Movies: Robert Taylor

This documentary, filmed entirely by military photographers, recounts the U.S. Navy's 1946-47 expedition to Antarctica, known as Operation High Jump. The expedition was under the overall command of Admiral Richard E. Byrd, no stranger to the Antarcti...

This short film takes a look at the off-screen personas of screen actors. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012....

A ship's captain gets mixed up with murder during the hunt for lost Nazi treasure....

A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom....

Raymond Dabney returns to his family after trouble with the law. He convinces the sheriff to give him a job watching the house and furniture of widow Crystal Wetherby without knowing she is engaged to his brother....

Broke and about to divorce his wife, a pilot joins a smuggling scheme in postwar Madrid....

American conductor John Meredith and his manager, Hank Higgins, go to Russia shortly before the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Meredith falls in love with beautiful Soviet pianist Nadya Stepanova while they travel throughout the country on a 40-c...

Ignored by his ever-busy wife and children, a middle-aged businessman finds companionship with a former female employee....

In this documentary short film, a link is described between the U.S. Navy forces of World War II and the advance Navy of 1950. After illustrating the work of the Navy in winning the Second World War, the film demonstrates how peacetime brought new ex...

Epidemiologist Cliff Claybourne falls in love with Rita Wilson in a gambling house. They want to marry but Cliff's brother is convinced Rita is no good and forces Cliff to fulfill his agreement to do research in Africa in exchange for paying gambling...

A flirt tries to make her fiancée jealous by hiring a gigolo....

This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes behind the scenes to look at how the sound portion of a talking picture is created....

In this continuation of a prior government documentary short film, a pilot trainee continues his first flight instruction. His instructor demonstrates the use of ailerons, elevators, and rudder to control the plane in banks and turns, and illustrates...

In this government documentary short film for the U.S. Navy, pilot trainees are instructed in the basics of take-off preparation, including the plane captain's inspection and the checklists of notations from prior flights of the same aircraft. Instru...

This documentary short film is intended to instruct U.S. Navy pilot trainees in the proper preparation of their airplane and their equipment prior to flight. A chief flight instructor demonstrates the correct method of holding, carrying, and wearing ...

A Traveltalk style documentary look at Rome....

Movie stars are interviewed on a boat in 1947 in Hampshire, United Kingdom....

MGM hosts a salute to Will Rogers (1875-1935) shortly after his death. After a few words from Gary Cooper and Harry Carey, a look at Rogers' fatal trip with Wiley Post, clips from Rogers' movies, a proclamation from Oklahoma's governor, and a cowboy ...

An embezzler who expects to serve his time in prison and then pick up his buried loot is in for a surprise....

A young Iowa woman inherits her late estranged father's New York business, but the dead man's crooked associates think they can outwit the naive heir and seize control....