In this sci-fi film, a spaceship crash lands in the Midwest and strands an alien family. A gentle innkeeper takes in the...
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1981
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1977
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In this satire, the events leading up to and following the famous Watergate scandal are recreated. ~ Iotis Erlewine, Rovi...
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1976
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This spoof makes fun of a certain famous German shepherd movie star from the 1920s. The mayhem begins when the head honcho...
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1976
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Also known as Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free, this TV pilot film stars Don Meredith in the title role. Banjo Hackett is a...
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1976
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A proud old Southern woman struggles to keep her popular diner afloat in this interesting character study. The little cafe...
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1975
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1975
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Originally released as The Wild McCulloughs, this AIP melodrama stars Forrest Tucker as J.J. McCulloch, a domineering...
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1975
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Two guys looking for a good time find more than they bargained for in this low-budget action story laced with comedy. Chris...
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1974
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Mike Kelly (Michael Hawkins) is sure that his truck-driver father's deadly roadside crash was no accident, so he leaves...
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1974
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This campy oddity -- featuring John Carradine in one of his patented walk-on roles -- pits some silly facsimile of a...
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1972
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The title of this Bob Hope vehicle Cancel My Reservation is a multiple pun, referring to elements in the story. The...
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1972
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Candy makes good his long-standing promise to quit the Ponderosa to join his longtime sweetheart Lila Holden (Elizabeth...
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1968
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1967
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Hoss Cartwright once again falls victim to a clever palm reader, in this case a travelling prognosticator named Madama...
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1967
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In this spooky comedy, a couple and their adolescent son move into a quiet New England summer cottage. Soon their arrival, a...
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1967
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The 1938 Marx Brothers comedy Room Service was the obvious inspiration for "Monkees Manhattan Style" (aka "Monkees in...
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1967
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Rosie! is directly based upon Ruth Gordon's play A Very Rich Woman, which was itself based upon a French play by Philippe...
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1967
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Uncle Joe (Edgar Buchanan) is convinced that the Shady Rest is haunted by the ghost of Chester W. Farnsworth, who stayed at...
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1965
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Two aging bronc-busters (Glenn Ford and Henry Fonda) make their meager money by breaking wild horses. They dream of better...
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1965
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When Chris Carlyle's (Jay North) family leaves their farm for the city, Chris must give his pet puma up to the local zoo....
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1965
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Fluffy the lion is featured in this comedy. He plays the subject of an ambitious experiment done by Daniel Potter...
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1965
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In this comedy, an introverted journalist for a prominent magazine is assigned to do a story on "Little America" in...
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1964
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An aspiring senator finds himself in deep trouble when he tangles with a sultry teenage girl gone bad in this campy drama....
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1964
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After a dangerous tiger turns on its trainer and escapes from the circus, a small town in Texas finds itself in an uproar...
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1964
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Many viewers avoided Mail Order Bride upon its first release, assuming (thanks to MGM's shoddy promotional campaign) that the...
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1964
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With this all-star Cinerama epic, producer/director Stanley Kramer vowed to make "the comedy that would end all comedies."...
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1963
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This time around, Tammy, played by Sandra Dee, becomes a nurse's aid to care for an old rich woman and causes a commotion....
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1963
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Andy is informed that a top-secret gold shipment from Denver to Fort Knox is making a stopover in Mayberry. Sworn to silence,...
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1963
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The story begins as an innocuous romantic triangle involving wealthy, spoiled Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren), handsome Mitch...
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1963
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Professor Julius F. Kelp (Jerry Lewis) is an addle-brained, absent-minded chemistry instructor always incurring the wrath of...
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1963
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1962
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In order to rid Hogtooth City of outlaws and other lowlifes, the town council has hired three professional gunmen....
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1962
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The second of Jerry Lewis' directorial endeavors, The Errand Boy, like its predecessor The Bellboy, is essentially a series...
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1961
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The Great Impostor is the true story of chameleonlike Canadian Ferdinand Waldo DeMara Jr., well-played by Tony Curtis. Unable...
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1961
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Featuring footage from two real forest fires seamlessly edited into the story's nail-biting climax, this thrilling crime...
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1961
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Edgar Buchanan guest-stars as Henry Wheeler, an itinerant handyman whom Aunt Bee hires as a gardener. It isn't long before...
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George Bricker
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1961
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1961
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Comedian Jerry Lewis began directing movies in 1960, and this often unkind satire on the nature of American womanhood is one...
