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1967
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Five of Laurel and Hardy's best features from the silent film era are compiled in this collection by Robert Youngson....
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1965
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1949
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Preston Sturges' Unfaithfully Yours is a typically witty and wild screwball comedy starring Rex Harrison as a symphony...
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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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Also released as Montana Mike, Heaven Only Knows is an offbeat western with fantasy overtones. Hard-bitten gambling boss...
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1947
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Absent from films since 1938 (except as producer of a brace of RKO Radio features), silent-screen comedy favorite...
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Jake the Bartender
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1947
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1946
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This tale of two tugboats focuses upon the rivalries between two operators competing to win a major shipping contract....
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Capt. Bullwinkle
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1945
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This mammoth musical is at base the story of two sailors on leave in Hollywood. Brash Joseph Brady (Gene Kelly) has promised...
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1945
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On the eve of their 50th anniversary, a couple argue about whether or not to reveal a story from the husband's past that...
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Inspector Mulrooney
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1944
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A new invention, known as the Paratron and vitally important for America's war effort, becomes the focal point in yet another...
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1944
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Set in wartime (WW II), this film finds the fat guy, skinny guy comedy duo not much good at any attempted professions; they...
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1943
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Hitler's Madman is based on an all-too-real wartime atrocity. John Carradine portrays Heydrich, the vicious SS officer put in...
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1943
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This murder mystery is based on a forties radio program. It chronicles the exploits of a mail order detective who...
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1943
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Tom Conway makes his second appearance as amateur sleuth Tom Lawrence, aka "The Falcon", in RKO Radio's The Falcon Strikes...
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Smiley Dugan
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1943
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1943
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The world of boxing provides the framework for this romantic musical that tells the story of Baby and his manager who is...
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Doc Hogan
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1943
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Popular comic strip characters Snuffy Smith, his pal Barney Google, and their loyal horse Spark Plug come to life in this...
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Sergeant Gatling
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1942
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With its slight resemblance to Destry Rides Again (1939) -- probably not entirely coincidental -- this rousing Western from...
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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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Warden Bingham
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1942
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A nine-year-old Elizabeth Taylor made her film debut in this lively comedy. She plays the spoiled-brat daughter of a pudding...
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1942
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Billy DeBeck's classic comic strip "Barney Google and Snuffy Smith" was brought to the screen in the pig-bladder Monogram...
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Sergeant Cooper
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1942
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In this zany comedy, based on an enduringly popular comic strip, the irascible mountain man and moonshiner finds himself...
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1942
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A crime organization affects the lives of an ex-newspaper reporter and the socialite who cost the reporter his job. ~ Rovi...
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1941
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1941
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In this drama an eager-beaver reporter loses his job when he prints a false story about a society girl. The unemployed...
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Biff
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1941
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This is the first of two filmed adaptations of Al Capp's classic comic strip, in which the title hillbilly (Granville Owen)...
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1940
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Based on a novel by Medora Field, Who Killed Aunt Maggie? would appear to be an attempt by Republic Pictures to launch a new...
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Sheriff Gregory
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1940
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Remedy for Riches was the fourth in RKO Radio's six-entry "Dr. Christian" series. Jean Hersholt returns as Dr. Christian, the...
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George Browning
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1940
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The third of six feature films based on radio's popular Dr. Christian series, Dr. Christian Meets the Women once more stars...
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George Browning
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1940
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The mystery surrounding the gender of infant film star Baby Sandy was finally solved in her penultimate vehicle, Sandy is a...
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1940
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The brief but lively film career of infant star Baby Sandy came to an end with Sandy Gets Her Man. In this one, Sandy is the...
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Fire Chief Galvin
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1940
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In this musical comedy, a hardworking man struggles to save enough money to buy his own barber shop. This film features a...
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1940
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This mistaken-identity concoction takes place on a college campus--a familiar locale for Paramount B-pictures. Wayne Morris...
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"Pops"
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1940
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Margie is one of the fast and funniest of Universal's pocket musicals, though its two-director dichotomy hardly seems...
