This made-for-cable documentary traces the filming of the imperishable classic Gone with the Wind, from its inception to its...
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1989
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This 104th and final episode of The Adventures of Superman not only stars George Reeves as the title character, but was...
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Director
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1958
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Directed by series star George Reeves, this wild-and-woolly spoof of old time movie serials begins when a mysterious masked...
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Director
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1958
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In the first of three Adventures of Superman episodes directed by series star George Reeves, reporters Lois (Noel Neill) and...
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Director
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1958
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Still headquartered in the busy ZIV studios, The Adventures of Superman churned out 13 full-color episodes for its sixth and...
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Clark Kent/Superman
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1957
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Superman
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1957
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Disney's Westward Ho, the Wagons is a leisurely paced western which seems more like a collection of anecdotes than a unified...
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James Stephen
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1956
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Having filmed its fourth season within the hallowed walls of the old Chaplin Studios, The Adventures of Superman moved into...
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Clark Kent/Superman
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1956
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Filmed in color, the 13 episodes comprising Season Four of The Adventures of Superman upheld the standard set in Season Five:...
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Clark Kent/Superman
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1955
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Superman/Clark Kent
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1954
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This TV special was designed to encourage youngsters to begin collecting defense savings stamps. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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Superman/Clark Kent
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1954
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Superman/Clark Kent
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1954
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For its third season on the air, the popular action series The Adventures of Superman switched over from black and white to...
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Clark Kent/Superman
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1954
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Filmed nearly two years after production shut down on The Adventures of Superman's first season, the series' second season...
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Clark Kent/Superman
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1953
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The scene is Schofield Army Barracks in Honolulu, in the languid days before the attack on Pearl Harbor, where James Jones'...
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1953
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George Reeves plays a triple role in this episode, as reporter Clark Kent, Kent's alter ego Superman, and a lookalike...
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1953
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After learning that her boyfriend, a GI in Korea, has found someone else, Norah Larkin (Anne Baxter) impulsively agrees to...
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1953
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Sir James Barrie's whimsical play Rosalind was updated and urbanized as the 1953 film Forever Female. Ginger Rogers plays a...
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1953
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The first of several TV series based on the comic-book character "Superman" created by Joe Siegel and Jerome Schuster in...
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Superman/Clark Kent
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1952
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Adventures of Superman, also sometimes known simply as Superman, went into production in 1951, following the shooting and...
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Superman
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1952
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The original title for Rancho Notorious was Chuck-a-Luck, which is also the title of the soundtrack ballad (written by...
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1952
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During the Civil War, Colonel Kern Shafter (played by Ray Milland) and Captain Edward Garnett (played by Hugh Marlowe) become...
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1952
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Superman, the comic-book "Man of Steel" created in 1938 by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, made his feature-film debut in...
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Clark Kent/Superman
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1951
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1950
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Stuart Nagel
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1950
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Future "Superman" George Reeves and former "Dick Tracy" Ralph Byrd co-star in Thunder in the Pines. The stars play a pair of...
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Jeff Collins
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1949
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In The Great Lover, Bob Hope plays "Boy Rangers" scoutmaster Freddie Hunter, who accompanies his young charges on a European...
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1949
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Superman and Dick Tracy star in Jungle Goddess--or rather, the actors who played Superman and Dick Tracy, George Reeves and...
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Mike Patton
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1949
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The legendary Knights of the Round Table came to the screen in 1949 courtesy of penny-pinching serial producer Sam Katzman. A...
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1949
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Quickie producer Sam Katzman gathered together a few leftover costumes, sets and props from past Columbia "A" pictures, and...
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Thomas Nagle
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1949
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1949
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It had been said that the Pine-Thomas production unit never lost money for Paramount Pictures. Even without major star names...
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Paul Devereaux
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1949
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Sam Stoaks
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1948
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"Tarzan with clothes on". That's how one reviewer summed up Sam Katzman's newest film series Jungle Jim, starring ex-Tarzan...
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Bruce Edwards
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1948
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This story of two young hopefuls who come to Hollywood is merely a thin device to feature almost every star working for...
