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1965
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Bret (James Garner) feels mighty lucky when he thinks he's won some prize cattle in a poker game. Imagine his dismay when...
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1960
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A kick from an angry horse knocks out the town bully, but it is Bret Maverick who is given credit for the blow--and that's...
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1959
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Despite the glut of TV westerns in 1958, 20th Century-Fox's Regal Films subsidiary continued grinding out profitable...
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1958
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In this western, an embittered cavalry sergeant must take over his regiment after their commanding officer is killed during...
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1958
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In one of Maverick's all-time greatest episodes, Bret (James Garner) is cheated out of $15,000 by "respectable" banker John...
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1958
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Boy, are Beaver (Jerry Mathers) and Wally (Tony Dow) in for it! Answering a mail-order ad, the boys have purchased a baby...
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Postal Clerk
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1957
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Hidden Guns is not so much a western as a suspense melodrama. Bruce Bennett plays Stragg, a mean-spirited cardsharp with...
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1956
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Some good performances overcome the scripted cliches in Dakota Incident. In the tradition of Stagecoach, the film offers a...
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1956
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On the last leg of their trip from New York to Hollywood, the Ricardos and the Mertzes pull into Albuquerque, the home town...
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Will Potter
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1955
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1955
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1955
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Duffy of San Quentin is an Allied Artists low-budgeter based on the life of the warden who first introduced reforms in the...
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1954
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1954
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Doc
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1954
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The Glenn Miller Story traces Miller's rise from pit-orchestra trombone player to leader of the most successful big band of...
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1954
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The 1954 musical remake of A Star is Born could have been titled A Star is Reborn, in that it represented the triumphal...
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1954
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Future horror-film entrepreneur William Castle warmed the director's chair for Fort Ti. Set in the 18th century, the film...
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Sgt. Monday Wash
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1953
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RKO Radio's second 3D production, Devil's Canyon is a combination western and jail-break picture. The scene is Arizona...
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1953
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1953
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Walter Wanger's first production for Allied Artists, Kansas Pacific is more slick and polished than the usual budget western....
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1953
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This anthology film assembles five respected directors and a top-notch cast to bring a handful of stories by the great...
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1952
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Because of a minor error on their wedding license, Lucy (Lucille Ball) is convinced that she is no longer legally married to...
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Bert Willoughby
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1952
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The eponymous Rose is played by Mala Powers, a white girl raised by Cherokee Indians after her family was massacred. Powers...
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1952
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Based on the autobiography by George and Anna Rose, Room for One More is a warm-hearted vehicle for husband-and-wife actors...
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1952
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Katherine "Katie" Standish (Ann Blyth) has been raised in a restrictive small town by her prudish Aunt Priscilla...
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1951
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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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After a lengthy absence from the screen, Judy Canova returned in the raucous musical Honeychile. The plot had been utilized...
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1951
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Allan "Rocky" Lane is cleverly cast as Allan "Rocky" Lane in the Republic western Desert of Lost Men. The story finds Lane...
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Skeeter Davis
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1951
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While a man recuperates from a heart-attack, he obsesses with the thought that his wife and his doctor are having an affair,...
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1951
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Betty Grable's Wabash Avenue is an agreeable remake of Grable's 1943 hit Coney Island. The locale is changed from New York to...
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1950
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In this 1951 comedy Irene Dunne stars as Kay, a Manhattan-based songwriter who marries widowed rodeo cowboy Chris...
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1950
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1950
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One of the most oft-revived of the pre-Technicolor Nicholas Ray efforts, Born to Be Bad offers us the spectacle of...
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1950
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Anxious to remain active in the 1950s, director Frank Capra wanted to prove to Paramount Pictures that he could deliver an...
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1950
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So far as the rest of the world is concerned, Deborah Chandler Clark (Ida Lupino) is dead, killed in a freak auto accident....
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1949
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A frequent cable-TV attraction since lapsing into public domain in 1976, The Big Cat is an excellent outdoor drama,...
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1949
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1949
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Produced by Paramount's Pine-Thomas unit, Manhandled is a no-nonsense film noir with a well-chosen cast. Small-time hoodlum...
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1949
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A mule-stubborn farmer is determined to avoid modern technology and nearly destroys what is left of his family in this...
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1949
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1949
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Filmed in 1947, Warner Bros. Night Unto Night wasn't released until 1949. Based on a novel by Philip Wylie, the film stars...
