Dreamboat stars Clifton Webb as Thornton Sayre, the perfectionist professor of literature at a sedate Midwestern university....
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1952
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Nightmare Alley is the sordid tale of a conniving young man who, in the words of one of the film's supporting characters,...
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1947
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Substantially, Lupe Velez' Columbia vehicle Redhead from Manhattan was the same as her previous RKO starrers-boisterous,...
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1943
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1942
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Released in late August of 1942, Sabotage Squad was the last of Columbia's B-budget wartime melodramas of the 1941-42 season....
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1942
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Manpower was Warner Bros' latest reworking of 1932's Tiger Shark, with power-company linemen substituting for tuna fisherman....
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1941
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In the 1930s and 1940s, Warner Bros. developed a positive genius for remaking earlier films in new, disguised fashion,...
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1941
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The three Mesquiteers ride the long trail home following the Spanish-American war in this western. En route, they have many...
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1940
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This musical presents a romantic and sanitized biography of distinguished American songwriter Stephen Foster. The story...
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1939
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Ace Secret Service agent Lt. Brass Bancroft is on the case in this crime drama. This time he is assigned to break up a major...
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1939
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Despite its comparatively upbeat ending, Let Us Live is one of the darkest and gloomiest films of the late 1930s. As working...
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1939
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Ronald Reagan is his usual sprightly self as ambitious insurance claims adjuster Eric Gregg. While diligently investigating a...
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1938
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1938
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After a three-year absence, Columbia's "Lone Wolf" series resumed with the uneven The Lone Wolf in Paris. Francis Lederer...
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1938
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Gat Brady (John Litel) is a wealthy gangster, though he's never killed anyone, an he is devoted to his teenaged daughter...
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1937
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In this musical comedy, a crooked record producer uses his mob connections to force performers to do their stuff. The trouble...
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1937
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In this satire, an electrician from a tiny town impresses a New York radio sponsor with his booming baritone singing voice....
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1937
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A lovely stenographer, tired of men falling all over her, tries to make herself homely in this comedy. With her horn rim...
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1937
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This is one of Buck Jones' most unusual sound films. Cowboy Buck Benson (Jones) is incredulous to find that his father, M.H....
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1937
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This low-budget musical offers a peek behind the scenes in Hollywood. It centers on a recently unemployed talent scout who...
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1937
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Based on a popular novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams, this screwball comedy stars Errol Flynn in the title-role, the heir to an...
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1937
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Marked Woman was the most famous of the late-1930s films based on New York DA Thomas Dewey's attack on vice lord Lucky...
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1937
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Movie cowboy Jeffrey Carson (George O'Brien) tries hard to live up to his image in this "backstage western." On location in...
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1937
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In their third crime-solving adventure, smart-aleck newspaper woman Torchy Blane (Glenda Farrell) and slightly dense homicide...
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1937
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1936
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Produced on a reasonably lavish scale by the usually parsimonious Mascot Pictures, Harmony Lane was the first of three filmed...
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1935
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Riff-Raff begins riff-raffing when boastful fisherman Dutch (Spencer Tracy) marries down-to-earth cannery worker Hattie...
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1935
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Writer/director Tay Garnett reunited the stars of his fabulously successful Her Man (1930) for the 1931 RKO crime drama...
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1931
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