A little bird tells on the U.S. Army during WWII in this farcical comedy. In 1944, during the last stages of the war in...
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1962
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A young Native American boy saves the day in this competent children's western by director George Sherman. Little...
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Father Walsh
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1960
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Arrested for gambling in Dakota City, Beau Maverick (Roger Moore) is given a choice by Col. Gaylord Summers (Arch Johnson: Go...
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1960
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Having experienced a disturbing premonition, Stanley Lockhart (Joe Mantell) pays a visit to his father Simon (Arthur...
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1959
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Scripted in another era, the premise for this interesting though conventional drama defending a partially mixed marriage...
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1959
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Enchanted Island bears only the faintest traces of its source material, the Herman Melville novel, Typee. 19th...
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Jimmy Dooley
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1958
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There's no shortage of suspects when vitriolic society columnist Mary K. Davis (Marian Seldes) is murdered. Even so, the...
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1958
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Dr. Lomas
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1957
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The King and Four Queens was the first (and last) project from Clark Gable's own production company, GABCO. Gable stars as...
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1956
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To say that Lady Godiva is historically inaccurate is a moot point, since most historians agree that the whole Lady Godiva...
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1955
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World for Ransom is an unofficial extension of the popular 1950s TV series China Smith. Most of the Smith personnel,...
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1954
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Director Otto Preminger's only western, River of No Return is set in Canada during the 19th century Gold Rush. Farmer Matt...
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1954
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When equestrian Linda (Vera Miles) talks her trainer, Jim (Lloyd Bridges), into taking care of Gypsy Prince, her horse, Jim...
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Wilson
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1954
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A genuine novelty, MGM's Main Street to Broadway offers the modern viewer a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse of the 1953...
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1953
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Father Reilly
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1953
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Jimmylegs Donovan
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1953
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Returning to the Ireland of his birth, director John Ford fashions a irresistable valentine to the "Auld Sod" in The Quiet...
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1952
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1951
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To call The Barefoot Mailman episodic would be understating the issue: the film's story stops and starts so often that it...
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1951
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Fish-market worker Johnny O'Hara (James Arness) is named as a suspect when his boss -- with whom he had a dispute the...
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1951
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The River must be seen in its original Technicolor; it is difficult, if not impossible, to imagine anyone fully enjoying this...
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Mr. John
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1951
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1951
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Shortly before his death, horror film producer Val Lewton switched creative gears by overseeing the Universal western Apache...
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Rev. Griffin
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1951
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The people of a jungle village are suffering from a strange illness that is killing off the female population. The natives...
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1950
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The second of John Ford's "Cavalry Trilogy", She Wore a Yellow Ribbon is the only one of the three to be lensed in...
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1949
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In this lively adventure, a daring Irish leader tires to keep Napoleon from invading Ireland. The hero, in every way a...
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Dooley
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1949
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A "new" Lassie (once again, a male collie in drag) starred in A Challenge to Lassie, MGM's fourth entry in their series based...
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1949
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Infused with religious themes, this crime drama is considered a minor example of film noir. Set in Los Angeles, it tells the...
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1949
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After supervising several of the best "psychological" horror films ever made, producer Val Lewton shifted his base of...
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1948
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"Boys Town" goes to turn-of-the-century St. Louis in this moving drama that chronicles the love of a determined priest...
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1948
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Set at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses to secede from the state...
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1948
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In this musical set in late 19th-century Boston, a suffragette secretary finds that her political beliefs are standing in the...
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1947
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Barry Fitzgerald's distinctive brand of Irish blarney, which was wonderful in small doses, leaned towards the precious and...
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1947
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Based on the lives of big-band stars Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, this biographical chronicle begins with their childhood in an...
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1947
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Bolton
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1947
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Romantic comedy was never Errol Flynn's forte, but he occasionally gave it the old college try in such films as...
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1946
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Producer/director William A. Wellman also co-scripted this biopic devoted to John J. Montgomery (Glenn Ford), the unsung...
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1946
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On the eve of the Chinese New Year, three strangers make a pact before a small statue of the Chinese goddess of Destiny. The...
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1946
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The novel The Big Bow Mystery by Israel Zangwill had been filmed in 1928 as The Perfect Crime and again in 1934 as The Crime...
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Rev. Holbrook
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1946
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1945
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Based on Marcia Davenport's novel and set in 1870, Valley of Decision details the romance between a housemaid named Mary...
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1945
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In this wartime romance, two young newlyweds must reluctantly part when the young man is called to war. He spends the next...
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1945
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This odd combination of roughneck comedy and serious domestic drama was adapted by Louise Randall Pierson from her own...
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1945
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Based on the novel by A.J. Cronin, The Keys of the Kingdom was the first big-budget effort of movie-newcomer Gregory Peck....
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1944
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In this WW II-era drama set in a small town, most of the adults are so busy fighting the war or working in the local defense...
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1944
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The White Cliffs of Dover is one of those overlong MGM wartime films that everyone seems to have seen a part of, but no one...
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1944
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Although National Velvet was the first starring role for 11-year-old Elizabeth Taylor, the early part of the film belongs to...
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1944
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1943
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In this drama set at the end of WW I, Sgt. Jocko Wilson leaves England to return to Australia. He brings with him, two...
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1943
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If you believe all-American Fred MacMurray as an Oxford don, you'll probably swallow the rest of Above Suspicion. Newly...
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1943
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Female dogs tend to shed while in heat; this is why all the collies who've played doggy heroine Lassie in the movies have...
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1943
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Eric Knight's wartime novel This Above All was given the Tiffany treatment in the this 20th Century Fox big-budgeter....
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1942
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Maybe Errol Flynn was never the war hero that he often played, but he was a capable boxer, and Gentleman Jim makes full use...
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1942
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At the close of World War I, shell-shocked amnesia victim Ronald Colman is sequestered in a London sanitarium; with no...
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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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1942
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1942
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Pacific Rendezvous is a B-picture remake of the 1935 MGM A-picture Rendezvous, updated to accommodate WW2. Lee Bowman plays...
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1942
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Sergeant
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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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1942
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Spanning 50 years, director John Ford's How Green Was My Valley revolves around the life of the Morgans, a Welsh mining...
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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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1941
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When the film rights to its "Saint" series proved too expensive to renew, RKO Radio came up with a lookalike property in the...
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1941
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A partial remake of 1936's Wanted: Jane Turner, Lady Scarface is a seedy but entertaining tour de force for the great...
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1941
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Judy Garland performs her only on-screen death scene early in the proceedings of Little Nellie Kelly. But despair not!...
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Timothy Fogarty
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1940
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John Ford welded four of Eugene O'Neill's one-act plays about the sea, Bound East for Cardiff, The Long Voyage Home, The...
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1940
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John Ford directed this outdoor adventure set in the American Colonial period. Gilbert and Lana Martin (Henry Fonda and...
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Father Rosenkranz
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1939
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John Ford, whose fierce pride in his Irish heritage often manifested itself in his work, directed this historical drama which...
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First Assistant Director, Padraic Pearse
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1936
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Director Cecil B. DeMille returned to Paramount Pictures for this typically epic production, which became his first box...
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1932
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1921
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