This comedy makes fun of Castro's take-over of Cuba. The story is set upon the mythical Caribbean island of Hondo-Rico,...
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1962
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As other "B"-western series kept dropping like flies in 1952, Johnny Mack Brown kept grinding 'em out for Monogram. In Man...
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Jim Fallon
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1952
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Johnny Mack Brown was nearing the end of his starring career when he appeared in the Monogram oater Dead Man's Trail. Brown...
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1952
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Johnny Mack Brown substitutes brains for brawn during most of Texas City. Cast once more as a U.S. marshal, Johnny...
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Jim Kirby
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1952
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Texas Lawmen was one of the shortest entries in Monogram's Johnny Mack Brown series, running a scant 54 minutes. This time,...
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Sheriff Tod
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1951
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From the opening credits onward, bombastic comedian Jerry Colonna dominates the proceedings in Kentucky Jubilee. Colonna...
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Jeff Benson
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1951
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Johnny Mack Brown goes up against a lady bank robber in this average Mack Brown series late-entry from Monogram. The lady,...
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1951
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Though ready for release in 1951, Whistling Hills ended up as western star Johnny Mack Brown's first entry for 1952. This...
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Dave Holland
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1951
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After his parents are killed, a cowboy vows to avenge their deaths. (AKA Crooked River) ~ Rovi...
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1950
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Marshal of Heldorado is one of six "Four-Star" westerns produced and released by Lippert Pictures in 1950. If these six films...
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Shamrock
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1950
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1950
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Fast on the Draw was one of six Lippert Studios "Four Star" westerns, all of which were filmed simultaneously in the space of...
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Shamrock
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1950
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In a season that also brought the world such cinematic confessions as I Shot Jesse James (1949) and I Shot Billy the Kid...
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1950
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In this western, a cowpoke and his pardner take off to see his step daddy and wind up embroiled in a range war. ~ Sandra...
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1950
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Crooked River is another of Lippert Studio's "Four Star" western series. These six films were shot back-to-back in the space...
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Shamrock
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1950
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Colorado Ranger was the third in Lippert Studio's six-film "Four Star Western" series. All six entries were filmed...
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Shamrock
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1950
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There are those who consider Texan Meets Calamity Jane as one of the worst westerns ever made. It isn't really, but neither...
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Gordon Hastings
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1950
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Though released second, Hostile Country was the first of six "Four Star" westerns, filmed back to back within the space of...
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Shamrock
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1950
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West of the Brazos was one of six westerns filmed back-to-back within a single month by Lippert Studios in 1950. All of these...
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Shamrock
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1950
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1950
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By the none-too-exacting standards of Screen Guild Productions, Last of the Wild Horses is practically an "A" picture....
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Duke Barnum
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1949
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The Ghost Goes Wild is a low-cost but high-rolling farce starring James Ellison and Anne Gwynne. It starts off with Ellison,...
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1947
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In this Republic musical, all heck breaks loose when the girlfriend of an aspiring composer becomes a model for the starving...
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Steve Adams
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1947
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Republic Pictures certainly didn't believe in obscure or misleading film titles, as G.I. War Brides amply proves. Ann Lee...
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1946
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Hollywood and Vine is set in a drugstore located at the intersection of the title. James Ellison plays a successful...
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Larry
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1945
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Singing, dancing, and ice skating are featured in this musical that focuses on ice-skating sensation Belita. The story...
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Jerry
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1944
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The sparkling screwball comedy And So They Were Married was originally released as Johnny Doesn't Live Here Any More....
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Mike O'Brien
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1944
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Lois Andrews, best known in 1943 as the ex-wife of comedian Georgie Jessel, plays the title character in this cinemadaptation...
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Roger Hudson
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1943
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RKO producer Val Lewton seemed to thrive upon taking the most lurid film titles and coming up with pocket-edition works of...
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Wesley Rand
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1943
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Sgt. Andy Mason Jr. (James Ellison) is on the eve of shipping out from New York with his unit -- he's the son of Andrew Mason...
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Andy Mason
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1943
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One of two 20th Century-Fox horror melodramas released in 1942 (Dr. Renault's Secret was the second), The Undying Monster is...
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Bob Curtis
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1942
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The Carter Case was the second and last Republic film based on the popular radio series Mister District Attorney. Like the...
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P. Cadwallader Jones
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1942
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That Other Woman in this 20th Century-Fox programmer turns out to be Emily (Virginia Gilmore), faithful secretary to master...
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Henry Summers
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1942
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RKO Radio's Army Surgeon is something of a rarity: A WW2 drama set mostly in WW1. On board a transport ship bound for Europe,...
