Marlon Brando went out on yet another creative limb when he insisted upon playing sly, philosophical Okinawan interpreter...
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1956
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In this western, a lawman tries to mediate between irate farmers and angry ranchers who are trying to decide the fate of a...
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1956
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The breathtakingly beautiful Technicolor cinematography of Irving Glassberg is but one of the many small pleasures of the...
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1956
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Two brothers face their personal demons in this crime melodrama. Donald Martin (Van Johnson) is an alcoholic criminal who has...
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1956
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One of the most entertaining of the Western movies to come out of the 1950s, this is a Stewart vehicle in which he must take...
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1955
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Ambitious but impecunious medical student Lucas Marsh (Robert Mitchum) marries the older and (in this film, at least) not...
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1955
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Inspired in part by the true story of baseball great Ted Williams, who after serving in World War II was drafted to serve in...
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1955
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The Glenn Miller Story traces Miller's rise from pit-orchestra trombone player to leader of the most successful big band of...
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Chummy MacGregor
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1954
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At the height of the popularity of his Dragnet TV series, producer/director/star Jack Webb struck a deal with Warner Bros. to...
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1954
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The horrors suffered by American prisoners of war at the hands of the North Koreans during the Korean war provide the basis...
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1954
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1954
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The Fortyniners stars Wild Bill Elliot as California-based federal agent Sam Nelson. While others pan for gold, Sam searches...
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Alf Billings
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1954
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Thunder Bay was another inspired collaboration between star James Stewart and director Anthony Mann. Stewart plays an ex-GI...
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1953
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Based on William Fay's short story The Disappearance of Dolan, Champ for a Day stars Alex Nicol as young pugilist George...
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1953
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Joan Crawford's first Technicolor feature has come to be known as a textbook example of "high camp." Crawford stars as...
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Joe Denner
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1953
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Bob Danvers, an arrogant, irresponsible rodeo star, retaliates for losing his wife by having an affair with a pretty fan in...
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1953
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This Western classic stars Gary Cooper as Hadleyville marshal Will Kane, about to retire from office and go on his honeymoon...
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1952
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1952
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Stanley Kramer's production unit at Columbia Pictures was known for its willingness to tackle subject matter that was not...
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1952
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1952
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Of all the "kill the commies" cold war films of the 1950s, John Wayne's Big Jim McLain may well be the worst. Certainly it's...
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1952
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James Cagney signed on to play Captain Flagg in 20th Century Fox's 1952 remake of the 1926 classic What Price Glory after...
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1952
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1952
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In his second and last Western for Republic Pictures, former bandleader Vaughn Monroe plays a marshal returning to Tombstone...
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1952
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1952
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The Well is a modest but generally effective plea for racial tolerance. Based loosely on a real incident, the film tells of...
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1951
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When I Grow Up is an uncharacteristically modest film from producer Sam Spiegel (during his "S. P. Eagle" years)....
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1951
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"The story you are about to hear is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent." Thus began each and every...
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Sgt. Bill Gannon
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1951
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William Holden plays Boots Malone, a dishonest--and impoverished--jockey's agent. Malone sees a chance to crack the big time...
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1951
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Al Goddard, (Alan Ladd) special investigator for the U.S. post office, is assigned to collar two criminals who've murdered a...
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1951
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1951
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1951
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Allan Dwan's assured direction is the principal selling card of Republic's Belle le Grand. Based on a story by Peter B. Kyne,...
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1951
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1950
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Richard Basehart stars as an ex-convict who has problems finding employment on the outside. He takes a job as a lab assistant...
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1950
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Showdown is the story of a trail boss named Shad Jones (Bill Elliott) whose younger brother is murdered. Knowing that a...
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Rod Main
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1950
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Infused with religious themes, this crime drama is considered a minor example of film noir. Set in Los Angeles, it tells the...
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1949
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1949
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A disarming little trifle, Holiday Affair has in the years since its original release become a Yuletide perennial on...
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1949
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MGM circumvented the censorship that would otherwise have prevented a film version of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary by...
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1949
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This full-blooded saga of the 19th century whaling industry stars Lionel Barrymore as tough old salt Captain Bering Joy and...
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1949
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1948
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1948
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William Wellman's westerns always seemed a little claustrophobic, but in Yellow Sky the director's technique works to the...
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1948
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Love leads a man to his most evil deeds and forces him to change his ways in this Western. After being handed a dishonorable...
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1948
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All of his life, Danny Hawkins (Dane Clark) has been taunted and mistreated by most of the people around him, enduring...
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1948
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In this dark crime drama, the trouble begins when a San Francisco bookie attempts to lead an honest life by marrying a...
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Hal Towers
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1948
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In this drama, an egomaniacal producer freely treads upon those around him without regard to the harm he does. The devoted...
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Hermy
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1948
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Having struck gold with the previous season's Dillinger, the King Brothers returned to Monogram as producers of The Gangster....
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1947
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Years before he became the leading star in horror movies, Vincent Price starred in this gothic thriller based on the...
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1946
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In this romantic drama, Bill and Susan Cummings (Mark Stevens and Joan Fontaine), a couple from the Bronx, look back at the...
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Hank
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1946
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George Taylor (John Hodiak) is a war veteran suffering from amnesia with only two clues to his past: the bitter letter from...
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1946
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In this drama, three veteran pilots from WW II decide to start their own air freight business. In order to earn enough...
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1946
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Though Jack Benny made a cottage industry out of joking about the purported rottenness of his 1945 vehicle Horn Blows at...
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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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1945
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1945
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Marjorie Main's first solo starring vehicle for MGM finds the formidable character actress cast as a tough-but-tender female...
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Cottonwood Goss
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1944
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1944
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Melodramatic gangster action characterizes this tough and freely fictionalized biography of notorious, murderous Chicago...
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1944
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Former president Ronald Reagan may have genuinely believed that he was referring to a real-life act of selfless wartime...
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1944
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1943
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An Iowa drugstore owner (Don Ameche) becomes embittered when his son is killed in World War II. The druggist believes that...
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1943
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Tyrone Power made his last screen appearance before a three-year stretch in the Marines in this World War II drama. Lt. Ward...
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1943
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1942
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In his last screen appearance, bandleader Glenn Miller plays--are you sitting down?--a bandleader. The film's main plot...
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1942
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Having done just fine at the box office with 1942's Apache Trail, MGM turned out another "pocket" western, The Omaha Trail....
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1942
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This 20th Century-Fox cheapie stars Carole Landis as a pretty detective and Allyn Joslyn as a fast-talking reporter ever on...
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Gus Rivers
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1942
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One of the first big-studio productions to acknowledge America's entry into WWII, 20th Century-Fox's To the Shores of Tripoli...
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1942
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