In this musical, two young people inherit their foster father's nightclub. The joint teeters on the brink of bankruptcy...
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Spike
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1944
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In this western, set in Texas, the brave heroes Rod, Fuzzy, and their good-guy gang attempt to keep a band of ruthless...
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1944
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Based on the comic book by the same name, the hero takes on a crazed scientist who creates deadly machines for his own...
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1944
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Timber Queen is another of Pine-Thomas' rugged low-budget adventure films of the 1940s, most of which (like this one) starred...
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1944
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William Gargan and Margaret Lindsay, stars of Columbia's "Ellery Queen" series, were reunited for the like-minded...
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Rand Brooke
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1943
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At 70 minutes, the Roy Rogers musical western Idaho was packaged and promoted as a "special", rather than just another...
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1943
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High Explosive is a Hollywood "B" precursor to the later, more critically lionized The Wages of Fear. Chester Morris plays a...
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1943
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This Monogram melodrama is a remake of the 1932 thriller The 13th Guest, which starred Ginger Rogers and Lyle Talbot. In the...
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Johnny
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1943
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Beverly Ross (nn Miller) is a would-be radio personality, but the closest she gets to being on the air is running the...
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Andy Adams
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1943
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A wounded aerial gunner tells his story in this wartime propaganda film. He begins with his recruitment and basic training...
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Gadget Blaine
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1943
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I Live on Danger is a fast-moving thriller with strong performances and top-notch direction -- by former screenwriter...
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Norm Thompson
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1942
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In this murder mystery, a re-working of The Sphinx, a distract attorney is determined to prove that the community's most...
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Edward Clark
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1942
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Torpedo Boat is a typical action-filled effort from Paramount's busy Pine-Thomas unit. Richard Arlen and Phil Terry star as...
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Ralph Andrews
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1942
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In this entry in the "Weaver Family" series, the town of Farmington is being plagued by a crime wave. The angry citizens are...
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Scarf Lennin
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1942
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X Marks the Spot was the first of eight brisk wartime-oriented melodramas, each running slightly under an hour, produced and...
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Lt. Decker
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1942
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With its slight resemblance to Destry Rides Again (1939) -- probably not entirely coincidental -- this rousing Western from...
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1942
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Flying Blind was the third of William Pine and William Thomas' independent productions for Paramount release. The cast...
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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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Cliff Halliday
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1941
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Set in the Caribbean shortly before the U.S. was drawn into WWII, this zombie chiller tells the tale of an American special...
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James McCarthy
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1941
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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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Red Harris
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1941
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A good wife's innocence is shattered when she learns that her wealthy husband is actually an amoral big-shot jewel thief....
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Wicks
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1941
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Columbia's Two in a Taxi is perfect "Late Late Late Show" fare, just the sort of brisk, breezy film with which one would want...
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Bill Gratton
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1941
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W.C. Fields plays Egbert Souse, a bibulous denizen of Lompoc who supports his family by winning radio contests. When a...
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1940
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Previously filmed in 1930 with Lawrence Tibbett and Grace Moore, the robust Sigmund Romberg operetta New Moon was given...
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1940
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A serious journalist is sent to France and forced to write fashion fluff pieces. Tiring of this, she decides to sneak off to...
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Pink
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1940
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MGM had a tendency to overglamorize the sort of rough-hewn film fare that Warner Bros. offered to its public without...
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1940
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In this crime drama, a government investigator looks into a counterfeiting ring that passes its fake bills through a...
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1940
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1940
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Brothers Terry and Joe Murphy (Dick Purcell, Charles Quigley) are the Heroes in Blue in this Monogram actioner. Actually,...
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Terry Murphy
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1939
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The cumbersome title refers to the fact that tenement-dwelling teenager Jackie Cooper is studying to become a lawyer....
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1939
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Irish Luck was one of a handful of Monogram actioners starring Frankie Darro as a crimesolving bellboy. The son of...
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Lanahan
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1939
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A bad seed tries to keep his older brother from making the same mistakes in this crime drama. The latter is a prize fighter...
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1939
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This gangster film is based upon fact as it tells the tale of a determined reporter who has decided to make sure a certain...
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Terry Walsh
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1939
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Jack Holt does his usual Jack Holt thing in the Columbia quickie Flight into Nowhere. Holt is cast as airline pilot Jim Horne...
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Bill Kellogg
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1938
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In this entry in in the children's series, very loosely adapted from Booth Tarkington's popular story, the young Hoosiers get...
