Frankie Fane (Jack Carson) is a particularly despicable gangster, who has accumulated a fortune selling illegal drugs to...
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1962
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This Disney family film was originally made as a two-parter for the World of Disney TV show. It is the funny and touching...
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1962
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Big Tim O'Brien
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1961
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Jack Carson stars as Harvey Hunnicutt, a fast-talking used car salesman to whom The Truth is a total stranger. Hunnicutt's...
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Harvey Hunnicut
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1961
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Bert
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1960
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One of a small cluster of creepy films to come from England's Amalgamated Studios in the late '60s, this lesser entry details...
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1960
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In the ninth episode of the series Bonanza, we get an episode-length flashback into history. While working on the Ponderosa,...
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Henry T. P. Comstock
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1959
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This dynamic and commanding adaptation of Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning play focuses on a troubled Southern...
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Gooper Pollitt
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1958
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Director Leo McCarey was clearly past his prime when he made this screen version of Max Shulman's comic novel Rally 'Round...
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Capt. Hoxie
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1958
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Future Tonight Show host Johnny Carson made one of his rare acting appearances in this 1957 Playhouse 90 adaptation of George...
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Patsy
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1957
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Jeff Chandler plays big-city lawyer James Gordon Blane, who heads to a small Nevada town to defend a playboy (Phillip Reed)...
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Sheriff Nick Hoak
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1957
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Jiggs
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1957
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Two brothers face their personal demons in this crime melodrama. Donald Martin (Van Johnson) is an alcoholic criminal who has...
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Hal Breckinridge
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1956
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Mickey Rooney and Jack Carson make an offbeat but somehow endearing team in the comedy-adventure Magnificent Roughnecks. Set...
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Bix Decker
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1956
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In this lively musical a chorine hooks a successful businessman and becomes the snob she thinks he expects her to be. This...
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Hal North
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1955
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The 1954 musical remake of A Star is Born could have been titled A Star is Reborn, in that it represented the triumphal...
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Matt Libby
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1954
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After several years of domestic squabbles, the marriage of Nina and Robert Tracy (Judy Holliday, Jack Lemmon) goes "phffft"!...
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Charlie Nelson
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1954
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On paper, Red Garters sounds like a wonderful idea: a raucous spoof of westerns, done up in the stylized fashion of a...
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Jason Carberry
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1954
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Esther Williams stars in this button-cute musical about a health-conscious family of swimmers who fall in with con man Windy...
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Windy Webbe
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1953
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Since someone had already used the title The Bride Wore Boots, it follows that there'd eventually be a film called The Groom...
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Ben Castle
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1951
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Jeff Clayton
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1951
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1951
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A comedy variety show with a rotating roster of hosts and celebrity guests. ~ Iotis Erlewine, Rovi...
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1950
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Bright Leaf, a sprawling saga of the tobacco industry in North Carolina, began as a novel by Foster Fitzsimmons, a native...
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Chris Malley
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1950
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Biff Jones
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1950
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Himself
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1949
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Doug Blake
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1949
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Fred Taylor
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1949
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This cute film is Doris Day's film debut and in it she plays Georgia Garrett, a substitute traveller on an ocean cruise. Her...
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Peter Virgil
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1948
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April Showers stars Jack Carson and Ann Sothern as a pair of small-time vaudevillians whose act gets nowhere until their...
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Joe Tyme
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1948
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In this western-musical comedy, a remake of Cowboy from Brooklyn (1938), two vaudevillians find themselves stranded on a...
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Danny Foster
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1948
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Jack Carson and Robert Hutton make a curious but copacetic comedy duo in the Warner Bros. musical Love and Learn. The stars...
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Jingles
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1947
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In this frothy, star-studded Warner Brothers outing, tightwad tycoon Jonathan Turner, believing himself at death's door,...
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1947
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Dennis Morgan and Jack Carson, the Bing Crosby and Bob Hope of Burbank, star in the Warner Bros. musical The Time, the Place...
