Retreat, Hell! is out of favor with most disciples of director Joseph H. Lewis, partly because it was a major-studio release,...
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Ruth Hansen
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1952
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Blondie decides she wants to be a star and nearly turns her household upside down in this entry in the long-running domestic...
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1947
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Bulldog Drummond at Bay was the title of two entries in the long-running "Bulldog Drummond" series. The later film, lensed in...
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1947
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The Technicolor swashbuckler Bandit of Sherwood Forest stars Cornel Wilde as Robert of Nottingham, son of the legendary Robin...
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Lady Catherine Maitland
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1946
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This entry in the short "I Love a Mystery" series has detective Jack Packard and his sidekick Doc Young investigating the...
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1946
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In this crime drama a courageous wealthy man uses all of his money and power to stop a gang of counterfeiters. ~ Sandra...
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1946
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In this heartwarming children's movie, an adorable child finds a darling donkey and decides to make it his pet, but in order...
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Laura Howard
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1946
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Ayn Rand wrote this adaptation of Chris Massie's book Pity Mr. Simplicity, about a soldier who falls in love with a former...
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Helen Wentworth
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1945
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Columbia Pictures' entree into the swashbuckling genre was the opulent 18th century costumer The Fighting Guardsman. Willard...
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Amelie de Montrevel
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1945
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Nine Girls stars several of Columbia's loveliest contract actresses as sorority sisters at an exclusive California college....
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Paula Canfield
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1944
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When he finds out his ex-wife has just had his child and plans to give her up for adoption, a timid English instructor dashes...
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Madge Ferris
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1944
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Stalwart supporting actor Allyn Joslyn is afforded a rare leading role in the Columbia mystery meller Dangerous Blondes....
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Julie Taylor
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1943
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An historical entry in Columbia's Blondie series, Blondie's Blessed Event recreates the moment in Chic Young's original comic...
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1942
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Columbia's Two in a Taxi is perfect "Late Late Late Show" fare, just the sort of brisk, breezy film with which one would want...
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Bonnie
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1941
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Harmon of Michigan was the first in a trio of Columbia sports films, each starring a real-life athlete. In this case, the...
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Peggy Adams
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1941
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Though the United States still wasn't at war when Phantom Submarine was made, the film emphasizes the importance of...
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Madeleine Neilson
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1941
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Like Prohibition, Franklin-Blank Productions' The Villain Still Pursued Her is best regarded as a "noble experiment". Using...
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Mary Wilson
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1940
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In this western, two disparate twins ride the range. One is a real troublemaker while the other is a government agent. When...
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Phyllis
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1940
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The vice squad takes on escort services in this crime drama. Two services are depicted. One escort agency is legitimate,...
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Ann Powell
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1940
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The Hero for a Day is elderly night watchman Frank Higgins (Charley Grapewin), still basking in the memories of his long-age...
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Sylvia Higgins
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1939
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When Fox bought the rights to Ralph Spence's warhorse stage mystery-comedy The Gorilla for the Ritz Brothers, they walked out...
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Norma Denby
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1939
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The rise of the popular Nevada city is chronicled in this epic drama that begins when Reno was a tiny silver-mining town and...
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Mrs. Ryder
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1939
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In this comedy/drama, a feisty taxi-dancer (Lana Turner in her first starring role) takes on a sorority full of snooty...
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1939
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In this courtroom drama a countrified prosecutor deliberately fails in his attempt to convict a notorious gangster so he can...
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Honey
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1939
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Miss Rose
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1939
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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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Ellen Parker
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1939
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The ever-suffering Kay Francis once again makes an assault on the audience's tear ducts in My Bill. Francis is cast as Mary...
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Muriel Colbrook
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1938
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M.G.M.'s opulent costume drama Marie Antoinette marked a return to the screen after a two-year absence for reigning Queen of...
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Princess DeLamballe
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1938
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Helen Elliott
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1938
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Flip
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1937
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Based on the 1935 Broadway play by George S. Kaufman and Katharine Dayton, First Lady is not, as might be assumed, the story...
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Emmy Page
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1937
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Call It a Day is a Warner Bros. attempt at British light comedy. Nothing much happens of any consequence in this story of a...
