The sixth TV-movie spinoff of the popular family series The Waltons, A Walton Easter manages to reunite all of the surviving...
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1997
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America's favorite family, now grown with kids of their own, reunites for an old-fashioned Thanksgiving. Set in the wake of...
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1993
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Originally made for television, creator Earl Hamner narrates this two-hour compilation of highlights from The Waltons TV...
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1985
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Grandma Walton
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1982
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The cast of the long-running Waltons TV series (minus Richard Thomas as John Boy, here replaced by John Wightman) are...
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1982
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It is the spring of 1944 on Walton's Mountain. As war correspondent John-Boy (Robert Wightman) prepares for his return trip...
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1980
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Former series regular Ellen Corby makes a return appearance in this episode, which revolves around a crisis in the home of...
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1980
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1978
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Having suffered a stroke which kept her from working throughout most of 1977 and 1978, Waltons regular Ellen Corby gallantly...
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Grandma Walton
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1978
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Although it was clearly established during season five that the events of The Waltons were taking place in 1937 and 1938,...
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Grandma Walton
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1977
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John Boy, Ben, and the rest of the rosy-cheeked Walton clan are back for this Christmas-oriented heartwarmer, which involves...
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1977
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Season five of The Waltons finds the people of Jefferson County, VA, seguing from 1936 to 1937, the latter year pinpointed...
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Grandma Walton
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1976
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While driving through a particularly treacherous stretch of woods, Olivia (Michael Learned) and her two youngest children...
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Screenwriter
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1976
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It must be 1936 in Jefferson County, VA, as The Waltons launches its fourth season. This much we can determine by the episode...
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Grandma Walton
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1975
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A post-Andy Griffith Show, pre-Happy Days Ron Howard) guest stars as Seth Turner, the best friend of Jason Walton (Jon...
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1974
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Set in Jefferson County, VA, in the year 1935 or thereabouts, season three of The Waltons opens with the two-parter "The...
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Grandma Walton
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1974
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Clyde Ware both scripted and directed this made-for-TV biopic. Martin Sheen stars as Floyd, a depression-era farmboy who (it...
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1974
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Lynn Hamilton makes her first series appearance as Verdie Grant (Lynn Hamilton), one of the black residents of Walton's...
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1973
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Season two of The Waltons takes place sometime in the mid-1930s in Jefferson County, VA, home of the large and loving Walton...
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Grandma Walton
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1973
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The plot of this episode is sparked (no pun intended) by an overdue electric bill. In his efforts to raise the necessary...
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Screenwriter
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1973
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This special 2-hour episode of The Waltons was penned by series creator Earl Hamner Jr. As the Depression-era Walton family...
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1973
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In the first half of a two-part story (originally telecast as a single two-hour episode), John-Boy (Richard Thomas) is...
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1973
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Grandma Walton
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1972
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In this episode from the first season of the long-running television series The Waltons, 16-year-old John-Boy (Richard...
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1972
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In this heartwarming family-oriented adventure from Disney, an adorable orphan named Napoleon (Johnny Whitaker) is sent to...
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1972
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It's an unhappy birthday for Officer Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) when he forgets to renew his driver's license. As a result,...
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1971
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A Tattered Web starts out at a high level of tension which seldom flags during its lean 74 minutes. Lloyd Bridges stars as a...
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1971
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This made-for-TV drama, based on the book by Earl Hamner Jr., was the basis for the popular long-running television series...
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1971
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1971
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Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) spearheads a search for mentally disturbed Walker Oborn (Don Stroud), who has already...
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1970
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Mrs. Walker
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1969
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The LAPD dispatches several officers to a predominantly African American community when two punks kill a respected black...
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1969
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Jesse Royce Landis guest stars as Chief Ironside's idomitable Aunt Victoria, who insists that her nephew investigate the...
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1969
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Arriving in the US under the alias "Paul Sieger", Nazi war criminal Helmut Probst (Charles Korvin) hopes to avoid capture...
