Jason McCord (Chuck Connors) heads to Los Angeles to deliver a gold shipment worth $50,000. At the same time, Mexican...
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1966
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The all-female Danville Volunteer Fire Department needs new uniforms, but there's no money in the treasury. Hoping to raise...
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Angry Man
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1963
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) are on the prowl for the criminals who have been robbing all-night restaurants...
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1959
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Introduced in the previous episode "Divide and Conquer", Professor LaSerne (Everett Glass) returns in this episode to help...
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1958
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Having invented a "forget gas" in the previous episode, eccentric scientist Professor Pepperwinkle (Phillips Tead) is back...
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1958
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When a city cafe owner buys himself a peaceful country manse to relax in, the Bowery Boys are quite excited. Unfortunately,...
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1957
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In order to get an exclusive interview with paroled criminal boss Lank Garrit (Milton Frome), Lois (Noel Neill) stages her...
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1957
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Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis made their last joint film appearance in the girl-filled musical Hollywood or Bust. The thinnish...
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1956
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Hidden Guns is not so much a western as a suspense melodrama. Bruce Bennett plays Stragg, a mean-spirited cardsharp with...
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1956
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This episode marks the first appearance of Phillips Tead) in the role of eccentric scientist Professor Pepperwinkle, whose...
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1956
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A long-awaited sequel to Columbia Pictures' popular The Phantom (1943), this film was produced by legendary Hollywood...
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1955
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The title tells all in this seventh entry in Universal's "Ma and Pa Kettle" series. This time around, Ma (Marjorie Main) and...
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1955
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Future TV western star Chuck Connors appears in this classic episode as a gangly hillbilly who happens to be named Sylvester...
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1955
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Like its predecessor Duffy of San Quentin, The Steel Cage is made up of episodes from a never-telecast TV series based on the...
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1954
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The Killers from Space in this low-budget sci-fier are a group of aliens bent on conquering the earth. To this end, they...
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1954
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1954
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1954
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1953
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1953
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Thunder Bay was another inspired collaboration between star James Stewart and director Anthony Mann. Stewart plays an ex-GI...
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1953
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Ex-mobster Larry McCoy (Billy Nelson) is looking to make a comeback, and finds the means to do so in the work of his...
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1953
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Superman (George Reeves) rescues Corky, a sweet, playful dog, from the well into which he's fallen, and returns the dog to...
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1953
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Gene Autry and Pat Buttram are innovatively cast as Gene Autry and Pat Buttram in Night Stage to Galveston. Set during the...
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1952
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Though filmed through the facilities of Hal Roach Studios and produced by Hal Roach Jr., Tales of Robin Hood was released by...
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1952
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A congressional witness against crime boss Lou Cranek (Dan Seymour) suddenly refuses to testify--then abruptly drops dead....
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1952
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Mickey Rooney made his directorial debut with My True Story. Per its title, the film is based on an article which first...
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1951
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Ricky (Desi Arnaz) brings home a 3,250-dollar mink coat that he has rented for his nightclub act. Jumping to conclusions as...
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Thief
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1951
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Damon Runyon's Broadway fable The Lemon Drop Kid was filmed twice by Paramount Pictures, but only the 1934 version with...
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1951
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In On the Isle of Samoa, beefcake star Jon Hall plays Kenneth Crandall, an unsavory gambler who absconds with his partner's...
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1950
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The Desert Hawk deserves to be seen on the basis of its cast alone. No more believable than any of Universal's other...
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1950
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"Sing Me a Song of the Saddle," warbles Gene Autry in this, the premiere episode of his five-season-long television series....
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1950
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The Buccaneer's Girl of the title, played by Yvonne de Carlo, is Deborah McCoy, an entertainer who's been around a bit. While...
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1950
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In the third entry of his long-running television series, Gene Autry comes across a man murdered by a silver arrow. In...
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1950
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William "One Take" Beaudine warms the director's chair for Lippert Pictures' Tough Assignment. The film is essentially a...
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Sniffy
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1949
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1949
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Search for Danger was the last entry in the "Falcon" film series, which began at RKO in 1941 and was sequestered at...
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1949
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Gene Autry enjoyed considerable success with his recording of Stan Jones' haunting "Riders in the Sky". He then parlayed this...
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1949
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Marsha Hunt seems far too mature and intelligent for the pulpish goings-on in Mary Ryan, Detective. Still, Hunt was a pro...
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1949
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In this entry in the long running comedy-drama series, the boys get into the world of prizefighting. When one of Slip's pals...
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1949
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Though he doesn't know it at first, industrialist Walter Williams (Brian Donlevy) shouldn't trust his wife Irene...
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1949
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Appointment with Murder is the second of three "Falcon" mysteries produced by bargain-basement Film Classics Productions in...
