Although the characters' names were changed, The Great White Hope was a thinly veiled account of the trials and tribulations...
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Pop Weaver
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1970
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The lovely assistant of an evil hypnotist has no idea that she is the descendant of a horrifying prehistoric sea monster she...
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Dr. Carlo Lombardi
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1956
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This fact-based prison drama tells the tale of a band of prisoners living in the innovative 2,600-acre prison at Chino,...
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Kenyon J. Scudder
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1955
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1952
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In this final episode of the Boston Blackie mystery series, our hero and his side-kick find themselves accused of murder...
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Boston Blackie
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1949
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Who better to guard a priceless pearl necklace than an ex-thief? That's the logic behind Trapped by Boston Blackie, starring...
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Boston Blackie
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1948
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Chester Morris plays a mystery writer who bears a grudge against his publisher. Morris is mad enough to get blind drunk, but...
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1947
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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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Barry Cole
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1946
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This twelfth entry in Columbia's "Boston Blackie" series is essentially a remake of 1942's Alias Boston Blackie. In the...
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Boston Blackie
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1946
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Boston Blackie is back and in hot pursuit of a jewel thief and killer in this mystery. The reformed thief soon tracks the...
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1946
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In this episode of the popular mystery series, the crook turned sleuth must clear his name after he is accused of murder. To...
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Boston Blackie
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1946
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Brad Crowder
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1945
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Boston Blackie's Rendezvous quite transcended its B-picture origins, and was easily the best of Columbia's "Boston Blackie"...
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Boston Blackie
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1945
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In this lively entry in the Boston Blackie mysteries, Blackie gets in trouble when he helps a friend auction off a...
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1945
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Secret Command features Pat O'Brien as a onetime foreign correspondent in the wartime employ of the FBI. Under an assumed...
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Jeff Gallagher
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1944
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A nebulously sinister title disguises the fact that this is actually a "Boston Blackie" mystery, the seventh in Columbia's...
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Boston Blackie
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1944
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This breezy Pine-Thomas actioner is all about a team of ace news photographers. Chester Morris plays Larry Burke, editor for...
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Larry Burke
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1944
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Paramount's Pine-Thomas production unit continued its unbroken string of box-office successes with Gambler's Choice....
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Ross Hadley
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1944
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For his first directorial assignment at RKO Radio, Edward Dmytryk was handed the mile-a-minute topical meller Seven Miles...
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1943
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Reformed criminal Boston Blackie (Chester Morris) meets his former lover Betty Barnaby (Ann Savage), who wants his help for...
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Boston Blackie
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1943
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A wounded aerial gunner tells his story in this wartime propaganda film. He begins with his recruitment and basic training...
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Foxy Pattis
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1943
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High Explosive is a Hollywood "B" precursor to the later, more critically lionized The Wages of Fear. Chester Morris plays a...
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Buzz Mitchell
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1943
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This lively entry in the "Boston Blackie" series finds Blackie (Chester Morris) acting as spiritual leader of a group of...
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Boston Blackie
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1943
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Paramount's Pine-Thomas unit continued humming profitably along with 1943's Tornado. Chester Morris (who eventually appeared...
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Pete Ramsey
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1943
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No relation to the much-later "Matt Helm" spy comedy of the same name, Pine-Thomas Productions' The Wrecking Crew serves as a...
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Duke Mason
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1942
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I Live on Danger is a fast-moving thriller with strong performances and top-notch direction -- by former screenwriter...
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Jeff Morrell
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1942
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1942
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Ex-thief Boston Blackie (Chester Morris) brings a variety show up to his old prison alma mater for Christmas Eve. In...
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1942
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Another timely entry from the Columbia assembly line, Canal Zone stars Chester Morris as flight instructor "Hardtack"...
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1942
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Detective Chester Morris and his nosy wife Jean Parker set up housekeeping in a small Reno hotel room, whence Morris conducts...
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Humphrey Campbell
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1941
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Boston Blackie, the suave crook-turned-detective created in 1910 by pulp writer Donald Boyle, had been popping up...
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Boston Blackie
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1941
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Chester Morris makes his second screen appearance as crook-turned-detective Boston Blackie in this superior series entry....
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Boston Blackie
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1941
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In this drama, a devoted, caring physician leaves his home and moves to Alaska to escape arrest after he performs euthanasia...
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Jim Holden
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1940
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In this western, two disparate twins ride the range. One is a real troublemaker while the other is a government agent. When...
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David Cook,Tom Cook
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1940
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Set in the Central American jungle, Lucille Ball plays plantation owner Joan Grant in The Marines Fly High. When a platoon of...
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Lt. Jimmy Malone
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1940
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Thunder Afloat is set during the first world war. Wallace Beery plays an veteran tugboat captain who harbors a grudge against...
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"Rocky" Blake
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1939
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Often cited as a "model" B picture, Five Came Back is set in motion when the twelve-seat passenger plane "Southern Star"...
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Bill
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1939
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An outbreak of cholera threatens a luxury liner in this surprisingly low-budget melodrama from RKO. En route from Shanghai to...
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Dr. Craig
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1939
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Blind Alley, directed by Charles Vidor is a chilling psychological drama in the film-noir tradition reminiscent of the fine...
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Hal Wilson
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1939
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Handsome aerial footage highlights this rousing RKO adventure tale that combines a frozen-North survival drama with a...
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Ken Stockton
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1938
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When two lovers are framed for a jewelry store robbery in which the clerk was killed, the only person capable of saving them...
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Gene Fillmore
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1938
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"Ripped from today's headlines", RKO Radio's Smashing the Rackets was inspired by the career of colorful New York district...
