The "one desire" of ex-gamblers Rock Hudson and Anne Baxter is to escape their shady former lives and settle down to...
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1955
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Clemson Reade (Cary Grant) is the kind of man who wants to marry an old-fashioned girl, one who will stay home and take care...
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1953
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Set in the years following the Civil War, Horizons West stars Robert Ryan as Dan Hammond, one of three Texans who decide to...
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1952
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1952
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Having supped full of success with the multi-storied O. Henry's Full House, 20th Century-Fox assembled another all-star...
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1952
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Mistaken identity and underhanded dealings set the stage for this adventure story based on Anthony Hope's classic novel....
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1952
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At the time of its release the RKO "B"-western Road Agent raised eyebrows, not because of its violent content, but because of...
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1952
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Lippert's Fingerprints Don't Lie stars Richard Travis as fingerprint expert James Stover. At the moment, Stover is attempting...
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1951
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Henry Hathaway directed this high-tension drama about a man teetering on the verge of self-destruction and how his dilemma...
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1951
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Ann Sothern closed out her MGM contract with the Technicolor musical Nancy Goes to Rio. As Frances Elliot, Sothern is billed...
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1950
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Two-bit photographer Howard Duff wins a big newspaper assignment by romancing his lady boss (Peggy Dow). Duff is sent to take...
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1950
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In this suspenseful espionage actioner, the US radar defense system is about to be breached by enemy saboteurs and now only...
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1949
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1949
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For some reason, whenever Universal used the word "Gal" in a film's title, Yvonne de Carlo usually headed the cast. In Gal...
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1949
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First came 20th Century-Fox's Mother Was a Freshman; then, a few months later, the same studio's Father Was a Fullback....
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1949
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The racehorse Seabiscuit really existed, but this is not his true story -- this is a romance and centers on lovely Margaret...
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1949
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The Barkleys of Broadway became Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers' "reunion" picture purely by accident. Originally conceived as...
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1949
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That Wonderful Urge is the second remake of Love is News (37), and is much closer to the original than the first remake (the...
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1948
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Hypnotism and mind control take center stage in this unusual latter-day "Hopalong Cassidy" series entry produced by its star,...
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1948
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1948
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The Last Chance Inn, the main locality in this latter-day Hopalong Cassidy Western, certainly lives up to its name. A...
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1948
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Honeymoon stars an attractively grown-up Shirley Temple as Barbara, the sweetheart of a GI corporal named Phil (Guy Madison)....
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1947
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1947
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The Abbott & Costello western spoof The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap is predicated on an actual Montana law of the 19th...
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1947
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In this aerial melodrama, four brothers working as stunt pilots for a flying circus leave their jobs to become mail pilots....
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1947
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The Warner Bros. musical My Wild Irish Rose purports to tell the life story of popular 19th century balladeer Chauncey...
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1947
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The second of William Boyd's self-produced "Hopalong Cassidy" films, Fool's Gold maintains the standards set by the first...
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1946
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Charmless films like The Bride Wore Boots helped to kill the postwar revival of the "screwball comedy" genre almost before it...
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1946
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George Taylor (John Hodiak) is a war veteran suffering from amnesia with only two clues to his past: the bitter letter from...
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1946
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This grade-A example of "film noir" stars Mark Stevens as Brad Galt, an embittered ex-convict who returns to the private...
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1946
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When wealthy Ballin Mundson (George Macready) rescues down at his heels gambler Johnny Farrell (Glenn Ford) and invites him...
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1946
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After several years' service with the Marines in World War II, Tyrone Power made his much anticipated return to the screen in...
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1946
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1946
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1946
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Barbara Hale landed her first A-picture starring role in the engaging romantic comedy Lady Luck. Hale is cast as Mary Audrey,...
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1946
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Boston Blackie is back and in hot pursuit of a jewel thief and killer in this mystery. The reformed thief soon tracks the...
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1946
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Filmed in two-toned Cinecolor, Romance of the West was the second of PRC's western vehicles for singing cowboy Eddie Dean....
