Obscure films? Obscure movies? Well, films which are perhaps not as well known as the ones which receive recognition from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), or other such organizations. For instance, there were a lot of films made during the studio system years known as “B” pictures. These were made because the studios oftentimes also owned their own movie theaters, which had to have a continuous string of new films to show each week. So, “B movies” (e.g. “B Westerns“) were made on “shoestring” budgets in a short amount of time, and usually without very well known actors and directors. However, as you will see, some of those involved in these ‘B films’ “graduated” to the mainstream and/or big budget productions, either within the same studio or with a different one.

Additionally, I started adding films to this list which were either not in Leonard Maltin’s guide or for which there were no external reviews provided on imdb.com (or both!). So, some of the films reviewed below may not be as obscure as others. I hope you enjoy reading these obscure movie reviews!

• 6000 Enemies (1939)
• Above and Beyond (1952)
• Across to Singapore (1928)
• Act of Violence (1948)
• Ada (1961)
• Adventures of a Rookie The (1943)
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The (1939)
• Adventures of Marco Polo The (1938)
• Adventures of Mark Twain The (1944)
• Adventures of Rusty The (1945)
• Adventures of Tartu (1943)
• Affairs of Anatol The (1921)
• Affairs of Dobie Gillis The (1953)
• Age of Consent The (1932)
• Air Force (1943)
• All Fall Down (1962)
• All-American Co-Ed (1941)
• Along the Rio Grande (1941)
• And One Was Beautiful (1940)
• Apache Trail (1942)
• Back to God’s Country (1919)
• Badlanders The (1958)
• Bamboo Blonde The (1946)
• Bandit Ranger (1942)
• Bandit Trail The (1941)
• Barbary Coast Gent (1944)
• Battle of the Sexes The (1928)
• Beg Borrow or Steal (1937)
• Beginning or the End The (1947)
• Bitter Sweet (1940)
• Blockade (1938)
• Blonde Inspiration (1941)
• Blood on the Moon (1948)
• Bohème La (1926)
• Bombardier (1943)
• Born to Sing (1942)
• Boys’ Night Out (1962)
• Bright Victory (1951)
• Broadway Hostess (1935)
• Bundle of Joy (1956)
• Burn ‘Em Up O’Connor (1939)
• By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953)
• Camille (1921)
• Captain Caution (1940)
• Captain Newman M.D. (1963)
• Captain Salvation (1927)
• Carbine Williams (1952)
• Castle on the Hudson (1940)
• Chances (1931)
• Chatterbox (1936)
• Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941)
• Clash of the Wolves (1925)
• Comparative Review of the three “Maltese Falcon” movies
• Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)
• Confidential Agent (1945)
• Cornered (1945)
• Counter-Attack (1945)
• Cowboy and the Lady The (1938)
• Crack-Up (1946)
• Criminal Lawyer (1937)
• Crossroads (1942)
• Cry Terror! (1958)
• Curtain Call (1940)
• Cyclone on Horseback (1941)
• Dangerous When Wet (1953)
• Deep Valley (1947)
• Desert Passage (1952)
• Devil and Miss Jones The (1941)
• Divine Lady The (1929)
• Divorce – Italian Style (1961)
• Don’t Bet on Blondes (1935)
• Don’t Give Up the Ship (1959)
• Don’t Tell the Wife (1937)
• Doña Bárbara (1943)
• Dr. Jack (1922)
• Dr. Socrates (1935)
• Edge of Darkness (1943)
• Edward My Son (1949)
• Escapade (1955)
• Escape from Crime (1942)
• Exit Smiling (1926)
• First Auto The (1927)
• First Hundred Years The (1938)
• Flight Angels (1940)
• Flying Fortress (1942)
• Flying With Music (1942)
• Footloose Heiress The (1937)
• Four Girls in White (1939)
• Garden of Eden The (1928)
• Gentle Annie (1944)
• Get-Away The (1941)
• Girl Crazy (1943)
• Girl Most Likely The (1957)
• Girl Said No The (1930)
• Great Lover The (1931)
• Great Man Votes The (1939)
• Great Mr. Nobody The (1941)
• Green Helmet The (1961)
• Half Naked Truth The (1932)
• Happy Years The (1950)
• Hard Fast and Beautiful (1951)
• Haunted Spooks (1920)
• Have a Heart (1934)
• Hawaiians The (1970)
• Heavenly Body The (1944)
• Henry Goes Arizona (1939)
• Hi Diddle Diddle (1943)
• High Flyers (1937)
• Hook The (1963)
• I Live for Love (1935)
• I Married A Doctor (1936)
• I’ll See You in My Dreams (1951)
• Idiot’s Delight (1939)
• If Winter Comes (1947)
• Interrupted Melody (1955)
• Janie (1944)
• Joe Louis Story The (1953)
• Journey for Margaret (1942)
• Kansan The (1943)
• Kapo (1959)
• Keep ‘Em Rolling (1934)
• Keeping Company (1940)
• Kid from Texas The (1939)
• Killer McCoy (1947)
• Kind Lady (1935)
