In this crime drama, a Vietnam vet goes to his California hometown and discovers that two Mexicans have murdered his...
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1970
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At the insistence of his boss Larry Tate, a reluctant Darrin joins the snooty and exclusive Burning Oak country club....
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1969
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In this comedy classic, Jerry Lewis plays Jerome Littlefield, an orderly in a mental hospital in this slapstick situation...
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Dr. Jean Howard
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1964
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Suffering from a advanced case of "spring fever," Hoss Cartwright is nonetheless assigned to pick up a prisoner in the town...
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Loulabelle
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1964
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Elvis Presley plays a double role in Kissin' Cousins. When the U.S. government wants land owned by the hillbilly clan headed...
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Ma Tatum
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1964
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Arrested for a traffic violation in a small town, Kimble (David Janssen), alias "Bill Carter," finds himself sharing a cell...
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1963
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Scripter Paddy Chayevsky altered his successful stageplay for this routine cinematic version of Middle of the Night,...
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Mrs. Mueller, Betty's Mother
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1959
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This 1955 period piece recreates the notorious events surrounding the murder of architect Stanford White by Harry K. Thaw....
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1955
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Before Indiana Jones there was Harry Steele (Charlton Heston), an idealistic archaeologist determined to return an ancient...
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1954
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Susan Slept Here is the only feature film in Hollywood history ever to be narrated by an Academy Award. After introducing...
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Maude
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1954
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Juvenile delinquency is the subject of the misleadingly titled Universal-International potboiler Girls in the Night....
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Alice Haynes
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1953
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Fanny Webson
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1952
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In this musical drama set at the turn-of-the-century, a saloon singer marries a wealthy attorney and then begins fooling...
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Molly Benson
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1948
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In this high-flying musical, a flight attendant dreams of singing in a band. Just as her career takes off she finds it...
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Winnie Winford
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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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Nora
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1947
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Private detective Franchot Tone is hired by a prominent politician (Tom Powers) to run a background check on the politician's...
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Hazel Bixby
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1947
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The exciting world of the cosmetic industry provides the basis of this lively low-budget musical comedy that centers on the...
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Babs Cartwright
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1944
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It's nice to see perennial "other woman" Ann Savage in a leading role, even in so antiseptic a film as Klondike Kate. Savage...
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Molly
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1944
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In this melodrama, a group of women live in a boardinghouse near a prison to await the release of their men. ~ Sandra...
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1943
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Regina Bush
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1942
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This third film version of the hectic Margaret Mayo-Salisbury Field stage farce Twin Beds officially stars George Brent and...
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Sonya Cherupin
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1942
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Glenda Farrell reprises her fast-talking girl reporter persona in PRC's Night for Crime. Ms. Farrell is cast as Susan, a...
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Susan
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1942
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Robert Taylor toughened up his image considerably with this gangster movie, which was unusual both in its plot and origins,...
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1941
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Torchy Runs for Mayor stars Glenda Farrell as fast-lipped newspaper reporter Torchy Blaine. In possession of a crooked...
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Torchy Blane
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1939
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Blondes at Work is number four in Warner Bros.' lively "Torchy Blane" series. Glenda Farrell returns as girl reporter Torchy...
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Torchy Blane
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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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Sylvia Shane
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1938
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Number seven in Warner Bros.' "Torchy Blaine" series was Torchy Blaine in Chinatown, with Glenda Farrell and Barton MacLane...
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Torchy Blane
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1938
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In this entry in the "Torchy Blane" series, the plucky young reporter tries to expose a ring of counterfeiters led by a man...
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Torchy Blane
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1938
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Glenda Farrell plays still another fast-talking girl reporter in Universal's Exposed. Willing to sell her soul for a story,...
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Click Stewart
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1938
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In this drama, a tuna fisherman is wrongly convicted for murder. Because he is a model, and oft-times heroic prisoner, he is...
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Jean Fenderson
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1938
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This late-30s gem is an engaging spoof that features the U.S. film debut of the French acting beauty Daniell Darrieux. She...
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1938
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Before he became the high priest of realism, producer/director Andrew L. Stone was fascinated with classical music (he'd...
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Rita
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1938
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This is the second entry in the Torch Blane reporter series. In this episode, ace reporter Torchy, wanting to impress her...
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Torchy Blane
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1937
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Carol Wallace
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1937
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This drama is based upon a play by George S. Kaufman, The Butter and Egg Man. It tells the tale of Erwin, a naive yokel who...
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Fanny Morgan
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1937
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In this lighthearted musical comedy from legendary director Busby Berkeley, Henry Bowers (Dick Powell) is a saxophonist in a...
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1937
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In this comedy, an American chorine travels to France with a low-budget revue and nearly ends up stranded there....
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Mamie Wallis
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1937
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In their third crime-solving adventure, smart-aleck newspaper woman Torchy Blane (Glenda Farrell) and slightly dense homicide...
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Torchy Blane
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1937
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Blending equal amounts of comedy, romance and thrills, High Tension is a near-perfect 20th Century-Fox "B" effort....
