Over the course of his lifetime, the legendary director Orson Welles (1915-1985) was forced to leave many of his grander...
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Juan Carlos Ordonez
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1992
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This French/Italian coproduction was originally released as Sabra. In his final film, veteran barnstormer Akim Tamiroff...
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Inspector
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1970
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In this comedy, a medical assistant and his strange childhood friend fall in love. Unfortunately, the girl is unable to make...
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1969
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In this western comedy, a bogus evangelist and his assistant travel to the town of Friendly and endeavor to rob the West's...
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Papa
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1969
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Childhood sweethearts Jolanda (Virna Lisi) and Franco (George Segal) meet once again after a separation of nearly 15 years....
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Uncle Egidio
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1968
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This pilot film for the 1969-1970 TV series Then Came Bronson stars Michael Parks in the title role. A young, ambitious...
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Papa Bear
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1968
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Mae West was never permitted to make a film version of her bawdy historical romp Catherine Was Great, yet this British...
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Sergeant
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1968
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1968
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All available information indicates that Manutara was a working title for the infamous horror-rama The Vulture....
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1967
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In this comedy, a lovely woman lives and loves freely. Her many lovers do not mind and all are happy until one of the men...
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Basilio
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1967
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Also released under the title Manutara, this sci-fi film features scientist Professor Koniglich (Akim Tamiroff) as he...
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Prof. Koniglich
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1967
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1966
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A betrayed wife decides to teach her philandering husband a lesson in this riotous farce. Marta (Catherine Spaak) discovers...
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1966
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While his icy wife is away tending to a sick friend, Benedict Boniface (Alec Guinness) has an affair with Marcelle Cot...
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The Turk
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1966
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Dick Van Dyke stars as U.S. Navy pilot Lieutenant Robinson Crusoe in one of Disney's weakest comedies. Like in the Daniel...
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Tanamashu
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1966
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This James Bond parody brings a new sort of jet-set secret agent to the screen -- one who hates flying, is afraid to shoot...
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1966
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Co-directed by French filmmakers Noël Howard and Denys de La Patellière, La Fabuleuse aventure de Marco Polo is a...
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Old Man of the Mountain
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1965
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Henri Dickson
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1965
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Francis (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is a hard-boiled hood who is talked into pulling off a job for the aging racketeer Frank...
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Frank
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1965
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Four different facets of love Italian-style provide the basis of this episodic film. The vignettes are "The Phone," about a...
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1965
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In this costume drama, a 17th-century Polish colonel falls in love with a princess. Unfortunately the girl is already...
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1965
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Joseph Conrad's cerebral, philosophical novel Lord Jim is streamlined and simplified by producer/director/writer...
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1965
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Jealousy between the men in love with one woman cannot be contained by the woman. ~ Rovi...
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1965
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1965
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In this crime drama, to wealthy men, whose money came from blackmail schemes find themselves stalked by a former victim. ~...
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1965
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Marque de Vigogne
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1964
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After years of enduring movie lampoons of his 1955 crime-caper classic Rififi, director Jules Dassin topped them all with his...
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Geven
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1964
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1964
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Much of Orson Welles' latter-day reputation as an "unfathomable" genius rests upon his seeming unwillingness to tell a story...
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Bloch
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1963
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An international cast wanders in and out of the lavish sets in Daggers of Blood. Set in 18th-century Eastern Europe, the film...
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Sgt. Zageli
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1962
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1962
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Frank Pagano, mobster and head of Pagano Enterprises, needs to lose $500,000 within thirty days to avoid paying a large sum...
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Pandowski
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1962
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Directed by Edward Dmytryk, The Reluctant Saint is based on the life of Saint Joseph of Cupertino. When young Giuseppe Diesa...
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Bishop Durso
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1962
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1961
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Taina Elg plays a ballerina named Dirce who, butterly fashion, flits from lover to lover. Her latest is a hedonist young man...
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1961
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Peter Ustinov went the auteur route as writer, director, producer, and star of this Cold War farce, based on his play and...
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Vadim Romanoff
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1961
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In this 17th-century adventure, the terrible Tartars try to overtake Poland. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1961
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An episodic, funny, though uneven spoof of human manners and foibles, this comedy by Vittorio de Sica begins in Naples when...
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1961
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During a Los Angeles Christmas, a group of 82nd Airborne vets assembles under the leadership of gamblin' man Danny Ocean...
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1960
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A dated melodrama set around the year zero in the Christian calendar, Desert Desperadoes by director Steve Sekely focuses on...
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The Merchant
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1959
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This baroque nightmare of a south-of-the-border mystery is considered to be one of the great movies of Orson Welles, who both...
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Uncle Joe Grandi
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1958
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In this drama, a Jewish refugee finds himself stranded in Paris just as the Nazi invaders arrive. Desperate to escape, he...
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Szabuniewicz
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1958
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The Yangtse Incident is the saga of the Amethyst, a British vessel left stranded in China during the Communist takeover. The...
