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1985
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In the conclusion of a two-part story, James (Jason Bateman) remains in a coma after being shot in a bank robbery. Everyone...
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1982
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In this syrupy comedy, a father attempts to reconnect with his troubled, estranged son, a philosophy professor. The chance...
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1970
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Time for Giving is the British title for the American comedy film Generation. This exercise in late-sixties "mod"-ness is...
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1969
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This situation comedy comes from a Bob Fisher and Arthur Marx play. Jonathan Kingsley (David Niven) is the teaching...
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1968
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In a moment of weakness, Mr. Mooney (Gale Gordon) permits Lucy (Lucille Ball) to try on a $6000 ring that he has purchased as...
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Mr. Barmarche
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1966
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O'Rourke (Forrest Tucker), Agarn (Larry Storch), Dobbs (James Hampton) and Vanderbilt (Joe Brooks) buy their way out of the...
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1966
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Dean Martin stars as an amiable gunrunner in the tongue-in-cheek western Texas Across the River. Martin teams up with...
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1966
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A Very Special Favor stars Rock Hudson as a notorious romeo and Leslie Caron as a prudish psychiatrist. At the urging of...
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1965
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In the conclusion of a two-part story, Billie Jo (Jeannine Riley) is determined to use the $500 left her by her father to...
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1964
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This charming tale is about a young girl's father and his slightly erratic behavior after sampling a refreshing alcoholic...
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1963
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In this romantic comedy, Deke Gentry (Kirk Douglas) is a lawyer who gets an unusual assignment from Chloe Brasher...
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1963
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On the strength of testimony provided by a 10-year-old eyewitness, Paladin (Richard Boone) goes after a white man suspected...
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1962
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In this comedy, two small-time con men steal an honest ex-convict's car and use it to rob a bank. They then hide the loot in...
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1962
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1962
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Schoolteacher and maritime historian Philip Andrews (Jeremy Slate) incurs the wratch of shipping-company owner Ben Farraday...
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1962
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Heading towards Johnsonville, Paladin (Richard Boone) comes across a young woman named Kathy Rousseau (Pippa Scott), who is...
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1961
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In this children's movie, an adorable newsboy, his dog, and his friend the hobo accidently stumble across a briefcase...
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1961
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Bart (Jack Kelly) is determined to force George Parker (Alan Hewitt), the crooked town boss of Parkersville, to repay an...
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1961
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In this satirical costume fantasy, a clumsy no-talent genie ends up chastised by the genie king and given one last chance to...
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1960
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Paladin (Richard Boone) is one of four travellers who witness a man falling down a ravine and being trapped on a ledge by a...
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1960
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When scatterbrained millionairess Kiz Bouchet (Kathleen Crowley) insists that somebody is trying to murder her, Beau Maverick...
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1960
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Widow Ida Blythe (Beatrice Straight) insists upon spending the weekend alone in her remote cabin, despite news that an...
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1960
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Warlock offers us a mean-spirited, mercenary Henry Fonda and an honest, peaceloving Richard Widmark. A Wyatt Earp-like...
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1959
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Having experienced a disturbing premonition, Stanley Lockhart (Joe Mantell) pays a visit to his father Simon (Arthur...
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1959
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1959
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Dr. Blane (Don Beddoe) asks Perry (Raymond Burr) for advice in dealing with his scapegrace son-in-law Jack Hardisty (Fredd...
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1958
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Bret (James Garner) is summoned for jury duty in the trial of young Bill Gregg (William Reynolds), who is accused of...
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1958
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The Toughest Gun in Tombstone, at least according to this film, as Arizona ranger Matt Sloane (George Montgomery). Working...
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David Cooper
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1958
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Judge
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1958
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The title of this episode refers to a curious chemical process created by college student Marv Adams (Gary Vinson). Alas,...
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1957
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1957
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A bizarre western that at times veers dangerously close to outright burlesque, Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend concluded Randolph...
