Frank McHugh guest stars as Charles Snowden, a homeless hobo whom Lucy (Lucille Ball) invites home for a good hot meal. When...
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Charles Snowden
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1967
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Elvis Presley hits the high seas in this musical comedy. Ted Jackson (Presley) is a former Navy frogman who divides his time...
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Capt. Jack
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1967
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This final episode of F Troop's first season--and the final one filmed in black and white--opens with a takeoff of the TV...
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1966
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This short-lived 1964 series ran on ABC, and marked crooner Bing Crosby's second foray into network television after a 1954...
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1964
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After a dangerous tiger turns on its trainer and escapes from the circus, a small town in Texas finds itself in an uproar...
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1964
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Playwright James Lee adapted his off-Broadway play for the screen in this high-strung adaptation, directed by Joseph Anthony....
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1959
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This musical comedy takes an off-beat religious turn as it tells the tale of a show-biz priest (Bing Crosby) who runs a...
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1959
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Spencer Tracy stars in John Ford's sentimental adaptation of Edwin O'Connor's novel about the final campaign of a big city...
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1958
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Future Tonight Show host Johnny Carson made one of his rare acting appearances in this 1957 Playhouse 90 adaptation of George...
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1957
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Like Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938), 20th Century-Fox's There's No Business Like Show Business is a "catalogue" film, its...
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1954
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In 1945, James Cagney, through his independent production company, bought the rights to a lurid novel by Adria Locke Langley,...
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1953
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Excluding a brace of 1980s TV-movie appearances, It Happens Every Thursday was the final feature film appearance of...
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Fred Hawley
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1953
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The title refers to the euphoric pleasures of motorcycle racing, a sport that is exploited to the breaking point in this...
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Rocket
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1952
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Filled with the kind of Red Scare propaganda that must have delighted members of McCarthy's House Un-American Activities...
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1952
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1950
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Set in a rugged Northwest logging camp, this drama follows the exploits of the lumberjack who inherits the camp. For a long...
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Gig Rafferty
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1950
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Windy
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1949
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1949
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Based upon a story by William Mercer, The Velvet Touch stars Rosalind Russell as Valerie Stanton, a celebrated Broadway...
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1948
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Barry Fitzgerald's distinctive brand of Irish blarney, which was wonderful in small doses, leaned towards the precious and...
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Corey
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1947
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Auteur theorists who've charted the career of "cult" director Edgar G. Ulmer have seldom mentioned Carnegie Hall, simply...
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John Donovan
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1947
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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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The Runaround is a game attempt to return to the "screwball comedy" genre so popular in the 1930s. Rival detectives Kildane...
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Wally Quayle
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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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Charlie Bryan
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1946
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John Steinbeck cowrote this sometimes hilarious, sometimes heart-wrenching study of small-town hypocrisy. Shiftless Benny...
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1945
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1945
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Two Bowery vaudevillians compete to be the first to produce shows on Broadway. They might be friends were they not so...
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1944
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It took some doing to persuade the staunchly Catholic Bing Crosby to play a happy-go-lucky priest in Going My Way; luckily he...
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Father Timothy O'Dowd
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1944
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In this wartime propaganda film, two Marine officers and their company go on leave when the Army takes over during the...
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Sgt. Louis Leary
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1943
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No one will ever know what possessed MGM's reigning screen queen Norma Shearer to select the tired old stage farce Her...
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Chippie Champagne
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1942
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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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Omaha
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1941
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Humphrey Bogart plays Gloves Donahue, a rough-hewn but essentially decent New York gambler. The Runyonesque plot gets moving...
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Barney
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1941
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Four Mothers was the last of three films inspired by Fannie Hurst's sentimental novel Sister Act. As in the earlier...
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1941
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Ed Porter
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1941
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There are three key characters in Anatole Litvak's filmization of Aben Kandel's novel City for Conquest, as opposed to the...
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1940
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Promoted as a follow-up to the popular 1939 western Dodge City (which, indeed, was left wide open for a sequel in its closing...
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Mr. Upjohn
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1940
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1940
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Doc Ryan
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1940
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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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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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Filmed on-location at the Naval Air Training Stations in San Diego, CA, and Pensacola, FL, this black-and-white Warner Bros....
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Scat Allen
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1939
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This family drama features the same cast and crew from the highly successful Four Daughters, but it isn't actually a sequel....
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1939
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In this musical, a composer abandons vaudeville in favor of the legitimate stage. He soon finds himself entangle with a...
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Paddy Reilly
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1939
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In this drama, the sequel to Four Daughters, the daughters are now adults. Three of the sisters rally together to find a new...