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1961
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Lou Costello made his only film appearance without Bud Abbott in 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock. Lou plays a bumbling junk...
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1959
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This is Maverick's celebrated spoof of Gunsmoke, emulating its more serious "role model" right down to the pre-credits...
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1959
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3DFrontier Gun3D is another of the moderately interesting low-budget westerns turned out by 20th Century-Fox's Regal Films...
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1958
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Though very tame by contemporary standards, Tunnel of Love was considered the last word in racy comedy back in 1958. Adapted...
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1958
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In this youthful drama, a young nephew is forced to live a highly restricted lifestyle by his two spinster aunts who will...
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1958
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First Counselor
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1957
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Best of Spike Jones, Vol. 1 features some of the wildest musical moments from performer Spike Jones' hit 1950s television...
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1955
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Fans of Loretta Young were rather taken aback by the early scenes of Because of You, wherein Young is seen as brash,...
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1952
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Spike Jones makes his first TV appearance on this episode of The Colgate Comedy Hour. A young Mike Wallace also appears as an...
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1951
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In his final epic Western, Errol Flynn plays cattleman Clay Hardin, who, on a trek south of the border, has discovered that...
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1945
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Rusty Curtis wants his beloved cavalry horse back, but unfortunately the former sergeant's steed has been sold to a society...
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1945
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Musical star Ann Miller plays a Broadway leading lady coaxed into reteaming with Larry Parks, her former producer. Parks is...
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1944
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Two Girls and a Sailor is another of those all-star, no-plot wartime musicals turned out by the bushel basket in the 1940s....
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1944
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In his final starring film, bandleader Kay Kyser is cast as bandleader Kay Kyser. Picking up where Kyser's previous RKO Radio...
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1944
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In this drama, a piano teacher buys a song-publishing business only to discover that it is on the brink of bankruptcy and is...
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1944
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The usual modus operandi for Hollywood "through the years" sagas was to gradually age its young actors in the course of the...
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1944
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1944
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In this comic western, a Broadway star leaves his musical revue to go West and help out his troubled friend. While there,...
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1944
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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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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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1943
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In this romantic musical, a chipper radio crooner does everything she can and is still unable to get a break. Later her...
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1943
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The splashy, star-studded This is the Army is based on the Irving Berlin Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was...
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1943
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In this comedy, set in WW II, a Venezuelan rubber planter's son must travel to New York to try and secure a loan for the...
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1942
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1942
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The girl is stenographer Dot Duncan (Lucille Ball); the guy is her boss, stuffy young shipping magnate Stephen Herrick...
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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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Though Ginger Rogers' starring vehicles always turned a profit for RKO Radio, many filmgoers thought of Rogers only in terms...
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1940
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Parole Fixer is another entry in Paramount's unofficial "J. Edgar Hoover" series, purportedly based on an actual case in the...
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1940
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1939
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Directed by Lewis Milestone nine years after taking home the best director Academy Award for All Quiet on the Western Front,...
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1939
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Upset that his youthful sweetheart Darla Hood has once again thrown him over in favor of neighborhood bully Tommy "Butch"...
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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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American mousetrap salesmen Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy journey to Switzerland, reasoning that where there's cheese, there's...
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1938
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A Yank at Oxford was filmed in England at MGM's "sister studio", Elstree. Robert Taylor plays Lee Sheridan, an arrogant young...
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1938
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This tuneful campus comedy features aging star John Barrymore as a sly, blustery Southern governor with his eye on the Senate...
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1938
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Ever youthful Tom Brown once more plays a campus football hero in Swing That Cheer. Undeniably talented on the gridiron, Bob...
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1938
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A newspaper reporter vies with his arch rival, who is also his girl friend, for the scoop on a recent bank robbery. The race...
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1937
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Richard Thorpe's comedy Double Wedding (1937) marked the seventh screen pairing of William Powell and Myrna Loy, known for...
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1937
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Director Anatole Litvak's first Hollywood film was a remake of his French success L'Equipage, itself based on a novel by...
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1937
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Briefly digressing from "Our Gang"'s new one-reel format, the series' December 18, 1937 release, Our Gang Follies of 1938,...
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1937
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By 1937, producer Hal Roach was hoping to wean himself away from the Laurel & Hardy-Our Gang slapstick on which he had built...
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1937
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