One of the bigger non-cartoon moneymakers for Disney in the 1970s, The North Avenue Irregulars is predicated on the premise...
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1979
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1977
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In this Roger Corman production, co-producer Jesse Vint stars as Jingo Johnson, a stuntman who goes to work for a backwater...
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Bryan Hancock
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1977
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Buck Bowers
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1976
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This western chronicles the travails of a pioneer family as they travel west in search of a new life. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1975
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Jim (James Garner) is hired by his former lover Claire Prescott (Linda Evans) to help pry her loose from a loan shark. But as...
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1975
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This classy and creative low-budget thriller depicts an all-out war of attrition between a group of neglected, disgruntled...
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1974
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Stone (Karl Malden) and Keller (Michael Douglas) must prevent grieving father Robert Hobbs (Ed Nelson) from taking the law in...
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1973
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A runaway box-office hit to the tune of 17 million dollars, Walking Tall is the unabashedly manipulative story of real-life...
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1973
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In this nature adventure, a courageous cougar must struggle to survive after a cruel human hunter kills her mate. ~ Sandra...
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1972
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In this comic western, Flagg (Robert Mitchum) is a veteran marshal forced to retire by the pompous Mayor Wilker...
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1969
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Universal's The Far Out West is a feature-length pastiche, comprised of four episodes of the 1966 TV series...
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1967
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Grandpa
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1966
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This time out, Mr. Mooney (Gale Gordon) is vacationing at a dude ranch. On a mission from the bank, Lucy (Lucille Ball) shows...
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Indian Chief
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1966
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Dancer Barrie Chase, best known for her appearances on the TV specials of Fred Astaire, guest-stars in this Bonanza episode,...
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1965
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Pop singer Tommy Sands guest stars as Richard Bain, a young West Point cadet. Facing expulsion for defending Jason McCord's...
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1965
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Stephanie Carew (Sandra Warner) hires Perry (Raymond Burr) to sue first-time novelist Deborah Dearborn (Zeme North) for...
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1964
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1964
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In this crime drama, a bored, but seductive wife of a wealthy old ranch goes cruising for trouble and finds it when she...
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1964
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Tony Randall has the showcase of a lifetime in the marvelous George Pal production The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao. We first see...
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1963
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Encouraged by an enterprising hobo (Douglas Fowley), Opie and his friends begin playing "Robin Hood." Before long, the boys...
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Wary Willy
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1963
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This romantic adult comedy finds psychiatrist Jason Steel (Dean Martin) the leader of a women's group therapy session. Jill...
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1963
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Based on the book Heidi, by Johanna Spyri, this children's film follows the beloved Heidi as her birthday gifts teach her...
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1962
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In a rather confusing and slow-paced manner, this wartime drama about a real-life dilemma is meant to highlight the...
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1962
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1961
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Raymond Burr was already three years into Perry Mason when he decided to return to his movie-villain roots with Desire in the...
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1960
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A low-budget, low-standard drama about voodoo and death in Brazil, Macumba Love is directed by Douglas Fowley (Doc Holliday...
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Director
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1960
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Don Murray stars as a humble cowboy with aspirations for bigger things. He borrows money from his dance-hall girlfriend...
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1959
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In this western, the Indians claim that their government rations are being stolen and they threaten to fight back. A pair of...
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1958
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In this western set in the Mexican controlled part of California, a villainous cavalry officer is trying to force the owner...
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1957
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Marshal Brennan (Douglas Fowley) lies dying at the outset of this compact western. Fleeing from a posse, an unnamed...
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1957
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Kelly is a big, lovable, immensely talented German Shepherd. "Me" is Len Carmody (Van Johnson), a third-rate vaudevillian....
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1957
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The calculatedly sleazy Bayou stars Lita Milan as Marie, the daughter of slovenly Cajun fisherman Herbert (Douglas Fowley)....
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Emil Herbert
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1957
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A must-see for students of 1950s pop culture, Rock, Pretty Baby was Universal-International's earliest acknowledgement of the...
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1956
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Bandido is set during the Mexican civil war of 1916. Robert Mitchum stars as a sleepy-eyed soldier of fortune who finds...
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1956
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Director Lesley Selander, a western specialist with humble ambitions whose work has fostered a minor cult, was the man behind...
