Dan Duryea essays a rare sympathetic role in the Columbia programmer Sky Commandos. At first glance, however, Duryea seems to...
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Jo McWethy
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1953
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Anxious to remain active in the 1950s, director Frank Capra wanted to prove to Paramount Pictures that he could deliver an...
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Margaret Higgins
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1950
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MGM whipped up another musical salad with Luxury Liner, featuring a glittering lineup of contractees including Jane Powell,...
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Laura Dene
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1948
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On the whole, the films of producer-writer-director Arch Oboler seldom came up to the lofty standards of his radio work, but...
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Anne Parkson
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1947
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MGM's newest child star Jackie "Butch" Jenkins--lisp and all--is the title character in this overlong family drama. The...
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Jean Tukker
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1947
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This aquatic musical is set at a mountain resort in the beautiful Sierra Nevadas where a heroic Army Air Corpsman has come...
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Maude Bancroft
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1945
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An earnest rural melodrama set among Norwegian immigrants in Wisconsin, Our Vines Have Tender Grapes is a slightly updated...
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Viola Johnson
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1945
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Dr. Ann Wotters
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1945
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Robert Z. Leonard, who must have taken room and board at MGM, was the directorial hand behind this slight domestic drama....
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Sissy Mortimer
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1944
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World War II rears its ugly head in this patriotic (if somewhat nonsensical) Tarzan picture. When a Nazi pilot (Rex Williams)...
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Zandra
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1943
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Allen R. Kerward's flagwaving stage play Proof thro' the Night was vastly improved in its screen adaptation, which was...
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1943
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Star-Spangled Rhythm is a typical wartime all-star musical-comedy melange, this time from Paramount Pictures. The slender...
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1942
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It's Dorothy Lamour again, sarong and all, in the South Seas wish-dream Beyond the Blue Horizon. Lamour plays Tama, a...
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1942
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Originally slated for release through Paramount Pictures but ultimately distributed by United Artists, American Empire is a...
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Abby Taylor
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1942
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Andrew Jackson is very happy to serve as the secretary of the society that honors his presidential namesake until he is...
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1942
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Adenoidal teenager Henry Aldrich (James Lydon) "gets glamour" when he wins first prize in a movie-magazine contest. Before he...
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1942
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A most uncharacteristic assignment for director Robert Siodmak, My Heart Belongs to Daddy was scripted by F. Hugh Herbert, of...
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Grace
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1942
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1942
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Border Vigilantes was the 34th entry in the "Hopalong Cassidy" western series, with 32 more still on the way. William Boyd...
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Helen Forbes
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1941
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1941
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The very first Disney feature to include live-action footage, this behind-the-scenes documentary about the studio's animation...
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Doris Studio Artist
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1941
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In this romance, a hospital nurse marries a West Point football hero. She soon gets pregnant, but this doesn't stop her from...
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Daphne
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1941
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Unavailable for decades, this 15-chapter serial from Republic Pictures was finally re-released on video tape in the late...
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Nyoka
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1941
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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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Brenda Gordon
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1940
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The 1940 Warner Bros. quickie A Fugitive From Justice is based on Leonard Neubauer's short story "Million Dollar Fugitive."...
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1940
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James Dunn and Frances Gifford were husband and wife when they costarred in PRC's Hold That Woman. Dunn plays Jimmy Parker,...
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Mary Mulvaney
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1940
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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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Based upon Arthur Kober's play (which was subsequently musicalized onstage as Wish You Were Here, Having Wonderful Time stars...
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1938
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Handsome aerial footage highlights this rousing RKO adventure tale that combines a frozen-North survival drama with a...
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1938
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New Faces of 1937 was supposed to be the vanguard of a series of annual musical comedies -- RKO Radio's latest attempt to...
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1937
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1937
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