In the late 1940s - early 1950s, Columbia Pictures enjoyed a great deal of success with a series of slapsticky feature films...
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1950
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Written and produced by its star, Donald Barry, Train to Tombstone was a low-budget version of the classic Stagecoach (1939)....
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1950
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Herbert Heyes, a largely unsung character actor who once played opposite Theda Bara in the silent days, is afforded one of...
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1948
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This boxing drama focuses on the manager rather than the fighter. The story begins as a corrupt manager fakes the death of...
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1948
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1947
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One of director Anthony Mann's earlier films, Railroaded features John Ireland as Duke Martin, a seedy criminal looking to...
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1947
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MGM's musical extravaganza Meet the People top-bills two future powerful TV executives: Dick Powell and Lucille Ball. Ball...
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1944
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Lost in a Harem is arguably the best of Abbott & Costello's trio of MGM films; it's certainly the silliest, with any number...
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1944
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The world of horse racing provides the framework for this drama. The story centers around a young aspiring jockey who...
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1943
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1942
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In the last of the Marx Brothers' MGM films, The Big Store, Groucho Marx plays two-bit detective Wolf J. Flywheel, hired by...
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1941
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This romance is set during the Dartmouth College Winter Carnival and follows the exploits of a woman recently divorced from...
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1939
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A sort of follow-up to the studio's earlier College Scandal, Paramount's Murder Goes to College once again combines homicide...
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1937
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In this, the final episode in the "Sophie Lang" trio of crime comedies, the incorrigible female crook is again a fugitive...
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1937
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In this musical comedy, a crooked record producer uses his mob connections to force performers to do their stuff. The trouble...
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1937
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In this sentimental drama, a nightclub singer finds herself in charge of her late sister's children. To support them...
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1936
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In this lively comedy, a humble Italian barber wins the Irish sweepstakes. Unfortunately, he has misplaced the ticket....
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1935
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Jack Benny is cast against type as a small-time con man in this lightweight MGM programmer. Whenever he manages to outsmart...
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1935
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Hollywood Party was planned as a lavish, star-studded MGM musical titled Hollywood Revue of 1933. Under the...
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1934
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In this comedy, based on a popular play by George Kelly, an office clerk masquerades as a railroad magnate to impress a young...
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1934
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Student Tour looks like an MGM musical two-reeler that was expanded to feature length as it went along. Charles Butterworth...
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1934
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In this drama, a woman goes mad with grief after her lover dumps her. Many years pass and the woman remains embittered and...
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1934
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Somebody at MGM had the bright idea in 1933 to build a series of feature films around the talents of popular radio comedians....
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1933
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A young boy from a broken home must choose between his real dad and his step-father in this drama. His real dad is...
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1932
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In this comedy, a female mayoral candidate promises to rid the town of gangsters. She joined the race in the first place...
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1931
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Flying High was a nonsensical Broadway musical hit of 1930 starring Bert Lahr. The film version, made one year later by MGM,...
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1931
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Two wives catch their husbands with other women and decide to take a vacation of their own in this drama. ~ Sandra Brennan,...
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1931
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In this slapstick comedy set in a posh beauty salon, the owner asks her matronly sister, a postman's wife, to come and...
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1931
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Sparring landladies provide the focus of this comedy. The two women are constantly competing to take in the most boarders at...
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1930
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1930
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With the arrival of talkies, every major studio hopped on the musical bandwagon by turning out lavish "revues," spotlighting...
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1929
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Only three minutes of the 74-minute Noisy Neighbors contains any dialogue; the rest of the film has hardly any noise at all....
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1929
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Intended as a follow-up to the fabulously successful Broadway Melody, Chasing Rainbows reunites several of the leading...
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1929
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Although both of their starring careers would be cut short by the talkie revolution, MGM house comedians Karl Dane and...
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1929
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1928
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Not the best of Buster Keaton's silents, Steamboat Bill, Jr. nonetheless contains some of Keaton's best and most spectacular...
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1928
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1928
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In this instance at least, What Every Girl Should Know doesn't come in a plain brown wrapper. Patsy Ruth Miller stars as...
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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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1927
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1927
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1926
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The Better 'Ole was based on a play by Bruce Bairnsfather and Arthur Elliot, which was itself inspired by a cartoon character...
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1926
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Sydney Chaplin -- older brother of Charles Chaplin -- specialized in films in which his character wound up dressing in drag...
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1925
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In the Eskimo drama Justice of the Far North, Wamba (Marcia Mason), the half-breed wife of Eskimo chieftain Umluk...
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1925
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In the final film of his First National contract (an early working title was The Tail End), Charlie Chaplin spoofs small-town...
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1923
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1921
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A Dog's Life was Charlie Chaplin's initial release for First National Studios, and also his first three-reeler. Chaplin plays...
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1918
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