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1957
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It may be Christmastime, but there's no good cheer in the home of Nathaniel Beecher (Edward Binns), an embittered rancher...
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1957
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Todd MacGregor
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1956
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In this western, an adventurous gambler goes on the lam when he is falsely accused of a riverboat killing. He hides out for...
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1956
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The 20th Century-Fox Hour (later syndicated as The Hour of Stars) ran on CBS just shy of two years, from October 1955 through...
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1955
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1955
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By 1955, the original Tarzan, Johnny Weissmuller, had long since retired, and RKO Pictures tried several replacements....
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1955
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Phil Carey is his usual rough-and-tumble self in the Columbia western programmer Wyoming Renegade. Carey plays Brady Sutton,...
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1955
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Director Otto Preminger's only western, River of No Return is set in Canada during the 19th century Gold Rush. Farmer Matt...
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1954
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Bank teller Mike Donovan (Barry Sullivan) takes the first step on the road to Perdition when he fails to report a $49,000...
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1954
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Like its predecessor Duffy of San Quentin, The Steel Cage is made up of episodes from a never-telecast TV series based on the...
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1954
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Based on a novel by Gwen Bristow, Jubilee Trail is a sprawling, all-star western from the Republic Studio mills. Despite is...
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1954
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The System was one of several "exposé" films inspired by the Kefauver crime committee. The title refers to the manner in...
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Jerry Allen
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1953
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An unofficial remake of The Champ, The Clown concerns Dodo Delwyn (Red Skelton), a down-and-out performer with abundant and...
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1953
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The Dumas-inspired Blades of the Musketeers began life as an hour-long TV show, produced by Hal Roach Jr. as a possible...
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1953
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A "big" western by Allied Artists standards, Cow Country is directed with his usual panache by horse-opera expert...
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1953
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1952
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Washington Story stars Van Johnson as mildly liberal congressman Joseph T. Gresham. For reasons that he can't fathom, Gresham...
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1952
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The Kefauver Committee's ongoing investigation of organized crime spawned several "Torn from Today's Headlines!" films in the...
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1952
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Sex symbol Marilyn Monroe went dramatic in 1952's Don't Bother to Knock. Monroe plays Nell Forbes, a beautiful but suicidal...
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1952
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1952
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The Narrow Margin is generally considered a "model" B picture; some film buffs go farther than that, labelling this 1952 RKO...
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1952
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Zeke Mitchell
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1952
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Carrie is based on Sister Carrie, a novel by Theodore Dreiser. Dreiser's clumsy, unwieldy prose is streamlined into a neat...
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1952
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1952
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Based on the autobiography by George and Anna Rose, Room for One More is a warm-hearted vehicle for husband-and-wife actors...
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1952
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Though its title would seem to indicate a medieval swashbuckler, The Iron Mistress is actually based on the life of American...
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1952
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In this musical western, a rancher sends a man to prevent the marriage of his daughter. When the man arrives he finds a dude...
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1952
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Starlift was Warner Bros' attempt to revive the "all-star patriotic musical" format which had worked so well during WW II....
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1951
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Based on a story by Paddy Chayefsky, this is the tale of a man who is being forced to retire from his job, at the age of 65,...
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1951
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1951
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Corky of Gasoline Alley was the second and last Columbia "B"-picture inspired by Frank King's popular comic strip Gasoline...
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Walt Wallet
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1951
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1951
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Rancher Randolph Scott rides right into a romantic triangle in this moody western. He is forced to stand by as his mercenary...
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1951
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1951
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Gasoline Alley was based on Frank King's popular comic strip of the same name. The strip's central characters, service...
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Walt Wallet
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1951
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Highly respected defense attorney Dwight Bradley Mason (Walter Pidgeon) is able to clear young Rudi Wallchek...
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1951
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The Rodeo King and the Senorita stars Rex Allen (playing himself); it shouldn't be necessary to indicate which of the title...
