This story of love and espionage focuses on political turmoil as a small nation struggles to free itself from colonial rule,...
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1966
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1964
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This British comedy details what happens to five sailors and a passenger as they spend fifteen hours on shore leave in London...
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Jamie
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1964
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This slapstick comedy is a hilarious spoof on "Around The World In 80 Days." The grandson of the celebrated Phinius Fogg...
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1963
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Based on the two-character play by William Gibson, Two for the Seesaw was unnecessarily expanded for the film version....
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1962
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's story of an expedition to a remote plateau rumored to be the home of prehistoric beasts, already the...
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1960
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Season three of Alfred Hitchcock Presents gets under way with one of the series' best and most celebrated episodes -- and one...
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1957
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The best thing that can be said about Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops is that it's better than the team's previous...
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1955
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1954
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While returning to Metropolis from a European assignment, Clark (George Reeves) and Jimmy (Jack Larson) make a stopover in...
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1953
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Ichabod and Mr. Toad is a two-part Walt Disney cartoon feature based on a pair of well known stories. The first half of the...
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1949
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In this revised adaptation of Oscar Wilde's famous comedy of manners, Lady Windermere's Fan, the middle-aged but still...
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1949
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1949
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Texas, Brooklyn and Heaven deserves a historical footnote as director William Castle's only comedy western. Future...
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1948
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Not precisely the best film of 1947, the Republic comedy-mystery Exposed is nevertheless consistently enjoyable. Adele Mara...
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1947
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Humphrey Bogart plays a psychotic killer who disposes of his wives through slow ingestion of poison in The Two Mrs. Carrolls,...
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1947
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In this period drama, Joan Fontaine stars as Ivy Lexton, a woman with an unusual hunger for men. Though she already has a...
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1947
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A woman trying to solve the mystery of a friend's murder finds that she may be the next victim in this suspense story set in...
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1947
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Based on the novel by Agatha Christie and play by Frank Vosper, Love From a Stranger isn't quite as good as the 1937 version...
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1947
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Douglas Fairbanks Jr. is the title character, a young king exiled by evil conspirators. Forced to live far from his homeland,...
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1947
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If Grecian storyteller Aesop really did exist, he was most likely a black slave. He wasn't an Austrian actor with an Egyptian...
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1946
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Alexandre Dumas' famous fictional count gets revenge in this lively sequel to the original story. The Monte Cristo count...
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Abbe Faria
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1946
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In this murder mystery, a Scotland Yard inspector investigates the murder of a prominent matron. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1945
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This Republic programmer is based on a true story, though its plot complications are anything but founded in reality. Set in...
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1945
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This campy little drama launched the career of B-girl Yvonne De Carlo. It is set during the Franco-Prussian war and...
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1945
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Although National Velvet was the first starring role for 11-year-old Elizabeth Taylor, the early part of the film belongs to...
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1944
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The Lodger was the third film version of Mrs. Marie Belloc-Lowndes' classic "Jack the Ripper" novel, and in many eyes it was...
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1944
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1944
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As Academy Award-winning films go, Mrs. Miniver has not weathered the years all that well. This prettified, idealized view of...
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1942
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In this drama, a has-been stage thespian finds that his alcoholism is ruining his life. When his daughter, a cripple,...
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1942
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In this WW II propaganda piece a wealthy American society matron refuses to sacrifice her material comforts to aid the war...
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1942
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Eric Knight's wartime novel This Above All was given the Tiffany treatment in the this 20th Century Fox big-budgeter....
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1942
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In this crime drama set on the seedy waterfront of San Francisco, a longshoreman studies in his spare time to become an...
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1941
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Given the omnipresence of the Motion Picture Production Code in 1940, the second film version of Robert E. Sherwood's...
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1940
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This 15-chapter Columbia serial is largely set on a remote Carribean island (which looks suspiciously like Catalina)....
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1938
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Set in the land Down Under but filmed at Sunland, CA, and on Catalina Island, this low-budget action-adventure stars one of...
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1937
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This big-budget 1936 RKO Studios picture lost money, perhaps due to a cool box-office reception to the idea of leading lady...
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1935
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Vicar
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1935
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Paramount's Eight Girls in a Boat was a remake of the 1932 German film of the same name. Impregnated by medical student David...
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1934
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In this WW I melodrama, a British officer is forced to return to the front soon after he is married. On the battle lines, he...
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1934
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This star-laden version of Lewis Carroll's novel combines elements of both the title novel and Carroll's sequel, Through the...
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1933
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In this drama, a doctor and his wife are stationed in Singapore where the lonely wife, tired of constantly trying to get his...
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1931
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The Gay Diplomat was an attempt by RKO Radio to make a movie star out of Ivan Lebedeff, a Russian actor better suited to...
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1931
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Most of The Deceiver takes place in the Broadway theater where matinee idol Thorpe (Ian Keith) is starring in a production of...
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1931
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Big Boy may well be the closest a modern audience will ever come to seeing what a genuine Al Jolson Broadway musical looked...
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1930
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Both businessman Michael Mont (Thomas Holding) and artist Wilfred Desert (Henry Victor) love Fleur Forsyte (Barbara LaMarr)....
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Ethelbert Danby
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1925
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This romance, which has the Orient as its background, strongly reflects the racial prejudices of its day. When Frank and...
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1924
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The plot here, based on the novel, Judith of Blue Lake Ranch, by Jackson Gregory is typical Western fare -- an Easterner...
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1922
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This middling period drama, based on the Robert W. Chambers novel, takes place in pre-Revolutionary War times and relied...
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1922
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Broadway's Elaine Hammerstein stars in this routine silent melodrama about a girl eloping with a society wastrel only to...
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1921
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Veteran Japanese star Sessue Hayakawa both produced and starred in this melodramatic silent crime drama which co-starred his...
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1921
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Times have certainly changed since the 1920s -- the critic from trade magazine Moving Picture World asserted that the idea of...
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1921
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On the stage, this farce made William Collier, Sr. a star; as a motion picture, it did little for Taylor Holmes' career....
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1920
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1915
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