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1949
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Information clerk
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1949
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1949
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Jake
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1949
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Down Memory Lane is a pastiche film comprised of old comedy footage from the Mack Sennett studios. The vintage clips are tied...
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1949
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Small-town department store manager Sam Clayton (Gary Cooper) is a born "Good Samaritan", which in his case translates as...
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1948
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In this children's move, a teenager and his loyal dog wander the wild West. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1948
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Stagecoach driver Bishop needs to capture the infamous bandit known as "The Monk" for his hooded attire. If Bishop can't...
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1948
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Based upon a story by William Mercer, The Velvet Touch stars Rosalind Russell as Valerie Stanton, a celebrated Broadway...
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1948
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In this family farce, an older couple falls in love and decide to marry and embark upon a peaceful honeymoon without the...
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1948
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Buck Swenson
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1948
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All of his life, Danny Hawkins (Dane Clark) has been taunted and mistreated by most of the people around him, enduring...
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1948
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Randolph Scott puts in time with Paramount's Pine-Thomas unit in the big-budget western Albuquerque. Scott is cast as Cole...
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1947
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"Von Clausewitz said that war is the logical extension of diplomacy; Monsieur Verdoux feels that murder is the logical...
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1947
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Judge Myrna Loy decides that the best way to curb the excesses of playboyish art teacher Cary Grant is to force him to do...
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1947
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Saddle Pals hits a new low for Gene Autry's postwar Republic westerns, containing literally no action at all. Autry is drawn...
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Thaddeus Bellweather
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1947
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Former army pilot Robert Taylor is accused, on the basis of strong circumstantial evidence, of his wife's murder. Suffering...
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1947
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Adapted from the popular stage play of the same name, Dear Ruth features Mona Freeman as teenaged Miriam Watkins, who can't...
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1947
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In later years, director Fred Zinneman seldom referred to My Brother Talks to Horses as one of his career highpoints. Even...
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1946
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In this comedy, a Chicago team of radio scriptwriters must split up when he takes a job with his bride-to-be's father, and...
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1946
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In this adventure, a young woman travels across Europe in search of her brother who was listed as missing in action during WW...
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1946
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Country-western star Roy Acuff heads the cast of the modest Republic musical Night Train to Memphis. Taking time off from his...
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Rainbow
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1946
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In this musical, a messenger boy does a remarkable imitation of Bing Crosby and finds himself surrounded by luscious little...
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1945
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This odd combination of roughneck comedy and serious domestic drama was adapted by Louise Randall Pierson from her own...
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1945
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1945
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In this drama, an aspiring playwright gets a job in a New York City restaurant favored by celebrities in hopes of getting a...
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1945
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Weekend at the Waldorf is an unabashed remake of MGM's 1932 Oscar-winner Grand Hotel: in fact, at several points in the...
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1945
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One of the last of Universal's "pocket" musicals, Under Western Skies packs a surplus of entertainment value into its brief...
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Sheriff
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1945
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This screwball comedy stars Claudette Colbert as Mary, the wife of bumbling but likeable banker Chris (Dick Foran). Foreign...
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1945
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As Alfred Hitchcock's classic psychothriller opens, the staff of a posh mental asylum eagerly awaits the arrival of the new...
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1945
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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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Heavenly Days was the last of three RKO Radio film vehicles for the popular radio duo of Fibber McGee and Molly (aka Jim and...
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1944
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When he finds out his ex-wife has just had his child and plans to give her up for adoption, a timid English instructor dashes...
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1944
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Despite the film's title, Pin-Up Girl offers surprisingly few glimpses of the famed Betty Grable "gams." This lively...
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1944
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1944
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1944
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This fifth entry in MGM's off-and-on "Thin Man" series maintains the high production and story values of the first four. Per...
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1944
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The wild and woolly early days of New York -- when it was still known as New Amsterdam -- provide the backdrop for this...
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1944
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Opening in England during the middle of World War II, A Guy Named Joe tells the story of Pete Sandidge (Spencer Tracy), a...
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1944
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Former president Ronald Reagan may have genuinely believed that he was referring to a real-life act of selfless wartime...
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1944
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A musical comedy star whose career is just starting to take off returns home from military school. En route, he meets a...
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1944
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Although coming in at an odd running time -- 40 minutes -- this interesting, low-budget drama looks at the adventures, or...
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Sheriff
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1944
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For his first independently-produced starring effort, James Cagney chose the sentimental drama Johnny Come Lately. Cagney...
