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1950
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Long before he became a highly respected Wall Street financial adviser, Richard Ney was a minor-league film star. In Secret...
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1949
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The 161-minute costume drama Green Dolphin Street is set in 1840, on an island off the coast of Newfoundland, (or at least,...
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1947
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High Conquest was a good example of the sort of "prestige" fare that lowly Monogram Pictures hoped to turn out on a regular...
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1947
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In this mystery, set within the newspaper industry, a detective is hired to protect the editor who believes that someone is...
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1947
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Our Hearts Were Growing Up is the sequel to Paramount's surprise 1944 hit Our Hearts Were Young and Gay. The first film was...
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1946
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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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Kitty is the "Pygmalion" legend, 18th century style. London aristocrat Ray Milland takes it upon himself to make a lady of a...
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1945
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1945
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One-time movie crooner Dick Powell literally turned his career around in the 1944 film noir Murder My Sweet. Powell stars as...
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1944
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Don "Red" Barry stars in the lightning-paced Republic western Sundown Fury. Befitting his unofficial title "the cowboy...
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1942
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In this, one of many World War II propaganda films of the early 1940s, Errol Flynn is one of five RAF pilots to survive a...
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1942
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Though Don "Red" Barry is the star of Jesse James, Jr., he plays a character named Johnny Barrett. The scene is a small...
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Archie McDonald
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1942
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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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One Night in Lisbon is one of several pre-1942 films which used the screwball-comedy form to comment upon the raging war in...
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1941
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In this comedy, the marital conflicts between a meek banker and his nagging wife are chronicled. First they fight over their...
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1941
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Now immortalized as the film on which Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz met, Too Many Girls is a faithful adaptation of the...
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1940
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John Ford welded four of Eugene O'Neill's one-act plays about the sea, Bound East for Cardiff, The Long Voyage Home, The...
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1940
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Kenneth Roberts' fact-based novel Northwest Passage would seem too raw and explicit a book to be considered for an MGM film...
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1940
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1940
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In this patriotic British adventure, two courageous brothers try to keep war from erupting in Africa and stop a...
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1939
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1939
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The fourth cinematic version of the novel Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman by E.W. Hornung, this romantic caper is a virtual...
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Bunny Manders
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1939
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Bad Lands is a remake of John Ford's The Lost Patrol, with the locale changed from the Mesopotamian to the Arizona desert....
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Mulford
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1939
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This being a Republic picture, it should come as no surprise that Storm Over Bengal was filmed in its entirety in the San...
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1938
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Produced by the Halperin Brothers, the folks responsible for the early-talkie horror classic White Zombie, Nation Aflame is...
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Tommy Franklin
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1937
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Set in the land Down Under but filmed at Sunland, CA, and on Catalina Island, this low-budget action-adventure stars one of...
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1937
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This laudable RKO programmer casts Chester Morris as a fearless pilot whose misdeeds have exiled him to a remote flying field...
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1937
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Marriage Forbidden is the film version of Eugene Briaux' once-notorious 1912 stage drama Damaged Goods. This pioneering study...
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George
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1937
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Darnley
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1936
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Edmund Lowe made his only screen appearance as S. S. Van Dine's dilettante sleuth Philo Vance in The Garden Murder Case. The...
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1936
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Greta Garbo enjoyed one of her greatest triumphs in this glossy adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' oft-filmed romantic tragedy....
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1936
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Leonard
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1936
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In this romantic mystery, based on the beloved characters of P.G. Wodehouse, the ever-impeccable, unflappable butler Jeeves...
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1936
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The 1932 publication of Charles Nordhoff and James Norton Hall's Mutiny on the Bounty sparked a revival of interest in the...
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1935
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This greatest of all Frankenstein movies begins during a raging thunderstorm. Warm and cozy inside their palatial villa, Lord...
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1935
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James Barton plays a salty old sea captain on the verge of retirement, forced to return to the sea when his funds run out....
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Jimmy
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1935
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Roulston
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1935
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Honolulu detective Charlie Chan (Warner Oland) spends an eventful weekend at an English country estate in this fog-bound...
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Paul Gray
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1934
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What a shame that the 1934 Fox crime meller Murder in Trinidad is currently unavailable for viewing. In one of his best...
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Gregory Bronson
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1934
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Previously filmed in 1929, Philip MacDonald's novel Patrol was lensed by director John Ford as The Lost Patrol in 1934....
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1934
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1934
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One of several variations of the "Mata Hari" and "Fraulein Doktor" legends, Universal's Madame Spy is set during WW I....
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1934
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Secret of Madame Blanche is one of those "confessional" film dramas which movie fans of the early 1930s ate up like bonbons....
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Leonard Junior
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1933
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A shopkeeper suffers after he is laid off during the Depression in this drama adapted from the English play Service. He had...
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1933
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The only Academy Award winning picture for Fox Studios (in its pre-20th Century-Fox era), Cavalcade is a stately film...
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1933
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1931
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This first sound version of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic morality tale starred Fredric March as the kindly, philanthropic...
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1931
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