In this a briefcase containing four wills is found next to the unconscious body of a man. He lies beside a plane crash. Each...
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1945
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Weekend at the Waldorf is an unabashed remake of MGM's 1932 Oscar-winner Grand Hotel: in fact, at several points in the...
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1945
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John Brickley (Robert Montgomery) believes in PT boats, and as a lowly U.S. Navy lieutenant stationed in the Philippines,...
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1945
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Incendiary Blonde is a highly entertaining if historically suspect biopic of "Queen of the Nightclubs" Texas Guinan. As...
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1945
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A range feud once again took center stage in this average Sunset Carson B-western from assembly-line studio Republic....
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1945
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1944
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1944
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Freely adapted from a successful Broadway musical by Moss Hart, this story stars Ginger Rogers as Liza Elliott, the editor of...
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1944
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Newspaper reporter Marion Hargrove's best-selling novel was adapted to the screen by MGM as a vehicle for Robert Walker. The...
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1944
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1943
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20th Century-Fox's 1943 filmization of Richard Tregaskis' best-selling book Guadalcanal Diary does full justice to the...
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1943
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1942
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1942
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1942
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1942
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Bob Hope plays a famous movie star who does his best to avoid the pre-war draft, but ends up in uniform all the same. Hope...
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1941
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Three disparate young men struggle to become Army Air Corps pilots in this rousing drama that earned an Oscar for its...
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1941
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In this romance, a hospital nurse marries a West Point football hero. She soon gets pregnant, but this doesn't stop her from...
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1941
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Cecil B. De Mille directed this lavish all-star spectacular paying tribute to America's neighbors to the North. In 1885, as...
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1940
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A serious journalist is sent to France and forced to write fashion fluff pieces. Tiring of this, she decides to sneak off to...
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1940
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MGM had a tendency to overglamorize the sort of rough-hewn film fare that Warner Bros. offered to its public without...
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1940
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Winfield Sheehan, former head of Fox studios, owned the only Austrian Lippizan horses in the U.S. In 1940, MGM bought the...
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1940
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The sole survivor of an Indian attack, orphan girl Susannah Sheldon (Shirley Temple) becomes the mascot of the Canadian...
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1939
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Rolling Caravans was one of four Columbia B-westerns designed to make a star out of utility actor Jack Luden. Harry Woods, a...
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Breezy
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1938
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Columbia Pictures' year-long effort to turn utility actor Jack Luden into a western star sputtered onward with Stagecoach...
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Breezy Larkin
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1938
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In this western, a looter finds an abandoned, empty mine and begins claiming that he has found the mother lode. Soon,...
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Breezy
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1938
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One thing was always certain in Columbia's Jack Luden westerns: the supporting cast would include Hal Taliaferro, or...
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Breezy
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1938
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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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1936
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Aerial photography highlights this early sound actioner, set during World War I. Lt. Robert Banks (Charles "Buddy" Rogers),...
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1930
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Considered the best of the all-star "studio" musicals of 1929 and 1930, Paramount on Parade utilized the talents of...
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1930
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In this drama, a junkman, Maurice Chevalier in his American film debut, rescues a drowning boy from the Seine. The boy's...
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1929
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Circus life provides the framework of this drama that chronicles the love, life, and aspiration of a young circus waif. The...
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1929
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Dick
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1929
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The newly constructed Paramount sound stages were used as a backdrop for the Pirandellian thriller The Studio Murder Mystery....
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1929
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In this film, the irresponsible Stella Ames (Clara Bow) spends her college career attending parties rather than studying....
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1929
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The disastrous 1929 Stock Market crash was still several months in the future when Wolf of Wall Street made its screen debut....
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1929
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In this 1929 comedy, two white minstrel comedians, Moran and Mack, in black-face, re-create their most beloved routines in...
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1929
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Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton team up again in this silent comedy, in which they (respectively) play Mike Doolan, a...
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Richard Deming, Assistant District Attorney
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1928
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The great German actor Emil Jannings closed out the American phase of his film career with the Paramount part-talkie...
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Otto
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1928
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Ray Caldwell
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1928
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Victorien Sardou's 1882 stage play Fedora was transformed by future director John Farrow into the Pola Negri vehicle The...
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1928
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A criminal with a conscience will go to any lengths to give his daughter a better life in this silent drama. "Heliotrope...
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1928
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1927
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Although the silent W.C. Fields vehicle Two Flaming Youths no longer exists, a surviving script (titled Side Show) offers a...
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Tony Holden
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1927
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No relation to the earlier John Ford western of the same name, The Last Outlaw was a vehicle for Paramount's up-and-coming...
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Ward Lane
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1927
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The fast-paced FBO programmer Aflame in the Sky rather resembles a Tom Mix production -- with Jack Luden standing in for the...
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Terry Owen
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1927
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Pan Smith
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1927
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Played by William H. Tooker, railroad superintendent Old Man Sweeney is but a peripheral character in this film, despite its...
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Jack Sweeney
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1927
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Fascinating Youth was designed as a showcase for the winners of Paramount's Junior Star contest of 1926. Newcomer...
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1926
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W.C. Fields' It's the Old Army Game is an expansion on four Fields stage skits, originally performed in the Broadway revue...
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1926
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