 The Tall Target (1951) - Dick Powell plays a detective named (in another of those famous historical coincidences) "John Kennedy" who is trying to foil a plot to kill Abraham Lincoln in 1861. Based on an actual incident that may or may not have happened in exactly this way, the noirish film has a great supporting cast and is tightly directed by Anthony Mann (The Glenn Miller Story).
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 The Tarnished Angels (1957) - An action film with a love triangle, as Rock Hudson plays a reporter who falls for the wife (Dorothy Malone) of a barnstorming pilot (Robert Stack). Directed by Douglas Sirk.
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 Tea and Sympathy (1956) - Tom Lee (John Kerr) is a sensitive boy of 17 whose lack of interest in the "manly" pursuits of sports, mountain climbing and girls labels him "sister-boy" at the college he is attending. Headmaster Bill Reynold's wife Laura, played wonderfully by Deborah Kerr, sees Tom's suffering at the hands of his schoolmates (and her husband), and tries to help him find himself.
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 That Hamilton Woman (1941) - Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier, married at the time, play famous lovers Emma Hamilton and Lord Nelson. Directed by Alexander Korda, this lush historical drama was a multiple Oscar nominee. Alan Mowbray is excellent as Lord Hamilton, but it's Leigh's film, coming off her triumph as Scarlett O'Hara two years earlier. Amazing that it hasn't been released on DVD.
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 These Wilder Years (1956) - The story of a wealthy man searching for the son he gave up for adoption twenty years earlier, but who runs into a tough opponent in the woman who arranged the adoption, this was unfortunately the only movie teaming of Cagney and Stanwyck. (It's fortunately better than the only teaming of Bogart and Stanwyck!) Without their excellent, though understated, performances, the movie could easily have been a soap opera. It's still sentimental, but was pretty edgy for the time.
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 They Won't Believe Me (1947) - Robert Young fans will love seeing him in this unusual (for him) role as a not-very-likable guy accused of murder. He is surrounded by beautiful women, including Susan Hayward, Jane Greer, and Rita Johnson, all of whom turn in excellent performances in this noirish drama told mostly in flashbacks.
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 This Could be the Night (1957) - Fast forward past the goofy opening song to get to a somewhat uneven but mostly involving story about an inexperienced schoolteacher, played with great charm by the lovely Jean Simmons, who takes a part time job at a night club in order to earn extra money and see more of the world, and finds herself becoming a crucial part of the lives of an interesting assortment of characters, including the club's owners (Paul Douglas and Anthony Franciosa), a sexy dancer (Neile Adams, former wife of Steve McQueen) and her controlling mother (Joan Blondell), a torch singer with a heart of gold (Julie Wilson), and many others. Directed by the great Robert Wise.
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 Three Little Girls in Blue (1946) - Undeservedly forgotten musical stars June Haver, Vivan Blaine and Vera-Ellen as three small-town sisters who inherit some money and head for Atlantic City to find at least one rich husband. George Montgomery, Celeste Holm and Frank Latimore co-star.
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 Thrill of a Romance (1945) - Esther Williams and Van Johnson are in fine form (Esther in particular!) in this fairly standard romantic comedy, but the music of Tommy Dorsey, Buddy Rich, and Metropolitan Opera tenor Lauritz Melchior are equally attractive for music fans.
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 Tiger Shark (1932) - A love triangle arises on a California-based tuna boat captained by a one-handed Edward G. Robinson. One of the most re-made plots in Hollywood (Robinson played the same character at least once before) benefits from Howard Hawks' direction.
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 'Til We Meet Again (1940) - A dying girl (Merle Oberon) and a fugitive (George Brent) fall in love on a cruise ship, but the romance is thwarted by Pat O'Brien, who of course plays a cop! A remake of One Way Passage (1932), distinguished primarily by its cinematography and fine supporting cast that includes Geraldine Fitzgerald, Binnie Barnes, and Frank McHugh.
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 The Toast of New York (1937) - RKO almost went bankrupt making this film, spending over a million dollars and failing to get great reviews. Based (loosely) on the life of legendary tycoon Jim Fisk, well-played (as always) by Edward Arnold, the movie also stars Frances Farmer and Cary Grant. Jack Oakie, Donald Meek, and Clarence Kolb co-star.
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 Too Young to Kiss (1951) - June Allyson pretends to be 12 years old in order to get an audition with music impresario Van Johnson, in this less convincing but still enjoyable version of The Major and the Minor. It also features some very recognizable music used many years earlier for another movie starring an actress also playing much younger than her real age!
