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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1952
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David and Bathsheba is a respectable, slightly stodgy cinematic adaptation of the Old Testament story. King David...
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1951
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If ever there was an actor born to play Billy the Kid, it was the combustible Audie Murphy. In Kid from Texas, Murphy is cast...
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1950
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The oft-filmed Frances Hodgson Burnett novel The Secret Garden was given the usual plush MGM treatment in 1949. Tempestuous...
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1949
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Director Kurt Neumann, more closely associated with science fiction and mystery programmers, delivers a powerhouse of a...
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1949
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This unusual, dreamlike John Wayne vehicle is set in the East Indies. The focus of the film is the deadly rivalry between two...
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1949
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Sharkishly handsome Zachary Scott is right in his element in the Eagle-Lion melodrama Ruthless. Told in flashback, this is...
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1948
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1948
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This episodic holiday film centers around a rich spinster aunt whose greedy nephew is attempting legal action to take her...
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1947
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1947
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Based on a novel by Yolanda Foldes, this confusing romantic adventure concerns a love affair and international espionage....
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Hoff
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1947
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In this suspense film, a detective must find the murderer of a rich and jealous wife and her husband, a doctor with a...
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Steven Loring
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1947
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In this drama, set in England, an honorable textbook writer in a village becomes friends with a pregnant girl. The...
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1947
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In this crime melodrama, two would-be jewel thieves conspire to pull a heist, but are frustrated because the police are able...
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Roger Elwood
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1947
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Frank Yerby's Foxes of Harrow was one of those long historical novels so popular in the 1940s. 20th Century-Fox boiled the...
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1947
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The penultimate entry in Universal's Sherlock Holmes series, Terror by Night takes place almost exclusively on a speeding...
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Inspector Lestrade
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1946
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Roll on Texas Moon was the first of 26 Roy Rogers vehicles directed by fast-action specialist William Witney. The plot...
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1946
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B-movie auteur Edgar G. Ulmer managed to direct a few A-pictures during his long career; he was personally selected by...
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1946
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1946
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More serious and less colorful than The King And I, Anna And The King Of Siam is still a well-crafted and elaborate...
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1946
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This thriller is set in early 20th-century London where a series of nasty murders have recently occurred. An aunt then tells...
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Inspector Pierce
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1946
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Kitty is the "Pygmalion" legend, 18th century style. London aristocrat Ray Milland takes it upon himself to make a lady of a...
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1945
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1945
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Insp. Lestrade
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1945
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Uncertain Glory finds Errol Flynn atypically cast as French criminal Jean Picard, a craven coward whose many misdeeds have...
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1944
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Inspector Lestrade
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1944
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Someone in London has driven several prominent men to madness and suicide. Normally, Scotland Yard would call in Sherlock...
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Insp. Lestrade
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1944
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Although National Velvet was the first starring role for 11-year-old Elizabeth Taylor, the early part of the film belongs to...
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1944
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Based on the novel by A.J. Cronin, The Keys of the Kingdom was the first big-budget effort of movie-newcomer Gregory Peck....
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1944
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The 80-star cast of Forever and a Day would certainly not have been feasible had not most of the actors and production people...
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1943
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One of the silliest and most unbelievable of the Universal Sherlock Holmes series, Sherlock Holmes in Washington is also...
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1943
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There are those who consider Sherlock Holmes Faces Death to be the best of Universal's Holmes series, though others hold out...
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1943
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In this provocative WW II drama, an American agent sneaks into a Nazi spy ring to learn the identities of certain...
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Col. Taeger
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1943
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An American pilot swears to get revenge on the German ace who shot his brother in this war movie set in war-torn Europe....
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1943
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1942
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Eric Knight's wartime novel This Above All was given the Tiffany treatment in the this 20th Century Fox big-budgeter....
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1942
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The fifth film in Universal's "Frankenstein" series goes for the box-office gold by combining two--count 'em, two!--of the...
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1942
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Strange but true: Norma Shearer turned down the title role in Mrs. Miniver to star instead in the insignificant trifle We...
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1942
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Written by real-life intelligence agent Ladislas Fodor, Cairo is both a spoof of espionage thrillers and a good-natured...
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1942
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1942
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Spanning 50 years, director John Ford's How Green Was My Valley revolves around the life of the Morgans, a Welsh mining...
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1941
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Don Ameche, an American news bureau chief stationed in London, is frustrated by the British government's censorship of his...
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1941
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1941
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Released in Germany as Schwarze Rosen, Black Roses represented the return to UFA studios of British musical comedy favorite...
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1936
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British actor Dennis Hoey, best known for his appearances as the slow-witted Inspector Lestrade in the Sherlock Holmes films,...
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Mara
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1936
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This chiller speculates upon a haunting real-life mystery that occurred off the English coast on December 5, 1872 where the...
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1935
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In this musical comedy, the trouble begins when a carefree playboy steals the virtue of a young French maiden and is forced...
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1935
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Basil Gill depicts playwright Shakespeare in this drama featuring discussions with various friends along with scenes of his...
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1935
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1935
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The film opens on a theatrical stage where the principal players are introduced in a manner that suggests the audience...
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1935
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1935
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The timeworn British stage musical Chu Chin Chow had already been made into a silent picture when this talkie version made...
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1934
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Jew Suss was a well-worn stage drama based on an old novel by Lionel Feuchtwanger. The story involves an enterprising Jewish...
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1934
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While the opera "Faust" plays in the background, Lupino, in the audience, attempts to meet the girl of his dreams, Burne,...
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1933
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A theatrical stage manager disguises herself as a duchess to impress a big-shot film producer. This is based on one of...
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1933
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Based on a novel by J. B. Priestley, this British musical-comedy follows an unlikely trio as they try to revive the fortunes...
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1933
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When schoolgirl Ander sets out to win the love of a diplomat she pretends to be a socialite ending up in predictable...
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1933
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Lily of Kilarney stars John Garrick as Sir Patrick Cregeen, an heir who must raise a great deal of money in a hurry, lest he...
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1933
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In this espionage drama, an American in Europe gives the wrong address to a taxi driver and ends up mistaken for a spy in...
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1933
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1933
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The title lass in this Eclipse production is a goatherd-ess, in love with a strapping mountain youth. During his daily...
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1932
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In this British thriller, a hapless fellow learns that he has chosen to stay in a problematic hotel when he learns that the...
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1932
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While Peter Weir's 1980 filmizaton of Ernest Raymond's novel Gallipoli can be considered the definitive version,...
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The Padre
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1931
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1931
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In this British farce, a boy disregards his uncle's wishes and secretly marries his dream girl. The mayhem begins when the...
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Cyrus Watt
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1931
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In this comedy, a struggling artist who wants to die puts out a contract on himself, but then receives a large inheritance...
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1931
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In this British crime drama, a Yankee crook uses a garage owner's son as his alibi after he robs a bank and shoots a cop. A...
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1930
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