This WW II adventure chronicles the real-life courage of President John F. Kennedy when he was a Navy lieutenant in charge of...
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Producer
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1963
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In this prison drama, a remake of Caged, House of Women (1950), a pregnant woman is wrongly convicted of armed robbery. She...
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Producer
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1962
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Theft is the pivotal element of this drama which was based on a Brink's robbery. A gang of thieves decide to pull a major...
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Producer
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1961
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In this realistic crime drama, a Santa Ana housewife, anxious to somehow avenge the drug-related death of her nephew, offers...
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Producer
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1958
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Produced by low-budget maven Bryan Foy, Battle Stations is a standard wartime melodrama with the usual assortment of cliches....
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Producer
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1956
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With the exception of the vastly superior Caged, Columbia's Women's Prison was the quintessential "babes behind bars" drama...
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Producer
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1955
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Vincent Price turns on his usual terrifying charm in the role of a homicidal magician in The Mad Magician, a satisfying...
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Producer
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1954
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American POWs struggle to escape from a North Korean camp. While this is basically a remake of Stalag 17, it does feature...
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Producer
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1954
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A car with two men visible in it pulls up to a Los Angeles service station at night, with a single attendant (Dub Taylor)...
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1954
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1953
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Like its spiritual predecessor Song of Bernadette, Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima is based on a true story. The year is 1917:...
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Producer
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1952
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The Lion and the Horse is one of the best efforts to come out of Bryan Foy's "B"-picture unit at Warner Bros. Steve Cochran...
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Producer
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1952
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Cattle Town is a rare low-budget western from the Warner Bros. mills. Dennis Morgan plays Mike McGann, a troubleshooter sent...
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Producer
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1952
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Ronald Reagan delivers one of his best screen performances as baseball great Grover Cleveland Alexander in The Winning Team....
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Producer
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1952
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Actual combat footage is deftly blended in with dramatized re-enactments in The Tanks Are Coming. Steve Cochran stars as...
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Producer
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1951
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The real Matt Cvetic was a borderline alcoholic with a nasty disposition (he once allegedly beat his sister-in-law so badly...
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Producer
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1951
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A prison guard at one of California's most notoriously brutal correctional facilities during the 1920s attempts to enact more...
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Producer
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1951
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The Great Jewel Robber is based on the true story of Gerard Dennis, who during a 12-month period managed to steal more than a...
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Producer
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1950
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Filmmaker Andrew Stone was always a staunch believer in realism at all costs. Thus it was that much of Highway 301 was lensed...
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Producer
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1950
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Filmed with the full cooperation of the U.S. Army, Breakthrough is a lean, no-nonsense war film set during the 1944 invasion...
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Producer
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1950
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When nearly perfect counterfeit 20-dollar bills start turning up, the Treasury Department recognizes them as the work of Tris...
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Producer
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1949
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The "He" of the title is Richard Basehart, a clever but psychopathic burglar (based on real-life criminal Erwin Walker)...
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Producer
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1948
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John Muller (Paul Henreid), an intelligent, arrogant criminal who has been a medical student and a phony psychoanalyst,...
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Executive Producer
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1948
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This suspenseful crime drama reenacts the famed 1947 prison break out of the Canon City, Colorado corrections facility and...
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Producer
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1948
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If Eagle-Lion's Out of the Blue looks more like a slick Warner Bros. product at times, it's because the film was peopled by...
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Producer
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1947
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The second of Perry Como's two starring vehicles for 20th Century-Fox, If I'm Lucky is an easygoing remake of 1937's...
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Producer
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1946
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Doll Face is one of two attempts by 20th Century Fox to make a movie star out of crooner Perry Como (the other was...
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Producer
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1946
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A game show provides the backdrop for this drama that centers on an earnest young husband who desperately needs $1,000 to...
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Producer
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1944
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20th Century-Fox's 1943 filmization of Richard Tregaskis' best-selling book Guadalcanal Diary does full justice to the...