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 Torch Singer (1933) - Claudette Colbert is marvelous in a pre-Code potboiler about a Depression-era woman who gives up an illegitimate child, becomes a notorious singer and party girl, and finally sees the error of her ways. Along the way Colbert does some nice singing, and we are treated to good supporting performances by Ricardo Cortez, Lyda Roberti, and Mildred Washington, who unfortunately passed away shortly after making this film, as Colbert's maid.
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 Torpedo Run (1958) - Exciting and realistic WWII submarine adventure is enhanced by great performances from Glenn Ford and Ernest Borgnine. A must for all WWII and naval warfare buffs.
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 Toward the Unknown (1956) - William Holden is Maj. Lincoln Bond, a former test pilot tortured by the North Koreans. The acting is excellent, but the flying sequences steal the show, which focuses on early attempts at faster-than-sound flight
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 Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936) - Silvia Sidney and Henry Fonda star in a story about a Hatfields-and-McCoys-style Appalachian feud. It was only the second three-strip Technicolor film and the first to be filmed on location. Also features Beulah Bondi, Fred Stone, Nigel Bruce, Robert Barrat and Spanky McFarland.
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 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945) - Elia Kazan's first film is a classic tearjerker featuring excellent performances by Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, James Dunn (Best Supporting Actor Oscar), and especially 12-year-old Peggy Ann Garner as a child living in poverty with an alcoholic but well-meaning father. (This is a nice-looking copy but with a couple of minor problem areas on the recording that may result in slight pauses at two spots.)
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 Turnabout (1940) - Before Freaky Friday and other such body-switching tales, there was this underrated (the Catholic Legion of Decency called it "objectionable") camp classic starring John Hubbard and the beautiful, tragic Carole Landis as a couple who switch bodies (but not voices, which is the main comic hook upon which the ensuing hilarity is hung) after complaining about their lives in front of a creepy statue in their bedroom (given as a gift by somebody who obviously didn't like them). Hubbard's performance can only be described as ahead of its time. Hal Roach directed, and the wonderful supporting cast includes Adolph Menjou (actually given top billing), Donald Meek, Franklin Pangborn, Mary Astor, Veree Teasdale, William Gargan and Marjorie Main.
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 The Turning Point (1952) - Performances by William Holden, Edmond O'Brien and Alexis Smith enliven this noir about organized crime, with the bad guys ably led by Ed Begley and Neville Brand. Directed by William Dieterle and based on hardboiled writer Horace McCoy's novel Storm in the City.
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 Two Girls and a Sailor (1944) - The sailor is Van Johnson, and the two girls are June Allyson and Gloria DeHaven, starring in the film that made Van a star. Lots of familiar stars do their acts, including Harry James, Jimmy Durante, Lena Horne, Gracie Allen, Jose Iturbi and Xavier Cugat. It was a big hit during the war years, and the screenplay was actually nominated for an Oscar.
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 Two Girls on Broadway (1940) - Lana Turner and Joan Blondell play two sisters from the Midwest who head for New York with Blondell's boyfriend, played by George Murphy. Of course, Turner steals her older sister's job and boyfriend, along with the rest of the movie. Lana Turner at 19 was really something to behold, and this movie, along with Dancing Co-Ed, is more evidence that if she hadn't given up musicals at about the same time that Gene Kelly showed up in Hollywood, they could have been a team to rival Astaire and Rogers! (When they finally appeared together at the top of the bill, in The Three Musketeers (1948), neither of them did any dancing!)
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 The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947) - The only theatrical film that featured Humphrey Bogart and Barbara Stanwyck together is a dark story of murder and madness, with Bogie as a psychopathic killer who paints portraits of his wives as the "Angel of Death" just before poisoning them! Ann Carter is excellent as Bogart's young daughter. Alexis Smith and Nigel Bruce costar.
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 Two Rode Together (1961) - John Ford directs Jimmy Stewart and Richard Widmark in this quirky, "Searchers"-like western focusing on rough men doing a dirty job, retrieving captives held by the Comanches. While not one of Ford's best efforts, even his mediocre films are as good as most directors' best.
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 Two Tickets to Broadway (1951) - Twenty-four-year-old Janet Leigh is beautiful, and Bob Crosby does a funny routine with a Bing dummy in this Howard Hughes-produced musical that also stars Eddie Bracken, Tony Martin, Gloria de Haven, and Ann Miller. Entertaining enough, if you ignore Martin's "Big Chief Hole-In-The-Ground" number.
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