This truncated screen version of John Steinbeck's best-seller was the first starring vehicle for explosive 1950s screen...
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1955
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The Bowery Boys go to Africa in this entry in the long-running series. They embark upon their adventure after they discover...
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1954
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In this adventure Bomba the Jungle boy helps a Hollywood movie star search the dark, dangerous jungle for her missing...
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1954
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Demetrius and the Gladiators was the sequel to The Robe, and though they were released several months apart, the films were...
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1954
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The 1912 sinking of the luxury liner Titanic is used as a backdrop for a several fictional subplots, chief of which involves...
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1953
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This was the last in a string of spoofs that found the comedy duo tangling with various classic Universal Studios monsters....
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1953
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1953
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Treasure of the Golden Condor is a Technicolor remake of 1942's Son of Fury; both films were based on the same novel by...
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1953
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1953
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Ever since slipping into Public Domain, The Big Trees has become one of the most accessible and oft-televised of...
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1952
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Cripple Creek is an excellent example of Columbia's "A-minus/B-plus" Technicolor westerns of the 1950s. Government agent Bret...
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1952
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Shayne Macgregor
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1952
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Gene Autry and Pat Buttram are innovatively cast as Gene Autry and Pat Buttram in Night Stage to Galveston. Set during the...
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1952
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Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair was Number Four in Universal's immensely successful "B"-picture series. It is giving away...
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1952
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1952
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Auteur theorists may have trouble discerning the "signature" of director Phil Karlson in the Columbia costume adventure Mask...
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1951
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1951
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The real Al Jennings was a wizened little man who, after a largely unsuccessful career as a western outlaw, reformed to the...
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1951
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Rhys Williams is afforded the leading role in Columbia's Tyrant of the Sea. The film borrows a few pages from Jack London's...
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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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1950
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In this lively adventure, a daring Irish leader tires to keep Napoleon from invading Ireland. The hero, in every way a...
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1949
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Producer Hal Wallis evidently hoped to recapture the magic of his earlier Casablanca with 1949's Rope of Sand. To that end,...
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1949
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Director Kurt Neumann, more closely associated with science fiction and mystery programmers, delivers a powerhouse of a...
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1949
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Long before he became a highly respected Wall Street financial adviser, Richard Ney was a minor-league film star. In Secret...
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1949
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1949
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A minor Bulldog Drummond story featuring Conway in his search for a set of lead toy soldiers. The little fighting men were...
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1948
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Set at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses to secede from the state...
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1948
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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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1948
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That Lady in Ermine tells two parallel stories, both taking place in the small Mittel-European duchy of Bergamo, but one set...
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1948
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A group of archeologists is sent to the American Southwest to investigate a tribe's claims that they are descendants of the...
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1948
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A Woman's Vengeance concerns a "likely" murderer, Henry Maurier, played by Charles Boyer. It is no secret that Maurier is...
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1947
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There's oil in them thar hills in this late entry in the long-running Hopalong Cassidy Western series. Or, rather, there is...
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1947
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Douglas Fairbanks Jr. is the title character, a young king exiled by evil conspirators. Forced to live far from his homeland,...
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1947
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Slave Girl is the sort of fare that the Universal higher-ups used to dismiss as "tits and sand;" nonetheless, this kind of...
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1947
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Alan Ladd stars in Calcutta as devil-may-care pilot Neale Gordon. With his equally fearless partners Pedro Blake...
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1947
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If Grecian storyteller Aesop really did exist, he was most likely a black slave. He wasn't an Austrian actor with an Egyptian...
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1946
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Based on the prolific Sir Arthur Conan Doyle mysteries, Sherlock Holmes is on the job again. This time the inmate of a...
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Hamid
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1946
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Alan Curtis plays a hired Union agent who's been dispatched to capture a Confederate gal who's the leader of some ravaging...
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1946
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In this drama two wandering WW II vets visit the family of a former buddy who had been killed in action. Finding the family...
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Matt Wayne
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1946
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The second of William Boyd's self-produced "Hopalong Cassidy" films, Fool's Gold maintains the standards set by the first...
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1946
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The Technicolor swashbuckler Bandit of Sherwood Forest stars Cornel Wilde as Robert of Nottingham, son of the legendary Robin...
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1946
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The penultimate entry in Universal's Sherlock Holmes series, Terror by Night takes place almost exclusively on a speeding...
