A pre-superstardom Jack Nicholson appears as Marvin Jenkins, who has been charged with burglary and put on trial. Eleven of...
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1967
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Traditionally, whenever a jury is sequestered in Hooterville County, they stay at the Pixley Hotel. Uncle Joe (Edgar...
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1966
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Oliver (Eddie Albert) is invited to give the keynote speech at a meeting of the Harvard Alumni Legal Society. As he clears...
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1966
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Dan Duryea plays a Western bounty hunter, expert in his job, but ill at ease with his conscience. He is shunned by the "good"...
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1965
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Git! tries very hard within its low-budget limits to offer Disney-style family entertainment. Jack Chaplain plays 17-year-old...
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1965
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Investment broker Eric Pollard (Lloyd Bochner) seems to have gone off his trolley when he begins suffering from dizzy spells;...
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1964
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The final episode of Maverick finds Bart Maverick (Jack Kelly) crossing the path of his brother Bret's old nemesis Modesty...
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1962
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In this standard children's story -- with a few teen songs added -- the head of Burberry Elementary School, Harry Davis...
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1961
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Arrested and jailed on a charge of murdering a small-town mayor, Bret (James Garner) is none too encouraged by his...
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1960
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When scatterbrained millionairess Kiz Bouchet (Kathleen Crowley) insists that somebody is trying to murder her, Beau Maverick...
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1960
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Rather than pay a gambling debt owed to Bret Maverick (James Garner), notorious gunslinger Henry Arnett (a pre-Batman Adam...
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1959
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Based on the novel The Cup and the Sword by Alice Tisdale Hobart, this drama examines the trials and tribulations of three...
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1959
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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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1959
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Bob Hope plays a 19th-century insurance agent whose miserable sales record prompts his boss to send him out West, where he...
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1959
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Flamboyant character actor Hans Conried delivers a surprisingly low-key performance as Homer Eakins, the black sheep of a...
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1958
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In this drama, a Korean war vet becomes a pilot who must take care of his late war buddy's little sister and brother. The...
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Judd Pfeifer
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1958
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In this dark drama a hapless hitchhiker takes a ride with a drunk driver who takes him to his house. There he meets the...
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1958
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Anthony Mann's final foray into the western genre is a disturbing examination of man's baser instincts, rising in intensity...
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1958
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1956
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For reasons unknown, the change-of-pace Bob Hope vehicle That Certain Feeling is out of favor with many Hope buffs. Bob plays...
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1956
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Jerry Lewis' first solo effort was also his first headlong plunge into pathos. The Delicate Delinquent stars Jerry as...
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1956
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1955
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Bearing very little relation to the 1937 Paramount musical of the same name, Artists and Models is a lavish, girl-filled...
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1955
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Betty Grable's final film was a remake of the 1934 Bing Crosby-Miriam Hopkins musicomedy She Loves Me Not, which in turn was...
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1955
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Actor Abner Biberman specialized in unpleasant characters; when he turned director in the mid-1950s, he specialized in...
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1955
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The strangest aspect of the low-budget fantasy effort The Rocket Man is the fact that one of its screenwriters was...
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Big Bill Watkins
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1954
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1954
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1954
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When equestrian Linda (Vera Miles) talks her trainer, Jim (Lloyd Bridges), into taking care of Gypsy Prince, her horse, Jim...
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1954
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The Bowery Boys go to Africa in this entry in the long-running series. They embark upon their adventure after they discover...
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1954
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At the height of their TV fame, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz were contracted by MGM to make two theatrical films. The first of...
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1954
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Sgt. McClain
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1954
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Bud and Lou get ready to attend police rookie school. Mike the Cop (Gordon Jones) and Mr. Fields (Sidney Fields) are driven...
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1953
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Shadows of Tombstone is a fair-to-middling Rex Allen western. This time out, Rex and his sidekick Slim (Slim Pickens) try to...
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1953
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Once again dreaming of unlimited wealth, Lucy (Lucille Ball) and Ethel (Vivian Vance) allow themselves to be bamboozled into...
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Cop
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1953
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A good man tries to warn his daughter away from a bad man who has stolen her heart in this melodrama. Steve Latimer...
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1953
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One of the most subtle and sophisticated of the musical comedies that came out of MGM's Arthur Freed Unit in the '40s and...
