Wanna see a movie in 3 minutes? Then Adventure 1: Trailers on Tape is right up your alley. Here is a collection of some of...
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1984
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This comedy is notable as the final onscreen appearance (non-speaking) of Edward Everett Horton, a staple comic supporting...
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Hiram C. Grayson
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1971
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Evermore
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1969
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John Abbott, a citizen of Ancient Rome, is transported against his will to the 20th Century. No sooner has he landed in...
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1969
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The Perils of Pauline appropriates the title and nothing else from the legendary 1914 Pearl White serial (and also bears no...
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Casper Coleman
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1967
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With only one week left in his Army hitch, Agarn (Larry Storch) is persuaded to return to civilian life by O'Rourke (Forrest...
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1965
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O'Rourke (Forrest Tucker) loans the fort's only cannon to the Hekawi Indians who want to use it for a tribal festival....
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1965
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Overhearing a negative medical prognosis for a horse, Agarn (Larry Storch) becomes convinced that he himself is not long for...
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1965
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Having accidentally saved the life of Hekawi chief Wild Eagle (Frank De Kova), Captain Parmenter (Ken Berry) has earned the...
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1965
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The premiere episode of F Troop explains how Wilton Parmenter (Ken Berry), the last and least descendant of a proud military...
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1965
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While Parmenter is out of town attending command school, O'Rourke (Forrest Tucker) establishes a new racket--er, business...
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1965
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1964
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With this all-star Cinerama epic, producer/director Stanley Kramer vowed to make "the comedy that would end all comedies."...
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1963
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1961
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Future Tonight Show host Johnny Carson made one of his rare acting appearances in this 1957 Playhouse 90 adaptation of George...
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Mr. Carver
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1957
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Future "Master of Disaster" Irwin Allen produced this curious but inarguably fascinating adaptation of...
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1957
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Written in 1944 and expanded upon several times thereafter, composer Gordon Jenkins' classic tone poem "Manhattan Tower"...
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1956
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Mr. Ritter
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1952
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The Ghost Goes Wild is a low-cost but high-rolling farce starring James Ellison and Anne Gwynne. It starts off with Ellison,...
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1947
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Lucille Ball offers a seminal version of her Lucy Ricardo TV character in Her Husband's Affairs. Ball is cast as Margaret...
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J.B. Cruikshank
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1947
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Messenger 7013
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1947
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In this romantic comedy, a soldier is granted a two-week furlough and returns home to discover that his girlfriend is...
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Hiram Dilworthy
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1946
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Keating
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1946
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Though Republic had decided to forego plans for an annual film edition of Earl Carroll's Vanities, their reciprocal deal with...
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1946
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Deanna Durbin offered her fans a change of pace in this mystery story seasoned with elements of comedy and music. Nikki...
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Mr. Haskell
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1945
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In this romantic comedy, two warring neighbors are aghast when their respective daughter and son fall in love and plan to...
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Everett Conway
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1945
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In this crime comedy, a prominent judge's vacation is interrupted during a sudden storm that forces him to seek refuge in a...
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1945
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Louise Allbritton, a talented but neglected film star of the 1940s, plays the oldest sister in a large motherless family....
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Philip McCooley
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1944
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In this crazy comedy, a casino worker writes a book about headhunters and finds himself the target of the leader of an...
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Orrin Tracy
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1944
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Brazil is perhaps the best of the handful of American films made by Brazilian singing sensation Tito Guizar. In typical...
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Everett St. John Everett
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1944
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Mr. Witherspoon
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1944
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Summer Storm is a remarkably effective Hollywood filmization of Anton Chekhov's The Shooting Party. Linda Darnell stars as...
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Count Volsky
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1944
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The 80-star cast of Forever and a Day would certainly not have been feasible had not most of the actors and production people...
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1943
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Sgt. Andy Mason Jr. (James Ellison) is on the eve of shipping out from New York with his unit -- he's the son of Andrew Mason...
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Peyton Potter
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1943
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Practically everybody on the Warner Bros. lot shows up in the wartime morale-boosting musical extravaganza Thank Your Lucky...
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Farnsworth
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1943
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A musical remake of the 1936 comedy Second Honeymoon and the starring debut of Betty Grable, Springtime in the Rockies tells...
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1942
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Horace Hunter
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1942
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Peter
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1942
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Robert Montgomery plays saxophone-playing boxer Joe Pendleton, who insists upon piloting his own plane, much to the...
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Messenger 7013
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1941
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Possibly inspired by Universal's The Invisible Woman, Warner Bros.' The Body Disappears is an agreeably daffy comedy with...
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Prof. Reginald X. Shotesbury
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1941
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Boasting a script cowritten by Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell from a story by Budd Schulberg, Weekend for Three should have...
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Fred Stonebraker
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1941
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Universal's "Baby Sandy" series officially ended with Sandy Gets Her Man, but the infant star still had one picture left on...
