Barbara Eden guest-stars as Ellen Brown, a new arrival from Miami. With only the skimpiest credentials, Ellen talks herself...
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1962
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The town of Mayberry is agog when a Hollywood producer and his entourage breeze into town. Captivated by the community's...
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1961
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Sheriff Andy is forced by the indignant taxpayers of Mayberry to evict old Frank Myers (Andy Myers), the poorest man in town....
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Mayor Pike
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1961
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It is time for the annual Mayberry Founders Day celebration, and the committee has decided to hold a beauty contest. Sheriff...
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1961
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Hoping to rid Mayberry of that old eyesore cannon in the town square, Sheriff Andy fabricates a tall tale about the cannon's...
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1961
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Jim Lindsey (James Best), the wandering troubadour introduced in the 1960 episode "The Guitar Player," pays a return visit to...
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1961
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The Colonial Dames of America breeze into Mayberry, searching for the descendant of a celebrated hero of the Revolutionary...
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1961
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The citizens of Mayberry are duly impressed when an FBI man and a press photographer arrive in town to celebrate Sheriff Andy...
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Mayor Pike
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1961
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Jean Hagen guest-stars as beautiful but reckless motorist Liz Crowley, who is arrested for doing 70 in a 45-mile zone by...
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1961
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In Andy's absence, deputy Barney takes over as acting sheriff. By the time Andy returns, by-the-book Barney has jailed...
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1961
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This is the very last entry in the long-running Bowery Boys saga. This time the gang gets involved with English diamond...
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1958
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In this entry in the long-running "Bowery Boys" series Sach sells his soul to the Devil so he can atone for spending a...
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1957
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In this entry in the long-running series, The Bowery Boys must help their leader after he becomes hypnotized by an...
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1957
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1957
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In this episode of the long-running "Bowery Boys" series, Sach reminisces about the time he and the gang spent helping the...
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1957
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In this crime drama, mobsters swear to get revenge upon a zealous public prosecutor as he tries to get them put into prison....
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1956
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Spectator
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1956
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Coming off of a hit New York gig, successful rock & roll crooner Arnie Haines (Alan Dale) realizes he and his bandmates are...
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1956
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The witness of the title is Barbara Stanwyck, who insists she's seen a man strangling a girl in the apartment across the...
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1954
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Henry
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1954
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This Western classic stars Gary Cooper as Hadleyville marshal Will Kane, about to retire from office and go on his honeymoon...
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1952
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The original title for Rancho Notorious was Chuck-a-Luck, which is also the title of the soundtrack ballad (written by...
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1952
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Originally filmed at Republic in 1948, Montana Belle was purchased by producer Howard R. Hughes, who'd loaned the services of...
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1952
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In 1880s New York City, newspapers were engaged in a free-for-all competition, with the respectable practitioners such as...
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1952
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In this musical comedy, a rambunctious small-town girl inadvertently joins the Army and decides to make the best of it....
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1952
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Fort Defiance stars Dane Clark as Civil War deserter Johnny Tallon. Despite his checkered past, Johnny is idolized by his...
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1951
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After a lengthy absence from the screen, Judy Canova returned in the raucous musical Honeychile. The plot had been utilized...
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1951
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Despite its title, Western Pacific Agent is a contemporary crime melodrama. Kent Taylor stars as a railroad detective,...
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1950
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With location scenes lensed in Italy, September Affair is consistently good to look at, even when the pacing flags and the...
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1950
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The sexual dysfunction of a married couple provides the basis of this thought-provoking drama that was originally released...
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1950
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Lucky Losers is an uncharacteristically dramatic entry in Monogram's "Bowery Boys" comedy series. Incredibly enough, Slip...
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1950
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1950
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1950
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Rock Island Trail is proof enough that Republic could turn out an "A" western as well as any of the "majors." This saga of...
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1950
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Produced 16 mm color stock by television personality Spade Cooley in 1947, The Silver Bandit was not released until April of...
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1950
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Charles Starrett once more hits the trail as "The Durango Kid" in Columbia's Across the Badlands. By now, the formula was a...
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1950
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Gig Young was just beginning to toughen up his previously lightweight screen image when he starred in Hunt the Man Down. In a...
