Prepared for television in 1966, Slaves of the Invisible Monster is the feature-length abridgement of the 1950 Republic...
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1966
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1951
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Roy Rogers enters the atomic age with this sci-fi western directed by serial ace William Witney. Our hero runs a pipeline...
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1951
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Allan "Rocky" Lane plays the title role in the Republic oater Wells Fargo Gunmaster. Lane is sent westward by his employers...
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1951
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The King of the Cowboys and the Queen of the West perform their noublesse oblige in Twilight in the Sierras. Roy Rogers plays...
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1950
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Who is The Phantom Ruler? That's the question posed by the 12-part Republic serial The Invisible Monster. Using four illegal...
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1950
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Singing cowboy Jimmy Wakely stars in Monogram's Silver Trails. It all begins when Jimmy and his comical sidekick Dub...
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1949
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Set virtually in its entirety in an airborne TWA Constellation (evidently the company agreed to the use of its name in...
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1949
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1949
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Columbia's "Crime Doctor" series drew to a close with 1949's Crime Doctor's Diary. A visibly weary but still virile...
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1949
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Ranger of Cherokee Strip stars Republic horse-opera hero Monte Hale. This time, Steve Howard (Hale) comes to the aid of Joe...
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1949
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In this western comedy, a milquetoast gunsmith from the East Coast goes to Arsenic City, Arizona because he has heard that...
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1948
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This adventure is the first live-action Superman serial and was one of the most successful multi-chapter films ever made....
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1948
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One of the better Roy Rogers films of its period, The Gay Ranchero also happens to be one of the more violent Rogers efforts....
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1948
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The spirit of love is back, and she's working in retail in this bubbly romantic musical comedy. Eddie Hatch (Robert Walker)...
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1948
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An honest football player single-handedly takes on a professional gambler and the crooked publisher of a sports magazine to...
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Bernie Dupal
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1948
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Allan Lane goes in search of his dead friend's brother in this fast-paced Western from Republic Pictures. Instead of finding...
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1948
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A woman struggles to reassemble her broken life in this drama that features Susan Hayward in her first starring role. The...
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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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Reed Calhoun
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1947
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One of the better Roy Rogers vehicles of its period, Home in Oklahoma casts Rogers as a crusading frontier newspaper editor....
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Steve McClory
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1947
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That dependable sleuth of pulp fiction fame, Nick Carter, apparently had an equally stalwart son. Chick Carter, Boy Detective...
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1946
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The People's Choice was one of a handful of mid-1940s attempts to launch a series of 16-millimeter "mainstream" feature films...
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1946
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Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) heads south of the border in this so-so series entry. With the help of Mexican police official...
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1946
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Produced by Gower Gulch maverick Robert L. Lippert and filmed in not-so-glorious two-strip Cinecolor near Idyllwild,...
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1946
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Several years after the "Michael Shayne" B-movie series ran its course at 20th Century-Fox, PRC Pictures revived the property...
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Carl Meldrum
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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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1946
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An unusually elaborate film from the bargain-basement PRC studios, Her Sister's Secret is set in New Orleans at Mardi Gras...
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1946
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The title tells all in the Monogram "expose" Black Market Babies. Alcoholic physician Dr. Jordan (Ralph Morgan) joins forces...
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Anthony Marco
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1946
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Joe Hilton (Warren Douglas), long on looks and ambition but short on ethics, takes immediate advantage when his gambler...
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1946
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More expensive-looking than most PRC productions, Crime Inc. is based on a story by former crime reporter Martin Mooney....
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1945
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New chorus member Eadie Allen (Ann Miller) is the only thing that's good or lively or fresh in a run-down burlesque revue run...
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1945
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I Accuse My Parents was one of PRC's entries in the "wartime juvenile delinquent drama" sweepstakes, as exemplified by such...
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Charles Blake
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1945
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Arthur Lake took time off from his Blondie duties at Columbia to star in Republic's The Big Show-Off. Lake plays an obnoxious...
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1945
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The second of two "East Side Kids" entries with horse-racing backgrounds (the first was That Gang of Mine), Mr. Muggs Rides...
