For many years, Hollywood movie music has been looked down upon and ignored by critics as a valid and important form of...
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1995
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The Longest Hundred Miles was among the first feature films produced specifically for television. Doug McClure stars as an...
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1967
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In this wartime melodrama, Lieutenant Colonel Raspeguy (Anthony Quinn) is a French peasant who has worked his way up the...
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1966
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The "official" title of this film is Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man; its screenplay is adapted from...
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1962
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In this romantic comedy, a popular actress disguises herself as a Japanese geisha to land a part in a film directed by her...
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1962
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The spectacular hordes of Cossack horsemen flying across the steppes to do battle with first one enemy and then another are...
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1962
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1961
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If anything, this star-studded sequel is even sillier than the original, adding to its problems by completely recasting all...
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1961
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The Oklahoma land rush of 1889 provides the starting point for this western drama, based on a novel by Edna Ferber. Yancey...
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1960
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One of only two theatrical features by television director Vincent J. Donahue, Sunrise at Campobello is a biography of...
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1960
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This Biblical epic stars Elana Eden as Ruth, who serves in the temple where the High Priestess (Viveca Lindfors) leads the...
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1960
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Audrey Hepburn stars in The Nun's Story as Sister Luke, postulant of a Belgian order of nuns. Though frequently disillusioned...
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1959
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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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1959
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This routine drama is helped by good acting and well-known stars like Rossano Brazzi as an unfaithful French husband,...
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1959
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Ida Lupino stars as Barbara Jean Trenton, a 1930s movie queen who refuses to admit that she's grown too old to play romantic...
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1959
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Wearing a curiously (and perhaps deliberately) unattractive blonde wig, Jean Simmons stars in the tense psychological drama...
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1958
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The contrasting acting styles of Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster serve to increase the already high tension level of the WW2...
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1958
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Grace Metalious' once-notorious bestseller Peyton Place is given a lavish -- and necessarily toned-down -- film treatment in...
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1957
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1957
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This retelling of one of Charles Lindbergh's most famous feats stars Jimmy Stewart as the legendary flier, and was directed...
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1957
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Sayonara takes its own sweet time to unfold; in so doing, it permits us to make intimate acquaintance with its characters, so...
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1957
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Frankie Dane (John Cassavetes) is the leader of the hornets, a local street gang that has had its share of rumbles and other...
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1956
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The fate that brings lovers together can easily tear them apart as can be seen in this sentimental tragedy that centers on an...
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1956
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1956
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1955
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1955
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The Indian Fighter is trail guide Kirk Douglas, who agrees to shepherd a wagon train through Sioux territory. Douglas tries...
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1955
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Henry Fonda returned to films after an eight-year absence in this masterful adaptation of the actor's Broadway hit Mister...
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1955
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Hal Foster's Sunday-comics saga of a young Viking prince in the service of King Arthur is brought to the screen in...
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1954
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Demetrius and the Gladiators was the sequel to The Robe, and though they were released several months apart, the films were...
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1954
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Elephant Walk was several weeks into production when the film's original leading lady, Vivien Leigh, was replaced by...
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1954
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Paul Newman made his screen debut in the gloriously nonsensical costume epic The Silver Chalice. Freely adapted from a novel...
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1954
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Independently produced by Allan Dowling Pictures, This is My Love was distributed in the U.S. by RKO Radio. The film stars...
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1954
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Laid up with a broken leg, photojournalist L.B. Jeffries (James Stewart) is confined to his tiny, sweltering courtyard...
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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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Elia Kazan directed this drama inspired by a true story. Karel Cernik (Fredric March) is the leader of a troupe of...
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1953
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The scene is a German POW camp, sometime during the mid-1940s. Stalag 17, exclusively populated by American sergeants, is...
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1953
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Framed for robbery, 18th century medical student Alan Ladd is sentenced to a New South Wales penal colony. En route to the...
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1953
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Mike Hammer, author Mickey Spillane's brutal-but-eloquent private eye, made his screen debut in this cleaned-up...
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1953
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1952
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1952
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David Trask (Gary Merrill), the sole survivor of an airplane crash, takes it upon himself to contact the families of the...
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1952
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Lure of the Wilderness is a remake of 1941's Swamp Water, with Walter Brennan repeating his role as a half-crazed fugitive...
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1952
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1951
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Previously filmed in 1931 under its original title, Theodore Dreiser's bulky but brilliant novel An American Tragedy was...
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1951
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With the Third Reich disintegrating, several members of the German army are defecting to the Americans and offering their...
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1951
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The rugged Colorado Territory provides the setting for this epic Civil War-era western chronicle of a Southern rebel who...
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1951
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Jean Peters is at her feisty best in Anne of the Indies. Harboring a grudge against all men (and not without reason), Anne...
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1951
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Nick Robey (John Garfield) is a down-on-his-luck two-bit hood, fast on his feet but a little slow on the uptake. His running...
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1951
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Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard ranks among the most scathing satires of Hollywood and the cruel fickleness of movie fandom....
