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1979
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Clint Eastwood's first comedy feature proved to be one of his most profitable vehicles. Eastwood plays Philo Beddoe, a...
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1978
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Jeff Griffin (Peter Falk) is dying of cancer. Sarah Phoenix (Jill Clayburgh) is suffering from terminal leukemia. Ignored or...
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1976
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Grandpa Walton (Will Geer) never passes up an opporutnity to regale the kids with memories of his adventures during the...
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1976
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Ben Gazzara stars in this low-level depiction of legendary gangster Al Capone, who rose to command the mob underworld in...
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1975
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This fast-paced Disney endeavor stars Kim Richards and Ike Eisenmann as two adolescents with acute psychic powers. The kids...
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1975
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There's definitely something in the air when a pungent perfume bottle smashes in the back seat of Adam-12. Despite the...
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1974
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In this counter-culture melodrama, a youthful hitcher teams up with an aging vagabond on a lonely Southwestern road. The two...
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1972
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In this western, a train robber is framed by a fellow gang member and sent to prison. The gang member betrayed him so that...
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1971
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Chaddock (Barry Sullivan) is the straight-shooting marshall of Gloryhole, Montana. Wealthy rancher Rep Marlowe...
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1968
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Bonanza's final eighth-season offering, "The Greedy Ones" first aired on May 14, 1967. Rumors are flying that old prospector...
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Gus Schultz
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1967
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With the series' premise (a wheelchair-bound detective) already established in a two-hour TV pilot film, Ironside launches...
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1967
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Luther Heggs (Don Knotts) is a typesetter at a newspaper who longs for a chance to be a reporter. Editor Beckett...
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1966
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Jim Walker Rory Calhoun is a hero who fights Indians and crooks who plan a series of stagecoach robberies in this routine...
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1966
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A spotted horse follows Oliver home. Oliver tells Lisa that a spotted horse has followed him home. Lisa looks for herself,...
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1966
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This first episode of a two-part story serves to introduce Mike Minor in the role of handsome cropduster Steve Elliott....
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1966
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This is the first of numerous westerns produced by A.C. Lyles which became famous not for their stories but for who played in...
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1964
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Though he's most famous for his portrayal of Victor Laszlo in 1942's Casablanca, actor Paul Henreid took a few turns behind...
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1964
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Jack Carson stars as Harvey Hunnicutt, a fast-talking used car salesman to whom The Truth is a total stranger. Hunnicutt's...
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Old Man
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1961
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After several years' absence from the screen, the vivacious Betty Hutton made a somewhat tepid comeback in Spring Reunion....
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1957
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Broadway musical star and celebrated concert singer Barbara Cook makes a rare TV appearance in this chilling episode. Bored...
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1957
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In this western, the trouble begins when a ruthless outlaw impersonates a mine owner. When the sheriff begins to suspect...
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1957
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Criminal Arnold Woodman (Herburt Vigran) and his two confederates planet 20,000 dollars in stolen money on Inspector...
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1956
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1955
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) respond to a call from the LAPD's San Fernando Valley division. Several new...
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1955
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In this comedy sequel to Wonderful Town (a popular Broadway musical), Kim, a museum worker from Providence, Rhode Island,...
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1955
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Future TV western star Chuck Connors appears in this classic episode as a gangly hillbilly who happens to be named Sylvester...
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1955
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Like its predecessor Duffy of San Quentin, The Steel Cage is made up of episodes from a never-telecast TV series based on the...
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1954
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Rails into Laramie is one of the more obscure Universal-International western programmers of the 1950s, but this is no...
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1954
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For The High and the Mighty, director William Wellman made a point of using Cinemascope to heighten the dramatic content of a...
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1954
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George Reeves plays a triple role in this episode, as reporter Clark Kent, Kent's alter ego Superman, and a lookalike...
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1953
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During World War II, a Military Air Transport Command DC-3 piloted by a civilian crew is forced down in northern Labrador....
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1953
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1952
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1952
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Despite its ebullient title and the presence of lightweight dancing star Dan Dailey, Meet Me at the Fair has a lot more meat...
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1952
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Hans Christian Andersen was Sam Goldwyn's final production for RKO Radio release, and also the producer's last Danny Kaye...
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1952
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In this musical comedy, a rambunctious small-town girl inadvertently joins the Army and decides to make the best of it....