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1953
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Safari Drums was the ninth entry in Monogram's "Bomba the Jungle Boy" series. Johnny Sheffield once more stars as Bomba,...
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Conrad
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1953
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1953
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Fort Vengeance starts out as a western and ends up as a "northern." Trouble-making brothers Dick (James Craig) and Carey...
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1953
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1953
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1953
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Washington Story stars Van Johnson as mildly liberal congressman Joseph T. Gresham. For reasons that he can't fathom, Gresham...
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1952
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The Fabulous Senorita in this frothy musical is Republic's resident Latin bombshell Estelita Rodriguez, here billed simply as...
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1952
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1952
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Dreamboat stars Clifton Webb as Thornton Sayre, the perfectionist professor of literature at a sedate Midwestern university....
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1952
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During the Vatican Holy Year of 1950, confidence trickster Joe Brewster (Paul Douglas) disguises himself as a priest and...
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1952
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One reviewer of Abbott & Costello's Lost in Alaska summed up the proceeding in three pithy words: "Lost is right." While not...
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1952
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Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair was Number Four in Universal's immensely successful "B"-picture series. It is giving away...
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1952
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The Lawless Breed is based on the exploits of Texas bad man John Wesley Hardin, played here quite convincingly by...
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1952
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The fraternal comedy team of George and Bert Bernard gained fame in the 1950s with their "record act," wherein they...
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1952
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The tendency is to scoff at Macao as just another example of Josef von Sternberg's late-career exercises in exoticism; true,...
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1952
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Golden Girl is the life story (sort of) of legendary 19th-century American entertainer Lotta Crabtree. The daughter of a...
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1951
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Judy Canova continues to bring home the box-office bacon for Republic Pictures in Oklahoma Annie. Judy plays Judy, Queen of...
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1951
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1951
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Through an incredible series of circumstances, the Bowery Boys sign up for a hitch in the Navy. While clumsily going about...
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1951
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1951
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After a lengthy absence from the screen, Judy Canova returned in the raucous musical Honeychile. The plot had been utilized...
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1951
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William Holden plays Boots Malone, a dishonest--and impoverished--jockey's agent. Malone sees a chance to crack the big time...
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1951
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Mickey Rooney made his directorial debut with My True Story. Per its title, the film is based on an article which first...
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Ed Praskins
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1951
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Raymond Burr stars as Roger Lewis, the ruthless publisher of a Confidential-style scandal magazine. For a fee, Lewis will...
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1950
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Rock Island Trail is proof enough that Republic could turn out an "A" western as well as any of the "majors." This saga of...
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1950
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George Sidney directs this pleasant romantic comedy concerning mayoral love. During a convention of mayors in San Francisco,...
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1950
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Arrogant Mike Brannan (Clark Gable) is a famous driver of midget race cars and is the type of man crowds love to hate. He...
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1950
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County Fair is an amiable racetrack drama starring Rory Calhoun. A veteran horse trainer, Calhoun has developed a somewhat...
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1950
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Columbia's Chain Gang combines biting social commentary with good old-fashioned melodrama. Reporter Cliff Roberts...
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Capt. Duncan
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1950
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Filmed in eye-pleasing Trucolor, Republic's Trail of Robin Hood is one of the most entertaining and likable of Roy Rogers'...
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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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After 12 years and 28 films, Columbia's Blondie series came to a close with 1950's Beware of Blondie. The plot is "business...
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1950
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1949
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Dauntless Navy intelligence officer Richard Travis is dispatched to the Frozen North to smash a spy ring. By a fortuitous...
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Capt. Roburt
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1949
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1949
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Reliable serial and western leading lady Adrian Booth is awarded top billing in Republic's Hideout. Hannah (Booth) and Edie...
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1949
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The title couple and their enormous brood of bumpkins made their movie debut in the film version of Betty McDonald's humorous...
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1949
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Guy Madison and Rory Calhoun, both of whom went on to star in their own TV western series, head the cast of the Monogram...
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1949
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1949
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1949
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The film career of actress Leslie Brooks lasted long enough for her to contribute several mesmerizingly bitchy performances....
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1949
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In this romantic comedy, a wealthy heiress marries hastily and realizes her mistake on her honeymoon in New York. Though it...
