This drama, written by Ouida Bergere, made the rather unoriginal observation that money did not buy happiness. Larry Grahame...
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1921
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Comedy was not the forte of great character actor Lionel Barrymore, and this picture, based on the novel by Arnold Bennett,...
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1921
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The early Paramount talkie The Dummy represented a collaboration of sorts between screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz, who...
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Trumbell Meredith
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1929
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In this musical, a naive entertainer is sent to Paris by a Broadway producer who wants her return with a more sophisticate,...
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1929
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In this film, the irresponsible Stella Ames (Clara Bow) spends her college career attending parties rather than studying....
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Gil Gilmore
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1929
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The brilliant (and ultimately tragic) Broadway actress Jeanne Eagels made her second and last talking-picture appearance in...
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Pierre
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1929
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In this moving drama, a young woman is forced to take care of her many brothers and sisters while their wealthy parents live...
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Martin Boyne
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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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This drama is an adaptation of a popular 1927 play and tells the story of a pair of married liberals who are content to...
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Jim Hutton
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1929
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Though he plays an Italian-American character in Ladies Love Brutes, George Bancroft refreshingly avoids the ethnic...
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Dwight Howell
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1930
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Poor but honest district attorney Fredric March, sick of the "one law for rich, one law for poor" imbalance, sentences...
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Dan O'Bannon
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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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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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Gunner McCoy
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1930
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In this drama, a young wife is devastated to discover that her husband has sold their son to a wealthy couple and left her....
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Howard Vanning
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1930
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Tony Cavendish
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1930
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Wiegenlied is the German-language version of the early-talkie weepie Sarah and Son. The plot remains substantially the same,...
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1930
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Laughter is a sophisticated romantic comedy belying the "fact" that most early talkies were stiff and dull. Nancy Carroll...
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Paul Lockridge
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1930
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Jerry Stafford
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1931
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In this crime drama, a Prague DA must close down a house of prostitution masquerading as a cafe. He sends the owner's...
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Rudek Berkem
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1931
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This first sound version of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic morality tale starred Fredric March as the kindly, philanthropic...
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Dr. Henry Jekyll/Mr. Hyde
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1931
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In all three of her 1931-32 movie vehicles, Tallulah Bankhead played variations of that familiar soap opera standby, the...
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Dick Grady
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1931
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Jeremy Wayne
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1932
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Director Cecil B. DeMille returned to Paramount Pictures for this typically epic production, which became his first box...
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Marcus Superbus
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1932
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If only Merrily We Go To Hell was as interesting as its title! To escape an arranged marriage, heiress Joan Prentice...
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Jerry Corbett
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1932
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Joan Blondell, borrowed for the occasion from Warner Bros., earned top-billing in this delightful Hollywood parable, but the...
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1932
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Disparate twin brothers, a phony will, and a beautiful woman provide the main ingredients for this romantic comedy. The...
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Buddy Drake
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1932
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Sabien Pastal
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1933
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Design for Living was based on the stage comedy by Noel Coward, though little of his dialogue actually made it to the screen....
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Tom Chambers
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1933
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Jeremiah Young
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1933
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We Live Again was based on Tolstoy's Resurrection; the title was changed upon producer Sam Goldwyn's theory that it meant the...
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Prince Dmitri Nekhlyudov
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1934
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1932 through 1934 saw the production of "Hollywood on Parade" shorts by Paramount Studios, featuring nearly every big star...
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1934
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In this adaptation of Alberto Casella's stage play, Death assumes human form in order to discover why men fear him. Posing as...
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Prince Sirki
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1934
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The Affairs of Cellini is based on Edwin Justus Mayer's popular stage play The Firebrand, which in turn was based on the life...
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Benvenuto Cellini
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1934
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In this melodrama, an engineering professor longs to leave his ivory tower so he can be involved in a special project taking...
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Don Ellis
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1934
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Based on a successful stage drama, this historical romance stars Norma Shearer as Elizabeth Barrett, an invalid largely...
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Robert Browning
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1934
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In this drama, two carneys, a card-sharp, and a peep-show performer, find themselves booted out of the show and decide to...
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Mace Townsley
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1934
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Alan Trent
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1935
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Jean Valjean
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1935
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This second filmization of Leo Tolstoy's novel is widely regarded as the best version. Greta Garbo plays the title character,...
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Count Vronsky
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1935
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Lt. Michel Denet
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1936
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When David O. Selznick produced the film version of the 1000-plus page novel Gone with the Wind, he declared he could not...
