Filled with the kind of Red Scare propaganda that must have delighted members of McCarthy's House Un-American Activities...
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1952
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1950
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"This boy...and this girl...were never properly introduced to the world we live in." With this superimposed opening title,...
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1949
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There's propaganda aplenty in RKO's I Married a Communist, the first of producer Howard R. Hughes's many anti-Red broadsides....
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1949
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This unusual, dreamlike John Wayne vehicle is set in the East Indies. The focus of the film is the deadly rivalry between two...
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1949
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Though he doesn't know it at first, industrialist Walter Williams (Brian Donlevy) shouldn't trust his wife Irene...
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1949
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Filmed in 1947, Warner Bros. Night Unto Night wasn't released until 1949. Based on a novel by Philip Wylie, the film stars...
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1949
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Texas, Brooklyn and Heaven deserves a historical footnote as director William Castle's only comedy western. Future...
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1948
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The Lady From Shanghai, a complex, involving puzzle-within-a-puzzle mystery story, is a showcase for Orson Welles, showing...
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1948
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Perhaps the finest American film from the famed European director Max Ophüls, the film stars Joan Fontaine as a young woman...
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1948
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For his first independent production, former child star Roddy McDowall selected the tried-and-true Robert Louis Stevenson...
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1948
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Shakespeare's tragic tale of the rise and fall of ambitious 12th-century Scottish warrior MacBeth has proven irresistible to...
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1948
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This musical romance is set during the Great Depression and centers upon the rocky marriage between a flapper script girl...
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1948
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1947
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John Van Druten's Broadway hit The Voice of the Turtle was purchased by Warner Bros. as a vehicle for...well, in all...
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1947
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We first meet Joan Crawford, star of the moody flashbackfest Possessed, wandering aimlessly through the city streets, moaning...
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1947
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The postwar classic The Best Years of Our Lives, based on a novel in verse by MacKinlay Kantor about the difficult...
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1946
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In this comedy, Paul Muni plays a recently murdered gangster who finds himself roasting in Hell. Muni can't believe that he's...
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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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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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Without Reservations has to be the least typical John Wayne picture of the postwar era. Top billing is bestowed upon...
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1946
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As Alfred Hitchcock's classic psychothriller opens, the staff of a posh mental asylum eagerly awaits the arrival of the new...
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1945
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A women's prison provides the setting for this drama that centers around a naive small-town woman framed by a man whom she...
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1945
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1945
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From a novel of the same name by "Elizabeth", the film begins in 1914, with Bette Davis cast as vain, flighty society woman...
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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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Uncertain Glory finds Errol Flynn atypically cast as French criminal Jean Picard, a craven coward whose many misdeeds have...
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1944
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1944
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Orson Welles' followup to Citizen Kane (1941) was utterly different from Kane in style and texture, but just as brilliant in...
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1942
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In this WW II spy comedy, an American pilot stationed in England is flying a routine mission when the Nazis shoot down his...
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1942
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Orson Welles first feature film -- which he directed, produced, and co-wrote, as well as playing the title role -- proved to...
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1941
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In addition to his yearly manifest of six 2-reel comedies, Leon Errol always managed to squeeze a few feature-film...
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1940
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