This mammoth musical is at base the story of two sailors on leave in Hollywood. Brash Joseph Brady (Gene Kelly) has promised...
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1945
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Director Henry King's adaptation of John Hersey's novel is a faithful telling of the story of Major Joppolo (John Hodiak),...
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Errante
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1945
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If Penthouse Rhythm is paced more like a two-reel comedy than a mini-musical, it may be because the director was...
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1945
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Based on a novel by Barry Fleming, Colonel Effingham's Raid stars Charles Coburn in the title role. Upon retiring from the...
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1945
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Colonel Breckinridge Marshall (Walter Catlett) of Clearwater, GA -- who puts on a big front but is actually only a step away...
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1944
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1944
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Practically everybody on the Warner Bros. lot shows up in the wartime morale-boosting musical extravaganza Thank Your Lucky...
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1943
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Newlywed bliss surround O'Driscoll and Beery until they get on board the ship for their honeymoon in South America. Then she...
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1943
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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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In this drama, set during WW II, a teacher at a military school is derided by his students because he has not joined the...
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1943
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In the last of the Marx Brothers' MGM films, The Big Store, Groucho Marx plays two-bit detective Wolf J. Flywheel, hired by...
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1941
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Mike
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1941
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This upbeat domestic drama chronicles the struggles of a newlywed couple as they try to keep their marital status secret from...
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Tony
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1940
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In this entry in the long running saga of the "Dead End Kids," the East Side boys leave the Big Apple and go to California to...
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1940
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Stereotypes abound in this drama that follows the attempts of a Scottish lad to marry a pretty Irish lassie and join the...
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1940
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This slightly laundered remake of the 1932 courtroom classic The Mouthpiece stars George Brent as brilliant but unprincipled...
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1940
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The Outsider was a remake of the 1931 British film of the same name; both films were based on a popular play by Dorothy...
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1939
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A foreman of a construction site confronts gangsters in this light comedy. ~ Kristie Hassen, Rovi...
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1939
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In this lively boxing comedy, Steve Bishop is a cowboy who works a waiter in an Italian restaurant. He agrees to participate...
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Papa Gambini
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1939
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In this musical drama, a child is abandoned upon the San Francisco docks. He is found and raised by a fisherman. His life is...
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Beppo
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1939
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This drama chronicles the life and times of a notorious gangster. The story begins at his funeral. There a reporter,...
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Guiseppi Peronni
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1939
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In this crime drama, a grizzled cabbie is scammed out of his life savings by a fake finance company. He tries to no avail to...
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Nick Respino
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1939
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John Garfield once more plays a social outcast who's had nothing but lousy breaks. Released from prison for a crime he didn't...
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1939
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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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Zambrogio
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1939
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Everybody Sing is an uncertain blend of screwball comedy and standard MGM musical. Reginald Owen plays Hillary Bellaire,...
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1938
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Set during World War I, Submarine Patrol stars Preston S. Foster as a naval officer demoted for dereliction of duty. He is...
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1938
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In this exciting action film, a young Indy driver endeavors to emulate his famous father, and restore his dad's good...
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Gambini
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1938
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Horse racing provides the framework of this crime drama that centers on an orphan who has been raising a promising horse....
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Papa Gambini
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1938
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In this musical set in swingin' Manhattan, an heiress plans a ballet in the famous Moonbeam ballroom located atop a 100-story...
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1937
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The rise of British entertainer Graci Fields from humble mill girl to the most popular and highest paid performer in Great...
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1937
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In this musical comedy, a crooked record producer uses his mob connections to force performers to do their stuff. The trouble...
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1937
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This romantic tearjerker was the second film based on the popular 1922 stage play. James Stewart stars as Chico, a lowly...
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1937
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Canary-voiced boy wonder Bobby Breen once more croons his way into our hearts in Make a Wish. While vacationing at a boys'...
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Moreta
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1937
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On New Year's Eve, aspiring actress Julia Wayne (Joan Bennett) and chronic gambler Larry Stevens (Joel McCrea), both flat...
