I Was an American Spy is a true story, based on a series of autobiographical Reader's Digest articles written by Claire...
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Claire Phillips
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1951
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Glenn Ford plays a convict who breaks out of a 19th century Nevada prison in the company of several less handsome inmates....
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Rachel
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1951
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In their never-ending efforts to create a movie series to match the success of "The Thin Man," MGM came up with the...
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1950
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Joyfully preparing for her high-school graduation, and her 18th birthday, Gail Macauley (Ann Blyth) stumbles across a family...
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Mrs. Lynch
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1950
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Lana Turner stars as an ambitious model who seeks her fortune in New York City. She is befriended by over-the-hill cover-girl...
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Mary Ashlon
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1950
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Return of Jesse James is an excellent example of how to get full value for money from an attenuated budget. John Ireland...
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Sue Younger
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1950
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The year is 1908 and the setting Jericho, Kansas, a veritable cesspool of sin and vice. Dave Connors is a politically...
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1948
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If Eagle-Lion's Out of the Blue looks more like a slick Warner Bros. product at times, it's because the film was peopled by...
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Olive Jensen
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1947
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Based upon the French film Le Jour Se Lève, The Long Night opens in the in the midst of a dire situation: ex-serviceman Joe...
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Charlene
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1947
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Writer/director Albert Lewin, ever on the lookout for esoteric story material that would accommodate his fascination with...
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Madeleine Forestier
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1947
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Dan Mitchell (Randolph Scott) is the town marshal of Abilene, KS, in the turbulent years after the Civil War and the start of...
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Rita
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1946
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Andrew Stone's The Bachelor's Daughters has much of the nonsensical breeziness of Stone's earlier screwball comedy...
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Terry
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1946
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The Technicolor musical Masquerade in Mexico is Mitchell Leisen's remake of his own Midnight. Stranded in Mexico City without...
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Helen Grant
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1945
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In this western, a Montana cattle rancher travels to San Francisco's notorious Barbary Coast and ends up falling in love...
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1945
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Flaxen Tarry
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1945
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In this espionage film, a Danish double-agent is assigned by the Nazis to sneak into to England and abscond with the secret...
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Joan Grahame
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1943
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Erich Kohler (Eric Portman) is a decorated Luftwaffe pilot recruited for a daring propaganda mission in Belgium -- to drop...
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Barbara Lucas
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1943
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Filmed in England at Warner Bros.' Teddington Studios facilities, This Was Paris stars American actors (and current British...
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Anne Morgan
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1941
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Jo
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1940
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The lives of female hoboes in the Great Depression are chronicled in this interesting drama. In order to fully understand...
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Kay Warren
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1940
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Stronger Than Desire is a streamlined remake of 1934's Evelyn Prentice. Instead of the earlier film's William Powell and...
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1939
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Sad-eyed Ann Dvorak plays Jo, the "café hostess" of the title. Poor put-upon Jo doesn't know it, but she's being used by her...
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1939
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Blind Alley, directed by Charles Vidor is a chilling psychological drama in the film-noir tradition reminiscent of the fine...
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Mary
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1939
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In this crime drama, an undercover cop infiltrates a crime syndicate being run by an incarcerated mob boss who conducts his...
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Connie
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1938
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1938
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Professional horsewoman Ann Dvorak is the Racing Lady in this hit-and-miss romantic comedy. The story begins breaking into a...
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Ruth Martin
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1937
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Not only is "she" no lady, but heroine Jerry (Ann Dvorak) doesn't even have a ladylike name. Jerry is an insurance...
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Jerry
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1937
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Its title notwithstanding, We Who Are About to Die has nothing to do with Roman Gladiators. Rather, the film is based on the...
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Connie
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1937
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Now decidedly a product of Warner Bros.' grade-B unit, The Case of the Stuttering Bishop brought the Perry Mason series to a...
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Della Street
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1937
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In this musical comedy, a crooked record producer uses his mob connections to force performers to do their stuff. The trouble...
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Ann Rogers
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1937
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District attorney Victor Shanley (John Litel) is forced out of his job through the machinations of gang boss Al Kruger...
