Title
|
Director
|
Cast
|
Genre
|
Notes
|
Calcutta |
John Farrow |
Alan Ladd, Gail Russell |
Crime |
Paramount
|
Calendar Girl |
Allan Dwan |
Jane Frazee, Gail Patrick |
Comedy |
Republic
|
California |
John Farrow |
Barbara Stanwyck, Ray Milland |
Western |
Paramount
|
Captain from Castile |
Henry King |
Tyrone Power, Jean Peters, Cesar Romero |
Historical |
20th Century Fox
|
Carnegie Hall |
Edgar G. Ulmer |
Marsha Hunt, William Prince |
Musical |
United Artists
|
Carnival in Costa Rica |
Gregory Ratoff |
Vera-Ellen, Dick Haymes, Cesar Romero |
|
20th Century Fox
|
Cass Timberlane |
George Sidney |
Spencer Tracy, Lana Turner |
Drama |
MGM
|
Cat Fishin' |
|
|
Animated |
|
Cheyenne |
Raoul Walsh |
Jane Wyman, Dennis Morgan |
Western |
Warner Bros.
|
The Chinese Ring |
William Beaudine |
Roland Winters, Warren Douglas |
Mystery |
Charlie Chan |
|
Christmas Eve |
Edwin L. Marin |
George Raft, Randolph Scott, Joan Blondell |
Comedy |
United Artists
|
Code of the West |
William A. Burke |
Steve Brodie, James Warren |
Western |
|
Copacabana |
Alfred E. Green |
Groucho Marx, Carmen Miranda |
Comedy |
United Artists
|
The Corpse Came C.O.D. |
Henry Levin |
George Brent, Joan Blondell |
Comedy |
|
The Crimson Key |
Eugene Forde |
Kent Taylor, Doris Dowling |
Drama |
20th Century Fox
|
Crossfire
|
Edward Dmytryk |
Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan |
Film noir |
RKO; 5 Academy Award nominations
|
Cry Wolf
|
Peter Godfrey
|
Errol Flynn, Barbara Stanwyck
|
Mystery
|
Warner Bros.
|
Curley |
Bernard Carr |
Billy Gray |
Comedy |
|
Cynthia |
Robert Z. Leonard |
Elizabeth Taylor, Mary Astor |
Drama |
MGM
|
Daisy Kenyon |
Otto Preminger |
Joan Crawford, Henry Fonda |
Drama |
20th Century Fox
|
Dangerous Years |
Arthur Pierson |
Billy Halop, Ann E. Todd |
Drama |
Marilyn Monroe debut
|
Dark Delusion |
Willis Goldbeck |
Lionel Barrymore, James Craig |
Drama |
MGM
|
Dark Passage |
Delmer Daves |
Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall |
Film noir |
Warner Bros.
|
Dead Reckoning |
John Cromwell |
Humphrey Bogart, Lizabeth Scott |
Film noir |
Columbia
|
Deep Valley |
Jean Negulesco |
Ida Lupino, Dane Clark, Fay Bainter |
Drama |
Warner Bros.
|
Desert Fury |
Lewis Allen |
Lizabeth Scott, Burt Lancaster |
Film noir |
Paramount
|
Desire Me |
|
Greer Garson, Robert Mitchum |
Drama |
Due to multiple production problems this film was given no director's credit
|
Desperate |
Anthony Mann |
Steve Brodie, Audrey Long, Raymond Burr |
Drama |
RKO
|
The Devil Thumbs a Ride |
Felix E. Feist |
Lawrence Tierney |
Drama |
RKO
|
The Devil on Wheels |
Crane Wilbur |
Darryl Hickman, Terry Moore |
Drama |
PRC
|
Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome |
John Rawlins |
Ralph Byrd, Anne Gwynne, Boris Karloff |
Thriller |
RKO; based on comic strip
|
Dishonored Lady |
Robert Stevenson |
Hedy Lamarr, Dennis O'Keefe, John Loder |
Film noir |
United Artists
|
Don't Be a Sucker! |
|
|
Propaganda |
|
A Double Life |
George Cukor |
Ronald Colman, Signe Hasso, Shelley Winters |
Film noir |
Universal
|
Down to Earth |
Alexander Hall |
Rita Hayworth, Larry Parks |
Fantasy |
Sequel to Here Comes Mr. Jordan
|
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse |
|
|
Animated |
|
Dreams That Money Can Buy |
Hans Richter |
Jack Bittner |
Experimental |
|
Driftwood |
Allan Dwan |
Ruth Warrick, Walter Brennan, Dean Jagger |
Drama |
Republic
|
Easter Yeggs |
|
|
Animated |
|
The Egg and I |
Chester Erskine |
Fred MacMurray, Claudette Colbert |
Comedy |
Universal
|
Escape Me Never |
Peter Godfrey |
Errol Flynn, Ida Lupino |
Drama |
Warner Bros.
