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Angelo Allieghieri
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2002
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Marcos Bernstein, the co-writer of Central Station (1998), spins this gorgeously photographed, humanistic portrait of a...
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Giuseppe Padovani
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1999
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This video documentary looks at the history of Hispanic or Latino stars and pictures in Hollywood, focusing on the last half...
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1999
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Michael Chekhov and George Shdanoff were Russian expatriates who came to Hollywood and became two of the best known and most...
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1999
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The Fine Art of Separating People From Their Money is a provocative voyage through the evolution of commercials....
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1996
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A very strange dream about a wealthy man preparing for death inspired director Daryush Shokof to make this off-beat and...
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1996
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Gotti is the semi-biographical tale of John Gotti, the infamous crime boss of the Gambino mob family. This drama chronicles...
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Neil Delacroce
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1996
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Set in a non-descript Midwestern town during the 1950s, this fable chronicles the last days in the life of local Mafioso Don...
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Antonio Barracano
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1996
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In this atmospheric romantic drama, Keanu Reeves plays Paul Sutton, who has just returned home from a stretch in the Army...
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Don Pedro Aragon
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1995
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1994
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Helmed by Anthony Harvey, director of the early-70s cult classic They Might Be Giants, this made-for-television romantic...
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Michael Reyman
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1994
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The second of five made-for-TV movies starring Kevin Sorbo as legendary muscleman Hercules, this one pits the title character...
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Zeus
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1994
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Hollywood wannabes struggle to succeed while striving for relationships that are doomed to fail in this gloomy comedy-drama...
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Emillio
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1994
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In the last of five made-for-TV movies starring Kevin Sorbo as legendary superhero Hercules, the title character has settled...
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Zeus
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1994
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In the third of five made-for-TV movies starring Kevin Sorbo as legendary superhero Hercules, the Earth is in danger of...
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Zeus
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1994
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The mythic Greek hero Hercules comes to life in this made-for-TV movie. Ioalus (Michael Hurst) is soon to be married, and his...
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1994
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Arnold Schwarzenegger appears as a pumped-up Shakespearian hero while an announcer bellows, "Something is rotten in Denmark...
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Tony Vivaldi
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1993
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In this fictionalized account based on true figures, a foursome of young thugs decides to team up and take control of New...
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1991
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Spike Lee defines "jungle fever" as sexual attraction between members of two races. In his film Jungle Fever, he examines the...
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Lou Carbone
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1991
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Writer-director Chris Columbus mines Paddy Chaveysky's Marty for this bittersweet comedy about a lonely 38-year old Chicago...
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1991
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Ingrid Bergman was both one of Hollywood's most sought after stars and a controversial public figure. Her bright and...
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1991
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The 28-volume Hollywood Collection offers a comprehensive library chronicling the lives of Tinsel Town's famed studio...
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1991
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The final cinematic abomination from the late John Derek and his legendary non-actress wife Bo Derek turns out to be their...
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Scott
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1990
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Tiburon "Tibey" Mendes
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1990
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1990
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This adaptation of Hemingway's classic story adds a few characters but keeps the basic plotline of an old fisherman's...
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Santiago
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1990
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Spanish director José Antonio de la Loma helmed this 1988 coming-of-age drama starring Anthony Quinn as an aging retired...
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Mauricio
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1989
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Anthony Quinn stars in this historical biography about the life and times of Antonio Stradivari, the man who raised the...
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1989
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Cliff (Bill Cosby) is upset that his son Theo (Malcolm-Jamal Warner) hasn't invited him to his new apartment, all because...
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1989
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Gregory Peck narrates his film biography complete with movie clips and interviews with friends. ~ Rovi...
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1988
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Part One of this four-hour TV movie adaptation of Peter Evans' biography suggested that Greek shipping magnate Aristotle...
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1988
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This documentary video looks at the life of actress Ingrid Bergman. Clips from her movies, home life and interviews are all...
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1985
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Ava Gardner made her last theatrical film appearance in the German-Italian Regina. Gardner is cast as the Smothering Mom to...
