When I Grow Up is an uncharacteristically modest film from producer Sam Spiegel (during his "S. P. Eagle" years)....
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1951
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Novelist Will James, a specialist in horse stories, wrote the yarn upon which 20th Century-Fox's Sand was based....
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Doug
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1949
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The peaceful, solitary existence of a crippled lad and his grandfather living in a remote wooded valley is disturbed when...
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1948
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Zane Grey, that bottomless bounty of inspiration for Hollywood westerns, wrote the novel upon which Gunfighters was based....
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Inskip
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1947
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Definitely no relation to the 1980 Louis Malle film of the same name, 1944's Atlantic City is a tuneful Republic musical, not...
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Jake Taylor
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1944
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In this domestic comedy, a housewife nervously awaits the return of her husband from military service. They married after a...
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Bell "Boy"
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1944
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Paramount Pictures did their patriotic duty with this World War II era musical, with a number of the studio's biggest stars...
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Nick West
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1944
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Tyrone Power made his last screen appearance before a three-year stretch in the Marines in this World War II drama. Lt. Ward...
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1943
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This entry in the detective series follows Queen as he investigates the case of a woman's missing husband, a banker. As he...
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1942
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Columbia's Ellery Queen series called it quits with the timely 1942 entry Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen. The eponymous enemy...
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Inspector Richard Queen
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1942
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Inspector Queen
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1942
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Ralph Bellamy makes the third of four appearances as "master detective" Ellery Queen in Columbia's Ellery Queen and the...
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Inspector Queen
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1941
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Jeeter Lester
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1941
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Though history is distorted almost beyond recognition in Warner Bros.' They Died With Their Boots On, audiences in 1941 ate...
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California Joe
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1941
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Ralph Bellamy made his fourth and final appearance as literary sleuth Ellery Queen in Columbia's Ellery Queen and the Murder...
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Inspector Queen
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1941
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Like the first entry in Columbia's "Ellery Queen" series, Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery depicts its amateur-criminologist...
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Inspector Queen
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1941
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Judge Emmett T. Brennan
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1940
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The adaptation of Nobel Prize-winner John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of dirt-poor Dust Bowl migrants by 4-time...
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Grandpa Joad
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1940
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Ralph Bellamy made the first of four appearances as fictional sleuth Ellery Queen in Columbia's...
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Inspector Queen
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1940
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Future blacklistee John Howard Lawson co-wrote this remake of Samuel Goldwyn's 1920 drama Earthbound, presented here as a...
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Mr. Whimser
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1940
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Filmed on location at Mesa, AZ, this minor Paramount western featured newcomer Ellen Drew as "Slats" Dangerfield, a young...
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1940
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1940
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The third and definitive film adaptation of L. Frank Baum's 1900 children's fantasy, this musical adventure is a genuine...
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1939
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Paramount's Sudden Money has all the earmarks of a Charlie Ruggles-Mary Boland vehicle, except that this time Ruggles is...
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Grandpa Casey Patterson
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1939
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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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1939
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The zippy world of auto-racing provided the basis of this off-beat actioner that centers on an auto magnate who is...
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1939
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In this thriller, a family keeps mum after they witness a murder. It is grandpa that blows the whistle. ~ Sandra Brennan,...
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1939
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The Hero for a Day is elderly night watchman Frank Higgins (Charley Grapewin), still basking in the memories of his long-age...
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Frank Higgins
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1939
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In this drama, an unlucky family find themselves plagued by murderous mobsters after they inadvertently witness a crime that...
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1939
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I Am Not Afraid was the preview title for the 60-minute Warner Bros. crime melodrama The Man Who Dared. A remake of 1931's...
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Ulysses Porterfield
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1939
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John Garfield once more plays a social outcast who's had nothing but lousy breaks. Released from prison for a crime he didn't...
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1939
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In this patriotic wartime drama set during WW II, a test plane crashes killing all aboard and causes the locals to accuse...
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Maj. Grayson
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1939
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1938
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1938
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1938
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Wallace Beery plays one of his patented good bad guys in this MGM Western. "Trigger" Bill (Beery) is an outlaw with a heart...
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1938
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Based on a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades represented one of the few successful screenwriting efforts of...
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1938
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Nancy, a jilted bride-to-be, is played by Janet Gaynor in one of her last starring films. The three loves are novelist...
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1938
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The second motion picture version of a Saturday Evening Post story by Dana Burnet, this romantic melodrama was also the...
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1938
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James Harper
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1938
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This drama chronicles the fate of two disparate brothers, both of whom work at the same power plant. One of them is...
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1937
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This third entry in MGM's "Broadway Melody" series may not have been the biggest or best, but thanks to a masterpiece of...
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1937
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Frank Redmond
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1937
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A boy learns life-changing lessons about the importance of friendship and the dignity of labor in this adventure saga based...
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Uncle Salters
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1937
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The tempestuous love affair between a young surgeon and a pretty but married nurse provides the basis for this melodrama....
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1937
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Old Father
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1937
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The Big City is an improbable urban melodrama which takes place during a "taxi war" between honest independent cabdrivers and...
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The Mayor
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1937
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1936
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Sinner Takes All shines with the production gloss only MGM could create; the prettiness of the images helps to hide the plot...
