The spokesman for a highly respected group of Danish artisans, cabinetmaker Axel Norstaad (Karl Swenson) is talked into...
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1962
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A sweet but scatterbrained old lady named Nora Mae Quincy (Lenore Shanewise) comes to Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) with the...
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1958
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Produced and directed by star Burt Lancaster, The Kentuckian is a leisurely western occasionally punctuated by spurts of...
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1955
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Craig Stevens offers a seminal version of his "Peter Gunn" TV characterization in Allied Artists' Murder Without Tears....
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1953
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The Man From the Alamo manages to pack a few nuances and surprises in its traditional western plotline. During the siege at...
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1953
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A prison guard at one of California's most notoriously brutal correctional facilities during the 1920s attempts to enact more...
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1951
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The real Matt Cvetic was a borderline alcoholic with a nasty disposition (he once allegedly beat his sister-in-law so badly...
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1951
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Killer Shark was another of actor Roddy McDowall's self-produced film efforts for Monogram release. McDowall stars as Ted,...
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Ramon
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1950
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1950
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Filmed with the full cooperation of the U.S. Army, Breakthrough is a lean, no-nonsense war film set during the 1944 invasion...
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1950
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Doc Taylor
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1950
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Filmmaker Andrew Stone was always a staunch believer in realism at all costs. Thus it was that much of Highway 301 was lensed...
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1950
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Forgotten Women is Monogram's cut-rate 65-minute spin on MGM's The Women. The film deals with four lovely ladies, each of...
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Andy Emerson
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1949
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Compared to his later "A" westerns, director Oscar "Budd" Boetticher's The Wolf Hunters is often exasperatingly slow. This...
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Henri
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1949
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Tim Holt's second RKO western for 1949 was Mysterious Desperado. Once more teamed with Richard Martin as his saddle pal...
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Ramon
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1949
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Who better to guard a priceless pearl necklace than an ex-thief? That's the logic behind Trapped by Boston Blackie, starring...
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Igor Borio
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1948
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At least Heartaches looks more ambitious than it is-no small feat for a PRC production. Ken Farrell plays Vic Morton, a...
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1947
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Most of this Republic B-plus mystery yarn is set in a penthouse, next door to a music hall where a strange song-and-dance...
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1946
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In this courtroom drama, a husband finds himself accused of murder after his wife, a photographer, is found dead in her...
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1946
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This gripping, gritty film noir begins as a mortally wounded physician staggers into the apartment of a vicious vixen, the...
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Jim Vincent
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1946
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If Penthouse Rhythm is paced more like a two-reel comedy than a mini-musical, it may be because the director was...
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Junior
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1945
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Veteran action specialists Ray Taylor and Lewis D. Collins co-directed this below-average Universal serial featuring brunette...
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1945
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Night Club Girl was designed as a feature-length "screen test" for new Universal contractee Vivian Austin. The plot is the...
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Clark Phillips
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1944
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The career girl in this PRC musical is Joan (Frances Langford), a Kansas City gal with showbiz aspirations. She heads to New...
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1944
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In this comic western, a Broadway star leaves his musical revue to go West and help out his troubled friend. While there,...
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1944
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It's nearly the End of the Road for condemned prisoner Chris Martin (John Abbott), slated to be executed for a murder he says...
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Robert Kirby
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1944
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Perennial starlet Mary Beth Hughes has Men on Her Mind in this PRC quickie. Mary Beth plays a radio and nightclub singer to...
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Jeffrey Wingate
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1944
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1944
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Even by Monogram standards, Wings Over the Pacific is a modest effort. In his final film role, Montague Love plays WW I...
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Allan
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1943
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In this entry in the "Dead End Kids" series (later they would reappear as "The Bowery Boys") the lads encounter a terribly...
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1943
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During WW II, Universal cornered the market on "quickie" musicals, wrapping up songs, laughs and pretty girls in neat...
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1943
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William Gargan and Margaret Lindsay, stars of Columbia's "Ellery Queen" series, were reunited for the like-minded...
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1943
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In this frothy musical, a sultan's lovely daughter finds herself courted by a handsome American. WW II erupts and her father...
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Jimmy
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1943
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A playboy imprisoned for a bank robbery he didn't commit gets involved with a convict who's determined to make a daring...
