For their first independently-produced vehicle, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello chose to appear in a remake of the 1939 Universal...
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1948
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One of the greatest movie Westerns, John Ford's My Darling Clementine is hardly the most accurate film version of the Wyatt...
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1946
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Future film star Stephen McNally (here billed as Horace McNally) appears in this Our Gang one-reeler as Bill Patterson, ace...
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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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Gene Autry gets help from teenage singer Mary Lee and fetching tap dancer Carol Adams in this tuneful Republic songfest...
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1941
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The adaptation of Nobel Prize-winner John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of dirt-poor Dust Bowl migrants by 4-time...
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1940
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Hoping to get an early start on a fishing trip to the East River, the Our Gang kids board a double-decker bus at the crack of...
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1940
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Even taking into consideration Of Mice and Men, One Million BC was inarguably the most ambitious feature-film project ever...
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1940
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The once-in-a-lifetime teaming of Mae West and W.C. Fields in My Little Chickadee had the potential for comic greatness: what...
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1940
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Though not the best of the Fred Astaire musicals, Second Chorus is the most easily accessible thanks to its current...
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1940
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M.G.M.'s opulent costume drama Marie Antoinette marked a return to the screen after a two-year absence for reigning Queen of...
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1938
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This Hollywood remake of the French Pepe le Moko adheres so slavishly to its source that it utilizes stock footage from the...
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1938
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After several years' faithful service in supporting parts, Frank Jenks and Dorothea Kent were promoted to leading roles in...
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1938
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In this frothy comedy-drama, a businesswoman owns a successful service bureau for the filthy rich. Her service does...
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1938
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Riders of Black Hills is the second of 13 consecutive "Three Mesquiteers" westerns directed by George Sherman. The...
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1938
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Allegedly based on two factual works, Bouck White's The Book of Daniel Drew and Matthew Josephson's The Robber Barons, RKO's...
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1937
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Archetypal depression-era stars Henry Fonda and Sylvia Sidney are felicitously teamed in Fritz Lang's You Only Live Once....
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1937
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The "suspense" in the RKO Radio musical comedy Music for Madame lies in whether or not golden-voiced Operatic tenor...
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1937
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Smoke Tree Range represented another winning collaboration between cowboy hero Buck Jones and his favorite director...
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1937
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Puritan Pictures seldom turned out a film that looked most expensive than it really was. The studio's Million to One appears...
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1937
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1936
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The Girl of the Ozarks is little Edie Mosely (Virginia Weidler), who's left on her own when her mother dies. Soft-hearted...
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1936
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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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1936
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1936
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The first of 20th Century-Fox's college musicals, Pigskin Parade is also close to the best of them in musical terms -- though...
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1936
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Two of America's most distinguished humorists, Oklahoma's Will Rogers and Kentucky's Irvin S. Cobb, costar in Steamboat Round...
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1935
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Anti-Communist politics and screwball romance make strange bedfellows in this comic tale that plays like a cross between the...
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1935
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In this drama, Dan is a horse trainer whose winning horse is disqualified when it is discovered that the animal has been...
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1935
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The title refers to those special government agents who go undercover to flush out criminal gangs. In his second starring...
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1935
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1935
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In an early pro-ecology effort, Jean Parker stars as a girl dwelling in the High Sierras. Awkward with humans, her best...
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Joe
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1934
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Some people never know what they have until someone else is about to get it as can be seen in this romance that centers upon...
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1934
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A midwestern girl heads for Hollywood in hopes of becoming a star. She is accompanied by two good buddies and this comedy...
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1934
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1933
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It may be hard to believe, but Gorilla Ship is almost as ludicrous as its title. Wheeler Oakman plays Mr. Wells, a...
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1932
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Alias Mary Smith might have been completely forgotten were it not for the diligent efforts of "B"-picture aficionado John...
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1932
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The first of director John Ford's three films for 1931 was the now-forgotten The Seas Beneath. Essentially a reworking of...
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1931
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George Arliss is the millionaire of the title, a retired auto tycoon who's been ordered by his doctor to rest and avoid...
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1931
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1930
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In her first important screen role, Mae Clarke is cast as Jackie Lee, a saucy vaudeville dancer. Jackie comes between...
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1929
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A very topical early talkie from low-budget companyColumbia Pictures, Wall Street starred Ralph Ince, brother of producer...
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1929
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In this college romp, a free-spirited aunt decides to use a $10,000 insurance settlement to send her niece to college. She...
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Sandy McNab
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1929
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1929
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In this comedy drama, a very early talkie, set in the splendiferous South Seas, a French lassie charms a sea captain who...
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1929
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The Girl From Woolworth's was an appropriate title for this bargain-counter musical. Alice White stars as Pat King, a...
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1929
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Benny
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1928
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Based on the comic strip by Carl Ed, Harold Teen stars future "Dagwood Bumstead" Arthur Lake in the title role. Upon arriving...
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1928
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Henry Lehrman and Percy Pembroke, two graduates of the 2-reel comedy mills, shared directorial responsibilities for...
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1927
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This minor racetrack drama was directed by King Baggot, at one time a prominent silent-film leading man. Robert Agnew stars...
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1927
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Lonely rich boy Joe Cobb wants a baby brother more than anything, but his parents are too busy and self-involved to discuss...
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1927
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Established during the 1898 Gold Rush, the Alaskan community of Satan Town does its best (or worst) to live up to its name....
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Crippy
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1926
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Skyrocket was a vehicle for non-actress Peggy Hopkins Joyce, a former Ziegfeld dancer who managed to get herself into the...
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1926
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