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1948
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1948
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A Song is Born is a musical remake of the 1941 comedy Ball of Fire, with the same producer (Sam Goldwyn) and director...
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1948
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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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Who better to guard a priceless pearl necklace than an ex-thief? That's the logic behind Trapped by Boston Blackie, starring...
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1948
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Despite the film's title, socialite Linda Vickers (Virginia Mayo) isn't smart enough to steer clear of the gambling den...
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1948
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1948
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In this western comedy, a milquetoast gunsmith from the East Coast goes to Arsenic City, Arizona because he has heard that...
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1948
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Jinx Money is not so much a Bowery Boys vehicle as a murder mystery that happens to star the Bowery Boys. It all begins when...
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1948
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1947
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In this musical, an orphan is under the false impression that her newly found relatives are filthy rich. Lacking the heart...
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1947
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PRC's "Michael Shayne" series came to an unsatisfying end with Too Many Winners. This time, flippant private eye Mike Shayne...
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1947
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1947
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In the RKO swashbuckler Sinbad the Sailor, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. nostalgically emulates his famous father. The first seven...
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1947
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In this comedy, a realtor at the end of his rope is grossly misdiagnosed as having three months to live. The already...
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1947
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Albert Dekker plays a crooked investment agent who embezzles a large sum from an estate, hoping to cover his crime by...
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1947
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Mr. Hex was the first Bowery Boys epic in which the goofy Sach (Huntz Hall) is given superhuman powers. Hypnotized by a...
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1946
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Republic contractee Don Barry plays private eye Tom Dwyer, whose ability to irritate both cops and crooks alike hides his...
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1946
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In this drama, it is up to two young lawyers to save a business executive who has been framed for embezzlement. ~ Sandra...
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1946
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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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1946
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Ida "Don't mess with me" Lupino takes a job as a singer in Robert Alda's seedy Santa Monica nitery. Lupino ignores Alda's...
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1946
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1946
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The motivating factor of The Missing Corpse is a feud between rival newspapermen Kruger (J. Edward Bromberg) and McDonald...
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1945
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Based on the popular Russian novel The Twelve Chairs, this stars Fred Allen as flea-circus impresario Fred Floogle. Learning...
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1945
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Circumstantial Evidence is so expertly acted and directed that the audience is willing to forget its gaping logic holes....
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1945
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1944
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A 15 chapter Columbia serial, The Desert Hawk employed camels instead of horses and bedouins rather than cowboys, but...
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1944
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The Fighting Seabees is Republic Pictures' rip-roaring tribute to the US Navy's Construction Batallions (C.B.), without whom...
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1944
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This musical comedy stars radio star Al Pearce has a double role playing himself and Elmer Blurt, the leader of a small-town...
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1943
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In this wartime espionage drama, Nazis open up a covert operation in the US. Outwardly it is a high-class dress shop, but...
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1943
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In this wartime drama, a doctor discovers that one of his patients isn't as crazy as he thought, with dangerous consequences...
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1942
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Although Warner Bros. "officially" disbanded its B-picture unit in 1941, the studio continued to grind out lower-berth...
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Pills Davis
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1942
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Rear Admiral Stephen Thomas' (Charles Laughton) spoken tribute to "the finest Naval officer I knew" provides the framework...
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1942
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The combination of Ann Sothern and Red Skelton pays off in giggles, chortles and guffaws in Maisie Gets Her Man. Broke and...
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1942
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1942
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In this boxing drama, champion fighter Johnny Rocket decides to leave the ring to please his new bride. Unfortunately, his...
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1941
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There were two separate 1940s film series inspired by Philips H. Lord's radio weekly Mr. District Attorney; the first was...
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1941
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The title I'll Wait for You effectively gives away the ending of this MGM second feature. Robert Sterling plays a gangster on...
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1941
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In this sequel to the 1938 boxoffice hit Boys Town, Spencer Tracy repeats his Oscar-winning role of Father Flanagan, with...
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1941
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Manpower was Warner Bros' latest reworking of 1932's Tiger Shark, with power-company linemen substituting for tuna fisherman....
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1941
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Humphrey Bogart plays Gloves Donahue, a rough-hewn but essentially decent New York gambler. The Runyonesque plot gets moving...
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1941
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Strange Alibi offered young Warner Bros. contractee Arthur Kennedy to carry a picture all by himself. The star is cast as...
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1941
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Out of the Fog is the film version of the Irwin Shaw play The Gentle People, refashioned to mollify the Hollywood censors by...
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1941
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Perhaps nine lives weren't enough, but 63 minutes was plenty of time to relate the plot of this Ronald Reagan vehicle. Reagan...
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1941
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Warner Bros. Tear Gas Squad manages to pack thrills, comedy, romance and songs into a neat 55-minute package. Dennis Morgan...
