A tough adventurer and his sidekick find outlaws and rowdy women in this action-filled spaghetti western. ~ Kristie Hassen,...
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1969
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Cesare (Alex Cord) is the foreign car dealer who caters to the jet set. A previous favor by a mobster who saved his life has...
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1969
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Italo Bombolini (Anthony Quinn) is the mayor of the hillside village of Santa Vittorio. The wine-loving town leader erases a...
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1969
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Ed (Don Galloway) and fellow police officer Ray Leonard (Linden Chiles) are suspected of killing a dope peddler in cold...
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1969
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Mackenna's Gold is a colorful, action-packed western feature with an all-star cast. Mackenna (Gregory Peck) has committed to...
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1969
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1968
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In the second half of the two-part Mission: Impossible adventure "The Council", the IMF's plan to topple a gangland syndicate...
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1967
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Written by William Read Woodfield and Allan Balter, "The Council" was the second multipart story of Mission: Impossible's...
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1967
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In this episode from The Man from U.N.C.L.E. series, the two good guy spies must stop a criminal mastermind from altering the...
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1966
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All hell breaks loose in a Texas town when an escaped convict heads home in Arthur Penn's Southern gothic melodrama....
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1966
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Little does Richard Kimble (David Janssen)--alias "Paul Miller"--know what he is getting into when he traces the elusive...
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1966
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The sheriff of a small town is the target of feuding families in this western. ~ Rovi...
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1965
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Friedrich Durrenmatt's misanthropic theatrical piece The Visit has never been totally successful in any production, not even...
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1964
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Damon Runyon's story "Little Miss Marker" gets a mid-'60s update in this comedy. Steve McCluskey (Tony Curtis) is the manager...
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1963
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Robert Stack plays a dual role in this episode, as Federal agent Elliot Ness and his lookalike, two-bit bookie Whitey Steele....
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1962
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After being injured in a train wreck, salesman Pedro Siqueras (David Opatoshu) is told by a doctor that he will never walk...
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1962
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1962
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In this sequel to the first-season episode "Noise of Death", Henry Silva returns as drug kingpin Little Charlie Sebastino....
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1961
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Paladin (Richard Boone) attempts to protect a demented old prospector (Eduardo Ciannelli) from claim jumpers who want to...
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1959
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Waldo
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1959
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The Hargrove Finance Company has been robbed and Frank Anderson (James Anderson) lies dead. Identified by witnesses as one of...
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1958
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Taking a brief respite from professional gunslinging, Paladin (Richard Boone) opts instead for the more pleasurable pursuit...
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1958
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Cary Grant scored still another box-office smash with his 1958 vehicle Houseboat. Grant plays a widowed father who packs...
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Arturo Zaccardi
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1958
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The American government inexplicably tries to send a box of wasps into space, but the mission ends when the rocket crashes in...
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1958
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You knew what you were in for when you saw the title, so don't grouse. Don Taylor stars as a doctor/adventurer who ventures...
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Crespi
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1957
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Rossana Podesta may not quite possess the face that would launch a thousand ships, but she is otherwise convincing in the...
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1955
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Italian director Pietro Francisci directed this 1954 drama about the fifth-century invasion of Rome by Attila the Hun....
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1954
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Unable to find work in Hollywood due to the Blacklist, director Robert Rossen filmed his 1954 production Mambo in Italy....
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1954
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This mystery is adapted from a Graham Greene novel and begins as a British spy arranges a meeting with his son, whom he...
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Dr. Vivaldi
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1954
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1954
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Director Michelangelo Antonioni's unique triptych film features three murders, one taking place in Paris, another in Rome,...
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1953
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The English title of this Italian melodrama is Ship of Damned Women. After murdering her illegitimate baby, Isabella...
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1953
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Winterset is the classic play featured in this recording of a live television production. ~ Kristie Hassen, Rovi...
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1951
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Fish-market worker Johnny O'Hara (James Arness) is named as a suspect when his boss -- with whom he had a dispute the...
