This Is Roller Skating and Other Odd Rarities collects a number of unusual, rarely seen shorts from the fifties and sixties....
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2007
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Former Leave It to Beaver paterfamilias Hugh Beaumont makes his second Petticoat Junction appearance, this time playing the...
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1967
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This is the much-anticipated episode in which Betty Jo Bradley (Linda Kaye) is married to Steve Elliott (Mike Minor). But...
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1967
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Can it be? Hugh Beaumont, the immortal Ward Cleaver of Leave It to Beaver fame, cast in this episode as a shy bachelor named...
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1966
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Kolos (Richard Kiel) is a space alien sent to Earth in this low-budget science fiction story. His mission is to make...
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1964
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Assigned to write a book report on The Three Musketeers, Beaver (Jerry Mathers) characteristically puts off starting to read...
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1963
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Director
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1963
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The 234th and final episode of Leave It to Beaver is also the series' first "clip show," comprised of highlights from the...
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Director
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1963
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Beaver (Jerry Mathers) wins a 14-carat locket at a carnival. At first, he plans to give the prize to his mother, June...
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Director
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1963
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The world is astonished when Lumpy (Frank Bank) gets a sports scholarship for which Wally (Tony Dow) was turned down. Showing...
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Director
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1963
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If nothing else, this episode proves that Beaver (Jerry Mathers) no longer regards girls as "creepy." With the big eighth...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1963
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Well, it has finally come to this -- Beaver Cleaver (Jerry Mathers) is 14 years old and poised to graduate from the eighth...
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Director
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1963
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Wally's girlfriend Julie Foster (Cheryl Holdridge) is impressed by the moustache worn by transfer student Wayne Gregory...
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Director
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1963
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Now that he's graduated from the eighth grade, Beaver (Jerry Mathers) is looking forward to the extensive (and expensive)...
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Director
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1963
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Moving from Saturdays to Thursdays for its sixth and final season, Leave It to Beaver acknowledges the fact that both Beaver...
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Ward Cleaver
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1962
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This week, Eddie (Tony Dow) and Wally (Tony Dow) land jobs at the Mayfield Dairy. While Wally works hard, Eddie spends most...
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Director
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1962
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Eddie (Ken Osmond) is convinced that he's too cool for the room when he moves out of his parents' house and into his own...
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Director
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1962
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Wally (Tony Dow) persuades Ward (Tony Dow) to let him borrow the new family car in order to attend the prom. Wary Ward warns...
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1962
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Director
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1962
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Eddie (Ken Osmond) doesn't show up for a scheduled tennis date with Wally (Tony Dow). Fortunately, a pretty and slightly...
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Director
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1962
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1962
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Director
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1962
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Already upset that Beaver (Jerry Mathers) has gotten short shrift in a series of "trades" in his classroom, June...
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Director
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1961
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After borrowing 13 dollars from his father, Beaver (Jerry Mathers) demands the right to go to the store and choose his own...
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Director
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1961
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Director
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1961
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After hearing his dad Ward (Hugh Beaumont) complain about the number of bills he has to pay each month, Beaver...
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Director
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1961
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Ward Cleaver
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1961
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Beaver insists that he's too old for birthday parties and presents and all that kind of junk. Accordingly, his parents...
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Director
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1961
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Wally (Tony Dow) is escorting Evelyn (Mary Mitchel) to a school dance, and since he doesn't yet have a driver's license, he...
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Director
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1961
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Still securely ensconced in a Saturday-night time slot, Leave It to Beaver satisfies its ever-growing fan base with 39 new...
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Ward Cleaver
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1960
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Director
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1960
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During a boy-girl raffle at a school picnic, Wally (Tony Dow) draws the name of his classmate Alma Hanson (Carol Sydes)....
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Director
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1960
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When Beaver (Jerry Mathers) and Wally (Tony Dow) are promised ten dollars apiece if they help clean up after the animals at a...
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Screenwriter
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1959
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Another 39 terrific episodes are served up in Leave It to Beaver's third season, which when originally telecast on ABC were...
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Ward Cleaver
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1959
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Leave It to Beaver entered its second season in a new time slot (Thursdays rather than Fridays at 7:30 pm EST), a new network...
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Ward Cleaver
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1958
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Night Passage is so similar in spirit to the successful collaborations between star James Stewart and director Anthony Mann...
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1957
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The first season of Leave It to Beaver was originally telecast on CBS and seen in an early-Friday-evening slot. When first we...
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Ward Cleaver
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1957
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One of the undisputed classics of American television, the weekly, half-hour sitcom Leave It to Beaver was created by...
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Ward Cleaver
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1957
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The Mole People holds the dubious distinction of being the weakest of the Universal-International horror films. John Agar...
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Dr. Jud Bellamin
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1956
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Set in 1952, at a point when the United States was bogged down in the "police action," Hell's Horizon focuses on one crew of...
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1955
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Future Leave It to Beaver paterfamilias Hugh Beaumont appears in this episode as Dan Grayson, an ex-convict who has gone...
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1953
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1953's The Mississippi Gambler was the third Universal Studios film to bear this title--though with a different plot each...
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1953
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Though Ben Johnson would have to wait until the 1970s before full stardom was bestowed upon him, 1952's Wild Stallion proved...
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Capt. Wilmurt
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1952
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Given to violent, unpredictable behavior, composer Richard Morton (Gary Merrill) is an accident waiting to happen. Attempting...
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1952
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David Trask (Gary Merrill), the sole survivor of an airplane crash, takes it upon himself to contact the families of the...
