This is a tribute to the movie-making industry, with many film clips of, and much commentary about, several decades of...
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1988
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The man who assembled the remarkable documentary George Stevens: A Filmaker's Journey had the benefit of knowing the subject...
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1984
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Nevada Smith
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1964
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Leaning heavily on violence to ostensibly deliver a pacifist message, this standard drama by Philip Leacock looks at the...
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Walt Sherill
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1962
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Set in ancient Rome, this film follows the struggle of Roman triplets as they battle their Alban arch-enemies to prevent...
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1961
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Set right near the 38th Parallel, the dividing line between North and South Korea, this conventional wartime tale focuses on...
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Kincaid
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1960
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TV producer Aaron Spelling first came up with the story for this standard western set in a small town just after the American...
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Mitch Barrett
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1960
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In this action drama, ranchers and lumberjacks are at loggerheads over the proper usage of the land. When the logging team...
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Jim Hadley
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1960
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This undistinguished murder muddle by director Michael Curtis involves an artist and his alcoholic psychologically disturbed...
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John Hamilton
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1959
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A gentler but no less resourceful Alan Ladd stars in The Proud Rebel. Ladd is cast as civil war veteran John Chandler, while...
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John Chandler
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1958
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Peter Van Hook (Alan Ladd), alias The Dutchman, is nearing the end of a stretch in Yuma Territorial Prison for a gold robbery...
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Peter Van Hook
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1958
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The conflict between duty and conscience is explored in the WWII drama The Deep Six. Alan Ladd stars as Naval gunnery officer...
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Alex Austen
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1958
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Produced by Alan Ladd's own Jaguar company, The Big Land stars Ladd as Texas cattleman Morgan. As a means to expedite...
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Chad Morgan
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1957
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Italian screen goddess Sophia Loren made her American film debut with this glossy romantic adventure set (and partially...
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Dr. James Calder
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1957
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Set during Cuba's struggle to free itself from colonialist Spain, this exciting adventure chronicles the exploits of a...
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Cash Adams
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1956
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Hell on Frisco Bay is a slam-bang return to the sort of gangster fare turned out by the yard at Warner Bros. in the 1930s....
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Steve Rollins
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1955
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Alan Ladd plays real-life air force hero Captain Joseph McConnell Jr. in this inspirational biopic, while June Allyson does...
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Joseph C. "Mac" McConnell, Jr.
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1955
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Though heavily advertised as Delmar Daves' Drum Beat, this film owed its existence to producer-star Alan Ladd. The star is...
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Producer, Johnny MacKay
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1954
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Alan Ladd once more journeyed to England to make a film for Columbia's British counterpart (Warwick Studios), and the result...
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John
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1954
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Hell Below Zero was one of several 1950s films made in Britain by Hollywood's Alan Ladd. The star plays Duncan Craig, who...
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Duncan Craig
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1954
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Saskatchewan is a "northern" starring Alan Ladd as tight-lipped Canadian Mountie Sgt. Thomas O'Rourke. He rescues Grace...
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Sgt. Thomas O'Rourke
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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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Paul Lartal
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1953
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After causing the needless death of another officer during a near-miss air disaster, a distraught army officer resigns from...
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Canada Mackendrick
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1953
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The simple story of a Wyoming range war is elevated to near-mythical status in producer/director George Stevens' Western...
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Shane
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1953
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Framed for robbery, 18th century medical student Alan Ladd is sentenced to a New South Wales penal colony. En route to the...
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Hugh Tallant
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1953
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During the early days of East Indian independence in 1947, a native rebellion threatens a hotel full of Britishers, Europeans...
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Steve Gibbs
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1953
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Though its title would seem to indicate a medieval swashbuckler, The Iron Mistress is actually based on the life of American...
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Jim Bowie
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1952
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The rugged Colorado Territory provides the setting for this epic Civil War-era western chronicle of a Southern rebel who...
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Capt. Brett Sherwood
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1951
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Al Goddard, (Alan Ladd) special investigator for the U.S. post office, is assigned to collar two criminals who've murdered a...
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Al Goddard
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1951
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Alan Ladd plays the title role in Captain Carey USA. A former OSS operative, Captain Carey returns to Italy after the war to...
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Webster Carey
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1950
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Choya
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1950
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Jay Gatsby
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1949
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Tough reporter Ed Adams (Alan Ladd) wants to get the full story behind the apparent suicide of a young woman. It seems that...
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Ed Adams
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1949
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This fact -based western follows a soft-spoken railroad detective (Alan Ladd) as he brings a murderous ring of robbers to...
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Luke "Whispering" Smith
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1948
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An older soldier enters West Point but remains haunted by nagging guilt. It all began in Tunisia during a tremendous battle....
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Rockwell (Rocky) Gilman
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1948
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One of the great onscreen romantic pairings, Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake, ended with this romantic adventure film, their...
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Maj. Larry Briggs
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1948
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Alan Ladd and Robert Preston star as Joe Madigan and Jim Davis, rival grain harvesters in the Midwest's wheat country. The...
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Joe Madigan
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1947
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1947
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This story of two young hopefuls who come to Hollywood is merely a thin device to feature almost every star working for...
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1947
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Alan Ladd stars in Calcutta as devil-may-care pilot Neale Gordon. With his equally fearless partners Pedro Blake...
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Neale Gordon
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1947
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This neat, fast-paced perfectly cast film noir reflects the hard-boiled, grim wit of the author of its screenplay,...
