A virtual remake of Rustlers' Valley (1937), this average "Hopalong Cassidy" Western features Jay Kirby as Johnny Travers, a...
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1943
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Charles Starrett rides again as the Durango Kid. This time Durango investigates the murder of a town marshal, in which an...
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1942
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In his final film before entering war service, Gene Autry joins the World Wide Wild West Show, a faltering enterprise about...
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1942
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In this comedy, a hapless army lieutenant is ejected from his plane during a training maneuver and ends up deep in the...
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1942
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1942
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Marlene Dietrich was supposed to have starred in Universal's Sin Town, but the script was not to her liking. Dietrich was...
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1942
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With its slight resemblance to Destry Rides Again (1939) -- probably not entirely coincidental -- this rousing Western from...
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1942
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In this western, a rancher is ambushed, killed, and robbed, but for some reason the killers through his money pouch in the...
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1942
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The irrepressible Donald Barry is twice falsely accused of murder in this typical low-budget but well-mounted Republic...
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1941
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Morgan King
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1941
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The dangers of the dread venereal disease syphilis are depicted in this earnest drama from the 1940s. The story centers upon...
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1941
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In this drama an eager-beaver reporter loses his job when he prints a false story about a society girl. The unemployed...
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1941
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The Great Train Robbery is not a remake of the 1903 landmark film of the same name; if it had been, it wouldn't have run any...
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1941
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Set in the Caribbean shortly before the U.S. was drawn into WWII, this zombie chiller tells the tale of an American special...
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1941
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The unlikely combination of John Wayne and Joan Blondell adds a bit of vinegar and spice to the so-so costume drama Lady for...
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1941
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In this drama, a South American planter and his neighbors find themselves plagued by vandals who have been destroying their...
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1941
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This campy, entertaining cheapie from PRC Pictures features Bela Lugosi as a chemist who plots an elaborate revenge scheme on...
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Henry Morton
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1941
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In one of his best early Westerns, Tim Holt avenges the accidental shooting of his father by robbing the Cedar Fork bank, who...
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1941
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A gangster and his mob buy a small-town in this warm comedy. They, tired of trying to make it as big city hoods, buy the...
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1941
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The first of director Frank Capra's independent productions (in partnership with Robert Riskin), Meet John Doe begins with...
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1941
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Gene Autry gets help from teenage singer Mary Lee and fetching tap dancer Carol Adams in this tuneful Republic songfest...
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1941
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Alan Baxter, usually seen as a neurotic villain in A pictures, gets to play the good guy in Monogram's Borrowed Hero. Baxter...
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1941
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A fine, action-packed entry in Republic Pictures' long-running "Three Mesqueteers" Western series, West of Cimarron featured...
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1941
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Monogram's Laughing at Danger finds page-boy Frankie Kelly (Frankie Darro) trying to solve a murder at a fancy beauty salon....
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1940
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Renfrew of the Royal Mounted rides again in the Criterion/Monogram "northern" Danger Ahead. There's not a whole lot of plot...
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Inspector
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1940
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James Dunn and Frances Gifford were husband and wife when they costarred in PRC's Hold That Woman. Dunn plays Jimmy Parker,...
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1940
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Bantam-weight western star Don "Red" Barry, Republic's answer to James Cagney, is perfectly cast in One Man's Law. When plans...
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1940
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Another of Columbia's myriad of Jack Holt actioners, Passport to Alcatraz casts the star as supposed enemy saboteur George...
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1940
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This adventure is based on Jack London's tale of a Northwestern woman who owns a riverboat who sends her daughter to...
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Stake
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1940
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The 1940 Warner Bros. quickie A Fugitive From Justice is based on Leonard Neubauer's short story "Million Dollar Fugitive."...
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1940
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I Take This Oath was the first official release from Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC), formerly known as Producers...
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1940
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In his final "Mr. Wong" mystery, Boris Karloff solves the case of who killed shipping magnate Cyrus P. Wentworth...
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Fleming
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1940
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Based on a story by Jack London, this film follows the adventures of young Michael Vance (John Carroll) as he travels with...
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Vance
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1939
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In this western, a courageous rancher single-handedly tries to stop avaricious land grabbers from destroying important...