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Hiram Charleton
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1956
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Claudette Colbert makes a long-overdue entree into the Western genre in Texas Lady. Looking at least a decade younger than...
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1956
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The dramatic weight of Man From Del Rio rests securely on the broad shoulders of star Anthony Quinn. Cast as an indigent...
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Doc Adams
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1956
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In this western, the goodguys use bow and arrows instead of guns to foil the schemes of evil landgrabbers attempting to take...
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1955
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In this comedy sequel to Wonderful Town (a popular Broadway musical), Kim, a museum worker from Providence, Rhode Island,...
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1955
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It doesn't take long for old-time-radio fans to figure out that The Naked Jungle is a film version of the classic...
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1954
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1954
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Judy Canova is right in her element in the rowdy Republic musical Untamed Heiress. Canova plays Judy, the daughter of a...
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1954
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For The High and the Mighty, director William Wellman made a point of using Cinemascope to heighten the dramatic content of a...
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1954
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According to some eyewitness reports, the feud between Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis was at its peak during the filming of...
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1954
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1954
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There are few surprises in The Lone Gun--and few lulls, either. Things get under way when ex-marshal George Montgomery rides...
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1954
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Rex Allen, the last of Republic's singing cowboys, stars in Red River Shore. This time, it's up to Allen to prevent a major...
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1953
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Walter Wanger's first production for Allied Artists, Kansas Pacific is more slick and polished than the usual budget western....
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1953
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"Slight" is right: this harmless comedy programmer is as inconsequential as it is enjoyable. It's the tale of two Army...
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Mr. White
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1953
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A Big Apple nightclub singer inherits a riverboat from his late grandfather and learns, via flashback, the interesting story...
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1953
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Cat Women of the Moon tells the tale of a group of American space travellers who confront a hostile tribe of females on the...
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Walt Willis
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1953
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Hollywood, 1927: the silent-film romantic team of Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) and Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen) is the toast of...
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1952
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Peter Lawford goes through his standard "rich, spoiled young playboy" paces in the MGM comedy Just This Once. In danger of...
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1952
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Set in the years following the Civil War, Horizons West stars Robert Ryan as Dan Hammond, one of three Texans who decide to...
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1952
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Joan Crawford is appropriately cast as the title character in This Woman is Dangerous. Crawford plays master criminal Beth...
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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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Man Behind the Gun is a standard-issue Randolph Scott western elevated by good performances and exciting action sequences....
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1952
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Though made in 1951, Criminal Lawyer has the feel of a 1930s film, right down to the casting of Pat O'Brien in the lead. The...
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1951
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1951
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Callaway Went Thataway is an amiable spoof of early television's "Hopalong Cassidy" craze. Fred MacMurray and...
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1951
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Trask
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1951
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After a string of winners, Roy Rogers faltered a bit with South of Caliente. Rogers, playing himself, is the owner of a...
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Dave Norris
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1951
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A curious toddler creates trouble when he finds bank robbers' loot in this comedy. His recently paroled father, and his...
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1951
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Clark Gable is the largely nonheroic hero of the sprawling western Across the Wide Missouri. A cunning trapper who lives...
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1951
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Some auteur critics feel that director Richard O. Fleischer did his best work while laboring in the "B" mills of RKO Radio....
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Benny
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1950
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As an actor, Eddy Arnold was a good country-western singer. In Hoedown, Eddy plays himself, while the acting burden was...
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1950
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After 12 years and 28 films, Columbia's Blondie series came to a close with 1950's Beware of Blondie. The plot is "business...
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1950
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Arizona rodeo champs Dave Saunders (Tim Holt) and Chito Rafferty (Richard Martin) head for Oro Grande, CO, to witness the...
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Rankin
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1950
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Killer Shark was another of actor Roddy McDowall's self-produced film efforts for Monogram release. McDowall stars as Ted,...
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1950
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He's a Cockeyed Wonder stars Mickey Rooney as the title character. Try as he might, Freddy Frisby (Rooney) can't succeed at...
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1950
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In their never-ending efforts to create a movie series to match the success of "The Thin Man," MGM came up with the...
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1950
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RKO's Bunco Squad stars Robert Sterling as Sgt. Steve Johnson, a big-city detective dedicated to tracking down con artists....
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McManus
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1950
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Rod Cameron and Wayne Morris star as Civil War officers who become federal agents. The duo is sent west to investigate a...