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1946
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In his final epic Western, Errol Flynn plays cattleman Clay Hardin, who, on a trek south of the border, has discovered that...
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1945
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In another of her series of romantic desert adventures, popular actress Maria Montez is this time Naila, the newly crowned...
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1945
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1945
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The usual modus operandi for Hollywood "through the years" sagas was to gradually age its young actors in the course of the...
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1944
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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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Lost in a Harem is arguably the best of Abbott & Costello's trio of MGM films; it's certainly the silliest, with any number...
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1944
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A new invention, known as the Paratron and vitally important for America's war effort, becomes the focal point in yet another...
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1944
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Someone in London has driven several prominent men to madness and suicide. Normally, Scotland Yard would call in Sherlock...
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1944
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Oriental Dream is the TV title for the 1944 Technicolor version of Kismet. Ronald Colman plays Hadji, "king of beggars" in...
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1944
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Designed as a followup to the enormously successful Casablanca, Passage to Marseille utilizes the talents of many of the on-...
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1944
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In this swashbuckler, a princess is raised by gypsies and becomes their queen. The trouble really begins when a count is...
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1944
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A scientist discovers that he can live forever by receiving gland transplants every ten years. Unfortunately, the unwilling...
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1944
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Engineer Scott Henderson (Alan Curtis) is at a seedy midtown Manhattan bar early one evening, drowning his sorrows over a...
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1944
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1944
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In this western, a paroled desperado and his twin, a preacher, wander about the Old West to bring "salvation." The parson...
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Iron Joe Martin
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1943
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Based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls is a romantic drama set against the turbulent tapestry of the...
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1943
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The Song of Bernadette is a reverent recounting of the life of St. Bernadette of Lourdes. As a teen-aged peasant girl growing...
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1943
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Man from Rio Grande stars Don "Red" Barry as movie cowboy star Lee Grant. The plot finds Grant coming to the rescue of...
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John King
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1943
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The general perception of the Technicolor costume adventure movies that Maria Montez and Jon Hall made for Universal in the...
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1943
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More so than most wartime films, Mission to Moscow must be viewed within the context of its times. Requested by President...
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1943
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From the first frame of its opening credits, Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror promises (and subsequently delivers)...
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1942
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MGM's A Yank at Eton follows the same basic formula as the 1938 Robert Taylor starrer A Yank at Oxford, with a wartime angle...
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1942
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1942
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1942
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Having accidentally caused a merchant ship to blow up, stowaways Bob Hope and Bing Crosby are shipwrecked on the African...
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1942
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In a harem in a Middle Eastern palace, the guardian leads the women he protects in telling the tale of Halroun-Al-Raschid...
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1942
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Universal's "Frankenstein" series descended from the "A" to the "B" category with The Ghost of Frankenstein, though...
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1942
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1942
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1941
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Officially a Charles Starrett western, Riders of the Badlands divides its running time fairly evenly between Starrett and...
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1941
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In this western, a mining engineer vengefully seeks out the claim jumpers that murdered his brother. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1941
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Mutiny in the Arctic was a 1941 entry in Universal's unofficial Richard Arlen/Andy Devine adventure series. Richard and...
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1941
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Frontier marshall Jim Lane (Lon Chaney) is investigating a local Indian tribe that he believes to be responsible for a series...
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1941
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Set in the burning Arabian desert, this action-adventure centers on the attempts of a well-meaning and wealthy fellow to...
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1941
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A schoolteacher battles for women's rights in mid 19th century Wyoming. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1941
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They Met in Bombay is a typical MGM star vehicle, in which the leading players are called upon to carry a pencil-thin...
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1941
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In this crime drama set on the seedy waterfront of San Francisco, a longshoreman studies in his spare time to become an...
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1941
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Gene Autry battles a crooked mine owner in this his signature western from Republic Pictures. Years earlier, Gene promised to...
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1941
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Rawhide Rangers is a satisfyingly equitable blend of western action, music and comedy relief. The villains are a group of...
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1941
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"Even a man who is pure at heart/And says his prayers by night/May become a wolf when the wolf-bane blooms/And the moon is...
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1941
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Promoted as a follow-up to the popular 1939 western Dodge City (which, indeed, was left wide open for a sequel in its closing...
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1940
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1940
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In the 1580s, the Sea Hawks -- the name given to the bold privateers who prowl the oceans taking ships and treasure on behalf...
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1940
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Santa Fe Trail, Errol Flynn's third western, has precisely nothing to do with the titular trail. Instead, the film is a...