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Producer
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1943
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Filmed in the months immediately following Pearl Harbor, 20th Century-Fox's Little Tokyo USA is 63 minutes' worth of...
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1942
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1942
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One of two 20th Century-Fox horror melodramas released in 1942 (Dr. Renault's Secret was the second), The Undying Monster is...
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Producer
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1942
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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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Executive Producer, Producer
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1942
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Possibly inspired by Universal's The Invisible Woman, Warner Bros.' The Body Disappears is an agreeably daffy comedy with...
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Producer
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1941
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Calling Philo Vance is a perfunctory remake of 1933's The Kennel Murder Case, which many aficionados consider the best of the...
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Producer
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1940
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Though set during WW1, British Intelligence was obviously thrown together to capitalize on the outbreak of WW2. A remake of...
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Producer
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1940
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In this actioner, heroic G-man Brass Bancroft must assume the identity of a notorious spy who died in a train wreck so he...
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Producer
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1940
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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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Producer
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1940
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Though one would never know it, the bucolic comedy-mystery Granny Get Your Gun was based on one of Erle Stanley Gardner's...
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1940
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1940
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In this drama, set in New York City, two brothers fight it out over a girl. The boys were raised by their Italian mother....
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Producer
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1940
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The 1940 Warner Bros. quickie A Fugitive From Justice is based on Leonard Neubauer's short story "Million Dollar Fugitive."...
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Producer
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1940
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A tough, bitter fugitive's travels lead him to a grungy rundown oil town. There the transient is taken in by an oil-rigger...
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Producer
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1940
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Torchy Plays with Dynamite was the final entry in Warner Bros.' "Torchy Blane" series, based on characters created by...
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Producer
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1939
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Code of the Secret Service was the second of Warner Bros. "Brass Bancroft" series, starring Ronald Reagan as troubleshooting...
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Producer
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1939
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In this comedy, a young waitress is given $1,000 from her grandfather. She desires to buy a race horse and so trustingly...
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Producer
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1939
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I Am Not Afraid was the preview title for the 60-minute Warner Bros. crime melodrama The Man Who Dared. A remake of 1931's...
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Producer
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1939
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Producer
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1939
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This gangster film is based upon fact as it tells the tale of a determined reporter who has decided to make sure a certain...
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Associate Producer
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1939
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In this entry in the long-running series, one of the Kids goes to military school and learns, with the help of his late...
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Producer
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1939
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The second entry in Warner Bros.' popular detective series, Nancy Drew, Reporter presented young sleuth Bonita Granville at...
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Producer
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1939
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Waterfront moves so quickly that the film is half over by the time all the characters have been introduced. Dockworker Jim...
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Producer
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1939
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In this family-style comedy, the trouble begins when a good father loses his job at the local newspaper when the publication...
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Producer
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1939
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A singing waiter with a wonderful operatic voice finds himself in the squared circle facing heavyweight boxers after he gets...
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Producer
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1939
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No Place to Go is a remake of the 1932 Chic Sale vehicle The Expert, which in turn was adapted from the George S....
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Producer
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1939
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The third of Warner Bros.' series based on the teenaged sleuth created by Carolyn Keene, Nancy Drew, Trouble Shooter stars...
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Producer
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1939
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This final entry in Warner Bros.' Nancy Drew series is the only one actually based on a novel by Nancy Drew creator...
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Producer
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1939
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Humphrey Bogart makes his first and last appearance in a horror movie in this film. Though the title implies that it is a...
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Producer
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1939
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Ace Secret Service agent Lt. Brass Bancroft is on the case in this crime drama. This time he is assigned to break up a major...
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Producer
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1939
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In this drama, an unlucky family find themselves plagued by murderous mobsters after they inadvertently witness a crime that...
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1939
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1939
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In this touching drama, a young woman cons her father the Colonel to put their colt in the Kentucky Derby. They do, but the...
