A lawyer must make the most difficult decision of his life in this crime drama that begins when the attorney's son...
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1951
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The Asphalt Jungle is a brilliantly conceived and executed anatomy of a crime -- or, as director John Huston and scripter...
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1950
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Lana Turner stars as an ambitious model who seeks her fortune in New York City. She is befriended by over-the-hill cover-girl...
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1950
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Rudolph Mate directs this sentimental melodrama about a ridiculously self-sacrificing wife based on the book by Ruth Southard...
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1950
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Fred Zinnemann's sensitive film on the plight of paraplegic WWII veterans features Marlon Brando in his superbly moving...
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1950
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When he finds out his ex-wife has just had his child and plans to give her up for adoption, a timid English instructor dashes...
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1944
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In this drama, based on a popular radio program, the leader of a ring of burglars suffers a blow to the head and loses his...
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1943
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The Norwegian resistance to the Nazi occupation of their country inspired several wartime films from Hollywood, including...
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1943
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Believe it or not, this bizarre wartime "B"-picture was based on a true story. In the early stages of WWII, a prominent...
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Elsa
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1942
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This Irving Asher production was that rarity, a genuine B-movie from posh MGM. Set in a pre-Pearl Harbor United States, Nazi...
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1942
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Miss Harper
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1942
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In this humorous adventure, a Puerto Rican explorer shares a drink with his oddball millionaire double. For a lark, they...
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1941
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This remake of Dangerous is set in Singapore and chronicles the exploits of a woman who believes herself cursed. To recover,...
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1941
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In this crime drama, a remake of Heat Lightning(1931), a robber kills a bank teller during a robbery and then takes his wife,...
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1941
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Clara Stone
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1940
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Elizabeth Edwards
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1940
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The last of MGM's "Nick Carter" trilogy, Sky Murder is a tad too cute and clever for its own good, but its mystery angle...
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1940
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Knute Rockne-All American was Pat O'Brien's finest hour: thanks to intensive rehearsals and numerous makeup applications, he...
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1940
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The Mysterious Miss X would have the audience believe that the very American Michael Whalen and Chick Chandler are a pair of...
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1939
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This timely entry in Fox's Charlie Chan series is set in Paris during the Munich Crisis of 1938. Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler)...
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1939
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1939
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Bold for its time (just prior to World War II), Confessions of a Nazi Spy is an expose of a genuine Nazi espionage ring...
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1939
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The second film in the mystery series about a Chinese sleuth, this one concerns the theft of the "Eye of the Daughter of the...
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Valerie Edwards
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1939
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In this episode of the popular detective series, Chan attends a WW I reunion in Paris. While catching up with his buddies,...
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1939
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The old David Belasco theatrical warhorse Zaza, which starred Mrs. Leslie Carter way back in 1899, had already been filmed by...
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1939
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In this espionage drama, an inventor creates a way to send television broadcasts across the country and finds himself...
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1939
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1938
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Based upon Arthur Kober's play (which was subsequently musicalized onstage as Wish You Were Here, Having Wonderful Time stars...
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1938
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Director James Whale, well known for his witty horror films, tackled comedy head-on in this period piece, set in the 18th...
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1937
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A naval officer gets more than he bargained for when he adopts a recently orphaned young boy, the son of his late best...
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Daphne
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1936
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The title may be Bridge of Sighs, but don't expect any location shots of Venice in this Invincible Studios cheapie. Heroine...
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Marion Courtney
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1936
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In this western, three desperadoes rob the New Jerusalem Bank and flee across the desert where they find a seemingly...
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1936
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There's nary a serious moment in the loopy Warner Bros. programmer A Night at the Ritz. William Gargan stars as Duke Regan, a...
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Kiki Lorraine
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1935
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Adapted from Norman Krasna's Broadway hit A Small Miracle, Four Hours to Kill is a multi-plotted effort that can best be...
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Mae Danish
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1935
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In this romantic drama, a horsewoman is forced to work in a society dame's stable. There she meets and falls in love with a...
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1935
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Based on a mystery novel by Mignon Eberhardt, While the Patient Slept stars Aline MacMahon as Eberhardt's middle-aged amateur...
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1935
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James Cagney is Chesty O'Connor, a tough-as-nails, always-ready-for-a-fight shipyard worker, who loses out to US Navy CPO...
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Gladys
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1934
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In this British comedy, a mild mannered editorial writer for a right-wing newspaper becomes fed up with the constant...
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Olga Romanoff
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1934
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In this melodrama set in San Francisco, a businesswoman gives a job to an unemployed, homeless sailor. Later she becomes his...
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Ilka
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1934
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No boring historical pageant this, Warner Bros.' Madame DuBarry is a fast-paced, often hilarious romantic romp. Her Mexican...
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1934
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The real-life career of the notorious female spy known as "Fraulein Doktor" inspired several films of the 1930s. Stamboul...
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Costume Designer
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1934
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All but forgotten today, Warner Bros.' The Firebird was based on a once-popular stage mystery by Lajos Zilhany. Prohibited...
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1934
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Warren William delivers a curiously subdued performance as dilettante sleuth Philo Vance in The Dragon Murder Case. The plot...
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1934
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Two wealthy neighbors, who make no secret of despising one another, both claim that they're married to Bessie Foley...
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1934
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1934
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This drama, set within a boarding house, centers around a pregnant show girl abandoned by her boyfriend, a married man who...
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Kitty
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1933
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Life Begins is an episodic Warner Bros. programmer about one unusually busy night in a maternity ward. Loretta Young is the...
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1932
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The patience of a long-suffering wife is finally rewarded in this drama. The devoted wife has known that her husband has...
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1931
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Made in 1930, this well-known sci-fi musical chronicles the adventures of a lightning-struck man who awakens to find himself...
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Costume Designer
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1930
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