Ernst Lubitsch was the original director for A Royal Scandal, but illness forced him to bow out; his replacement was...
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1945
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If you believe all-American Fred MacMurray as an Oxford don, you'll probably swallow the rest of Above Suspicion. Newly...
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1943
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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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1942
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In this wartime drama, a doctor discovers that one of his patients isn't as crazy as he thought, with dangerous consequences...
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1942
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The surrealistic opening sequence, featuring a WW2 calendar as written "by A. Hitler", should be indication enough that Once...
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1942
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In this, one of many World War II propaganda films of the early 1940s, Errol Flynn is one of five RAF pilots to survive a...
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1942
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Ernst Lubitsch directs the 1942 political satire classic To Be or Not to Be, which marked the final screen appearance of...
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1942
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Bob Hope's first starring vehicle for producer Sam Goldwyn borrows the title of Bob's 1942 autobiography They Got Me Covered...
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1942
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In this WW II spy comedy, an American pilot stationed in England is flying a routine mission when the Nazis shoot down his...
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1942
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In this espionage caper, a government spy must keep enemy agents from spying upon a defense plant. His work is made easier...
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1942
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Basil Rathbone is the batty physician of the title, a sophisticated gentleman who woos and weds several of his wealthy women...
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1941
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Set in the Caribbean shortly before the U.S. was drawn into WWII, this zombie chiller tells the tale of an American special...
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Dr. Sangre
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1941
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The high batting average of 20th Century-Fox's Michael Shayne detective series remained intact with Blue, White and Perfect....
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1941
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Underground is an average Warner Bros. suspenser, given a boost by its unrelenting portrayal of Nazis as verminous...
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1941
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Lola Lane and James Craig play explorers working on behalf of the British government. Lane and Craig have been assigned to...
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1940
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The Nazi Party's rise to power has disastrous consequences for a German family in this drama. Victor Roth (Frank Morgan) is a...
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1940
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The title character in Charter Pilot is King Morgan (Lloyd Nolan), who thinks nothing of taking life-threatening risks on a...
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1940
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In this espionage adventure, a courageous millworker must prove himself innocent of treason charges after the title spies...
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1940
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Evidently Paramount had a great deal of faith in Mystery Sea Raider, else why would a mere B picture be permitted to run...
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1940
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Unlike many another pre-WW II spy melodramas, Espionage Agent clearly identifies the villains as Germans. Joel McCrea plays...
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1939
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Many of the "preparedness" films of the years just prior to World War II sidestepped censorship by depicting past outrages of...
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1939
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Bold for its time (just prior to World War II), Confessions of a Nazi Spy is an expose of a genuine Nazi espionage ring...
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1939
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In this comedy set during WW I, two crazy vaudevillians try their new act out on their agent. He thinks it is a real dud and...
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1939
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Thunder Afloat is set during the first world war. Wallace Beery plays an veteran tugboat captain who harbors a grudge against...
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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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Pulp-novel detective Nick Carter was created in the 1880s, but most film versions of the character have been updated to...
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1939
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A trio of American actors head the cast of the British naval drama Torpedoed. Noah Beery appears as the unnamed President of...
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1937
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1937
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1937
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Comic actor Sydney Howard stars as obsequious department-store floorwalker Oswald Bertwhistle. Our hero's life is...
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1936
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This interesting early docu-drama offers a complete chronicle of the history of aviation from prehistoric times through the...
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1936
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In this espionage thriller, a scientist develops a nonflammable fuel. Fearing that his life and the formula are in jeopardy,...
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1936
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1935
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1935
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This comedy features radio-artist and music hall comedian Powell who plays a tough Yorkshireman who aspires to be a comedian....
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1935
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1934
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In this fantastical mystery, a scientist devises and ingenious, if not cold-blooded plan for collecting insurance money....
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1934
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1933
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In this espionage drama, an American in Europe gives the wrong address to a taxi driver and ends up mistaken for a spy in...
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1933
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The genesis of MGM's Freaks was a magazine piece by Ted Robbins titled Spurs. The story involved a terrible revenge enacted...
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Hercules
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1932
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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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Samuel Goldwyn attempted to turn British operetta star Evelyn Laye into another Jeanette MacDonald with this cardboard...
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1931
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The first of director John Ford's three films for 1931 was the now-forgotten The Seas Beneath. Essentially a reworking of...
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1931
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Coney island vendors Baltimore Clark (Bill Boyd), Dutch Herman (Robert Armstrong) and Skeets O'Reilly (James Gleason) spend...
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1931
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The Hate Ship starts out as a fancy yacht, presided over by wealthy scoundrel Vernon Wolfe (Jameson Thomas). On board the...
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Count Boris Ivanoff
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1930
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1930
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Are You There? is a characteristically lumpy but enjoyable early-talkie musical from Fox Studios. Broadway luminary...
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1930
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In this British tale of supense, a young woman attempts to seduce a famous tennis star. When she turns up dead, the...
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1929
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1929
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This French production was based on a novel by Emile Zola, of the same title. Pierre Alcover stars as Saccard, a ruthless and...
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Jacques Hamelin
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1929
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This British WWI drama was directed by Sinclair Hill, who also penned the original screenplay. Henry Victor stars as John...
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John Grimlaw
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1928
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1928
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Perhaps it's just as well that Topsy and Eva is available only for archival showings. The film was based on a popular play by...
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1927
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Beloved Rogue stars John Barrymore as legendary Parisian poet/vagabond Francois Villon. The film follows the basic chronology...
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Thibault d'Aussigny
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1927
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Gordon Graham
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1927
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1927
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A gang of counterfeiters are using the mountain division of the Pacific Coast Railroad for their nefarious purpose in this...
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1926
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Both businessman Michael Mont (Thomas Holding) and artist Wilfred Desert (Henry Victor) love Fleur Forsyte (Barbara LaMarr)....
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Wilfrid Desert
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1925
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A young, football-playing Indian (Rod La Rocque) is sent to law school by the tribe in order to learn the ways of the white...
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1925
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1924
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This British-made drama based on the novel by Sir Hall Caine apparently ran about 17 reels, but was cut to ten for American...
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1923
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Artenezzo
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1923
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King Charles (Henry Victor) flees and hides in a huge oak tree when the troops loyal to Oliver Cromwell (Henry Ainley) close...
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1923
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This English-made production was the first time Clarence Dane's stage play was brought to the screen. It doesn't sound like...
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Gray Meredith
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1922
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In this star-studded British mystery, the title refers to a band of blackmailers who have marked a group of important people...
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1922
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1921
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1921
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1920
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As God Made Her was based on a standard-issue "never the classes shall meet" novel by Helen Prothero Lewis. Mary Odette plays...
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1920
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1919
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1918
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1917
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The first British screen version of Oscar Wilde's classic novel of the libertine who remains perpetually young while his...
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1916
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1916
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