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1950
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Westerner Tim Holt and his sidekick Richard Martin are hired to act as border guards on the Rio Grande. This being a modern...
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Bragg
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1950
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1950
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1949
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Virginia Mayo is Flaxy Martin in this complicated Warner Bros. melodrama. Flaxy is a bad girl but good company, especially...
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1949
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Two things are certain from the beginning of Renegades of the Sage. One is that star Charles Starrett will play a character...
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Sloper
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1949
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Director Kurt Neumann, more closely associated with science fiction and mystery programmers, delivers a powerhouse of a...
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1949
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Incoming MGM production head Dore Schary ramrodded Battleground into the studio's schedule over the virulent protests of MGM...
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1949
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Robert Lowery stars in the 65-minute actioner Arson Inc. Lowery plays a fireman in search of a seemingly random arsonist--or...
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Fender
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1949
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Search for Danger was the last entry in the "Falcon" film series, which began at RKO in 1941 and was sequestered at...
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Inspector
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1949
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Joe Palooka, comic strip artist Ham Fisher's golden-hearted pugilist, heads South of the Border in The Counterpunch....
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1949
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So baseball pictures never make money, eh? Try telling that to MGM, which raked in a box office gross of $4 million on their...
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1949
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Guy Madison and Rory Calhoun, both of whom went on to star in their own TV western series, head the cast of the Monogram...
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1949
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Jones
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1949
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Satan's Cradle was the fourth of producer Phil Krasne's "Cisco Kid" programmers for United Artists. Anyone who remembers the...
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Steve Gentry
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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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The Pine-Thomas action/adventure assembly line put together another winner with Waterfront at Midnight. Hoping to put the...
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1948
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Ham Fisher's comic-strip pugilist Joe Palooka is once more visualized on-screen in Monogram's Winner Take All. In this one,...
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1948
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Docks of New Orleans was Roland Winters' second appearance as aphorism-spouting oriental sleuth Charlie Chan -- and like the...
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1948
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Allan Lane goes in search of his dead friend's brother in this fast-paced Western from Republic Pictures. Instead of finding...
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1948
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Behind the locked doors of a mental institution resides crooked politico Judge Drake (Herbert Heyes), free from prosecution...
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Larson
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1948
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In this western, a cowpoke is trotting towards Wyoming in hopes of buying a ranch when he is arrested for a murder he did...
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1948
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In this western comedy, a milquetoast gunsmith from the East Coast goes to Arsenic City, Arizona because he has heard that...
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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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Randolph Scott is a single-minded gunman bent on tracking down and killing the white man responsible for an Indian raid on a...
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1948
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Tim Holt stars in Gun Smugglers, stretching his range by playing a character named Tim Holt. Our Hero, once again teamed with...
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1948
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Second-echelon leading man Don Castle (later a TV producer) stars in yet another Sol M. Wurtzel production, Roses Are Red....
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1947
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In this western, a cowboy crooner finds himself entangled with ruthless rustlers posing as Rangers. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1947
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Three on a Ticket was the fourth entry in PRC's "Michael Shayne" series, and arguably the best of the batch. Hugh Beaumont,...
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1947
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MGM's "Maisie" series came to an end with this undistinguished entry. Eschewing show business for the time being, perennially...
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1947
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Nice guys don't always finish last as can be seen in this crime drama. The story begins as a perfectly nice fellow finds...
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1947
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With 1947's Desperate, a disturbing, noirish twist on traditional moral values, responsibility, and guilt, director...
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Pete
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1947
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The Gas House Kids, the very poor man's Bowery Boys, head for Hollywood. While en route to their destination, they accept the...
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1947
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The country in this low-budget Eddie Dean Western from PRC isn't so much wild as it is familiar. Dean is assigned to bring in...
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Clark Varney
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1947
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When he was first offered the film version of the best-selling Frederick Wakeman novel The Hucksters, Clark Gable turned it...
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1947
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This minor 20th Century-Fox B picture received a great deal of TV play in the late 1950s. In a series of flashbacks, the...
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1947
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On February 17, 1947, two efforts from Paramount's Pine-Thomas productions were tradeshown in tandem. The first was...
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Tom Hammond
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1947
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Usually associated with erudite, urbane comedies, the legendary screen team of Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy goes...
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1947
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1947
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Character actor Douglas Fowley earns a rare starring role in this oddball western comedy produced and directed by...
