Zachary Scott plays Max Thursday, an alcoholic ex-police detective working as a bouncer at a sleazy rooming house owned by...
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Otto Varkas
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1950
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This dark, gloomy Western chronicles the shame and self-destruction of Bob Ford, the real-life James Gang member that...
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Kane
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1949
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Based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque, Arch of Triumph is a complicated war romance directed by Lewis Milestone. Dr....
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Hotel Manager
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1948
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A Song is Born is a musical remake of the 1941 comedy Ball of Fire, with the same producer (Sam Goldwyn) and director...
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1948
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In this adventure, a devoted fiancee journeys to the jungle to take on the terrifying Amazon women who have been holding her...
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1947
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Trenk
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1946
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The Columbia mystery melodrama The Walls Came Tumbling Down is regarded in many circles as star Lee Bowman's finest...
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Ernst Helms
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1946
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A rare black-and-white Maria Montez vehicle, Tangier can be described as a second-echelon Casablanca. Montez plays a Spanish...
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1946
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This lesser "Inner Sanctum" entry stars Lon Chaney Jr. as unhappily married lawyer Wayne Fletcher. In love with his secretary...
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Julian Julian
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1945
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The motivating factor of The Missing Corpse is a feud between rival newspapermen Kruger (J. Edward Bromberg) and McDonald...
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Henry Kruger
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1945
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In this musical, a talented aspiring costume designer leaves her small town to seek her fortune in the Big Apple. The girl,...
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Gustav
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1945
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This campy little drama launched the career of B-girl Yvonne De Carlo. It is set during the Franco-Prussian war and...
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1945
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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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Dr. Hoffman
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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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S.B. Foss
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1943
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Son of Dracula represents a felicitious creative collaboration between director Robert Siodmak and his screenwriter-brother...
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1943
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1943
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The tumultuous presidency of 17th-president Andrew Johnson is chronicled in this biopic. The story begins with Johnson's...
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1942
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Half Way to Shanghai is Burma, according to this Universal B-grade actioner. The film takes place almost in its entirety on a...
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Yippore
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1942
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Better known as Reunion in France, this women's-magazine-style romantic melodrama was the first major production for director...
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1942
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Ray Middleton portrays the title character in Republic's Hurricane Smith. Mistakenly arrested on a holdup charge, Smith...
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Eggs Bonelli
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1942
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Universal's "Invisible Man" series does its bit for the war effort in this slyly tongue-in-cheek action melodrama. Jon Hall...
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Karl Heiser
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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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Max Brandon
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1941
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Midnight Angel was the title of this Paramount actioner when it was first released in December of 1941. But by the time the...
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1941
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Republic Pictures borrowed William Wright from Paramount but then reduced him to third billing below ace villains J. Edward...
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1941
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"Strange" is right: this mystical MGM melodrama has to be the oddest of the studio's Clark Gable-Joan Crawford vehicles. When...
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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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This is perhaps the best of the many Zorro films as Tyrone Power gives an outstanding performance as the alternately swishing...
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1940
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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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Dave Spingold
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1939
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In this drama, a department store owner is deeply saddened to learn that none of his grown sons are interested in taking...
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Abe Ullman
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1939
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20th Century-Fox evidently adored "triangle" comedies like Wife, Husband and Friend; apparently so did Loretta Young, who...
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1939
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The real Frank and Jesse James were murderous thugs, light years away from the Robin Hood image imposed on them by...
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1939
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In this upbeat drama, a disillusioned millionaire, sick to death of the attempts of greedy friends and relatives to sponge...
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1938
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Previously filmed in 1917 and 1932, Kate Douglas Wiggins' bucolic novel Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm is herein refashioned--and...
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1938
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This saga spans the globe as the three young heroes search for the man who killed their much-admired, beloved father, a...
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1938
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In this fourth of 20th Century-Fox's "Mr. Moto" series, a beautiful young aviatrix (Rochelle Hudson) on a secret diplomatic...
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Rajah Ali
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1938
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The Baroness, daughter of the Hungarian prime minister, is played by Annabella. The Butler, last of a long line of family...
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1938
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In the course of One Wild Night, four prominent businessmen withdraw their savings from the bank and disappear from sight....
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Norman
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1938
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Three manicurists hope to become entertainers through the auspices of their wisecracking agent (Fred Allen). Sally...
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1938
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This is an epic Darryl F. Zanuck production that plays fast and loose with historical facts regarding early 19th century...
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Said
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1938
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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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In New York to attend a police testimonial in his honor, Honolulu detective Charlie Chan runs smack dab into another murder....
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Murdock
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1937
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This cinematic meringue stars Loretta Young as a young woman whose second husband (Lyle Talbot) is a hard working but dull...
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1937
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In this adventure, a young man allows criminals to talk him into cracking a safe. He is caught and sent to prison. After...
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Tex Shapiro
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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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Matthew Jericho
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1937
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Dr. Spellmeyer
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1936
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Stranded in Shanghai, orphaned Ching-Ching (Shirley Temple), the ward of Chinese missionaries, is rescued from harm by...
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1936
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A bell ringer's wife dies while giving birth to his second son who turns out to be deaf. His oldest son moves to America...
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Anton Engel
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1936
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Two silent film versions preceded this 1936 Hollywood adaptation of the 19th century novel by the writer Ouida Bergere. It is...
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1936
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French actress Simone Simon made her American film debut in Girls' Dormitory. Simon portrays a twentyish student in a Swiss...
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Dr. Spindler
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1936
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Ladies in Love transplants 20th Century-Fox's favorite film plot--three girls on the prowl for rich husbands--into the...
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1936
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Mercy killing is the primary topic of this crime drama when a doctor, who is disabled after a terrible accident begs his...
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Dr. Eric Godfrey
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1936
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1936
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