Federal agent Robert Taylor journeys to a mythical South American community, there to break up a war-surplus contraband...
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1949
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1949
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Eliot Ness may have gotten lots of publicity (especially long after the fact) for breaking the Capone mob, but as...
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1949
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1949
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Fred Astaire had announced his retirement before the cameras began to roll on Easter Parade, but he decided to accept the...
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1948
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In this courtroom drama, two opposing lawyers lead a double life. In the courtroom they are ruthless toward each other, but...
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1948
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When Homecoming was first released in 1948, some observers felt that Clark Gable's unusually sensitive performance was based...
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1948
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1948
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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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Lucille Ball offers a seminal version of her Lucy Ricardo TV character in Her Husband's Affairs. Ball is cast as Margaret...
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1947
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James M. Cain's novel received its first authorized screen treatment in this MGM production. Drifter Frank Chambers...
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1946
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This entry in the short "I Love a Mystery" series has detective Jack Packard and his sidekick Doc Young investigating the...
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1946
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1946
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1945
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Having Wonderful Crime spotlights Michael J. Malone, the murder-solving attorney created by author Craig Rice. The film is...
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1945
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With Universal nearly out of the "B"-grade horror film business by 1945, it was up to Monogram to take up the slack with...
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1945
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In this mystery, a detective and his secretary go on vacation and end up solving a murder. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1944
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The Last Ride was also the last production to emanate from Warner Bros.' B-picture division. The plot involves the illicit...
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1944
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Dismissed by critics as corny and obvious in 1944, this overlong but sincere biopic looks pretty good when seen today,...
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1944
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Previously filmed as a so-so Marx Brothers vehicle in 1938, the John Murray-Alan Boretz Broadway hit Room Service was...
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1944
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In this musical comedy, a pair of small-potatoes performers try to make it to the big-time after winning an amateur talent...
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1944
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1944
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In this musical romance, an ice skater comes to America to represent her country at a Lake Placid carnival. Unfortunately,...
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1944
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One of the few failures for RKO Radio's resident "prestige programmer" producer Val Lewton, Mademoiselle Fifi is based on two...
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1944
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Practically everybody on the Warner Bros. lot shows up in the wartime morale-boosting musical extravaganza Thank Your Lucky...
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1943
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A princess finds love with a regular American Joe in this patriotic romantic comedy. A European diplomat (Charles Coburn) is...
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1943
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1943
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At 49 minutes, Murder on the Waterfront was the shortest-ever Warner Bros. B picture. Alas, brevity is not the soul of wit in...
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1943
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A Warner Bros. attempt to ape the success of the Universal horror films, The Mysterious Doctor is a moody little piece...
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1943
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Maybe Errol Flynn was never the war hero that he often played, but he was a capable boxer, and Gentleman Jim makes full use...
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1942
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Director Curtis Bernhardt hadn't wanted to make Juke Girl, but he was under contract to Warner Bros. and had to tow the line...
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1942
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A lively espionage drama that reunited the stars and director of the previous year's The Maltese Falcon, Across the Pacific...
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1942
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Made in 1942 but released early in 1943, Secret Enemies is a Warner Bros. espionage quickie, putting the studio's...
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1942
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The direction of Warner Bros.' Lady Gangster is credited to one "Florian Roberts," who on closer examination turns out to be...
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1942
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In this screen version of the James Thurber-Elliot Nugent Broadway play of the same name, Henry Fonda stars as bespectacled,...
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1942
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In this espionage drama, a battle-fatigued British commando is diagnosed as clinically insane by doctors who are in reality,...
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1942
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1942
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Strawberry Blonde is the second, and by far the most well-regarded, of the three film versions of James Hogan's play One...
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1941
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Author Hartzell Spence's popular biography of his preacher father was the source for One Foot in Heaven. Fredric March stars...
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1941
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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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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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Manpower was Warner Bros' latest reworking of 1932's Tiger Shark, with power-company linemen substituting for tuna fisherman....
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1941
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1941
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A seemingly quiet Midwestern town is the hiding place for a number of sordid secrets in this melodrama based on Henry...
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1941
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In this boxing drama, champion fighter Johnny Rocket decides to leave the ring to please his new bride. Unfortunately, his...
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1941
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Neither James Cagney nor Bette Davis were particularly pleased with the outdated screwball comedy The Bride Came C.O.D., but...
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1941
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A good wife's innocence is shattered when she learns that her wealthy husband is actually an amoral big-shot jewel thief....
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1941
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In the 1930s and 1940s, Warner Bros. developed a positive genius for remaking earlier films in new, disguised fashion,...
