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1987
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John Frankenheimer directed this tepid World War II comedy set in the Philippines. When four American soldiers -- Lieutenant...
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1969
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Self-styled deputy Uncle Joe (Edgar Buchanan) informs everyone at the Shady Rest that a bank robbery has occurred and the...
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1968
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Those who worried that the Disney studio would collapse without the presence of the late Uncle Walt were put at ease when the...
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1968
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In the first episode of a two-part story, Lucy (Lucille Ball) turns activist to save the small town of Bancroft, which is...
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Mayor Adler
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1967
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Kate (Bea Benaderet) comes to the sad conclusion that honeymooners Betty Jo (Linda Kaye) and Steve (Mike Minor) have...
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1967
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Tired of hanging around the house and feeling useless, Jed looks forward to joining the board of directors of a second-rate...
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1966
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Not only is Ethel Andrews (Pippa Scott) jilted by her fiance Bruce Strickland (Hunt Powers) on her wedding day, but she is...
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1966
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Adam Cartwright rescues long-suffering schoolteacher Barbara (Mariette Hartley), who has been tied to a burning post by her...
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1965
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The premiere episode of F Troop explains how Wilton Parmenter (Ken Berry), the last and least descendant of a proud military...
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1965
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George Axelrod's script for How to Murder Your Wife isn't politically correct in the least, but you're likely to get a charge...
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1965
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Suffering from insomnia, Herman (Fred Gwynne) begins taking midnight strolls in a nearby park. Naturally, this throws the...
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1964
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The Rat Pack packed it in after this sprightly musical comedy that owes more than it should to Damon Runyon's stories and...
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1964
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A huge shipment of rifles are stolen in Texas sometime shortly following the close of the Civil War. It turns out the rifles...
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1964
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Using the alias "Joseph Walker", fugitive Richard Kimble (David Janssen) hires on as a fruitpicker in a farming community....
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1963
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The final episode of Maverick finds Bart Maverick (Jack Kelly) crossing the path of his brother Bret's old nemesis Modesty...
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1962
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An unusually tense and intelligent political thriller, The Manchurian Candidate was a film far ahead of its time. Its themes...
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1962
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Paladin (Richard Boone) must once again come to the defense of a "devil incarnate"--in this case, the much-feared, much-hated...
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1962
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1962
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Based on the novel I Cover the Waterfront, this uninspired crime melodrama stars Ron Foster as Skip Hanlon, a reporter who...
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Milo Fowler
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1961
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During a stopover in a mining camp, a weary Paladin (Richard Boone) allows self-proclaimed mystic Mme. Destin (June Vincent)...
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1961
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This one-hour, police-story melodrama does not focus on the two-legged officers commonly found chasing the bad guys, but a...
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Bert Dana
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1961
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In this sequel to "The Underground Court", Nero Rankin (Will Kuluva) has installed himself as chairman of the Syndicate,...
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1961
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In this sentimental crime melodrama, an ailing clown dies while trying to take his son to a Texas convent school. The...
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1961
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Elmer Gantry (Burt Lancaster), a drunken, dishonest street preacher allegedly patterned on Billy Sunday, wrangles a job with...
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1960
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Based on the Edna Ferber novel, this engrossing period piece covers the triumphs, tragedies, loves, and sorrows of a few...
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1960
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Justin Groton (Buzz Martin), sole surviving member of a vicious outlaw family, has been in jail on a murder charge since the...
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1960
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In the eighth episode of Walt Disney's ten-part miniseries Elfego Baca, gunslinger-turned-lawyer Baca (Robert Loggia) has...
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1959
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The 14-season run of Bonanza began with this introductory episode, originally aired on September 12, 1959, entitled "A Rose...
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1959
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In the seventh episode of Walt Disney's ten-part miniseries, Elfego Baca, gunslinger-turned-lawyer Baca (Robert Loggia) comes...
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1959
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Buchanan (Randolph Scott) rides alone through Texas, en route to his future home of Mexico. He is sidetracked during a...
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Lew Agry
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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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1958
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After suffering a broken leg, Bart (Jack Kelly) convalesces at the ranch owned by Pete Stillman (Wayne Morris) and his...
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1958
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1957
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The Wings of Eagles is filmmaker John Ford's paean to his frequent collaborator--and, it is rumored, drinking buddy--Cmdr....
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1957
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In this western, passengers of a stagecoach endure danger and hardship as they travel across the Arizona territory. They are...
