In this adventure, a pilot and a radio commentator crash on an island just off the Australian coast and discover a crazed...
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1959
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1956
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Hell on Frisco Bay is a slam-bang return to the sort of gangster fare turned out by the yard at Warner Bros. in the 1930s....
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1955
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1951
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Eddie Roback (Dane Clark), an American army deserter turned criminal, is going to trial in Paris after a ten-month delay when...
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1950
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If Republic's skating star Vera Hruba Ralston could go "dramatic", so too could Monogram's skating star Belita. Produced by...
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1946
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One of many films of the late 1940s examining the impact of WWII on post-war domestic life in the U.S., The Swell Guy is the...
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1946
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Greg McClure stars as legendary boxer John L. Sullivan in this screen biography of the famous fighter. Known as "The Boston...
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1945
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In this comedy, a barge captain with an Electra complex marries two women. He married the first because she laughed like his...
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1945
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Jim Hetherton (Franchot Tone), the scion of an aristocratic rural English family, was traumatized from boyhood by a shooting...
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1944
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Luise Rainer's last Hollywood film was the economically produced wartime drama Hostages. Adapted from the novel by Stefan...
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1943
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Lucky Jordan (Alan Ladd) is a tough but good-natured New York racketeer who tries to finagle his way out of Army service....
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1942
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1942
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1939
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In this crime drama, a grizzled cabbie is scammed out of his life savings by a fake finance company. He tries to no avail to...
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1939
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Bing Crosby plays the melodic medico of the title. To help cover for his ailing policeman pal (Andy Devine), Crosby takes the...
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1938
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Directed by Frank Tuttle, Paris Honeymoon stars Bing Crosby as Lucky Lawton, a wealthy Texan whose plans for a Parisian...
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1938
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This happy-go-lucky musical comedy is set in beautiful Hawaii and follows a public relations man who works for a pineapple...
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1937
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The quaint genetic theories of the 1930s are satirized in College Holiday. Dotty matron Mary Boland runs a ramshackle summer...
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1936
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Paramount Pictures decided in 1935 to create a new romantic team, thus cast singing stars Carl Brisson and Mary Ellis in the...
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1935
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1935
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Based on an obscure stage comedy, the Paramount musical Two for Tonight stars Bing Crosby as would-be composer and playwright...
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1935
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In this romantic comedy, a Parisian businessman heads for South American for a busman's holiday. There he hopes to have some...
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1934
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In this romantic comedy, a rakish fellow involves himself with a married woman. Later his secretary endeavors to win him...
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1934
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1934
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In this crime drama, a dapper thief meets a female detective at a party and fall in love. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1933
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1933
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Easily the best of Eddie Cantor's gargantuan musical comedies for producer Sam Goldwyn, Roman Scandals begins in the...
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1933
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Cary Grant made his feature film debut in 1932's This is the Night. Grant plays the Olympic-athlete husband of Thelma Todd,...
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1932
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An early comedy about the generation gap, this 1932 movie was written by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who went on to write and...
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1932
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This early musical is a bit slim on story but features a number of vintage performances by a stellar cast, including some of...
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1932
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In this fluffy comedy, an innocent usherette falls for a customer whom she finally meets and eventually marries. Soon after...
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1931
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A remake of a 1919 silent film based on the stage farce by Roi Cooper Megrue and Walter C. Hackett, the light romantic comedy...
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1931
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Two of Paramount's best contract comedians made a rare joint appearance in Dude Ranch. Jack Oakie heads the cast as Jennifer...
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1931
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Clara Bow's flat Brooklynese voice seems perfectly suited for the rowdy goings-on in True to the Navy. The "It" girl plays...
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1930
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1930
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Clara Bow's career as one of Hollywood's liveliest leading ladies was drawing to a close when she made this early sound...
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1930
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1930
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Clara Bow, the "It" girl of the silent screen, goes through the motions of the Cinderella yarn Love Among the Millionaires. A...
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1930
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Considered the best of the all-star "studio" musicals of 1929 and 1930, Paramount on Parade utilized the talents of...
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1930
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Amidst the furor of the Civil War a courageous Union captain, nursing a broken heart, volunteers for spy duty. Masquerading...
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1930
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Look up "suave and sophisticated" in the dictionary, and one might very well find a picture of Adolphe Menjou. In His Private...
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1929
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Adolphe Menjou's final silent film was the imitation-Lubitsch Marquis Preferred. Characteristically dressed up like a million...
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1929
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In this early "talkie," William Powell stars as sophisticated detective Philo Vance, who is brought in to investigate the...
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1929
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This early talkie is the film that destroyed the career of popular silent leading lady Louise Brooks. A detective story, it...
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1929
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In this college-campus musical, a Broadway star finds herself the proud owner of a North Carolina college. The star's boy...
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1929
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The newly constructed Paramount sound stages were used as a backdrop for the Pirandellian thriller The Studio Murder Mystery....
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1929
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1928
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1928
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1928
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Richard Dix's star power goes a long way towards assuring the success of Easy Come, Easy Go. Dix plays radio announcer Robert...
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1928
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1927
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Dapper "polite" comedian Raymond Griffith starred in this so-so vehicle. Griffith is cast as French Alfred Sava-Goiu, who,...
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1927
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The Paramount backstage drama Spotlight was based on Footlights, a novel by Rita Weiman. Hoping to become a star, Lizzie...
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1927
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1927
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1927
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1926
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The physical attributes of lovely leading lady Esther Ralston are amply displayed in American Venus. This satire of beauty...
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1926
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Based on the musical comedy of the same name, Kid Boots was the first of two silent vehicles for irrepressible Ziegfeld...
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1926
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Maria Maretti (Bebe Daniels) works as a manicurist at a posh hotel. She is in love with Tony Luca (Edmund Burns), and they...
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1925
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If the plot to this breezy romantic comedy sounds like something that would have starred the late Wallace Reid, there's a...
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1925
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Bebe Daniels is Colette Girard, a French actress who is traveling to London to visit her friend Gloria (Diana Kane). On the...
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1925
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After a few films that did not showcase her talent well, Bebe Daniels was able to redeem herself in this comedy based on the...
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1925
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Frederick Lonsdale's witty 1924 play Aren't We All was turned into a vehicle for the debonair Adolphe Menjou by Paramount...
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1925
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Gloria Swanson was near the peak of her career when she made this film, and while it isn't one of her best -- a Graustarkian...
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1924
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There is a dispute over the ownership of some valuable Long Island farmland -- the Clarks and the Sullivans both claim it. It...
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1924
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Although an executive at Paramount came up with the racy title for this comedy-drama, the plot came from a Saturday Evening...
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1924
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With this comedy-melodrama, Richard Dix was bumped up from leading man to star status. This also marked the first film for...
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1924
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F. Scott Fitzgerald was commissioned to write the story to this low budget crime drama for actor Glenn Hughes. In spite of...
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1924
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This fantasy tale uses the Salem witch hunts as its backdrop and was based on the play The Scarecrow by Percy Mackaye. Goody...
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1923
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Glenn Hunter, who, with his shy, bashful persona would take off where Charles Ray left off, was the perfect starring choice...
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1923
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Glenn Hunter plays Ted MacDonald, who is traveling from Asia, where he and his father Edmund MacDonald (William Calhoun) have...
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1923
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Stage favorite Glenn Hunter plays one Benjamin Franklin Read. Since birth, Benjamin has been coddled and protected by his...
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1922
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Author John Fox was known for his tales of the Blue Grass State and its mountain people. This romantic drama was based on one...
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1921
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