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1952
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1952
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Joan Crawford is appropriately cast as the title character in This Woman is Dangerous. Crawford plays master criminal Beth...
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1952
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One man's good luck leaves a very bad impression in this comedy. Johnny Dalton (Frank Sinatra) and Mildred Goodhug (Jane...
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1951
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Though Frank Capra wrote the original story treatment for MGM's Westward the Women, he was too busy to direct the film, and...
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1951
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Clark Gable is the largely nonheroic hero of the sprawling western Across the Wide Missouri. A cunning trapper who lives...
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1951
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1950
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The Next Voice You Hear was a pet project of MGM producer Dore Schary, who lavished more attention on this modestly budgeted...
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1950
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Singer-bandleader Vaughn ("Racing with the Moon") Monroe made a tentative stab at movie stardom in 1950. Singing Guns casts...
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1950
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Best known to posterity as the third wife of Cary Grant, Betsy Drake enjoyed a substantial film career during the postwar...
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1950
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1950
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Owen Johnson's novel The Lawrenceville School Stories (compiled from short stories originally published in...
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1950
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Having previously played Billy the Kid, Audie Murphy assumes the role of Jesse James in Kansas Raiders. The plot finds Jesse...
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1950
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1949
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Though Humphrey Bogart is the official star of Knock on Any Door, the film is essentially a showcase for Columbia's newest...
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1949
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Bob Hope's Technicolor western spoof The Paleface was one of the comedian's biggest box-office hits. Hope plays Painless...
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1948
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This western mystery offers a behind-the-scenes look at movie making. The trouble begins when a cowboy star is mysteriously...
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Billy Wilkes
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1948
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Lightnin' in the Forest is a rare Republic Studios foray into the comedy field, kept alive by the rapport between its stars....
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1948
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Love leads a man to his most evil deeds and forces him to change his ways in this Western. After being handed a dishonorable...
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1948
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In this dark crime drama, the trouble begins when a San Francisco bookie attempts to lead an honest life by marrying a...
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1948
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Casting Frank Sinatra as a Pennsylvania priest is but one of the many miscalculations made by the producers of Miracle of the...
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1948
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Hoping for a success commensurate with his previous Show Business (1945), comedian Eddie Cantor poured a lot of his own money...
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1948
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The Girl From Manhattan is a minor but watchable variation on the old "mortgage-on-the-farm" plot device. The girl of the...
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1948
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John Muller (Paul Henreid), an intelligent, arrogant criminal who has been a medical student and a phony psychoanalyst,...
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1948
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In Dead Reckoning, Rip Murdock (Humphrey Bogart) recites the film's plotline to a priest in the confessional. Murdock and...
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Louis Ord
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1947
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In the RKO swashbuckler Sinbad the Sailor, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. nostalgically emulates his famous father. The first seven...
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1947
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Nightmare Alley is the sordid tale of a conniving young man who, in the words of one of the film's supporting characters,...
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1947
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James Thurber wasn't too happy with the Sam Goldwyn film adaptation of his 1939 short story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,...
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1947
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In this melodrama, a brilliant pianist is struck blind in an accident and stops working on his equally brilliant concerto. A...
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1947
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1947
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Road to Rio was the first of three "Road" pictures jointly produced by stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. On the run from the...
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1947
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1947
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A post-WWII romantic comedy that explores the effects of the war on American marriage, this film stars Fred MacMurray and...
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1947
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In this western, a marshal goes undercover to stop a brutal gang of crooks from continuing to terrorize local ranchers....
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1947
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Saddle Pals hits a new low for Gene Autry's postwar Republic westerns, containing literally no action at all. Autry is drawn...
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1947
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Jon Hall, Universal's beefcake kid, usually comported himself in South Seas or Arabian nights outfits. In Michigan Kid (based...
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1947
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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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1946
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With the profits of the Abbott & Costello films in decline, Universal decided to experiment with the comedians' standard...
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1946
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1946
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Crooked newspaper columnist Jeff Mann (James Cardwell), who apparently was blackmailing half the criminal gangs in the city,...
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Shrevie
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1946
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The Shadow (Richmond) investigates the murder of an art dealer with his only clue being a stolen jade statuette. ~ Rovi...
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1946
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In this drama, a husband becomes a single parent after his wife dies in childbirth. He is so engrossed in his newspaper...
