The eighth and final season of the original TV version of Dragnet finds former police sergeant Joe Friday (played by the...
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Sgt. Frank Smith
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1958
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Ab Begley
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1957
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1957
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Although Dragnet was no longer the huge ratings lodestone it had been in previous years, NBC was determined to hold onto the...
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Sgt. Frank Smith
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1957
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Responding to viewer requests that he "freshen up" his now five-year-old series, Jack Webb, the producer, director, and star...
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Sgt. Frank Smith
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1956
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Anyone who thinks that the cost-cutting strategy known as "the clip show" is unique to TV sitcoms should take a gander at...
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Screenwriter
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1955
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Beginning with its fifth season on the air, the popular NBC cop show Dragnet was filmed at a small studio next to Republic...
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Sgt. Frank Smith
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1955
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At the height of the popularity of his Dragnet TV series, producer/director/star Jack Webb struck a deal with Warner Bros. to...
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Officer Frank Smith
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1954
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) investigate the death of young Gloria Paul, who left behind a suicide note. When...
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Screenwriter
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1954
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Sergeant Joe Friday (Jack Webb) and Officer Frank Smith (Ben Alexander) continue to seek out "just the facts, ma'am" as...
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Sgt. Frank Smith
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1954
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Investigating the murder of 50-year-old Charles Stahl, Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) interview snappish motel...
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Screenwriter
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1953
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Acting on an anonymous tip, Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) investigate the apparent beating death of Hazel...
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Screenwriter
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1953
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In this pivotal episode (written directly for television, with no previous radio version) Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben...
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Screenwriter
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1953
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Robbery victim Arthur McKinley is found strangled with his own necktie in a dingy alley. Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben...
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Screenwriter
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1953
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One sure sign that NBC's Dragnet was the most popular filmed dramatic series on TV during its third season was the number of...
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Sgt. Frank Smith
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1953
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In a break from tradition, the third-seasoner opener of Dragnet is not based on a radio broadcast, but was written...
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Screenwriter
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1953
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In a curious "stolen identity" episode (based on a Dragnet radio program first heard on July 7, 1951), Friday (Jack Webb)...
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1952
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"The story you are about to hear is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent." Thus began each and every...
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Sgt. Frank Smith
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1951
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The surprise hit of the 1951-1952 TV season, the semi-documentary cop series Dragnet was renewed by NBC for a second season,...
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Sgt. Frank Smith
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1951
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Talented B-picture director Joseph H. Lewis wasn't yet in the "auteur" class when he helmed the PRC quickie Criminals Within....
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1941
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In this boxing drama, the trouble begins when a fight breaks out at a local gym. When a boxing promoter sees that Dick, who...
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1940
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Monogram's seemingly endless series of inexpensive crime mellers continued with Convict's Code. Robert Kent plays a star...
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1939
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Spy Ring (aka International Spy) was designed as a trial balloon for new Universal contractee William Hall. He is cast as...
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Capt. Don Mayhew
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1938
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Another of RKO's movie vehicles for radio comic Joe Penner ("You na-a-a-asty man!"), Mr. Doodle Kicks Off stars Penner as the...
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Larry
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1938
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Legion of Missing Men was one of three Monogram "specials" produced in 1937 by I. E. Chadwick. Foreign legion officer Bob...
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Don Carter
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1937
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The seventh of RKO's Fred Astaire--Ginger Rogers musicals, Shall We Dance casts Astaire as a world-renowned ballet dancer and...
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1937
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In this drama, a bookkeeper ignores his employer's disapproval and continues to see the boss' daughter. Later the boss ends...
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Bob Terry
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1937
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Former nightclub crooner Smith Ballew made his singing-cowboy debut in Western Gold. Set during the Civil War, the story...
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Bart
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1937
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First-time director Lew Ayres performs miracles on a tiny budget in the Civil War drama Hearts in Bondage. The story offers a...
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1936
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Like the contemporaneous Columbia feature Party Wire, RKO Radio's Grand Old Girl paints a surprisingly bleak and cynical...
