Dean Martin had his final leading role in this obscure drama about a San Francisco lawyer defending a black militant...
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1975
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In her final acting appearance, Susan Hayward is ironically cast as a research doctor who can no longer face up to the notion...
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1972
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When a wealthy friend of the San Francisco police commissioner reports that his dog is missing, a disgruntled Ironside...
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1970
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Little Tonio (Gerald Michenaud) is convinced that flying nun Sr. Bertrille is his dead mother returning from Heaven. Trouble...
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1968
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While visiting Tony's house, Mrs. Bellows (Emmaline Henry) is enchanted by a certain antique bottle. Try though he might,...
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1967
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Posing as "Tony Maxwell", Richard Kimble (David Janssen) hides out in the Barrio of an unnamed city. Taking a job at the...
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1967
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The wife of vicious outlaw Jess Miller (Michael Witney), long-suffering Allie (Janet De Gore takes refuge at the Ponderosa,...
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1966
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In this episode from The Man from U.N.C.L.E. series, the two good guy spies must stop a criminal mastermind from altering the...
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1966
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Frank Puglia reprises his 1944 role as Prince Cassim for this remake of the Arabian Nights adventure. Ali Baba (Peter Mann)...
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Prince Cassim
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1965
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In Volume 29 of a collection culled from the 1963-1965 science fiction anthology television series, a neighborhood is...
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1964
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1962
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The price of fish in New York City has gone up nearly fifty percent, and it's all because of mobster Frank Makouris (Ricardo...
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1961
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The six Genna brothers have figured out a clever method to make and distribute illegal whiskey right under the noses of...
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1961
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This was the first film directed by Paul Stanley, and its theme of second-generation Puerto Ricans living in New York's...
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1959
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Having failed to bribe Elliot Ness (Robert Stack) so he'll drop the tax-evasion charges against him, mob boss Dutch Schultz...
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1959
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The title is Black Orchid, but the leading lady is a rose--florist Rose Bianco, played by Sophia Loren. Newly widowed, Rose...
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Henry Gallo
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1958
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One of special-effects wizard Ray Harryhausen's pre-Seventh Voyage of Sinbad efforts, 20 Million Miles to Earth borrows a few...
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Dr. Leonardo
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1957
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Lensed in Republic's widescreen Naturama process, this modest little western would seem to be better suited to a...
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1957
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Nightclub singer Ilona Vance (Vera Ralston) is Accused of Murder in this Republic programmer. And from the looks of things,...
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1956
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Loosely based on a novel by James M. Cain, this romantic drama centers on the struggles of a humble vineyard worker...
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1956
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The plot of The Burning Hills is motivated by revenge, which only a few years earlier had been on the Motion Picture Code's...
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1956
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Cashing in on the popularity of TV's Davy Crockett and the jukebox favorite "Yellow Rose of Texas", Allied Artists came up...
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1956
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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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Based on a novel by Gwen Bristow, Jubilee Trail is a sprawling, all-star western from the Republic Studio mills. Despite is...
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1954
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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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Martin and Lewis tee each other off on a PGA tour in The Caddy. Harvey Miller (Jerry Lewis) is an expert with his golf club,...
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1953
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A heretofore unexplored chapter in the saga of female western desperado Belle Starr is detailed in this fanciful sagebrusher....
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1953
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1953
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The Steel Lady in this crazy-quilt actioner is the armored tank commandeered by star Rod Cameron. Marooned in the Sahara...
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1953
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Alan Ladd plays the title role in Captain Carey USA. A former OSS operative, Captain Carey returns to Italy after the war to...
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1950
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Joseph Cotten stars in Walk Softly, Stranger as Chris Hale, a fugitive criminal who decides to hide out in a small Midwestern...
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1950
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The federal agent "at large" in this Republic programmer is played by Kent Taylor. On the trail of gold smugglers in Mexico,...
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1950
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Gene Kelly as an Italian-American attorney? Once you get past this, the rest of Black Hand ought to go down easy. This expose...
