This rather complex animated adventure concerns the quest of a toy wind-up mouse and his son to become self-winding.The two...
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1977
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This spoof makes fun of a certain famous German shepherd movie star from the 1920s. The mayhem begins when the head honcho...
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1976
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In this heartwarming children's adventure set in Marineland, a young boy secretly trains a killer whale to appear in the big...
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1976
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1975
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After several feature-length documentaries (Elvis: That's The Way It Is, Soul to Soul), filmmaker Denis Sanders returned to...
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1973
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Robin Hood is one of the first animated films produced by the Walt Disney Company after Walt Disney's death in 1967. For the...
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Friar Tuck
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1973
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This video chronicles the use of sex, violence and death in art through the ages. ~ Rovi...
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1972
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The Over the Hill Gang Rides Again is a TV-movie sequel to 1969's ratings-grabbing The Over the Hill Gang, which told of a...
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1970
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Have you ever longed for the day when James Brown, Martha Raye, and Col. Harland Sanders would appear in a movie together?...
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1970
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Gore Vidal's best-selling satiric novel gets an inarguably unique screen treatment in this off-center psycho-sexual farce....
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1970
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Smoke stars Ron Howard as a sullen farm youth who resents the fact that his widowed mother (Jacqueline Scott) has remarried....
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1970
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One of the better and more diverting of ABC's first full season of made-for-television movies, The Over-the-Hill Gang was a...
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1969
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Carroll O'Connor was two years away from Archie Bunker when he signed for the minor Disney effort Ride a Northbound Horse....
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1969
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A clan of Carolina moonshiners struggle to outsmart the revenuers and deliver their potent brew in this crime drama. ~...
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1968
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Doris Day peers through layers of camera gauze to star in The Ballad of Josie, a second-rate variation of Cat Ballou. For...
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Judge Tatum
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1968
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Though the title of this episode refers to the young lady played by Sheila Wells, the emphasis is on George's father,...
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1968
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When Chris Carlyle's (Jay North) family leaves their farm for the city, Chris must give his pet puma up to the local zoo....
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Branch Hawksbill
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1965
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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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Filmed in panoramic Cinerama, this star-studded, epic Western adventure is a true cinematic classic. Three legendary...
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1962
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Like Pontius Pilate, director John Ford asks "What is truth?" in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance--but unlike Pilate, Ford...
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1962
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Andy Devine stars as Mr. Frisby, the biggest liar in three counties. Despite his constant gas-bagging about his alleged past...
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Frisby
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1962
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One of director John Ford's least characteristic films, it derives from the latter part of his career, when the director's...
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Sgt. Darius P. Posey
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1961
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MGM's all-star 1960 filmization of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn surgically removes the sociological subtext of Mark...
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1960
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1959
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1958
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1957
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1956
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Razzle-dazzle showman Michael Todd hocked everything he had to make this spectacular presentation of Jules Verne's 1872 novel...
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1956
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This series is a collection of vintage TV programs aimed at children. ~ Jason Ankeny, Rovi...
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1955
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Andy's Gang was an early '50s kids TV show with likable characters such as Froggy, who plucked his magic twanger, and...
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1955
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1955
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Pete Kelly's Blues is arguably the most stylish of director/star Jack Webb's theatrical features. Beginning with a...
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George Tenell
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1955
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1954
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A U.S. Army cavalry officer (Dane Clark) leads westward-bound settlers through Indian territory. ~ Kristie Hassen, Rovi...
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1954
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1954
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During World War II, a Military Air Transport Command DC-3 piloted by a civilian crew is forced down in northern Labrador....
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Moon
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1953
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1953
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1953
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1952
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1952
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1952
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1952
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Originally filmed at Republic in 1948, Montana Belle was purchased by producer Howard R. Hughes, who'd loaned the services of...
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Pete Bivins
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1952
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Filmed in Ansco Color (a fancy name for Eastmancolor), New Mexico stars Lew Ayres as Capt. Hunt, a U.S. Cavalry Captain...
