With Five Weeks in a Balloon, 20th Century-Fox hoped to cash on the success of the studio's earlier Jules Verne adaptation...
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1962
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Stars in the Back Yard is an alternate title for filmmaker Hugo Haas' valedictory feature Paradise Alley. Taking a breather...
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1961
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This live, full-color musical version of Jack and the Beanstalk was one of NBC's most ambitious productions, costing $300,000...
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1956
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Make Room for Daddy was the first modern family sitcom, although, to see it at any time since the 1960s, one would think that...
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1953
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This colorful musical comedy was obviously inspired by the success of Broadway's South Pacific. Army Captain Bill Willoby...
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1953
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After Ray Milland turned down the leading role in Bride of Vengeance, Paramount contractee John Lund stepped into the role of...
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1949
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In this period musical, Ricardo (Frank Sinatra) is the son of a Mexican innkeeper who has come to California to take over a...
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1948
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A blend of live-action and animation, Fun and Fancy Free is comprised of two distinct tales linked by additional footage...
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1947
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1946
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1945
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This mammoth musical is at base the story of two sailors on leave in Hollywood. Brash Joseph Brady (Gene Kelly) has promised...
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1945
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Shemp Howard and Billy Gilbert are a pair of lovable vaudeville clowns who spend most of their free time looking after the...
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1944
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In this crazy comedy, the threesome try to become foster fathers. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1944
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The exciting world of the cosmetic industry provides the basis of this lively low-budget musical comedy that centers on the...
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Tiny Lewis
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1944
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Three bumbling, stumbling slapstick "spiritualists" end up nearly scared to death when they must spend the night in a...
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1944
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1943
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Though Republic's Shantytown keeps threatening to become a musical, it's essentially a romantic drama built around the...
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Papa Ferrell
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1943
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The Andrews Sisters harmonize their way through yet another 60-minute Universal musical quickie. The plot this time concerns...
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Nick
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1943
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In this musical comedy, a vaudevillian teams up with a barber and becomes a smash hit. The barber also finds himself falling...
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Himself
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1943
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This star-studded musical drama was largely financed by Theatre Guild, with all proceeds going to various wartime fundraising...
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1943
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Though officially based on a Saturday Evening Post story by Clarence Buddington Kelland, RKO Radio's Valley of the Sun was...
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1942
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Judy Canova plays Bessie Cobb, a kitchen worker at a Miami hotel who happens to have a crackerjack singing voice. The bell...
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1942
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In a harem in a Middle Eastern palace, the guardian leads the women he protects in telling the tale of Halroun-Al-Raschid...
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Ahmad
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1942
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In this "East Side Kids" escapade (the eighth in the series), the gang, led by Muggs McGinniss (Leo Gorcey), help a man load...
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Knobby
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1942
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One of the shortest and sweetest of Betty Grable's Technicolor musicals, Song of the Islands casts the Leggy One as Eileen,...
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1942
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Billy Wilson
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1941
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Also released as The Great Awakening, New Wine purports to recreate an incident in the life of Austrian composer Franz...
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Poldi
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1941
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The real-life marriage between Dick Powell and Joan Blondell was already on the rocks when they costarred in Model Wife. The...
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1941
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One Night in Lisbon is one of several pre-1942 films which used the screwball-comedy form to comment upon the raging war in...
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1941
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Wessel Smitter's semicomic novel FOB Detroit was the source material for Reaching for the Sun. Joel McCrea plays a North...
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Amos
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1941
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In this musical, the cruise that salesgirl Nan Spencer (Alice Faye) worked so hard to pay for is cut tragically short when...
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1941
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Like Prohibition, Franklin-Blank Productions' The Villain Still Pursued Her is best regarded as a "noble experiment". Using...
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1940
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Whether in the newsroom or on board a speeding train, aspiring reporter Buster Keaton creates havoc in this funny short. To...
