Visionary Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin pays tribute to his beloved hometown with this goodbye letter and self-described...
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Mother
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2008
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Edgar G. Ulmer was one of the most fascinating figures of Hollywood's Golden Age. While Ulmer directed the occasional...
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2005
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A juvenile delinquent falls in love with a beautiful Catholic girl's school student in this fact-based adolescent melodrama...
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1986
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All suspense in The Woman They Almost Lynched would seem to be dissipated by title, but director Allan Dwan holds the viewers...
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1953
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Pier 23 was one of three hour-long mysteries produced by Lippert Productions for both TV and theatrical release. Each of the...
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Ann Harmon
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1951
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Pygmy Island was entry number five in Columbia's "Jungle Jim" series. Johnny Weissmuller is back as Jungle Jim, who this time...
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Capt. Ann Kingsley
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1950
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Satan's Cradle was the fourth of producer Phil Krasne's "Cisco Kid" programmers for United Artists. Anyone who remembers the...
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Lil
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1949
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On February 17, 1947, two efforts from Paramount's Pine-Thomas productions were tradeshown in tandem. The first was...
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Laurey Roberts
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1947
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Universal's 1946 The Dark Horse is not a remake of the 1932 Warner Bros. film of the same name, though both deal with a long...
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Mary Burton
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1946
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Alan Curtis plays a hired Union agent who's been dispatched to capture a Confederate gal who's the leader of some ravaging...
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1946
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Edgar G. Ulmer's Detour begins when hitchhiker Al Roberts (Tom Neal) accepts a ride from affable gambler Charles Haskell Jr....
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Vera
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1946
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Republic contractee Don Barry plays private eye Tom Dwyer, whose ability to irritate both cops and crooks alike hides his...
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Sheila Kennedy
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1946
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In this humorous murder mystery, a woman is wrongfully accused of poisoning her uncle when he died after she gave the ailing...
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1946
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In this comedy, a garbage truck driver stumbles across $5,000. He decides to use the money for a wild night on the town. He...
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Valerie Crawford
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1945
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PRC's Apology for Murder is aptly named: the production values in this 67-minute quickie are pretty sorry. If you're willing...
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Toni Kirkland
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1945
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This comedy centers around an inept reporter who wouldn't recognize a hot story if it burned him on the hand. The trouble...
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Sally Warren
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1945
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William C. Thomas' Midnight Manhunt begins with the shooting death of a master criminal who expires in a wax museum. Reporter...
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1945
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In this drama, two competing reporters get involved in a mystery when they find a gangster's corpse in a wax museum. As no...
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Sue Gallagher
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1945
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In this mystery, a detective and his partner are hired by a carnival psychic to help her find her long-lost sister who...
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1945
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It's nice to see perennial "other woman" Ann Savage in a leading role, even in so antiseptic a film as Klondike Kate. Savage...
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Kathleen O'Day
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1944
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The exciting world of the cosmetic industry provides the basis of this lively low-budget musical comedy that centers on the...
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Janet Wilson
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1944
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Former Hopalong Cassidy sidekick Russell Hayden retains his nickname of Lucky in this average entry in his short-lived...
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Judy Ware
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1944
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Columbia's Two-Man Submarine was predicated on a then-new Japanese invention, designed to maneuver in waters where no...
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Pat Benson
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1944
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The Unwritten Code is an offbeat, better-than-average Columbia wartime "B" picture. Though Ann Savage and Tom Neal are...
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Mary Lee Norris
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1944
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Though it's not made readily apparent by the title, Passport to Suez was the 10th entry in Columbia's "Lone Wolf" series....
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Valerie King
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1943
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1943
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In this entry in the "Lone Wolf" series, the sleuth and former jewel thief, the Lone Wolf finds himself accused of killing a...
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1943
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Maria
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1943
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Reformed criminal Boston Blackie (Chester Morris) meets his former lover Betty Barnaby (Ann Savage), who wants his help for...
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1943
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In his book on "screwball" comedies, the late William K. Everson described What a Woman as "indistinguishable from a dozen...
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1943
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Footlight Glamour is one of two "Blondie" series entries in which Blondie's name isn't included in the credits. Otherwise,...
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Vicki Wheeler
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1943
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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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1943
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To fully appreciate The More the Merrier, it is important to know that, during WW2, there was an acute housing shortage in...
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Miss Dalton
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1943
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