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1977
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An Indian half-breed skilled with a gun and his former mentor guard a shipment of explosives being transported across the...
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1975
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A former Green Beret who set out to settle a score with the mob finds they don't give up easy in this action-packed...
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1973
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Lee Van Cleef plays a fiercely independent river ferryman in the Old West. Bandit Warren Oates, fresh from decimating a local...
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1970
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Sidney Poitier reprises his role as Virgil Tibbs in this crime drama, a story unrelated to that of the earlier film In the...
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1970
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A team of anthropologists travel to New Guinea in search of the missing link in this routine adventure tale. The expedition...
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1970
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1968
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Tony Rome (Frank Sinatra) is a Miami private detective who discovers a lady in cement while scuba diving. Rome is hired by...
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1968
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The title character (Rod Taylor) is a drifting gunslinger, who enters a Southwestern fort and immediately becomes embroiled...
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1967
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1967
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Frank Sinatra brings a sneering Rat Pack ethos to his first hard-boiled detective role in Tony Rome. Tony is an ex-cop who...
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1967
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Outbound from a small town recently besieged by Indians, a stagecoach carries several diverse characters. They include rummy...
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1966
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Comical chaos erupts when milquetoast astronaut Peter Mattemore (Jerry Lewis) and his bride-of-convenience and fellow...
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1966
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1965
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1965
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The Rat Pack packed it in after this sprightly musical comedy that owes more than it should to Damon Runyon's stories and...
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1964
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A huge shipment of rifles are stolen in Texas sometime shortly following the close of the Civil War. It turns out the rifles...
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1964
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It's Bob Hope as phony explorer Matt Merriwether, who promotes himself as an expert on the dark continent, basing his...
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1963
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One of a handful of Elvis Presley vehicles for United Artists release, Follow That Dream is a leisurely comedy/musical with a...
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1961
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In this sleazy melodrama a defiant Southern farm girl marries a poor dirt farmer instead of the wealthy landowner her mother...
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1961
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Director Gordon M. Douglas specializes in comedy and action films, and here he puts the two genres together for a generally...
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1961
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Rachel Cade (Angie Dickinson), a dedicated American nurse working in the Belgian Congo, meets administrator Henri Derode...
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1960
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Based on a book by Clay Fisher, this 1959 western has a cast loaded with television stars of the era. Clint Walker of TV's...
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1959
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Lt. (jg) Ken Braden (James Garner) is a US Navy frogman and underwater demolitions expert who is assigned to a vital mission,...
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1959
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This off-beat western is a freely-adapted remake of the violent film noir Kiss of Death. The story centers on a naive thief,...
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1958
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In this western, an accused killer is able to escape lynchers by trading coats with a dead man he found lying beside the...
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1958
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Bart (Jack Kelly) is one of several stagecoach passengers who are attacked by the Apaches. With their coach destroyed, the...
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1958
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Produced by Alan Ladd's own Jaguar company, The Big Land stars Ladd as Texas cattleman Morgan. As a means to expedite...
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1957
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1957
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Set during Cuba's struggle to free itself from colonialist Spain, this exciting adventure chronicles the exploits of a...
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1956
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At the height of his TV fame, flamboyant pianist Liberace starred in the lavish Warner Bros. production Sincerely Yours. A...
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1955
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Alan Ladd plays real-life air force hero Captain Joseph McConnell Jr. in this inspirational biopic, while June Allyson does...
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1955
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Young at Heart is a soft-pedaled, musicalized remake of 1938's Four Daughters. Robert Keith takes over the Claude Rains role...
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1954
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A little girl is found wandering in the desert, in a state of complete shock. When she finally revives, she can scream out...
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1954
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With all those flaming arrows being aimed directly at the audience, it is fairly obvious that Charge of Feather River was...
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1953
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This tuneful biography of operatic soprano Grace Moore begins as she prepares to perform on opening night. While awaiting...
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1953
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1953
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Though its title would seem to indicate a medieval swashbuckler, The Iron Mistress is actually based on the life of American...
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1952
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A very tired-looking Errol Flynn heads the cast of Maru Maru. Flynn plays deep-sea diver Gregory Mason, who is hired to...
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1952
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James Cagney plays a once great newspaper reporter ruined by liquor. Thanks to the help of reformed alcoholic James Gleason,...
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1951
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The real Matt Cvetic was a borderline alcoholic with a nasty disposition (he once allegedly beat his sister-in-law so badly...
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1951
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1950
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Between Midnight and Dawn is a solid, no-frills detective drama from the Columbia studio mills. Mark Stevens and...
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1950
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1950
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Though usually associated with westerns, Columbia producer Harry Joe Brown proved to be up to the challenge of producing a...
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1950
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Decked out with leftover sets and stock footage from 1946's Bandit of Sherwood Forest, Columbia's Rogues of Sherwood Forest...
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1950
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1950
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1950
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Returning from WW II, gambler Joe Miracle (Glenn Ford) discovers that his partner is dead, his gaming house has been sold,...
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1949
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Randolph Scott both co-produced and starred in this above average Western chronicling the career of one of the last of the...
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1949
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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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Hoping for a success commensurate with his previous Show Business (1945), comedian Eddie Cantor poured a lot of his own money...
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1948
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1948
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This prison reform-minded melodrama from B-movie director Gordon Douglas opens with an introduction from Lewis F. Lawes, the...
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1946
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Morgan Conway made his final screen appearance as Chester Gould's granite-jawed detective Dick Tracy in this RKO Radio...
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Director
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1946
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This WW II drama is the first to deal with the fateful atomic bomb attack on Japan. Originally, the film centered on the...