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1983
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A soldier in a French prison camp circa spins the yarns of his youth to entertain his follow inmates in this drama from...
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Mosen Joaquin
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1982
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Libyan leader Moummar Quaddafi financed this desert epic about a Libyan hero who helped his nation fend off an Italian...
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Omar Mukhtar
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1981
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Stewart Raffill directs the high-action comedy caper igh Risk about a four-man band of theives trying to pull off the perfect...
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Mariano
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1981
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Dante Matucci (Franco Nero), a counter-intelligence officer, uncovers a fascist plot to overthrow the Italian government, and...
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Bruno Manzini
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1981
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In this romance, a male nurse kidnaps a visiting African dignitary. Eventually the two become friends. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1981
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1980
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Director J. Lee Thompson directed this World War II adventure drama from a script by author Bruce Nicolaysen who adapted the...
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Basque
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1979
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The producers of The Greek Tycoon insisted that their film was not based on any "actual persons, living or dead." Yeh, right....
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Theo Tomasis
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1978
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Zulfigar
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1978
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Hall Bartlett directs the rural drama The Children of Sanchez, based on the tome The Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a...
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Jesus Sanchez
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1978
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African Rage is a comparatively little-known political thriller, set in an African hospital. Top-billed Anthony Quinn plays a...
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Ernest Hobday
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1978
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Because director Franco Zeffirelli noted publicly that he intended to depict Jesus Christ as a human being rather than a...
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1977
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Gregorio Ferramonti
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1976
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Sergio Corbucci directs the 1976 caper Il Grande Bluff, an Italian crime comedy inspired by he Sting, which has been released...
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Bang
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1976
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This handsomely-mounted historical epic concerns the birth of the Islamic faith and the story of the prophet Mohammed -- who,...
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Hamza
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1976
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1976
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Set in the City of Light, this crime melodrama chronicles the attempts of a US drug agent to stop a major drug-lord. Though...
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Steve Ventura
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1974
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Erastus "Deaf" Smith
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1973
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1973
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Don Angelo
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1973
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Across 110th Street is a violent urban thriller about a corrupt, older white cop (Anthony Quinn) and an honest, young...
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Executive Producer, Capt. Frank Mattelli
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1972
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Destiny of a Woman is comprised of vignettes from the Man and the City TV series, which ran for 13 weeks in the fall of 1971....
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1971
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The lives of bullfighters, whether in Mexico or in Spain or elsewhere in Latin America, carry a weight of romance and tragedy...
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1971
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1971
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A large city mayor slowly begins to recognize the depth of the syndicate's involvement in highway and housing construction...
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1971
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Flap is marginally significant as the only Western ever directed by Britain's Sir Carol Reed. Anthony Quinn is top-billed as...
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Flapping Eagle
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1970
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Set against the political turmoil of the late 60's, R.P.M. (Revolutions Per Minute) stars Anthony Quinn as "Paco" Perez, a...
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Perez
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1970
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Based on the novel by Rachel Maddux, A Walk in the Spring Rain is a romantic drama directed by Guy Green and adapted to...
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Will Cade
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1970
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Italo Bombolini (Anthony Quinn) is the mayor of the hillside village of Santa Vittorio. The wine-loving town leader erases a...
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Italo Bombolini
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1969
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Anthony Quinn plays Matsoukas, a Greek/American ne'er do well, living in Chicago with his long-suffering wife Caliope...
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Matsoukas
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1969
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In this French/Italian co-production set in Mexico in 1746, Alastray (Anthony Quinn), a gunman on the run from the law,...
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Alastray
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1968
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In Guy Green's adaptation of John Fowles's acclaimed second novel, Michael Caine plays Nicholas Urfe, an English...
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Conchis
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1968
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A Pope contends with the prospects of nuclear world destruction in this Cold-War saga of religious faith and international...
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Pope Kiril Lakota
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1968
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Based on a story by Joseph Conrad, this 18th-century set drama is set shortly after the French Revolution and chronicles the...
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1967
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Adapted from the novel by C. Virgil Gheorghiu, this satirical concentration-camp drama from Turkish-born French director...