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1947
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1947
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1947
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Moss Hart's hit Broadway play Winged Victory was brought to the screen in 1944, with most of its original cast intact. The...
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1944
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Though released after Hoppy Serves a Writ, the 1943 Hopalong Cassidy entry Border Patrol was filmed first, to capitalize on...
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1943
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Lin Bradley
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1943
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A virtual remake of Rustlers' Valley (1937), this average "Hopalong Cassidy" Western features Jay Kirby as Johnny Travers, a...
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1943
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A superior Hopalong Cassidy Western, The Leather Burners benefits from a good script by Joe Pagano. In trouble with a gang of...
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1943
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Steve Jordan
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1943
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Like several other Harry Sherman Productions of the 1942-43 season, The Kansan was originally slated for a Paramount release,...
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1943
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Lt. John Summers
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1943
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Originally slated for Paramount release, Buckskin Frontier was ultimately distributed by United Artists. Richard Dix stars as...
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1943
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The winning streak of superior Hopalong Cassidy westerns continued with 1943's Colt Comrades. In this one, Hoppy...
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Lin Whitlock
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1943
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This Western is set in the Arizona town and centers on former gunslinger Wyatt Earp who has been recently deputized and is...
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1942
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With The Mad Martindales, the eight-year association between 20th Century-Fox and child star Jane Withers came to an end....
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1942
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1941
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Strawberry Blonde is the second, and by far the most well-regarded, of the three film versions of James Hogan's play One...
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1941
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Wily Honolulu detective Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) is summoned when Miss Nodbury (Ethel Gryffies), an elderly eccentric, is...
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1941
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Adapted from a French movie entitled Un Carnet de Bal, this is a story of love unrequited. In one of her best performances,...
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1941
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1941
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The high batting average of 20th Century-Fox's Michael Shayne detective series remained intact with Blue, White and Perfect....
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Juan Arturo O'Hara
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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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Bob Grayson
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1941
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This 55-minute remake of the 75-minute Warner Bros. crime drama Special Agent retains a surprising amount of the original's...
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1940
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Poor Mr. Trippe, a spineless spouse, finds himself brow-beaten by his overbearing nag of a wife who constantly reminds him...
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Dan Williams
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1940
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This slightly laundered remake of the 1932 courtroom classic The Mouthpiece stars George Brent as brilliant but unprincipled...
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1940
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George Halliday
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1940
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1940
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Calling Philo Vance is a perfunctory remake of 1933's The Kennel Murder Case, which many aficionados consider the best of the...
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1940
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1940
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1940
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Eduardo
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1940
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1940
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Promoted as a follow-up to the popular 1939 western Dodge City (which, indeed, was left wide open for a sequel in its closing...
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1940
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1940
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Stalwart Warner Bros. contract player George Reeves, better known as TV's Superman, was given an early opportunity to "carry"...
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Michael Stevens
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1940
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Father is a Prince is a scaled-down remake of the 1934 comedy-drama Big Hearted Herbert, itself based on a play by Sophie...
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Gary Lee
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1940
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Warner Bros. Tear Gas Squad manages to pack thrills, comedy, romance and songs into a neat 55-minute package. Dennis Morgan...
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Joe McCabe
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1940
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Officially, America had no intention of entering the Second World War in 1940: Why, then, were there so many "preparedness"...
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1940
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Knute Rockne-All American was Pat O'Brien's finest hour: thanks to intensive rehearsals and numerous makeup applications, he...
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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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1939
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In this entry in the long-running series, one of the Kids goes to military school and learns, with the help of his late...
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1939
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Humphrey Bogart makes his first and last appearance in a horror movie in this film. Though the title implies that it is a...
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1939
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1939
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In this drama, the sequel to Four Daughters, the daughters are now adults. Three of the sisters rally together to find a new...
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1939
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Unlike many another pre-WW II spy melodramas, Espionage Agent clearly identifies the villains as Germans. Joel McCrea plays...
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1939
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Ace Secret Service agent Lt. Brass Bancroft is on the case in this crime drama. This time he is assigned to break up a major...
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1939
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