Dalton Trumbo's haunting anti-war drama comes to the screen for the second time in this filmed version of the stage play...
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Book Author
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2008
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A documentary adaptation of the popular regional theatrical monologue -- in which such heavyweights as Paul Newman,...
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2008
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Made for television, Ishi: The Last of His Tribe is based on the book by Theodora Kroeber. Kroeber's anthropologist husband...
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Screenwriter
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1978
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Combining familiar newsreel footage with freshly shot material, David Helpern's Hollywood on Trial is a documentary...
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Himself
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1976
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If you think that Oliver Stone invented the "political paranoia" movie, take a glance at Executive Action sometime. Based on...
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Screenwriter
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1973
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The autobiography of Henri Charriere, one of the few people to successfully escape from the notorious French penal colony of...
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Screenwriter
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1973
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In 1971, Jane Fonda and a group of fellow activist performers and musicians (including actor Donald Sutherland, musician...
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Screenwriter
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1972
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The author of the famous late 1930's antiwar book Johnny Got His Gun wrote and directed this film adaptation. It concerns a...
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Book Author, Director, Screenwriter
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1971
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Screenwriter
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1970
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John Frankenheimer directed this intense film adaptation of the Bernard Malamud novel. During the days of Czarist Russia, a...
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Screenwriter
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1968
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Screenwriter
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1966
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This claustrophobic WW II war drama chronicles the five months which six soldiers and one woman spent trapped within a deep...
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Screenwriter
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1965
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Screenwriter
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1965
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Although it never quite escapes the pitfalls of pretension, this film was Kirk Douglas's bid for the affections of the art...
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Screenwriter
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1962
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Screenwriter
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1961
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Produced and directed by Otto Preminger, Exodus is a 212-minute screen adaptation of the best-selling novel by Leon Uris. The...
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Screenwriter
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1960
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Screenwriter
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1960
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Playwright James Lee adapted his off-Broadway play for the screen in this high-strung adaptation, directed by Joseph Anthony....
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Screenwriter
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1959
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The once-scandalous autobiography of Frank Harris was the source of the fascinating "adult" western Cowboy. Jack Lemmon plays...
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Screenwriter
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1958
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Audrey Hepburn became a star with this film, in which she played Princess Anne, weary of protocol and anxious to have some...
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Screen Story
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1953
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Webb Garwood (Van Heflin) is a cynical policeman who believes that success comes from lucky breaks. Responding to a prowler...
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Screenwriter
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1951
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Short Story Author
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1950
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The definitive Joseph H. Lewis-directed melodrama, Gun Crazy is the "Bonnie and Clyde" story retooled for the disillusioned...
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Screenwriter
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1949
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This musical tells the tales of two movie extras who abscond to an expensive resort with their costumes and pretend to be...
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1948
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Elmer Rice's clever stage comedy Dream Girl is Hollywoodized and "dumbed down" almost beyond recognition in this 1948 film...
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1948
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A bit "artier" than most Republic melodramas, Jealousy was directed by Gustav Machaty, the Czech expatriate famous for the...
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Short Story Author
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1945
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An earnest rural melodrama set among Norwegian immigrants in Wisconsin, Our Vines Have Tender Grapes is a slightly updated...
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Screenwriter
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1945
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Opening in England during the middle of World War II, A Guy Named Joe tells the story of Pete Sandidge (Spencer Tracy), a...
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Screenwriter
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1944
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Billed third, Spencer Tracy plays Lt. Col. James P. Doolittle, who led the bombing raid over Tokyo. Most of the footage...
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Screenwriter
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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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Screenwriter
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1943
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Andrew Jackson is very happy to serve as the secretary of the society that honors his presidential namesake until he is...
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Book Author, Screenwriter
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1942
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Screenwriter
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1942
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A daffy romantic comedy released in Great Britain under the title Good Morning Doctor, this film reunites the two stars of...
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Short Story Author
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1941
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In this sentimental drama, a real estate executive tires of his privileged life working for his wealthy father-in-law and...
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Short Story Author
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1941
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A young, naive schoolteacher gets in over her head when the advances of a suitor grow too ardent. To escape his unwanted...
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Short Story Author
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1940
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A creaky remake of the 1932 film of the same name, Bill of Divorcement tells of the effect an emotionally disturbed father's...
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Screenwriter
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1940
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Though Ginger Rogers' starring vehicles always turned a profit for RKO Radio, many filmgoers thought of Rogers only in terms...
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Screenwriter
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1940
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In this entry in the long-running series, the reformed master jewel thief rushes to help a lovely heiress whose pearl...
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Short Story Author
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1940
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A Broadway producer and a director conspire to destroy the career of an aging star so they can tear up her contract and use...
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Screenwriter
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1940
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This upbeat domestic drama chronicles the struggles of a newlywed couple as they try to keep their marital status secret from...
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Screenwriter
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1940
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Often cited as a "model" B picture, Five Came Back is set in motion when the twelve-seat passenger plane "Southern Star"...
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Screenwriter
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1939
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Set in a tiny midwestern town, this sentimental drama centers on the rivalry between two life-long acquaintances whose early...
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Screenwriter
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1939
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Sorority House is based on Mary Coyle Chase's short story Chi House. Anne Shirley plays a middle-class college student who is...
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Screenwriter
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1939
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Banking on the popularity of the Warner Bros.' boxing saga Kid Galahad (37), the studio rushed into production with another,...
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Screenwriter, Short Story Author
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1939
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It matters not at all that the famed "wrong way" flight of aviator Douglas Corrigan, who in 1938 tried to fly from New York...
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Screenwriter
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1939
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In his feature film debut, Glenn Ford plays a department-store clerk who saves up enough money to buy a small patch of land...
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Screenwriter
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1939
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The RKO Radio backlot gets quite a workout in the peppy "B" comedy-mystery Fugitives for a Night. When movie executive...
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Screenwriter
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1938
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A remake of 1933's One Man's Journey, A Man to Remember was the auspicious film directorial debut of Garson Kanin. Told in...
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Screenwriter
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1938
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Screenwriter
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1937
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Warner Bros' Road Gang is a retread of themes first explored (and stock footage first seen) in the studio's earlier...
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Screenwriter
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1936
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In 1929, Bette Davis made her Broadway debut in the now-forgotten stage play Broken Dishes. But Davis did not appear in the...
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Screenwriter
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1936
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