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1951
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An all-supporting-player cast graces the Republic actioner Million Dollar Pursuit. Top billing goes to Penny Edwards as...
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1951
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1950
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1950
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Caged, considered the best woman's prison film ever made, represents a union between realistic socially conscious drama and...
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1950
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Gene Autry and his horse Champion play "themselves" in Columbia's Beyond the Purple Hills. This one finds Autry serving as a...
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Amos Rayburn
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1950
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Recreating his stage role, Jose Ferrer stars as Edmond Rostand's Cyrano, a 17th-century French cavalier, poet and swordsman...
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1950
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Young David Bruce plays Young Daniel Boone in this above-average Monogram actioner. Taking time off from hunting and...
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Charlie Bryan
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1950
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Jimmy Durante plays the patriarch of a down-on-their-luck family of acrobats, who suddenly finds a great deal of money hidden...
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1950
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Jane Greer plays a hard-boiled dame so well in The Company She Keeps that the film's outcome remains in doubt right up to the...
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1950
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Reliable serial and western leading lady Adrian Booth is awarded top billing in Republic's Hideout. Hannah (Booth) and Edie...
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1949
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No relation to the 1937 screwball comedy of the same name, Easy Living is a film about the world of professional sports....
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1949
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This musical comedy stars William Powell as Emery Slade, who was once a major film star but lately isn't getting much work....
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1949
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Columbia's "Crime Doctor" series drew to a close with 1949's Crime Doctor's Diary. A visibly weary but still virile...
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1949
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Flame of Youth was a modest juvenile-delinquent drama from the Republic Studio mills. With too much time on their hands, a...
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1949
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1949
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After Ray Milland turned down the leading role in Bride of Vengeance, Paramount contractee John Lund stepped into the role of...
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1949
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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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1949
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1949
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1949
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The definitive Joseph H. Lewis-directed melodrama, Gun Crazy is the "Bonnie and Clyde" story retooled for the disillusioned...
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1949
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Hoping for a success commensurate with his previous Show Business (1945), comedian Eddie Cantor poured a lot of his own money...
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1948
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In this provocative drama, a stern hard-liner judge commits euthanasia to save his terminally ill wife from further...
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1948
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Worthless from a historical aspect, Black Bart is nonetheless an enjoyable fabrication about the fabled Western outlaw....
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1948
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1948
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In this aerial melodrama, four brothers working as stunt pilots for a flying circus leave their jobs to become mail pilots....
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1947
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Judge Myrna Loy decides that the best way to curb the excesses of playboyish art teacher Cary Grant is to force him to do...
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1947
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When Loretta Young stepped up to accept her Academy Award for The Farmer's Daughter, the ever-youthful leading lady, who'd...
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1947
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After serving with a notable lack of distinction in WW2, Corporal Slicker Smith (Bud Abbott) and Private Herbie Brown...
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Mr. Roberts
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1947
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A curmudgeonly small-town doctor resents the presence of a new younger physician and his newfangled ways. He is especially...
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Mort Elkins
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1947
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Alan Ladd stars in Calcutta as devil-may-care pilot Neale Gordon. With his equally fearless partners Pedro Blake...
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1947
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Irving Pichel's They Won't Believe Me is the flashback unfolding of Larry Ballentine's (Robert Young) witness-stand testimony...
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1947
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There's only one magnum of French champagne left in all of San Francisco, and both Navy lieutenant Briggs (Ray Milland) and...
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1946
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In this police drama, a busy precinct is thrown into chaos when the murdered corpse of a local detective is found in an...
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1946
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1946
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The postwar classic The Best Years of Our Lives, based on a novel in verse by MacKinlay Kantor about the difficult...
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1946
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Set during WWII, this taut and suspenseful espionage outing chronicles the courage of a brand-new cadre of specially trained...
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1946
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Three years after its previous "Lone Wolf" entry Passport to Suez, Columbia Pictures revitalized the B-picture series with...