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Edith McNeil
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1936
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In this drama, a press agent loses his job and becomes a Hollywood radio columnist. He is angry about having to change...
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Verna Kennedy
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1936
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Those beautiful Busby Berkeley babes are back at work, seeking financial backing for a Broadway show. Salvation comes from a...
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Genevieve Larkin
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1936
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Small-town waiter Will Wright (Edward Everett Horton) can't help but feel that his Kansas community has lost its civic pride....
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Ruby Miller
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1936
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As originally conceived by detective novelist Frederick Nebel, hotshot girl reporter Torchy Blaine was a male news-hound...
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Torchy Blane
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1936
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According to encyclopedic film historian Roger Dooley, The Law in Her Hands is the only film of the 1930s to concern itself...
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Dorothy Davis
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1936
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In this comedy, a blocked writer decides he needs a little peace and quiet to spark his creativity so that he can write the...
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Daisy Lowell
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1936
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In this comedy, a toothpaste magnate's mischievous daughter, tired of her father's traditional ways of conducting business,...
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Claudette Ruggles
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1935
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Hazel Normandie
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1935
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In the wake of Shirley Temple, every Hollywood studio scrambled to find a child star who might possibility match Temple's...
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Jean
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1935
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Broadway legend Al Jolson and his second wife Ruby Keeler costarred in this thin backstage musical. In keeping with Jolson's...
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Sadie Howard
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1935
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With little plot but incredible photography and choreography, Gold Diggers of 1935 was exactly what you would expect a...
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Betty Hawes
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1935
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Based on Frederick Hazlett Brennan's play Battleship Gertie, Miss Pacific Fleet is short and snappy "gobs and gals" affair....
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Mae O'Brien
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1935
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Dixie Tilton
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1935
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Per its title, this merry Warner Bros. musical was filmed on location in the resort community of Agua Caliente. Pat O'Brien...
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Clara
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1935
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Kansas City Princess came at the tail end of the "gold-digger" movie cycle. The inevitable Joan Blondell plays Rosie, a...
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Marie
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1934
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Mrs. Tifton
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1934
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Bunny
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1934
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A weak-willed gambler's compulsion destroys his life in this dramatic character study. In the beginning, he is seen working...
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Valerie
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1934
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Completed just before the Production Code went into effect, I've Got Your Number is delightfully racy, risque entertainment....
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Bonnie
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1934
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An idealistic but naive pharmacist believes the mobsters who claim they want him to manufacture illegal medicine to help out...
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Lil
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1934
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Gerry
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1934
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Joan McCarthy
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1934
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Aerial footage distinguishes this romantic-triangle melodrama set among pilots in a flying circus. Jill (Sally Eilers) loves...
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1933
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In this melodrama, a female physician encounters professional and personal turmoil when she finds herself having an affair...
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Glenda
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1933
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This Depression-era romantic drama, which offers a surprisingly potent and unsentimental view of the economic hardships of...
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Fay LaRue
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1933
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The missing girl in this weak whodunit from Warner Bros. is redheaded Peggy Shannon, once seen as the successor of "It Girl"...
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Kay Curtis
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1933
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In this melodrama, the wife of a wealthy man abruptly leaves him and sets sail for Cuba leaving him to hire a gumshoe to find...
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Dot
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1933
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A professional gambler masquerading as a businessman boards a train and sets off across the country. During the journey he...
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Jeanne Sands
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1933
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The Mystery of the Wax Museum begins in London in the 1920s. Lionel Atwill plays Ivan Igor, a brilliant sculptor who manages...
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Florence Dempsey
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1933
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May Robson plays Apple Annie, a slatternly Broadway apple peddler. Annie has a curious setup whereby she is able to finagle...
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Missouri Martin
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1933
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The wonderful Warner Bros. stock company goes through its customarily breezy paces in Havana Widows. Joan Blondell and...
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Sadie Appleby
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1933
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Paul Lukas plays a nightclub headwaiter who rises to fame as a bridge expert. He marries hat check girl Loretta Young,...
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Blondie
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1933
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Although claiming to be based on actual cases, this mild crime drama appears to have been derived more from a screenwriter's...
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Belle Saunders
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1933
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In this newspaper drama, a dedicated small-town reporter works hard and becomes the editor of a major New York paper....
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1932
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1932
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Life Begins is an episodic Warner Bros. programmer about one unusually busy night in a maternity ward. Loretta Young is the...
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Florette Darien
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1932
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Warner Bros.' hard-hitting chain-gang movie was a faithful adaptation of the similarly titled autobiography of Robert Elliot...
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Marie Woods
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1932
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The Match King was inspired by the checkered career of entrepreneur Ivar Krueger. Warren William plays a Krueger-like...
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Babe
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1932
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The first "talkie" gangster movie to capture the public's imagination, Mervyn LeRoy's Little Caesar started a cycle of...
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Olga Strassoff
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1930
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In this drama, with a story that closely parallels the 1927 feature The Jazz Singer, a Jewish son disregards his father's...
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1929
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