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1957
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1950
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In 1949, Paramount put together a film version of the radio series My Friend Irma. It was assumed that the main attraction...
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1950
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Though cheaply produced in the time-honored tradition of PRC Productions, The Lady from Chungking was nothing if not timely....
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Gen. Kaimura
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1943
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In this drama, based on a popular radio program, the leader of a ring of burglars suffers a blow to the head and loses his...
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Joe
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1943
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Those obviously hastily assembled to cash in on current headlines, Manila Calling shows no signs of this haste in its...
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1942
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In this crime drama, a remake of Forgotten Faces (1936), a convict busts out of prison to protect his daughter from her...
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Stubby
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1942
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Republic's ongoing professional association with the celebrated "Ice-Capades" skating show yielded a number of flashy but...
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Duke Baldwin
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1942
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Judy Canova plays Bessie Cobb, a kitchen worker at a Miami hotel who happens to have a crackerjack singing voice. The bell...
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1942
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Filmed in the months immediately following Pearl Harbor, 20th Century-Fox's Little Tokyo USA is 63 minutes' worth of...
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Takimura
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1942
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A collegiate football player becomes the campus laughing-stock when he scores the winning touchdown--for the wrong team. The...
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Big George Kilraine
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1942
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Charlie Chan in Rio is a remake of 1931's Black Camel, one of the few pre-1934 "Charlie Chan" entries still in existence....
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1941
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Republic Pictures obviously hoped to build vaudevillian Eddie Foy Jr. into a major screen comedian, as witness such efforts...
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Cash Nichols
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1941
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Bucolic lawyer John Wayne takes on big-city corruption in A Man Betrayed. He sets out to prove that an above-suspicion...
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1941
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Like 1940's Melody Ranch, the 1941 Gene Autry vehicle Down Mexico Way was designed as a "special", to be promoted separately...
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Pancho Grande
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1941
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1940
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This typically economical Edward Small historical drama stars Jon Hall as legendary frontiersman Kit Carson. Wasting no time,...
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Lopez
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1940
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Frank Morgan and Billie Burke, who'd previously costarred in MGM's Wizard of Oz, head the cast of the minor but entertaining...
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1940
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A remake of Racetrack, King of the Turf stars Adolphe Menjou as a seedy, alcoholic bookie with a long-dormant streak of...
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1939
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This second of three movie versions of P.C. Wren's adventure novel Beau Geste is a virtual scene-for-scene remake of the 1927...
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1939
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How could anyone dislike a film with the title Lady and the Mob? Sweet Fay Bainter stars as eccentric dowager Hattie Leonard,...
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1939
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1939
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In this episode of the popular detective series, Chan attends a WW I reunion in Paris. While catching up with his buddies,...
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1939
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In this courtroom drama a countrified prosecutor deliberately fails in his attempt to convict a notorious gangster so he can...
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Marco
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1939
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Louis Armstrong steals the show as the groom to Jeepers Creepers, a skittish racehorse that can only settle down and run when...
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1939
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Trouble follows an American photojournalist in Paris when he meets an exotic woman in Marseille. Initially he had come to...
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1939
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District attorney Walter Pidgeon pursues the conviction of criminals so diligently that word has gone out in the state prison...
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Joe Silenus
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1939
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A young punk hooks up with a mobster and helps him rob a gas station in this crime drama. From there the crimes become more...
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1939
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This timely entry in Fox's Charlie Chan series is set in Paris during the Munich Crisis of 1938. Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler)...
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Marcel
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1939
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In this adventure, set in Shanghai, a gunrunner gets entangled with a conspiracy to deliver customs certificates....
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1938
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In this socially conscious drama a sextet of juvenile delinquents flee a crime screen in their seedy ghetto and wind up...
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1938
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In this mystery programmer, a prizefighter dies in the midst of a match, but evidence suggests that it was a dose of poison...
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1938
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While New York Sleeps is when fast-talking reporter Barney Callahan (Michael Whalen) prowls the night beat for a great...
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1938
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In this crime drama, an undercover cop infiltrates a crime syndicate being run by an incarcerated mob boss who conducts his...
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Panatella
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1938
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1938
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Peter Lorre makes his fifth appearance as J. P. Marquand's polite but deadly Japanese sleuth Mr. Moto. This time Moto is...
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Ernst Litmar
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1938
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The Jones Family heads to Gay Paree in celebration of the 25th wedding anniversary of Pa (Jed Prouty) and Ma (Spring...
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1938
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Gary Cooper stars in this lavish and often comic retelling of the life of the famed Italian explorer. Marco Polo (Cooper)...
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1938
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Slight Case of Murder is a breakneck-paced comedy starring Edward G. Robinson as a tough but good-hearted bootlegger. When...
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1938
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Charlie Chan was the Jessica Fletcher of the 1930s; no matter where he took a vacation, someone got murdered! This time, the...
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French Police Inspector
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1937
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1937
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In this adventure set in Cairo, two foreign correspondents are assigned to investigate a ring of arms smugglers. One of them...
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Palmo
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1937
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Jack Holt is so tight-jawed in Outlaws in the Orient that one wonders how his bridgework will hold up. Holt plays Chet Eaton,...