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Yankee Davis
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1947
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Though already established as Roy Rogers' favorite leading lady (offscreen and on), Dale Evans was permitted a rare...
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1947
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Terry Lee
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1947
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The George S. Kaufman-Marc Connelly play Merton of the Movies was previously filmed in 1923 with Glenn Hunter, and in 1932...
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1947
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This second entry in the Bowery Boys series plays more like an extended 2-reeler than a feature film, perhaps because its...
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1946
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High School Hero is all about a high school hero (what else?), played by Monogram musical star Freddy Stewart. A student at...
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1946
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Monogram added several songs and a barn dance to this otherwise standard Johnny Mack Brown hay burner, in which the veteran...
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1946
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The fun in this musical comedy begins when a popular swing singer mysteriously vanishes and a group of prank-loving college...
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1946
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In this drama, a reporter marries a socialite with a bad ticker. The gold-digging reporter is well aware of her delicate...
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Joe Eykner
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1946
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Larceny in Her Heart was the second entry in PRC's revival of the "Michael Shayne" series, with Hugh Beaumont as Brett...
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Doc Patterson
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1946
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Russell Hayden, formerly of the Hopalong Cassidy Westerns, stars in this mini-Western as "Utah" Nyes, a young rancher...
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"Nails" Nelson
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1946
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Two secret agents must somehow prevent a group of post WW II Nazis hiding in the Hartz mountains from successfully making an...
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1946
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Daisy, the Bumstead's mischievous mutt, makes the family a little extra cash when she wins a contest to become a model for...
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1946
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An unusually elaborate film from the bargain-basement PRC studios, Her Sister's Secret is set in New Orleans at Mardi Gras...
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1946
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That dependable sleuth of pulp fiction fame, Nick Carter, apparently had an equally stalwart son. Chick Carter, Boy Detective...
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1946
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Having previously introduced Cole Porter's hit song "Don't Fence Me In" in Hollywood Canteen, Roy Rogers performs the song...
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1945
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A tuneful Roy Rogers Western, Along the Navajo Trail finds Dale Evans' Lazy A Ranch under siege from nasty J. Richard Bentley...
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J. Richard Bentley
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1945
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The first of two Monogram comedy-mysteries built around the talents of perky Jean Parker, Detective Kitty O'Day casts Parker...
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1944
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Newspaper reporter Marion Hargrove's best-selling novel was adapted to the screen by MGM as a vehicle for Robert Walker. The...
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1944
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1944
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Like many PRC films, Lady in the Death House was run incessantly in the early days of television, then disappeared into the...
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Brad
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1944
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In this comic murder mystery, two bail bondsmen try to help out a man who is suspected of stealing bonds from his partner....
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Steve Morgan
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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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And The Angels Sing is an odd smorgasbord of musical-comedy and romance -- part screwball comedy, part backstage musical,...
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1944
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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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The Devil Checks Up is the 1944 reissue title for the 1942 Hal Roach "screamliner" The Devil With Hitler. Alan Mobray plays...
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1944
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MGM intended Rationing to be an object lesson as well as a comedy, to teach the moviegoers the importance of rationing...
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1944
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An ex-racketeer becomes an undercover for the military in this drama. He keeps his work so secret that his friends become...
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1944
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This lively entry in the "Boston Blackie" series finds Blackie (Chester Morris) acting as spiritual leader of a group of...
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1943
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A virtual remake of Rustlers' Valley (1937), this average "Hopalong Cassidy" Western features Jay Kirby as Johnny Travers, a...
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Jeff Burton
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1943
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The winning streak of superior Hopalong Cassidy westerns continued with 1943's Colt Comrades. In this one, Hoppy...
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1943
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1943
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1943
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Like several other Harry Sherman Productions of the 1942-43 season, The Kansan was originally slated for a Paramount release,...
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1943
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In this comedy, Gildersleeve is assigned to be a contentious jury foreman who refuses, despite the opinions of all the other...
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1943
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If Jitterbugs is, as has often been claimed, the best of Laurel & Hardy's 20th Century-Fox films (an otherwise...
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Malcolm Bennett
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1943
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In this musical comedy, a plucky young woman launches a successful campaign and becomes mayor of her tiny hometown. Now she...
