Zachary Scott plays Max Thursday, an alcoholic ex-police detective working as a bouncer at a sleazy rooming house owned by...
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1950
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In this entry in the "Dead End Kids" series (later they would reappear as "The Bowery Boys") the lads encounter a terribly...
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1943
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Though musical-comedy favorite Jane Frazee was well established at Universal in mid-1942, every so often she'd head to...
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1942
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It Happened in Flatbush is a likable baseball comedy inspired by the 1941 Brooklyn Dodgers' pennant win. Lloyd Nolan portrays...
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1942
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In this entry in the "Weaver Family" series, the town of Farmington is being plagued by a crime wave. The angry citizens are...
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Councilman Bell
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1942
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1942
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RKO Radio's film series based on the popular radio serial Scattergood Baines rolled into 1942 with Scattergood Rides High....
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Mr. Van Pelt
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1942
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Several popular radio personalities converge in the RKO Radio "comedy salad" Look Who's Laughing. Taking a vacation from his...
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1941
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Ace police reporter Wally Williams (Wallace Ford) is so devoted to his job that he even neglects his new bride Alice...
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Gordon MacEwen
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1941
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1941
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James Stewart once classified Pot O' Gold as his worst film, though this may have stemmed from his reported inability to get...
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1941
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1941
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Universal's "Baby Sandy" series officially ended with Sandy Gets Her Man, but the infant star still had one picture left on...
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1941
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From first frame to last, foxy Charles Coburn thoroughly dominates the proceedings in the bubbly RKO Radio comedy Unexpected...
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1941
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Taking a vacation from her "Blondie" movies, Penny Singleton plays an Eastern girl who follows Horace Greeley's advice and...
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1941
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The studio concocted the film as a showcase for its 9-year-old discovery Joan Carroll, here cast as precocious Bridget...
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1941
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Warren William is back as suave thief-turned-sleuth Michael Lanyard, alias the Lone Wolf, in Columbia's The Lone Wolf Keeps a...
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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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John Jones
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1940
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Remedy for Riches was the fourth in RKO Radio's six-entry "Dr. Christian" series. Jean Hersholt returns as Dr. Christian, the...
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D.B. "Emerson" Vanderveer
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1940
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Little Mary Lee, Republic's 1940 answer to Shirley Temple, stars in the bucolic musical comedy Barnyard Follies. Essentially...
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Sam
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1940
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This "Jones Family" entry does without the services of Pa Jones, inasmuch as actor Jed Prouty was having contract problems...
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1940
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Hollywood Cavalcade was a fictionalized history of silent films and the growth of the movie industry. Don Ameche portrays a...
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1939
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The Jones family goes to Tinseltown in this entry in the series. They go so Father can attend an American Legion meeting....
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1939
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Too Busy to Work is not a remake of the 1932 Will Rogers film of the same name-but it is a partial remake of Rogers' 1935...
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John Jones
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1939
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A longtime fan of comedians George Burns and Gracie Allen, "Philo Vance" creator S. S. Van Dyne wrote a tailor-made...
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Uncle Jed
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1939
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Sonja Henie, the Norwegian skating star, reportedly played second fiddle to no one at Fox in the late '30s, and this...
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1939
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1939
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In this entry in the "Jones Family" comedy series, the Jones have just arrived from a Hollywood vacation when they receive a...
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John Jones
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1939
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Exile Express was the last film produced by Grand National Pictures, and a worthy farewell it was. Anna Sten, former Sam...
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Hanley
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1939
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1938
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Goddbye Broadway is wrapped up by two stage & screen veterans, Alice Brady and Charles Winninger. The stars play...
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1938
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In this entry in the Jones Family series of domestic comedies, the trouble begins when con artists attempt to convince Mayor...
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John Jones
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1938
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Down on the Farm was yet another entry in the seemingly endless saga of the Jones Family. The plot is set in motion when the...
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John Jones
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1938
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Louis Hayward plays an arrogant Cambridge student who emigrates to America and enrolls at the West Point. Hayward's superior...
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1938
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In this comedy a young girl dreams of becoming a Hollywood movie star. The plucky gal decides to grab the bull's horns one...
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1938
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20th Century-Fox's first "Jones Family" series entry for 1938 was the six-reel Love on a Budget. Back in their usual screen...
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John Jones
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1938
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This murder mystery is set behind-the-scenes of a radio station. the trouble begins when a hated cad of a sponsor is found...
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Jones
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1938
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The Jones Family heads to Gay Paree in celebration of the 25th wedding anniversary of Pa (Jed Prouty) and Ma (Spring...
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John Jones
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1938
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The Jones Family is at it again in Everybody's Baby, their first 1939 release (previewed in 1938). This time, the Joneses'...