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1939
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Pat O'Brien is his usual likably obnoxious self in the Warner Bros. newspaper yarn Off the Record. While trying to smash a...
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1939
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1939
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1939
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Cecil B. DeMille takes us back to the 1860s, then rebuilds the first intercontinental railroad in Union Pacific. The...
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1939
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1939
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In this drama, a waitress leaves her husband after getting sick of being alone while her husband, a commercial pilot, plies...
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1939
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A mysterious visitor is found murdered in Mr. Wong's study in this, the third of Monogram's low-budget thrillers, featuring...
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1939
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1939
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Akim Tamiroff plays the title role, an underworld leader who controls all illicit operations in Chinatown. Tamiroff is...
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1939
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The old west collides with the new in this fine remake of RKO's 1932 Come On, Danger!. Or, rather, veteran RKO star...
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1938
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In this western, Roy Rogers plays a cowboy-congressman from a dustbowl state who travels to Washington, DC to lobby for badly...
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Fairbanks
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1938
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1938
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In this romance, a girl from the bayou falls in love with an aspiring lawyer who lives on the nicer side of the tracks. It...
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1938
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In this comedy, two racetrack gamblers lose all their dough by betting on a long shot. Now they must hitchhike to the next...
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1938
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Superintendent
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1938
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Several second-echelon Universal contractees earn their paychecks in the two-week wonder State Police. John King stars as...
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1938
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The visual wizardry in this period action picture about Alaskan fishermen won a special honorary Oscar in the years before...
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1938
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A cast of Warner Bros. B-movie players struggles valiantly with a leaden script in this medical drama about foster brothers...
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1937
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In this urban drama, a teenage street punk learns a valuable lesson about the dangers of crime. Jackie Cooper is the tough...
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1937
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Actual footage of the 1936 Berlin Olympics is rabbeted into the action of this superior Charlie Chan entry. Assigned by the...
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1937
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Nancy Steele was the baby daughter of a munitions tycoon who was kidnapped by an antiwar activist who did it to protest the...
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1937
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Twenty-four-year-old Noah Beery Jr. heads the cast of Universal's The Mighty Treve. Beery, however, does not play the title...
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1937
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Gat Brady (John Litel) is a wealthy gangster, though he's never killed anyone, an he is devoted to his teenaged daughter...
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1937
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In an effort to compete with Republic's popular songfest Westerns, fours music numbers -- including Tumbling Tumbleweeds --...
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1937
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1937
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In this tearjerker, a 10-year old orphan and his crippled sister struggle to survive. The newsboy is devoted to his little...
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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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1937
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Bette Davis' famous walk-out from her home studio of Warner Bros. may have hurt her financially, but in the long run it paid...
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1937
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Scheduled to marry a man she doesn't love (and for good reason), spoiled heiress Barbara Blanchard (Claire Trevor) runs away...
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1937
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A superior Gene Autry Western in every way, Boots and Saddles features child prodigy Ra Hould (aka Ronald Sinclair) as...
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Col. Allen
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1937
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1936
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A postal inspector finds himself caught in a sticky situation as he tries to pin a rap for mail theft upon the owner of a...
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1936
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1936
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1936
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1936
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In this melodrama the captain of a decrepit boat must get it to port but finds that racketeers are trying to prevent him...
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1936
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Warner Bros.' "Perry Mason" series quietly slipped from the "A" to the "B" category with this adaptation of...
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1936
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Spendthrift gives the modern viewer a pretty good idea how Hollywood planned to "mold" the image of new star Henry Fonda. The...
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1936
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1936
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A lesser but still effective entry in the mid-1930s "prison" cycle, Parole catalogues the many problems facing prisoners...
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1936
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Anything Goes is a fun-filled but hardly faithful adaptation of the same-named Cole Porter Broadway musical, with additional...
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1936
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In this musical comedy a Broadway playboy inherits an almost bankrupt girls' school from his late aunt. He breathes life...
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1936
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King of Hockey was one of three low-budget hockey films released during the 1936-37 season, each one produced by a different...
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1936
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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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1935
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Insurance investigator Tom Fletcher (Edmund Lowe) is hot on the trail of an arsonist (please excuse the pun). He is helped...