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Knuckles Lanzetta
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1951
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1951
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1950
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Released in Italy in 1950, Volcano didn't receive widespread American distribution until it was picked up by United Artists...
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Giulio
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1950
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Janis Paige stars as Fugitive Lady Barbara Clementi in this internationally produced melodrama. When Italian millionaire...
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Ralph Clementi
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1950
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Filmed entirely on location in Italy, Prince of Foxes is an adaptation of Samuel Shellabarger's popular novel. Set during the...
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1949
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Shot on location in and around Rome, this drama chronicles the tragic love affair between a frustrated artist and the...
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1949
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Also known as A Miracle Can Happen, On Our Merry Way is a multipart comedy linked by inquiring reporter Burgess Meredith. It...
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1948
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When Universal went briefly out of the "B" horror film business in 1946, the studio sold two of its productions to other...
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Dr. Van Glock
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1948
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To the Victor is one of the first Hollywood films to touch upon the subject of war guilt. There are no high-ranking Nazis or...
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1948
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1947
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For the ninth time, Warner Baxter plays Dr. Robert Ordway, better known to movie (and radio) fans as "The Crime Doctor"....
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1947
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It is said that Henry James' The Aspern Papers were inspired by the romance between Lord Byron and his mistress Claire...
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Father Rinaldo
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1947
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Cargan
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1947
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Private detective Franchot Tone is hired by a prominent politician (Tom Powers) to run a background check on the politician's...
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1947
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1946
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Alexandre Dumas' famous fictional count gets revenge in this lively sequel to the original story. The Monte Cristo count...
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Antoine
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1946
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1946
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In this first entry in the pugilistic comedy series based on Ham Fishers long-running comic strip, Joe Palooka is seen before...
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Florini
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1946
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When wealthy Ballin Mundson (George Macready) rescues down at his heels gambler Johnny Farrell (Glenn Ford) and invites him...
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1946
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1946
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Dillinger, the was the ninth effort from the enterprising King Brothers, and their most financially successful film to date....
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1945
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Incendiary Blonde is a highly entertaining if historically suspect biopic of "Queen of the Nightclubs" Texas Guinan. As...
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1945
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In this episode of the "Crime Doctor" series, Dr. Orday, the sleuthing shrink, cares for a patient who suffers from...
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1945
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Director Henry King's adaptation of John Hersey's novel is a faithful telling of the story of Major Joppolo (John Hodiak),...
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1945
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This Casablanca-esque spy thriller set during WWII centers on the exploits of the notorious "Flying Dutchman," a fugitive...
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1944
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Zachary Scott made his screen debut in this clever bit of film noir that has gained a cult reputation in recent years. Dutch...
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1944
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Leonard Maltin once observed that Storm Over Lisbon is what Casablanca would have looked like had it been produced by...
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Blanco
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1944
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Designed as a followup to the enormously successful Casablanca, Passage to Marseille utilizes the talents of many of the on-...
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1944
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Flight for Freedom was an "a clef" version of the Amelia Earhart story. Rosalind Russell plays the Earhart-like aviatrix...
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1943
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Based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls is a romantic drama set against the turbulent tapestry of the...
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1943
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Warner Bros.' The Constant Nymph was the third filmization of Margaret Dean's 1924 novel; the first two were filmed in...
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1943
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Four enterprising air cadets are suspected of a series of murders actually committed by The Black Hangman, a mysterious Nazi...
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Karl von Heiger
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1943
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Written by real-life intelligence agent Ladislas Fodor, Cairo is both a spoof of espionage thrillers and a good-natured...
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1942
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In this crime drama, a news editor writes a scandalous expose about a notorious gangster. The gangster then has the gall to...
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1942
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Dr. Timothy Kane (MacDonald Carey) is a young, affable physician with a practice in New York's Times Square, whose exploits...
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Vic Telli
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1942
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Bob Hope's first starring vehicle for producer Sam Goldwyn borrows the title of Bob's 1942 autobiography They Got Me Covered...