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1936
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Mercy killing is the primary topic of this crime drama when a doctor, who is disabled after a terrible accident begs his...
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Luigi
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1936
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1936
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A love triangle forms the basis of this drama. It all begins in a steel mill when a steel worker ignores the besotted gazes...
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Buzell
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1936
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In this musical, a talented young boy escapes from his orphanage and joins a traveling show where he is adopted by a has-been...
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Joe Pasquale
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1936
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The indomitable May Robson is firmly in the driver's seat of this Runyonesque comedy-drama. While riding through Central...
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1935
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This obscure Damon Runyon adaptation stars Jean Parker as Princess O'Hara, the spirited granddaughter of Central Park...
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Spidoni
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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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Cast in the title role Dinky is Jackie Cooper, who wasn't all that dinky by 1935. Mary Astor co-stars as Mrs. Daniels,...
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The Junkman
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1935
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The Unknown Woman is Helen Griffith (Marian Marsh), who unbeknownst to everyone but the audience is a Federal agent. Young...
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Joe Scalise
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1935
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Another of Thorne Smith's slyly naughty fantasy novels, Night Life of the Gods was transferred to the screen with reasonable...
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1935
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1935
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A man who has ruined a woman's life attempts to make good on his debt to her (and his conscience) in this sudsy drama based...
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1935
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Manhattan Moon is predicated on the notion that French songstress Yvonne (Dorothy Page) is so busy with her career that she...
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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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I've Been Around hinges on an unlikely case of mistaken identity. Society girl Drue Waring (Rochelle Hudson) mistakes...
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1935
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In this off-beat crime drama, a philandering husband murders his wife in the midst of a department store by skewering her...
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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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Tony Verdi
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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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After several false starts, opera star Grace Moore became a motion picture success in the sublimely assembled One Night of...
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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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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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Looking for all the world like a 2-reel comedy bloated to 6-reel proportions, Embarrassing Moments was directed by...
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1934
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1934
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In this musical, a radio-announcer is fired after giving a false interview. For consolation he begins to drink heavily. It...
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1934
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Cellini
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1934
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One of the least known of Cary Grant's starring vehicles, Kiss and Make Up was based on a European play by Stephen Bekeffi....
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1934
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1934
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Surprisingly original for an independent production, Two Heads on a Pillow is a fascinated precursor to the more celebrated...
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1934
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Universal's Romance in the Rain is a satire of network radio, a popular target of early-'30s movies. On behalf of dithery...
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1934
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1934
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In this comedy, two impoverished cousins inherit a British mansion and decide that one of them should marry a wealthy...
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1934
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In this comedy, a wealthy socialite pursues a carefree playboy who isn't at all interested in her. After all her regular...
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1934
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1933
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In this comedy, Jimmy Potts (Jimmy Durante) and Elmer J. Butts (Buster Keaton, Jr.) come up with a scheme to start up a beer...
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1933
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Based on an 1830 opera entitled "Fra Diavolo" by Daniel F. Auber, the parts of two bit bandits were built up for Laurel and...
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1933
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1933
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Street Cleaner
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1933
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At first concentrating exclusively on westerns and serials, up-and-coming Mascot Pictures began branching out in the early...
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1933
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In this comedy a maid and a butler work for a very rich man. The trouble begins when their employer dies and leaves his...
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1933
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A man's addiction to betting on the horses severely disrupts his love life in this comedy. He, a plumber, and his fiancee, a...
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1933
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In this western, a newcomer to a Western community is suspected of precipitating a crime wave. To prove his innocence and...
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Tony Garboni
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1933
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This comedy is last entry in the five-movie series "The Cohens and Kellys." In this episode, Sidney and Murray are competing...
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1933
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One wonders if William Wyler ever gave Her First Mate a second thought when he was busy directing such subsequent films as...
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1933
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There can never be Too Much Harmony in a Bing Crosby picture, not even in a bucolic backstage musical like this. Crosby plays...