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1968
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William Windom guest stars as Frank Converse, an embezzler who hopes to elude the FBI by crossing the Canadian border....
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1968
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1968
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Film star Lylah Clare is dead, but her legend lives on. Movie-producer Barney Sheean (Ernest Borgnine) hires Elsa Brinkmann...
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1968
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Trouble comes in pairs for the family of a young kidnap victim. Not only has the family received a ransom note from the...
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1967
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1967
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Roy Thinnes was the star of this 1967-1968 science fiction series, about an Earth poised on the brink of alien takeover. ~...
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1967
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Posing as "Frank Whistler", Kimble (David Janssen) hitches a ride with a small-town minister--only to be involved in a car...
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1966
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The Glass Bottom Boat is hardly a high point in the careers of star Doris Day and director Frank Tashlin, though it is a...
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1966
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A small town is terrorized by a grizzly bear in this uninspired western. Jim Cole {Clint Walker} must defend his inherited...
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1966
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Luther Heggs (Don Knotts) is a typesetter at a newspaper who longs for a chance to be a reporter. Editor Beckett...
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1966
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This episode is set in a remote Oregon community plagued by a drought that has dragged on for over three months. A local...
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1966
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When hitchhiker Frank Schroeder (a pre-Hawaii 5-0 Jack Lord) gallantly saves a young Mexican girl named Teresa (Pilar Seurat)...
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1966
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Now working as a tenement janitor under the name "Carl Baker", Kimble (David Janssen) offers a helping hand to an emotionally...
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1966
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As if one Jerry Lewis wasn't enough, The Family Jewels offers no fewer than seven Jerrys. Fans of Lewis will like the film....
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1965
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An unusually long pre-credits sequence establishes the roots of faded Southern belle Charlotte's (Bette Davis) insanity;...
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1965
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A woman named Helen (Barbara Barrie) awakens in a hospital run completely by women, with nary a man in sight. This is...
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Chief Nurse
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1964
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In 1964, as the "Boston Strangler" killings of young nurses in Boston remained unsolved, this film was rushed into release to...
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Mrs. Kroll
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1964
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Granny steps up her efforts to match up Jed with the Widow Poke, the mother of singing sensation Johnny Poke (Jess Pearson)....
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1964
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In the conclusion of a two-part story, Lucy (Lucille Ball) and Mr. Mooney (Gale Gordon) are freed from the bank vault in...
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Miss Tanner
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1963
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In this comic episode, Adam and Hoss Cartwright want to enter their newly purchased thoroughbred in the Virginia City...
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1963
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Tired of relying upon others for his transportation, Barney is determined to become "Mr. Independent Wheels" by purchasing...
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1963
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Gale Gordon makes his first series appearance as Theodore J. Mooney, the new banker in charge of Lucy's trust fund. Hoping to...
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Miss Tanner
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1963
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A "bad movie" with a fervent fan following, The Caretakers is set in a bleak mental institution. Joan Crawford plays the...
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1963
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In 4 for Texas, Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin star as Zack Thomas and Joe Jarrett, a pair of rival mountebanks who spend most...
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1963
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In this comedy, two small-time con men steal an honest ex-convict's car and use it to rob a bank. They then hide the loot in...
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Mrs. McKenzie
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1962
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1961
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When a space alien's fascination with Earthlings gets the better of him, he breaks one of his planet's laws and speeds off to...
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1960
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At the height of the bloody feud between the McFaddens and the Hadfields, Alonzo McFadden (Douglas Spencer) hires the dreaded...
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1960
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Raucous comedianJudy Canova plays it straight in this episode as Helen Parch, a small-town gossip who shares a telephone...
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1960
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Wealthy widow Matilda Benson (Kathryn Givney) rules over her children like a dowager empress, threatening to cut them out of...
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1959
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Dismissed when first released, later heralded as one of director Alfred Hitchcock's finest films (and, according to...
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1958
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Four little old ladies become fascinated by Mr. O'Finn (Dennis Morgan), the homicide detective who is investigating a murder...