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Anthony Adverse
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1936
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Earl of Bothwell
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1936
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"This is New York, Skyscraper Champion of the World...Where the Slickers and Know-It-Alls peddle gold bricks to each...
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Wally Cook
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1937
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Norman Maine
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1937
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Heiress Virginia Bruce tries to prove her worth by taking a job as a shopgirl in the store owned by her family. The pampered...
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Bill Spencer
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1938
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Sam Wye
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1938
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Jean Lafitte
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1938
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Commentary
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1939
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Originally designed for exhibition at the 1939 World's Fair, Land of Liberty is a 137-minute compendium of filmclips from...
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1939
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The 66-minute documentary Lights Out in Europe offers a compact overview of WWII and the events leading up to the conflict....
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1940
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Rachel Crothers' thoughtful stage play Susan and God was tastefully adapted for the screen by Anita Loos. Joan Crawford stars...
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Barry Trexel
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1940
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Victory was the first of Joseph Conrad's novels to be adapted to film, way back in 1919. The earliest talkie version,...
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Hendrik Heyst
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1940
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Despite its alluring title, Bedtime Story is an innocent little domestic comedy about a bickering married couple....
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Lucius Drake
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1941
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Author Hartzell Spence's popular biography of his preacher father was the source for One Foot in Heaven. Fredric March stars...
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Rev. William Spence
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1941
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The Nazis are clearly the villains in So Ends Our Night, but since the film was made before America's entry into World War...
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Josef Steiner
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1941
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Wallace Wooley
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1942
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This feature-length documentary was put together by Moscow Central Newsreel. In entertainingly propagandistic fashion, Black...
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1943
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Dismissed by critics as corny and obvious in 1944, this overlong but sincere biopic looks pretty good when seen today,...
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Mark Twain
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1944
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Mike Frame
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1944
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The postwar classic The Best Years of Our Lives, based on a novel in verse by MacKinlay Kantor about the difficult...
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Al Stephenson
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1946
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Marcus Hubbard
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1948
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In this provocative drama, a stern hard-liner judge commits euthanasia to save his terminally ill wife from further...
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Judge Calvin Cooke
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1948
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Christopher Columbus
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1949
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Narrated by Frederic March, this sublimely assembled documentary charts the life and works of Renaissance genius...
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1950
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Comprised of eight unrelated episodes of inconsistent quality, this anthology piece of American propaganda features some of...
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1950
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It was considered a serious coup at Columbia Pictures when producer Stanley Kramer landed the rights to Arthur Miller's...
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Willy Loman
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1951
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Taken from the television variety show of the same name, this collection features a number of episodes from the program. ~...
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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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Karel Cernik
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1953
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Produced as an installment of television's Shower of Stars, Maxwell Anderson's adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic...
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Scrooge
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1954
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Rear Adm. George Tarrant
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1954
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Cameron Hawley's novel of corporate in-fighting and gamesmanship was brought to the screen by producer John Houseman and...
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Loren Phineas Shaw
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1954
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Dan Hilliard
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1955
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This meticulous and unusually long cinemadaptation of Sloan Wilson's best-selling novel The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit...
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Ralph Hopkins
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1956
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Distributed in the U.S. by Joseph Brenner Associates, Island of Allah is a stock-footage salad assembled by Richard Lyford....
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1956
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The short life and quick death of Alexander the Great is recounted in this literate historical epic. Decked out in a blonde...
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Philip of Macedonia
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1956
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Albert Schweitzer is an 80-minute color documentary on the life of the famed doctor/humanitarian. The film is essentially...
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Narrator
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1957
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Scripter Paddy Chayevsky altered his successful stageplay for this routine cinematic version of Middle of the Night,...
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Jerry Kingsley
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1959
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Matthew Harrison Brady
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1960
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This slick hospital soap opera features Ben Gazzara as Dr. David Coleman, a young physician hired into the pathology...
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Dr. Joseph Pearson
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1961
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Albrecht von Gerlach
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1962
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Adapted by Rod Serling from the best-selling novel by Fletcher Knebel and Charles Waldo Bailey II, Seven Days in May was...
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President Jordan Lyman
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1964
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Yes, Paul Newman is a blue-eyed Indian in Hombre, but this apparent ethnic error is carefully justified in the body of the...
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Alexander Favor
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1967
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When Jimmy Price (Jim Brown) wins an upset victory for sheriff, he becomes the first black man ever to hold the job (or any...
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Mayor Jeff Parks
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1970
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John Frankenheimer's screen version of Eugene O'Neill's 1947 Broadway play The Iceman Cometh is set in 1912 at Harry Hope's...
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Harry Pope
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1973
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