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1988
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A slapdash epic of bad filmmaking geared strictly toward drive-in audiences, Dracula vs. Frankenstein has gone on to achieve...
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Dr. Frankenstein
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1971
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John Gavin stars as Santa Fe marshal Ben Cutter, whose homecoming is blighted when he finds his town has been taken over by a...
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1969
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Breaking from tradition, Bonanza offered two first-run episodes amidst the usual sea of reruns in the summer of 1968. The...
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Anselmo
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1968
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J. Carroll Naish guest stars as Jeannie's great-grandfather, Bilejik the Djinn. Upon learning that Tony (Larry Hagman) is...
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1965
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Don Siegal directed this made-for-TV remake of the western drama Ride The Pink Horse, in which Robert Culp stars as Harry...
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1964
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J. Carrol Naish guest stars as Mafia Don Giuseppe "Joe" Bucco, who is being pressured to step down from leadership by his...
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1960
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In this socially conscious love story, a dull high school jock falls in love with a seductive young girl whose father...
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1960
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1958
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1958
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1958
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1958
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1958
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1957
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17-year-old Sal Mineo was one of the hottest young actors in Hollywood when The Young Don't Cry was specially tailored for...
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Plug
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1957
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A rare comedy effort by director Robert Wise, This Could Be the Night is based on a series of short stories Cordelia Baird...
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1957
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Rebel in Town was the third issue from Bel-Air Productions, a firm co-founded by film execs Howard W. Koch and...
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Bedloe Mason
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1956
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In this western, a Mexican bandit and an angry rancher team up and take on a crooked saloon keeper. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1956
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The Republic super-production The Last Command is a partial remake of the same studio's Man of Conquest (1939). But whereas...
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Santa Anna
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1955
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Although the French Foreign Legion became increasingly anachronistic in the 1950s, films like Desert Sands helped to...
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Diepel
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1955
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New York Confidential is based on the Jack Lait-Lee Mortimer bestseller of the same name. Richard Conte plays Nick Magellan,...
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Ben Dagajanian
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1955
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Hit the Deck is the second film version of the same-named 1927 hit Broadway musical. Though updated for the 1950s, the basic...
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1955
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Since lapsing into public domain, Rage at Dawn has become one of the most readily available of Randolph Scott's westerns....
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1955
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1955
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This western offers one of Hollywood's more historically accurate accounts of the Battle of Little Big Horn. The story...
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Chief Sitting Bull
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1954
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Saskatchewan is a "northern" starring Alan Ladd as tight-lipped Canadian Mountie Sgt. Thomas O'Rourke. He rescues Grace...
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Batouche
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1954
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Director Leslie Selander invests the Allied Artists "special" Fighter Attack with the same energy that he'd previously...
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Bruno
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1953
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At the time of its release, Beneath the 12-Mile Reef was considered more notable for its technical achievements than its...
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Soak
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1953
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Will Ballard (Rod Cameron) is the longtime foreman of the Hatcher ranch, a spread renowned for its size and the wealth it...
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1953
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Ruth Hussey stars in this big-budget Republic actioner. She plays Christine Powell, the grasping, conniving sister of...
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Mulholland
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1952
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The opening credits appearing over a turbulent ocean serve as a foreshadowing of things to come in this standard-issue love...
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Uncle Vince
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1952
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Ethnic sitcom about a newly arrived Italian immigrant's efforts to become an American. The Irish-American J. Carrol Naish had...
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Luigi Basco (1952)
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1952
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Clark Gable is the largely nonheroic hero of the sprawling western Across the Wide Missouri. A cunning trapper who lives...
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1951
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1951
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Luis
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1951
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Bannerline was Don Weis' first solo directorial credit for MGM. Keefe Brasselle stars as cub reporter Mike Perrivale, who...
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Frankie Scarbine
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1951
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Gene Kelly as an Italian-American attorney? Once you get past this, the rest of Black Hand ought to go down easy. This expose...
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Louis Lorelli
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1950
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Nicky Duvalle
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1950
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Judy Garland was originally slated to star in MGM's film version of Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun, but she was forced to...
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Chief Sitting Bull
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1950
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John Wayne stars as Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke, whose devotion to duty has cost him his marriage to his beloved Kathleen...