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1946
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More expensive-looking than most PRC productions, Crime Inc. is based on a story by former crime reporter Martin Mooney....
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1945
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In this drama, two competing reporters get involved in a mystery when they find a gangster's corpse in a wax museum. As no...
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Max Hurley
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1945
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Getting Gertie's Garter is an updated adaptation of the venerable stage farce by Wilson Collison and Avery Hopwood....
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1945
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Moss Hart's hit Broadway play Winged Victory was brought to the screen in 1944, with most of its original cast intact. The...
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1944
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John Cleveland Carter (Minor Watson) is the publisher of a once-great newspaper, who discovers too late that his editor,...
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1943
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Several veterans of the "Dead End Kids" series are prominently featured in the Columbia programmer Junior Army. Grown-up...
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1943
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Columbia Pictures evidently felt that ex-boxer "Slapsy" Maxie Rosenbloom was the funniest man on earth, despite the fact that...
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Hypo McGonigle
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1942
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Released in late August of 1942, Sabotage Squad was the last of Columbia's B-budget wartime melodramas of the 1941-42 season....
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Chief Hanley
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1942
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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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When a young woman inherits $1 million she finds herself the target of a criminals who wants her money too! ~ Rovi...
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1942
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The best of Joe E. Brown's Columbia starring vehicles, Shut My Big Mouth is also one of Joe's funniest efforts since his...
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Hill
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1942
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This biopic takes an in-depth look into the life of Minnesota All-American football player Bruce Smith. The story is framed...
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1942
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Tales of Manhattan is a sumptuous multipart film centered around a formal tailcoat. The coat is specially designed for stage...
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1942
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1942
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1942
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In this low-budget thriller (which developed something of a cult following among film buffs in the '60s and '70s),...
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Jim O'Hara
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1941
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Texas was Columbia Pictures' lighthearted (and frankly more enjoyable) follow-up to its 1940 big-budget western Arizona....
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1941
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Though the United States still wasn't at war when Phantom Submarine was made, the film emphasizes the importance of...
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1941
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Next to Ann Miller, few Columbia contractees made more B musicals than Jinx Falkenberg. In Sing for Your Supper, Falkenberg...
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Wing Boley
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1941
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Ruby Keeler made her final screen starring appearance in the Columbia musical Sweetheart of the Campus. Keeler plays Betty...
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Sheriff Denby
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1941
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That "Peaceable Man," William "Wild Bill" Elliott, once again plays Wild Bill Hickock in this fine B-Western from Columbia...
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1941
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The Blonde from Singapore was one of several Columbia B-pictures that were presold to exhibitors on the basis of their titles...
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Sgt. Burns
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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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Columbia Pictures put a goodly number of its contract starlets to work in the mild exploitationer Under Age. Fresh out of...
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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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Don Barlow
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1941
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While in Hawaii, Velez begins the film as a risque nightclub act and due to her involvement with a group of sailors becomes...
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1941
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The Big Boss is Jim Maloney (Otto Kruger), who pulls all the political strings in an unnamed major metropolis. Maloney's...
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Cliff Randall
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1941
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The title of this series entry may strike some as a tad redundant: After all, isn't crook-turned-sleuth Michael Lanyard, aka...
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1941
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If Edward G. Robinson thought he'd get away from tough-guy roles by moving from Warners to MGM, he was sorely mistaken....
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1941
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1940
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This Thing Called Love extracts its laughs from the prehistoric concept of sexual frustration. Business partners...
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1940
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Texas Stagecoach was one of a group of 1940 Charles Starrett westerns directed by cult favorite Joseph H. Lewis. Outside of...
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1940
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From the same folks who brought us My Son is a Criminal comes the near-lookalike property My Son is Guilty. Veteran police...
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1940
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Military Academy would seem to have been an attempt by Columbia Pictures to match the success of the "Dead End Kids"...
