The Untamed West is the reissue title of the Pine-Thomas production The Far Horizons. This romanticized retelling of the...
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1955
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With his movie career fading in 1955, Bob Hope was amenable to writer/director Mel Shavelson's suggestion that Hope try...
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1955
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At the height of his TV fame, flamboyant pianist Liberace starred in the lavish Warner Bros. production Sincerely Yours. A...
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1955
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New York Confidential is based on the Jack Lait-Lee Mortimer bestseller of the same name. Richard Conte plays Nick Magellan,...
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1955
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Based on the autobiographical novel by Han Suyin, Love is a Many Splendored Thing was evocatively location-filmed in Hong...
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1955
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In this 1955 Otto Preminger film, Gary Cooper stars as World War I hero Brigadier General Billy Mitchell. The film recounts...
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1955
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This tuneful remake of 1937's The Awful Truth centers on the rocky marriage of a philandering composer and the wife who has...
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1953
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After several years of supporting roles, Edward Arnold once again enjoys top billing in the independently produced Man of...
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Evans
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1953
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"Her Salome Will Steal Your Breath Away" was the classic advertising slogan attached to this opulent Rita Hayworth epic -- a...
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1953
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1952
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The tougher postwar screen image of James Stewart is given a good workout in the fact-based Carbine Williams. In 1952, the...
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1952
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In 1880s New York City, newspapers were engaged in a free-for-all competition, with the respectable practitioners such as...
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Josiah Davenport
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1952
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Something to Live For is the last of director George Stevens' "small" films, before he concentrated full-time on such...
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1952
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Previously filmed in 1931 under its original title, Theodore Dreiser's bulky but brilliant novel An American Tragedy was...
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1951
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Pretty stewardess Marcy Lewis (Jane Wyman) must choose between Three Guys Named Mike in this frothy MGM concoction. There's...
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1951
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Forget what you've been led to believe: Bedtime for Bonzo is a most enjoyable film, and Ronald Reagan is not outacted by the...
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1951
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The fabled 19th-century clashes between U.S. Marines and the pirates of Tripoli have provided story material for dozens of...
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1950
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1950
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1950
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1950
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Behind the locked doors of a mental institution resides crooked politico Judge Drake (Herbert Heyes), free from prosecution...
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Judge Drake
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1948
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Herbert Heyes, a largely unsung character actor who once played opposite Theda Bara in the silent days, is afforded one of...
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1948
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Edmund Gwenn plays Kris Kringle, a bearded old gent who is the living image of Santa Claus. Serving as a last-minute...
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Mr. Gimbel
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1947
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The moodily evocative docudrama T-Men stars Dennis O'Keefe as Dennis O'Brien, a treasury agent determined to bring a...
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1947
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The East Side Kids were betwixt and between their earlier roughneck characterizations and their later Bowery Boys buffoonery...
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1944
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The year is 1942: Mr. Winkle (Edward G. Robinson), a mild-mannered bank clerk, decides to quit his job and open a fix-it shop...
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1944
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Teen-Age is another "exposé" film of the 1940s, cheaply made but widely distributed. In the guise of a warning against...
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District Attorney
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1944
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The overcrowding in WWII-era Washington, D.C., provided the concept for this comedy, as well as another film from the...
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1944
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The first of two Monogram comedy-mysteries built around the talents of perky Jean Parker, Detective Kitty O'Day casts Parker...
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1944
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Western star Don "Red" Barry essays a dual role in Republic's Outlaws of Santa Fe. Actually, the two "characters" are one:...
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1944
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In one of their most genial comedies -- based on a Damon Runyon story -- Bud Abbott and Lou Costello have to help one friend...
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1943
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"It'll make you yell SOLID!" boasted the ads for the Monogram musical Campus Rhythm. Johnny Downs stars as Scoop, a rather...
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1943
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In this musical, a San Francisco musician encounters the son of an pal. The young man has a real dilemma and asks the advice...
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1943
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A major moneymaker for RKO Radio, Bombardier stars Pat O'Brien and Randolph Scott as trainers at a school for bomber pilots....
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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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Republic's winning combination of western star Wild Bill Elliot, comic sidekick Gabby Hayes and leading lady Anne Jeffreys is...
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Judge Jim Hobart
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1943
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Wild Bill comes to the rescue when his friend needs him to take care of a crook in this western. ~ Kristie Hassen, Rovi...
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1943
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1942
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No relation to the 1933 film of the same name, the 1942 Universal programmer Destination Unknown stars William Gargan as a...
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1942
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Justin Victor
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1924
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This Alice Calhoun vehicle was one of dozens of desert romances that were made in the wake of Rudolph Valentino's The Sheik....
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1923
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It's doubtful that any comedian could have pulled off this mixture of farce and slapstick; Gareth Hughes, whose talents were...
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Howard Dawson
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1922
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When Erich Von Stroheim was casting Foolish Wives, he discovered a model named Patsie Hannon who he cast as Mrs. Hughes. He...
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1922
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It is easy to imagine Theda Bara playing the lead in this Fox Biblical epic, especially since its credited director is J....
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Tamaran, Courtier of Sheba
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1921
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Sylvia Palprini (Carmel Myers) works as a waitress in a Greenwich Village cafe run by Madame Tarkides (Lule Warrenton)....
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1921
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Screenwriter Jules Furthman made a rare plunge into directing with Blushing Bride. The title character, played by...
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1921
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1921
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There have been several films with the title Ever Since Eve -- this one and two in the 1930s -- and none of them are related....
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Cartaret
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1921
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When Robert Dunning (William Clifford) comes to financial ruin at the hands of unscrupulous broker Thomas Philborn...
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1919
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When her contract with Triangle ended, silent comedienne Constance Talmadge signed up to make films with her brother-in-law,...
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1918
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1917
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You'd never know it from the title, but The Darling of Paris was a film version of Victor Hugo's Hunchback of Notre Dame. The...
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1917
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After several non-vamp films, including East Lynne, Under Two Flags and -- of all things -- Romeo and Juliet, Theda Bara's...
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1916
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Desperately tired of playing man-eating "vamps," Theda Bara begged to play Ouida's 1901 Foreign Legion heroine, "Cigarette,"...
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1916
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In 1916, Broadway playwright Channing Pollock deigned to "lower" himself by working for the movies. The result was the...
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1916
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