Two star-crossed losers are looking for diversion but find love instead in this romantic drama. Fran Walker...
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1970
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Taken from the 1907 comedy play by Georges Feydeau, A Flea In Her Ear is a comedic sex romp about a wife suspicious of her...
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1968
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In this elegant "caper" film, Audrey Hepburn stars as the daughter of a wealthy Parisian (Hugh Griffith), whose hobby is...
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1966
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This family comedy stars James Stewart as Dr. Robert Leaf, a college professor who dislikes science and tries to instill in...
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1965
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1963
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This uneven farce by director Richard Quine has its hilarious and witty moments as American diplomat William Gridley...
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1962
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Spencer Tracy plays an American priest tending to the natives of a South Sea island. A plane carrying three convicts -- Harry...
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1961
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Hijinks and spyjinks lighten this effective comedy by Richard Murphy, based -- very loosely -- on an actual incident in World...
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1961
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In danger of losing his job, TV-producer David Wayne hopes to cook up a real ratings winner by building a network special...
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1959
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The highly variable Tab Hunter delivers his best film performance in the grim western Gunman's Walk. Hunter plays Ed Hackett,...
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1958
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1957
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When Emily Rocco (Judy Holliday) waddles into view at the beginning of Full of Life, her appearance marked a cinematic...
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1956
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The Solid Gold Cadillac was adapted from the George S. Kaufman-Howard Teichmann Broadway hit of the same. Both the play and...
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1956
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One of the biggest box-office attractions of the 1950s, Picnic was adapted by Daniel Taradash from the Pulitzer Prize-winning...
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1955
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1955
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My Sister Eileen is a Technicolor, musicalized remake of the 1942 comedy of the same name. It is not, however, the film...
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1955
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After several years of domestic squabbles, the marriage of Nina and Robert Tracy (Judy Holliday, Jack Lemmon) goes "phffft"!...
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1954
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Gladys Glover (Judy Holliday) is an unsuccessful model and actress who believes that a jolt of publicity will do her career a...
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1954
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This colorful musical comedy was obviously inspired by the success of Broadway's South Pacific. Army Captain Bill Willoby...
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1953
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Not up to the classic 1935 presentation, this is still an excellent adaptation of Victor Hugo's epic novel. The familiar...
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1952
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The original Broadway musical Call Me Mister was a plotless revue. By the time the property made it to the screen, however, a...
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1951
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In this romance, an industrial designer is bitterly disappointed when he discovers that upon graduation his daughter decides...
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1951
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Gary Cooper stars in this broad naval farce, directed by Henry Hathaway and based upon a John W. Hazard New Yorker magazine...
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1951
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1950
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A rare comedy from director John Ford, this story about a WWII soldier trying to gain some respect is based on the published...
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1950
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1950
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First came 20th Century-Fox's Mother Was a Freshman; then, a few months later, the same studio's Father Was a Fullback....
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1949
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In this western the two sons of the commanding officer of an outpost attempt to clear their father's name after he is...
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1948
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This musical romance is set during the Great Depression and centers upon the rocky marriage between a flapper script girl...
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1948
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A semi-fantasy with sociological overtones, The Luck of the Irish stars Tyrone Power as an American journalist named Stephen...
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1948
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That Wonderful Urge is the second remake of Love is News (37), and is much closer to the original than the first remake (the...
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1948
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1947
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Like its TV-sitcom counterpart of the 1960s, the original film version of The Ghost and Mrs. Muir was based on the novel by...
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1947
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Based in part on a true story, Kiss of Death is given a veneer of reality by being filmed on location in New York, per the...
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1947
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There's only one magnum of French champagne left in all of San Francisco, and both Navy lieutenant Briggs (Ray Milland) and...
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1946
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This grade-A example of "film noir" stars Mark Stevens as Brad Galt, an embittered ex-convict who returns to the private...
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1946
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In this high-spirited musical comedy, J. Newport Bates (Eddie Bracken) is a millionaire who finds women are only interested...
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1945
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In this melodrama, a doctor returns to his home town to set out his shingle. He was born on the poor side of town and so has...
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1944
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Mitchell Leisen utilizes his stylistic pizzazz to enliven this romantic comedy that proves the old adage "opposites attract"...
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1943
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Let's Face It is adapted from the Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was based on the old Norma Mitchell/...
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1943
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No relation to the 1950 Frank Capra film of the same name, the 1943 Technicolor musical Riding High is a by-the-numbers...
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1943
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Take a Letter, Darling is from the "boss lady" school of 1940s comedies. Fred MacMurray is Darling (that's his last name), an...
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1942
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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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In providing the "synopsis" for Are Husbands Necessary?, one best-selling film source says merely "And what about this film?"...
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1942
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Long underappreciated by film buffs, The Lady Has Plans is a screwball comedy disguised as an espionage melodrama. The title...
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1942
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1942
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1941
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Cesar Romero plays an outwardly tough prohibition-era gangster who in reality wouldn't hurt a fly. He maintains his "killer"...
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1941
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In this entry in the long-running series, the reformed master jewel thief rushes to help a lovely heiress whose pearl...
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1940
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Blind Alley, directed by Charles Vidor is a chilling psychological drama in the film-noir tradition reminiscent of the fine...
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1939
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In this action film two Coast Guard pilots fall in love with the same woman. She chooses the more macho of the two, but soon...
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1939
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How could anyone dislike a film with the title Lady and the Mob? Sweet Fay Bainter stars as eccentric dowager Hattie Leonard,...
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1939
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