Kim Novak is clearly out of her depth as legendary Broadway actress Jeanne Eagels, but one can't fault her for trying very...
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1957
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Carousel was adapted from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway musical of the same name--which, in turn, was based on...
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Starkeeper
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1956
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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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1956
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Valuable paintings owned by a New England woman are discovered forcing her to the center of attention. ~ Rovi...
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1955
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The oft-filmed Zane Grey yarn The Vanishing American is given respectful treatment in this Republic "A" production....
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Blucher
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1955
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World for Ransom is an unofficial extension of the popular 1950s TV series China Smith. Most of the Smith personnel,...
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Alexis Pederas
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1954
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In this fourth of the "Francis" series, former Army officer Peter Stirling (Donald O'Connor) becomes a reporter for a big...
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Tom Henderson
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1953
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Dean Magruder
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1953
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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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The Schlitz Brewing Company sponsored a TV playhouse series in the early '50s. Selected programs from the series appear in...
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1953
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In this comedy, a housewife schemes to make her dreams of feeling the soft touch of mink on her hardworking shoulders a...
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Mr. Heggie
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1953
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Bonzo Goes to College is the one that Ronald Reagan isn't in. The focus, of course, is on brainy chimpanzee Bonzo, who...
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Clarence B. Gateson
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1952
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Capt. Archbold
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1952
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This ultra-low-budget melodrama once more warns us to be on guard against the Red Menace. Kent Taylor stars as an outwardly...
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1952
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The Kefauver Committee's ongoing investigation of organized crime spawned several "Torn from Today's Headlines!" films in the...
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1952
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1952
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Cyril R. Snowden
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1952
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In this inspiring drama, William Thompson (William Lundigan) is a minister from the deep South who has recently married Mary...
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Mr. Brock
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1951
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Mona Freeman plays Bonnie Lee, who is--surprise!--not the Lady from Texas in this well-constructed Universal western. A lowly...
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Judge George Jeffers
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1951
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Garvey
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1951
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Rhubarb is an amusing, if not entirely faithful, adaptation of the H. Allen Smith novel of the same name. When Thaddeus J....
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Thaddeus J. Banner
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1951
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Filmed in color, the 60-minute Hill Number One was an episode of the TV religious anthology Family Theatre. Father Patrick...
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1951
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Nobody sits on the fence so far as The Big Hangover is concerned. Leonard Maltin considers it "predictable, as well as silly...
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1950
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Anxious to remain active in the 1950s, director Frank Capra wanted to prove to Paramount Pictures that he could deliver an...
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1950
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MGM circumvented the censorship that would otherwise have prevented a film version of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary by...
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1949
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The satirical bite of Gogol's play The Government Inspector is dispensed with in favor of traditional Danny Kaye buffoonery...
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The Mayor
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1949
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Infused with religious themes, this crime drama is considered a minor example of film noir. Set in Los Angeles, it tells the...
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Warni Hazard
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1949
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This full-blooded saga of the 19th century whaling industry stars Lionel Barrymore as tough old salt Captain Bering Joy and...
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Andrew Bush
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1949
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In this courtroom drama, a French girl stands trial for murder. Flashbacks tell the grim story of how, during the Great War...
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Arnold Matson
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1948
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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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1948
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Jason (William Holden) is a World War II veteran going to college on the GI Bill in the hope of bettering himself. He has...
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Professor Edward Bell
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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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Judge Parker
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1948
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In this musical set in late 19th-century Boston, a suffragette secretary finds that her political beliefs are standing in the...
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Saxon
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1947
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Lucille Ball offers a seminal version of her Lucy Ricardo TV character in Her Husband's Affairs. Ball is cast as Margaret...
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Peter Winterbottom
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1947
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Edmund Gwenn plays Kris Kringle, a bearded old gent who is the living image of Santa Claus. Serving as a last-minute...
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Judge Henry X. Harper
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1947
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Fifteen-year-old Elizabeth Taylor receives her first screen kiss in the innocuous MGM confection Cynthia. Taylor plays the...
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1947
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Honeymoon stars an attractively grown-up Shirley Temple as Barbara, the sweetheart of a GI corporal named Phil (Guy Madison)....
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Prescott
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1947
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Frank Yerby's Foxes of Harrow was one of those long historical novels so popular in the 1940s. 20th Century-Fox boiled the...
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1947
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1946
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B-movie auteur Edgar G. Ulmer managed to direct a few A-pictures during his long career; he was personally selected by...