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1936
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Based on the novel by MacKinlay Kantor, this 1936 drama from director Richard Thorpe stars Lionel Barrymore as Springfield...
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1936
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In this drama, a flamboyant womanizing airline pilot competes with another, rather dull, pilot for the love of a fetching...
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J.P. Kendrick
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1936
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Burned-out British intellectual Alan Squier (Leslie Howard) wanders into the desert service station/restaurant owned by Jason...
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1936
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1936
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Edmund Lowe stars as big-time gambler King Solomon, so named because of his fairness and sagacity. Naturally, our hero has...
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1935
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Playwright Eugene O'Neill's only comedy, Ah, Wilderness! was filmed by MGM in 1935. Impressionable turn-of-the-century lad...
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1935
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1935
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Steamship captain Steve Andrews (Ralph Bellamy) is demoted to second officer when Marge Walker (Ann Sothern), daughter of...
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1935
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Hoping to avoid the new inheritance tax, eccentric millionaire Jasper Whyte (Charles Grapewin) gathers together his greedy...
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Jasper Whyte
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1935
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In one of his few movie leading roles, Victor Jory plays an unmarried small-town creamery owner. Jory falls in love with...
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Will Oliver
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1935
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The exciting worlds of motorboat and auto racing provide the backdrops for this exciting drama. The story begins as an...
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Terry Devlin
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1935
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This espionage thriller with romantic comedy touches was loosely based on the book American Black Chamber by the real-life...
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1935
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The stigma of miscegenation (horrors!) is at the base of this very dated romantic melodrama. Charles Boyer stars as Dmitri...
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Truesdale
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1935
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Based upon a novel anonymously written by Rex Stout, The President Vanishes has as its title character a peace-loving man...
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1934
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1934
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The Quitters was typical of the curiously uninviting titles frequently bestowed upon the Chesterfield-Invincible productions...
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Ed Tilford
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1934
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Will Rogers stars as Judge William "Billy" Priest, the common-sense Kentucky jurist created by humorist Irvin S. Cobb. The...
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1934
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Perhaps the best of Monogram's breezy Ray Walker vehicles, The Loudspeaker casts Walker as Joe Miller, a cocky would-be radio...
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Pop Calloway
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1934
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In this drama, an impoverished orphan girl finds herself acting as a slave to a cruel old farmer. She is soon joined by a...
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1934
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An Edgar Wallace yarn was the basis for the uncharacteristic Warner Bros. melodrama Return of the Terror. Hoping to escape...
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1934
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This drama is set within a carnival and centers on a young woman who falls in love but is unable to act upon her feelings...
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1934
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Charles Boyer played his first major Hollywood role (and gets to sing in the bargain!) in the oddball musical romance...
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1934
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No relation to the 1955 Cold War melodrama of the same title, the confusing 1933 melange Hell and High Water takes place in a...
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Peck Wealin
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1933
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John Ford directed this emotional drama, which was a considerable change of pace from the westerns and war pictures for which...
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1933
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Reported to have cost a whopping $2 million, this musical was actually made for far less -- and looks it. But unlike She Done...
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1933
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Loaned to MGM by her home studio of Warner Bros., Loretta Young suffers her way through the title role in Midnight Mary. A...
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1933
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Horror film icon James Whale directed this well-detailed thriller about a man questioning his wife's honesty after a friend...
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1933
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The beauty-parlor craze of the early 1930s was given a good going-over in MGM's Beauty for Sale. Madge Evans,...
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1933
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What isn't Heroes for Sale about? Within its 71-minute time frame, this film (co-written by "professional cynic"...
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1933
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In this musical drama from directors Alexander Hall and George Somnes, Claudette Colbert stars as Sally Trent, a children's...
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1933
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A man's addiction to betting on the horses severely disrupts his love life in this comedy. He, a plumber, and his fiancee, a...
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Pop McCaffery
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1933
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This earnest, socially-conscious road drama centers on two California teenagers who find their comfortable lives thrown into...
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1933
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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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Beautiful composer Laura Ramsey (Elissa Landi) is the principal suspect when her lover, philandering singer Victor Legrand...
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1932
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The troubled career of a luckless motorcycle cop provides the basis for this police drama. His difficulties begin when he...
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1932
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1932
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One of four films directed by Stephen Roberts in 1932, just four years before the filmmaker passed away prematurely, Lady and...
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1932
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Bette Davis was on loan from Universal when she appeared in this little juvenile delinquent melodrama from independent...
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Uncle Henry
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1932
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In this western, a lawman restores law and order in town. He also stops a greedy horseman from trapping wild stallions with...
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1932
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A multi-character drama set in a suburban neighborhood, The Night of June 13th takes place in four households. One of these...
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1932
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1931
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George Arliss is the millionaire of the title, a retired auto tycoon who's been ordered by his doctor to rest and avoid...
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1931
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Rubber-legged comedian Leon Errol made his talkie starring bow in Paramount's Only Saps Work. Based on a play by Owen Davis...
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1930
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Although The Shannons of Broadway was not James Gleason's first film appearance as advertised, it might as well as been:...
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Swanzey
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1929
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