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Sgt. Garrity
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1951
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The Cinecolor "A" western Slaughter Trail anticipated High Noon by having its story narrated in song by troubadour...
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Sgt. McIntosh
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1951
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1951
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In this 1951 comedy Irene Dunne stars as Kay, a Manhattan-based songwriter who marries widowed rodeo cowboy Chris...
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Orvie
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1950
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In the late 1940s - early 1950s, Columbia Pictures enjoyed a great deal of success with a series of slapsticky feature films...
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Waldo
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1950
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This series is a collection of vintage TV programs aimed at children. ~ Jason Ankeny, Rovi...
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1950
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Republic's program westerns of the 1940s fell into two categories: the Saturday-matinee fare of Roy Rogers,...
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Casey Brown
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1949
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1949
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Opening with a brief look at Republic Pictures' back lot in Studio City, CA, this average Roy Rogers songfest settles down to...
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Cookie Bullfincher
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1948
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Few Roy Rogers westerns were as gratuitously violent as the 1948 release Eyes of Texas. This time, Rogers' principal...
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Cookie Bullfincher
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1948
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Roy Rogers plays Roy Rogers, as ever, in Night Time in Nevada. This time Roy is a cattle owner whose stock is stolen by...
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Cookie Bullfincher
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1948
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Roy Rogers stars in the full-color Republic "special" The Far Frontier. This time, Roy deals with a plot to smuggle fugitive...
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Judge Cookie Bullflacher
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1948
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When Republic moved its popular star William Elliot from "B" series westerns to "A" frontier specials, a lot of the fun and...
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Windy Hornblower
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1948
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Also known as California Outpost, Old Los Angeles stars Bill Elliot in one of his expanded-budget Republic "specials." The...
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Sam Bowie
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1948
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Released in Republic Pictures' low-budget Trucolor and filmed at the majestic location of the title, Grand Canyon Trail stars...
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Cookie Bullfincher
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1948
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One of the better Roy Rogers films of its period, The Gay Ranchero also happens to be one of the more violent Rogers efforts....
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Cookie Bullfincher
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1948
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The Bells of San Angelo was the second Republic Roy Rogers western to be filmed in the "new" Trucolor process (actually the...
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Cookie Bullfinder
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1947
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Jon Hall, Universal's beefcake kid, usually comported himself in South Seas or Arabian nights outfits. In Michigan Kid (based...
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Buster
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1947
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With the defection of Gene Autry from the Republic lot, Roy Rogers was truly the King of the Singing Cowboys. In On the Old...
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Cookie Bullfincher
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1947
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In this western, a marshal goes undercover to stop a brutal gang of crooks from continuing to terrorize local ranchers....
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Andy
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1947
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Slave Girl is the sort of fare that the Universal higher-ups used to dismiss as "tits and sand;" nonetheless, this kind of...
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1947
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Fans of William "Wild Bill" Elliot vastly prefer his B westerns to his big-budget Republic "specials", though the latter...
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1947
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Republic's Springtime in the Sierras bestows upon star Roy Rogers two leading ladies. The first is his usual vis-a-vis...
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1947
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Dana Andrews -- in one of the best performances of his career -- plays Logan Stuart, a bold, ambitious general store and...
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1946
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1946
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1945
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In another of her series of romantic desert adventures, popular actress Maria Montez is this time Naila, the newly crowned...
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Nebka
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1945
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In this costume drama, a woman travels from New England to California's Barbary coast to avenge her brother's death. There...
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Bunny
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1945
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Johnny Hart (Rod Cameron) is on the run from the law after killing one of the men who shot his partner. He passes through a...
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Big Ben
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1945
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Two Bowery vaudevillians compete to be the first to produce shows on Broadway. They might be friends were they not so...
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1944
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At MGM, the studio's youth musicals were more rural than urban -- find a barn, get some friends together, and hey kids, let's...
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Joe Costello
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1944
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Colonel Breckinridge Marshall (Walter Catlett) of Clearwater, GA -- who puts on a big front but is actually only a step away...