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1946
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This drama is set within a steamy tropical jungle and chronicles the rivalry between two doctors looking for the cure to a...
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1946
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In this drama, a reporter marries a socialite with a bad ticker. The gold-digging reporter is well aware of her delicate...
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1946
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If Republic's skating star Vera Hruba Ralston could go "dramatic", so too could Monogram's skating star Belita. Produced by...
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1946
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In the tradition of several of the Gene Autry vehicles of the 1930s, Roy Rogers' Helldorado is built around a real-life...
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1946
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Nora Goodrich (Brenda Marshall) is a dedicated research scientist who is very close to a breakthrough in her field of...
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1946
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1945
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1945
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Based on a novel by Barry Fleming, Colonel Effingham's Raid stars Charles Coburn in the title role. Upon retiring from the...
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1945
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Famed WW1 aviator Eddie Rickenbacker once more entered the public's consciousness during WW2 when, while serving as an Air...
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1945
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In this musical, a humble cigarette girl dreams of auditioning for the handsome bandleader at the nightclub. Her many...
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1945
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In their third film together, Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn created one of the box-office sensations of 1945, a...
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1945
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In this suspense story (released as part of Universal's "Inner Sanctum" series, named for the popular radio series of the...
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1945
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The Man From Oklahoma is set during a 20th century renactment of the 19th century Oklahoma land rush, but if patrons wanted...
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1945
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Ned Trumpet (Wallace Beery), the chief pilot of a Navy blimp, is given to weaving accounts of the fighting prowess of his...
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1945
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Deanna Durbin offered her fans a change of pace in this mystery story seasoned with elements of comedy and music. Nikki...
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1945
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Just as Edgar C. Ulmer would at PRC around the same time, young Phil Karlson turned Monogram's almost nonexistent production...
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Short Order Cook
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1945
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This Technicolor musical biopic stars Argentina-born Dick Haymes as Irish-American composer Ernest R. Ball. Climbing to fame...
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1944
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Originally released under the more informal cognomen Goin' to Town, this was the fifth RKO B-picture based on the popular...
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1944
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Charlie Chan's second mystery for Poverty Row company Monogram, The Chinese Cat is one of the inscrutable detective's better...
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1944
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No slouch himself at rearranging the facts to make a good story, Colonel William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody would probably have...
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1944
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MGM's popular Dr. Kildare series spanned 1938-47. Lew Ayres played the title character, but parted in 1942. Though crusty and...
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1944
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Former president Ronald Reagan may have genuinely believed that he was referring to a real-life act of selfless wartime...
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1944
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On the eve of their 50th anniversary, a couple argue about whether or not to reveal a story from the husband's past that...
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1944
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The sparkling screwball comedy And So They Were Married was originally released as Johnny Doesn't Live Here Any More....
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1944
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Previously filmed as a so-so Marx Brothers vehicle in 1938, the John Murray-Alan Boretz Broadway hit Room Service was...
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1944
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1944
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1943
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Newlywed bliss surround O'Driscoll and Beery until they get on board the ship for their honeymoon in South America. Then she...
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1943
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In her seventh outing as irrepressible vaudeville entertainer Maisie Revere, Ann Sothern aided the war effort by working the...
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1943
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In their last starring film, The Ritz Brothers play the Three Funny Bunnies, a trio of nightclub comedians. The plot...
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1943
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In Old Oklahoma is better known today by its reissue title, War of the Wildcats. John Wayne heads the cast as oil man Dan...
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1943
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In most of his movie vehicles, bandleader Kay Kyser played a bandleader named Kay Kyser. In Swing Fever, however, Kyser is...
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1943
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1943
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Deanna Durbin is all grown up in Hers to Hold, the unofficial sequel to her "Three Smart Girls" films of the 1930s. Durbin...
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1943
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1943
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In this wartime espionage drama, Nazis open up a covert operation in the US. Outwardly it is a high-class dress shop, but...
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1943
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Dick Foran and Harriet Hilliard (aka Harriet Nelson) top the cast of the Universal musical quickie Hi, Buddy. Foran plays GI...
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1943
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This rambling historical drama covers 109 years in the life of one woman. Encased in convincing old-age makeup,...
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1942
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Based on the Ben Hecht/Charlie McArthur play Chicago, Roxie Hart is a short-but-sweet satire of highly publicized court...
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1942
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The title neatly gives away the ending in RKO Radio's Scattergood Survives a Murder. Guy Kibbee once again stars as...
