Producer Aaron Spelling's made-for-TV Murder Can Hurt You is an unsubtle take-off of Neil Simon's theatrical feature...
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1980
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In the fourth installment of the "Herbie" series of Volkswagen Bug fantasies, the magical car has lost a lot of its sheen as...
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1980
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In this romantic comedy, a news anchorwoman's prenuptial jitters increase dramatically when another man, a songwriter, falls...
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1978
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Robert Stevenson, Walt Disney Productions' house director, cobbled together his 19th family film for the organization with...
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1976
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In this Disney comedy, a pair of spoiled kids, bored by their filthy rich grandfather, decide they'd rather be with their...
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1976
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In this Disney film, Hank Cooper (Ed Asner) the owner of a losing professional football team, recruits Gus, a Yugoslavian...
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1976
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Prolific television director Gary Nelson made the Walt Disney live-action comedy Freaky Friday, based on the novel by...
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1976
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The Apple Dumpling Gang stars Bill Bixby as Russell Donovan, a slick frontier gambler. In Runyon-esque fashion, he is...
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1975
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At last the secret has been revealed! Prime-time network programming is determined by a chimpanzee! That's the premise of...
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1971
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The Old West is just not the same, what with so few cattle being run, and law-abiding folk running around like they own...
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1971
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After nearly four seasons in a Saturday-night timeslot, Adam-12 moved to a new Thursday evening berth beginning with this...
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1971
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Compulsive neatnik Felix Unger (Jack Lemmon) is thrown out of his house by his divorce-bound wife. He wanders aimlessly...
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1968
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Those who worried that the Disney studio would collapse without the presence of the late Uncle Walt were put at ease when the...
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1968
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Through a series of misunderstandings, Lucy (Lucille Ball) is assumed to be a notorious jewel thief called "The Red Flash"...
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Hard Head Hogan
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1967
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Frank Faylen and Iris Adrian guest star as Marvin and Marita, a pair of over-the-hill vaudevillians. When Granny wins some...
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1966
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Insult comic Don Rickles guest stars as Fred, a compulsive gambler. While squiring a lovely young lady named Phyllis (Sylvia...
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1965
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1965
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Feeling unwanted and unloved after an argument with Herman (Fred Gwynne), Grandpa (Al Lewis) packs up his potions and leaves...
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1965
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George O'Hanlon, best known to baby boomers as the voice of cartoon character George Jetson, is both guest star and...
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1965
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Once a thief, always a thief. This is the sorry lot of Eddie (Alain Delon), an ex-convict who tries his best to go straight....
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1965
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Upon taking possession of their new farm in Hooterville, Oliver (Eddie Albert) and Lisa (Eva Gabor) discover that former...
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Mrs. Bennett
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1965
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Suspense builds around the investigation of a plane crash that caused 53 deaths in this dramatic adaption of Ernest K. Gann's...
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1964
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One of Elvis Presley's most successful post-Army vehicles, Blue Hawaii casts Elvis as scion to a Hawaiian pineapple fortune....
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1961
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The second of Jerry Lewis' directorial endeavors, The Errand Boy, like its predecessor The Bellboy, is essentially a series...
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1961
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When Cecil B. DeMille was set to direct a re-make of his 1938 swashbuckler The Buccaneer and suddenly became ill, his...
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1958
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Celia
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1957
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Ann Blyth plays famed "torch singer" Helen Morgan, from her humble beginnings as a carnival dancer to the height of her...
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1957
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A celebrated short story by Ray Bradbury is the source for this eerily entertaining episode. Detective Krovitch...
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1956
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A car with two men visible in it pulls up to a Los Angeles service station at night, with a single attendant (Dub Taylor)...
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1954
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Highway Dragnet is best known to modern movie buffs as the first film to carry Roger Corman's name in the credits. Corman...
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1954
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Frank Webster (John Ireland) is a man on the run. Newly broken out of prison, the former truck driver and convicted murderer...
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1954
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"You guys will never be soldiers!" With these words, Richard Widmark opens and closes Take the High Ground. Widmark plays...
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1953
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When Lou (Lou Costello) accidentally shoots his neighbor Mrs. Crumbcake (Elvia Allman) out of a tree and perforates her...
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1953
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This vintage collection includes a cavalcade of vaudeville acts and is hosted by Jackie Coogan. ~ Rovi...
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1952
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1952
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Ever since slipping into Public Domain, The Big Trees has become one of the most accessible and oft-televised of...
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1952
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The Abbott & Costello Show marked the last major commercial success for the comic team of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. The...
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1952
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1951
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Bob Hope is up to his famous nose in danger in this espionage comedy. Second-rate burlesque comic Peanuts White (Hope) is...
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1951
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The 62-minute GI Jane may well be the best of Lippert Studios' "pocket" musicals. TV producer Tim (Tom Neal) is in the midst...
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Lt. Adrian
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1951
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In this action comedy, a bunch of bungling jewel thieves are in such a hurry to flee the site of their latest caper that...
