Grandpa Walton (Will Geer) never passes up an opporutnity to regale the kids with memories of his adventures during the...
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1976
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Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) head to the docks of San Pedro, there to stop a gang of...
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1971
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Newly appointed as president of the Hooterville school board, Oliver (Eddie Albert) must deal with a fervent campaign,...
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Harvey Jackson
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1970
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This TV movie stars Suzanne Pleshette as the embittered widow of a research scientist. Seeking justice, she conceals her...
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1970
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Here's the obligatory "Women's Lib" episode, a requirement of every TV sitcom of the late 1960s. The newest female to embrace...
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1970
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This episode was filmed not long after astronaut Neil Armstrong's fabled "moon walk" in the summer of 1969. Gullible Lisa...
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Dr. Barton Stuart
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1970
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Written by Paul Schneider, "Ride the Wind" was Bonanza's first two-part story. Ben Cartwright is willing to provide Charles...
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1966
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The Great Sioux Massacre is an entertaining pack of lies about Custer's Last Stand. General Custer (Philip Carey) is herein...
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1965
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An unusually long pre-credits sequence establishes the roots of faded Southern belle Charlotte's (Bette Davis) insanity;...
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1965
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Originally trade-previewed as Those Crazy Calloways, Disney's Those Calloways is a lengthy, anecdotal film about a highly...
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1965
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Lucille Forrest (Frances Reid) is the wealthiest widow in Forrest Junction, but only as long as she obeys the condition in...
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1965
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Cleaning out old courthouse files, Barney comes across a never-closed assault case involving Floyd the barber and Charlie...
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1965
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Uncle Joe (Edgar Buchanan) is convinced that the Shady Rest is haunted by the ghost of Chester W. Farnsworth, who stayed at...
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1965
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The Hooterville Cannonball is forced to temporarily halt service when a bird builds its nest in the engine's smokestack....
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1965
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Ever on the lookout for new sources of income, Uncle Joe (Edgar Buchanan) invites young doctor Matthew Bailey (Alan Reed Jr.)...
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1965
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Hooterville storekeeper Sam Drucker (Frank Cady) has noticed a considerable drop in business over the past few days. The...
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1965
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In the first episode of the two-part story, despicable railroad executive Homer Bedloe (Charles Lane) has managed to become...
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1965
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Kate (Bea Benadaret) invites her pregnant friend Elsie (Olive Sturgess) to stay at the Shady Rest until the baby comes....
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1964
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The entreprenurial Diamond Jim Foley (Frank Ferguson) sells Aunt Bee a side of beef at a "bargain" price. When it turns out...
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1964
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In this western, a cowboy finally returns to his home after a long absence precipitated by his killing a wicked rancher's...
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1964
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The Seaview is ordered into the regular navy as the flagship of Admiral Tobin (Charles McGraw), who has been assigned to hunt...
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1964
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Clearly inspired by the then-current publicity blitz surrounding the Elizabeth Taylor film version of Cleopatra, this...
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Krueger
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1964
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Written by Alex Sharp, the comic episode "Ponderosa Matador" finds the Cartwright boys vying for the attention of the lovely...
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1964
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A young woman named Linda (Antoinette Bower) arrives in the town of Ladera, claiming to be the daughter of wealthy Addison...
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1963
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As the result of Beaver's uncharacteristically selfish behavior of late, Ward (Hugh Beaumont) decides to drill his son in the...
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Jeff
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1963
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1962
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Hoping to meet the deadline for a crucial business transaction, Adam Cartwright rushes to the town of Bowline, with a bank...
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1962
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While playing poker with Big Jim Watson (Alan Hale Jr., Bart (Jack Kelly) again comes face to face with his old friendly...
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1962
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Juvenile delinquency invades the Wild West in this episode, wherein three young punks named Sim (Richard Rust), Bunk (Martin...
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1961
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In this rollicking takeoff of the TV western series Bonanza, Jim Backus guest stars as wealthy rancher Joe Wheelwright, the...
