During the Prohibition era of the 1920s, speakeasies were common and crime was rampant. This period of American history...
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1989
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This collection of bloopers and outtakes is largely from Warner Bros. films of the 1930s and 1940s. Included are such sights...
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1986
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Richard Fleischer directed this nightmarish science fiction vision of an over-populated world, based on the novel by Harry...
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Sol Roth
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1973
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This drama follows a young American soldier in Israel who has been blinded and placed in a hospital. The old woman he shares...
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1972
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An unusually popular ABC Movie of the Week, The Old Man Who Cried Wolf stars Edward G. Robinson as an elderly shopkeeper who...
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Emile Pulska
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1970
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This musical biography of Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg (Torval Maurstad) is based on the play of the same name. Living in...
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1970
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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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Old Adams
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1969
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The initials stand for University Medical Center, where this TV movie was set (the University was actually UCLA, though not...
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1969
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Jack Albany (Dick Van Dyke) is an actor in a television series who is mistaken for a real-life murderer Ace Williams...
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Leo Joseph Smooth
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1968
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It's Your Move (Uno Scacco Tutto Matto) stars Edward G. Robinson as MacDowell, a dilettante criminal who masterminds a...
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McDowell
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1968
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Vittorio De Sica delivers a full-blown comic performance as Cesare Celli, an American gangster exiled to Italy and kidnapped...
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1968
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An ingenious thief steals Michelangelo's Pieta, worth $30 billion in the farce. The trouble is, he has no buyers and so lets...
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1967
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A group of international jewel thieves band together to pull off a huge heist in this suspenseful caper film that was shot in...
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Prof. James Anders
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1967
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The third film from director Nicolas Gessner, this espionage drama is a filmed adaptation of the novel You Have Yourself a...
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Douglas
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1967
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Once again, Lucy (Lucille Ball) has a hankering to see some movie stars close-up. Her first step in this direction is to take...
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1966
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Steve McQueen stars as the Cincinnati Kid, a crackerjack New Orleans stud poker player. Tired of chicken feed, the Kid...
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Lancey Howard
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1965
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Simon Nurdlinger
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1964
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Derived from the classic 1951 Japanese film Rashomon, director Martin Ritt's The Outrage attempts to modernize the original...
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Con Man
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1964
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John Ford's last western film, Cheyenne Autumn was allegedly produced to compensate for the hundreds of Native Americans who...
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Carl Schurz
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1964
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The Rat Pack packed it in after this sprightly musical comedy that owes more than it should to Damon Runyon's stories and...
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1964
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Released in the US as A Boy Ten Feet Tall, Sammy Going South is a rugged youngster's-eye-view adventure set in South Africa....
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Cocky Wainwright
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1963
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Based on the novel by Irving Wallace, The Prize takes place in Stockholm, where several laureates gather to accept their...
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Dr. Max Stratman
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1963
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One of Hollywood's great directors, Vincente Minnelli, turns a jaundiced eye towards the film industry in this drama about...
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Maurice Kruger
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1962
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In this romantic comedy, a popular actress disguises herself as a Japanese geisha to land a part in a film directed by her...
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Sam Lewis
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1962
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Discredited professor Edward G. Robinson organizes a seven-person criminal gang. Robinson plans to steal a fortune from the...
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Theo Wilkins
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1960
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Although the main character, Tony Manetta (Frank Sinatra), in this light comedy tends to tip the scales towards being...
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Mario Manetta
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1959
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Based on the Holy Scriptures, with additional dialogue by several other hands, The Ten Commandments was the last film...
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Dathan
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1956
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Jazz musician Stan Grayson (Kevin McCarthy) wakes up from a dream in which he has killed a man during a struggle in a bizarre...
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Rene Bressard
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1956
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A communist spy plots the abduction of an important American atomic scientist in this espionage drama. To do his evil deed,...
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Inspector Raoul Leduc
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1955
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Once again Edward G. Robinson takes a script from the trash bin and makes it into a palatable movie. A remake of The...
