Universal's three Flash Gordon serials have, over the years, been edited down to feature-length form. In 1991, these various...
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Dr. Zarkov
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1991
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The Dangerous Profession of the title is the bail-bond business. George Raft stars as Kane, a former cop turned professional...
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1949
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Art critic and forgery expert George Steele (Pat O'Brien) is apprehended by the police as he desperately tries to break into...
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1946
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Bob Kane's 1939 Detective Comics superhero The Batman came to the screens in serial form courtesy of Columbia Pictures and...
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1943
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Lee Falk and Ray Moore's famous syndicated comic strip hero came to the screen in this 15 chapter serial produced by Rudolph...
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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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Rawhide Rangers is a satisfyingly equitable blend of western action, music and comedy relief. The villains are a group of...
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1941
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The Hollywood "establishment" had been waiting a long time for maverick director Gregory La Cava to fall from grace, and when...
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1941
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Silent film stalwart Neil Hamilton heads the cast of the PRC "special" Federal Fugitives. Hamilton plays secret service...
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1941
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1941
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1940
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This Technicolor sequel to 1939's Jesse James does without the services of the earlier film's star Tyrone Power, who after...
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1940
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1940
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Amid the political chaos sweeping across the world in 1939, a new terror arises -- the Purple Death -- and people around the...
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1940
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1940
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All-American space hero Flash Gordon (played by Larry "Buster" Crabbe) once again does battle with the devious Ming the...
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1940
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1940
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Seven years after helping to rescue RKO Radio from bankruptcy as the heroine of King Kong, Fay Wray returned to the studio as...
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1940
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Directed by Lewis Milestone nine years after taking home the best director Academy Award for All Quiet on the Western Front,...
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1939
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Cecil B. DeMille takes us back to the 1860s, then rebuilds the first intercontinental railroad in Union Pacific. The...
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1939
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Torchy Runs for Mayor stars Glenda Farrell as fast-lipped newspaper reporter Torchy Blaine. In possession of a crooked...
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Capt. McTavish
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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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Ronald Reagan is his usual sprightly self as ambitious insurance claims adjuster Eric Gregg. While diligently investigating a...
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1938
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1938
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With Glenda Farrell having temporarily taken leave of Warner Bros., the actress' signature role of fast-talking girl reporter...
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1938
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Both film versions of Phillip Barry's stage comedy Holiday have their merits, but the 1938 version has the added advantage of...
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1938
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Universal Pictures' second Flash Gordon serial was even more opulent than its first, offering better special effects, more...
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Dr. Hans Zarkov
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1938
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This science fiction film features the revenge of Ming who vowed to destroy the Earth. ~ Rovi...
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Dr. Zarkov
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1938
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Blondes at Work is number four in Warner Bros.' lively "Torchy Blane" series. Glenda Farrell returns as girl reporter Torchy...
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1938
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You wouldn't know it from the title, but Deadly Ray From Mars is a feature-length abridgement of the 15-episode serial Flash...
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1938
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Charles Starrett plays two-fisted frontiersman Dart Collins in this slick Columbia "B" western. Collins wants to find out...
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1938
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In this entry in the "Torchy Blane" series, the plucky young reporter tries to expose a ring of counterfeiters led by a man...
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1938
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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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1937
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In their third crime-solving adventure, smart-aleck newspaper woman Torchy Blane (Glenda Farrell) and slightly dense homicide...
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1937
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Returning from a trip, wealthy seaman Cappy Ricks (Walter Brennan) is annoyed to find his home automated, his daughters'...
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1937
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Stodgily directed by actor Russell Hopton, this low-budget oil-drilling melodrama was one of three action-adventures teaming...
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1936
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Warner Baxter plays Dr. Samuel Mudd, American history's most famous victim of circumstance. In 1865, Dr. Mudd, a known...
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1936
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In 1936, Flash Gordon was among the most popular comic strip characters in America when Universal Pictures first brought his...
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1936
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Made with the full cooperation of the real-life Texas Rangers (who never met a publicity gimmick they didn't like), this...
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1936
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In this western, a Spanish-American war veteran cannot find gainful employment. In desperation, he becomes a cattle rustler...
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1936
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In the second of producer Harry Sherman's Hopalong Cassidy Westerns, Deputy Sheriff Cassidy (William Boyd) promises El Toro...
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1936
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In this sci-fi film, Flash Gordon and friends take on Mongo's sea monster, deadly ray guns, and robots to keep the evil...
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1936
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In 1936, Universal Pictures created a sensation with Flash Gordon, a 13-part adventure serial based on the popular comic...
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1936
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The title refers to those special government agents who go undercover to flush out criminal gangs. In his second starring...
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1935
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In G Men, Warner Bros. "bad boy" James Cagney plays James "Brick" Davis, a young lawyer whose education has been financed by...
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1935
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It's hard to separate fact and fancy from the many accounts of what happened on the set when all three of the fabulous...
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1932
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The still photographs of this costume picture, showing Rudolph Valentino wearing foppish 18th century finery, are actually...
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1924
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It seems like the flashier Cecil B. DeMille made his films, the more intimate were those made by his older brother William C....
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1924
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Although Lionel Barrymore was miscast as a gunman, he overcame this drawback by giving the role of Boomerang Bill an...
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Terrence O'Malley
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1922
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1913
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