|
The Exile |
Max Ophüls |
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Maria Montez, Rita Corday |
Adventure |
Universal
|
Exposed |
George Blair |
Adele Mara, Lorna Gray |
Crime |
|
The Fabulous Dorseys |
Alfred E. Green |
Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey |
Biopic |
|
The Fabulous Joe |
Harve Foster |
Walter Abel, Marie Wilson |
Comedy |
United Artists
|
The Fabulous Texan |
Edward Ludwig |
Wild Bill Elliott, Catherine McLeod |
Western |
Republic
|
The Farmer's Daughter |
H. C. Potter |
Loretta Young, Joseph Cotten |
Comedy |
RKO; Oscar for Young
|
Fear in the Night |
Maxwell Shane |
DeForest Kelley, Paul Kelly |
Drama |
|
Fiesta |
Richard Thorpe |
Esther Williams, Ricardo Montalban |
Drama |
MGM
|
Fireworks |
Kenneth Anger |
|
Experimental |
|
The Flame |
John H. Auer |
John Carroll, Vera Ralston, Robert Paige, Blanche Yurka, Broderick Crawford |
Film noir |
Republic
|
Fool's Gold |
George Archainbaud |
William Boyd, Jane Randolph |
Western |
United Artists
|
For the Love of Rusty |
John Sturges |
Tom Powers, Ann Doran |
Family |
Columbia
|
Forever Amber |
Otto Preminger |
Linda Darnell, Cornel Wilde, George Sanders |
Drama |
20th Century Fox; based on the novel
|
For You I Die |
John Reinhardt |
Cathy Downs, Paul Langton |
Film noir |
Film Classics
|
The Foxes of Harrow |
John M. Stahl |
Rex Harrison, Maureen O'Hara |
Adventure |
20th Century Fox
|
Framed |
Richard Wallace |
Glenn Ford, Janis Carter |
Film noir |
Columbia
|
The Fugitive |
John Ford |
Henry Fonda, Dolores del Río, Pedro Armendáriz |
Drama |
RKO
|
Fun and Fancy Free |
4 directors |
Edgar Bergen, Dinah Shore |
Animated |
Disney, RKO
|
The Gangster |
Gordon Wiles |
Barry Sullivan, Belita |
Film noir |
|
Gas House Kids Go West |
William Beaudine |
Emory Parnell, Vince Barnett |
Comedy |
PRC
|
Gas House Kids in Hollywood |
Edward L. Cahn |
Carl Switzer, Benny Bartlett |
Comedy/Crime |
PRC
|
Gentleman's Agreement |
Elia Kazan |
Gregory Peck, John Garfield, Dorothy McGuire, Celeste Holm, Jane Wyatt |
Drama |
Oscars for Kazan, Holm, Best Picture
|
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir |
Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison |
Comedy |
Fox; inspired TV series
|
The Ghost Goes Wild |
George Blair |
Anne Gwynne, James Ellison |
Comedy |
Republic
|
Golden Earrings |
Mitchell Leisen |
Ray Milland, Marlene Dietrich |
Drama |
|
Good News |
Charles Walters |
June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Mel Tormé |
Musical |
MGM
|
Green Dolphin Street |
Victor Saville |
Lana Turner, Van Heflin, Donna Reed |
Drama |
MGM
|
The Guilt of Janet Ames |
Henry Levin |
Rosalind Russell, Melvyn Douglas |
Drama |
Columbia
|
The Guilty |
John Reinhardt |
Bonita Granville, Don Castle, Regis Toomey |
Drama |
Monogram
|
Gunfighters |
