Newcomer Kelly Ryan plays Kate, The Outlaw's Daughter, in this medium-scale western. Led astray by outlaw leader Jess...
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Lem
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1954
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Judy Canova is right in her element in the rowdy Republic musical Untamed Heiress. Canova plays Judy, the daughter of a...
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Andrew "Cactus" Clayton
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1954
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Fireman Save My Child started out as an Abbott and Costello picture, but then Lou Costello became ill with rheumatic fever....
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1954
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Produced, directed and cowritten by former child star Wesley Barry, Racing Blood was distributed in the US by 20th...
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Gramps
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1954
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Walking My Baby Back Home is a bubbly musical of no significance whatsoever, but this doesn't diminish its enjoyability...
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1953
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Told in flashback, Affair with a Stranger recounts the deteriorating marriage of playwright Victor Mature and model...
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1953
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1953
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Cripple Creek is an excellent example of Columbia's "A-minus/B-plus" Technicolor westerns of the 1950s. Government agent Bret...
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1952
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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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Gramps Canova
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1952
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Army Capers was the bland British title of the raucous Republic musical The Wac From Walla Walla. Hillbilly songstress...
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1952
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1951
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Fort Defiance stars Dane Clark as Civil War deserter Johnny Tallon. Despite his checkered past, Johnny is idolized by his...
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Uncle Charlie Tallon
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1951
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Producer Val Lewton abandoned the "psychological horror" efforts of his RKO days when he moved to MGM in 1950. Lewton's...
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1950
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1950
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Mac Dougall
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1950
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According to Roy Rogers himself, this action-packed western remained one of his favorites. The manager of a traveling show,...
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1950
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Bargain-budget Screen Guild Productions was in the process of metamorphosing into Lippert Studios when Rimfire was filmed in...
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1949
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1949
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1949
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Based on a James Oliver Curwood story, Kazan was one of those "little" pictures of the late 1940s which gained a lofty...
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Trapper
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1949
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Sam Borden
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1948
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Gramps
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1948
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In this psychological drama, a group of people are stranded in a remote jungle after a plane crash. The disparate reactions...
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Hermit
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1948
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In this western the two sons of the commanding officer of an outpost attempt to clear their father's name after he is...
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1948
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Barry Fitzgerald's distinctive brand of Irish blarney, which was wonderful in small doses, leaned towards the precious and...
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1947
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The Warner Bros. musical My Wild Irish Rose purports to tell the life story of popular 19th century balladeer Chauncey...
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Capt. Brennan
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1947
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Randolph Scott puts in time with Paramount's Pine-Thomas unit in the big-budget western Albuquerque. Scott is cast as Cole...
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1947
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I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now is the heavily laundered musical biopic of sentimental songwriter Joe E. Howard. As played by...
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John McCullem
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1947
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A woman looks back at her childhood in show business in this musical comedy. At the turn of the century, Myrtle McKinley...
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1947
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The Abbott & Costello western spoof The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap is predicated on an actual Montana law of the 19th...
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Judge Benbow
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1947
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In this western, a Native American boy and his horse Wild Beauty make friends with a gentle doctor who helps the boy save...
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1946
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Previously filmed in 1926 and 1934, George Kelly's venerable stage comedy The Show-Off was dusted off as a Red Skelton...
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Pop Fisher
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1946
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This is the one where Lassie plays a war veteran with amnesia. Actually Lassie isn't even Lassie, but a male collie named...
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1946
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The Runaround is a game attempt to return to the "screwball comedy" genre so popular in the 1930s. Rival detectives Kildane...
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1946
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In this espionage drama, a WW II veteran teams up with a government secretary and begins hunting a gang of Nazi agents who...
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Simpson
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1946
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In this comedy, Paul Muni plays a recently murdered gangster who finds himself roasting in Hell. Muni can't believe that he's...
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Albert
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1946
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In this adventure, a young woman travels across Europe in search of her brother who was listed as missing in action during WW...
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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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Uncle Clarence
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1946
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In this tuneful comedy adventure, a free-spirited fellow with a keen eye for easy money is assigned to sail to a remote...
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1945
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Rosalind Russell plays yet another independent career woman in She Wouldn't Say Yes. This time she's a psychiatrist who sees...
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1945
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This lesser "Inner Sanctum" entry stars Lon Chaney Jr. as unhappily married lawyer Wayne Fletcher. In love with his secretary...
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1945
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In this musical, a young woman from a small town heads for New York where she hopes to become a famous singer. She has no...