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1946
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A change of pace for both director Vincente Minnelli and star Katharine Hepburn, this taut drama features the latter as Ann...
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1946
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A loose remake of 1941's The Gay Falcon, The Falcon's Alibi is one of the better entries in RKO's "Falcon" series, and one of...
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1946
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1946
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William Powell plays a cynical con man who graduates from penny-ante operations to a big-time charity racket. The scam...
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1946
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John Brickley (Robert Montgomery) believes in PT boats, and as a lowly U.S. Navy lieutenant stationed in the Philippines,...
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1945
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The first of actor Sunset Carson and director Thomas Carr's collaborations, Santa Fe Saddlemates is about a U.S. marshal...
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1945
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Based on a play by Ruth Gordon, Over 21 represents the felicitous teaming of two middle-aged but attractive film favorites....
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1945
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The luscious Linda Stirling starred in this 15-chapter action serial from genre specialist Republic Pictures as Claire...
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1945
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After a year's absence, entertainer Eddie Cantor returned to the screen in the self-produced Show Business. The plot is...
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1944
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1944
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The second of Laurel & Hardy's two MGM starring films, Nothing But Trouble casts Stan and Ollie as, respectively, an...
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1944
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This 91-minute Republic "special" stars Michael O'Shea as Matt Braddock, an aggressive Henry Kaiser-like shipbuilder...
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1944
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The overcrowding in WWII-era Washington, D.C., provided the concept for this comedy, as well as another film from the...
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1944
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The year is 1942: Mr. Winkle (Edward G. Robinson), a mild-mannered bank clerk, decides to quit his job and open a fix-it shop...
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1944
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1944
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1944
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"Wild Bill" Elliott heads the all-star (by B-flick standards, at any rate) western Hidden Valley Outlaws. Elliott does battle...
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1944
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A superior Hopalong Cassidy Western, The Leather Burners benefits from a good script by Joe Pagano. In trouble with a gang of...
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1943
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This musical features a number of old-time country music stars as it follows the exploits of a pretty dairy magnate who...
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1943
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In this provocative WW II drama, an American agent sneaks into a Nazi spy ring to learn the identities of certain...
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1943
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Flight for Freedom was an "a clef" version of the Amelia Earhart story. Rosalind Russell plays the Earhart-like aviatrix...
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1943
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In this western a pugnacious cowboy tries to prevent a city-slicker from conning the local ranchers and the utility company....
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1943
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In this western, the Three Mesquiteers team up with a Texas Ranger to round up the outlaws who forced the ranger's younger...
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1943
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Wild Bill comes to the rescue when his friend needs him to take care of a crook in this western. ~ Kristie Hassen, Rovi...
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1943
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More so than most wartime films, Mission to Moscow must be viewed within the context of its times. Requested by President...
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1943
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1943
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A typical war time Republic Pictures serial, G-Men vs. the Black Dragon featured the combined efforts of three allied...
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1943
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In this comedy, set in WW II, a Venezuelan rubber planter's son must travel to New York to try and secure a loan for the...
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1942
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Nyoka Gordon (Kay Aldridge) leads an expedition into the most remote part of the Libyan desert in search of her father,...
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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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Just before entering the armed services, Gene Autry delivered one of his best Republic westerns, Cowboy Serenade. Many of...
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1942
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Though Don "Red" Barry is the star of Jesse James, Jr., he plays a character named Johnny Barrett. The scene is a small...
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1942
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To say that Behind the Eight Ball is the best of the Ritz Brothers' quartet of Universal vehicles is faint praise indeed, but...
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1942
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Congress suddenly changes the boundary between Texas and Mexico and the rangers leave the territory to the U.S. cavalry in...
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Colonel Langley
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1941
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Charles Starrett is once more cast as frontier doctor Steve Monroe in Columbia's Prairie Stranger. In the company of his...
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Jud Evans
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1941
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The first of director Frank Capra's independent productions (in partnership with Robert Riskin), Meet John Doe begins with...
