Warren Beatty directed and starred in this big-budget action comedy featuring Chester Gould's square-jawed, two-dimensional...
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1990
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Jeff Daniels stars in this tedious situation comedy concerning the middle-aged terror of illness and mortality. Scripted by...
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1989
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This romantic, melancholy twist on the Frankenstein formula stars Peter O'Toole as Professor Harry Wolper, a lonely eccentric...
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1985
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Vera (Beth Howland) is overwhelmed with plaintive poems, pretty balloons and assorted expensive presents. The explanation:...
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1983
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Jinxed is an apt name for this disastrous project which, sadly, turned out to be Don Siegel's final film. The film takes...
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1982
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When Diane (Shelley Long) decides to takes notes for a book she plans to write, she certainly does not lack for story...
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1982
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Ann Jillian plays the title character in this made-for-TV film, based on the facts but with several liberties taken as well....
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1982
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Few filmmakers other than Warren Beatty would have had the courage and vision to fashion an epic film from the life of famed...
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1981
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In this drama, union organizers, desperate to control the lumber and mining empire of a wealthy family, resort to sabotage....
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1980
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A teen comedy that does not quite rise to the level of that age group, this uninspired story features Ron Liebman as the...
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1980
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Alex (Judd Hirsch) is surprisingly unaffected when his sister Charlotte (Joan Hackett) shows up with the news that their...
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Hospital Patient
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1979
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1979
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When faced with graduation, four seniors plot to prolong their college experience for fear of steady employment, but they're...
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1978
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Generous Edith offers the Bunker living room as the site for the wedding between Mr. Hooper (Ian Wolfe) and Florence Talley...
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Mr. Hooper
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1977
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James Michener's Dynasty is aptly named. This TV movie is indeed based on a novel by Michener, which does indeed cover thirty...
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1976
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The second made-for-TV movie based on Charles Moulton's classy comic-strip heroine Wonder Woman, The New Original Wonder...
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1975
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Three's a crowd in Mike Nichols's period caper comedy -- or is it? To dodge the 1920s Mann Act barring the transport of women...
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1975
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Based on a novel by Michael Crichton, Terminal Man is a sci-fi thriller about a scientist who decides to be the lab rat in an...
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1974
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This classy and creative low-budget thriller depicts an all-out war of attrition between a group of neglected, disgruntled...
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1974
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A meek and mild mailman decides that the only way to escape the constant nagging of his battle-ax of a wife is to turn...
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1974
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Parademic trainee Billy Hanks (Kip Niven) has everyone at Rampart on edge with his lack of experience--and his more injurious...
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1973
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After pulling duty at LA Harbor, Officers Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) and Jim Reed (Kent McCord) are back on their familiar...
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1973
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1972
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Ironside star Raymond Burr makes his TV directorial debut in this episode, in which Chief Ironside comes to the aid of a...
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1972
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Based on his award-winning student short, George Lucas's debut feature cerebrally celebrates the possibility for individual...
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PTO
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1971
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In New Mexico, the Partridges take a runaway teenager named Maggie (Laurie Prange) under their wings. Trouble is, they aren't...
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1971
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This episode finds Captain Kirk, Dr. McCoy and Mr. Spock exploring the planet Sarpeidon, whose sun is about to go nova. They...
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1969
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On a distant planet, the Enterprise encounters a civilization that resembles a more technologically advanced version of the...
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1968
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The FBI launches a search for the thieves who stripped the abandoned car owned by wealthy kidnap victim John Graham (Jim...
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1968
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In this psychological thriller, Paul (James Caan) and Jennifer (Katherine Ross) are a pair of wealthy but blasé socialites...
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1967
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Preparing for a visit from Mayberry's guest minister Rev. Leighton (Ian Wolfe), Aunt Bee worries that her natural hair-do...
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1966
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This episode is set in a remote Oregon community plagued by a drought that has dragged on for over three months. A local...
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1966
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Future Hill Street Blues star Dan Travanti (still billing himself as "Travanty") is cast as Barney Austin, the abrasive host...