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Victor Scott
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1955
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Hell on Frisco Bay is a slam-bang return to the sort of gangster fare turned out by the yard at Warner Bros. in the 1930s....
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Victor Amato
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1955
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Tight Spot is based on Leonard Kantor's novel Dead Pigeon, which in turn was obviously inspired by Virginia Hill's appearance...
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Lloyd Hallett
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1955
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Vincent Canelli
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1954
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Rudolphe Maté directs the western The Violent Men, based on the novel Rough Company by Donald Hamilton. Edward G. Robinson...
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Lew Wilkison
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1954
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John Forsythe plays a successful television writer, Don Newell, who works on the "Crime of the Week" anthology series. Newell...
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Henry Hayes
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1953
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Capt. Barnaby
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1953
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John B. "Hans" Lobert
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1953
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At least half of the two-part Actors and Sin is well worth having. Part One, "Actor's Blood", is based on a Ben Hecht tale of...
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Maurice Tilayou
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1952
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Denied steady work in the U.S. because of his alleged left-wing political beliefs, Edward G. Robinson was obliged to seek out...
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1950
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House of Strangers is the first of three film versions of Jerome Weidman's I'll Never Go Home Any More, each of which was...
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Gino Monetti
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1949
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1949
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Joe Keller
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1948
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Johnny Rocco
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1948
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A man who dreams of seeing the future discovers the horrible burden that it can carry in this film noir suspense story....
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John Triton
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1948
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Pete Morgan
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1947
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Filmed in 1945 and released in the US the following year, the Anglo-American Journey Together is a tribute to the Royal Air...
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Dean McWilliams
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1946
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The Stranger is often considered Orson Welles' most "traditional" Hollywood-style directorial effort. Welles plays a college...
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Wilson
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1946
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Masterfully directed by Fritz Lang, Scarlet Street is a bleak film in which an ordinary man succumbs first to vice and then...
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Christopher Cross
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1945
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An earnest rural melodrama set among Norwegian immigrants in Wisconsin, Our Vines Have Tender Grapes is a slightly updated...
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Martinius Jacobson
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1945
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Directed by Fritz Lang, The Woman in the Window, a sadly tragic film noir, is the story of the doomed love of married...
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Prof. Richard Wanley
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1944
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The year is 1942: Mr. Winkle (Edward G. Robinson), a mild-mannered bank clerk, decides to quit his job and open a fix-it shop...
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Wilbert George Winkle
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1944
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Not to be confused with the 1971 film of the same name, this World War II espionage drama was the second to last film from...
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Capt. Bart Manson
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1944
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Barton Keyes
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1944
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Edward G. Robinson portrays a hard-driving, hard-nosed perfectionist who causes dissension aboard the WWII destroyer he...
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Steve Boleslavski
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1943
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Marshall Tyler
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1943
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This parody of gangster flicks centers on an incarcerated gangster who decides to reform after he is released from Sing...
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J. Chalmers "Pressure" Maxwell
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1942
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The Soviet war documentary Moscow Strikes Back was released in the U.S. in a specially-prepared English language version....
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Commentary
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1942
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Tales of Manhattan is a sumptuous multipart film centered around a formal tailcoat. The coat is specially designed for stage...
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1942
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If Edward G. Robinson thought he'd get away from tough-guy roles by moving from Warners to MGM, he was sorely mistaken....
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Bruce Corey
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1941
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Wolf Larsen
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1941
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Manpower was Warner Bros' latest reworking of 1932's Tiger Shark, with power-company linemen substituting for tuna fisherman....
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Hank McHenry
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1941
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Edward G. Robinson portrays real-life German medical researcher Paul Erlich, the man who discovered and perfected "Formula...
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Dr. Paul Ehrlich
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1940
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As part of his new contract with Warner Bros., Edward G. Robinson agreed to appear in the gangster comedy Brother Orchid on...
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Julius Reuter
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1940
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Edward G. Robinson plays orchid-loving gangster Little John Sarto, who aspires to "real class." During a power struggle with...