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1943
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The Mystery of Marie Roget is more faithful to its Edgar Allan Poe original than most Universal films of its ilk, even though...
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Marcel Vignon
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1942
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Long forgotten, Monogram's Man With Two Lives has recently resurfaced on the videocassette market, proving itself a most...
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Phillip Bennett
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1942
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I Live on Danger is a fast-moving thriller with strong performances and top-notch direction -- by former screenwriter...
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Eddie Nelson
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1942
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This espionage drama, a remake of the 1935 original, set in WW II, follows the exploits of an Englishman who kills his...
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Bardinet
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1942
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Long underappreciated by film buffs, The Lady Has Plans is a screwball comedy disguised as an espionage melodrama. The title...
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1942
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Released in late August of 1942, Sabotage Squad was the last of Columbia's B-budget wartime melodramas of the 1941-42 season....
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Eddie Miller
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1942
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1942
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The brazen audaciousness with which Bryan Foy's B-picture unit at Warner Bros. remade the studio's old properties was seldom...
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Chet Madden
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1941
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Gene Autry battles a crooked mine owner in this his signature western from Republic Pictures. Years earlier, Gene promised to...
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Tom Bennett
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1941
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In this medical melodrama, a young MD finds himself in love with a woman who doesn't love him. She is interested in an...
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1941
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1941
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1941
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This wartime drama is set in 1936 and begins at the Winter Olympics. It centers on the three medalists of a skiing...
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Paave Luuki
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1940
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Columbia's The Lady in Question is a remake of the French Gribouille, a Raimu vehicle from 1939. Brian Aherne plays Andre...
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1940
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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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1940
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In this drama, a miserable wife takes her son and leaves her alcoholic spouse. She ends up traveling to England to begin her...
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1939
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When Fox bought the rights to Ralph Spence's warhorse stage mystery-comedy The Gorilla for the Ritz Brothers, they walked out...
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1939
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Arbuckle
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1939
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1939
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The "Little Tough Guys" get involved in a circulation war between a paper with underhanded tactics and a paper being...
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Frankie Barber
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1939
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This drama chronicles the life and times of a notorious gangster. The story begins at his funeral. There a reporter,...
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Louie Peronni
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1939
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The exploits of female pilots are followed in this high-flying drama. These women are extremely competitive and will stop at...
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1939
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The publisher of a popular gossip magazine causes a scandal of his own when he hires his bastard son as a reporter. The cub...
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Petty Haynes
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1939
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The bravura performance of Bela Lugosi is the main selling card for the 12-episode Universal serial The Phantom Creeps....
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1939
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Spencer Tracy won his second Oscar for his portrayal of Father Edward J. Flanagan--then promptly turned the statuette over to...
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1938
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In this drama, a milque-toast socialite is drowning in San Francisco Bay. Fortunately, he is saved by a kindly Italian...
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1937
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This hard-hitting Warner Bros. courtroom drama begins with the usual "Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is...
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Robert Paerry Hale
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1937
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This drama chronicles the fate of two disparate brothers, both of whom work at the same power plant. One of them is...
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Steve Carroll
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1937
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The tempestuous love affair between a young surgeon and a pretty but married nurse provides the basis for this melodrama....
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1937
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Even the mighty MGM had to keep the home fires burning with B pictures. The studio's Mama Steps Out is a harmless confection...
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1937
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A love triangle forms the basis of this drama. It all begins in a steel mill when a steel worker ignores the besotted gazes...
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1936
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Taking refuge from a rainstorm in a deserted farmhouse, young married couple Joe and Loretta Martin (Edward Norris and...
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Joe Martin
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1935
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1935
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On the last day of school, the Our Gang kids learn that their beloved teacher Miss Jones (Arletta Duncan) is going to be...
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1935
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Weatherbeaten western star Harry Carey is the glue that holds the low-budget Wagon Trail together. Carey plays a sheriff who...
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Hartley
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1935
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This Side of Heaven is an early, muted example of what would refine itself into the "screwball comedy" genre....
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1934
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If Queen Christina is not the best of Greta Garbo's films (as many Garbo fanatics insist), it is certainly the most...
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1933
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