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1945
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Based on the popular Russian novel The Twelve Chairs, this stars Fred Allen as flea-circus impresario Fred Floogle. Learning...
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1945
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Set in New York's Lower East Side during the Gay '90s, this lively low-budget musical follows the exploits of a feisty and...
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Casey
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1945
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Such was the prevailing mood among filmgoers in 1943 that God Is My Co-Pilot was allowed to show a spiritual shaft of light...
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1945
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This tender but fluffy romantic comedy centers on the romantic travails of a beautiful European princesss who goes to New...
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1945
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1945
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A druggist's pretty assistance ignores the call of the bright lights and audience that runs in the veins of her show biz...
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Ralph Hodges
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1944
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This 91-minute Republic "special" stars Michael O'Shea as Matt Braddock, an aggressive Henry Kaiser-like shipbuilder...
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1944
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In this adventure the young lively daughter of wealthy Virginia parents bridles under the stern tutelage of her new English...
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Wilson, Handyman
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1944
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Originally, producer Harry Sherman's Woman of the Town was slated for Paramount release, but that studio was overloaded with...
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1944
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In this drama, a young couple ignores the advice of their elders and get married. Soon afterward, the young groom is...
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1944
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Allan Dwan directed this light-hearted service comedy starring William Bendix (best known from the television series The...
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Roderick Stuart
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1944
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It's nice to see perennial "other woman" Ann Savage in a leading role, even in so antiseptic a film as Klondike Kate. Savage...
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1944
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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 Yellow Rose of Texas is, at least in the case of this Roy Rogers vehicle, both the title of a song and the name of a...
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Capt. Joe
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1944
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This '40s film (based upon a Jack London story) is set in Alaska's gold rush days and revolves around the dilemma faced by a...
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1944
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In this touching drama, city-slicker Sparke Thorton goes to live on his aunt and uncle's horse farm in the country. The...
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1944
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Robert Paige plays a struggling songwriter who poses as a millionaire cowboy. It's all part of a zany, wacky and nutty scheme...
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1943
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For his first directorial assignment at RKO Radio, Edward Dmytryk was handed the mile-a-minute topical meller Seven Miles...
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Capt. Porter
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1943
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1943
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Though it bears the same title as an earlier Gene Autry western, Roy Rogers' The Man from Music Mountain isn't a remake....
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1943
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For his first independently-produced starring effort, James Cagney chose the sentimental drama Johnny Come Lately. Cagney...
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1943
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This raucous series entry reunites Lupe Velez as Carmelita (aka "The Mexican Spitfire") and Leon Errol as Uncle Matt, with...
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1942
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Though officially based on a Saturday Evening Post story by Clarence Buddington Kelland, RKO Radio's Valley of the Sun was...
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1942
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Produced by silent-film comedian Harold Lloyd, My Favorite Spy is a vehicle for bespectacled bandleader Kay Kyser, who...
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1942
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The fourth of five movie versions of the rugged Rex Beach novel of the same name, 1942's The Spoilers stars Marlene Dietrich,...
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1942
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RKO Radio's Powder Town has the makings of an A picture, but the budget and approach is strictly "B" grade. Adapted by...
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1942
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RKO Radio's Army Surgeon is something of a rarity: A WW2 drama set mostly in WW1. On board a transport ship bound for Europe,...
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1942
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1942
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The plot of the RKO Radio programmer The Falcon Takes Over will be instantly recognizable to anyone who has seen the 1944...
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1942
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In this drama, a wealthy playboy decides to "slum it" for a while to see how regular people live. Trouble ensues when he...
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1942
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In this drama, a truck driver begins wooing a young woman who still lives with her father who constantly brags how he, not...
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Pop Betts
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1942
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Lucille Ball delivers the finest dramatic performance of her career in this satisfying adaptation of Damon Runyon's The Big...
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1942
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1942
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The girl is stenographer Dot Duncan (Lucille Ball); the guy is her boss, stuffy young shipping magnate Stephen Herrick...
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1941
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Nevada City finds Roy Rogers and his perennial sidekick Gabby Hayes cast as stagecoach drivers. Their boss is Joseph Crehan,...
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1941
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Several popular radio personalities converge in the RKO Radio "comedy salad" Look Who's Laughing. Taking a vacation from his...
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1941
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Fred Zinnemann directed this short documentary produced as part of M-G-M's long-running "Crime Does Not Pay" series....
