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1957
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Crusading publisher Austin Spenser (Sidney Blackmer) wants to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial...
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1956
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In this steamy drama, three sisters learn that their father has died in a plane crash, and they begin fighting over his...
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1956
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The 1954 musical remake of A Star is Born could have been titled A Star is Reborn, in that it represented the triumphal...
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1954
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1954
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In this subtle 1954 comedy with feminist overtones, Clifton Webb plays Gifford, an executive with a large automobile...
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1954
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1953
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Lorna Doone is based on the oft-filmed novel by Richard D. Blackmore. Set in 17th century Scotland during the reign of...
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1951
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Rhubarb is an amusing, if not entirely faithful, adaptation of the H. Allen Smith novel of the same name. When Thaddeus J....
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1951
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Previously filmed in 1931 under its original title, Theodore Dreiser's bulky but brilliant novel An American Tragedy was...
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1951
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One of the most notorious flops in the history of Columbia Pictures, Valentino is actually fairly entertaining -- but only...
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1951
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1949
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Docks of New Orleans was Roland Winters' second appearance as aphorism-spouting oriental sleuth Charlie Chan -- and like the...
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1948
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Appointment with Murder is the second of three "Falcon" mysteries produced by bargain-basement Film Classics Productions in...
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1948
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Lucille Ball offers a seminal version of her Lucy Ricardo TV character in Her Husband's Affairs. Ball is cast as Margaret...
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1947
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In this period drama, Joan Fontaine stars as Ivy Lexton, a woman with an unusual hunger for men. Though she already has a...
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1947
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1946
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1946
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On the eve of the Chinese New Year, three strangers make a pact before a small statue of the Chinese goddess of Destiny. The...
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1946
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Though legendary entertainer Al Jolson was a highly visible presence on the U.S.O. circuit during World War II, he was...
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1946
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Faced with the challenge of writing a screenplay based on the life of fabulously wealthy, fabulously successful composer Cole...
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1946
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A servant with no experience ends up teaching the master of the house a thing or two in this comedy. Molly Barry...
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1945
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The real Diamond Horseshoe was a Las Vegas nightclub created by impresario Billy Rose, which spotlighted old-time stars from...
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1945
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Although National Velvet was the first starring role for 11-year-old Elizabeth Taylor, the early part of the film belongs to...
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1944
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Cary Grant delivered Oscar-calibre performances all his life, but only when he played against type in None But the Lonely...
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1944
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1944
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An innocent man is drawn into a web of espionage when he unwittingly comes into possession of a crucial piece of microfilm in...
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1944
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Secrets of Scotland Yard is Republic's spin on a plotline first elucidated in the old E. Phillips Oppenheim novel...
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1944
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Ingrid Bergman won her first of three Oscars for this suspense thriller, crafted with surprising tautness by normally genteel...
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1944
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1943
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John Garfield was borrowed from Warner Bros. by RKO Radio for the tense espionage melodrama The Fallen Sparrow. Garfield is...
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1943
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This espionage drama, a remake of the 1935 original, set in WW II, follows the exploits of an Englishman who kills his...
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1942
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Directed by serial specialist Spencer Gordon Bennet, They Raid by Night is a PRC "special" dealing with the activities of the...
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1942
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Director Rouben Mamoulian completed a three-picture 20th Century Fox deal with this airy comic romance that attempted to ape...
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1942
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Tales of Manhattan is a sumptuous multipart film centered around a formal tailcoat. The coat is specially designed for stage...
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1942
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"Even a man who is pure at heart/And says his prayers by night/May become a wolf when the wolf-bane blooms/And the moon is...
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1941
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1940
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A semi-sequel to the 1933 Universal horror masterwork The Invisible Man, The Invisible Man Returns stars Vincent Price in the...
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1940
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This sweeping drama chronicles the foundation a Canadian institution: the Hudson's Bay Trading Company. Set in the 17th...
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1940
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Given the omnipresence of the Motion Picture Production Code in 1940, the second film version of Robert E. Sherwood's...
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1940
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1940
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The fourth cinematic version of the novel Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman by E.W. Hornung, this romantic caper is a virtual...
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1939
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In this espionage drama, an inventor creates a way to send television broadcasts across the country and finds himself...
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1939
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The "Little Tough Guys" get involved in a circulation war between a paper with underhanded tactics and a paper being...
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1939
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1939
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1938
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Michael Curtiz directs this Technicolor Western based on the familiar story by Clements Ripley about the rivalry between...
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1938
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It took British author James Hilton six weeks to write his visionary novel Lost Horizon. It took director Frank Capra two...
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1937
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The girl is teenaged singing sensation Deanna Durbin; the one hundred men are out-of-work musicians. Still in her "little...
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1937
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In this satire, an electrician from a tiny town impresses a New York radio sponsor with his booming baritone singing voice....
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1937
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1937
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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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1936
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1936
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Rex Stout's overweight, under-exercised detective Nero Wolfe was first brought to the screen in 1936 in the portly person of...
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1936
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Forbidden Heaven was accurately assessed by "B"-film historian Don Miller as "a weepie unabashed -- and a successful one."...
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1936
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1936
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Kay Francis, Warner Bros.' resident "wronged woman," was the star of Give Me Your Heart. Francis plays a socialite whose...
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1936
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Briefly breaking away from her high-gloss modern soap operas, Kay Francis stars as Florence Nightingale in this reverent...
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1936
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In MGM's three-hour-plus The Great Ziegfeld, William Powell stars as the titular theatrical impresario, whose show business...
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1936
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This lesser Astaire/Rogers vehicle is one of several screen versions of the venerable Hubert Osborne stage play Shore Leave....
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1936
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In this drama, an amateur pilot is driven to living life in the fast lane after he pilots that plane that crashed and killed...
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1935
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The 1932 publication of Charles Nordhoff and James Norton Hall's Mutiny on the Bounty sparked a revival of interest in the...
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1935
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In this drama, a gambler must hide-out from the mob and ends up in a spinster's apartment. The old woman, is unused to...
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1934
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The official cast list of Warner Bros. Mandalay states that Kay Francis plays a character named Tanya. For most of the film,...
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1934
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MGM was seldom content to just film a mystery; the story had to be dressed up in some elaborate, unorthodox fashion. Mystery...
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1934
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Now known simply as Fashions, the lavish Warner Bros. musical Fashions of 1934 stars the unlikely but copacetic team of...
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1934
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The second of three Kay Francis films in which the star was cast as a dedicated lady physician, Doctor Monica was adapted...
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1934
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1933
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1933
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This film version of the Jack DeLeon-Jack Celestin play Silent Witness stars Lionel Atwill in his original stage role of Sir...
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1932
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1932
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Produced by William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan Production for MGM, this well made Grand Hotel clone was based on a 1931...
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1932
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This first sound version of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic morality tale starred Fredric March as the kindly, philanthropic...
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1931
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