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1943
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In Old Oklahoma is better known today by its reissue title, War of the Wildcats. John Wayne heads the cast as oil man Dan...
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1943
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This second film version of the George and Ira Gershwin's Broadway hit Girl Crazy stars reigning MGM musical prince and...
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1943
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When the profits of their various film series began slumping in the mid-1940s, Columbia Pictures tried to broaden the appeal...
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1943
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In this Western drama, Steve Upton (Randolph Scott) is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne...
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1943
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The budget for this fine Roy Rogers Western was doubled and the title changed from Starlight on the Trail to the more...
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1943
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The title of this "Lum 'N' Abner" comedy isn't explained until the film is half over. Chester Lauck and Norris Goff repeat...
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Gimpel
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1943
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The splashy, star-studded This is the Army is based on the Irving Berlin Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was...
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1943
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Teresa Wright plays Charlie, a small-town high-schooler who enjoys a symbiotic relationship with her favorite uncle, also...
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1943
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Accepted in 1943 as standard wartime propaganda, Gung Ho can be seen today as an outrageous exercise in raging machismo....
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1943
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Footlight Glamour is one of two "Blondie" series entries in which Blondie's name isn't included in the credits. Otherwise,...
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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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Making her first film appearance since 1941, Deanna Durbin plays the title role in The Amazing Mrs. Holliday. Truth to tell,...
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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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1943
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In his book on "screwball" comedies, the late William K. Everson described What a Woman as "indistinguishable from a dozen...
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1943
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For reasons unknown, Paramount Pictures decided to dust off the 1926 George S. Kaufman-Herman Mankiewicz stage comedy The...
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1943
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In this musical drama, a Vermont farm lad goes to the Big Apple to become a member of the National Dairy Association. He...
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1943
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Lois Andrews, best known in 1943 as the ex-wife of comedian Georgie Jessel, plays the title character in this cinemadaptation...
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1943
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In this tuneful comedy, a would-be actor and playwright is deeply in debt, and to keep away from his creditors, begins...
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1943
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Anxious to do her bit for the war effort, Blondie (Penny Singleton) joins the Housewives of America, a home defense league....
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1942
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Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire star in Holiday Inn as a popular nightclub song-and-dance team. When his heart is broken by his...
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1942
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In this war comedy, an army reject becomes a war hero by rounding up a ring of Nazi spies. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1942
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This rambling historical drama covers 109 years in the life of one woman. Encased in convincing old-age makeup,...
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1942
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The Andrews Sisters headline this musical. They play the lead act at a popular nightclub. The trouble begins when they hire a...
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1942
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Universal and producer/director Henry Koster had plans to make Diana Barrymore, the daughter of John Barrymore, into another...
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1942
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The Bashful Bachelor was the second of six 1940s B films inspired by the popular radio series Lum 'N' Abner. The two...
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1942
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Victor Mature plays an arrogant champion boxer who opts for an acting career on Broadway. He falls in love with his costar...
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1942
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Star-Spangled Rhythm is a typical wartime all-star musical-comedy melange, this time from Paramount Pictures. The slender...
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1942
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Thru Different Eyes is a remake of the 1929 film of the same name. The original was hailed for its creative use of sound and...
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1942
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Director Curtis Bernhardt hadn't wanted to make Juke Girl, but he was under contract to Warner Bros. and had to tow the line...
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1942
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An historical entry in Columbia's Blondie series, Blondie's Blessed Event recreates the moment in Chic Young's original comic...
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1942
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One of the most often revived of Abbott & Costello's early-1940s films, Pardon My Sarong casts Bud and Lou as Chicago bus...
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1942
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In this lighthearted musical comedy, Marjory Stuart (Mary Martin) is a girl who works in the hatcheck room at a Manhattan...
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1942
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Young America is not so much a Jane Withers vehicle as a 73-minute advertisement for the 4-H clubs of America. Cast against...
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1942
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In this musical comedy, an agent for an advertising agency begins trying to push a new "Blind Date" service and so engages...
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1942
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A bit higher-budgeted than most of Universal's "pocket" musicals, Get Hep to Love runs a full 79 mintues rather than the...
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1942
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The fourth of five movie versions of the rugged Rex Beach novel of the same name, 1942's The Spoilers stars Marlene Dietrich,...
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1942
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Irene Dunne plays a flibbetygibbet socialite who inherits a farm in Arizona. She can't seem to manage either her money or her...
