Known for Sound
Morris W. Stoloff was a musical composer. Stoloff worked with Sammy Davis Jr., Dinah Shore and Frank Sinatra. Stoloff worked as music director at Columbia Pictures from 1936 to 1962. Among space age pop fans, he is best remembered for his 1956 Top 10 hit that paired the swing era tune "Moonglow" with the love theme from the movie Picnic, the medley called "Moonglow and Theme from Picnic". It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc by the RIAA. Stoloff was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A child prodigy on the violin, Stoloff was taken under the wing of W. A. Clark. After studying with Leopold Auer for several years, Stoloff was touring the U.S. as a featured soloist at the age of 16, and joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic a year later as its youngest member ever. When sound came to motion pictures, studios came looking for musicians to provide it, and Stoloff was one of the first to cross over from classical music to movies. He was the first concertmaster on Paramount Pictures' payroll, and he worked with setting up the mechanics of a system that had to provide a steady stream of music for everything from epic dramas to serials and comedy shorts. In 1936, Stoloff moved over to Columbia Pictures, where he took the title of music director, a new position unique to the studio system. As music director, he was the chief executive responsible for providing musical production support to every film the studio released. This meant matching up composers, orchestrators, conductors, musicians and recording facilities to meet the creative scope of each project as well as its schedule and budget. Stoloff often took partial credit for a picture's score when he worked closely with a particular composer to work out a theme, motifs, and melodies. As a result, he ranks among some of the most-nominated individuals in the history of the Academy Awards. He won three Oscars for best scores, including those for Cover Girl (1944), The Jolson Story (1946), and Song Without End (1960), and was nominated 14 other times. By the late 1940s, film music was beginning to be recognized on its own, and Stoloff began recording some of the more popular numbers as singles for Decca Records. When long-play albums were perfected, the studios saw the opportunity to market more than just singles to the listening audience, and soundtrack albums became a hot commodity. Stoloff exercised his privilege as musical director to record these soundtrack albums himself, working with material from the actual scores. When Frank Sinatra founded Reprise Records in the early 1960s, he hired Stoloff as musical director; the two having worked successfully before on Pal Joey (1957). One of Stoloff's most noteworthy achievements while at Reprise was the release of a set of re-recordings of great Broadway musicals, including Kiss Me, Kate with a studio cast. Stoloff died in Los Angeles, California, aged 81.
Born
July 30, 1898
Died
April 16, 1980 (age 81)
Birthplace
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Filmography
171 films


3:10 to Yuma
1957 · 1h 32m
country: United States
Dan Evans, a small time farmer, is hired to escort Ben Wade, a dangerous outlaw, to Yuma. As Evans and Wade wait for the 3:10 train to Yuma, Wade's gang is racing to free him.


It Should Happen to You
1954 · 1h 26m
country: United States
Gladys Glover has just lost her modeling job when she meets filmmaker Pete Sheppard shooting a documentary in Central Park. For Pete it's love at first sight, but Gladys has her mind on other things, making a name for herself. Through a fluke of advertising she winds up with her name plastered over 10 billboards throughout city.


From Here to Eternity
1953 · 1h 58m
country: United States
In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love.


The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.
1953 · 1h 29m
country: United States
Young Bart Collins lives with his widowed mother Heloise. The major blight on Bart's existence is the hated piano lessons he is forced to endure under the tutelage of the autocratic Dr. Terwilliker. Bart feels that his mother has fallen under Terwilliker's sinister influence, and gripes to visiting plumber August Zabladowski, without much result. While grimly hammering away at his lessons, Bart dozes off and enters a fantastical musical dream.


Let's Do It Again
1953 · 1h 35m
country: United States
Composer Gary Stuart and his wife, Connie, have an argument over her alleged affair. The Stuarts agree to get divorced, and each tries to move on to a new love: Gary with socialite Deborah Randolph and Connie with businessman Frank McGraw. However, they begin to realize that they still have strong feelings for each other, and the Stuarts must make a decision before their divorce is final.


The Juggler
1953 · 1h 24m
country: United States
A Holocaust survivor moves to Israel and experiences difficulty adjusting to life.