George Waggner |
Randolph Scott, Barbara Britton |
Western |
Columbia
|
Half-Wits Holiday |
Jules White |
The Three Stooges |
Comedy |
|
Heaven Only Knows |
Albert S. Rogell |
Robert Cummings, Brian Donlevy, Marjorie Reynolds |
Western |
United Artists
|
Hi-De-Ho |
Josh Binney |
Cab Calloway, Jeni Le Gon |
Musical Drama |
|
High Barbaree |
Jack Conway |
Van Johnson, June Allyson |
War |
MGM
|
High Tide |
John Reinhardt |
Lee Tracy, Julie Bishop |
Crime |
|
High Wall |
Curtis Bernhardt |
Robert Taylor, Audrey Totter |
Crime drama |
MGM
|
Hold That Lion! |
Jules White |
The Three Stooges |
Comedy Short |
|
Honeymoon |
William Keighley |
Shirley Temple, Franchot Tone, Guy Madison |
Melodrama |
RKO
|
The Hucksters |
Jack Conway |
Clark Gable, Deborah Kerr |
Drama |
MGM
|
I Cover Big Town |
William C. Thomas |
Hillary Brooke, Phillip Reed |
Drama |
Paramount
|
If Winter Comes |
Victor Saville |
Walter Pidgeon, Deborah Kerr, Angela Lansbury |
Drama |
MGM
|
I'll Be Yours |
William A. Seiter |
Deanna Durbin, Tom Drake, William Bendix, Adolphe Menjou |
Musical comedy |
Universal
|
The Imperfect Lady |
Lewis Allen |
Ray Milland, Teresa Wright |
Drama |
Paramount
|
Intrigue |
Edwin L. Marin |
George Raft, Helena Carter |
Drama |
|
The Invisible Mouse |
Hanna Barbera |
|
Animated |
|
It Had to Be You |
Rudolph Maté |
Ginger Rogers, Cornel Wilde |
Comedy |
Columbia
|
It Happened in Brooklyn |
Richard Whorf |
Frank Sinatra, Jimmy Durante |
Comedy |
MGM
|
It Happened on 5th Avenue |
Roy Del Ruth |
Don DeFore, Ann Harding, Charles Ruggles |
Comedy |
Allied Artists
|
Ivy |
Sam Wood |
Joan Fontaine, Richard Ney |
Film noir |
Universal
|
I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now |
Lloyd Bacon |
June Haver, Mark Stevens |
Musical |
20th Century Fox
|
Jesse James Rides Again |
F. Brannon, T. Carr |
Clayton Moore |
Western |
Serial
|
Joe Palooka in the Knockout |
Reginald Le Borg |
Joe Kirkwood, Jr., Leon Errol, Trudy Marshall |
Drama |
one of series
|
Johnny O'Clock |
Robert Rossen |
Dick Powell, Evelyn Keyes, Lee J. Cobb |
Film noir |
Columbia
|
Keeper of the Bees |
John Sturges |
Jane Darwell |
Drama |
|
Key Witness |
D. Ross Lederman |
Trudy Marshall, John Beal |
Crime drama |
|
Killer Dill |
Lewis D. Collins |
Stuart Erwin, Anne Gwynne, Mike Mazurki |
Crime comedy |
Screen Guild
|
King-Size Canary |
|
|
Animation |
|
Kiss of Death |
Henry Hathaway |
Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, Richard Widmark |
Film noir |
20th Century Fox; 2 Oscar nominations
|
The Lady from Shanghai |
Orson Welles |
Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles |
Film noir |
Columbia
|
Lady in the Lake |
Robert Montgomery |
Robert Montgomery, Audrey Totter |
Film noir |
MGM; based on book by Raymond Chandler
|
The Late George Apley |
Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
Ronald Colman |
Comedy |
20th Century Fox
|
Law of the Lash |
Ray Taylor |
Lash LaRue, Al St. John, Lee Roberts |
Western |
|
Life with Father |
Michael Curtiz |
William Powell, Irene Dunne, Elizabeth Taylor |
Comedy |
Warner Bros.; based on the book
|
A Likely Story |
H. C. Potter |
Barbara Hale, Bill Williams, Sam Levene |
Comedy |
RKO
|
Living in a Big Way |
Gregory LaCava |
Gene Kelly, Marie McDonald, Charles Winninger |
Musical |
MGM
|
The Lone Wolf in London' |
Leslie Goodwins |
Gerald Mohr, Nancy Saunders |
Mystery |
Columbia
|
The Lone Wolf in Mexico |
D. Ross Lederman |
Gerald Mohr, Jacqueline deWit |
Mystery |
|
The Long Night |
Anatole Litvak |
Henry Fonda, Barbara Bel Geddes |
Film noir |
RKO
|
Lost Honeymoon |
Leigh Jason |
Franchot Tone, Ann Richards |
Comedy |
Eagle-Lion
|
The Lost Moment |
Martin Gabel |
Susan Hayward, Robert Cummings |
Film noir |
Universal
|
Love and Learn |
Frederick de Cordova |
Jack Carson, Martha Vickers |
Comedy |
Warner Bros.
|
Love from a Stranger |
Richard Whorf |
John Hodiak, Sylvia Sidney |
Drama |
Eagle-Lion
|
Lured |
Douglas Sirk |
Lucille Ball, Charles Coburn, Boris Karloff |
Film noir |
United Artists
|
The Macomber Affair |
Zoltan Korda |
Gregory Peck, Joan Bennett, Robert Preston |
Drama |
United Artists
|
Magic Town |
William Wellman |
James Stewart, Jane Wyman |
Drama |
RKO
|
The Man I Love |
Raoul Walsh |
Ida Lupino, Robert Alda |
Drama |
Warner Bros.
|
The Mighty McGurk |
John Waters |
Wallace Beery, Dean Stockwell |
Drama |
MGM
|
Miracle on 34th Street |
George Seaton |
Edmund Gwenn, Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Natalie Wood |
Romantic comedy |
20th Century Fox; Oscars for Gwenn, screenplay
|
Monsieur Verdoux |
Charles Chaplin |
Charles Chaplin, Martha Raye, William Frawley |
Comedy |
United Artists
|
Moss Rose |
Gregory Ratoff |
Peggy Cummins, Victor Mature, Ethel Barrymore |
Thriller |
20th Century Fox
|
Mother Wore Tights |
Walter Lang |
Betty Grable, Dan Dailey, Mona Freeman |
Musical |
20th Century Fox
|
Motion Painting No. 1 |
|
|
Animation |
|
Mourning Becomes Electra |
Dudley Nichols |
Rosalind Russell, Michael Redgrave |
Drama |
RKO
|
A Mouse in the House |
|
|
Animated |
|
My Brother Talks to Horses |
Fred Zinnemann |
Butch Jenkins, Peter Lawford |
Comedy |
|
My Favorite Brunette |
Elliott Nugent |
Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Peter Lorre |
Comedy |
Paramount
|
My Wild Irish Rose |
David Butler |
Dennis Morgan, Arlene Dahl, Andrea King |
Musical |
Warner Bros.
|
Nightmare Alley |
Edmond Goulding |
Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray |
Film noir |
20th Century Fox; based on the book
|
Nora Prentiss |
Vincent Sherman |
Ann Sheridan, Kent Smith, Robert Alda |
Drama |
Warner Bros.
