Famed archeologist Rick Banning has mysteriously vanished after reports surfaced claiming that he had unearthed the mythical...
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2007
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Since its lapse into public domain in 1978, First Legion has joined Love Affair and Algiers as the most readily available of...
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1951
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Flame of Stamboul concerns dirty work at the Suez Canal, orchestrated by a master spy (George Zucco) known only as "The...
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The Voice
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1951
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David and Bathsheba is a respectable, slightly stodgy cinematic adaptation of the Old Testament story. King David...
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1951
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Republic's Harbor of Missing Men stars Richard Denning as a two-fisted smuggler named Brooklyn. Double-crossed by his...
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1950
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1950
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The oft-filmed Frances Hodgson Burnett novel The Secret Garden was given the usual plush MGM treatment in 1949. Tempestuous...
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1949
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MGM circumvented the censorship that would otherwise have prevented a film version of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary by...
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1949
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The Barkleys of Broadway became Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers' "reunion" picture purely by accident. Originally conceived as...
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1949
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1948
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1948
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Producer Hal Roach's postwar attempt to create a new bunch of "Our Gang" kids resulted in two misfire Cinecolor comedies, the...
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Doc Robbin
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1948
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An especially good casts helps lift Republic's Secret Service Investigator well above the norm. Lloyd Bridges plays...
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Otto Dagoff
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1948
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The "mermaids" are really tribal pearl divers in this diverting Tarzan adventure. Their livelihood is threatened by an evil...
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Palanth
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1948
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1948
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In this big-budget historical adventure, Tyrone Power stars as Pedro De Vargas, a young and impetuous nobleman in 16th...
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1947
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Marise Aubert (Greer Garson) has begun seeing a psychiatrist to treat her overwhelming guilt. It seems that Marise was...
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Father Donnard
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1947
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1947
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A disappearing scientist and a spooky mansion get wrapped up together. ~ John Bush, Rovi...
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1947
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Dr. Joseph Van Ee
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1947
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Lucille Ball is an American taxi-dancer living in London whose roommate has disappeared. The missing girl had left to answer...
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1947
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A woman trying to solve the mystery of a friend's murder finds that she may be the next victim in this suspense story set in...
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1947
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In this improbable romantic drama set in Gay Nineties London, a member of Parliament jeopardizes his career when he falls in...
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1947
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This threadbare PRC production plays like an Aztec variant on the studio's earlier Devil Bat, with PRC favorite George Zucco...
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Prof. Andrew Forbes
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1946
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Though running a mere 15 minutes, Watchtower Over Tomorrow boasts some very impressive credits. Written by Ben Hecht, this...
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1945
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Having Wonderful Crime spotlights Michael J. Malone, the murder-solving attorney created by author Craig Rice. The film is...
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The Great Movel
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1945
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An early low-budget spin on Ten Little Indians, this cheap but entertaining PRC production features a wonderful cast of...
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Leo Grainger
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1945
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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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Horadef
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1945
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In this drama, two competing reporters get involved in a mystery when they find a gangster's corpse in a wax museum. As no...
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1945
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1945
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Weekend at the Waldorf is an unabashed remake of MGM's 1932 Oscar-winner Grand Hotel: in fact, at several points in the...
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1945
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Frank Swift
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1944
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Campy Bela Lugosi plays a deranged scientist in this Monogram -produced horror movie. This time, Lugosi and his partner...
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1944
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Fred Zinnemann directed this World War II drama, considered one of the best anti-Nazi dramas produced by Hollywood during the...
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1944
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Though no more expensive or ambitious than any of his earlier Sam Katzman-produced vehicles, Bela Lugosi's Voodoo Man is...
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Nicolas
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1944
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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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The still very undead mummy experiences insane jealousy in this the third of Universal's Kharis thrillers. Although he was...
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1944
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1944
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The Mad Ghoul may well be the definitive George Zucco horror melodrama. The star plays Dr. Alfred Morris, a distinguished...
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Dr. Alfred Morris
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1943
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In their last starring film, The Ritz Brothers play the Three Funny Bunnies, a trio of nightclub comedians. The plot...
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1943
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One of the silliest and most unbelievable of the Universal Sherlock Holmes series, Sherlock Holmes in Washington is also...
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Richard Stanley
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1943
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This painfully cheap but wildly entertaining PRC production stars a hammy George Zucco in a dual role as the Clayton Twins --...
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Dr. Lloyd Clayton/ Elwyn Clayton
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1943
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A man trying to leave his fame behind discovers the perils of choosing to be the wrong unknown person in this farcical...
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1943
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The Black Raven is one of a trio of PRC horror-melodramas starring George Zucco. The title refers to a remote country inn,...
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Amos Bradford
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1943
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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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Perhaps unintentionally, the 1942 Technicolor swashbuckler The Black Swan is a bondage fetishist's dream, with hero and...
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1942
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Bland former child actor Johnny Downs earns top billing in this low-budget horror film, but the real star is that most...