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Ho-Fang
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1937
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In New York to attend a police testimonial in his honor, Honolulu detective Charlie Chan runs smack dab into another murder....
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1937
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Hotshot attorney Jimmy Hughes (Preston S. Foster) prides himself on never backing down from a dare. Thus, when he is goaded...
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1937
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Lively June (Jane Withers), teen-aged daughter of mystery writer Waldo Everett (Jon Qualen), who calls her "Angel," becomes...
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Bob Regan
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1937
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Sometimes it seemed as if Brian Donlevy played nothing but G-men during his years at 20th Century-Fox. In Midnight Taxi,...
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Lucky Todd
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1937
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In this detective adventure, a young woman is accused of stealing a valuable necklace from her boss and takes off for Spain...
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1937
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The Devil Is a Sissy deserves an historical footnote as the only film to team three of the biggest child stars of the 1930s:...
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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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1936
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The Gay Desperado is a 1936 musical lampooning the then-popular gangster pictures. Leo Carrillo plays a genial Mexican...
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Campo
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1936
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Chan Lo
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1936
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When New York police commissioner Lewis J. Valentine instructed his men that the best way to handle criminals was to "muss...
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1936
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The MGM historical "spectacular" San Francisco was allegedly based on a three-sentence synopsis, submitted verbally to...
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1936
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Ace reporter Casey (Stu Erwin) and city editor Blaine (Paul Kelly) are agreed on only one point: women are trouble! This is...
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1936
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In this action film, a rebellious cop doesn't hesitate to bend the rules when it comes to roughing up prisoners and bringing...
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1936
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In his first American film, Peter Lorre portrays egg-bald Dr. Gogol. A brilliant and highly respected surgeon, Gogol would...
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1935
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In this western, a cowpoke from Wyoming rides into the big city to look for a wife. Instead he finds himself investigating...
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1935
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In G Men, Warner Bros. "bad boy" James Cagney plays James "Brick" Davis, a young lawyer whose education has been financed by...
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1935
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1935
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In this crime drama, a woman loses custody of her baby boy after her rich husband dies. She later gets a job working in a...
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1935
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1935
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Reckless is a delightfully breezy screwball comedy from the same director (Victor Fleming) and star (Jean Harlow) responsible...
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1935
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In this odd-ball comedy, a self-sacrificing but eccentric mother attempts to guide her equally eccentric family. She has two...
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1934
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The rivalry between two deep-sea diver is chronicled in this adventure. The trouble begins when a young woman inherits one...
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1934
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Although it is included in TV's "Shock Theater" passage, there's nothing overtly frightening about the heavily plotted...
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1934
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In this crime drama, Flicker Hayes (James Cagney) is a safecracker who has just been released following a stretch in prison;...
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J.C. Ward
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1934
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A sleazy lawyer is the focus of this courtroom drama. His favorite technique is to teach his female clients how to use their...
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1934
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Previously filmed in 1919 and 1927, Max Marcin's stage success Cheating Cheaters made its talking-picture bow courtesy of...
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1934
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Wounded criminal Lucky Wilson (Robert Montgomery) takes refuge in a small Connecticut farm. He falls in love with...
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1934
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William Gargan plays his first movie detective (but definitely not his last) in Columbia's The Lineup. The hero, a gumshoe...
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Mile-a-Way
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1934
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Dore Schary, then just cutting his teeth in the movie biz, was one of the scripters of Columbia's Fury of the Jungle. The...
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Frenchy
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1934
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Filmed on what MGM considered a B-picture budget and schedule (14 days, which at Universal or Columbia would have been...
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1934
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A Very Honorable Guy is an interesting if not terribly funny change of pace for comedy star Joe E. Brown. This Damon Runyon...
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1934
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1934
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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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1933
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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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Loaned to MGM by her home studio of Warner Bros., Loretta Young suffers her way through the title role in Midnight Mary. A...
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1933
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Police Car 17 is one of a handful of non-westerns made for Columbia by cowboy star Tim McCoy. Motor patrolman Tim Conlon...
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Johnny Davis
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1933
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This drama is set aboard a cross-country train bound for New York. Aboard this train is a silk manufacturer from Seattle who...
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1933
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1933
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Jimmy Dolan (Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.) is a light heavyweight champion, with the world at his feet. Then he gets into a fight...
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1933
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Gangster Cagney allows his powerful political connections to appoint him "deputy inspector" of a state reform school. There...
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1933
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One of the earliest girls-in-prison yarns, Ladies They Talk About has everything but Ida Lupino as the warden--and had she...
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1933
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Sent to Sing Sing prison, influential crook Tom Connors (Spencer Tracy) is unregenerate and refuses to adhere to the rules....
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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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1933
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In this rough-and-tumble action comedy, Chuck Connors (Wallace Beery) and Steve Brodie (George Raft) are friendly rivals on...
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1933
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Jenny (Ruth Chatterton) becomes pregnant by a young man who is killed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Bearing her child...
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1933
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Two small-town youths head for the Big Apple and somehow get mixed up with mobsters during a visit to the title park in this...
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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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Scarlatti
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1932
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In a war-torn world, enemies of the United States use pacifists as pawns to insure that the Government doesn't spend too much...
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1915
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