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1950
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1949
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"Suggested" by James Oliver Curwood's novel The Gold Hunters, this low-budget Monogram release was the first film in a series...
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1949
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An unusually disturbing noir from a director better known for more mainstream fare like High Noon and From Here to Eternity,...
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1949
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Filmed in 1947, Warner Bros. Night Unto Night wasn't released until 1949. Based on a novel by Philip Wylie, the film stars...
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1949
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In this thriller, a young couple gets married while the groom is on a weekend furlough with the Navy. The newlyweds have...
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1948
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1948
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Small-town department store manager Sam Clayton (Gary Cooper) is a born "Good Samaritan", which in his case translates as...
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1948
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A safecracker risks his own life to save an endangered child from an oncoming truck and finds his life changes forever in...
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1948
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In this western comedy, a milquetoast gunsmith from the East Coast goes to Arsenic City, Arizona because he has heard that...
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Whiskey Drummer
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1948
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Bob Hope's Technicolor western spoof The Paleface was one of the comedian's biggest box-office hits. Hope plays Painless...
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1948
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In this comedy, a realtor at the end of his rope is grossly misdiagnosed as having three months to live. The already...
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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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1947
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1947
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Dog Ginger is a big part of her human family in this melodrama. ~ Rovi...
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1947
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1947
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With 1947's Desperate, a disturbing, noirish twist on traditional moral values, responsibility, and guilt, director...
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1947
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For the Love of Rusty is an easy-to-take entry in Columbia's brief "Rusty" series of the late 1940s. Danny Mitchell...
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1947
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In this drama, a print shop owner suffers a blow to the head and wakes up a mind-reader. Meanwhile the president of a...
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1947
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This is director Frank Capra's classic bittersweet comedy/drama about George Bailey (James Stewart), the eternally-in-debt...
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1946
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This gripping, gritty film noir begins as a mortally wounded physician staggers into the apartment of a vicious vixen, the...
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1946
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Universal's 1946 The Dark Horse is not a remake of the 1932 Warner Bros. film of the same name, though both deal with a long...
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1946
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Deadline at Dawn represented not only the sole film directorial effort of Broadway's Harold Clurman, but also the only...
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1946
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Barbara Hale landed her first A-picture starring role in the engaging romantic comedy Lady Luck. Hale is cast as Mary Audrey,...
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1946
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In this episode of the popular detective series, Chan, along with Number Two Son, are aboard a ship bound for Pago Pago. On...
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1946
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Based on the popular "Lum 'n' Abner" radio show, this comedy tells the funny tale of how the two teamed up to save Pine...
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1946
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Rainbow over Texas is set in a western never-never land, with vintage six-shooters and stagecoaches sharing screen time with...
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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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1946
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This neat, fast-paced perfectly cast film noir reflects the hard-boiled, grim wit of the author of its screenplay,...
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1946
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High School Hero is all about a high school hero (what else?), played by Monogram musical star Freddy Stewart. A student at...
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Mayor Whitehead
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1946
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A woman struggling to rebuild her life becomes the victim of uncharitable rumors in this sudsy drama. After the recent death...
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1946
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The real Diamond Horseshoe was a Las Vegas nightclub created by impresario Billy Rose, which spotlighted old-time stars from...
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1945
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1945
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The Clock was designed by MGM as a "small" picture--though characteristically, it was a bigger production than most "A"...
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1945
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In his first starring role in several years, Robert Armstrong essays a dual role in Gangs of the Waterfront. Armstrong is...
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1945
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In this engagingly silly musical fantasy from the waning days of WW2, Fred MacMurray stars as Bill, who wants to serve his...
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1945
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In this comedy drama a war hero returns home following a medical discharge and ends up entangled with a young woman speeding...
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1945
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1945
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The world's nosiest telephone operator is at it again in this murder mystery. This time Kitty overhears the plans for three...
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1944
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Originally released under the more informal cognomen Goin' to Town, this was the fifth RKO B-picture based on the popular...
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Squire
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1944
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Betrayed is the reissue title for the classic melodrama When Strangers Marry. In her third film, Kim Hunter plays a waitress...
