The 30-minute Fight for the Title is taken from various incidents in the life of boxer Benny Leonard. Played by...
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1957
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Legendary movie producer Kroger Babb and prolific House of Dracula director Earl C. Kenton team with talented Hollywood...
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1951
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Produced and distributed by legendary road-show entrepreneur Kroger Babb, One Too Many details the tragedy of alcoholism....
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1950
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Advertised as a typical Universal horror film, The Cat Creeps is more of a crime melodrama, and not a particularly...
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1946
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In this comedy, a spoiled, temperamental and filthy rich aunt is committed to an asylum by her nephew after he learns that...
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1946
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Joan Davis, the daughter of a famed woman detective, has inherited none of her mother's deductive prowess. Nonetheless, Joan...
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1945
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This Universal "monster rally", an immediate sequel to House of Frankenstein, would seem to have been deliberately designed...
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1945
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In many ways the most endearing of Universal's B-grade "monster rallies" of the 1940s, House of Frankenstein manages within...
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1944
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In one of their most genial comedies -- based on a Damon Runyon story -- Bud Abbott and Lou Costello have to help one friend...
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1943
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1943
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The Andrews Sisters harmonize their way through yet another 60-minute Universal musical quickie. The plot this time concerns...
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1943
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In this musical, the three Andrews Sisters play elevator operators who work in an office building containing a music...
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1943
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Universal's "Frankenstein" series descended from the "A" to the "B" category with The Ghost of Frankenstein, though...
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1942
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1942
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One of the most often revived of Abbott & Costello's early-1940s films, Pardon My Sarong casts Bud and Lou as Chicago bus...
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1942
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It was an open secret in Hollywood that bosom buddies (and fellow Universal contractees) Broderick Crawford and Lon Chaney...
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1942
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Universal contractee Irene Hervey, generally required to stand by the sidelines while the leading men did all the acting, was...
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1942
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This last entry in the Dr. Christian series tells about a country doctor who pieces together a defense to get a bank...
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1941
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Flying Cadets is basically a vehicle for William Gargan and Edmund Lowe, doing a Flagg-and-Quirt act as a pair of eternally...
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1941
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For some reason or other, Melody for Three seems to be the most frequently revived of RKO Radio's "Dr. Christian." As ever,...
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1941
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Three of Hollywood's best child actors-Freddie Bartholomew, Jimmy Lydon and Billy Cook-join forces in Columbia's Naval...
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1941
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In this entry in the long-running "Higgins" series of comedy dramas, Papa Higgins throws his family into turmoil when he...
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1941
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Remedy for Riches was the fourth in RKO Radio's six-entry "Dr. Christian" series. Jean Hersholt returns as Dr. Christian, the...
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1940
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In this musical adventure, a Latin American motorcycle-taxi driver shows an American tourist around his city. He next fixes...
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1939
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Having made a mint with his Bobby Breen films, producer Sol Lesser decide to groom another talented youngster for stardom....
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1939
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In this socially conscious drama a sextet of juvenile delinquents flee a crime screen in their seedy ghetto and wind up...
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1938
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In this drama, a former college football hero and his college sweetheart get married. Marital turmoil ensues as her criminal...
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1938
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1937
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1937
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In this gangster movie, a criminal king-pin and his gang hide out in his hometown where they witness a religious revival...
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1937
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In this crime drama, a federal agent goes undercover to join a gang of counterfeiters. He pretends to be a murder. The...
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1936
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In this western, a Spanish-American war veteran cannot find gainful employment. In desperation, he becomes a cattle rustler...
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1936
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In this action film, a courageous test pilot works with experimental aircraft for the US Armed Forces. When an important...
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1936
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Insurance investigator Tom Fletcher (Edmund Lowe) is hot on the trail of an arsonist (please excuse the pun). He is helped...
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1935
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Tobu (Edmund Lowe) and Nick (Jack Holt) are championship scuba divers who fall out when Tobu loses his arm saving Nick's...
