They Got Me Covered

David Butler

Fired by his editor for incompetence, idiotic reporter Robert Kittredge sees a chance at redeeming himself when he accidentally uncovers a network of Nazi spies in Washington, D.C.


The Princess and the Pirate

David Butler

Princess Margaret (Virginia Mayo) flees her father to marry a commoner, but is abducted by notorious pirate The Hook (Victor McLaglen). Also on board the pirate ship is The Great Sylvester (Bob Hope), a cowardly actor who, disguised as a gypsy woman, was kidnapped by The Hook's tattoo artist, Featherhead (Walter Brennan). Dismayed to learn Sylvester is a man, Featherhead forces him to steal The Hook's treasure map, and take both it and Margaret to a distant island so he can later claim them.


Two Guys From Milwaukee

David Butler

When his train arrives at Pennsylvania Station in New York City, Balkan Prince Henry (Dennis Morgan), who is determined to learn what life is like for ordinary people, slips away and is befriended by taxi driver Buzz Williams (Jack Carson). Henry claims to be from Milwaukee, which is also Buzz's hometown. Movie fans watch for a cameo from Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, who play themselves on a plane.


Playmates (1941)

David Butler

Bandleader Kay Kyser and noted thespian John Barrymore play themselves in this fun-loving musical. Barrymore is a washed-up ham actor deep in debt who reluctantly agrees to transform bucolic Kyser into a Shakespearean actor in exchange for a radio contract. The comedy culminates with a swing version of Romeo and Juliet. Barrymore makes his final screen appearance, recapturing his past by reciting a few passages from Hamlet's soliloquy.


A Connecticut Yankee

David Butler

Will Rogers, beloved American humorist, takes a trip back in time to King Arthur's Court. With Maureen O'Sullivan and Myrna Loy.


Lullaby of Broadway

David Butler

Doris Day and Gene Nelson, sing, dance and romance their way from Europe to the Big Apple in The Lullaby of Broadway. While singer Melinda Howard (Day) has been successfully touring the continent, her mother, former Broadway star Jessica Howard (Gladys George), has fallen on hard times. When Melinda returns for a surprise visit, the elder Howard does not want her daughter to know she now works as a singer and barmaid in a seedy dive. Jessica convinces the current owner of her former mansion, Adolph Hubbell (S.Z. Sakall), to host a party for Melinda's homecoming. At the party, Melinda meets Broadway dancing star Tom Farnham (Nelson), and sparks fly. But difficulties will be encountered, secrets revealed, and mother and daughter reconciled before Tom and Melinda find true love.


Kentucky

David Butler

Based on the novel, "The look of Eagles" by John Taintor foote. Feud between two Kentuckian families that begins during the Civil War and lasts for three generations, ending when two of their heirs fall in love eighty years later.


Pigskin Parade

David Butler

This hilarious comedy stars Jack Haley and Patsy Kelly as married football coaches. Judy Garland in her first film appearance.


Jump Into Hell

David Butler

French paratroopers heroically fight a losing battle against the Vietnamese in 1955 in their struggle to win at Dien Ben Phu and hold the country as a colony for France.


The Girl He Left Behind

David Butler

1950s heartthrobs Tab Hunter and Natalie Wood star as a spoiled fraternity boy who's drafted into the peacetime army and as the young woman he loves--The Girl He Left Behind. University student Andy Shaeffer has been doing everything he can to avoid being drafted into the military, even though the United States is not at war. But when his girlfriend, Susan Daniels, becomes so upset at what she regards as his cowardice that she breaks up with him, Andy's grades fall and he loses his draft deferment. And when Andy arrives in basic training, his commanding officer makes it a personal mission to turn Andy from a spoiled, immature boy into a man.


Bright Eyes

David Butler

The first big film created especially for her, Bright Eyes helped make Shirley Temple a huge box-office star and features her most famous song: "On The Good Ship Lollipop". The little darling of a group of aviators, Shirley splits her time between her pilot godfather Loop (James Dunn) and her long-suffering mother (Lois Wilson), housemaid for a selfish, wealthy family. When a tragic accident suddenly leaves Shirley orphaned, Loop sets out to adopt Shirley- until he learns he's not the only one determined to keep the adorable youngster.


It's a Great Feeling

David Butler

A waitress at the Warner Brothers commissary wants to break into pictures and thinks her big break has arrived when actors Jack Carson and Dennis Morgan agree to help her.


San Antonio (1945)

David Butler

Errol Flynn stars with Alexis Smith in a Western adventure set in San Antonio. Texas, 1877. Cattle rustling has grown to the point that many cattle ranchers have been driven off the range. One who has stayed behind to fight the rustlers is Charlie Bell (John Litel). When Charlie learns that his friend Clay Hardin (Flynn--The Adventures of Robin Hood) plans to return to Texas from his hideaway in Mexico, he crosses the border to warn him that his life has been threatened by the rustlers. Clay responds that he has acquired proof that will put Roy Stuart (Paul Kelly), the head of the rustlers, in jail.


King Richard and the Crusaders

David Butler

Sir Walter Scott's classic novel The Talisman about King Richard the Lionheart's quest to wrest the Holy Grail from the Emperor Saladin comes to the screen in King Richard and the Crusaders.


How to Steal 2 Million

Charlie Vundla

Jack gets out of jail after five years, to find that his partner Twala, who never got caught, has married his girlfriend. Desperate for money, he agrees to help his partner rob his partner's father for two million Rand. However the robbery goes wrong, and secret plans come out. As the pressure mounts on them, the tension builds towards the surprising and explosive finale.