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1942
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Brian Aherne stars as a successful murder-mystery novelist; his wife, Loretta Young, wishes Aherne would switch to writing...
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1942
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For the benefit of those who came in late, the John Robert Powers modelling agency was at one time the most famous and...
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1942
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Bob Hope's first starring vehicle for producer Sam Goldwyn borrows the title of Bob's 1942 autobiography They Got Me Covered...
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1942
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1942
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1942
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By Monogram standards, the cast of Isle of Missing Men was Academy Award calibre. John Howard and Gilbert Roland head a group...
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1942
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This final entry in 20th Century-Fox's "Charlie Chan" series is set in a huge mansion, smack-dab in the middle of the Mojave...
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1942
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In this drama, a dedicated forest ranger begins suspecting that a recent series of fires has been caused by arson. He...
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1942
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A solid Jonathan Latimer screenplay is one of the "plusses" of the medium-budget mystery A Night in New Orleans....
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1942
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One of the most often revived of Abbott & Costello's early-1940s films, Pardon My Sarong casts Bud and Lou as Chicago bus...
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1942
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John Wayne stars in this hard-driving oater which was co-written by character actor Paul Fix. Wayne plays Rocklin, a...
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1941
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Hellzapoppin' is the film version of the "anything goes" Broadway hit starring Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson. The original...
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1941
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The studio concocted the film as a showcase for its 9-year-old discovery Joan Carroll, here cast as precocious Bridget...
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1941
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20th Century-Fox's Western Union was loosely based on a story by Zane Grey. The basic historical facts behind the connecting...
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1941
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Wessel Smitter's semicomic novel FOB Detroit was the source material for Reaching for the Sun. Joel McCrea plays a North...
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1941
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In this romance, a wealthy young heiress marries an avaricious foreigner to please her father and then dreams of finding...
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1941
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1941
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1941
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Basil Rathbone is the batty physician of the title, a sophisticated gentleman who woos and weds several of his wealthy women...
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1941
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In this corny comedy, the Weaver Brothers learn that in 1790, their distant forebears loaned the government some cash. The...
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1941
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Jane Darwell is the whole show in the 61-minute 20th Century-Fox programmer Private Nurse. The formidable Ms. Darwell is...
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1941
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The real-life marriage between Dick Powell and Joan Blondell was already on the rocks when they costarred in Model Wife. The...
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1941
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A gangster and his mob buy a small-town in this warm comedy. They, tired of trying to make it as big city hoods, buy the...
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1941
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In this drama two children return from their separate boarding schools to a nasty surprise. The father of one is...
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1941
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Wesley Ruggles's Arizona is an epic western set in an impoverished Arizona outpost. It tells the story of the feisty,...
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1940
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This Technicolor sequel to 1939's Jesse James does without the services of the earlier film's star Tyrone Power, who after...
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1940
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1940
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Beautifully restored to its original theatrical length of 84 minutes by the Gene Autry Foundation, Melody Ranch is a bright,...
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1940
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MGM's third follow-up to its landmark Broadway Melody is short on story, but that's okay, since the plot is merely a...
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1940
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Singing cowboy Gene Autry makes a rare appearance outside his usual Republic Pictures stamping grounds in 20th Century-Fox's...
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1940
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Manhattan Heartbeat is a somewhat toned-down remake of the pre-Production Code melodrama Bad Girl (1931). Newlyweds Johnny...
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1940
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1940
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In this crime drama, a grizzled cabbie is scammed out of his life savings by a fake finance company. He tries to no avail to...
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1939
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Having made a mint with his Bobby Breen films, producer Sol Lesser decide to groom another talented youngster for stardom....
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1939
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Exile Express was the last film produced by Grand National Pictures, and a worthy farewell it was. Anna Sten, former Sam...
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1939
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This second of three movie versions of P.C. Wren's adventure novel Beau Geste is a virtual scene-for-scene remake of the 1927...
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1939
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Sonja Henie, the Norwegian skating star, reportedly played second fiddle to no one at Fox in the late '30s, and this...
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1939
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Based on a classic tale from Rudyard Kipling, this melodrama chronicles the desperate attempt of a painter to finish his...
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1939
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In this patriotic spy adventure, a young gangster joins an enemy espionage agency and agrees to enlist in the Marine Corps...
