Looking like a high-school junior, Michael Douglas plays a college professor in Adam at 6 AM. Tired of academia, Douglas opts...
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1970
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A meteor crashes somewhere in the West, killing a miner named Cannon (Jim McCullough). The miner's son Charles (Stephen...
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Ruth Cannon
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1957
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In this adventure, set in the dark African jungles, visiting American scientists inadvertently enrage the local natives when...
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1955
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Low-budget Realart Films managed to pick up an above-average property when it secured the screen rights to the Robert Abel...
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Candy Allen
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1952
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Kitty
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1950
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Partially filmed in the San Bernardino Mountains, Call of the Klondike was perhaps the best of producer Lindsley Parson's...
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Nancy
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1950
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The title King of the Bullwhip could only refer to one of two western-movie favorites: Lash LaRue or Whip Wilson. Since...
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Jane Kerrigan
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1950
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Robert Lowery stars in the 65-minute actioner Arson Inc. Lowery plays a fireman in search of a seemingly random arsonist--or...
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Jane
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1949
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The peaceful, solitary existence of a crippled lad and his grandfather living in a remote wooded valley is disturbed when...
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Midge
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1948
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June O'Carroll
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1948
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Befitting his status as a genre star, Boris Karloff earns top billing over leading man Ralph Byrd in RKO's final Dick Tracy...
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Tess Trueheart
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1947
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The Ghost Goes Wild is a low-cost but high-rolling farce starring James Ellison and Anne Gwynne. It starts off with Ellison,...
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1947
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1947
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Judy
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1947
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In this drama, a reporter marries a socialite with a bad ticker. The gold-digging reporter is well aware of her delicate...
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Belle Marlin
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1946
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Eileen
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1946
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Set at a major newspaper, this crime drama centers on a fellow who returns to newspaper reporting after he bombs as a...
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Brooke
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1946
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In many ways the most endearing of Universal's B-grade "monster rallies" of the 1940s, House of Frankenstein manages within...
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Rita Hussman
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1944
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Universal's yearly quota of cheap, 60-minute musicals occasionally yielded such likeable diversions as South of Dixie. David...
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Dixie
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1944
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The second of Universal's "Inner Sanctum" thrillers, Weird Woman stars Lon Chaney Jr. as Norman Reed, a college professor...
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Paula Reed
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1944
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All but forgotten today, Ladies Courageous was one of the more successful wartime morale-boosters. Loretta Young heads the...
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Geny Vail
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1944
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In this musical romance, a young couple is still in love, but find themselves facing insurmountable turmoil in their...
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Marion Corbett
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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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Frances Carlyle
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1944
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Set in a brooding old home, this musical mystery chronicles the endeavors of a young couple attempt to solve a mysterious...
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Nan Kirkland
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1944
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This patriotic WW II-era bit of anti-Japanese propaganda centers on a white Texas college student who becomes such good...
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Nina
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1943
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In this WW II musical, a young man suddenly finds himself in charge of his family when his father is called to war. To help...
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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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Chris
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1943
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In this musical, a convict finds his life calling after a prison show is staged and he discovers a talent for stage...
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1942
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Kit Church
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1942
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Bud Abbott & Lou Costello invade the wild west in Ride 'Em Cowboy. The boys play Duke and Willoughby, a couple of rodeo...
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Anne Shaw
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1942
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In this musical, which manages to look back with nostalgia upon prohibition and the depression (no small accomplishment),...
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Pearl
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1942
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Surprisingly little known, Universal's Men of Texas boasts an impressive cast and a fairly exciting and complex storyline....
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Jane Baxter Scott
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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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Laura Kirby
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1942
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In this comedy, a slightly addled young advertising executive works for his father's radio-advertising agency. His first job...
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1942
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This wildly uneven "Dead End Kids/Little Tough Guys" entry focuses on young Tom Barker (Billy Halop), whose older brother...
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1941
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Three different Universal pictures made between 1922 and 1941 bore the catchall title Don't Get Personal. The 1941 film stars...
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Susan Blair
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1941
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Nice Girl? answers its own question by casting the relentlessy nice Deanna Durbin in the title role. In her first truly adult...
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1941
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In this musical, four entertaining farmboys from Iowa head for the Big Apple to find fame and fortune but find themselves in...
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1941
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This comedy-drama is adapted from a story by Damon Runyon and centers on a mobster with unusually large feet. The trouble...
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Ruth
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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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Patricia Leavitt
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1941
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1941's The Black Cat is neither a remake of the 1934 Karloff-Lugosi film of the same name, nor does it bear the slightest...
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1941
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With a little extra effort, Washington Melodrama might have passed muster as an A picture. Frank Morgan stars as millionaire...
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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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Doris Blair
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1940
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All-American space hero Flash Gordon (played by Larry "Buster" Crabbe) once again does battle with the devious Ming the...
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1940
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An inordinate number of Hollywood detective films--including virtually the entire Bulldog Drummond series--extracted humor...
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1940
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1940
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In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman (Deanna Durbin) attends a fair in Austria and buys a card from a...
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1940
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The mystery surrounding the gender of infant film star Baby Sandy was finally solved in her penultimate vehicle, Sandy is a...
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1940
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Reporter Albertson works to solve a murder case in order to clear his name and get a great story for his paper. ~ Rovi...
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1940
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Told in flashback as Dr. Ernest Sovac (Boris Karloff) is marched into the gas chamber, Black Friday concerns kindly college...
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Jean Sovac
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1940
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1940
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This "Little Tough Guys" series entry finds the kids gainfully employed building airplane engines. Hoping to get into the air...
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1940
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Johnny Mack Brown plays a dual role in the Universal B-western Bad Man From Red Butte. It seems that honest, upright Gil...
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Tibby Mason
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1940
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1940
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1940
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Amid the political chaos sweeping across the world in 1939, a new terror arises -- the Purple Death -- and people around the...
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1940
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1940
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1940
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1940
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1940
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1940
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1940
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1940
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1940
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Unexpected Father was designed as a showcase for Universal's infant "star" Baby Sandy (Sandy was a girl, but she played a boy...
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1939
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A remake of a 1930 Universal film, Little Accident was the third starring vehicle for androgynous juvenile star Baby Sandy....
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1939
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Oklahoma Frontier was Johnny Mack Brown's second starring western for Universal. On the eve of his honeymoon with new bride...
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Janet Rankin
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1939
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