This gripping drama uses archival footage combined with new footage to re-create the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. It is also...
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1958
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In this comedy, Paul Muni plays a recently murdered gangster who finds himself roasting in Hell. Muni can't believe that he's...
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Director
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1946
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After a five-year absence, the Marx Brothers returned to the screen in the independently-produced effort A Night in...
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Director
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1946
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In this musical, a youthful trombonist is thrilled when he is allowed to play with Benny Goodman's Orchestra. Afterward he...
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Director
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1944
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Tyrone Power made his last screen appearance before a three-year stretch in the Marines in this World War II drama. Lt. Ward...
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Director
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1943
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Forced to flee Paris during the Occupation, the great French leading man Jean Gabin starred in a brace of Hollywood films,...
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Director
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1942
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In his last screen appearance, bandleader Glenn Miller plays--are you sitting down?--a bandleader. The film's main plot...
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Director
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1942
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On the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of commercial radio, 20th Century-Fox cooked up the pageantlike entertainment...
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Director
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1941
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Don Ameche, an American news bureau chief stationed in London, is frustrated by the British government's censorship of his...
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Director
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1941
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Jack Benny brings his own distinctive touch to Brandon Thomas' venerable (and oft-filmed) stage farce Charley's Aunt....
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Director
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1941
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Producer Walter Wanger's House Across the Bay serves as an excellent showcase for Wanger's then-wife Joan Bennett. She is...
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Director
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1940
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This remake of John Ford's classic WW1 drama Four Sons has been updated to the Europe of the late 1930s. At the time of the...
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Director
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1940
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This musical drama follows a young ghetto kid who dreams of being a classical musician like his idol Jascha Heifetz. He first...
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Director
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1939
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Andrea Leeds, whose career had shifted into hyperdrive after her brilliant performance in Stage Door (1937), stars in the...
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Director
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1938
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Gary Cooper stars in this lavish and often comic retelling of the life of the famed Italian explorer. Marco Polo (Cooper)...
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Director
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1938
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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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Director
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1937
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This hard-hitting, socially conscious drama, the sort of story that Warner Bros. made their hallmark in the 1930s, concerns a...
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1937
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1937
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Burned-out British intellectual Alan Squier (Leslie Howard) wanders into the desert service station/restaurant owned by Jason...
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Director
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1936
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Kay Francis, Warner Bros.' resident "wronged woman," was the star of Give Me Your Heart. Francis plays a socialite whose...
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Director
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1936
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Sinclair Lewis's 1920 novel Main Street came to the screen in 1936 from Warner Bros. under this rather more mundane title....
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Director
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1936
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The legs in question in this the second of Warner Bros. Perry Mason whodunits belong to Margy Clune (Patricia Ellis), the...
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Director
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1935
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Paul Muni stars in this drama about a romantic triangle that leads to madness and murder. Overly enthusiastic Mexican...
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Director
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1935
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Broadway legend Al Jolson and his second wife Ruby Keeler costarred in this thin backstage musical. In keeping with Jolson's...
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Director
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1935
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Born on the proverbial wrong side of the tracks, Lady Lee (Barbara Stanwyck) rises to prominence as a professional gambler....
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1934
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Director
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1934
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This drama examines the rivalry between a mother and the daughter she is too vain to acknowledge. The mother is a famous...
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Director
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1934
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Gangster Cagney allows his powerful political connections to appoint him "deputy inspector" of a state reform school. There...
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Director
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1933
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Jimmy Dolan (Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.) is a light heavyweight champion, with the world at his feet. Then he gets into a fight...
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Director
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1933
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An espionage drama set in the early 20th century, Ever in My Heart stars Barbara Stanwyck as a New England naif who marries a...
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Director
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1933
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Practically every member of the Warner Bros. stock company except Glenda Farrell shows up in the rowdy, raunchy pre-Code...
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Director
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1933
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An elderly gentleman finds himself in a difficult situation when he finds himself faced with becoming a burden on his...
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Director
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1932
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Constance Bennett suffers nobly in this outdated but fairly engrossing melodrama in which a seemingly hardened debutante...
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Director
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1932
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In one of his first starring roles, George Raft plays Joe Anton, a tough but basically decent speakeasy owner who falls in...
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Director
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1932
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A wealthy theatrical producer entices a desperately poor young woman to visit his penthouse. The innocent girl doesn't...
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Director
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1932
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In this complicated drama, a husband begins an affair. His new mistress has a handsome brother who ends up falling for the...
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Director
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1932
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Constance Bennett, Hollywood's favorite "wronged" heroine, is the star of the misleadingly titled Bought. Thing of it is,...
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Director
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1931
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Few actresses exuded as much raw sensuality as the pre-Production Code Barbara Stanwyck. In Illicit, Anne Vincent (Stanwyck)...
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Director
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1931
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The George du Maurier novel Trilby, about a hypnotist who controls a female musician, was originally filmed as Trilby, a...
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Director
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1931
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In this sweet comedy, a meek and clumsy employee of a large firm is filled with useful ideas, but is too shy to present...
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Director
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1930
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In this early talkie, a vicious crime lord (played by Lew Ayres in a rare villainous role) decides that he has had enough and...
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Director, Producer
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1930
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Actor Ralph Graves was responsible for the original story upon which Vengeance was based -- although, perhaps wisely, he...
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Director
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1930
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Director
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1930
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In this musical comedy, based on a failed Broadway play, two American sailors are stationed in Naples to find a wooden...
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Director
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1930
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A custody battle for a little boy forms the basis of this domestic comedy, a talkie that is so early that title cards are...
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1929
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1929
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Director
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1929
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In this early sound film, adapted from a play by Somerset Maugham, a WW I veteran is left crippled after a plane crash that...
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Director
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1929
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The Sap is Edward Everett Horton, a small-towner with big plans, but lacking the wherewithal to put them in motion. Even...
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Director
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1929
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First filmed 1917, the Elmer Rice play On Trial was remade as a talkie eleven years later. The original stage version was...
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Director
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1928
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A largely silent musical, My Man is primarily a showcase for the enormously popular Ziegfeld Follies star Fanny Brice who...
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Director
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1928
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Onoto (Myrna Loy) is slated to be sold to a wealthy Mandarin, but is rescued from the auction block by white fugitive from...
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Director
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1928
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When unassuming clerk Tom Blake (Conrad Nagel) is framed with the murder of a policeman in the midst of a violent bank...
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Director
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1928
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1928
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The father of footloose Cynthia Martin (May McAvoy) has decreed that, until Cynthia finds a husband her two sisters won't be...
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Director
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1927
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George Ade's barnstorming stage comedy The College Widow (which at one time boasted baseball great Ty Cobb as its leading...
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Director
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1927
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Internationally popular kiddie-star Jackie Coogan was rapidly outgrowing his cuteness when he starred in his 1927 vehicle...
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Director
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1927
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Quarantined Rivals was based on the stage farce by George Randolph Chester. Per the title, a pair of young lovers, played by...
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Director
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1927
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Irene Rich heads the cast of this lachrymose "mother love" drama. Rich is cast as Sylvia "Dearie" Darling, a nightclub...
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Director
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1927
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Long before becoming the talkie era's foremost screen sourpuss, Ned Sparks was seen as a double-dyed villain in such films as...
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Director
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1926
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Prolific director Archie Mayo cut his cinematic teeth on such trifles as Christine of the Big Tops. Pauline Garon heads the...
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Director
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1926
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