A veteran cast gives the 1968 cheapie The Bamboo Saucer what little credibility it has. In his last role, Dan Duryea plays...
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Hank Peters
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1968
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In this spaghetti western, two confederate soldiers survive the War and swipe an army payroll. To escape, one of them plays...
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Getz
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1967
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A prime early example of how to make a truly worthwhile TV movie, Stranger on the Run is a tough, minimalist western in the...
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O.W. Hotchkiss
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1967
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While traveling through Hong Kong, Bob Mitchell (Robert Cummings) accidentally stumbles into the middle of criminal...
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1967
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Bart McAdam
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1967
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Deep in enemy territory, Saunders (Vic Morrow) and the squad come across a stranded Special Services jazz combo. In his...
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1966
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In this drama, a teenager discovers that an old woman may actually be his long-lost mother. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1966
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In this western, set at the end of the Civil War, a group of rebels steal a million bucks from a Union shipment, and stash...
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Joe Barlow
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1966
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Dan Duryea plays a Western bounty hunter, expert in his job, but ill at ease with his conscience. He is shunned by the "good"...
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Willie Duggan
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1965
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Saunders (Vic Morrow), Kirby (Jack Hogan) and Littlejohn (Dan Peabody) accompany a G-2 officer (Douglas Henderson) on a...
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1965
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Based on Elleston Trevor's novel, The Flight of the Phoenix opens with a well-staged plane crash in the middle of the Sahara...
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1965
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Dan Duryea stars in this gritty medium-budget western as an unregenerate killer. His one saving grace is his affection for...
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Bart Thorne
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1964
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In this complex mystery, an American woman is married to a British businessman. The trouble begins when the woman suspects...
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1964
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Marion Brown (Teresa Wright) of Cleveland, OH, travels to Newark, NJ, there to meet and murder Bernice Brown (Jean Hale). It...
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Mr. R. Brown
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1964
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In this western, the trouble begins when a rancher's mother and father are killed by a young outlaw and his family who want...
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Jason
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1964
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When Sam Logan (Dan Duryea) was sent to prison, he claimed he didn't know where his partner Jack Crawford hid $100,000 in...
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Sam Logan
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1964
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Dan Duryea stars in this unsavory British melodrama as a seedy kidnapper who accidentally kills his child victim. The police...
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1964
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A sometimes astonishingly grim western, Six Black Horses ostensibly stars Audie Murphy, but is effortlessly stolen by Frank...
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Frank Jesse
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1962
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Gerald Eskith
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1960
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This is a low-budget, standard drama by Charles Haas (his last film) in which a father investigates the mysterious death of...
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Maj. Redfern Kelly
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1960
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In this exciting western, cowpoke Texas John Slaughter rides out for revenge against the man who killed his friend. He heads...
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1959
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1959
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First telcast October 16, 1959, this episode stars Dan Duryea as Al Denton, a once-legendary gunslinger fallen on hard times....
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Al Denton
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1959
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Smoke Jumpers stars Dan Duryea as the head man of a group of death-defying firefighters. Duryea and his crew are called upon...
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1958
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A child star becomes a brat to hide her loneliness in this drama. The popular little actress is quite insolent and refuses...
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Harry Johnson
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1958
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Night Passage is so similar in spirit to the successful collaborations between star James Stewart and director Anthony Mann...
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Whitey Harbin
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1957
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Though Slaughter on Tenth Avenue's background music relies heavily on the Richard Rodgers composition of the same name, the...
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John Jacob Masters
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1957
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Nat Harbin
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1957
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Battle Hymn was inspired by the true story of American minister Dean Hess, played here with rare sensitivity by Rock Hudson....
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Sgt. Herman
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1956
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During her brief stay at MGM, starlet Jarma Lewis received starring roles in two programmers. One of these was The...
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Mr. Avery
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1955
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Much of this gripping crime drama takes place in a remote New England farm house owned by the brother of a bank robber. The...
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Fred
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1955
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For full appreciation of the culture-clash drama Foxfire, it is crucial that the viewer accept Jeff Chandler as a Native...
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Hugh Slater
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1955
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World for Ransom is an unofficial extension of the popular 1950s TV series China Smith. Most of the Smith personnel,...
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Mike Callahan
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1954
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Next to Slightly Scarlet, Silver Lode is the best of the many 1950s collaborations between producer Benedict Bogaeus and...
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Ned McCarthy
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1954
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China Smith
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1954
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Bill Rogers
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1954
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Audie Murphy may have had top billing in Ride Clear of Diablo, but the film is bushwhacked and stolen by co-star Dan Duryea....
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Whitey Kincade
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1954
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Independently produced by Allan Dowling Pictures, This is My Love was distributed in the U.S. by RKO Radio. The film stars...