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Carlo Sabballera
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1950
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The Desert Hawk deserves to be seen on the basis of its cast alone. No more believable than any of Universal's other...
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1950
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Maureen O'Hara plays the daughter of a Sheikh who returns from being educated in London, only to find her father is dead and...
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1949
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It had been said that the Pine-Thomas production unit never lost money for Paramount Pictures. Even without major star names...
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1949
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Though not acknowledged by contemporary reviewers, Colorado Territory is a westernized remake of the 1941 crime drama...
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1949
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After Ray Milland turned down the leading role in Bride of Vengeance, Paramount contractee John Lund stepped into the role of...
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1949
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Elmer Rice's clever stage comedy Dream Girl is Hollywoodized and "dumbed down" almost beyond recognition in this 1948 film...
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1948
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1948
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1947
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It is said that Henry James' The Aspern Papers were inspired by the romance between Lord Byron and his mistress Claire...
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1947
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Based on a play and novel by Margaret Kennedy, Escape Me Never is a remake of the same-named 1935 British film. Largely set...
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1947
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Road to Rio was the first of three "Road" pictures jointly produced by stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. On the run from the...
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1947
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Burt Lancaster had one of his first starring roles in this hard-hitting prison drama. Capt. Munsey (Hume Cronyn) is a cruel,...
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1947
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Veterinarian Ronald Reagan contracts anthrax from treating diseased cows in this horsey melodrama from Warner Bros. In fact,...
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1947
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1947
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Without Reservations has to be the least typical John Wayne picture of the postwar era. Top billing is bestowed upon...
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1946
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This odd combination of roughneck comedy and serious domestic drama was adapted by Louise Randall Pierson from her own...
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1945
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One of the most successful filmed biographies of the 1940s, A Song to Remember alleges to be the true story of Polish...
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1945
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In his first film in two years, James Cagney stars as Nick Condon, the American editor of a pre-WW2 Tokyo newspaper. When two...
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1945
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Weekend at the Waldorf is an unabashed remake of MGM's 1932 Oscar-winner Grand Hotel: in fact, at several points in the...
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1945
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Designed as a followup to the enormously successful Casablanca, Passage to Marseille utilizes the talents of many of the on-...
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1944
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The title Together Again referred to the fact that frequent costarsIrene Dunne and Charles Boyer were once more united on...
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1944
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In this musical comedy, a soldier falls in love with a very young woman who in turn has a crush on an older, more...
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1944
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Brazil is perhaps the best of the handful of American films made by Brazilian singing sensation Tito Guizar. In typical...
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1944
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1944
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This lavish, 145-minute cinemadaptation of the Pearl Buck best-seller Dragon Seed was intended by MGM as a followup to the...
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1944
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One of the most beloved American films, this captivating wartime adventure of romance and intrigue from director...
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1943
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The general perception of the Technicolor costume adventure movies that Maria Montez and Jon Hall made for Universal in the...
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1943
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1943
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In this '40s film Kay Kyser parades an entertainment group all over the globe providing laughs for the boys in battle. This...
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1943
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The Iron Major is the saga of WW1 hero-cum-football coach Frank Cavanaugh, played with his usual no-nonsense professionalism...
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1943
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During WWII, Johnny Weissmuller and his Tarzan character proved useful for Allied propaganda purposes. In the film...
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1943
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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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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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Based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls is a romantic drama set against the turbulent tapestry of the...
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1943
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Action in the North Atlantic is solid wartime propaganda with a rather endearing inner lining of left-wing politics, courtesy...
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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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Its "timely" title notwithstanding, Escape From Hong Kong is simply more of the he-man derring-do that Universal had been...
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1942
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Olive Higgins Prouty's popular novel was transformed into nearly two hours of high-grade soap opera by several masters of the...
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1942
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A real four-hanky picture, Always in My Heart was loosely adapted from the stage play by Dorothy Bennett and Irving White....