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1940
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It's ironic that leading man Jack Holt, who in real life was deathly afraid of flying, should appear in so many...
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1940
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A semi-sequel to the 1933 Universal horror masterwork The Invisible Man, The Invisible Man Returns stars Vincent Price in the...
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1940
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"Strange" is right: this mystical MGM melodrama has to be the oddest of the studio's Clark Gable-Joan Crawford vehicles. When...
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1940
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In this western, a retired marshal must once again put on his badge to protect his town from the vicious desperadoes that...
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Poe Daggett
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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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Retired frontier postal inspector Dan Clark (George O'Brien) is summoned back to active duty when the stagecoach line owned...
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1940
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Texas Stagecoach was one of a group of 1940 Charles Starrett westerns directed by cult favorite Joseph H. Lewis. Outside of...
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1940
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This fine adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic tale about a cursed family opens with a title card that reveals how the...
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1940
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When the Daltons Rode is the much-embellished tale of that celebrated outlaw family, the Daltons. Broderick Crawford,...
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1940
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The adaptation of Nobel Prize-winner John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of dirt-poor Dust Bowl migrants by 4-time...
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1940
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Trail of the Vigilantes was conceived as a straight action picture, but was reshaped during filming into a comedy western in...
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1940
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Set in the years leading up to the Civil War and its outbreak, Dark Command tells a fictionalized version of the story of...
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1940
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The twelve-chapter serial King of the Royal Mounted stars Allan Lane as Zane Grey's fictional Canadian Mountie Sergeant...
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1940
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Though it takes a few liberties with the Arthur Conan Doyle original -- not the least of which is turning Sherlock Holmes...
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1939
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In this patriotic British adventure, two courageous brothers try to keep war from erupting in Africa and stop a...
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1939
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This formula western stars George O'Brien as a member of the Arizona Rangers, a quasi-vigilante society aimed at ridding the...
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1939
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Tom Destry (James Stewart), son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn't believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the object...
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1939
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In keeping with its up-to-date title, the 1939 George O'Brien western Racketeers of the Range is set in "contemporary"...
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1939
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Based on a classic tale from Rudyard Kipling, this melodrama chronicles the desperate attempt of a painter to finish his...
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1939
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Otis Ferguson has said of Each Dawn I Die that "the story is of the kind you would have to see to disbelieve." And to be...
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1939
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A remake of sorts of the 1935 western The Arizonian, this fine George O'Brien oater features Leon Ames as Sheriff Judd...
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1939
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1939
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Basil Rathbone's real-life son, John Rodion, has his head chopped off early on in this historical melodrama often mistakenly...
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1939
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In this North western, a brave Canadian Mountie pursuing a gang of fur thieves finds himself drummed out of the RCMP and...
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1939
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A violin-playing British doctor's life changes forever after he takes in a distraught Austrian ballerina who tries to kill...
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1939
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1938
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1938
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This entry in the Dead End Kids series of adventures makes critical comments about the failings of reform schools. The story...
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1938
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This third film version of Peter B. Kyne's Valley of the Giants benefits from the breahtaking Technicolor location...
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1938
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1938's The Painted Desert borrows the title and precious little else from the 1931 western of the same name. Hero...
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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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In 1882, Mark Twain published a delightful fairy tale "for young people of all ages"; 45 years later, Warner Bros., inspired...
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1937
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Claudette Colbert is a young freethinking woman living in Salem, Massachusetts during the notorious 17th century "witch...
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1937
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Suzy is the film in which Cary Grant, overcome by the beauty and vivacity of Jean Harlow, sings her a love ballad! This...
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1936
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Universal plunged into the clutches of its creditors with its expensive fiasco Sutter's Gold. Edward Arnold plays Swiss...
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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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Warner Bros' Road Gang is a retread of themes first explored (and stock footage first seen) in the studio's earlier...
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Sam Dawson
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1936
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1935
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This truly offbeat filmization of Jean Bart's stage drama The Man Who Reclaimed His Head has been misleadingly released to TV...
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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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Charles Dickens' unfinished novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, has been a source of speculation and controversy ever since...
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1935
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The 1932 publication of Charles Nordhoff and James Norton Hall's Mutiny on the Bounty sparked a revival of interest in the...
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1935
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When British actor Robert Donat dropped out of Warner Bros. Captain Blood, the studio took a chance on its new contractee,...
