In this dark drama, a schizophrenic is forced out of his hospital due to overcrowding, and his doctors tell him to avoid...
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1957
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Having inherited a huge cattle ranch from his late father, Will Keough (Fred MacMurray) wants nothing more than to tend to...
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1957
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A tall horseman (Jock Mahoney) rides into the small town of Arborville, deserted except for redheaded Jody (Luana Patten),...
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1957
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A must-see for students of 1950s pop culture, Rock, Pretty Baby was Universal-International's earliest acknowledgement of the...
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1956
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1956
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Dance With Me, Henry was the screen swan song for the comedy team of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. Most of the action takes...
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1956
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The Kettles in the Ozarks was the eighth of Universal's "Ma and Pa Kettle" series--minus "Pa" (actor Percy Kilbride had left...
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1956
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Though both star Donald O'Connor and director Arthur Lubin had said goodbye to the "Francis the Talking Mule" series,...
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1956
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The splendid physique of Tony Curtis is given generous screen exposure in the boxing melodrama The Square Jungle. Curtis...
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1955
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A man with a strangely misshapen face wanders out of the desert near a small town and falls to the ground dead. The county...
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1955
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Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy is the last of the team's vehicles for Universal-International. Stranded in Egypt, Bud and...
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1955
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1954
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Marjorie Main is the whole show in the Universal programmer Ricochet Romance. Playing the outspoken new cook at a rundown...
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1954
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1954
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Lex Barker trades his Tarzan loincloth for buckskins in the Universal western Yellow Mountain. Barker stars as gold...
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1954
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This fifth entry in Universal's "Ma and Pa Kettle" series finds the Kettle family taking a trip to Paris (courtesy of the...
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1953
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This was the last in a string of spoofs that found the comedy duo tangling with various classic Universal Studios monsters....
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1953
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One reviewer of Abbott & Costello's Lost in Alaska summed up the proceeding in three pithy words: "Lost is right." While not...
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1952
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Though filmed through the facilities of Hal Roach Studios and produced by Hal Roach Jr., Tales of Robin Hood was released by...
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1952
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1952
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1951
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1951
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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello play wrestling promoters whose star attraction, Wee Willie Davis, skips town to return to his...
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1950
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1949
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1948
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Filmed almost entirely on location, Walk a Crooked Mile was Columbia Pictures' "answer" to 20th Century-Fox's late-1940s...
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1948
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Photographer Paul Lester (John Ireland) and his wife, Nancy (Jane Randolph), are invited to share an apartment with Paul's...
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1948
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A minor Bulldog Drummond story featuring Conway in his search for a set of lead toy soldiers. The little fighting men were...
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1948
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1948
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When Universal went briefly out of the "B" horror film business in 1946, the studio sold two of its productions to other...
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1948
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In this episode of the Bulldog Drummond series, the amateur detective looks into the case of a murdered sea captain who was...
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1948
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In this comedy, a realtor at the end of his rope is grossly misdiagnosed as having three months to live. The already...
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1947
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In this comedy, a novelist visits a local nightclub to do some research for her upcoming novel. Her husband, away on a...
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1947
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Slave Girl is the sort of fare that the Universal higher-ups used to dismiss as "tits and sand;" nonetheless, this kind of...
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1947
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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 comedy, a puritanical math teacher at a midwestern university is forced by the dean's wife to go to New York to...
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1946
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Disparate twin brothers find themselves involved in romantic mayhem when their respective girl friends get them confused in...
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1946
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Advertised as a typical Universal horror film, The Cat Creeps is more of a crime melodrama, and not a particularly...
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1946
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At 88 minutes, Here Come the Co-Eds is one of the longest of Abbott & Costello's Universal starring vehicles, and though not...
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1945
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Abbott and Costello's The Naughty Nineties offers a million laughs and a nickel's worth of plot. Most of the film takes place...
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1945
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This Universal "monster rally", an immediate sequel to House of Frankenstein, would seem to have been deliberately designed...
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1945
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Johnny Hart (Rod Cameron) is on the run from the law after killing one of the men who shot his partner. He passes through a...
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1945
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In another of her series of romantic desert adventures, popular actress Maria Montez is this time Naila, the newly crowned...
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1945
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In many ways the most endearing of Universal's B-grade "monster rallies" of the 1940s, House of Frankenstein manages within...
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1944
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1944
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In this swashbuckler, a princess is raised by gypsies and becomes their queen. The trouble really begins when a count is...
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1944
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Set in a brooding old home, this musical mystery chronicles the endeavors of a young couple attempt to solve a mysterious...
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1944
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On the eve of her wedding to Ramu (Jon Hall), the beautiful Tollea (Maria Montez) is spirited away from her tranquil South...
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1944
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Though it is not based on any Conan Doyle story, The Scarlet Claw is regarded by Baker Street aficionados as the best of...
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1944
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Son of Dracula represents a felicitious creative collaboration between director Robert Siodmak and his screenwriter-brother...
