When a man buys an otter for a pet, he gets more than he bargained for as he tries to keep the animal in his bathtub. He and...
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1969
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Though both star Donald O'Connor and director Arthur Lubin had said goodbye to the "Francis the Talking Mule" series,...
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1956
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The Kettles in the Ozarks was the eighth of Universal's "Ma and Pa Kettle" series--minus "Pa" (actor Percy Kilbride had left...
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1956
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The best thing that can be said about Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops is that it's better than the team's previous...
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1955
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Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy is the last of the team's vehicles for Universal-International. Stranded in Egypt, Bud and...
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1955
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Cornpone comedienne Judy Canova tackles a science-fiction theme in Carolina Cannonball, her last starring vehicle for...
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1955
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In this musical comedy, a young woman endures the drudgery of working as a charwoman in her aunt's hotel. She is not paid...
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1955
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Judy Canova is right in her element in the rowdy Republic musical Untamed Heiress. Canova plays Judy, the daughter of a...
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1954
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1954
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Marjorie Main is the whole show in the Universal programmer Ricochet Romance. Playing the outspoken new cook at a rundown...
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1954
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This was the last in a string of spoofs that found the comedy duo tangling with various classic Universal Studios monsters....
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1953
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They don't really go to Mars, they go to Venus, but first they go to New Orleans. While working at a missile base,...
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1953
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This fifth entry in Universal's "Ma and Pa Kettle" series finds the Kettle family taking a trip to Paris (courtesy of the...
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1953
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Though out of favor with many Abbott and Costello buffs, Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd is actually a lot of fun, so...
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1952
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1951
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1951
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1951
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The title tells all--or at least most--in I Was a Shoplifter. The title character, played by Mona Freeman, is Faye Burton, a...
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1950
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Curtain Call at Cactus Creek is a combination of the western, comedy and musical genres. Donald O'Connor plays Edward...
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1950
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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello play wrestling promoters whose star attraction, Wee Willie Davis, skips town to return to his...
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1950
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The second of Universal's "Ma and Pa Kettle" series, Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town stars, as ever, Marjorie Main and...
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1950
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Maureen O'Hara plays the daughter of a Sheikh who returns from being educated in London, only to find her father is dead and...
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1949
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The title couple and their enormous brood of bumpkins made their movie debut in the film version of Betty McDonald's humorous...
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1949
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All cruel jokes aside, actor Sonny Tufts did on occasion deliver something resembling a good screen performance. In the...
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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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The Runaround is a game attempt to return to the "screwball comedy" genre so popular in the 1930s. Rival detectives Kildane...
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1946
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In this comedy, a puritanical math teacher at a midwestern university is forced by the dean's wife to go to New York to...
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1946
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1945
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This campy little drama launched the career of B-girl Yvonne De Carlo. It is set during the Franco-Prussian war and...
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1945
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Johnny Hart (Rod Cameron) is on the run from the law after killing one of the men who shot his partner. He passes through a...
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1945
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Two Bowery vaudevillians compete to be the first to produce shows on Broadway. They might be friends were they not so...
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1944
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The Merry Monahans is one of the higher-budgeted Universal musicals of the 1940s, even though the storyline is strictly...
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1944
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A musical comedy star whose career is just starting to take off returns home from military school. En route, he meets a...
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1944
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In this crazy comedy, a casino worker writes a book about headhunters and finds himself the target of the leader of an...
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1944
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In this lively romantic farce, a Broadway producer's Girl Friday must make sure that her recent marriage is kept secret. If...
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1943
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Drama students rebel in this musical set in a tiny drama school. The trouble begins when the students begin complaining to...
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1943
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In this WW II musical, a young man suddenly finds himself in charge of his family when his father is called to war. To help...
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1943
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The Abbott & Costello vehicle Hit the Ice started life as satire of health clinics, with Lou Costello cast as a hypochondriac...
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1943
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It Comes Up Love was typical of teenaged songstress Gloria Jean's Universal vehicles: good songs and a strong cast squandered...
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1943
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A bit higher-budgeted than most of Universal's "pocket" musicals, Get Hep to Love runs a full 79 mintues rather than the...
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1942
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Hi, Neighbor is a Republic "regional," spotlighting many of the 1942 stars of radio's Grand Ole Opry. Jean Parker and...
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1942
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In this comedy, a slightly addled young advertising executive works for his father's radio-advertising agency. His first job...
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1942
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By popular consensus, Allan Jones' best Universal mini-musical of the 1940s was the timely When Johnny Comes Marching Home....
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1942
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Robert Paige pursues the hand of a singer Jane Frazee when he wants to get out of a dreaded engagement. She agrees to the...
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1942
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Another cookie-cutter Universal minimusical, Moonlight in Hawaii gathered together the usual suspects-Johnny Downs, Leon...
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1941
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Not quite a B western but certainly no "A", Road Agent is kept alive by the boisterous byplay of stars Dick Foran,...
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1941
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In this musical, four entertaining farmboys from Iowa head for the Big Apple to find fame and fortune but find themselves in...
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1941
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San Antonio Rose is an amiably wacky mini-musical evenly divided between its "official" stars, The Merry Macs, and a strong...
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1941
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In this musical, an idealistic college graduate is bitten by the show business bug after he finds success writing and...
