Show business is full of ironies. Back in 1961, the NBC western Bonanza was moved from a Saturday to a Sunday slot to avoid...
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Executive Producer
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1965
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Perry Mason may have slipped out of the "Top Thirty" TV series during its seventh season on the air, but CBS decided to renew...
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Executive Producer
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1964
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Although Perry Mason was showing signs of fatigue as the series entered its seventh season, the producers were able to stir...
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Executive Producer
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1963
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As a move to bolster up CBS' sagging Thursday-night schedule, the network's evergreen legal drama Perry Mason was moved from...
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Executive Producer
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1962
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Season Five of Perry Mason marked the series' last stand in its traditional Saturday-night timeslot. Though ratings were...
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Executive Producer
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1961
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Several of the episodes in Perry Mason's fourth season did without the services of costar William Talman (aka luckless...
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Executive Producer
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1960
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By the time Perry Mason rolled into its third season in the fall of 1959, the series was the 10th most popular program in...
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Executive Producer
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1959
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Despite a less than spectacular showing during its first season, the marathon courtroom series Perry Mason quickly built up...
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Executive Producer
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1958
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Here's one for the "Trivial Pursuit" crowd: What was the title of the first episode of Perry Mason, and who was Mason's first...
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Executive Producer
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1957
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Few major directors made "small" films with such frequency and expertise than the ubiquitous Allan Dwan. Set in 1933, Dwan's...
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1948
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The deep unbreakable bond between a wild stallion and the boy he rescues is chronicled in this children's adventure. ~...
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1947
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In this Republic musical, all heck breaks loose when the girlfriend of an aspiring composer becomes a model for the starving...
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Olivia Radford
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1947
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The 87-minute running time of Plainsman and the Lady was evidence aplenty that this was no mere Republic B western....
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1946
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This drama is an updated version of Ulmer's 1944 film Bluebeard. It is set in New York and follows the exploits of an...
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Ella Randolph
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1946
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Director Allan Dwan moved to Republic Pictures in 1946, there to make the same sort of marital farce he'd been specializing...
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1946
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Julia Naughton
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1946
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The little-known Twice Blessed was an MGM vehicle for the Wilde Twins, who were first introduced in...
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Mary Hale
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1945
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Barbara Drew
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1945
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Up in Mabel's Room was one of a mid-1940s series of profitable film revivals of venerable theatrical comedies, all produced...
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Mabel Essington
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1944
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Change of Heart is the reissue title of the Republic musical Hit Parade of 1943. The studio had been turning out these annual...
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Toni Jarrett
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1943
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The luridly titled Women in Bondage was Monogram's "answer" to RKO Radio's wartime melodrama Hitler's Children. The plot...
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Margot Bracken
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1943
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Strange but true: Norma Shearer turned down the title role in Mrs. Miniver to star instead in the insignificant trifle We...
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Linda Wayne
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1942
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Tales of Manhattan is a sumptuous multipart film centered around a formal tailcoat. The coat is specially designed for stage...
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1942
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A public library at night is the setting for this fast-moving crime caper. George Sanders is a gentleman crook specializing...
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Myra Blandy
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1942
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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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Lorraine Bennett
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1941
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William Powell and Myrna Loy re-team for this (literally) crazy screwball comedy about a happily married couple who, thanks...
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Isobel Grayson
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1941
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Leo McCarey was supposed to both produce and direct My Favorite Wife, but an illness forced him to relinquish the director's...
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Bianca
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1940
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Fiercely independent authoress June Cameron (Loretta Young) has no time for men in her life. Chauvinistic medical college...
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Marilyn Thomas
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1940
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Though its title suggests a war picture of some sort, MGM's Gallant Sons actually concerns the efforts of a group of kids to...
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Clare Pendleton
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1940
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In this drama, an ingenious journalist finds himself at odds with his brother the district attorney over his unconventional...
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Agnes Carren
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1939
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Joan Carroll
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1939
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Man of Conquest was the first "super production" from Republic Pictures, a studio not known for its lavish budgets. This...
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Margaret Lea
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1939
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The rise of the popular Nevada city is chronicled in this epic drama that begins when Reno was a tiny silver-mining town and...