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1945
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One of the more remarkable aspects of this "East Side Kids" comedy is that, for the first time, one of the "Kids" is a girl,...
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1945
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Future film producer Ross Hunter heads the cast of Columbia's A Guy, a Gal and a Pal. Hunter is the "guy", serviceman Jimmy...
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Granville Breckenridge
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1945
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Based on the popular comic strip by Dale Messick, this Sam Katzman-produced Columbia serial starred the beautiful and...
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1945
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The East Side Kids have become so benign in Docks of New York that they actually go out of their way to help the cops! It all...
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1945
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1945
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The third installment in Universal's low-budget "Inner Sanctum" mysteries, Dead Man's Eyes promises a great deal more than...
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1944
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Robert Z. Leonard, who must have taken room and board at MGM, was the directorial hand behind this slight domestic drama....
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1944
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Amidst its usual yearly quota of adventure films, Paramount's Pine-Thomas unit turned out a handful of comedies and...
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1944
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It is said that producer Sam Goldwyn had a habit of addressing his new star of the 1940s, Danny Kaye, as "Eddie", confusing...
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1944
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Roy Rogers and Dale Evans weren't yet husband and wife when they co-starred in Song of Nevada, but the rapport and chemistry...
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1944
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Port of 40 Thieves is a so-so suspenser completely dominated by the formidable Stephanie Bachelor. The statuesque,...
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1944
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Affable comic actor Chick Chandler hadn't had a film starring role in years when Seven Doors to Death was produced in 1944,...
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Charles Eaton
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1944
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Silent Partner stars Jon Henry as cocky crime reporter Jeffrey Swales, who comes into possession of notebook which provides...
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1944
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One of the most beloved American films, this captivating wartime adventure of romance and intrigue from director...
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1943
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1943
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Wings for the Eagle is an overbaked but sincere tribute to the wartime defense workers at the Lockheed Aircraft Plant, where...
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1942
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It takes a while for the viewer to catch on, but the 1942 quickie Spy Ship is a remake of the 1934 crime melodrama...
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1942
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James Cagney made his first Technicolor appearance in the morale-boosting aviation flick Captains of the Clouds. Cagney plays...
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1942
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1942
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1942
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Murder in the Big House was a remake of the 1936 Warner Bros. programmer Jailbreak. In his first starring role, Van Johnson...
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"Scoop" Conner
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1942
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This parody of gangster flicks centers on an incarcerated gangster who decides to reform after he is released from Sing...
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1942
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In this screen version of the James Thurber-Elliot Nugent Broadway play of the same name, Henry Fonda stars as bespectacled,...
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1942
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Made in 1942 but released early in 1943, Secret Enemies is a Warner Bros. espionage quickie, putting the studio's...
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1942
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In this grim melodrama, Barbara Stanwyck plays the eldest of three wealthy sisters who become orphans when their father dies...
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1942
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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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1942
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1941
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Also known as The Singing Hills, this Gene Autry western boasts a screenplay cowritten by Jesse Lasky Jr. Gene and his...
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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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In the wake of Abbott & Costello's Buck Privates, every studio in Hollywood began cranking out service comedies. Warner...
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Capt. Austin
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1941
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In this B- romance, an innocent young man endeavors to find his fortune in the Big Apple and ends up finding a dog instead....
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1941
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1941
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William Powell and Myrna Loy re-team for this (literally) crazy screwball comedy about a happily married couple who, thanks...
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1941
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Lieutenant Commander Joe Blake (Fred MacMurray), Lt. Tim Griffin (Regis Toomey), and Lt. Swede Larson (Louis Jean Heydt) are...
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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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For the purposes of this inconsequential 61-minute musical, Paramount Pictures shelled out a great deal of money to film on...
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1940
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Brett Halliday's flippant Irish-American private eye Michael Shayne was first brought to the screen by 20th Century-Fox in...
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1940
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While paging through a scrapbook, Dr. Wyman (Robert Sterling) recalls his college days. Though preferring to stick to his...
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1940
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Gone With the Wind boils down to a story about a spoiled Southern girl's hopeless love for a married man. Producer...