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1942
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The bucolic, down-home novels and short stories of Gene Stratton-Porter had been fodder for Monogram's screenwriting staff...
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1942
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1941
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In this comedy drama, a medicine show con-man pretends to be a wealthy man to impress his long-lost daughter who is slated...
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1941
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Bob Hope plays a famous movie star who does his best to avoid the pre-war draft, but ends up in uniform all the same. Hope...
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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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In this comedy, a popular radio marriage counselor tends to ignore his own advice and his wife to boot. One day, a handsome...
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1941
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The first of director Frank Capra's independent productions (in partnership with Robert Riskin), Meet John Doe begins with...
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1941
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Dagwood Bumstead (Arthur Lake) is invited by his boss Mr. Dithers (Jonathan Hale) to accompany Dithers on an ocean cruise to...
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1941
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1941
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In this sentimental drama, a real estate executive tires of his privileged life working for his wealthy father-in-law and...
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1941
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20th Century-Fox's Western Union was loosely based on a story by Zane Grey. The basic historical facts behind the connecting...
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1941
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1941
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America had not officially gone to war in November of 1941, but try telling that to the producers of the "preparedness" drama...
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1941
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1941
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In this upbeat drama, a lovely European heiress is disturbed to discover from her lawyer that her father made his fortune by...
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1941
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The girl is stenographer Dot Duncan (Lucille Ball); the guy is her boss, stuffy young shipping magnate Stephen Herrick...
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1941
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Though history is distorted almost beyond recognition in Warner Bros.' They Died With Their Boots On, audiences in 1941 ate...
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1941
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Cesar Romero plays the Cisco Kid, who may be a bandit but is no kidnapper. This being the case, Cisco and his pal Pancho...
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1941
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In their first 20th Century-Fox vehicle, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are cast respectively as the butler and chauffeur of...
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1941
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1941
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1941
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Henry Aldrich for President was the second of Paramount's "Henry Aldrich" series to star Jimmy Lydon in the teenaged title...
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1941
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A man trying to make his dying father happy makes his love life very complicated indeed in this musical comedy starring...
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1941
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The title of this series entry may strike some as a tad redundant: After all, isn't crook-turned-sleuth Michael Lanyard, aka...
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1941
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1941
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1941
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In the RKO programmer You Can't Fool Your Wife, Lucille Ball gets mixed up in a storyline that would have been right at home...
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1940
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Few of Columbia's "Blondie" films went as far off the beaten path as the bizarre Blondie Has Servant Trouble. Things get...
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1940
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This is the celebrated Blondie episode that costars Rita Hayworth, who in 1940 was still just another Columbia contract...
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1940
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Lillian Russell is the sanitized musical biopic of the legendary (and much-married) 19th century musical comedy star....
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1940
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1940
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In this drama, a despondent fellow contemplates suicide after he is abandoned by his last girlfriend. To ensure that his...
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1940
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1940
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This third installment in MGM's "Maisie" series finds eternally stranded showgirl Maisie Revere (Ann Sothern) stuck in a...
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1940
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The sailor in this entertaining 20th Century-Fox programmer is Danny Malone (Jon Hall), while the lady is Sally Gilroy...
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1940
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1940
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Seventeen-year-old Linda Darnell received her first big break in the appropriately titled 20th Century Fox production Star...
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1940
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"Over the hill" at the tender age of 12, Shirley Temple closed out her 20th Century-Fox contract with the musical seriocomedy...
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1940
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Invisible Stripes is a cookie-cutter Warners prison drama which rounds up the usual suspects. George Raft and...
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1940
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Edward G. Robinson portrays real-life German medical researcher Paul Erlich, the man who discovered and perfected "Formula...
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1940
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The adaptation of Nobel Prize-winner John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of dirt-poor Dust Bowl migrants by 4-time...
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1940
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This comedy is the sequel of Brother Rat. The film begins with the three original protagonists after their graduation from...
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1940
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Hollywood films about the Revolutionary War almost invariably lost money at the box office, and The Howards of Virginia was...
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1940
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Fiercely independent authoress June Cameron (Loretta Young) has no time for men in her life. Chauvinistic medical college...
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1940
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Dreaming Out Loud represented the film debut of radio favorites Lum 'N' Abner, aka Chester Lauck and Norris Goff. Proprietors...