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1957
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Joel McCrea essays the title role in this moody little western. McCrea is a Union officer wounded in battle, who joins up...
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Hardy Bishop
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1957
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The painfully true story of welterweight boxing champion Barney Ross is detailed in Monkey on My Back. Cameron Mitchell stars...
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1957
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Nightclub singer Ilona Vance (Vera Ralston) is Accused of Murder in this Republic programmer. And from the looks of things,...
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1956
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New York Confidential is based on the Jack Lait-Lee Mortimer bestseller of the same name. Richard Conte plays Nick Magellan,...
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1955
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With the exception of the vastly superior Caged, Columbia's Women's Prison was the quintessential "babes behind bars" drama...
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1955
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Adapted by Don M. Mankiewicz from his own novel, Trial is a surprisingly timely story of how justice can sometimes be...
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1955
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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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1954
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Produced and directed by the prestigious Frank Lloyd, The Shanghai Story was promoted as a "class" production by the...
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Ricki Dolmine
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1954
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Based on William Fay's short story The Disappearance of Dolan, Champ for a Day stars Alex Nicol as young pugilist George...
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1953
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June Allyson plays a band singer working in New York City; Van Johnson is the manager of a fancy apartment house where a...
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1953
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1953
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1953
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Col. Hickman
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1953
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Back at the Front is the second of two film comedies based on the wartime cartoons of Bill Mauldin. As in Up Front, the...
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Gen. Dixon
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1952
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Carrie is based on Sister Carrie, a novel by Theodore Dreiser. Dreiser's clumsy, unwieldy prose is streamlined into a neat...
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1952
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Ruth Hussey stars in this big-budget Republic actioner. She plays Christine Powell, the grasping, conniving sister of...
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1952
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The Technicolor adventure epic Flying Leathernecks offers two things that film cultists can never get enough of: star...
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1951
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The Well is a modest but generally effective plea for racial tolerance. Based loosely on a real incident, the film tells of...
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1951
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Mallory
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1951
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The Asphalt Jungle is a brilliantly conceived and executed anatomy of a crime -- or, as director John Huston and scripter...
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1950
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Edmond O'Brien plays a telephone repairman whose electronic savvy earns him a job with a bookmaking concern. O'Brien's bookie...
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1950
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Singer-bandleader Vaughn ("Racing with the Moon") Monroe made a tentative stab at movie stardom in 1950. Singing Guns casts...
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1950
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1950
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Betty Grable's Wabash Avenue is an agreeable remake of Grable's 1943 hit Coney Island. The locale is changed from New York to...
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1950
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In the tradition of 20th Century Fox's semi-documentary "Now it can be told" films, Monogram Picture's "A" division Allied...
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Evans
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1950
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Gene Kelly as an Italian-American attorney? Once you get past this, the rest of Black Hand ought to go down easy. This expose...
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1950
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1950
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Singer Sheila Bennet (Evelyn Keyes) arrives in New York City by train after a trip to Cuba, carrying a small cache of...
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1950
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1950
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Virtually ignored at the time of its release, Capture has built up a small but enthusiastic following since its lapse into...
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1950
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No one is as good as Barbara Stanwyck when she's bad. Here Stanwyck plays Thelma Jordon, a woman who late one night shows up...
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1949
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In Johnny Stool Pigeon, the title character's name is really Johnny Evans (Dan Duryea). Evans is an imprisoned crook whose...
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1949
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Randolph Scott plays one of the members of Quantrill's Raiders, staging attacks on Kansas on behalf of the fallen Confederacy...
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1949
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Taken (as far as possible) from the Cole Porter musical comedy of the same name, Red, Hot and Blue stars Betty Hutton as an...
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1949
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1949
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Though Humphrey Bogart is the official star of Knock on Any Door, the film is essentially a showcase for Columbia's newest...
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1949
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When Lizabeth Scott's Jane Greer husband Arthur Kennedy accidentally gets his mitts on $60,000 in stolen money, she insists...
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1949
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Eliot Ness may have gotten lots of publicity (especially long after the fact) for breaking the Capone mob, but as...
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Edward O'Rourke
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1949
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The title couple and their enormous brood of bumpkins made their movie debut in the film version of Betty McDonald's humorous...
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1949
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John Garfield, in the best performance of his career, portrays Joe Morse, an ambitious attorney who has long since abandoned...
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1948
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Boomerang, directed by Elia Kazan, is a chilling film noir, the true story about the murder of a priest, the subsequent...
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1947
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