|
Northwest Outpost |
Allan Dwan |
Nelson Eddy, Ilona Massey |
Musical |
|
The Other Love |
Andre DeToth |
Barbara Stanwyck, David Niven, Richard Conte |
Drama |
|
Out of the Blue |
Leigh Jason |
Virginia Mayo, Ann Dvorak |
Comedy |
Eagle-Lion Films
|
Out of the Past |
Jacques Tourneur |
Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming, Steve Brodie |
Film noir |
RKO
|
The Paradine Case |
Alfred Hitchcock |
Gregory Peck, Charles Laughton, Alida Valli, Ann Todd, Ethel Barrymore, Louis Jourdan |
Drama |
Selznick
|
Part Time Pal |
|
|
Animation |
|
The Perils of Pauline |
George Marshall |
Betty Hutton, John Lund |
Comedy |
Paramount; based on Pearl White
|
A Pest in the House |
|
|
Animation |
|
Pirates of Monterey |
Alfred L. Werker |
Maria Montez, Rod Cameron, Gilbert Roland |
Adventure |
Universal
|
Possessed |
Curtis Bernhardt |
Joan Crawford, Van Heflin, Raymond Massey |
Film noir |
Warner Bros.
|
The Pretender |
W. Lee Wilder |
Albert Dekker, Catherine Craig |
Film noir |
Republic
|
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami |
Albert Lewin |
George Sanders, Angela Lansbury, Ann Dvorak |
Drama |
United Artists
|
Pursued |
Raoul Walsh |
Robert Mitchum, Teresa Wright |
Drama |
Warner Bros.
|
Queen of the Amazons |
Edward Finney |
Patricia Morison |
Adventure |
Screen Guild
|
Railroaded! |
Anthony Mann |
John Ireland, Hugh Beaumont |
Film noir |
Eagle-Lion
|
Ramrod |
André de Toth |
Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Donald Crisp |
Western |
United Artists
|
The Red House |
Delmer Daves |
Edward G. Robinson, Judith Anderson |
Film noir |
United Artists
|
Repeat Performance |
Alfred L. Werker |
Louis Hayward, Joan Leslie |
Film noir |
Eagle-Lion Films
|
Ride the Pink Horse |
Robert Montgomery |
Robert Montgomery, Wanda Hendrix |
Film noir |
Universal
|
Riffraff |
Ted Tetzlaff |
Pat O'Brien, Walter Slezak |
Film noir |
RKO
|
Road to Rio |
Norman Z. McLeod |
Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour |
Comedy |
Paramount; 5th of series
|
Robin Hood of Monterey |
Christy Cabanne |
Gilbert Roland, Evelyn Brent |
Adventure |
Monogram
|
The Romance of Rosy Ridge |
Roy Rowland |
Van Johnson, Thomas Mitchell, Janet Leigh |
Drama |
MGM
|
Salt Water Tabby |
|
|
Animated |
|
Scared to Death |
Christy Cabanne |
Bela Lugosi, George Zucco |
Horror |
|
Scent-imental Over You |
|
|
Animated |
|
The Sea of Grass |
Elia Kazan |
Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn |
Western |
MGM
|
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty |
Norman Z. McLeod |
Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo |
Comedy |
RKO; remade in 2013
|
Seven Were Saved |
William H. Pine |
Richard Denning, Catherine Craig |
Drama |
|
The Shocking Miss Pilgrim |
George Seaton |
Betty Grable, Dick Haymes, Anne Revere |
Musical |
Fox
|
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock |
Preston Sturges |
Harold Lloyd |
Comedy |
Universal/RKO
|
Sinbad the Sailor |
Richard Wallace |
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Maureen O'Hara |
Fantasy |
RKO
|
Sing a Song of Six Pants |
Jules White |
The Three Stooges |
Comedy Short |
|
Slick Hare |
|
|
Animated |
|
Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman |
Stuart Heisler |
Susan Hayward, Eddie Albert |
film noir |
Universal; 2 Oscar nominations
|
Something in the Wind |
Irving Pichel |
Deanna Durbin, Donald O'Connor |
Musical |
Universal
|
Son of Zorro |
|
George Turner, Peggy Stewart |
Serial |
|
Song of Scheherazade |
Walter Reisch |
Yvonne De Carlo, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Eve Arden |
Fantasy |
Universal
|
Song of the Thin Man |
Edward Buzzell |
William Powell, Myrna Loy, Patricia Morison |
Mystery |
last of Thin Man series
|
Stork Bites Man |
Cy Endfield |
Jackie Cooper, Meg Randall |
Comedy |
United Artists
|
Suddenly, It's Spring |
Mitchell Leisen |
Paulette Goddard, Fred MacMurray |
Comedy |
Paramount
|
Tarzan and the Huntress |
Kurt Neumann |
Johnny Weissmuller, Patricia Morison |
Adventure |
RKO
|
T-Men |
Anthony Mann |
Dennis O'Keefe |
Film noir |
Eagle-Lion
|
That Hagen Girl |
Peter Godfrey |
Ronald Reagan, Shirley Temple |
Comedy |
Warner Bros.
