A series of prospector murders near an abandoned mine are investigated by a lawman in this exciting western. ~ Rovi...
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1951
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This musical comedy stars William Powell as Emery Slade, who was once a major film star but lately isn't getting much work....
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1949
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In his second-to-last Monogram Western, country & western singer Jimmy Wakely does hardly any singing at all as he and...
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1949
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In her second film appearance, Marilyn Monroe stars as Peggy Martin, a second-generation showgirl who begins a romance with a...
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1949
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In Frontier Investigator, Allan "Rocky" Lane plays the title character, spending the bulk of the picture searching for the...
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1949
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1948
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In this western a singing cowboy and his side-kick rescue a pretty gal who runs a stagecoach and finds herself in trouble. ~...
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1948
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Legendary stunt coordinator and second-unit director Yakima Canutt was the man in the director's chair for Republic's...
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1948
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Strange Mrs. Crane stars Marjorie Lord, later famous as the TV wife of Danny Thomas (and the real-life mother of actress Anne...
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1948
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In this children's move, a teenager and his loyal dog wander the wild West. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1948
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In this melodrama, a young juvenile delinquent convinces other teens to join his gang. The gang raids a warehouse and there...
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1947
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This episodic holiday film centers around a rich spinster aunt whose greedy nephew is attempting legal action to take her...
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1947
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1946
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One of the last of Universal's "pocket" musicals, Under Western Skies packs a surplus of entertainment value into its brief...
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1945
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A disparate group of women join the Women's Army Corps to fight WW II in this upbeat war-time drama. One of the women is a...
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1945
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In this romantic comedy, set during WW II, an newlywed army couple are unable to consummate their marriage, as on their...
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1945
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Joan Davis, the daughter of a famed woman detective, has inherited none of her mother's deductive prowess. Nonetheless, Joan...
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1945
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Betrayed is the reissue title for the classic melodrama When Strangers Marry. In her third film, Kim Hunter plays a waitress...
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1944
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In this musical romance, a young couple is still in love, but find themselves facing insurmountable turmoil in their...
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1944
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Ostensibly taking place twenty-five years after the events of The Mummy's Ghost, this sequel marks the last of Universal's...
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1944
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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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The still very undead mummy experiences insane jealousy in this the third of Universal's Kharis thrillers. Although he was...
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1944
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In this musical comedy, a vaudevillian father, wanting a better life for his son, fires the youth from their act. The deeply...
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1944
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A bit treacly at times, Tender Comrade is nonetheless a fascinating distillation of the American mindset during WW2. Ginger...
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1943
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In her last 20th Century-Fox vehicle, skating star Sonja Henie plays, Nora, a Norwegian expatriate ice champion. Newly...
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1943
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Get Going is typical of the 60-minute musical comdies being churned out by Universal in the 1940s. A topical twist is added...
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1943
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In this tuneful comedy, a would-be actor and playwright is deeply in debt, and to keep away from his creditors, begins...
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1943
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Aircraft plant worker Robert Cummings is accused of sabotaging his factory and causing the death of a co-worker. Actually,...
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1942
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Universal contractee Irene Hervey, generally required to stand by the sidelines while the leading men did all the acting, was...
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1942
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Despite its title and the fact that it was made by Universal Studios, 1942's The Silver Bullet has nothing to do with...
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1942
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Irene Dunne plays a flibbetygibbet socialite who inherits a farm in Arizona. She can't seem to manage either her money or her...
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1942
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To say that Behind the Eight Ball is the best of the Ritz Brothers' quartet of Universal vehicles is faint praise indeed, but...
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1942
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A nine-year-old Elizabeth Taylor made her film debut in this lively comedy. She plays the spoiled-brat daughter of a pudding...
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1942
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This wildly uneven "Dead End Kids/Little Tough Guys" entry focuses on young Tom Barker (Billy Halop), whose older brother...
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1941
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The third of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello's starring films, In the Navy was released second; Universal had just made a bundle...
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1941
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This British-American, coproduction was released in England by Pathe, and in the US by Monogram. Blind Fools is the old...
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1940
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Chip of the Flying U was Johnny Mack Brown's first western entry for 1940. Brown essays the title role of Chip Bennett,...
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1940
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This fine adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic tale about a cursed family opens with a title card that reveals how the...
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1940
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Basil Rathbone's real-life son, John Rodion, has his head chopped off early on in this historical melodrama often mistakenly...
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1939
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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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1939
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Following up their successful film Love Affair, Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne team up again for the romantic melodrama When...
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1939
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Sigrid Gurie, the Swede from Brooklyn who in 1938 was touted as Sam Goldwyn's answer to Garbo, was taking whatever work she...
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1939
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1938
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This tragic melodrama is a remake of Griffith's 1920 film, Way Down East. The story centers upon a starving, impoverished...
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1935
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The late "B"-picture historian Don Miller once referred to the "teenage sex" exploitationers of the 1930s as the "...
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Alice Stevens
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1934
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In this boxing drama, a prizefighter is left by his money-grubbing showgirl wife who aspires to be a movie star. The...
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1931
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In this Academy Award-winning film, Stephen Ashe (Lionel Barrymore) is a hotshot Californian lawyer from a well-to-do family,...
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1931
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1926
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This picture was apparently made around the end of World War I, when the government was concerned with re-integrating...
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Dorothy
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1921
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This drama was adapted from a popular novel by Samuel Merwin. Matt Moore stars as Henry Calverly, an ex-convict who went to...
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1921
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This drama, based on the play by Eugene Walter, begins in a rather novel way -- the two leads are shown watching a play, Paid...
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Jane Reynolds
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1921
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William Williams (Henry Harmon) named his daughter (Wild Bennet) Conscience for a reason -- he's a Puritanical New Englander...
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1920
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Philip Pemberton (E.J. Radcliffe) is so intent on snaring the nomination for governor that he sorely neglects his wife...
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1920
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This melodrama about the recently ended World War, was based on the successful Broadway play by Lechmore Worrall and J.E....
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1919
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1919
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Kerry (House Peters) is a young Irishman who has a fatal love for gambling. When he marries a wealthy English girl, he...
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1919
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World War I was mere days away from ending by the time this propaganda picture was released. It was just as well -- this...
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1918
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The title character in Dumas' Camille is a Parisian courtesan, but the heroine is relatively sympathetic, especially when she...
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1917
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One of Theda Bara's worst vehicles (and that said a lot!), this film was ostensibly based on Rider Haggard's Jess and was an...
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1917
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A sultry seductress sashays successful factory owners down a ruinous road in order to serve the munitions cartel for which...
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1917
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Valeska Suratt, one of the Fox Studio's lesser vamps (Theda Bara was the most prominent), drops her wicked ways to play the...
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1916
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Mrs. Henry Wood's war-horse novel and play East Lynne has been filmed so often that we've lost count. This 1916 version was...
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1916
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Desperately tired of playing man-eating "vamps," Theda Bara begged to play Ouida's 1901 Foreign Legion heroine, "Cigarette,"...
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1916
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Celebrated Danish actress Betty Nansen starred in this modernized version of Sardou's 1887 drama La Tosca. Some of the names...
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1915
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Filmed on location at a real mining camp in Georgia, this lusty version of Roy Norton's 1912 novel starred William Farnum --...
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1915
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1915
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1915
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Though Million Dollar Robbery was produced under the supervision of pioneering woman director Alice Guy Blache, research has...
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1914
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Alice Guy Blache, the motion picture industry's first woman director, called the shots on the full-blooded mellerdrammer...
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1914
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