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Johann Moritz
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1967
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Four neophyte criminals get some unexpected help from their first victim in this caper comedy. A quartet of Miami Beach...
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Roc Delmonico
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1967
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In this wartime melodrama, Lieutenant Colonel Raspeguy (Anthony Quinn) is a French peasant who has worked his way up the...
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Lt. Col. Pierre Raspeguy
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1966
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Co-directed by French filmmakers Noël Howard and Denys de La Patellière, La Fabuleuse aventure de Marco Polo is a...
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Kublai Khan
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1965
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Based on a novel by Richard Hughes, this drama takes an unusual look at both seafaring pirates and the true nature of...
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Capt. Chavez
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1965
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Friedrich Durrenmatt's misanthropic theatrical piece The Visit has never been totally successful in any production, not even...
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Producer, Serge Miller
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1964
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If ever there was a role that Anthony Quinn was born to play, it was the lusty, life-affirming title character in Zorba the...
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Alexis Zorba
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1964
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By 1964, it was possible for a major studio to make a film touching upon the Spanish Civil War without having to answer to...
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Capt. Vinolas
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1964
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One of the most memorable sports dramas because of its strong character development, Requiem for a Heavyweight is carried by...
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Mountain Rivera
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1962
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This sweeping, highly literate historical epic covers the Allies' mideastern campaign during World War I as seen through the...
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Auda abu Tayi
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1962
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Barabbas
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1961
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The guns of Navarone are huge Nazi cannons, installed on an Aegean island behind enemy lines. Anthony Quayle is the officer...
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Col. Andrea Stavrov
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1961
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Anthony Quinn added Eskimo to the many ethnic types he portrayed on film with this drama about a clash of cultures from...
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Inuk
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1960
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Tom Healy
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1960
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Wanting to be free of her crippled husband but not his enormous fortune, a glamorous wife talks her lover, who is also her...
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Dr. David Rivera
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1960
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Warlock offers us a mean-spirited, mercenary Henry Fonda and an honest, peaceloving Richard Widmark. A Wyatt Earp-like...
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Tom Morgan
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1959
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Just outside the small town of Pauley, a Native American woman is attacked by two riders on horseback, raped, and killed. Her...
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Craig Belden
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1959
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Anthony Quinn and Shirley Booth play a married couple who cling and claw like cats in a bathtub in this sudsy melodrama set...
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Jack Duval
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1958
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When Cecil B. DeMille was set to direct a re-make of his 1938 swashbuckler The Buccaneer and suddenly became ill, his...
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Director
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1958
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The title is Black Orchid, but the leading lady is a rose--florist Rose Bianco, played by Sophia Loren. Newly widowed, Rose...
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Frank Valente
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1958
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Quasimodo
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1957
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A bank robber's avarice and obsessive quest for freedom lead to his downfall in this adventure-packed crime drama that was...
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Ben Cameron
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1957
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Wild Is the Wind represents a (perhaps deliberate) reversal of the situation in The Rose Tattoo (1955). Whereas in Tattoo,...
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Gino
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1957
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Produced by former radio star William Conrad, this taut psychological Western features Conrad as Chris Hamish, a lawman...
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Kallen
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1957
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The dramatic weight of Man From Del Rio rests securely on the broad shoulders of star Anthony Quinn. Cast as an indigent...
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Dave Robles
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1956
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The "hipster" dialogue bandied about in The Wild Party is reason enough to sit through this curious time capsule. Anthony...
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Big Tom Kupfen
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1956
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This filmed biography of Vincent Van Gogh was adapted by Norman Corwin from the best-selling novel by Irving Stone, which was...
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Paul Gauguin
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1956
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The exciting, metaphorical world of bull-fighting provides the setting for this dramatic tale of an aging toreador faced...
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Luis Santos
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1955
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Seven Cities of Gold is the story of Father Junipero Serra (Michael Rennie), the 18th century Jesuit priest who founded the...
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Capt. Portola
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1955
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A ruthless crime lord saves his sister from social embarrassment by working diligently to get the gangster who fathered her...