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Chauncey
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1940
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The physically challenged bride of the title is played by Lynne Roberts, but it's reporter Ted North who's the film's true...
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Capt. McGuire
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1940
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Having made a mint with his Bobby Breen films, producer Sol Lesser decide to groom another talented youngster for stardom....
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Joe Barton
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1939
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1939
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A remake of a 1930 Universal film, Little Accident was the third starring vehicle for androgynous juvenile star Baby Sandy....
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1939
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1939
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In this frothy screwball comedy, Guy Johnson (James Stewart) is a private detective who is dedicated to his job but still...
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1939
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Edgar
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1938
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In this often funny crime melodrama, a librarian moves to a small town and finds herself the butt of local gossip. While the...
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1938
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Peck's Bad Boy and his gang of mischievous misfits (including Spanky McFarland) make all kinds of trouble around the circus....
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Bailey
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1938
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1938
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This British comedy pokes fun at Chicago gangsters as it chronicles the rivalry between to gangs battling it out aboard an...
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Bugs Leary
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1938
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The Black Doll is one of the better entries in Universal's "Crime Club" series. Most of the action takes place on a dark and...
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Sheriff Renick
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1938
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Richard Thorpe's comedy Double Wedding (1937) marked the seventh screen pairing of William Powell and Myrna Loy, known for...
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1937
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On the whole, Joe E. Brown's vehicles for independent producer David L. Loew were distinct retrogressions from his films at...
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Mr. Basscombe
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1937
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Carole Lombard stars as Helen Bartlett, a compulsive liar who always tips the audience to an oncoming whopper by sticking her...
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1937
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Super Sleuth stars Jack Oakie as an egotistical movie actor who specializes in detective roles. Despite the gentle...
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Lt. Garrison
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1937
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In this lighthearted musical comedy from legendary director Busby Berkeley, Henry Bowers (Dick Powell) is a saxophonist in a...
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1937
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1937
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1936
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1936
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Warner Baxter does a variation of his Oscar-winning "Cisco Kid" characterization in Robin Hood of El Dorado. Baxter plays the...
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1936
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The MGM historical "spectacular" San Francisco was allegedly based on a three-sentence synopsis, submitted verbally to...
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1936
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The overlong but absorbing MGM "B" melodrama Mad Holiday stars Edmund Lowe as vacationing movie idol Philip Trent. Tired of...
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1936
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Impressed by the popularity of radio program about the exploits of legendary safecracker Jimmy Valentine, advertising man...
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Callahan
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1936
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Mary Ellis, Paramount's answer to Columbia's Grace Moore, stars in the title role in this musical melodrama/whodunit. When...
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1936
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1936
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1936
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In this crime comedy, a street-savvy gangster involves himself with a Miami socialite. Together, they conspire to turn her...
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1936
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One of four MGM "B"-pictures ground out in quick succession by director George B. Seitz, Woman Wanted is a crime melodrama...
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Sweeney
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1935
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Rendezvous at Midnight shifts from "low" to "drive" when corrupt city commissioner Myles Crawford (Arthur Vinton) is...
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1935
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Two rich and wealthy millionaires who have a lot of money bet that reporter Robert Pryor can't spend $720,000 in twelve...
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McCarthy
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1935
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In this comedy-drama, an enterprising college football coach's desire to win overshadows his common-sense when he cuts a...
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1935
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After suffering a nervous breakdown (at least that's what she calls it), imperious movie star Carol Corliss (Ginger Rogers)...
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1935
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Perhaps Mascot Pictures' The Marines are Coming would have been more credible had it been made 10 years earlier. Stars...
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Buck Martin
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1935
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In the wake of Shirley Temple, every Hollywood studio scrambled to find a child star who might possibility match Temple's...
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1935
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1935
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Cowboy Millionaire is one of the last and best of George O'Brien's western vehicles at the Fox Studios. O'Brien is in charge...