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Horsehead
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1944
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Paramount Pictures did their patriotic duty with this World War II era musical, with a number of the studio's biggest stars...
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1944
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1943
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Randolph Scott was the star of Corvette K-225, a tribute to the World War II corvette escorts which guided Allied convoys...
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Walsh
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1943
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The general perception of the Technicolor costume adventure movies that Maria Montez and Jon Hall made for Universal in the...
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Abdullah
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1943
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Another of Universal's "pocket" musicals, Rhythm of the Islands is set in the South Seas, presumably far away from the...
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Eddie Dolan
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1943
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Cattlemen Robert Paige and Noah Beery Jr. run up against a shady syndicate, set up to squash the dealing between independent...
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1943
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Top Sergeant was the third of four inexpensive Universal action films top-billing Leo Carrillo, Andy Devine and Don Terry....
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Andy Jarrett
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1942
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The Unseen Enemy in this wartime meller is Nick (Leo Carrillo), the outwardly effusive manager of a San Francisco waterfront...
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Sam
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1942
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Marlene Dietrich was supposed to have starred in Universal's Sin Town, but the script was not to her liking. Dietrich was...
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Judge Eustace Vale
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1942
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Its "timely" title notwithstanding, Escape From Hong Kong is simply more of the he-man derring-do that Universal had been...
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Blimp
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1942
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Universal and producer/director Henry Koster had plans to make Diana Barrymore, the daughter of John Barrymore, into another...
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Mike Kilinsky
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1942
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Timber is a typical Universal Pictures amalgam of he-man virility and endless spools of stock footage from earlier films....
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Arizona
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1942
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It was an open secret in Hollywood that bosom buddies (and fellow Universal contractees) Broderick Crawford and Lon Chaney...
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Klondike
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1942
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1942
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Andy Parker
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1942
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In this drama, a South American planter and his neighbors find themselves plagued by vandals who have been destroying their...
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Andy
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1941
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Set in the burning Arabian desert, this action-adventure centers on the attempts of a well-meaning and wealthy fellow to...
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1941
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Andy
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1941
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Up-and-coming Universal leading man Robert Stack made his western-movie debut in Badlands of Dakota. Set in the Dakotas...
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1941
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First Sailor
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1941
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Mutiny in the Arctic was a 1941 entry in Universal's unofficial Richard Arlen/Andy Devine adventure series. Richard and...
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Andy
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1941
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Not quite a B western but certainly no "A", Road Agent is kept alive by the boisterous byplay of stars Dick Foran,...
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Andy
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1941
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In this drama, a young heiress finds trouble when she naively assumes control over some valuable timberlands. The trouble...
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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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Andy
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1941
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An entertaining amalgam of Universal contract players, leftover sets and stock footage, South of Tahiti stars Brian Donlevy,...
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Moose
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1941
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Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) and his buddies Johnny (Brad King) and California (Andy Clyde) take on a gang of rustlers in...
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1941
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The Man From Montreal is a lively entry in Universal's Richard Arlen-Andy Devine action series. The stars are cast...
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Constable Bones Blair
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1940
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When the Daltons Rode is the much-embellished tale of that celebrated outlaw family, the Daltons. Broderick Crawford,...
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1940
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Commodore
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1940
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Trail of the Vigilantes was conceived as a straight action picture, but was reshaped during filming into a comedy western in...
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Meadows
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1940
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Barney Tolliver
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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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1940
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In this comedy-adventure two petroleum engineers must investigate strange reports from a Company outpost in the South Seas....
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Andy
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1940
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To fully appreciate Buck Benny Rides Again, one must have some familiarity with Jack Benny's radio programs of the 1939-40...
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Himself
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1940
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Old stock shots are blended with freshly filmed material in the Universal programmer Hot Steel. Richard Arlen plays a...
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Matt Morrison
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1940
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In this boxing drama, the trouble begins when a fight breaks out at a local gym. When a boxing promoter sees that Dick, who...