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1952
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1952
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During the Civil War, Colonel Kern Shafter (played by Ray Milland) and Captain Edward Garnett (played by Hugh Marlowe) become...
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1952
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Washington Story stars Van Johnson as mildly liberal congressman Joseph T. Gresham. For reasons that he can't fathom, Gresham...
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1952
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Paramount's immensely successful Pine-Thomas production unit once more struck box-office gold with The Last Outpost....
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1951
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Not to be confused with the 1929 film The Overland Telegraph, this Western from director Lesley Selander stars Tim Holt as a...
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Brad
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1951
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In this detective drama, a gritty San Francisco gumshoe finds himself among those suspected of committing a string of...
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1951
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In this adventure-fantasy, an American rocket ship crashes upon a remote island in the Pacific and an Air Force pilot and a...
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1951
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This film features two mystery stories featuring Hugh "the Beaver's TV Dad" Beaumont. First, he is hired to go to an auction...
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Dennis O'Brien
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1951
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Pier 23 was one of three hour-long mysteries produced by Lippert Productions for both TV and theatrical release. Each of the...
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Dennis O'Brien
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1951
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Robert Pirosh wrote and directed this little-known World War II drama from MGM that commemorates the 442nd Regimental Combat...
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1951
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1951
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1951
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Callaway Went Thataway is an amiable spoof of early television's "Hopalong Cassidy" craze. Fred MacMurray and...
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1951
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Hugh Beaumont and Ruth Warrick star in this drama about a bank president and his wife, and their earnest attempt to find out...
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1950
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Philip Drake
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1948
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One of director Anthony Mann's earlier films, Railroaded features John Ireland as Duke Martin, a seedy criminal looking to...
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Mickey Ferguson
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1947
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Three on a Ticket was the fourth entry in PRC's "Michael Shayne" series, and arguably the best of the batch. Hugh Beaumont,...
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Michael Shayne
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1947
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Steve Clark
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1947
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PRC's "Michael Shayne" series came to an unsatisfying end with Too Many Winners. This time, flippant private eye Mike Shayne...
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Michael Shayne
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1947
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In this drama, a soldier's widow, whose husband died a hero in WW II, begins a quest to find the five men whose lives were...
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1947
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Michael Dunn
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1947
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In this drama, three veteran pilots from WW II decide to start their own air freight business. In order to earn enough...
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1946
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Number Three in PRC's "Michael Shayne" B-series was the fair-to-middling Blonde for a Day. Hugh Beaumont stars as Shayne,...
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Michael Shayne
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1946
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Several years after the "Michael Shayne" B-movie series ran its course at 20th Century-Fox, PRC Pictures revived the property...
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Michael Shayne
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1946
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Larceny in Her Heart was the second entry in PRC's revival of the "Michael Shayne" series, with Hugh Beaumont as Brett...
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Michael Shayne
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1946
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This neat, fast-paced perfectly cast film noir reflects the hard-boiled, grim wit of the author of its screenplay,...
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1946
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The title The Lady Confesses is slightly misleading, since it's the hero of the film is accused of murder. On the eve of his...
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Larry Craig
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1945
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A few corny moments aside, Objective Burma must rate as one of the best combat films of WW2. Errol Flynn stars as Captain...
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1945
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PRC's Apology for Murder is aptly named: the production values in this 67-minute quickie are pretty sorry. If you're willing...
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Kenny Blake
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1945
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"You can live a long time in three days -- sometimes when you're in a tight spot, you can live a year in ten seconds." US...
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1945
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In his first film in two years, James Cagney stars as Nick Condon, the American editor of a pre-WW2 Tokyo newspaper. When two...
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1945
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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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1944
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1944
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An ex-racketeer becomes an undercover for the military in this drama. He keeps his work so secret that his friends become...
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1944
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1944
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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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RKO brought its "Mexican Spitfire" saga to a close with the eighth film in the series, Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event. Lupe...
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1943
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In this wartime comedy drama an ultra-macho but aging Marine sergeant does all he can to keep his men intimidated and towing...
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1943
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In this comedy, a milque-toast bookkeeper buckles under his overbearing girl friend's constant nagging and begins investing...
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1943
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John Garfield was borrowed from Warner Bros. by RKO Radio for the tense espionage melodrama The Fallen Sparrow. Garfield is...
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1943
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The racy, ribald Cole Porter musical Du Barry Was a Lady is here given a thorough dry-cleaning by prudish MGM....
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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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Gregory Ward
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1943
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In this romance, a spoiled, self-centered rich boy John T. Bromley III, is simultaneously disinherited by his wealthy aunt...
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1942
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The winner of four Oscar nominations, Wake Island was one of the first major Hollywood films to deal with America's forced...
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1942
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There are moments in Columbia's Flight Lieutenant that approach "high camp"; indeed, one is hard pressed to remember if any...
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1942
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One of the first big-studio productions to acknowledge America's entry into WWII, 20th Century-Fox's To the Shores of Tripoli...
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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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Panama Menace is the reissue title of PRC's South of Panama. Secret agent Roger Pryor is dispatched below the border to...
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1941
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In this musical, the cruise that salesgirl Nan Spencer (Alice Faye) worked so hard to pay for is cut tragically short when...
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1941
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Fred Zinnemann directed this short documentary produced as part of M-G-M's long-running "Crime Does Not Pay" series....
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1941
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The Hollywood "establishment" had been waiting a long time for maverick director Gregory La Cava to fall from grace, and when...
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1941
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This episode in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series takes on election fraud. It gives a behind-the-scenes account of how...
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1940
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Wrongfully accused of stealing, an angry Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer decides to get even with his parents by embarking upon a life...
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1940
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