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Isaiah Poster
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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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Richet
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1946
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Meet Me on Broadway is a pocket Columbia musical about aspiring performers and a shoestring production (though the dialogue...
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1946
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Jasper
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1945
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Filmed in semi-documentary fashion, House on 92nd Street is a "now it can be told" drama about the smashing of a Nazi spy...
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Charles Ogden Roper
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1945
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This 91-minute Republic "special" stars Michael O'Shea as Matt Braddock, an aggressive Henry Kaiser-like shipbuilder...
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Joel Kennedy
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1944
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Exiled from his own country during WW2, French filmmaker Leonide Moguy worked briefly in Hollywood, where he directed the...
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Danesco
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1944
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It took some doing to persuade the staunchly Catholic Bing Crosby to play a happy-go-lucky priest in Going My Way; luckily he...
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Ted Haines, Sr.
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1944
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The 80-star cast of Forever and a Day would certainly not have been feasible had not most of the actors and production people...
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Screenwriter
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1943
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1943
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More so than most wartime films, Mission to Moscow must be viewed within the context of its times. Requested by President...
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Vyacheslav Molotov
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1943
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1943
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After years of faithful supporting-player service to Warner Bros., Jerome Cowan was rewarded with two starring vehicles, the...
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John M. Rhodes
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1943
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The fact that star Errol Flynn had been recently embroiled in a real-life rape trial only served to increase the box-office...
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Ernst
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1943
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Hangmen Also Die is set in Czechoslovakia during the Nazi occupation. Czech loyalist Brian Donlevy assassinates the vicious...
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Emil Cruka
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1943
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In this crime drama, a news editor writes a scandalous expose about a notorious gangster. The gangster then has the gall to...
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Carl Robelink
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1942
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In this grim melodrama, Barbara Stanwyck plays the eldest of three wealthy sisters who become orphans when their father dies...
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1942
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Director Curtis Bernhardt hadn't wanted to make Juke Girl, but he was under contract to Warner Bros. and had to tow the line...
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Henry Madden
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1942
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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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Preston Thurston
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1941
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The virile Warner Bros. programmer Steel Against the Sky stars Lloyd Nolan and Craig Stevens as steelworkers Rocky and Chuck...
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John Powers
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1941
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The first of director Frank Capra's independent productions (in partnership with Robert Riskin), Meet John Doe begins with...
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1941
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In addition to his supporting-player duties at MGM, Frank Morgan could always be counted upon to star in the studio's...
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Mr. Hellman
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1941
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The famous outlaw rides again in this fictionalized western that chronicles Billy's turn from criminal to fine upstanding...
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Dan Hickey
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1941
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Though history is distorted almost beyond recognition in Warner Bros.' They Died With Their Boots On, audiences in 1941 ate...
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Samuel Bacon
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1941
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Hungarian actress Ilona Massey stars as an operative for the Axis in this slightly tongue-in-cheek wartime melodrama. She...
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Sidney Grenner
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1941
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Dr. Louie Prescott
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1941
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1941
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Appointed resident assistant at the Byng State Hospital by his mentor Dr. Leonard Gillespie (Lionel Barrymore), young Doctor...
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George Winslow
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1940
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Mr. Taggart
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1940
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Sheriff Hartwell
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1940
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As part of his new contract with Warner Bros., Edward G. Robinson agreed to appear in the gangster comedy Brother Orchid on...
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Bauer
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1940
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This upbeat domestic drama chronicles the struggles of a newlywed couple as they try to keep their marital status secret from...
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C.B. Beamis
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1940
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Stephen Douglas
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1940
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Beefcake star Jon Hall shows off his sleek physique in the exotic melodrama South of Pago Pago. The son of an island...
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Lindsay
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1940
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The late cinema historian William K. Everson once wrote an article titled "Movies Out of Thin Air", referring to films that...
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Gillespie
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1939
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In this drama, a vengeful woman searches for the man she blames for her sister's suicide. To get at him, the woman...
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Elias
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1939
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Through a miscarriage of justice, John Ingram (Edward G. Robinson) is convicted of a crime he did not commit and sentenced to...
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William Ramey
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1939
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In this comedy, a Missouri mule breeder faces financial ruin after the market collapses. He takes his best mule to a Kansas...
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Porgie Rowe
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1939
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This fictionalized biography of the famed American inventor's life provided actor Don Ameche with his signature role. For...