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1944
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1944
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Silent Partner stars Jon Henry as cocky crime reporter Jeffrey Swales, who comes into possession of notebook which provides...
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1944
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That The Girl in the Case is not to be taken seriously is demonstrated in the scene wherein its dignified leading man Edmund...
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1944
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Practically everybody on the Warner Bros. lot shows up in the wartime morale-boosting musical extravaganza Thank Your Lucky...
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1943
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Perhaps Hollywood's greatest success du scandal of the 1940s, this odd psychological Western became a box office hit largely...
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1943
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1943
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Reformed criminal Boston Blackie (Chester Morris) meets his former lover Betty Barnaby (Ann Savage), who wants his help for...
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1943
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In this tuneful comedy, a would-be actor and playwright is deeply in debt, and to keep away from his creditors, begins...
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1943
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Singer Bob Haymes (not Dick Haymes, as has sometimes been reported) heads the cast of Columbia's Swing Out the Blues. The...
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1943
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Hoping to achieve a brilliant career as a violinist, Julia Seabrook (Ann Sothern) divorces her husband Jeff (Melvyn Douglas),...
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1943
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In her last 20th Century-Fox vehicle, skating star Sonja Henie plays, Nora, a Norwegian expatriate ice champion. Newly...
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1943
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In this musical comedy, an agent for an advertising agency begins trying to push a new "Blind Date" service and so engages...
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1942
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Adenoidal teenager Henry Aldrich (James Lydon) "gets glamour" when he wins first prize in a movie-magazine contest. Before he...
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1942
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This Monogram "special" stars Frank Albertson as the title character, a police reporter named Larry Doyle. Our hero solves a...
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Jones
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1942
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1942
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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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In this crime drama, a news editor writes a scandalous expose about a notorious gangster. The gangster then has the gall to...
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1942
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This lighthearted romantic comedy stars William Holden as working stiff Michael Stewart and Frances Dee as wealthy socialite...
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1942
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A musical remake of the 1936 comedy Second Honeymoon and the starring debut of Betty Grable, Springtime in the Rockies tells...
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1942
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If you're wondering what Citizen Kane might have looked like had it been produced by MGM, we submit for your approval Keeper...
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1942
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The title neatly gives away the ending in RKO Radio's Scattergood Survives a Murder. Guy Kibbee once again stars as...
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1942
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Not to be confused with his later Home in Wyomin', Gene Autry's Sunset in Wyoming is essentially a musical with western...
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1941
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Unable to sign boxer Joe Louis to movie contract, Republic Pictures had to make do with the losers of Louis' heavyweight...
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1941
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Faith, Hope and Charity motivate the wacky storyline of Columbia's Three Girls About Town--or to be more exact, gorgeous...
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1941
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Two Latins From Manhattan was Columbia's 1941 contribution to the "Good Neighbor Policy" towards South America. Joan Davis...
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1941
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In this romantic comedy, a blue-blooded girl falls in love with a wealthy rake who wants to settle down and marry her....
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1941
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Top Sergeant Mulligan was Monogram Pictures' attempt to cash in on the popularity of such service comedies as Abbott &...
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1941
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Author Hartzell Spence's popular biography of his preacher father was the source for One Foot in Heaven. Fredric March stars...
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1941
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This is the first of two filmed adaptations of Al Capp's classic comic strip, in which the title hillbilly (Granville Owen)...
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1940
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Winfield Sheehan, former head of Fox studios, owned the only Austrian Lippizan horses in the U.S. In 1940, MGM bought the...
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1940
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A barely disguised rip-off of 20th Century-Fox's all-female Tail Spin (39), Warner Bros.' Flight Angels is an inexpensive...
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1940
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This Roy Rogers vehicle is a followup (though not a sequel) to 1940's Young Buffalo Bill. Definitely a "premature...
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1940
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Paramount's "B" pictures of the early 1940s were generally more interesting than their star-studded "A"s, as witness...
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1940
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Beautifully restored to its original theatrical length of 84 minutes by the Gene Autry Foundation, Melody Ranch is a bright,...
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1940
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In this fast paced mystery, an eager page boy for a radio station tries to convince the owners to let him do a comedy show...