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1942
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Secret Agent of Japan sometimes looks like a B-grade "answer" to Warner Bros.' Casablanca, except that the answer was...
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1942
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Hope Schuyler is a notorious but never-seen astrologer, inextricably linked with blackmail, political graft and murder....
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1942
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The pundit
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1942
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There are moments in Columbia's Flight Lieutenant that approach "high camp"; indeed, one is hard pressed to remember if any...
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1942
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1941
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1941
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The famous outlaw rides again in this fictionalized western that chronicles Billy's turn from criminal to fine upstanding...
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1941
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John Wayne stars in this hard-driving oater which was co-written by character actor Paul Fix. Wayne plays Rocklin, a...
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1941
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1941
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1940
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A serious journalist is sent to France and forced to write fashion fluff pieces. Tiring of this, she decides to sneak off to...
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1940
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1940
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Filmed in Hollywood for the Spanish-language market, Tengo Fe En Ti (I Believe In You) was distributed in North and South...
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Enrico Buriani
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1940
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This is perhaps the best of the many Zorro films as Tyrone Power gives an outstanding performance as the alternately swishing...
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1940
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No, No, Nanette was the second film version of the popular Otto Harbach-Vincent Youmans Broadway musical. Though slightly...
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1940
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1940
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The Fatal Hour was the fourth entry in Monogram's "Mr. Wong" series, based on the gentlemanly oriental detective created by...
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1940
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In this drama, a despondent fellow contemplates suicide after he is abandoned by his last girlfriend. To ensure that his...
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1940
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Charlie Chan in Panama was the first entry in the "Chan" series to capitalize on WW2. Sidney Toler stars as the wily oriental...
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1940
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Ralph Bellamy and Margaret Lindsay, stars of Columbia's "Ellery Queen" series, let their hair down and went "screwball" in...
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1940
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Hollywood's handful of Technicolor cameras got a real workout on 20th Century-Fox's Down Argentine Way. Don Ameche stars as...
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1940
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In this western, a dashing caballero makes a wager with his gang that he can court a beautiful dancer and lure her back to...
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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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Maisie stars Ann Sothern as a worldly showgirl stranded in Wyoming when her show fails. She accepts a job at a carnival...
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1939
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Frank Capra's classic comedy-drama established James Stewart as a lead actor in one of his finest (and most archetypal)...
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1939
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Based on Memory of Love, a novel by Bessie Breuer, In Name Only is soap opera par excellence, blessed with a peerless cast....
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1939
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In this actioner, a U.S. border patrol agent stationed in Tijuana loses his job and gets into deep trouble after a friend is...
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1939
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A typical, fast-paced Grade-B murder mystery, Mystery of the White Room was based on the then revolutionary medical...
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1939
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In this drama, a waitress leaves her husband after getting sick of being alone while her husband, a commercial pilot, plies...
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1939
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In this crime drama, a shyster lawyer makes his living earning acquittals for his guilty clients. Most recently he freed a...
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1939
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As in all his early westerns, Roy Rogers battles true Old West outlaws in the fine In Old Caliente. He is, as usual, Roy...
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1939
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The old David Belasco theatrical warhorse Zaza, which starred Mrs. Leslie Carter way back in 1899, had already been filmed by...
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1939
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Sharpshooters was the initial entry in what was to have been a series of six "Camera Daredevils" adventures. Brian Donlevy...
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1938
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Perhaps the best of Jane Withers' 20th Century-Fox vehicles, Rascals is also the one that pops up most frequently on...
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1938
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Barefoot Boy is a throwback to the sort of bucolic family fare in which Monogram Pictures specialized in the early 1930s....
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1938
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The visual wizardry in this period action picture about Alaskan fishermen won a special honorary Oscar in the years before...
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1938
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Viennese-born Luise Rainer plays a young Parisian girl who attends an exclusive drama school, working nights at a factory to...
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1938
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1938
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Dorothy Lamour and Ray Milland, a popular Paramount screen team specializing in south-sea extravaganzas, don "civilized" garb...