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1966
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Written by Dick Carr, "The Spotlight" is a showcase for Viveca Lindfors in the role of long-retired opera diva Angela Drake....
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1965
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This is the first of several Branded episodes in which fictional ex-military officer Jason McCord (Chuck Connors) has a...
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1965
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Veteran character actors Lyle Talbot, Olan Soule and Ian Wolfe are seen in this episode, a gentle spoof of the "modern art"...
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1964
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From at least the 1930s on to the 1970s, the upbeat protestant minister, Reverend Norman Vincent Peale, ministered to the...
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1963
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Based on the story "The Horla" by Guy de Maupassant, this grim low-budget potboiler stars Vincent Price as Simon Cordier, a...
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1963
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After rescuing several children from a burning school bus, a seriously injured Kimble (David Janssen)--alias "George...
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1963
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Schwimmer
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1963
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This long, 135-minute feature is divided into four different segments, three highlighting fairy tales and the first...
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1962
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In this comic episode, mail-order huckster Gideon Flinch (Ian Wolfe), alias Homer T. Cranston, fleeces ornery Bullethead...
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1961
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First broadcast January 28, 1961, "Bank Run" was one of several second-season Bonanza episodes directed by Robert Altman....
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Harrison
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1961
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1961
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's story of an expedition to a remote plateau rumored to be the home of prehistoric beasts, already the...
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1960
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1960
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After the death of his father, a highly respected attorney, Daniel Gardner (played by a pre-Hawaii 5-0) finds that his...
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1959
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The TV drama anthology Kraft Television Theatre celebrated its tenth year on the air with an original drama written by...
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Giuseppe
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1957
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Having just recovered from a heart attack, fabled British barrister Sir Wilfred Robards (Charles Laughton) has been ordered...
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1957
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The third film version of Robert E. Sherwood's play Waterloo Bridge, Gaby is also the most antiseptic of the three. In the...
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1956
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This landmark juvenile-delinquent drama scrupulously follows the classic theatrical disciplines, telling all within a 24-hour...
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1955
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In the 1750s, young orphan John Mohune (Jon Whiteley) arrives at the seaside Dorset village of Moonfleet seeking Jeremy Fox...
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1955
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At the height of his TV fame, flamboyant pianist Liberace starred in the lavish Warner Bros. production Sincerely Yours. A...
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1955
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In this 1955 Otto Preminger film, Gary Cooper stars as World War I hero Brigadier General Billy Mitchell. The film recounts...
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1955
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Director Robert Z. Leonard brought his 31-year association with MGM to a rousing close with The King's Thief. Set in England...
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1955
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Lana Turner stars as Diane in this opulent costume drama. Set in 16th century France, the film finds the gorgeous Diane de...
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1955
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Based extremely loosely on the Stephen Vincent Benet story Sobbin' Women," Seven Brides for Seven Brothers is one of the best...
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1954
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Paul Newman made his screen debut in the gloriously nonsensical costume epic The Silver Chalice. Freely adapted from a novel...
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1954
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After a fruitful 15-year association, Greer Garson and MGM parted company with Her Twelve Men. The William Roberts-Laura Z....
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1954
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1954
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Mr. Bagley
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1953
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This costume drama was based on the historical fiction of Margaret Irwin, which embellishes the facts of the early years of...
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1953
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This highly fanciful but immensely entertaining biopic stars Tony Curtis as legendary magician/escape-artist Harry Houdini....
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1953
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1953
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1953
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Ernie Driscoll (John Payne) is an ex-fighter who came within seconds of winning the world championship. He's now forced to...
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1953
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One of several early-1950s films to capitalize on the Kefauver Committee's investigation of organized crime,...
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1952
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This above-average Louis Hayward swashbuckler was sumptuously produced by Columbia's resident western specialist...
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1952
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Something for the Birds is a toothless satire of Washington, filmed during the McCarthy era. For lack of a political target...
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1952
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Not up to the classic 1935 presentation, this is still an excellent adaptation of Victor Hugo's epic novel. The familiar...
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1952
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Here Comes the Groom was the second collaboration between director Frank Capra and star Bing Crosby. Though not as "socially...
