Ace of Aces was based on Bird of Prey by John Monk Saunders, an acknowledged
master of aviation epics. Richard Dix stars as Rex Thorne, a pacifistic sculptor who registers as a conscientious objector when WWI breaks out. Thorne's unwillingness ...
William Holden stars as Alvarez Kelly in this Civil War actioner. While transporting 5,000 head
of cattle to the Union forces, Holden is captured by Confederate officer Richard Widmark. Threatened with instant execution if he doesn't cooperate, Holden sets about ...
Captain Sindbad was based on an Arabian Nights story, was filmed in Germany, and starred
an American leading man (Guy Williams), a German leading lady (Heidi Bruhl) and a Mexican villain (Pedro Armendariz). How's that for cultural diversity? Anyway, the ...
Aerial footage distinguishes this romantic-triangle melodrama set among pilots in a flying circus. Jill (Sally
Eilers) loves Jim (Richard Barthelmess), but he insists that fliers shouldn't marry, so the disappointed Jill marries his younger brother Neil (Tom Brown) instead. The ...
According to Hollywood lore, both John Wayne and director Frank Borzage refused to work with
Vera Hruba Ralston, the Czech-born inamorata (and future wife) of Republic Pictures owner Herbert I. Yates. Yates somehow managed to convince Wayne to change his ...
This Pine-Thomas actioner stars Robert Lowery as two-fisted forest ranger Don Bradley. Promoted to supervisor,
Bradley finds his success hollow when his childhood sweetheart Kay (Ellen Drew) marries big-time gangster Steve Downey (Regis Toomey). In soon develops that Kay has ...
Directed by former set designer William Cameron Menzies, this minor Civil War effort from low-budget
producers King Brothers stars James Craig and Guy Madison as former West Point roommates now on opposing sides in the war between the states. Assigned ...
Esther Williams moves from the swimming pool to the bull ring in this musical drama.
Antonio Morales (Fortunio Bonanova) was once a champion bullfighter; now in retirement, Antonio and his wife (Mary Astor) have high hopes that their son Mario ...