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Wes Stillman
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1940
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Brett Halliday's flippant Irish-American private eye Michael Shayne was first brought to the screen by 20th Century-Fox in...
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1940
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Manhattan Heartbeat is a somewhat toned-down remake of the pre-Production Code melodrama Bad Girl (1931). Newlyweds Johnny...
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1940
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MGM's third follow-up to its landmark Broadway Melody is short on story, but that's okay, since the plot is merely a...
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1940
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This Technicolor sequel to 1939's Jesse James does without the services of the earlier film's star Tyrone Power, who after...
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1940
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1940
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Gone With the Wind boils down to a story about a spoiled Southern girl's hopeless love for a married man. Producer...
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1939
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Hollywood Cavalcade was a fictionalized history of silent films and the growth of the movie industry. Don Ameche portrays a...
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1939
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James Cagney stars in the humorous Western The Oklahoma Kid, set during the land rush of 1893. John Kincaid (Hugh Sothern)...
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1939
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In his starring film for Universal Pictures, W.C. Fields plays circus manager and all-around flim flam man Larson E....
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1939
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A longtime fan of comedians George Burns and Gracie Allen, "Philo Vance" creator S. S. Van Dyne wrote a tailor-made...
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1939
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Ginger Rogers slipped off her dancing shoes to play one of her best comic roles as Polly Parish, a salesgirl at a large...
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1939
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In this drama, a remake of The Crowd Roars, two auto racing brothers become rivals on the racetrack when the older brother...
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1939
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In this crime drama, a grizzled cabbie is scammed out of his life savings by a fake finance company. He tries to no avail to...
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1939
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Sonja Henie, the Norwegian skating star, reportedly played second fiddle to no one at Fox in the late '30s, and this...
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1939
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In this musical, a composer abandons vaudeville in favor of the legitimate stage. He soon finds himself entangle with a...
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1939
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In his feature film debut, Glenn Ford plays a department-store clerk who saves up enough money to buy a small patch of land...
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1939
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1939
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Too Busy to Work is not a remake of the 1932 Will Rogers film of the same name-but it is a partial remake of Rogers' 1935...
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1939
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Torchy Runs for Mayor stars Glenda Farrell as fast-lipped newspaper reporter Torchy Blaine. In possession of a crooked...
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1939
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This third entry in Columbia's "Blondie" series retains the freshness and laugh quotient of the first two, which is more than...
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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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They Made Me a Criminal opens in New York, depicting the latest victory in the ring for Johnny Bradfield (John Garfield), a...
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1939
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The exploits of female pilots are followed in this high-flying drama. These women are extremely competitive and will stop at...
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1939
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This second entry in Columbia's new "Blondie" series is every bit as delightful as the first. When Dagwood Bumstead...
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1939
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Regarded as the best of Columbia's "Lone Wolf" B-picture series, The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt stars Warren William as Michael...
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1939
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The "Lady" of the title is horse-farm owner Penelope Hollis (Ellen Drew), but during the first half of this film, bookie...
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1939
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An heiress gets a crash course in the simple life when she marries a penniless man in this comedy. Calvin Jordan (Henry...
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1939
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Wealthy socialite Melsa Manton (Barbara Stanwyck) is taking her pooches for a walk in the dead of the night when she stumbles...
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1938
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1938
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After an eccentric young woman (Merle Oberon) is left on her father's estate to keep her from spoiling his Presidential bid,...
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1938
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Harold Lloyd plays a professor of Egyptology, frightened by the notion that he has fallen under an ancient Egyptian curse....
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1938
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This musical comedy is based on a modestly successful Broadway play and stars Humphrey Bogart as wrestling promoter Ed Hatch....
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1938
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Glenda Farrell plays still another fast-talking girl reporter in Universal's Exposed. Willing to sell her soul for a story,...
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1938
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A sleazy lawyer gains clients by showing up at terrible accidents. His boss is determined to stop him so he hires a pretty...
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1938
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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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In this gangster movie set in the Big Apple, a crime lord strong arms teamsters into paying him protection money. One young...
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1938
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1938
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In this tearful crime melodrama, a waitress becomes so taken with her dream of living in posh luxury and comfort that she...
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1938
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Those zany Ritz Brothers are at it again--good news or bad, depending on one's feelings toward the team. This time they're a...
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1938
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Fifteen thousand dollars may have been a fortune back in 1938, but to high-powered literary agent Lynn Conway...
