In exchange for being allowed to make his directorial debut in Grand Theft Auto, Ron Howard agreed to take no salary as a...
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1977
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1976
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1976
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Director
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1967
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Mr. Waverly goes to his alma mater to accept an honorary degree, with U.N.C.L.E. agents Solo and Illya providing security....
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Director
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1967
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Director
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1967
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Solo and Illya head to Greece to locate renegade T.H.R.U.S.H. agent Manolakas (George Keymas), who has stolen a top-secret...
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Director
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1967
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Miranda Bryant (Diana Hyland), the wife of presidential candidate Senator Bryant (Richard Anderson), is kidnapped by THRUSH...
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Director
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1966
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Nancy Sinatra -- halter top, go-go boots, and all -- is cast as Coco Cool, the daughter of scientist Adrian Cool...
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Director
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1966
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UNCLE agent Illya disguises himself as a beatnik to infiltrate a Greenwich Village art gallery which is being used as a...
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Director
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1966
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Patricia Blair guest-stars as dance hall girl Lila Conrad, who after killing a man in self-defense hides out in the...
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Screenwriter
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1964
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Bart (Jack Kelly) feels particularly euphoric after he wins an enormous amount of money in a poker game. Returning to his...
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Director
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1961
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In the town of Arroyo, Bart (Jack Kelly) is hired to protect gambling-hall proprietor Dave Lindell (Gerald Mohr) from a...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1959
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A kick from an angry horse knocks out the town bully, but it is Bret Maverick who is given credit for the blow--and that's...
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Director
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1959
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In this western, a trigger happy sheriff is asked to step down by the townsfolk who want to have a quieter, safer town. He...
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Screenwriter
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1958
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Jack Webb serves and host and narrator of this justifiably infamous propaganda short, produced under the auspices of Warner...
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Director
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1957
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George Montgomery stars in Pawnee as Paul, a white man raised by Indians. Upon attaining adulthood, Paul finds himself...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1957
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Destination 60,000 was one of a cycle of late-1950s films dealing with the exploits of supersonic-jet test pilots. Though...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1957
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This 1956 episode of the CBS dramatic anthology Screen Directors' Playhouse was historically significant as the first TV...
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Director, Teleplay By
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1956
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Golden Age of Television: Telephone Time contains four episodes of the fifties television show Telephone Time, a series that...
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Director
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1956
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Neville Brand plays one of his earliest good-guy roles in Return from the Sea. Brand plays a sailor named Maclish, who is a...
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Screenwriter
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1954
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Neither a B nor an A picture, Bitter Creek is a solid western programmer, offering an excellent, unglamorized performance by...
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Screenwriter
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1954
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Set during WW II, this film casts John Wayne as Duke Gifford, two-fisted submarine commander. Patricia Neal co-stars as Mary...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1951
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Set shortly after the Battle of New Orleans, the film casts John Wayne as John Breen, a Kentucky trooper making the long...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1949
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Zane Grey, that bottomless bounty of inspiration for Hollywood westerns, wrote the novel upon which Gunfighters was based....
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Director
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1947
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A rare black-and-white Maria Montez vehicle, Tangier can be described as a second-echelon Casablanca. Montez plays a Spanish...
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Director
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1946
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This musical is a remake of a 1933 film. Like the first, it is set on campus and chronicles the romantic travails of the...
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Screen Story
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1946
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In this crime drama, a former card shark finally gets paroled and decides to take his singing niece to Chicago to make a new...
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Director, Producer
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1945
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In this costume drama, a woman travels from New England to California's Barbary coast to avenge her brother's death. There...
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Director, Producer
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1945
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"Courage under fire" was the theme of many wartime Soviet films, and Once There was a Girl is no exception. Actually, there...
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Screenwriter
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1945
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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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Producer
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1944
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Director, Producer, Songwriter
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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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Producer
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1944
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Composer (Music Score), Producer
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1943
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This frothy fantasy adventure centers upon the exotic romance between a shark fisherman (the sharks he captured are used for...
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Producer
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1943
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Surprisingly little known, Universal's Men of Texas boasts an impressive cast and a fairly exciting and complex storyline....
