In this western set in the California territory in the mid-19th century, a rancher tries to protect his Spanish land grant...
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1958
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This Republic potboiler is no relation to the like-vintage Swedish film of the same title. The wayward girl in question is...
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1957
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In this crime drama, a young man with a love of hot cars and fast women gets into real trouble when he finds himself...
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1956
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George Nader stars as David Carr, a construction engineer operating in the Belgian Congo. In true jingoistic fashion, Carr...
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1956
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A friendship is ripped apart by a greedy woman in this drama. The trouble begins when a horse trainer and a jockey, both...
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1955
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1955
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1953
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The famed Bal Tabarin cabaret in Paris is the gathering spot for this swiftly paced crime melodrama. It all begins when...
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1952
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Reportedly, there was no love lost between the three stars of Untamed Frontier, and perhaps it was this tension that added so...
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1952
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Yvonne DeCarlo dons 19th century "adventuress" garb once more in River Lady. This time she's a 19th century gambling queen,...
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1948
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Alan Ladd and Robert Preston star as Joe Madigan and Jim Davis, rival grain harvesters in the Midwest's wheat country. The...
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1947
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A women's prison provides the setting for this drama that centers around a naive small-town woman framed by a man whom she...
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1945
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A lesser East Side Kids effort, Block Busters looks more like an elongated 2-reel comedy than a 6-reel feature. This time,...
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1944
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It's nice to see perennial "other woman" Ann Savage in a leading role, even in so antiseptic a film as Klondike Kate. Savage...
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1944
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Belle Of The Yukon is standard backstage musical fare, featuring Randolph Scott as a reformed con man who has fled north from...
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1944
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The luridly titled Women in Bondage was Monogram's "answer" to RKO Radio's wartime melodrama Hitler's Children. The plot...
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1943
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Unable to sign boxer Joe Louis to movie contract, Republic Pictures had to make do with the losers of Louis' heavyweight...
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1941
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Mystery Ship was one of the last of Columbia's pre-Pearl Harbor "preparedness" melodramas. Paul Kelly and Larry Parks are...
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1941
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The Blonde from Singapore was one of several Columbia B-pictures that were presold to exhibitors on the basis of their titles...
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1941
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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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Set in the land Down Under but filmed at Sunland, CA, and on Catalina Island, this low-budget action-adventure stars one of...
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1937
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In this western, the Three Mesquiteers must find a killer and his band after they murder an official from the State...
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1937
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In this anti-Japanese WW II propaganda film, Japanese invaders attempt to raid Alaska and are totally obliterated. The...
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1937
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Director John Farrow was always at his best when dealing with desperate men in desperate situations. One of Farrow's lesser...
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1937
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Coincidentally, Warner Bros. contractee Jane Wyman made her starring debut in the same year as her husband-to-be...
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1937
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North of Nome is where the audience is first introduced to jut-jawed seal hunter John Raglan (Jack Holt). When he's not busy...
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1937
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In this romantic comedy, two college boys get expelled because they could not pay tuition. They decide to scare up some cash...
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1936
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The real-life Yellowstone National Park provides a colorful backdrop to this melodramatic actioner. Henry Hunter stars as...
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1936
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Sally Bates ($Isabel Jewell) is a young Texas woman trying to make it to Hollywood on too little money and driving a car...
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1934
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With William Boyd in the cast, one would think that Flaming Gold was a "Hopalong Cassidy" western -- and one would be wrong....
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1934
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An oil rigger, laboring in the Singapore swamps, falls in love with an English socialite and causes all kinds of problems in...
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1933
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Hard to Handle stars James Cagney as a fast-talking promoter who pounces upon every current fad and foible to make a quick...
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1933
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This drama is set aboard a cross-country train bound for New York. Aboard this train is a silk manufacturer from Seattle who...
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1933
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Joe Smith and Charlie Dale, the Jewish-dialect comedy team famous for their "Dr. Kronkheit" sketch, provide comic relief in...
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1932
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The Match King was inspired by the checkered career of entrepreneur Ivar Krueger. Warren William plays a Krueger-like...
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1932
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It is difficult to determine who is the more ferocious character in this film: The real shark seen in the underwater...
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1932
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A Bavarian orphan, raised by a wealthy family, grows up to become a promising physician (Richard Barthelmess). Meanwhile, the...
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1932
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A young Barbara Stanwyck was considered for the starring role as the exiled call-girl in this extremely frank pre...
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1931
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"There is never a suggestion of subtlety in this tale" was the New York Times' acidic but accurate assessment of the...
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1931
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In this romantic comedy, a milquetoast bookworm finds his life transformed when he takes the advice of a fortune teller and...
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1931
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In this musical, a Marine gets a furlough in New York City and falls in love. He later returns and finds that a lazy...
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1930
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This French epic chronicles the French Revolution as seen by Rouget de Lisle, the man who composed the French national...
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1930
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Separated during an Indian raid, childhood pals Tim McCoy and Robert Frazer grow up on each side of the Indian Wars in this...
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1929
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Mary Nolan, whose own private life was as sensationally scandalous as any of her screen roles, starred in this...
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1929
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Child star Frank "Junior" Coghlan's final film on his DeMille-Pathe contract was the military-academy drama Square Shoulders....
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1929
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Often misrepresented as an entry in Paramount's Zane Grey series, Showdown is actually based on a novel by Houston Branch. In...
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1928
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