Escaped gangster Steve McBirney (Marc Lawrence), vowing to get even with Oriental sleuth Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler), lies in...
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1940
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This episode in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series takes on election fraud. It gives a behind-the-scenes account of how...
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1940
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This typically economical Edward Small historical drama stars Jon Hall as legendary frontiersman Kit Carson. Wasting no time,...
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1940
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Another of Columbia's myriad of Jack Holt actioners, Passport to Alcatraz casts the star as supposed enemy saboteur George...
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1940
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In this exciting spy drama, enemy agents endeavor to steal the plans for a top secret silent aircraft. The plane's inventor...
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Fornay
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1939
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In this Mexican version of the popular southwestern series, Cisco barely escapes the deadly bullets of a firing squad. He...
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1939
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This timely entry in Fox's Charlie Chan series is set in Paris during the Munich Crisis of 1938. Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler)...
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1939
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Originally designed for exhibition at the 1939 World's Fair, Land of Liberty is a 137-minute compendium of filmclips from...
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1939
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Man of Conquest was the first "super production" from Republic Pictures, a studio not known for its lavish budgets. This...
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1939
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While the "Tarzan" series was going full blast at MGM, several independent producers managed to secure the screen rights to...
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Ben Alleu Bey
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1938
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Sharpshooters was the initial entry in what was to have been a series of six "Camera Daredevils" adventures. Brian Donlevy...
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1938
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Bookish bank employee Atterbury Dodd (Leslie Howard) is ordered to investigate the near-bankrupt Colossal Studios in...
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1937
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In this adventure set in Cairo, two foreign correspondents are assigned to investigate a ring of arms smugglers. One of them...
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Captain Nardant
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1937
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Actual footage of the 1936 Berlin Olympics is rabbeted into the action of this superior Charlie Chan entry. Assigned by the...
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Arthur Hughes
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1937
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Though not the most versatile of actors, granite-jawed Jack Holt does just fine with a dual role in Columbia's...
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Kilgeur
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1937
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Adventurer-for-hire Victor McLaglen is hired by a political faction in a mythical European kingdom. McLaglen's job is to...
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1936
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Hollywood Boulevard is a trenchant look at the underside of Tinseltown. Though the nominal hero is a disillusioned...
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Jordan Winslow
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1936
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Daly
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1934
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In an unusual move, MGM released its film version of Sidney Kingsley's Pulitzer-Prize winning play Men in White while the...
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1934
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Based on a novel by Cortland Fitzsimmons, the storyline of this "gimmick" mystery follows the St. Louis Cardinals during a...
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Joe Karns
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1934
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Lee Tracy is a middle-aged, middle-class man dissatisfied with his life. If he'd only married the girl he wanted to and had...
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1933
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A splashy journalist finds herself embroiled in international intrigue when she hooks up with a sneaky Russian correspondent...
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1933
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A conflict between the Serbs and the Hungarians provides the framework of this drama that centers on a love triangle between...
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1933
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The French Foreign Legion is the setting for this episodic adventure yarn. Victor Jory plays a Legion doctor falsely accused...
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Capt. Radak
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1933
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This drama was written by famed radio announcer Walter Winchell. It chronicles the tragic love between a racketeer and a...
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1933
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1933
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Secret of Madame Blanche is one of those "confessional" film dramas which movie fans of the early 1930s ate up like bonbons....
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1933
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Heroine Mona (Sally Eilers) is "made" in more ways than one in this free-wheeling spoof of the press-agent business. A...
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Mayor Starling
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1933
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Society-lawyer Warner Baxter loses his prestige in the legal community when he successfully defends gangster boss...
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1933
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After the death of her circus-aerialist husband, Kitty Lorraine (Alice Brady) dedicates herself to transforming her daughter...
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1933
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In 1933, at the height of the bleakness and desperation of the Depression, MGM released this genuine curiosity piece --...
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1933
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It's hard to separate fact and fancy from the many accounts of what happened on the set when all three of the fabulous...
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1932
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A remake of West of Zanibar, this strange, gut-wrenching melodrama set in the African jungles, offers a disturbing portrait...
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Gregg
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1932
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Often referred to as an imitation of Warner's legendary prison drama I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932), RKO's stirring...
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Blacksnake Skinner
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1932
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This imitation-Lubitsch romantic comedy stars William Powell as an elegant jewel thief plying his trade in Vienna. Powell's...
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1932
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Molly Louvain (Ann Dvorak) is a young woman working as a clerk at a hotel. The product of a broken home, abandoned by her...
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1932
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In this suspenseful drama, an embittered woman exacts revenge upon the 12 women who wronged her in college. The trouble...
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1932
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Completed in mid-1930, Scarface, based on Armitage Trail's novel of the same name, might have been the first of the great...
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1932
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In this western, an eastern football star inherits the cattle ranch that paid his way through college. Unfortunately, he...
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Don Paco Morales
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1932
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"So much for Carlotta" muses the head of German Espionage (Lewis Stone), shortly after secret agent Karen Morley is put to...
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Dubois
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1932
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Perhaps most noteworthy for the first onscreen performance by future Academy Award winner Hattie McDaniel, this politcal...
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1932
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A woman trying to live down her past finds it coming back to haunt her in this drama. Steve Pelton (Owen Moore) is the leader...
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Jack Curtis
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1931
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In this marital drama, a wife fears that her checkered past will be revealed when she and her husband move to the city to...
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Serge Ratoff
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1931
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In this dramatic adventure a shady lady becomes a spy for the Austrian intelligence agency and ends up involved with a man...
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1931
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John Barrymore is the "State's Attorney" in the RKO picture of the same name. A brilliant criminal lawyer, Barrymore counts...
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1931
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Actress Shelah Fane (Dorothy Revier) is in Honolulu to shoot a movie, but her chaotic personal life is keeping her from...
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Van Horn
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1931
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1931
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In this action-adventure opus, Deucalion (Warner Baxter), Machwurth (Noah Beery), Mordiconi (C. Henry Gordon) and Biloxi...
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1930
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