The Road to Singapore (1931 - b/w) - Routine jungle romance with William Powell.
Sporting Blood (1931 - b/w) - Horsey nonsense, with Clark Gable. See also Sporting Blood (1940 - b/w), Florian (1940 - b/w) and Boys' Ranch (1946 - b/w).
George White's Scandals (1934 - b/w)/George White's 1935 Scandals (1935 - b/w)/George White's Scandals (1945 - b/w) - Painful burlesque from my namesake.
Little Orvie (1940 - b/w) - Kiddie comedy.
And One was Beautiful (1940 - b/w) - Forgettable drama with Robert Cummings.
Dance, Girl, Dance (1940 - b/w) -Maureen O'Hara AND Lucille Ball in another routine backstage musical.
Little Men (1940 - b/w) - Forgettable adaptation of the sequel to Little Women (1933 - b/w), though Kay Francis replaces Katharine Hepburn as Jo.
You Can't Fool Your Wife (1940 - b/w) - Routine Lucille Ball B-comedy.
See also Too Many Girls (1940 - b/w) and A Guy, A Girl and A Gob (1941 - b/w).
L'Il Abner (1940 - b/w) - Cheapo adaptation of the comic strip. A kind of Poverty Row precursor to Popeye. I wasn't sure if the guy playing the Indian comic relief was doing a Buster Keaton imitation or Keaton himself. Surely, it couldn't be the Great Man reduced to these circumstances. But then, I remembered his reduced circumstances.
Tom Brown's Schooldays (1940 - b/w) - Ropey adaptation.
This Time for Keeps (1940 - b/w) - Routine family drama with Frank Morgan.
Irene (1940 - b/w) - Rote musical romance with Anna Neagle and Ray Milland. See also No, No, Nanette (1940 - b/w).
Laddie (1940 - b/w) - Forgettable rural romance, with Peter Cushing last-billed.
Cross Country Romance (1940 - b/w) - Rote romcom.
One Crowded Night (1940 - b/w) - Forgettable, no budget small town drama.
The Ramparts We Watch (1940 - b/w) - A ninety-minute newsreel padded out with stilted amateurs.
Lucky Partners (1940 - b/w) - Rote screwballer with Ginger Rogers.
My Life with Caroline (1941 - b/w) - Forgettable Ronald Colman romcom.
A Date with the Falcon (1941 - b/w) - Ropey mystery with George Sanders. See also The Falcon's Brother (1942 - b/w), which leads into Tom Conway taking over in
Father Takes A Wife (1941 - b/w) - Forgettable Gloria Swanson comeback.
Tom, Dick and Harry (1941 - b/w) - Peculiar Ginger Rogers comedy where she constantly hallucinates. With a young Burgess Meredith.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941 - b/w) - Hitchcock does a generic screwball comedy. If it had just a little suspense, it would add a bit more excitement.
Play Girl (1941 - b/w) - Forgettable Kay Francis vehicle.
They Met in Argentina (1941 - b/w) - Routine exotica musical with Maureen O'Hara.
Unexpected Uncle (1941 - b/w) - Another comedy with Charles Coburn as an eccentric relative.
The Villain Still Pursued Her (1940 - b/w) - Unusual Pearls of Pauline homage with Hugh Herbert.
The Mayor of 44th Street (1942 - b/w) - Routine nightclub saga.
Scattergood Rides High (1942 - b/w)/Scattergood Swings It (1942 - b/w)/Cinderella Swings It (1953 - b/w) - Interchangeable Scattergood Baines installments.
Joe Smith,American (1942 - b/w) - Forgettable Robert Young propaganda.
Powder Town (1942 - b/w) - Slightly scientific comedy drama. Average, but interesting seeing a fresh-faced Edmond O'Brien before the hellraising set in.
Ladies' Day (1942 - b/w) - Forgettable B-comedy with Eddie Albert and Lupe Velez.
Obliging Young Lady (1942 - b/w) - Routine chase-com B from RKO.
Four Jacks and a Jill (1942 - b/w) - Rote musical with Ray Bolger.
Pierre of the Plains (1942 - b/w) - Sentimental MGM northern.
My Favorite Spy (1942 - b/w) - Kay Kyser variety show with a limp plot. See also Playmates (1941 - b/w).
