This episode was filmed not long after astronaut Neil Armstrong's fabled "moon walk" in the summer of 1969. Gullible Lisa...
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Wilson
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1970
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Carl Reiner directed and co-wrote this comedy-drama which tells the tale of a silent screen comedian whose talent doesn't...
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1969
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1967
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Accidentally striking the Munster Koach, female motorist Mrs. Kingsley (Dorothy Green) takes one look at Herman (Fred Gwynne)...
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1966
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Can armed robbery help save a marriage? These and other questions about modern relationships are pondered in this comedy....
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1966
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Dr. Metcalf
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1966
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1965
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Bruce Yarnell makes his first appearance as the Cartwrights' cousin Muley from Missouri. "Blessed" with a singing voice that...
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1964
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1964
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Toward the end of Jerry Lewis's Paramount studio period, Lewis slapped together this bitter comedy about Hollywood phoniness...
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1964
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Politics and sports clash in this occasionally funny spoof centered around a downed U2 pilot and an extravagant oil sheik....
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1964
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This violent, gore-filled, effective horror tale by director Robert Gordon is about a totally wacko private zoo keeper,...
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Jeffrey Stengle
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1963
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Hoping to use a home-built cyclotron to create a fusion of silicone and cobalt in order to reactive his spaceship, Martin...
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1963
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Ira Levin wrote the stage comedy Critic's Choice as a good-natured retort to a comment made by critic Walter Kerr. In his...
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1962
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1961
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1961
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An unusual psychological drama for its time, Private Property by director Leslie Stevens revolves around a different kind of...
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Ed Hogate
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1960
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When a space alien's fascination with Earthlings gets the better of him, he breaks one of his planet's laws and speeds off to...
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1960
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Joe De Rita makes his debut as the third Stooge in this rollicking slapstick comedy that has the three bunglers accidentally...
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J.P. Morse
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1959
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Theatrical "angel" (and former gangster!) Frank Brooks (Stacy Harris) is charged with the murder of playwright Ernest Royce...
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1959
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Ida Lupino stars as Barbara Jean Trenton, a 1930s movie queen who refuses to admit that she's grown too old to play romantic...
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Jerry Herndon
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1959
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The much-despised Allan Sheridan (William J. Campbell) is going to need the $162,000 he is due to inherit: deeply in debt to...
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1959
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1957
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The System was one of several "exposé" films inspired by the Kefauver crime committee. The title refers to the manner in...
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1953
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1952
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Though made in 1951, Criminal Lawyer has the feel of a 1930s film, right down to the casting of Pat O'Brien in the lead. The...
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1951
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Evidently Monogram had high hopes for the modestly produced Disc Jockey, else why would the studio release the film through...
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1951
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The popular radio detective series The Fat Man was brought to the screen in 1951, with the series' original star J. Scott...
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1951
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In Ham Fisher's original Joe Palooka comic strip, Joe's pal Humphrey Pennyworth was a blimp of a man. In Joe Palooka Meets...
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Belden
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1950
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James Cagney delivers a vibrant performance as a down-on-his-luck Broadway musical director in The West Point Story,...
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1950
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When You're Smiling is distinguished by the presence of several top recording artists of 1950. The wafer-thin plotline...
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Herbert Reynolds
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1950
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With Dallas, Gary Cooper revived his long-dormant association with westerns. Cooper plays ex-Confederate officer Blayde...
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1950
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Peggy Brookfield (Diana Lynn) is one of many aspirants for the position of Queen of the annual Tournament of Roses in...
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1950
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The life of tragic jazz great Bix Beiderbecke is given the "a clef" treatment in Warner Bros. Young Man With a Horn. Kirk...
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1950
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1950
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The "Blondie" series reaches Number 25 with Blondie Hits the Jackpot. Fired for messing up an important contract, Dagwood...
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Radcliffe
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1949
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The hero of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead is Howard Roark (Gary Cooper), a fiercely independent architect obviously patterned...
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1949
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The Dore Schary regime at MGM brought a much-needed dose of stark realism to the venerable studio. Van Johnson sheds his...