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1948
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1948
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1948
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Hoping to start up where he left off before his studio was taken over by the government during WWII, Hal Roach turned out a...
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Winfield Blake
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1948
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In this musical, a hillbilly crooner loses his sponsor and finds his radio show is suddenly canceled. Now he must convince...
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J. Chester Nottingham
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1948
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Fed up with crowded big-city living, advertising executive Mr. Blandings (Cary Grant) decides to seek out a big, roomy house...
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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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With a title like Violence, the audience knew what it was in for from the get-go. Nancy Coleman plays Ann Mason,...
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True Dawson
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1947
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For the ninth time, Warner Baxter plays Dr. Robert Ordway, better known to movie (and radio) fans as "The Crime Doctor"....
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1947
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Stork Bites Man was the last of five short-length features from Comet Productions, a company owned by Mary Pickford, her...
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Kimberly
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1947
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In this Republic musical, all heck breaks loose when the girlfriend of an aspiring composer becomes a model for the starving...
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1947
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The second of three "Bowery Boys" rip-offs produced by bargain-basement Producers Releasing Corporation, Gas House Kids Go...
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1947
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In this drama, a soldier's widow, whose husband died a hero in WW II, begins a quest to find the five men whose lives were...
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1947
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Running a mere 56 minutes, Little Iodine was the first of five "streamliners" produced by Comet Productions, a company formed...
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1946
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In this is '40s western a U.S. marshal chases a band of big-name bandits into no-man's territory (land outside of U.S....
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1946
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A loose remake of 1941's The Gay Falcon, The Falcon's Alibi is one of the better entries in RKO's "Falcon" series, and one of...
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1946
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Previously filmed in 1926 and 1934, George Kelly's venerable stage comedy The Show-Off was dusted off as a Red Skelton...
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1946
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Its title notwithstanding, there's precious little female epidermis on display in PRC's Queen of Burlesque. Real life...
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1946
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Abie's Irish Rose, the surprise hit of the 1922-23 Broadway season, was old-fashioned when it was first filmed in 1928, and...
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1946
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Deadline at Dawn represented not only the sole film directorial effort of Broadway's Harold Clurman, but also the only...
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1946
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In this drama, a seductive woman uses her wiles upon both a traveling bank examiner and a manager to whom she is married....
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1946
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In this crime drama, two crooks dupe their friend, a professional gambler, into nipping some important government documents....
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1946
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A loose remake of the 1935 Charlie Ruggles-Mary Boland comedy of the same name, Mama Loves Papa stars Elisabeth Risdon in the...
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O'Leary
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1945
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1945
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In this drama, an amnesiac awakens and finds himself accused of murder. Fortunately, a female cabbie helps prove his...
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1945
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Based on a novel by Barry Fleming, Colonel Effingham's Raid stars Charles Coburn in the title role. Upon retiring from the...
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1945
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Having Wonderful Crime spotlights Michael J. Malone, the murder-solving attorney created by author Craig Rice. The film is...
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1945
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Warner Baxter makes his fourth appearance as Dr. Robert Ordway, criminal-turned-criminologist, in Crime Doctor's Courage....
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1945
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In this musical comedy, an arrogant war journalist is sailing back to the Big Apple after the end of WW II. En route, he has...
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1945
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Based on the popular Russian novel The Twelve Chairs, this stars Fred Allen as flea-circus impresario Fred Floogle. Learning...
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1945
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What a Blonde gets under way when wealthy lingerie manufacturer Fowler (Leon Errol) runs out of valuable gas-ration coupons....
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1945
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This delightful entry in RKO Radio's "Falcon" series finds amateur Tom Lawrence (Tom Conway), aka The Falcon, tring to solve...
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1944
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Heavenly Days was the last of three RKO Radio film vehicles for the popular radio duo of Fibber McGee and Molly (aka Jim and...
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1944
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This wild, once-controversial comedy stars Betty Hutton as Trudy Kockenlocker, a man-crazy single girl whose favorite pastime...
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1944
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When he finds out his ex-wife has just had his child and plans to give her up for adoption, a timid English instructor dashes...
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1944
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The Falcon in Mexico wastes no time getting started: within the first ten minutes, amateur sleuth Tom Lawrence (Tom Conway),...