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1941
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Officially, America had no intention of entering the Second World War in 1940: Why, then, were there so many "preparedness"...
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1940
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This slightly laundered remake of the 1932 courtroom classic The Mouthpiece stars George Brent as brilliant but unprincipled...
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1940
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A tough, bitter fugitive's travels lead him to a grungy rundown oil town. There the transient is taken in by an oil-rigger...
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1940
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Santa Fe Trail, Errol Flynn's third western, has precisely nothing to do with the titular trail. Instead, the film is a...
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1940
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Knute Rockne-All American was Pat O'Brien's finest hour: thanks to intensive rehearsals and numerous makeup applications, he...
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1940
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Though set during WW1, British Intelligence was obviously thrown together to capitalize on the outbreak of WW2. A remake of...
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1940
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Stalwart Warner Bros. contract player George Reeves, better known as TV's Superman, was given an early opportunity to "carry"...
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1940
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A Child is Born is a remake of 1932's Life Begins, softened to conform to stricter movie censorship and lengthened to qualify...
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1940
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In this actioner, heroic G-man Brass Bancroft must assume the identity of a notorious spy who died in a train wreck so he...
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1940
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1940
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1940
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Invisible Stripes is a cookie-cutter Warners prison drama which rounds up the usual suspects. George Raft and...
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1940
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1940
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1940
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Bette Davis earned an Oscar nomination for her role in this classic four-hanky tearjerker. Judith Traherne (Bette Davis) is a...
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1939
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Bold for its time (just prior to World War II), Confessions of a Nazi Spy is an expose of a genuine Nazi espionage ring...
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1939
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They Made Me a Criminal opens in New York, depicting the latest victory in the ring for Johnny Bradfield (John Garfield), a...
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1939
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Otis Ferguson has said of Each Dawn I Die that "the story is of the kind you would have to see to disbelieve." And to be...
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1939
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Code of the Secret Service was the second of Warner Bros. "Brass Bancroft" series, starring Ronald Reagan as troubleshooting...
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1939
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A singing waiter with a wonderful operatic voice finds himself in the squared circle facing heavyweight boxers after he gets...
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1939
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Torchy Plays with Dynamite was the final entry in Warner Bros.' "Torchy Blane" series, based on characters created by...
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1939
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Louis Armstrong steals the show as the groom to Jeepers Creepers, a skittish racehorse that can only settle down and run when...
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1939
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Kay Francis was anxious to complete her Warner Bros. contract when she agreed to appear in this lower-berth drama. Francis...
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1939
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Oklahoma Frontier was Johnny Mack Brown's second starring western for Universal. On the eve of his honeymoon with new bride...
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1939
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James Cagney stars in the humorous Western The Oklahoma Kid, set during the land rush of 1893. John Kincaid (Hugh Sothern)...
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1939
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In this, the premiere entry in the "Brass" Bancroft series (starring the man who would-be President, Ronald Reagan), Brass is...
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1939
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Ace Secret Service agent Lt. Brass Bancroft is on the case in this crime drama. This time he is assigned to break up a major...
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1939
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Based upon an idea by Broadway columnist Mark Hellinger, The Roaring Twenties opens during World War I as doughboys Eddie...
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1939
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Banking on the popularity of the Warner Bros.' boxing saga Kid Galahad (37), the studio rushed into production with another,...
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1939
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The bravura performance of Bela Lugosi is the main selling card for the 12-episode Universal serial The Phantom Creeps....
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1939
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It's Swing Music vs. the Classics in the easy-to-take Warners tunefest Naughty But Nice. Dick Powell dons the obligatory...
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1939
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This final entry in Warner Bros.' Nancy Drew series is the only one actually based on a novel by Nancy Drew creator...
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1939
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I Am the Law is arguably the best of the late-1930s films inspired by the racket-busting career of New York district attorney...
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1938
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1938
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Based on a popular novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams, this screwball comedy stars Errol Flynn in the title-role, the heir to an...
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1937
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The 12-episode Universal serial Tim Tyler's Luck was based on the comic strip of the same name by Lyman Young (the brother of...
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1937
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The second of Paul Muni's biographical films for Warner Bros., the Oscar-winning The Life of Emile Zola is by far the best,...
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1937
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The MGM historical "spectacular" San Francisco was allegedly based on a three-sentence synopsis, submitted verbally to...
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1936
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1936
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In this drama, an oil driller learns about true love and the important things in life the hard way after he suddenly strikes...
