Tormented by the neighborhood bully, Beaver (Jerry Mathers) and Wally (Tony Dow) are fascinated with the story woven by dad...
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Geraldine Rutherford
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1957
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Quick on the Trigger was Charles Starrett's second "Durango Kid" picture for 1949. It all begins when ousted sheriff Steve...
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Nora Reed
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1949
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Compared to his later "A" westerns, director Oscar "Budd" Boetticher's The Wolf Hunters is often exasperatingly slow. This...
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Marcia
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1949
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In this entry in the long-running "Bowery Boys" series, Slip Mahoney and his boys witness a murder, but cannot identify the...
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Ann Prescott
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1948
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This star-studded musical drama was largely financed by Theatre Guild, with all proceeds going to various wartime fundraising...
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1943
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This Monogram melodrama is a remake of the 1932 thriller The 13th Guest, which starred Ginger Rogers and Lyle Talbot. In the...
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Marie
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1943
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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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Ellen Sanford
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1942
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In this crime drama, an ambitious law student begins working for a corrupt finance company and becomes the neighborhood...
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1942
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Cinderella Swings It was the last in a series of RKO programmers based on the popular radio series Scattergood Baines (its...
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Sally Burton
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1942
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X Marks the Spot was the first of eight brisk wartime-oriented melodramas, each running slightly under an hour, produced and...
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Linda Ward
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1942
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Roy Rogers champions the cause of Easterner Sylvia Clark (Helen Parrish), who is in danger of losing her father's ranch to...
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Sylvia Clark
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1942
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Joan Crawford is the kissable bride of the title--but when the film opens, matrimony is the farthest thing from her mind....
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Vivian Drew
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1942
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In this musical comedy, a motley band of musicians have only their extreme poverty in common. They end up writing a hit and...
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Helen Bordon
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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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One wonders if the title Too Many Blondes was inspired by the well-publicized romantic peccadilloes of the film's star, Rudy...
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Virginia Kerrigan
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1941
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To those under the age of 60, it should be noted that the title of this lively Universal filler was inspired by a popular...
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Rosita Alvarez
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1941
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Janis Bellacrest
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1940
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In this low-budget musical, two sets of politically ambitious parents attempt to pair up their youngsters who unfortunately...
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Trudie Morgan
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1940
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Best remembered as the film in which 17-year-old Deanna Durbin receives her first screen kiss, First Love is a modernized...
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Barbara Clinton
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1939
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Kay Craig
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1939
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This romance is set during the Dartmouth College Winter Carnival and follows the exploits of a woman recently divorced from...
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Ann Baxter
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1939
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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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Penny
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1938
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In this musical comedy, a girl with a lively imagination gets in hot water when she tries to make her tall tales real. Gloria...
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1938
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The first of the "splinter" groups to emerge from the Dead End Kids was the Little Tough Guys, consisting of veteran...
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Kay Boylan
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1938
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1937
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Anne Shirley is the teenaged "lady" in this filmization of Elizabeth Jordan's novel My Daddy and I. Shirley plays the...
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1936
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Dog of Flanders, the durable novel written in 1872 by the author who signed herself Ouida, was filmed three times, first in...
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Maria
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1935
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This greatest of all Frankenstein movies begins during a raging thunderstorm. Warm and cozy inside their palatial villa, Lord...
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1935
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In this romance, a slightly crooked and highly ambitious mayoral candidate convinces a woman to help him blackmail the...
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1935
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In this melodrama, a devoted father begins feeling unappreciated at home and so embarks upon a clandestine friendship with a...
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1934
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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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Produced by William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan productions for MGM release, Feller Needs a Friend teams child-star...
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1932
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In this two-hanky drama, a physically challenged boy wants his overprotective parents to relinquish their tight control so...
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1932
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William Wellman's landmark gangster movie traces the rise and fall of prohibition-era mobster Tom Powers. We are first shown...
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1931
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In this three-hanky melodrama, an aspiring writer abandons his wife and five children to work more closely with a beautiful...
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1931
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In this crime drama, the writer of a Broadway newspaper column finds himself accused of murder after a showgirl, who had...
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1931
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1930
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The first "epic" western of the talkie era, The Big Trail is motivated by a hero's search for the murderer of his father....
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1930
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In this college campus musical comedy from director James Tinling, the first film in which John Wayne received billing...
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1929
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Jame
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1929
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