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Capt. James Mason
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1942
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In this espionage movie, set in Washington during WW II, the daughter of an ex-senator has become a dress model. She is...
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Thomas Aldrich
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1942
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Jack Benny brings his own distinctive touch to Brandon Thomas' venerable (and oft-filmed) stage farce Charley's Aunt....
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Jack Chesney
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1941
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By Republic Pictures standards, 1941's Ice-Capades certainly qualifies as an "all-star" film. The many subplots center around...
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Bob Clemens
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1941
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One of the less laudable results of the United States' wartime "good neighbor" policy with South America was the relentlessly...
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Tim Kelly
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1941
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A gold-digger facing middle-age decides to pass her special talents on to a younger woman. Her young student learns quickly...
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Tom Dice
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1940
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In the RKO programmer You Can't Fool Your Wife, Lucille Ball gets mixed up in a storyline that would have been right at home...
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Andrew Hinklin
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1940
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Tony Pringle
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1940
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Sorority House is based on Mary Coyle Chase's short story Chi House. Anne Shirley plays a middle-class college student who is...
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Bill Loomis
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1939
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In this romance, a young woman journeys from Syracuse to New York to see her sweetheart, a prominent architect. She is...
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Jeff Buchanan
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1939
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With comedian Stan Laurel temporarily off his payroll due to a contract dispute, Hal Roach hastily put together a solo...
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Jeff Carter
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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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Mike
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1939
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Ace the Wonder Dog, RKO's Rin Tin Tin-wannabe, plays Picardy Max, a mongrel dog adopted by Dan Preston (James Ellison) when...
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Dan Preston
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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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Keith Morgan
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1938
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Katharine Hepburn's association with RKO Radio Pictures came to an abrupt end when she refused to star in the studio's...
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Ralph Thurston
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1938
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The Next Time I Marry stars actress Lucille Ball as an heiress who can only receive her 20 million dollar inheritance by...
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Tony Anthony
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1938
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Douglas MacLean, who starred in the original 1919 version of this World War I comedy, produced this remake starring...
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Sgt. Gray
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1937
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Lt. Burrell
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1937
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Based on Clarence E. Mulford's Mesquite Jenkins, Tumbleweed from 1932, Heart of the West addresses the issue of fences on the...
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Johnny Nelson
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1937
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Buffalo Bill Cody
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1937
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Annapolis Salute is the 1937 remake of RKO's 1933 film Midshipman Jack. Lensed on location at the Annapolis Naval Academy,...
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Bill Martin
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1937
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An above-average "Hopalong Cassidy" series entry, Borderland has Hoppy (William Boyd) going undercover as a bandit in a tough...
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Johnny Nelson
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1937
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In this emotional drama, a lonely British housekeeper, uses her hard-earned savings account to finance a trip to America so...
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Jimmy Peyton
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1936
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Trail Dust was the eighth entry in the 66-film "Hopalong Cassidy" series. William Boyd, of course, is Hoppy, while his...
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Johnny Nelson
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1936
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Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) rescues a stranded schoolmarm (Muriel Evans) from a lecherous saloon owner (Onslow Stevens)...
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Johnny Nelson
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1936
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Hopalong Cassidy's young sidekick, Johnny Nelson, is falsely accused of robbing the Bar 20 in this the fourth installment of...
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Johnny Nelson
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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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Mac MacDonald
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1936
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Bar 20 Rides Again was the 3rd of William Boyd's Hopalong Cassidy flicks. As with most early entries in the Cassidy series,...
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Johnny Nelson
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1936
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In the second of producer Harry Sherman's Hopalong Cassidy Westerns, Deputy Sheriff Cassidy (William Boyd) promises El Toro...
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Johnny Nelson
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1936
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In this lively comedy, a humble Italian barber wins the Irish sweepstakes. Unfortunately, he has misplaced the ticket....
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Jimmy Powers
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1935
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Reckless is a delightfully breezy screwball comedy from the same director (Victor Fleming) and star (Jean Harlow) responsible...
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1935
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Filmed in two weeks at Red Rock Canyon and Lone Pine, California, Hop-Along Cassidy was the opener of one of the best -- and...
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Johnny Nelson
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1935
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Based on a novel by Cortland Fitzsimmons, the storyline of this "gimmick" mystery follows the St. Louis Cardinals during a...
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1934
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Carolina, a melodrama directed by Henry King, follows a young woman's attempt to restore a southern plantation back to its...
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1934
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A very young Loretta Young stars in this domestic drama in which a naïve department store clerk falls for an inveterate...
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Elmer
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1932
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