 Rachel and the Stranger (1948) - Loretta Young, William Holden and Robert Mitchum star in a Western romantic comedy, the story of a timid "bondwoman" (a temporary slave, in other words) who marries her rather stiff and humorless master, played by Holden, then meets the charming Mr. Mitchum, who does his own singing in the movie! Holden's character has a young son played by Gary Gray, and the four primary cast members take up most of the time on screen, aside from a weak subplot involving soldiers and Indians.
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 Racket Busters (1938) - A pre-fame Humphrey Bogart appears as a top gangster, but he also plays second fiddle to hero George Brent. Allen Jenkins is good in a supporting role, and Walter Abel's character is a thinly-disguised crusading Thomas E. Dewey, who later ran for President.
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 Raffles (1940) - David Niven perfected his role as a charming rogue, and is joined by an equally charming Olivia de Havilland, in this remake of the Ronald Colman/Kay Francis film of nine years earlier. Entertaining, but not The Pink Panther!
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 Reach For Glory (1962) - A haunting and disturbing story based on John Rae's novel The Custard Boys. It tells the story of a group of London adolescents evacuated to a small town during WW II and their shocking descent into cruelty.
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 The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker (1959) - The inimitable Clifton Webb was (some feel) miscast as the head of two big families at the same time, with Dorothy MacGuire as his most recent wife, and Charles Coburn as his exasperated father. I know this one well, since I had my first acting experience at the age of eight as the youngest child! (On stage, not in the movie.) Webb is perfect as the intellectual free-thinker, not so believable as a father of 19!
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 Rhapsody in Blue (1945) - Robert Alda portrays legendary composer George Gershwin, ably supported by Alexis Smith and Joan Leslie, but the music is really the star. Al Jolson and Paul Whiteman appear as themselves.
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 Rogue Cop (1954) - The hard-boiled William McGivern novel is turned into a thrilling noir starring Robert Taylor as a cop out to avenge the murder of his brother (Steve Forrest), with Janet Leigh as the brother's girlfriend, George Raft as a vicious gangster, and Anne Francis as Raft's former girl. Oscar-nominated cinematography by John F. Seitz (his 7th nomination without a win).
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 The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947) - In a very young Janet Leigh's first lead role in Hollywood, she is paired with Van Johnson in a film set in rural Missouri after the Civil War. It has some songs and some comic elements, but is also a drama about the conflicts still remaining during that period in American history, with a screenplay written by blacklisted Hollywood Ten writer Lester Cole, based on a MacKinlay Kantor story. Thomas Mitchell is excellent as Leigh's father.
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 Roogie's Bump (1954) - A young boy who has been bullied in school (Robert Marriott) one day develops a strange bump on his arm that allows him to pitch for the Brooklyn Dodgers. It's a kids' movie with an adult moral, and features lots of former Dodgers stars, to boot.
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 Roughly Speaking (1945) - A comedy/drama starring Rosalind Russell as the daughter of a New England merchant who inherits her father's business, marries and remarries, and sends her sons off to war. Jack Carson co-stars as Russell's second husband, a likable gambler.
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