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1940
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The Nazi Party's rise to power has disastrous consequences for a German family in this drama. Victor Roth (Frank Morgan) is a...
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1940
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As suggested by its title, Behind the News was a "stop the presses!" yarn set in a big-city newsroom. Lloyd Nolan is...
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1940
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Bantam-weight western star Don "Red" Barry, Republic's answer to James Cagney, is perfectly cast in One Man's Law. When plans...
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1940
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This final entry in Warner Bros.' Nancy Drew series is the only one actually based on a novel by Nancy Drew creator...
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1939
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This fictionalized biography of the famed American inventor's life provided actor Don Ameche with his signature role. For...
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1939
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Three years after the second Thin Man entry, MGM brought back the property by popular demand with Another Thin Man. As ever,...
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1939
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Paramount's Sudden Money has all the earmarks of a Charlie Ruggles-Mary Boland vehicle, except that this time Ruggles is...
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1939
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1939
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In this crime drama, a grizzled cabbie is scammed out of his life savings by a fake finance company. He tries to no avail to...
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1939
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1939
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Frank Capra's classic comedy-drama established James Stewart as a lead actor in one of his finest (and most archetypal)...
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1939
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It may sound like a teenage-romance comedy, but Boy Trouble is actually a sentimental effort about middle-aged parents....
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1939
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Regarded as the best of Columbia's "Lone Wolf" B-picture series, The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt stars Warren William as Michael...
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1939
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Despite its comparatively upbeat ending, Let Us Live is one of the darkest and gloomiest films of the late 1930s. As working...
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1939
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Gene Autry stars in this vintage musical Western that pits a group of poor but honest cattle ranchers against two-faced real...
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1938
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In this western, Roy Rogers plays a cowboy-congressman from a dustbowl state who travels to Washington, DC to lobby for badly...
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1938
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The Next Time I Marry stars actress Lucille Ball as an heiress who can only receive her 20 million dollar inheritance by...
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1938
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Fred Stone stars as the mayor of a small town, threatened by "progressive" politicians who plan to radically change the...
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1938
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Shirley Ross plays an innocent young girl convicted for complicity in a crime committed by her boy friend (Lloyd Nolan). The...
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1938
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An early Technicolor musical that concentrates on the fashions of the late 1930s, this film was reissued under the title All...
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1937
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The Man Betrayed in this Republic actioner is hero Eddie Nugent, though this doesn't occur until the film is half over....
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1937
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Outcasts of Poker Flat is an adaptation of Bret Harte's western story of the same name, with elements of Harte's...
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1937
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Paramount spent a record one million dollars on its 1937 Mae West vehicle Every Day's a Holiday. La West portrays a...
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1937
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A couple of American soldiers of fortune are hired by the wife of a Chinese general to deliver a priceless diamond to a...
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1937
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1936
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Warner Baxter plays Dr. Samuel Mudd, American history's most famous victim of circumstance. In 1865, Dr. Mudd, a known...
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1936
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To fully accept the premise of Her Master's Voice, one must also accept the notion that Edward Everett Horton is radio...
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1936
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The 1936 comedy-mystery The Princess Comes Across might well have been inspired by a real-life incident during the...
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1936
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Novelist Ursula Parrott's biggest best-seller was 1928's Ex-Wife; less successful was her subsequent book Brilliant Marriage,...
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1936
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Hoping to get on the good side of the new truant officer (Dick Elliot), the Our Gang kids go out of their way to impress the...
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1935
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Reckless is a delightfully breezy screwball comedy from the same director (Victor Fleming) and star (Jean Harlow) responsible...
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1935
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A famous movie actress takes a trip to New York City. While there, she gets involved with a wisecracking cab driver who is...
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1935
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Paul Muni is a prominent physician who is kidnapped by gangsters and forced to tend the needs of head crook Barton MacLaine....
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1935
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In this musical, a radio-announcer is fired after giving a false interview. For consolation he begins to drink heavily. It...
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1934
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Trying a bit too hard to qualify as a "screwball" comedy, RKO Radio's We're Rich Again is based on Alden Nash's stage play...
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1934
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An admirably tough B-picture enlivened by an energetic James Cagney performance, Picture Snatcher stars Cagney as Danny Kean,...
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1933
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