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1958
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A beautiful and young-looking educator begins working in a small desert town. She arrives early to set up, and just before...
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1958
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This first "gimmick" outing from horror producer William Castle is mainly distinguished by the clever ad campaign promising...
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1958
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Night Passage is so similar in spirit to the successful collaborations between star James Stewart and director Anthony Mann...
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1957
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Prominent surgeon Walter Brennan comes to the conclusion that his talents are on loan from God. He retires from his lucrative...
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1957
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A remake of The Painted Veil (which was itself based upon a novel by W. Somerset Maugham), The Seventh Sin stars Eleanor...
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1957
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In this musical, an ex-fan dancer leaves the burlesque to start a new in a small town with her two teenage children. There...
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Mrs. Wellington
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1957
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Stagecoach to Fury was one of several "pocket westerns" released through 20th Century-Fox's Regal Films subsidiary. The...
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1956
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1956
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This little film noir is freely adapted from James M. Cain's novel Love's Lovely Counterfeit, the story of a gangster...
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1956
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The title character in this grim charade is a sickly little baby, whom middle-aged Edwina Freed (Jessica Tandy) insists is...
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1956
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When Orson Welles was signed to produce and direct films at RKO Radio Pictures in 1939, he'd wanted to cast Lucille Ball in...
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Miss Hanna
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1956
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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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1955
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In a fleabitten Western town, gunslingers Dell Delaney (Gene Barry) and Red Hillman (Darren McGavin) challenge each other to...
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1955
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Susan Slept Here is the only feature film in Hollywood history ever to be narrated by an Academy Award. After introducing...
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1954
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) investigate the death of young Gloria Paul, who left behind a suicide note. When...
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1954
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1954
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The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters may not be the best of the "Bowery Boys" series, but it was unquestionably the most...
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Amelia
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1954
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1954
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Judy Canova is right in her element in the rowdy Republic musical Untamed Heiress. Canova plays Judy, the daughter of a...
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1954
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The simple story of a Wyoming range war is elevated to near-mythical status in producer/director George Stevens' Western...
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1953
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In 1945, James Cagney, through his independent production company, bought the rights to a lurid novel by Adria Locke Langley,...
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1953
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Investigating the murder of 50-year-old Charles Stahl, Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) interview snappish motel...
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1953
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The Vanquished represented another winner from Paramount's Pine-Thomas unit. John Payne plays Rock Grayson, a Civil War POW...
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1953
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Set in India, this romantic drama tells the melodramatic tale of a young couple who travel to a remote jungle village to...
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Katie
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1953
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All suspense in The Woman They Almost Lynched would seem to be dissipated by title, but director Allan Dwan holds the viewers...
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1953
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The unbreakable bond between a young man and his pet lion provides the action in this comedy. The trouble begins when the...
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Mrs. Ardley
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1952
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Ever since slipping into Public Domain, The Big Trees has become one of the most accessible and oft-televised of...
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1952
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Here Comes the Groom was the second collaboration between director Frank Capra and star Bing Crosby. Though not as "socially...
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1951
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A pair of top 20th Century Fox contractees were loaned to Paramount as stars of The Mating Season. Gene Tierney plays...
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1951
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Booth Tarkington's Alice Adams, coupled with his Penrod stories, were incorporated in the script of the 1951 Warner Bros....
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1951
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This Republic "special" stars Rod Cameron as deep-sea diver Gunner McNeil. When his partner (James Brown) drowns under...
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1951
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To call The Barefoot Mailman episodic would be understating the issue: the film's story stops and starts so often that it...
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1951
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Though not the most profitable baseball comedy ever made, Angels in the Outfield is one of the most likeable and enduring....
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1951
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Based on a play by Fay Kanin, this comedy drama follows a successful congresswoman's emotional journey back to her alma...
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1951
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1950
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The second of Universal's "Ma and Pa Kettle" series, Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town stars, as ever, Marjorie Main and...