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Tex Boyden
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1938
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Ronald Reagan is his usual sprightly self as ambitious insurance claims adjuster Eric Gregg. While diligently investigating a...
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Jim Faber
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1938
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Who better to direct Warner Bros.' Daredevil Drivers than B. Reeves "Breezy" Eason, the fast-action specialist who staged the...
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Bill Foster
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1938
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1938
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Broadway Musketeers is a remake of the 1932 Warner Bros. drama Three on a Match, with numerous concessions made to the now...
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1938
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Nancy Drew -- Detective was the first in a series of breezy B-pictures based on the teenaged sleuth created by Carolyn Keene....
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1938
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Mystery House is a perfunctory Warner Bros. programmer which coasts along on the appeal of its stars. When a prominent banker...
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Lance O'Leary
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1938
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Back when silver-haired character actor Larry Blake was a firm-jawed leading man at Universal, he starred in the low-budget...
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Slats Harrington
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1938
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This third film version of Peter B. Kyne's Valley of the Giants benefits from the breahtaking Technicolor location...
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1938
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Based on Will Gould's popular comic strip, the 13-episode Universal serial Red Barry stars Buster Crabbe in the title role....
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1938
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In this drama, an innocent man is framed for murder and sent to Sing Sing where he meets a kindly prison chaplain who helps...
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Ace Scanlon
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1938
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A tough sailor bets his pals that he can win the love of a prissy librarian and so masquerades as a candidate for the Naval...
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Rusty
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1937
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Operatic tenor James Melton stars as on-the-skids bandleader Tod Weaver, who finds himself in charge of an all-girl...
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Mel Lynch
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1937
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Director John Farrow was always at his best when dealing with desperate men in desperate situations. One of Farrow's lesser...
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Jimmy Carmody
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1937
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The racket-busting activities of New York DA Thomas E. Dewey was the inspiration for several late-1930s crime films,...
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Bull Regan
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1937
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Gat Brady (John Litel) is a wealthy gangster, though he's never killed anyone, an he is devoted to his teenaged daughter...
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Harp Santell
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1937
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Jim Turner (Barton MacLaine) loves "wine, women and horses," though not always in that order. Our hero's revelry is...
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George Mayhew
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1937
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In this children's adventure, the children of a small town are enthralled by the tales of the town drunk. The story centers...
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1937
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Making his debut with Warner Brothers, Henry Fonda plays an apprentice high-voltage lineman working with the no-nonsense, but...
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1937
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Coincidentally, Warner Bros. contractee Jane Wyman made her starring debut in the same year as her husband-to-be...
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Joe Taylor
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1937
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In this thriller, an ex-pilot develops a useful new navigating device and decides to test it out. Unfortunately the test-run...
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Paul Wayne
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1937
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King of Hockey was one of three low-budget hockey films released during the 1936-37 season, each one produced by a different...
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Gabby Dugan
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1936
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According to encyclopedic film historian Roger Dooley, The Law in Her Hands is the only film of the 1930s to concern itself...
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1936
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Jailbreak is a formula Warners "B" with all the attendant stereotypes. Dick Purcell plays a convict accused of murdering a...
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Ed Slayden
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1936
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The all-purpose title Man Hunt was trotted out for this 1936 Warner Bros. "B". Aging country newspaper editor Chic Sale is...
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1936
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Never mind the title Bengal Tiger; Warner Bros. wasn't about to make a full-fledged jungle epic on a B-picture budget, so...
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1936
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Ross Alexander, whom Warner Bros. was obviously grooming for big-time stardom, is cast as Bill McAllister, the ne'er-do-well...
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1936
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Perry Mason (Warren William) actually marries his secretary, the redoubtable Della Street (Claire Dodd) in this, the fourth...
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1936
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In this comedy, based on a George M. Cohan play, a hick comes to the city to attend his old buddy's wedding. The rube is such...
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1936
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Two-fisted New York police detective Edward G. Robinson is so volatile that he manages to get himself thrown off the force in...
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1936
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In this comedy, a blocked writer decides he needs a little peace and quiet to spark his creativity so that he can write the...
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1936
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Margaret Lindsay stars in the title role, playing a young woman imprisoned for a crime which she didn't commit. The real...
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1936
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1935
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In this early talkie, a vicious crime lord (played by Lew Ayres in a rare villainous role) decides that he has had enough and...
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1930
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