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Producer
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1939
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In this, the premiere entry in the "Brass" Bancroft series (starring the man who would-be President, Ronald Reagan), Brass is...
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Producer
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1939
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In this entry in the long-running series, the Dead End Kids are freshly out of reform school when they find themselves...
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Producer
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1939
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Ronald Reagan is his usual sprightly self as ambitious insurance claims adjuster Eric Gregg. While diligently investigating a...
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Producer
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1938
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In this wartime drama, cavalry private Dennis Murphy purchases a nervous horse, Sergeant, after it is deemed unfit for...
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Producer
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1938
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In this entry in in the children's series, very loosely adapted from Booth Tarkington's popular story, the young Hoosiers get...
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Producer
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1938
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In this North Woods adventure a courageous Canadian Mounted Policeman takes on the outlaws who robbed a freighter heading...
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Producer
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1938
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In this drama, an innocent man is framed for murder and sent to Sing Sing where he meets a kindly prison chaplain who helps...
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Associate Producer
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1938
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Warner Bros.' Girls on Probation was, and is, a potboiler, redeemed slightly by its cast. The fascinating, underused...
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Producer
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1938
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Boris Karloff starred in this rather static whodunit from the Warner Bros. B-unit as Jeffries, a civilian employee at a...
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Producer
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1938
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In this comedy, a milquetoast office clerk is forcibly betrothed to a woman by her overbearing mother. The trouble begins...
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Producer
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1938
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With Glenda Farrell having temporarily taken leave of Warner Bros., the actress' signature role of fast-talking girl reporter...
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Producer
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1938
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Astrology and murder meet head-on in the Warner Bros. programmer When Were You Born? When horoscope specialist Mary Lee Liang...
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Producer
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1938
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In this entry in the "Torchy Blane" series, the plucky young reporter tries to expose a ring of counterfeiters led by a man...
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Producer
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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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Associate Producer
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1938
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In this heartwarming tearjerker, an adorable orphan becomes determined to find her father, whom she is convinced is still...
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Producer
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1938
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Number seven in Warner Bros.' "Torchy Blaine" series was Torchy Blaine in Chinatown, with Glenda Farrell and Barton MacLane...
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Producer
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1938
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Producer
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1938
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Who better to direct Warner Bros.' Daredevil Drivers than B. Reeves "Breezy" Eason, the fast-action specialist who staged the...
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Producer
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1938
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Producer
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1938
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This entry in the Dead End Kids series of adventures makes critical comments about the failings of reform schools. The story...
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Associate Producer
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1938
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Nancy Drew -- Detective was the first in a series of breezy B-pictures based on the teenaged sleuth created by Carolyn Keene....
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Producer
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1938
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A troubled young girl vents her frustrations upon her poor butler in this sentimental drama. The teen is angry because her...
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Producer
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1938
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In this lighthearted drama, a lazy trumpeter has developed a sure-fire system for making big bucks in the stock market. His...
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Producer
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1938
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The ever-suffering Kay Francis once again makes an assault on the audience's tear ducts in My Bill. Francis is cast as Mary...
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Producer
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1938
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Broadway Musketeers is a remake of the 1932 Warner Bros. drama Three on a Match, with numerous concessions made to the now...
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Associate Producer
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1938
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Draegermen are the brave people who rescue victims of mining disasters. This film tells the story of a Nova Scotia mining...
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Producer
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1937
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District attorney Victor Shanley (John Litel) is forced out of his job through the machinations of gang boss Al Kruger...
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Producer
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1937
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Operatic tenor James Melton stars as on-the-skids bandleader Tod Weaver, who finds himself in charge of an all-girl...
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Producer
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1937
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Producer
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1937
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In this boxing drama, a prizefighter spies a young man during a street fight. Deciding that the lad shows promise, he begins...
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Producer
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1937
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The Warner Bros. custom of casting their Dick Foran singing Westerns with whomever was available from the studio's large...