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1961
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It is time for the annual Mayberry Founders Day celebration, and the committee has decided to hold a beauty contest. Sheriff...
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1961
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Eve Nesbitt (Gloria Talbott) contacts Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) to determine the progress of the insurance settlement...
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1961
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1961
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Sheriff Dan Trevor (Peter Breck) of Devil's Flat concocts a plan to steal a chest of gold from the town's new "sky pilot",...
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1960
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For those of you who might have wondered whether accordion virtuoso Dick Contino ever made a film, we refer you to...
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1960
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The story of a boy and his fish is chronicled in this heartwarming children's drama. The story centers around Raymie, a...
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1960
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Sheriff Andy's male chauvinism boils over when his girlfriend Ellie Walker decides to run for town council-the first woman...
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1960
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Originally telecast October 3, 1960, the first episode of The Andy Griffith Show was titled "The New Housekeeper." The title...
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1960
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One of only two theatrical features by television director Vincent J. Donahue, Sunrise at Campobello is a biography of...
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1960
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The ugly consequences of bigotry are examined in this episode of Bonanza. Gene Evans plays Andrew Fulmer, who runs for mayor...
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1960
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Bart (Jack Kelly) is hired to impersonate millionaire Cornelius Van Rensselaer Jr. (Wynn Pearce) at an important business...
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1959
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This episode is a tour de force for future Oscar winner Cliff Robertson, here cast as hideously ugly escaped convict Frank...
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1959
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With Andy Hardy Comes Home, Mickey Rooney hoped to revive the character -- and the movie series -- that had brought him fame...
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Mayor Benson
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1958
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While working in a South Dakota gold-mining camp, Bart (Jack Kelly) and Dandy Jim Buckley (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) befriend...
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1958
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Riding into a small town, Bret (James Garner) and Bart (Jack Kelly) are amused when the locals mistake them for the notorious...
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1958
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Once again, Perry (Raymond Burr) handles a case way outside his normal "jurisdiction" of Los Angeles, when Ellen Sabin (Jody...
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1958
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Those who learned to dislike Conrad Richter's novel The Light in the Forest when it was required reading in high school will...
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1958
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Frank Lovejoy plays the title role in Cole Younger, Gunfighter. The scene is post-Civil War Texas, when the state was under...
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1958
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Anthony Mann's final foray into the western genre is a disturbing examination of man's baser instincts, rising in intensity...
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1958
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1958
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In this western, a circuit rider endeavors to warn the cavalry after he sees masked men cruelly abusing an Indian band. En...
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1957
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A rare comedy effort by director Robert Wise, This Could Be the Night is based on a series of short stories Cordelia Baird...
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1957
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Originally released as Gun Duel in Durango, this solid little western stars George Montgomery as reformed outlaw Dan. He...
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Sheriff Howard
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1957
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Frontier peacekeeper Sheriff Galt (Sterling Hayden) faces a crisis of conscience in The Iron Sheriff. In the aftermath of a...
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1957
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Amidst a sea of late-1950s psychological westerns, The Phantom Stagecoach is almost refreshingly old-fashioned. The plot is...
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1957
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New York Confidential is based on the Jack Lait-Lee Mortimer bestseller of the same name. Richard Conte plays Nick Magellan,...
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1955
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Adapted by Don M. Mankiewicz from his own novel, Trial is a surprisingly timely story of how justice can sometimes be...
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1955
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1955
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Adapted by Leon Uris from his own novel, the film follows a group of World War II marines, from Basic Training to...
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1955
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In the 1750s, young orphan John Mohune (Jon Whiteley) arrives at the seaside Dorset village of Moonfleet seeking Jeremy Fox...
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1955
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One of Republic's most elaborate productions of the 1950s, The Eternal Sea is the biography of American admiral John M....
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1955
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Up until its surisingly mundane finale, A Lawless Street is one of the best of the Randolph Scott westerns of the 1950s....
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1955
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1955
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Alan Ladd plays real-life air force hero Captain Joseph McConnell Jr. in this inspirational biopic, while June Allyson does...
