Mayor Henderson (Arthur Franz) is up for an appointment to the state crime commission, but he is danger of being sabotaged by...
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1960
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This unusual western drama stars Ben Cooper as Jeff Blaine ,a twelve-year-old boy growing up sans a mother or a father in the...
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Ruth Sewall
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1957
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Rancher Randolph Scott rides right into a romantic triangle in this moody western. He is forced to stand by as his mercenary...
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Nan Melotte
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1951
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Samuel Fuller wrote and directed this lively drama based on the real-life adventures of James Addison Reavis, one of the most...
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Sofia Peralta-Reavis
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1950
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Bee Moore
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1950
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Stars in My Crown is an episodic movie about a rural Southern community in the 19th century. Though the film features a...
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Harriet Gray
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1950
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Davy Crockett, king of the wild frontier, didn't become a nationwide craze (and merchandising cash cow) until Disney got hold...
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Frances
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1950
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Oscar or no Oscar, Broderick Crawford was obliged to star in whatever property his home studio Columbia threw his way. In...
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Kitty Mellar
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1950
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Glenn Ford is top-billed in Man From Colorado, though he's anything but a hero. Ford plays a seriously disturbed Civil War...
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Caroline Emmett
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1949
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Postwar films were festooned with amnesiac ex-GIs who found themselves mixed up with crime. In The Crooked Way, John Payne...
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Nina
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1949
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Barbara Glowan
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1947
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Three years after song-and-dance man Dick Powell reshaped his nice-guy image by playing hard-boiled gumshoe Phillip Marlowe...
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Nelle Marchettis
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1947
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In this musical, a struggling songwriter endeavors to make it big in Tin Pan Alley. She is befriended by the widow of a...
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1946
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Irene Cotter
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1946
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Inspired by Swiss artist Arnold Böcklin's famous painting, this seminal horror film marked the first of three collaborations...
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Thea
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1945
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Man Alive is an inventive and consistently amusing farce dominated by stars Pat O'Brien and Adolphe Menjou. The former plays...
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Connie
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1945
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Strange Confession was the fourth in Universal's "Inner Sanctum" B-picture series, all of which starred Lon Chaney Jr. Chaney...
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Yvonne
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1944
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Only at Republic studios would action star Richard Arlen head the cast of a muscial comedy. In That's My Baby, Tim Jones...
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Betty Moody
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1944
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This Pine-Thomas actioner stars Robert Lowery as two-fisted forest ranger Don Bradley. Promoted to supervisor, Bradley finds...
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Kay Downey
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1944
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Yvonne
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1944
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Pearl S. Buck's novel China Sky is boiled down to a wartime romantic triangle, courtesy of commercial-minded RKO....
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Louise Thompson
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1944
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Republic's ongoing professional association with the celebrated "Ice-Capades" skating show yielded a number of flashy but...
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Ann
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1942
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Star-Spangled Rhythm is a typical wartime all-star musical-comedy melange, this time from Paramount Pictures. The slender...
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1942
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Produced by silent-film comedian Harold Lloyd, My Favorite Spy is a vehicle for bespectacled bandleader Kay Kyser, who...
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Terry Kyser
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1942
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An adequate wartime filler, Night Plane from Chungking features Robert Preston as the captain of the titular aircraft. En...
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Ann Richards
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1942
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Andrew Jackson is very happy to serve as the secretary of the society that honors his presidential namesake until he is...
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Peggy Tobin
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1942
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Ayn Rand's Broadway stage hit The Night of January 16th was distinguished by a clever gimmick, wherein members of the...
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Kit Lane
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1941
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Dumped by wife Ellen Drew, musician Melvyn Douglas goes into a creative slump. His gloom is lifted when he falls in love with...
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Babe Marvin
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1941
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Basil Rathbone is the batty physician of the title, a sophisticated gentleman who woos and weds several of his wealthy women...
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Linda Boothe
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1941
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Mary Mallory
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1941
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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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Susan Webster
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1941
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Wessel Smitter's semicomic novel FOB Detroit was the source material for Reaching for the Sun. Joel McCrea plays a North...
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Rita
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1941
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Bob Hope plays a famous movie star who does his best to avoid the pre-war draft, but ends up in uniform all the same. Hope...
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1941
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Filmed on location at Mesa, AZ, this minor Paramount western featured newcomer Ellen Drew as "Slats" Dangerfield, a young...
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Ellen "Slats" Dangerfield
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1940
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Betty Casey
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1940
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To fully appreciate Buck Benny Rides Again, one must have some familiarity with Jack Benny's radio programs of the 1939-40...
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Joan Cameron
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1940
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Paramount's "B" pictures of the early 1940s were generally more interesting than their star-studded "A"s, as witness...
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Joyce King
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1940
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The "Lady" of the title is horse-farm owner Penelope Hollis (Ellen Drew), but during the first half of this film, bookie...
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Penelope "Penny" Hollis
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1939
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This Anglo-American coproduction was based on the popular West End stage comedy by Terrence Rattigan. It all begins when...
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Diana Lake
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1939
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The late cinema historian William K. Everson once wrote an article titled "Movies Out of Thin Air", referring to films that...
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Alice Hamilton
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1939
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A longtime fan of comedians George Burns and Gracie Allen, "Philo Vance" creator S. S. Van Dyne wrote a tailor-made...
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Ann Wilson
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1939
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In this drama, a gangster finds the woman of his dreams, but before he can have her he must frame her fiance. Meanwhile the...
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1938
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Chronic gambler Joe Beebe (Bing Crosby) is a source of great consternation for his loving mother (Elizabeth Patterson), who...
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Martha Randall
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1938
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If I Were King is a delightful costume adventure tale set in 14th century France, during the reign of Louis XI, and inspired...
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Huguette
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1938
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1938
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The legendary Cocoanut Grove nightclub is the setting for this all-star Paramount musical. Fred MacMurray heads the cast as...
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1938
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This film is one of acclaimed director Fritz Lang's less noted achievements, a mixture of romance, comedy, drama, and satire....
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1938
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1938
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1937
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This Way Please marked Betty Grable's first appearance under her new Paramount contract. The fact that Grable plays the new...
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1937
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While not a box-office success, this drama, directed by Leo McCarey, developed a potent reputation among film critics and...
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1937
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A sort of follow-up to the studio's earlier College Scandal, Paramount's Murder Goes to College once again combines homicide...
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1937
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A remake of 1929's The Greene Murder Case, Paramount's Night of Mystery was the first "Philo Vance" thriller not to use the...
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1937
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Pulp fiction writer Max Brand's 1936 creation Dr. Kildare made his screen debut in the amiable person of Joel McCrea in this...
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1937
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In this backwoods musical, two feudin' families provide the basis of the action. The tale begins as the head of one family...
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1937
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Actual footage of the 1936 Rose Bowl game is cleverly (if not seamlessly) integrated into the action of this sports-oriented...
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1936
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The quaint genetic theories of the 1930s are satirized in College Holiday. Dotty matron Mary Boland runs a ramshackle summer...
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1936
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