This musical chronicles the history of jazz music and features many of the most popular musical acts from the early 1940s,...
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Mr. Porter
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1942
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This second entry in MGM's "Whistling" series is more elaborate than the first (Whistling in the Dark) and equally as funny....
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Sheriff Claude Stagg
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1942
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By 1941, Wallace Beery was pretty much confined to playing two characters: The reprobate with the heart of gold, or the...
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Russell
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1941
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Texas was Columbia Pictures' lighthearted (and frankly more enjoyable) follow-up to its 1940 big-budget western Arizona....
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Windy Miller
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1941
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This account of Thomas Alva Edison's boyhood depict him as a brilliant but rambunctious teenager (Mickey Rooney), often...
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Samuel Edison
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1940
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Angry natives or a beautiful widow -- which poses the greater threat? Keith Brandon (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) is an...
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1940
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Little Men, Louisa May Alcott's followup to her successful novel Little Women, has never truly adapted well to the screen,...
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Maj. Burdie
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1940
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Cecil B. De Mille directed this lavish all-star spectacular paying tribute to America's neighbors to the North. In 1885, as...
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1940
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When the Daltons Rode is the much-embellished tale of that celebrated outlaw family, the Daltons. Broderick Crawford,...
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Caleb Winters
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1940
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Although there were Westerns before it, Stagecoach quickly became a template for all movie Westerns to come. Director...
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Sheriff Curly Wilcox
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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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Otis Ferguson has said of Each Dawn I Die that "the story is of the kind you would have to see to disbelieve." And to be...
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Warden John Armstrong
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1939
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Unlike many another pre-WW II spy melodramas, Espionage Agent clearly identifies the villains as Germans. Joel McCrea plays...
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Dudley Garrett
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1939
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In the 1830s, despite the development of the steamboat at the outset of the 19th century, all trans-Atlantic travel was still...
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1939
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Set during World War I, Submarine Patrol stars Preston S. Foster as a naval officer demoted for dereliction of duty. He is...
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Capt. Leeds
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1938
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Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan (James Cagney) and Jerry Connelly (Pat O'Brien) grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky...
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Mac Keefer
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1938
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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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Tim Mathews
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1937
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A Doctor's Diary is told through the eyes of Dr. Dan Norris (John Trent), resident physician in a private hospital. In his...
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Dr. Clem Driscoll
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1937
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In this gangster movie, a criminal king-pin and his gang hide out in his hometown where they witness a religious revival...
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William Waldo
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1937
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When a car crash ends the life of a fabulously wealthy patron of the arts, the decedent's $20,000,000 fortune is inherited by...
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MacWade
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1936
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Hell-Ship Morgan (George Bancroft) is the brawny skipper of a small fishing schooner. Supplying fish for a San Francisco...
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Morgan
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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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"Stagg"
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1936
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Harold Lloyd plays Ezekial Cobb, a missionary's son who has spent his entire life in China. Cobb is sent to his father's home...
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1934
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Elmer and Elsie was adapted from To the Ladies, a play by George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly. Former movie tough guy...
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Elmer Beebe
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1934
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German actress Dorothea Wieck, who achieved international fame in Maedchen in Uniform, was given a brief shot at Hollywood...
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1934
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Paramount Pictures' annual college musical of 1934 is a pip, as they used to say. Jack Oakie plays Finnegan, a conceited...
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1934
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Lee Tracy is a middle-aged, middle-class man dissatisfied with his life. If he'd only married the girl he wanted to and had...
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1933
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Reported to have cost a whopping $2 million, this musical was actually made for far less -- and looks it. But unlike She Done...
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1933
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1933
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A couple of down-and-out British aristocrats buy an American roadhouse in this uproarious farce from Paramount. Naming the...
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1933
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Roland Brown's Blood Money (1933) has lost none of its ability to entertain and startle over the seven decades since its...