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1955
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Young at Heart is a soft-pedaled, musicalized remake of 1938's Four Daughters. Robert Keith takes over the Claude Rains role...
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1954
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Cub reporter Jimmy Olsen (Jack Larson) is lured to a sinister-looking house, where he is confronted by all manner of...
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1954
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The 1954 musical remake of A Star is Born could have been titled A Star is Reborn, in that it represented the triumphal...
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1954
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Jet Cosgrave (John Derek) is The Outcast in this big-budget Republic western. Thanks to the chicanery of his crooked uncle...
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1954
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Rudolphe Maté directs the western The Violent Men, based on the novel Rough Company by Donald Hamilton. Edward G. Robinson...
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1954
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One of the strangest westerns on record, Johnny Guitar has less in common with Zane Grey than it does with Sigmund Freud and...
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1954
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Produced and directed by the prestigious Frank Lloyd, The Shanghai Story was promoted as a "class" production by the...
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1954
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Though heavily advertised as Delmar Daves' Drum Beat, this film owed its existence to producer-star Alan Ladd. The star is...
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1954
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After learning that her boyfriend, a GI in Korea, has found someone else, Norah Larkin (Anne Baxter) impulsively agrees to...
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1953
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A genuine novelty, MGM's Main Street to Broadway offers the modern viewer a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse of the 1953...
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1953
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Wayne Morris' B-western series was the last of its kind to be produced in Hollywood. Texas Bad Man casts Morris as a sheriff...
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Gil
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1953
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Wayne Morris plays a Texas ranger who goes undercover to trap a criminal gang. Posing as a wanted killer, Morris is able to...
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Marshal Bullock
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1953
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All suspense in The Woman They Almost Lynched would seem to be dissipated by title, but director Allan Dwan holds the viewers...
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1953
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1953
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Though Wicked Woman may look like one of those heavy-breathing Hugo Haas-directed melodramas, the film was in fact directed...
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1953
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Considered by many the weakest of Wayne Morris' latter-day B-Westerns, The Marksman features the no longer svelte star as a...
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1953
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This 1953 tear-jerker is the third film version of the Edna Ferber novel So Big. Stepping into the role previously essayed by...
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1953
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1953
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A climactic donnybrook between hero Allan Lane and ace Republic villain Roy Barcroft is the highlight of this otherwise...
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1953
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Another entry in the 3D sweepstakes, Hannah Lee is all but forgotten today. That's too bad, because the film at least has...
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1953
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A longtime "dream" project of production designer-turned-director Eugene Lourie, The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms sees the...
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1953
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Lone Hand benefits immensely from the genuine Colorado locations seen throughout. Zachary Hallock (Joel McCrea) and his son...
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1953
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"Winning isn't everything -- it's the only thing." These words were spoken not by Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi but...
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1953
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Ronald Reagan delivers one of his best screen performances as baseball great Grover Cleveland Alexander in The Winning Team....
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1952
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The original title for Rancho Notorious was Chuck-a-Luck, which is also the title of the soundtrack ballad (written by...
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1952
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Irene Dunne made her final film appearance in the frothy fantasy It Grows on Trees. Looking at least two decades younger than...
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1952
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1952
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Who else but Esther Williams could star in a romantic drama (with musical numbers) bearing a title like this? In Million...
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1952
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1952
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1952
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Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair was Number Four in Universal's immensely successful "B"-picture series. It is giving away...
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1952
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Rod Cameron's western vehicles for Monogram were always worth watching, even when Cameron was better than the scripts. In...
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1952
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1952
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Hard-working leading lady Jane Nigh attains top billing in 1952's Rodeo. It's all about rough-and-ready gal Nancy Cartwright...
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1952
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A master blend of comedy, domestic drama and sudden tragedy, The Marrying Kind remains one of the best collaborations between...
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1952
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Based on the autobiography by George and Anna Rose, Room for One More is a warm-hearted vehicle for husband-and-wife actors...