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1939
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Dell Baker
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1939
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How could anyone dislike a film with the title Lady and the Mob? Sweet Fay Bainter stars as eccentric dowager Hattie Leonard,...
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1939
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All Women Have Secrets affords a rare film starring role for James Cagney's talented sister Jeanne Cagney. Set on a college...
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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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This musical presents a romantic and sanitized biography of distinguished American songwriter Stephen Foster. The story...
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1939
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Based upon an idea by Broadway columnist Mark Hellinger, The Roaring Twenties opens during World War I as doughboys Eddie...
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1939
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Undercover Doctor, like the other entries in Paramount's "FBI" series, could lay claim to being "drawn from today's...
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1939
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1939
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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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Pulp-novel detective Nick Carter was created in the 1880s, but most film versions of the character have been updated to...
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1939
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This murder mystery is set behind-the-scenes of a radio station. the trouble begins when a hated cad of a sponsor is found...
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1938
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An excellent cast elevates the quality of this ultra-cheap independent effort. Adrienne Ames stars as Helene, the owner of a...
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Dr. Stallings
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1938
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This harmless Universal musical comedy is worth having as one of the few filmed records of legendary Broadway comedian...
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1938
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M.G.M.'s opulent costume drama Marie Antoinette marked a return to the screen after a two-year absence for reigning Queen of...
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1938
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While the "Tarzan" series was going full blast at MGM, several independent producers managed to secure the screen rights to...
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1938
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Obviously filmed several years before its 1938 release, Meet the Mayor serves as a vehicle for popular Broadway comedian...
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Harry Bayliss
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1938
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Based upon Arthur Kober's play (which was subsequently musicalized onstage as Wish You Were Here, Having Wonderful Time stars...
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1938
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The Westland Case was the opening volley in Universal's "Crime Club" series. The film was based on Headed for a Hearse, a...
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1937
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History is Made at Night has been described as a romantic tragedy, which it indeed is, up to a point. The film begins...
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1937
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In this pastoral drama, a ruthless gang of fugitives, hide from the law on a remote farm. There they find themselves...
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1937
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The "suspense" in the RKO Radio musical comedy Music for Madame lies in whether or not golden-voiced Operatic tenor...
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1937
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1937
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Produced by Sam Goldwyn, this second film version of Olive Higgins Prouty's Stella Dallas is by far the best. The combined...
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1937
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Beware of Ladies is a lightweight attempt at romantic comedy from the Republic studio mills. Donald Cook, who'd just finished...
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Freddie White
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1937
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A doctor (John Beal) who loses faith in his skills renounces his profession and hides himself in a variety of jobs. He takes...
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1937
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In this newspaper farce, an editor loses his voice and his job after he tires of being tormented by the practical jokes of...
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1936
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In this musical comedy, a strong-willed young woman hires a student to impersonate a boorish French count and brings him home...
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1936
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After several appearances as a "good girl," little Jane Withers returns to her patented screen brattiness in Gentle Julia....
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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 melodrama a chorine endeavors to become a star, but it isn't easy. Her wealthy boyfriend wants to marry her until...
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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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Admidst a sea of melodramatic and unbelievable courtroom dramas, Career Woman is distinguished by its comparative realism....
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1936
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1936
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When a car crash ends the life of a fabulously wealthy patron of the arts, the decedent's $20,000,000 fortune is inherited by...
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1936
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1935
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Though it wasn't RKO Radio's final "Hildegarde Withers" mystery, Murder on a Honeymoon represented the final appearance of...
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"Kelsey"/Forrest
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1935
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This tuneful melodrama is set upon a college campus and follows the attempts of a pretty young woman who slyly helps her...
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1935
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This drama about corporate treachery was based on the best-selling novel by Alice Tisdale Hobart. Stephen Chase (Pat O'Brien)...
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1935
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One of Bela Lugosi's least remembered films, this ultra low-budget whodunit with science fiction overtones features the...
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1935
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1935
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Orville Parker
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1935
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In the wake of The Thin Man, every studio in Hollywood scrambled to churn out sophisticated mystery-comedies wherein murders...
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1935
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In this comedy, a con artist gets elected to the chamber of commerce in his home town. He then goes there with three fellow...