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Phil Regal
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1955
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Italian director Pietro Francisci directed this 1954 drama about the fifth-century invasion of Rome by Attila the Hun....
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Attila
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1954
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This very expensive Italian-made adaptation of Homer's "The Odyssey" stars Kirk Douglas as seafaring hero Ulysses. The story...
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Antinous
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1954
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Acclaimed Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini drew on his own circus background for the 1954 classic La Strada. Set in a seedy...
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Zampano
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1954
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In this Italian melodrama, three Roman prostitutes suddenly find themselves on the streets when the city informs them that...
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1954
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Based on a novel by Mickey Spillane, The Long Wait stars Anthony Quinn as an amnesiac who may or may not have committed a...
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Johnny McBride
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1954
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Cavalleria Rusticana is adapted from the popular one-act play of the same name. Set in rural Sicily, the anecdotal story...
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1953
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Set in the southernmost regions of Texas, Ride, Vaquero stars Robert Taylor as a steely-eyed gunman named Rio. In league with...
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Jose Esqueda
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1953
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Rock Hudson stars in Seminole as 19th-century army officer Lance Caldwell. Born and raised in Florida, Caldwell is assigned...
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Osceola/John Powell
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1953
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The motivating factor behind City Beneath the Sea is an underwater treasure hunt. In 1692, an underwater earthquake sends the...
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Tony Bartlett
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1953
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Ward 'Paco' Conway
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1953
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Director Budd Boetticher moves out of his traditional western surroundings for the Technicolor programmer East of Sumatra....
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Kiang
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1953
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Roc Brasiliano
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1952
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After Columbia's 1951 biopic Valentino laid an egg, leading man Anthony Dexter was persona non grata at the studio. Still,...
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Prince Ramon
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1952
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Eufemio Zapata
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1952
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Gregory Peck and Anthony Quinn play two seal-hunting rivals in this adventure film set in the days when Alaska was a Russian...
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The Portuguese
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1952
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Auteur theorists may have trouble discerning the "signature" of director Phil Karlson in the Columbia costume adventure Mask...
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Viovanni Larocca
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1951
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Raul Fuentes
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1951
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High Treason is a British espionage thriller filmed in the style of such American "docudramas" as The House on 92nd Street....
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1951
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In the RKO swashbuckler Sinbad the Sailor, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. nostalgically emulates his famous father. The first seven...
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Emir
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1947
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A kind-hearted Native American adopts a homeless, orphaned Chinese boy who has only a horse to his name. This touching...
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Charley Eagle
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1947
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This John Wayne adventure is set in South America's rugged Andes Mountains. The Duke has been assigned by a powerful US...
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1947
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An evil guardian plots the murder of his young heiress niece in this Victorian melodrama, also known as Uncle Silas. ~ Jason...
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1947
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In this improbable romantic drama set in Gay Nineties London, a member of Parliament jeopardizes his career when he falls in...
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Jose Martinez
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1947
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1946
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Edward Dmytryk's Back to Bataan stars John Wayne as Colonel Joe Madden. After General MacArthur decides to follow his order...
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Capt. Andres Bonifacio
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1945
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In this engagingly silly musical fantasy from the waning days of WW2, Fred MacMurray stars as Bill, who wants to serve his...
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Indian Chief
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1945
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Melodramatic gangster action characterizes this tough and freely fictionalized biography of notorious, murderous Chicago...
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George Carroll
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1944
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No slouch himself at rearranging the facts to make a good story, Colonel William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody would probably have...
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Yellow Hand
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1944
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This Technicolor musical biopic stars Argentina-born Dick Haymes as Irish-American composer Ernest R. Ball. Climbing to fame...
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Al Jackson
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1944
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Pearl S. Buck's novel China Sky is boiled down to a wartime romantic triangle, courtesy of commercial-minded RKO....
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Chen Ta
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1944
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Also known as Ladies in Washington, this 61-minute quickie utilizes the services of several 20th Century-Fox contractees. Set...
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Michael Romanescue
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1944
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20th Century-Fox's 1943 filmization of Richard Tregaskis' best-selling book Guadalcanal Diary does full justice to the...