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1952
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Republic singing cowboy Rex Allen is once again teamed with bucolic Buddy Ebsen in Thunder in God's Country. This...
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1951
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Robert Ryan plays Jim Wilson, a tough police detective embittered by years of dealing with low-life urban scum, in...
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1951
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The model (Jeanne Crain) is stuck in an unhappy relationship with a married man. The marriage broker (Thelma Ritter) doesn't...
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1951
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To call The Barefoot Mailman episodic would be understating the issue: the film's story stops and starts so often that it...
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1951
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William Holden plays Boots Malone, a dishonest--and impoverished--jockey's agent. Malone sees a chance to crack the big time...
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1951
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In this western, a cowboy rides out to avenge the death of his fiancee. Three outlaws are responsible for the murder. He...
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1951
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Fish-market worker Johnny O'Hara (James Arness) is named as a suspect when his boss -- with whom he had a dispute the...
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1951
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Judy Canova continues to bring home the box-office bacon for Republic Pictures in Oklahoma Annie. Judy plays Judy, Queen of...
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1951
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In this romance, an industrial designer is bitterly disappointed when he discovers that upon graduation his daughter decides...
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1951
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1951
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He's a Cockeyed Wonder stars Mickey Rooney as the title character. Try as he might, Freddy Frisby (Rooney) can't succeed at...
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1950
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1950
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James Cagney delivers a vibrant performance as a down-on-his-luck Broadway musical director in The West Point Story,...
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1950
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1950
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1950
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The Lawless was director Joseph Losey's second feature-length film. The story concerns a group of Mexican-American migrant...
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1950
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1950
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Under Mexicali Stars spotlights Republic's newest singing cowboy, Rex Allen. Our hero plays a U.S. treasury agent, hot on the...
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1950
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1950
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George Sidney directs this pleasant romantic comedy concerning mayoral love. During a convention of mayors in San Francisco,...
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1950
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It doesn't take a nuclear scientist to figure out that Smith Ohrig, the character played by Robert Ryan in Caught, is a...
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1949
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1949
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1949
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The saga of the Hatfield-and-McCoy feud is romanticized in Samuel Goldwyn's Roseanna McCoy. Newcomer Joan Evans stars as the...
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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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Those scurrilous Chinese communists are up to their old tricks in the 1949 flagwaver State Department - File 649....
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Consul Reither
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1949
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1949
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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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1949
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This musical comedy stars William Powell as Emery Slade, who was once a major film star but lately isn't getting much work....
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1949
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1948
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Casting Frank Sinatra as a Pennsylvania priest is but one of the many miscalculations made by the producers of Miracle of the...
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1948
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"Boys Town" goes to turn-of-the-century St. Louis in this moving drama that chronicles the love of a determined priest...
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1948
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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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It seems that Count Dracula (Bela Lugosi), in league with a beautiful but diabolical lady scientist (Lenore Aubert), needs a...
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1948
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This late-40s western features Robert Mitchum as an Indian scout who happens upon an unlikely family cabined up in the Great...
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1948
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1948
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The year is 1908 and the setting Jericho, Kansas, a veritable cesspool of sin and vice. Dave Connors is a politically...
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1948
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In this detective story, a private eye must send his fiancee to prison as he truly believes that she was involved in a bank...
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1948
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Filmed almost entirely on location, Walk a Crooked Mile was Columbia Pictures' "answer" to 20th Century-Fox's late-1940s...
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1948
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Few major directors made "small" films with such frequency and expertise than the ubiquitous Allan Dwan. Set in 1933, Dwan's...
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Eph
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1948
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In this comedy, a scatter-brained professor nearly starts a riot when he writes a book claiming that women like to be...
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1947
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A curmudgeonly small-town doctor resents the presence of a new younger physician and his newfangled ways. He is especially...
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1947
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This story of two young hopefuls who come to Hollywood is merely a thin device to feature almost every star working for...
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1947
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Filmed not long after the actual events, The Beginning or the End is a sober, intelligent account of the development and...
