The Monkey Mission was the second of three feature-length pilot films for the never-sold Robert Blake TV series Joe Dancer....
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1981
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The longest (26-1/2 hours), most expensive ($25 million) and most complicated (four directors, five producers, five...
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1978
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Circumstantial evidence has implicated Nico Triforos (George Pan Casselman), a reclusive young Greek immigrant, in the murder...
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1976
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This thriller stars Eileen Brennan as a much-too-clever housekeeper. Brennan is aware that she isn't exactly a fashion plate,...
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1974
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Aging socialite Athena Champion (Kim Hunter) desperately seeks out the aid of her friend Chief Ironside (Raymond Burr)....
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1974
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Myrna Loy guest stars as Andrea Wollcott, a pioneering feminist author. Over the years, Andrea has made many enemies--one of...
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1973
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Crime Club was the umbrella title given a series of monthly mystery novels in the 1930s and 1940s. Several films and radio...
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1972
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Returning to Fiji for the first time since WW2, Ironside is anxious to be reunited with a wartime friend. Upon his arrival,...
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1970
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The family prepares to move to England when Bill (Brian Keith) is offered an opportunity to work on an English-channel tunnel...
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1969
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This second episode of a four-part story arc is one of three Beverly Hillbillies installments filmed in England for the...
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1967
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Tongue-in-cheek humor prevails in Batman, a witty homage to the Dynamic Duo's exaggerated exploits. The Caped Crusaders...
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1966
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1966
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1965
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The satire in Evelyn Waugh's darkly comic novel The Loved One was originally double-edged. The book was not only an attack on...
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1965
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In 1950, Maj. Jefferson Pike (James Garner), an Army intelligence agent who served with distinction in World War II, awakens...
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1964
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In this suspenseful thriller, a man is sentenced to ten years in a mental institution for the criminally insane after...
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The Vicar
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1964
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1964
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Condemned as being a "disappointing" and "unworthy" Alfred Hitchcock effort at the time of its release, Marnie has since...
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1964
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Charles Beaumont adapted this hauntingly-poignant 60-minute Twilight Zone episode from his own short story "Song for a Lady."...
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1963
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Nerdy bank teller Oscar Blenny (Larry Storch) returns from a Vegas vacation with a new wife in tow: Eva Ashley...
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1963
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1963's The Sword in the Stone is Disney's animated take on Arthurian legend. In the midst of the Dark Ages, when England has...
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1963
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Roger Corman's success with low-budget adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe tales continued with this third installment, the first...
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Dr. Gideon Gault
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1962
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David O. Selznick had intended to film an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night as a vehicle for his wife...
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1961
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Rock 'n roll king Elvis Presley stars as Glenn Talbot, a country boy with a problem temper and a yen for literary greatness...
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1961
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Scotland Yard inspector Benson (played by future "James Bond" Roger Moore) seems determined to monitor every movement made by...
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1959
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There was neither a heroine nor a villain in Jules Verne's 1864 novel Journey to the Center of the Earth, but scenarist...
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1959
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In this adventure, a pilot and a radio commentator crash on an island just off the Australian coast and discover a crazed...
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1959
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Previously filmed as a theatrical feature in 1939, Alec Coppel's semi-serious mystery play I Killed the Count was adapted 17...
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1957
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1957
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Previously filmed as a theatrical feature in 1939, Alec Coppel's semi-serious mystery play I Killed the Count was adapted 17...
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1957
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Previously filmed as a theatrical feature in 1939, Alec Coppel's semi-serious mystery play I Killed the Count was adapted 17...
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1957
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Like most Sam Katzman efforts of the late 1950s, Miami Expose laid claim to being "torn from today's headlines." Lensed on...
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Raymond Sheridan
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1956
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The Mole People holds the dubious distinction of being the weakest of the Universal-International horror films. John Agar...
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Elinu High Priest
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1956
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Danny Kaye spoofs medieval swashbucklers in this classic musical comedy. While the infant King of England awaits his rightful...