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Producer
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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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Producer
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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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Producer
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1942
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Universal's "Frankenstein" series descended from the "A" to the "B" category with The Ghost of Frankenstein, though...
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Producer
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1942
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Flying Cadets is basically a vehicle for William Gargan and Edmund Lowe, doing a Flagg-and-Quirt act as a pair of eternally...
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Screenwriter
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1941
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Screenwriter
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1941
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Up-and-coming Universal leading man Robert Stack made his western-movie debut in Badlands of Dakota. Set in the Dakotas...
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Producer
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1941
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"Even a man who is pure at heart/And says his prayers by night/May become a wolf when the wolf-bane blooms/And the moon is...
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Associate Producer, Director, Producer
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1941
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It has been alleged that Horror Island was the least expensive of Universal's 1940s horror films. While it certainly looks...
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Director
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1941
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There's something very odd about Romano (John Litel), a notorious gangster serving time in the federal pen. For one thing,...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1941
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Originally slated as a Boris Karloff-Bela Lugosi vehicle, Man Made Monster emerged on screen as a tour de force for Lon...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1941
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An entertaining amalgam of Universal contract players, leftover sets and stock footage, South of Tahiti stars Brian Donlevy,...
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Director, Producer, Songwriter
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1941
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In this Navy drama, a young sailor finds himself interested in everything but marriage. But then he encounters a runaway...
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Screenwriter
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1940
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Twixt and tween his Dick Tracy movies, Ralph Byrd plays a Foreign Legionnaire in Drums of the Desert. Byrd and his pal...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1940
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In the last of Monogram's "Mr. Wong" whodunits, Keye Luke takes over from Boris Karloff as the Chinese detective Jimmy Lee...
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Screenwriter
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1940
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Monogram's Laughing at Danger finds page-boy Frankie Kelly (Frankie Darro) trying to solve a murder at a fancy beauty salon....
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Screenwriter
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1940
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As conceived, Monogram's On the Spot was meant to be purely a Frankie Darro vehicle, with black comedian Mantan Moreland as...
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Screenwriter
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1940
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This adventure is based on Jack London's tale of a Northwestern woman who owns a riverboat who sends her daughter to...
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Screenwriter
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1940
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The Fatal Hour was the fourth entry in Monogram's "Mr. Wong" series, based on the gentlemanly oriental detective created by...
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Screenwriter
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1940
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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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Director, Screenwriter
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1939
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Based on a story by Jack London, this film follows the adventures of young Michael Vance (John Carroll) as he travels with...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1939
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In terms of action, Honor of the West ranks among the best of the Bob Baker westerns. In terms of its script, alas, it must...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1939
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Mystery Plane is one of the better-known entries in Monogram's "Tailspin Tommy" series, if only because of its frequent TV...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1939
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Monogram's low-budget Jack Randall Western series went through a change of supervisor/writer with this entry -- Lindsley...
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Screenwriter
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1939
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Tailspin Tommy (played by John Trent) flies again in Monogram's Sky Patrol. The plot is motivated by an airborne smuggling...
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Screenwriter
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1939
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With Phantom Stage, Universal called it quits on singing cowboy Bob Baker's western series. The plot involves a series of...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1939
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In his fourth starring Western, Universal's singing cowboy Bob Baker comes to the aid of Molly Taylor (Fay Shannon), an...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1938
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Directed by Universal hack George WaGGner (yes, he insisted on being billed this strange way), Guilty Trails was the fifth of...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1938
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Back when silver-haired character actor Larry Blake was a firm-jawed leading man at Universal, he starred in the low-budget...
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Screenwriter
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1938
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Singing cowboy Bob Baker starred in this average music western as a cavalry officer assigned to investigate the murders of...
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Director
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1938
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Singing cowboy Bob Baker dispenses plenty of Prairie Justice in this 58-minute western. When his father is bushwacked and...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1938
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Several second-echelon Universal contractees earn their paychecks in the two-week wonder State Police. John King stars as...
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Screenwriter
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1938
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After directing the first few Bob Baker westerns for Universal, Joseph H. Lewis passed the cudgel to George Waggner, who did...
