Sometimes a reporter's urge to tell the truth is unquenchable, at least when the reporter is Dolannes (Jean-Pierre Mocky)....
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1974
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A total of nine Academy Award nominations went to this wildly acclaimed, allegorical drama set amongst the contestants in a...
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1969
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Diane Brewster makes her first appearance as Samantha Crawford, a larcenous lass who proves to be quite a handful for Bret...
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1959
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Claudette Colbert makes a long-overdue entree into the Western genre in Texas Lady. Looking at least a decade younger than...
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1956
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Though running 90 minutes, Road to Denver moves along at a much faster clip than most Republic "A" westerns. John Payne and...
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1955
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Since lapsing into public domain, Rage at Dawn has become one of the most readily available of Randolph Scott's westerns....
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1955
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This film is comprised of three vignettes focusing upon women and war. The first episode, set in WW II, chronicles the sad...
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1954
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1954
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In this action war drama, set in the African desert during WW II, a civilian is hired to deliver tanks to the British...
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1954
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The 3D melodrama Dangerous Mission starts off with a bang when innocent Piper Laurie inadvertently witnesses the murder of...
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1954
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Gregory Peck and Anthony Quinn play two seal-hunting rivals in this adventure film set in the days when Alaska was a Russian...
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1952
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Originally filmed at Republic in 1948, Montana Belle was purchased by producer Howard R. Hughes, who'd loaned the services of...
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1952
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The titular Lusty Men are rodeo riders in this modern-day western, assembled with a touch of the offbeat by director...
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1952
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Noted Western director Budd Boetticher helmed this contemporary cowboy story. Tom Moody (John Lund) is a champion rodeo rider...
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1952
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Edmond O'Brien stars as an idealistic state's attorney assigned to crack down on a crime syndicate. This proves more...
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1952
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Mickey Rooney is The Fireball in this independently produced sports film. The sport in this case is roller-skating, which was...
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1950
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1950
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Fans of William "Wild Bill" Elliot vastly prefer his B westerns to his big-budget Republic "specials", though the latter...
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1947
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This wartime melodrama stars George Sanders as Keith Wilson, a disillusioned Britisher who becomes a "Lord Haw Haw"type at a...
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1943
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This flag-waving Columbia programmer concentrates on five young Officer's Candidate School applicants. Each of the...
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1943
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Flight for Freedom was an "a clef" version of the Amelia Earhart story. Rosalind Russell plays the Earhart-like aviatrix...
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1943
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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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Though officially based on a Saturday Evening Post story by Clarence Buddington Kelland, RKO Radio's Valley of the Sun was...
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1942
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Texas was Columbia Pictures' lighthearted (and frankly more enjoyable) follow-up to its 1940 big-budget western Arizona....
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1941
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Wild Geese Calling is one of those 20th Century-Fox star vehicles which used to pop up all the time on TV before the Carsons,...
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1941
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Paramount's "B" pictures of the early 1940s were generally more interesting than their star-studded "A"s, as witness...
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1940
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Though the title character is loosely based on that of the notorious killer/robber Ma Barker, she has been sanitized and...
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1940
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Filmed on location at Mesa, AZ, this minor Paramount western featured newcomer Ellen Drew as "Slats" Dangerfield, a young...
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1940
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Parole Fixer is another entry in Paramount's unofficial "J. Edgar Hoover" series, purportedly based on an actual case in the...
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1940
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1939
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In this crime drama, a young hood and a seductress team up and rob a gas station. As she requires an opulent, exciting...
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1939
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Undercover Doctor, like the other entries in Paramount's "FBI" series, could lay claim to being "drawn from today's...
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1939
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In this espionage drama, an inventor creates a way to send television broadcasts across the country and finds himself...
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1939
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In this drama, a gangster finds the woman of his dreams, but before he can have her he must frame her fiance. Meanwhile the...
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1938
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In this drama, a young man aspires to a life of wealth and power in the newspaper business. Unfortunately, it takes time and...
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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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After retiring from a boxing career, Johnny Cave (James Cagney) accepts an appointment to serve as head of the Bureau of...
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1936
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A lesser but still effective entry in the mid-1930s "prison" cycle, Parole catalogues the many problems facing prisoners...
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1936
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A postal inspector finds himself caught in a sticky situation as he tries to pin a rap for mail theft upon the owner of a...
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1936
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Paramount's first outdoor Technicolor feature, Trail of the Lonesome Pine was the third film version of John Fox Jr.'s novel....
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1936
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Mary Ellis, Paramount's answer to Columbia's Grace Moore, stars in the title role in this musical melodrama/whodunit. When...
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1936
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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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1934
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Dore Schary, then just cutting his teeth in the movie biz, was one of the scripters of Columbia's Fury of the Jungle. The...
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1934
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Hopscotching between westerns and modern-dress actioners in 1933, Tim McCoy once more finds himself at large in the Big City...
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1933
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Much of this exciting crime drama is set aboard an airplane in which a brave hero does battle with a gang of smugglers....
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1933
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Fed up with her doctor husband's ceaseless charity work, Mary Harris (June Clyde) leaves her Midwest "tank town" in favor of...
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1933
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