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1951
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1951
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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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The film traces Naples-born Caruso's ascension from adolescent choir singer to the uppermost ranks of the opera world. Caruso...
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1951
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Robert Ryan plays Jim Wilson, a tough police detective embittered by years of dealing with low-life urban scum, in...
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1951
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Previously filmed in 1931 under its original title, Theodore Dreiser's bulky but brilliant novel An American Tragedy was...
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1951
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Set just after the close of the Civil War, a former Confederate officer (Ray Milland) joins a vaudeville target-shooting show...
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1950
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1950
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Back in the 1930s, '40s and '50s, artist George Petty was famous for his "Petty Girl" illustrations; lovingly detailed...
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1950
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Mr. Adams
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1950
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Producer Val Lewton abandoned the "psychological horror" efforts of his RKO days when he moved to MGM in 1950. Lewton's...
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1950
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A pioneering film about racial tensions, No Way Out stars Richard Widmark as a criminal named Ray Biddle, who despises...
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1950
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"This boy...and this girl...were never properly introduced to the world we live in." With this superimposed opening title,...
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1949
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Though not acknowledged by contemporary reviewers, Colorado Territory is a westernized remake of the 1941 crime drama...
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1949
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After Ray Milland turned down the leading role in Bride of Vengeance, Paramount contractee John Lund stepped into the role of...
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1949
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1949
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The never-solved disappearance of Judge Crater in 1930 was the inspiration for RKO's The Judge Steps Out. Alexander Knox (who...
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1949
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Joe Palooka, comic strip artist Ham Fisher's golden-hearted pugilist, heads South of the Border in The Counterpunch....
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1949
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After years of dumb-blonde and best-friend roles, Jane Wyman proved her skills as a dramatic actress -- and won an Academy...
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1948
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1948
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Fed up with crowded big-city living, advertising executive Mr. Blandings (Cary Grant) decides to seek out a big, roomy house...
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1948
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Jeanette MacDonald made her first screen appearance in five years in the MGM confection Three Daring Daughters. Looking at...
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1948
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Angel in Exile represents a one-time-only directorial collaboration between cult favorite Allan Dwan and B-western workhouse...
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1948
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Love leads a man to his most evil deeds and forces him to change his ways in this Western. After being handed a dishonorable...
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1948
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Reading-of-the-will melodramatics substitute for the usual B-Western shootin' and fightin' in this late entry in the long...
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1947
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In this drama, set in England, an honorable textbook writer in a village becomes friends with a pregnant girl. The...
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1947
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The 1931 George Arliss vehicle The Millionaire was updated and retailored in 1947 as That Way With Women. Sidney Greenstreet...
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1947
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There's oil in them thar hills in this late entry in the long-running Hopalong Cassidy Western series. Or, rather, there is...
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Black
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1947
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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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Chased by a posse to a remote cabin, Jeb (Robert Mitchum) is joined by his fearful wife Thorley (Teresa Wright), awaiting the...
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1947
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In this drama, Madeleine Damien (Hedy Lamarr) is a successful magazine editor with a free-spirited private life, but a number...
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1947
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Without Reservations has to be the least typical John Wayne picture of the postwar era. Top billing is bestowed upon...
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1946
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1946
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Three years after its previous "Lone Wolf" entry Passport to Suez, Columbia Pictures revitalized the B-picture series with...
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1946
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The novel The Big Bow Mystery by Israel Zangwill had been filmed in 1928 as The Perfect Crime and again in 1934 as The Crime...
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1946
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When a scientist discovers a way to create synthetic diamonds, a group of criminals kidnap his daughter Meredith (Louisa...
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1946
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On the eve of the Chinese New Year, three strangers make a pact before a small statue of the Chinese goddess of Destiny. The...
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1946
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Elizabeth MacDonald (Claudette Colbert) is a newly married corporate librarian in 1918 Baltimore working for a chemical...
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1946
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The Technicolor swashbuckler Bandit of Sherwood Forest stars Cornel Wilde as Robert of Nottingham, son of the legendary Robin...
