President Richard Nixon's legal counsellor Charles Colson was tried for several criminal charges relating to the Watergate...
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1978
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Director Francesco Rosi returns to his recurring theme of the connections between legal and illegal exercises of power in...
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1973
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A teacher turns away a woman who's being attacked in the middle of the night. After she's found dead, he's treated as an...
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1960
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This video contains an episode of the television show The Johnny Rath Story. ~ Iotis Erlewine, Rovi...
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1956
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A contemptuous and self-serving immigrant, Clementi Sabourin (George Sanders) pulls himself up by his bootstraps by...
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1956
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The fate in the Free World is threatened when three atomic scientists decide to sell their secrets to the Reds. American...
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Steve
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1953
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Set in Mexico, this thriller centers on an author who becomes obsessed with solving a murder that occurred fifteen years...
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1953
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Originally filmed at Republic in 1948, Montana Belle was purchased by producer Howard R. Hughes, who'd loaned the services of...
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Tom Bradfield
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1952
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The Last Page was the original British title for the 1952 murder meller Man Bait. Hollywood's George Brent plays a married...
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John Harman
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1952
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Jeff Donley
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1951
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Long before he became producer/director of The Tonight Show, Fred DeCordova helmed the Universal meller Illegal Entry....
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Dan Collins
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1949
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Red Canyon was one of several medium-budget, Technicolor westerns turned out by Universal-International between 1949 and...
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Mathew Bostel
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1949
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Paul Martin
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1949
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The "kid" is Johnny Barrows (Russ Tamblyn), who runs away from his nasty stepfather and hits the streets of Cleveland....
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Mike Jackson
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1949
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MGM whipped up another musical salad with Luxury Liner, featuring a glittering lineup of contractees including Jane Powell,...
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Capt. Jeremy Bradford
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1948
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Angel on the Amazon gives the viewer a pretty good notion of what Lost Horizon or She might have looked like had they been...
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Jim Warburton
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1948
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Reminiscent of the classic "screwball" comedy-mysteries of the prewar years, Columbia's The Corpse Came C.O.D stars Warner...
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Joe Medford
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1947
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This episodic holiday film centers around a rich spinster aunt whose greedy nephew is attempting legal action to take her...
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Michael Brooks
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1947
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If Eagle-Lion's Out of the Blue looks more like a slick Warner Bros. product at times, it's because the film was peopled by...
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Arthur Earthleigh
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1947
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Slave Girl is the sort of fare that the Universal higher-ups used to dismiss as "tits and sand;" nonetheless, this kind of...
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Matt Claibourne
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1947
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Temptation is an appropriately moody romantic melodrama, providing a golden opportunity for some memorable histrionics by...
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Nigel Armine
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1946
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A woman struggling to rebuild her life becomes the victim of uncharitable rumors in this sudsy drama. After the recent death...
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Maj. Scott Landis
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1946
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The wonderfully suspenseful psychological drama Spiral Staircase is the prototype of the "old dark house, lady in distress"...
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Prof. Warren
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1946
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Elizabeth MacDonald (Claudette Colbert) is a newly married corporate librarian in 1918 Baltimore working for a chemical...
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Larry Hamilton
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1946
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Lucille Ball stars as the wife of a war correspondent, anxiously awaiting her husband's return. Ball is convinced that hubby...
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Bill Williams
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1946
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Officially based on a novel by Margaret Carpenter, Experiment Perilous would seem to be more inspired by MGM's psychological...
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Dr. Huntington Bailey
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1945
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It all begins when popular actress Susan Darrell (Joan Fontaine) returns from a USO tour to marry business exectuive Richard...
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Roger Berton
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1945
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In this Victorian-era adventure, a blue-blooded girl is dismayed to discover that her recently deceased father, a compulsive...
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James Kincaid
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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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Charles Barclay
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1942
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This third film version of the hectic Margaret Mayo-Salisbury Field stage farce Twin Beds officially stars George Brent and...