Eight Iron Men
1952 · 1h 20m
country: United States
During the World War II in Italy, Sergeant Joe Mooney is leading his small squad on the front-lines but is ordered to avoid rescuing a soldier trapped in no man's land.


Assignment: Paris
1952 · 1h 25m
country: United States
Paris-based New York Herald Tribune reporter Jimmy Race is sent by his boss behind the Iron Curtain in Budapest to investigate a meeting involving the Hungarian ambassador.


Captain Pirate
1952 · 1h 25m
country: United States
In 1690, years have passed since Captain Blood was pardoned by the Crown for his daring deeds against the Spanish on the Spanish Main, and he is living quietly on his plantation in the West Indies, practicing medicine and planning his marriage to Isabella. But his peaceful existence is shattered when Hilary Evans arrives and arrests him on a piracy charge. Somebody has been raiding the islands, and making it appear it was Captain Blood. In order to prove his innocence, Captain Blood has to sail again under the "Jolly Roger."


Affair in Trinidad
1952 · 1h 38m
country: United States
A nightclub singer enlists her brother-in-law to track down her husband's killer.


The Brigand
1952 · 1h 34m
country: United States
Carlos Delargo, the banished son of a royal princess of Mandorra, is returned to the kingdom to be tried for a murder change. However, he is freed by King Lorenzo, whom bears a remarkable resemblance to Delargo. When the king is wounded by assassins sent by Napoleon, Delargo takes over the throne at the request of the Prime Minister in a plot to thwart the traitors. He also falls in love with Princess Teresa, the king's fiancée.


Paula
1952 · 1h 20m
country: United States
A woman, distraught because of her recent miscarriage, accidentally injures a child in a hit-and-run accident, but she keeps the incident a secret. Overcome with guilt and remorse, she seeks out the child in the hospital and attempts to help him regain his speech, even though, if successful, it might mean he will implicate her for the crime.


Scandal Sheet
1952 · 1h 22m
country: United States
A tabloid editor assigns a young reporter to solve a murder the editor committed himself.


Death of a Salesman
1951 · 1h 55m
country: United States
Willy Loman, an aging, failing salesman, struggles to accept reality and his failure to achieve the American Dream.


Man in the Saddle
1951 · 1h 27m
country: United States
A small rancher is being harassed by his mighty and powerful neighbor. When the neighbor even hires gunmen to intimidate him he has to defend himself and his property by means of violence.


The Son of Dr. Jekyll
1951 · 1h 18m
country: United States
The son of the notorious Dr. Henry Jekyll is determined to prove that his father's reputation has been unjustly deserved. He sets out to develop his father's formula in order to prove that he was a brilliant scientist rather than a murderous monster.


The Lady and the Bandit
1951 · 1h 19m
country: United States
Highwayman Dick Turpin rides 200 miles to save his wife from the gallows in 18th-century England.


Lorna Doone
1951 · 1h 28m
country: United States
An English farmer leads a village uprising against their corrupt landlords.


The Harlem Globetrotters
1951 · 1h 18m
country: United States
All-American basketball player, Billy signs up with the world-famous "Harlem Globetrotters", an all-Negro professional team. Billy struggles with important life decisions and their consequences.


Santa Fe
1951 · 1h 28m
country: United States
After their service in the Civil War, four brothers go their separate ways, but later find themselves on opposite sides of a final showdown.


Born Yesterday
1950 · 1h 43m
country: United States
Uncouth, loud-mouth junkyard tycoon Harry Brock descends upon Washington D.C. to buy himself a congressman or two, bringing with him his mistress, ex-showgirl Billie Dawn.


The Flying Missile
1950 · 1h 31m
country: United States
A Navy commander experiments with launching missiles from submarines.


Stage to Tucson
1950 · 1h 21m
country: United States
A group of outlaws posing as Southern sympathizers and led secretly by freight-line owner Jim Maroon are raiding stagecoaches, and this is a threat to the Union communications. Grif Holbrook, a trouble-shooter for the Butterfield Stage Line, and Union man Barney Broderick team up to try and put a stop to the activity, when they aren't fighting over the charms of Kate Crocker.