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1946
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Based on the prolific Sir Arthur Conan Doyle mysteries, Sherlock Holmes is on the job again. This time the inmate of a...
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1946
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1945
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This drama is based on a Broadway play, One Against Seven, which in turn is based on the Russian play Pobyeda. Set during WW...
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1945
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Ayn Rand wrote this adaptation of Chris Massie's book Pity Mr. Simplicity, about a soldier who falls in love with a former...
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1945
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Columbia Pictures' entree into the swashbuckling genre was the opulent 18th century costumer The Fighting Guardsman. Willard...
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1945
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1945
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One of the most successful filmed biographies of the 1940s, A Song to Remember alleges to be the true story of Polish...
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1945
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1945
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1945
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John Loder plays a prominent London actor, lately starring in a play about a maniacal strangler. When the theatre is bombed...
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1945
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Strange Confession was the fourth in Universal's "Inner Sanctum" B-picture series, all of which starred Lon Chaney Jr. Chaney...
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1944
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For their first film in a year, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello played it safe with a medley of old burlesque routines and...
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1944
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In this crazy comedy, a casino worker writes a book about headhunters and finds himself the target of the leader of an...
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1944
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Ostensibly a vehicle for RKO Radio's new comedy duo Wally Brown and Alan Carney, Seven Days Ashore actually casts Brown &...
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1944
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Reckless Age is a by-the-numbers Universal musical, elevated by the presence of perky songstress Gloria Jean. The star plays...
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1944
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The fifth in the Invisible Man series stars Jon Hall as Robert Griffin, a convict who takes the invisibility serum and then...
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1944
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The White Cliffs of Dover is one of those overlong MGM wartime films that everyone seems to have seen a part of, but no one...
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1944
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Though it is not based on any Conan Doyle story, The Scarlet Claw is regarded by Baker Street aficionados as the best of...
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1944
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1944
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Set in a brooding old home, this musical mystery chronicles the endeavors of a young couple attempt to solve a mysterious...
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1944
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This mystery is set upon the mighty Mississippi and within the dark bayous of Louisiana. Originally it was a 13- episode...
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1944
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1944
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The Merry Monahans is one of the higher-budgeted Universal musicals of the 1940s, even though the storyline is strictly...
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1944
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This irresistably-titled comedy is arguably the best of RKO Radio's Wally Brown-Alan Carney vehicles. The daffy duo is cast...
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1944
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This 1940s drama implies that children do indeed learn what they live as it tells the story of a teenage girl who runs away...
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1944
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1944
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When an instructor dies mysteriously at an exclusive girl's school, Tom Lawrence (Tom Conway), a devil-may-care sleuth known...
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1943
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One of the silliest and most unbelievable of the Universal Sherlock Holmes series, Sherlock Holmes in Washington is also...
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1943
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In this downbeat drama based on a novel by John Steinbeck (which was also adapted for the stage), German troops invade Norway...
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1943
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There are those who consider Sherlock Holmes Faces Death to be the best of Universal's Holmes series, though others hold out...
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1943
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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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1943
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The Iron Major is the saga of WW1 hero-cum-football coach Frank Cavanaugh, played with his usual no-nonsense professionalism...
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1943
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A man trying to leave his fame behind discovers the perils of choosing to be the wrong unknown person in this farcical...
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1943
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Olivia De Havilland hadn't wanted to star in RKO's Government Girl, but was forced to do so by her home studio Warner Bros....
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1943
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Secret Agent of Japan sometimes looks like a B-grade "answer" to Warner Bros.' Casablanca, except that the answer was...
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1942
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Strange but true: Norma Shearer turned down the title role in Mrs. Miniver to star instead in the insignificant trifle We...
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1942
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As Academy Award-winning films go, Mrs. Miniver has not weathered the years all that well. This prettified, idealized view of...
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1942
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At the close of World War I, shell-shocked amnesia victim Ronald Colman is sequestered in a London sanitarium; with no...
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1942
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Olive Higgins Prouty's popular novel was transformed into nearly two hours of high-grade soap opera by several masters of the...
