This is an uneven melodrama on the tragic life of Pima Indian Ira Hayes, one of the men who raised the U.S. flag on Iwo Jima....
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1961
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Unless viewers are especially fascinated by the outré dance craze of the early '60s known as the "twist," there is nothing...
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Miss Letitia Clunker
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1961
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Perry (Raymond Burr) receives a phone call from Arlene Dowling (Susan Morrow), who claims that she was robbed of all her...
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1958
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With the exception of the vastly superior Caged, Columbia's Women's Prison was the quintessential "babes behind bars" drama...
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1955
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1953
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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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1951
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Caged, considered the best woman's prison film ever made, represents a union between realistic socially conscious drama and...
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1950
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Millie
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1949
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That Wonderful Urge is the second remake of Love is News (37), and is much closer to the original than the first remake (the...
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1948
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Edgar G. Ulmer's Club Havana is Grand Hotel, PRC style. The titular club is a popular nightspot where everyone who is anyone...
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1946
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Three's a Crowd is the misleadingly lighthearted title for this tense Republic murder mystery. When her fiance is...
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Sophie Whipple
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1945
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In this melodrama, two young lovers secretly elope after the woman is involved in a hit-and-run accident. The young groom...
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1944
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In her final film appearance, Kay Francis plays Sheila, the slinky, seductive mastermind of a marriage racket preying on...
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Gladys Smith
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1943
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Veteran film actor Tully Marshall makes his final appearance in PRC's Behind Prison Walls. A reworking of a familiar theme,...
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Elinor Cantwell
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1943
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This socially conscious drama examines the causes of juvenile delinquency and centers on one girl who joins a gang of punks...
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Nell
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1943
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The luridly titled Women in Bondage was Monogram's "answer" to RKO Radio's wartime melodrama Hitler's Children. The plot...
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Gertrude Schneider
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1943
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The macabre, overripe war melodrama Prisoner of Japan was produced and directed by the always fascinating Arthur Ripley....
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Toni Chase
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1942
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Universal Studios had their "B" musicals down to a science in the 1940s. All that was needed was a cast of talented...
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1940
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Hollywood's Otto Kruger and Gertrude Michael head the cast of the British The Hidden Menace. The story takes place in a...
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Yesta
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1940
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Woo-woo Hugh Herbert is the star of Universal's Slightly Tempted. Herbert plays a kleptomaniac who promises to go straight...
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Duchess
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1940
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Parole Fixer is another entry in Paramount's unofficial "J. Edgar Hoover" series, purportedly based on an actual case in the...
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Colette Menthe
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1940
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Imagine the dismay of those hapless TV station managers who've booked the 1940 Martha Raye vehicle The Farmer's Daughter in...
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Clarice Sheldon
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1940
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This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series focuses on customs evasion. It shows how even wealthy people, not just...
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1940
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Jack Holt is impossibly heroic as usual in the Columbia quickie Hidden Power. In his quest to perfect a cure-all for severe...
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Virginia
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1939
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Ann Heston
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1939
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The incredibly complex plot of Republic's Star of the Circus can be whittled down to a single sentence: A jealous circus...
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Yester
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1938
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In this satire, an electrician from a tiny town impresses a New York radio sponsor with his booming baritone singing voice....
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1937
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In this, the final episode in the "Sophie Lang" trio of crime comedies, the incorrigible female crook is again a fugitive...
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Sophie Lang
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1937
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Cleo Ashton
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1936
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Fulton Oursler, the prolific Reader's Digest editor whose range extended from detective stories to religious books, tried his...
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Virginia Howard
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1936
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Anne Shirley is the teenaged "lady" in this filmization of Elizabeth Jordan's novel My Daddy and I. Shirley plays the...
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Miss Eleanor Emerson
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1936
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Sophie Lang
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1936
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In this taut WW I espionage thriller set in 1914, an English actor falls in love with a German actress. When the war erupts,...
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Elsa Durany
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1936
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A gangland murder is the motivating factor of this fast-moving crime drama. George Murphy stars as reporter Kent Shevlin,...
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Barbara Andrews
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1936
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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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Vania Nardi
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1935
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G.K. Chesterton's crime-solving cleric Father Brown was first brought to the screen in 1934, in the corpulent form of...
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Evelyn Fischer
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1935
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Adapted from Norman Krasna's Broadway hit A Small Miracle, Four Hours to Kill is a multi-plotted effort that can best be...
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Sylvia
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1935
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Rosemary Haydon
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1935
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Bolero stars George Raft as Raoul de Barre, an arrogant dancer who rises to fame in the years prior to, during, and after WW...
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1934
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The Earl Carroll Vanities, a popular Broadway revue of the 1930s and '40s, is the setting for this murder mystery...
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Rita Ross
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1934
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Miss Janey Davis
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1934
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Glamorous American jewel-thief Sophie Lang (Gertrude Michael) not only regularly outwits Scotland Yard, but has great fun...
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Sophie Lang/Elisa Morgan
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1934
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Back in the 1930s, the "Search for Beauty" contests were designed to scout the hinterlands of America and England for...
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1934
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Calpurnia
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1934
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"That girl" is newspaper sob-sister Tony Bellamy (Claire Trevor), whose nose for news gets her into one jam after another,...
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Dorothy Lamont
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1934
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In this courtroom thriller, a hypnotic psychic uses his gift for dubious ends by running a gambling den. The trouble begins...
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1934
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In this tepid melodrama, an aspiring writer and her boyfriend, a professional agitator head off to the Big Apple in search...
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Pamela Banks
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1934
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Legendary Broadway impresario George White made his Hollywood debut with this musical, which he wrote, co-directed, and...
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1934
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Not to be confused with Universal's 1932 The Menace, Paramount's 1934 Menace does however included a "revenge" motif similar...
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Helen Chalmers
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1934
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This 1933 movie version of Sinclair Lewis's novel Ann Vickers stars Irene Dunne in the title role. Left alone and pregnant by...
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1933
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Top-billed Bela Lugosi has only a minor role in this routine variant on the Old Dark House scenario, playing a mysterious...
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1933
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1933
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This musical comedy stars Maurice Chevalier as (what else?) a Parisian playboy with a song and a kiss for every beautiful...
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1933
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Mae West's second starring vehicle, I'm No Angel casts the divine Miss West as the star performer in a seedy circus. Though...
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1933
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A Navy boxer falls in love with a popular dance-hall girl in this romantic drama. The man really should be spending all his...
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1933
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1932
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Boris Karloff stars as the villainous Dr. Fu Manchu in this wild and wooly -- and wildly racist -- adventure yarn, based on...
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1932
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Directed by Harry Beaumont, the courtroom drama Unashamed stars Robert Young as Dick Ogden, who will do anything to protect...
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1932
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In this drama, a rich man's wife finds herself victimized by her cruel mother-in-law who doesn't think the girl is good...
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1932
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