Harriet Craig
1950 · 1h 30m
country: United States
A perfectionist woman's devotion to her home drives away friends and family.


The Killer That Stalked New York
1950 · 1h 19m
country: United States
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 on the couple's trail. Meanwhile, government officials begin a desperate search for an unknown individual who is infecting the city with smallpox.


The Fuller Brush Girl
1950 · 1h 25m
country: United States
A daffy door-to-door saleswoman blunders into a murder investigation.


Convicted
1950 · 1h 31m
country: United States
A prison warden fights to prove one of his inmates was wrongly convicted.


Fortunes of Captain Blood
1950 · 1h 31m
country: United States
When he unwittingly sends some of his men into a trap, pirate Captain Peter Blood decides to rescue them. They've been taken prisoner by the Spanish Marquis de Riconete who is now using them as slave labor harvesting pearls from the sea.


In a Lonely Place
1950 · 1h 33m
country: United States
A violent screenwriter and a female neighbor fall in love after she clears him of murder, but she begins to have second thoughts.


Kill the Umpire
1950 · 1h 18m
country: United States
Ex-baseball player Bill Johnson, failing at many jobs when his ball-playing days are over, reluctantly takes the advice of his father-in-law, Jonah Evans, a retired umpire, and enters an umpire-training school. Assigned to the Texas League, he does fine until the championship play-offs when a riot develops over one of his calls. The involved player is knocked unconscious in the proceedings and cannot verify that Bill made the correct call. Despite lynch mob plans to at least tar-and-feather him, Bill's family - his daughters Lucy (Gloria Henry and Susan and his wife Betty - help Bill reach the ballpark safely the next day through a series of hair-raising encounters.


A Woman of Distinction
1950 · 1h 25m
country: United States
Ice-cold college dean Susan Middlecott feels there's no room in her life for romance. Enter Prof. Alec Stevenson, British lecturer on astronomy, touring North America and in possession of a keepsake of Susan's he wants to return. Desperate for publicity, lecture bureau press agent Teddy Evans magnifies this into a great romance. The efforts of both dignified principals to quash the story have the opposite effect; matters get more and more involved.


The Nevadan
1950 · 1h 21m
country: United States
A mysterious stranger crosses paths with an outlaw bank robber and a greedy rancher.


The Reckless Moment
1949 · 1h 22m
country: United States
After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal.


And Baby Makes Three
1949 · 1h 24m
country: United States
A recently divorced couple see things differently after learning they are going to be parents.


Tell It to the Judge
1949 · 1h 27m
country: United States
Marsha Meredith, an attorney-at-law, is nominated for a federal judgeship, but her nomination is opposed by a 'Good-Government' group that thinks her divorce makes her unfit for the job. This evolves into situations, happening in Florida, New England, Washington D.C., and the Adirondacks, such as the misunderstood husband trying to win back his wife, and the misunderstood wife trying to make her husband jealous, and one case of mistaken identity after another, after another.


All the King's Men
1949 · 1h 49m
country: United States
A man of humble beginnings and honest intentions rises to power by nefarious means. Along for the wild ride are an earnest reporter, a heretofore classy society girl, and a too-clever-for-her-own-good political flack.


Tokyo Joe
1949 · 1h 28m
country: United States
An American veteran returns to Tokyo to try to pick up the threads of his pre-World War II life there, but finds himself squeezed between criminals and the authorities.


Miss Grant Takes Richmond
1949 · 1h 27m
country: United States
A bookie uses a phony real estate business as a front for his betting parlor. To further keep up the sham, he hires dim-witted Ellen Grant as his secretary figuring she won't suspect any criminal goings-on. When Ellen learns of some friends who are about to lose their homes, she unwittingly drafts her boss into developing a new low-cost housing development.


Mr. Soft Touch
1949 · 1h 33m
country: United States
When he learns that a gangster has taken over his nightclub and murdered his partner, returning WWII hero Joe Miracle steals the money from the club's safe and hides in a settlement home, while the mob is on his tail.


Knock on Any Door
1949 · 1h 40m
country: United States
An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.


Slightly French
1949 · 1h 21m
country: United States
A film director, in bad standing with his studio, tries to turn a local carnival dancer into a "French" movie star and pass her off as his big new discovery.