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1940
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To quell the rumors that musical stars Alice Faye and Betty Grable detested each other (actually they were fast friends, if...
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1940
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Lewis Milestone directs the lightweight romantic comedy Lucky Partners, based on a story by Sacha Guitry. David Grant (Ronald...
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1940
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Teenaged soprano Gloria Jean plays the Little-Miss-Fixit heroine in Universal's Little Bit of Heaven. The most precocious...
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1940
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"This is the story of the period between two world wars--an interim during which insanity cut loose, liberty took a nose...
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Herring
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1940
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Musical comedy favorite Elsie Janis, who gained renown in WW1 as "The Sweetheart of the AEF", returned to the screen after a...
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1940
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Set in the South Seas, Seven Sinners stars Marlene Dietrich as a cabaret singer whose reputation as a troublemaker has gotten...
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1940
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For the purposes of this inconsequential 61-minute musical, Paramount Pictures shelled out a great deal of money to film on...
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1940
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No, No, Nanette was the second film version of the popular Otto Harbach-Vincent Youmans Broadway musical. Though slightly...
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1940
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This studio-bound jungle yarn is uplifted by the spirited performances of its stars. After the death of her aviator lover,...
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1940
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The mystery surrounding the gender of infant film star Baby Sandy was finally solved in her penultimate vehicle, Sandy is a...
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1940
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In this musical, a con man makes a good living by promoting bogus charity shows. He gets the communities all revved up and...
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Hector
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1940
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1940
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Eleanor Browne's novel Highway to Romance was the source for this moneyspinning RKO Radio comedy. Obviously inspired by...
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Orestes
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1940
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Though the title character is loosely based on that of the notorious killer/robber Ma Barker, she has been sanitized and...
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1940
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In this actioner, a U.S. border patrol agent stationed in Tijuana loses his job and gets into deep trouble after a friend is...
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Nick Mendoza
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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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Tom Destry (James Stewart), son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn't believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the object...
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1939
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1939
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1939
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The Under-Pup served to introduce Universal's new preteen songstress--and potential Deanna Durbin replacement--Gloria Jean....
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1939
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No relation to the 1932 W.C. Fields comedy of the same name, Million Dollar Legs is a college picture starring most of...
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1939
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1938
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Sonja Henie is the "lucky star" in this enjoyable 20th Century-Fox musical. Henie plays Kristina Nelson a humble department...
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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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1938
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The trials faced by the US Army when it first attempted to trade horses for tanks provides the basis of this actioner. The...
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1938
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Joan Fontaine was still two years away from full stardom when she appeared in the B-plus comedy Maid's Night Out. Future...
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1938
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Peck's Bad Boy and his gang of mischievous misfits (including Spanky McFarland) make all kinds of trouble around the circus....
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1938
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In this comedy, a woman is left destitute after her father dies. To make ends meet, she begins working as a secretary to a...
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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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"Discovered" for American films by Cecil B. DeMille, popular Hungarian actress Franceska Gaal made the last of her three...
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1938
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1938
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Screenwriter
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1938
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Boy soprano Bobby Breen dons a pair of skates in the oddball musical Breaking the Ice. Escaping his super-strict Mennonite...
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1938
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Twenty years after the Armistice, doughboy Stan Laurel continues guarding a trench in France--simply because no one told him...
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Himself
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1938
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It was called "Disney's Folly." Who on earth would want to sit still for 90 minutes to watch an animated cartoon? And why...
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1937
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In this actioner, a tough Coast Guard officer endeavors to marry his lovely daughter to a handsome sailor. The trouble is,...
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1937
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Outcasts of Poker Flat is an adaptation of Bret Harte's western story of the same name, with elements of Harte's...
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1937
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Innkeeper
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1937
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This musical parody follows the exploits of American performers in Hungary. The story begins as a Yankee wrestling trainer...
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1937
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Starving artist Robert Montgomery could care less if his paintings sell, so long as he's happy. Montgomery falls in love with...