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1950
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Caged, considered the best woman's prison film ever made, represents a union between realistic socially conscious drama and...
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Emma
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1950
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In this classic noir-influenced Western, Gregory Peck stars as an aging gunslinger, sick of killing but haunted by punks...
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Mrs. Devlin
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1950
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1950
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Peggy Brookfield (Diana Lynn) is one of many aspirants for the position of Queen of the annual Tournament of Roses in...
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1950
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MGM circumvented the censorship that would otherwise have prevented a film version of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary by...
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1949
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Paramount's Pine-Thomas production unit was afforded a larger budget than usual for Captain China. The title character,...
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1949
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1949
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Of the many film versions of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, this 1949 MGM adaptation is by far the prettiest. Set in New...
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1949
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1949
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Columbia's "Rusty" series was entering the homestretch with 1949's Rusty Saves a Life. The eponymous doggie hero, portrayed...
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1949
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For their first independently-produced vehicle, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello chose to appear in a remake of the 1939 Universal...
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1948
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Hoping for a success commensurate with his previous Show Business (1945), comedian Eddie Cantor poured a lot of his own money...
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1948
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Wildcatters in search of a gusher during the late 1920s provide the basis of this comedy-drama that centers on a...
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1948
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"Boys Town" goes to turn-of-the-century St. Louis in this moving drama that chronicles the love of a determined priest...
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1948
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In this faithful remake of Blind Alley (1939), psychoanalyst Andrew Collins (Lee J. Cobb), his wife, his son, and some...
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1948
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George Stevens's charming film version of Kathryn Forbes' collection of short stories entitled Mama's Bank Account features...
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1948
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Allan Dwan directs the family-oriented drama Driftwood, starring nine-year-old Natalie Wood. Orphan Jenny Hollingsworth...
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1947
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Irving Pichel's They Won't Believe Me is the flashback unfolding of Larry Ballentine's (Robert Young) witness-stand testimony...
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1947
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The Broadway musical Beat the Band was boiled down to B-picture terms in this RKO Radio programmer. The plot concerns Damon...
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1947
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Although Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) agrees to remain at Mesa City for a couple of days so that California (Andy Clyde)...
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Screen Story
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1947
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Somehow the titles of the films of hardcase actor Lawrence Tierney seemed to be extensions of the man's personality, as...
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1947
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They said it couldn't be done, but they did it: Kathleen Winsor's "notorious", bestselling bodice-ripper Forever Amber...
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1947
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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 Universal B-musical casts Desi Arnaz as himself: a Cuban bandleader making it big in the United States. Shawnee (Joan...
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1946
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In this romantic drama, Bill and Susan Cummings (Mark Stevens and Joan Fontaine), a couple from the Bronx, look back at the...
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1946
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The wonderfully suspenseful psychological drama Spiral Staircase is the prototype of the "old dark house, lady in distress"...
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1946
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This is director Frank Capra's classic bittersweet comedy/drama about George Bailey (James Stewart), the eternally-in-debt...
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1946
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Setting something of a record for flashbacks within flashbacks, The Locket recounts the mental disintegration of bride-to-be...
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1946
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This grade-A example of "film noir" stars Mark Stevens as Brad Galt, an embittered ex-convict who returns to the private...
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1946
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Lucille Ball stars as the wife of a war correspondent, anxiously awaiting her husband's return. Ball is convinced that hubby...
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1946
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Art critic and forgery expert George Steele (Pat O'Brien) is apprehended by the police as he desperately tries to break into...
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1946
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Director Joseph Kane adapted his own story Diamond Carlisle for the screenplay of In Old Sacramento--the third film version...
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1946
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1946
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Canadian WW II pilot Gerard (Dick Powell) intends to track down and kill collaborationist Marcel Jarne, the man responsible...
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1945
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1945
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Twilight on the Trail was one of three "Hopalong Cassidy" entries tradeshown in New York during the last two weeks of...
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Screenwriter
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1941
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