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Thomas Sanders
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1939
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Veteran German director William Thiele managed to add a continental flavor to the MGM assembly-line romance Bridal Suite....
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Cornelius McGill
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1939
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A big city lawyer returns to his tiny home town to enter the firm of his late father. His father's partner is happy to have...
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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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A model of precision and economy, the MGM "B" thriller Tell No Tales represented the feature-film directorial debut of former...
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Arne
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1939
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20th Century-Fox's Meet the Girls was the vanguard of an intended series about the misadventures of two trouble-prone chorus...
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Homer Watson
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1938
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The romantic hills and valleys of an advertising agency secretary provide the basis of this comedy drama. Unlike her...
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1938
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1938
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1938
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At one time Universal's "prestige" director, James Whale had slipped off the A-list by the end of the 1930s; even so, his...
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Sen. Corey
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1938
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In this entry in in the children's series, very loosely adapted from Booth Tarkington's popular story, the young Hoosiers get...
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Mr. Schofield
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1938
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When Columbia Pictures secured the movie rights to Chic Young's popular comic strip Blondie, the studio executives probably...
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C.P. Hazlip
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1938
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Contrary to popular belief, the Nelson Eddy-Jeanette MacDonald Technicolor confection Sweethearts is not based on the 1913...
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1938
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Bob Cratchit
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1938
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This Hollywood remake of the French Pepe le Moko adheres so slavishly to its source that it utilizes stock footage from the...
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Regis
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1938
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While not a box-office success, this drama, directed by Leo McCarey, developed a potent reputation among film critics and...
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1937
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In this romantic adventure, a wealthy Arab sheik has a reputation for breeding some of the fastest horses in the world....
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Sam Murdock
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1937
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In this drama, a Boy Scout leader hosts a local gossip show. Trouble ensues when he predicts a politician's murder just...
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1937
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Even the mighty MGM had to keep the home fires burning with B pictures. The studio's Mama Steps Out is a harmless confection...
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Mr. Sims
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1937
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Poor Barry Trent (John Morley) has Too Many Wives in this RKO programmer. Actually, Barry starts out with no wife at all,...
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Her Father
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1937
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Edmund Lowe made his only screen appearance as S. S. Van Dine's dilettante sleuth Philo Vance in The Garden Murder Case. The...
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Lowe Hammie
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1936
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Young married couple Johnny and Trudy Ellis (Johnny Downs and Shirley Deane) are thrilled when their first baby is born. They...
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1936
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Tailor-made for the talents of fast-talking James Dunn, Come Closer, Folks stars Dunn as sidewalk pitchman Jim Keene. Our...
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1936
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Battling Hoofer is the reissue title of the 1936 James Cagney vehicle Something to Sing About. Cagney plays Terry Rooney, a...
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Bennet O. Regan
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1936
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Ross Alexander, whom Warner Bros. was obviously grooming for big-time stardom, is cast as Bill McAllister, the ne'er-do-well...
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John Robinson
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1936
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Joe E. Brown was an ideal choice for the character of Alexander Botts, the brash, arrogant "natural born salesman" created...
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1936
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In this comedy, based on a George M. Cohan play, a hick comes to the city to attend his old buddy's wedding. The rube is such...
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P.H. Bancroft
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1936
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The Gorgeous Hussy purports to be based on the life of Margaret "Peggy" O'Neill, the controversial wife of early 19th-century...
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1936
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Admidst a sea of melodramatic and unbelievable courtroom dramas, Career Woman is distinguished by its comparative realism....
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1936
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In this newspaper farce, an editor loses his voice and his job after he tires of being tormented by the practical jokes of...
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Archduke
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1936
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Horatio Swayne
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1935
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Most of the Fox productions of the 1930s had a "continental" flavor, and Thunder in the Night was no exception. Edmund Lowe...
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Gabor
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1935
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Cracker
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1935
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James Barton plays a salty old sea captain on the verge of retirement, forced to return to the sea when his funds run out....
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Capt. Jeremiah
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1935
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1935
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I've Been Around hinges on an unlikely case of mistaken identity. Society girl Drue Waring (Rochelle Hudson) mistakes...
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Sunny Ames
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1935
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In this emotional but fast-paced comedy, a husband/businessman creates an ingenious cure for his mid-life crisis. He suggest...
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1935
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Producer Joe Schenck reportedly paid seventy-five thousand dollars (an immense sum in those days) for the film rights to the...
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1922
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