The action in A Big Hand for the Little Lady centers around a high-stake poker game. The participants include some of the...
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Benson Tropp
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1966
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1964
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Fatal Confinement originated as an hour-long TV pilot film titled Royal Bay. Joan Crawford stars as a reclusive woman living...
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1964
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In this addiction melodrama, Joe Clay (Jack Lemmon), a promising adman, meet his future wife Kirsten (Lee Remick) at a party....
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Ellis Arnesen
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1962
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One of Hollywood's most famous and acclaimed directors, John Huston guides this western with an unerring hand -- the cast of...
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Zeb Rawlins
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1960
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The devastating effects of alcoholism provide the basis for this episode of the Playhouse 90 television series. The tale...
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1958
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1958
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Mister Cory represented the first of several successful collaborations between star Tony Curtis and director Blake Edwards....
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Biloxi
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1957
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A shipboard romance is the basis for this drama that chronicles the love between a beautiful woman and a man slated for...
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1957
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Art Carney plays the title role, so to speak, in this live, 90-minute Playhouse 90 adaptation of Brandon Thomas' classic...
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1957
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A.A. Andrews
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1956
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In this 1955 Otto Preminger film, Gary Cooper stars as World War I hero Brigadier General Billy Mitchell. The film recounts...
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Gen. James Guthrie
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1955
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When a news editor reports a kidnapping of a child, the boy's life is threatened. ~ Rovi...
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1955
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Ambitious but impecunious medical student Lucas Marsh (Robert Mitchum) marries the older and (in this film, at least) not...
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Dr. Runkleman
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1955
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Dave Prescott
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1955
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Based on true police stories, these two episodes of the 1954 series are hosted by Charles Bickford and feature real-life...
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1955
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The 1954 musical remake of A Star is Born could have been titled A Star is Reborn, in that it represented the triumphal...
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Oliver Niles
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1954
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Sampson Drune
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1953
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The Raging Tide stars Richard Conte as San Francisco crime boss Bruno Felkin. After killing off a rival, Felkin tries to...
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Hamil Linder
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1951
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Burt Lancaster stars as Jim Thorpe, the Native American sports whiz whom many consider the greatest athlete of the 20th...
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Glenn S. "Pop" Warner
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1951
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In this romance, an industrial designer is bitterly disappointed when he discovers that upon graduation his daughter decides...
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Tom Reagan
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1951
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Made in the same atmosphere and paranoia that spawned the infamous Joseph McCarthy, this is an anti-communist propaganda...
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Cardinal Mindszenty
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1950
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Anxious to remain active in the 1950s, director Frank Capra wanted to prove to Paramount Pictures that he could deliver an...
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J.L. Higgins
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1950
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Mr. Lavery
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1950
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In this compelling and unusual psychological melodrama Ann Sutton (Gene Tierney), a woman tormented by her secret...
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Lt. Colton
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1949
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The saga of the Hatfield-and-McCoy feud is romanticized in Samuel Goldwyn's Roseanna McCoy. Newcomer Joan Evans stars as the...
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Devil Anse Hatfield
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1949
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The Plan 9 From Outer Space of baseball biopics, The Babe Ruth Story is definitely in the "So Bad It's Good" category. An...
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Brother Mathias
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1948
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After years of dumb-blonde and best-friend roles, Jane Wyman proved her skills as a dramatic actress -- and won an Academy...
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Black McDonald
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1948
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Elmer Brockhurst
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1948
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When the family land is threatened with foreclosure, honest, hard-working rancher Ross McEwen (Joel McCrea) resorts to bank...
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Pat Garrett
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1948
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A WWII Coast Guard veteran, Lt. Scott Burnett (Robert Ryan), is plagued by nightmares of his combat days. One day, he meets a...
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Ted Butler
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1947
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Burt Lancaster had one of his first starring roles in this hard-hitting prison drama. Capt. Munsey (Hume Cronyn) is a cruel,...
