Something for the Birds is a toothless satire of Washington, filmed during the McCarthy era. For lack of a political target...
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1952
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Nice guys don't always finish last as can be seen in this crime drama. The story begins as a perfectly nice fellow finds...
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1947
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There's slightly more fancy than fact in this lavish film biography of legendary American composer George Gershwin, but oh!...
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1945
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In this suspense story (released as part of Universal's "Inner Sanctum" series, named for the popular radio series of the...
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1945
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1944
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A strong contender for the title of Universal's worst horror film of the 1940s, Jungle Woman continued the melodramatic...
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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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An American pilot swears to get revenge on the German ace who shot his brother in this war movie set in war-torn Europe....
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1943
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A princess finds love with a regular American Joe in this patriotic romantic comedy. A European diplomat (Charles Coburn) is...
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1943
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This Irving Asher production was that rarity, a genuine B-movie from posh MGM. Set in a pre-Pearl Harbor United States, Nazi...
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1942
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In this wartime drama, a doctor discovers that one of his patients isn't as crazy as he thought, with dangerous consequences...
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1942
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1942
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Tales of Manhattan is a sumptuous multipart film centered around a formal tailcoat. The coat is specially designed for stage...
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1942
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Successful small-town attorney William Emory (John Litel) and his wife Ruth (Frieda Inescort) look forward to the return of...
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Lunk Nelson
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1941
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An incredibly long but never dull adaptation of the Rachel Field best-seller, All This and Heaven Too was based on a...
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1940
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When the gentle woodcarver Geppetto (Christian Rub) builds a marionette to be his substitute son, a benevolent fairy brings...
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Geppetto
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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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1940
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This remake of John Ford's classic WW1 drama Four Sons has been updated to the Europe of the late 1930s. At the time of the...
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1940
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Johan David Wyss' novel Swiss Family Robinson had been in print for nearly fifty years before the first film version was made...
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1940
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In this actioner, a U.S. border patrol agent stationed in Tijuana loses his job and gets into deep trouble after a friend is...
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1939
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Bob Hope and an all-star cast have great fun in this frothy romantic comedy about a wealthy tycoon who learns that he only...
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1939
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20th Century Fox's Christmas gift to moviegoers in 1939, this fanciful comedy-drama features the studio's darling of the ice,...
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1939
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The gang's beloved teacher Miss Pipps (Sara Haden) is fired by crabby old school board chairman Mr. Pratt (Clarence Wilson),...
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1939
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No Place to Go is a remake of the 1932 Chic Sale vehicle The Expert, which in turn was adapted from the George S....
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1939
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Jack Holt is impossibly heroic as usual in the Columbia quickie Hidden Power. In his quest to perfect a cure-all for severe...
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1939
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Harold Lloyd plays a professor of Egyptology, frightened by the notion that he has fallen under an ancient Egyptian curse....
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1938
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1938
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In this musical comedy, a girl with a lively imagination gets in hot water when she tries to make her tall tales real. Gloria...
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1938
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In this upbeat drama, a disillusioned millionaire, sick to death of the attempts of greedy friends and relatives to sponge...
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1938
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The Great Waltz was the first of two films bearing the same title which told the life story of Austrian "Waltz King" Johann...
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1938
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Johanna Spyri's perennial children's favorite Heidi was retailored to the talents of Shirley Temple, resulting in one of her...
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1937
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In this romance, a detective teams up with a count and travels to Budapest in search of an embezzler. While there, the two...
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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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1937
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In this drama, a girl from a small town in Pennsylvania dreams of being a star while she goes to school. The trouble is, no...
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Anton Werner
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1937
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Warren William stars as Dr. Phillip Wendel Jones, a doctor whose patient dies under questionable circumstances. He is...
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1937
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The girl is teenaged singing sensation Deanna Durbin; the one hundred men are out-of-work musicians. Still in her "little...
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1937
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1937
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It Could Happen to You is one of those captivating "little" pictures whose reputation is built up via word of mouth....
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1937
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Cafe Metropole stars Tyrone Power as an international playboy with a habit of writing rubber checks. Heavily in debt to cafe...
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1937
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Two members of the Russian monarchy pose as French servants while hiding the Czar's fortune. This unlikely plot is at the...
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1937
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Norwegian skating star Sonja Henie reached an early pinnacle with this romantic comedy co-starring Tyrone Power as a...
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1937
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The Leathernecks Have Landed is an adventure yarn revolving around three boisterous marines. Lew Ayres is the headstrong one,...
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1936
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When a car crash ends the life of a fabulously wealthy patron of the arts, the decedent's $20,000,000 fortune is inherited by...
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1936
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French actress Simone Simon made her American film debut in Girls' Dormitory. Simon portrays a twentyish student in a Swiss...
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1936
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It may be sacrilege to say so, but Dracula's Daughter is an immense improvement over the original 1931 Dracula, despite the...