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1935
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1935
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Born to Gamble was one of the more palatable efforts of M.H. Hoffman's poverty-row Liberty Films. The four protagonists are...
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1935
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A family loses its collective head going from rags to riches in this low-budget comedy from also-ran studio Chesterfield....
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1935
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Produced by parsimonious Majestic Pictures, Reckless Roads stars Regis Toomey as perennial wise-guy Speed Demming. To gain...
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Wade Adams
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1935
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1935
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Columbia's Once to Every Woman was the first of A. J. Cronin's medical novels to be adapted for the screen. The drama of the...
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1934
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An impoverished waitress marries a rich college boy against the wishes of his parents. Shortly after bearing his son, the...
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1934
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In this tear-jerking adaptation of Louis Bromfield's novel A Good Woman, the title character stands tall in the face of small...
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1934
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Cecil B. DeMille's This Day and Age was perhaps the most Draconian entry in Hollywood's early-1930s "vigilante" film cycle....
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Morry Dover
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1933
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After the death of her circus-aerialist husband, Kitty Lorraine (Alice Brady) dedicates herself to transforming her daughter...
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1933
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Tommy Harrow
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1933
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Molly Louvain (Ann Dvorak) is a young woman working as a clerk at a hotel. The product of a broken home, abandoned by her...
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1932
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William Wyler directed this melodramatic story about a boy who, after growing up in the shadow of his father, learns the old...
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Ralph
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1932
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Directed by Victor Fleming, Wet Parade chronicles the effects of alcoholism and the Prohibition on the lives of two families...
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1932
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Based on Abel Kandel's 1931 play Hot Money, this delightfully daffy comedy from Warner Bros. is a typical example of that...
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1932
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In one of his first westerns, Johnny Mack Brown plays Kirby Tornell, who does the "Robin Hood" bit on the wide open spaces....
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1932
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Young Joan Bennett and Lew Ayres make an attractive couple in the Universal programmer Many a Slip. Because of her imperious...
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Ted Coster
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1931
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In this comedy, a conservative family becomes alarmed when they begin believing their daughter is pregnant. They frantically...
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1931
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Eternal movie juvenile Eric Linden offers perhaps the best performance of his career in RKO's Are These Our Children? In this...
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Nick Crosby
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1931
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Coney island vendors Baltimore Clark (Bill Boyd), Dutch Herman (Robert Armstrong) and Skeets O'Reilly (James Gleason) spend...
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1931
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One of the most powerful anti-war statements ever put on film, this gut-wrenching story concerns a group of friends who join...
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1930
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Tennis champion Bill Tilden (billing himself "William T. Tilden" for the occasion) wrote and starred in this silent melodrama...
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1926
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1925
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George Minafer (as boy)
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1925
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Australian actress Mae Busch was the Frivolous Sal of the title in this melodrama in a western setting. Saloon-owner Sal...
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Benny Keene
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1925
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Lloyd Hamilton plays the title character in this light comedy. The failure, also known as Breezy, has been given custody of...
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1924
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Penrod Schofield
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1923
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People do all kinds of nutty things in this silent melodrama from producer/director Maurice Tourneur. Take Ramon Martinez...
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1923
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Before he became the king of bottom-barrel B pictures, director William Beaudine turned out several silent films of...
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Bill Latimer
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1923
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Fancy Gray (Leah Baird) is not your usual country girl who comes to the big city. Preferring Bohemia to the bright lights of...
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1921
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1920
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Lord Angus Cameron (H.E. Herbert), a Scottish nobleman, becomes tired of his common-law wife Marion (Mabel Ballin) and tries...
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1919
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Although this is one of King Vidor's earlier directorial efforts, it has a lot of the qualities that defined his best work...
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1919
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On the heels of his masterpiece, Intolerance, which dramatized the futility of war born out of prejudice, director...
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1918
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1917
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Though she was no spring chicken when she began making films, stage favorite Fannie Ward managed to convey the illusion of...
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1916
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