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Jeff Howard
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1946
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If Paramount could rake in the bucks by teaming singer Bing Crosby and comedian Bob Hope in a series of Road pictures, then...
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Buzz Williams
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1946
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In this comedy, an adaptation of the play The Animal Kingdom, a liberal, social reformist photographer falls in love with a...
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Pat Regan
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1946
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Joan Crawford won an Academy Award for her bravura portrayal of the titular heroine in Mildred Pierce. The original James M....
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Wally Fay
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1945
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This odd combination of roughneck comedy and serious domestic drama was adapted by Louise Randall Pierson from her own...
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1945
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The wartime housing shortage in Washington DC is the basis for this comedy. Several attractive young ladies rent a single DC...
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Arthur Halstead
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1944
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The West Coast's answer to Broadway's Stage Door Canteen, the Hollywood Canteen was created as a GI morale-booster by film...
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1944
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Complete with a final production number filmed in Technicolor, this tuneful musical depicts the highly fictive ups and downs...
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The Great Georgetti
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1944
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Officer O'Hara
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1944
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After several years' faithful service in supporting roles, Jack Carson was awarded his first Warner Bros. starring vehicle...
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Jerry Curtis
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1944
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Practically everybody on the Warner Bros. lot shows up in the wartime morale-boosting musical extravaganza Thank Your Lucky...
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1943
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A princess finds love with a regular American Joe in this patriotic romantic comedy. A European diplomat (Charles Coburn) is...
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Dave
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1943
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Wings for the Eagle is an overbaked but sincere tribute to the wartime defense workers at the Lockheed Aircraft Plant, where...
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Brad Maple
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1942
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In this dark drama an iron-willed older sister forcibly thrusts her only modestly talented younger sister into a Broadway...
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Albert Runkel
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1942
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Maybe Errol Flynn was never the war hero that he often played, but he was a capable boxer, and Gentleman Jim makes full use...
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Walter Lowrie
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1942
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This parody of gangster flicks centers on an incarcerated gangster who decides to reform after he is released from Sing...
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Jeff Randolph
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1942
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In this screen version of the James Thurber-Elliot Nugent Broadway play of the same name, Henry Fonda stars as bespectacled,...
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Joe Ferguson
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1942
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The big-band mystique of the 1940s was explored by Blues in the Night. Future directors Richard Whorf and Elia Kazan star as,...
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Leo Powell
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1941
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Neither James Cagney nor Bette Davis were particularly pleased with the outdated screwball comedy The Bride Came C.O.D., but...
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Allen Brice
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1941
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Chuck Benson
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1941
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The 1940 peacetime draft spawned a whole slew of military and naval comedies, the most successful of which was Abbott and...
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1941
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Strawberry Blonde is the second, and by far the most well-regarded, of the three film versions of James Hogan's play One...
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Hugo Barnstead
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1941
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William Powell and Myrna Loy re-team for this (literally) crazy screwball comedy about a happily married couple who, thanks...
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Ward Willoughby
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1941
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The brief but lively film career of infant star Baby Sandy came to an end with Sandy Gets Her Man. In this one, Sandy is the...
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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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1940
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Parole Fixer is another entry in Paramount's unofficial "J. Edgar Hoover" series, purportedly based on an actual case in the...
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1940
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The Girl in 313 is undercover police detective Joan Matthews (Florence Rice), who infiltrates a gang of jewel thieves. It is...
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1940
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Radio humorist Bob Burns plays the title role in Alias the Deacon. Based on a stage play by John B. Hymer and LeRoy Clements...
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1940
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This soapy drama stars Hedy Lamarr as a would be model who meets a research doctor en route to the US from Europe. They meet...
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1940
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Lewis Milestone directs the lightweight romantic comedy Lucky Partners, based on a story by Sacha Guitry. David Grant (Ronald...
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Freddie Harper
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1940
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1940
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In this espionage adventure, a courageous millworker must prove himself innocent of treason charges after the title spies...
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1940
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This domestic comedy is the final episode of the 17-film "Jones Family" series. The story begins as restless Father decides...
