This episode marks the first series appearance of Elizabeth Baur as rookie policewoman Fran Belding. Anxious to prove that...
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1971
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In fine Hollywood tradition, John Wayne had to play a "one-eyed fat man" before the Motion Picture Academy considered him...
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1969
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This musical chronicles the rise to fame of C&W singer Grady Dodd (Hank Williams Jr.). The tale begins as the talented young...
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1968
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In this sequel to the previous season's "The Big Shadow of the Land", Jack Kruschen returns as Giorgio Rossi, the bombastic...
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Gurney
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1967
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In this drama, sweet and honest Tammy is hired as a secretary by a powerful industrialist with a handsome young son....
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John Brent
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1967
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In this sci-fi spy thriller, a secret agent for Espionage, Inc., is assigned to stop the Dragon, a Chinese communist...
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1966
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Mervyn LeRoy, one of the best-known directors of Hollywood's Golden Age, wrapped up his career behind the camera with this...
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1966
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Elvis Presley plays a double role in Kissin' Cousins. When the U.S. government wants land owned by the hillbilly clan headed...
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1964
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Johnny Cabot (Johnny Cash) is a bloodthirsty New Jersey gangster who is forced to hide out in a small California suburb after...
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Ken Wilson
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1961
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Gimmick-loving producer William Castle strikes again with this fun haunted-house thriller which invited audiences to find the...
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Cyrus Zorba
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1960
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In this tearjerker, a morally disparate father and son attempt to reconcile their differences. The father is a major...
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1959
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Host
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1955
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1955
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1953
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A longtime "dream" project of production designer-turned-director Eugene Lourie, The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms sees the...
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Capt. Phil Jackson
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1953
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1953
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1951
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Bing Crosby stars as Paul Merrick, an irresponsible songwriter in Mr. Music. Merrick's improvidence and prodigality has made...
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1950
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The Lost Volcano is the 3rd entry in Monogram's "Bomba the Jungle Boy" series. Johnny Sheffield, formerly "Boy" in the Tarzan...
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Paul Gordon
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1950
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1950
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The Dore Schary regime at MGM brought a much-needed dose of stark realism to the venerable studio. Van Johnson sheds his...
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1949
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Roger Abernathy
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1949
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Quickie king Sam Katzman was responsible for the 64-minute swashbuckler Barbary Pirate. Set mostly in the bay of Tripoli in...
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Maj. Tom Blake
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1949
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Martha Vickers was given a rare leading-role opportunity in Daughter of the West. Vickers plays Lolita Moreno, a part-Native...
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Ralph Connors
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1949
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In this above-average western, a villainous land grabber attempts to force horse ranchers to sell their ranches so he can...
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1948
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1948
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Bells of San Fernando was advertised as a romantic adventure, but it plays more like a Western. Donald Woods plays an Irish...
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Michael
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1947
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Evidently, PRC hoped to match the success of its 1946 "family" film The Enchanted Forest with 1947's Stepchild, which like...
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Ken Bullock
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1947
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Actually it's Rin Tin Tin III, grandson of the legendary silent-movie canine star. Filmed in less than glorious Vitacolor,...
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Father Matthew
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1947
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Romantic comedy was never Errol Flynn's forte, but he occasionally gave it the old college try in such films as...
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1946
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Faced with the challenge of writing a screenplay based on the life of fabulously wealthy, fabulously successful composer Cole...
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1946
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Dennis Morgan and Jack Carson, the Bing Crosby and Bob Hope of Burbank, star in the Warner Bros. musical The Time, the Place...
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1946
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In this drama based on a popular radio series, a millionaire believes he has six months left to live and so marries his...
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1945
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Danny Kaye plays the first of his cinematic dual roles in Goldwyn's Wonder Man. Kaye appears as timid librarian Edwin Dingle...
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Monte Rossen
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1945
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Such was the prevailing mood among filmgoers in 1943 that God Is My Co-Pilot was allowed to show a spiritual shaft of light...
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1945
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This odd combination of roughneck comedy and serious domestic drama was adapted by Louise Randall Pierson from her own...
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1945
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The West Coast's answer to Broadway's Stage Door Canteen, the Hollywood Canteen was created as a GI morale-booster by film...
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1944
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First filmed in 1928, Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer-winning novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey is given a ponderous treatment in...
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1944
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Though the filmmakers claimed they were writing a biography of Nazi minister Dr. Joseph Goebbels, this film is actually...
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Dr. Hans Traeger
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1944
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An expansion of, and improvement upon, Lillian Hellman's stage play of the same name, Watch on the Rhine stars Paul Lukas,...
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David Farrelly
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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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Steve Curtis
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1943
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Bob Jackson
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1943
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Outdistancing all competing studios, tiny PRC managed to register the title Corregidor for copyright within hours after the...
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Michael
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1943
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Thru Different Eyes is a remake of the 1929 film of the same name. The original was hailed for its creative use of sound and...