Shockproof
1949 · 1h 19m
country: United States
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.


The Return of October
1948 · 1h 38m
country: United States
A wholesome girl believes her new racehorse, October, is the reincarnation of her favorite uncle, Willie.


The Untamed Breed
1948 · 1h 19m
country: United States
A cowboy sets out to capture an escaped Brahma bull that is terrorizing local ranchers. Based on a story by Eli Colter that appeared in The Saturday Evening Post.


The Sign of the Ram
1948 · 1h 24m
country: United States
A wheelchair-bound woman manipulates her family to a point where they suspect she may be unhinged.


I Love Trouble
1948 · 1h 33m
country: United States
A wealthy man hires a private detective to investigate his wife's mysterious past.


It Had to Be You
1947 · 1h 38m
country: United States
A chronic runaway bride is haunted by her conscience, who becomes reality.


Her Husband's Affairs
1947 · 1h 24m
country: United States
Bill Weldon is an Ad man who craves his wife Margaret's approval of his work, instead he gets constructive (and on-target) feedback, which he hates. Things get really strange when Bill creates advertising for a wacky inventor's embalming fluid.


Framed
1947 · 1h 22m
country: United States
Truck driver Mike Lambert is a down-and-out mining engineer searching for a job. When his rig breaks down in a small town, he happens upon a venomous seductress. When her boyfriend robs a bank, they intend to frame Lambert.


Mr. District Attorney
1947 · 1h 21m
country: United States
An assistant district attorney gets mixed-up with a woman who is working for the group that he is investigating.


Johnny O'Clock
1947 · 1h 35m
country: United States
When an employee at an illegal gambling den dies suspiciously, her sister, Nancy, looks into the situation and falls for Johnny O'Clock, a suave partner in the underground casino. Selfish and non-committal by nature, Johnny slowly begins to return Nancy's affection and decides to run away with her, but conflict within his business threatens their plans. As Johnny tries to distance himself from the casino, his shady past comes back to haunt him.


Dead Reckoning
1946 · 1h 40m
country: United States
War heroes Rip Murdock and Johnny Drake are sent to Washington, D.C, to receive top honors for their service. Johnny, seemingly terrified by the publicity that awaits him, jumps off the train and later turns up dead. Suspecting foul play, Rip begins digging into his pal's past. He encounters cover-ups, threats to his own life and deadly femme fatale Coral Chandler.


Gallant Journey
1946 · 1h 25m
country: United States
Director William A. Wellman adds another to his long line of salutes-to-aviation films in this bio of an aviation pioneer, John Montgomery (Glenn Ford.) In 1883 he built a practical glider despite the opposition of his friends, who thought he was crazy, and of his family, who were afraid that his dreams of flying would hurt his father's political ambitions. He pursues his education at Santa Clara University where the Jesuits lend a helping and understanding hand. An earthquake destroys what appears to be a working model for an airplane, but a gold-sorting machine Montgomery invented, and then neglected, promises to provide for his financial needs to keep working on his aircraft until he gets involved in costly lawsuits defending his invention.


Gilda
1946 · 1h 50m
country: United States
A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.


Over 21
1945 · 1h 42m
country: United States
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.


Together Again
1944 · 1h 33m
country: United States
Anne Crandall is the mayor of a small town in Vermont. Her deceased husband had been the mayor for years and when he died, she was left to carry on and to raise his daughter from his first marriage. She lives with the daughter, her father-in-law and a housekeeper. In the town square, there was a statue of her late husband and every year since his death, they have an anniversary celebration there. This year during a thunderstorm, the statue is hit by lightning and the head falls off. The daughter insists that a new statue be erected instead of patching the old one. Mayor Crandall is sent to New York to interview the prospective sculptor, George Corday.


Strange Affair
1944 · 1h 18m
country: United States
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.


Address Unknown
1944 · 1h 12m
country: United States
When a German art dealer living in the US returns to his native country he finds himself attracted to Nazi propaganda.


Cover Girl
1944 · 1h 47m
country: United States
A nightclub dancer makes it big in modeling, leaving her dancer boyfriend behind.