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Jesus "Soose" Alvarez
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1943
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In this episode of the mystery adventure series, Simon "The Saint" Templar finds a dead man on his doorstep. Soon the ace...
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1943
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Mexican
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1943
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This parody of gangster flicks centers on an incarcerated gangster who decides to reform after he is released from Sing...
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Leo Dexter
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1942
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Having accidentally caused a merchant ship to blow up, stowaways Bob Hope and Bing Crosby are shipwrecked on the African...
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Mullay Kasim
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1942
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Perhaps unintentionally, the 1942 Technicolor swashbuckler The Black Swan is a bondage fetishist's dream, with hero and...
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1942
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Ubiquitous 20th Century-Fox contractee Lynn Bari is the heroine of The Perfect Snob. Carefully raised by her social-climbing...
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Alex Moreno
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1941
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In this boxing drama, champion fighter Johnny Rocket decides to leave the ring to please his new bride. Unfortunately, his...
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Trego
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1941
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In this comedy, a grandmother decides to help her naive grandson get the money he needs to marry his girl by allowing him to...
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1941
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Though history is distorted almost beyond recognition in Warner Bros.' They Died With Their Boots On, audiences in 1941 ate...
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1941
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Manolo de Palma
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1941
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A good wife's innocence is shattered when she learns that her wealthy husband is actually an amoral big-shot jewel thief....
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Tony Van Dyne
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1941
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Filmed on location at Mesa, AZ, this minor Paramount western featured newcomer Ellen Drew as "Slats" Dangerfield, a young...
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1940
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In this B movie actioner, a plucky female cub reporter is determined to get her boss a front page scoop and so finagles a...
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1940
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Parole Fixer is another entry in Paramount's unofficial "J. Edgar Hoover" series, purportedly based on an actual case in the...
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1940
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There are three key characters in Anatole Litvak's filmization of Aben Kandel's novel City for Conquest, as opposed to the...
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1940
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Caesar
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1940
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1940
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Cecil B. DeMille takes us back to the 1860s, then rebuilds the first intercontinental railroad in Union Pacific. The...
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1939
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In this espionage drama, an inventor creates a way to send television broadcasts across the country and finds himself...
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1939
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Chang Tai
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1939
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Akim Tamiroff plays the title role, an underworld leader who controls all illicit operations in Chinatown. Tamiroff is...
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1939
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In this drama, a gangster finds the woman of his dreams, but before he can have her he must frame her fiance. Meanwhile the...
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1938
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This typically wild-and-wooly entry in Paramount's "Bulldog Drummond" series gets under way when stiff-upper-lip Scotland...
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1938
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1938
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We never actually see J. Carroll Naish in Alcatraz, but there's no doubt he's the "king" of the title. Most of the action...
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1938
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Tip-Off Girls is a worthwhile entry in Paramount's "FBI" series, based on the various writings of
J. Edgar Hoover. The title...
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1938
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Hunted Men is part of Paramount's unofficial B-picture series based on the J. Edgar Hoover book Persons in Hiding....
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Legs
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1938
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Nicholas Mazaney
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1937
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Set during the terrible Spanish Civil War, this film avoids political commentary in favor of objectively centering on the...
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1937
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This happy-go-lucky musical comedy is set in beautiful Hawaii and follows a public relations man who works for a pineapple...
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1937
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1937
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1937
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Anna May Wong, who cornered the 1930s market in Eurasian heroines, stars in Daughter of Shanghai. Wong is on the trail of the...
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1937
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A woman framed for a bond theft gets out of prison and takes a job at a waterfront cafe, where she witnesses a murder. She...
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1936
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A lesser but still effective entry in the mid-1930s "prison" cycle, Parole catalogues the many problems facing prisoners...
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1936
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Directed by Edwin L. Marin, Sworn Enemy stars Robert Young as "Hank" Sherman, a law student who earns extra cash by working...
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1936
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One of the funniest, most sharply paced comedies of the 1930s, and perhaps the best of all of Harold Lloyd's talkies, The...
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1936
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