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1992
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Here's a look back at a bunch of the funniest scenes that appeared in the long-running Red Skelton Hour series. ~ Rovi...
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1991
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1988
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This collection of bloopers and outtakes is largely from Warner Bros. films of the 1930s and 1940s. Included are such sights...
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1986
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Rather than a compilation of a series of hilarious bloopers, plus scenes of current stars never-before shown to the public,...
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1983
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In The Man With Bogart's Face, an affectionate send-up of the Bogart detective films of the 1940s, Robert Sacchi plays a man...
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1980
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Mae West (1892-1980) was perhaps the original comic sex goddess of American cinema. Originally a vaudeville performer, she...
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1978
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Loosely based on the Faust legend, Hammersmith is Out stars Richard Burton as the title character, a mental patient confined...
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1972
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One of Terrence Malick's early screenwriting efforts, this loosely-structured road movie finds a questionably sane...
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1972
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Producer and director Otto Preminger reportedly experimented with LSD in the late 60's, which inspired him to make this...
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1968
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Jason Fister (Dustin Hoffman) is the Internal Revenue Service agent sent to Rome to investigate the hidden money of the late...
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1968
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Retired after years of international espionage, Agent 007 is lured back into action to battle the evil spy organization...
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1967
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While traveling through Hong Kong, Bob Mitchell (Robert Cummings) accidentally stumbles into the middle of criminal...
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1967
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In this crime drama, two middle-aged gangsters attempt to run an international smuggling ring and begin looking for new...
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Charles Binaggio
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1966
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In this beach movie, a group of teenagers hang out at the Silver Palms everyday after school. Because things can get quite...
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1964
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Toward the end of Jerry Lewis's Paramount studio period, Lewis slapped together this bitter comedy about Hollywood phoniness...
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1964
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Comedian Jerry Lewis began directing movies in 1960, and this often unkind satire on the nature of American womanhood is one...
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1961
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During a Los Angeles Christmas, a group of 82nd Airborne vets assembles under the leadership of gamblin' man Danny Ocean...
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1960
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A onetime pilot, now a convicted killer in the custody of the FBI, is the only hope of an overseas flight carrying a bomb. ~...
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1959
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The launching pad for Billy Wilder's comedy classic was a rusty old German farce, Fanfares of Love, whose two main characters...
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Spats Columbo
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1959
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Razzle-dazzle showman Michael Todd hocked everything he had to make this spectacular presentation of Jules Verne's 1872 novel...
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1956
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A communist spy plots the abduction of an important American atomic scientist in this espionage drama. To do his evil deed,...
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Joe Victor
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1955
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1954
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It's hardly a coincidence that George Raft made so many films outside the U.S. when he began to have income-tax problems in...
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Mike Canelli
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1954
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MGM romantic Robert Taylor turns nasty in this low-budget crime melodrama. Taylor plays a cop who subsidizes his income with...
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Dan Beaumont
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1954
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1954
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Detective Bruce
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1954
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1953
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Released in the U.S. by Lippert Studios, I'll Get You was filmed in Britain as Escape Route. George Raft stars as Steve...
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Steve Rossi
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1953
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1953
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The Last Page was the original British title for the 1952 murder meller Man Bait. Hollywood's George Brent plays a married...
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1952
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Loan Shark was one of several independently-produced films made by George Raft in the early 1950s. Raft plays Joe Gargan, a...
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Joe Gargen
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1952
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George Raft plays Lucky Nick Cain, a successful American gambler who acts as an advance man for a posh Italian casino....
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Nick Cain
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1951
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Vernon Sewell, a mercurial filmmaker who preferred to lens his pictures on chunks of his own property, was the director of...
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1951
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The Dangerous Profession of the title is the bail-bond business. George Raft stars as Kane, a former cop turned professional...
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Kane
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1949
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Nous Irons a Paris is a gentle but pointed satire of the government-controlled French radio industry. Fired from his singing...
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1949
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A reformed gangster, accustomed to a life of danger, finds himself dealing with a new and different threat in this adventure...
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Johnny Allegro
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1949
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Infused with religious themes, this crime drama is considered a minor example of film noir. Set in Los Angeles, it tells the...
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John Torno
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1949
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While under contract to Warner Bros., George Raft turned down picture after picture as being "unimportant" and thus unworthy...
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Capt. Paul Gerard
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1949
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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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Dan Gannin
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1948
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George Raft once again plays the outcast of society who comes through in the end in Intrigue. Dishonorably discharged from...
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Brad Dunham
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1947
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This episodic holiday film centers around a rich spinster aunt whose greedy nephew is attempting legal action to take her...
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Mario Tori
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1947
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His movie career on a roll since the surprise success of 1946's Johnny Angel, George Raft was starred in the Benedict Bogeaus...
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Eddie Ace
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1946
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In this drama, Mary (Ava Gardner) returns to her small town after she becomes a success in the city. Meeting up with her old...
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Kenny
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1946
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1946
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The moody mystery melodrama Nocturne was produced by longtime Alfred Hitchcock associate Joan Harrison. The film wastes no...
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Lt. Joe Warne
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1946
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Johnny Angel
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1945
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The bland performance of star George Raft is the only drawback of this splashy 20th Century-Fox musical. Set in...
