This video features some highlights from the golden era of American television in the 1950s, with live clips and personal...
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1981
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This low-budget, much-released horror film first saw the light as Gamma 693 in 1979, was resuscitated as Night of the...
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1981
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This slice-of-life musical is set on London's Portobello Road and focuses on life in a ramshackle boardinghouse. Among the...
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1980
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The story begins as an astronomer notices that a blazing comet is headed straight for Phoenix Arizona. Unfortunately, no one...
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1978
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1977
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A young boy tames and befriends a grey wolf and then must struggle to save the life of his friend when the locals mistakenly...
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1976
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Bill Rebane's backyard wonder is a hilariously hokey throwback to the giant-monster flicks of the 50s, while taking its only...
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1975
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Ironside (Raymond Burr) and Ed (Don Galloway) travel to a farming community, in hopes of helping Porter Yarborough (William...
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1975
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In the early 1900s, an American businessman was kidnapped by a rebellious Arab chieftain, principally as a means to embarrass...
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1975
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The title of this episode is something of a misnomer: It's anything but routine for Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete...
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1974
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In this thriller, an enigmatic phantom lives in the dank tunnels running beneath the ramshackle back lot of a former movie...
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1974
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Several years ago, journalist Jerry Porter (John Carter) conspired with Greg Davidson (Robert Foxworth) in a blackmail...
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1974
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Richard Egan guest stars as waterfront priest Father Joe Scarne, who hinders a robbery investigation by refusing to reveal...
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1973
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The Rampart emergency team is confounded by a pair of accident victims who refuse treatment: One of them has sustained a...
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1973
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En route to Los Angeles to pick up a prisoner, Sgt. Ed Brown (Don Galloway) runs into trouble in a small town. Losing his...
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1972
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This episode is something of a showcase for two former TV-series regulars: Perry Mason's Barbara Hale, and Family Affair's...
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1971
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The Old West is just not the same, what with so few cattle being run, and law-abiding folk running around like they own...
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1971
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John Wayne, in the last of his Civil War characterizations, portrays Cord McNally, a Union Army colonel who loses a gold...
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1970
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1969
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Chaddock (Barry Sullivan) is the straight-shooting marshall of Gloryhole, Montana. Wealthy rancher Rep Marlowe...
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1968
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Future film director Ron Howard is cast as 14-year-old Jess Orkin, who runs away from home after mistakenly believing that he...
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1968
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In this sci-fi film set in the near future, the civilized world is controlled by an all-powerful computerized government...
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Capt. Mead Ralston
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1965
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In The Hallelujah Trail, Lee Remick plays temperance leader Cora Templeton Massingale, who is determined to halt a shipment...
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1965
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The original king of rock-n-roll (Elvis Presley) stars in this light comedy musical as a singing buck who finds employment at...
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1965
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Unsuccessful football coach Burt Payne (Bill Williams) wants to sell his share of the Wildcats pro football team to a cartel...
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1965
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Starlet Reggie Lansfield (Jean Hale) is hired as a stand-in for Victoria Dawn (Patrice Wymore), a once-popular actress and...
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1965
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This is the first of numerous westerns produced by A.C. Lyles which became famous not for their stories but for who played in...
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1964
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A young woman named Linda (Antoinette Bower) arrives in the town of Ladera, claiming to be the daughter of wealthy Addison...
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1963
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Bill Williams, real-life husband of Perry Mason costar Barbara Hale (Della Street), appears as Mike Preston, an embittered...
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1962
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Military women prove their mettle against military men in this low-budget comedy. The fun begins after a handsome corporal...
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Col. House
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1961
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This standard wartime drama is divided into three chronological segments and is based on the experiences of the real Guy...
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1960
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Predictable and a little slow and labyrinthian, this western features Bill Williams as Temple Houston, a gun-toting D.A....
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Temple Houston
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1960
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In this children's drama, an angry little boy is adopted by a ranching couple. The mean little tyke takes an immediate...
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Wes Thurman
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1960
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Assignment: Underwater was one of a small group of aquatic adventure series to follow in the wake of Ivan Tors' series Sea...
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Bill Greer
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1960
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1959
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The 1962 theatrical release of The Scarface Mob was created from the first two episodes of the famously popular 1959 TV...
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1959
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1959
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Set in the new state of Alaska, this 1959 "B" drama features both a romantic quadrangle, if not pentagon, and a failing...
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Al
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1959
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Life in the exciting Foreign Legion provides the basis of this desert adventure. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1958
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This confusingly-titled science-fiction thriller is both an artifact of its time and a surprisingly forward-looking film, in...
