This soapy melodrama based on the novel by John O'Hara earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Costume Design....
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1965
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The crew of the USS Reluctant is at it again in this comedy sequel to Mister Roberts. The story opens toward the end of WWII...
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1964
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Youngblood Hawke (James Franciscus) is a Kentucky truck driver who comes to New York City to make it as a writer. He meets...
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1964
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For a family picture, not to mention a story that later became the old-fashioned-values-affirming series The Waltons,...
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1963
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Delmer Daves directs this cross between a travelog and a routine romantic drama set in Italy. The story begins when beautiful...
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1962
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Leaning heavily on violence to ostensibly deliver a pacifist message, this standard drama by Philip Leacock looks at the...
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1962
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1962
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Hijinks and spyjinks lighten this effective comedy by Richard Murphy, based -- very loosely -- on an actual incident in World...
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1961
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One of director John Ford's least characteristic films, it derives from the latter part of his career, when the director's...
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1961
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While this original movie version of Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning play may have dated somewhat, it was groundbreaking...
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1961
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An unexceptional spy drama by Andre De Toth, Man on a String is based on an autobiography by counterspy Boris Morros, here...
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1960
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1960
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Sal Mineo, who'd previously registered well as the lead in the TV drama Drummer Man, essays a strikingly similar role in The...
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1959
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Doris Day stars in a true-to-type performance as Jane Osgood, a spunky, pretty, wronged widow with two children. She manages...
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1959
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This is one of several solid B-grade Westerns produced at the height of the genre's popularity in the '50s by the partnership...
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1959
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Spencer Tracy stars in John Ford's sentimental adaptation of Edwin O'Connor's novel about the final campaign of a big city...
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1958
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Director John Ford traveled to England to film this adaptation of the novel by J.J. Maraca, which details a typical day in...
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1958
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The once-scandalous autobiography of Frank Harris was the source of the fascinating "adult" western Cowboy. Jack Lemmon plays...
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1958
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The highly variable Tab Hunter delivers his best film performance in the grim western Gunman's Walk. Hunter plays Ed Hackett,...
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1958
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Desperate for money, frontier rancher Van Heflin holds outlaw Glenn Ford at gunpoint, intending to collect the $200 reward....
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1957
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In this frantic service comedy, a group of bored-to-tears American GI's stationed at a medical facility in France would like...
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1957
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1957
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Jubal could just as easily have been titled Othello Out West, even though it was officially based on a novel by Paul I....
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1956
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When Emily Rocco (Judy Holliday) waddles into view at the beginning of Full of Life, her appearance marked a cinematic...
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1956
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1956
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My Sister Eileen is a Technicolor, musicalized remake of the 1942 comedy of the same name. It is not, however, the film...
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1955
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The life story of West Point athletic director Marty Maher was the inspiration for John Ford's The Long Gray Line. Told in...
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1955
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Blake Edwards made his directorial debut in the bubbly musical comedy Bring Your Smile Along. The story, written by Edwards...
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1955
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Three Hours to Kill is a "message" Western that manages to entertain without preaching. Jim Guthrie (Dana Andrews), unjustly...
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1954
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Auto mechanic and wannabe race-car driver Eddie Shannon (Mickey Rooney) allows himself to be led perilously astray in Drive a...
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1954
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1954
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1953
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Set in New Caledonia (though filmed in Hawaii), Miss Sadie Thompson is a heavily laundered adaptation of Somerset Maugham's...
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1953
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In this adventure, set in Algiers, a French cabaret singer tries to expose the identity of an Arab leader who is conspiring...
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1953
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A Big Apple nightclub singer inherits a riverboat from his late grandfather and learns, via flashback, the interesting story...
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1953
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This tuneful remake of 1937's The Awful Truth centers on the rocky marriage of a philandering composer and the wife who has...
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1953
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Loretta Young plays a guilt-ridden hit-and-run driver in Paula. After leaving the scene of an accident, Paula (Young)...
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1952
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This above-average Louis Hayward swashbuckler was sumptuously produced by Columbia's resident western specialist...
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1952
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1952
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Randolph Scott is the commander of a Confederate raiding party. They rob a Yankee gold shipment and are told by a dying Union...
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1952
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The Happy Time was adapted from the long-running Broadway play by Samuel Taylor, which in turn was based on the novel by...
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1952
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Auteur theorists may have trouble discerning the "signature" of director Phil Karlson in the Columbia costume adventure Mask...
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1951
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William Holden plays Boots Malone, a dishonest--and impoverished--jockey's agent. Malone sees a chance to crack the big time...
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1951
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Rancher Randolph Scott rides right into a romantic triangle in this moody western. He is forced to stand by as his mercenary...
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1951
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1951
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Former child star Margaret O'Brien is Betty Foster, the "all growed up" heroine of Her First Romance. Hoping to rendezvous...
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1951
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Oscar or no Oscar, Broderick Crawford was obliged to star in whatever property his home studio Columbia threw his way. In...
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1950
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1950
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Rod Cameron and Wayne Morris star as Civil War officers who become federal agents. The duo is sent west to investigate a...
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1950
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Decked out with leftover sets and stock footage from 1946's Bandit of Sherwood Forest, Columbia's Rogues of Sherwood Forest...
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1950
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William Bendix is perfectly cast as a diehard baseball fan who hates umpires with every fibre of his being. Bendix' devotion...
