So baseball pictures never make money, eh? Try telling that to MGM, which raked in a box office gross of $4 million on their...
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1949
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In this film noir drama, Bill Saunders (Burt Lancaster) is a former Prisoner of War living in England whose experiences have...
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1948
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A man who dreams of seeing the future discovers the horrible burden that it can carry in this film noir suspense story....
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1948
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Set in pre-World War I Austria, this relatively sweet and cheerful film marks writer/director Billy Wilder's first and last...
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1948
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1948
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Often mistakenly identified as a sequel to My Friend Flicka, Thunder in the Valley actually has more in common with the...
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Tammas
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1947
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A woman trying to solve the mystery of a friend's murder finds that she may be the next victim in this suspense story set in...
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Threadbare Man
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1947
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1947
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Ayn Rand wrote this adaptation of Chris Massie's book Pity Mr. Simplicity, about a soldier who falls in love with a former...
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1945
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Jim Hetherton (Franchot Tone), the scion of an aristocratic rural English family, was traumatized from boyhood by a shooting...
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1944
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1944
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An innocent man is drawn into a web of espionage when he unwittingly comes into possession of a crucial piece of microfilm in...
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1944
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The Lodger was the third film version of Mrs. Marie Belloc-Lowndes' classic "Jack the Ripper" novel, and in many eyes it was...
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1944
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Although National Velvet was the first starring role for 11-year-old Elizabeth Taylor, the early part of the film belongs to...
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1944
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The White Cliffs of Dover is one of those overlong MGM wartime films that everyone seems to have seen a part of, but no one...
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1944
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Though it is not based on any Conan Doyle story, The Scarlet Claw is regarded by Baker Street aficionados as the best of...
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1944
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The 80-star cast of Forever and a Day would certainly not have been feasible had not most of the actors and production people...
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1943
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Originally slated for Paramount release, Buckskin Frontier was ultimately distributed by United Artists. Richard Dix stars as...
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1943
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As Academy Award-winning films go, Mrs. Miniver has not weathered the years all that well. This prettified, idealized view of...
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1942
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One Night in Lisbon is one of several pre-1942 films which used the screwball-comedy form to comment upon the raging war in...
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1941
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1941
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Given the omnipresence of the Motion Picture Production Code in 1940, the second film version of Robert E. Sherwood's...
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1940
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The schizophrenic screenplay of The Earl of Chicago is rendered even more bizarre by the uneven performance by Robert...
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1940
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Dorothy Lamour once again wraps a variety of alluring costumes around her hourglass frame in the Paramount bread-and-butter...
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1940
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The fourth cinematic version of the novel Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman by E.W. Hornung, this romantic caper is a virtual...
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1939
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Directed with customary haste by Woody Van Dyke, Stand Up and Fight is an excellent dual vehicle for veteran Wallace Beery...
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1939
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1939
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This harmless Universal musical comedy is worth having as one of the few filmed records of legendary Broadway comedian...
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1938
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Both film versions of Phillip Barry's stage comedy Holiday have their merits, but the 1938 version has the added advantage of...
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1938
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Musical comedy star Phil Regan headlines this modest Republic tunefest. He plays an American bandleader who inherits an Irish...
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1938
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This action drama features John Wayne in an early, non western role. He plays a trucker who owns half of a small but...
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1937
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Girl with Ideas was Universal Pictures' version of MGM's matchless Libeled Lady. Wendy Barrie plays a society girl miffed at...
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1937
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1936
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Briefly breaking away from her high-gloss modern soap operas, Kay Francis stars as Florence Nightingale in this reverent...
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1936
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1936
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The ambitious Republic melodrama The Girl From Mandalay was based on Tiger Valley, a novel by Reginald Campbell. The title...
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1936
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As the Panama Canal is under construction, a group of doctors try to find a cure for yellow fever, or "Yellow Jack," a deadly...
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1936
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This second filmization of Leo Tolstoy's novel is widely regarded as the best version. Greta Garbo plays the title character,...
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1935
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Although some purists hold out for Duck Soup (1933), many Marx Brothers fans consider A Night at the Opera the team's best...
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1935
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The Great Impersonation is based on the E. Phillips Oppenheim espionage novel of the same name, previously filmed in 1921....
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1935
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Legendary stage actress Pauline Lord made but a few films, but was always worth watching whenever she took command of the...
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1935
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Beyond the fact that both films shared a "railroad" background, RKO Radio's 1935 actioner The Silver Streak bore no relation...
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1934
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A few unique touches aside -- notably the opening costume-party scene, in which the revellers are dressed as insects -- Rip...
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1934
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Down on his luck in 1934, Erich Von Stroheim accepted a leading role in the Chesterfield Pictures cheapie Fugitive Road,...
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1934
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An old man learns the sad truth of the old saw about being careful what you wish for in this horror outing that is based on...
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1933
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Tom Mix once again goes up against corrupt Fred Kohler in this would-be epic Western filmed on-location at Kanab, UT....
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1933
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Often (and accurately) described as a model of the whodunit genre, The Kennel Murder Case stars William Powell, making his...
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1933
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The only Academy Award winning picture for Fox Studios (in its pre-20th Century-Fox era), Cavalcade is a stately film...
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1933
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Directed by the prolific Harry L. Fraser, Texas Pioneers features laconic silent screen cowboy Bill Cody as a cavalry captain...
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corporal
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1932
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Charles Dickens' novel Dombey and Son is set in 1931 America in this interesting drama that centers on an egotistical,...
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1931
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In this romantic comedy, a woman is utterly bored by her nice life and devoted husband, so she decides to find a lover. She...
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1931
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1931
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Cowboy star Bob Steele looks embarrassed throughout most of Headin' North, as well he should. The film begins conventionally...
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1930
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Even allowing for the comparative freedom of the pre-Production Code years, 1930's Hell Harbor was pretty strong meat for its...
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1930
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Set during World War I, The Dawn Patrol is a study of the pressures and pitfalls of authority. A British Royal Flying Corp...
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1930
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In this adventure, trouble ensues when two American French Legionnaires fall for the same girl and begin fighting over her...
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Bert the Cockney
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1930
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1929
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In this western, set aboard a California bound stagecoach, a man and woman passenger begin a flirtation that is interrupted...
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1929
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Blond Helen Foster, who was 22 at the time, played the title role in this moralistic silent drama about teenaged Cynthia...
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1928
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Another of Goldwyn's successful pairings of Ronald Colman and Vilma Banky, Two Lovers was the last of their co-starring...
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1928
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Reed Howes stars as Mike O'Malley, a daring racecar driver, known as "The Scorcher" for his tendency to "burn up" the track....
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1927
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Produced and directed by poverty row regular Duke Worne, this silent Northwest melodrama starred Napoleon (who, of course,...
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1927
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Silent film star Colleen Moore and Charlie Plumb's comic strip character Ella Cinders had two basic things in common: their...
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1926
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The Enchanted Cottage stars Richard Barthelmess as Oliver, a physically and emotionally wounded World War I veteran who comes...
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1924
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1921
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