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1974
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The board of education insists that Tabitha can no longer be home taught; thus, the girl is enrolled in Miss Vogel's second...
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1972
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Pro wrestler H.B. "Hardboiled" Haggerty is but one of many colorful characters appearing in this episode. Summoned to break...
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1971
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Endora's latest spell transforms Darrin into an indecisive clod. Once this bit has been squeezed dry, Endora endeavors to...
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1971
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Darrin blows his stack at Endora for magically creating unaffordable luxuries for her grandchildren. Later on, Darrin finds...
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1971
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This time around, Endora has turned Darrin into a gorilla. As Samantha struggles to undo the spell, the now-hirsute Darrin is...
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1971
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In this comedy, an aspiring singer finds herself single and pregnant. The story begins when she is rushed to the hospital to...
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1967
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Elvis Presley hits the high seas in this musical comedy. Ted Jackson (Presley) is a former Navy frogman who divides his time...
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1967
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In this episode from The Man from U.N.C.L.E. series, the two good guy spies must stop a criminal mastermind from altering the...
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1966
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The Rat Pack packed it in after this sprightly musical comedy that owes more than it should to Damon Runyon's stories and...
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1964
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1964
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In this beach movie, a group of teenagers hang out at the Silver Palms everyday after school. Because things can get quite...
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1964
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With this all-star Cinerama epic, producer/director Stanley Kramer vowed to make "the comedy that would end all comedies."...
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1963
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This animated cartoon features Top Cat and his gang of street-wise cats going after Officer Dibble. ~ Rovi...
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1961
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1959
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Future Tonight Show host Johnny Carson made one of his rare acting appearances in this 1957 Playhouse 90 adaptation of George...
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1957
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The neighborhood is currently being held in thrall by an elusive female burglar known only as "Madame X." Through a series of...
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Police Officer
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1953
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Police Officer Jenkins
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1953
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In this musical comedy, a rambunctious small-town girl inadvertently joins the Army and decides to make the best of it....
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1952
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Dying of curiosity, Lucy (Lucille Ball) and Ethel (Vivian Vance) are determined to get a glimpse of their somewhat secretive...
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Sgt. Morton
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1952
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Army Capers was the bland British title of the raucous Republic musical The Wac From Walla Walla. Hillbilly songstress...
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1952
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On a pure storytelling level, Crazy Over Horses is one of the best entries in Monogram's "Bowery Boys" series. This time,...
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1951
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Judy Canova continues to bring home the box-office bacon for Republic Pictures in Oklahoma Annie. Judy plays Judy, Queen of...
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1951
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Through an incredible series of circumstances, the Bowery Boys sign up for a hitch in the Navy. While clumsily going about...
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Mervin Longnecker
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1951
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1951
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The conjoined twins Violet Hilton and Daisy Hilton, also seen in Tod Browning's classic Freaks and the smarmy Slash of the...
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1951
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The TV-generated popularity of professional wrestling in 1950 inspired a brief cycle of inexpensive films on the subject....
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Slats Henry
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1950
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In The Big Wheel, Mickey Rooney plays Billy Coy, a garage mechanic who matriculates into a champion race-car driver. On the...
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1949
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Few major directors made "small" films with such frequency and expertise than the ubiquitous Allan Dwan. Set in 1933, Dwan's...
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1948
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Acclaimed playwright George S. Kaufman made his directorial debut with this broad political satire. Senator Melvin G. Ashton...
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1947
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Barry Fitzgerald's distinctive brand of Irish blarney, which was wonderful in small doses, leaned towards the precious and...
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1947
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The baby sitter is none other than veteran Hollywood tough guy Tom Neal. A private detective, Neal is hired to keep an eye on...
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Howard
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1947
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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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1947
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Long before he became the foremost purveyor of ultra-realistic melodramas, writer/producer/director Andrew Stone turned out a...
