Learn the grim truth about the lifestyles of those colorful beatniks in this exploitation drama that tells the story of a...
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1960
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Filmed on location in the Colorado Rockies, Running Target, per its title, is a feature-length chase. When a group of...
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1956
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Winning of the West was Gene Autry's first western vehicle for 1953. It was also one of Autry's better offerings, with the...
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1953
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1951
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Having previously played Billy the Kid, Audie Murphy assumes the role of Jesse James in Kansas Raiders. The plot finds Jesse...
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1950
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1945
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Steve
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1938
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Two government agents are assigned to bust up a gold smuggling ring located on the Mexican border. One of the agents, a...
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Joe
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1937
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Bank Alarm was one of four low-budget but high-entertainment crime melodramas starring Conrad Nagel and Eleanor Hunt as...
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1937
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Now-forgotten actress Betty Compson largely made her mark in silent pictures, but like many performers of the era, found it...
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1936
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Ex-cop Russell Hopton, framed for a crime he didn't commit, gets a second chance in life after enduring a train wreck. His...
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1936
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1936
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Spencer Tracy plays a hard-driving newsman with a special instinct for solving sensational murders before the police can....
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1935
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One of several poverty-row films which vanished from sight during the 1935-36 movie season, Beacon Productions did its best...
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Armstrong
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1935
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Ellen Garfield (Bette Davis) is a neophyte reporter with ambitions big enough to take on assignments usually reserved for...
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1935
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Ostensibly based on James Oliver Curwood's Caryl of the Mountain, but bearing little or no resemblance to the 1935...
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1935
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Tarzan, "The Police Dog," stars in this ultra low-budget thriller from independent producer Bert Sternbach. The human leads,...
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Bob Martin
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1935
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Kermit Maynard, the talented brother of western favorite Ken Maynard, launched his own starring series for Ambassador Films...
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Blackie
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1934
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Tower Films' Big Time or Bust is strictly small time, though not bad at all within it own limits. Regis Toomey plays a...
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1934
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Preston Foster, Mischa Auer, and Evalyn Knapp star in this tale of political intrigue centering on the quest of a powerful...
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Charlie Jasper
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1933
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In this crime comedy, a stenographer is kidnapped after she witnesses a mob hit. The hostage soon finds herself the object...
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1933
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Police officer Tom Malone is the only honest man left who can salvage his crooked city after his partner is killed on his...
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1933
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Joe E. Brown plays Elmer Kane, a rookie ballplayer with the Chicago Cubs whose ego is matched only by his appetite. Because...
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1933
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The problem with the main characters in Midnight Morals is that they have more midnight than morals in their lives. Rookie...
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1932
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Ben Lyon plays an aspiring boxer in this pre-code drama. Cookie Bradford (Lyon) toils at a diner and works out at the gym...
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1932
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1932
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1931
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Sono Art-World Wide, an enterprising minor-league studio of the early talkie era, did its best to seek out subject matter...
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Andy
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1931
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Charles Delaney, an all-purpose actor who appeared in several Poverty Row productions of the early 1930s, assumes the role of...
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1931
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Coney island vendors Baltimore Clark (Bill Boyd), Dutch Herman (Robert Armstrong) and Skeets O'Reilly (James Gleason) spend...
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1931
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Yet another variation on the already then-ancient Madame X theme, this early talkie stars Helen Twelvetrees in the title...
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1931
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1930
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Based on Dion Boucicauls's Irish play, this early talkie from lower-echelon company Tiffany starred one of the victims of...
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1930
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An innocent cowboy is once again suspected of a crime he didn't commit in The Lonesome Trail, an obscure early talkie western...
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Judd Rascomb
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1930
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So many silent favorites had fallen by the wayside with the comic of talkies that one shouldn't be surprised that canine star...
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Jim Clayton
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1930
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The Girl From Woolworth's was an appropriate title for this bargain-counter musical. Alice White stars as Pat King, a...
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Bill Harrigan
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1929
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The popularity of the Universal musical Broadway resulted in a whole slew of minor films with similar titles. In First...
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Billy Buvanny
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1929
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1929
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A pleasant but unremarkable comedy from Universal, Home James featured the studio's premiere light comedian Laura La Plante...
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1928
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This romantic adventure is set in South America and tells the story of a Yankee mining engineer who falls in love with the...
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Barney O'Malley
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1928
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Show Girl was based on a novel by J.P. McEvoy, which also inspired the long-running comic strip Dixie Dugan (Actress...
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Jimmy Doyle
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1928
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In this silent police drama, a New York cop struggles to clear his name after he is convicted of tippling on the job. After...
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Danny Sheehan, Jr.
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1928
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This high-seas melodrama tells the tale of a self-righteous sea captain who steals his son and leaves his wife because he...
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Joe Dane
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1928
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Wealthy Helene Chadwick decides to discharge her social obligations by doing charity work in the slums. Upon arriving in the...
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1928
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Charles Manning
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1928
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Jim Henderson
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1928
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A businessman and his partner rush off to Paris in hopes of stopping their children from getting married. Unfortunately, the...
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Patrick Kelly
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1928
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Wealthy collegiate Charles Delaney inherits a row of tenement buildings in the city's slum district. Visiting his new...
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1928
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Jimmy
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1928
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The "Abie's Irish Rose" formula was given yet another airing in MGM's Frisco Sally Levy. Sally O'Neil plays Colleen...
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Patrick Sweeney
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1927
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The Lovelorn was inspired by the popular "advice" column by Beatrice Fairfax, here played by Dorothy Cumming. Heroine Georgie...
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Jimmy
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1927
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Appropriately enough, Mountains of Manhattan was distributed by a concern known as Gotham Pictures. Charles Delaney stars as...
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1927
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Fading star Mae Busch and up-and-coming Jean Arthur play major roles in Husband Hunters. A variation of the old "Gold-Diggers...
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Bob Garrett
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1927
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The whole cast looks like they're enjoying themselves in this spoof on crime melodramas. A series of thefts are being...
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Matt Gray
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1927
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Charlie Oelze, the Hal Roach Studio's special effects and "gadget" maestro, was given co-director credit on the silent,...
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1927
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Johnnie Regan
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1927
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Unlike most "collegiate" films of the 1920s, College Days paints a fairly realistic portrait of campus life. To be sure, the...
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Jim Gordon
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1926
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Produced by poverty-row Gotham Pictures, Silent Power calls upon the talents of two of the studio's busiest employees:...
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1926
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Mary Carr, who though relatively youthful and energetic specialized in playing downtrodden old matriarches, starred in the...
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1926
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Jesse J. Goldburg's low-budget Independent Pictures offered its customers more than Bill Cody or Bob Custer B-Westerns,...
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1925
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With a hidebound conservative element running things in a small town, the local teenagers have no choice but to seek...
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1925
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Although John Greenleaf Whittier wrote the poem Barbara Frietchie, it was actually the Clyde Fitch play that served as...
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Arthur Frietchie
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1924
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Norma Shearer hadn't yet been given the MGM superstar treatment when she starred in The Devil's Partner. Shearer is mostly...
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1923
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This likable little comedy drama didn't have the tear-jerking qualities of 1920's popular Humoresque but it involved the same...
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Frank Wilson
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1922
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