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John Jones
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1938
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John Jones
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1937
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"Father" is British blowhard George Carney, a well-to-do cheese manufacturer. Despite his business savvy, Carney falls victim...
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1937
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The saga of the Jones Family continues in 1937's Borrowing Trouble. When Pa Jones's drugstore is robbed, the evidence points...
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John Jones
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1937
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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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Small Town Boy was the 33rd release from the burgeoning "B"-picture factory of Grand National Pictures. Stuart Erwin plays...
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Mr. Armstrong
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1937
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Alice Faye stars as aspiring playwright Judith Poe Wells. She falls in love with producer George Macrae (Don Ameche), which...
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1937
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In this, the final episode in the "Sophie Lang" trio of crime comedies, the incorrigible female crook is again a fugitive...
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1937
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In this comical murder mystery, three playwrights use $500 in advance money to get an apartment in which to write a mystery....
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1937
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Not a remake of the classic Laurel and Hardy 2-reel silent of the same name, Big Business was an early entry in 20th...
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John Jones
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1937
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Hoping to ape the success of Sol Lesser's Bobby Breen musicals, Republic Pictures fashioned Dangerous Holiday as a movie...
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Gifford
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1937
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In this entry in the Jones family series, the father decides to run for mayor. Unfortunately, his own son gets his campaign...
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John Jones
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1937
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The Ritz Brothers play three goofballs working their way through college by putting in time at a tailor shop. The college...
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1937
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In this tuneful programmer a singer, believing that her husband, a Marine pilot accused of treason, has died in the Pacific,...
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Charles Gorham
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1937
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This second entry in the "Jones Family" series finds Pa Jones (Jed Prouty) once again at loggerheads with his oldest son Jack...
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John Jones
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1936
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This musical satire parodies Southern living as it follows the exploits of a traveling medicine show that ends up on a...
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1936
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Otto Preminger was able to make his directorial debut on Under Your Spell solely because Darryl Zanuck couldn't care less...
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1936
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The cinematic saga of The Jones Family began modestly in 1936 with Every Saturday Night. Jed Prouty and Spring Byington star...
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Mr. Evers
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1936
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In this polished soap opera from MGM, Robert Taylor plays Chris Claybourne, a dedicated scientist researching a possible...
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1936
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Richard Dix is as stalwart and oaklike as ever in Special Investigator. Here he plays courtroom-movie cliche #22B: The...
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1936
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The first of 20th Century-Fox's college musicals, Pigskin Parade is also close to the best of them in musical terms -- though...
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1936
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Made with the full cooperation of the real-life Texas Rangers (who never met a publicity gimmick they didn't like), this...
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1936
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The quaint genetic theories of the 1930s are satirized in College Holiday. Dotty matron Mary Boland runs a ramshackle summer...
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1936
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In this children's movie, a feisty little orphan with high moral standards is literally imprisoned in a terrible orphanage....
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1936
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The rollicking Jones family buys a trailer and heads for Yosemite in this comedy. Along the way, the older children find...
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Mr. Jones
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1935
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Radio baritone Joe Morrison was being groomed for stardom by Paramount when he was top-billed in One Hour Late. Morrison is...
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1935
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The Black Sheep is professional gambler John Dugan (Edmund Lowe), who gets his kicks out of fleecing wealthy suckers during a...
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1935
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In this rollicking adaptation of Ring Lardner's short story, Joe E. Brown plays an ace baseball player whose insistence upon...
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1935
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Broadway producer George White, who was the title character of 1934's George White's Scandals, heads for Florida following...
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1935
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A best-selling nonfictional book of the 1920s provided the title for this Will Rogers vehicle. Rogers plays a small town...
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1935
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Hollywood Party was planned as a lavish, star-studded MGM musical titled Hollywood Revue of 1933. Under the...
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1934
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In this tepid melodrama, an aspiring writer and her boyfriend, a professional agitator head off to the Big Apple in search...
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1934
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In this tear-jerking adaptation of Louis Bromfield's novel A Good Woman, the title character stands tall in the face of small...
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1934
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1934
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Usually consigned to the supporting cast, eccentric comic actress ZaSu Pitts was occasionally rewarded with a leading role....
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1934
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1934
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1933
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1933
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Monogram's Skyway stars Ray Walker in his usual role as a brash troublemaker who can't hold down a job. This time he's a...
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1933
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Given a title like Jimmy and Sally, one might assume that this Fox production is another in the popular series of co-starring...
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E.W. Marlowe
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1933
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This drama is a compilation of stories occurring in the Empire State Building with the focus on topics such as bank...
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1932
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Very loosely based on Booth Tarkington's novel The Plutocrat, Business and Pleasure stars Will Rogers as Earl Tinker, a newly...
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1932
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1932
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1931
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1931
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1931
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William Wellman's Night Nurse survives as a potentially interesting but ultimately unsatisfying melodrama about a nurse...