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Jessie Gibbs
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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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In this musical comedy, a girl with a lively imagination gets in hot water when she tries to make her tall tales real. Gloria...
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Gwen Taylor
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1938
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We never actually see J. Carroll Naish in Alcatraz, but there's no doubt he's the "king" of the title. Most of the action...
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Dale Borden
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1938
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James Whale's Wives Under Suspicion is remake of Whale's own 1933 production A Kiss Before the Mirror, with a few noticeable...
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Lucy Stowell
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1938
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In this drama, a gangster finds the woman of his dreams, but before he can have her he must frame her fiance. Meanwhile the...
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1938
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Jack Benny had one of his first starring film roles in this breezy comedy with plenty of music. Benny plays Mac Brewster, an...
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Cynthia Wentworth
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1937
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Linda Shaw
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1937
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Edward Arnold once again plays a self-made businessman who inadvertently engineers his own downfall in John Meade's Woman....
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Caroline Haig
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1937
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Two brothers exchange lifestyles in this drama. The older brother, a gambler, wants to lead a clean, crime-free life while...
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Natalie Martin
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1937
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Gail Patrick plays a young woman framed for murder. Luckily the newsman on the courtroom beat is ace photographer Lew Ayres....
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Meg Archer
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1936
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Marcia Stewart
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1936
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It's a black night in Hollywood when matinee idol Neil DuBeck (Rod LaRoque) is murdered at the preview of his latest film....
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Claire Woodward
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1936
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Grace Stanton
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1936
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To finance such major productions as Ramona and Lloyds of London, 20th Century-Fox had to maintain a quota of such minor but...
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Helen Varek
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1936
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Wandering around in the darkness, an amnesiac (Walter Abel) can't shake the feeling that he's murdered someone. When it...
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Irene Lassiter
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1936
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Cornelia Bullock
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1936
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Socialite Pat Reynolds (Ida Lupino) is forced to become the "smart girl" of the title when her wealthy father commits...
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Kay Reynolds
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1935
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MGM regularly churned out films in the 1930s that were all "star power" and very little plot. No More Ladies is a good...
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1935
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Radio baritone Joe Morrison was being groomed for stardom by Paramount when he was top-billed in One Hour Late. Morrison is...
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1935
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Two Fisted is based on the James Gleason-Richard Taber stage play Is Zat So?, previously filmed under its original title in...
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Sue Parker
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1935
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1935
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In this comedy with musical numbers set in the Old South, Bing Crosby plays a singer (talk about a casting stretch!) from...
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Elvira Rumford
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1935
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After a false start in 1932, Paramount's Big Broadcast series was jump-started in late 1935 with The Big Broadcast of 1936....
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1935
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A follow-up to the highly successful Bolero, this lively romantic drama stars George Raft as Joe Martin, a Cuban-American...
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1935
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Ruth Virey
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1935
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This third entry in Columbia's "Inspector Trent" series is cleverly (and economically) set in a movie studio. A malevolent...
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1934
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A story by Earl Derr Biggers, of Charlie Chan fame, was the springboard for the Monogram melodrama Take the Stand. An...
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1934
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The Earl Carroll Vanities, a popular Broadway revue of the 1930s and '40s, is the setting for this murder mystery...
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1934
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Nancy Wellington
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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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Rhoda
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1934
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In this romantic drama, an ex-con conceals her criminal past and starts a new life with a kindly cab driver. Together, the...
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1933
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Mary Foster
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1933
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1933
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Insanely jealous of his wife, wealthy zoologist Lionel Atwill uses his knowledge of animals to dispose of any would-be...
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Jerry Evans
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1933
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1933
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In 1932, Kent Taylor and Gail Patrick were mere Paramount bit players. Within a year, both were playing leads in such...
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1933
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This brisk Monogram melodrama includes all the requisite entertainment elements: Talented cast, solid story, a plenitude of...
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Laura Hamilton
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1933
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Previously filmed in 1923, Zane Grey's To the Last Man manages to pack plenty of A-level production values into what was...
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1933
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1932
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