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Producer
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1937
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Footloose Heiress is a vehicle of sorts for Ann Sheridan, no longer a starlet but not quite a star in 1937. Sheridan is cast...
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Producer
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1937
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The most enjoyable of the Warner Bros.-Dick Foran singing Westerns, this film pitches lawyer Foran against unscrupulous land...
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Producer
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1937
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Now decidedly a product of Warner Bros.' grade-B unit, The Case of the Stuttering Bishop brought the Perry Mason series to a...
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Producer
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1937
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Warner Bros.' resident singing cowboy, the amiable Dick Foran, warbles "The Prairie Is My Home" and "When the Cowboy Takes a...
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Producer
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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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Editor
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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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Producer
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1937
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This drama is based upon a play by George S. Kaufman, The Butter and Egg Man. It tells the tale of Erwin, a naive yokel who...
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Producer
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1937
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Jim Turner (Barton MacLaine) loves "wine, women and horses," though not always in that order. Our hero's revelry is...
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Producer
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1937
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A cast of Warner Bros. B-movie players struggles valiantly with a leaden script in this medical drama about foster brothers...
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Producer
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1937
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In this football drama, a college gridiron star attempts to leave the game, at the request of his girl friend who does not...
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Producer
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1937
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In their third crime-solving adventure, smart-aleck newspaper woman Torchy Blane (Glenda Farrell) and slightly dense homicide...
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1937
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Producer
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1937
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In this lively adventure aimed at youthful audiences, a wiseacre fireman soon finds himself in trouble with his fire captain...
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Producer
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1937
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A stagecoach race, murder and a singing cowboy are the main ingredients in this pleasant western from Warner Bros. The...
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Producer
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1937
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Coincidentally, Warner Bros. contractee Jane Wyman made her starring debut in the same year as her husband-to-be...
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Producer
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1937
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Returning to his home spread in the Red River border area between Texas and Oklahoma, Tal Holladay (Dick Foran) is falsely...
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Producer
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1937
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In this drama, the third remake of a popular play by Porter Emerson Browne, General Wu Yen Fang, "the White Tiger," is an...
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Producer
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1937
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"That Man" is Hugh (woo-woo) Herbert, here cast as lovable eccentric Thomas J. Jesse. Befriending apartment-house elevator...
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Producer
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1937
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In response to Republic's Gene Autry westerns of the late 1930s, Warner Bros. created its own singing cowboy, Dick Foran, for...
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Producer
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1937
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Despite the claim of "an original screenplay by Edward Earl Repp," this entry in Warner Bros.' Dick Foran "singing cowboy"...
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Producer
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1937
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Producer
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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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Producer
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1937
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In this comedy a sneaky salesman tries to sell an inventor's newest product, a water-based fuel. Before the inventor can...
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Producer
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1936
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In this lively campus comedy, a stern rowing coach sets up a rigorous practice schedule for his team and insists they lead...
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Producer
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1936
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Ross Alexander, whom Warner Bros. was obviously grooming for big-time stardom, is cast as Bill McAllister, the ne'er-do-well...
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Producer
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1936
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In this drama, a teen is adopted from a reform school by a wealthy couple. They own horses and the boy becomes a jockey. His...
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Producer
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1936
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Perry Mason (Warren William) actually marries his secretary, the redoubtable Della Street (Claire Dodd) in this, the fourth...
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Producer
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1936
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The Murder of Dr. Harrigan is based on a "Nurse Sarah Keats" mystery novel by Mignon Eberhardt. The middle-aged protagonist...
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Producer
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1936
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The all-purpose title Man Hunt was trotted out for this 1936 Warner Bros. "B". Aging country newspaper editor Chic Sale is...
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Producer
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1936
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According to encyclopedic film historian Roger Dooley, The Law in Her Hands is the only film of the 1930s to concern itself...
