Conceived as a Gone With the Wind for the CinemaScope generation, Raintree County wasn't quite as successful as its role...
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1957
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In this western, a young man tries to walk the straight and narrow, but he is impeded by his past. The trouble begins when...
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1956
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This 1953 tear-jerker is the third film version of the Edna Ferber novel So Big. Stepping into the role previously essayed by...
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1953
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This Korean War drama is essentially a vehicle for RKO's top male star Robert Mitchum. He plays war-weary "Colonel Steve,"...
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1952
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Though Frank Capra wrote the original story treatment for MGM's Westward the Women, he was too busy to direct the film, and...
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1951
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Dorothy Patrick, the sweetheart of Republic Pictures' "B" unit, stars in Lonely Hearts Bandits. Patrick plays Louise Curtis,...
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1950
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The "B"-picture unit at 20th Century-Fox was slowly being phased out when Miss Mink of 1949 was produced. Lois Collier heads...
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1949
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In this three-hanky movie, an orphaned newsboy decides to care for a crippled young girl after her alcoholic mother is...
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1949
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In this wartime drama, an American officer is accused of secretly working as an SS man. Though all evidence is against the...
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1948
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Variety Time was the first of three "vaudeville-on-film" pastiches released by RKO Radio, each one comprised of highlights...
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1948
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This action adventure centers on the attempts of the courageous Canadian cops to stop crooks from finding a fabulous hidden...
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1948
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Strange Mrs. Crane stars Marjorie Lord, later famous as the TV wife of Danny Thomas (and the real-life mother of actress Anne...
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1948
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The year is 1908 and the setting Jericho, Kansas, a veritable cesspool of sin and vice. Dave Connors is a politically...
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1948
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Bob Hope's Technicolor western spoof The Paleface was one of the comedian's biggest box-office hits. Hope plays Painless...
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1948
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Millie
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1947
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James Thurber wasn't too happy with the Sam Goldwyn film adaptation of his 1939 short story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,...
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1947
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It's a case of mistaken identity after the boss thinks that his meek employee is married to his pretty next-door neighbor. ~...
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1947
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The Runaround is a game attempt to return to the "screwball comedy" genre so popular in the 1930s. Rival detectives Kildane...
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1946
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With an ingenious script by Roy Chanslor, this modest, but imaginative film noir is notable for the strong performance by...
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1946
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After a beauty parlor makeover, a housewife (Dorothy Granger), has a chance encounter with her husband's identical twin...
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Dorothy Errol
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1946
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Deadline at Dawn represented not only the sole film directorial effort of Broadway's Harold Clurman, but also the only...
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1946
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1946
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Sidney Toler seems listless and barely awake throughout the intrigues of the Monogram "Charlie Chan" opus Shadows over...
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1946
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Morgan Conway made his final screen appearance as Chester Gould's granite-jawed detective Dick Tracy in this RKO Radio...
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1946
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1945
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A middle-aged Clark Gable returned from active duty in World War II to star in this MGM release that was heavily advertised...
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1945
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At 88 minutes, Here Come the Co-Eds is one of the longest of Abbott & Costello's Universal starring vehicles, and though not...
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1945
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In this western, a dreamy young woman, tired of her boring life and job travels to an abandoned town where her grandmother...
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1945
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Substituting for Allan Lane, who'd been called away to active military service, Bill Elliot stars in the Republic "Red Ryder"...
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1945
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Jack Oakie and Peggy Ryan head the cast of the Universal "B plus" musical On Stage Everybody. As indicated by the title, this...
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1945
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One of the last of Universal's "pocket" musicals, Under Western Skies packs a surplus of entertainment value into its brief...
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1945
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Another of Jack Haley's comedy vehicles for Pine-Thomas productions, One Body Too Many casts Haley as timid insurance...
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1944
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An engagingly silly Charlie Chan whodunit from Poverty Row company Monogram, The Jade Mask mixed science fiction with Old...
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1944
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Originally, producer Harry Sherman's Woman of the Town was slated for Paramount release, but that studio was overloaded with...
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1944
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For their first film in a year, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello played it safe with a medley of old burlesque routines and...
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1944
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The wild and woolly early days of New York -- when it was still known as New Amsterdam -- provide the backdrop for this...
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1944
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The sparkling screwball comedy And So They Were Married was originally released as Johnny Doesn't Live Here Any More....
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1944
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Freely adapted from a successful Broadway musical by Moss Hart, this story stars Ginger Rogers as Liza Elliott, the editor of...
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1944
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1944
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1943
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True to Life stars Dick Powell as a radio writer in search of saleable material. He comes up with a weekly sitcom about a...
