In the world of the emperor penguin, a simple song can mean the difference between a lifetime of happiness and an eternity of...
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Lighting
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2006
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Cinematographer
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1962
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For reasons that defy logic, the excellent This Island Earth was held up for ridicule as an allegedly bad movie in the film...
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Special Effects
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1955
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A man with a strangely misshapen face wanders out of the desert near a small town and falls to the ground dead. The county...
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Special Effects
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1955
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This second film version of Lloyd C. Douglas' spiritual novel Magnificent Obsession is in its own way as successful as the...
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Special Effects
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1954
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This was the last in a string of spoofs that found the comedy duo tangling with various classic Universal Studios monsters....
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Special Effects
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1953
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It Came From Outer Space is one of a handful of science fiction films from the 1950s that plays as well today as it did on...
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Special Effects
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1953
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The motivating factor behind City Beneath the Sea is an underwater treasure hunt. In 1692, an underwater earthquake sends the...
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Special Effects
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1953
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They don't really go to Mars, they go to Venus, but first they go to New Orleans. While working at a missile base,...
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Cinematographer, Special Effects
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1953
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Special Effects
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1951
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Special Effects
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1951
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The trendy elegance of director Douglas Sirk's later big-budget soap operas is nowhere to be found in Sirk's Atomic-Age...
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Special Effects
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1950
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Universal's Technicolor program westerns of the 1950s were among the best in the business. Comanche Territory stars...
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Special Effects
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1950
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The Buccaneer's Girl of the title, played by Yvonne de Carlo, is Deborah McCoy, an entertainer who's been around a bit. While...
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Special Effects
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1950
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Roger Quain (Howard Duff) arrives in Europe to look after the welfare of two zoo-bound black panthers. Catherine Ulven...
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Special Effects
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1950
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Special Effects
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1950
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So far as the rest of the world is concerned, Deborah Chandler Clark (Ida Lupino) is dead, killed in a freak auto accident....
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Special Effects
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1949
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One wonders if Donald O'Connor would have consented to star in Francis if he knew that a series was to follow. Adapted by...
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Special Effects
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1949
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This Abbott & Costello vehicle was originally planned as a Bob Hope comedy titled Easy Does It. The Hope role is fairly...
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Special Effects
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1949
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1949
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Special Effects
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1949
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Undertow stars Scott Brady as a gambler just out of wartime military service. No longer interested in wagers and...
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Special Effects
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1949
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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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Special Effects
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1949
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Special Effects
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1949
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In this lively adventure, a daring Irish leader tires to keep Napoleon from invading Ireland. The hero, in every way a...
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Special Effects
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1949
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Special Effects
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1949
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Long before he became producer/director of The Tonight Show, Fred DeCordova helmed the Universal meller Illegal Entry....
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Special Effects
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1949
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Special Effects
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1948
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In this romantic comedy, a wealthy heiress marries hastily and realizes her mistake on her honeymoon in New York. Though it...
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Special Effects
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1948
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The spirit of love is back, and she's working in retail in this bubbly romantic musical comedy. Eddie Hatch (Robert Walker)...
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Special Effects
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1948
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In this family farce, an older couple falls in love and decide to marry and embark upon a peaceful honeymoon without the...
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Special Effects
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1948
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Casbah is a musical remake of the 1938 film Algiers, which was itself a remake of the French film Pepe Le Moko. Tony Martin...
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Special Effects
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1948
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In this film noir drama, Bill Saunders (Burt Lancaster) is a former Prisoner of War living in England whose experiences have...
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Special Effects
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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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Special Effects
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1948
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Special Effects
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1948
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In this drama, an egomaniacal producer freely treads upon those around him without regard to the harm he does. The devoted...
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Special Effects
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1948
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Something seems fishy when a married man finds new adventure and romance in this comic fantasy. Arthur Peabody (William...
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Cinematographer
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1948
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It seems that Count Dracula (Bela Lugosi), in league with a beautiful but diabolical lady scientist (Lenore Aubert), needs a...
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Special Effects
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1948
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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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Special Effects
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1948
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Burt Lancaster had one of his first starring roles in this hard-hitting prison drama. Capt. Munsey (Hume Cronyn) is a cruel,...
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Special Effects
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1947
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Douglas Fairbanks Jr. is the title character, a young king exiled by evil conspirators. Forced to live far from his homeland,...
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Special Effects
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1947
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Returning to Singapore after a five-year absence, WWII veteran Matt Gordon (Fred MacMurray) mournfully recalls his romance...
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Special Effects
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1947
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Ronald Colman won an Academy Award for his portrayal of an off-the-beam actor in A Double Life. A beloved stage star, Anthony...
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Special Effects
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1947
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A woman struggles to reassemble her broken life in this drama that features Susan Hayward in her first starring role. The...
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Special Effects
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1947
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Acclaimed playwright George S. Kaufman made his directorial debut with this broad political satire. Senator Melvin G. Ashton...
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Special Effects
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1947
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Special Effects
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1946
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One of many films of the late 1940s examining the impact of WWII on post-war domestic life in the U.S., The Swell Guy is the...
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Cinematographer
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1946
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Dana Andrews -- in one of the best performances of his career -- plays Logan Stuart, a bold, ambitious general store and...
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Special Effects
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1946
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Nancy, a jilted bride-to-be, is played by Janet Gaynor in one of her last starring films. The three loves are novelist...
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1938
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Actual footage of the 1936 Rose Bowl game is cleverly (if not seamlessly) integrated into the action of this sports-oriented...
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1936
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1936
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1936
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MGM regularly churned out films in the 1930s that were all "star power" and very little plot. No More Ladies is a good...
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1935
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In this western, a family is threatened by poison pen letters. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1935
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Before abandoning acting altogether in favor of screenwriting and directing, Crane Wilbur performed double duty as star and...
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Director
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1915
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Some observers have suggested that Meet Danny Wilson could just as well have been titled Meet Frank Sinatra. A star vehicle...
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Special Effects
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