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Producer
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1936
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Nurse Sarah Keate, the middle-aged crime-solver created by mystery novelist Mignon Eberhardt, was reshaped as a much younger...
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Producer
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1936
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Dusting off a couple of old Ken Maynard Western plots -- already recycled once with John Wayne in the early 1930s -- Warner...
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Producer
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1936
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Warner Bros.' "Perry Mason" series quietly slipped from the "A" to the "B" category with this adaptation of...
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Producer
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1936
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The second of singing cowboy Dick Foran's Warner Bros. westerns, Song of the Saddle was a decided improvement on the first...
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Producer
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1936
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In this comedy, based on a George M. Cohan play, a hick comes to the city to attend his old buddy's wedding. The rube is such...
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Producer
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1936
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This western tells the story of a brave Army captain assigned to escort an important official's daughter through Indian...
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Producer
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1936
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In this romantic comedy, an aspiring socialite heads for a vacation in Monte Carlo where she befriends a wealthy widowed...
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Producer
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1936
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This drama is set at a struggling radio station. To drum up more listeners, the station owner dredges up an old mystery and...
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Producer
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1936
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King of Hockey was one of three low-budget hockey films released during the 1936-37 season, each one produced by a different...
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Producer
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1936
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In 1929, Bette Davis made her Broadway debut in the now-forgotten stage play Broken Dishes. But Davis did not appear in the...
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Producer
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1936
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Based on the W. Somerset Maugham novel The Narrow Corner, the melodramatic adventure Isle of Fury is one of Humphrey Bogart's...
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Associate Producer
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1936
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This Dick Foran "singing western" makes extensive use of stock footage from First National's Ken Maynard series of the silent...
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Producer
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1936
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Jailbreak is a formula Warners "B" with all the attendant stereotypes. Dick Purcell plays a convict accused of murdering a...
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Producer
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1936
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The hero of The Pay-Off is somewhat denser than usual, making his ultimate victory all the more amazing. James Dunn plays...
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Producer
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1935
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Though usually a supporting player in Warner Bros' A pictures, Barton MacLane was permitted an occasional leading role in the...
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Producer
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1935
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Wallace Ford plays Terry McCall, a small-town baseball star with a monumental ego. Terry's gift for self-aggrandizement...
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Producer
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1935
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In this drama, a teenage boy and girl, tired of parental repression, begin sneaking out on dates and to parties. The parents...
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1935
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1935
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Though Busby Berkeley is the director of I Live for Love, there isn't a dancer or dance number anywhere to be seen....
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Producer
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1935
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Frank Craven, the actor-playwright best known for his performance as The Stage Manager in the original Broadway production of...
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Producer
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1934
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Were it not for the diligence of old-time radio buffs and Three Stooges fans, the 1933 Universal epic Myrt and Marge might...
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1933
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1933
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1933
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1932
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A wimpy king is forced to take responsibility for his little North Sea island kingdom after his iron-fisted wife goes on a...
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Director
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1931
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This second of four film versions of Ralph Spence's stage comedy-melodrama The Gorilla stars legendary Broadway comedian...
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Director
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1931
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This is the original German-language version of the early-talkie Warner Bros. drama The Royal Box. Based on the...
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Director, Play Author
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1930
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To sophisticated filmgoers of 1929, the designation "queen of the nightclubs" could mean only one person: Colorful Manhattan...
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1929
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Director
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1929
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A wealthy man hits the half-century mark and promptly suffers a mid-life crisis in this silent romantic comedy. Like...
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Director
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1928
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Contrary to popular belief, no one speaks into microphones hidden in vases in this, the first 100% "all-talking" feature...
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Director
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1928
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The silent comedy feature College stars Buster Keaton as a scholarly young man who doesn't know beans about sports. When he...
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1927
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1927
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Charlie Chaplin's talented brother Sydney enjoyed moderate box-office success as star of a series of Warner Bros. features in...
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Screenwriter
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1927
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