Esther Williams stars in this button-cute musical about a health-conscious family of swimmers who fall in with con man Windy...
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1953
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Warner Bros. made good use of its backlog of Harry Warren/Al Dubin tunes in its 1951 Doris Day musical Lullaby of Broadway....
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1951
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Though one might have expected friction between MGM's resident "nice lady" Greer Garson and Warner Bros. notorious "bad boy"...
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1949
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In this film noir drama, Bill Saunders (Burt Lancaster) is a former Prisoner of War living in England whose experiences have...
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1948
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Monogram's Jiggs and Maggie in Society was the second entry in the series based on the George McManus comic strip "Bringing...
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McGurk
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1948
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1948
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A Cornell Woolrich novel was the source for the variable Monogram melodrama I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes. The plot refers to...
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Tramp
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1948
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Lucille Ball is an American taxi-dancer living in London whose roommate has disappeared. The missing girl had left to answer...
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1947
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Alan Ladd stars in Calcutta as devil-may-care pilot Neale Gordon. With his equally fearless partners Pedro Blake...
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1947
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Mr. Hex was the first Bowery Boys epic in which the goofy Sach (Huntz Hall) is given superhuman powers. Hypnotized by a...
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Waiter
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1946
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Two secret agents must somehow prevent a group of post WW II Nazis hiding in the Hartz mountains from successfully making an...
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1946
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In his final starring Western for PRC, Bob Steele plays Jim Brandon who is imprisoned for a bank robbery and murder he didn't...
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1946
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Officially released one month before PRC's "Billy the Kid" entry Prairie Badmen, Ghost of Hidden Valley, another...
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1946
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Set in turn-of-the century London, this period thriller stars Laird Cregar as George Harvey Bone, a composer who suffers from...
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1945
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Law of the Saddle stars Bob Livingston as Rocky Cameron, aka "The Lone Rider". With his sidekick Fuzzy Q. Jones (Al St. John...
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1945
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It is altogether typical of Republic Pictures that the studio's 1945 horror effort The Vampire's Ghost was interrupted...
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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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A "Texas Rangers" series entry from PRC, this low budget western features Dave "Tex" O'Brien as a stranger in town...
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1944
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The Lodger was the third film version of Mrs. Marie Belloc-Lowndes' classic "Jack the Ripper" novel, and in many eyes it was...
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1944
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Serial killers are on the loose in this "Lone Rider" entry from PRC reportedly based on the exploits of a real-life 1870s...
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1944
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Trail of Terror is a PRC Studios western starring Dave O'Brien (here billed as Dave "Tex" O'Brien) and Jim Newell. Texas...
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1944
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Buster Crabbe essays a dual role in the PRC horse opera The Drifter. Crabbe is seen in his usual guise as dogooder Billy...
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1944
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No, the "Pinto Bandit" doesn't go around stealing beans. This is another of PRC's "Texas Rangers" series, starring...
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1944
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An utterly enchanting Technicolor filmization of Mary O'Hara's novel, My Friend Flicka is the story of a beautiful colt and...
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1943
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Wild Horse Rustlers was PRC's 1943 entry in the "Nazis on the prairie" western cycle. Hero Tom Cameron (Bob Livingston)...
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1943
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That favorite old B-Western menace Charles King is at it again in Raiders of Red Gap, the last of PRC's "Lone Rider" Westerns...
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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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The Fighting Valley is another of PRC's "Texas Rangers" westerns, with Dave O'Brien, Jim Newell and Guy Wilkerson as the...
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1943
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The Triangle W Ranch is indeed haunted in this Monogram Range Busters series entry, though not by the spirit of the late...
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1943
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This drama chronicles the extreme measures taken by a determined young crime reporter to get an interview with a notorious...
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1942
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This wartime weeper could just as well have been titled Stardom for Margaret, inasmuch as it solidified the popularity of...
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1942
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When the order of the Western frontier is threatened by bandits, cowboys are the only measure of justice in the area. ~ Rovi...
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1942
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Here's another entry in PRC's long-running "Billy the Kid" series, again starring Buster Crabbe as Billy Carson and...
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1942
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Even those film buffs who derive pleasure from the output of poverty-row PRC Pictures are hard put to say anything nice about...
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1941
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Before changing his name to Richard Powers, cowboy hero Tom Keene spent the waning days of his stardom at Monogram, churning...
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1941
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In this remake of the 1930 film of the same name, a bank robber suffers a war wound and undergoes plastic surgery. Upon his...
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1941
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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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In his penultimate Western for low-budget company Metropolitan, Bob Steele's horse Pirate, "one of the finest Arabian...
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1940
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A semi-sequel to the 1933 Universal horror masterwork The Invisible Man, The Invisible Man Returns stars Vincent Price in the...
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1940
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In his final Western for Poverty Row's Metropolitan Pictures, Bob Steele played Bob Hall, a lawman looking into a series of...
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1940
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Charlie Chan in Panama was the first entry in the "Chan" series to capitalize on WW2. Sidney Toler stars as the wily oriental...