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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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Krause
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1937
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In this musical comedy, an irresponsible young heir is betrothed to the singing daughter of a wealthy matron. Unfortunately,...
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1937
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The notorious Orient Express provides the setting for this romance involving two rival reporters in pursuit of a munitions...
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1937
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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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A doctor (John Beal) who loses faith in his skills renounces his profession and hides himself in a variety of jobs. He takes...
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1937
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The girl is teenaged singing sensation Deanna Durbin; the one hundred men are out-of-work musicians. Still in her "little...
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1937
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This third entry in MGM's "Broadway Melody" series may not have been the biggest or best, but thanks to a masterpiece of...
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1937
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In this tuneful, romantic drama, an Australian opera star (Grace Moore) wants to perform in a major U.S. festival but cannot...
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1937
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A couple of American soldiers of fortune are hired by the wife of a Chinese general to deliver a priceless diamond to a...
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1937
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In this comedy drama (a remake of 1932's Ladies of the Jury), an apparently bubble-headed but mule-stubborn jurist is...
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1937
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A boy learns life-changing lessons about the importance of friendship and the dignity of labor in this adventure saga based...
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1937
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Director Roy Del Ruth and singing star Dick Powell were raided from the Warner Bros. stables for this frothy musical comedy...
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1937
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1937
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In this melodrama the captain of a decrepit boat must get it to port but finds that racketeers are trying to prevent him...
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1936
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Love on a Bet is a lightweight programmer from the "Get Rich Quick Wallingford" school of comedy. Gene Raymond stars as...
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1936
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Produced by Hal Roach, Kelly the Second is one of the few feature films to capture the comic spirit of Roach's wonderful...
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1936
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The Commodore (Fred Stone), an average man in an average small town, is incensed that killers and thieves are able to use...
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1936
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Newlywed Carolyn Martin (Barbara Stanwyck) has been raised to expect the finer things in life, but these are things that...
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1936
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1936
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1936
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A woman framed for a bond theft gets out of prison and takes a job at a waterfront cafe, where she witnesses a murder. She...
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Torre Cafe Owner
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1936
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Falsely convicted Lionel Barrymore escapes from Devil's Island with fellow prisoner H.B. Walthall. A brilliant scientist,...
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1936
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A lesser but still effective entry in the mid-1930s "prison" cycle, Parole catalogues the many problems facing prisoners...
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1936
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Universal plunged into the clutches of its creditors with its expensive fiasco Sutter's Gold. Edward Arnold plays Swiss...
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1936
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1936
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Future best-selling novelist Irwin Shaw made his screenwriting bow with the modest RKO Radio sports drama The Big Game. The...
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1936
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A remake of the French comedy Monsieur Sans-Gene, One Rainy Afternoon gets under way when film-actor Phillippe Martin...
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1936
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Three confidence men set up in a luxury hotel, but wind up as their own victims when several swindles backfire. ~ John Bush,...
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1936
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Prohibition has recently ended, and alcoholic beverages are very much in demand in this Three Stooges short. A druggist is...
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1935
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In his first American film, Peter Lorre portrays egg-bald Dr. Gogol. A brilliant and highly respected surgeon, Gogol would...
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1935
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Although some purists hold out for Duck Soup (1933), many Marx Brothers fans consider A Night at the Opera the team's best...
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1935
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The title doesn't refer to mosquitoes but to the amount of money that could be earned in the radio business of the 1930s....
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1935
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In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an unscrupulous music...
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1935
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Set in the Washington of World War I, Escapade stars William Powell as a newspaper editor eager to sign up for an overseas...
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1935
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If Columbia could make an acceptable movie star out of opera-diva Grace Moore, then RKO Radio could do the same with...
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1935
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Although it was nominated for an Academy Award, the third Three Stooges comedy two-reeler for Columbia has not dated well. A...
