A remake of Jacques Tourneur's noir classic Out of the Past (1947), in this version a labyrinthine web of corruption touches...
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Book Author
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1984
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In this creepy thriller a husband and his conniving boss conspire to murder his overly-demanding crippled wife. The friend...
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Screenwriter
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1965
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In this western a cowboy rides out for vengeance against the outlaws who brutally murdered his sister. But before he can...
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Screenwriter
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1965
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This is an interesting biography of the actor known for his gangster roles in films, and though Ray Danton plays the part of...
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Screenwriter
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1961
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Director George Pal is noted as a special effects maestro, both in films for children that feature his "puppetoons" and in...
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Screenwriter
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1961
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In this biblical drama, set during the waning years of the Roman Empire, the trouble begins as the Christians continue to be...
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Editor, Makeup
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1960
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According to the Greeks, the Minotaur was a legendary half-man, half-bull who lived on Crete and demanded the sacrifice of...
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Screenwriter
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1960
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Cowboy Line Bartlett (Jack Lord) comes to San Francisco and meets Kim Sung (Nobu McCarthy), a Chinese slave girl coveted by...
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Screenwriter
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1960
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Originally released as La Granda Caccia, East of Kilimanjaro was filmed on location in Africa. Marshall Thompson plays...
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Short Story Author
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1959
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The third and (as of 2005) the last film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's short story To Have and Have Not, The Gun Runners...
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Screenwriter
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1958
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Frank Lovejoy plays the title role in Cole Younger, Gunfighter. The scene is post-Civil War Texas, when the state was under...
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Screenwriter
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1958
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This confusingly-titled science-fiction thriller is both an artifact of its time and a surprisingly forward-looking film, in...
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Screenwriter
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1958
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Fittingly directed by Illinois native and bad-guy filmmaker Don Siegel, this action-packed film stars Mickey Rooney as the...
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Screenwriter
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1957
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Thunderstorm was produced in Spain by actress Binnie Barnes, though one suspects that most of the production details were...
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Screenwriter
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1956
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Don Siegel's classic exercise in psychological science fiction has often been interpreted as a cautionary fable about the...
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Screenwriter
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1956
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A communist spy plots the abduction of an important American atomic scientist in this espionage drama. To do his evil deed,...
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Screenwriter
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1955
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Based on actual events, The Phenix City Story tells the tale of a wide-open "Sin City" in Alabama (across a bridge from...
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Screenwriter
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1955
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The faces are new and the settings up-to-date, but otherwise An Annapolis Story is the tried-and-true "two guys and one girl"...
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1955
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Screenwriter
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1954
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In this western, a forward thinking hero joins in on the promotion of camels as the perfect desert pack animals. He embarks...
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Screenwriter
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1954
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The third of four Wayne Morris B-westerns for Allied Artists, Desperado casts Morris as fugitive gunman Sam Garrett. The...
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Screenwriter
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1954
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Alaskan salmon fisherman Matt Kelly (Robert Ryan) doesn't care who he runs over in race to get ahead in life. He even manages...
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Screenwriter
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1954
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Paramount's Pine-Thomas production unit takes the plunge into the 3-D craze in Those Redheads from Seattle. The titular...
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Screenwriter
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1953
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Daniel Mainwaring took this story right out of the headlines of the day, penning this true story of a mass murderer who was...
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Short Story Author
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1953
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A climactic donnybrook between hero Allan Lane and ace Republic villain Roy Barcroft is the highlight of this otherwise...
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Screenwriter
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1953
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Joan Crawford is appropriately cast as the title character in This Woman is Dangerous. Crawford plays master criminal Beth...
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Screenwriter
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1952
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During the Civil War, Colonel Kern Shafter (played by Ray Milland) and Captain Edward Garnett (played by Hugh Marlowe) become...
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Screenwriter
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1952
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Paramount's immensely successful Pine-Thomas production unit once more struck box-office gold with The Last Outpost....
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Screenwriter
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1951
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The Tall Target is based on a true story: the attempted assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln, even before he was...
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Screenwriter
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1951
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An insurance investigator, a dame with a yen for the finer things in life and a mail robbery gone horribly wrong are the...
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Short Story Author
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1951
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The Lawless was director Joseph Losey's second feature-length film. The story concerns a group of Mexican-American migrant...
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Screenwriter
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1950
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Screenwriter
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1950
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This breezy and unpretentious film noir from director Don Siegel starts off with fireworks. Duke Holliday (Robert Mitchum),...
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Screenwriter
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1949
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Hovering somewhere between an "A" and "B" production, RKO's Roughshod is an expert blend of western and film noir....
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Screenwriter
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1949
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Big Town was the first of a series of Pine-Thomas productions inspired by the radio series of the same name--which in turn...
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Screen Story, Screenwriter
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1947
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This Pine-Thomas Production was scripted by Geoffrey Homes (aka Daniel Mainwaring), best known as the author of the novel...
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Screenwriter
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1946
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In this drama two wandering WW II vets visit the family of a former buddy who had been killed in action. Finding the family...
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Screenwriter
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1946
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This adventure, set upon the mighty Mississippi, features two former Tarzans. One of them is a river-boat captain who was...
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Screenwriter
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1946
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This comedy centers around an inept reporter who wouldn't recognize a hot story if it burned him on the hand. The trouble...
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Screenwriter
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1945
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Tokyo Rose is a standard wartime melodrama with the slight advantage of topicality. Lotus Long plays the title role, an...
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Screenwriter
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1945
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In this mystery, a detective and his secretary go on vacation and end up solving a murder. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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Book Author, Screenwriter
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1944
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No production unit at Paramount Pictures was busier in 1944 than the Pine-Thomas unit-and few were as bankable at the...
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Screenwriter
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1944
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In this wartime espionage drama, Nazis open up a covert operation in the US. Outwardly it is a high-class dress shop, but...
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Screenwriter
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1943
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Detective Chester Morris and his nosy wife Jean Parker set up housekeeping in a small Reno hotel room, whence Morris conducts...
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Book Author
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1941
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