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1935
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1935
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Directed by former screenwriter Ford I. Beebe, this Tim McCoy Western from Columbia co-starred Robert Allen, a handsome...
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1935
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A romantic triangle during WW I provides the basis of this drama. The trouble begins when a young wife gets involved with a...
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1935
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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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1935
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In this bedroom farce, an ex-wife overhears her former hubby's new wife and her lover planning a tryst for the weekend while...
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1935
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A superior Tim McCoy Western, Justice of the Range featured a range feud between John Mclean (Edward J. LeSaint) and his...
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Hadley Graves
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1935
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A best-selling nonfictional book of the 1920s provided the title for this Will Rogers vehicle. Rogers plays a small town...
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1935
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This espionage thriller with romantic comedy touches was loosely based on the book American Black Chamber by the real-life...
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1935
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This peppy Monogram meller stars Robert Armstrong as a big-city newspaper reporter. After getting a bonus, Armstrong...
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1935
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The Holy Wars are given the usual overblown Cecil B. DeMille treatment in The Crusades. It all begins in the 12th-century AD,...
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1935
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1935
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This musical drama stars Dick Powell as the son of an admiral (Lewis Stone), who'd rather sing than go to sea. Through the...
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1935
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1935
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Based on an obscure stage comedy, the Paramount musical Two for Tonight stars Bing Crosby as would-be composer and playwright...
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1935
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Ellery Queen, the scholarly amateur detective created in 1928 by cousins Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee (who also used...
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1935
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Loretta Young, who became known almost exclusively for playing sweet, wholesome roles, is kind of a shocker in this romantic...
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1934
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In this melodrama, an engineering professor longs to leave his ivory tower so he can be involved in a special project taking...
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1934
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In this drama, two carneys, a card-sharp, and a peep-show performer, find themselves booted out of the show and decide to...
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1934
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In this crime drama, a state trooper falls in love with a night club singer. The club owner is a racketeer using the...
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1934
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1934
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Based on an idea by Will Rogers, the story concerns the efforts by the President of the United States to get the public's...
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1934
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W.C. Fields is in fine fettle as small-town grocer Harold Bissonette (pronounced Biss-o-NAY). Harold dreams of becoming a...
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1934
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Brooklyn tugboat worker Eddie (Eddie Cantor), bullied and cowed by his tough-guy stepfather and stepbrothers (a la...
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1934
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James Cagney manages to retain his pre-Code cockiness within post-Code limitations in the likeable St. Louis Kid. Cagney and...
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1934
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Scrappy society belle Geraldine (Ann Sothern) is The Hell Cat in this peppy Columbia potboiler. Fed up with the intrusions of...
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1934
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Shirley Temple's first starring vehicle casts her as the button-cute daughter of ex-convict Eddie Ellison (James Dunn) and...
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1934
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Written by the prolific Ben Hecht, Upper World is a clash-of-class melodrama set in New York City. Railroad tycoon Alexander...
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1934
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1934
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Society-lawyer Warner Baxter loses his prestige in the legal community when he successfully defends gangster boss...
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1933
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Cecil B. DeMille's This Day and Age was perhaps the most Draconian entry in Hollywood's early-1930s "vigilante" film cycle....
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1933
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Marie Dressler plays the title character, tugboat captain Annie Brennan, in this 1933 Hollywood box office hit. Her husband...
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1933
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What isn't Heroes for Sale about? Within its 71-minute time frame, this film (co-written by "professional cynic"...
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1933
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In 1933, at the height of the bleakness and desperation of the Depression, MGM released this genuine curiosity piece --...
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1933
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In this romance, two travelling sign painters find themselves inspired by a young woman's lovely smile. Soon her face is...
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1933
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The end of prohibition spells the end of business as usual for Chicago gangster Bugs Ahearn (Edward G. Robinson in this...
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1933
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A splashy journalist finds herself embroiled in international intrigue when she hooks up with a sneaky Russian correspondent...
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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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1933
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This story centers around a love triangle between two construction workers and a girl. The film climaxes with a fight on top...
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1933
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Edna May Oliver makes the first of three appearances as Hildegarde Withers, the schoolteacher/sleuth created by mystery...
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1932
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