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1938
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Based upon the book The Four Marys, by Fanny Heaslip Lea, Man-Proof involves members of the smart and sophisticated set of...
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1938
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After several years' faithful service in supporting parts, Frank Jenks and Dorothea Kent were promoted to leading roles in...
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1938
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In this mystery programmer, a prizefighter dies in the midst of a match, but evidence suggests that it was a dose of poison...
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1938
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Edward G. Robinson shines in a fine comic role as Dr. Clitterhouse, a brilliant psychiatrist doing research into the criminal...
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1938
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Heiress Virginia Bruce tries to prove her worth by taking a job as a shopgirl in the store owned by her family. The pampered...
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1938
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1938
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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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Tip-Off Girls is a worthwhile entry in Paramount's "FBI" series, based on the various writings of
J. Edgar Hoover. The title...
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1938
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In the rough-and-tumble world of post-Civil War Texas, ex-Confederate soldier Kirk Jordan (Randolph Scott) crosses paths with...
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1938
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The visual wizardry in this period action picture about Alaskan fishermen won a special honorary Oscar in the years before...
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1938
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In this sunny western, a mischievous young girl living in the Arizona territory during the 1870s, causes all kinds of...
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1938
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In this comedy, two racetrack gamblers lose all their dough by betting on a long shot. Now they must hitchhike to the next...
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Evans
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1938
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Chronic gambler Joe Beebe (Bing Crosby) is a source of great consternation for his loving mother (Elizabeth Patterson), who...
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1938
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In this comedy, the shady editor of a newspaper does all he can to keep his best reporter from marrying a journalist from a...
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1937
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A strong-willed young man creates a rift with his father when turns down a safe position in the family business and becomes...
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1937
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An early Technicolor musical that concentrates on the fashions of the late 1930s, this film was reissued under the title All...
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1937
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This romantic tearjerker was the second film based on the popular 1922 stage play. James Stewart stars as Chico, a lowly...
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1937
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The disarmingly zany Marry the Girl was one of the better Hugh Herbert "B"-vehicles for Warner Bros. Much of the story takes...
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1937
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1937
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1937
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1937
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In this comedy, a WWI veteran gets married after receiving his bonus money from the government. His meddlesome aunts then...
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1937
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Paramount spent a record one million dollars on its 1937 Mae West vehicle Every Day's a Holiday. La West portrays a...
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1937
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Paramount's final "Big Broadcast" musical had perhaps the least exciting musical lineup of the series (Tito Guizar,...
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1937
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Pulp fiction writer Max Brand's 1936 creation Dr. Kildare made his screen debut in the amiable person of Joel McCrea in this...
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1937
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The Big City is an improbable urban melodrama which takes place during a "taxi war" between honest independent cabdrivers and...
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1937
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Carole Lombard stars as Helen Bartlett, a compulsive liar who always tips the audience to an oncoming whopper by sticking her...
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1937
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By 1937, producer Hal Roach was hoping to wean himself away from the Laurel & Hardy-Our Gang slapstick on which he had built...
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1937
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1937
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Lively June (Jane Withers), teen-aged daughter of mystery writer Waldo Everett (Jon Qualen), who calls her "Angel," becomes...
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1937
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1937
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Gail Patrick plays a young woman framed for murder. Luckily the newsman on the courtroom beat is ace photographer Lew Ayres....
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1936
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Hollywood Boulevard is a trenchant look at the underside of Tinseltown. Though the nominal hero is a disillusioned...
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1936
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The third film of Paramount's "Big Broadcast" series follows the pattern of the first two titles: negligible plot with plenty...
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1936
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1936
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Previously filmed in 1919, the Kate Douglas Wiggin novel Timothy's Quest was remade as a talkie in 1935. Dickie Moore plays...
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1936
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The MGM historical "spectacular" San Francisco was allegedly based on a three-sentence synopsis, submitted verbally to...
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1936
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In this musical, a young lady is sent to an East coast finishing school. She doesn't realize that it is a bogus school run by...
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1936
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1936
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The seventh of the "Hopalong Cassidy" westerns, Hopalong Cassidy Returns stars, as always, William Boyd as the...
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1936
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A romantic triangle heats up the Alaskan tundra in this romantic comedy. Bascom Dinsmore (Robert Montgomery) is a radio...
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1936
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Made with the full cooperation of the real-life Texas Rangers (who never met a publicity gimmick they didn't like), this...
