The best way to described the economically assembled religious picture Day of Triumph is "sincere". Though the film details...
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1954
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Virtually every Lutheran in America has seen Martin Luther during a church-basement screening. Niall McGinniss plays the...
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1953
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Director
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1951
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Mickey Rooney, with his kid roles and musicals behind him, went for a major change of image in this harrowing film noir. He...
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1950
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Jimmy Durante plays the patriarch of a down-on-their-luck family of acrobats, who suddenly finds a great deal of money hidden...
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Director
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1950
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Producer George Pal assembled an impressive roster of behind-the-camera talent -- including noted science fiction author...
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Director
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1950
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Director
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1949
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The second of John Ford's "Cavalry Trilogy," this film stars John Wayne as Cavalry Captain Nathan Brittles. In his last days...
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1949
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Something seems fishy when a married man finds new adventure and romance in this comic fantasy. Arthur Peabody (William...
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1948
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Casting Frank Sinatra as a Pennsylvania priest is but one of the many miscalculations made by the producers of Miracle of the...
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1948
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Irving Pichel's They Won't Believe Me is the flashback unfolding of Larry Ballentine's (Robert Young) witness-stand testimony...
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1947
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Deanna Durbin stars in the musical shaggy dog story Something in the Wind. When the wealthy uncle of the Read family dies, he...
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1947
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Set during WWII, this taut and suspenseful espionage outing chronicles the courage of a brand-new cadre of specially trained...
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1946
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Temptation is an appropriately moody romantic melodrama, providing a golden opportunity for some memorable histrionics by...
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1946
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Elizabeth MacDonald (Claudette Colbert) is a newly married corporate librarian in 1918 Baltimore working for a chemical...
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1946
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Charmless films like The Bride Wore Boots helped to kill the postwar revival of the "screwball comedy" genre almost before it...
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1946
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John Steinbeck cowrote this sometimes hilarious, sometimes heart-wrenching study of small-town hypocrisy. Shiftless Benny...
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1945
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Based on a novel by Barry Fleming, Colonel Effingham's Raid stars Charles Coburn in the title role. Upon retiring from the...
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1945
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In this melodrama, a doctor returns to his home town to set out his shingle. He was born on the poor side of town and so has...
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1944
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An Iowa drugstore owner (Don Ameche) becomes embittered when his son is killed in World War II. The druggist believes that...
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1943
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In this downbeat drama based on a novel by John Steinbeck (which was also adapted for the stage), German troops invade Norway...
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1943
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Highlights from World War II are documented in this award-winning film. ~ Rovi...
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1942
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Monty Woolley plays an irascible Englishman who insists that he dislikes children. While on a vacation in France, the Nazis...
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1942
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In this drama, a has-been stage thespian finds that his alcoholism is ruining his life. When his daughter, a cripple,...
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1942
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Secret Agent of Japan sometimes looks like a B-grade "answer" to Warner Bros.' Casablanca, except that the answer was...
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1942
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1941
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Spanning 50 years, director John Ford's How Green Was My Valley revolves around the life of the Morgans, a Welsh mining...
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1941
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Filmed independently in 1939, The Great Commandment finally attained released in 1942 via 20th Century-Fox. Set in 30 AD, the...
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1941
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Noted French director Jean Renoir made his American debut with this 1941 film. Walter Brennan plays Tom Keefer, a man who is...
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1941
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This cautionary pre-World War II drama stars Joan Bennett as an American girl who falls in love and marries a German...
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1940
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This sweeping drama chronicles the foundation a Canadian institution: the Hudson's Bay Trading Company. Set in the 17th...
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1940
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Future blacklistee John Howard Lawson co-wrote this remake of Samuel Goldwyn's 1920 drama Earthbound, presented here as a...
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1940
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Dick Tracy's G-Men is the second of three Republic serials starring Ralph Byrd as Chester Gould's granite-jawed comic strip...
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Zarnoff
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1939
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Universal's old Show Boat sets are brought out of mothballs for the energetic "B" entry Gambling Ship. When honest gambler...
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Professor
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1939
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Juarez was originally designed to concentrate almost exclusively on the tragedy of Hapsburg Emperor Maximillian, whose...
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1939
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Torture Ship is a strange amalgam of crime thriller and horror chiller that can't quite make up its mind what it wants to be....
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Dr. Herbert Stander
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1939
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Originally designed for exhibition at the 1939 World's Fair, Land of Liberty is a 137-minute compendium of filmclips from...
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1939
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Exile Express was the last film produced by Grand National Pictures, and a worthy farewell it was. Anna Sten, former Sam...
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1939
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The "Little Tough Guys" get involved in a circulation war between a paper with underhanded tactics and a paper being...
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1939
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1939
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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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Except for a few clips from 1937's Topper, Cary Grant is absent from the proceedings of the 1939 sequel Topper Takes a Trip,...
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1938
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In 1938, Jezebel was widely regarded as Warner Bros.' "compensation" to Bette Davis for her losing the opportunity to play...
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1938
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In this melodrama a championship boxer retires and marries a rich, aristocratic woman. The woman's father is furious, but...
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Director
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1937
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In this romantic adventure, a wealthy Arab sheik has a reputation for breeding some of the fastest horses in the world....
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Director
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1937
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Beware of Ladies is a lightweight attempt at romantic comedy from the Republic studio mills. Donald Cook, who'd just finished...
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1937
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Owens
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1937
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Less than a week after the press preview of his second starring feature Man in Blue, Robert Wilcox was seen on-screen in his...