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Gallagher
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1947
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When Loretta Young stepped up to accept her Academy Award for The Farmer's Daughter, the ever-youthful leading lady, who'd...
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Clancy
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1947
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Sam Pierce
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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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Mark Judd
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1945
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Famed WW1 aviator Eddie Rickenbacker once more entered the public's consciousness during WW2 when, while serving as an Air...
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William Rickenbacker
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1945
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Former president Ronald Reagan may have genuinely believed that he was referring to a real-life act of selfless wartime...
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Capt. Waddell
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1944
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The Song of Bernadette is a reverent recounting of the life of St. Bernadette of Lourdes. As a teen-aged peasant girl growing...
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Peyramaie Dean of Lourdes
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1943
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One of Cary Grant's most financially successful 1940s vehicles, Mr. Lucky finds Grant atypically cast as a shifty,...
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Hard Swede
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1943
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Based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls is a romantic drama set against the turbulent tapestry of the...
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1943
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1942
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This final "Tarzan" entry from the MGM assembly line is arguably one the least effective of the series, though it certainly...
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Buck Rand
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1942
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This action film is set in Asia during World War II and follows the exploits of a truck driver who must investigate the...
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Cliff Weldon
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1941
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The Saturday matinee crowd got two cowboy stars for the price of one in this lavishly budgeted western serial starring former...
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1941
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Charles Bickford and James Craig are the rough-and-ready leads in Universal's South to Karanga. Running guns in South Africa,...
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Jeff Worthing
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1940
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This adventure is based on Jack London's tale of a Northwestern woman who owns a riverboat who sends her daughter to...
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Ace
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1940
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In this drama, a devoted, caring physician leaves his home and moves to Alaska to escape arrest after he performs euthanasia...
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Bill Bogler
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1940
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Directed with customary haste by Woody Van Dyke, Stand Up and Fight is an excellent dual vehicle for veteran Wallace Beery...
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Arnold
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1939
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A frequent visitor to contemporary TV cable services, Monogram's Mutiny in the Big House affords stalwart supporting player...
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Father Joe
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1939
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A big city lawyer returns to his tiny home town to enter the firm of his late father. His father's partner is happy to have...
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Shep Muir
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1939
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Sad-eyed Ann Dvorak plays Jo, the "café hostess" of the title. Poor put-upon Jo doesn't know it, but she's being used by her...
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Cash
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1939
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Set in a northern California logging community the trouble in this western begins when a lumberjack is killed while sawing...
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Steve
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1939
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One Hour to Live affords John Litel, usually cast as rock-solid businessmen and incorruptable attorneys, the opportunity to...
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Lt. Sid Brady
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1939
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This 1939 film version of John Steinbeck's classic novel was a surprising choice for comedy producer Hal Roach; in fact,...
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Slim
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1939
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As indicated by its title, Thou Shalt Not Kill is a strange blend of religiosity and crime melodrama. Charles Bickford plays...
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Rev. Chris
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1939
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In this crime drama, an undercover cop infiltrates a crime syndicate being run by an incarcerated mob boss who conducts his...
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"Rocky" Thorp/John Franklin
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1938
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This third film version of Peter B. Kyne's Valley of the Giants benefits from the breahtaking Technicolor location...
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Howard Fallon
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1938
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Bob Roberts
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1938
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Thunder Trail is a thoughtful, intelligent adaptation of the Zane Grey yarn. Arizona Ames. The storyline is a Grey favorite,...
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Lee Tate
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1937
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High, Wide and Handsome almost defies classification: Perhaps it's best referred to as a historical musical western comedy...
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1937
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A remake of 1932's Guilty as Hell, Night Club Scandal also borrows a page from 1934's Murder at the Vanities by depicting the...
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Capt. McKinley
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1937
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Anna May Wong, who cornered the 1930s market in Eurasian heroines, stars in Daughter of Shanghai. Wong is on the trail of the...
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Otto Hartman
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1937
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John Latimer
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1937
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While heading West in a wagon train, two brothers lose track of each other when their family is attacked and killed. Years...