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1956
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Newly arrived in Heaven, mystery writer Alexander Arlington (John Williams) asks permission from Recording Angel Wilfred...
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1956
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In the 1750s, young orphan John Mohune (Jon Whiteley) arrives at the seaside Dorset village of Moonfleet seeking Jeremy Fox...
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1955
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This episode is based on a famous urban legend, previously filmed as the 1949 theatrical feature. Patricia Hitchcock...
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1955
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1954
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1953
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This costume drama was based on the historical fiction of Margaret Irwin, which embellishes the facts of the early years of...
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1953
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Of all the "kill the commies" cold war films of the 1950s, John Wayne's Big Jim McLain may well be the worst. Certainly it's...
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Sturak
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1952
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Dealing in imported goods, a businessman and his wife seem to continuously be the capable recipients of international...
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1952
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1951
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1951
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The film traces Naples-born Caruso's ascension from adolescent choir singer to the uppermost ranks of the opera world. Caruso...
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1951
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Clark Gable is the largely nonheroic hero of the sprawling western Across the Wide Missouri. A cunning trapper who lives...
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1951
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1951
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1951
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Double Crossbones is an unusually elaborate comedy vehicle for Donald O'Connor. Set in the Carolinas in the 18th century, the...
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1950
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The fabled 19th-century clashes between U.S. Marines and the pirates of Tripoli have provided story material for dozens of...
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1950
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A "new" Lassie (once again, a male collie in drag) starred in A Challenge to Lassie, MGM's fourth entry in their series based...
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1949
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When in doubt, drag out the "old dark house/mad scientist" formula. That's the philosophy of Master Minds, the 16th entry in...
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Dr. Druzik
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1949
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Though the Mark Twain original has been refashioned into a Bing Crosby vehicle, this 1949 musical adaptation of A Connecticut...
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1949
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Produced by Paramount's Pine-Thomas unit, Manhandled is a no-nonsense film noir with a well-chosen cast. Small-time hoodlum...
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1949
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Lex Barker first stepped into the loincloth of the Lord of the Jungle in Tarzan's Magic Fountain. The story gets under way...
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1949
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One of the more palatable of Hollywood's anti-communist tracts of the late 1940s-early 1950s was MGM's The Red Danube....
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1949
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Steve Thompson (Burt Lancaster) returns home after a few years of knocking around the country following his divorce from...
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1948
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After years of dumb-blonde and best-friend roles, Jane Wyman proved her skills as a dramatic actress -- and won an Academy...
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1948
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MGM's Lassie series was declining in popularity by 1948, so the studio decided to release its latest adventure of the famous...
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1948
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Shakespeare's tragic tale of the rise and fall of ambitious 12th-century Scottish warrior MacBeth has proven irresistible to...
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1948
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1948
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After supervising several of the best "psychological" horror films ever made, producer Val Lewton shifted his base of...
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1948
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1947
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Michael Lanyard, aka the Lone Wolf, ventures into Sherlock Holmes territory in this series entry. When a cache of...
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1947
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Mr. Atwater
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1947
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High Conquest was a good example of the sort of "prestige" fare that lowly Monogram Pictures hoped to turn out on a regular...
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1947
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Lucille Ball is an American taxi-dancer living in London whose roommate has disappeared. The missing girl had left to answer...
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1947
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In the RKO swashbuckler Sinbad the Sailor, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. nostalgically emulates his famous father. The first seven...
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1947
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1947
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Allan Dwan directs the family-oriented drama Driftwood, starring nine-year-old Natalie Wood. Orphan Jenny Hollingsworth...
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1947
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In this period drama, Joan Fontaine stars as Ivy Lexton, a woman with an unusual hunger for men. Though she already has a...
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1947
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They said it couldn't be done, but they did it: Kathleen Winsor's "notorious", bestselling bodice-ripper Forever Amber...
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1947
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B-movie auteur Edgar G. Ulmer managed to direct a few A-pictures during his long career; he was personally selected by...