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1936
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In this emotional drama, a lonely British housekeeper, uses her hard-earned savings account to finance a trip to America so...
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1936
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Suzy is the film in which Cary Grant, overcome by the beauty and vivacity of Jean Harlow, sings her a love ballad! This...
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1936
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In this action film, a rebellious cop doesn't hesitate to bend the rules when it comes to roughing up prisoners and bringing...
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1936
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A bell ringer's wife dies while giving birth to his second son who turns out to be deaf. His oldest son moves to America...
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1936
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When Edna May Oliver decided to leave RKO Radio's "Hildegarde Withers" series, the studio came up with an unorthodox...
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1936
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Gail Patrick plays a young woman framed for murder. Luckily the newsman on the courtroom beat is ace photographer Lew Ayres....
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1936
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1936
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A lesser but still effective entry in the mid-1930s "prison" cycle, Parole catalogues the many problems facing prisoners...
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1936
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Aspiring actress Cicely Tyler (Margaret Sullavan) puts her career on hold when she marries ambitious newsman Christopher...
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1936
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1935
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Metropolitan was the first release from the newly merged 20th Century-Fox corporation. Famed operatic baritone...
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1935
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In this bouncy musical, a sax-playing ex-convict joins a swing band and embarks upon a cross-country tour. He does really...
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1935
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1935
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Dog of Flanders, the durable novel written in 1872 by the author who signed herself Ouida, was filmed three times, first in...
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Hans
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1935
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Perhaps the best of Mascot Pictures' feature-film releases, Ladies Crave Excitement is also one of the fastest 69 minutes...
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1935
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"I'll See You in My Dreams" could well have been the theme music of Peter Ibbetson, the second film version of...
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1935
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This drama about corporate treachery was based on the best-selling novel by Alice Tisdale Hobart. Stephen Chase (Pat O'Brien)...
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1935
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In this family comedy, the wealthy executive of a steel company must endure life with a strict, teetotaling wife, a wild...
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1935
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The old British musical-hall ditty "The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo" provides the title for this lightweight...
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1935
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Produced independently by Edward Small, this surprisingly realistic gangster yarn stars stalwart Richard Arlen as Mal...
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1935
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Adapted from Norman Krasna's Broadway hit A Small Miracle, Four Hours to Kill is a multi-plotted effort that can best be...
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1935
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In this wartime drama, set during WW I, the adoring wife of a German officer soon finds herself falling for a handsome...
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1934
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Wallace Beery plays P.T. Barnum in this comic biography of the renowned showman. As the story opens, Phineas Taylor Barnum is...
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1934
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1934
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1934
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The rivalry between two deep-sea diver is chronicled in this adventure. The trouble begins when a young woman inherits one...
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1934
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The real-life career of the notorious female spy known as "Fraulein Doktor" inspired several films of the 1930s. Stamboul...
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1934
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Universal's Romance in the Rain is a satire of network radio, a popular target of early-'30s movies. On behalf of dithery...
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1934
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Set in Germany shortly before the collapse of the Weimar Republic, this romantic drama chronicles the travails of an...
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1934
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Czech leading man Francis Lederer made his Hollywood film debut in the appropriately titled Man of Two Worlds. Based on the...
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1934
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A tough youth gang leader learns the true meaning of courage in this moving and thoughtful drama. He is the leader of a...
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1934
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In this romance, an ambitious young career woman is slated to marry a wealth man until she gets into a fender-bender and...
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Herman Heupelkossel
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1933
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The melodramatic No Other Woman is a remake of the 1925 silent film Just a Woman which was based on the play of the same name...
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1933
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In this melodrama, a female physician encounters professional and personal turmoil when she finds herself having an affair...
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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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Marie Dressler plays the title character, tugboat captain Annie Brennan, in this 1933 Hollywood box office hit. Her husband...
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1933
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Although claiming to be based on actual cases, this mild crime drama appears to have been derived more from a screenwriter's...
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1933
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In this melodrama a Lower East Side doctor struggles to earn enough money to pay for his son's tuition in a prestigious...
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1933
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Running a swift 55 minutes, Trial of Vivienne Ware packs in more sheer entertainment value than its longer, more prestigious...
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1932
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The factual story of H.A.W. Tabor and "Baby Doe" was the inspiration of Silver Dollar. Edward G. Robinson plays the Tabor...
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1932
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The "Enoch Arden" theme is trotted out and slicked up for The Man From Yesterday. Nurse Claudette Colbert marries army doctor...
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1932
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A Parisian flower girl is trotted out as the missing Grand Duchess Anastasia in this fast-moving thriller based on a popular...
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1932
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The "Crooked Circle" gang consists of a dozen or so hooded villains, all of whom have sworn revenge on the Sphinx Club, a...
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1932
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