An American rancher--who doubles as an undercover agent--is needed in the rescue of a kidnapped senator in this animated...
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1965
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Jiminy Cricket
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1960
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Ever since its inception in 1954, Walt Disney's weekly TV anthology had featured a special Christmas show. But it wasn't...
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Jiminy Cricket
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1958
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Every so often, the prestigious 1950s CBS anthology Playhouse 90 would digress from its "live" format and offer a sumptuously...
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Webber's Manager
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1958
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Narrated by Jiminy Cricket (voice supplied by Cliff "Ukelele Ike" Edwards, this Disneyland cartoon-compilation episode shows...
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1956
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A blend of live-action and animation, Fun and Fancy Free is comprised of two distinct tales linked by additional footage...
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1947
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Tom Conway makes his second appearance as amateur sleuth Tom Lawrence, aka "The Falcon", in RKO Radio's The Falcon Strikes...
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Goldy
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1943
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In this romantic musical, a chipper radio crooner does everything she can and is still unable to get a break. Later her...
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Foggy
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1943
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A young buckaroo gallops off after the conniving crooks who framed his bank president daddy for embezzlement. Plenty of...
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1943
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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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Stormy
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1943
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In this western, a pair of ranchers tire of being oppressed by the excessive taxation an avaricious crook in possession of a...
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Songwriter
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1943
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The first of Tim Holt's 1943 quota of RKO westerns was Fighting Frontier. This time, Holt appears to be cast as a...
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Ike
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1943
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Tim Holt's third RKO Radio western for 1943 was The Avenging Rider. The story finds Holt trying to clear himself and his...
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1943
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In one of his better early Westerns, Tim Holt, as Deputy Marshal Larry Durant, is sent to Spencerville where a gang of...
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1942
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Originally slated for release through Paramount Pictures but ultimately distributed by United Artists, American Empire is a...
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1942
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Charles Starrett rides again as the Durango Kid. This time Durango investigates the murder of a town marshal, in which an...
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Harmony Haines
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1942
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A courageous cowboy dons the guise of a Texas Ranger to keep murderous cattle rustlers from harming a beautiful young woman,...
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1942
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1942
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In this western, a community revives the legend of Billy the Kid after robbers attack a stage coach. The deputy marshal...
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Harmony Haines
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1942
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In this western, a ranch foreman and the bosses son go to a saloon to slake their thirst and find themselves in the midst of...
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Harmony Stubbs
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1942
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Sundown Jim was the second of two 20th Century-Fox westerns starring football champ John Kimbrough. The story takes place in...
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1942
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In this western, three Texas Rangers decide to do their part to save the world and join the Army, but before they can, they...
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Harmony Bumpas
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1942
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The shortest of Disney's major animated features Dumbo involves a baby elephant with unusually large ears. Ostracized from...
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Jim Crow
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1941
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Power Dive was the first release from Pine-Thomas Productions, marking the beginning of a long and fruitful association...
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1941
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One of the most schizophrenic films ever to come out of the Paramount "B" mill, The Monster and the Girl starts out as a...
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1941
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Thunder Over the Prairie was the second of Charles Starrett's "Dr. Steve Monroe" westerns. The unorthodox plot is set in...
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Bones Malloy
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1941
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Banjo Page
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1941
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Charles Starrett is once more cast as frontier doctor Steve Monroe in Columbia's Prairie Stranger. In the company of his...
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Bones
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1941
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In this boxing drama, champion fighter Johnny Rocket decides to leave the ring to please his new bride. Unfortunately, his...
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Sleepy
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1941
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Officially a Charles Starrett western, Riders of the Badlands divides its running time fairly evenly between Starrett and...
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Bones Malloy
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1941
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1941
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The Weaver Brothers hit the road and taste the hobo's life in this, the sixth, entry in the eleven-film "Weaver Brothers and...
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1940
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A tough, bitter fugitive's travels lead him to a grungy rundown oil town. There the transient is taken in by an oil-rigger...
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Hot Rocks
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1940
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1940
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The title of Millionaires in Prison (which begs for the rejoinder "about time!") pertains to four individuals. Two of the...
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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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Jiminy Cricket
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1940
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Unlike Shirley Temple, Jane Withers was permitted to "grow up" in her 20th Century-Fox vehicles. Since Withers was 13 going...
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1940
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Gone With the Wind boils down to a story about a spoiled Southern girl's hopeless love for a married man. Producer...