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1943
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Newlywed bliss surround O'Driscoll and Beery until they get on board the ship for their honeymoon in South America. Then she...
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1943
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A mad scientist turns a gorilla into a beautiful young woman in this well-made Universal potboiler, the first of three films...
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1943
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Another of Universal's "pocket" musicals, Rhythm of the Islands is set in the South Seas, presumably far away from the...
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1943
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Drama students rebel in this musical set in a tiny drama school. The trouble begins when the students begin complaining to...
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1943
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It Comes Up Love was typical of teenaged songstress Gloria Jean's Universal vehicles: good songs and a strong cast squandered...
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1943
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The general perception of the Technicolor costume adventure movies that Maria Montez and Jon Hall made for Universal in the...
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1943
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Get Going is typical of the 60-minute musical comdies being churned out by Universal in the 1940s. A topical twist is added...
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1943
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Some unexpected casting choices distinguish this so-so Universal actioner. Richard Dix stars as police chief Richard Barry,...
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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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A talented cast hacks its way through a so-so script and miles of stock footage in Universal's Drums of the Congo. In the...
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1942
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The fifth film in Universal's "Frankenstein" series goes for the box-office gold by combining two--count 'em, two!--of the...
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1942
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The Andrews Sisters headline this musical. They play the lead act at a popular nightclub. The trouble begins when they hire a...
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1942
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You cannot keep a good mummy down forever and Kharis is back in this sequel to The Mummy's Hand, which itself was something...
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1942
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This remake of the 1934 WW I melodrama Madame Spy has been updated to the WW II era. Once again accepting a role unworthy of...
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1942
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Top Sergeant was the third of four inexpensive Universal action films top-billing Leo Carrillo, Andy Devine and Don Terry....
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1942
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To say that Behind the Eight Ball is the best of the Ritz Brothers' quartet of Universal vehicles is faint praise indeed, but...
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1942
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This espionage drama, a remake of the 1935 original, set in WW II, follows the exploits of an Englishman who kills his...
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1942
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By popular consensus, Allan Jones' best Universal mini-musical of the 1940s was the timely When Johnny Comes Marching Home....
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1942
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In this drama, an aspiring prizefighter disobeys his father, an oil baron, by pursuing his fortune in the ring rather than...
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1942
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Marlene Dietrich was supposed to have starred in Universal's Sin Town, but the script was not to her liking. Dietrich was...
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1942
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Though set in 1865, The Son of Monte Cristo is a thinly disguised indictment against 20th century dictatorships. Louis...
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1941
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In this musical drama, a construction worker becomes the guardian of a 12-year old girl after one of his buddies is killed....
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1940
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1939
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1939
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Basil Rathbone's real-life son, John Rodion, has his head chopped off early on in this historical melodrama often mistakenly...
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1939
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Unexpected Father was designed as a showcase for Universal's infant "star" Baby Sandy (Sandy was a girl, but she played a boy...
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1939
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In this patriotic British adventure, two courageous brothers try to keep war from erupting in Africa and stop a...
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1939
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One Hour to Live affords John Litel, usually cast as rock-solid businessmen and incorruptable attorneys, the opportunity to...
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1939
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Bing Crosby plays a tune-happy cab driver who finds himself the reluctant recipient of an abandoned baby. Together with his...
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1939
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James Whale's Wives Under Suspicion is remake of Whale's own 1933 production A Kiss Before the Mirror, with a few noticeable...
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1938
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In this socially conscious drama a sextet of juvenile delinquents flee a crime screen in their seedy ghetto and wind up...
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1938
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Goddbye Broadway is wrapped up by two stage & screen veterans, Alice Brady and Charles Winninger. The stars play...
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1938
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In this frothy comedy-drama, a businesswoman owns a successful service bureau for the filthy rich. Her service does...
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1938
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At one time Universal's "prestige" director, James Whale had slipped off the A-list by the end of the 1930s; even so, his...
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1938
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In this lively musical western, a cowboy's wife heads for Reno for a quickie divorce. Meanwhile her husband finds himself in...
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1938
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1938
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Robert Wilcox stars in Man in Blue as Frankie, a gangster's son. Frankie has been raised since childhood by Officer Martin...
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1937
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An actor creates a devious murder plot in this suspenseful, ironic drama. For many years, the aging thespian has been...
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1937
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Some Blondes are Dangerous is a remake of 1931's The Iron Man, using the same W. R. Burnett novel as its source. Noah Beery...
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1937
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A young woman not only inherits her late father's estate, she also gets control of a carnival on the edge of bankruptcy in...
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1937
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In this musical, the only one singer/dancer Alice Faye, made for Universal, a Broadway producer is in a quandary when he...
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1937
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On the whole, Joe E. Brown's vehicles for independent producer David L. Loew were distinct retrogressions from his films at...
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1937
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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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A handful of German soldiers readjust to civilian life in the bitter wake of World War I in this follow-up to the classic All...