Mokey (1942 - b/w) - Little Robert Blake, before he became a murderer runs away from home, eat some Babe Ruths and blacks up to live with his African American pals.
Sing Your Worries Away (1942 - b/w) - Routine musical with Bert Lahr and Buddy Ebsen.
Mr. Lucky (1943 - b/w) - Rote Cary Grant vehicle.
Hitler's Children (1943 - b/w) - Propaganda puff with Bonita Granville about the Hitler Youth.
Higher and Higher (1943 - b/w) - Routine early Frank Sinatra vehicle with his old head.
They Got Me Covered (1943 - b/w) - Routine Bob Hope routine.
See also Road to Singapore (1940 - b/w), Road to Zanzibar (1941 - b/w), Road to Rio (1947 - b/w).
Government Girl (1943 - b/w) - Rote political romance with Olivia De Havilland.
Petticoat Larceny (1943 - b/w) - Forgettable precocious little girl comedy.
Call of the South Seas (1944 - b/w) - Routine South Seas hokum, from Republic. See also Harbor of Missing Men (1950 - b/w).
My Pal Wolf (1944 - b/w) - Forgettable kiddy-pic. See also Banjo (1947 - b/w).
Heavenly Days (1944 - b/w) - Bogstandard angelic comedy with Fibber McGee, Molly and Eugene Pallette.
See also Seven Days' Leave (1942 - b/w) and Look Who's Laughing (1942 - b/w), which brings in Fibber, Gildersleeve and the genius Edgar Bergen, and Charlie McCarthy plus Lucille Ball and a wing-walking chimp, and the sitcommy The Great Gildersleeve (1942 - b/w), Gildersleeve on Broadway (1943 - b/w) and Gildersleeve's Bad Day (1943 - b/w).
Belle of the Yukon (1944) - Rote saloon musical with Randolph Scott.
Youth Runs Wild (1944 - b/w) - Ropey juvenile delinquency from Val Lewton
Step Lively (1944 - b/w) - Rote musical comedy, with Frank Sinatra, but one of several vehicles for Brown and Carney. See also Gangway for Tomorrow (1943 - b/w), Seven Days Ashore (1944 - b/w), Girl Rush (1944 - b/w), Radio Stars on Parade (1945 - b/w), and a part in Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event (1944 - b/w).
Also saw the various Mexican Spitfires with Leon Errol and Lupe Velez - The Girl from Mexico (1939 - b/w), Mexican Spitfire (1940 - b/w), Mexican Spitfire Out West (1940 - b/w), Mexican Spitfire's Baby (1941 - b/w), Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost (1942 - b/w), Mexican Spitfire's Elephant (1942 - b/w), Mexican Spitfire at Sea (1942 - b/w). Typical sitcoms that focus more on Leon Errol's faux-Lord schtick.
The Enchanted Forest (1944) - Charming if treacly color fantasy from PRC, with Harry Davenport as the white equivalent of a Magical Negro.
The Clock (1945 - b/w) - Routine romance with Judy Garland and Robert Walker.
Riverboat Rhythm (1946 - b/w) - Dullish musical comedy.
San Quentin (1946 - b/w) -Ropey prison fare with Lawrence Tierney.
Without Reservations (1946 - b/w) - Routine romcom with Claudette Colbert and John Wayne.
The Flame (1947 - b/w) - Threadbare Republic noir, with Henry Travers and Hattie McDaniel as, what else, a maid. See also The Red Menace (1949 - b/w).
Honeymoon (1947 - b/w) - Routine romcom with Shirley Temple.
See also Bride by Mistake (1944 - b/w), Casanova Brown (1944 - b/w), Lady Luck (1946 - b/w), A Likely Story (1947 - b/w).
Tenth Avenue Angel (1948 - b/w) - Margaret O'Brien schmaltz.
T-Men (1948 - B/W) - Well-made noir, but I find these kind of stories boring.
Mickey (1948) -Cheapo color teen musical from Eagle Lion, with Hattie McDaniel.
The Shanghai Story (1954 - b/w) - Hackneyed Republic attempt to do a Phil Karlson-type true crime film in China, with Ruth Roman and Edmond O'Brien.
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