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Bill Bailey
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1933
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Cecil B. DeMille's This Day and Age was perhaps the most Draconian entry in Hollywood's early-1930s "vigilante" film cycle....
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1933
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Slim Summerville and Zasu Pitts star as Mark and Connie, a pair deceptively innocent-looking con artists. Connie has made a...
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1933
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1933
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In this western, a US marshal goes undercover to bust up a bunch of rustlers. The history behind the film is as interesting...
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1933
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This western is an adaptation of a Zane Grey novel and chronicles the exploits of a simple-minded cowpoke who proves his...
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1933
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One of four films directed by Stephen Roberts in 1932, just four years before the filmmaker passed away prematurely, Lady and...
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Slag Bailey
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1932
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The Russian Revolution provides the backdrop for Paramount's The World and the Flesh. Marked for death by the Bolsheviks, a...
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Kylenko
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1932
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Ramsury
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1931
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Charles Dickens' novel Dombey and Son is set in 1931 America in this interesting drama that centers on an egotistical,...
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Brock Trumbull
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1931
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Mark Flint (George Bancroft) is the editor of the titular scandal sheet, possessing all of the gall and none of the ethics of...
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Mark Flint
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1931
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1931
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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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Guest Star
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1930
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The life of merchant seamen is realistically portrayed in this adventure.
The story centers around two sailors who find...
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Bill Rafferty
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1930
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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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Joe Forziati
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1930
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In this melodrama set during WW I, a gangster joins the army and is promoted to major. He then returns from war torn Europe...
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Blake Greeson
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1929
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The disastrous 1929 Stock Market crash was still several months in the future when Wolf of Wall Street made its screen debut....
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Jim Bradford
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1929
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Thunderbolt Jim Lang
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1929
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Two-Gun Nolan
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1928
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The smokily erotic ambience of Josef Von Sternberg's silent Docks of New York is best appreciated on a big theatrical...
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Bill Roberts
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1928
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Often misrepresented as an entry in Paramount's Zane Grey series, Showdown is actually based on a novel by Houston Branch. In...
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Cardan
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1928
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1927
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1927
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Played by William H. Tooker, railroad superintendent Old Man Sweeney is but a peripheral character in this film, despite its...
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Cannonball Casey
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1927
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Underworld opens with a series of title cards setting its mood, telling of "a great city in the dead of night...streets...
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"Bull" Weed
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1927
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Confined to two basic sets and six characters, White Gold may well be the most claustrophobic western ever made. This sense...
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Sam Randall
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1927
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Based on a novel by Francis Brett Young, Sea Horses stars Florence Vidor as Helen Salvia, who is deserted early on by her...
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Cochran
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1926
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In one of her first Paramount vehicles, Clara Bow stars as Cynthia Meade, a movie actress on location in the hills of...
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Lesher Skidmore
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1926
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Long derided by film historians as a talented but visually unimaginative director, James Cruze made up for any and all past...
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Gunner
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1926
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Like most Westerns of the era, this Jack Holt vehicle from Paramount includes automobiles and even airplanes. But Holt went...
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Ira Todd
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1926
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Jake Willets
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1925
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1925
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1925
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Having tackled a wagon train in the immensely popular The Covered Wagon (1922), James Cruze directed this would-be epic...
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Jack Slade
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1925
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A prospector (Tom Mix), falsely accused of murdering a deputy (Lucien Littlefield), comes across a wounded dog (Duke) who has...
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1924
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Filmed on magnificent locations at Cedar City, Utah and Zion Canyon, this lavishly mounted Tom Mix Western was based on The...
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Tex Wilson
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1924
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Vitagraph may have erroneously claimed that this comedy-drama was "the greatest picture of the year," but it did have a...
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1922
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This rough melodrama about a family of Kentucky moonshiners was directed, surprisingly, by the staid, British Charles J....
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1922
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Director/producer Hugo Ballin made this drama without the use of subtitles. The story is based on a tale written by Sister...
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The Ironworker
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1921
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