The Ghost That Walks Alone
1944 · 1h 3m
country: United States
Honeymooners find a dead radio producer in their suite.


None Shall Escape
1944 · 1h 25m
country: United States
Through flashbacks going as far back as the end of WW1, the story of a Nazi war criminal is exposed during his trial.


The Chance of a Lifetime
1943 · 1h 5m
country: United States
A mad scramble for stolen loot ensues after Boston Blackie has prisoners released for work in a wartime defence plant.


Dangerous Blondes
1943 · 1h 21m
country: United States
Mystery writer Barry Craig (Allyn Joslyn) and his wife Jane (Evelyn Keyes), prefer solving crimes rather than writing about them. They get a chance when killings plague the fashion photography studio of Ralph McCormick (Edmund Lowe). After his secretary, Julie Taylor(Anita Louise) reports an attempt to murder her there, Erika McCormick's (Ann Savage) Aunt Isabel Fleming (Mary Forbes) is stabbed and the evidence points to Madge Lawrence (Bess Flowers) an older model and an apparent suicide. Police Inspector Joseph Clinton (Frank Craven) declares the case closed...but then Erika is murdered.


Sahara
1943 · 1h 37m
country: United States
In Libya, an American tank commander, along with a handful of Allied soldiers, tries to defend an isolated well with a limited supply of water from a German Afrika Korps battalion during the Western Desert Campaign of World War II.


Passport to Suez
1943 · 1h 12m
country: United States
The Lone Wolf goes undercover in Egypt to foil a Nazi plot to bomb and disable the Suez canal, which is vital to England's war effort.


Destroyer
1943 · 1h 39m
country: United States
Flagwaving story of a new American destroyer, the JOHN PAUL JONES, from the day her keel is laid, to what was very nearly her last voyage. Among the crew, is Steve Boleslavski, a shipyard welder that helped build her, who reenlists, with his old rank of Chief bosuns mate. After failing her sea trials, she is assigned to the mail run, until caught up in a disparate battle with a Japanese sub. After getting torpedoed, and on the verge of sinking, the Captain, and crew hatch a plan to try and save the ship, and destroy the sub.


First Comes Courage
1943 · 1h 28m
country: United States
Merle Oberon plays a Norwegian resistance figure in a small town, married to a Nazi commandant. When his superiors begin to suspect her, the Allies land an assassin to kill him -- an assassin who happens to be her former lover.


Appointment in Berlin
1943 · 1h 17m
country: United States
The "war of nerves" which gripped the European continent in 1938, is the background for this war thriller starring George Sanders.


The Desperadoes
1943 · 1h 27m
country: United States
Popular mailcoach driver Uncle Willie is in fact in league with the town's crooked banker. They plan to have the bank robbed after emptying it, and when Willie's choice for this doesn't show in time, he gets some local boys to do it. When his man does turn up he decides to stick around, as he is pals with the sheriff and also takes a shine to Willie's daughter Allison. This gives the bad men several new problems.


The More the Merrier
1943 · 1h 44m
country: United States
It's World War II and there is a severe housing shortage everywhere - especially in Washington, D.C. where Connie Milligan rents an apartment. Believing it to be her patriotic duty, Connie offers to sublet half of her apartment, fully expecting a suitable female tenent. What she gets instead is mischievous, middle-aged Benjamin Dingle. Dingle talks her into subletting to him and then promptly sublets half of his half to young, irreverent Joe Carter - creating a situation tailor-made for comedy and romance.


Murder in Times Square
1943 · 1h 5m
country: United States
An actor becomes a suspect in the murders of four New Yorkers injected with rattlesnake venom.


A Night to Remember
1942 · 1h 28m
country: United States
A woman rents a gloomy basement apartment in Greenwich Village thinking it will provide the perfect atmosphere for her mystery writer husband to create his next book. They soon find themselves in the middle of a real-life mystery when a corpse turns up in their apartment.


The Boogie Man Will Get You
1942 · 1h 7m
country: United States
A young divorcee tries to convert a historic house into a hotel despite its oddball inhabitants and dead bodies in the cellar.


