Today I Hang has more going for it than most PRC Productions (including no fewer than two directors!), but in the end is laid...
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1942
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Silent film stalwart Neil Hamilton heads the cast of the PRC "special" Federal Fugitives. Hamilton plays secret service...
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1941
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PRC Pictures' final 1941 release was the auto-racing melodrama Blonde Comet. Virginia Vale stars as female race-car champion...
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1941
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A young man is in danger of losing his inheritance in this muddled thriller from the waning Chesterfield Motion Picture...
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1937
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Two of Hollywood's finest juvenile actors, Frank Coghlan Jr. and Dickie Moore, top the cast of The Little Red Schoolhouse....
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1936
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Chesterfield Films, one of the busiest (though not necessarily one of the best) poverty-row operations of the 1930s, was...
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1936
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1936
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In this drama, a manicurist is mistaken for the winner of a large sweepstakes and finds herself pursued by fortune hunters....
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1936
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Ex-cop Russell Hopton, framed for a crime he didn't commit, gets a second chance in life after enduring a train wreck. His...
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1936
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A couple of naïve girls get themselves unwittingly involved in the gambling racket in this Poverty Row production directed by...
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1936
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Ring Around the Moon was based on the once-popular novel by Vera Hobart. The story endeavors to invite comparisons between...
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1936
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A couple of idealistic reporters attempt to unmask an unfair system in this topical melodrama from poverty row company...
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1935
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In this drama an older actress plays her last role. The aging thespian is terribly depressed and ready to kill herself when...
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1935
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A popular title, a mystery death and college hi-jinks are the ingredients in this pleasant little whodunit from lower-rung...
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1935
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Shirley Grey plays The Girl Who Came Back in this Chesterfield Pictures "special". Grey is cast as Gilda, a former gun moll...
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1935
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1935
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Former Miss America Irene Ware stars in the standard Chestefield Pictures social drama False Pretenses. Ware is cast as...
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1935
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Happiness C.O.D was one of the last productions from flagging Chesterfield. Perennial supporting player Maude Eburne assumes...
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1935
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A family loses its collective head going from rags to riches in this low-budget comedy from also-ran studio Chesterfield....
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1935
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Two popular film genres were combined by low-budget Chestefield Films in 1934, and the result was Murder on the Campus....
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1934
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1934
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1934
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This long-forgotten Hollywood picture concerns a conniving family so disgusted by the patriarch's incessant pipe-smoking...
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1933
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1933
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Didn't the beautiful, ubiquitous Sally Blane ever take a day off in 1932? In Escapade, the busy Blane is cast as Kay Whitney,...
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1932
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Before he moved to MGM, director Richard Thorpe virtually lived at the tiny production firm of Chesterfield-Invincible....
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1932
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In this crime thriller, a suicidal writer is saved by a helpful newspaper editor who gives her a much-needed job. Later she...
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1932
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Virtually none of the male characters in The Thrill of Youth could pass muster as a role model. As an old man preaches...
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Producer
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1932
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In this romance, a man runs a beautiful woman over with his car and falls in love with her. She loves him too, but...
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1932
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In this romantic crime drama, a railroad telegraph dispatcher loses his job after a train crash. He tries to convince his...
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1931
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As was often the case in the films of Chesterfield Studios, the title The Lady From Nowhere has little relevance to the film...
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1931
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Nancy Welford, a minor musical-comedy lead of the early 1930s, plays the title role in this Chesterfield Studios quickie....
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1930
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For a "Poverty Row" production, Ladies in Love is pretty and is in fact no worse than most of the early talkies being ground...
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1930
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One of Hollywood's few genuine cowgirls, Eileen Sedgwick starred in this minor Western melodrama from poverty row company...
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1926
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