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1931
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In this screwball comedy, Annabelle Leigh (Jeanette MacDonald) happily spends the $5,000 sent her each month by her husband,...
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1931
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Nancy Carroll brings a touch of freshness to the well-worn plot convolutions of Devil's Holiday. Ms. Carroll plays a...
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1930
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In this comedy, set during the 1900s, a Florodora girl slowly falls for a gentle millionaire. Songs include: "My Kind Of...
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1930
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Clara Bow's flat Brooklynese voice seems perfectly suited for the rowdy goings-on in True to the Navy. The "It" girl plays...
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1930
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In this lightweight musical comedy, an aspiring songwriter tries to make it big on Broadway. Later his uncle decides to show...
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1930
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The vaudeville and Broadway "sister act" of Vivien and Rosetta Duncan, best known for their characterizations of Eva and...
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Mr. David Parker
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1930
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In this drama, a traveling troupe of actors find themselves in danger of becoming unemployed when their manager up and...
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1929
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This landmark MGM backstage musical of the early sound era about broken dreams on the Great White Way features a bevy of...
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Uncle Jed
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1929
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Milton Sills, one of the silent era's great matinee idols, starred in this follow-up to his sound debut in the part-talkie...
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1929
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In this comedy, a businessman takes his client with a beautiful escort to a fancy nightclub where he plans to close an...
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Tom Ford, Sr.
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1929
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A custody battle for a little boy forms the basis of this domestic comedy, a talkie that is so early that title cards are...
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1929
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Taking Two Weeks Off for the first time in his life, plumber Dave Pickett (Jack Mulhall) spends his savings on a posh hotel...
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Harry
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1929
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Dixie Lee, best known to latter-day viewers as the first wife of Bing Crosby, essayed a leading role in the early Fox talkie...
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1929
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Sam Palmer
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1928
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Jonesy
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1928
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The Grain of Dust was based on the best-selling novel by David Graham Phillips. Lillian Walker plays Dorothy Hallowell, known...
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1928
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One of the most accessible of the Colleen Moore silent vehicles, Orchids and Ermine also happens to be among Moore's best and...
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1927
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1927
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1927
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1927
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Winsome Lois Wilson stars as The Gingham Girl in this cinemadaptation of the popular musical comedy of the same name. Wilson...
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1927
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All-purpose Columbia Pictures leading lady Dorothy Revier was teamed with newcomer Tom Owen in The Siren. When her car breaks...
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1927
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In this romantic silent adventure, a beautiful heiress goes to California for a visit and while there learns that her New...
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1926
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This sentimental comedy begins when four middle-aged actors jointly adopt an orphaned baby girl, raising her in a backstage...
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1926
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Famed concert pianist Johann Aradi (Lewis Stone) has earned a "Don Juan" reputation because of his love-'em-and-leave-'em...
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1926
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The publicity packet for The Mystery Club boasted an "all-star cast" -- which, by 1926 standards, it was. Nat Carr,...
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1926
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Lady of the Harem was based on Hassan, a play by James McElroy Flecker. It all begins when the Caliph of Kornassah (Sojin)...
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1926
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Silent film star Colleen Moore and Charlie Plumb's comic strip character Ella Cinders had two basic things in common: their...
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1926
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When he tears a ligament in his arm, light heavyweight champion Sandy Donlin (Milton Sills) is forced to take a break from...
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Mac
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1925
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Although this isn't one of her top pictures, Gloria Swanson was near the peak of her career when she made it. She's excellent...
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1925
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The Scarlet Sinner was based on The Mand Who Played Fidele by Gerald Beaumont. Heroine Fidele Tridon (Mary Astor) has grown...
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Anton Tridon
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1925
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Gus O'Rorick
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1925
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This clever comedy-drama was based on the famed stage play by Avery Hopwood. All the actors gave enjoyable performances, even...
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1923
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A now forgotten star of the later silent era, Sylvia Breamer took on the old David Belasco stage chestnut in this remake of...
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1923
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This comedy-melodrama, based on the novel by Rupert Hughes (who also directed), blends fiction and reality to tell the story...
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1923
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The Willard Mack stage play Kick In starred John Barrymore on Broadway and was made into a motion picture in 1917, with Ouida...
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1922
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In spite of the fact that George V. Hobart's play was merely a trite and overdone story parading as a moralistic allegory, it...
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1921
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This picture was a mediocre adaptation of the Booth Tarkington novel (which was filmed previously in 1916). Joe Louden...
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1921
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This light-hearted romance, released by Realart, stars Constance Binney. When her father is killed during a fox hunt, Lady...
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Robert Osborne
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1921
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Comedy was not the forte of great character actor Lionel Barrymore, and this picture, based on the novel by Arnold Bennett,...
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1921
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