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1971
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1971
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Paul Newman served as co-producer of this allegorical drama and stars as Rheinhardt, a opportunistic drifter who ends up in...
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1970
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John Wayne toplines this biography of the cattle owner John Simpson Chisum, a controversial figure who was the most powerful...
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1970
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This routine western finds Union Colonel John Henry Thomas (John Wayne) and company attacking Confederate soldiers lead by...
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1969
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Chance Buckman (John Wayne) heads a team of international trouble shooters who travel around the world to put out oil fires....
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1968
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The Green Berets is an exciting war film that was lambasted by critics who at the time of its release opposed the war in...
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1968
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John Wayne and Kirk Douglas spend half of The War Wagon trying to knock one another off and the other half working shoulder...
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1967
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All hell breaks loose in a Texas town when an escaped convict heads home in Arthur Penn's Southern gothic melodrama....
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1966
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In this western, a world-weary bounty hunter begins working for an avaricious crook who wants to destroy the good name of a...
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Henderson
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1965
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This musical spoof of Westerns featured Lee Marvin in dual roles that won him a Best Actor Oscar. Jane Fonda stars as the...
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1965
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In Harm's Way, based on James Bassett's novel Harm's Way, has enough plot in it for four movies or a good miniseries (when it...
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1965
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Adapting his own novel, Frank Gruber penned the screenplay for the A.C. Lyles production Town Tamer. Veteran filmmaker Leslie...
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Riley Condor
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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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Joe Rile
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1964
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Pulp novelist Tobias Finch (Walter Brooke) wants to write "The Saga of the Courageous Cartwrights"-but the courageous...
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1964
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George Washington McLintock (John Wayne) has a saddlebag full of trouble. The owner of the largest ranch in the territory,...
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1963
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Hatari! is Swahili for "danger"--and also the word for action, adventure and broad comedy in this two-fisted Howard Hawks...
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1962
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Michael Curtiz's The Comancheros was a deceptively complex movie -- so enjoyable, that it masked some of the best character...
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1961
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Wearing the title garment, a daring night rider sets off to get revenge upon the wicked, avaricious magistrate responsible...
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1961
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On the heels of muscleman Steve Reeves' low-budget Italian sword and sandal epics comes this unintentionally hilarious...
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1960
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Nick Nolan
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1960
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Buffed bodybuilder Steve Reeves, in his first sword-and-sandal epic since Hercules, stars as Emiliano, who seeks revenge when...
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Alboyna
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1959
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The search for the notorious German Field Marshal's legendary treasure forms the basis of this adventure that chronicles the...
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1959
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In this frothy romantic outing, a brainy gal from Texas heads for Italy after winning a television quiz show. There she...
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1959
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Robert Stack stars in this sea-faring historical epic as John Paul Jones, the first great hero of the American Navy. While...
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1959
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The Quiet American was the first major American-financed film to touch upon the powder-keg situation in Vietnam (still...
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1958
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Kenneth More portrays a British gunsmith who travels to the American West. After winning a rigged poker game, More is...
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1958
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1957
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1955
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In the words of its star Leonard Nimoy, Kid Monk Baroni was the sort of film that "made unknowns out of celebrities." The...
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Mr. Hellman
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1952
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One reviewer of Abbott & Costello's Lost in Alaska summed up the proceeding in three pithy words: "Lost is right." While not...
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Jake Stillman
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1952
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Rock Island Trail is proof enough that Republic could turn out an "A" western as well as any of the "majors." This saga of...
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Kirby Morrow
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1950
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Cart Belknap
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1950
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Though RKO Radio Pictures was, in 1951, still faithful to the concept of "B" westerns starring Tim Holt, the studio was more...
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1950
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Big Steve Holloway
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1949
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When Republic moved its popular star William Elliot from "B" series westerns to "A" frontier specials, a lot of the fun and...
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Beau Laroux
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1948
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One of John Wayne's most mystical films, Angel and the Badman is also the first production that Wayne personally produced....
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Laredo Stevens
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1947
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Zane Grey, that bottomless bounty of inspiration for Hollywood westerns, wrote the novel upon which Gunfighters was based....
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Bard Macky
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1947
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Avalanche offers an IRS man as a hero, meaning that there isn't much chance of this particular film being remade! Treasury...
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Steve Batchellor
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1946
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Frank
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1946
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Otto Preminger directed this stylish film noir exercise, intended as a follow-up to his surprise hit Laura. Kicked off a bus...
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1945
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Marital entanglements provide the basis for this drama. The trouble begins as a woman prepares to marry her fifth husband,...
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1945
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The tumultuous world of horse-racing provides the backdrop of this drama. Directed by Raoul Walsh, Salty O'Rourke features...
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Doc Baxter
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1945
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Col. Fontaine
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1943
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In this Victorian-era adventure, a blue-blooded girl is dismayed to discover that her recently deceased father, a compulsive...
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Gerald Forsythe
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1942
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First filmed in 1914, Edgar Selwyn's venerable North Country yarn Pierre of the Plains was thawed out once more in 1942....
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"Jap" Durkin
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1942
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Robert Latour
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1941
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Capt. Bill Crawford
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1941
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It's hard to believe that Wild Bill Hickok Rides is a Warner Bros. picture-and harder still to believe that Constance Bennett...
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Wild Bill Hickok
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1941
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Set during the war of 1812, Hal Roach's Captain Caution is an unusual swashbuckler in that the "hero" is actually the...