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Ben Crowley
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1939
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John Garfield once more plays a social outcast who's had nothing but lousy breaks. Released from prison for a crime he didn't...
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Caruthers
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1939
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This landmark western -- which, along with Stagecoach, has often been credited with revitalizing what had become a stagnant...
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Joe Clemens
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1939
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In this drama, a remake of The Crowd Roars, two auto racing brothers become rivals on the racetrack when the older brother...
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Spud Connors
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1939
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Once a staple of summer stock and community theatres, Bella and Samuel Spewack's Broadway farce Boy Meets Girl dates rather...
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Rosetti
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1938
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This third film version of Peter B. Kyne's Valley of the Giants benefits from the breahtaking Technicolor location...
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"Fingers" McCarthy
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1938
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This musical comedy is based on a modestly successful Broadway play and stars Humphrey Bogart as wrestling promoter Ed Hatch....
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1938
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Fannie Hurst's Sister Act was the source for this money-making Warners weeper. The four daughters of the title are played by...
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1938
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In this heartwarming tearjerker, an adorable orphan becomes determined to find her father, whom she is convinced is still...
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Todd Harrington
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1938
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In this comedy, a milquetoast office clerk is forcibly betrothed to a woman by her overbearing mother. The trouble begins...
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Lambert Hunkins
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1938
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The disarmingly zany Marry the Girl was one of the better Hugh Herbert "B"-vehicles for Warner Bros. Much of the story takes...
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David Partridge
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1937
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A lovely stenographer, tired of men falling all over her, tries to make herself homely in this comedy. With her horn rim...
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Mike "Mabel DeCraven" McGillicuddy
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1937
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In this satire, an electrician from a tiny town impresses a New York radio sponsor with his booming baritone singing voice....
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1937
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With the considerable input of ex-Navy officer Frank Wead (who wrote the script) and technical adviser Cmdr. G. W. D....
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Lucky
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1937
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In this comedy, a blocked writer decides he needs a little peace and quiet to spark his creativity so that he can write the...
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Orlando Rowe
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1936
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In this lively campus comedy, a stern rowing coach sets up a rigorous practice schedule for his team and insists they lead...
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Coach Hammond
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1936
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Moonlight Murder takes place virtually in its entirety at the Hollywood Bowl. Despite dire warnings by a sinister mystic...
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William
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1936
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Sid
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1936
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Erwin Trowbridge
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1936
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Two-fisted New York police detective Edward G. Robinson is so volatile that he manages to get himself thrown off the force in...
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Herman
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1936
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This musical chronicles the rise to stardom of a humble bellhop after he is discovered by a talent agent. Though he becomes a...
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Bugs Cramer
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1935
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Warner Bros.' Devil Dogs of the Air is very much a "formula" picture -- but what a wonderful formula it is! James Cagney...
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Crash Kelly
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1935
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1935
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The indomitable May Robson is firmly in the driver's seat of this Runyonesque comedy-drama. While riding through Central...
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1935
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With little plot but incredible photography and choreography, Gold Diggers of 1935 was exactly what you would expect a...
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1935
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This fast-paced Warner Bros. comedy stars James Cagney and Pat O'Brien as brothers who fight over the same girl. Mrs. O'Hara...
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Mike O'Hara
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1935
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William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan Productions moved from MGM to Warners with Page Miss Glory--along with Cosmopolitan's...
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Ed Olsen
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1935
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Willie Sands
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1935
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1934
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Josephine Hutchinson is a beautiful heiress bored by her stifling lifestyle. She bolts her family mansion on New Years' Eve...
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Tom Bradley
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1934
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A popular fad of the early 1930s provided the framework for this Joe E. Brown romp. Hoping to impress his girlfriend Phyllis...
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Clinton Hemmings
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1934
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A battling married couple come to blows and afterwards the battered wife seeks legal council. This drama chronicles the...
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George Lancaster
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1934
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James Cagney is Chesty O'Connor, a tough-as-nails, always-ready-for-a-fight shipyard worker, who loses out to US Navy CPO...
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Droopy
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1934
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1934
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An Edgar Wallace yarn was the basis for the uncharacteristic Warner Bros. melodrama Return of the Terror. Hoping to escape...
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Joe the Reporter
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1934
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Now known simply as Fashions, the lavish Warner Bros. musical Fashions of 1934 stars the unlikely but copacetic team of...
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Snap
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1934
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Bill Damroy
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1934
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1934
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This weepie, adapted from a play by Philip Dunning and George Abbott, is a vehicle for Ruth Chatterton as the titular Lilly....
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Dave Dixon
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1933
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Directed by Tenny Wright, The Telegraph Trail features John Wayne as John Trent, a calvary scout who has been sent to put a...