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1945
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This irresistably-titled comedy is arguably the best of RKO Radio's Wally Brown-Alan Carney vehicles. The daffy duo is cast...
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1944
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The Devil Checks Up is the 1944 reissue title for the 1942 Hal Roach "screamliner" The Devil With Hitler. Alan Mobray plays...
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1944
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The last and least of RKO Radio's B-series based on radio's "Great Gildersleeve", Gildersleeve's Ghost is a standard "scare"...
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1944
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In this drama, a remake of Hat, Coat and Glove (1934), a hard working attorney is upset when he learns that his...
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1944
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This delightful entry in RKO Radio's "Falcon" series finds amateur Tom Lawrence (Tom Conway), aka The Falcon, tring to solve...
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1944
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Wally Brown and Alan Carney, RKO's own Abbott and Costello ripoffs, star in the comedy western The Girl Rush. As usual, Brown...
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Director
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1944
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Gildersleeve on Broadway was the third in a series of RKO B-pictures inspired by the radio sitcom The Great Gildersleeve....
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Director
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1943
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In this comedy, Gildersleeve is assigned to be a contentious jury foreman who refuses, despite the opinions of all the other...
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1943
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This was the first of five profitable RKO Radio quickies based on the popular radio series The Great Gildersleeve. Harold...
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1942
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1942
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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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1941
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1941
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The second of Hal Roach's "streamliners" (feature films running 45 minutes or so), Niagara Falls serves as a showcase for...
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1941
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1940
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With comedian Stan Laurel temporarily off his payroll due to a contract dispute, Hal Roach hastily put together a solo...
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1939
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In this comedy, a gangster's moll gets tired of the mob scene and returns to her mother's house. Her mom is a wealthy...
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1939
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Spanky McFarland returned to the Our Gang comedy series in the one-reel entry Aladdin's Lantern. This time around, the gang...
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Director
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1938
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The Our Gang comedy series moved from Hal Roach Studios to MGM with the one-reel gem The Little Ranger. Snubbed by his...
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Director
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1938
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Opening his own detective agency, Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer dons a deerstalker cap and rechristens himself "X-10, Sooper...
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Director
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1938
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Last week, fickle Darla Hood declared that she would not go out with neighborhood bully Butch (Tommy Bond) until he started...
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Director
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1938
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Again concocting an elaborate hooky-playing scheme, Our Gang kid Spanky McFarland places a block of ice on the chest of his...
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Director
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1938
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Upon learning that Darla Hood's father (Jack Pepper) owns a circus, Our Gang members Spanky McFarland and Carl "Alfalfa"...
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Director
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1938
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In this followup to the earlier one-reeler Our Gang: Night 'N' Gales, comedian Johnny Arthur reprises his role as Darla...
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1938
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Upset at being forced to do the household chores all weekend long, Our Gang-ers Spanky McFarland, Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer,...
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Director
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1937
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Our Gang members Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer and Spanky McFarland form the Sekret Revengers Club, dedicated to protecting such...
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1937
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1937
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Comedian Johnny Arthur, who played Spanky McFarland's absent-minded father in the 1935 "Our Gang" comedy Anniversary Trouble,...
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Director
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1937
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A followup to the musical-revue short Our Gang Follies of 1936, the one-reel Reunion in Rhythm was apparently filmed under...
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Director
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1937
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Briefly digressing from "Our Gang"'s new one-reel format, the series' December 18, 1937 release, Our Gang Follies of 1938,...
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Director
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1937
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Acting as if the previous "Our Gang" one-reeler Hearts are Thumps never happened, the Gang's male members, headed by Spanky...
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Director
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1937
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After appearing as a peripheral player in several earlier "Our Gang" shorts, Tommy Bond made a spectacular return to the...
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1937
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Even allowing for the fact that it's only a one-reeler, the "Our Gang" comedy "The Pigskin Palooka" goes by so rapidly that...
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1937
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It is Valentine's Day, and Our Gang members Spanky McFarland, Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer, Billy "Buckwheat" Thomas and Eugene...
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Director
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1937
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While staging a "William Tell" exhibition in a vacant lot, junior marksman Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer accidentally incurs the...
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1937
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Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer, Our Gang's resident crooner, has been preparing for weeks to perform in a radio talent contest. With...
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Director
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1937
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The Three Smart Boys in this one-reel "Our Gang" comedy are Spanky McFarland, Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer, Billy "Buckwheat"...
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Director
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1937
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Hoping to attract customers to Spanky McFarland's barnyard production of Romeo and Juliet, star performer Carl "Alfalfa"...
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Director
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1936
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When little Billy "Buckwheat" Thomas and Eugene "Porky" Lee bring some firecrackers to school, older kids Carl "Alfalfa"...
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Director
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1936
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Finding out that the circus will be coming to town for one day only, "Our Gang" members Spanky McFarland, Carl "Alfalfa"...
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Director
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1936
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Having successful moved his top comedians Laurel & Hardy from short subjects to features, producer Hal Roach endeavored to do...
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Director
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1936
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Producer Hal Roach had intended to terminate his "Our Gang" short-subject series at the end of the 1935-36 season, but was...
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Director
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1936
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Produced by Hal Roach, Kelly the Second is one of the few feature films to capture the comic spirit of Roach's wonderful...
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Screenwriter
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1936
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A superb combination of belly laughs and pathos, the "Our Gang" comedy "Birthday Blues" was originally released on November...
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1932
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An angry divorce is the curious source of humor in the offbeat "Our Gang" comedy "Big Ears." Though little Bobby "Wheezer"...
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1931
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An indisputable classic, the "Our Gang" comedy "Teacher's Pet" is introduced by a brace of pretty twin girls (Beverly and...
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1930
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