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John Hand
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1958
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1957
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Edward Bernds, graduate of Columbia's "Three Stooges" shorts and Allied Artists' "Bowery Boys" epics, expertly guides The...
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Coulton
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1957
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1957
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1957
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1957
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1957
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Of the many filmed versions of the October 26, 1881, O.K. Corral shootout in Tombstone, Arizona, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral...
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1957
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1957
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It's "Freud on the Frontier" time in the tension-filled western The Halliday Brand. Ward Bond plays Big Dan, the despotic...
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Clay
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1957
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1957
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This parody of Hollywood westerns centers on a boorish hellion of a cowboy star who makes life for the studio people around...
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1957
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George Montgomery stars in Pawnee as Paul, a white man raised by Indians. Upon attaining adulthood, Paul finds himself...
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Matt
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1957
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1957
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1957
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1957
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1957
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1956
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Also known as Wiretapper and The Jim Vaus Story, this low-budget production begins as a crime melodrama, then bumpily segues...
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Jim Vaus
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1956
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Set in 1952, at a point when the United States was bogged down in the "police action," Hell's Horizon focuses on one crew of...
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1955
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James Kingston
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1955
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Newcomer Kelly Ryan plays Kate, The Outlaw's Daughter, in this medium-scale western. Led astray by outlaw leader Jess...
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Jess
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1954
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1954
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Produced, directed and cowritten by former child star Wesley Barry, Racing Blood was distributed in the US by 20th...
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Tex
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1954
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A elderly woman is robbed and beaten in a bank parking lot. Investigating, Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) are...
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1954
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Mark Stevens stars as a Navy pilot named Bingham in this paean to the modern-day submarine service. Covering the years 1941...
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Graham
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1953
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1953
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Noted Western director Budd Boetticher helmed this contemporary cowboy story. Tom Moody (John Lund) is a champion rodeo rider...
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1952
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The eponymous Rose is played by Mala Powers, a white girl raised by Cherokee Indians after her family was massacred. Powers...
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George Newcomb
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1952
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The title refers to the euphoric pleasures of motorcycle racing, a sport that is exploited to the breaking point in this...
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Dusty
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1952
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A sequel to Bob Hope's 1948 box-office success The Paleface, 1952's Son of Paleface is a superior product in every way,...
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Kirk
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1952
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1952
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Tex Thompson
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1951
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Paramount's immensely successful Pine-Thomas production unit once more struck box-office gold with The Last Outpost....
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Sgt. Tucker
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1951
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Bill Manning
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1951
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1951
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1950
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Veteran character actor Joe Sawyer produced, co-wrote and co-starred in the diverting docudrama Operation Haylift. Based on...
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Bill Masters
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1950
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1950
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Beautiful Adele Mara, who Republic Pictures took for granted for far too long, finally gets a chance to shine in this fine...
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1950
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Set in British Columbia but filmed in Colorado, Cariboo Trail stars Randolph Scott as a cattle-drive boss from Montana....
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Mike Evans
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1950
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Former sailor Joe Blake (Bill Williams) is the Rookie Fireman in this Columbia quickie. Though fiercely independent, Blake...
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Joe Blake
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1950
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As indicated by its title, Blue Grass of Kentucky is a horse-racing opus. Bill Williams plays Lin McIvor, the owner of a...
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Lin McIvor
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1950
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Jim Fletcher
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1949
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1949
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Lee
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1949
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The Dangerous Profession of the title is the bail-bond business. George Raft stars as Kane, a former cop turned professional...
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Brackett
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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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Johnny Tancred
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1949
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Both Van Johnson and Gregory Peck were considered for the role of baseball star Monty Stratton in the 1949 biopic The...
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Gene Watson
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1949
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In this slick melodrama, a sort of film-noir for women, a nightclub singer has an affair with an unhappily married San...
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1947
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Bill Baker
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1947
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1947
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Deadline at Dawn represented not only the sole film directorial effort of Broadway's Harold Clurman, but also the only...
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Alex Winkley
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1946
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Perry Kincheloe
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1946
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Filling in for RKO's Western ace Tim Holt, who was fighting the war in Europe, a young Robert Mitchum starred in this fine...
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1945
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Robert Young stars as a WW2 pilot named Hank, who accompanies his pal Jerry (Bill Williams, in his film debut) on a furlough....
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1945
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1945
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Edward Dmytryk's Back to Bataan stars John Wayne as Colonel Joe Madden. After General MacArthur decides to follow his order...
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1945
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1945
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Billed third, Spencer Tracy plays Lt. Col. James P. Doolittle, who led the bombing raid over Tokyo. Most of the footage...
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1944
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Set in a brooding old home, this musical mystery chronicles the endeavors of a young couple attempt to solve a mysterious...
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1944
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