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Slade
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1940
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In this drama, six street-wise tough girls try to imitate the older sister of one who became a gangster's wife and lives a...
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Smiley Ryan
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1940
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From the same folks who brought us My Son is a Criminal comes the near-lookalike property My Son is Guilty. Veteran police...
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Ritzy Kerry
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1940
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Rachel Crothers' thoughtful stage play Susan and God was tastefully adapted for the screen by Anita Loos. Joan Crawford stars...
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1940
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In this spy caper, a double agent swipes classified British plans for a new kind of patrol boat and tries to sell them to...
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1940
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This landmark western -- which, along with Stagecoach, has often been credited with revitalizing what had become a stagnant...
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Jeff Surrett
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1939
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On the verge of superstardom, Rita Hayworth played in scores of minor dramas like Homicide Bureau, an entertaining little...
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Jim Logan
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1939
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A typical, fast-paced Grade-B murder mystery, Mystery of the White Room was based on the then revolutionary medical...
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Dr. Bob Clayton
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1939
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In this heartwarming drama, a crook endeavors to raise his son in the slums until he kills a teller during a bank robbery....
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Jim Larch
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1939
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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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Jim "Silk" Loomis
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1938
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At one time Universal's "prestige" director, James Whale had slipped off the A-list by the end of the 1930s; even so, his...
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Robert Malone
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1938
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Wallace Beery plays one of his patented good bad guys in this MGM Western. "Trigger" Bill (Beery) is an outlaw with a heart...
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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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Steve Lawrence
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1938
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Though he would later dismiss it as "just a ten-day job," actor Conrad Nagel made a remarkably smooth directorial debut with...
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Neil Bradshaw
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1937
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This drama chronicles the fate of two disparate brothers, both of whom work at the same power plant. One of them is...
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Lucky Walden
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1937
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Kirby Dawson
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1936
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Blackie Swanson
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1936
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In this drama, an honest gambler tries to go straight. Although the gambling house he runs is illegal, the man insists that...
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Jerry Edwards
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1936
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Legion of Terror was the first in a cycle of "exposé" films inspired by the upsurge in such hate groups as the KKK, the...
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Frank Marshall
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1936
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In this drama, a middle-aged housewife decides that she has had enough of her philandering husband's neglect and her...
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David
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1936
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1936
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In this crime drama a high-school principal's principles are put to the test when he, also a member of a parole board, is...
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Bat Roberts
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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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Cal Calhoun
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1936
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Sinner Takes All shines with the production gloss only MGM could create; the prettiness of the images helps to hide the plot...
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Ernie
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1936
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Warner Baxter does a variation of his Oscar-winning "Cisco Kid" characterization in Robin Hood of El Dorado. Baxter plays the...
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Bill Warren
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1936
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Taking refuge from a rainstorm in a deserted farmhouse, young married couple Joe and Loretta Martin (Edward Norris and...
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Pitch
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1935
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Produced independently by Edward Small, this surprisingly realistic gangster yarn stars stalwart Richard Arlen as Mal...
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Joe Keefer
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1935
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In this newspaper drama, a reporter known for criticizing the top city official has his column taken over by the man's...
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1935
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Columbia Pictures workhorse Lambert Hillyer was both writer and director of Men of the Night. Bruce Cabot plays Kelly, a...
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Kelly
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1934
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An above-average Monogram programmer, Red Head stars the gorgeous Grace Bradley as a good-hearted photographer's model. After...
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Ted Brown
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1934
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Assistant DA Bob Martel (Bruce Cabot) is in love with sweet Muriel (Mary Brian). This in itself is not earth-shattering,...
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Bob Martel
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1934
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Addison Stevens, Assistant Principal
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1934
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The "greatest gamble" in the life of Philip Eden (Richard Dix) is to restore his long-estranged daughter Alice's...
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Stephen
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1934
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In this comedy, two sisters work as assistants to a magician. The trouble begins when the day before a big show, the...
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1934
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In this romance, an enrollee at the US Naval Academy finds it difficulty adjusting to the unending rules and regulations....
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Jack Austin
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1933
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In Scarlet River, Tom Keene plays "himself," a cowboy movie star, on location in the Wide Open Spaces for his latest epic....
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1933
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"How would you like to star opposite the tallest, darkest leading man in Hollywood?" Enticed by these words, brunette leading...
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Jack Driscoll
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1933
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When Merian C. Cooper was in charge of production at RKO Radio, virtually every other film produced at the studio had an...
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Ace Murray
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1933
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Though the story isn't much, this actioner does offer a neat behind-the-scenes look at the travails of Hollywood stuntmen as...
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Happy White
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1933
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The scandalous doings behind the high-toned exterior of a private school for rich young women provides the framework for...
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Ralph McFarland
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1933
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Long-suffering screen favorite Helen Twelvetrees is Disgraced again in this Paramount soap opera. Twelvetrees is cast as Gay...
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Kirk Undwood, Jr.
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1933
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In this romantic drama, set at the turn of the century, a womanizing Irish motorman ignores his marital vows, but only to a...
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1933
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This 1933 movie version of Sinclair Lewis's novel Ann Vickers stars Irene Dunne in the title role. Left alone and pregnant by...
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Captain Resnick
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1933
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This droll, sophisticated comedy stars Constance Bennett as Venice Muir, a shy young lady with no "past" of any kind -- and...
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1932
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An eager cub reporter visits a roadhouse, stumbles across a corpse and decides to drum up a little notoriety for himself by...
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Fred Dykes
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1932
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1931
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