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1941
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This George Cukor romantic comedy casts Greta Garbo as ski instructor Karin Borg Blake. She gives lessons to wealthy American...
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1941
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The much-maligned Playmates callously offers the appalling spectacle of a thoroughly dissolute John Barrymore in his final...
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1941
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Three different Universal pictures made between 1922 and 1941 bore the catchall title Don't Get Personal. The 1941 film stars...
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1941
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Columbia's Two in a Taxi is perfect "Late Late Late Show" fare, just the sort of brisk, breezy film with which one would want...
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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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Fresh from his contract-player duties at Warner Bros., future TV "Superman" George Reeves heads the cast of 20th...
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1941
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1941
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A superior B-Western in every way, this Hopalong Cassidy series entry features an especially compelling performance by former...
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1941
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Not to be confused with his later Home in Wyomin', Gene Autry's Sunset in Wyoming is essentially a musical with western...
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1941
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Every time that sinister Oriental megalomaniac Dr. Fu Manchu is ready to kill, sounds of strange drums can be heard coming...
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1940
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Veteran second-unit director and stunt coordinator Ralph Cedar warmed the director's chair for the 1940 Charles Starrett...
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1940
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This painfully-bad Monogram feature wastes the talents of two of horrordom's finest -- star Boris Karloff and co-writer...
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1940
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Diminutive Frankie Darro was always a lot of fun to watch when given his head in a leading role. In Monogram's Chasing...
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1940
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Hi-Yo Silver is a 69-minute abridgement of the 1938 Republic serial The Lone Ranger. Departing from the continuity...
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1940
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In the late 1930s-early 1940s, Monogram Pictures hoped to create a popular screen team in the form of teenaged thespians...
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Henshaw
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1940
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The Hidden Enemy concerns the efforts of a group of foreign spies to get their mitts on an experimental super-metal developed...
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McGregor
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1940
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1940
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When an evil land grabbers forces settlers out of their homes, the courageous Three Mesquiteers ride up to stop him. Rootin'...
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1940
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Though the peak productivity of Monogram's "rural romance" films was the mid-1930s, the studio continued to put together...
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Matt
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1940
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This adventure is based on Jack London's tale of a Northwestern woman who owns a riverboat who sends her daughter to...
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Grub
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1940
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Blazing Six Shooters is a by-the-numbers Charles Starrett western, with the same sets, supporting actors and plot devices...
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Mark Rawlins
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1940
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Bantam-weight western star Don "Red" Barry, Republic's answer to James Cagney, is perfectly cast in One Man's Law. When plans...
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Judge Wingate
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1940
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Mignight Limited takes place during an eventful nonstop train trip from New York to Montreal. A couple of murders take place,...
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Professor
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1940
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Stunt Pilot is a typically lively entry in Monogram's "Tailspin Tommy" series. Hired to work on an aviation picture, ace...
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1939
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Based on a story by Jack London, this film follows the adventures of young Michael Vance (John Carroll) as he travels with...
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1939
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In this drama, a New York physician takes a much-needed vacation down South. Unfortunately, he encounters a nurse working in...
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1939
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A rancher and the farmer who fences in precious grasslands battle it out in this drama. The fight begins as the rancher's...
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1939
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The cumbersome title refers to the fact that tenement-dwelling teenager Jackie Cooper is studying to become a lawyer....
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1939
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A frequent visitor to contemporary TV cable services, Monogram's Mutiny in the Big House affords stalwart supporting player...
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1939
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Home on the Prairie finds Texas ranger Gene Autry trying to halt an anthrax epidemic. The villains are cattlemen Walter...
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1939
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With Phantom Stage, Universal called it quits on singing cowboy Bob Baker's western series. The plot involves a series of...
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Grizzly
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1939
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Robert Emmett Tansey, production supervisor and head writer on Monogram's Jack Randall Westerns, had the gall this time...
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Porter
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1939
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1938
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In this romance, a girl from the bayou falls in love with an aspiring lawyer who lives on the nicer side of the tracks. It...
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1938
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In his fourth starring Western, Universal's singing cowboy Bob Baker comes to the aid of Molly Taylor (Fay Shannon), an...
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1938
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Most everyone knows that The Lone Ranger, "masked rider of the plains", was in fact a former Texas Ranger named Reid, who...
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1938
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Veteran cinematographer Karl Brown also had several directorial efforts to his credit. Most were on a par with Monogram's...
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Joe
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1938
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Less lurid than its title, Port of Missing Grils was one of several directorial efforts by screenwriter/cinematographer...