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1940
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In this crime drama, a brilliant lawyer is renowned for getting guilty-as-sin-but-powerful crime figures acquitted. He has...
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1940
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There are three key characters in Anatole Litvak's filmization of Aben Kandel's novel City for Conquest, as opposed to the...
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1940
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Beefcake star Jon Hall shows off his sleek physique in the exotic melodrama South of Pago Pago. The son of an island...
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1940
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Another of Columbia's myriad of Jack Holt actioners, Passport to Alcatraz casts the star as supposed enemy saboteur George...
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1940
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In this crime drama, a government investigator looks into a counterfeiting ring that passes its fake bills through a...
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1940
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The schizophrenic screenplay of The Earl of Chicago is rendered even more bizarre by the uneven performance by Robert...
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1940
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Hollywood Cavalcade was a fictionalized history of silent films and the growth of the movie industry. Don Ameche portrays a...
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1939
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Regarded as the best of Columbia's "Lone Wolf" B-picture series, The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt stars Warren William as Michael...
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1939
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This barely-disguised portrait of singer Fanny Brice led to Brice's lawsuit against 20th Century Fox for defamation of...
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1939
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The Star Maker is the story (with variations) of vaudeville enterpreneur Gus Edwards, here played by Bing Crosby. Determining...
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1939
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In this crime drama a wealthy business tycoon serves a sentence for tax fraud. While there he becomes good friends with his...
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1939
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Directed with customary haste by Woody Van Dyke, Stand Up and Fight is an excellent dual vehicle for veteran Wallace Beery...
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1939
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This prison film features an inventive escape from Alcatraz. They do it by planning a phony wedding in a prison chapel. The...
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Goldie
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1939
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Granite-jawed Jack Holt plays a dual role in Columbia's Fugitives at Large. Civil engineer George Storm (Holt) finds himself...
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1939
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In this interesting drama, a highly respected straight-arrow Irish cop is pleased when his son follows him onto the force....
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1939
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Boys' Reformatory was the third of Frankie Darro's tough-guy vehicles for Monogram Pictures. Darro is cast as orphaned...
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1939
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1938
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In this action-packed crime drama, an ace reporter declares war on the mobsters that killed his best friend, helps a...
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Otto Miller
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1938
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Mystery House is a perfunctory Warner Bros. programmer which coasts along on the appeal of its stars. When a prominent banker...
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1938
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The Saint, Leslie Charteris' charming but deadly criminal-turned-sleuth, made his first film appearance in RKO Radio's...
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1938
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Happy Landing was another Sonja Henie moneyspinner from the 20th Century-Fox film factory. The story gets under way when...
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1938
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Harold Gray's long-running comic strip Little Orphan Annie was first brought to the screen in 1932, with Mitzi Green as...
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1938
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RKO Radio's ace short-subjects director Leslie Goodwins graduated to features with the economically produced Crime Ring....
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1938
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In this tearful crime melodrama, a waitress becomes so taken with her dream of living in posh luxury and comfort that she...
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1938
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The title character in Republic's Prison Nurse is a "woman in white" named Judy, played by Marian Marsh. Together with her...
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Gaffney
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1938
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In this drama, a 12-year-old boy becomes an orphan after seeing a detective shoot his father. Later the detective feels bad...
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Dayton
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1938
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"Ripped from today's headlines", RKO Radio's Smashing the Rackets was inspired by the career of colorful New York district...
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1938
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In this musical comedy, the Ritz Brothers inherit a racehorse but are unable to make money from him because they cannot come...
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1938
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1938
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German director Joe May brought a decidedly Teutonic ambience to his American film Confession--no surprise, since the film...
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1937
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In this melodrama a championship boxer retires and marries a rich, aristocratic woman. The woman's father is furious, but...
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1937
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In this exciting western, a lawman and a postmistress work together to bring the outlaws to justice. The outlaws have been...
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1937
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The racket-busting activities of New York DA Thomas E. Dewey was the inspiration for several late-1930s crime films,...
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1937
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Director James Whale, well known for his witty horror films, tackled comedy head-on in this period piece, set in the 18th...
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1937
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The building of the great Canadian-Pacific Railroad that stretched from Montreal to Vancouver is chronicled in this...
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1937
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Before sitting down to watch Love and Hisses, it's important to know that columnist Walter Winchell and bandleader...
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1937
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The first of three remakes of the 1933 Paul Muni picture Hi, Nellie, Love is on the Air is historically important as the...
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1937
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Groucho Marx received co-writer credit (along with his old friend Norman Krasna) for King and the Chorus Girl, though very...
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1937
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Gat Brady (John Litel) is a wealthy gangster, though he's never killed anyone, an he is devoted to his teenaged daughter...
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1937
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The title of this Errol Flynn vehicle sprang from an "inside" joke at Warner Bros. Whenever the studio depicted a marquee or...