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Sgt. Tippy
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1933
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Paul Lukas plays a nightclub headwaiter who rises to fame as a bridge expert. He marries hat check girl Loretta Young,...
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Philip
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1933
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In this family drama, a married couple work in a department store. He is a shipping clerk; she works in the dress...
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Billy
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1933
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Practically every member of the Warner Bros. stock company except Glenda Farrell shows up in the rowdy, raunchy pre-Code...
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1933
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The wonderful Warner Bros. stock company goes through its customarily breezy paces in Havana Widows. Joan Blondell and...
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1933
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Toodles
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1933
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In this romantic sex-comedy from director Robert Florey, Bette Davis stars as Helen Bauer, a free-spirited, self-sufficient...
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Hugo Van Hugh
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1933
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Joe E. Brown is a sailor who hopes to match the accomplishments of his seaman father. Unfortunately, Joe is perhaps the...
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Gaga
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1933
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Tomorrow at Seven is one of those "you will die at the appointed hour" murder mysteries which flooded the market in the early...
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Clancy
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1933
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In this war comedy, the reluctant hero finds himself drafted and forced to fight the Germans whom he feels he has nothing...
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1933
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Joe E. Brown plays Elmer Kane, a rookie ballplayer with the Chicago Cubs whose ego is matched only by his appetite. Because...
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High-Hips Healy
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1933
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The Mystery of the Wax Museum begins in London in the 1920s. Lionel Atwill plays Ivan Igor, a brilliant sculptor who manages...
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Jim
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1933
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This melodrama chronicles three decades in the life of the New York located title house beginning at the turn of the century...
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1933
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An earthy, fun-loving radio pitchwoman finds it difficult to live up to her squeaky-clean public persona as the "Purity Girl...
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Speed
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1933
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The last--and to some aficionados, the best--of choreographer Busby Berkeley's three Warner Bros. efforts of 1933, Footlight...
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1933
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William Powell plays a condemned murderer who is being transported from Hong Kong to San Quentin by way of a luxury liner....
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Skippy
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1932
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Blessed Event is one of several early-1930s films inspired by the meteoric rise to fame of gossip columnist Walter Winchell...
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1932
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Alfred E. Green directs the political satire The Dark Horse, starring Bette Davis early in her career. The progressive party...
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Joe
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1932
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Molly Louvain (Ann Dvorak) is a young woman working as a clerk at a hotel. The product of a broken home, abandoned by her...
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1932
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Howard Hawks directed this fast-paced auto racing drama. Joe Greer (James Cagney) is a top-ranked race car driver; his...
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1932
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A Grand Hotel derivation set in a major metropolitan train terminal, Union Depot features most of the reliable Warner Bros....
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1932
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Based on Abel Kandel's 1931 play Hot Money, this delightfully daffy comedy from Warner Bros. is a typical example of that...
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1932
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Life Begins is an episodic Warner Bros. programmer about one unusually busy night in a maternity ward. Loretta Young is the...
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1932
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1931
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In this comedy, a luckless newspaper reporter heads for a coastal resort and finds himself mistaken for a famous dare-devil...
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1931
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The peripatetic spouses referred to in the title are all travelling salesmen, scooting to and from their wives via train. In...
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1931
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Of interest mainly because of the talent involved, this film remains a tepid bootleg melodrama about a small-town football...
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"Chub" Hopping
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1931
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In this melodrama, a cub reporter falls for the society editor who is already the mistress of the publisher. The two men...
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Collins
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1931
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In this light-hearted musical, an early color film, a successful actress tires of the bustle and hustle of her tawdry life...
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1931
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Writer/director Tay Garnett reunited the stars of his fabulously successful Her Man (1930) for the 1931 RKO crime drama...
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1931
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1931
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In this musical, based on a famed operetta, a humble shop girl jilts her lover because his aristocratic family disapproves...
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Francois
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1931
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Yet another variation on the already then-ancient Madame X theme, this early talkie stars Helen Twelvetrees in the title...
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1931
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In this drama, the love affair between an American pilot and a French spy is chronicled. Also involved is the spy's father,...
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1931
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In this musical comedy, a bored office clerk finds much-needed excitement by masquerading as a millionaire. To do so, he...
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Tad Jordan
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1930
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In this youthful sports comedy two football jocks, Eddie Smith and Tiny Courtlay are grid iron rivals competing to win the...
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"Speed" Haskins
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1930
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Set during World War I, The Dawn Patrol is a study of the pressures and pitfalls of authority. A British Royal Flying Corp...
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1930
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The Widow from Chicago is Polly Henderson (Alice White) -- only she isn't really a widow and in fact has never been married....
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Slug O'Donnell
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1930
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