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Tony Angelo
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1945
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Paramount Pictures did their patriotic duty with this World War II era musical, with a number of the studio's biggest stars...
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Tony West, Hoofer
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1944
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This star-studded musical drama was largely financed by Theatre Guild, with all proceeds going to various wartime fundraising...
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1943
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Joe Barton
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1943
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In this musical, which manages to look back with nostalgia upon prohibition and the depression (no small accomplishment),...
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George
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1942
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Manpower was Warner Bros' latest reworking of 1932's Tiger Shark, with power-company linemen substituting for tuna fisherman....
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Johnny Marshall
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1941
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Joe Fabrini
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1940
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Invisible Stripes is a cookie-cutter Warners prison drama which rounds up the usual suspects. George Raft and...
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Cliff Taylor
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1940
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Producer Walter Wanger's House Across the Bay serves as an excellent showcase for Wanger's then-wife Joan Bennett. She is...
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Steve Larwitt
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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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Joe Laurik /Joe Harris
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1939
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The "Lady" of the title is horse-farm owner Penelope Hollis (Ellen Drew), but during the first half of this film, bookie...
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Marty Black
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1939
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Originally designed for exhibition at the 1939 World's Fair, Land of Liberty is a 137-minute compendium of filmclips from...
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1939
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Otis Ferguson has said of Each Dawn I Die that "the story is of the kind you would have to see to disbelieve." And to be...
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Hood Stacey
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1939
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The visual wizardry in this period action picture about Alaskan fishermen won a special honorary Oscar in the years before...
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Tyler Dawson
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1938
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This film is one of acclaimed director Fritz Lang's less noted achievements, a mixture of romance, comedy, drama, and satire....
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Joe Dennis
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1938
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Paramount's answer to Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) also involved mutiny and romance on the high seas. Gary Cooper stars as...
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Powdah
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1937
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Italian immigrant George Raft uses his wits and his fists to rise to prominence in a local political machine. He falls in...
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Enrico Scaffa
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1936
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In this crime comedy, a street-savvy gangster involves himself with a Miami socialite. Together, they conspire to turn her...
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Johnny Lamb
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1936
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Ed Beaumont
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1935
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In this bouncy musical, a sax-playing ex-convict joins a swing band and embarks upon a cross-country tour. He does really...
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Ray Angelo/Ray Ferraro
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1935
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Tops Cardona
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1935
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When he's shipped off to prison on a tax-evasion charge, millionaire Van Dyke (Walter Connolly) breathes a sigh of relief: at...
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Spot Ricardi
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1935
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A follow-up to the highly successful Bolero, this lively romantic drama stars George Raft as Joe Martin, a Cuban-American...
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Joe Martin
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1935
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Manuel Lopez
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1934
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It's "Never the twain shall meet" time again, this time in London's Limehouse district. George Raft stars as Harry Young, a...
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Harry Young
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1934
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Bolero stars George Raft as Raoul de Barre, an arrogant dancer who rises to fame in the years prior to, during, and after WW...
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Raoul DeBaere
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1934
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In this melodrama, an engineering professor longs to leave his ivory tower so he can be involved in a special project taking...
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Honey Rogers
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1934
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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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Harry Glynn
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1933
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Everybody in The Midnight Club is seeing double, and it's all the handiwork of slick London criminal mastermind Colin Grant...
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Nick Mason
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1933
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In this rough-and-tumble action comedy, Chuck Connors (Wallace Beery) and Steve Brodie (George Raft) are friendly rivals on...
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Steve Brodie
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1933
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Confidence woman Martha Hicks (Alison Skipworth), better known to those who know her at all as "the Countess," is a career...
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Jack Houston
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1932
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James Cagney stars as a popular prizefighter who loses his winnings through too much partying and too many women. Cagney's...
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1932
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In this drama, a bandleader thinks that his young friend will be corrupted by his budding relationship with a taxi dancer....
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1932
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A huge box office success and a key film in James Cagney's rise to stardom, this drama stars Cagney as Matt Nolan, a gritty...
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1932
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Night World is an astonishingly compact 57-minute extravaganza, all of which takes place at the upscale (but somewhat...
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1932
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Eddie Jackson
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1932
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In one of his first starring roles, George Raft plays Joe Anton, a tough but basically decent speakeasy owner who falls in...
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Joe Anton
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1932
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In his first starring role, George Raft plays Nick Darrow, a fence convinced by the police to go undercover after his father...
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Nick Darrow
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1932
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James Cagney was originally pegged to play brash Broadway columnist Jimmy Russell in this pleasant if somewhat lightweight...
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1932
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Completed in mid-1930, Scarface, based on Armitage Trail's novel of the same name, might have been the first of the great...
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Guino Rinaldo
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1932
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1931
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Truck driver Spencer Tracy claims he's "too lazy to work and too nervous to steal", but he gets mixed up in racketeering all...
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1931
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Eddie Cantor plays Eddie Simpson, a shy and jumpy young fellow who spontaneously bursts into song whenever he gets nervous....
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Joe the frog
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1931
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A woman trying to live down her past finds it coming back to haunt her in this drama. Steve Pelton (Owen Moore) is the leader...
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1931
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To sophisticated filmgoers of 1929, the designation "queen of the nightclubs" could mean only one person: Colorful Manhattan...
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1929
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See more mistakes and fumblings of the stars. ~ Rovi...
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