The Song of Bernadette is a reverent recounting of the life of St. Bernadette of Lourdes. As a teen-aged peasant girl growing...
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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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In Old Oklahoma is better known today by its reissue title, War of the Wildcats. John Wayne heads the cast as oil man Dan...
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1943
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Honeymoon Lodge is a musical variation on the old Awful Truth plotline. Divorce-bound Bob and Carol Sterling (David Bruce,...
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1943
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Hoping to achieve a brilliant career as a violinist, Julia Seabrook (Ann Sothern) divorces her husband Jeff (Melvyn Douglas),...
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1943
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A typical war time Republic Pictures serial, G-Men vs. the Black Dragon featured the combined efforts of three allied...
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1943
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1943
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Black Hills Express gets off to a powerful start, as hero Lon Walker (Don "Red" Barry) and his sidekick Deadeye...
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1943
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In this drama, set at a WW II munitions plant, the lives of five workers are chronicled. Their stories are told via...
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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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1942
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A fun though abortive bid to pair crime-solving duo Lew Ayres and Laraine Day for a series of thrillers, this murder mystery...
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1942
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Maybe Errol Flynn was never the war hero that he often played, but he was a capable boxer, and Gentleman Jim makes full use...
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1942
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In providing the "synopsis" for Are Husbands Necessary?, one best-selling film source says merely "And what about this film?"...
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1942
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Director Rouben Mamoulian completed a three-picture 20th Century Fox deal with this airy comic romance that attempted to ape...
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1942
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A public library at night is the setting for this fast-moving crime caper. George Sanders is a gentleman crook specializing...
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1942
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In yet another full-length version of an earlier serial, Dick Tracy (Ralph Byrd) is out to get the bizarre Ghost, a dastardly...
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1941
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The marvelous rapport between stars Clark Gable and Lana Turner makes MGM's Honky Tonk seem far more substatianal than it...
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1941
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Robert Taylor toughened up his image considerably with this gangster movie, which was unusual both in its plot and origins,...
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1941
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The third of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello's starring films, In the Navy was released second; Universal had just made a bundle...
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1941
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In this romance, a wealthy young heiress marries an avaricious foreigner to please her father and then dreams of finding...
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1941
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Playwright Lillian Hellman first wrote of the horrible Hubbard family in her 1939 play The Little Foxes. In this lavish 1941...
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1941
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1940
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The Cisco Kid attempts to prove that reports of his death are greatly exaggerated in this western programmer. Cisco...
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1940
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Fred Harmon's popular comic strip and radio hero Red Ryder came to the screen in this above-average Republic serial directed...
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1940
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1939
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Bing Crosby plays a tune-happy cab driver who finds himself the reluctant recipient of an abandoned baby. Together with his...
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1939
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In this drama, a waitress leaves her husband after getting sick of being alone while her husband, a commercial pilot, plies...
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1939
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Too Busy to Work is not a remake of the 1932 Will Rogers film of the same name-but it is a partial remake of Rogers' 1935...
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1939
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Based on a novel by Barry Benefield, Chicken Wagon Family affords nearly equal screen time to child star Jane Withers and...
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1939
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The second film in the mystery series about a Chinese sleuth, this one concerns the theft of the "Eye of the Daughter of the...
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1939
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The action content of Republic's Gene Autry musical westerns was considerably enhanced by veteran director B. Reeves "Breezy"...
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1939
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Roy Rogers is forced to chase down his own kid brother in this exemplary Republic Pictures oater produced and directed by...
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1939
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The "Lady" of the title is horse-farm owner Penelope Hollis (Ellen Drew), but during the first half of this film, bookie...
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1939
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In this comedy, an American golf pro falls in love with a woman while visiting France; before long they are married and in...
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1938
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Based upon Arthur Kober's play (which was subsequently musicalized onstage as Wish You Were Here, Having Wonderful Time stars...
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1938
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In this drama, a falsely convicted woman falls in love with the prison psychologist who tries to liberate her. She ended up...
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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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1938
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1938
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An enjoyably silly Gene Autry romp, this music Western had an early ecological message: Horse-power instead of tractors. Or...
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1938
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This spy thriller is centered upon the actions of the Cipher Bureau, a part of a government agency devoted to intercepting...