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Col. Peng
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1957
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Bouncing back and forth between American and European productions in the 1950s, director Steve Sekely settled in Italy long...
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1957
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Anastasia is adapted from the popular stage play by Marcelle Maurette. The scene is Paris in the early 1920s. Ingrid Bergman...
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Chernov
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1956
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Given its cast and director, it is disheartening that The Black Sleep isn't any better than it is. Basil Rathbone heads the...
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Odo, the Gypsy
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1956
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His last film involving his own writing, Lewis Milestone directs the romantic drama The Widow, based on the novel La Vedova...
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1955
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Also known as Mr. Arkadin, this flawed late effort by director Orson Welles recalls the structure of Citizen Kane, centering...
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Jakob Zouk
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1955
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Filmed in England, They Who Dare is undeservedly the least-known of director Lewis Milestone's sound films. Set in the...
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Capt. George One
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1954
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1954
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While off on a drunken toot, three British naval officers attach an old baby carriage and a pawnbroker's sign to the stern of...
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President of Agraria
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1954
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In this romantic desert adventure a handsome, Foreign Legionnaire survives a surprise attack and becomes the ward of a...
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Private Levko
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1953
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Gitano
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1949
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While under contract to Warner Bros., George Raft turned down picture after picture as being "unimportant" and thus unworthy...
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Lt. Glysko
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1949
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Joe Faringo
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1948
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Adapted by Allen Boretz from Lucille S. Plumbs and Sara B. Smith's stage play Ever the Beginning, My Girl Tisa is set in New...
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Mr. Grumbach
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1948
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Chato Vasquez
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1947
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Having struck gold with the previous season's Dillinger, the King Brothers returned to Monogram as producers of The Gangster....
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Nick Jammey
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1947
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A Scandal in Paris is a liberal adaptation of the life story of Eugène François Vidocq, who was French prefect of police...
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Emile
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1946
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Jim Arnold
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1945
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Gregory Stroganovsky
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1944
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This wild, once-controversial comedy stars Betty Hutton as Trudy Kockenlocker, a man-crazy single girl whose favorite pastime...
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1944
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This lavish, 145-minute cinemadaptation of the Pearl Buck best-seller Dragon Seed was intended by MGM as a followup to the...
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Wu Lien
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1944
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First filmed in 1928, Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer-winning novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey is given a ponderous treatment in...
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Uncle Pio
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1944
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Based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls is a romantic drama set against the turbulent tapestry of the...
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Pablo
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1943
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Billy Wilder's Five Graves to Cairo is the third take on Lajos Biro's theatrical tale of romance and espionage, Hotel...
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Farid
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1943
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In this frothy musical comedy, Ann Carter (Deanna Durbin) is an aspiring singer from the Midwest who decides to move to New...
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Popoff
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1943
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Like the John Steinbeck novel on which it is based, Tortilla Flat is not so much a movie as a series of warm-hearted...
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Pablo
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1942
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Colorra
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1941
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Fred MacMurray is a breezy New York street photographer; Mary Martin is a small town girl hoping to make her fortune in the...
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Stefan Janowski
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1941
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Filmed on location at Mesa, AZ, this minor Paramount western featured newcomer Ellen Drew as "Slats" Dangerfield, a young...
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Mio Pio
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1940
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The moral of Preston Sturges' first directorial effort The Great McGinty seems to be: If you're a crook, stay a crook,...
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The Boss
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1940
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This is the third film based on a story by Lajos Biro and Jules G. Furthman. The first two were silent films,...
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Paul Kriza
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1940
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A courageous doctor braves a fierce blizzard in the Canadian wilderness to save a remote community from a deadly epidemic....
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Joe Easter
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1940
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Cecil B. De Mille directed this lavish all-star spectacular paying tribute to America's neighbors to the North. In 1885, as...
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1940
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Akim Tamiroff plays the title role, an underworld leader who controls all illicit operations in Chinatown. Tamiroff is...
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Frank Baturin
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1939
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The Window Washer
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1939
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Originally designed for exhibition at the 1939 World's Fair, Land of Liberty is a 137-minute compendium of filmclips from...
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1939
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Cecil B. DeMille takes us back to the 1860s, then rebuilds the first intercontinental railroad in Union Pacific. The...
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Fiesta
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1939
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Idealism vs. Practicality is the Disputed Passage in this lavishly mounted soap opera. Based on a novel by Lloyd C. Douglas...
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Dr. "Tubby" Forster
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1939
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In this lively programmer a con man hires a character actor to masqueraded as the recently assassinated dictator of a tiny...
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Jules LaCroix
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1939
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Dominique You
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1938
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Directed by Frank Tuttle, Paris Honeymoon stars Bing Crosby as Lucky Lawton, a wealthy Texan whose plans for a Parisian...
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Peter Karloca
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1938
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The visual wizardry in this period action picture about Alaskan fishermen won a special honorary Oscar in the years before...
