The title of this "Lum 'N' Abner" comedy isn't explained until the film is half over. Chester Lauck and Norris Goff repeat...
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1943
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The title of this series entry may strike some as a tad redundant: After all, isn't crook-turned-sleuth Michael Lanyard, aka...
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1941
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Ace police reporter Wally Williams (Wallace Ford) is so devoted to his job that he even neglects his new bride Alice...
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1941
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Frank Capra's classic comedy-drama established James Stewart as a lead actor in one of his finest (and most archetypal)...
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1939
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1939
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Diminutive Danny (Frankie Darro) is Wanted by the Police in this Monogram actioner. Danny is basically a good boy, but he's...
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Kathleen
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1938
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Filmed on location, Hawaiian Buckaroo is certainly the most novel of the Smith Ballew westerns. Pineapple plantation worker...
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Paula Harrington
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1938
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Singing cowboy Smith Ballew is the nominal star of Rawhide, but the audience only had eyes for Ballew's co-star:...
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Ed Saunders
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1938
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Peggy Kelly
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1936
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Three confidence men set up in a luxury hotel, but wind up as their own victims when several swindles backfire. ~ John Bush,...
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1936
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Based on Danny Ahearn's short story "Back in Circulation", Republic's Bulldog Edition stars Ray Walker as Ken Dwyer,...
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Randy
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1936
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Barbara Penfield
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1936
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Hoping to avoid the new inheritance tax, eccentric millionaire Jasper Whyte (Charles Grapewin) gathers together his greedy...
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1st Doris
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1935
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Perhaps the best of Mascot Pictures' feature-film releases, Ladies Crave Excitement is also one of the fastest 69 minutes...
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Wilma Howell
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1935
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1935
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Treasury agent Dave Elliot (Donald Cook) dedicates himself to smashing a crime syndicate, especially after his best friend is...
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Maxine
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1935
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The 1934 Universal serial The Perils of Pauline borrows the title and very little else from the pioneering Pearl White...
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1934
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Having recently left Universal Pictures in a huff, mercurial cowboy star Ken Maynard stopped briefly at Mascot Studios for a...
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Lila Miller
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1934
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Again forsaking his traditional western garb, Tim McCoy plays a rough-and-ready fireman in Columbia's A Man's Game. During...
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Judy
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1934
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Speed Wings is another 1934 "eastern" from western star Tim McCoy. This time, the star is cast as Tim, a devil-may-care stunt...
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Mary
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1934
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Quite a bit of stock footage accompany this aerial melodrama from Columbia, which was directed by low-budget action...
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Kitty King
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1933
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Sally
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1933
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Preston Foster, Mischa Auer, and Evalyn Knapp star in this tale of political intrigue centering on the quest of a powerful...
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Ellen Manning
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1933
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In this grim drama, a conniving young man is brought up on charges of reckless driving. To "prove" his innocence and good...
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1933
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In this crime drama, a highway patrolman gives an oil magnate a ticket. He later quits the force to begin working for the...
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June Brady
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1933
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Police Car 17 is one of a handful of non-westerns made for Columbia by cowboy star Tim McCoy. Motor patrolman Tim Conlon...
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Helen Regan
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1933
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In this drama, an unmarried pregnant woman is forced to marry a complete stranger to maintain a sense of propriety. The man...
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1933
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A very young John Wayne is atypically cast as a randy playboy in His Private Secretary. Much to the dismay of his businessman...
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Marion Hall
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1933
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Confidence woman Martha Hicks (Alison Skipworth), better known to those who know her at all as "the Countess," is a career...
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Alice Hicks
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1932
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Based on Abel Kandel's 1931 play Hot Money, this delightfully daffy comedy from Warner Bros. is a typical example of that...
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Helen
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1932
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Joe E. Brown plays a small town fireman who is also the town's star ballplayer--and an itinerant inventor on the side. Brown...
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Sally Toby
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1932
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Based on the play New York Town by Ward Morehouse, Mervyn LeRoy directs the black-and-white 1932 comedy drama Big City Blues....
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Jo-Jo
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1932
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In one of his first westerns, Johnny Mack Brown plays Kirby Tornell, who does the "Robin Hood" bit on the wide open spaces....
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Carol Winfield
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1932
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A huge box office success and a key film in James Cagney's rise to stardom, this drama stars Cagney as Matt Nolan, a gritty...
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1932
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The fast-paced world of polo provides the backdrop for this sports drama that centers upon John Steele, a US Army captain...
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Mickey Steele
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1932
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Veteran stage and screen star George Arliss forsakes his biographical roles for domestic comedy in A Successful Calamity....
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Peggy Wilton
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1932
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This drama, made while New York mayor Jimmy Walker was still being reviled by newspapers for similar actions, follows a...
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Doree Dawn
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1932
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Molly Louvain (Ann Dvorak) is a young woman working as a clerk at a hotel. The product of a broken home, abandoned by her...
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1932
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The delightful Winnie Lightner was afforded her own movie vehicle in Side Show. Lightner stars as Pat, one of several members...
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Irene
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1931
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The second of three versions of James Oliver Curwood's pulp fiction drama of a mountie and his separated-at-birth prey stars...
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Miriam
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1931
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Vorencia
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1931
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George Arliss is the millionaire of the title, a retired auto tycoon who's been ordered by his doctor to rest and avoid...
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Barbara Alden
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1931
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Irene Graham
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1931
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Having labored to raise her children properly, a grief-stricken mother watches helplessly as their lives take diverse paths...
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Jenny Williams
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1930
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Based on the play Penny Arcade, Sinner's Holiday marked the film debut of James Cagney. After seeing the performance on...
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Jennie Delano
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1930
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1930
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