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Marty Lewis
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1940
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This is the celebrated Blondie episode that costars Rita Hayworth, who in 1940 was still just another Columbia contract...
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1940
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Few studios churned out prison pictures with as much frequency as Columbia Pictures. In Men Without Souls, young Johnny Adams...
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Warden Schafer
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1940
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In the third of his four Wild Bill Saunders Westerns, Bill Elliott, "the Peaceable Man," is assigned by Governor Dawson...
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1940
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Manhattan Heartbeat is a somewhat toned-down remake of the pre-Production Code melodrama Bad Girl (1931). Newlyweds Johnny...
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Preston
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1940
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Veteran second-unit director and stunt coordinator Ralph Cedar warmed the director's chair for the 1940 Charles Starrett...
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Forsyth
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1940
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In this crime drama, an ex-crook uses his skills as a forensic scientist to solve crimes. He forms a secret society of...
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1940
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Boasting Tony Martin and Rita Hayworth and bandleader Andre Kostelanitz as its leading players, it's surprising that Music in...
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1940
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The vice squad takes on escort services in this crime drama. Two services are depicted. One escort agency is legitimate,...
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Regan
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1940
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Condemned to death for a mercy killing, Dr. John Garth (Karloff) continues to experiment in prison to develop a serum that...
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1940
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Though the 1931 Fox release Charlie Chan Carries On apparently no longer exists, modern viewers can get a general idea of the...
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1940
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Warren William is back as suave thief-turned-sleuth Michael Lanyard, alias the Lone Wolf, in Columbia's The Lone Wolf Keeps a...
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1940
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The Grand Hotel formula that was so overworked in the 1930s made an encore appearance in 1940's Escape to Glory. The story is...
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1940
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The lives of female hoboes in the Great Depression are chronicled in this interesting drama. In order to fully understand...
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1940
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In this entry in the long-running series, the reformed master jewel thief rushes to help a lovely heiress whose pearl...
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1940
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Brand
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1940
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Fiercely independent authoress June Cameron (Loretta Young) has no time for men in her life. Chauvinistic medical college...
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1940
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Though Joe E. Brown's starring vehicles of the late 1930s-early 1940s were on the whole decidedly inferior to his earlier...
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Nick Bruno
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1939
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Cowboy star Bill Elliot makes his first appearance in his familiar guise of "Wild Bill" in Columbia's Taming of the West....
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1939
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While working in a doctor's office, the Three Stooges are mistaken for psychiatrists Ziller, Zeller, and Zoller. Hired by...
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1939
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A rancher and the farmer who fences in precious grasslands battle it out in this drama. The fight begins as the rancher's...
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Martin
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1939
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One review of Columbia's The Amazing Mr. Williams referred to its private-detective hero as "slap happy". As played by...
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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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1939
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The Missing Daughters of the title are innocent young girls who've been led astray by seedy dance-hall operator Lucky Rogers...
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1939
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This second entry in Columbia's new "Blondie" series is every bit as delightful as the first. When Dagwood Bumstead...
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1939
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Spunky Joan Blondell is practically the whole show in the diverting comedy Good Girls Go to Paris. Blondell is cast as...
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1939
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In this prison drama, a physician ends up incarcerated after he treats a long-time patient who was a fugitive convict. As...
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1939
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The publisher of a popular gossip magazine causes a scandal of his own when he hires his bastard son as a reporter. The cub...
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Chick Keller
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1939
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A scientist's greatest invention proves to be his darkest curse in this thriller that was part of Columbia and star...
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Lieutenant Shane
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1939
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Set in a northern California logging community the trouble in this western begins when a lumberjack is killed while sawing...
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1939
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In this drama, a the journalist and editor of a prison newspaper is good enough, that he even contributes to outside...
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Dinky
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1939
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There's That Woman Again was the second and last entry in Columbia's own spin on MGM's "Thin Man" series. Virginia Bruce and...
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1938
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