Overland to Deadwood
1942 · 59m
country: United States
Cash Quinlan, owner of the Hauling Company, is the leader behind a gang of raiders who have been robbing stagecoaches between Mesquite and Deadwood. He hopes by doing so to drive his competitors out of business so that he can get the railroad franchise for himself.....


Counter-Espionage
1942 · 1h 13m
country: United States
The Lone Wolf tracks down Nazi spies in London during the German bombing.


The Talk of the Town
1942 · 1h 58m
country: United States
Hilarity ensues when a falsely accused fugitive from justice hides at the house of his childhood friend, which she has recently rented to a high-principled law teacher.


Atlantic Convoy
1942 · 1h 6m
country: United States
American naval forces are using a port in Iceland as a base for anti-submarine patrols to protect North Atlantic convoys from Nazi subs. The Nazis send undercover agents into the port in a scheme to blow up the entrance to the harbor and keep the patrols blocked in. The officers in charge of the patrols have to find the spies and stop them before they achieve their objective.


Submarine Raider
1942 · 1h 4m
country: United States
On December 6, 1941, Captain Yamanada of the Japanese aircraft carrier "Hiranamu", orders full steam ahead for Pearl Harbor. His ship encounters and sinks an American yacht and the single survivor, Sue Curry, is rescued by an American submarine, the "Sea Serpent", commanded by Commander Chris Warren. He hears her story and attempts to radio a warning to Pearl Harbor. Yamanada, hearing the signals, orders the airlines jammed, and then sends his son into the air to sink the sub. The attack fails, after the sub makes a crash dive, but they fail in their warning attempts. The next morning, December 7th, the men on the sub hear the story of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and devise a desperate plan to sink the Japanese carrier by letting the carrier know their position. The carrier comes in search of the submarine.


Meet the Stewarts
1942 · 1h 13m
country: United States
A young, newlywed couple learns to make their marriage work—on a budget.


Blondie's Blessed Event
1942 · 1h 9m
country: United States
Cookie is born, producing unmitigated joy in the Bumstead household. Adding to the chaos a new baby always creates is the appearance of Hans Conried as a cynical author who becomes caught up in the Bumstead lifestyle.


Alias Boston Blackie
1942 · 1h 7m
country: United States
It is the Christmas Holidays and reformed thief, Boston Blackie goes to Castle Theater to pick up players who will perform for prisoners that are still in prison. He takes a girl with him who has a brother already in prison. She has visited the prison twice in the month, so is not suppose to visit again. However when the group is completed the girl is included as well as Inspector Farrady. One of the clowns in the show is kidnapped and replaced by a con who wants to get even with two ex-partners. Boston Blackie figures out that a con has replaced one of his clowns but is unable to stop him. Blackie's clothes are stolen and a murder is committed. Of course, the Inspector immediately suspects Blackie of being involved. Now it is Blackie's job to find the killer, exonerate himself and help the girl free her brother.


Blondie Goes to College
1942 · 1h 14m
country: United States
Dagwood Bumstead must receive a college diploma or lose his job with the Dithers Construction Company. Not wishing to be separated from her husband, Blondie enrolls in college as well. But Leighton College rules stipulate "No Married Couples", forcing Blondie and Dagwood to pretend that they're not married. This causes quite a dilemma when coed Laura Wadsworth begins flirting with Dagwood and Rusty Bryant does the same with Blondie. And Blondie's discovery of a very pleasant secret threatens to expose her and Dagwood's marital status too.


Honolulu Lu
1941 · 1h 12m
country: United States
While in Hawaii, Velez begins the film as a risque nightclub act and due to her involvement with a group of sailors becomes a beauty queen.


Confessions of Boston Blackie
1941 · 1h 5m
country: United States
A murder is committed during the auction of a valuable statue. The prime suspect is Boston Blackie, whose reputation for living on the edge of the law makes him an easy target for the police. When the body disappears, Blackie must find it to prove his innocence.


Secrets of the Lone Wolf
1941 · 1h 6m
country: United States
Michael Lanyard's faithful butler Jamison is mistaken for his boss by a gang of jewel robbers.


Three Girls About Town
1941 · 1h 15m
country: United States
Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the mortician's convention is arriving, and the sisters, with help from manager Wilburforce Puddle, try to hide it. Complicating matters, Hope's boyfriend, Tommy, is a newspaper reporter in the hotel covering some labor negotiations.