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1951
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This hastily assembled "feature" is comprised of several episodes of an early-1950s TV series starring Buster Keaton. One of...
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1950
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Pearl
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1950
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1950
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Sideshow was the last starring effort of Don McGuire, who would soon abandon acting in favor of writing, producing and...
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1950
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This "Joe Palooka" entry concentrates on Joe's porcine pal Humphrey Pennyworth (played by Robert Coogan, the brother of...
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1950
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This film, which is one of a series based on the characters from the Blondie comic strip, finds Dagwood entering the Army...
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1950
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Adapted from a play by Honore de Balzac, Lovable Cheat offers a veritable smorgasbord of Hollywood's top character actors....
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Mme. Mercadet
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1949
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1949
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There's propaganda aplenty in RKO's I Married a Communist, the first of producer Howard R. Hughes's many anti-Red broadsides....
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1949
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1949
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Milton Berle was enjoying the first flush of his television success when his musical-comedy movie vehicle Always Leave Them...
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1949
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William "One Take" Beaudine warms the director's chair for Lippert Pictures' Tough Assignment. The film is essentially a...
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1949
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The "B"-picture unit at 20th Century-Fox was slowly being phased out when Miss Mink of 1949 was produced. Lois Collier heads...
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1949
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1949
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"Suggested" by James Oliver Curwood's novel The Gold Hunters, this low-budget Monogram release was the first film in a series...
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1949
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Film historian Leonard Maltin has labelled this final entry in Monogram's "Charlie Chan" series as "embarrassing," but it's...
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1949
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Whenever Monogram wanted to get prestige bookings, the studio released its product through its "class" subsidiary Allied...
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1949
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In this courtroom drama, two opposing lawyers lead a double life. In the courtroom they are ruthless toward each other, but...
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Sob-Sister Newspaper Columnist
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1948
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Bob Hope's Technicolor western spoof The Paleface was one of the comedian's biggest box-office hits. Hope plays Painless...
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Pepper
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1948
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Former "Henry Aldrich" James Lydon acquits himself nicely in a serious role in Republic's Out of the Storm. Lydon plays...
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1948
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Philo Vance, the infuriatingly brilliant amateur detective created by S. S. Van Dine, hadn't been seen on screen for seven...
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1947
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In this comedy, a scatter-brained professor nearly starts a riot when he writes a book claiming that women like to be...
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1947
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Nice guys don't always finish last as can be seen in this crime drama. The story begins as a perfectly nice fellow finds...
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1947
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The Abbott & Costello western spoof The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap is predicated on an actual Montana law of the 19th...
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1947
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Jack Carson and Robert Hutton make a curious but copacetic comedy duo in the Warner Bros. musical Love and Learn. The stars...
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1947
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With Vacation in Reno, RKO contract actress Anne Jeffreys proved herself an accomplished comedienne, a fact verified by her...
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Bunny Wells
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1946
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Miss Baggart
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1946
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In this WW II romance, a small-time nightclub singer who works in a little Manhattan nightclub has a one-night stand with a...
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1946
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It's a Pleasure was the third release from International Pictures, the feisty independent that would later merge with...
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1945
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The Stork Club, the famed New York nightspot immortalized by columnist Walter Winchell (in return for special favors from its...
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Gwen
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1945
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Boston Blackie's Rendezvous quite transcended its B-picture origins, and was easily the best of Columbia's "Boston Blackie"...
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1945
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Idealistic young attorney John Norton (Robert Lowery) finds himself on the Road to Alcatraz when he's accused of murdering...
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1945
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In this crime comedy, a prominent judge's vacation is interrupted during a sudden storm that forces him to seek refuge in a...
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1945
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In this musical, an unemployed swing-band singer cannot hook up with another group and so becomes a switchboard operator at a...
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1944
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A sleepy hay-seed filled Arkansas town gets spotlight fever when a local sow bears an unprecedented 10 piglets. Suddenly...
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1944
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This '40s film (based upon a Jack London story) is set in Alaska's gold rush days and revolves around the dilemma faced by a...
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1944
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In this comic murder mystery, two bail bondsmen try to help out a man who is suspected of stealing bonds from his partner....
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Patsy Brent
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1944
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In this comic western, a Broadway star leaves his musical revue to go West and help out his troubled friend. While there,...
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Lefty
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1944
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Directed by Fritz Lang, The Woman in the Window, a sadly tragic film noir, is the story of the doomed love of married...
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1944
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Bluebeard casts the saturnine John Carradine as Gaston, a popular painter in 19th century Paris. Unbeknownst to the...
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1944
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The East Side Kids were betwixt and between their earlier roughneck characterizations and their later Bowery Boys buffoonery...
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1944
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The career girl in this PRC musical is Joan (Frances Langford), a Kansas City gal with showbiz aspirations. She heads to New...
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1944
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1944
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In this musical comedy, a vaudevillian teams up with a barber and becomes a smash hit. The barber also finds himself falling...
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1943
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Overloaded with unreleased films in 1942 and 1943, Paramount Pictures cleaned house by diverting several pictures to United...