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Little John Sarto
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1940
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Bold for its time (just prior to World War II), Confessions of a Nazi Spy is an expose of a genuine Nazi espionage ring...
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Ed Renard
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1939
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Through a miscarriage of justice, John Ingram (Edward G. Robinson) is convicted of a crime he did not commit and sentenced to...
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John Ingram
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1939
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Edward G. Robinson shines in a fine comic role as Dr. Clitterhouse, a brilliant psychiatrist doing research into the criminal...
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Dr. Clitterhouse
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1938
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Slight Case of Murder is a breakneck-paced comedy starring Edward G. Robinson as a tough but good-hearted bootlegger. When...
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Remy Marco
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1938
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I Am the Law is arguably the best of the late-1930s films inspired by the racket-busting career of New York district attorney...
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John Lindsay
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1938
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Edward G. Robinson offers an excellent turn as a crime lord obsessed with the welfare of his son in this melodramatic crime...
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Joe Krozak
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1937
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Fight manager Nick Donati (Edward G. Robinson) has just lost his best fighter to crooked promoter Turkey Morgan...
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Nick Donati
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1937
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In this satire of British-American relations, Edward G. Robinson stars as Dan Armstrong, a hard-sell American saleman whose...
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Dan Armstrong
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1937
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Two-fisted New York police detective Edward G. Robinson is so volatile that he manages to get himself thrown off the force in...
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Johnny Blake
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1936
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It's the wild and woolly waterfront world of San Francisco in the late 1800s in this rambling tale of an outrageous nightclub...
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Louis Chamalis
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1935
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The film that revived Edward G. Robinson's career after a string of flops, along with A Slight Case of Murder (1938), it was...
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Arthur Ferguson Jones,Killer Mannion
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1935
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A weak-willed gambler's compulsion destroys his life in this dramatic character study. In the beginning, he is seen working...
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Jim Turner
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1934
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Damon Wells
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1934
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In this drama, the owner of a Chicago meat-packing company falls in love with a beautiful opera singer. Unfortunately, his...
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John Hayden
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1933
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The end of prohibition spells the end of business as usual for Chicago gangster Bugs Ahearn (Edward G. Robinson in this...
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James Francis "Bugs" Aheam
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1933
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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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The factual story of H.A.W. Tabor and "Baby Doe" was the inspiration of Silver Dollar. Edward G. Robinson plays the Tabor...
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Yates Martin
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1932
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It is difficult to determine who is the more ferocious character in this film: The real shark seen in the underwater...
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Capt. Mike Mascarenhas
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1932
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Similar in theme to Ambrose Bierce's classic story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," this odd melodrama chronicles the...
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John Allen
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1932
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Adapted from the stage play by former newspaperman Louis Weitzenkorn, Five Star Final is an uncompromising look at the...
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Joseph Randall
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1931
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1931
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Nick "The Barber" Venizelos
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1931
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Cobra Collins
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1930
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In this romance, men board "The Love Boat" (no, not the TV boat) and set sail for China with the hope of buying a Chinese...
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Charlie Yong
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1930
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The Widow from Chicago is Polly Henderson (Alice White) -- only she isn't really a widow and in fact has never been married....
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Dominic
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1930
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The first "talkie" gangster movie to capture the public's imagination, Mervyn LeRoy's Little Caesar started a cycle of...
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Rico Bandello
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1930
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Made in the final years of director John S. Robertson's career, Night Ride is a crime drama starring Joseph Schildkraut as...
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Tony Garotta
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1930
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The odd combination of Vilma Banky and Broadway import Edward G. Robinson starred in this early sound version of Sidney...
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Tony
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1930
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The Fox
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1929
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This drama about Cuba's unsuccessful 1850 revolution was based on the novel by Joseph Hergesheimer. Andres Escobar...
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1923
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In this action-packed drama, Rozika, a Hungarian peasant girl (Mary Nash), comes to America with her anarchist brother. She...
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1916
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Warner Brothers was one of the big studios of the 30s and had many talented performers under contract. See some of their...
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