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Carol O'Neil
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1937
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In G Men, Warner Bros. "bad boy" James Cagney plays James "Brick" Davis, a young lawyer whose education has been financed by...
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Jean Morgan
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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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Bonnie Haydon
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1935
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A sharp satire of small-town politics, Thanks a Million stars Dick Powell as the leading man of a travelling musical show....
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Sally Mason
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1935
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Paul Muni is a prominent physician who is kidnapped by gangsters and forced to tend the needs of head crook Barton MacLaine....
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Josephine Gray
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1935
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Joe E. Brown's extensive circus and burlesque training serve him well in this familiar but likeable yarn. Brown and...
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Fay Wilson
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1935
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A pre-stardom Bette Davis struggles mightily as the "other woman" in this rather obvious divorce court drama from Warner...
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Nan Wilson Reynolds
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1934
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Susan Merrill
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1934
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"I Sell Anything" is the boast of penny-ante auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler (Pat O'Brien), and he more than makes good his boast...
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Barbara
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1934
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One of the first major Hollywood films to seriously address America's ongoing mistreatment of its Indian population,...
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Lydia
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1934
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In this British comedy, a mild mannered editorial writer for a right-wing newspaper becomes fed up with the constant...
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Beulah Boyd
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1934
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Lyle Talbot stars as "Three Star" Halsey, a hotshot West Coast aviator with a reputation for recklessness. Time and time...
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Judy Wagner
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1934
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In this melodrama set in San Francisco, a businesswoman gives a job to an unemployed, homeless sailor. Later she becomes his...
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Marguerite Gilbert
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1934
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Myra
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1934
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In this drama, a gambler must hide-out from the mob and ends up in a spinster's apartment. The old woman, is unused to...
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Joan Morley
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1934
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Those who only know Pat O'Brien from his later, slightly more avuncular roles may be surprised to see him pumping out almost...
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Claire Gore
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1933
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In this romantic musical, a carnival knife thrower's assistant falls for a Parisian tour guide who earns money wearing a...
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Madeleine
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1933
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Completed in mid-1930, Scarface, based on Armitage Trail's novel of the same name, might have been the first of the great...
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Cesca Camonte
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1932
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James Cagney was originally pegged to play brash Broadway columnist Jimmy Russell in this pleasant if somewhat lightweight...
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Sally Condon
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1932
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Hoping to match the success of his boisterous (and Oscar-winning) silent comedy Two Arabian Knights, and at the same time...
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Mary
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1932
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Homespun vaudeville monologist Chic Sale repeats his "old geezer" characterization in Warner Bros.' Stranger in Town. Sale is...
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Marian
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1932
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Vivian Revere
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1932
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Molly Louvain (Ann Dvorak) is a young woman working as a clerk at a hotel. The product of a broken home, abandoned by her...
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Molly Louvain
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1932
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Howard Hawks directed this fast-paced auto racing drama. Joe Greer (James Cagney) is a top-ranked race car driver; his...
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Lee Merrick
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1932
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Sudden success can be a double-edged sword as this drama aptly proves. An aspiring musician finds success when his manager...
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Judy
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1932
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With a blonde wigged Joan Crawford offering one of her more high-handed performances, and veteran silent star Pauline...
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1931
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The legendary theatrical team of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne made their only starring screen appearance in this 1931...
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1931
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Though silent-screen favorite William Haines wasn't able to sustain his popularity into the talkie era, he insisted upon...
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1931
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1930
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Few movie "heroes" are as despicable as Roy (Charles Kaley), the leading character in the MGM musical Lord Byron of Broadway....
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1930
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1930
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The DeSylva-Brown-Henderson Broadway musical Good News was first brought to the screen by MGM in 1930. The scene is Tait...
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1930
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With the arrival of talkies, every major studio hopped on the musical bandwagon by turning out lavish "revues," spotlighting...
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1929
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Previously filmed as a one-reeler by D.W. Griffith in 1910, Helen Hunt Jackson's novel Ramona was given its first full-length...
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1916
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