The Blonde from Singapore
1941 · 1h 9m
country: United States
Fortune hunter Mary Brooks, posing as a missionary's daughter, strives to beat a couple of pilots, Terry Prescott and "Waffles" Billings, (who have turned pearl divers in order to buy a plane and join the Royal Air Force), out of their pearls, while also beating off the advances of Prince Sali who wants to add her to his harem.


You'll Never Get Rich
1941 · 1h 28m
country: United States
A Broadway choreographer gets drafted and coincidentally ends up in the same army base as the boyfriend of his object of affection.


Ladies in Retirement
1941 · 1h 31m
country: United States
Ellen Creed is a housekeeper who looks after Leonora Fiske, a retired actress living in the English countryside. When Ellen's eccentric sisters visit their sibling at Leonora's home, tensions soon lead to murder.


The Devil Commands
1941 · 1h 5m
country: United States
A story about a scientist who is obsessed with communicating with the dead.


Here Comes Mr. Jordan
1941 · 1h 34m
country: United States
Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the job, snatched Joe's spirit prematurely from his body. Before the matter can be rectified, Joe's body is cremated; so the celestial Mr. Jordan grants him the use of the body of wealthy Bruce Farnsworth, who's just been murdered by his wife. Joe tries to remake Farnsworth's unworthy life in his own clean-cut image, but then falls in love; and what about that murderous wife?


Time Out for Rhythm
1941 · 1h 15m
country: United States
A producer and his partner clash over two women in show business.


Penny Serenade
1941 · 2h
country: United States
Julie and Roger are a love-struck married couple who desperately want to have a child. Tragedy after tragedy gets in their way, as the two attempt to rise above their troubles and fulfill their dreams of parenthood.


The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance
1941 · 1h 14m
country: United States
A reformed jewel thief fights to clear his name when he's framed for murder.


The Face Behind the Mask
1941 · 1h 9m
country: United States
A kindly, enthusiastic, newly-arrived American immigrant from Hungary is forced to turn to a life of crime after his face is badly disfigured in a hotel fire.


The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date
1940 · 1h 5m
country: United States
Complicated plot involving missing stamp collection and kidnapped businessman, with the Lone Wolf keeping one step ahead of the police in Havana trying to solve the crime and make a profit.


Before I Hang
1940 · 1h 2m
country: United States
Dr. John Garth conducting an innovative medical experiment aimed at prolonging life and combating aging. The experiment takes an unexpected turn, placing the doctor in a confrontation with the ethics of his work and the consequences of his research.


Girls of the Road
1940 · 1h 1m
country: United States
The story of an eclectic group of women - tramps, job-seekers and fugitives - either running from or toward something as they hitch-hike their way across the United States.


The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady
1940 · 1h 11m
country: United States
A hardworking secretary for a rich woman finds herself engaged to the woman's son and accused of a murder she didn't commit.


Men Without Souls
1940 · 1h 2m
country: United States
A prison chaplain (John Litel) rescues a young convict (Glenn Ford) on a misguided mission of revenge.


Island of Doomed Men
1940 · 1h 7m
country: United States
An undercover agent wrongly punished for murder is paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine slave labor run by a sadistic foreigner.


The Doctor Takes a Wife
1940 · 1h 28m
country: United States
A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.


The Man with Nine Lives
1940 · 1h 14m
country: United States
Dr. Leon Kravaal develops a potential cure for cancer, which involves freezing the patient. But an experiment goes awry when authorities believe Kravaal has killed a patient. Kravaal freezes the officials, along with himself. Years later, they are discovered and revived in hopes that Kravaal can indeed complete his cure. But human greed and weakness compound to disrupt the project.


Convicted Woman
1940 · 1h 5m
country: United States
A reporter and a lawyer investigate a women's prison and help an inmate who does not belong there.


The Lone Wolf Strikes
1940 · 1h 7m
country: United States
Delia Jordan's father is murdered and some very valuable jewelry stolen. She hires The Lone Wolf.