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Mike Abbott
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1942
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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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Steve "Mitch" Mitchell
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1942
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In This Our Life is not a "for the ages" classic of the Golden Age of Cinema, but as a highly effective and entertaining...
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Craig Fleming
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1942
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The Great Lie is Soap Opera Deluxe from Bette Davis' peak period at Warner Bros. Davis plays a socialite who is madly in love...
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Pete Van Allen
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1941
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In this drama, which blends romance with suspense, Prince Kurt von Rotenberg (George Brent) is attempting to flee his native...
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Prince Kurt von Rotenberg
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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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Tim Hanley
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1941
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Ann Sheridan and her then-husband George Brent did their expected box-office duty in the Warner Bros. comedy Honeymoon for...
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Kenneth Bixby
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1941
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British army pilot Stephen (George Brent) falls in love with jewel-thief Felice (Isa Miranda), tricking her out of some...
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Capt. Stephen Bennett
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1940
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Dan Hardesty
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1940
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This slightly laundered remake of the 1932 courtroom classic The Mouthpiece stars George Brent as brilliant but unprincipled...
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Stephen M. Forbes
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1940
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South of Suez is where diamond-mine foreman John Gamble (George Brent) plies his trade. When his boss is murdered, Gamble is...
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John Gamble/Bradley
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1940
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Officially, America had no intention of entering the Second World War in 1940: Why, then, were there so many "preparedness"...
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Wild Bill Donovan
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1940
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When Zoë Akins' play The Old Maid (based on a novel by Edith Wharton) won the 1934-1935 Pulitzer Prize, the selection was...
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Clem Spender
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1939
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Tom Ransome
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1939
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Filmed on-location at the Naval Air Training Stations in San Diego, CA, and Pensacola, FL, this black-and-white Warner Bros....
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Cass Harrington
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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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Bette Davis earned an Oscar nomination for her role in this classic four-hanky tearjerker. Judith Traherne (Bette Davis) is a...
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Dr. Frederick Steele
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1939
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Kay Francis fights off tears, deprivations and a mediocre script in Warner Bros.' Secrets of an Actress. La Francis plays Fay...
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Dick Orr
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1938
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In this gangster movie set in the Big Apple, a crime lord strong arms teamsters into paying him protection money. One young...
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Denny Jordan
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1938
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Michael Curtiz directs this Technicolor Western based on the familiar story by Clements Ripley about the rivalry between...
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Jared Whitney
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1938
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In 1938, Jezebel was widely regarded as Warner Bros.' "compensation" to Bette Davis for her losing the opportunity to play...
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Buck Cantrell
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1938
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In this depressing drama, even though she is an adult, the eldest daughter of a hillbilly clan headed by a brutal patriarch...
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Paul Cameron
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1937
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Rivalry, romance, and brotherly love in logging camps are chronicled in this drama. The trouble begins when the brother of a...
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Steve Russell
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1937
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With the considerable input of ex-Navy officer Frank Wead (who wrote the script) and technical adviser Cmdr. G. W. D....
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Lt. Cmdr. Matthews
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1937
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An intrepid amputee must pass a test to prove his devotion to his sweetie in this romantic drama. The hero lost his leg...
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Bill Austin
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1937
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Kay Francis, Warner Bros.' resident "wronged woman," was the star of Give Me Your Heart. Francis plays a socialite whose...
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Jim Baker
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1936
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Secretary Carol Baldwin (Jean Arthur) is in love with her boss, health-magazine publisher Fred Gilbert (George Brent). So...
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Fred Gilbert
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1936
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Bette Davis plays a facial cream heiress in this middling comedy, which Warner Bros. filmed partially in Florida. Mistaking...
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Johnny Jones
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1936
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In this comedy, a blocked writer decides he needs a little peace and quiet to spark his creativity so that he can write the...
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Alan Tanner
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1936
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When wealthy Mr. Ames is murdered, his beautiful wife Hope (Madeleine Carroll) is the principal suspect. She is acquitted...