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Joan Collett
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1937
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When Errol Flynn insisted that Warner Bros. cook up a non-swashbuckler for his next vehicle, the result was Green Light....
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Phyllis Dexter
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1937
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An intrepid amputee must pass a test to prove his devotion to his sweetie in this romantic drama. The hero lost his leg...
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Marguerite Ricks
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1937
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Two members of the Russian monarchy pose as French servants while hiding the Czar's fortune. This unlikely plot is at the...
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Helen Dupont
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1937
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When David O. Selznick produced the film version of the 1000-plus page novel Gone with the Wind, he declared he could not...
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Maria
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1936
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Ross Alexander, whom Warner Bros. was obviously grooming for big-time stardom, is cast as Bill McAllister, the ne'er-do-well...
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Hazel Robinson
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1936
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"Every time Paul Muni parts his beard and looks through a microscope, we lose a million dollars." Producer Jack Warner's...
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Annette Pasteur
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1936
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Her Daughter
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1935
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Lydia Lubov
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1935
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1935
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A variation on the Lady for a Day theme, Universal's Lady Tubbs stars Alice Brady as Henrietta "Mom" Tubbs, the no-nonsense...
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Wynne Howard
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1935
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This tuneful melodrama is set upon a college campus and follows the attempts of a pretty young woman who slyly helps her...
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Mimi Smith
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1935
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In this melodrama, a woman must spend a decade in prison after murdering her spouse. Upon entering jail, she had to give up...
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Lorna March
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1934
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No boring historical pageant this, Warner Bros.' Madame DuBarry is a fast-paced, often hilarious romantic romp. Her Mexican...
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1934
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Invincible Studios' Cross Streets is something of a watershed film, providing leading roles for fading silent stars...
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Clara Grattan
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1934
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Will Rogers stars as Judge William "Billy" Priest, the common-sense Kentucky jurist created by humorist Irvin S. Cobb. The...
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Ellie May Gillespie
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1934
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An impoverished waitress marries a rich college boy against the wishes of his parents. Shortly after bearing his son, the...
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1934
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All but forgotten today, Warner Bros.' The Firebird was based on a once-popular stage mystery by Lajos Zilhany. Prohibited...
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Mariette
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1934
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Silent-film director Edwin Carewe hoped to stage a talkie comeback with his self-produced Are We Civilized? Set in a...
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Norma Bockner
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1934
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Our Betters is adapted from Somerset Maugham's play about the shallowness and hypocrisy of the idle rich. American heiress...
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Bessie
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1933
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Gary Curtis, aka Farnsbarns (Richardo Cortez), is really a former hoodlum hired to retrieve some compromising letters from...
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1932
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While on a riverboat traveling on the Mississippi River, Ayres finds out that his father is an impostor and that man...
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Towhead
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1931
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Rosie
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1931
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In this historical drama, set in 1775, the hardships faced by a courageous band of settlers traveling from Virginia to...
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Betty Hall
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1931
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Lily Damita, an actress best known today for her tempestuous marriage to screen idol Errol Flynn, is the Dietrich-like...
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Helen Weston
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1931
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Yet another variation on the already then-ancient Madame X theme, this early talkie stars Helen Twelvetrees in the title...
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1931
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Just before settling into bit roles and dialogue-director assignments, early-talkie leading man David Newell headed the cast...
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1930
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In this drama, the children of a recently deceased firefighter are sent to an orphanage. Two other firefighters offered to...
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Milly Morton
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1930
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In this romance, the family chauffeur tells no one that he is really a decorated war hero. He does this to stay away from...
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1930
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In this comedy, set during the 1900s, a Florodora girl slowly falls for a gentle millionaire. Songs include: "My Kind Of...
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1930
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Child star Frank "Junior" Coghlan's final film on his DeMille-Pathe contract was the military-academy drama Square Shoulders....
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Mary Jane
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1929
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In this moving drama, a young woman is forced to take care of her many brothers and sisters while their wealthy parents live...
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1929
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Stage favorite Peggy Wood (later the star of the popular TV series Mama) made her screen debut in the MGM part-talkie Wonder...
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1929
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The circus provides the backdrop for this melodrama that chronicles the lives of four children raised within the big top. Two...
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1929
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