crash occurred…

An industrialist and a pianist meet on a trip and fall in love. Through a quirk of fate, they are reported dead in a crash though they weren’t on the…

Gamblers who “took” an out-of-town sucker in a crooked poker game feel shadowy vengeance closing in on them.

True story of three British POWs and their attempt to escape from Nazi Germany

A film about life in the Czech borderlands after the expulsion of the Sudeten Germans.

A petty crook moves to an Ohio town and courts a factory owner’s disabled daughter.

Mike Brannon is a former war hero turned midget car racer. His ruthless racing tactics have made him successful but the fans consider him a villain and boo him mercilessly….

A group of confedarate prisoners is sent to a unionist fort in the west to help the local garrison to fight the indians.

W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.

A fisherman with money problems hires out his boat to transport criminals.

A sportswriter forms a ring triangle with a fight manager’s daughter and her Mexican-American boxer.

In New York, Sheila Bennet and her spouse, Matt Krane, are trying to unload a trove of rare jewels they smuggled into America from Cuba, but the police are hot…

Police catch a break when suspected kidnappers are spotted on a train heading towards Union Station. Police, train station security and a witness try to piece together the crime and…

Agnes “Astra” Huston, a fortune teller at a run-down fair, is found strangled in her bedroom. As the police question five suspects, their interactions with her are shown in flashbacks…

The film is based on the true story of Special Operations Executive French-born agent Odette Sansom, who was captured by the Germans in 1943, condemned to death and sent to…

A classic Ealing comedy in which a young boy steals a magnet and becomes a hero.

A man gets in trouble when he accidentally kills and covers up a murder of a girl he meets after a big fight with his wife.

When Spike tries to bury a bone he finds a belligerent gopher.