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1944
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After producing, writing and directing one hit film after another, Preston Sturges finally misfired with the biopic The Great...
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1944
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1944
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Ostensibly a vehicle for RKO Radio's new comedy duo Wally Brown and Alan Carney, Seven Days Ashore actually casts Brown &...
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1944
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A plot revealed through the correspondence between German-American businessman and his Jewish partner, Lukas, the...
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1944
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In this drama, a remake of Hat, Coat and Glove (1934), a hard working attorney is upset when he learns that his...
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1944
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The last and least of RKO Radio's B-series based on radio's "Great Gildersleeve", Gildersleeve's Ghost is a standard "scare"...
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1944
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One of Cary Grant's most financially successful 1940s vehicles, Mr. Lucky finds Grant atypically cast as a shifty,...
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1943
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Young Ideas is a deliberately "small" MGM feature designed as a trial balloon for up-and-coming director Jules Dassin. Hardly...
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1943
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Let's Face It is adapted from the Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was based on the old Norma Mitchell/...
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1943
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The King Brothers, entrepreneur siblings who parlayed an allegedly ill-gotten fortune into a long movie career, produced...
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1943
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Olivia De Havilland hadn't wanted to star in RKO's Government Girl, but was forced to do so by her home studio Warner Bros....
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1943
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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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1943
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Perhaps Hollywood's greatest success du scandal of the 1940s, this odd psychological Western became a box office hit largely...
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1943
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This lesser Laurel and Hardy vehicle casts Stan and Ollie as the proprietors of the "Arthur Hurry" dance studio. Despite a...
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1943
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Author William Saroyan's corn-shucking brand of sentimentality works wonders in this 1943 filmization of his novel. Narrator...
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1943
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The racy, ribald Cole Porter musical Du Barry Was a Lady is here given a thorough dry-cleaning by prudish MGM....
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1943
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1943
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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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1942
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Aircraft plant worker Robert Cummings is accused of sabotaging his factory and causing the death of a co-worker. Actually,...
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1942
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1942
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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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1942
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In this dark drama an iron-willed older sister forcibly thrusts her only modestly talented younger sister into a Broadway...
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1942
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In a harem in a Middle Eastern palace, the guardian leads the women he protects in telling the tale of Halroun-Al-Raschid...
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1942
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Joan Crawford is the kissable bride of the title--but when the film opens, matrimony is the farthest thing from her mind....
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1942
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The surrealistic opening sequence, featuring a WW2 calendar as written "by A. Hitler", should be indication enough that Once...
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1942
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A woman's attempt to disguise herself as an underage girl mushrooms into a series of humorous deceptions in this romantic...
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1942
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Wings for the Eagle is an overbaked but sincere tribute to the wartime defense workers at the Lockheed Aircraft Plant, where...
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1942
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This thriller, set aboard a transatlantic ship heading for America during WW II, chronicles the endeavors of a cagey...
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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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1941
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John Wayne stars in this hard-driving oater which was co-written by character actor Paul Fix. Wayne plays Rocklin, a...
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1941
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The Nazis are clearly the villains in So Ends Our Night, but since the film was made before America's entry into World War...
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1941
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The Blonde from Singapore was one of several Columbia B-pictures that were presold to exhibitors on the basis of their titles...
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1941
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The studio concocted the film as a showcase for its 9-year-old discovery Joan Carroll, here cast as precocious Bridget...
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1941
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A seemingly quiet Midwestern town is the hiding place for a number of sordid secrets in this melodrama based on Henry...
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1941
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Robert Taylor toughened up his image considerably with this gangster movie, which was unusual both in its plot and origins,...
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1941
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1941
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The oft-used title A Shot in the Dark was affixed in 1941 to this Warner Bros. B-picture. Much of the film takes place in the...
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1941
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A schoolteacher battles for women's rights in mid 19th century Wyoming. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1941
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When wealthy Mrs. Bullion informs her husband, Ajax that they are adopting a "little refugee" -- a common event amongst...
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1941
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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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1941
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After two previous film versions of Dashiell Hammett's detective classic The Maltese Falcon, Warner Bros. finally got it...
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1941
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1941
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1941
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1941
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Cecil B. De Mille directed this lavish all-star spectacular paying tribute to America's neighbors to the North. In 1885, as...