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1943
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No relation to the 1950 Frank Capra film of the same name, the 1943 Technicolor musical Riding High is a by-the-numbers...
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1943
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1942
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The Carter Case was the second and last Republic film based on the popular radio series Mister District Attorney. Like the...
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1942
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Rear Admiral Stephen Thomas' (Charles Laughton) spoken tribute to "the finest Naval officer I knew" provides the framework...
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1942
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Campy Kids From Boot Camp was cobbled together from a brace of "streamliners" (second features running between 43 and 50...
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1942
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In this "East Side Kids" escapade (the eighth in the series), the gang, led by Muggs McGinniss (Leo Gorcey), help a man load...
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1942
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In this western, Roy plays both the villain and the hero. As the bad-guy, he heads a ring of rustlers. The trouble begins...
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1942
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Monogram's So's Your Aunt Emma owes whatever success it enjoys to its star, the incomparable ZaSu Pitts. The fluttery ZaSu...
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Gus Hammond
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1942
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I Live on Danger is a fast-moving thriller with strong performances and top-notch direction -- by former screenwriter...
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1942
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1942
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Man in the Trunk is a variation on the "Topper" theme, with Raymond Walburn carrying the weight of the film as a restless...
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1942
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Unable to convince their isolationist New York editor (Charles Dingle) that America must be alerted to the threat of...
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1942
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1942
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Instant recall allows a man to become a very valuable Good Samaritan in this comedy. ~ Rovi...
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1942
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In 1941, producer Hal Roach abandoned production of full-length features in favor of a new concept: The "Streamliner", a...
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1941
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Dangerous Lady is yet another variation on the "Thin Man" formula, courtesy this time from bargain-basement PRC Pictures....
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Brent
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1941
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In this mystery, an insurance investigator must find the arsonists behind the burning of a warehouse. The detective does get...
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1941
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In this medical melodrama, a young MD finds himself in love with a woman who doesn't love him. She is interested in an...
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1941
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Secrets of the Wasteland is a lesser "Hopalong Cassidy" western, with talk taking precedence over action. This time, Hoppy...
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Salters
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1941
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1941
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In this western, two disparate twins ride the range. One is a real troublemaker while the other is a government agent. When...
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1940
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Ralph Bellamy made the first of four appearances as fictional sleuth Ellery Queen in Columbia's...
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1940
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1940
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Johnnie Hale
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1940
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In this drama, set in New York City, two brothers fight it out over a girl. The boys were raised by their Italian mother....
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1940
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As indicated by the title, 20 Mule Team is all about pioneering borax miners in territorial Arizona. Wallace Beery goes...
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Stag Roper
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1940
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In this boxing drama, the trouble begins when a fight breaks out at a local gym. When a boxing promoter sees that Dick, who...
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Slick
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1940
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The successful producer-director combination of Walter Wanger and Tay Garnett served up another winner with Slightly...
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1940
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Eddie Morgan
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1940
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Frank Morgan stars as vaudevillian Henry Conroy, who puts show business behind him when he inherits a dilapidated Arizona...
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Ricky Dole
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1939
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This landmark western -- which, along with Stagecoach, has often been credited with revitalizing what had become a stagnant...
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1939
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An heiress gets a crash course in the simple life when she marries a penniless man in this comedy. Calvin Jordan (Henry...
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George
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1939
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There was no getting around the fact that child star Jane Withers was growing up in a hurry by the time she made...
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Ed Boyd
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1939
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In this comedy/mystery a milquetoast ad man finds his good ideas constantly copped by ambitious coworkers. His boss doesn't...
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Freddie Barlow
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1939
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In this heartwarming drama, a good-hearted reporter attempts to find the loneliest woman in New York so he can give her an...
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Gus Brawley
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1939
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Sad-eyed Ann Dvorak plays Jo, the "café hostess" of the title. Poor put-upon Jo doesn't know it, but she's being used by her...
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1939
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Movie buffs are nearly unanimous in agreement: Charlie Chan at Treasure Island is the best of the Sidney Toler "Charlie Chan"...
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Peter Lewis
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1939
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1938
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Set during World War I, Submarine Patrol stars Preston S. Foster as a naval officer demoted for dereliction of duty. He is...
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1938
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In this sunny western, a mischievous young girl living in the Arizona territory during the 1870s, causes all kinds of...