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1939
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British leading man Barry McKay made a respectable if unsuccessful bid at Hollywood stardom in Republic's Stolen Cargo. The...
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Professor
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1939
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Maisie stars Ann Sothern as a worldly showgirl stranded in Wyoming when her show fails. She accepts a job at a carnival...
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Shorty
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1939
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Wallace Beery plays one of his patented good bad guys in this MGM Western. "Trigger" Bill (Beery) is an outlaw with a heart...
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1938
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Handy
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1938
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1938
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The tempestuous love affair between a young surgeon and a pretty but married nurse provides the basis for this melodrama....
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Snoopy
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1937
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1937
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In this comedy drama, a newspaper report discovers that a popular religious cult is really a scam. Unbeknownst to him, his...
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Jerry Little
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1937
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This drama chronicles the fate of two disparate brothers, both of whom work at the same power plant. One of them is...
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Hi-Line
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1937
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Jean Harlow offers her final screen performance in this witty and -- in retrospect -- quite moving racetrack comedy-drama...
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1937
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In this WW II era drama, a timid, pacifistic clerk is befriended by a gutsy circus barker while they are in the military....
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1937
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Social butterfly Rena Allen (Doris Nolan) is bored unto tears by her stuffy fiance Throckton Van Cortland...
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1936
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Broadway producer George White, who was the title character of 1934's George White's Scandals, heads for Florida following...
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Dude Holloway
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1935
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Anti-Communist politics and screwball romance make strange bedfellows in this comic tale that plays like a cross between the...
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Rooney
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1935
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Legendary Broadway impresario George White made his Hollywood debut with this musical, which he wrote, co-directed, and...
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1934
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When Merian C. Cooper was in charge of production at RKO Radio, virtually every other film produced at the studio had an...
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"Screwy" Edwards
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1933
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Take a Chance was based on the hit Broadway musical of the same name, though only one of the original songs, Eadie Was a...
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Louie Webb
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1933
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In this comedy-adventure, an enterprising young man devises a new kind of speedboat motor. The trouble begins when he tries...
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Bumpy
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1932
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Clark Gable was officially elevated to stardom with this airborne MGM action-adventure, but good old Wallace Beery (whom...
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1932
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In this football drama, a tough steelworker's son wins a scholarship to Yale and attempts to use his talent on the football...
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1932
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Based on Veneer, a 1929 Broadway flop by Hugh Stange, this sentimental domestic drama came to the screens in early 1932,...
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Pete
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1932
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Buster Keaton once described his 1931 vehicle Sidewalks of New York as "God-awful"; it's hardly that bad, though admittedly...
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Poggie
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1931
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Based on the stage comedy by Charles W. Bell and Mark Swan (previously filmed in 1920), Parlor, Bedroom and Bath is a curious...
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Bellhop
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1931
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Bert Scranton
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1931
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1931
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No relation to the 1949 Bob Hope comedy of the same name, The Great Lover stars that master of sartorial splendor,...
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1931
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Actor Robert Montgomery would serve as a lieutenant in the U.S. Naval Reserve during WWII, but he was just a lowly seaman in...
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Bilge
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1931
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Snipe, a Tramp
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1931
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Two wives catch their husbands with other women and decide to take a vacation of their own in this drama. ~ Sandra Brennan,...
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1931
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In the space of 74 minutes, Helen Hayes goes from naïve French country lass to elderly harridan in Sin of Madelon Claudet. Is...
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Victor
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1931
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Buster Keaton's second starring talkie finds him cast as wealthy, pampered Elmer, who heads down to the local employment...
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Cliff Nescopeck
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1930
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Owly
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1930
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Joan Crawford and Johnny Mack Brown star in this high budget horse opera from M-G-M. She is Joan Prescott, a spoiled...
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1930
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The DeSylva-Brown-Henderson Broadway musical Good News was first brought to the screen by MGM in 1930. The scene is Tait...
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Kearney
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1930
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Few movie "heroes" are as despicable as Roy (Charles Kaley), the leading character in the MGM musical Lord Byron of Broadway....
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Joe
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1930
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Trilby
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1930
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With the arrival of talkies, every major studio hopped on the musical bandwagon by turning out lavish "revues," spotlighting...
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1929
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In this campus musical, the 1928 big game between USC and Stanford provides the impetus for music and mayhem. The story...
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Windy
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1929
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Marion Davies made her talkie debut in this early musical romance set during World War I. Marianne (Davies) is a beautiful...
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Soapy
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1929
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