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Joseph Smith
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1941
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Bandleader Orrin Tucker and his featured vocalist "Wee" Bonnie Baker are the stars of the Paramount pocket musical You're the...
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Joe Frink
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1941
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All that MGM's Ziegfeld Girl lacks is Technicolor; otherwise, the film has talent and "sock" entertainment value in...
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1941
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Sunny was one of three RKO Radio Broadway-musical adaptations tailored to the talents of British favorite Anna Neagle by her...
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Henry Bates
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1941
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Treadwell
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1939
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Lucille Ball plays young starlet Sandra Sand in That's Right -- You're Wrong, the 1939 musical comedy directed by...
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1939
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In this socially conscious drama a sextet of juvenile delinquents flee a crime screen in their seedy ghetto and wind up...
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1938
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Marquis de Loiselle
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1938
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Both film versions of Phillip Barry's stage comedy Holiday have their merits, but the 1938 version has the added advantage of...
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Nick Potter
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1938
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Hubert Dash
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1938
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Directed by Frank Tuttle, Paris Honeymoon stars Bing Crosby as Lucky Lawton, a wealthy Texan whose plans for a Parisian...
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Ernest Figg
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1938
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Graham
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1937
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Director James Whale, well known for his witty horror films, tackled comedy head-on in this period piece, set in the 18th...
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Tubby
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1937
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It took British author James Hilton six weeks to write his visionary novel Lost Horizon. It took director Frank Capra two...
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Alexander P. Lovett
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1937
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In this crime drama, a tightwad accountant for a newspaper becomes friends with a reporter. The bookkeeper goes on vacation,...
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1937
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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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Blynn
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1937
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Groucho Marx received co-writer credit (along with his old friend Norman Krasna) for King and the Chorus Girl, though very...
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Count Humbert
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1937
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Based on a popular novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams, this screwball comedy stars Errol Flynn in the title-role, the heir to an...
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Mr. Grattan
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1937
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In this black comedy, a twitchy hypochondriac ends up conned into giving up his $500,000 inheritance in exchange for $50,000...
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Edward J. Billop
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1937
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An airy screwball comedy, Danger--Love at Work explores the lives of a wealthy but wacky family. Ann Sothern plays the...
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1937
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The seventh of RKO's Fred Astaire--Ginger Rogers musicals, Shall We Dance casts Astaire as a world-renowned ballet dancer and...
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Jeffrey Baird
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1937
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In this comedy, a WWI veteran gets married after receiving his bonus money from the government. His meddlesome aunts then...
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Harrison Gentry
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1937
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To fully accept the premise of Her Master's Voice, one must also accept the notion that Edward Everett Horton is radio...
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Ned Farrar
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1936
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A remake of 1928's Glorious Betsy (itself based on a stage play by Rida Johnson Young), Hearts Divided is based, believe it...
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John
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1936
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The Man in the Mirror is Edward Everett Horton, making one of his periodic professional visits to England. Horton plays...
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Jeremy Dike
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1936
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Small-town waiter Will Wright (Edward Everett Horton) can't help but feel that his Kansas community has lost its civic pride....
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Will Wright
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1936
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Strictly for Al Jolson's most fervent fans, The Singing Kid casts Jolie as neurotic Broadway star Al Jackson. Facing...
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1936
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In this romantic drama a woman with a scandalous past tells all in an autobiography. It seems the woman, an artist, received...
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Nolan
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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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Mortimer Thompson
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1935
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Per its title, this merry Warner Bros. musical was filmed on location in the resort community of Agua Caliente. Pat O'Brien...
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Harold Brandon
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1935
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Horace Hardwick
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1935
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Szereny
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1935
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Director Josef Von Sternberg and his greatest discovery, Marlene Dietrich, worked together for the last time on this...
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Don Paquito
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1935
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In this British Victorian comedy, a wealthy Englishman comes back from a journey to India to discover that instead of...
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1935
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In a rare starring role, character comedian Edward Everett Horton is top-billed in Your Uncle Dudley. Horton is a...
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1935
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In this rather black comedy, a nervous office worker goes to a local quack for a check up and learns that he has only three...
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Homer
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1935
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Consigned to the Warner Bros. "B" unit in the mid-1930s, director Robert Florey must have had a high old time trying to...
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Augie
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1935
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In this drama, a mild-mannered bookkeeper has trouble asserting himself in both his personal and professional life. His boss...
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Director, Hubert T. Wilkins
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1935
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Paramount Pictures decided in 1935 to create a new romantic team, thus cast singing stars Carl Brisson and Mary Ellis in the...
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Peppi
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1935
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In this romantic comedy, a Parisian businessman heads for South American for a busman's holiday. There he hopes to have some...
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Paul Vernet
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1934
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In this family drama, a happy marriage is threatened by suspicion and jealousy, and illicit affairs. The trouble begins when...
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1934
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Egbert Fitzgerald
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1934
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In this comedy, two impoverished cousins inherit a British mansion and decide that one of them should marry a wealthy...