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Brent Taylor
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1936
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Hollywood Boulevard is a trenchant look at the underside of Tinseltown. Though the nominal hero is a disillusioned...
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1936
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A Poverty Row western that has the rare distinction of being shot in color, director Jacques Jaccard's action-packed shoot...
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1936
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"Every time Paul Muni parts his beard and looks through a microscope, we lose a million dollars." Producer Jack Warner's...
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1936
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1936
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In this drama, a group of young cadets in a military academy struggle to overcome their personal problems and make it through...
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1936
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The 12-episode Universal serial Jungle Jim was based on the Alex Raymond comic strip of the same name. Grant Withers stars as...
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1936
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Generous stock footage from Paramount's silent Zane Grey series enhances the production values of the entertaining "pocket"...
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1936
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Radio baritone Joe Morrison was being groomed for stardom by Paramount when he was top-billed in One Hour Late. Morrison is...
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1935
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It is a tale known well, filmed many times over the years, but never better than this early black and white version from the...
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1935
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Spencer Tracy plays a hard-driving newsman with a special instinct for solving sensational murders before the police can....
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1935
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A man who has ruined a woman's life attempts to make good on his debt to her (and his conscience) in this sudsy drama based...
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1935
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MGM regularly churned out films in the 1930s that were all "star power" and very little plot. No More Ladies is a good...
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1935
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In this African action-adventure film, an explorer becomes an avaricious murderer after he learns of an invaluable cache of...
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1932
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Former silent-screen star Frank Mayo plays a big-city bootlegger at odds with gangster chieftain Tom Santschi, the man who's...
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Picardi
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1932
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In his third Western for low-budget company Tiffany, Ken Maynard plays Ken Neville, a cowboy returning to the old homestead...
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Rance Collins
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1931
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Chinatown After Dark is where you'll find Madame Ying Su (Carmel Myers), a "dragon lady" type who'll stop at nothing to get...
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Ralph Bonner
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1931
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The Big Shot is Ray (Eddie Quillan), a go-getting but incredibly naïve real estate speculator. Duped into purchasing some...
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1931
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Considered by many the prototypical low-budget Ken Maynard oater, Range Law starred Maynard as Hap Connors, a prisoner making...
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Jim Blount
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1931
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Buster Keaton's second starring talkie finds him cast as wealthy, pampered Elmer, who heads down to the local employment...
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1930
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1926
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Too proud to accept handouts from the father (Warren Cook) of his socialite girlfriend Virginia (Hedda Hopper), Lew Tyler...
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1926
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A wealthy father turns his back on his son after he marries a woman whose mother is a bordello madame in this routine...
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Jeffrey Wingate
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1925
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The racy title to this picture hides the fact that it is just another soap opera-like domestic drama with a few jazz parties...
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John Rand
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1925
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A typical outdoors melodrama from Poverty Row company Gotham, Women and Gold was set in a South American gold mine. Taking...
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1925
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Ben Lyon and Viola Dana co-star in this heavy society drama -- not exactly the forte of either of these stars. Charming but...
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Dick Jerome
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1925
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Elsie Ferguson stars in this routine society drama. Elaine Kent (Ferguson) weds Kenneth Billings (Frank Mayo), a young man...
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Ken Billings
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1925
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This "all star" romance picture uses the Chicago fire of 1871 as its backdrop. Wayne Morgan (Frank Mayo) finds out from his...
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Wayne Morgan
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1925
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Based on a 1912 novel by Roy Norton and filmed previously in 1915 with William Farnum, this silent Western from Fox starred...
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1924
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Although the plot to this heavy-handed drama sounds like typical Hollywood hokum, it actually came from a very successful...
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Fred Masters
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1924
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This plodding melodrama fails to measure up to the original 1917 version directed by Charles Giblyn. Mildred Gower...
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1924
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1924
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Virginia Carter (Alma Rubens) has two suitors -- the carefree Robert Whitney (Frank Mayo) and the more restrained, but far...
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Robert Whitney
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1924
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For quite a few years during the 1920s, Colleen Moore was the perfect flapper personified, and the title to this light comedy...
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Reed Andrews
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1924
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It's a pity that there are apparently no longer any public copies available of this suspense drama by King Vidor because at...
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John Woolfolk
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1924
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This mystical tale of India was based on the novel by E.M. Hull, the author of The Sheik, the book which became the film that...
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Barry Craven
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1924
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This comedy-melodrama, based on the novel by Rupert Hughes (who also directed), blends fiction and reality to tell the story...
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Tom Holby
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1923
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Elinor Glyn, author of the notorious Three Weeks, wrote this story on which this drama was based, so the film was bound to...