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1938
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With the departure of John Wayne to more prestigious films, Robert Livingston returned to the role of Stony Brooke in...
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1938
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1937
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Allegedly based on two factual works, Bouck White's The Book of Daniel Drew and Matthew Josephson's The Robber Barons, RKO's...
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1937
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In this urban drama, a teenage street punk learns a valuable lesson about the dangers of crime. Jackie Cooper is the tough...
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1937
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Girl with Ideas was Universal Pictures' version of MGM's matchless Libeled Lady. Wendy Barrie plays a society girl miffed at...
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1937
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Swing It, Professor stars Pinky Tomlin, the bespectacled crooner who parlayed the song "The Object of My Affections" into a...
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1937
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1937
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In the South Seas, Seaman Duke (John Wayne) boards a whaler, and asks the owner, Capt. Drew (Montague Love) and his daughter...
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1937
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Though not the most versatile of actors, granite-jawed Jack Holt does just fine with a dual role in Columbia's...
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1937
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In this romance, a detective teams up with a count and travels to Budapest in search of an embezzler. While there, the two...
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1937
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In this crime thriller, an old, ailing scientist has been robbed of the burglar alarm he invented by his partner, who owns a...
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1937
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It has been said that Ray Mala was the only Jewish Eskimo actor in Hollywood. Whatever his religious or racial origins, Mala...
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1937
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North of Nome is where the audience is first introduced to jut-jawed seal hunter John Raglan (Jack Holt). When he's not busy...
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1937
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An existing production still for the Kermit Maynard "northern" Phantom Patrol pretty much sums up the outcome of the plot....
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1936
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One of the few non-western releases from Sam Katzman's Victory Productions, Put on the Spot stars Eddie Nugent as G-Man Bob...
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1936
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Stodgily directed by actor Russell Hopton, this low-budget oil-drilling melodrama was one of three action-adventures teaming...
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1936
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In this romantic comedy, two college boys get expelled because they could not pay tuition. They decide to scare up some cash...
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1936
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In this crime drama, a G-man goes on vacation and ends up pursing a crook disguised as an honest lawyer. ~ Sandra Brennan,...
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1936
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In 1936, Universal Pictures created a sensation with Flash Gordon, a 13-part adventure serial based on the popular comic...
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1936
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Caleb
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1936
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Designed as a follow-up to the Halperin Brothers' phenomenally successful White Zombie, Revolt of the Zombies unfortunately...
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Gen. Duval
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1936
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Novelist Ursula Parrott's biggest best-seller was 1928's Ex-Wife; less successful was her subsequent book Brilliant Marriage,...
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1936
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In this comedy, a waitress at a local lunch counter inadvertently foils a bank robbery and finds herself turned into a...
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1935
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Make a Million stars Charles Starrett in one of his last non-western roles, as idealistic college professor Jones. Because of...
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1935
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1935
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Ellery Queen, the scholarly amateur detective created in 1928 by cousins Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee (who also used...
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1935
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In early 1930s, Monogram pictures held a virtual monopoly on the bucolic novels of Gene Stratton Porter. When Monogram...
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1935
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In this rather black comedy, a nervous office worker goes to a local quack for a check up and learns that he has only three...
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1935
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In this high-flying mystery set aboard a cross-country flight to New York, some of the passengers are kidnappers who are...
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1935
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After helping prevent a bank robbery, young drifter John Weston (John Wayne) is assigned by Marshal Higgins (George "Gabby"...
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1934
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In this crime drama, policemen pursue a convicted killer as he diligently searches for the real culprit. ~ Sandra Brennan,...
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1934
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Definitely the most expensive-looking of John Wayne's "Lone Star" westerns, The Star Packer casts "the Duke" as U.S. marshal...
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1934
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Based on Adam Hull Shirk's moth-eaten 1927 play The Ape, this comedy-mystery-thriller is one of those static, ham-fisted...
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1934
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A rather nifty little science fiction-thriller/murder mystery from Poverty Row company Monogram, Mystery Liner was based on a...
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1934
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John Wayne once again goes undercover to catch a wanted outlaw in this average entry in his 1934-1935 Western series for...
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1934
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This comedy tracks the relationship between an ailing railroad president and the dogged reporter who tries to infiltrate his...
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1934
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Sunny Skies was the first of two attempts by Tiffany Studios to make a major talkie star out of Jewish dialect comedian...
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Screenwriter
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1930
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