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Dr. Lorenzo Cameron
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1942
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Dr. Hugo Streger
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1942
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Dr. Renault
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1942
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Half Way to Shanghai is Burma, according to this Universal B-grade actioner. The film takes place almost in its entirety on a...
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Karl Zerta
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1942
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A remake of the Swedish film of the same name (see entry 55092), MGM's A Woman's Face was reshaped into one of Joan...
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1941
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The third of producer Hal Roach's Topper films, Topper Returns eschews the frothy "screwball" format of the first two in...
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1941
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Hungarian actress Ilona Massey stars as an operative for the Axis in this slightly tongue-in-cheek wartime melodrama. She...
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Webster
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1941
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Ralph Bellamy made his fourth and final appearance as literary sleuth Ellery Queen in Columbia's Ellery Queen and the Murder...
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1941
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One of the most schizophrenic films ever to come out of the Paramount "B" mill, The Monster and the Girl starts out as a...
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1941
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Previously filmed in 1930 with Lawrence Tibbett and Grace Moore, the robust Sigmund Romberg operetta New Moon was given...
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Vicomte de Ribaud
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1940
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Those wily Egyptians are once again selfishly attempting to keep the treasures of the Pharaohs to themselves in this...
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Abadi
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1940
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A serious journalist is sent to France and forced to write fashion fluff pieces. Tiring of this, she decides to sneak off to...
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Prison Governor
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1940
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Egyptian mystic Andoheb (George Zucco) is ordered by his High Priest (Eduardo Ciannelli) to stand guard over the sacred mummy...
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Prof. Andoheb
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1940
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The classic "old dark house" motif is given sterling treatment in this second filmed version of the hit play. Bob Hope's...
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1939
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1939
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In this drama, a miserable wife takes her son and leaves her alcoholic spouse. She ends up traveling to England to begin her...
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1939
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In this lively programmer a con man hires a character actor to masqueraded as the recently assassinated dictator of a tiny...
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1939
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This exciting adventure is set in the rugged Australian outback back when the continent was used as a giant penal colony for...
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1939
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Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce make their second screen appearances as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in The Adventures of...
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1939
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Arrest Bulldog Drummond was the last of Paramount's "B" film series based on Sapper's two-fisted soldier of fortune, and also...
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1938
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Nobody really takes a Vacation from Love in this MGM programmer, though it's not from lack of trying. Dennis O'Keefe and...
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1938
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This is an epic Darryl F. Zanuck production that plays fast and loose with historical facts regarding early 19th century...
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1938
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Director Sam Wood always seemed most comfortable with cozy family-oriented films like Lord Jeff. Freddie Bartholomew plays...
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1938
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Fast Company was another attempt by MGM to match the success of its "Thin Man" films. Melvyn Douglas and Florence Rice star...
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1938
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1938
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1938
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Sidney Toler made his first appearance as aphorism-spouting oriental sleuth Charlie Chan in 1938's Charlie Chan in Honolulu,...
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1938
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M.G.M.'s opulent costume drama Marie Antoinette marked a return to the screen after a two-year absence for reigning Queen of...
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1938
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Based on a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades represented one of the few successful screenwriting efforts of...
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1938
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1937
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Jean Harlow offers her final screen performance in this witty and -- in retrospect -- quite moving racetrack comedy-drama...
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1937
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The true story of one of Ireland's leading political figures of the late 19th Century inspired this biographical drama....
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1937
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Sam Wood directed this fourth version of the Alexandre Bisson weeper, buffed to a high gloss by shimmering M.G.M. production...
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1937
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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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1937
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1937
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London by Night was filmed entirely on the MGM back lot, which admittedly looked more like England than England. Adapted from...
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Inspector Jefferson
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1937
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1937
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1936
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Sinner Takes All shines with the production gloss only MGM could create; the prettiness of the images helps to hide the plot...
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1936
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As a result of a discussion between a trio of gods over the true worthiness of Earth, a retiring British shop assistant is...
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1936
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In this drama, a reporter loses his job after he writes a story criticizing the police department for their inefficiency in...
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1935
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In this mystery, a sculptor is convicted of murder after the body of his guardian is discovered. The artist's fiancee...
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1934
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British matinee idol Ivor Novello carries the weight of Autumn Crocus on his handsome shoulders. Novello plays an alpine...
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1933
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In this comedy, a young woman rebels against her betrothal and runs away to Paris. While on the train she meets and falls...
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1933
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In this romance, two people who have never met will inherit a million dollars if they marry each other. Neither is thrilled...
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1933
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In this murder mystery, a detective investigates the death of a prominent millionaire and finds that the dead man's family...
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1933
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Based on a novel by J. B. Priestley, this British musical-comedy follows an unlikely trio as they try to revive the fortunes...
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1933
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When economy expert Kerr works to cut the costs of the fleet in Malta, his lovely daughter, Matthews, is courted by the crew...
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1932
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1931
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