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1949
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Ronald Reagan plays a George Petty-type magazine illustrator who creates a "perfect girl" from a composite of the features of...
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1949
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Milton Berle was enjoying the first flush of his television success when his musical-comedy movie vehicle Always Leave Them...
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1949
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Blondie's Big Deal was the 24th entry in Columbia's popular "Blondie" series. Since the actors were getting a bit too...
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George Radcliffe
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1949
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George Bradford
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1948
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In this comedy, two stepsisters fight for the love of the same man. One of the sisters is good-looking and vivacious. She is...
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1948
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June Bride is based on Feature for June, a play by Eileen Tighe and Graeme Lorimer. Bette Davis plays the businesslike editor...
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1948
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A man who dreams of seeing the future discovers the horrible burden that it can carry in this film noir suspense story....
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1948
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Radio humorist Henry Morgan made his film debut in So This is New York. Based on The Big Town, a collection of stories by...
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1948
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Mr. Radcliffe
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1948
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The long-running "Blondie" series was slowly heading into the homestretch when Blondie's Reward came out in 1948. After...
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1948
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Blondie opens a bakery in her home to help fill the family cookie jar in this entry in the long-running domestic comedy...
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1947
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Allan Dwan directs the family-oriented drama Driftwood, starring nine-year-old Natalie Wood. Orphan Jenny Hollingsworth...
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1947
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Blondie decides she wants to be a star and nearly turns her household upside down in this entry in the long-running domestic...
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1947
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This 20th entry in Columbia's long-running "Blondie" series finds poor Dagwood Bumstead (Arthur Lake) in financial trouble...
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George Radcliffe
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1947
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Blondie's Anniversary invades territory already mapped out by Columbia's two-reel Hugh Herbert comedies. Blondie...
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1947
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No relation to the 1935 Jean Harlow-Spencer Tracy vehicle of the same name, RKO Radio's Riff-Raff is an action-packed vehicle...
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Walter Gredson
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1947
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The tense psychological drama Cry Wolf offers a fascinating if not altogether successful change of pace for action star...
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Sen. Caldwell
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1947
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Though not readily apparent at first, The Unfaithful is a remake of the 1940 Bette Davis vehicle The Letter, which in turn...
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1947
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In this melodrama, a young juvenile delinquent convinces other teens to join his gang. The gang raids a warehouse and there...
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Weston
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1947
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Edmund Gwenn plays Kris Kringle, a bearded old gent who is the living image of Santa Claus. Serving as a last-minute...
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D.A. Thomas Mara
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1947
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Radio comedian Al Pearce heads the cast of Republic's One Exciting Week. Pearce is cast as wartime hero Dan Flannery, who...
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Al Carter
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1946
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Most of this Republic B-plus mystery yarn is set in a penthouse, next door to a music hall where a strange song-and-dance...
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1946
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In this comedy, a Chicago team of radio scriptwriters must split up when he takes a job with his bride-to-be's father, and...
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1946
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A woman struggling to rebuild her life becomes the victim of uncharitable rumors in this sudsy drama. After the recent death...
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1946
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Blondie Knows Best was writer/director Edward Bernds' first entry in the long-running "Blondie" series, and arguably his...
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1946
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1946
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In this crime drama, two crooks dupe their friend, a professional gambler, into nipping some important government documents....
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Lynch
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1946
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If Grecian storyteller Aesop really did exist, he was most likely a black slave. He wasn't an Austrian actor with an Egyptian...
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1946
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If the Perfect Marriage in this romantic comedy were truly perfect, there wouldn't be any story, would there? Outwardly an...
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1946
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Deadline at Dawn represented not only the sole film directorial effort of Broadway's Harold Clurman, but also the only...
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1946
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His movie career on a roll since the surprise success of 1946's Johnny Angel, George Raft was starred in the Benedict Bogeaus...
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Peter Craig
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1946
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1946
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In this low-budget espionage adventure, an ex-FBI agent is convinced by an active agent to help him find a stolen map...
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1946
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1946
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In this romantic comedy, set during WW II, an newlywed army couple are unable to consummate their marriage, as on their...