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Red Skain
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1938
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A macho Cossack immigrant to the U.S. goes West and joins a ring of rustlers. Later his son follows him to states and he too...
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Mike Balan
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1938
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In this drama, a gangster finds the woman of his dreams, but before he can have her he must frame her fiance. Meanwhile the...
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1938
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Based on a Jules Verne novel, Adventures of Michael Strogoff stars Anton Walbrook in the title role. Strogoff is the personal...
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1937
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Akim Tamiroff, Paramount Pictures' resident crime lord, runs all illegal gambling activities in a major city. Reporter...
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Steve Kalkas
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1937
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Based on a story by Jules Verne and featuring battle footage from a French film version of the tale, this epic...
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Ogareff
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1937
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Akim Tamiroff plays the Great Gambini, a famous magician mixed up in a murder case. In addition to his card tricks and...
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Gambini
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1937
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High, Wide and Handsome almost defies classification: Perhaps it's best referred to as a historical musical western comedy...
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1937
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This Way Please marked Betty Grable's first appearance under her new Paramount contract. The fact that Grable plays the new...
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1937
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Two brothers exchange lifestyles in this drama. The older brother, a gambler, wants to lead a clean, crime-free life while...
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Bullock
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1937
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When David O. Selznick produced the film version of the 1000-plus page novel Gone with the Wind, he declared he could not...
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1936
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In this adventure, a young girl is stranded in the jungle with only a tiger cub for company and grows up to be a wild woman....
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Karen Neg
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1936
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General Yang (Akim Tamiroff) is a politically ambitious Chinese bandit who holds the Northern districts in a grip of terror....
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Gen.Yang
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1936
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"Every time Paul Muni parts his beard and looks through a microscope, we lose a million dollars." Producer Jack Warner's...
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Dr. Zaranoff
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1936
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A gangland murder is the motivating factor of this fast-moving crime drama. George Murphy stars as reporter Kent Shevlin,...
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Ramirez
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1936
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1936
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In this frothy romantic adventure, Marlene Dietrich plays Madeleine de Beaupre, a devious jewel thief. After sneaking a...
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1936
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In this lively comedy, a humble Italian barber wins the Irish sweepstakes. Unfortunately, he has misplaced the ticket....
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1935
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Reckless is a delightfully breezy screwball comedy from the same director (Victor Fleming) and star (Jean Harlow) responsible...
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1935
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Like many 1930s Warner Bros. films, Black Fury drew its inspiration from the headlines. The story is adapted from a true-life...
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1935
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1935
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Gary Cooper stars in this rousing adventure saga of three British officers of the 41st Regiment of Bengal Lancers of India....
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1935
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Two Fisted is based on the James Gleason-Richard Taber stage play Is Zat So?, previously filmed under its original title in...
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1935
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China Seas proved that the recently imposed Hollywood production code had little if any effect on the popularity of MGM sex...
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1935
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Broadway legend Al Jolson and his second wife Ruby Keeler costarred in this thin backstage musical. In keeping with Jolson's...
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1935
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Francis Lederer stars as the prince of a mythical European kingdom. To mingle with the "common folk" while on a visit to New...
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Spellek
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1935
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1935
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A follow-up to the highly successful Bolero, this lively romantic drama stars George Raft as Joe Martin, a Cuban-American...
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1935
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After a false start in 1932, Paramount's Big Broadcast series was jump-started in late 1935 with The Big Broadcast of 1936....
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1935
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1935
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1934
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1934
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1934
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Inspired by the Titanic tragedy, Whom the Gods Destroy is a tour de force for character actor Walter Connolly. The star is...
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1934
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In this melodrama, set backstage at the theater, a fading, but still egotistical Hungarian star and his actress wife who has...
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1934
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MGM's Sadie McKee is a superb example of how the "committee" system of moviemaking in the 1930s could sometimes yield...
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1934
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Ne'er-do-well Gary Cooper is so desperate for quick cash that he's willing to sell the custody rights of his own daughter...
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1934
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Joan Crawford is at her most glamorous (a different outfit and hairdo in each scene!) in the romantic melodrama Chained....
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1934
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It's Grand Hotel on the high seas, with a remarkable cast -- particularly for the usually parsimonious Columbia Pictures. As...
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1934
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A conflict between the Serbs and the Hungarians provides the framework of this drama that centers on a love triangle between...
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1933
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An earthy, fun-loving radio pitchwoman finds it difficult to live up to her squeaky-clean public persona as the "Purity Girl...
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1933
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If Queen Christina is not the best of Greta Garbo's films (as many Garbo fanatics insist), it is certainly the most...
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1933
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The French Foreign Legion is the setting for this episodic adventure yarn. Victor Jory plays a Legion doctor falsely accused...
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1933
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As indicated by its "catchphrase" title, Okay America is one of several early-1930s films based on the exploits of gossip...
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1932
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