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1937
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In her much vaunted screen debut, Metropolitan Opera star Gladys Swarthout takes on David Belasco's 30-year-old operetta...
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Joe Kincaid
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1936
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Steve Riley
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1936
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Jotham Klore
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1935
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Directed by Raoul Walsh, Under Pressure tells of the competition between the crews employed to excavate a complex network of...
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Nipper Moran
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1935
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A diverse group of ship passengers end up marooned on an isolated South Pacific island. Unfortunately, the contents of the...
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Bowers
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1935
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Commenting upon the many relatives on the payroll of Carl Laemmle's Universal Pictures, poet Ogden Nash once wrote "Uncle...
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Kirk Arlen
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1935
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Perhaps the most memorable of all of the movies based on Damon Runyon's story because of the winning presence of...
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Big Steve
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1934
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Helen Hayes reportedly turned down the opportunity to play the title role in this dreary melodrama about self-sacrificing...
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Pat Naylor
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1934
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Joe Price
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1933
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The melodramatic No Other Woman is a remake of the 1925 silent film Just a Woman which was based on the play of the same name...
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Big Jim Stanley
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1933
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This drama centers on the fight for certain post-Prohibitionist groups to gain total control over the liquor industry. Much...
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Nails Anderson
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1933
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In this campy "adult-oriented" drama from the early 1930s, the ruthless manager of a Malaysian rubber plantation marries a...
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Ballister
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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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Garrett
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1933
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Tallulah Bankhead's first Hollywood movie was this romantic-drama weepie, in which she plays Susan, the unhappy wife of oil...
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Walt
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1932
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In this newspaper drama, a dedicated small-town reporter works hard and becomes the editor of a major New York paper....
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Jerry Strong
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1932
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In this mystery, a detective is called in to investigate the fate of a derelict ship that was found floating off the coast...
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Bannister
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1932
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Eternal movie trollop Helen Twelvetrees is more sinned against than necessary in Panama Flo. Stranded in Panama, honky-tonk...
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McTeague
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1932
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A mentally unstable naval officer goes mad with jealousy when his wife's recent lover shows up as a lieutenant on the...
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1932
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In this melodrama, a starving orphan deliberately breaks a store window in hopes that she'll be tossed in jail and get a hot...
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Brian
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1932
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The second of three versions of James Oliver Curwood's pulp fiction drama of a mountie and his separated-at-birth prey stars...
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John Keith/Sgt. Conniston
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1931
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In this drama, a woman with dubious past finds herself blackmailed when she makes plans to marry a senator's son. She finds...
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Flashy Madden
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1931
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Cecil B. DeMille's third remake of his debut film, this was the first sound version of Edwin Milton Royle's stage western...
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1931
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Based on a play by William DuBois, Pagan Lady top-bills Evelyn Brent as the title character, a "woman of the world" named Dut...
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Dingo Mike
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1931
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One of the most frequently telecast films of the 1950s and 1960s, East of Borneo stars Rose Hobart as Linda, the wife of...
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Dr. Clark
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1931
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In this drama, a two wealthy cousins find themselves involved in an unfortunate love triangle. The trouble begins when the...
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Dan Wallace
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1930
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"Sea Bat" is another name for the poisonous sting rays that trouble swimmers in warmer ocean climes. The story is set upon a...
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Rev. Sims
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1930
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William Wyler was still primarily a western specialist when he was assigned to direct Hell's Heroes. Based on...
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Bob Sangster
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1930
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Accompanied by one of the most successful advertising campaigns in Hollywood history, Greta Garbo made her "talking picture"...
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Matt Burke
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1930
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Filmed in 1929 and released early in 1930, Dynamite was Cecil B. DeMille's first all-talking feature. As one observer has...
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Hagon Derk
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1930
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In this comedy drama, a very early talkie, set in the splendiferous South Seas, a French lassie charms a sea captain who...
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Capt. Briggs
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1929
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