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1943
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Robert Paige plays a struggling songwriter who poses as a millionaire cowboy. It's all part of a zany, wacky and nutty scheme...
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1943
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It was an open secret in Hollywood that bosom buddies (and fellow Universal contractees) Broderick Crawford and Lon Chaney...
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1942
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A collegiate football player becomes the campus laughing-stock when he scores the winning touchdown--for the wrong team. The...
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1942
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Star-Spangled Rhythm is a typical wartime all-star musical-comedy melange, this time from Paramount Pictures. The slender...
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1942
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1941
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The Hollywood "establishment" had been waiting a long time for maverick director Gregory La Cava to fall from grace, and when...
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1941
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The marvelous rapport between stars Clark Gable and Lana Turner makes MGM's Honky Tonk seem far more substatianal than it...
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1941
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A schoolteacher battles for women's rights in mid 19th century Wyoming. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1941
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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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When the Daltons Rode is the much-embellished tale of that celebrated outlaw family, the Daltons. Broderick Crawford,...
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1940
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Too many of Gene Autry's Republic western sacrificed action in favor of music. A notable exception to this syndrome is Blue...
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1939
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Following up their successful film Love Affair, Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne team up again for the romantic melodrama When...
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1939
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This collection of short films features the '30s comedian Leon Errol in A Panic in the Parlor, Crime Rave, and Man-I-Cured. ~...
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1939
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1938
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Almost like a special bonus, the slapstick of this Three Stooges short is sprinkled with a few dashes of subtle humor. When...
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1938
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The second motion picture version of a Saturday Evening Post story by Dana Burnet, this romantic melodrama was also the...
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1938
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Viennese-born Luise Rainer plays a young Parisian girl who attends an exclusive drama school, working nights at a factory to...
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1938
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In this romance, a detective teams up with a count and travels to Budapest in search of an embezzler. While there, the two...
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1937
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A handful of German soldiers readjust to civilian life in the bitter wake of World War I in this follow-up to the classic All...
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1937
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1936
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1936
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1936
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1935
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I've Been Around hinges on an unlikely case of mistaken identity. Society girl Drue Waring (Rochelle Hudson) mistakes...
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1935
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Susan (ZaSu Pitts) is a plain-Jane wallflower who spends a day at Coney Island. Here she catches the eye of equally shy (and...
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1935
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Screenwriter Preston Sturges never lets the facts get in the way of a good story in this colorful filmed biography of...
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1935
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While this was the second short that The Three Stooges shot for Columbia, this one is the first where they use their own...
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1934
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1934
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The title tells all in the independently produced romantic drama Marriage on Approval. Set just before the repeal of...
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1934
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1934
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Ray Walker plays Jimmy Case, a combustible young man who loses one job after another because he can't keep his fists to...
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Grace Clarice
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1934
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Distantly related to Frederick Lewis Allen's non-fiction book of the same name, Only Yesterday uses fictional characters to...
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1933
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Slim Summerville and Zasu Pitts star as Mark and Connie, a pair deceptively innocent-looking con artists. Connie has made a...
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1933
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In this boxing drama/murder mystery, an aspiring small-town prizefighter ignores the objections of his pacifistic father, a...
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1933
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This collection features three short films from the 1930s featuring W.C. Fields, including The Fatal Glass of Beer, The Golf...
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1933
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1933
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In this comedy, a childlike playboy inherits the family fortune and gets himself a worldly butler who teaches him how to...
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1933
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British supporting actor Tyrell Davis earned a rare starring role in this low-budget family drama from Poverty Row company...
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Vi Rantler
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1932
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In his fourth Western for Columbia Pictures, Tim McCoy played a lawman chasing a masked villain known only as "the Shadow."...
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1932
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Night World is an astonishingly compact 57-minute extravaganza, all of which takes place at the upscale (but somewhat...
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1932
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Director Cecil B. DeMille returned to Paramount Pictures for this typically epic production, which became his first box...
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1932
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1932
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W.C. Fields stars as the subject of this classic comedy short, which he also wrote the screenplay for. The dentist is a...
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Patient (Miss Peppitone)
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1932
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1932
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A boxer and his girl try to dissuade their friend from getting involved with a Mafioso's gal. ~ Kristie Hassen, Rovi...
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1931
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This is deservedly one of Charley Chase's most popular two-reelers. Charley's pal (Carlton Griffin) tries to set him up on a...
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1931
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Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are victims of the depression in this tworeeler. They do have an old car, a tent and some...
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1931
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1930
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1930
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1930
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1930
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While on an outing to go fishing, Oliver Hardy is trying to get some sleep. He's disturbed by a newspaper that blows in,...
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1930
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