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1935
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1934
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Bert Andrews
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1934
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A weak-willed gambler's compulsion destroys his life in this dramatic character study. In the beginning, he is seen working...
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1934
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In director Edwin L. Marin's film Paris Interlude, a beautiful French woman named Julie Bell (Madge Evans) unexpectedly falls...
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1934
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Set in Germany shortly before the collapse of the Weimar Republic, this romantic drama chronicles the travails of an...
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1934
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Radio tenor Lanny Ross made a game but unsuccessful bid for film stardom in Paramount's Melody in Spring. Though Ross, cast...
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Wesley Prebble
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1934
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Warren William delivers a curiously subdued performance as dilettante sleuth Philo Vance in The Dragon Murder Case. The plot...
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1934
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In this tepid melodrama, an aspiring writer and her boyfriend, a professional agitator head off to the Big Apple in search...
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Saracen Jones
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1934
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Just after completing It Happened One Night, director Frank Capra churned out a bread-and-butter picture titled Broadway...
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1934
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Female executive Doris (Genevieve Tobin) is hardly "uncertain" in the business world, but she's not so secure in her home...
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1934
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George O'Brien trades his cowboy garb for a dinner jacket in Fox's Ever Since Eve. Raised by a couple of misogynistic old...
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1934
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1934
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1934
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Lionel Barrymore plays a Marshall Field-like Chicago businessman who emerges from the wreckage of the 1871 fire to build a...
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1933
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In this romantic drama, an ex-con conceals her criminal past and starts a new life with a kindly cab driver. Together, the...
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1933
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Jimmy Dolan (Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.) is a light heavyweight champion, with the world at his feet. Then he gets into a fight...
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1933
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A spoiled rich girl marries a gas station owner in this dated romance starring Joel McCrea, Ginger Rogers, and Marion Nixon....
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1933
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Distantly related to Frederick Lewis Allen's non-fiction book of the same name, Only Yesterday uses fictional characters to...
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1933
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Joan Colby (Ann Harding) is the unmarried older daughter in a once-wealthy family. She's always been the mature, level-headed...
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Dennis
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1933
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Top-billed Bela Lugosi has only a minor role in this routine variant on the Old Dark House scenario, playing a mysterious...
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1933
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In this boxing drama/murder mystery, an aspiring small-town prizefighter ignores the objections of his pacifistic father, a...
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1933
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This well-wrought drama chronicles the rise and fall of a midwestern family dynasty from the mid 1800s through the Great...
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1933
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In this drama, an old sea captain and his feisty daughter are squatting upon the land of another. The trouble begins when...
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Dan Taylor
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1932
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The Match King was inspired by the checkered career of entrepreneur Ivar Krueger. Warren William plays a Krueger-like...
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1932
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In this melodrama, a starving orphan deliberately breaks a store window in hopes that she'll be tossed in jail and get a hot...
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Val
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1932
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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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Joe E. Brown plays a small town fireman who is also the town's star ballplayer--and an itinerant inventor on the side. Brown...
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Stevens
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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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Emma is a turn-of-the-century domestic drama completely dominated by star Marie Dressler. She plays the maid of an upper...
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1932
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1932
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Claudette Colbert plays a dizzy socialite who wants to become an actress. She buys her way into an audition for the part of a...
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Tracy
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1932
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Based on a best-selling novel by Fannie Hurst, Back Street concerns an ill-starred couple, Rae (Irene Dunne) and Walter...
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Kurt Schendler
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1932
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1932
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Henry Greene
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1931
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The protagonists of Thief in the Dark are the members of a travelling spiritualist troupe, criminals all. When one of their...
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1928
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1928
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Long though lost, Four Sons reemerged in the 1960s, proving anew that the silent films of director John Ford were every bit...
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Andres Bernle
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1928
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This second filmization of Paul Armstrong's play Escape is a bleak study of slum life. Virginia Valli plays May Joyce, the...
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Dr. Don Elliott
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1928
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Chicken a la King was based on Mr. Romeo, a play by Harry Wagstaff Gribble. When his brother-in-law Oscar Barrows...
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Buck Taylor
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1928
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