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1937
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In this thriller, an ex-pilot develops a useful new navigating device and decides to test it out. Unfortunately the test-run...
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1937
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It may be sacrilege to say so, but Dracula's Daughter is an immense improvement over the original 1931 Dracula, despite the...
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1936
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A lesser but still effective entry in the mid-1930s "prison" cycle, Parole catalogues the many problems facing prisoners...
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1936
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Universal plunged into the clutches of its creditors with its expensive fiasco Sutter's Gold. Edward Arnold plays Swiss...
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1936
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1936
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In this comedy, Uncle Rodney, the host of a kiddie show, finds himself assuming guardianship of a bratty lad at the behest...
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1936
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A postal inspector finds himself caught in a sticky situation as he tries to pin a rap for mail theft upon the owner of a...
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1936
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Dore Schary, several years removed from his tenure as head of MGM, was screenwriter for the modest Universal actioner...
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1935
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A famous movie actress takes a trip to New York City. While there, she gets involved with a wisecracking cab driver who is...
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1935
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Edmund Lowe stars as big-time gambler King Solomon, so named because of his fairness and sagacity. Naturally, our hero has...
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1935
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In this romantic comedy, a man marries his Russian lover and discovers that she has a large extended family. He is utterly...
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1935
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Charles Dickens' unfinished novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, has been a source of speculation and controversy ever since...
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1935
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1935
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The indomitable May Robson is firmly in the driver's seat of this Runyonesque comedy-drama. While riding through Central...
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1935
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Screenwriter Preston Sturges never lets the facts get in the way of a good story in this colorful filmed biography of...
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1935
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In this off-beat crime drama, a philandering husband murders his wife in the midst of a department store by skewering her...
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1934
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Previously filmed in 1919 and 1927, Max Marcin's stage success Cheating Cheaters made its talking-picture bow courtesy of...
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1934
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Twelve years before David Lean's definitive filmization of Dickens' Great Expectations, Hollywood had a go at the novel, with...
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1934
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Another of director William Wyler's "apprenticeship" films, Glamour is based on a story by Edna Ferber. The original story...
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1934
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The fashion industry provides the satisfaction missing in Taylor's life after her lazy husband dies. ~ Rovi...
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1934
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In this melodrama, a woman must spend a decade in prison after murdering her spouse. Upon entering jail, she had to give up...
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1934
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1934
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In this romance, a bootlegger finds himself unemployed when he is finally released from prison and discovers that...
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1934
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In this musical, a radio-announcer is fired after giving a false interview. For consolation he begins to drink heavily. It...
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1934
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In this comedy, two rubes from Montana find a fortune after they discover radium on their ranch. The nouveau riche ranchers...
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1933
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A countess and a doctor embark on an adventure in Africa in order to find a cure for sleeping sickness, but superstitions...
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1933
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Renowned animal-trainer Clyde Beatty plays himself as a circus owner in this adventure that centers on an enthusiastic youth...
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1933
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One wonders if William Wyler ever gave Her First Mate a second thought when he was busy directing such subsequent films as...
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1933
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Slim Summerville and Zasu Pitts star as Mark and Connie, a pair deceptively innocent-looking con artists. Connie has made a...
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1933
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Amelia Cruikshank (June Clyde) doesn't know what real trouble is until she inherits her dad's auto-manufacturing business....
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1932
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A star football player in college, Garry King (Richard Arlen) finds post-college life very different; he betrays the trust of...
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1932
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1932
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This drama is set at Notre Dame and follows the exploits of a great football coach (patterned after Knute Rockne) who is...
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1931
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In this crime drama, dedicated to the police forces of America, a gangster searches for his estranged son, also a gangster....
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1931
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One of the most frequently telecast films of the 1950s and 1960s, East of Borneo stars Rose Hobart as Linda, the wife of...
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1931
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William Wyler was still primarily a western specialist when he was assigned to direct Hell's Heroes. Based on...
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1930
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The surly but magnificent Rex the Wonder Horse was top-billed in Universal's Hoofbeats of Vengeance. As had been the case in...
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1929
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Also-ran silent screen cowboy Jack Perrin starred in this minor western from the Universal assembly line. Perrin is cast as a...
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1929
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1929
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A spin-off of the popular two-reel comedy series The Collegians, this early talkie once again featured George J. Lewis and...
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1929
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In one of his few film leading roles, dependable British character actor Holmes Herbert plays Peter Dwight, whose wife...
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1929
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1929
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The success of First National's Harold Teen prompted Universal to cast gangly juvenile Arthur Lake as lead in Stop That Man....
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1928
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Alice Day stars as Phyllis of the Follies in this standard backstage yarn. As a favor to her old chorus pal Mrs. Dexter...
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1928
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1923
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Director/actor William Duncan certainly knew how to make an action picture. Perhaps that's why this standard Northwoods drama...
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1922
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1921
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1921
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