His Girl Friday
1940 · 1h 32m
country: United States
Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife. She’s threatening to quit and settle down with a new beau, but, as Walter knows, she has a weakness: she can’t resist a juicy scoop.


The Amazing Mr. Williams
1939 · 1h 25m
country: United States
Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secretary. Or isn't he rather married with his job? For each time he has a date with his longtime fiancée, he is prevented from keeping it by his devotion to duty. Maxine, in desperation, decides to take action and bring Kenny to the altar. Who will win, Maxine's curves or the glorious fight against crime?


Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939 · 2h 10m
country: United States
After the death of a United States Senator, the idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. The naive and earnest new senator soon finds himself battling political corruption.


Golden Boy
1939 · 1h 39m
country: United States
Despite his talent as a musician, a city boy decides to become a boxer. He's successful as a fighter — much to the dismay of his father. When gangsters try to buy a piece of him, he begins to have second thoughts.


The Man They Could Not Hang
1939 · 1h 4m
country: United States
Dr. Henryk Savaard is a scientist working on experiments to restore life to the dead. When he is unjustly hanged for murder, he is brought back to life by his trusted assistant. Re-animated he turns decidedly nasty and sets about murdering the jury that convicted him.


Only Angels Have Wings
1939 · 2h 1m
country: United States
A traveling performer arrives at a remote South American port town where the head of an air freight service must risk his pilots' lives to earn a major contract.


Mandrake the Magician
1939 · 3h 35m
country: United States
Mandrake and his team attempt to prevent "The Wasp" from stealing and using a new Radium invention.


The Lady and the Mob
1939 · 1h 6m
country: United States
Hattie Leonard sets out to break a criminal gang controlling the dry cleaning business.


Let Us Live
1939 · 1h 5m
country: United States
When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved in. Though no one is willing to listen to the innocent prisoner's pleas for freedom, Brick's faithful fiancée, Mary, knows that her lover is innocent because she was with him when the crime was committed. As the scheduled execution draws ever nearer, Mary begins to investigate the murder herself.


Smashing the Spy Ring
1938 · 1h 2m
country: United States
G-Men in Washington break up a powerful spy ring and capture the ringleaders.


Blondie
1938 · 1h 10m
country: United States
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.


You Can't Take It with You
1938 · 2h 6m
country: United States
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.


Holiday
1938 · 1h 37m
country: United States
Johnny Case, a freethinking financier, has finally found the girl of his dreams — Julia Seton, the spoiled daughter of a socially prominent millionaire — and she's agreed to marry him. But when Johnny plans a holiday for the two to enjoy life while they are still young, his fiancée has other plans & that is for Johnny to work in her father's bank!


Penitentiary
1938 · 1h 14m
country: United States
The story of a D.A. who becomes a prison warden and winds up overseeing the sentence of a man he prosecuted.


Murder in Greenwich Village
1937 · 1h 8m
country: United States
A society girl is suspected of murdering an artist whose brother is a notorious racketeer. In her pursuit of an alibi, she inadvertently implicates a struggling advertisement photographer. Now they must keep up the appearance of being engaged as a bumbling detective snoops around, and their initial distaste for each other blossoms into romance.


The Awful Truth
1937 · 1h 31m
country: United States
Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other's attempts to find new romance.


It Happened in Hollywood
1937 · 1h 7m
country: United States
A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.


Criminals of the Air
1937 · 1h 1m
country: United States
Undercover agent Mark Owens is sent to aid the Border Patrol in the trans-border town of Hernandez in breaking up a well-organized band of smugglers.


Theodora Goes Wild
1936 · 1h 34m
country: United States
The small-town prudes of Lynnfield are up in arms over 'The Sinner,' a sexy best-seller. They little suspect that author 'Caroline Adams' is really Theodora Lynn, scion of the town's leading family. Michael Grant, devil-may-care book jacket illustrator, penetrates Theodora's incognito and sets out to 'free her' from Lynnfield against her will. But Michael has a secret too, and gets a taste of his own medicine.


Craig's Wife
1936 · 1h 15m
country: United States
Harriet, Walter Craig's wife, is an upper-class woman obsessed with control, material possessions and social status whose behavior makes difficult her relationship with domestic service and family members.