|
That's My Man |
Frank Borzage |
Don Ameche, Catherine McLeod |
Romantic comedy |
|
That Way with Women |
Frederick de Cordova |
Dane Clark, Martha Vickers |
Comedy |
Warner Bros.
|
They Won't Believe Me |
Irving Pichel |
Susan Hayward, Robert Young, Jane Greer |
Drama |
RKO
|
This Time for Keeps |
Richard Thorpe |
Esther Williams, Jimmy Durante |
Comedy |
MGM
|
Thunderbolt! |
John Sturges, William Wyler |
James Stewart |
War documentary |
Monogram
|
Time Out of Mind |
Robert Siodmak |
Phyllis Calvert, Robert Hutton |
Drama |
|
Too Many Winners |
William Beaudine |
Hugh Beaumont, Trudy Marshall |
Mystery |
|
Trail Street |
Ray Enright |
Randolph Scott, Robert Ryan |
Western |
RKO
|
Tubby the Tuba |
George Pal |
|
Animated |
|
Tweetie Pie |
|
|
Animated |
Warner Bros.
|
The Two Mrs. Carrolls |
Peter Godfrey |
Barbara Stanwyck, Humphrey Bogart, Alexis Smith |
Drama |
Warner Bros.
|
Unconquered |
Cecil B. DeMille |
Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, Howard Da Silva |
Adventure |
Paramount
|
Undercover Maisie |
Harry Beaumont |
Ann Sothern, Barry Nelson |
Comedy |
10th of series
|
The Unfaithful |
Vincent Sherman |
Ann Sheridan, Lew Ayres |
Drama |
Warner Bros.
|
The Unfinished Dance |
Henry Koster |
Cyd Charisse, Margaret O'Brien, Danny Thomas |
Musical |
MGM
|
The Unsuspected |
Michael Curtiz |
Claude Rains, Audrey Totter |
Drama |
Warner Bros.
|
Variety Girl |
George Marshall |
Various artists |
Musical |
Paramount
|
The Velvet Touch |
Jack Gage |
Rosalind Russell, Claire Trevor |
Drama |
RKO
|
The Vigilante |
Wallace Fox |
Ralph Byrd |
Action |
Serial
|
Violence |
Jack Bernhard |
Nancy Coleman, Michael O'Shea |
Crime |
|
The Voice of the Turtle |
Irving Rapper |
Ronald Reagan, Eleanor Parker, Eve Arden |
Comedy |
Warner Bros.
|
The Web |
Michael Gordon |
Vincent Price, Edmond O'Brien |
Film noir |
Universal
|
Web of Danger |
Philip Ford |
Adele Mara |
Crime |
|
Welcome Stranger |
Elliott Nugent |
Bing Crosby, Joan Caulfield |
Drama |
Paramount
|
Whispering City |
Fyodor Ostep |
Paul Lukas, Helmut Dantine |
Drama |
Eagle-Lion
|
The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap |
Charles Barton |
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello |
Comedy |
Universal
|
The Woman on the Beach |
Jean Renoir |
Joan Bennett, Robert Ryan, Charles Bickford |
Film noir |
RKO
|
Wyoming |
Joseph Kane |
Wild Bill Elliott, Vera Ralston |
Western |
Republic
|