Based on an article in the New Yorker, Nicholas Ray's Bigger Than Life stars James Mason (who also produced the film) as...
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1956
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1956
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This landmark juvenile-delinquent drama scrupulously follows the classic theatrical disciplines, telling all within a 24-hour...
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1955
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1955
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Dale Robertson stars as the Son of Sinbad in this tongue-in-cheek Arabian Nights romp. Hoping to rescue Bagdad from the...
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1955
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Cameron Hawley's novel of corporate in-fighting and gamesmanship was brought to the screen by producer John Houseman and...
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1954
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Lloyd Bacon wrapped up his lengthy directorial career with the innocuous comedy She Couldn't Say No. "She" is a young heiress...
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1952
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Filmed on location in Mexico (one of several Hollywood-financed films of the 1950s to take advantage of the lower production...
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1952
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Robert Ryan plays Jim Wilson, a tough police detective embittered by years of dealing with low-life urban scum, in...
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1951
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Gasoline Alley was based on Frank King's popular comic strip of the same name. The strip's central characters, service...
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1951
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After a lengthy absence from the screen, Judy Canova returned in the raucous musical Honeychile. The plot had been utilized...
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1951
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Joyfully preparing for her high-school graduation, and her 18th birthday, Gail Macauley (Ann Blyth) stumbles across a family...
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1950
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1950
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Timothy
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1949
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In this whimsical fantasy, a young girl suddenly discovers that her horse is really a reincarnation of her beloved uncle who...
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1948
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Angel on the Amazon gives the viewer a pretty good notion of what Lost Horizon or She might have looked like had they been...
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1948
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Shakespeare's tragic tale of the rise and fall of ambitious 12th-century Scottish warrior MacBeth has proven irresistible to...
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1948
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The Lady From Shanghai, a complex, involving puzzle-within-a-puzzle mystery story, is a showcase for Orson Welles, showing...
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Goldie
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1948
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Stork Bites Man was the last of five short-length features from Comet Productions, a company owned by Mary Pickford, her...
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Butterfield
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1947
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In this Republic musical, all heck breaks loose when the girlfriend of an aspiring composer becomes a model for the starving...
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1947
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In this drama, it is up to two young lawyers to save a business executive who has been framed for embezzlement. ~ Sandra...
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1946
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1945
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Bearing little relation to the hit Broadway play on which it was based, See My Lawyer was the last and least of Olsen and...
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1945
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It's a Pleasure was the third release from International Pictures, the feisty independent that would later merge with...
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Bill Evans
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1945
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River Gang was another of Universal's attempts to tap the dramatic potential of their young singing star Gloria Jean. The...
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1945
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Dick Foran and Harriet Hilliard (aka Harriet Nelson) top the cast of the Universal musical quickie Hi, Buddy. Foran plays GI...
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1943
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During WW II, Universal cornered the market on "quickie" musicals, wrapping up songs, laughs and pretty girls in neat...
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Bucky
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1943
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Making her first film appearance since 1941, Deanna Durbin plays the title role in The Amazing Mrs. Holliday. Truth to tell,...
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1943
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In this musical, the vocalist and her chamber music quintet lose their job when a conniving manager of a rival orchestra...
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Austin J. Caldwell
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1943
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Deanna Durbin is all grown up in Hers to Hold, the unofficial sequel to her "Three Smart Girls" films of the 1930s. Durbin...
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Rosey Blake
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1943
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The Lady Bodyguard of the title is pretty but somewhat physically frail A. C. Baker (Anne Shirley). An advertising...
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1942
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In this musical, which manages to look back with nostalgia upon prohibition and the depression (no small accomplishment),...
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1942
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Orson Welles' followup to Citizen Kane (1941) was utterly different from Kane in style and texture, but just as brilliant in...
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1942
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Gillie
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1942
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A nine-year-old Elizabeth Taylor made her film debut in this lively comedy. She plays the spoiled-brat daughter of a pudding...
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1942
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Cult-favorite director Anthony Mann's second filmic effort was the unprepossessing Universal mini-musical Moonlight in...
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1942
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The second and last of the Fred Astaire-Rita Hayworth vehicles, You Were Never Lovelier takes place in Argentina (courtesy of...
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1942
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Hellzapoppin' is the film version of the "anything goes" Broadway hit starring Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson. The original...
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1941
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A man trying to make his dying father happy makes his love life very complicated indeed in this musical comedy starring...
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1941
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1941
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By Republic Pictures standards, 1941's Ice-Capades certainly qualifies as an "all-star" film. The many subplots center around...
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1941
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Another of Universal's Richard Arlen-Andy Devine actioners, Lucky Devils casts the mismatched duo as a pair of intrepid...
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1941
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What's a modern guy to do when his wife's ideas about marriage are a bit too modern for his taste? Andre Casall...
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1941
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Orson Welles first feature film -- which he directed, produced, and co-wrote, as well as playing the title role -- proved to...
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1941
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In this episode of the popular medical series, Kildare finds himself involved in a dispute between to competing hospitals....
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1941
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One wonders if the title Too Many Blondes was inspired by the well-publicized romantic peccadilloes of the film's star, Rudy...
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1941
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In this third of RKO's "Mexican Spitfire" series, star Lupe Velez doesn't get any further west than Reno, Nevada. Lupe feels...
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1940
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Dr. Kildare's Crisis is actually one suffered by his fiancee, nurse Mary Lamont (Laraine Day). Mary's financier brother...
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1940
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