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1936
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In this bedroom farce, a writer rails against marriage and touts the benefits of staying single. He then convinces his...
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1936
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Love on a Bet is a lightweight programmer from the "Get Rich Quick Wallingford" school of comedy. Gene Raymond stars as...
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1936
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Fabled Broadway comedian Joe Cook, who hadn't been seen on screen since 1930's Rain or Shine, essayed the title role in...
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1936
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Paramount's first outdoor Technicolor feature, Trail of the Lonesome Pine was the third film version of John Fox Jr.'s novel....
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1936
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1936
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Gladys George, a superlative actress often wasted in secondary roles, carries her starring assignment in Valiant is the Word...
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1936
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When a car crash ends the life of a fabulously wealthy patron of the arts, the decedent's $20,000,000 fortune is inherited by...
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1936
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Joe E. Brown was an ideal choice for the character of Alexander Botts, the brash, arrogant "natural born salesman" created...
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1936
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Based on the true story of Pan American Airlines, China Clipper was released only a year after the first transpacific flight...
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1936
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Although Larry "Buster" Crabbe earns top billing, the hero of Drift Fence is former Western star Tom Keene as Jim Travis,...
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1936
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William Colt MacDonald's 1934 story based on the Three Mesqueteers characters was brought to the screen the following year by...
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1935
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Consigned to the Warner Bros. "B" unit in the mid-1930s, director Robert Florey must have had a high old time trying to...
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1935
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1935
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The first major film about psychiatry, Private Worlds stars Claudette Colbert as a psychiatrist with more than a few problems...
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1935
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The classic comedians Burns and Allen are featured in this fast-paced farce that includes an assortment of corny vaudeville...
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1935
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Though it wasn't RKO Radio's final "Hildegarde Withers" mystery, Murder on a Honeymoon represented the final appearance of...
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1935
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The title refers to those special government agents who go undercover to flush out criminal gangs. In his second starring...
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1935
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William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan Productions moved from MGM to Warners with Page Miss Glory--along with Cosmopolitan's...
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1935
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When he's shipped off to prison on a tax-evasion charge, millionaire Van Dyke (Walter Connolly) breathes a sigh of relief: at...
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1935
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In this musical, a coal stoker for a ship finds himself turned into a singing sensation when someone hears him lustily...
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1935
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Spencer Tracy plays a hard-driving newsman with a special instinct for solving sensational murders before the police can....
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1935
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1935
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Vaudeville humorist Walter C. Kelley, who toured for years as "The Virginia Judge," repeated the characterization in this...
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1935
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Manhattan Moon is predicated on the notion that French songstress Yvonne (Dorothy Page) is so busy with her career that she...
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1935
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1935
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Two Fisted is based on the James Gleason-Richard Taber stage play Is Zat So?, previously filmed under its original title in...
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1935
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1935
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The title doesn't refer to mosquitoes but to the amount of money that could be earned in the radio business of the 1930s....
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1935
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Mae West is Goin' to Town in this elegant post-Production Code vehicle. West plays Cleo Borden, a nouveau riche cattle...
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1935
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In this family comedy, the wealthy executive of a steel company must endure life with a strict, teetotaling wife, a wild...
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1935
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Screenwriter Preston Sturges never lets the facts get in the way of a good story in this colorful filmed biography of...
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1935
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Scrappy society belle Geraldine (Ann Sothern) is The Hell Cat in this peppy Columbia potboiler. Fed up with the intrusions of...
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1934
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Legendary Broadway impresario George White made his Hollywood debut with this musical, which he wrote, co-directed, and...
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1934
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Though the names have been changed to protect the guilty, this romantic crime drama offers a relatively factual account of...
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1934
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Adapted by director Paul Sloan from the novel by Will James, Lone Cowboy is an "outdoors" epic tailored to the talents of...
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1934
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Assistant DA Bob Martel (Bruce Cabot) is in love with sweet Muriel (Mary Brian). This in itself is not earth-shattering,...
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1934
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John Barrymore wisely turned down this contrived courtroom melodrama that instead trapped poor Ricardo Cortez. He plays...
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1934
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1934
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German actress Dorothea Wieck, who achieved international fame in Maedchen in Uniform, was given a brief shot at Hollywood...
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1934
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1934
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1934
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Just after completing It Happened One Night, director Frank Capra churned out a bread-and-butter picture titled Broadway...
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1934
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Based on Adam Hull Shirk's moth-eaten 1927 play The Ape, this comedy-mystery-thriller is one of those static, ham-fisted...