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1942
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Aircraft plant worker Robert Cummings is accused of sabotaging his factory and causing the death of a co-worker. Actually,...
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1942
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1942
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With America's Air Force not completely mobilized in mid-1942, Universal paid tribute to those foresighted Yankee flyboys who...
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1942
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Though set in 1865, The Son of Monte Cristo is a thinly disguised indictment against 20th century dictatorships. Louis...
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1941
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Filmed independently in 1939, The Great Commandment finally attained released in 1942 via 20th Century-Fox. Set in 30 AD, the...
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1941
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William Powell and Myrna Loy re-team for this (literally) crazy screwball comedy about a happily married couple who, thanks...
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1941
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MGM's The Trial of Mary Dugan was based on the popular stage play by Bayard Vellier, previously filmed as a Norma Shearer...
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1941
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Made just before America's entry into World War II, Paris Calling is one of the earliest French Underground adventures. When...
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1941
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Future blacklistee John Howard Lawson co-wrote this remake of Samuel Goldwyn's 1920 drama Earthbound, presented here as a...
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1940
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Fourteen scriptwriters spent five years toiling over a movie adaptation of war correspondent Vincent Sheehan's...
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1940
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The schizophrenic screenplay of The Earl of Chicago is rendered even more bizarre by the uneven performance by Robert...
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1940
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This upbeat domestic drama chronicles the struggles of a newlywed couple as they try to keep their marital status secret from...
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1940
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This sweeping drama chronicles the foundation a Canadian institution: the Hudson's Bay Trading Company. Set in the 17th...
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1940
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In this drama, an young, orphaned heir is dismayed to discover that his inheritance will no longer cover the tuition and...
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1939
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A model of precision and economy, the MGM "B" thriller Tell No Tales represented the feature-film directorial debut of former...
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1939
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Humphrey Bogart makes his first and last appearance in a horror movie in this film. Though the title implies that it is a...
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1939
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1939
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Films set during America's colonial era seldom did well at the box office, and Allegheny Uprising was no exception....
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1939
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This remake of Penthouse (33) stars Walter Pidgeon as a smooth attorney with a few embarrassing friends. One of these is a...
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1939
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1939
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Columbia's new "Blondie" series continued its winning streak with its fourth entry, Blondie Brings Up Baby. So much happens...
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1939
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When Columbia Pictures secured the movie rights to Chic Young's popular comic strip Blondie, the studio executives probably...
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1938
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1938
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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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Baroness Orczy, author of The Scarlet Pimpernel, came up with the story upon which The Emperor's Candlesticks was based. As...
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1937
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1937
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In the fine tradition of And Sudden Death, Columbia's The Devil is Driving tabulates the dangers of drunken driving in an...
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1937
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In 1882, Mark Twain published a delightful fairy tale "for young people of all ages"; 45 years later, Warner Bros., inspired...
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1937
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League of Frightened Men was the second and last entry in Columbia's short-lived mystery series based on the "Nero Wolfe"...
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1937
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1937
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The second screen version of Anna Katherine Green's 1878 whodunit stars Donald Cook as Dr. Truman Hartnell, a dedicated...
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1936
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The Bold Caballero, Republic Pictures' first color film, was also the first talkie version of the "Zorro" legend (as...
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Priest
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1936
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1936
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1935
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The 1932 publication of Charles Nordhoff and James Norton Hall's Mutiny on the Bounty sparked a revival of interest in the...
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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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Ronald Colman plays Robert Clive, a true-life 18th century Britisher who works up the ranks to become leader of Britain's...
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1935
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Two rich and wealthy millionaires who have a lot of money bet that reporter Robert Pryor can't spend $720,000 in twelve...
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1935
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Based on a successful stage drama, this historical romance stars Norma Shearer as Elizabeth Barrett, an invalid largely...
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1934
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Wallace Beery plays P.T. Barnum in this comic biography of the renowned showman. As the story opens, Phineas Taylor Barnum is...
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1934
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In this wartime drama, set during WW I, the adoring wife of a German officer soon finds herself falling for a handsome...
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1934
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