• Kind Lady (1951)
• Kisses for Breakfast (1941)
• Lady Windermere’s Fan (1925)
• Larceny Inc. (1942)
• Lights of New York (1928)
• Lone Wolf Spy Hunt The (1939)
• Lorna Doone (1922)
• Lost Lady A (1934)
• Love (1927)
• Love in the Rough (1930)
• Lucky Me (1954)
• Macario (1960)
• Madame DuBarry (1934)
• Made on Broadway (1933)
• Man in Possession The (1931)
• Man in the Shadow (1957)
• Man Who Walked Alone The (1945)
• Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
• Married Bachelor (1941)
• Married Before Breakfast (1937)
• Mating Call The (1928)
• Mating Game The (1959)
• Member of the Wedding The (1952)
• Men Against the Sky (1940)
• Men Are Such Fools (1938)
• Men of America (1932)
• Milky Way The (1936)
• Millionaires in Prison (1940)
• Miracles for Sale (1939)
• Mokey (1942)
• Money and the Woman (1940)
• Moran of the Lady Letty (1922)
• Mrs. Parkington (1944)
• My Dream Is Yours (1949)
• My Reputation (1946)
• My Son My Son! (1940)
• Mysterious Doctor The (1943)
• Mysterious Lady The (1928)
• Mystery House (1938)
• Neptune’s Daughter (1949)
• No Other Woman (1933)
• Northwest Rangers (1942)
• Notorious Affair A (1930)
• Obliging Young Lady (1942)
• Of Human Bondage (1946)
• Old San Francisco (1927)
• Omaha Trail The (1942)
• On Moonlight Bay (1951)
• One Crowded Night (1940)
• Our Very Own (1950)
• Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945)
• Painted Desert (1938)
• Perfect Gentleman The (1935)
• Perils of Pauline The (1947)
• Perla La (1947)
• Petticoat Larceny (1943)
• Pirates of the Prairie (1942)
• Politics (1931)
• Prairie Law (1940)
• Private Detective (1939)
• Public WeddingA (1937)
• Quai des Brumes Le (1938)
• Racing Lady (1937)
• Rack The (1956)
• Racket The (1928)
• Raffles (1939)
• Rag Man The (1925)
• Real Glory The (1939)
• Red Lily The (1924)
• Riding the Wind (1942)
• Right of Way The (1931)
• Rio Grande Patrol (1950)
• Road Agent (1952)
• Rogue Cop (1954)
• Romance of Rosy Ridge The (1947)
• Rookies in Burma (1943)
• Rose-Marie (1936)
• Saddle the Wind (1958)
• Sailor Beware (1952)
• San Antonio (1945)
• Saturday’s Children (1940)
• Secret Command (1944)
• Secret Fury The (1950)
• Secret Heart The (1946)
• Secret Land The (1948)
• Secret Partner The (1961)
• Secrets of the French Police (1932)
• See Here Private Hargrove (1944)
• Seven Days Ashore (1944)
• Shadow of a Woman (1946)
• Shadow of Doubt (1935)
• Shadow on the Wall (1950)
• She Loved a Fireman (1937)
• Sing and Like It (1934)
• Sing Your Way Home (1945)
• Sins of the Children (1930)
• Sky’s the Limit The (1943)
• Smiling Ghost (1941)
• So Proudly We Hail! (1943)
• So This is College (1929)
• So This is Washington (1943)
• So Well Remembered (1947)
• Society Lawyer (1939)
• Soldiers Three (1951)
• Something New (1920)
• Sporting Blood (1940)
• St. Louis Blues (1958)
• Stand By For Action (1942)
• Station West (1948)
• Steel Against the Sky (1941)
• Step Lively (1944)
• Story of Three Loves The (1953)
• Story of Vernon and Irene Castle The (1939)
• Straight Place and Show (1938)
• Stranger in Town A (1943)
• Sweepstakes Winner (1939)
• Sworn Enemy (1936)
• Take the High Ground! (1953)
• Tanks a Million (1941)
• Target (1952)
• Tarnished Angel (1938)
• Tell It to the Marines (1926)
• Tempest (1928)
• Temptress The (1926)
• Tess of the Storm Country (1922)
• Their Own Desire (1929)
• This Time for Keeps (1942)
• Thundering Hoofs (1942)
• Til We Meet Again (1940)
• Tish (1942)
• Too Many Husbands (1940)
• Torpedo Run (1958)
• Torrent (1926)
• Trail Guide (1952)
• Trial (1955)
• Tribute to a Bad Man (1956)
• Triple Justice (1940)
• Turn Back the Clock (1933)
• Two Against the World (1932)
• Two Against the World (1936)
• Two Arabian Knights (1927)
• Two Sisters from Boston (1946)
• Unexpected Uncle (1941)
• Vacation from Marriage (1945)
• Vacation in Reno (1946)
• Vagabond Lady (1935)
• Walk Softly Stranger (1950)
• Wallflower (1948)
• War Against Mrs. Hadley The (1942)
• War Nurse (1930)
• We’re Only Human (1935)
• Wedding Night The (1935)
• Welcome Danger (1929)
• Welcome to Hard Times (1967)
• West Point Story The (1950)
• Western Heritage (1948)
• What Every Woman Knows (1934)
• Wheeler Dealers The (1963)
• When a Man Loves (1927)
• Whistling in the Dark (1941)
• White Cliffs of Dover The (1944)
• Wild Orchids (1929)
• Winter Meeting (1948)
• Winterset (1936)
• Woman Rebels A (1936)
• Yellow Cab Man The (1950)
• You Can’t Escape Forever (1942)
• Young and the Brave The (1963)
• Young Bess (1953)