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1935
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In one of his few movie leading roles, Victor Jory plays an unmarried small-town creamery owner. Jory falls in love with...
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1935
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In this lively comedy, a cocky reporter follows a gangster aboard an ocean liner. While on board, the overconfident fellow...
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1935
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Back in the 1930s, the "Search for Beauty" contests were designed to scout the hinterlands of America and England for...
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1934
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W.C. Fields stars in a remake of his silent comedy So's Your Old Man. Fields plays Sam Bisbee, an erstwhile inventor who is...
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1934
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Long-suffering screen favorite Helen Twelvetrees is Disgraced again in this Paramount soap opera. Twelvetrees is cast as Gay...
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1933
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The Big Executive is Ricardo Cortez, to whom success is less important than the pursuit of success. Having lost as many...
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1933
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The world of horse racing provides the backdrop for this episodic drama. Much of the story is set at the Luray Springs Hotel...
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1933
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1932
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1932
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Homespun vaudeville monologist Chic Sale repeats his "old geezer" characterization in Warner Bros.' Stranger in Town. Sale is...
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1932
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In this war drama, two buddies in WW I return stateside. One of them becomes a police sergeant, but the other cannot find...
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1931
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1931
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In this crime drama, the writer of a Broadway newspaper column finds himself accused of murder after a showgirl, who had...
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1931
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1931
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In this romance, an impoverished, struggling writer finally leaves his humble boarding house room after he is bequeathed a...
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1930
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In this drama, set in a bordertown gambling saloon, the owner falls in love with a promiscuous young girl. When she has an...
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1929
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Although forgotten today, Broadway chanteuse Belle Baker was important enough for Columbia Pictures to herald her much...
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1929
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A phonograph recorder provides incriminating evidence in this mystery that centers upon a widower and his 10-year old child...
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1929
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Capricious Constance Bannister (Sally Eilers) has had 12 fiances, but has yet to take her marital vows. Fiance number 13,...
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1929
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1928
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1928
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You couldn't go wrong with the "tired businessmen" in a 1928 movie audience with a title like Bare Knees....
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1928
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1928
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Columbia's The Sideshow was obviously inspired by the success of such big-top dramas as First National's The Barker. The...
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1928
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Street of Illusion was based on a story by once-popular playwright Channing Pollock. Ian Keith is well-cast as a pompous ham...
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1928
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As if to justify the title of this film, leading lady Jacqueline Logan shows up wearing next to nothing in the first few...
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1928
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1928
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This Raymond Griffith vehicle casts the debonair, top-hatted comedian as Algernon Schuyler Van Twitter, perennial "best man"...
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1927
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Girl in the Pullman is a standard door-slamming farce in the fine tradition of Up in Mabel's Room and...
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1927
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Previously filmed in 1914, the popular turn-of-the-century stage farce Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary was remade in 1927. This...
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1927
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Two graduates of Mack Sennett's "Bathing Beauties," Marie Prevost and Phyllis Haver, are co-starred in Warner Bros.' Other...
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1926
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It's hard to determine who plays the title role in The Love Toy, though chances are the designation refers to the regal...
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1926
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The Palm Beach Girl is Emily Bennett (Bebe Daniels), the poor Iowa relation of wealthy Florida dowager Aunt Jerry...
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1926
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Monte Blue and Patsy Ruth Miller star in this snappy farce. While out on a drive, society man Al Jones (Blue) spies pretty...
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1925
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This programmer came out of Columbia, which, during the 1920s, was just another Poverty Row studio. Cyrus Browning (Robert...
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1925
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Author George Barr McCutcheon, who breathed life into many a mythical kingdom, wrote the story for this action-adventure....
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1925
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1924
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1924
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This light comedy featured an "all-star cast" that really did contain some of the better also-rans of the silent era....
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1923
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This hilarious slapstick comedy from Mack Sennett finds Sam Smith (Ben Turpin), the resident of a small town, accused of...
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1921
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1920
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1920
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1920
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