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Dion Leslie
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1923
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Brooke Garriott
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1923
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This Western features all the usual Universal Studios suspects: Frank Mayo as the manly hero, Philo McCullough as the slimy...
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Sam Bass
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1923
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Popular Universal leading man Frank Mayo is put through his customary paces in The Altar Stairs. Mayo plays a rugged ship's...
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1922
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This brawny Universal picture was the perfect vehicle for its manly action star, Frank Mayo. Mayo is Bruce Henderson, who...
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Bruce Henderson
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1922
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World War I veteran Frank Mayo wasn't Afraid to Fight in the battlefields of France. But when he becomes a professional...
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Tom Harper
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1922
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Although plastic surgery was still in its early stages when this drama was made, Frank Mayo's ultra-phony nose and beard...
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John Morton
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1922
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Best known for western series starring the likes of Hoot Gibson and Jack Hoxie, Universal of the '20s also issued several...
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Charles Cranner
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1922
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Manly Universal star Frank Mayo stars in this tale of the Northwest. Gilead, a lumber town, is divided into two halves: on...
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John Kidder
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1922
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This was yet another Northwoods drama released in the summer of 1922, supposedly to cool off sweaty theater patrons with its...
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Pierre Baptiste
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1922
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This melodrama takes place in the Missouri of the 1860s -- a good place for Universal Studios to place their manly star,...
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1922
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Manly Universal star Frank Mayo dons some fancy clothes for this murder mystery. Andrew Forsdale (Mayo) bets ten thousand...
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1921
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Universal's manly star Frank Mayo is overshadowed for once by the female support in this South Seas drama. MacLeod Dean...
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1921
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Usually laboring in the netherworld of poverty row, actor-director J.P. McGowan was assigned solid production values and a...
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1921
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The solid production (courtesy of director William Worthington) made this Universal programmer an above-average offering. Dr....
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Dr. Jim Keene
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1921
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In this adaptation of the Augustus Thomas stage play (he also wrote one called Arizona), the time frame has been updated to...
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Frank Austin
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1921
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Frank Mayo made some of Universal's best program features; here he receives support from lovely newcomers Lillian Rich and...
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1921
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In this Universal programmer, Frank Mayo plays Norman Aldrich, a revenue officer whose beat is the north woods of Maine, near...
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1920
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Following the Civil War, Southerner Jefferson Todd (Frank Mayo) finds himself broke, so he becomes a river boat gambler. One...
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1920
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James Kirland (Harold A. Miller) lives on a large estate with his five children. The oldest son, William, drinks too much and...
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1920
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After one successful play, Laurie Devon (Frank Mayo) takes it easy -- too easy according to his partner, Rodney Bangs...
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1920
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The most remarkable aspect of The Amazing Wife was that it was directed by a woman, a rare (but not entirely unknown)...
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1919
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Lasca (Edith Roberts) is a fiery young Mexican girl living near the border. Rich cattleman Anthony Moreland (Frank Mayo) has...
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1919
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Paul Potter (Frank Mayo) is a Midwestern boy who goes to Yale and becomes a shallow society wannabe. When Sylvia...
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1919
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Louis Graintaire
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1919
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Anita Stewart plays the title character. Mary Regan is the daughter of a gentleman crook and an heiress. Although she has...
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1919
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1919
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June Elvidge plays two sisters, Fanny and Evelyn, in this melodramatic feature. They have been sent to a finishing school by...
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1918
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1918
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Upon the death of her aristocratic father, Southern belle Jane Cameron (Kitty Gordon) finds that she has inherited nothing...
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1918
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Because Phil Marsden (John Bowers) has become infatuated with musical comedy actress Bernice D'Armond (Louise Vale), his wife...
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1918
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This picture has nothing to do with the 1933 Spencer Tracy film, or its 1961 remake. It's an adaptation of a novel by Grace...
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1918
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Alice Brady stars in this ordinary little programmer. Naive Doris Shaw (Brady) lives in a fishing village with her father, a...
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1918
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Jackie Saunders has a dual role in this rather trite comedy-drama. Twin sisters Claire and Ida Marley (Saunders) grow up on a...
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1917
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In reflection of the patriotic fervor attending America's entry into WWI, the World Film Corporation felt emboldened to serve...
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1917
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Richard Stanley (William Conklin), destroyed emotionally by his wife's infidelity, sends his infant daughter to be raised by...
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1917
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Even as the last chapters of the Pathe serial Neal of the Navy were making the rounds in the neighborhood houses, the...
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1915
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