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Ace
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1945
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A Guest in the House is an involving psychological melodrama, well directed and acted, concerning a young woman's obsessive...
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1945
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1945
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Getting Gertie's Garter is an updated adaptation of the venerable stage farce by Wilson Collison and Avery Hopwood....
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1945
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Marital entanglements provide the basis for this drama. The trouble begins as a woman prepares to marry her fifth husband,...
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Jim Driscoll
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1945
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This Republic programmer stars Lynne Roberts as a country gal who is slickered by a couple of city-fied jewel thieves, played...
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Perry Borden
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1945
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In this drama, an aspiring playwright gets a job in a New York City restaurant favored by celebrities in hopes of getting a...
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Tony Riggs
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1945
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Warner Baxter makes his fourth appearance as Dr. Robert Ordway, criminal-turned-criminologist, in Crime Doctor's Courage....
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Jeffers Jerome
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1945
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An early low-budget spin on Ten Little Indians, this cheap but entertaining PRC production features a wonderful cast of...
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Kavanaugh
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1945
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1945
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Universal's yearly quota of cheap, 60-minute musicals occasionally yielded such likeable diversions as South of Dixie. David...
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Brains
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1944
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From a novel of the same name by "Elizabeth", the film begins in 1914, with Bette Davis cast as vain, flighty society woman...
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Edward Morrison
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1944
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In this mystery, a detective and his secretary go on vacation and end up solving a murder. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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Sam Campbell
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1944
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After years of faithful supporting-player service to Warner Bros., Jerome Cowan was rewarded with two starring vehicles, the...
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D.L. Trees
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1943
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1943
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This second entry in Columbia's "Crime Doctor" series once again stars Warner Baxter as Dr. Ordway, a former criminal turned...
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1943
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William Gargan and Margaret Lindsay, stars of Columbia's "Ellery Queen" series, were reunited for the like-minded...
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Eddie Moore
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1943
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During WW II, Universal cornered the market on "quickie" musicals, wrapping up songs, laughs and pretty girls in neat...
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1943
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The Song of Bernadette is a reverent recounting of the life of St. Bernadette of Lourdes. As a teen-aged peasant girl growing...
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1943
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This Roy Rogers musical western gets off to a grim start when rancher Jerry Johnson (Jerome Cowan) is murdered by...
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1943
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Updyke
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1943
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More so than most wartime films, Mission to Moscow must be viewed within the context of its times. Requested by President...
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1943
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In this drama, set during the gold-rush, an unsuccessful prospector prepares to leave Alaska. But first he has a grand,...
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Ravenhill
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1942
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Forced to flee Paris during the Occupation, the great French leading man Jean Gabin starred in a brace of Hollywood films,...
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Dr. Frank Brothers
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1942
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Universal contractee Irene Hervey, generally required to stand by the sidelines while the leading men did all the acting, was...
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Vince
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1942
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Cesar Romero plays an outwardly tough bookie with the proverbial golden heart. Romero falls in love with Carole Landis, an...
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1942
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Thru Different Eyes is a remake of the 1929 film of the same name. The original was hailed for its creative use of sound and...
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1942
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Bill Diedrich
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1942
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The sure-fire combination of Judy Canova and Joe E. Brown paid off in big laughs and excellent box-office returns in the...
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Phillip Munson
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1942
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1942
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"Mr. and Mrs. North" started as a series of comic articles about a Park Avenue married couple, written by Richard and Frances...
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1941
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The Great Lie is Soap Opera Deluxe from Bette Davis' peak period at Warner Bros. Davis plays a socialite who is madly in love...
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1941
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Out of the Fog is the film version of the Irwin Shaw play The Gentle People, refashioned to mollify the Hollywood censors by...
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1941
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Author Hartzell Spence's popular biography of his preacher father was the source for One Foot in Heaven. Fredric March stars...
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1941
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Originally written as a stage vehicle for corpulent character actor Macklyn Arbuckle, Ernest Day's The Roundup was first...
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1941
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Maintaining Republic Pictures' early-1940s predilection for corny, antiquated titles, Rags to Riches made its national debut...