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Murray
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1954
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Rails into Laramie is one of the more obscure Universal-International western programmers of the 1950s, but this is no...
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Jim Shanessy
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1954
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Dan Duryea essays a rare sympathetic role in the Columbia programmer Sky Commandos. At first glance, however, Duryea seems to...
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Col. Ed Wyatt
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1953
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Thunder Bay was another inspired collaboration between star James Stewart and director Anthony Mann. Stewart plays an ex-GI...
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Johnny Gambi
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1953
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China Smith
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1952
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1951
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Alcoholic Bill Cannon's (Dan Duryea) past sins catch up with him in Chicago Calling. Cannon's daughter Nancy...
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Bill Cannon
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1951
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The real Al Jennings was a wizened little man who, after a largely unsuccessful career as a western outlaw, reformed to the...
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Al Jennings
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1951
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Waco Johnny Dean, the Kansas Kid
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1950
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One Way Street stars James Mason in a variation of his Odd Man Out role. Mason plays Doc Matson, a gangland physician who has...
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Wheeler
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1950
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Written by murder-mystery specialist Craig Rice, The Underworld Story concerns a corrupt newspaperman (Dan Duryea), who is in...
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Mike
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1950
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In Johnny Stool Pigeon, the title character's name is really Johnny Evans (Dan Duryea). Evans is an imprisoned crook whose...
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Johnny Evans
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1949
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Produced by Paramount's Pine-Thomas unit, Manhandled is a no-nonsense film noir with a well-chosen cast. Small-time hoodlum...
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Karl Benson
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1949
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When Lizabeth Scott's Jane Greer husband Arthur Kennedy accidentally gets his mitts on $60,000 in stolen money, she insists...
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Danny Fuller
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1949
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John Payne is the no-good lowdown rat who tries to capitalize on postwar patriotism and grief. He finagles a war widow...
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Silky Randall
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1948
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Steve Thompson (Burt Lancaster) returns home after a few years of knocking around the country following his divorce from...
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Slim Dundee
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1948
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Oscar Hubbard
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1948
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Yvonne DeCarlo dons 19th century "adventuress" garb once more in River Lady. This time she's a 19th century gambling queen,...
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Beauvais
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1948
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Worthless from a historical aspect, Black Bart is nonetheless an enjoyable fabrication about the fabled Western outlaw....
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Charles E. Boles
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1948
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With an ingenious script by Roy Chanslor, this modest, but imaginative film noir is notable for the strong performance by...
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Martin Blair
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1946
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In this comedy drama, a butler and a crap-shooting chauffeur find themselves having the run of their employer's mansion...
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1946
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Deanna Durbin offered her fans a change of pace in this mystery story seasoned with elements of comedy and music. Nikki...
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Arnold Waring
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1945
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Based on Marcia Davenport's novel and set in 1870, Valley of Decision details the romance between a housemaid named Mary...
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1945
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Masterfully directed by Fritz Lang, Scarlet Street is a bleak film in which an ordinary man succumbs first to vice and then...
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Johnny Prince
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1945
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This ambitious independent production was packaged by producer W. Lee Wilder, brother of Billy Wilder, and distributed by...
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Al Wallace
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1945
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Gary Cooper added "producer" alongside "star" on his resume with this light-hearted Western about a mild-mannered cowboy...
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Monte Jarrad
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1945
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Cary Grant delivered Oscar-calibre performances all his life, but only when he played against type in None But the Lonely...
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1944
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Directed by Fritz Lang, The Woman in the Window, a sadly tragic film noir, is the story of the doomed love of married...
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Heidt/Doorman
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1944
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The usual modus operandi for Hollywood "through the years" sagas was to gradually age its young actors in the course of the...
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1944
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Produced by the same team responsible for MGM's Crime Does Not Pay short subjects, Main Street After Dark is an energetic...
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Posey
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1944
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An innocent man is drawn into a web of espionage when he unwittingly comes into possession of a crucial piece of microfilm in...
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Cost/Travers
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1944
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This 91-minute Republic "special" stars Michael O'Shea as Matt Braddock, an aggressive Henry Kaiser-like shipbuilder...
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Jim Benson
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1944
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Jimmy Doyle
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1943
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"It's box office poison," producer Samuel Goldwyn is said to have exclaimed when he heard the idea of filming the life story...
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Hank Hanneman
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1942
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That Other Woman in this 20th Century-Fox programmer turns out to be Emily (Virginia Gilmore), faithful secretary to master...
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Ralph
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1942
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Duke Pastrami
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1941
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Playwright Lillian Hellman first wrote of the horrible Hubbard family in her 1939 play The Little Foxes. In this lavish 1941...
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1941
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