As shown by the clock face that opens and closes the film, The Set-Up takes place within a compact 72 minutes, with the...
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1949
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Johnny Mack Brown's first starring western for 1950 is cut from the same cloth as his 1949 releases. Brown's principal...
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1949
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Deadline at Dawn represented not only the sole film directorial effort of Broadway's Harold Clurman, but also the only...
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1946
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In this crime drama a young woman leaves her unhappy life at home to become a sophisticated night club singer. Her first job...
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1945
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Dillinger, the was the ninth effort from the enterprising King Brothers, and their most financially successful film to date....
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1945
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In this crime drama, a naive, honest young woman falls for a louse who takes her to illicit gambling houses. When one of...
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Irene
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1945
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In this comedy, a bookish kid sister reads a psychology book and comes to believe that, according to the book, she is...
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Ethel Hollingsworth
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1945
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1945
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Within its brisk 78 minutes, Jam Session manages to accommodate the singing, dancing and acting talents of Ann Miller, a...
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1944
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1944
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It's nice to see perennial "other woman" Ann Savage in a leading role, even in so antiseptic a film as Klondike Kate. Savage...
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Lita
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1944
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In this western, the good-guy and his trusty side-kick rescue a pretty gal whose father's cows are threatened by villainous...
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1944
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In this melodrama, a group of women live in a boardinghouse near a prison to await the release of their men. ~ Sandra...
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1943
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A typical war time Republic Pictures serial, G-Men vs. the Black Dragon featured the combined efforts of three allied...
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1943
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In this drama, based on a popular radio program, the leader of a ring of burglars suffers a blow to the head and loses his...
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1943
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This second entry in Columbia's "Crime Doctor" series once again stars Warner Baxter as Dr. Ordway, a former criminal turned...
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1943
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1943
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1943
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In this musical, a lovely and ambitious young woman masquerades as the daughter of a formerly beloved stage actress to help...
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June Leslie
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1943
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A musical star leaves the show and convinces the financial backer to leave also when she finds out that her leading man is...
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1943
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Linda Pavlo
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1942
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By popular consensus, Allan Jones' best Universal mini-musical of the 1940s was the timely When Johnny Comes Marching Home....
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1942
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Originally titled Dawn Express, this PRC spy melodrama was hastily rechristened Nazi Spy Ring to keep abreast of current...
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1942
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1942
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Alan Baxter, usually seen as a neurotic villain in A pictures, gets to play the good guy in Monogram's Borrowed Hero. Baxter...
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Mona Brooks
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1941
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Wealthy, sheltered Joan Fontaine is swept off her feet by charming ne'er-do-well Cary Grant. Though warned that Grant is...
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1941
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Talented B-picture director Joseph H. Lewis wasn't yet in the "auteur" class when he helmed the PRC quickie Criminals Within....
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Alma
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1941
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Boston Blackie, the suave crook-turned-detective created in 1910 by pulp writer Donald Boyle, had been popping up...
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Marilyn Howard
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1941
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1940
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A typical, fast-paced Grade-B murder mystery, Mystery of the White Room was based on the then revolutionary medical...
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Ann Stokes
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1939
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In this high-seas adventure, an assistant state's attorney must serve a subpoena upon a wealthy yacht owner. To do this the...
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Betty
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1937
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A couple of American soldiers of fortune are hired by the wife of a Chinese general to deliver a priceless diamond to a...
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Jane Dunn
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1937
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1934
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1922
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James Knight is Nicky in this flat British romantic tale. Wealthy Nicky is in love with equally wealthy cousin Trixie...
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1921
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Fate's Plaything was based on the C. F. Harding novel Oranges and Lemons. Filmed on location in Holland, this is story of a...
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1920
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1919
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