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Baldanacco
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1942
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Like the first entry in Columbia's "Ellery Queen" series, Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery depicts its amateur-criminologist...
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1941
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Made just before America's entry into World War II, Paris Calling is one of the earliest French Underground adventures. When...
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1941
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The first officer on a freighter accidentally kills his captain during a heated wage dispute and ends up sentenced to the...
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1941
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Universal catered to the young fans of aviation with this airborne serial, which featured a plucky kid -- "Bowery Boy" Billy...
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1941
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They Met in Bombay is a typical MGM star vehicle, in which the leading players are called upon to carry a pencil-thin...
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1941
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An innocent young woman is accused of murder by her wicked stepmother. The poor lass ends up in prison. Fortunately, a...
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1940
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Egyptian mystic Andoheb (George Zucco) is ordered by his High Priest (Eduardo Ciannelli) to stand guard over the sacred mummy...
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1940
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In this fast-paced sci-fi serial from Republic, a crazed, megalomaniacal scientist attempts to use his many deadly robots to...
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1940
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"Strange" is right: this mystical MGM melodrama has to be the oddest of the studio's Clark Gable-Joan Crawford vehicles. When...
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1940
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Eduardo Cianelli (his first name changed to "Edward" on this occasion) is the not-so-mysterious title character in the...
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1940
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Lola Lane and James Craig play explorers working on behalf of the British government. Lane and Craig have been assigned to...
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Koski
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1940
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Fourteen scriptwriters spent five years toiling over a movie adaptation of war correspondent Vincent Sheehan's...
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1940
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In this crime drama, a government investigator looks into a counterfeiting ring that passes its fake bills through a...
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Dave Reeves, Gambling Ship Owner
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1940
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Though Ginger Rogers' starring vehicles always turned a profit for RKO Radio, many filmgoers thought of Rogers only in terms...
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Giono
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1940
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Bulldog Drummond's Bride is the next-to-last entry in Paramount's series of "Drummond" B-pictures. It goes without saying...
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1939
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This remake of Penthouse (33) stars Walter Pidgeon as a smooth attorney with a few embarrassing friends. One of these is a...
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Jim Crelliman
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1939
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De Carne
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1939
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1939
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Though Rudyard Kipling's poem Gunga Din makes a swell recital piece, it cannot be said to have much of a plot. It's simply a...
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Guru
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1939
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When two lovers are framed for a jewelry store robbery in which the clerk was killed, the only person capable of saving them...
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Rockey
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1938
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A French sculptor travels to LA and, with the help of Ace the Wonder Dog, pretends to be blind so he can sneak into a museum...
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Mitch
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1938
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In this musical, a nightclub singer (Lily Pons) secretly aspires to sing at the Met. To help her, her agent (Jack Oakie)...
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1937
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League of Frightened Men was the second and last entry in Columbia's short-lived mystery series based on the "Nero Wolfe"...
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Paul Chapin
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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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Prof. Horman
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1937
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A Mississippi flood saves the life of a petty crook who is about to be lynched for a murder he did not commit. After he...
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"Ice" Richmond
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1937
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In the second of Paramount's "Bulldog Drummond" thrillers, Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond (John Howard) is finally about to marry...
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1937
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Attorney Lee Tracy gains renown for his flamboyant courtroom tactics, which nearly always result in acquittal for his...
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Larkin
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1937
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The Girl from Scotland Yard has a dynamite opening sequence, as villain Franz Borg (Eduardo Cianelli) demonstrates his...
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Franz Borg
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1937
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Bette Davis' famous walk-out from her home studio of Warner Bros. may have hurt her financially, but in the long run it paid...
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Johnny Vanning
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1937
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Maxwell Anderson combined the Sacco-Vanzetti story with elements of the still-unsolved disappearance of Judge Crater, and the...
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Trock
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1936
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This modern "Flying Dutchman" story stars actor/playwright Noel Coward as a class-A heel. Coward uses his position as a...
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1935
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1933
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