Definitely no relation to the 1980 Louis Malle film of the same name, 1944's Atlantic City is a tuneful Republic musical, not...
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1944
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1941
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Bright Road was a real rarity in 1953: a major-studio production with an all-black cast. Based on an award-winning short...
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Jane Richards
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1953
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Carmen Jones
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1954
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Change of Heart is the reissue title of the Republic musical Hit Parade of 1943. The studio had been turning out these annual...
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1943
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1940
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In this sea-going suspense drama, Edwin Rumill (James Mason) is the former first mate of an ocean liner who leaps at the...
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Mahia
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1958
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Hosted by Obba Babatunde, this documentary from Passport Productions studies the life and career of African American...
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2003
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A talented cast hacks its way through a so-so script and miles of stock footage in Universal's Drums of the Congo. In the...
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1942
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A music performance video that includes all of the sound-films of Fats Waller in performance. He made them in 1941. They...
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1986
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1947
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For its first broadcast of the 1956-57 season, the monthly CBS variety anthology Ford-Star Jubilee offered a full-color...
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1956
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The story of the legendary Harlem Globetrotters takes second place to the rise to prominence of All-American athlete...
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Ann Carpenter
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1951
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Volume 1 of this 2 video set feature title and film selections from black jazz bands such as The Lonesome Road...
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1986
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From Kultur comes this documentary that looks at the Harlem Renaissance through the music that defined the era. Harlem...
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2004
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In the Storyville Films series Harlem Roots, the fourth film deals with a more upbeat tempo. The popular "Soundies," which...
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1988
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In Concert Series: Dorothy Dandridge contains a number of live performances by the revered African-American singer and...
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Political intrigue and romantic gamesmanship send an already torrid Caribbean community to the boiling point in this drama....
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Margot Seaton
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1957
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Veteran action specialists Ray Taylor and Lewis D. Collins co-directed this below-average Universal serial featuring brunette...
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1945
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John Wayne goes up against the lottery racket, 1880 Louisiana-style, in this passable time-killer from Republic Pictures....
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1941
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Lucky Jordan (Alan Ladd) is a tough but good-natured New York racketeer who tries to finagle his way out of Army service....
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1942
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This routine crime drama with a dash of romance begins with a tense opening, a jewel theft is carried out almost without a...
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Gianna
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1960
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This video captures the sounds of Nat Cole, the Mills Brothers and the Delta Rhythm Boys with titles such as "You Call It...
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1986
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Yes, even Ida Lupino occasionally starred in screwball comedies during the 1930s and 1940s. Pillow to Post casts Lupino as...
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1945
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Bess
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1959
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June Allyson plays a band singer working in New York City; Van Johnson is the manager of a fancy apartment house where a...
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1953
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1944
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Harry Belafonte rose to fame in the 1950s as a singer and actor, bringing the Caribbean sounds of calypso music to the charts...
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2012
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Soundies: A Musical History collects a number of short musical films that played on a film jukebox called Panoram in the...
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2007
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Skating star Sonja Henie and the Glenn Miller Orchestra share the spotlight in Sun Valley Serenade. Henie plays a Norwegian...
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1941
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1941
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This installment of Swing Era features such groups as The Delta Rhythm Boys, The Deep River Boys, and The Charioteers....
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Adapted from a novelette by Prosper Merimée, Tamango ran into censorship problems in the U.S. for several reasons, not least...
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Mistress
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1958
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1951
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On the last day of school, the Our Gang kids learn that their beloved teacher Miss Jones (Arletta Duncan) is going to be...
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1935
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