"The Silent Partner" is, along with John Ford's "Rookie of the Year", perhaps the best-known episode of the TV anthology...
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1955
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There are those who consider Texan Meets Calamity Jane as one of the worst westerns ever made. It isn't really, but neither...
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Calamity Jane
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1950
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Lex Barker first stepped into the loincloth of the Lord of the Jungle in Tarzan's Magic Fountain. The story gets under way...
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Gloria James
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1949
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Government agent Richard Hendricks (Michael O'Shea) goes undercover to get goods on a gang responsible for dispensing illegal...
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1949
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The "spoilers" in this Republic programmer are headed by unscrupulous salmon fisherman Matt Garraway (Paul Kelly). Treating...
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Laura Reed
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1947
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Michael Lanyard, aka the Lone Wolf, ventures into Sherlock Holmes territory in this series entry. When a cache of...
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Iris Chatham
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1947
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Alice Munro
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1947
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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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Crystal McCoy
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1946
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In this low-budget espionage adventure, an ex-FBI agent is convinced by an active agent to help him find a stolen map...
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1946
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French Key is a Republic Pictures murder mystery with all of the studio's genre trademarks: Good cast, reasonably good...
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Janet Morgan
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1946
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Black Beauty, Anna Sewell's classic tale of a beautiful horse is adapted in a disappointingly flat fashion by independent...
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Evelyn Carrington
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1946
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In this murder mystery, a Scotland Yard inspector investigates the murder of a prominent matron. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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Priscilla Ames
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1945
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An installment from Universal's "Inner Sanctum" series (whose trademark featured an introduction narrated by a spooky...
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Maura Daniel
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1945
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All but forgotten today, Ladies Courageous was one of the more successful wartime morale-boosters. Loretta Young heads the...
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1944
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The fifth in the Invisible Man series stars Jon Hall as Robert Griffin, a convict who takes the invisibility serum and then...
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Julie Herrick
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1944
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The second of Universal's "Inner Sanctum" thrillers, Weird Woman stars Lon Chaney Jr. as Norman Reed, a college professor...
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Ilona Carr
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1944
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Two Bowery vaudevillians compete to be the first to produce shows on Broadway. They might be friends were they not so...
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1944
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Paramount Pictures did their patriotic duty with this World War II era musical, with a number of the studio's biggest stars...
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1944
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Naomi Drake
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1944
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A strong contender for the title of Universal's worst horror film of the 1940s, Jungle Woman continued the melodramatic...
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Beth Mason
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1944
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This youthful musical follows the romantic travails of a group of talented high school students and their charismatic high...
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Julia Munson
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1944
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There are those who consider Sherlock Holmes Faces Death to be the best of Universal's Holmes series, though others hold out...
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1943
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The title of this low-budget Universal musical was lifted from the Andrew Sisters' hit song, introduced in 1941's...
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Lynn Smith
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1943
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All By Myself is another of Universal Pictures' "instant" musicals of the 1940s, built tenuously around the popular title...
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Jean Wells
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1943
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A mad scientist turns a gorilla into a beautiful young woman in this well-made Universal potboiler, the first of three films...
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Beth Colman
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1943
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Keep 'Em Slugging was the last of Universal's "Little Tough Guys" series-which, like Monogram's "East Side Kids", was an...
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Sheila
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1943
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Deanna Durbin is all grown up in Hers to Hold, the unofficial sequel to her "Three Smart Girls" films of the 1930s. Durbin...
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Flo Simpson
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1943
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The Mad Ghoul may well be the definitive George Zucco horror melodrama. The star plays Dr. Alfred Morris, a distinguished...
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Isabel Lewis
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1943
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Son of Dracula represents a felicitious creative collaboration between director Robert Siodmak and his screenwriter-brother...
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Claire Caldwell
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1943
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In this frothy musical comedy, Ann Carter (Deanna Durbin) is an aspiring singer from the Midwest who decides to move to New...
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Liz Campbell
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1943
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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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Mary Sloan
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1942
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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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From the first frame of its opening credits, Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror promises (and subsequently delivers)...
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Kitty
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1942
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First filmed in 1914, Edgar Selwyn's venerable North Country yarn Pierre of the Plains was thawed out once more in 1942....
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1942
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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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Muriel
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1942
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With America's Air Force not completely mobilized in mid-1942, Universal paid tribute to those foresighted Yankee flyboys who...
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1942
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German director Joe May was light-years removed from his glory days at UFA when he helmed the "Little Tough Guys" entry Hit...
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1941
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Universal's "Baby Sandy" series officially ended with Sandy Gets Her Man, but the infant star still had one picture left on...
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1941
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This action film is set in Asia during World War II and follows the exploits of a truck driver who must investigate the...
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Anne McBrogal
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1941
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Hold That Ghost was the second of Abbott and Costello's starring films, but was held back from release in favor of their...
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Norma Lind
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1941
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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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Gwen Conliffe
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1941
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In this mystery, a nephew is accused of murdering his aunt who had just refused to loan him some money. Unfortunately, he is...
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1938
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In this romantic comedy, a humble country girl lives her life in the ramshackle mansion of her aged uncle. Feeling sorry for...
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1938
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In this drama, a disfigured chemist, whose face was badly scarred during a lab accident, becomes insanely jealous and...
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1938
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1938
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1938
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In this British murder mystery, a novelist finds the killer of a librarian. He also finds the family treasure. ~ Sandra...
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1938
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The war between England and Spain in the late 16th century serves as backdrop for the fictional machinations of Fire Over...
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1937
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1937
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This romantic comedy, set amidst the exciting world of horseracing is Britain's first Technicolor film. The story, set in the...
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1937
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1936
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1936
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