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1943
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Deanna Durbin is all grown up in Hers to Hold, the unofficial sequel to her "Three Smart Girls" films of the 1930s. Durbin...
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1943
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Gee Gee Graham
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1943
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Dick Foran is back for another seven-reel melange of music and comedy in Universal's He's My Guy. Foran is cast as...
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1943
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Action in the North Atlantic is solid wartime propaganda with a rather endearing inner lining of left-wing politics, courtesy...
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1943
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1943
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In this wartime drama, an ex-gangster proves himself a decent man when he helps defeat the Nazis while he is hiding out on a...
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Dorothy
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1943
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1943
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In this frothy musical comedy, Ann Carter (Deanna Durbin) is an aspiring singer from the Midwest who decides to move to New...
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1943
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Based on the Ben Hecht/Charlie McArthur play Chicago, Roxie Hart is a short-but-sweet satire of highly publicized court...
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1942
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Director Rouben Mamoulian completed a three-picture 20th Century Fox deal with this airy comic romance that attempted to ape...
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1942
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Though musical-comedy favorite Jane Frazee was well established at Universal in mid-1942, every so often she'd head to...
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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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1942
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In this musical, which manages to look back with nostalgia upon prohibition and the depression (no small accomplishment),...
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1942
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Thanks to the canny production team of Maurice and Franklin King, I Killed That Man is superior to the general run of...
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Verne Drake
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1942
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On a secluded base in Arizona, veteran World War One pilot Steve Britt (Preston Foster) trains flyers to fight in World War...
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1942
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In this drama, a wealthy playboy decides to "slum it" for a while to see how regular people live. Trouble ensues when he...
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1942
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Back in the 1940s, it was not uncommon for recording artists to cut records exclusively for the jukebox trade, and sometimes...
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Jinx Corey
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1942
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In his last screen appearance, bandleader Glenn Miller plays--are you sitting down?--a bandleader. The film's main plot...
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1942
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Taxi, Mister (AKA Two Mugs from Brooklyn was the first in a brief series of roughhouse comedies starring William Bendix and...
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1942
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A fun though abortive bid to pair crime-solving duo Lew Ayres and Laraine Day for a series of thrillers, this murder mystery...
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1942
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Meet the Chump is an hour's worth of nonsense ideally suited to the talents of Hugh "Woo Woo" Herbert. The star plays Hugh...
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1941
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In this musical, an idealistic college graduate is bitten by the show business bug after he finds success writing and...
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Francine La Verne
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1941
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Fred MacMurray is a breezy New York street photographer; Mary Martin is a small town girl hoping to make her fortune in the...
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1941
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In this musical comedy, a pregnant disc jockey misses her husband who is fighting overseas. Stressed out by the situation and...
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1941
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One wonders if the title Too Many Blondes was inspired by the well-publicized romantic peccadilloes of the film's star, Rudy...
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1941
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1941
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Hard Guy (British title: Professional Bride) stars singer Mary Healy (later of "Peter Lind Hayes and?" fame) as Julie, a...
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Goldie
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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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It has been alleged that Horror Island was the least expensive of Universal's 1940s horror films. While it certainly looks...
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1941
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A schoolteacher battles for women's rights in mid 19th century Wyoming. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1941
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1940
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Ralph Bellamy and Margaret Lindsay, stars of Columbia's "Ellery Queen" series, let their hair down and went "screwball" in...
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1940
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Adapted from a play which was originally produced by the Federal Theatre Project (part of the WPA), this is a film from the...
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1939
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William K. Howard, a once-prestigious director fallen on hard times in 1939, proved that he still had the "right stuff" with...
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1939
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Those beautiful Busby Berkeley babes are back at work, seeking financial backing for a Broadway show. Salvation comes from a...
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1936
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Working on the theory that the only thing funnier than Laurel and Hardy is two sets of Laurel and Hardys, Our Relations milks...
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1936
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The real "message to Garcia" was delivered by an American lieutenant to Cuban rebel General Garcia, asking for the General's...
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1936
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In this drama, a manicurist is mistaken for the winner of a large sweepstakes and finds herself pursued by fortune hunters....
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Rita
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1936
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1936
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A remake of the French comedy Monsieur Sans-Gene, One Rainy Afternoon gets under way when film-actor Phillippe Martin...
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1936
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Hotel barber Joe Jenkins (Jack Haley), who's obsessed with newspaper stories about high-society celebrities, is dragooned...
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1936
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The "Crime Club" detective-novel series spawned a film counterpart in 1935, which for the next four years bounced around such...
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Muriel Randel
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1936
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A follow-up to the highly successful Bolero, this lively romantic drama stars George Raft as Joe Martin, a Cuban-American...
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1935
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Considered the best of the all-star "studio" musicals of 1929 and 1930, Paramount on Parade utilized the talents of...
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1930
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In the introductory episode of The Abbott & Costello Show, we meet the two heroes, down-on-their-luck performers who owe too...
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