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1950
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1950
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1950
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1950
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1950
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Filmed in 1947, Warner Bros. Night Unto Night wasn't released until 1949. Based on a novel by Philip Wylie, the film stars...
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1949
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This drama tells about a juvenile delinquent that wavers between loyalty to a fellow crook and a kind-hearted reform school...
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1949
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Producer Hal Wallis evidently hoped to recapture the magic of his earlier Casablanca with 1949's Rope of Sand. To that end,...
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1949
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This modern-day "Faust" variation benefits from a superb cast. Thomas Mitchell plays Joseph Foster, an honest judge who wants...
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1949
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In pageant-like fashion, Warner Bros.' Task Force traces the history of the American aircraft carrier, as experienced by a...
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1949
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Another interesting effort from independent Enterprise Productions, No Minor Vices stars recent French import Louis Jourdan....
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1948
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In this drama, a California artist becomes a New York prizefighter after he falls in love with a married singer. Her husband...
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1948
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When Lucille Fletcher took on the challenge of expanding her classic 30-minute radio suspenser Sorry, Wrong Number into an...
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1948
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Based on a novel by Robert Hichens, The Paradine Case concerns Anna Paradine (Alida Valli), on trial for the murder of her...
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1947
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The tense psychological drama Cry Wolf offers a fascinating if not altogether successful change of pace for action star...
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1947
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A young girl is adopted into a small town family, but instead of finding happiness, she finds her life a living nightmare due...
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1947
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We first meet Joan Crawford, star of the moody flashbackfest Possessed, wandering aimlessly through the city streets, moaning...
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1947
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1947
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In this slick melodrama, a sort of film-noir for women, a nightclub singer has an affair with an unhappily married San...
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1947
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Humphrey Bogart plays a psychotic killer who disposes of his wives through slow ingestion of poison in The Two Mrs. Carrolls,...
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1947
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1947
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This Warner Bros. programmer stars Dane Clark as Prohibition-era columnist Don Corwin and Janis Paige as speakeasy singer...
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1946
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Fannie Hurst's novel Humoresque is the lachrymose tale of a famed Jewish-American violinist who forgets all about his friends...
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1946
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A few corny moments aside, Objective Burma must rate as one of the best combat films of WW2. Errol Flynn stars as Captain...
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1945
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Such was the prevailing mood among filmgoers in 1943 that God Is My Co-Pilot was allowed to show a spiritual shaft of light...
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1945
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Vicki Baum, the author of the novel Grand Hotel, also wrote this similarly structured tale about a group of disparate...
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1945
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1945
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Though Jack Benny made a cottage industry out of joking about the purported rottenness of his 1945 vehicle Horn Blows at...
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1945
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John Garfield stars as Al Schmid, a true-life marine who served in World War II. Schmid becomes a hero at Guadalcanal,...
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1945
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From a novel of the same name by "Elizabeth", the film begins in 1914, with Bette Davis cast as vain, flighty society woman...
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1944
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Janie, adapted from the Broadway play by Josephine Bentham and Herschel Williams, was one of a 1940s cycle of stage-to-film...
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1944
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Humphrey Bogart plays Harry Morgan, owner-operator of charter boat in wartime Martinique. Morgan's right-hand man is Eddie...
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1944
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Though filmed while WW2 was still very much in progress, The Very Thought of You has the lighthearted ambience of a postwar...
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1944
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More a romantic melodrama than the uplifting propaganda piece the producers perhaps envisioned, In Our Time stars Ida Lupino...
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1944
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The Norwegian resistance to the Nazi occupation of their country inspired several wartime films from Hollywood, including...
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1943
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1943
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Though its purely propagandastic aspects are never far from surface, Destination Tokyo must rank as one of the most...
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1943
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On December 6, 1941, a squadron of nine B-17 bombers takes off for Hickam Field, HI. The crew of the Mary Ann, including two...
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1943
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Like the John Steinbeck novel on which it is based, Tortilla Flat is not so much a movie as a series of warm-hearted...
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1942
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1942
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This MGM musical lifts the premise of Pride and Prejudice and plunks it down into the early 1900s. S.Z. Sakall is a...
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1942
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This wartime weeper could just as well have been titled Stardom for Margaret, inasmuch as it solidified the popularity of...
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1942
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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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1942
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Better known as Reunion in France, this women's-magazine-style romantic melodrama was the first major production for director...
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1942
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1941
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Having tried to wrest Shirley Temple away from 20th Century-Fox for nearly seven years, MGM was finally able to put the...
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1941
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Three different Universal pictures made between 1922 and 1941 bore the catchall title Don't Get Personal. The 1941 film stars...
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1941
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1941
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Spencer Tracy and Ingrid Bergman headline this screen version of Robert Louis Stevenson's tale, directed by Gone with the...
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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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An expert cast of farceurs goes through its customary paces in MGM's The Feminine Touch. Don Ameche plays college...