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Matt Logan
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1936
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Colin Trent
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1935
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The agent of the title is George Brent, a journalist sent by the Government to get the goods on a crime syndicate. Brent...
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Bill Bradford
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1935
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In this romance, a social worker employed by Traveler's Aid finally is able to show her love to a construction foreman...
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Mack Hale
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1935
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In this drama, an amateur pilot is driven to living life in the fast lane after he pilots that plane that crashed and killed...
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Terry Parker
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1935
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After suffering a nervous breakdown (at least that's what she calls it), imperious movie star Carol Corliss (Ginger Rogers)...
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Emory Muir
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1935
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In this bedroom farce, an ex-wife overhears her former hubby's new wife and her lover planning a tryst for the weekend while...
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Bob McNear
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1935
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Ellen Garfield (Bette Davis) is a neophyte reporter with ambitions big enough to take on assignments usually reserved for...
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Curt Devlin
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1935
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The real-life career of the notorious female spy known as "Fraulein Doktor" inspired several films of the 1930s. Stamboul...
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Beall
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1934
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Jack Townsend
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1934
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This drama examines the rivalry between a mother and the daughter she is too vain to acknowledge. The mother is a famous...
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Stuart McAllister
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1934
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A pre-stardom Bette Davis struggles mightily as the "other woman" in this rather obvious divorce court drama from Warner...
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William Reynolds
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1934
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The quintessential "backstage" musical, 42nd Street traces the history of a Broadway musical comedy, from casting call to...
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Pat Denning
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1933
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In the tradition of Bureau of Missing Persons, Warner Bros's From Headquarters offers a methodical, semi-documentary look at...
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Lieutenant Stevens
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1933
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Baby Face is a good example of the kind of spitfire lead female characters that appeared in the cinema of pre-code Hollywood....
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Trenholm
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1933
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Ruth Chatterton tears up the screen in this fast-paced, lusty comedy. Alison Drake is an automobile magnate, a hard-nosed,...
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Jim Thorne
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1933
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Romance throws a spanner into the works of a con game in this light drama. Donald Free (William Powell) is a private...
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1933
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This drama offers a few slices from the lives of those who live, work, and travel upon a luxurious trans-atlantic ocean...
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Dr. Thomas Bernhard
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1933
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This weepie, adapted from a play by Philip Dunning and George Abbott, is a vehicle for Ruth Chatterton as the titular Lilly....
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Bob Chandler
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1933
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In this melodrama, the wife of a wealthy man abruptly leaves him and sets sail for Cuba leaving him to hire a gumshoe to find...
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Neil Davis
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1933
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Roelf Pool
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1932
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In this murder mystery, a nurse with an unusual eye for detail solves a puzzling case. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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Inspector Patten
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1932
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Though only 19, Loretta Young was an established Hollywood star in 1932, appearing in six films in that year alone. In They...
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Dr. Tony Travers
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1932
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Barbara Stanwyck, displayed in all her pre-Code glory, once again plays "damaged goods" in Warner Bros.' The Purchase Price....
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Jim Gilson
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1932
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In this comedy, a hard-working husband loses his job and his wife becomes the bread winner. The husband feels demeaned by...
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Peter Acton
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1932
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In this drama, set in 1929 when the stock market crashed, a selfish, money-grubbing wife ruins her husband, an accountant...
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Geoffrey Gault
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1932
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A talented cast does its best with a nonsensical script in The Rich are Always With Us. Ruth Chatterton stars as a witty...
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Julian Tierney
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1932
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Les Haines
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1931
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1931
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In this marital drama, a wife fears that her checkered past will be revealed when she and her husband move to the city to...
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1931
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This western serial features the famous trained German Shepherd Rin-Tin-Tin. Rinty gets involved in an Indian uprising caused...
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Alan Scott
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1931
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In this crime drama, dedicated to the police forces of America, a gangster searches for his estranged son, also a gangster....
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Jimmy
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1931
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1931
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1930
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