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1941
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Three different Universal pictures made between 1922 and 1941 bore the catchall title Don't Get Personal. The 1941 film stars...
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1941
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The mystery surrounding the gender of infant film star Baby Sandy was finally solved in her penultimate vehicle, Sandy is a...
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1940
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In this drama, a despondent fellow contemplates suicide after he is abandoned by his last girlfriend. To ensure that his...
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1940
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In this musical comedy, a traveling salesman gets mixed up with a bratty heiress after she gets in a car wreck as she heads...
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1940
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This "Little Tough Guys" series entry finds the kids gainfully employed building airplane engines. Hoping to get into the air...
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1940
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A remake of a 1930 Universal film, Little Accident was the third starring vehicle for androgynous juvenile star Baby Sandy....
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1939
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This sequel to Grand National's 1938 actioner Cipher Bureau once again stars Leon Ames as bureau head Major Philip Waring. In...
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1939
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Pity poor police captain Dugan (Harry Carey). As if he hasn't got enough trouble with the green recruits that Headquarters...
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1939
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1939
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Unexpected Father was designed as a showcase for Universal's infant "star" Baby Sandy (Sandy was a girl, but she played a boy...
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1939
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A disruptive Annapolis naval cadet refuses to tow the line and so gets booted out of the prestigious academy. Later, he...
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1939
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The bloom of youth had long faded on actor James Dunn when he starred in Shadows Over Shanghai. Even so, he is fairly...
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1938
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This spy thriller is centered upon the actions of the Cipher Bureau, a part of a government agency devoted to intercepting...
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1938
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An excellent cast elevates the quality of this ultra-cheap independent effort. Adrienne Ames stars as Helene, the owner of a...
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1938
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1937
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1937
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1937
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International Crime is the second of two Grand National programmers inspired by the popular "Shadow" pulp novels by...
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1937
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1937
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Charley Chase's third two-reeler for Columbia was also one of his best for the studio. It begins with Charley on board a...
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1937
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Set in the land Down Under but filmed at Sunland, CA, and on Catalina Island, this low-budget action-adventure stars one of...
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1937
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The Three Stooges are restaurateurs who get into the horseracing business in this comic short. Quitting the restaurant is...
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1937
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1936
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Scoutmaster Elmer Brown (Buster Keaton) loses his heart to the pretty carhop (Lona Andre) who works in a drive-in diner....
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1936
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Based on Danny Ahearn's short story "Back in Circulation", Republic's Bulldog Edition stars Ray Walker as Ken Dwyer,...
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1936
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Two of Hollywood's finest juvenile actors, Frank Coghlan Jr. and Dickie Moore, top the cast of The Little Red Schoolhouse....
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1936
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1936
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Ring Around the Moon was based on the once-popular novel by Vera Hobart. The story endeavors to invite comparisons between...
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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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Chesterfield Films, one of the busiest (though not necessarily one of the best) poverty-row operations of the 1930s, was...
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1936
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In this drama, a manicurist is mistaken for the winner of a large sweepstakes and finds herself pursued by fortune hunters....
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1936
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Buster Keaton is on the lam from the law in this Educational two-reeler. He attempts to elope with his fiancée...
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1935
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Knockabout slapstick dominates this two-reel Navy comedy from Educational. Naval recruit Elmer (Buster Keaton) is seemingly...
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1935
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Elmer (Buster Keaton) answers an ad for a handyman job and starts working for an older woman (Jane Jones) and her niece...
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1935
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Dialogue only punctuates this inventive, near-silent two-reeler starring the great Buster Keaton. He plays the titular Elmer,...
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1935
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This comedy short puts The Three Stooges into a medieval setting and opens with a cameo from Walter Brennan as the boys' old...
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1935
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Buster Keaton began his career in vaudeville as a child, starring with his father Joe and mother Myra as The Three Keatons....
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1935
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1935
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Happiness C.O.D was one of the last productions from flagging Chesterfield. Perennial supporting player Maude Eburne assumes...
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1935
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Shirley Grey plays The Girl Who Came Back in this Chesterfield Pictures "special". Grey is cast as Gilda, a former gun moll...
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1935
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A popular title, a mystery death and college hi-jinks are the ingredients in this pleasant little whodunit from lower-rung...
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1935
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1935
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A couple of idealistic reporters attempt to unmask an unfair system in this topical melodrama from poverty row company...
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1935
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In this drama, two disparate brothers use radically different methods to raise their sons. The brothers co-own a successful...
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1935
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In this crime drama, a woman loses custody of her baby boy after her rich husband dies. She later gets a job working in a...
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1935
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In this romance, set during the Great Depression, an impoverished socialite is forced to work by her financial situation....
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1935
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In this drama an older actress plays her last role. The aging thespian is terribly depressed and ready to kill herself when...
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1935
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Former Miss America Irene Ware stars in the standard Chestefield Pictures social drama False Pretenses. Ware is cast as...
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1935
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1934
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Dumped by his fiancé, a young man (Buster Keaton) drives from Boston out West determined to start a new life. He winds up in...
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1934
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1934
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1934
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1933
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1933
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1933
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1932
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1932
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One of several shorts made early in Shirley Temple's career, War Babies is essentially a take-off on war movie conventions,...
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1932
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1932
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