H.G. Wells's War of the Worlds had been on the Paramount Pictures docket since the silent era, when it was optioned as a...
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1953
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Ernest Hemingway could never come to terms with Hollywood's preoccupation with The Happy Ending: he accepted the money for...
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1952
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California Conquest is set in the early 19th century, when California was fighting for its independence from Mexico--and as...
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1952
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1946
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There's slightly more fancy than fact in this lavish film biography of legendary American composer George Gershwin, but oh!...
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1945
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Edmund Lowe was old enough to know better when he starred in the anachronistic Monogram crime comedy Oh, What a Night! Lowe...
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1944
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This 1940s drama implies that children do indeed learn what they live as it tells the story of a teenage girl who runs away...
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Alexis
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1944
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More so than most wartime films, Mission to Moscow must be viewed within the context of its times. Requested by President...
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1943
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Billed as "The Girl who Stopped a Thousand Shows" and "The Poor Man's Garbo," burlesque dancer Margie Hart made her feature...
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1942
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Director William "One Take" Beaudine slapped together Foreign Agent in a week or so, enabling Monogram to ship the picture to...
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Okura
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1942
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The high batting average of 20th Century-Fox's Michael Shayne detective series remained intact with Blue, White and Perfect....
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Alexis Fournier
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1941
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1941
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Communism-the American variety-is given a hilarious going-over in 20th Century-Fox's Public Deb No. 1. Spoiled society girl...
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1940
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Another of Columbia's myriad of Jack Holt actioners, Passport to Alcatraz casts the star as supposed enemy saboteur George...
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1940
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In this exciting spy drama, enemy agents endeavor to steal the plans for a top secret silent aircraft. The plane's inventor...
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1939
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The second film in the mystery series about a Chinese sleuth, this one concerns the theft of the "Eye of the Daughter of the...
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1939
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In this romance, a young woman journeys from Syracuse to New York to see her sweetheart, a prominent architect. She is...
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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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Ronnie
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1939
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In this musical comedy, the Ritz Brothers inherit a racehorse but are unable to make money from him because they cannot come...
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1938
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1937
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History is Made at Night has been described as a romantic tragedy, which it indeed is, up to a point. The film begins...
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Michael
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1937
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1937
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Wise Girl is a medium-level screwball comedy with faintly serious undertones. Miriam Hopkins plays an heiress whose millions...
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1937
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Atlantic Flight was designed as a vehicle for Dick Merrill, a real-life pilot then very much in the news because of his...
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Baron
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1937
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1937
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Chunky character actor J. Edward Bromberg carries the weight of Fair Warning on his burly shoulders. Bromberg is cast as...
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1937
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Even the mighty MGM had to keep the home fires burning with B pictures. The studio's Mama Steps Out is a harmless confection...
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1937
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Bette Davis plays a facial cream heiress in this middling comedy, which Warner Bros. filmed partially in Florida. Mistaking...
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1936
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Jane Withers plays "little Miss Fixit" in Pepper with a minimum of sentimental goo and a maximum of laughs. Though she's been...
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Baron Von Stofel
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1936
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1936
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In this drama, a studio script girl works very hard to support her no-account family. One day she wins a lottery, gives her...
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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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Ivan Valadov
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1935
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In this romantic comedy, a man marries his Russian lover and discovers that she has a large extended family. He is utterly...
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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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China Seas proved that the recently imposed Hollywood production code had little if any effect on the popularity of MGM sex...
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1935
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Kansas City Princess came at the tail end of the "gold-digger" movie cycle. The inevitable Joan Blondell plays Rosie, a...
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1934
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In this odd-ball comedy, a self-sacrificing but eccentric mother attempts to guide her equally eccentric family. She has two...
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1934
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1934
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Lionel Barrymore plays a Marshall Field-like Chicago businessman who emerges from the wreckage of the 1871 fire to build a...
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1933
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Heroine Mona (Sally Eilers) is "made" in more ways than one in this free-wheeling spoof of the press-agent business. A...
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1933
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At first concentrating exclusively on westerns and serials, up-and-coming Mascot Pictures began branching out in the early...
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1933
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Jean Harlow is the "bombshell" of the title, a popular movie actress named Lola. Though she seemingly has everything a girl...
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1933
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It took nerve for low-budget producer M.H. Hoffman to update Gustave Flaubert's 19th century novel Madame Bovary and relocate...
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1932
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A typical pre-code era comedy, Bachelor Apartment was the creation of its leading man, silent screen matinee-idol Lowell...
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1931
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In this melodrama, a British aristocrat befriends a woman and hires her to begin distracting his son away from a conniving...
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1931
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1931
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The Gay Diplomat was an attempt by RKO Radio to make a movie star out of Ivan Lebedeff, a Russian actor better suited to...
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Capt. Ivan Orloff
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1931
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1930
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The "conspiracy" of the title refers not only to a deadly narcotics ring, but also the combined efforts by the good guys to...
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1930
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The Cuckoos began life as The Ramblers, a Broadway musical vehicle for the comedy team of Clark and McCullough. By the time...
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The Baron
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1930
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The first official release from RKO Productions (previous films from this company had been produced by RKO antecedent FBO...
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Prince Nicholaus of Aragon
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1929
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Marceline Day plays two women in the late-silent Fox release One-Woman Idea. The actress is cast as haughty aristocrat Lady...
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1929
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Will Rogers' first all-talking feature casts the beloved humorist as Pike Peters, owner of an auto repair shop in Claremore,...
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1929
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Long before Richard Harding Davis' "Gallegher" stories were serialized for television by Walt Disney, popular silent-screen...
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1928
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Emmett J. Flynn had directed everyone from William S. Hart to Laurel and Hardy by the time he wielded the megaphone for his...
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1928
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Forbidden Woman was the first production by PDC Pictures to be released after the defection of the company's founder...
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Sheik
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1927
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Glamorous Broadway actress Babe (Leatrice Joy) is cast as a Salvation Army lass in her latest musical. For research purposes,...
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1927
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Ted Morgan
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1927
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This lively outing chronicles the adventures of a daring young buck who defies his father, who grounded the lad for getting...
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1926
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Though D.W. Griffith had given up his independent-filmmaker status by joining Paramount Pictures in 1926, he had lost none of...
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Amiel
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1926
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