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1938
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Too old to play the cute MGM urchin any longer, 16-year-old Jackie Cooper signed with Monogram for a group of above-average...
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1938
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1938
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The first of six Mr. Wong whodunits, Mr. Wong Detective presented Boris Karloff as pulp writer Hugh Wiley's Oxford-educated...
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1938
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Hunted Men is part of Paramount's unofficial B-picture series based on the J. Edgar Hoover book Persons in Hiding....
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1938
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Test Pilot is one of those irresistible MGM potboilers of the 1930s that coast along on sheer star power. Clark Gable plays a...
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1938
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Before sitting down to watch Love and Hisses, it's important to know that columnist Walter Winchell and bandleader...
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1937
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The Three Mesquiteers take on a group of frontier fascists in the zippy series entry Roarin' Lead. This being Season One of...
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Hackett
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1937
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Set during the terrible Spanish Civil War, this film avoids political commentary in favor of objectively centering on the...
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1937
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1937
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Jean Harlow offers her final screen performance in this witty and -- in retrospect -- quite moving racetrack comedy-drama...
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1937
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The cattle rustlers in Border Cafe, a modern-day western from the RKO B-unit, are Eastern gangsters headed by none other than...
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1937
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1937
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The girl is teenaged singing sensation Deanna Durbin; the one hundred men are out-of-work musicians. Still in her "little...
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1937
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1937
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Magazine publisher Clark Gable is happily married to Myrna Loy. Clark's devoted, super-efficient secretary Jean Harlow may...
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1936
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When widower Stephen Blake (Melvyn Douglas) and divorcee Edith Farnham (Mary Astor) are the only guests at a snowed-in...
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1936
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Ostensibly based on the life of World War I flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker, whose smiling visage opened each of the 13...
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1936
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The Gorgeous Hussy purports to be based on the life of Margaret "Peggy" O'Neill, the controversial wife of early 19th-century...
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1936
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In this crime drama a young boxer joins the police department so he can use their high-quality gymnasium. In time, he comes...
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Dr. Simmons
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1936
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Actual footage of the 1936 Rose Bowl game is cleverly (if not seamlessly) integrated into the action of this sports-oriented...
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1936
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A naval officer gets more than he bargained for when he adopts a recently orphaned young boy, the son of his late best...
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1936
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Impressed by the popularity of radio program about the exploits of legendary safecracker Jimmy Valentine, advertising man...
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1936
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First-time director Lew Ayres performs miracles on a tiny budget in the Civil War drama Hearts in Bondage. The story offers a...
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1936
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Ruthless criminal attorney Raymond Cortell (Sidney Blackmer) is not above bending and twisting the law to suit his purposes,...
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1935
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A follow-up to the highly successful Bolero, this lively romantic drama stars George Raft as Joe Martin, a Cuban-American...
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1935
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In his first American film, Peter Lorre portrays egg-bald Dr. Gogol. A brilliant and highly respected surgeon, Gogol would...
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1935
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1935
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Based on an obscure stage comedy, the Paramount musical Two for Tonight stars Bing Crosby as would-be composer and playwright...
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1935
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Given a title like Sagebrush Troubadour, it virtually went without saying that the star of this 1935 western was singing...
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1935
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Reckless is a delightfully breezy screwball comedy from the same director (Victor Fleming) and star (Jean Harlow) responsible...
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1935
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John Wayne goes up against a nasty vice lord in this, his second Western under the new Republic Pictures banner. Hired...
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1935
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1935
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1934
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1934
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In this western, a band of avaricious men kill a rancher in order to take over his land. The dead man's nephew was slated to...
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Sam Burkett
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1934
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Tower Films' Big Time or Bust is strictly small time, though not bad at all within it own limits. Regis Toomey plays a...
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1934
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A rather weak entry in Tim McCoy's Columbia oeuvre, this Western was released to smaller venues in December of 1934, but not...
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Wayne Wallace
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1934
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Joan Crawford is at her most glamorous (a different outfit and hairdo in each scene!) in the romantic melodrama Chained....
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1934
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The real-life career of the notorious female spy known as "Fraulein Doktor" inspired several films of the 1930s. Stamboul...