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Joe Morgan
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1947
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In early 1947, Screen Guild Productions experimented with a new format: a 90-minute double feature package, consisting of two...
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Harvard
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1947
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Meet Me on Broadway is a pocket Columbia musical about aspiring performers and a shoestring production (though the dialogue...
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Deacon McGill
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1946
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With a title like Singin' in the Corn, how could the star be anyone else but rambunctious rustic comedienne Judy Canova. This...
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Glen Cummings
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1946
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Universal's 1946 The Dark Horse is not a remake of the 1932 Warner Bros. film of the same name, though both deal with a long...
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Willis Trimble
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1946
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Deanna Durbin offered her fans a change of pace in this mystery story seasoned with elements of comedy and music. Nikki...
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Danny
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1945
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Danny Kaye plays the first of his cinematic dual roles in Goldwyn's Wonder Man. Kaye appears as timid librarian Edwin Dingle...
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1945
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This star-studded musical drama was largely financed by Theatre Guild, with all proceeds going to various wartime fundraising...
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1943
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The plot of the RKO Radio programmer The Falcon Takes Over will be instantly recognizable to anyone who has seen the 1944...
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Goldie Locke
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1942
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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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1942
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Joan Crawford is the kissable bride of the title--but when the film opens, matrimony is the farthest thing from her mind....
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Johnny Johnson
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1942
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The combination of Ann Sothern and Red Skelton pays off in giggles, chortles and guffaws in Maisie Gets Her Man. Broke and...
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Pappy Goodring
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1942
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Edward Arnold made the first of his two screen appearances as Bayard Kendrick's blind detective Captain Duncan McLain in...
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Marty
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1942
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Footsteps in the Dark is a comedy/mystery, starring Errol Flynn as a wealthy investment counselor who secretly doubles as a...
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1941
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1941
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This second entry in RKO Radio's "Falcon" series begins with Gay Lawrence (George Sanders), aka the Falcon, promising to give...
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Goldy
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1941
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Lieutenant Commander Joe Blake (Fred MacMurray), Lt. Tim Griffin (Regis Toomey), and Lt. Swede Larson (Louis Jean Heydt) are...
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1941
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Taking a vacation from her "Blondie" movies, Penny Singleton plays an Eastern girl who follows Horace Greeley's advice and...
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Hank
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1941
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When the film rights to its "Saint" series proved too expensive to renew, RKO Radio came up with a lookalike property in the...
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Goldy
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1941
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A strong lineup of guest stars enhances the enjoyment of the Columbia B-plus musical Time Out for Rhythm. The somewhat...
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Off-Beat Davis
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1941
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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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Max, Cab Driver
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1940
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To quell the rumors that musical stars Alice Faye and Betty Grable detested each other (actually they were fast friends, if...
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Sgt. Casey
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1940
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Edward G. Robinson plays orchid-loving gangster Little John Sarto, who aspires to "real class." During a power struggle with...
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1940
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Margie is one of the fast and funniest of Universal's pocket musicals, though its two-director dichotomy hardly seems...
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Kenneth
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1940
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In this musical comedy, a traveling salesman gets mixed up with a bratty heiress after she gets in a car wreck as she heads...
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Ed "The Weasel"
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1940
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Louis Armstrong steals the show as the groom to Jeepers Creepers, a skittish racehorse that can only settle down and run when...
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Droopy
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1939
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Often cited as a "model" B picture, Five Came Back is set in motion when the twelve-seat passenger plane "Southern Star"...
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Peter
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1939
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Torchy Plays with Dynamite was the final entry in Warner Bros.' "Torchy Blane" series, based on characters created by...
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Lt. Steve McBride
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1939
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Tom Destry (James Stewart), son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn't believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the object...
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1939
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It's Swing Music vs. the Classics in the easy-to-take Warners tunefest Naughty But Nice. Dick Powell dons the obligatory...
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1939
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In this comedy, a young waitress is given $1,000 from her grandfather. She desires to buy a race horse and so trustingly...
