Director Francesco Rosi returns to his recurring theme of the connections between legal and illegal exercises of power in...
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1973
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This spy-thriller pokes fun at James Bond movies as it tells the story of a master American spy who must protect a scientist...
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1966
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1965
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Presaging the upcoming Vietnam War without knowing it, this routine drama directed by Jack Warner, Jr. (his only directorial...
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Martin
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1962
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This was the last film by director Stuart Heisler, and in his uneven output it was not one of the most memorable. The evil...
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1962
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Whenever the betwiching Roxane Berard guest-stars on Maverick, there's bound to be some elegant larceny, with at least one...
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1961
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The scene is Paris, where lonely Henri Lamont (Fabrizio Mioni) loves the beautiful Therese (Lisa Montell) from afar. Henri...
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1960
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A somewhat wooden rendition of an improbable western, this tale of Basques crossing the U.S. in 1847 with a load of...
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Andre Dauphin
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1959
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1959
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1958
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Max Ophuls' final film (and his only movie in color) is a cinematic tour-de-force masquerading as a biography, in this case a...
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1955
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Gregory Peck and Anthony Quinn play two seal-hunting rivals in this adventure film set in the days when Alaska was a Russian...
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Prince Semyon
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1952
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The Desert Hawk deserves to be seen on the basis of its cast alone. No more believable than any of Universal's other...
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1950
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The trendy elegance of director Douglas Sirk's later big-budget soap operas is nowhere to be found in Sirk's Atomic-Age...
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Lt. Heldman
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1950
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Filmed almost entirely on location, Walk a Crooked Mile was Columbia Pictures' "answer" to 20th Century-Fox's late-1940s...
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Dr. Ritter von Stolb
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1948
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Slave Girl is the sort of fare that the Universal higher-ups used to dismiss as "tits and sand;" nonetheless, this kind of...
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1947
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A woman struggles to reassemble her broken life in this drama that features Susan Hayward in her first starring role. The...
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Dr. Lorenz
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1947
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Horror films were not Republic Pictures' forte, as one can see while watching the stylish but pedestrian Catman of Paris....
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Charles Regnier
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1946
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Lucille Ball stars as the wife of a war correspondent, anxiously awaiting her husband's return. Ball is convinced that hubby...
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Paul Millard
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1946
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In their third film together, Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn created one of the box-office sensations of 1945, a...
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Paul Carrell
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1945
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Uncle Robert
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1945
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Officially based on a novel by Margaret Carpenter, Experiment Perilous would seem to be more inspired by MGM's psychological...
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John Maitland
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1945
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This tender but fluffy romantic comedy centers on the romantic travails of a beautiful European princesss who goes to New...
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Baron Zoltan Faludi
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1945
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An innocent man is drawn into a web of espionage when he unwittingly comes into possession of a crucial piece of microfilm in...
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Willi Hilfe
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1944
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A plot revealed through the correspondence between German-American businessman and his Jewish partner, Lukas, the...
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Baron von Friesche
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1944
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1944
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The Master Race argues persuasively that, although it appeared that the Nazis would lose WW2, it was foolish to assume that...
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Andrey Krysztoff
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1944
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Clare Booth Luce's once-timely stage comedy Margin for Error was indifferently transferred to the screen in 1943....
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Baron Max von Alvenstor
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1943
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With Dorothy Arzner in the director's chair, it's no wonder that First Comes Courage has a more feminist slant than most WWII...
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Maj. Paul Dichter
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1943
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This MGM musical lifts the premise of Pride and Prejudice and plunks it down into the early 1900s. S.Z. Sakall is a...
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1942
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A combat picture was virtually a license to print money in 1942, and RKO Radio's The Navy Comes Through was no exception (net...
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Kroner
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1942
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1942
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Pacific Rendezvous is a B-picture remake of the 1935 MGM A-picture Rendezvous, updated to accommodate WW2. Lee Bowman plays...
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Andre Leemuth
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1942
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1941
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Little Men, Louisa May Alcott's followup to her successful novel Little Women, has never truly adapted well to the screen,...
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1940
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Thunder Afloat is set during the first world war. Wallace Beery plays an veteran tugboat captain who harbors a grudge against...
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U-Boat Captain
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1939
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This 1938 remake of Howard Hawks' 1930 film The Dawn Patrol is faithful to the original's basic plotline. The story is set...
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1938
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April Blossoms is based loosely on incidents in the life of composer Franz Schubert, here portrayed by legendary tenor...
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Rudi
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1937
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In this convoluted melodrama, an elderly thespian falls for a rising young starlet. He admits his love for her and then...
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1936
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Lilian Harvey, the toast of two continents, is her usual radiant self in Invitation to the Waltz. Harvey plays Jenny Peachey...
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Carl
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1935
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It's difficult to believe that Sigmund Romberg's treacly operetta Blossom Time was ever produced anywhere outside of a high...
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1934
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Evensong is based on the teary novel by Beverly Nichols, which had previously spawned a lachrymose (and enormously...
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Archduke Theodore
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1934
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Liebelei is one of the earliest of the cinematic banquets directed by German filmmaker Max Ophuls. The film, set in imperial...
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1932
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