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1940
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1940
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Singing cowboy Gene Autry makes a rare appearance outside his usual Republic Pictures stamping grounds in 20th Century-Fox's...
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1940
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In this comedy, newlyweds soon discover that life in the fast lane is not as fun as it seems. As they both work for the same...
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Donroy
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1939
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In this offbeat western, a cowboy heads into the genteel East to fulfill his dream of becoming a polo player. While there,...
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1939
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Legion of Lost Flyers is a typically action-packed entry in Universal's Richard Arlen-Andy Devine series (if one can call a...
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1939
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Frank Capra's classic comedy-drama established James Stewart as a lead actor in one of his finest (and most archetypal)...
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1939
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Tom Destry (James Stewart), son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn't believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the object...
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1939
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A wealthy older man and a poor young woman each get a chance to see how the other half lives in this comedy. Alfred Borden...
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1939
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This drama chronicles the life and times of a notorious gangster. The story begins at his funeral. There a reporter,...
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1939
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The Saint, Leslie Charteris' charming but deadly criminal-turned-sleuth, made his first film appearance in RKO Radio's...
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Red Jenks
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1938
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Fred Stone stars as the mayor of a small town, threatened by "progressive" politicians who plan to radically change the...
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1938
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When mild-mannered bank clerk Wilbur Meely (Joe Penner) finds himself stuck in a speeding trailer after a bank robbery gone...
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Warren Miles
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1938
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Another of RKO's movie vehicles for radio comic Joe Penner ("You na-a-a-asty man!"), Mr. Doodle Kicks Off stars Penner as the...
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1938
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In this comedy, designed to exploit the then current national craze for picture puzzles, an alcoholic advertising exec...
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1938
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When two lovers are framed for a jewelry store robbery in which the clerk was killed, the only person capable of saving them...
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1938
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Better known today as the father of actors Bob Einstein and Albert Brooks, comedian Harry Einstein achieved radio fame in the...
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1938
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In this comedy, a woman is left destitute after her father dies. To make ends meet, she begins working as a secretary to a...
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1938
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In this comedy, a marriage-license clerk is proud of the fact that during his 20-year career not one of the couples he has...
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Candid
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1938
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Joan Fontaine was still two years away from full stardom when she appeared in the B-plus comedy Maid's Night Out. Future...
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1938
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Based upon Arthur Kober's play (which was subsequently musicalized onstage as Wish You Were Here, Having Wonderful Time stars...
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1938
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James Stewart and Ginger Rogers were "an item" when Vivacious Lady was filmed, and their obvious real-life affection for one...
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1938
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In this drama, a falsely convicted woman falls in love with the prison psychologist who tries to liberate her. She ended up...
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1938
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Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant star in this inspired comedy about a madcap heiress with a pet leopard who meets an...
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1938
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Connors
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1938
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In this thriller, an ex-pilot develops a useful new navigating device and decides to test it out. Unfortunately the test-run...
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1937
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Poor Barry Trent (John Morley) has Too Many Wives in this RKO programmer. Actually, Barry starts out with no wife at all,...
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1937
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Archetypal depression-era stars Henry Fonda and Sylvia Sidney are felicitously teamed in Fritz Lang's You Only Live Once....
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1937
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1937
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This back-stage crime comedy, a remake of Lights Out (1923), takes a healthy satirical stab at the powerful studio system of...
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Dickson
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1937
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Allegedly based on two factual works, Bouck White's The Book of Daniel Drew and Matthew Josephson's The Robber Barons, RKO's...
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1937
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The "suspense" in the RKO Radio musical comedy Music for Madame lies in whether or not golden-voiced Operatic tenor...
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1937
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1937
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Bookish bank employee Atterbury Dodd (Leslie Howard) is ordered to investigate the near-bankrupt Colossal Studios in...
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1937
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Having allowed his name to be listed as "producer" of Gun Smoke, a low-budget Western actually produced by Willis Kent, rodeo...
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1935
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