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1938
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In this comedy a young girl dreams of becoming a Hollywood movie star. The plucky gal decides to grab the bull's horns one...
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Cedric Hunt
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1938
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Tiger Martin
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1938
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In this mystery programmer, a prizefighter dies in the midst of a match, but evidence suggests that it was a dose of poison...
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Nick Crowder
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1938
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In this tearful crime melodrama, a waitress becomes so taken with her dream of living in posh luxury and comfort that she...
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Ritchie
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1938
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In this witty comedy mystery, a dim-bulbed news photographer and an equally dull-witted reporter try their hand at sleuthing...
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Dutch Moran
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1938
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1938
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Within the framework of a conventional newspaper yarn, One Mile From Heaven raises several controversial issues. Scoop-happy...
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Jim Tabor
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1937
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Don Ameche is called upon to testify in his married friends' divorce case. Unwilling to take sides, he skips town and hides...
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1937
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Director Roy Del Ruth and singing star Dick Powell were raided from the Warner Bros. stables for this frothy musical comedy...
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1937
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Before sitting down to watch Love and Hisses, it's important to know that columnist Walter Winchell and bandleader...
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1937
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Scheduled to marry a man she doesn't love (and for good reason), spoiled heiress Barbara Blanchard (Claire Trevor) runs away...
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Roy Webster
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1937
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A naive gas station attendant's life takes a turn for the better when he is adopted by an eccentric, boozy travelling...
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Duke Stacey
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1937
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An earnest, honest newspaper sports editor single-handedly launches a campaign to clean up the shadowy, crooked world of...
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Stevens
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1937
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In New York to attend a police testimonial in his honor, Honolulu detective Charlie Chan runs smack dab into another murder....
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John Burke
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1937
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Wild and Woolly stars young Jane Withers as a hoydenish resident of a modern frontier town. Revelling in the town's 50th...
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1937
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It Could Happen to You is one of those captivating "little" pictures whose reputation is built up via word of mouth....
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1937
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1937
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The hyped-up 1930s radio feud between bandleader Ben Bernie and columnist Walter Winchell is all but forgotten today, but...
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1937
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A winning sweepstakes ticket is the catalyst in 36 Hours to Kill. The lucky recipient is gangster Duke Benson...
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Duke Benson
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1936
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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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Bassett
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1936
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1936
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Hoping to prove to her insurance-investigator uncle that she's a good detective in her own right, Jane Martin (Claire Trevor)...
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Nick Shelby
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1936
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This action movie provides interesting information about the special training and experiences of motorcycle cops. The story...
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1936
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1936
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Joan Bennett is a manicurist who becomes a newspaper reporter. She joins forces with jaunty detective Cary Grant to get the...
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1936
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Ring Around the Moon was based on the once-popular novel by Vera Hobart. The story endeavors to invite comparisons between...
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Ted Curlew
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1936
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Another of Thorne Smith's slyly naughty fantasy novels, Night Life of the Gods was transferred to the screen with reasonable...
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1935
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In this musical campus comedy, trouble ensues when a meddlesome, overprotective father enrolls in the same college as his...
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1935
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In this romance, a slightly crooked and highly ambitious mayoral candidate convinces a woman to help him blackmail the...
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1935
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Based on an obscure stage comedy, the Paramount musical Two for Tonight stars Bing Crosby as would-be composer and playwright...
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1935
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In this drama, a traveling ice show comes to a small southern town run by an amiable mayor. His mischievous younger brother,...
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1935
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Based on Frederick Hazlett Brennan's play Battleship Gertie, Miss Pacific Fleet is short and snappy "gobs and gals" affair....
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1935
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If you can accept blonde, blue-eyed Marion Davies disguising herself in blackface, chances are you'll swallow the rest of...
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1934
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Student Tour looks like an MGM musical two-reeler that was expanded to feature length as it went along. Charles Butterworth...
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1934
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In this musical, a radio-announcer is fired after giving a false interview. For consolation he begins to drink heavily. It...
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1934
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1934
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In this comedy, a wealthy socialite pursues a carefree playboy who isn't at all interested in her. After all her regular...
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1934
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Filmed on what MGM considered a B-picture budget and schedule (14 days, which at Universal or Columbia would have been...
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1934
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A man on the wrong side of the law has a chance to turn over a new leaf in this crime drama. Edward Carson (Spencer Tracy) is...
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1933
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