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1933
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Buster Keaton's best sound feature casts the Great Stone Face as Professor Post, a naïve college pedant who mistakenly...
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1932
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1932
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1932
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Maggie Warren (Marie Dressler) is the matriarch of a banking family who has run the Warren Bank for years, until she turns it...
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1932
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In this football drama, a tough steelworker's son wins a scholarship to Yale and attempts to use his talent on the football...
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1932
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1932
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1932
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As indicated by its "catchphrase" title, Okay America is one of several early-1930s films based on the exploits of gossip...
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1932
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This war drama, set in a snow covered Tyrolean pass during WW I, chronicles a strange situation between an Austrian...
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1932
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Completed in mid-1930, Scarface, based on Armitage Trail's novel of the same name, might have been the first of the great...
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1932
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Roly-poly comedian Jack Oakie in a serious role? Yes, that is exactly what you get with Uptown New York, an otherwise humdrum...
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1932
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It is difficult to determine who is the more ferocious character in this film: The real shark seen in the underwater...
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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 romantic boxing drama, an up-and-comer gets creamed in a fight and decides it is time to take a promoter's advice...
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1932
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In this romance, a recently impoverished but formerly wealthy young woman ends up working as a nightclub hostess. There she...
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Washroom Attendant
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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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1932
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Based on a novel by Rian James, Hat Check Girl stars Sally Eilers as the title character, a pert little number named Gerry...
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1932
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Though silent-screen favorite William Haines wasn't able to sustain his popularity into the talkie era, he insisted upon...
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1931
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A woman trying to live down her past finds it coming back to haunt her in this drama. Steve Pelton (Owen Moore) is the leader...
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1931
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1931
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Officially released as The New Adventures of Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford, this William Haines vehicle was snappily adapted by...
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1931
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1931
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1931
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1931
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1931
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Anton Donatelli
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1930
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Greta Garbo appears here (in her second talking film) as an Italian singer who seduces a young priest into falling for her....
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1930
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The Italian operetta Sei Tu L'Amore (Is It Love?) was lensed in Hollywood with an all-Italian cast. Enrico Armetta (later...
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The Exporter
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1930
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This touching drama follows the exploits of a big-hearted businessman. The financier is just about to close a major deal...
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1930
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Though he plays an Italian-American character in Ladies Love Brutes, George Bancroft refreshingly avoids the ethnic...
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1930
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The odd combination of Vilma Banky and Broadway import Edward G. Robinson starred in this early sound version of Sidney...
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1930
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Richard Dix plays a working stiff who submits to an odd experiment. It is scientist Allen Kearns' contention that a man and a...
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1930
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1930
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1929
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In this drama, an impoverished songwriter from the South travels to Tin Pan Alley with his trusty piano. He stays at a...
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1929
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Warner Baxter, sporting a black mustache and a musical-comedy Mexican accent, stars as the Cisco Kid, the "Robin Hood of the...
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Barber
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1929
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Any movie that starts Jewish entertainer George Jessel as an Italian accordionist named Luigi can't be all bad. In love with...
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1929
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1929
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Mascetto
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1928
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Sammy Cohen, Fox Studios' resident Jewish comic, heads the cast of Homesick. This one is all about a cross-country bicycle...
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1928
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In 1927, Janet Gaynor won the first Academy Award for Best Actress with her performance in this film, among the most...
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1927
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Once again the battle between cattle ranchers and encroaching sheep farmers takes center stage in a silent western, this time...
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1926
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Captain Richard Decatur (Edmund Lowe) is a young commander who is an undercover agent for the U.S. secret service. His ship...
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1923
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Based on a popular French novel and the 1913 serial Fantômas starring René Navarre, this chapterplay featured character actor...
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1921
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1919
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Filmmaker Herbert Brenon indulged in his usual spectacular excesses in The Eternal Sin. Victor Hugo's novel Lucretia Borgia...
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1917
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