Auteur theorists may have trouble discerning the "signature" of director Phil Karlson in the Columbia costume adventure Mask...
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1951
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Between Midnight and Dawn is a solid, no-frills detective drama from the Columbia studio mills. Mark Stevens and...
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1950
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When Lizabeth Scott's Jane Greer husband Arthur Kennedy accidentally gets his mitts on $60,000 in stolen money, she insists...
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1949
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With The Outlaw still being withheld from general release, Young Widow represented the first time that most filmgoers ever...
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1946
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A Guest in the House is an involving psychological melodrama, well directed and acted, concerning a young woman's obsessive...
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1945
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1943
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1942
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They Met in Bombay is a typical MGM star vehicle, in which the leading players are called upon to carry a pencil-thin...
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1941
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This fourth entry in MGM's Thin Man series could just as well have been titled "Nick and Nora Charles Go to the Races"....
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1941
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Rachel Crothers' thoughtful stage play Susan and God was tastefully adapted for the screen by Anita Loos. Joan Crawford stars...
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Producer
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1940
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Long before 19th-century novelist Jane Austen became a hot property in Hollywood, MGM produced this opulent and entertaining...
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Producer
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1940
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Kenneth Roberts' fact-based novel Northwest Passage would seem too raw and explicit a book to be considered for an MGM film...
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1940
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Based on the Clare Booth Luce play of the same name, this MGM comedy is famous for its all-female cast and deft direction by...
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1939
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Three years after the second Thin Man entry, MGM brought back the property by popular demand with Another Thin Man. As ever,...
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1939
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1939
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Contrary to popular belief, the Nelson Eddy-Jeanette MacDonald Technicolor confection Sweethearts is not based on the 1913...
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1938
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M.G.M.'s opulent costume drama Marie Antoinette marked a return to the screen after a two-year absence for reigning Queen of...
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1938
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1937
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1937
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1937
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1936
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In MGM's three-hour-plus The Great Ziegfeld, William Powell stars as the titular theatrical impresario, whose show business...
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1936
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1936
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1936
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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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1935
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Playwright Eugene O'Neill's only comedy, Ah, Wilderness! was filmed by MGM in 1935. Impressionable turn-of-the-century lad...
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1935
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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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Filmed on what MGM considered a B-picture budget and schedule (14 days, which at Universal or Columbia would have been...
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1934
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There were very few laughs in this phlegmatic film adaptation of the Oliver LaFarge's Pulitzer Prize winning novel Laughing...
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1934
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1934
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Wounded criminal Lucky Wilson (Robert Montgomery) takes refuge in a small Connecticut farm. He falls in love with...
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1934
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Society-lawyer Warner Baxter loses his prestige in the legal community when he successfully defends gangster boss...
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1933
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One woman helps make an unknown boxer a star, but could a handful lead him back to obscurity again? Steve Morgan (Max Baer)...
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Producer
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1933
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The remarkable location-filmed Eskimo was adapted from two books: Die Flucht Ins Wiesse Land and Der Eskimo, both written by...
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1933
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Jean Harlow is the "bombshell" of the title, a popular movie actress named Lola. Though she seemingly has everything a girl...
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1933
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1933
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After the death of her circus-aerialist husband, Kitty Lorraine (Alice Brady) dedicates herself to transforming her daughter...
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1933
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Red Dust was lensed almost entirely on MGM's back lot; even so, we are utterly convinced that the film takes place in...
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Producer
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1932
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Directed by Victor Fleming, Wet Parade chronicles the effects of alcoholism and the Prohibition on the lives of two families...
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Producer
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1932
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A reluctantly appointed police chief in a crime-riddled city takes his job seriously and works hard to clean the streets of...
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1932
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1929
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This melodrama is the last silent film of Lon Chaney. There is a soundtrack, but it only contains sound effects. The plot...
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1929
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Even those who can't recall the plot of the silent Our Dancing Daughters (and there admittedly isn't much to remember) can...
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1928
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Filmed on location in Tahiti, White Shadows in the South Seas was originally intended as a project for famed documentary...
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Producer
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1928
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Silent film leading lady Priscilla Dean's best years were behind her when she made Crimson Runner. Still, her ability to...
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Producer, Supervisor/Manager
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1925
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Character actor William V. Mong rarely landed a role that was a real tour de force, but he has one -- or, rather, two -- in...
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Director, Supervisor/Manager
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1925
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Veteran cowboy star Harry Carey starred in the title-role in this fine silent Western produced by Hunt Stromberg for Cecil B....
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1925
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1925
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Produced and co-written by Hunt Stromberg, this silent crime melodrama was advertised as a Western solely because of its...
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Screen Story
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1925
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Even though Clara Bow was close to achieving true stardom, she was still being cast in crass, low-budget fare. In fact, she...
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Producer
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1925
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Hunt Stromberg produced this above-average western in which hero Tiger Thompson (Harry Carey) promises a dying train robber...
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1924
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Priscilla Dean's star was beginning to fade around the time she appeared as a passionate Andulusian peasant in this drama....
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1924
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This seafaring melodrama was based on the Harkins and Barber stage play by the same name. His ship capsized in a storm,...
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1924
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Cowboy star Harry Carey occasionally appeared in films that weren't Westerns, and this heavily sentimental action-drama...
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1924
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Filmgoers must have been sick of desert romances by the time this one came out. About the only thing it had in its favor was...
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1924
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A peaceful, hard-working farmer is almost hanged for a crime he didn't commit in this, the second version of Bret Harte's...
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1924
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When the down-market O'Tooles inherit a fortune, the entire clan -- including the dog, Rags -- moved to upscale Pasadena,...
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1923
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