Eleven food markets have been held up in the past three weeks; there's clearly a pattern, but the police have trouble...
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1953
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Saddle Legion stars RKO Radio's resident cowboy hero Tim Holt. As in most of his postwar vehicles, Holt is teamed with...
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Gabe
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1951
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Some auteur critics feel that director Richard O. Fleischer did his best work while laboring in the "B" mills of RKO Radio....
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1950
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1950
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The Lawless was director Joseph Losey's second feature-length film. The story concerns a group of Mexican-American migrant...
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1950
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Glenn Ford is top-billed in Man From Colorado, though he's anything but a hero. Ford plays a seriously disturbed Civil War...
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1949
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Guy Madison and Rory Calhoun, both of whom went on to star in their own TV western series, head the cast of the Monogram...
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1949
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In this dark crime drama, the trouble begins when a San Francisco bookie attempts to lead an honest life by marrying a...
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1948
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When Homecoming was first released in 1948, some observers felt that Clark Gable's unusually sensitive performance was based...
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1948
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Filmed not long after the actual events, The Beginning or the End is a sober, intelligent account of the development and...
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Dr. Ernest O. Lawrence
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1947
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Out of the Past is so perfect a film noir that it is considered practically a textbook example of the genre. In his first...
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1947
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This Pine-Thomas Production was scripted by Geoffrey Homes (aka Daniel Mainwaring), best known as the author of the novel...
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Frank Chance
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1946
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Burlesque queen Ann Corio took time out of her runway activities in the 1940s to star in three Monogram features, of which...
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Jim
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1944
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Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy play janitors for a detective agency who pose as super-sleuths when they're hired to protect...
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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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1944
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Hangmen Also Die is set in Czechoslovakia during the Nazi occupation. Czech loyalist Brian Donlevy assassinates the vicious...
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1943
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In this musical comedy, a vaudevillian teams up with a barber and becomes a smash hit. The barber also finds himself falling...
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1943
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At 70 minutes, the Roy Rogers musical western Idaho was packaged and promoted as a "special", rather than just another...
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1943
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On December 6, 1941, a squadron of nine B-17 bombers takes off for Hickam Field, HI. The crew of the Mary Ann, including two...
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1943
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The budget for this fine Roy Rogers Western was doubled and the title changed from Starlight on the Trail to the more...
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1943
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Deanna Durbin is all grown up in Hers to Hold, the unofficial sequel to her "Three Smart Girls" films of the 1930s. Durbin...
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1943
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In this comedy, a milque-toast bookkeeper buckles under his overbearing girl friend's constant nagging and begins investing...
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1943
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When the US marines land in Iceland during WW2, camp lothario John Payne wastes no time scoping out the local female...
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1942
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Laurel & Hardy's second starring vehicle for 20th Century-Fox is arguably their weakest feature film, with the laughs few and...
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1942
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Sundown Jim was the second of two 20th Century-Fox westerns starring football champ John Kimbrough. The story takes place in...
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1942
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James Cagney made his first Technicolor appearance in the morale-boosting aviation flick Captains of the Clouds. Cagney plays...
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1942
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The Nazis are clearly the villains in So Ends Our Night, but since the film was made before America's entry into World War...
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1941
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The girl is stenographer Dot Duncan (Lucille Ball); the guy is her boss, stuffy young shipping magnate Stephen Herrick...
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1941
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A fine, action-packed entry in Republic Pictures' long-running "Three Mesqueteers" Western series, West of Cimarron featured...
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1941
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1940
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In this animal adventure, Silver Wolf, a police dog is considered a killer after he is falsely blamed for killing someone....
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Jim Turner
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1940
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Gone With the Wind boils down to a story about a spoiled Southern girl's hopeless love for a married man. Producer...
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1939
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1939
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Hugh Herbert is the head of The Family Next Door; he's a plumber of modest means and questionable skills. The rest of...
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1939
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In his starring film for Universal Pictures, W.C. Fields plays circus manager and all-around flim flam man Larson E....
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1939
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In this crime drama, the owner and chief editor of a newspaper gets together with two college pals and begins looking into...
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1939
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I Am the Law is arguably the best of the late-1930s films inspired by the racket-busting career of New York district attorney...
