Though in a weakened state, "good" witch Bathia Mapes (Anita Bolster) makes two separate efforts to cure Barnabas...
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1968
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Bathia Mapes (Anita Bolster), who describes herself as a benevolent witch, arrives at Collinwood in hopes of lifting the...
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1968
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1968
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A young lad with a penchant for spinning elaborate yarns gets himself in deep trouble when he tries to tell people that he...
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1966
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In this lively British comedy, a newlywed couple's quaint country cottage becomes a nightmare of repairs as they try to fix...
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1964
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A woman has to choose between the rich man she wants and the bohemian type who loves her in this comedy. Michele O'Brien...
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1964
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1963
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Breaking with their usual videotape tradition, the producers of NBC television's Hallmark Hall of Fame decided to commit its...
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1960
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A short ghost story, this film is better than it looks at first glance. When Jean, the patient wife of novelist David,...
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1960
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The oft-filmed Maurice Renard novel Hands of Orlac was given another cinematic go-round in this Franco-British production....
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1960
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In the British farce School for Scoundrels, Ian Carmichael plays a naïve young loser, Henry Palfrey, who is anxious to get...
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1960
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1959
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In this comedy, a man chooses an unethical way to help keep a financially struggling boy's club from closing down, by...
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1959
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In this romantic comedy, four children are seemingly orphaned and remanded to their aunt and uncle's custody after their...
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1957
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To make the Rising of the Moon, American filmmaker John Ford returned to his Irish roots. An obscure and highly personal film...
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1957
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In this comedy, a jewel thief hides his loot on an abandoned scow. Later he is captured and thrown in jail after assaulting...
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1955
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British actor Kenneth More's screen charisma helps smooth over the rough spots of Raising a Riot. More plays Tony, a young...
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1955
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An 18-month-old baby disappears in London. The parents, US embassy worker David Knight and his wife Julia Arnall, are...
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1955
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Framed for robbery, 18th century medical student Alan Ladd is sentenced to a New South Wales penal colony. En route to the...
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1953
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The blarney is as thick as the characters' brogues in You Can't Beat the Irish. Jack Warner stars as lazy but enterprising...
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1952
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In this comedy, a bookie wins a boutique and decides to modernize the joint by devising, new, more effective programs for...
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1951
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The never-solved disappearance of Judge Crater in 1930 was the inspiration for RKO's The Judge Steps Out. Alexander Knox (who...
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1949
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Outrageously sexist, The Perfect Woman is also very funny if you're in a politically incorrect mood. A dotty scientist...
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1949
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The Woman in White attempts to translate the archaic prose of 19th century gothic-mystery writer Wilkie Collins to the medium...
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1948
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1947
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Humphrey Bogart plays a psychotic killer who disposes of his wives through slow ingestion of poison in The Two Mrs. Carrolls,...
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1947
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Based on the novel by Agatha Christie and play by Frank Vosper, Love From a Stranger isn't quite as good as the 1937 version...
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1947
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Masterfully directed by Fritz Lang, Scarlet Street is a bleak film in which an ordinary man succumbs first to vice and then...
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1945
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Billy Wilder's searing portrait of an alcoholic features an Oscar-winning performance by Ray Milland as Don Birnam, a writer...
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1945
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Cult figure and B-movie auteur Joseph H. Lewis directed this taut exercise in film noir. Julia Ross (Nina Foch), an American...
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Sparkes
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1945
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The bland performance of star George Raft is the only drawback of this splashy 20th Century-Fox musical. Set in...
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1945
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Kitty is the "Pygmalion" legend, 18th century style. London aristocrat Ray Milland takes it upon himself to make a lady of a...
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1945
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The wartime housing shortage in Washington DC is the basis for this comedy. Several attractive young ladies rent a single DC...
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1944
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It took some doing to persuade the staunchly Catholic Bing Crosby to play a happy-go-lucky priest in Going My Way; luckily he...
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1944
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The White Cliffs of Dover is one of those overlong MGM wartime films that everyone seems to have seen a part of, but no one...
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1944
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The Lodger was the third film version of Mrs. Marie Belloc-Lowndes' classic "Jack the Ripper" novel, and in many eyes it was...
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1944
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Originally titled Passport to Destiny, RKO's Passport to Adventure manages to be both whimsical and melodramatic all at once....
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1944
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This fifth entry in MGM's off-and-on "Thin Man" series maintains the high production and story values of the first four. Per...
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1944
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The 80-star cast of Forever and a Day would certainly not have been feasible had not most of the actors and production people...
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1943
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Henry's friends think he's a coward because he refuses to fight a local bully, but his reason for refusing had more to do...
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1943
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On the day of his death in 1943, the spirit of Henry Van Cleave (Don Ameche) obligingly heads for the place where so many...
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1943
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1943
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In this thriller set in WW II London during the bombing raids, a surgeon becomes a homicidal maniac during the frequent...
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Mrs. Pringle
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1942
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Eric Knight's wartime novel This Above All was given the Tiffany treatment in the this 20th Century Fox big-budgeter....
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1942
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This wartime weeper could just as well have been titled Stardom for Margaret, inasmuch as it solidified the popularity of...
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1942
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"It's box office poison," producer Samuel Goldwyn is said to have exclaimed when he heard the idea of filming the life story...
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1942
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1942
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1942
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Aircraft plant worker Robert Cummings is accused of sabotaging his factory and causing the death of a co-worker. Actually,...
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1942
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In this musical western, ranch owner "Lucky" Langham (Robert Homans) dies unexpectedly, and in his will he leaves his spread...
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1938
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In this comedy, an inventor devises a remote control tank. Unfortunately, something goes wrong and the tank begins crushing...
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1930
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