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1939
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John Ford's fine direction distinguishes this highly fictionalized account of the early life of Abraham Lincoln. The film...
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1939
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Frank Capra's classic comedy-drama established James Stewart as a lead actor in one of his finest (and most archetypal)...
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1939
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As indicated by its title, Thou Shalt Not Kill is a strange blend of religiosity and crime melodrama. Charles Bickford plays...
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1939
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A remake of Racetrack, King of the Turf stars Adolphe Menjou as a seedy, alcoholic bookie with a long-dormant streak of...
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1939
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The Jones family goes to Tinseltown in this entry in the series. They go so Father can attend an American Legion meeting....
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1939
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The real Frank and Jesse James were murderous thugs, light years away from the Robin Hood image imposed on them by...
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1939
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This eighth (and final) entry in 20th Century-Fox's "Mr. Moto" series once again stars Peter Lorre as J. P. Marquand's...
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1938
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James Stewart and Ginger Rogers were "an item" when Vivacious Lady was filmed, and their obvious real-life affection for one...
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1938
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Based upon the book The Four Marys, by Fanny Heaslip Lea, Man-Proof involves members of the smart and sophisticated set of...
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1938
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This third film version of Peter B. Kyne's Valley of the Giants benefits from the breahtaking Technicolor location...
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1938
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1938
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Brash and vigorous director William Wellman always had a place in his filmography for movies glorifying the early years of...
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1938
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The second motion picture version of a Saturday Evening Post story by Dana Burnet, this romantic melodrama was also the...
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1938
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1938
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The slick Universal programmer Secrets of a Nurse was based on a Collier's Magazine story by distinguished journalist Quentin...
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1938
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Nancy, a jilted bride-to-be, is played by Janet Gaynor in one of her last starring films. The three loves are novelist...
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1938
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1938
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Based on a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades represented one of the few successful screenwriting efforts of...
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1938
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Actual footage of the 1936 Berlin Olympics is rabbeted into the action of this superior Charlie Chan entry. Assigned by the...
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1937
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Scheduled to marry a man she doesn't love (and for good reason), spoiled heiress Barbara Blanchard (Claire Trevor) runs away...
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1937
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Nancy Steele was the baby daughter of a munitions tycoon who was kidnapped by an antiwar activist who did it to protest the...
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1937
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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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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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1937
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Mannequin stars Joan Crawford as Jessie Cassidy, a girl of the tenements (though this being an MGM film, her slum dwellings...
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1937
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Jean Harlow offers her final screen performance in this witty and -- in retrospect -- quite moving racetrack comedy-drama...
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1937
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This early feminist tale was a box-office flop that was released after years of script doctoring. Producer Samuel Goldwyn...
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1937
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An airy screwball comedy, Danger--Love at Work explores the lives of a wealthy but wacky family. Ann Sothern plays the...
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1937
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In this WW II era drama, a timid, pacifistic clerk is befriended by a gutsy circus barker while they are in the military....
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1937
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The hyped-up 1930s radio feud between bandleader Ben Bernie and columnist Walter Winchell is all but forgotten today, but...
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1937
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1937
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"This is New York, Skyscraper Champion of the World...Where the Slickers and Know-It-Alls peddle gold bricks to each...
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1937
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It was from this military musical that the US Marine Corps got it's signature anthem, "The Song of the Marines." The story...
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1937
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Small Town Boy was the 33rd release from the burgeoning "B"-picture factory of Grand National Pictures. Stuart Erwin plays...
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1937
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1936
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In this remake of the 1920 Will Rogers comedy Honest Hutch, Wallace Beery stars as the eponymous Hutch, the ne'er-do-well...
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1936
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The fast-paced world of Indy car racing provides the backdrop for this drama. The story centers on a test driver who works...
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1936
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1936
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The 1936 comedy-mystery The Princess Comes Across might well have been inspired by a real-life incident during the...
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1936
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1936
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1936
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Directed by Edwin L. Marin, Sworn Enemy stars Robert Young as "Hank" Sherman, a law student who earns extra cash by working...
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1936
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In this crime comedy, an ocean liner engineer messes up and ends up relegated to shoveling coal. Later he accepts a lovely...
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1936
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In his only visit to Columbia Pictures, Paramount's resident crooner Bing Crosby stars in a sentimental musical drama. In...