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Andy Grogan
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1940
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Wally Davis
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1940
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Danger on Wheels is one of the 14 Richard Arlen-Andy Devine adventure films ground out by Universal Pictures between 1939 and...
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"Guppy" Wexel
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1940
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Although there were Westerns before it, Stagecoach quickly became a template for all movie Westerns to come. Director...
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Buck Rickabaugh
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1939
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Bob Hope and an all-star cast have great fun in this frothy romantic comedy about a wealthy tycoon who learns that he only...
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Henry Munch
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1939
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Legion of Lost Flyers is a typically action-packed entry in Universal's Richard Arlen-Andy Devine series (if one can call a...
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"Beef" Brumley
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1939
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One part high-seas adventure and one part western, Mutiny on the Blackhawk opens as a pair of heroes take a stand against...
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Slim Collins
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1939
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In this campus drama, an orphan wins a cadet scholarship to the Culver military academy. He is a cocky fellow, and is very...
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Tubby
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1939
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The late cinema historian William K. Everson once wrote an article titled "Movies Out of Thin Air", referring to films that...
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Sneezer
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1939
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Tropic Fury is one of several Universal programmers built around the box-office appeal of handsome Richard Arlen and...
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"Tiny" Andrews
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1939
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The Sidney Howard/Paul de Kruf Broadway play Yellow Jack was transferred to the screen by MGM in 1938. The film is set at the...
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Charlie Spell
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1938
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Ever youthful Tom Brown once more plays a campus football hero in Swing That Cheer. Undeniably talented on the gridiron, Bob...
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Doc Saunders
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1938
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The rivalry between two columnists provides the basis of this drama. The most powerful of the two (patterned after columnist...
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"Snoop" Lewis
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1938
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After several years' faithful service in supporting parts, Frank Jenks and Dorothea Kent were promoted to leading roles in...
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Hobbs
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1938
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Bing Crosby plays the melodic medico of the title. To help cover for his ailing policeman pal (Andy Devine), Crosby takes the...
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Policeman Lawrence O'Roon
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1938
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Brash and vigorous director William Wellman always had a place in his filmography for movies glorifying the early years of...
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Joe Gibbs
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1938
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1938
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In Old Chicago was 20th Century-Fox's spin on MGM's San Francisco--a personal saga played out against the backdrop of a...
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Pickle Bixby
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1938
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A handful of German soldiers readjust to civilian life in the bitter wake of World War I in this follow-up to the classic All...
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Willy
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1937
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In this musical, the only one singer/dancer Alice Faye, made for Universal, a Broadway producer is in a quandary when he...
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Daisy Day
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1937
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James Dunn is once more cast as a reporter, this one named Murphy. On the outs with practically every newsroom in America,...
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Carolina
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1937
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In this lively musical, an eccentric philanthropist's will dictates that four people receive $5,000 with the stipulation...
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Half-Pint
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1937
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Danny McGuire
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1937
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1936
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George
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1936
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The real-life Yellowstone National Park provides a colorful backdrop to this melodramatic actioner. Henry Hunter stars as...
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Pay Day
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1936
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1936
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1936
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Future best-selling novelist Irwin Shaw made his screenwriting bow with the modest RKO Radio sports drama The Big Game. The...
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Pop
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1936
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In this now-campy drama, a patriotic state college football team takes on a subversive radical group determined to undermine...
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Cy Kipp
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1935
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Liverlips
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1935
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Elmer Otway
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1935
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This tragic melodrama is a remake of Griffith's 1920 film, Way Down East. The story centers upon a starving, impoverished...
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1935
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In this romance, a slightly crooked and highly ambitious mayoral candidate convinces a woman to help him blackmail the...
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Edwards
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1935
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Former child actor Johnny Downs acts his first adult lead in this nonsensical but charming little musical which benefits...
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Pinky Falls
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1935
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Dore Schary, several years removed from his tenure as head of MGM, was screenwriter for the modest Universal actioner...
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George Mason
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1935
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In this musical, a radio-announcer is fired after giving a false interview. For consolation he begins to drink heavily. It...