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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 third of four films bearing the title of The Perils of Pauline, this musical biopic purports to tell the life story of...
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1947
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When Loretta Young stepped up to accept her Academy Award for The Farmer's Daughter, the ever-youthful leading lady, who'd...
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1947
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The moodily evocative docudrama T-Men stars Dennis O'Keefe as Dennis O'Brien, a treasury agent determined to bring a...
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1947
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Robert Lowery stars as Paul Kimberly, a former newspaperman who takes on a particularly noxious form of corruption. The...
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Edward Denton
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1947
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Irving Pichel's They Won't Believe Me is the flashback unfolding of Larry Ballentine's (Robert Young) witness-stand testimony...
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1947
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In this humorous murder mystery, a woman is wrongfully accused of poisoning her uncle when he died after she gave the ailing...
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1946
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The second of Perry Como's two starring vehicles for 20th Century-Fox, If I'm Lucky is an easygoing remake of 1937's...
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1946
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Ida "Don't mess with me" Lupino takes a job as a singer in Robert Alda's seedy Santa Monica nitery. Lupino ignores Alda's...
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1946
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Number Three in PRC's "Michael Shayne" B-series was the fair-to-middling Blonde for a Day. Hugh Beaumont stars as Shayne,...
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1946
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If the Perfect Marriage in this romantic comedy were truly perfect, there wouldn't be any story, would there? Outwardly an...
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1946
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In this comedy, a spoiled, temperamental and filthy rich aunt is committed to an asylum by her nephew after he learns that...
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1946
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Faced with the challenge of writing a screenplay based on the life of fabulously wealthy, fabulously successful composer Cole...
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1946
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1946
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One of many films of the late 1940s examining the impact of WWII on post-war domestic life in the U.S., The Swell Guy is the...
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1946
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Set during WWII, this taut and suspenseful espionage outing chronicles the courage of a brand-new cadre of specially trained...
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1946
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In this crime drama, a sorority girl is photographed hanging around with known criminals in illicit gambling dens. The...
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1946
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The troublesome years "between the wars" provide the backdrop for the romantic drama The Searching Wind. Adapted by Lillian...
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1946
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1946
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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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1945
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The Dolly Sisters is the heavily Hollywoodized biopic of Jennie and Rosie Dolly, Hungarian-born entertainers who took...
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1945
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1943
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Pilot No. 5 is an oddly liberal-minded film to come from conservative old MGM. Franchot Tone plays an army pilot stationed in...
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1943
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Quality was seldom a consideration in the low-budget films of PRC Studios; still, the company was a welcome harbor for...
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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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1942
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1942
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It takes a while for the viewer to catch on, but the 1942 quickie Spy Ship is a remake of the 1934 crime melodrama...
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1942
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1942
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City of Silent Men comes so close to being a "model" "B" picture that it's a downright shame it just misses the mark. The...
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1942
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A pregnant Alice Faye was forced to bow out of this colorful Fox musical, which instead went to Rita Hayworth, whom the...
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1942
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This historical drama tells the story of the first class to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. In the...
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1942
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In this musical, which manages to look back with nostalgia upon prohibition and the depression (no small accomplishment),...
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1942
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Though history is distorted almost beyond recognition in Warner Bros.' They Died With Their Boots On, audiences in 1941 ate...
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1941
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Number ten in MGM's heart-warming (and immensely profitable) "Andy Hardy" series was the 1941 entry Life Begins for Andy...
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1941
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You'll Never Get Rich was the first of two films made by Fred Astaire at Columbia, and also the first in which he was paired...
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1941
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Possibly inspired by Universal's The Invisible Woman, Warner Bros.' The Body Disappears is an agreeably daffy comedy with...
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1941
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This 55-minute remake of the 75-minute Warner Bros. crime drama Special Agent retains a surprising amount of the original's...
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1940
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Father is a Prince is a scaled-down remake of the 1934 comedy-drama Big Hearted Herbert, itself based on a play by Sophie...
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1940
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