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1934
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This two-reeler from Columbia's recently formed shorts department features a very funny Billy Gilbert, who all but steals the...
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1934
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1934
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1934
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Filmed between the original Thin Man and the first of its sequels, Evelyn Prentice re-teamed William Powell and Myrna Loy as...
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1934
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A partial remake of the 1924 Our Gang: Cradle Robbers, "Forgotten Babies" finds the Gang members trying to escape their...
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1933
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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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1933
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The two-reel comedy team of Thelma Todd and ZaSu Pitts play store clerks, who instead of delivering a couple of dresses to a...
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1933
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Lodge members Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy take a solemn oath to attend the 80th-annual Sons of the Desert Convention (read:...
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1933
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"Klopstokia: A Far-Away Country. Chief Exports: Goats and Nuts. Chief Imports: Goats and Nuts. Chief Inhabitants: Goats and...
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1932
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Drafted into the army during World War I, those muddled misfits Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy make a shambles of Training Camp...
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1932
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Earning instant stardom via his appearance in the 1932 "Our Gang" comedy "Free Eats," 3-year-old George "Spanky" McFarland...
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1932
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1932
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In this classic two-reel comedy produced by Hal Roach, the zany team of Thelma Todd and ZaSu Pitts are serving on a jury...
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1932
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In this typically silly Thelma Todd-ZaSu Pitts comedy two-reeler, the girls go to a Turkish bath in order to rid themselves...
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1932
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1932
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In their first comedy two-reeler of 1932, vivacious Thelma Todd and fluttery ZaSu Pitts learn that the royal seal of a...
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1932
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In this classic two-reel comedy from the Hal Roach Studio, blonde Thelma Todd and plain-Jane ZaSu Pitts are depressed because...
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1932
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The first of three Thelma Todd-ZaSu Pitts two-reel comedies directed by former gag man George Marshall, Strictly Unreliable...
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1932
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In spite of a sudden end which makes this Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy two-reeler seem incomplete, there are quite a few...
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1932
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1932
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This is one of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy's most popular two-reelers; it's particularly rich in gags, well-structured, and...
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1932
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Produced by William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan Production for MGM, this well made Grand Hotel clone was based on a 1931...
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1932
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This most famous of Laurel and Hardy shorts won an Oscar for "Best Comedy Short Subject." Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy play...
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1932
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Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy have been working for a circus as two halves of an ersatz horse. When the circus closes, in lieu...
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1932
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To further her husband's political career, wealthy Mrs. Clark (Lillian Elliot) throws a lavish party in her home for the poor...
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1932
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1932
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The second of 16 Thelma Todd-ZaSu Pitts comedy shorts for producer Hal Roach, this two-reeler proved one of the team's very...
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1931
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In their third two-reel comedy for Hal Roach, the zany team of beautiful Thelma Todd and plain-Jane ZaSu Pitts find...
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1931
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A cast of silent-film veterans distinguishes the pedestrian crime drama First Aid. Grant Withers stars as a doctor who is...
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1931
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Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are victims of the depression in this tworeeler. They do have an old car, a tent and some...
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1931
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Chinatown After Dark is where you'll find Madame Ying Su (Carmel Myers), a "dragon lady" type who'll stop at nothing to get...
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1931
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The Our Gang kids spend so much time listening to the tall tales spun by a salty sea captain (Billy Gilbert) that they...
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1931
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Another expert blend of genuine sentiment, moving pathos and belly laughs, the "Our Gang" comedy "Dogs is Dogs" was orginally...
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1931
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Only three minutes of the 74-minute Noisy Neighbors contains any dialogue; the rest of the film has hardly any noise at all....
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1929
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1927
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George Walsh starred in this action-melodrama from Fox about a blind girl, Betty Reed, who is the sole "witness" to the...
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1921
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1914
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Tango Tangles is an impromptu Keystone comedy which exploited the current "tango craze." A tango contest and exhibition...
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1914
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