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Walinsky
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1937
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High, Wide and Handsome almost defies classification: Perhaps it's best referred to as a historical musical western comedy...
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1937
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This service comedy from the Republic Studio mills was perhaps the most aggressively titled of the "Marine Corps" film cycle...
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1937
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Larceny on the Air is a Republic B-plus picture "drawn from today's headlines." In this instance, the news event pounced upon...
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Director
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1937
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Based on a novel by Meredith Nicholson, The House of 1000 Candles is one of the slickest films ever to emerge from the...
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Sebastian
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1936
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In its first few years of existence, Republic Pictures evinced an eagerness to tackle any sort of offbeat subject. The...
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Alex Fotakis
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1936
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First-time director Lew Ayres performs miracles on a tiny budget in the Civil War drama Hearts in Bondage. The story offers a...
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1936
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In this drama, an honest gambler tries to go straight. Although the gambling house he runs is illegal, the man insists that...
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Rick Collins
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1936
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It may be sacrilege to say so, but Dracula's Daughter is an immense improvement over the original 1931 Dracula, despite the...
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Sandor
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1936
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In this drama, set at the turn-of-the-century an ingenious young jockey finds his reputation sullied by criminals. He...
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Director
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1936
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Having successful moved his top comedians Laurel & Hardy from short subjects to features, producer Hal Roach endeavored to do...
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Simmons
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1936
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The Istanbul Express provides the setting for this crime drama that centers around a courier carrying the priceless Karenina...
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Count Trentini
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1935
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The indomitable May Robson is firmly in the driver's seat of this Runyonesque comedy-drama. While riding through Central...
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1935
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Randolph Scott, whom Cooper borrowed from Paramount, plays Leo Vincey, an explorer searching for the "flame of life," a...
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Director
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1935
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The agent of the title is George Brent, a journalist sent by the Government to get the goods on a crime syndicate. Brent...
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1935
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1934
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Playboy novelist Michael Shawn's (Warren William) chickens come home to roost in Such Women are Dangerous. Accused of murder,...
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1934
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Beyond the fact that both films shared a "railroad" background, RKO Radio's 1935 actioner The Silver Streak bore no relation...
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Bronte
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1934
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British Agent starred the Hungarian/British actor Leslie Howard in the title role, was directed by full-fledged Hungarian...
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Pavlov
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1934
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An Edgar Wallace yarn was the basis for the uncharacteristic Warner Bros. melodrama Return of the Terror. Hoping to escape...
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1934
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Cited by film historian William K. Everson as one of the fastest-moving crime melodramas of the 1930s (if not the fastest)...
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1934
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Based on Dicken's classic novel, this is the first sound version of the oft-filmed tale of a plucky orphan who struggles to...
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Fagin
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1933
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Overworked and fearing that life is passing her by, eminent plastic surgeon Margaret "Peggy" Simmons (Ann Harding) takes an...
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Dr. Beck
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1933
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Cliff Harkness
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1933
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This suspenseful, exciting mystery is based upon an Edgar Wallace story and centers upon the search for $1 million in buried...
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1933
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District Attorney Clark
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1933
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In this campy adventure, a man raised in the mysterious African jungles by a pride of lions is captured by circus people and...
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1933
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Mae West's second starring vehicle, I'm No Angel casts the divine Miss West as the star performer in a seedy circus. Though...
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1933
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William Faulkner's novel Sanctuary was a notorious bestseller upon its publication in 1931, and while it was successful...
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Lee Goodwin
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1933
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In this crime drama, two corrupt financiers conspire to fake the murder of their boss and leave a hapless chauffeur to...
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1932
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Bret Harte's story Salomy Jane's Kiss provided the basis for a play (by Paul Armstrong and a number of films, including...
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1932
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Forgotten Commandments is a well-meaning but clumsy attempt to explore the consequences of communism. The story takes place...
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Prof. Marinoff
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1932
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Set in exotic Singapore, this crime drama centers on a nightclub singer whose life is torn asunder when she is implicated in...
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1932
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The first of many official and unofficial screen versions of Richard Connell's The Most Dangerous Game was put together by...
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1932
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Sen. Krull
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1932
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A San Francisco gangster hot foots it out of town to cool down after his crime boss is suddenly killed. He ends up in a...
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Henry Holmes
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1932
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A starry-eyed girl marries an impoverished but talented young writer. Though easily frustrated and given to temperamental...
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Harry Lenman
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1932
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This adaptation of the Puccini opera jettisons all the music and retains only David Belasco's timeworn libretto. American...
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Yomadori
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1932
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In this comedy, a convict uses his skills as a masseur and a fight manager to get out of prison and become the private gym...
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1932
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This Depression-era melodrama chronicles the travails of a wealthy family that is nearly destroyed by a wife's compulsive...
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Hardy Livingston
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1931
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An eerie early-talkie mystery, Murder by the Clock spends most of its time in a cemetery. The matriarch (Blanche Frederici)...
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Philip Endicott
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1931
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In this drama, a twice married woman tries one more time with number three. Unfortunately, her wedding is suddenly halted...
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Robert Millet
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1931
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Though his parents are street evangelists, Clyde Griffiths (Phillips Holmes) grows up in squalor, but not without ambitions....
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Orville Mason
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1931
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In this melodrama, two young people fall in love and desire to wed, but their union is opposed by their families. As a...
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Caleb Evans
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1930
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