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Bailey
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1939
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The last and least of Warner Bros.' Gold Diggers musicals, Gold Diggers in Paris at least has the novelty of a Gallic...
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Duke Dennis
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1938
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In her only Warner Bros. starring film, Carole Lombard plays a Hollywood movie actress who makes the park-bench acquaintance...
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Dewey Gibson
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1938
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Roscoe
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1938
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Edward G. Robinson shines in a fine comic role as Dr. Clitterhouse, a brilliant psychiatrist doing research into the criminal...
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Okay
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1938
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This musical comedy is based on a modestly successful Broadway play and stars Humphrey Bogart as wrestling promoter Ed Hatch....
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1938
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Slight Case of Murder is a breakneck-paced comedy starring Edward G. Robinson as a tough but good-hearted bootlegger. When...
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Mike
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1938
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In this North Woods adventure a courageous Canadian Mounted Policeman takes on the outlaws who robbed a freighter heading...
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Cpl. Bill Hardsock
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1938
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In this gangster movie set in the Big Apple, a crime lord strong arms teamsters into paying him protection money. One young...
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"Horse" Wilson
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1938
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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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Jack Edgall
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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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This drama is based upon a play by George S. Kaufman, The Butter and Egg Man. It tells the tale of Erwin, a naive yokel who...
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Alf Morgan
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1937
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The disarmingly zany Marry the Girl was one of the better Hugh Herbert "B"-vehicles for Warner Bros. Much of the story takes...
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Specs
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1937
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Bette Davis' famous walk-out from her home studio of Warner Bros. may have hurt her financially, but in the long run it paid...
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1937
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In this comedy, the shady editor of a newspaper does all he can to keep his best reporter from marrying a journalist from a...
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1937
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It was from this military musical that the US Marine Corps got it's signature anthem, "The Song of the Marines." The story...
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1937
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Adapted by Lillian Hellman from Sidney Kingsley's Broadway play, Dead End concerns itself with several denizens of New York's...
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1937
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The Warner Bros. musicals began running out of gas in the late 1930s, yielding such lukewarm efforts as Ready, Willing and...
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Jay Van Courtland
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1937
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Dempsey
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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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A bell ringer's wife dies while giving birth to his second son who turns out to be deaf. His oldest son moves to America...
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Crusty
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1936
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Strictly for Al Jolson's most fervent fans, The Singing Kid casts Jolie as neurotic Broadway star Al Jackson. Facing...
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Joe Eddy
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1936
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Dodo
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1936
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For a change of pace, Warner Bros. contract tenor James Melton sings no opera in Sing Me A Love Song -- nor does he sing...
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Chris Cross
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1936
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Charley
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1936
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Based on Frederick Hazlett Brennan's play Battleship Gertie, Miss Pacific Fleet is short and snappy "gobs and gals" affair....
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1935
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An aspiring singer learns the bitter price of stardom in this musical drama. She starts out a small-town girl and soon...
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Fishcake Carter
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1935
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Errol Flynn makes his Hollywood screen debut as a corpse in this funny, fast-paced whodunit, the third of six Perry Mason...
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Spudsy
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1935
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The legs in question in this the second of Warner Bros. Perry Mason whodunits belong to Margy Clune (Patricia Ellis), the...
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Spudsy
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1935
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William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan Productions moved from MGM to Warners with Page Miss Glory--along with Cosmopolitan's...
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1935
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Rudy Vallee made his third feature-film starring appearance in the breezy Warner Bros. musical Sweet Music. Vallee is...
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1935
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Based on a mystery novel by Mignon Eberhardt, While the Patient Slept stars Aline MacMahon as Eberhardt's middle-aged amateur...
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Jackson
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1935
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This fast-paced Warner Bros. comedy stars James Cagney and Pat O'Brien as brothers who fight over the same girl. Mrs. O'Hara...
