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- DirectorCharles BennettStarsLew AyresSonny TuftsMarjorie SteeleWhen the available evidence in a murder case points to a young woman as the main suspect, her boyfriend, a police detective, arranges for a struggling songwriter who is playing piano in a bar to be blamed for the crime. The girl, knowing that neither she nor the piano player committed the murder, helps him to escape from the police dragnet and try to find the real killer.
- DirectorOtto PremingerStarsWilliam HoldenDavid NivenMaggie McNamaraTwo aging playboys are both after the same attractive young woman, but she fends them off by claiming that she plans to remain a virgin until her wedding night. Both men determine to find a way around her objections.
- DirectorJohn RawlinsStarsSteve CochranCarole MathewsWarren StevensClay Webley returns to Florida from the Civil War a hunted man and his brother, Dan Webley agrees to lead him and his wounded friend, Curtis Parker, through the Everglades to the Gulf of Mexico with Cuba as their final destination. The dying man reveals that Clay has murdered a man. The brothers slog through the swamp fighting off alligators, snakes and the plot and come upon a widow and her son whom the Seminoles, who control the Everglades, have allowed to stay. She agrees to let them stay when Clay is bitten by a poisonous snake, and a romance develops between her and Dan, while the recovering Clay plots a few schemes of his own. When the Seminoles discover the presence of the brothers, all are forced to flee through the Everglades with the Seminoles in pursuit.
- DirectorEwald André DupontStarsRod CameronTab HunterJohn DehnerCameron finds a tank buried in the Arabian desert during WWII, and proceeds to attack the Arabs with it.
- DirectorSidney SalkowStarsJohn PayneDonna ReedGerald MohrA legendary pirate captures a Spanish galleon and tries to claim a countess as his bride.
- DirectorLewis MilestoneStarsPatrice MunselRobert MorleyJohn McCallumThe highly fictionalized story of Nellie Melba, Australian-born soprano who rose to operatic fame in the latter part of the 19th century and who had a dessert and form of dry toast (true) named after her. In her film debut, the Metropolitan Opera's Patrice Munsel, plays the title role in a film that primarily strings together eight excerpts from well-known operas as well as one or two lighter numbers and a montage of famous opera personalities featuring the chorus of the Covent Garden Opera and members of the Sadler's Wells Ballet. The story follows the career of Melba from the time she left her father's Australian cattle ranch, and a suitor, to travel to Paris to get her voice training, and picks up another suitor. She debuts in Brussels and is a smash hit followed by international fame. The suitor from Australia shows up in Monte Carlo, marries her and soon is cast in the role of "Mr. Melba" until he can take it no longer and returns to Australia, while Melba decides her voice belongs to the world and sadly goes on alone.
- DirectorLesley SelanderStarsRobert StackJoan TaylorCharles McGrawAn Indian and his beautiful sister attempt to destroy a cavalry patrol trying to deliver a peace treaty to their chief.
- DirectorHarry EssexStarsBiff ElliotPreston FosterPeggie CastleDectective Mike Hammer is determined to catch and kill the person who shot his close friend dead, so he follows clues that lead to a beautiful, seductive woman.
- DirectorJoseph LoseyStarsPaul MuniJoan LorringVittorio ManuntaA nameless, homeless and rejected man who is looking for a new life and a young boy from an impoverished family, who is forced to steal when he loses the milk money. These two come together in the same hiding place.
- DirectorMark RobsonStarsGary CooperBarry JonesRoberta HaynesAn American drifter comes to a remote Polynesian island controlled by a Puritanical missionary and turns the social life of the island upside-down.
- DirectorThomas CarrStarsRichard GreeneLeonora AmarNedrick YoungCaptain Scarlett returns from gallivanting around the country-side after the Napoleonic wars and finds life in southern France very different. He saves a beautiful princess from an arranged marriage to an evil count, protects many of the people from being persecuted by the Duke of Corlais, and eventually rids the country of the scourge of Corlais' power.
- DirectorLouis KingStarsRobert StackColeen GrayRichard ArlenThe story of jet pilots flying over Korea by day, from their Itazuke Air Base in Japan, and of their wives, on station with them, who have dinner ready when they return. Jane Carter (Coleen Gray), a reporter for a large newspaper syndicate arrives... she's also the estranged wife of the assistant squadron commander, Colonel Gil Manton (Robert Stack.) At first, she goes at her assignment of getting a story on the pilots wives with the same ruthlessness and persistence that broke up her marriage - but a mirror isn't needed to peek around the corner to where this one is headed.
- DirectorArch ObolerRobert ClampettStarsRobert StackBarbara BrittonNigel BruceBritish railway workers in Kenya are becoming the favorite snack of two man-eating lions. Head engineer Bob Hayward becomes obsessed with trying to kill the beasts before they maul everyone on his crew.
- DirectorRay NazarroStarsGeorge MontgomeryTab HunterHelen WestcottOutlaw Matt Ringo escapes prison and wants to co-opt his former outlaw brother Billy into robbing a Wells Fargo money shipment, but Billy has gone straight, the town Marshal is Wyatt Earp, and the Clinton gang wants in on the deal.
- DirectorRobert ParrishStarsJoel McCreaLaurence NaismithDenis LehrerA retired U.S. Army Colonel living in England stumbles upon a spy ring when he shoots buckshot at a poacher during a hunt.
- DirectorRay NazarroStarsRichard GreenePaula RaymondRaymond BurrSiamese twins separated at birth retain a psychic link - each feels the other's pain and happiness.
- DirectorFelix E. FeistStarsLew AyresGene EvansNancy ReaganThree scientists unlawfully remove the still living brain of a dead tycoon and experiment with it but the evil brain begins to telepathically control the lead scientist.
- DirectorPhil KarlsonStarsJohn PayneEvelyn KeyesBrad DexterA former boxer turned cab driver has to hide from the police when his badgering wife is murdered by the jewel thief she was having an affair with.
- DirectorCurt SiodmakHerbert L. StrockStarsRichard CarlsonKing DonovanJean ByronThe Office of Scientific Investigation sends A-Men agents to investigate reports of unusual magnetic activity in various communities.
- DirectorArnold LavenStarsEdward G. RobinsonPaulette GoddardK.T. StevensPolice procedural film following a few cases assigned to LAPD captain of detectives Barnie Barnaby.
- DirectorPaul LandresStarsJon HallRay MontgomeryVictor MillanRamar of the Jungle encounters a holy man who warns him of great danger. His friend Professor Howard is near death, cursed by the Mark of Shitan. A sacred golden tablet and a woman ready for sacrifice holds the key to Howard's survival.
- DirectorLew LandersStarsAnthony DexterJody LawranceAlan Hale Jr.Captain John Smith overcomes the treachery of some of his men and resentment of the local Native Americans to establish the colony of Jamestown.
- DirectorRobert GordonStarsColey WallacePaul StewartHilda SimmsThe life and career of Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis, who held the title for 12 years--longer than any other boxer in history--and who had to not only battle opponents inside the ring and racism outside it.
- DirectorLesley SelanderStarsYvonne De CarloCarlos ThompsonRaymond BurrIn northwest Africa, a tribal leader tries to stir up a rebellion against the ruling powers.
- DirectorJack PollexfenAubrey WisbergStarsJohn ArcherHillary BrookeNoel CravatA bonding company sends an investigator to China to find out if one of its clients actually stole $7,000,000 worth of gold as claimed by the supposed owner. He is soon involved in a series of murders and intrigues involving a man posing as the client, the client's wife and the man who claims ownership of the stolen gold. Many plot machinations follow before those who had seen all this before and know where it is going are told by the writers what they already knew.