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1937
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If you're wondering which Warners musical featured the songs "Old King Cole" and "Have You Got Any Castles?," we refer you to...
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1937
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Edward G. Robinson offers an excellent turn as a crime lord obsessed with the welfare of his son in this melodramatic crime...
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1937
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Bette Davis' famous walk-out from her home studio of Warner Bros. may have hurt her financially, but in the long run it paid...
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1937
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Fight manager Nick Donati (Edward G. Robinson) has just lost his best fighter to crooked promoter Turkey Morgan...
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1937
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In this newsroom drama, a tabloid's ace reporter's investigations lead to a chorine's conviction for murdering her husband....
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Sam Sherman
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1937
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1937
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1937
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In this drama, a British journalist is invited to be a guest journalist with a Chicago paper. He is en route to the Windy...
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1936
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Befitting its title, Death on the Set takes place in a British film studio (thereby saving on set-construction costs!)....
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1936
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In this comedy, a spoiled brat of a young socialite finds herself tossed out of finishing school. This does not cure her of...
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1936
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American actor Noah Beery Sr. heads the cast of the British meller The Avenging Hand. Beery is one of several persons...
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1936
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A Scotland Yard Inpsector sets off to prove that prominent director is really an American gangster in disguise. ~ Sandra...
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1936
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The Improper Duchess is never as naughty as its title, or else it wouldn't have made it to the screen in 1936. Yvonne Arnaud...
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1936
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This chiller speculates upon a haunting real-life mystery that occurred off the English coast on December 5, 1872 where the...
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1935
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1935
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In this comedy, a young husband tires of living off of his mother-in-law's money and decides to allow a film crew to use his...
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1935
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In this comedy, two dopey sailors serve aboard the Improbable and get involved in all sorts of slapstick trouble while trying...
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1935
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This 53-minute British "quota quickie" was released in the U.S. by MGM. Frederick Bradshaw plays an eccentric inventor...
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1935
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The fourth of Arthur Wonter's quintet of Sherlock Holmes films, Triumph of Sherlock Holmes was a fairly faithful adaptation...
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1935
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Richard Sabine (Godfrey Tearle) at first appears in Wolves of the Underworld as a mysterious sidelines character. He is...
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1935
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His Hollywood career a thing of the past, director Herbert Brenon returned to his native England in 1934, where he continued...
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1935
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Admirals All was based on the British stage farce by Ian Hay and Stephen-King-Hall. Wynne Gibson takes over from the stage...
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1935
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1935
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The plotline of the Audrey and Waveney Carlton play Gay Love was so well known in 1934 that Variety considered a synopsis "a...
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1934
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Originally titled Aunt Sally, Along Came Sally is one of many cheerful musical vehicles for the delightful British film fave...
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1934
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This British Edgar Wallace derivation was originally released as The Man Who Changed His Name. That ripe old barnstormer...
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Jerry Muller
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1934
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Philip Godfrey's Gothic novel The Grange Mystery was the basis for the British melodrama The Black Abbott. John Stuart heads...
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1934
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One doesn't expect much from British programmers of the 1930s, so it comes as a relief that River Wolves has a great deal of...
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1934
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When shy bank clerk Stuart inherits a large sum of money he heads to Monte Carlo until he comes to his senses and invests...
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1933
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This comedy, centers around identical twin brothers. One of them is a highly competent policeman; the other is a dim-bulbed...
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1933
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In this comedy, a junior business partner must take a Scottish buyer out on the town. During dinner, the two get...
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1933
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In this crime drama, a mining engineer is preparing to leave his recent South American job and return to England when he...
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1933
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In this comedy, the owners of a teahouse inherit a fortune from their uncle and head for London to live the highlife....
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1933
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1933
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In this romance, a butler falls in love with his master's snooty daughter who will have nothing to do with him because he is...
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Michael Collier
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1933
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Based on a play by George A. Birmingham, General John Regan is a remake of the 1921 film of the same name. Henry Edwards, who...
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Billing
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1933
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1933
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Saturnine Arthur Wontner makes his second screen appearance as Conan Doyle's master sleuth Sherlock Holmes in The Missing...
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1932
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An early example of the British musical film, His Lordship is in the long line of musicals in which a commoner finds himself...
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1932
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In this British crime comedy, an Englishman is bequeathed a Chicago dairy by his late uncle. Once there, he learns that the...
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1932
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Oliver Sandys' novel Mops was the inspiration for the easy-to-take British musical Born Lucky. Rene Ray stars as a servant...
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1932
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Chinese guerrilla pirates commandeer a passenger ship in this drama. After hijacking the vessel, they demand a huge ransom...
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1932
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1931
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In this British crime drama, a Yankee crook uses a garage owner's son as his alibi after he robs a bank and shoots a cop. A...
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1930
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1930
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