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1934
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Ambassador Popoff
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1934
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It's a Boy was freely adapted from a German play by Franz Arnold and Ernest Bach. On the eve of his marriage to Anita Gunn...
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Dudley Leake
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1934
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An amoral capitalist is the protagonist of this drama written by one of Hollywood's famous "Ten" (the first people in the...
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Fisher
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1934
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Female executive Doris (Genevieve Tobin) is hardly "uncertain" in the business world, but she's not so secure in her home...
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Elliot
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1934
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A battling married couple come to blows and afterwards the battered wife seeks legal council. This drama chronicles the...
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Vernon Thorpe
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1934
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One of the least known of Cary Grant's starring vehicles, Kiss and Make Up was based on a European play by Stephen Bekeffi....
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1934
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Annie Snodgrass (ZaSu Pitts) has a voice that could shatter glass, but try telling that to moonstruck gangster boss Fenny...
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Adam Frink
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1934
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The Woman in Command in this well-appointed British musical is vaudeville star Maisie Marvello, played by Cicely Courtenedge....
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Sebastian Marvello
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1933
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This star-laden version of Lewis Carroll's novel combines elements of both the title novel and Carroll's sequel, Through the...
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1933
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Design for Living was based on the stage comedy by Noel Coward, though little of his dialogue actually made it to the screen....
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Max Plunkett
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1933
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In this romantic musical, a carnival knife thrower's assistant falls for a Parisian tour guide who earns money wearing a...
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1933
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This musical comedy stars Maurice Chevalier as (what else?) a Parisian playboy with a song and a kiss for every beautiful...
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1933
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Sir George
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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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Busby
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1932
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Francois Filiba
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1932
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Bensinger
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1931
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Horace Keats
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1931
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Five characters find themselves playing a lively game of musical beds in this saucy pre-Code comedy. Richard...
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Mr. Smith
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1931
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In this musical, based on a famed operetta, a humble shop girl jilts her lover because his aristocratic family disapproves...
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Rene
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1931
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In this comedy drama, a young wife returns from a vacation abroad and learns that her sleazy husband is playing around with...
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Billy Ross
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1931
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In this elaborate big-budget musical, a handsome businessman follows a beautiful woman aboard a luxury liner and begins to...
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Rogers Valet
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1931
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In his third feature-film appearance, Spencer Tracy plays a small-town hotshot named William Donroy, who talks a young...
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Monty Winston
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1931
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In this sweet comedy, a meek and clumsy employee of a large firm is filled with useful ideas, but is too shy to present...
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Simon Haldane
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1930
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A devoted valet takes a vacation in this lively drama. After 15 years of faithful service, he has earned it. He goes to...
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Oliver
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1930
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Nick Potter
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1930
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In this comedy, a boozy Brit inherits an estate from his late American uncle. Unfortunately, he is too drunk to claim it and...
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1930
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Robert Street
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1929
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The Sap is Edward Everett Horton, a small-towner with big plans, but lacking the wherewithal to put them in motion. Even...
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The Sap
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1929
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Previously filmed in 1923, the William Collier Sr.-Victor Mapes stage play The Hottentot was exhumed as an...
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Sam Harrington
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1929
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A custody battle for a little boy forms the basis of this domestic comedy, a talkie that is so early that title cards are...
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Crandall Thorpe
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1929
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Ferdinand Fane
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1928
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Edward Everett Horton made a series of eight comic shorts in the late 1920s in which he played a Charley Chase type of...
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1928
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Caught in a heavy rainstorm without a car, Edward Everett Horton purchases a dilapidated taxicab so that he can get his...
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Peter Whitby
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1927
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This so-so comedy starring Edward Everett Horton is notable because his co-star, Mae Busch, plays a domineering wife -- the...
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1926
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The hero
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1926
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Amidst much fanfare, Lillian Gish was signed to a fabulous MGM contract in 1925 which not only assured her $400,000 per...
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Collins
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1926
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Edward Everett Horton is well cast in this simple little romance, which was based on the play The Nest Egg by Anne Caldwell...
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John Smith No.2
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1925
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This satirical film was based on the play by George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly. Neil McRae (Edward Everett Horton) is a...
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Neil McRae
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1925
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1924
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Bob Alten
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1924
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Edward Everett Horton, who was still new to film, was perfectly cast as the meek and mild English valet Ruggles in this...
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Ruggles
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1923
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This well-cast light comedy was based on the stage play by George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly. Three clerks for the Kincaid...
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Leonard Beebe
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1923
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Before becoming everyone's favorite supporting comedian, Edward Everett Horton was top-billed in several silent features. In...
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Rodney Murvin
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1922
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John Henry Jackson (Edward Everett Horton) is a businessman who is in love with his boss' secretary Myra Dalton...
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John Henry Jackson
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1922
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Although the Vitagraph studio had seen better days by 1922, it was still capable of putting out some entertaining films, such...
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Arthur Barnes
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1922
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