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1934
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Based upon a novel anonymously written by Rex Stout, The President Vanishes has as its title character a peace-loving man...
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1934
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Richard Dix plays the title-role, of a dashing highwayman and bandit in 1870's Australia, in this strangely delightful mix of...
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Howie
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1934
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The Lafayette Escadrille, that elite corps of volunteer WW I flyboys, is the collective "hero" of Fox's Hell in the Heavens....
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Sgt. "Ham" Davis
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1934
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In this comedy, a wealthy socialite pursues a carefree playboy who isn't at all interested in her. After all her regular...
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1934
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The first cinematic teaming of horror greats Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi is a bizarre, haunting, and relentlessly eerie...
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1934
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Written by the prolific Ben Hecht, Upper World is a clash-of-class melodrama set in New York City. Railroad tycoon Alexander...
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Oscar the Chauffeur
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1934
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1934
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In this comedy, two impoverished cousins inherit a British mansion and decide that one of them should marry a wealthy...
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1934
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In this romance, a bootlegger finds himself unemployed when he is finally released from prison and discovers that...
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Careful
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1934
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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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Andy Jones
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1933
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This comedy is last entry in the five-movie series "The Cohens and Kellys." In this episode, Sidney and Murray are competing...
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1933
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This drama centers on the fight for certain post-Prohibitionist groups to gain total control over the liquor industry. Much...
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1933
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Will Rogers is Dr. Bull, a small-town physician with precious little book learning. This doesn't stop him from ministering to...
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1933
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In this comedy, two rubes from Montana find a fortune after they discover radium on their ranch. The nouveau riche ranchers...
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Andy
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1933
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Renowned animal-trainer Clyde Beatty plays himself as a circus owner in this adventure that centers on an enthusiastic youth...
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Scoops
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1933
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A spoiled rich girl marries a gas station owner in this dated romance starring Joel McCrea, Ginger Rogers, and Marion Nixon....
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Al
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1933
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Loaned to MGM by her home studio of Warner Bros., Loretta Young suffers her way through the title role in Midnight Mary. A...
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Sam Travers
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1933
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1932
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In this comedy, a shady jockey, Marty Black, teams up with Silk Henley to con the punters at little racetracks. Marty goes...
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Information Kid
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1932
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In her first film under contract to Warner Bros., Kay Francis plays Lois Ames, a magazine editor whose husband Fred (Kenneth...
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Andy Doyle
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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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The "Enoch Arden" theme is trotted out and slicked up for The Man From Yesterday. Nurse Claudette Colbert marries army doctor...
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Steve Hand
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1932
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A star football player in college, Garry King (Richard Arlen) finds post-college life very different; he betrays the trust of...
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Andy Moran
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1932
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Ruth Robbins (Mae Clarke) is already a cynic about marriage, and well she should be -- at age 19, she's the...
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Clarence Howe
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1932
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The concept of radio patrol cars was still brand-spanking new when this fast-moving programmer came off the Universal...
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Pete Wiley
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1932
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Glamorous Jean Harlow had her first big starring role in this standard story of an innocent small town young woman corrupted...
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Chauffeur
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1932
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An early screen version of the oft-filmed tale of Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Law and...
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1932
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1931
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This drama is set at Notre Dame and follows the exploits of a great football coach (patterned after Knute Rockne) who is...
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Truck McCall
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1931
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In this college romp, a free-spirited aunt decides to use a $10,000 insurance settlement to send her niece to college. She...
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1929
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The Naughty Baby in this late-silent opus is hat-check girl Rosie McGill, played by bubbly blonde Alice White. Taking a...
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1929
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We Americans was based on the Broadway play of the same name. Returning to the "melting pot" themes that he handled so well,...
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1928
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Red Lips was based on the novel The Plastic Age by Percy Marks, previously filmed under its original title in 1925....
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1928
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Two lonely people discover short-lived happiness in this silent drama. Jim (Glenn Tryon) and Mary (Barbara Kent) live in the...
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1928
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