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1950
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Producer Val Lewton abandoned the "psychological horror" efforts of his RKO days when he moved to MGM in 1950. Lewton's...
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1950
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Filmed on location in the Canadian Rockies, this historical adventure spins a fanciful account of the building of the...
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Dynamite Dawson
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1949
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That Midnight Kiss served to introduce the film-going public to MGM's newest singing sensation, Mario Lanza. Just as he did...
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1949
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1948
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Police Informer
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1948
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In this period musical, Ricardo (Frank Sinatra) is the son of a Mexican innkeeper who has come to California to take over a...
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Chico
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1948
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This musical romance is set in the beautiful South American country and chronicles the love affair between a betrothed...
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1947
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This movie is an early horror film classic and certainly one that a well-rounded horror movie aficionado should not miss. An...
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Ouidio Castanio
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1946
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Fannie Hurst's novel Humoresque is the lachrymose tale of a famed Jewish-American violinist who forgets all about his friends...
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Rudy Boray
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1946
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Bad Bascomb is an expensive MGM western, tailor-made for the blubbery talents of Wallace Beery. Beery plays the badman of the...
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Bart Yancy
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1946
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Henry Devers
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1945
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John Steinbeck cowrote this sometimes hilarious, sometimes heart-wrenching study of small-town hypocrisy. Shiftless Benny...
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Charley Martin
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1945
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In this suspense story (released as part of Universal's "Inner Sanctum" series, named for the popular radio series of the...
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Roger Graham
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1945
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Getting Gertie's Garter is an updated adaptation of the venerable stage farce by Wilson Collison and Avery Hopwood....
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Charles, the Butler
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1945
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The disfiguring disease of acromegaly-which grotesquely extends the bones and distorts one's facial features-was the...
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Dr. Igor Markoff
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1944
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This lavish, 145-minute cinemadaptation of the Pearl Buck best-seller Dragon Seed was intended by MGM as a followup to the...
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Japanese Kitchen Overseer
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1944
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With such charismatic villains as John Carradine and J. Carroll Naish on hand in PRC's Waterfront, who cares about nominal...
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Dr. Carl Decker
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1944
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In many ways the most endearing of Universal's B-grade "monster rallies" of the 1940s, House of Frankenstein manages within...
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Daniel
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1944
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A strong contender for the title of Universal's worst horror film of the 1940s, Jungle Woman continued the melodramatic...
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Dr. Carl Fletcher
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1944
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The Whistler was the first of eight Columbia "B" thrillers based on the popular radio series of the same name. The Whistler,...
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The Killer
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1944
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Originally slated for PRC release, Voice in the Wind was eventually distributed by United Artists. The film was directed by...
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Luigi
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1944
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In this crime programer, Arsene Lupin (Charles Korvin) is an expert jewel thief from France who, while aboard a train,...
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Ganimard
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1944
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Columbia's Two-Man Submarine was predicated on a then-new Japanese invention, designed to maneuver in waters where no...
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Dr. Augustus Hadley
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1944
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The world of horse racing provides the framework for this drama. The story centers around a young aspiring jockey who...
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Jed Jerrett
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1943
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Giuseppe
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1943
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This 67-minute farce stars Dennis O'Keefe as a music publisher sued for plagiarism by a pair of scraggly songwriters....
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Andre
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1943
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Behind the Rising Sun is a rarity: a WW2 film with a handful of sympathetic Japanese characters. His eyes slanted by the RKO...
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Reo Seki
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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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Lt. Cristoforos
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1943
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In this first of Universal's "Inner Sanctum" mysteries, Lon Chaney Jr. plays a neurologist plagued by a faithless wife. He...
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1943
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Bob Kane's 1939 Detective Comics superhero The Batman came to the screens in serial form courtesy of Columbia Pictures and...
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Prince Dakar
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1943
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Cesar Romero plays an outwardly tough bookie with the proverbial golden heart. Romero falls in love with Carole Landis, an...
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Gigi
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1942
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Man in the Trunk is a variation on the "Topper" theme, with Raymond Walburn carrying the weight of the film as a restless...