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Persimmon
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1935
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Jimmie Pierson
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1935
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In this drama, an amateur pilot is driven to living life in the fast lane after he pilots that plane that crashed and killed...
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1935
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Brooklyn tugboat worker Eddie (Eddie Cantor), bullied and cowed by his tough-guy stepfather and stepbrothers (a la...
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1934
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In this melodrama, an engineering professor longs to leave his ivory tower so he can be involved in a special project taking...
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1934
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1934
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Poverty Row studio Monogram took a stab at musical production with King Kelly of the U.S.A., a cinematic blunder starring...
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Happy
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1934
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Flamboyant, egomaniacal theatrical impresario Oscar Jaffe (John Barrymore) transforms chorus girl Mildred Plotka...
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1934
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Money Means Nothing to tire salesman Kenneth (Wallace Ford), mainly because he doesn't have any. But when Kenneth falls in...
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Green
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1934
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1934
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Beyond the fact that both films shared a "railroad" background, RKO Radio's 1935 actioner The Silver Streak bore no relation...
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1934
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Trying a bit too hard to qualify as a "screwball" comedy, RKO Radio's We're Rich Again is based on Alden Nash's stage play...
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1934
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This Tom Keene western casts the leading man as a lawkeeper who accidentally kills his best friend (Creighton Chaney, aka Lon...
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1933
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1933
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1933
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In this 1933 Marx Brothers film, the mythical country of Freedonia is broke and on the verge of revolution. Mrs. Teasdale...
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1933
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An earthy, fun-loving radio pitchwoman finds it difficult to live up to her squeaky-clean public persona as the "Purity Girl...
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1933
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1933
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In Scarlet River, Tom Keene plays "himself," a cowboy movie star, on location in the Wide Open Spaces for his latest epic....
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1933
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1933
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Gangsters and cowboys don't mix as a recently returned World War I veteran soon discovers in this drama. The trouble is set...
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Ed Wimpy
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1933
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1933
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A starry-eyed girl marries an impoverished but talented young writer. Though easily frustrated and given to temperamental...
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1932
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Warden Elmer Jones
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1932
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Despite a troubled production that witnessed the exits of both leading man (Phillips Holmes) and director (George...
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1932
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Based upon the phenomenally successful Harold Gray comic strip, Little Orphan Annie covers a lot of ground in its short 60...
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1932
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A pre-Hopalong Cassidy William Boyd is the robust star of this logging camp melodrama which also featured a very young Ginger...
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1932
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Edna May Oliver makes the first of three appearances as Hildegarde Withers, the schoolteacher/sleuth created by mystery...
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1932
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1931
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Truck driver Spencer Tracy claims he's "too lazy to work and too nervous to steal", but he gets mixed up in racketeering all...
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1931
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Writer/director Tay Garnett reunited the stars of his fabulously successful Her Man (1930) for the 1931 RKO crime drama...
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1931
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Officially an "Our Gang" comedy, "When the Wind Blows" is really a vehicle for adult comic Edgar Kennedy, here playing his...
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1930
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Laurel and Hardy weren't the only comics to employ the "tit for tat" idea of reciprocal destruction in their comedies. Here,...
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1930
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1930
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1930
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1930
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Director
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1930
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1930
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Hopelessly in love with little Mary Ann Jackson, seven-year-old Jackie Cooper would like to claim her as a "wife," but...
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1930
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1930
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The Our Gang kids reluctantly participate in a stage presentation of Quo Vadis, retitled "The Gladiator's Dilemma" by its...
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1930
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Will Rogers' first all-talking feature casts the beloved humorist as Pike Peters, owner of an auto repair shop in Claremore,...
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1929
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1929
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This comedy classic is the sound-film debut of enormously popular and brilliant silent comedian Harold Lloyd. He plays a...
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1929
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1929
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1929
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Although the title of Laurel and Hardy's very first sound film is a joke on the phrase, "Unaccustomed as we are to public...
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1929
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A goat escapes from a pet shop, and the owner reports the missing goat to the police. Laurel & Hardy have spent their last...
