The suffocating repressiveness of the Victorian era is superbly realized by director Bruce Beresford in The Getting of...
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1977
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Irving Pichel's They Won't Believe Me is the flashback unfolding of Larry Ballentine's (Robert Young) witness-stand testimony...
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1947
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Adapted from a novel by Rachel Field, Time Out of Mind is a slow-moving costume drama enlivened by its stars. Servant girl...
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1947
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1947
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In this episode of the popular detective series, Chan learns that fake fingerprints have caused innocent people to go to...
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1946
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In this below-average western serial, a Texas ranger goes undercover as "The Scarlet Horseman," a legendary figure for the...
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1946
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The moody mystery melodrama Nocturne was produced by longtime Alfred Hitchcock associate Joan Harrison. The film wastes no...
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1946
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This marked the first starring role for Rondo Hatton, previously seen in a few Sherlock Holmes films as the spine-snapping...
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1946
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In this comedy, a PR man saves a struggling radio station from ruin. Songs include: "Slap Polka", "Walk A Little Faster",...
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1945
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More tightly scripted than most of the Monogram Charlie Chan whodunits, The Scarlet Clue is set in a radio station that,...
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1945
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One of the screen's favorite tough blondes, the delightful Veda Ann Borg, stole the show in this low-budget serial produced...
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1945
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All but forgotten today, Ladies Courageous was one of the more successful wartime morale-boosters. Loretta Young heads the...
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1944
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At least 30 percent of Universal's "vest-pocket" musicals of the 1940s included the word "Hi" in the title. Such was the case...
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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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1944
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Paramount Pictures did their patriotic duty with this World War II era musical, with a number of the studio's biggest stars...
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1944
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Keep 'Em Slugging was the last of Universal's "Little Tough Guys" series-which, like Monogram's "East Side Kids", was an...
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1943
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Republic's False Faces is a choice example of wartime "victory casting", with all the male cast members drawn from the ranks...
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Diana
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1943
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When cowboy star Johnny Mack Brown left Universal for Monogram, he also left one last western, Arizona Trail, unfilmed. Thus...
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Martha Brooks
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1943
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In the second of PRC's ramshackle Texas Rangers Westerns, Tex Wyatt (Dave "Tex" O'Brien) is blamed for a murder actually...
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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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Teresa Wright plays Charlie, a small-town high-schooler who enjoys a symbiotic relationship with her favorite uncle, also...
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1943
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You cannot keep a good mummy down forever and Kharis is back in this sequel to The Mummy's Hand, which itself was something...
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1942
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Reclusive Kurt Ingston (Ralph Morgan) finds himself playing host to an extraordinary array of guests at his decaying old...
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1942
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While in Hawaii, Velez begins the film as a risque nightclub act and due to her involvement with a group of sailors becomes...
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1941
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The curious but harmonious screen team of Frankie Darro and Mantan Moreland are back again in You're Out of Luck. Elevator...
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1941
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Hold That Ghost was the second of Abbott and Costello's starring films, but was held back from release in favor of their...
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1941
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The Gambling Daughters of the title are Gale Storm and Janet Shaw. Students in an exclusive girl's school, Storm and Shaw...
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Katherine
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1941
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Robert Taylor toughened up his image considerably with this gangster movie, which was unusual both in its plot and origins,...
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1941
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Another of Universal's Richard Arlen-Andy Devine actioners, Lucky Devils casts the mismatched duo as a pair of intrepid...
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Gwendy
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1941
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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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A barely disguised rip-off of 20th Century-Fox's all-female Tail Spin (39), Warner Bros.' Flight Angels is an inexpensive...
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1940
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Given the omnipresence of the Motion Picture Production Code in 1940, the second film version of Robert E. Sherwood's...
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1940
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This is the celebrated Blondie episode that costars Rita Hayworth, who in 1940 was still just another Columbia contract...
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1940
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Filmed on a budget of $77,000, Rookie Cop was another attempt by RKO Radio to transform canine star Ace the Wonder Dog into...
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Gerry
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1939
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When Zoë Akins' play The Old Maid (based on a novel by Edith Wharton) won the 1934-1935 Pulitzer Prize, the selection was...
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1939
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Louis Armstrong steals the show as the groom to Jeepers Creepers, a skittish racehorse that can only settle down and run when...
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1939
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Despite the presence of Busby Berkeley in the director's chair, Comet Over Broadway contains nary a single musical number....
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1938
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Ronald Reagan is his usual sprightly self as ambitious insurance claims adjuster Eric Gregg. While diligently investigating a...
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1938
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1938
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Warner Bros.' Girls on Probation was, and is, a potboiler, redeemed slightly by its cast. The fascinating, underused...
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1938
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Once a staple of summer stock and community theatres, Bella and Samuel Spewack's Broadway farce Boy Meets Girl dates rather...
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1938
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In 1938, Jezebel was widely regarded as Warner Bros.' "compensation" to Bette Davis for her losing the opportunity to play...
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1938
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1938
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In this wartime drama, cavalry private Dennis Murphy purchases a nervous horse, Sergeant, after it is deemed unfit for...
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1938
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Despite the claim of "an original screenplay by Edward Earl Repp," this entry in Warner Bros.' Dick Foran "singing cowboy"...
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1937
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In this lighthearted musical comedy from legendary director Busby Berkeley, Henry Bowers (Dick Powell) is a saxophonist in a...
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1937
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In this lively adventure aimed at youthful audiences, a wiseacre fireman soon finds himself in trouble with his fire captain...
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1937
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Gat Brady (John Litel) is a wealthy gangster, though he's never killed anyone, an he is devoted to his teenaged daughter...
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1937
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German director Joe May brought a decidedly Teutonic ambience to his American film Confession--no surprise, since the film...
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1937
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1937
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1935
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