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1936
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The well-publicized (and overexploited) birth of Canada's Dionne Quintuplets in 1934 formed the basis of The Country Doctor....
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1936
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Spencer Tracy plays a hard-driving newsman with a special instinct for solving sensational murders before the police can....
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1935
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1935
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A tuneful taxi driver secretly works to achieve his dream of becoming a radio singer in this musical comedy. One day he...
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1935
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In this romantic drama, a horsewoman is forced to work in a society dame's stable. There she meets and falls in love with a...
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1935
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This musical chronicles the rise to stardom of a humble bellhop after he is discovered by a talent agent. Though he becomes a...
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1935
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An innocent but admittedly none-too-bright victim of circumstance, Mary Burns (played by perennial movie victim...
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1935
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In this crime drama, Flicker Hayes (James Cagney) is a safecracker who has just been released following a stretch in prison;...
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1934
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Cited by film historian William K. Everson as one of the fastest-moving crime melodramas of the 1930s (if not the fastest)...
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1934
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1934
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1934
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A satire on radio crooners, Twenty Million Sweethearts stars Dick Powell as a singing waiter--fake handlebar mustache and...
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1934
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Guy Kibbee trots out his small-town blowhard routine in the title role of Big Hearted Herbert. He plays a former plumber who...
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1934
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We first lay eyes on Jimmy Cagney in Lady Killer while he's working as a movie theater usher. This job lasts just long enough...
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1933
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An admirably tough B-picture enlivened by an energetic James Cagney performance, Picture Snatcher stars Cagney as Danny Kean,...
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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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1933
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1933
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Although claiming to be based on actual cases, this mild crime drama appears to have been derived more from a screenwriter's...
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1933
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Often (and accurately) described as a model of the whodunit genre, The Kennel Murder Case stars William Powell, making his...
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1933
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The short comedy The Fatal Glass of Beer stars the legendary W.C. Fields as Mr. Snavely, a prospector who is awaiting the...
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Chester the wastrel son
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1933
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This collection features three short films from the 1930s featuring W.C. Fields, including The Fatal Glass of Beer, The Golf...
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1933
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The last--and to some aficionados, the best--of choreographer Busby Berkeley's three Warner Bros. efforts of 1933, Footlight...
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1933
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Molly Louvain (Ann Dvorak) is a young woman working as a clerk at a hotel. The product of a broken home, abandoned by her...
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1932
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A reluctantly appointed police chief in a crime-riddled city takes his job seriously and works hard to clean the streets of...
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1932
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Eric Linden is a bellhop who has the extreme misfortune of being in the wrong place at the wrong time in gangster era of...
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1932
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1932
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Danny Dolan (Spencer Tracy) is a good-hearted, streetwise waterfront beat cop in New York City who gets promoted to detective...
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1932
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1932
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1932
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Blessed Event is one of several early-1930s films inspired by the meteoric rise to fame of gossip columnist Walter Winchell...
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1932
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The trials of being a doctor's wife are presented in this drama. The story centers upon the problematic marriage of one...
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1931
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1931
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1931
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Still in his "sophisticated cad" period, William Powell essays the title role in Man of the World. Powell plays a smooth...
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1931
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Poor but honest district attorney Fredric March, sick of the "one law for rich, one law for poor" imbalance, sentences...
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1930
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1930
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In this comedy, set during the 1900s, a Florodora girl slowly falls for a gentle millionaire. Songs include: "My Kind Of...
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1930
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Last Dance was loosely based on the real-life story of a newspaper mogul who married a Broadway taxi dancer. For the purposes...
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Sam Wise
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1930
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Rubber-legged comedian Leon Errol made his talkie starring bow in Paramount's Only Saps Work. Based on a play by Owen Davis...
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1930
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Originally filmed under the title The House of Troy, In Gay Madrid was one of four 1930 MGM operettas designed to show off...
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1930
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A Flask of Fields consists of three short subjects starring the inimitable W.C. Fields. All three will be familiar to Fields...
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1930
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Not a remake of the pre-1920 film of the same name, The Kid's Clever was Glenn Tryon's last silent vehicle; he would pursue a...
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Honk
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1929
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Gary Cooper, as a lanky Wyoming ranch and foreman, places his gun on a poker table after being insulted by one of the...
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1929
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1929
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Popular stunt pilot Al Wilson is appropriately cast as the title character in Universal's The Cloud Dodger. Speeding to his...
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1928
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