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1929
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This Laurel and Hardy two-reel silent involves the boys' attempts to repossess a radio from Collis P. Kennedy (Edgar Kennedy...
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1929
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The success of this "Our Gang" comedy is due in great part to the performances of two adult comedians, Edgar Kennedy and...
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1929
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This classic Laurel and Hardy comedy is famous for the pants-ripping scene at the end, but the other parts of it are just as...
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Director
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1928
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This two-reel Laurel and Hardy silent is especially rich in slapstick. The comic duo have been promised five hundred dollars...
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1928
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Up until this two-reeler, Laurel and Hardy's films for Hal Roach were released under the "All-Star Comedy" label; Should...
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1928
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In this Laurel and Hardy two-reel silent, Stan's toothache is keeping both him and Ollie awake. Their attempts to pull the...
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1928
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This is arguably Laurel and Hardy's best two-reel silent (the other contender for first place is Big Business). The boys play...
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1928
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Mr. and Mrs. Culpepper (Tiny Sanford and Anita Garvin, respectively) are a nouveau-riche couple who are throwing a fancy...
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1928
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The Gay Old Bird in this silent Warner Bros. programmer is Louise Fazenda, cast as ugly-duckling maidservant Sisseretta...
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1927
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The Wrong Mr. Wright was based on a stage comedy by George Broadhurst. Jean Hersholt stars as the bumbling son of a wealthy...
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1927
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Hardly an important film, Finger Prints pleased the crowd with its heady combination of slapstick comedy and old-dark-house...
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1927
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This "lost" film would be especially valuable to see again, if only for two reasons: It was the second American effort of...
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1927
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This Raymond Griffith vehicle casts the debonair, top-hatted comedian as Algernon Schuyler Van Twitter, perennial "best man"...
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1927
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This melodrama, which involves the Philippine revolt during the final years of the 1800s, was based on a popular play from...
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1926
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1926
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The Better 'Ole was based on a play by Bruce Bairnsfather and Arthur Elliot, which was itself inspired by a cartoon character...
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1926
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Though Betty Compson is top-billed in Paths to Paradise, the film's real star is the ever-dapper, ever-unflappable...
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1925
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This drama about a Jewish family on New York's Lower East side marked the screen debut of respected stage actor Rudolph...
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1925
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This routine auto adventure finds Jack Grant (William Fairbanks) agreeing to drive in the big race in order to save his...
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1924
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There certainly was nothing new about this tale of feuding rural families, but at least writer/director Perley Poore Sheehan...
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1924
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Mickey was comedienne Mabel Normand's first full-length feature film and it was perhaps her finest moment. Normand is Mickey,...
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1918
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This anthology is comprised of several short chucklers from the King of Slapstick comedy Mack Sennett. These shorts feature...
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1916
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1915
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Hoping to cash in on the popularity of his former employee Charlie Chaplin, producer Mack Sennett hired Charlie's...
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1915
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1915
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1915
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1914
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Charlie Chaplin's 30th Keystone comedy is again set at the auto races, as were his earlier films, Kid's Auto Race,...
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1914
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Charlie Chaplin's penultimate Keystone comedy takes us back to the scene of so many of his Keystones, Westlake Park. It is...
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1914
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Charlie Chaplin's 12th film for the Keystone company was also his directorial debut, receiving co-directing credit with...
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1914
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Tango Tangles is an impromptu Keystone comedy which exploited the current "tango craze." A tango contest and exhibition...
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Dance Hall Manager
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1914
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Charlie Chaplin once said, "All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl." In this, his 11th film for...
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1914
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Charlie Chaplin's 29th comedy for Keystone was one of his most popular, grossing $130,000 in its initial year of release. It...
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1914
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Cyclone Flynn
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1914
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1914
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1914
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Landlady's husband
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1914
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This Keystone comedy, Charlie Chaplin's 33rd, is the first feature-length comedy ever made and contributed to making Chaplin...
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1914
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