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1940
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Carl Krusada (aka Val Cleveland) was credited with the screenplay for this typically inferior Jack Randall oater from Poverty...
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1940
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The schizophrenic screenplay of The Earl of Chicago is rendered even more bizarre by the uneven performance by Robert...
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1940
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At the end of his long association with Hal Roach, comedian Stan Laurel produced three singing Westerns featuring operatic...
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1939
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The third of eight Bob Steele Westerns produced by bargain-basement company Metropolitan, Mesquite Buckaroo was a slight...
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1939
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Tim McCoy once again played Department of Justice agent "Lightning Bill" Carson in Code of the Cactus, and once again he...
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1939
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Originally filmed in Sepiatone, Let Freedom Ring is a satisfying Nelson Eddy musical with patriotic overtones. Set in the...
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1939
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1939
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In all aspects a mediocre B-Western, Smoky Trails once again trotted out the old story of a young man pretending to join a...
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1939
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The seventh of thirteen singing Westerns to star former opera baritone Fred Scott, The Ranger's Roundup was also the first of...
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1938
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West of Rainbow's End was one of two Tim McCoy westerns directed by Monogram Pictures workhorse Alan James. Returning to the...
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1938
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Singing cowboy Jack Randall does his usual in Monogram's Danger Valley, Randall's second starring film. When someone...
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1938
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The Fred Scott musical westerns were high in audience appeal, but invariably handicapped with syrupy titles like Moonlight on...
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1937
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Each of Bob Allen's six westerns for Columbia had the words "Ranger" or "Range" in the title, and Law of the Ranger was no...
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1937
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In trying to help Betsy (Joan Barclay), who has stolen a diamond her father left for collateral with loan sharks Crone...
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Armand
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1937
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A golddigger finds that romance doesn't always equal finance in this comedy. Crystal Wetherby (Jean Harlow) is an American...
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1937
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The third of six Rex Bell Westerns produced by the Alexander brothers, Arthur and Max, The Idaho Kid was the first to be...
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1937
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Produced by Sam Katzman's Victory Pictures, $1,000,000 Racket stars Katzman's biggest "name," ex-Olympic athlete Herman Brix....
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1937
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Directed by William Berke (under the pseudonym of "Lester Williams"), Gun Grit was the last of four above-average B-Western...
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1936
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Although slow-moving at times, Aces and Eights is nevertheless a fine little Western and certainly the best of the ten Tim...
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Lucky
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1936
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The second-to-last Rex Bell Western for Poverty Row producers Max and Arthur Alexander, Stormy Trails was the only entry not...
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1936
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1936
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1936
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In this romantic mystery, based on the beloved characters of P.G. Wodehouse, the ever-impeccable, unflappable butler Jeeves...
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1936
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Directed by the veteran Robert F. Hill -- who also wrote the screenplay under the pseudonym of Rock Hawkey -- this Rex Bell...
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1936
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The first of nine Bill Carson Westerns produced by Sigmund Neufeld and starring the stalwart Tim McCoy, Lightnin' Bill Carson...
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1936
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Silent screen juvenile Lloyd Hughes, who once starred opposite Mary Pickford, found himself headlining this ultra-low-budget...
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1936
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A coarse cowboy is heralded as a fast-draw gunslinger in this western film. ~ Rovi...
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1936
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Make a Million stars Charles Starrett in one of his last non-western roles, as idealistic college professor Jones. Because of...
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1935
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This B-grade western from director Robert Emmett Tansey stars Bobby Nelson, Jimmy Aubrey and William Desmond, in its tale of...
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1935
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The Mounties get their man in this adventure. This time they enlist the aid of Captain Dog and Dynamite the Horse to destroy...
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1935
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1935
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It is a tale known well, filmed many times over the years, but never better than this early black and white version from the...
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1935
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Former silent-screen leading man Ralph Forbes makes the best of his B-picture surroundings in Empire Productions'...
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1935
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In this romantic comedy, Marilyn David (Claudette Colbert) is a stenographer who has become good friends with Peter Dawes...
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1935
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A streamlined, fast-paced silent B-Western, this Tom Tyler vehicle was one of several oaters featuring a very young, still...
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1935
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1935
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Although released as an "Allied Pictures Special," Picture Brides revealed its Poverty Row origins in almost all departments,...
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1934
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1934
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Having starred in two earlier Westerns produced by Harry S. Webb, Tom Tyler signed with Webb's new company Reliable, where...
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1934
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In his first of thirty-two B-Westerns for producer A.W. Hackel, bantamweight Bob Steele plays Bob Worth, a cowboy seeking...
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1934
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According to legend, B-movie star Blanche Mehaffey valiantly but unsuccessfully attempted to keep her old potboilers out of...
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1934
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Lodge members Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy take a solemn oath to attend the 80th-annual Sons of the Desert Convention (read:...
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1933
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In this sea-going thriller, an unsavory seaman, working on a cargo ship bound for Singapore, enlists the aid of another and...