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1940
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In this musical drama, a construction worker becomes the guardian of a 12-year old girl after one of his buddies is killed....
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1940
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Invisible Stripes is a cookie-cutter Warners prison drama which rounds up the usual suspects. George Raft and...
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1940
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Pleasing time-fillers at best, Columbia's "Five Little Peppers" films were otherwise undistinguished spinoffs of the...
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1940
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Though he doesn't speak his first line of dialogue until the film's final ten minutes, Peter Lorre spiritually dominates the...
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1940
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Fourteen scriptwriters spent five years toiling over a movie adaptation of war correspondent Vincent Sheehan's...
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1940
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The moral of Preston Sturges' first directorial effort The Great McGinty seems to be: If you're a crook, stay a crook,...
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1940
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This is the celebrated Blondie episode that costars Rita Hayworth, who in 1940 was still just another Columbia contract...
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1940
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Thanks to a practical joker, hotshot radio newscaster Steve (Kent Taylor) announces that prominent financier Pomeroy (Morgan...
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1939
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Bing Crosby plays a tune-happy cab driver who finds himself the reluctant recipient of an abandoned baby. Together with his...
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1939
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Originally filmed in Sepiatone, Let Freedom Ring is a satisfying Nelson Eddy musical with patriotic overtones. Set in the...
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1939
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A remake of a 1930 Universal film, Little Accident was the third starring vehicle for androgynous juvenile star Baby Sandy....
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1939
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Pat O'Brien is his usual likably obnoxious self in the Warner Bros. newspaper yarn Off the Record. While trying to smash a...
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1939
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An outbreak of cholera threatens a luxury liner in this surprisingly low-budget melodrama from RKO. En route from Shanghai to...
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1939
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Dorothy Lamour had been playing "sarong girls" long enough to parody her screen character in 1939's Best of the Blues. Tired...
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1939
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In this crime drama, a shyster lawyer makes his living earning acquittals for his guilty clients. Most recently he freed a...
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1939
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This romance is set during the Dartmouth College Winter Carnival and follows the exploits of a woman recently divorced from...
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1939
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A young punk hooks up with a mobster and helps him rob a gas station in this crime drama. From there the crimes become more...
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1939
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The MGM Our Gang series began its slow but steady decline with the sub-standard one-reel entry Tiny Troubles. On this...
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1939
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Based upon an idea by Broadway columnist Mark Hellinger, The Roaring Twenties opens during World War I as doughboys Eddie...
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1939
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A remake of Paul Leni's The Last Warning (1929), this "Crime Club" series entry once again presents the spectacle of an actor...
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1939
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The Star Maker is the story (with variations) of vaudeville enterpreneur Gus Edwards, here played by Bing Crosby. Determining...
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1939
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This musical drama follows a young ghetto kid who dreams of being a classical musician like his idol Jascha Heifetz. He first...
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1939
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In this crime drama, a grizzled cabbie is scammed out of his life savings by a fake finance company. He tries to no avail to...
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1939
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Zany radio comedian Joe Penner delivers one of his best (and most believable) screen performances in the Runyonesque comedy...
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1939
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Cecil B. DeMille takes us back to the 1860s, then rebuilds the first intercontinental railroad in Union Pacific. The...
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1939
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1939
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One Hour to Live affords John Litel, usually cast as rock-solid businessmen and incorruptable attorneys, the opportunity to...
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1939
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Wealthy socialite Melsa Manton (Barbara Stanwyck) is taking her pooches for a walk in the dead of the night when she stumbles...
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1938
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Arson Gang Busters was a slick little Republic programmer highlighted by several well-staged miniature sequences, courtesy of...
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1938
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In this saccharine Klondike adventure, a brave female reporter who has a rapport with wild animals heads north to cover a...
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1938
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We never actually see J. Carroll Naish in Alcatraz, but there's no doubt he's the "king" of the title. Most of the action...
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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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1938
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Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan (James Cagney) and Jerry Connelly (Pat O'Brien) grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky...
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1938
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Contrary to popular belief, the Nelson Eddy-Jeanette MacDonald Technicolor confection Sweethearts is not based on the 1913...
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1938
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Bing Crosby plays the melodic medico of the title. To help cover for his ailing policeman pal (Andy Devine), Crosby takes the...
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1938
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