Devil's Doorway was the first of many top-rank westerns directed by Anthony Mann. RobertTaylor is cast against type as a...
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1950
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1949
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East Indian actor Sabu goes through his usual paces in Columbia's Song of India. Sabu plays Ramdar, prince of a jungle tribe,...
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1949
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Maureen O'Hara plays the daughter of a Sheikh who returns from being educated in London, only to find her father is dead and...
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1949
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After Ray Milland turned down the leading role in Bride of Vengeance, Paramount contractee John Lund stepped into the role of...
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1949
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The relatively relaxed movie censorship in the postwar years enabled Columbia to produce To the Ends of the Earth, a film...
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1948
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A group of archeologists is sent to the American Southwest to investigate a tribe's claims that they are descendants of the...
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Xeoli
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1948
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1948
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Based on the radio show of the same title, a young woman meets a gypsy who reads her fortune and predicts a terrible fate...
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1948
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Unusually lavish for an Eagle-Lion production, The Adventures of Casanova lacks only Technicolor and "star" names. Lensed in...
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1948
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The Bells of San Angelo was the second Republic Roy Rogers western to be filmed in the "new" Trucolor process (actually the...
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1947
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Bob Regan (Edmond O'Brien) -- a small-time attorney from the wrong side of the tracks who nonetheless has a lot of dedication...
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1947
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"Von Clausewitz said that war is the logical extension of diplomacy; Monsieur Verdoux feels that murder is the logical...
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1947
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High Conquest was a good example of the sort of "prestige" fare that lowly Monogram Pictures hoped to turn out on a regular...
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1947
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In this comedy, Paul Muni plays a recently murdered gangster who finds himself roasting in Hell. Muni can't believe that he's...
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1946
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A Scandal in Paris is a liberal adaptation of the life story of Eugène François Vidocq, who was French prefect of police...
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1946
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In this low-budget adventure, a gangster and his spouse are stranded on a lonely tropical island. They soon discover that a...
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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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RKO Radio's first film in the three-color Technicolor process was the standard-issue swashbuckler The Spanish Main. Paul...
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1945
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Masterfully directed by Fritz Lang, Scarlet Street is a bleak film in which an ordinary man succumbs first to vice and then...
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1945
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After several years' dormancy, the "Cisco Kid" western-film series returned to the screen with Monogram's The Cisco Kid...
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1945
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1945
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Nina Foch plays the title role in this rather dull horror melodrama from Columbia Pictures. Investigating his father's murder...
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1944
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Strange Confession was the fourth in Universal's "Inner Sanctum" B-picture series, all of which starred Lon Chaney Jr. Chaney...
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1944
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In this WW II-era drama set in a small town, most of the adults are so busy fighting the war or working in the local defense...
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1944
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On the eve of her wedding to Ramu (Jon Hall), the beautiful Tollea (Maria Montez) is spirited away from her tranquil South...
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1944
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In this episode of the Cisco Kid saga, Cisco and Pancho must prove that they are not kidnappers. They are only protecting a...
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1944
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1944
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1943
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The Song of Bernadette is a reverent recounting of the life of St. Bernadette of Lourdes. As a teen-aged peasant girl growing...
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1943
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1943
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In this wartime comedy drama an ultra-macho but aging Marine sergeant does all he can to keep his men intimidated and towing...
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1943
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With Dorothy Arzner in the director's chair, it's no wonder that First Comes Courage has a more feminist slant than most WWII...
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Dr. Aanrud
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1943
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An innocent man is put on trial, but is he really as innocent as he claims? Diplomat David Talbot (William Powell) and his...
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1942
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The South Seas romance is set on the scenic island of Tahiti where the island chief betroths his son to a woman and then...
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1941
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This is the third film based on a story by Lajos Biro and Jules G. Furthman. The first two were silent films,...
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1940
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An incredibly long but never dull adaptation of the Rachel Field best-seller, All This and Heaven Too was based on a...
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1940
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In the 1580s, the Sea Hawks -- the name given to the bold privateers who prowl the oceans taking ships and treasure on behalf...
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1940
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The notoriously temperamental Miriam Hopkins is ideally cast as equally contentious theatrical prima donna...
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1940
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The Nazi Party's rise to power has disastrous consequences for a German family in this drama. Victor Roth (Frank Morgan) is a...
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1940
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In this espionage drama, a young woman enrolls in the US Army Intelligence Corps so she can avenge her brother's death. She...
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Dr. Krull
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1939
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1939
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Many of the "preparedness" films of the years just prior to World War II sidestepped censorship by depicting past outrages of...
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1939
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In this comedy set during WW I, two crazy vaudevillians try their new act out on their agent. He thinks it is a real dud and...
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1939
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Jack Holt does his usual Jack Holt thing in the Columbia quickie Flight into Nowhere. Holt is cast as airline pilot Jim Horne...
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1938
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Universal ran into censorship problems with this farfetched but well-acted courtroom drama directed by silent screen veteran...
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1938
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1938
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Another of Paramount's efforts to transform Metropolitan Opera diva Gladys Swarthout into a popular movie star, Champagne...
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1937
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In 1882, Mark Twain published a delightful fairy tale "for young people of all ages"; 45 years later, Warner Bros., inspired...
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1937
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Director James Whale, well known for his witty horror films, tackled comedy head-on in this period piece, set in the 18th...
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1937
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"Every time Paul Muni parts his beard and looks through a microscope, we lose a million dollars." Producer Jack Warner's...
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Dr. Charbonnet
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1936
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Two silent film versions preceded this 1936 Hollywood adaptation of the 19th century novel by the writer Ouida Bergere. It is...
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1936
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First-time director Lew Ayres performs miracles on a tiny budget in the Civil War drama Hearts in Bondage. The story offers a...
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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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1936
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A bell ringer's wife dies while giving birth to his second son who turns out to be deaf. His oldest son moves to America...
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1936
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In its first few years of existence, Republic Pictures evinced an eagerness to tackle any sort of offbeat subject. The...
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1936
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Greta Garbo enjoyed one of her greatest triumphs in this glossy adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' oft-filmed romantic tragedy....
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1936
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It is a tale known well, filmed many times over the years, but never better than this early black and white version from the...
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1935
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It is easy to imagine Theda Bara playing the lead in this Fox Biblical epic, especially since its credited director is J....
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1921
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The story of vagabond poet Francois Villon was made into a play in 1901 by Justin Huntly McCarthy and in 1927 as a musical,...
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1920
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By 1917, Theda Bara had become one of the screen's biggest stars, and her fans had long been suggesting that she portray...
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Caesar
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1917
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Mercutio
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1916
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