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1947
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In this is '40s western a U.S. marshal chases a band of big-name bandits into no-man's territory (land outside of U.S....
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1946
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Without Reservations has to be the least typical John Wayne picture of the postwar era. Top billing is bestowed upon...
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1946
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This is director Frank Capra's classic bittersweet comedy/drama about George Bailey (James Stewart), the eternally-in-debt...
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1946
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In this engagingly silly musical fantasy from the waning days of WW2, Fred MacMurray stars as Bill, who wants to serve his...
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1945
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In this romantic drama, an office clerk's quiet personal life is disrupted when a sick woman appears at his doorstep in...
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Prewitt
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1944
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Higher and Higher was advertised by RKO Radio as "The Sinatra Show", and small wonder: In his first major film role, Frank...
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1944
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In this musical, an unemployed swing-band singer cannot hook up with another group and so becomes a switchboard operator at a...
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1944
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Keep 'Em Slugging was the last of Universal's "Little Tough Guys" series-which, like Monogram's "East Side Kids", was an...
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1943
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Deanna Durbin is all grown up in Hers to Hold, the unofficial sequel to her "Three Smart Girls" films of the 1930s. Durbin...
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1943
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Republic Pictures' final 1942 release was the "Three Mesquiteers" western Shadows on the Sage. The better-than-average plot...
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Lippy
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1942
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Thanks to the canny production team of Maurice and Franklin King, I Killed That Man is superior to the general run of...
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1942
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In this crime comedy, a gang of reformed criminals takes over the town bank and must then fight with their temptation to rob...
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1942
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Victor Mature and Lucille Ball top the star-studded cast of RKO Radio's Seven Days Leave. Mature plays Johnny Grey, an...
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1942
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Despite its title and the fact that it was made by Universal Studios, 1942's The Silver Bullet has nothing to do with...
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1942
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When a common man pretends to be wealthy, hordes of desperate gold-diggers flock to win his affections. Before long, the...
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1942
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The first "Mexican Spitfire" entry of 1942, Mexican Spitfire at Sea is set mainly on a Hawaii-bound ocean liner. Combining...
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1942
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Manpower was Warner Bros' latest reworking of 1932's Tiger Shark, with power-company linemen substituting for tuna fisherman....
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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 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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Neither James Cagney nor Bette Davis were particularly pleased with the outdated screwball comedy The Bride Came C.O.D., but...
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1941
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Woo-woo Hugh Herbert is the star of Universal's Slightly Tempted. Herbert plays a kleptomaniac who promises to go straight...
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1940
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Despite its comparatively upbeat ending, Let Us Live is one of the darkest and gloomiest films of the late 1930s. As working...
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1939
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The real Frank and Jesse James were murderous thugs, light years away from the Robin Hood image imposed on them by...
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1939
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In this drama, a vengeful woman searches for the man she blames for her sister's suicide. To get at him, the woman...
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1939
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In this musical comedy of errors, David Brassard, Sr. (William Collier, Sr.) has his heart stolen from him by a conniving,...
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1938
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Jack LaRue goes through his usual unsavory paces in the not-bad cheapie I Demand Payment. The film is one of several...
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1938
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Republic Pictures borrowed heavily from Damon Runyon when they crafted this tuneful Gene Autry series entry, restored to its...
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1938
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Harold Lloyd plays a professor of Egyptology, frightened by the notion that he has fallen under an ancient Egyptian curse....
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1938
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In this tuneful, romantic drama, an Australian opera star (Grace Moore) wants to perform in a major U.S. festival but cannot...
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1937
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Produced by the Halperin Brothers, the folks responsible for the early-talkie horror classic White Zombie, Nation Aflame is...
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Adams
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1937
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Virtually all of the Chesterfield Pictures efforts of the 1930s served as starring vehicles for Hollywood's best character...
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1936
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Although Monogram Pictures hadn't yet reorganized as a separate entity in 1936, a few of its releases still managed to make...
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Honest John
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1936
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The "Crime Club" detective-novel series spawned a film counterpart in 1935, which for the next four years bounced around such...
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1936
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After several appearances as a "good girl," little Jane Withers returns to her patented screen brattiness in Gentle Julia....
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1936
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The Gorgeous Hussy purports to be based on the life of Margaret "Peggy" O'Neill, the controversial wife of early 19th-century...
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1936
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1936
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1935
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In this comedy, a con artist gets elected to the chamber of commerce in his home town. He then goes there with three fellow...
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1935
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It's the wild and woolly waterfront world of San Francisco in the late 1800s in this rambling tale of an outrageous nightclub...
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1935
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1935
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1935
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In this drama, an amateur pilot is driven to living life in the fast lane after he pilots that plane that crashed and killed...