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1938
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This romantic tearjerker was the second film based on the popular 1922 stage play. James Stewart stars as Chico, a lowly...
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1937
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A Doctor's Diary is told through the eyes of Dr. Dan Norris (John Trent), resident physician in a private hospital. In his...
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1937
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In this drama, a milque-toast socialite is drowning in San Francisco Bay. Fortunately, he is saved by a kindly Italian...
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1937
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Akim Tamiroff, Paramount Pictures' resident crime lord, runs all illegal gambling activities in a major city. Reporter...
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1937
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Mannequin stars Joan Crawford as Jessie Cassidy, a girl of the tenements (though this being an MGM film, her slum dwellings...
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1937
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1937
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In the fourth of Paramount's "Bulldog Drummond" action-thrillers, the intrepid adventurer (John Howard) makes the grizzly...
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1937
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1937
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Alice Faye stars as aspiring playwright Judith Poe Wells. She falls in love with producer George Macrae (Don Ameche), which...
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1937
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Set during World War I, Lancer Spy stars a young George Sanders as Michael Bruce, an officer in the British Navy who bears an...
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1937
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In this tuneful, romantic drama, an Australian opera star (Grace Moore) wants to perform in a major U.S. festival but cannot...
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1937
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In the second of Paramount's "Bulldog Drummond" thrillers, Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond (John Howard) is finally about to marry...
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1937
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Even the mighty MGM had to keep the home fires burning with B pictures. The studio's Mama Steps Out is a harmless confection...
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1937
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1937
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Norwegian skating star Sonja Henie reached an early pinnacle with this romantic comedy co-starring Tyrone Power as a...
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1937
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Based on Danny Ahearn's short story "Back in Circulation", Republic's Bulldog Edition stars Ray Walker as Ken Dwyer,...
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1936
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Mary Ellis, Paramount's answer to Columbia's Grace Moore, stars in the title role in this musical melodrama/whodunit. When...
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1936
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In this polished soap opera from MGM, Robert Taylor plays Chris Claybourne, a dedicated scientist researching a possible...
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1936
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The Devil Is a Sissy deserves an historical footnote as the only film to team three of the biggest child stars of the 1930s:...
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1936
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1936
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Magazine publisher Clark Gable is happily married to Myrna Loy. Clark's devoted, super-efficient secretary Jean Harlow may...
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1936
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The Gay Desperado is a 1936 musical lampooning the then-popular gangster pictures. Leo Carrillo plays a genial Mexican...
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1936
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American opera baritone George Houston, who later gained a measure of fame as a western hero, made his film debut in The...
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1935
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When British actor Robert Donat dropped out of Warner Bros. Captain Blood, the studio took a chance on its new contractee,...
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1935
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Paul Muni stars in this drama about a romantic triangle that leads to madness and murder. Overly enthusiastic Mexican...
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1935
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The real-life career of the notorious female spy known as "Fraulein Doktor" inspired several films of the 1930s. Stamboul...
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1934
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A far from factual filmed biography of Mexican patriot Pancho Villa, Viva Villa! was written by lengendary screenwriter Ben...
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1934
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In an unusual move, MGM released its film version of Sidney Kingsley's Pulitzer-Prize winning play Men in White while the...
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1934
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1933
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Released with sound effects and a music score that included the song "When Love Comes Smiling" by Walter Hirsch, Lew Pollack...
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1927
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The presence of Richard Barthelmess adds a poetic quality to this romantic melodrama. Tony Gillardi (Barthelmess) is a flower...
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Calo Gillardi
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1925
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Filmed on location in Italy, where director Henry King ruled over a huge set that covered 17 acres, Romola stars...
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1925
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Producer/director D.W. Griffith's feature is a fairly realistic study of the deprivations visited on the German people after...
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Theodor
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1924
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1922
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For a while, Mae Murray and her then-husband, director Robert Z. Leonard, were an unstoppable team. They had their own...
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1922
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