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1932
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In this romantic crime drama, a railroad telegraph dispatcher loses his job after a train crash. He tries to convince his...
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1931
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Yet another little indiscretion from Gower Gulch producer Robert J. Horner, this no-budget Western starred former silent...
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1931
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An innocent cowboy is once again suspected of a crime he didn't commit in The Lonesome Trail, an obscure early talkie western...
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Tenderfoot
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1930
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No one suffered more magnificently in the early-talkie era than the inimitable Helen Twelvetrees. In Grand Parade, the...
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1930
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Poverty row company Syndicate released this early sound western starring silent-screen refugee Mahlon Hamilton as a reformed...
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1930
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Japanese actor Sojin delivers yet another villainous characterization in the cheaply produced melodrama China Slaver. The...
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1929
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1929
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1922 WAMPAS Baby Star Jacqueline Logan starred in this mystery drama as Dixie Mowbray, a young girl fleeing from a mysterious...
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1928
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Produced by poverty row company Mayfair and directed by Arthur Hotaling, a hold-over from the early silent era, this obscure...
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1928
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The Little Wild Girl is hoydenish French-Canadian lass Marie Celeste (Lila Lee). Assuming that her sweetheart Jules...
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1928
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1928
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1928
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1928
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Jeff Oldring
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1927
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William Fairbanks couldn't hope to convince audiences that he was in the same league as his namesame Douglas Fairbanks. Even...
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1927
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1927
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George O'Hara was never a big star, but he was a good, reliable "bread-and-butter" performer for small but wiry FBO Pictures....
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1927
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1926
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1926
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Beaney Mulligan
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1926
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Reed Howes, the original Arrow Collar man (or so his publicity claimed), stars in The Bashful Buccaneer. Howes plays a writer...
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1925
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This two-reel comedy starring Jimmy Aubrey was shot on location at a Ventura farm, 60 miles north of Vitagraph's studio in...
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The Nuisance
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1921
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The Tourist
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1921
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Vitagraph shot a number of comedian Jimmy Aubrey's two-reelers on location. This one was filmed in Truckee, in northern...
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The Sleeper
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1921
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Mr. Bolts
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1920
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Tramp
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1920
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This two-reel comedy Western from second-tier comedian Jimmy Aubrey features a surprise ending. Aubrey is a prospector who...
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New Sheriff
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1920
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Although this Jimmy Aubrey comedy was shot on Catalina Island, all that is ever really seen of the lovely surroundings is the...
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Tourist
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1920
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An Outcast
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1920
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Park Janitor
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1920
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This two-reel comedy is one of Vitagraph's more amusing vehicles for their second-string comic Jimmy Aubrey (their...
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New Repairman
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1920
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In this two-reel comedy, Jimmy Aubrey's character is referred to as merely "a social error." Down-and-out, Jimmy lusts after...
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A Social Error
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1920
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As usual, this Jimmy Aubrey comedy makes little sense, but it contains a lot of gags. Jimmy is a dentist's assistant who...
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Dentist's Assistant
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1920
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Comedian Jimmy Aubrey thwarts a Spanish revolution in this two-reel Vitagraph comedy. The favorite toreador (Oliver Hardy) of...
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The Mysterious Stranger
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1920
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The plot to many of the films Jimmy Aubrey made are interchangeable, with Aubrey constantly getting on the nerves of...
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Interior Decorator
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1920
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Because he was Vitagraph's second-string comic, Jimmy Aubrey was forced to film a lot of his comedies out of doors (the...
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1920
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In the 1910s, comedy filmmakers had a fondness for alliterative titles, and that was never more apparent than in the...
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Quincy
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1919
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Jimmy Aubrey is upstaged by a monkey in this two-reel comedy. Aubrey plays the assistant to Strongarm, the local blacksmith...
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Jim
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1919
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Comedian Jimmy Aubrey's films tried to make up in gags what they lacked in originality, but this particular two-reeler has...
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Jimmy
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1919
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Jimmy
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1919
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Because comedian Larry Semon had a bad habit of running over budget, Vitagraph had no choice but to offer his films at a...
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Husband
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1919
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Although it is widely assumed that Oliver Hardy had no desire to work behind the camera and left the offscreen creative tasks...
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The Rummy Romeo
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1919
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Jimmy Aubrey's films for Vitagraph were the studio's lower-budget offerings (their other comic, Larry Semon, had a bad habit...
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Jimmy
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1919
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Before he teamed up with Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy co-starred with a number of other comedians. Often he was more talented...
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Jimmy
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1919
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While most Jimmy Aubrey films didn't spend much time developing a plot, this two-reeler makes even less sense than the...
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Janitor
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1919
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This particular Jimmy Aubrey comedy actually has some sort of cohesive story line. Helping the laughs along (as he did in the...
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James
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1919
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Jimmy Aubrey -- Vitagraph's low-rent answer to their star comedian, Larry Semon -- starred in this two-reel knockoff of...
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Jimmy
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1919
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