In his TV-movie debut, Sammy Davis Jr. plays a wisecracking private eye drawn into a web of murder and duplicity. Davis is...
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1969
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1965
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1965
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A fine example -- perhaps the best available -- of "B"-movie overlord Roger Corman's "Weekend Wonders" from the...
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1959
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Three Hours to Kill is a "message" Western that manages to entertain without preaching. Jim Guthrie (Dana Andrews), unjustly...
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Screen Story
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1954
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Susan Slept Here is the only feature film in Hollywood history ever to be narrated by an Academy Award. After introducing...
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Play Author, Screenwriter
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1954
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When Lou (Lou Costello) accidentally shoots his neighbor Mrs. Crumbcake (Elvia Allman) out of a tree and perforates her...
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1953
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After learning that her boyfriend, a GI in Korea, has found someone else, Norah Larkin (Anne Baxter) impulsively agrees to...
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1953
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This nonsensical farce stars Robert Cummings as an air force reserve pilot, called back to active duty on the eve of his...
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1953
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1952
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The tendency is to scoff at Macao as just another example of Josef von Sternberg's late-career exercises in exoticism; true,...
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1952
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Though out of favor with many Abbott and Costello buffs, Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd is actually a lot of fun, so...
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1952
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Based on The Mexican, a novel by Jack London, this is the story of a young man whose family, girlfriend and village were...
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1952
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1949
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Ronald Reagan plays a George Petty-type magazine illustrator who creates a "perfect girl" from a composite of the features of...
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1949
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In this comedy, two stepsisters fight for the love of the same man. One of the sisters is good-looking and vivacious. She is...
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1948
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In this western-musical comedy, a remake of Cowboy from Brooklyn (1938), two vaudevillians find themselves stranded on a...
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1948
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This cute film is Doris Day's film debut and in it she plays Georgia Garrett, a substitute traveller on an ocean cruise. Her...
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1948
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In this frothy, star-studded Warner Brothers outing, tightwad tycoon Jonathan Turner, believing himself at death's door,...
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1947
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Veterinarian Ronald Reagan contracts anthrax from treating diseased cows in this horsey melodrama from Warner Bros. In fact,...
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1947
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A young girl is adopted into a small town family, but instead of finding happiness, she finds her life a living nightmare due...
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1947
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Dennis Morgan and Jack Carson, the Bing Crosby and Bob Hope of Burbank, star in the Warner Bros. musical The Time, the Place...
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Producer
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1946
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The oft-used title The Man Who Dared was applied to an oft-filmed movie plotline in 1946. George Macready, in a respite from...
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Screen Story
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1946
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1946
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This Warner Bros. programmer stars Dane Clark as Prohibition-era columnist Don Corwin and Janis Paige as speakeasy singer...
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1946
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If Paramount could rake in the bucks by teaming singer Bing Crosby and comedian Bob Hope in a series of Road pictures, then...
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1946
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1946
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Yes, even Ida Lupino occasionally starred in screwball comedies during the 1930s and 1940s. Pillow to Post casts Lupino as...
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Producer
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1945
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Escape in the Desert is a thinly disguised remake of The Petrified Forest (1936), updated with a WW II angle. Cynical Dutch...
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1945
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The West Coast's answer to Broadway's Stage Door Canteen, the Hollywood Canteen was created as a GI morale-booster by film...
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1944
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After several years' faithful service in supporting roles, Jack Carson was awarded his first Warner Bros. starring vehicle...
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1944
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Janie, adapted from the Broadway play by Josephine Bentham and Herschel Williams, was one of a 1940s cycle of stage-to-film...
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1944
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In one of their most genial comedies -- based on a Damon Runyon story -- Bud Abbott and Lou Costello have to help one friend...
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1943
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In this lively romantic farce, a Broadway producer's Girl Friday must make sure that her recent marriage is kept secret. If...
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Producer
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1943
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The Abbott & Costello vehicle Hit the Ice started life as satire of health clinics, with Lou Costello cast as a hypochondriac...
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1943
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1942
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Bud Abbott & Lou Costello invade the wild west in Ride 'Em Cowboy. The boys play Duke and Willoughby, a couple of rodeo...
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1942
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One of the most often revived of Abbott & Costello's early-1940s films, Pardon My Sarong casts Bud and Lou as Chicago bus...
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Producer
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1942
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I Live on Danger is a fast-moving thriller with strong performances and top-notch direction -- by former screenwriter...
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Screen Story
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1942
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Filmed on a B-picture budget, Buck Privates was Universal's biggest box-office hit of 1941, firmly securing the movie...
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1941
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It has been alleged that Horror Island was the least expensive of Universal's 1940s horror films. While it certainly looks...
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Screen Story
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1941
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Meet the Chump is an hour's worth of nonsense ideally suited to the talents of Hugh "Woo Woo" Herbert. The star plays Hugh...
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1941
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The third of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello's starring films, In the Navy was released second; Universal had just made a bundle...
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1941
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Mystery Ship was one of the last of Columbia's pre-Pearl Harbor "preparedness" melodramas. Paul Kelly and Larry Parks are...
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Screen Story
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1941
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Another of Universal's Richard Arlen-Andy Devine actioners, Lucky Devils casts the mismatched duo as a pair of intrepid...
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1941
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The 1940 Warner Bros. quickie A Fugitive From Justice is based on Leonard Neubauer's short story "Million Dollar Fugitive."...
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1940
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Those wily Egyptians are once again selfishly attempting to keep the treasures of the Pharaohs to themselves in this...
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1940
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Ralph Bellamy and Margaret Lindsay, stars of Columbia's "Ellery Queen" series, let their hair down and went "screwball" in...
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1940
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Convicted Woman was Columbia's annual "all girl" B picture, allowing studio executives to decide which of their female...
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Screen Story
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1940
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In this boxing drama, an ex-champ finds himself working as a doorman at a nightclub. His son aspires to a high caliber...
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1939
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A typical, fast-paced Grade-B murder mystery, Mystery of the White Room was based on the then revolutionary medical...
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1939
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Universal's old Show Boat sets are brought out of mothballs for the energetic "B" entry Gambling Ship. When honest gambler...
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Screenwriter
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1939
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Pity poor police captain Dugan (Harry Carey). As if he hasn't got enough trouble with the green recruits that Headquarters...
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Screenwriter
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1939
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Arson Gang Busters was a slick little Republic programmer highlighted by several well-staged miniature sequences, courtesy of...
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1938
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This drama chronicles the different paths taken by former partners in law. One of them, an avaricious attorney who will stop...
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1938
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Secret agent Jeff Clavering (Alan Marshal) is in the employ of a group of businessmen dedicated to world peace. In order to...
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1938
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