No sooner had Columbia called it quits with the "Blondie" series than the studio launched a new group of "B"-pictures, based...
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1950
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Raymond Burr stars as Roger Lewis, the ruthless publisher of a Confidential-style scandal magazine. For a fee, Lewis will...
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1950
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In this western, a cowboy comes to the aid of the Indians. The story begins as hero, Gene Autry, begins an investigation of a...
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1949
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This adventure is the first live-action Superman serial and was one of the most successful multi-chapter films ever made....
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1948
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Having just come into a $375,000 trust fund on her 21st birthday, former child star Jane Withers certainly didn't need to...
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1947
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Based on a popular comic strip, this 15 episode Columbia chapterplay produced by legendary cheapskate Sam Katzman (aka...
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1947
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Three on a Ticket was the fourth entry in PRC's "Michael Shayne" series, and arguably the best of the batch. Hugh Beaumont,...
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1947
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One of the most entertaining serials to be released by Republic Pictures, this mystery employed yet another inscrutable...
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1946
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Larceny in Her Heart was the second entry in PRC's revival of the "Michael Shayne" series, with Hugh Beaumont as Brett...
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1946
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1946
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Several of Paramount Pictures brightest stars make cameo appearances in this comedy set in "Duffy's Tavern," a favorite...
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1945
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This film gives a fictionalized version of how the popular real-life radio program of the title began. A promoter has an...
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Johnny
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1944
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1944
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In this musical comedy, a country bumpkin spends most of his free time watching movies and becomes such an expert that he can...
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1942
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A sequel to the zany backstage comedy Curtain Call, RKO Radio's Footlight Fever once again stars Alan Mowbray and Donald...
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1941
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A remake of the Swedish film of the same name (see entry 55092), MGM's A Woman's Face was reshaped into one of Joan...
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1941
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In this crime drama, a naive young woman receives an unpleasant wake-up call when she learns that her seemingly wonderful...
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David
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1941
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George Sanders makes his final appearance as crook-turned-detective Simon Templar, a.k.a. "The Saint," in The Saint in Palm...
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1941
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One of silent serial queen Pearl White's best efforts, The Iron Claw was remade by Columbia Pictures starring brunette Joyce...
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1941
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In this third of RKO's "Mexican Spitfire" series, star Lupe Velez doesn't get any further west than Reno, Nevada. Lupe feels...
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1940
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A gold-digger facing middle-age decides to pass her special talents on to a younger woman. Her young student learns quickly...
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1940
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Though Ginger Rogers' starring vehicles always turned a profit for RKO Radio, many filmgoers thought of Rogers only in terms...
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1940
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Richard Dix is his usual strong, silent self in RKO Radio's Men Against the Sky. Dix plays a washed-up pilot who designs a...
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1940
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Brothers Terry and Joe Murphy (Dick Purcell, Charles Quigley) are the Heroes in Blue in this Monogram actioner. Actually,...
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Joe Murphy
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1939
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Though it sure looks like a Columbia Production, Special Inspector was distributed by a States' Rights firm called Syndicate...
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Tom Evans
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1939
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Veteran character star Charles B. Middleton ("Ming the Merciless") escapes from a penitentiary after 15 years of imprisonment...
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Gene
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1939
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Burns
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1938
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In this crime drama, an evil ex-con makes his living selling cheap booze masked under expensive labels. He runs a drugstore...
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Jimmy Jones
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1937
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Columbia's Criminals of the Air is another entry in the "alien-smuggling" movie cycle -- and as such includes the obligatory...
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Mark Owens
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1937
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A reporter becomes an amateur sleuth to solve the mystery surrounding the death of a magician's wife and a few others. The...
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Larry McGill
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1937
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No relation to the radio program of the same name, The Shadow is a lightning-paced murder mystery with a Big Top background....
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Jim Quinn
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1937
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Tommy Morton
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1937
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The Game That Kills is professional hockey, at least according to this Columbia "B"-picture. Charles Quigley stars as...
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Alec Ferguson
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1937
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And Sudden Death was inspired by a Reader's Digest article by Theodore Reeves, which later became one of the magazine's most...
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1936
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Warner Baxter plays the ambitious producer of a burlesque show who rises to the big time on Broadway. Alice Faye is the loyal...
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1936
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A serial-like pace and some stylish directorial choices by Gordon Wiles distinguish this "Charlie Chan" entry. The reading of...
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Dick Williams
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1935
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The Lady from Nowhere is manicurist Polly (Mary Astor) who is the wrong girl at the wrong place when a gangland murder...
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Earl
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1933
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1933
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The arrival of a new rider creates a furor at a rodeo in this average Tom Keene Western from RKO. Joining Fred Burns'...
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1932
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