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Director
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1938
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Spy Ring (aka International Spy) was designed as a trial balloon for new Universal contractee William Hall. He is cast as...
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Screenwriter
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1938
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In this comedy, two racetrack gamblers lose all their dough by betting on a long shot. Now they must hitchhike to the next...
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Screenwriter
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1938
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Black Bandit stars Bob Baker, a singing cowboy whom Universal hoped would prove a worthy competitor to Republic's Gene Autry....
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Director, Screenwriter
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1938
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More ambitious than its budget will permit, Three Legionnaires details the misadventures of comrades-in-arms Chuck...
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Screenwriter
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1937
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Signed for a series of B pictures by Universal in 1936, John Wayne alternated between westerns and modern-day adventure...
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Screen Story, Screenwriter
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1937
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Seasoned newsreel cameraman Bob Adams (John Wayne) is assigned to cover the rebellion in the fictional Arab country of...
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Screenwriter
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1937
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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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Screenwriter
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1936
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John Wayne steered clear of westerns for the most part during his year-long contract with Universal Pictures. In The Sea...
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Screenwriter
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1936
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In this musical comedy, a woman runs a boardinghouse for washed up thespians. She puts them on their best behavior when her...
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Screenwriter
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1936
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A pre-stardom Mickey Rooney earned top billing when this minor medical drama was re-released in 1939 as Little Pal (Rooney by...
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Screenwriter
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1936
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Although Monogram Pictures hadn't yet reorganized as a separate entity in 1936, a few of its releases still managed to make...
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Screenwriter
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1936
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Heroic and crusty old Cappy Ricks takes on lobbyists who are trying to pass a law banning shingles on roofs to force...
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Screenwriter
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1935
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In early 1930s, Monogram pictures held a virtual monopoly on the bucolic novels of Gene Stratton Porter. When Monogram...
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Screenwriter
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1935
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A pre-Charlie Chan Sidney Toler stars in Champagne for Breakfast as The Judge, a philosophical racetrack tout. Though...
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Screenwriter
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1935
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This amusing lampoon of low-budget filmmaking is set in motion when fly-by-night entrepreneur Bradley Page talks small-towner...
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Screenwriter
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1935
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Cowboy Millionaire is one of the last and best of George O'Brien's western vehicles at the Fox Studios. O'Brien is in charge...
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Screenwriter
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1935
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Long before its "Teen Agers" series of the 1940s, Monogram Pictures went to college in the minor musical Girl of My Dreams....
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Composer (Music Score), Screenwriter
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1935
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Marian Nixon made the first of a brace of starring appearances at low-budget Liberty Pictures in Once to Every Bachelor....
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Screenwriter
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1934
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William Gargan plays his first movie detective (but definitely not his last) in Columbia's The Lineup. The hero, a gumshoe...
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Screenwriter
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1934
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This comedy tracks the relationship between an ailing railroad president and the dogged reporter who tries to infiltrate his...
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Screenwriter
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1934
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Ray Walker plays Jimmy Case, a combustible young man who loses one job after another because he can't keep his fists to...
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Screenwriter
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1934
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This musical romance is set upon a college campus and centers on a coquettish coed who promises her dates more than she cares...
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Screenwriter
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1933
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It may be hard to believe, but Gorilla Ship is almost as ludicrous as its title. Wheeler Oakman plays Mr. Wells, a...
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Screenwriter
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1932
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Two vagabonds find romance in this love story. It all begins when they get jobs as railroad brakemen by proving to the...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1929
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Love's Blindness was another bit of hothouse exotica from romance novelist and self-appointed social arbiter Madame Elinor...
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1926
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John Ford directed this epic-scale silent western, which was one of his first major successes and was hugely influential on...
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1924
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Gritzko, a prince of pre-World War I Russia (John Gilbert), is the ultimate ladies' man. Women fall at his feet -- all except...
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1924
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Produced by something called Niagara Pictures, this obscure silent Western starred George Waggoner who -- many years later,...
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1922
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This romantic costumed adventure is the film that cemented Rudolph Valentino's reputation as a legendary screen lover. Sheik...
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1921
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