The troublesome years "between the wars" provide the backdrop for the romantic drama The Searching Wind. Adapted by Lillian...
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Moses
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1946
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1942
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The Fight for Life was documentary filmmaker Pare Lorentz' first "dramatic" film, utilizing the talents of several top New...
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Head Doctor
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1940
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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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Mackenzie
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1939
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Based on a classic tale from Rudyard Kipling, this melodrama chronicles the desperate attempt of a painter to finish his...
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The Nilghai
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1939
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Cyrus Jeffrey
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1937
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The Unguarded Hour opens with prosecutor Sir Alan Deardon (Franchot Tone) in the midst of a murder trial. He gets his...
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1936
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Gladys George, a superlative actress often wasted in secondary roles, carries her starring assignment in Valiant is the Word...
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Dennis Ringrose
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1936
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General Yang (Akim Tamiroff) is a politically ambitious Chinese bandit who holds the Northern districts in a grip of terror....
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Mr. Wu
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1936
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Based on the novel by MacKinlay Kantor, this 1936 drama from director Richard Thorpe stars Lionel Barrymore as Springfield...
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Jacob Terry
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1936
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Commenting upon the many relatives on the payroll of Carl Laemmle's Universal Pictures, poet Ogden Nash once wrote "Uncle...
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Marleybone
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1935
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China Seas proved that the recently imposed Hollywood production code had little if any effect on the popularity of MGM sex...
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1935
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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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Bachus
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1935
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Three former POWs return home and find that they have been listed among the dead. This comedy follows their attempts to...
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1935
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When MGM remade its 1935 film Kind Lady in 1951, the earlier picture was retitled House of Menace to avoid confusion. The...
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1935
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The Istanbul Express provides the setting for this crime drama that centers around a courier carrying the priceless Karenina...
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Col. Jackson
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1935
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Though habitually unlucky in love, wealthy London recluse Mary Herries (Aline MacMahon) succumbs to the charms of handsome...
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Mr. Edwards
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1935
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Dore Schary, then just cutting his teeth in the movie biz, was one of the scripters of Columbia's Fury of the Jungle. The...
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Parrish
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1934
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Legendary "improvisational" director Gregory La Cava elected to stick to the script for his film version of the James M....
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James Wylie
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1934
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In the tradition of Fox Studios' Oscar-winning Cavalcade, The World Moves On covers over one hundred years in the lives of...
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Mr. Manning
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1934
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Charles Boyer played his first major Hollywood role (and gets to sing in the bargain!) in the oddball musical romance...
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1934
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One of the first major Hollywood films to seriously address America's ongoing mistreatment of its Indian population,...
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Elihu P. Quissenberry
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1934
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A mysterious stranger, his face swathed in bandages and his eyes obscured by dark spectacles, has taken a room at a cozy inn...
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1933
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Smithers
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1933
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Gangster Cagney allows his powerful political connections to appoint him "deputy inspector" of a state reform school. There...
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Mr. Thompson
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1933
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A Somerset Maugham story was adapted for The Narrow Corner, a film about Man's inability to escape his destiny. Douglas...
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Dr. Saunders
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1933
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This drama is set aboard a cross-country train bound for New York. Aboard this train is a silk manufacturer from Seattle who...
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Professor Nyberg
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1933
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This suspenseful, exciting mystery is based upon an Edgar Wallace story and centers upon the search for $1 million in buried...
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Horace Merrick
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1933
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One of George Arliss' "smaller" vehicles, The King's Vacation casts the eminent British stage star (always billed as "...
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Lord Chamberlain
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1933
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Edmund Gwenn makes his American film debut in this lighthearted adaptation of Frederick Jackson's stage play The Bishop...
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Red, Bartender
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1933
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Dr. Anderson
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1932
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Richard Dix stars as a heroic riverboat captain in this lurid action-melodrama produced under the aegis of David O. Selznick....
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1932
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Hatchet Man is a dated but fascinating film set amidst the "tong wars" in San Francisco's Chinatown. Tong hatchet man Wong...
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1932
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In this drama, an old sea captain and his feisty daughter are squatting upon the land of another. The trouble begins when...
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Capt. Howland
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1932
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1932
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Based on a play by Arthur M. Brilant, The Case of Clara Deane stars Wynne Gibson, repeating her original Broadway role....
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Garrison
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1932
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1931
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Kaspar Gutman
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1931
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Devotion is a stiff, static early talkie in which everybody speaks in stage British and suffers in dinner jackets....
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1931
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Alexander Hamilton was not precisely the life story of America's first secretary of the treasury--in fact, it doesn't even...
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Sen. Timothy Roberts
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1931
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This unusual supernatural drama, based on a 1924 Broadway stage hit, concerns a disparate group of people who find themselves...
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Thompson, the Examiner
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1930
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Ronald Colman's second talking picture, Condemned is a snail's-pace melodrama set on a Devil's Island. The evils of the...
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1929
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