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1941
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After two previous film versions of Dashiell Hammett's detective classic The Maltese Falcon, Warner Bros. finally got it...
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1941
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This remake of Dangerous is set in Singapore and chronicles the exploits of a woman who believes herself cursed. To recover,...
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Jim North
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1941
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Bert Fisher
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1941
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Affectionately Yours offers the spectacle of glamorous Merle Oberon and gorgeous Rita Hayworth jockeying for the best camera...
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1941
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One wonders if the title Too Many Blondes was inspired by the well-publicized romantic peccadilloes of the film's star, Rudy...
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Ted Bronson
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1941
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Kisses for Breakfast is a dumbed-down remake of the 1930 marital comedy The Matrimonial Bed, itself based on a British stage...
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Lucius Lorimer
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1941
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By 1941, Wallace Beery was pretty much confined to playing two characters: The reprobate with the heart of gold, or the...
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1941
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1941
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In this musical, a sharp witted press agent teams up with an unemployed chorine and dubs her "Miss Manhattan" to promote a...
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Ted Carter
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1940
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Beautifully restored to its original theatrical length of 84 minutes by the Gene Autry Foundation, Melody Ranch is a bright,...
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1940
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In this crime drama, a brilliant lawyer is renowned for getting guilty-as-sin-but-powerful crime figures acquitted. He has...
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Cosgrave
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1940
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In this drama, a transient farm worker suffering from amnesia gets in trouble with the cops. One day he drifts into a town,...
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1940
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Reporter Albertson works to solve a murder case in order to clear his name and get a great story for his paper. ~ Rovi...
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Monty de Granville
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1940
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This mistaken-identity concoction takes place on a college campus--a familiar locale for Paramount B-pictures. Wayne Morris...
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1940
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There are three key characters in Anatole Litvak's filmization of Aben Kandel's novel City for Conquest, as opposed to the...
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1940
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1940
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Ralph Bellamy and Margaret Lindsay, stars of Columbia's "Ellery Queen" series, let their hair down and went "screwball" in...
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Digby Vanderhood
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1940
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Ed Crowley
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1940
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Victory was the first of Joseph Conrad's novels to be adapted to film, way back in 1919. The earliest talkie version,...
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Ricardo
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1940
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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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Paul Brandt
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1939
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Dorothy Lamour had been playing "sarong girls" long enough to parody her screen character in 1939's Best of the Blues. Tired...
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Ivan DeBrett
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1939
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This comedy is set in New York and centers upon a singing Irish cop who causes quite a sensation among two producers when he...
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Bob
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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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In his last film assignment, portly Walter Connolly fills the title role (in more ways than one) in The Great Victor Herbert....
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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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1939
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The Saint Strikes Back was the second in the series of films featuring Simon Templay, better known as The Saint, and the...
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Cullis
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1939
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Bing Crosby plays a tune-happy cab driver who finds himself the reluctant recipient of an abandoned baby. Together with his...
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1939
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Capitalizing on the success of MGM's Thin Man series, virtually every major studio of the 1930s came up with its own...
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Nick Shane
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1938
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A longtime admirer of Broadway impresario Flo Ziegfeld, Hollywood producer Sam Goldwyn hoped to emulate the success of...
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1938
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Archetypal depression-era stars Henry Fonda and Sylvia Sidney are felicitously teamed in Fritz Lang's You Only Live Once....
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1937
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The seventh of RKO's Fred Astaire--Ginger Rogers musicals, Shall We Dance casts Astaire as a world-renowned ballet dancer and...
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Arthur Miller--Linda's Manager
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1937
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An early Technicolor musical that concentrates on the fashions of the late 1930s, this film was reissued under the title All...
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1937
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Framed in a flashback related by doctor Thomas Mitchell, The Hurricane is in essence the story of a struggle between...
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1937
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New Faces of 1937 was supposed to be the vanguard of a series of annual musical comedies -- RKO Radio's latest attempt to...
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1937
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This lavishly appointed Sam Goldwyn soap opera is set in Ireland during "the troubles." Irish rebel leader Dennis Reardon...
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O'Rourke
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1936
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