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Car-Barn Hammerschlag
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1935
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Though Busby Berkeley is the director of I Live for Love, there isn't a dancer or dance number anywhere to be seen....
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Jimmy McNamara
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1935
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There's nary a serious moment in the loopy Warner Bros. programmer A Night at the Ritz. William Gargan stars as Duke Regan, a...
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Gyp
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1935
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In this odd-ball comedy, a self-sacrificing but eccentric mother attempts to guide her equally eccentric family. She has two...
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Emmett
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1934
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James Cagney manages to retain his pre-Code cockiness within post-Code limitations in the likeable St. Louis Kid. Cagney and...
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Buck Willetts
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1934
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An idealistic but naive pharmacist believes the mobsters who claim they want him to manufacture illegal medicine to help out...
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Lefty
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1934
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Two wealthy neighbors, who make no secret of despising one another, both claim that they're married to Bessie Foley...
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Sgt. Holcomb
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1934
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Having previously played dishonest politicians, lawyers, and businessmen, Warren William is cast as a fraudulent doctor in...
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Sparks
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1934
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Completed just before the Production Code went into effect, I've Got Your Number is delightfully racy, risque entertainment....
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John
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1934
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No relation to the 1949 20th Century-Fox melodrama of the same name, Columbia's 1934 Whirlpool stars Jack Holt as a shifty...
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Mac
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1934
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Josephine Hutchinson is a beautiful heiress bored by her stifling lifestyle. She bolts her family mansion on New Years' Eve...
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1934
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James Cagney runs a shady missing-heir tracing service, occasionally providing phony heirs in order to collect his fee. He...
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Louis
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1934
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A satire on radio crooners, Twenty Million Sweethearts stars Dick Powell as a singing waiter--fake handlebar mustache and...
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Pete
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1934
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This drama is set aboard a cross-country train bound for New York. Aboard this train is a silk manufacturer from Seattle who...
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1933
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In this romance, an con-artist leaves an unsuccessful carnival gig to become a successful phony psychic. He is assisted by...
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Frank
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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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O'Connor
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1933
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The wonderful Warner Bros. stock company goes through its customarily breezy paces in Havana Widows. Joan Blondell and...
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Herman Brody
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1933
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In this melodrama, the wife of a wealthy man abruptly leaves him and sets sail for Cuba leaving him to hire a gumshoe to find...
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Hank Wales
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1933
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Hard to Handle stars James Cagney as a fast-talking promoter who pounces upon every current fad and foible to make a quick...
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Radio Announcer
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1933
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William Powell is a poor East Side lawyer who works his way up the ladder to assistant prosecutor. He isn't too particular...
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Issy Levine
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1933
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Set during the Depression, this crime drama centers upon a basically honest girl who is forced into prostitution by...
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Louie
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1933
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The quintessential "backstage" musical, 42nd Street traces the history of a Broadway musical comedy, from casting call to...
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1933
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Although claiming to be based on actual cases, this mild crime drama appears to have been derived more from a screenwriter's...
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Joe Musik
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1933
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Gangster Cagney allows his powerful political connections to appoint him "deputy inspector" of a state reform school. There...
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Mike
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1933
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Warren William plays a high-powered ambitious executive who unflinchingly steamrolled his way to the top without regard for...
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1933
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Tomorrow at Seven is one of those "you will die at the appointed hour" murder mysteries which flooded the market in the early...
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Dugan
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1933
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1932
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Warner Bros.' hard-hitting chain-gang movie was a faithful adaptation of the similarly titled autobiography of Robert Elliot...
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1932
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Blessed Event is one of several early-1930s films inspired by the meteoric rise to fame of gossip columnist Walter Winchell...
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Frankie Wells
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1932
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College football is satirized in this comedy that begins as racketeer "Knucks" McGoin buys Canarsie College and fills it...
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1932
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Though he'd been given top billing at other studios, Charles Ruggles attained star status at his home lot of Paramount for...
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Tony Maloney
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1931
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