This time Jessica (Angela Lansbury) travels to Quebec, there to attend the trial of an old friend who has been charged with...
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1987
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Based on an illustration by Norman Rockwell and set in a tiny Texas town during the 1950s, this touching made-for-television...
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1987
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Charlotte Banning
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1982
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After a purse is stolen on a South African bus, this tale is set in motion--involving secret information and communist...
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1967
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George Axelrod's script for How to Murder Your Wife isn't politically correct in the least, but you're likely to get a charge...
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Edna Lampson
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1965
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This routine tale of an aspiring actress on the verge of a sharp decline is directed by Franklin J. Schaffner and features...
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Helen Baird
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1963
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One of Hollywood's great directors, Vincente Minnelli, turns a jaundiced eye towards the film industry in this drama about...
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1962
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1961
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As Elliot Ness (Robert Stack) and the Untouchables close in on notorious gang leader Ma Barker (Claire Trevor) and her brood...
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1959
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Marjorie Morgenstern (Natalie Wood) is an 18-year-old, middle-class, Jewish girl from New York who wants nothing more than to...
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Rose Morgenstern
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1958
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American reporter Mary Prescott (Claire Trevor) has been given a safe conduct pass by the Iron Curtain dictator whom she has...
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1956
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To fully enjoy the rugged outdoors adventure The Mountain, one must accept the notion that 55-year-old Spencer Tracy and...
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Marie
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1956
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An unusually matronly Jane Wyman plays the title character in Lucy Gallant. Adapted from a novel by Margaret Cousins, the...
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Lady Macbeth
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1955
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In this deceptively titled and paced Western, Kirk Douglas shines in the hyper-macho role of Dempsey Rae, a good-natured...
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Idonee
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1955
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For The High and the Mighty, director William Wellman made a point of using Cinemascope to heighten the dramatic content of a...
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May Holst
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1954
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Randolph Scott makes his 3-D debut in the stereoscopic western Stranger Wore a Gun. This time, Scott plays Jeff Travis, a...
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Josie Sullivan
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1953
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The Kefauver Committee's ongoing investigation of organized crime spawned several "Torn from Today's Headlines!" films in the...
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Connie Williams
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1952
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Louise Hawkson
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1952
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Nora Marko
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1952
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Ida Lupino, one of the few major Hollywood actresses to move from the sound stage to the director's chair in the 1940s and...
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Milly Farley
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1951
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This crime melodrama with humorous undertones involves the investigation of dope smugglers on the Mexican border. Americans...
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Madeleine Haley
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1950
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Though RKO Radio Pictures was, in 1951, still faithful to the concept of "B" westerns starring Tim Holt, the studio was more...
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Lily Fowler
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1950
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At the last possible moment, convicted murderess Anne Marie St. Claire (Dorothy Lamour) is saved from execution. However, the...
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Marguerite Seaton
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1949
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The Plan 9 From Outer Space of baseball biopics, The Babe Ruth Story is definitely in the "So Bad It's Good" category. An...
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Claire Hodgson Ruth
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1948
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Based upon a story by William Mercer, The Velvet Touch stars Rosalind Russell as Valerie Stanton, a celebrated Broadway...
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Marian Webster
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1948
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Violent and viscerally sexual, Anthony Mann's muscular low-budget noir tells the tale of a framed gangster's quest for...
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Pat Regan
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1948
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Gaye Dawn
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1948
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Somehow the titles of the films of hardcase actor Lawrence Tierney seemed to be extensions of the man's personality, as...
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Helen Trent
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1947
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Art critic and forgery expert George Steele (Pat O'Brien) is apprehended by the police as he desperately tries to break into...
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Terry Cordeau
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1946
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Andrew Stone's The Bachelor's Daughters has much of the nonsensical breeziness of Stone's earlier screwball comedy...
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Cynthia
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1946
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Lilah Gustafson
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1945
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Originally, producer Harry Sherman's Woman of the Town was slated for Paramount release, but that studio was overloaded with...
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1944
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One-time movie crooner Dick Powell literally turned his career around in the 1944 film noir Murder My Sweet. Powell stars as...
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Mrs. Grayle
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1944
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In this drama, set during WW II, a teacher at a military school is derided by his students because he has not joined the...
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1943
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In this Western drama, Steve Upton (Randolph Scott) is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne...
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Countess Maletta
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1943
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Glenn Ford plays Martin Eden, an aspiring writer who signs on a merchant ship as a sailor. Tormented by the ship's sadistic...
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"Connie" Dawson
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1942
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An innocent man is put on trial, but is he really as innocent as he claims? Diplomat David Talbot (William Powell) and his...