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Reginald DeWinters
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1942
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Dr. Timothy Kane (MacDonald Carey) is a young, affable physician with a practice in New York's Times Square, whose exploits...
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Jack Venner
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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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Aristide Rougeron
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1942
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Signor O'Sullivan
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1942
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Another graduate of MGM's short-subject department, director David Miller proved he had what it took to helm a feature film...
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Matt Basler
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1942
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Mr. Noel
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1942
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Tales of Manhattan is a sumptuous multipart film centered around a formal tailcoat. The coat is specially designed for stage...
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1942
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Lloyd Nolan is thoroughly convincing as a big-league baseball pitcher in Mr. Dynamite--and never mind that the film never...
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The Professor
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1941
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Machado
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1941
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Lorenzo
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1941
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Garabato
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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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In this war drama, a commercial pilot joins the air corps of a South Pacific island, and there he finds that he must contend...
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1941
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Rather shaky as history, Birth of the Blues delivers the goods in terms of entertainment, thanks to the unbeatable star...
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1941
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For the purposes of this inconsequential 61-minute musical, Paramount Pictures shelled out a great deal of money to film on...
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1940
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Hollywood's handful of Technicolor cameras got a real workout on 20th Century-Fox's Down Argentine Way. Don Ameche stars as...
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1940
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Filmed with the full cooperation of the Golden Gloves Tournament Association, this Paramount programmer stars...
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Joe Taggerty
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1940
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Though the title character is loosely based on that of the notorious killer/robber Ma Barker, she has been sanitized and...
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George Frost
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1940
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Mekaike
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1940
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Akim Tamiroff plays the title role, an underworld leader who controls all illicit operations in Chinatown. Tamiroff is...
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The Professor
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1939
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Gregory Prin
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1939
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In this crime drama, a young hood and a seductress team up and rob a gas station. As she requires an opulent, exciting...
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Freddie "Gunner" Martin
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1939
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Undercover Doctor, like the other entries in Paramount's "FBI" series, could lay claim to being "drawn from today's...
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Dr. Bartley Morgan
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1939
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This second of three movie versions of P.C. Wren's adventure novel Beau Geste is a virtual scene-for-scene remake of the 1927...
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1939
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In this drama, a vengeful woman searches for the man she blames for her sister's suicide. To get at him, the woman...
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Kuprin
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1939
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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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Joseph Valkus
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1938
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This typically wild-and-wooly entry in Paramount's "Bulldog Drummond" series gets under way when stiff-upper-lip Scotland...
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1938
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We never actually see J. Carroll Naish in Alcatraz, but there's no doubt he's the "king" of the title. Most of the action...
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Steve Murkil
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1938
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Kuasa
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1938
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Shirley Ross plays an innocent young girl convicted for complicity in a crime committed by her boy friend (Lloyd Nolan). The...
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Noel Haskins
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1938
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J. Carroll Naish positively oozes immigrant gangster charm in this fairly entertaining thriller from Paramount. He plays...
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Lewis Zomar
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1938
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Hunted Men is part of Paramount's unofficial B-picture series based on the J. Edgar Hoover book Persons in Hiding....
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Henry Rice
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1938
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In this crime comedy, a lazy feller and his family take-up residence in an abandoned house. The squatters have no idea that...
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Clarke
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1937
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In this drama, a milque-toast socialite is drowning in San Francisco Bay. Fortunately, he is saved by a kindly Italian...
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Mario
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1937
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The cattle rustlers in Border Cafe, a modern-day western from the RKO B-unit, are Eastern gangsters headed by none other than...
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1937
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1937
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Durant
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1937
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Thunder Trail is a thoughtful, intelligent adaptation of the Zane Grey yarn. Arizona Ames. The storyline is a Grey favorite,...
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1937
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Anna May Wong, who cornered the 1930s market in Eurasian heroines, stars in Daughter of Shanghai. Wong is on the trail of the...
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1937
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Think Fast, Mr. Moto was the first of 20th Century-Fox's movie series based on the wily Japanese sleuth created by...
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1937
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1937
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A remake of 1932's Guilty as Hell, Night Club Scandal also borrows a page from 1934's Murder at the Vanities by depicting the...
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1937
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In the second of Paramount's "Bulldog Drummond" thrillers, Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond (John Howard) is finally about to marry...