The Little Colonel

David Butler

In the post-Civil war south, a darling little girl attempts to restore the peace between her parents and her plantation owner grandfather.


The Littlest Rebel

David Butler

Shirley Temple's father, a rebel officer, sneaks back to his rundown plantation to see his family and is arrested. A Yankee officer takes pity and sets up an escape. Everyone is captured and the officers are to be executed. Shirley and "Bojangles" Robinson beg President Lincoln to intercede.


Captain January

David Butler

Previously filmed as a vehicle for Baby Peggy Montgomery in 1922, Laura E. Richard's Captain January was warmed up as a Shirley Temple picture 14 years later. Temple plays Star, a child of divorce who is looked after by crusty-but-lovable lighthouse keeper Captain January (Guy Kibbee). Truant officer Agatha Morgan (Sara Haden) determines that the Captain is not providing Star with suitable surroundings or a proper education, and before long our sobbing heroine is whisked away to a boarding school. She is rescued by kindly Mr. and Mrs. Morgan (George Irving and Nella Walker), distant relatives who try to provide the girl with a decent home, but the poor child still yearns for the company of Captain January and his friends Paul (Buddy Ebsen) and Nazro (Slim Summerville). All ends happily when January and his two chums are hired as crew members on the Morgans' yacht.


John Loves Mary

David Butler

After four long years apart, there are so many things returning World War II soldier John Lawrence wants to tell his sweetheart, Mary McKinley. That he loves her. That he's missed her. That he's married. No wait, honey, there's an innocent explanation! Ronald Reagan is John and film-debuting Patricia Neal is Mary in a tale of a G.I. whose good deed - marrying his buddy's British girl so she can come to America - turns out to be a bad idea when he discovers the buddy has already tied the knot with someone else! Based on Norman Krasna's hit Broadway play, John Loves Mary is an airy, witty farce, a wedding cake of comedy and romance.


Painting the Clouds With Sunshine

David Butler

Three L.A. gold diggers make the pilgrimage to Las Vegas in search of rich husbands. Romance and comedy ensue, buoyed by the songs of Irving Caesar, Rodgers and Hart, and many others in this musical comedy. From the director of "Calamity Jane" and "Lullaby of Broadway, featuring Virginia Mayo ("The Best Years of Our Lives"), Dennis Morgan ("Kitty Foyle"), Gene Nelson ("Oklahoma!") and Virginia Gibson ("Seven Brides for Seven Brothers").


The Command

David Butler

With shoot-'em-ups galore, a clean-cut hero, dust-beaten horse soldiers and fearless warriors, The Command - Warner Bros.' first CinemaScope release - is a galloping entertainment success. Guy Madison portrays 7th cavalry doctor Capt. Robert MacClaw, unexpectedly handed the reins of his battered troop's command. Unfamiliar with by-the-book military tactics, MacClaw nevertheless knows how to take charge. He keeps the book closed and his mind open as he leads his men and a settlers' wagon train on a desperate journey besieged by waves of Indian attacks. Multiple Oscar winner* Dimitri Tiomkin provides the lively score pacing the thunderous action. And plenty of hoofs provide the thunder: the movie's wrangler estimated the project required 41,882 horse-hours (number of horses times number of hours used). That ain't hay!


Road to Morocco

David Butler

Like Webster's dictionary, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour are "Morocco-bound" in the third rollicking entry in their popular series of Road comedies. Survivors of a Mediterranean shipwreck, stowaways Jeff (Crosby) and Orville (Hope) paddle to a North African shore and hitch a camel ride across the desert to Morocco. In order to buy food, Jeff sells Orville into slavery - but Orville's owner turns out to be the luscious Princess Shalmar (Lamour), who quickly offers to become his wife. Unfortunately, the true reason for the Princess' proposal soon becomes clear. Her prophet has warned that her first husband will meet a violent death within days of their marriage! An Oscar nominee for Best Original Screenplay, Road to Morocco is highlighted by Bing's rendition of one of his best-loved songs, the unforgettable "Moonlight Becomes You."


By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953)

David Butler

Doris Day and Gordon MacRae star in an old fashioned musical salute to the small town American family. Inspired by the stories of Booth Tarkington ("The Magnificent Ambersons," "Alice Adams") and set at the end of WWI, it captures the travails of a returning soldier and his fiancee as family complications delay their inevitable wedding. Prequel to "On Moonlight Bay."


Calamity Jane

David Butler

Doris Day is at her best as the roughest, toughest, rootin'-tootin' gal of the wild West, riding, roping and shooting her way through a jamboree of action and hit songs. Howard Keel is her on-again, off-again paramour Wild Bill Hickok, who only begins to realize his feelings for her when she makes a stab at being more "feminine." This classic Warner Bros. musical features a Sammy Fain-Paul Francis Webster score, including the Oscar-winning song, "Secret Love."


April In Paris (1952)

David Butler

Musical stars Doris Day ("Pillow Talk") and Ray Bolger ("The Wizard of Oz") find love on land and sea, but not without some humorous complications in this lively classic. As a chorus girl mistakenly sent to Paris on a cultural junket, Day meets up with diplomat Bolger and the dance of romance begins.


Tea for Two

David Butler

The screen version of "No, No, Nanette" in which an actress/heiress bets her uncle that she can say "no" to every question for the length of a weekend. If she wins, she gets the chance to star in her own Broadway show. Lively musical with film greats Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Gene Nelson and Eve Arden.


The Story of Seabiscuit

David Butler

Oscar-honoree Shirley Temple ("Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm") stars in this fictionalized story about the famous champion race horse. Problems arise when her love for Seabiscuit's jockey is frowned upon by her uncle.