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Michelle Allaine
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1942
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Ruth Dillon
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1942
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The marvelous rapport between stars Clark Gable and Lana Turner makes MGM's Honky Tonk seem far more substatianal than it...
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Gold Dust Nelson
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1941
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Texas was Columbia Pictures' lighthearted (and frankly more enjoyable) follow-up to its 1940 big-budget western Arizona....
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"Mike" King
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1941
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Set in the years leading up to the Civil War and its outbreak, Dark Command tells a fictionalized version of the story of...
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Marie McCloud
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1940
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Although there were Westerns before it, Stagecoach quickly became a template for all movie Westerns to come. Director...
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Dallas
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1939
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Films set during America's colonial era seldom did well at the box office, and Allegheny Uprising was no exception....
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Janie McDougle
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1939
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In this crime drama, a grizzled cabbie is scammed out of his life savings by a fake finance company. He tries to no avail to...
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Laura Benson
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1939
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Joan Bradley
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1938
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This third film version of Peter B. Kyne's Valley of the Giants benefits from the breahtaking Technicolor location...
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Lee Roberts
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1938
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Edward G. Robinson shines in a fine comic role as Dr. Clitterhouse, a brilliant psychiatrist doing research into the criminal...
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Jo Keller
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1938
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The financial exploitation of Canada's Dionne Quintuplets rolled ever forward with 20th Century-Fox's Five of a Kind, the...
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1938
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Fay Loring
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1937
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Akim Tamiroff, Paramount Pictures' resident crime lord, runs all illegal gambling activities in a major city. Reporter...
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Dixie
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1937
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Scheduled to marry a man she doesn't love (and for good reason), spoiled heiress Barbara Blanchard (Claire Trevor) runs away...
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Barbara Blanchard
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1937
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Within the framework of a conventional newspaper yarn, One Mile From Heaven raises several controversial issues. Scoop-happy...
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Lucy "Tex" Warren
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1937
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This cinematic meringue stars Loretta Young as a young woman whose second husband (Lyle Talbot) is a hard working but dull...
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Marcia
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1937
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Adapted by Lillian Hellman from Sidney Kingsley's Broadway play, Dead End concerns itself with several denizens of New York's...
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Francie
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1937
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Admidst a sea of melodramatic and unbelievable courtroom dramas, Career Woman is distinguished by its comparative realism....
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Carroll Aiken
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1936
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In this crime drama, a girl whose father was murdered by gangsters wants to marry into a rich family. Her fiance's mother...
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Carol Barton
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1936
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A Kathleen Norris novel was the source for this romantic drama, which begins when widowed navy doctor Quentin Harden...
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Vicky Blake
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1936
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Based on a novel by Kathleen Shepard, Human Cargo is a lively, tongue-in-cheek melodrama purporting to expose the alien...
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Bonnie Brewster
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1936
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Hoping to prove to her insurance-investigator uncle that she's a good detective in her own right, Jane Martin (Claire Trevor)...
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Jane Martin
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1936
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This musical is adapted from a popular Broadway show written by George M. Cohan. It tells the tale of a team of Broadway...
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Julia Carroll
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1936
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Warner Baxter and Myrna Loy star as a husband and wife who've been married ten years...but they might not make it to eleven....
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Kitty Brant
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1936
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Nina Lind
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1936
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A romantic triangle during WW I provides the basis of this drama. The trouble begins when a young wife gets involved with a...
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Elinor Norton
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1935
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It is said that former gagman Clyde Bruckman spent most of his directing days sitting in his canvas chair quietly nursing a...
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Betty Ingals
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1935
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The Black Sheep is professional gambler John Dugan (Edmund Lowe), who gets his kicks out of fleecing wealthy suckers during a...
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Janette Foster
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1935
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Betty McWade
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1935
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This off-beat romantic melodrama contains elements of comedy not usually found in the genre as it tells the story of the love...
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Jerry Jordan
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1934
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"That girl" is newspaper sob-sister Tony Bellamy (Claire Trevor), whose nose for news gets her into one jam after another,...
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Tony Bellamy
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1934
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Based on a Zane Grey story, The Last Trail stars virile cowboy hero George O'Brien in a largely anti-heroic role. Escaping...
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1934
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Shirley Temple's first starring vehicle casts her as the button-cute daughter of ex-convict Eddie Ellison (James Dunn) and...
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Kay Ellison
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1934
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When a man commits a crime, his sister (Claire Trevor) frames the man she loves to free her brother. ~ Rovi...
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The Girl
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1933
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Given a title like Jimmy and Sally, one might assume that this Fox production is another in the popular series of co-starring...
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Sally Johnson
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1933
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A man on the wrong side of the law has a chance to turn over a new leaf in this crime drama. Edward Carson (Spencer Tracy) is...
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Jane Lee
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1933
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