Hoping to test the theory that "absence makes the heart grow fonder," Lisa (Eva Gabor) decides to take a vacation without...
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Desk Clerk
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1969
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Uncle Joe (Edgar Buchanan) goes to town to pick up a postage stamp and comes home with the whole post office. Figuring that...
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1965
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In this western, set in 1875, an agent for the National Detective Agency is assigned to find the murderous outlaw gang that...
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1964
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In this taut thriller, an aging safe-cracker's daughter gets involved with a petty gangster who is always looking for the...
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1960
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Bret (James Garner) is among the participants when the lovely but larcenous Samantha Crawford (Diane Brewster) organizes a...
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1958
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The Teenage Doll in this Roger Corman-directed "J. D." opus is a little number named Barbara (June Kenney). Basically a good...
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1957
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Keith Larsen stars as the Apache Kid, an Indian scout. He is willing to cooperate with the US cavalry until his brother is...
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1957
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In this teenage exploitation drama, a young woman secretly marries. The trouble begins after her husband is killed while...
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1957
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Union army major Drango (Jeff Chandler) is assigned to rebuild a ruined Georgian town in the aftermath of the Civil War....
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1957
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We don't see much of Omaha Beach in D-Day, the Sixth of June. Instead, the film concentrates on a romantic triangle involving...
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1956
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Hidden Guns is not so much a western as a suspense melodrama. Bruce Bennett plays Stragg, a mean-spirited cardsharp with...
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1956
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Jack Larson plays a dual role in this episode, as cub reporter Jimmy Olsen and two-bit crook Kid Collins. A group of...
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1956
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Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer was lensed in the Trucolor process. Brice Bennett plays the titular 18th century frontiersman,...
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Andy Callaway
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1956
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This last remake (thus far) of the Jean Webster novel Daddy Long Legs was extensively revised to accommodate the talents of...
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1955
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One of the most entertaining of the Western movies to come out of the 1950s, this is a Stewart vehicle in which he must take...
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1955
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1954
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In this Miami-set crime drama, a secret society of residents united against the ever-encroaching Mafia, hire a reform...
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1954
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In the last of his four western programmers for Allied Artists, Wayne Morris plays frontiersman Jim Bisby. Mistaken for a...
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1954
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The Glenn Miller Story traces Miller's rise from pit-orchestra trombone player to leader of the most successful big band of...
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1954
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"Daily Planet" reporters Clark (George Reeves), Lois (Noel Neill) and Jimmy (Jack Larson) head into a treacherous jungle,...
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1953
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Pride of St. Louis is the story of one of baseball's most colorful characters, Jerome Herman "Dizzy" Dean. While playing...
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1952
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Plymouth Adventure earned a footnote in film history as the last directorial effort by the prolific Clarence Brown....
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1952
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The Kefauver Committee's ongoing investigation of organized crime spawned several "Torn from Today's Headlines!" films in the...
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1952
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Wayne Morris was rapidly becoming Monogram's answer to John Wayne when he starred in Yellow Fin. Lensed on location in the...
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John
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1951
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1951
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The Coast Guard is highlighted in this propaganda drama set during WW II. In addition to the usual blend of romance and...
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1951
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Gary Cooper stars in this broad naval farce, directed by Henry Hathaway and based upon a John W. Hazard New Yorker magazine...
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1951
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Former Tarzan regular Johnny Sheffield stars as Bomba the Jungle Boy in this 71-minute adventure. Bomba comes to the aid of...
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Dennis Johnson
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1950
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1950
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Young David Bruce plays Young Daniel Boone in this above-average Monogram actioner. Taking time off from hunting and...
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Capt. Fraser
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1950
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Gene Autry's second 1949 release for Columbia was Riders of the Whistling Pines. As was customary for Autry, the title refers...
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Bill Wright
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1949
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While under contract to Warner Bros., George Raft turned down picture after picture as being "unimportant" and thus unworthy...
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1949
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Black Midnight was the fourth of six Monogram films co-produced by actor Roddy McDowall. The film stars McDowall as Scott...
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Bill Jordan
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1949
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Monte Hale stars in the Republic oater Pioneer Marshal. This time, Hale is cast as Ted Post, a Texas marshal who's on the...
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Bruce Burnett
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1949
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"A woman loses her mind and is confined to a mental institution." That's the usual TV-listing encapsulation of The Snake Pit...
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1948
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1948
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In this mystery, a detective encounters a woman in a nightclub. He finds that she is being blackmailed by a dancer who is...
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1948
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It's always a risky venture to give a film a title like Disaster (certain critics, like certain vultures, just can't wait to...
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Detective Dearborn
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1948
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It's nice to see perennial supporting player (and future TV sportscaster) Richard Lane in a full-fledged leading role, even...
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Red Mason
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1947
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Darryl Hickman, older brother of Dobie Gillis star Duane, toplines this campy juvenile delinquency film directed by...
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1947
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Philo Vance, the infuriatingly brilliant amateur detective created by S. S. Van Dine, hadn't been seen on screen for seven...
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1947
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Filmed not long after the actual events, The Beginning or the End is a sober, intelligent account of the development and...
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1947
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Saddle Pals hits a new low for Gene Autry's postwar Republic westerns, containing literally no action at all. Autry is drawn...
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Brad Collins
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1947
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An unimportant but likeable Republic drama, Web of Danger revolves around the rivalry between two hardhat bridge-builders....
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1947
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Art critic and forgery expert George Steele (Pat O'Brien) is apprehended by the police as he desperately tries to break into...
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1946
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Andrew Stone's The Bachelor's Daughters has much of the nonsensical breeziness of Stone's earlier screwball comedy...
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1946
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Moss Hart's hit Broadway play Winged Victory was brought to the screen in 1944, with most of its original cast intact. The...
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1944
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Moving slightly up the poverty-row ladder from PRC to Monogram, Burlesque queen Ann Corio starred in the musical comedy...
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1943
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1943
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Flight for Freedom was an "a clef" version of the Amelia Earhart story. Rosalind Russell plays the Earhart-like aviatrix...
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1943
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RKO Radio's Powder Town has the makings of an A picture, but the budget and approach is strictly "B" grade. Adapted by...
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1942
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In this musical, which manages to look back with nostalgia upon prohibition and the depression (no small accomplishment),...
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1942
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The winner of four Oscar nominations, Wake Island was one of the first major Hollywood films to deal with America's forced...
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1942
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This rambling historical drama covers 109 years in the life of one woman. Encased in convincing old-age makeup,...
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1942
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X Marks the Spot was the first of eight brisk wartime-oriented melodramas, each running slightly under an hour, produced and...
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Eddie Delaney
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1942
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When the film rights to its "Saint" series proved too expensive to renew, RKO Radio came up with a lookalike property in the...
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1941
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1941
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A partial remake of 1936's Wanted: Jane Turner, Lady Scarface is a seedy but entertaining tour de force for the great...
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1941
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Bette Davis' famous walk-out from her home studio of Warner Bros. may have hurt her financially, but in the long run it paid...
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1937
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