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1950
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1950
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The Walking Hills stars Randolph Scott as a Westerner named Jim Carey. He is one of several people searching for a lost gold...
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1949
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Beauty contest winner Patricia Knight's one bid for screen stardom was Columbia's Shockproof. Knight plays Jenny Wright, a...
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1949
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1949
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One of the less famous Humphrey Bogart films is this 1949 drama about post-war guilt and remembrance. Bogart plays U.S....
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1949
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Randolph Scott both co-produced and starred in this above average Western chronicling the career of one of the last of the...
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1949
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Returning from WW II, gambler Joe Miracle (Glenn Ford) discovers that his partner is dead, his gaming house has been sold,...
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1949
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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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1948
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The Lady From Shanghai, a complex, involving puzzle-within-a-puzzle mystery story, is a showcase for Orson Welles, showing...
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1948
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Columbia kept insisting upon placing its hottest new star Larry Parks in swashbucklers, and though Parks wasn't really suited...
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1948
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Private detective Franchot Tone is hired by a prominent politician (Tom Powers) to run a background check on the politician's...
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1947
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Lucille Ball offers a seminal version of her Lucy Ricardo TV character in Her Husband's Affairs. Ball is cast as Margaret...
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1947
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1946
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The Columbia mystery melodrama The Walls Came Tumbling Down is regarded in many circles as star Lee Bowman's finest...
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1946
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This A-minus musical stars Evelyn Keyes in the uncharacteristically comic role of Vicki Dean, the divorce-bound wife of...
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1946
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In this comedy, a Chicago team of radio scriptwriters must split up when he takes a job with his bride-to-be's father, and...
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1946
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1946
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Getting Gertie's Garter is an updated adaptation of the venerable stage farce by Wilson Collison and Avery Hopwood....
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1945
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1945
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If there were any doubts that little Shirley Temple was all grown up by 1945, those doubts were disippated by her appearance...
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1945
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Allan Dwan directed this light-hearted service comedy starring William Bendix (best known from the television series The...
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1944
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Newspaper reporter Marion Hargrove's best-selling novel was adapted to the screen by MGM as a vehicle for Robert Walker. The...
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1944
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Up in Mabel's Room was one of a mid-1940s series of profitable film revivals of venerable theatrical comedies, all produced...
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1944
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Based on a play by Phoebe and Henry Ephron, Three Is a Family is a 1940s farce that frequently substitutes noise for humor....
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1944
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Young Ideas is a deliberately "small" MGM feature designed as a trial balloon for up-and-coming director Jules Dassin. Hardly...
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1943
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In this charming episodic comedy, a giddy group of adolescent girls form a movie-star fan club. Their favorite pastime is...
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1943
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This upbeat war-time tale chronicles the ordeal of ardently American munitions plant worker Joe Smith (Robert Young), whose...
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1942
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A fun though abortive bid to pair crime-solving duo Lew Ayres and Laraine Day for a series of thrillers, this murder mystery...
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1942
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MGM's A Yank at Eton follows the same basic formula as the 1938 Robert Taylor starrer A Yank at Oxford, with a wartime angle...
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1942
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Once Upon a Thursday was the original released title of The Affairs of Martha, a 1942 Marsha Hunt vehicle from the MGM...
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1942
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Edward Arnold made the first of his two screen appearances as Bayard Kendrick's blind detective Captain Duncan McLain in...
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1942
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1942
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Broke and stranded once more, golden-hearted showgirl Maisie Revere (Ann Sothern) finds herself in upstate New York in...
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1941
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Out of work as usual, showgirl Maisie Revier (Ann Sothern) takes a job as the maid for a wealthy family. She wins over the...
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1941
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1941
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The Vanishing Virginian was adapted from the autobiographical bestseller by Rebecca Yancey Williams. Newcomer...
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1941
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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 brief (56-minute) MGM B-picture was adapted from Ivor Novello's play The Truth Game. Naturally, a few plot twists and...
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1941
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The 1922 George S. Kaufman-Marc Connelly play Dulcy was based on a delightful character created by columnist Franklin P....
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1940
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This is the second episode in the Maisie series, which focused upon the exploits of a feisty, clever, smooth-talking...
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1940
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The last of MGM's "Nick Carter" trilogy, Sky Murder is a tad too cute and clever for its own good, but its mystery angle...
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1940
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It is perhaps unnecessary to point out that the MGM programmer Hullabaloo bears no relation to the 1960s rock-and-roll series...
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1940
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In this drama, a former big-man-on-campus, finds himself almost destitute twenty years later because he cannot find a job....
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1940
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This third installment in MGM's "Maisie" series finds eternally stranded showgirl Maisie Revere (Ann Sothern) stuck in a...
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1940
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The debutante whom Andy Hardy (Mickey Rooney) meets-after falling in love with her photograph -- is blonde Diana Lewis (the...
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1940
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In this crime drama, a thieving employee sticks her stolen goods into the locker of a co-worker and causes all sorts of...
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1939
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Merlini the Magician, Clayton Rawson's crime-solving illusionist, has been singularly ill-used by Hollywood, having appeared...
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1939
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Pulp-novel detective Nick Carter was created in the 1880s, but most film versions of the character have been updated to...
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1939
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A sleazy lawyer gains clients by showing up at terrible accidents. His boss is determined to stop him so he hires a pretty...
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1938
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1938
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1937
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