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1934
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Frank Capra's seminal screwball comedy, which won all five major Academy Awards for 1934, is still as breezy and beguiling...
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1934
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In this fluffy romance, a young woman fights against the narrow-minded residents of her small town. The trouble begins when...
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1934
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1934
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1933
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This 1933 movie version of Sinclair Lewis's novel Ann Vickers stars Irene Dunne in the title role. Left alone and pregnant by...
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1933
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1933
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In this rough-and-tumble action comedy, Chuck Connors (Wallace Beery) and Steve Brodie (George Raft) are friendly rivals on...
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1933
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This drama chronicles the devoted love of a woman who tries to reform her lover, a black marketeer with a compulsive...
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1933
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1933
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The Big Executive is Ricardo Cortez, to whom success is less important than the pursuit of success. Having lost as many...
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1933
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Reported to have cost a whopping $2 million, this musical was actually made for far less -- and looks it. But unlike She Done...
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1933
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In this melodrama, the wife of a wealthy man abruptly leaves him and sets sail for Cuba leaving him to hire a gumshoe to find...
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1933
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William Powell is a poor East Side lawyer who works his way up the ladder to assistant prosecutor. He isn't too particular...
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1933
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In this comedy, a childlike playboy inherits the family fortune and gets himself a worldly butler who teaches him how to...
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1933
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May Robson plays Apple Annie, a slatternly Broadway apple peddler. Annie has a curious setup whereby she is able to finagle...
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1933
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Romance throws a spanner into the works of a con game in this light drama. Donald Free (William Powell) is a private...
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1933
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Warner Bros.' hard-hitting chain-gang movie was a faithful adaptation of the similarly titled autobiography of Robert Elliot...
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1932
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Cary Grant made his feature film debut in 1932's This is the Night. Grant plays the Olympic-athlete husband of Thelma Todd,...
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1932
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Confidence woman Martha Hicks (Alison Skipworth), better known to those who know her at all as "the Countess," is a career...
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1932
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1932
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A Grand Hotel derivation set in a major metropolitan train terminal, Union Depot features most of the reliable Warner Bros....
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1932
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Two small-town youths head for the Big Apple and somehow get mixed up with mobsters during a visit to the title park in this...
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1932
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On something of a "literary binge" in the early 1930s, low-budget Monogram Pictures acquired the screen rights for the...
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1932
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This early musical is a bit slim on story but features a number of vintage performances by a stellar cast, including some of...
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1932
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"Klopstokia: A Far-Away Country. Chief Exports: Goats and Nuts. Chief Imports: Goats and Nuts. Chief Inhabitants: Goats and...
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1932
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Beautiful but impractical socialite Penelope Newbold (Carole Lombard) has convinced herself that "the perfect marriage" is an...
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1932
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Ken Maynard's Branded Men wasn't up to the standards of his previous Range Law, but it was still better than the usual...
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Ramrod
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1931
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1931
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In his third Western for low-budget company Tiffany, Ken Maynard plays Ken Neville, a cowboy returning to the old homestead...
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1931
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This fact-based drama chronicles the events that led to the murder of a notorious gambler. The story begins when a young...
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1930
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This crime drama chronicles the exploits of three Irish brothers who have taken dramatically different life paths. Tom is an...
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1929
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Viola Dana plays both of the title characters in Rayart's Two Sisters. One of the heroines is a daring female bandit, while...
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1929
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Clara Bow and her sister Jean Arthur are wisecracking department store employees with ever-roaming eyes for eligible...
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1929
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In this murder mystery, set in a carnival, a performer loses her boyfriend, a trapeze artist, when his partner "accidently"...
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1929
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At 9 reels, The Good-Bye Kiss was comedy producer Mack Sennett's most ambitious feature to date. Eschewing the usual Sennett...
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1928
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Baroness Gerda Wallentin (Pola Negri) walks out on her philandering husband Count Dietrich (Paul Lukas) and heads to Vienna....
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1928
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Veteran comedian Charlie Murray plays a serious role in 1928's Head Man. Murray is cast as a senator named Watts, whose...
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1928
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An inventor attempts to sell his new invention and still has time to fall in love in this romantic comedy. The fellow...
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Wade Rexton
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1927
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Lily Becker (Hope Hampton) is the musically talented daughter whose mother forces her into a marriage to the son of a wealthy...
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1922
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