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Ted Farnsworth
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1942
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In this grim melodrama, Barbara Stanwyck plays the eldest of three wealthy sisters who become orphans when their father dies...
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1942
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The first officer on a freighter accidentally kills his captain during a heated wage dispute and ends up sentenced to the...
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Joel Grant
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1941
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Universal catered to the young fans of aviation with this airborne serial, which featured a plucky kid -- "Bowery Boy" Billy...
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1941
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Universal's "Baby Sandy" series officially ended with Sandy Gets Her Man, but the infant star still had one picture left on...
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Edward Smith
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1941
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In this third of RKO's "Mexican Spitfire" series, star Lupe Velez doesn't get any further west than Reno, Nevada. Lupe feels...
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Dennis Lindsay
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1940
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Former Latin Lover Ricardo Cortez directed this farfetched but fast-paced gambling melodrama in which girl reporter Julie...
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Steve Walker
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1940
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An innocent young woman is accused of murder by her wicked stepmother. The poor lass ends up in prison. Fortunately, a...
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1940
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In this drama, a despondent fellow contemplates suicide after he is abandoned by his last girlfriend. To ensure that his...
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1940
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In this musical drama, a construction worker becomes the guardian of a 12-year old girl after one of his buddies is killed....
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1940
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The titular girl is Lupe Velez, a tempestuous cabaret entertainer. Donald Woods plays a staid American ad man who hires her...
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Dennis
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1939
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According to RKO Radio's publicity folks, Beauty for the Asking was supposed to have been an expose of the lucrative...
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Jeffrey Martin
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1939
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In the tradtion of producer Harry Sherman's earlier Zane Grey westerns for Paramount, Heritage of the Desert features an...
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John Abbott
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1939
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The excellent response to RKO Radio's The Girl from Mexico prompted the studio to fashion an entire series based on the...
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Dennis Lindsay
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1939
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This murder mystery is set behind-the-scenes of a radio station. the trouble begins when a hated cad of a sponsor is found...
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Butts
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1938
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The Black Doll is one of the better entries in Universal's "Crime Club" series. Most of the action takes place on a dark and...
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Nick Halstead
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1938
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Though its title suggests yet another rip-off of It Happened One Night, Republic's Romance on the Run is more accurately...
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Barry Drake
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1938
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Now decidedly a product of Warner Bros.' grade-B unit, The Case of the Stuttering Bishop brought the Perry Mason series to a...
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Perry Mason
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1937
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A cast of Warner Bros. B-movie players struggles valiantly with a leaden script in this medical drama about foster brothers...
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Steven Brace
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1937
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In this actioner, a tough Coast Guard officer endeavors to marry his lovely daughter to a handsome sailor. The trouble is,...
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Steve Webb
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1937
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In New York to attend a police testimonial in his honor, Honolulu detective Charlie Chan runs smack dab into another murder....
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1937
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This low-budget musical offers a peek behind the scenes in Hollywood. It centers on a recently unemployed talent scout who...
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Steve Stewart
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1937
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Mark Tracey
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1937
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When David O. Selznick produced the film version of the 1000-plus page novel Gone with the Wind, he declared he could not...
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1936
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This crime drama is set in the fictional San Francisco eatery, Mary Grady's Chowder House which is presided over by the...
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Denny
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1936
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Warner Bros' Road Gang is a retread of themes first explored (and stock footage first seen) in the studio's earlier...
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James Larrabee
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1936
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Briefly breaking away from her high-gloss modern soap operas, Kay Francis stars as Florence Nightingale in this reverent...
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Charles Cooper
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1936
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"Every time Paul Muni parts his beard and looks through a microscope, we lose a million dollars." Producer Jack Warner's...
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Jean Martel
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1936
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Based on the W. Somerset Maugham novel The Narrow Corner, the melodramatic adventure Isle of Fury is one of Humphrey Bogart's...
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Eric Blake
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1936
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Sid Barnett
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1935
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Errol Flynn makes his Hollywood screen debut as a corpse in this funny, fast-paced whodunit, the third of six Perry Mason...
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Carl Montaine
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1935
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A descendant of the notorious Borgias begins to believe that he has inherited their murderous tendencies in this thriller....
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Cesare
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1935
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It is a tale known well, filmed many times over the years, but never better than this early black and white version from the...
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1935
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In this romance, a social worker employed by Traveler's Aid finally is able to show her love to a construction foreman...
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John Wesley
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1935
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Charles Ford
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1935
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Based on the best-selling Gladys Hasty Carroll novel of the same name, As the Earth Turns covers four seasons in the life of...
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Stan Janowski
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1934
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Warner Oland made his fifth appearance as wily Honolulu-based detective Charlie Chan in Fox's Charlie Chan's Courage. Hired...
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Bob Crawford
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1934
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Cited by film historian William K. Everson as one of the fastest-moving crime melodramas of the 1930s (if not the fastest)...
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Tony Stirling
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1934
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Frank
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1934
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The relative importance of social class differences is examined in this drama that centers on the daughter of a disinherited...
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Tommy Traill
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1934
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