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1941
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Well-known New York sports promoter Frankie Christopher (Victor Mature) is the prime suspect in the murder of Vicky Lynn...
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1941
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1941
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Skating star Sonja Henie and the Glenn Miller Orchestra share the spotlight in Sun Valley Serenade. Henie plays a Norwegian...
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1941
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Banker
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1940
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Richard Dix is his usual strong, silent self in RKO Radio's Men Against the Sky. Dix plays a washed-up pilot who designs a...
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1940
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Previously filmed in 1930 with Lawrence Tibbett and Grace Moore, the robust Sigmund Romberg operetta New Moon was given...
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1940
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MGM had a tendency to overglamorize the sort of rough-hewn film fare that Warner Bros. offered to its public without...
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1940
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In this drama, a test pilot plies his trade on a prototype medical plane. Unfortunately, when the craft is stolen, he...
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1940
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This box-office smash comedy of manners featured the popular Myrna Loy as Margot Sherwood Merrick, the stodgy editor of a...
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1940
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In Old Missouri is an entertaining Republic "regional" aimed at the thriving Country-Western fandom of the 1940s. Heading the...
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1940
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1940
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The schizophrenic screenplay of The Earl of Chicago is rendered even more bizarre by the uneven performance by Robert...
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1940
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For the purposes of this inconsequential 61-minute musical, Paramount Pictures shelled out a great deal of money to film on...
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1940
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1940
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Virtually a textbook example of Howard Hawks' "macho" mode, Only Angels Have Wings takes place high in the Peruvian Andes....
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1939
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In this episode of the Three Mesquiteers series of westerns the trio must help two rival sides involved in a range war settle...
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1939
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How could anyone dislike a film with the title Lady and the Mob? Sweet Fay Bainter stars as eccentric dowager Hattie Leonard,...
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1939
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Regarded as the best of Columbia's "Lone Wolf" B-picture series, The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt stars Warren William as Michael...
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1939
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In this espionage drama, a G-man keeps an enemy spy from stealing highly classified plans for military equipment. While...
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1939
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The popular Lee Falk-Phil Davis comic strip Mandrake the Magician first came to the screen by way of a 12-chapter Columbia...
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1939
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Lucille Ball plays young starlet Sandra Sand in That's Right -- You're Wrong, the 1939 musical comedy directed by...
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1939
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Told that they're too young to join the Boy Scouts, the Our Gang kids form a troop of their own. Unfortunately, their camping...
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1939
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Spoilers of the Range looks so much like the Charles Starrett westerns that preceded and followed it that only a close...
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1939
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Spunky Joan Blondell is practically the whole show in the diverting comedy Good Girls Go to Paris. Blondell is cast as...
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1939
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That fine stage and screen actor Walter Abel enjoys a rare movie starring role in Columbia's First Offenders. Upset with the...
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1939
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In this adventure, set in Shanghai, a gunrunner gets entangled with a conspiracy to deliver customs certificates....
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1938
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Based on a series of popular pulp-magazine stories, the 15-chapter Columbia serial The Spider's Web stars Warren Hull as one...
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Comm. Kirk
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1938
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In this comedy, an American golf pro falls in love with a woman while visiting France; before long they are married and in...
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1938
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Back when silver-haired character actor Larry Blake was a firm-jawed leading man at Universal, he starred in the low-budget...
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1938
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Test Pilot is one of those irresistible MGM potboilers of the 1930s that coast along on sheer star power. Clark Gable plays a...
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1938
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In this crime drama, a young couple decides to rob the bank where the woman works as a teller. They get 100,000 dollars and...
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1937
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Jean Harlow offers her final screen performance in this witty and -- in retrospect -- quite moving racetrack comedy-drama...
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1937
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1937
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This hard-hitting Warner Bros. courtroom drama begins with the usual "Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is...
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1937
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Paramount's answer to Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) also involved mutiny and romance on the high seas. Gary Cooper stars as...
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1937
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Financier J.B. Ball (Edward Arnold) -- known in the press as "the Bull of Broad Street" -- may be one of the wealthiest...
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1937
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1937
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