In this wartime drama, an American officer is accused of secretly working as an SS man. Though all evidence is against the...
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1948
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Jean Porter plays the title role in Betty Co-Ed--and never mind that her character name is Joanne Leeds! The plot gets under...
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1946
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Erich Von Stroheim's bravura performance is easily the most entertaining aspect of The Mask of Diijon, though it should be...
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Sheffield
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1946
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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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1944
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Former president Ronald Reagan may have genuinely believed that he was referring to a real-life act of selfless wartime...
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1944
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More so than most wartime films, Mission to Moscow must be viewed within the context of its times. Requested by President...
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1943
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With Riders of the Rio Grande, Republic's 51-entry "Three Mesquiteers" western series came to an end. Starring as the...
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Pop Owens
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1943
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The Song of Bernadette is a reverent recounting of the life of St. Bernadette of Lourdes. As a teen-aged peasant girl growing...
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1943
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Fugitive Nazis threaten to take over the Wyoming range in this Three Mesqueteers outing, which also warns about the danger of...
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1942
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Nurse Chapman begins to fall in love with a gangster and ends up entertaining miners until she manages to pull herself out of...
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1942
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No relation to the 1933 film of the same name, the 1942 Universal programmer Destination Unknown stars William Gargan as a...
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1942
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This modestly produced film version of Gregor Ziemmer's book Education for Death surprised everyone at RKO--and in the film...
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1942
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One of the most schizophrenic films ever to come out of the Paramount "B" mill, The Monster and the Girl starts out as a...
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1941
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William Powell and Myrna Loy re-team for this (literally) crazy screwball comedy about a happily married couple who, thanks...
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1941
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If Selznick could make a Gone With the Wind, reasoned Paramount Pictures in 1941, anyone can. Paramount's own spin on Scarlet...
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1941
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Fiercely independent authoress June Cameron (Loretta Young) has no time for men in her life. Chauvinistic medical college...
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1940
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In this crime drama, an ex-crook uses his skills as a forensic scientist to solve crimes. He forms a secret society of...
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1940
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Condemned to death for a mercy killing, Dr. John Garth (Karloff) continues to experiment in prison to develop a serum that...
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Dr. Ralph Howard
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1940
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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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Chief Jarvis
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1939
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1939
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1939
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This murder mystery is set behind-the-scenes of a radio station. the trouble begins when a hated cad of a sponsor is found...
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1938
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This being a Republic picture, it should come as no surprise that Storm Over Bengal was filmed in its entirety in the San...
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1938
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1938
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A handful of German soldiers readjust to civilian life in the bitter wake of World War I in this follow-up to the classic All...
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1937
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A doctor (John Beal) who loses faith in his skills renounces his profession and hides himself in a variety of jobs. He takes...
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1937
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"Every time Paul Muni parts his beard and looks through a microscope, we lose a million dollars." Producer Jack Warner's...
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1936
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Warner Bros' Road Gang is a retread of themes first explored (and stock footage first seen) in the studio's earlier...
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1936
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Mary Ellis, Paramount's answer to Columbia's Grace Moore, stars in the title role in this musical melodrama/whodunit. When...
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1936
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It may be sacrilege to say so, but Dracula's Daughter is an immense improvement over the original 1931 Dracula, despite the...
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Dr. Von Helsing
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1936
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A bell ringer's wife dies while giving birth to his second son who turns out to be deaf. His oldest son moves to America...
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1936
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Generous stock footage from such previous Columbia aviation epics as Flight and Dirigible helped to make Air Hawks (working...
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1935
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A popular title, a mystery death and college hi-jinks are the ingredients in this pleasant little whodunit from lower-rung...
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Prof. Bostwick
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1935
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Like the contemporaneous Columbia feature Party Wire, RKO Radio's Grand Old Girl paints a surprisingly bleak and cynical...
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1935
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Insurance investigator Tom Fletcher (Edmund Lowe) is hot on the trail of an arsonist (please excuse the pun). He is helped...
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1935
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RKO Radio's spectacular production The Last Days of Pompeii utilizes the title but precious little else of the famous...
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1935
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The Arizonian came at a time when Richard Dix's popularity was slipping, providing a welcome shot in the arm for the star and...
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1935
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In this romantic drama, a horsewoman is forced to work in a society dame's stable. There she meets and falls in love with a...
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1935
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A curse pronounced upon land baron DeBerghmann has devastating long-range consequences for his twin sons Gregor and Anton....
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1935
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This truly offbeat filmization of Jean Bart's stage drama The Man Who Reclaimed His Head has been misleadingly released to TV...
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1935
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I'll Fix It is a strange bit of goods, condemning the excesses of capitalism while still allowing the chief capitalist to...
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1934
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In this tear-jerking adaptation of Louis Bromfield's novel A Good Woman, the title character stands tall in the face of small...
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1934
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In this adaptation of Alberto Casella's stage play, Death assumes human form in order to discover why men fear him. Posing as...
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1934
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Two popular film genres were combined by low-budget Chestefield Films in 1934, and the result was Murder on the Campus....
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1934
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Although it is included in TV's "Shock Theater" passage, there's nothing overtly frightening about the heavily plotted...
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1934
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Of the two 1934 film versions of the life of Russia's Catherine the Great, Josef von Sternberg's The Scarlet Empress was the...
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1934
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Notorious as the movie that gangster John Dillinger attended on the night he was killed, Manhattan Melodrama has weathered...
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1934
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In this musical science fiction adventure a handsome Brazilian playboy finds himself in the enviable position of being the...
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1933
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Baby Face is a good example of the kind of spitfire lead female characters that appeared in the cinema of pre-code Hollywood....
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1933
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This remarkable early-talkie "disaster" flick was the first directorial effort of Felix E. Feist. An enormous tidal wave...
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1933
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While Tonart Studios is filming a gangster movie, one of the actors is killed in a shooting accident. After several other...
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1933
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In this comedy drama, a wealthy shoe magnate is bored with his life. The trouble really begins when his chief rival dies....
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1933
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1933
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The infernal machine in question is a bomb controlled by a wireless operator and set aboard a New York bound ocean liner. No...
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1933
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This drama is set aboard a cross-country train bound for New York. Aboard this train is a silk manufacturer from Seattle who...
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1933
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In her first film under contract to Warner Bros., Kay Francis plays Lois Ames, a magazine editor whose husband Fred (Kenneth...
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1932
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Professor Muller
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1932
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Tallulah Bankhead's first Hollywood movie was this romantic-drama weepie, in which she plays Susan, the unhappy wife of oil...
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1932
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Behind the Mask is a typically virile Jack Holt vehicle, with the hero at one point shooting himself in the arm to establish...
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1932
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1932
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A very young Loretta Young stars in this domestic drama in which a naïve department store clerk falls for an inveterate...
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1932
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Forgotten Commandments is a well-meaning but clumsy attempt to explore the consequences of communism. The story takes place...
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1932
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Still regarded as the definitive film version of Mary Shelley's classic tale of tragedy and horror, Frankenstein made unknown...
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Doctor Waldman
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1931
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"I am....Drac-u-la. I bid you velcome." Thus does Bela Lugosi declare his presence in the 1931 screen version of Bram...
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Dr. Van Helsing
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1931
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"There is never a suggestion of subtlety in this tale" was the New York Times' acidic but accurate assessment of the...
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1931
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