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1938
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When nefarious Topa Topa fur-trapper Pete Taylor murders his hunting partner and tries to pin the killing on beloved local...
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1938
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Handsome aerial footage highlights this rousing RKO adventure tale that combines a frozen-North survival drama with a...
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1938
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In this drama, a young man must choose between a military career or a career in professional football. The story opens as...
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1938
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Eddie
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1938
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Seasoned newsreel cameraman Bob Adams (John Wayne) is assigned to cover the rebellion in the fictional Arab country of...
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1937
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Pulp fiction writer Max Brand's 1936 creation Dr. Kildare made his screen debut in the amiable person of Joel McCrea in this...
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1937
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There are those western fans who feel that cowboy star Tom Keene did better work at low-budget Crescent Pictures than he ever...
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1937
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A remake of 1929's The Greene Murder Case, Paramount's Night of Mystery was the first "Philo Vance" thriller not to use the...
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1937
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The girl is teenaged singing sensation Deanna Durbin; the one hundred men are out-of-work musicians. Still in her "little...
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1937
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Jack Holt is so tight-jawed in Outlaws in the Orient that one wonders how his bridgework will hold up. Holt plays Chet Eaton,...
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Johnny
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1937
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Good Old Soak was based on a story by Don Marquis, creator of the immortal "Archy and Mehitabel." Wallace Beery is well-cast...
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1937
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Loosely based on a story by frontier writer Bret Harte, this romantic western drama tells the story of an innocent, carefree...
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1936
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In this North western, a Mountie is assigned to patrol the Canadian and US border. He also stops the evil outlaws that have...
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Bud Hyland
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1936
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Tom Pennyward
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1935
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1935
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A popular title, a mystery death and college hi-jinks are the ingredients in this pleasant little whodunit from lower-rung...
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1935
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The Arizonian came at a time when Richard Dix's popularity was slipping, providing a welcome shot in the arm for the star and...
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Orin Tallant
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1935
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Previously filmed in 1917 and 1928, the beloved Gene Stratton-Porter novel Freckles again went before the cameras in 1935....
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Ralph Barton
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1935
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Previously filmed in 1921 and 1926, this venerable 1911 David Belasco stage play provides a good, if slightly risible,...
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1935
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Rendezvous at Midnight shifts from "low" to "drive" when corrupt city commissioner Myles Crawford (Arthur Vinton) is...
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1935
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This drama chronicles the emotionally distant relationship between a mother and her four grown children. Though they live in...
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Lewis Carter
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1935
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Produced on a reasonably lavish scale by the usually parsimonious Mascot Pictures, Harmony Lane was the first of three filmed...
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1935
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The Battle of Greed was one of the best of the Tom Keene western series produced by bargain-basement Crescent Productions....
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1935
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In this odd-ball comedy, a self-sacrificing but eccentric mother attempts to guide her equally eccentric family. She has two...
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1934
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The first of four low-grade thrillers produced by Sam Efrus and filmed on mostly rented sets around Hollywood, House of...
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Ralph Nelson
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1934
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Paramount's Eight Girls in a Boat was a remake of the 1932 German film of the same name. Impregnated by medical student David...
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1934
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Often written off as just another Poverty Row effort featuring a fallen-from-grace Erich Von Stroheim, Mascot Pictures'...
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Fred von Bergen
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1934
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1934
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The Mongram "special" Beggars in Ermine was based on a novel by Esther Lynd Day. Having lost both legs in an accident,...
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Lee Marley
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1934
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Produced by small-scale Mascot Pictures, this behind-the-scenes look at a now forgotten annual Hollywood event, the WAMPAS...
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1934
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In this romantic drama, set at the turn of the century, a womanizing Irish motorman ignores his marital vows, but only to a...
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1933
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In this comedy drama, a wealthy shoe magnate is bored with his life. The trouble really begins when his chief rival dies....
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1933
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Baby Face is a good example of the kind of spitfire lead female characters that appeared in the cinema of pre-code Hollywood....
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1933
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Lionel Barrymore plays one of those selfless general practitioners that seem to exist exclusively in the movies in One Man's...
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1933
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1932
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In this western, a lawman restores law and order in town. He also stops a greedy horseman from trapping wild stallions with...
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Bent Weymer
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1932
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