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1946
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This marked the first starring role for Rondo Hatton, previously seen in a few Sherlock Holmes films as the spine-snapping...
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1946
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On the eve of the Chinese New Year, three strangers make a pact before a small statue of the Chinese goddess of Destiny. The...
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1946
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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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1946
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Inspired by Swiss artist Arnold Böcklin's famous painting, this seminal horror film marked the first of three collaborations...
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Mr. St. Aubyn
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1945
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Set in turn-of-the century London, this period thriller stars Laird Cregar as George Harvey Bone, a composer who suffers from...
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1945
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One of the few failures for RKO Radio's resident "prestige programmer" producer Val Lewton, Mademoiselle Fifi is based on two...
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Count de Breville
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1944
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Despite a few Hollywood compromises, The Hairy Ape remains one of the more artistically successful filmizations of Eugene...
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MacDougald
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1944
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Margaret O'Brien, MGM's newest child sensation, was given her first starring vehicle with Lost Angel. O'Brien plays Alpha,...
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1944
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The Uninvited is one of the rare Hollywood ghost stories that does not cop out with a "logical" ending. In fact, the film has...
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1944
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An innocent man is drawn into a web of espionage when he unwittingly comes into possession of a crucial piece of microfilm in...
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1944
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Exiled from his own country during WW2, French filmmaker Leonide Moguy worked briefly in Hollywood, where he directed the...
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1944
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1944
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Billed third, Spencer Tracy plays Lt. Col. James P. Doolittle, who led the bombing raid over Tokyo. Most of the footage...
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1944
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1943
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The Song of Bernadette is a reverent recounting of the life of St. Bernadette of Lourdes. As a teen-aged peasant girl growing...
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1943
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This wartime melodrama stars George Sanders as Keith Wilson, a disillusioned Britisher who becomes a "Lord Haw Haw"type at a...
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Col. Patterson
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1943
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Female dogs tend to shed while in heat; this is why all the collies who've played doggy heroine Lassie in the movies have...
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1943
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MGM's A Yank at Eton follows the same basic formula as the 1938 Robert Taylor starrer A Yank at Oxford, with a wartime angle...
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1942
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Strange but true: Norma Shearer turned down the title role in Mrs. Miniver to star instead in the insignificant trifle We...
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1942
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With America's Air Force not completely mobilized in mid-1942, Universal paid tribute to those foresighted Yankee flyboys who...
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1942
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At the close of World War I, shell-shocked amnesia victim Ronald Colman is sequestered in a London sanitarium; with no...
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1942
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Handed the exploitive title Cat People, RKO producer Val Lewton opted for a thinking man's thriller--a psychological mood...
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1942
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Don Ameche, an American news bureau chief stationed in London, is frustrated by the British government's censorship of his...
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1941
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A semi-sequel to the 1933 Universal horror masterwork The Invisible Man, The Invisible Man Returns stars Vincent Price in the...
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1940
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This fine adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic tale about a cursed family opens with a title card that reveals how the...
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1940
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In this African adventure, a band of Englishmen search for a buried cache of diamonds. Unfortunately, their greed creates...
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1939
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The eponymous Four Just Men of this film are British World War I comrades, who reunite in peacetime to bring disaster to...
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1939
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A violin-playing British doctor's life changes forever after he takes in a distraught Austrian ballerina who tries to kill...
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1939
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In this espionage drama, a Secret Service agent must discover who has been smuggling British arms into China. The prime...
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Governor
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1937
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In this British comedy, set during the Boer War, a foot soldier saves his major's life. The officer is most grateful and puts...
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1937
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In this drama, two brothers fall in love with the same woman. As she is already betrothed to a count, neither of them have a...
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Count Romano
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1935
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In this British drama, based on a popular play, a wealthy young Jew goes to a weekend house party and finds himself...
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1934
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In this complex romantic drama set in the Middle East, a German baroness goes there for a visit and ends up falling in love...
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1931
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One of several British films produced and directed by American moviemaker Larry Trimble, Caste gets under way when the hero,...
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1930
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