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1935
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In this adaptation of author de la Roche's chronicle of the passionate lives of the strange Whiteoaks of Jalna, their...
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1935
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Per its title, this merry Warner Bros. musical was filmed on location in the resort community of Agua Caliente. Pat O'Brien...
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1935
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The classic comedians Burns and Allen are featured in this fast-paced farce that includes an assortment of corny vaudeville...
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1935
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Calling All Cars was the title of a popular radio anthology of the mid-1930s, broadcast exclusively on the West Coast. The...
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1935
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In this comedy, a toothpaste magnate's mischievous daughter, tired of her father's traditional ways of conducting business,...
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1935
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In this newspaper drama, a reporter known for criticizing the top city official has his column taken over by the man's...
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1935
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Just after completing It Happened One Night, director Frank Capra churned out a bread-and-butter picture titled Broadway...
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1934
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The Lost Jungle is a feature-length version of the 12-episode Mascot serial of the same name. Legendary animal trainer...
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1934
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Unable to secure Hollywood-studio backing for his Depression-era agrarian drama Our Daily Bread, director King Vidor financed...
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1934
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In this thriller, a young woman marries a dashing young man who, unbeknownst to her, is a jewel thief. After his latest job,...
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1934
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1934
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I'll Fix It is a strange bit of goods, condemning the excesses of capitalism while still allowing the chief capitalist to...
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1934
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Frank Capra's seminal screwball comedy, which won all five major Academy Awards for 1934, is still as breezy and beguiling...
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1934
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James Cagney runs a shady missing-heir tracing service, occasionally providing phony heirs in order to collect his fee. He...
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1934
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Dry-goods store owner Tillie Prescott (ZaSu Pitts) has promised to marry meek barber Chris Peterson (El Brendel), but he...
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1934
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Columbia Pictures workhorse Lambert Hillyer was both writer and director of Men of the Night. Bruce Cabot plays Kelly, a...
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1934
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As the title song says, you go to those shows to see those beautiful dames--and there's dames aplenty in this 1934...
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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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In this drama, a fighter's fiancee refuses to marry him until he can overcome his insane jealousy. He does and they marry....
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1934
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After suffering magnificently in picture after picture at RKO and Paramount, Helen Twelvetrees was subjected to even more...
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1933
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A vicious spiral of revenge in a traveling circus is the basis for this fast-paced thriller. The circus has stopped to...
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1933
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Buster the dog is the star of this comedy as he stays loyal to his master through good times and bad times. ~ Rovi...
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1933
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This Monogram melodrama gets off to a quick start as a young man is shot to death -- while he's being led to the electric...
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1933
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This drama, set within a boarding house, centers around a pregnant show girl abandoned by her boyfriend, a married man who...
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1933
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In this drama, a recently convicted criminal boards a train bound for the prison where he will be hanged. His wife rides...
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1933
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Hard to Handle stars James Cagney as a fast-talking promoter who pounces upon every current fad and foible to make a quick...
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1933
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The 1933 State Fair was the first of three film versions of the Phillip Stong bestseller. Some consider it the best of the...
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1933
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Rivalry between two towns for the honor of becoming county seat turns violent in this interesting Ken Maynard Western from...
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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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We first lay eyes on Jimmy Cagney in Lady Killer while he's working as a movie theater usher. This job lasts just long enough...
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1933
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In this grim drama, a conniving young man is brought up on charges of reckless driving. To "prove" his innocence and good...
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1933
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Based on Dicken's classic novel, this is the first sound version of the oft-filmed tale of a plucky orphan who struggles to...
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1933
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1933
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Bank president Thomas Dickson (Walter Huston) has instituted a lending policy that shows great faith in ordinary people but...
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1932
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The factual story of H.A.W. Tabor and "Baby Doe" was the inspiration of Silver Dollar. Edward G. Robinson plays the Tabor...
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1932
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1932
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This Depression-era morale-booster looks at the ups and downs of a banking family from the 1870s to the 1930s (and borrows...
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1932
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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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In this romance a school marm takes a cruise and falls for an unobtainable man, a district attorney married to a crippled...
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1932
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In this comedy, a hard-working husband loses his job and his wife becomes the bread winner. The husband feels demeaned by...
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1932
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Alfred E. Green directs the political satire The Dark Horse, starring Bette Davis early in her career. The progressive party...
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1932
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Fay Wray screams when she first lays eyes on Lionel Atwill in Doctor X, but don't let that fool you. Atwill plays Fay's...
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1932
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1931
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1931
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In this musical comedy, Fred Von Wellingen (Ben Lyon), the scion of a wealthy German family, has fallen in love with Lia...
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1931
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