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1935
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The great wilderness explorer Daniel Boone has many exciting adventures in this family-oriented outdoor actioner that...
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1935
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The otherwise standard series entry Charlie Chan in Paris is distinguished by the presence of actor Keye Luke, making his...
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1935
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In this romantic comedy, a man marries his Russian lover and discovers that she has a large extended family. He is utterly...
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1935
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Twelve years before David Lean's definitive filmization of Dickens' Great Expectations, Hollywood had a go at the novel, with...
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1934
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The first cinematic teaming of horror greats Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi is a bizarre, haunting, and relentlessly eerie...
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1934
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We Live Again was based on Tolstoy's Resurrection; the title was changed upon producer Sam Goldwyn's theory that it meant the...
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1934
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A far from factual filmed biography of Mexican patriot Pancho Villa, Viva Villa! was written by lengendary screenwriter Ben...
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1934
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1934
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Adapted from a "drawn from life" novel by Sir Phillip Gibbs, Captured is the story of the men in a German POW camp during...
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1933
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Previously filmed in 1923, Zane Grey's To the Last Man manages to pack plenty of A-level production values into what was...
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1933
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Easily the best of Eddie Cantor's gargantuan musical comedies for producer Sam Goldwyn, Roman Scandals begins in the...
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1933
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Lionel Barrymore plays a Marshall Field-like Chicago businessman who emerges from the wreckage of the 1871 fire to build a...
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1933
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Jack Mulhall, a silent screen star on the downgrade, delivered one of his last truly memorable screen performances in the...
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Chill Scarpelli
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1932
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Forgotten Commandments is a well-meaning but clumsy attempt to explore the consequences of communism. The story takes place...
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1932
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"So much for Carlotta" muses the head of German Espionage (Lewis Stone), shortly after secret agent Karen Morley is put to...
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1932
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The Russian Revolution provides the backdrop for Paramount's The World and the Flesh. Marked for death by the Bolsheviks, a...
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1932
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A Parisian flower girl is trotted out as the missing Grand Duchess Anastasia in this fast-moving thriller based on a popular...
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1932
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Henry Harrison Kroll's novel Cabin in the Cotton was an attack on wealthy southern landowners who exploited their...
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1932
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On something of a "literary binge" in the early 1930s, low-budget Monogram Pictures acquired the screen rights for the...
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1932
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This thriller involves a shipboard murder, castaways on a desert island, another murder, a wild man, and the hapless hero...
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1932
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In this his first Western of 1932, Tim McCoy is supported by a young John Wayne. Learning that he is a dead ringer for...
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1932
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In this swashbuckling melodrama, set in Budapest, a seductive gold-digger becomes the mistress of a wealthy old man. She,...
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1931
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The Conquering Horde is a remake of the 1924 western epic North of 36, using generous amounts of stock footage from the...
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1931
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A newlywed countess is asked to make a tremendous sacrifice for her husband and herself in this musical comedy-drama. Count...
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1930
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This French epic chronicles the French Revolution as seen by Rouget de Lisle, the man who composed the French national...
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Le Bruin
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1930
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Burgeoning western star George O'Brien starred in this lavishly mounted but otherwise quite commonplace Northwest melodrama...
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1930
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Still in the Hollywood phase of his career, director Alexander Korda made his talking-picture bow with Warner Bros.' The...
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1929
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This drama, based on a Joseph Conrad novel, follows the exploits of a British adventurer who helps hide an island prince and...
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1929
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Released in both silent and sound versions, Isle of Lost Ships stars Jason Robards Sr. as Frank Howard, an accused criminal...
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1929
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This part-talkie (17 minutes of dialogue in its 83-minute running time) stars Janet Gaynor as Christina, the daughter of...
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Dirk Torpe
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1929
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One of Tom Mix's most successful films, this silent Western grossed an impressive $227,200.00 in domestic rentals alone, a...
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An Outlaw
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1928
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Ernst Lubitsch, well-known for his sophisticated romantic comedies, proved that he was equally adept at historical drama in...
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Stefan
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1928
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The great German actor Emil Jannings closed out the American phase of his film career with the Paramount part-talkie...
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1928
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When he tears a ligament in his arm, light heavyweight champion Sandy Donlin (Milton Sills) is forced to take a break from...
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1925
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Jailed for a robbery he didn't commit, Bullets Bernard (Art Acord) enlists an alcoholic jailhouse lawyer (Paul Weigel) to...
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1924
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