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1937
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Its title notwithstanding, We Who Are About to Die has nothing to do with Roman Gladiators. Rather, the film is based on the...
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1937
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When David O. Selznick produced the film version of the 1000-plus page novel Gone with the Wind, he declared he could not...
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1936
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The Leathernecks Have Landed is an adventure yarn revolving around three boisterous marines. Lew Ayres is the headstrong one,...
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Brenov
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1936
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Enjoying a break from crime-solving, oriental sleuth Charlie Chan (Warner Oland) takes his 12 children to the circus. It...
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Tom Holt
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1936
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Despite its title, things get pretty noisy in MGM's Absolute Quiet. Lionel Atwill heads the cast as reclusive financier G. A....
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1936
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Former newspaperman Martin Mooney based his script for Exclusive Story on the racket-busting activities of New York district...
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1936
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Moonlight Murder takes place virtually in its entirety at the Hollywood Bowl. Despite dire warnings by a sinister mystic...
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1936
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1936
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First filmed in 1910, the venerable Helen Hunt Jackson novel Ramona was remade in 1936 in full Technicolor (20th...
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1936
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Impressed by the popularity of radio program about the exploits of legendary safecracker Jimmy Valentine, advertising man...
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1936
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Wandering around in the darkness, an amnesiac (Walter Abel) can't shake the feeling that he's murdered someone. When it...
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1936
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Warner Baxter does a variation of his Oscar-winning "Cisco Kid" characterization in Robin Hood of El Dorado. Baxter plays the...
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Three-Fingered Jack
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1936
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Richard Dix is as stalwart and oaklike as ever in Special Investigator. Here he plays courtroom-movie cliche #22B: The...
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1936
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Treasury agent Dave Elliot (Donald Cook) dedicates himself to smashing a crime syndicate, especially after his best friend is...
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Lefty
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1935
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This tuneful melodrama is set upon a college campus and follows the attempts of a pretty young woman who slyly helps her...
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1935
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In the wake of Shirley Temple, every Hollywood studio scrambled to find a child star who might possibility match Temple's...
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1935
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In this western-style musical, a rakish gaucho rides off across the Argentine pampas to Buenos Aires in search of his stolen...
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Tito
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1935
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The Holy Wars are given the usual overblown Cecil B. DeMille treatment in The Crusades. It all begins in the 12th-century AD,...
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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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Like many 1930s Warner Bros. films, Black Fury drew its inspiration from the headlines. The story is adapted from a true-life...
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1935
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When British actor Robert Donat dropped out of Warner Bros. Captain Blood, the studio took a chance on its new contractee,...
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1935
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Ellen Garfield (Bette Davis) is a neophyte reporter with ambitions big enough to take on assignments usually reserved for...
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1935
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Gary Cooper stars in this rousing adventure saga of three British officers of the 41st Regiment of Bengal Lancers of India....
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1935
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A lover selflessly dumps her boy friend so that he will obey the wishes of his wealthy benefactor and marry someone more...
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1934
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What a shame that the 1934 Fox crime meller Murder in Trinidad is currently unavailable for viewing. In one of his best...
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1934
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Based on a Zane Grey story, The Last Trail stars virile cowboy hero George O'Brien in a largely anti-heroic role. Escaping...
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1934
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The Lafayette Escadrille, that elite corps of volunteer WW I flyboys, is the collective "hero" of Fox's Hell in the Heavens....
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1934
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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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The fourth and last of Columbia's "Inspector Trent" mysteries, Girl in Danger once more stars Ralph Bellamy as the...
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Russo
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1934
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Based on a novel by Frederick Nebel (of "Torchy Blane" fame), Sleepers East is largely set on a train bound for New York. The...
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Carl Izzard
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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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1934
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Written by the prolific Ben Hecht, Upper World is a clash-of-class melodrama set in New York City. Railroad tycoon Alexander...
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1934
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One is Guilty was an entry in Columbia's "Inspector Trent" mysteries, all starring the ubiquitous Ralph Bellamy. A...
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Jack Allan
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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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Steve Scola
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1934
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What's Your Racket? was another aimless crime drama from low-budget Mayfair Productions, albeit with a more alluring title...