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1934
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Ex-convict Steve Nichols (Onslow Stevens) may be a free man, but it looks like he'll never be able to escape the onus of his...
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Harley
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1934
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Filmed at the Columbia ranch in ten days in September of 1934, this Tim McCoy Western did not enjoy a wide release until...
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Bonner
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1934
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Speed Wings is another 1934 "eastern" from western star Tim McCoy. This time, the star is cast as Tim, a devil-may-care stunt...
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Crandall
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1934
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In the first of two proposed serials for Mascot Pictures, Western hero Ken Maynard goes up against a murderous fiend known as...
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1934
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Produced by Poverty Row company KBS (formerly Sono Art-World Wide), this above-average B-Western starred Ken Maynard as an...
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1933
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Adapted from Alexander Dumas's novel, this adventure is about a trio of Foreign Legion friends who confront the Devil of the...
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1933
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Released in Great Britain as Sealed Lips, this WWI melodrama stars Constance Bennett as Carla, aka Russian spy "K-14." Though...
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1933
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William Powell is a poor East Side lawyer who works his way up the ladder to assistant prosecutor. He isn't too particular...
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1933
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A brutal murder has been committed, and an eyewitness has placed wealthy philanthropist Jerome Breen (Lionel Atwill) at the...
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1933
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A professional gambler masquerading as a businessman boards a train and sets off across the country. During the journey he...
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1933
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In Scarlet River, Tom Keene plays "himself," a cowboy movie star, on location in the Wide Open Spaces for his latest epic....
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1933
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Inspired, it was stated at the time, by a real event, this minor but well-made Poverty Row mystery features Claudia Dell as...
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Dr. Stephen Walcott
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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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In his third Allied Pictures release of 1932, veteran screen cowboy Hoot Gibson played his favorite role, that of a...
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Matt Ryder
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1932
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Legendary songwriter and vaudevillian George M. Cohan made his first appearance in a sound film with this satiric musical...
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1932
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Bette Davis was on loan from Universal when she appeared in this little juvenile delinquent melodrama from independent...
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1932
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Rest assured that star Hoot Gibson is not the "local badman" of the title. He is, however, accused of being a desperado by a...
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1932
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1932
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1932
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A superb combination of belly laughs and pathos, the "Our Gang" comedy "Birthday Blues" was originally released on November...
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1932
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As he had so many times before, Hoot Gibson pretended to be a dimwit in this low-budget Western, his penultimate for...
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Al Burton
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1932
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A standard Tim McCoy Western from Columbia Pictures, Fighting for Justice featured the stalwart McCoy as a cowboy whose late...
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1932
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It's hard to separate fact and fancy from the many accounts of what happened on the set when all three of the fabulous...
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1932
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The second of six sound Westerns starring Jack Hoxie and produced by poverty row company Majestic, this film, like most...
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1932
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1931
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Yet another variation on the already then-ancient Madame X theme, this early talkie stars Helen Twelvetrees in the title...
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1931
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In this western, a cowboy and an eastern city-slicker find they are co-inheritors of a ranch. The genteel woman loathes the...
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1931
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In the first of eight Hoot Gibson Westerns produced by poverty row company Allied, The Hooter sets out to avenge the murder...
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1931
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Rita La Roy has good reasons to hate her philandering husband, Hooper Atchley, in this low-budget but sumptuous-looking art...
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1931
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Poor Marion Shockley finds herself the victim of both a robbery and a kidnapping in this obscure but quite well-made Poverty...
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1931
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Ken Maynard's Branded Men wasn't up to the standards of his previous Range Law, but it was still better than the usual...
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1931
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In this drama, a woman with dubious past finds herself blackmailed when she makes plans to marry a senator's son. She finds...
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1931
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Cole Porter
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1931
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Paramount star Richard Arlen heads a strong cast in this early talkie western about a sheepherder falsely accused of killing...
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1930
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In this musical, two producers find backing for their Broadway debut and must then find someone to star in it. One of the...
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1930
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The plot of this Essanay comedy hinges on a practical joke. The prankish friends of the hero decide to "set him up" with the...
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1928
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Jailed for a robbery he didn't commit, Bullets Bernard (Art Acord) enlists an alcoholic jailhouse lawyer (Paul Weigel) to...
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1924
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