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1941
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Wealthy, sheltered Joan Fontaine is swept off her feet by charming ne'er-do-well Cary Grant. Though warned that Grant is...
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1941
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The marvelous rapport between stars Clark Gable and Lana Turner makes MGM's Honky Tonk seem far more substatianal than it...
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1941
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1940
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Based on a novel by Ethel Vance, Escape stars Robert Taylor as a young American, the son of a widowed European woman (Alla...
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1940
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MGM had a tendency to overglamorize the sort of rough-hewn film fare that Warner Bros. offered to its public without...
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1940
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Winfield Sheehan, former head of Fox studios, owned the only Austrian Lippizan horses in the U.S. In 1940, MGM bought the...
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1940
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1940
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We open on Philadelphia socialite C.K. Dexter Haven (Cary Grant) as he's being tossed out of his palatial home by his wife,...
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1940
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"Strange" is right: this mystical MGM melodrama has to be the oddest of the studio's Clark Gable-Joan Crawford vehicles. When...
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1940
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Clark Gable is "Big John" and Spencer Tracy is "Square John"; both "Johns" seek their fortunes in the Texas oil fields. They...
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1940
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Directed in 1940 by S. Sylva Simon, Sporting Blood stars Robert Young as racing stable owner Myles Vanders. Shortly after...
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1940
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Mickey Rooney may have been born to play Mark Twain's legendary hellraiser Huck Finn, but 1939's The Adventures of...
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1939
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George Burns and Gracie Allen made their last screen appearance together in the 1939 MGM musical Honolulu; indeed, it would...
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1939
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1939
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An heiress gets a crash course in the simple life when she marries a penniless man in this comedy. Calvin Jordan (Henry...
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1939
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Comedy, romance, and song hit the ice in this musical. Larry Hall (James Stewart) is a professional ice skater whose act with...
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1939
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It's "Never the Twain Shall Meet" time again in the MGM romantic melodrama Lady of the Tropics. The lady in question is...
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1939
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A distinct letdown from their previous MGM films, the Marx Bros.' At the Circus nonetheless contains intermittent moments of...
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1939
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Test Pilot is one of those irresistible MGM potboilers of the 1930s that coast along on sheer star power. Clark Gable plays a...
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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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1938
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A comparatively little-known entry in the "screwball comedy" genre, David O. Selznick's The Young in Heart goes for quiet...
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1938
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James Whale directed this screen adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's French classic Fanny. Madelon (Maureen O'Hara) is a lovely...
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1938
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1938
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Based upon the book The Four Marys, by Fanny Heaslip Lea, Man-Proof involves members of the smart and sophisticated set of...
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1938
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Based on a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades represented one of the few successful screenwriting efforts of...
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1938
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1938
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A golddigger finds that romance doesn't always equal finance in this comedy. Crystal Wetherby (Jean Harlow) is an American...
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1937
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Baroness Orczy, author of The Scarlet Pimpernel, came up with the story upon which The Emperor's Candlesticks was based. As...
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1937
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1937
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A boy learns life-changing lessons about the importance of friendship and the dignity of labor in this adventure saga based...
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1937
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1937
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Despite its title, things get pretty noisy in MGM's Absolute Quiet. Lionel Atwill heads the cast as reclusive financier G. A....
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1936
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Love Before Breakfast was the scintillating title Universal chose over Spinster Dinner, the Faith Baldwin novel upon which...
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1936
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In this melodrama the captain of a decrepit boat must get it to port but finds that racketeers are trying to prevent him...
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1936
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1936
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Aspiring actress Cicely Tyler (Margaret Sullavan) puts her career on hold when she marries ambitious newsman Christopher...
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1936
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1936
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Though its title and cast suggests a lighthearted romantic comedy, Trouble for Two is actually a fairly faithful adaptation...
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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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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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Falsely convicted Lionel Barrymore escapes from Devil's Island with fellow prisoner H.B. Walthall. A brilliant scientist,...
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1936
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Susan (ZaSu Pitts) is a plain-Jane wallflower who spends a day at Coney Island. Here she catches the eye of equally shy (and...
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1935
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A diverse group of ship passengers end up marooned on an isolated South Pacific island. Unfortunately, the contents of the...
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1935
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This greatest of all Frankenstein movies begins during a raging thunderstorm. Warm and cozy inside their palatial villa, Lord...
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1935
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Screenwriter Preston Sturges never lets the facts get in the way of a good story in this colorful filmed biography of...
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1935
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Released abroad as The Slump is Over, this backstage comedy pokes gentle fun at the Depression-era French bourgeoisie....
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1934
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1934
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In this British romance, a German duke falls passionately in love with the owner of a beautiful singing voice, even though...
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1933
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1933
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1932
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1932
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1932
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Marlene Dietrich became an immediate international star on the strength of her performance as the temptress Lola Frohlich in...
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1930
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1930
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This mediocre drama laid on the pathos in an attempt to draw in the sentimental audiences of the early '20s. Amos Tilden...
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1922
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