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Dick Graves
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1934
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1933
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A former opera star loses her voice, her career evaporates, and she takes to drinking heavily and blaming her son for her...
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1933
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The infernal machine in question is a bomb controlled by a wireless operator and set aboard a New York bound ocean liner. No...
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1933
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Jenny (Ruth Chatterton) becomes pregnant by a young man who is killed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Bearing her child...
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1933
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Joe E. Brown plays Elmer Kane, a rookie ballplayer with the Chicago Cubs whose ego is matched only by his appetite. Because...
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1933
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The French Foreign Legion is the setting for this episodic adventure yarn. Victor Jory plays a Legion doctor falsely accused...
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1933
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The melodramatic No Other Woman is a remake of the 1925 silent film Just a Woman which was based on the play of the same name...
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Bonelli
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1933
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While travelling through Arizona, carnival huckster Smiley Wells (James Dunn) makes the acquaintance of sweet small-town girl...
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1933
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Eagle Productions was another of those exotically named independent studios that came and went in the early 1930s. Eagle's...
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1933
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Adapted from a "drawn from life" novel by Sir Phillip Gibbs, Captured is the story of the men in a German POW camp during...
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1933
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A man on the wrong side of the law has a chance to turn over a new leaf in this crime drama. Edward Carson (Spencer Tracy) is...
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Chopper Allen
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1933
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Plodding through the dialogue-heavy script, this is still a timely movie topic. Dealing with white collar crime, this is the...
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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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Roland Brown's Blood Money (1933) has lost none of its ability to entertain and startle over the seven decades since its...
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1933
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Heroes and villains alike use airplanes instead of horses in this generally well-made Mascot serial featuring diminutive...
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1933
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It is difficult to determine who is the more ferocious character in this film: The real shark seen in the underwater...
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Tony
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1932
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In this crime drama, an assistant DA must scramble to save the life of an innocent man he mistakenly sent to the chair....
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1932
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1932
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Similar in theme to Ambrose Bierce's classic story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," this odd melodrama chronicles the...
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Tony
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1932
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Crusading district attorney Jerry Bennett (Gilbert Roland) would give anything to get the goods on unscrupulous criminal...
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1932
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Henry Harrison Kroll's novel Cabin in the Cotton was an attack on wealthy southern landowners who exploited their...
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1932
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Sudden success can be a double-edged sword as this drama aptly proves. An aspiring musician finds success when his manager...
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1932
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In director Leo McCarey's film The Kid From Spain, actor Eddie Cantor plays mischievious college boy Eddie Williams, who,...
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1932
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Undoubtedly inspired by Charles Lindbergh's unprecedented sudden fame (but not the ensuing tragedy), Mary McCall's 1932 novel...
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Lt. Blake
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1932
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In this comedy, a hard-working husband loses his job and his wife becomes the bread winner. The husband feels demeaned by...
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1932
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Based on the play New York Town by Ward Morehouse, Mervyn LeRoy directs the black-and-white 1932 comedy drama Big City Blues....
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1932
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Hatchet Man is a dated but fascinating film set amidst the "tong wars" in San Francisco's Chinatown. Tong hatchet man Wong...
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1932
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A reluctantly appointed police chief in a crime-riddled city takes his job seriously and works hard to clean the streets of...
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1932
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Previously filmed in 1917 and 1922, Willard Mack's barnstorming stage melodrama Kick In was exhumed again in 1931 as a...
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1931
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In this crime drama, dedicated to the police forces of America, a gangster searches for his estranged son, also a gangster....
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1931
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Surrender is yet another triangular romance set against the backdrop of WWI. French POW Dumaine (Warner Baxter) is...
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1931
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The names have all been changed, but this hard-hitting gangster tale is based on an actual newspaper headline story...
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1931
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A wimpy king is forced to take responsibility for his little North Sea island kingdom after his iron-fisted wife goes on a...
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1931
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1931
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Dakin Barrolles (played by Edmund Lowe is a criminal who, while escaping from a bank robbery that went wrong, stumbles across...
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1930
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In this classy crime drama, the well-spoken, leader of a sophisticated gang of gangsters use their high social status to...
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1930
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