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Johnny Morrison
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1946
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This fast-paced western, geared entirely to the small-fry, was the first in Republic Pictures' long-running "Red Ryder"...
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1946
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Based on a famous book by Richard Henry Dana, Jr., this grueling saga of shipboard oppression is set in the mid-19th century....
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Charles Stewart
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1946
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Set during WWII, this taut and suspenseful espionage outing chronicles the courage of a brand-new cadre of specially trained...
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John Martin
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1946
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Several of Paramount Pictures brightest stars make cameo appearances in this comedy set in "Duffy's Tavern," a favorite...
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Himself
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1945
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The tumultuous world of horse-racing provides the backdrop of this drama. Directed by Raoul Walsh, Salty O'Rourke features...
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Salty O'Rourke
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1945
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In this melodrama, a doctor returns to his home town to set out his shingle. He was born on the poor side of town and so has...
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Dr. Merek Vance
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1944
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Set in Japanese-occupied China shortly before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, this action/drama stars Alan Ladd as Mr. Jones, a...
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Mr. Jones
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1943
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1943
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Star-Spangled Rhythm is a typical wartime all-star musical-comedy melange, this time from Paramount Pictures. The slender...
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1942
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Philip Raven
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1942
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1942
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Lucky Jordan (Alan Ladd) is a tough but good-natured New York racketeer who tries to finagle his way out of Army service....
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Lucky Jordan
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1942
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Ed Beaumont
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1942
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America had not officially gone to war in November of 1941, but try telling that to the producers of the "preparedness" drama...
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1941
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The very first Disney feature to include live-action footage, this behind-the-scenes documentary about the studio's animation...
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1941
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They Met in Bombay is a typical MGM star vehicle, in which the leading players are called upon to carry a pencil-thin...
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1941
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Orson Welles first feature film -- which he directed, produced, and co-wrote, as well as playing the title role -- proved to...
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1941
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In their first 20th Century-Fox vehicle, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are cast respectively as the butler and chauffeur of...
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1941
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Paper Bullets (aka Crime Inc.) was the first production by former slot-machine entrepreneurs Maurice and Frank Kozinski,...
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1941
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1941's The Black Cat is neither a remake of the 1934 Karloff-Lugosi film of the same name, nor does it bear the slightest...
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1941
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In this entry in the long-running "Higgins" series of comedy dramas, Papa Higgins throws his family into turmoil when he...
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1941
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1940
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In this musical comedy, two rival sisters, one plain-but-good-hearted, and one a gorgeous manipulator, compete for the love...
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1940
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In Old Missouri is an entertaining Republic "regional" aimed at the thriving Country-Western fandom of the 1940s. Heading the...
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1940
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The 13-episode Universal serial The Green Hornet is based on the radio series of the same name. Gordon Jones stars as Britt...
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1940
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Eleanor Browne's novel Highway to Romance was the source for this moneyspinning RKO Radio comedy. Obviously inspired by...
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1940
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The Higgins family gets in another comical bind when Ernest loses the fortune in bonds he was hired to deliver. In order to...
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1940
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This comedy is the sequel of Brother Rat. The film begins with the three original protagonists after their graduation from...
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1940
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Set during the war of 1812, Hal Roach's Captain Caution is an unusual swashbuckler in that the "hero" is actually the...
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1940
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Seven years after helping to rescue RKO Radio from bankruptcy as the heroine of King Kong, Fay Wray returned to the studio as...
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1940
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Victory was the first of Joseph Conrad's novels to be adapted to film, way back in 1919. The earliest talkie version,...
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1940
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1940
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Previous filmed three times (most recently in 1930), the 1940 Paramount production Light of Western Stars was the latest in...
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1940
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Hollywood films about the Revolutionary War almost invariably lost money at the box office, and The Howards of Virginia was...
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1940
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In this crime drama, a young man becomes a criminal lawyer after witnessing the police shooting of his father, a thief. Most...
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1940
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In the 1830s, despite the development of the steamboat at the outset of the 19th century, all trans-Atlantic travel was still...
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1939
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Also known as Beasts of Berlin and Hitler: Beast of Berlin, this was the inagural effort of Producers Distributing...
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Karl
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1939
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In this lively campus-set musical comedy, a budding entrepreneur nearly loses everything after his get-rich quick scheme to...
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1938
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In this drama, a young man must choose between a military career or a career in professional football. The story opens as...
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1938
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A longtime admirer of Broadway impresario Flo Ziegfeld, Hollywood producer Sam Goldwyn hoped to emulate the success of...
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1938
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Paramount's answer to Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) also involved mutiny and romance on the high seas. Gary Cooper stars as...
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1937
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Set during the terrible Spanish Civil War, this film avoids political commentary in favor of objectively centering on the...
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1937
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Paramount borrowed John Wayne from Republic Pictures for the studio's second screen version of Zane Grey's Born to the West,...
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1937
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In this sports drama, framed by the annual Army-Navy football game, a freshman footballer at the Naval Academy falls in love...
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1937
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The first of 20th Century-Fox's college musicals, Pigskin Parade is also close to the best of them in musical terms -- though...
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1936
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Young football hero Jim Fowler (Robert Young) isn't in it for the love of the game. The hardworking young man is simply using...
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1933
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1932
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1932
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William Wyler directed this melodramatic story about a boy who, after growing up in the shadow of his father, learns the old...
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1932
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