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Jim Conway
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1938
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Mason
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1937
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This laudable RKO programmer casts Chester Morris as a fearless pilot whose misdeeds have exiled him to a remote flying field...
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Smith
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1937
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Chester Morris plays a working stiff unable to provide for his family on his meager salary. He arranges a loan with the...
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Eddie Lang
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1937
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This low-budget musical drama is based on the famous song and tells the story of Frankie, a cat-house singer (famed singer...
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Johnny
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1936
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In this crime drama, a federal agent goes undercover to join a gang of counterfeiters. He pretends to be a murder. The...
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John Joseph Madden
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1936
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In this western, three desperadoes rob the New Jerusalem Bank and flee across the desert where they find a seemingly...
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Bob
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1936
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In this comedy, a model finds herself inadvertently embroiled in the theft of a society woman's valuable pearl necklace...
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Jimmy
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1936
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Moonlight Murder takes place virtually in its entirety at the Hollywood Bowl. Despite dire warnings by a sinister mystic...
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Steve Farrell
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1936
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Mitchell
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1935
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This obscure Damon Runyon adaptation stars Jean Parker as Princess O'Hara, the spirited granddaughter of Central Park...
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Vic Toledo
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1935
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A crusading physician supervises his own life-threatening operation in this farfetched potboiler from MGM, which marked...
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Dr. Morgan
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1935
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I've Been Around hinges on an unlikely case of mistaken identity. Society girl Drue Waring (Rochelle Hudson) mistakes...
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Eric Foster
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1935
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The stringent censorship imposed upon Hollywood of the mid-1930s dictated that gangsters could no longer be the "heroes" in...
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Jeff Crane
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1935
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In this musical, a radio-announcer is fired after giving a false interview. For consolation he begins to drink heavily. It...
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1934
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In this comedy, a wealthy socialite pursues a carefree playboy who isn't at all interested in her. After all her regular...
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Mike McGann
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1934
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Office Boy
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1934
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Looking for all the world like a 2-reel comedy bloated to 6-reel proportions, Embarrassing Moments was directed by...
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Jerry Randolph
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1934
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Set during the Depression, this crime drama centers upon a basically honest girl who is forced into prostitution by...
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Curley Jones
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1933
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A play by Nina Wilcox Putnam was the source for the empire-building drama Golden Harvest. Chester Morris stars as ambitious...
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Chris Martin
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1933
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Tomorrow at Seven is one of those "you will die at the appointed hour" murder mysteries which flooded the market in the early...
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Neil Broderick
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1933
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The infernal machine in question is a bomb controlled by a wireless operator and set aboard a New York bound ocean liner. No...
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Robert
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1933
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In this boxing drama/murder mystery, an aspiring small-town prizefighter ignores the objections of his pacifistic father, a...
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Bud Williams
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1933
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A San Francisco gangster hot foots it out of town to cool down after his crime boss is suddenly killed. He ends up in a...
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John Madison
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1932
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In this romantic comedy a demanding French actress is upset because she has not recently received the proper adulation from...
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Lt. Roger Craig
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1932
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Jack Conway complained about being assigned to direct this comedy, claiming that a woman like the title character had almost...
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Bill Legendre, Jr.
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1932
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Paramount Pictures seldom fully utilized the talents of contract player Carole Lombard, as witness such tedious programmers...
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Jimmie Martin
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1932
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In this drama, a politician must deal with the aftermath of a young girl's damning accusation. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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Pomeroy
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1932
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Of interest mainly because of the talent involved, this film remains a tepid bootleg melodrama about a small-town football...
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John Hawks
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1931
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Jerry Casey
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1930
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Magnificently restored by UCLA to its original "Grandeur" wide-screen format The Bat Whispers may not be a cinematic...
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Detective Anderson
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1930
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Reginald Denny, one of Universal's top stars of the 1920s, tried to transfer his light-comedy formula to talkies with...
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1930
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Nicky Solomon
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1930
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Vallery Grove (Dolores Costello) may be high up the social ladder, but she hasn't a penny to her name thanks to her family's...
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Don Warren
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1930
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This war drama, set in WW I Germany, is based on a novel by Arnold Zwieg. The story follows the harrowing trials of an...
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Sgt. Grischa Paprotkin
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1930
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Not the first of the prison pictures, but the one that truly put the genre on the map. Playboy Kent (Robert Montgomery),...
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John Morgan
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1930
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Norma Shearer earned an Academy Award for playing the not so gay divorcée in this pre-Code offering based, loosely, on...
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Ted
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1930
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Basically a filmed vaudeville presentation, The Show of Shows was Warner Bros.' entry in the "all star, all talking, all...
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1929
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Director Roland West was a moody and mysterious Hollywood character, who insisted upon making his pictures in utter secrecy...
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Chick Williams (No. 1065)
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1929
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In this courtroom drama, a man is sentenced to death for jealously murdering the man who flirted with his wife....
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Paul Palmer
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1929
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Although Broadway star Hal Skelly never quite made it in films, it wasn't for lack of trying. In Woman Trap, Skelly is cast...
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Ray Malone
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1929
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Cecil B. DeMille's century-hopping extravaganza The Road to Yesterday begins in the present (1925, that is). Wealthy...
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1925
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This drama glorified the lowly postman, which probably warmed the heart of Will H. Hays, the head of the Motion Picture...
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1923
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Based on a novel by Frank L. Packard, The Beloved Traitor stars Mae Marsh as Mary Garland, a resident of a Maine fishing...
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1918
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1917
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