Edgar G. Ulmer was one of the most fascinating figures of Hollywood's Golden Age. While Ulmer directed the occasional...
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2005
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1994
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Though there's no love lost between Jim Rockford (James Garner) and fellow ex-convict "Joey Blue Eyes" DiMinna (Michael...
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1976
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In this exciting adventure, the residents of a remote California community grow tired of having their lives disrupted by...
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1976
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The third and final TV-movie in the "Joshua Cabe" saga, this ABC effort stars John McIntire as rascally...
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1976
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Ellery Queen (also known as Too Many Suspects) was the 78-minute pilot film for a TV series based on the fictional...
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1975
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Former B-western leading man Donald Barry guest stars as Charlie Bishop, an ex-convict who has ended up on skid row. Relaying...
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1974
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Jim (James Garner) is understandably confused when a woman (Joan Van Ark) identifying herself as Florence Baker hires him to...
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1974
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Investigating a missing-child report, officers Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) and Jim Reed (Kent McCord) expose an illegal...
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1972
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The Old West is just not the same, what with so few cattle being run, and law-abiding folk running around like they own...
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1971
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Famed anonymous director Alan Smithee (in this case a hybrid of Richard Totten and Don Siegel), directed this turgid western...
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1969
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When the skeleton of a shooting victim is unearthed by the Feds, Mafia functionary John Duqesne (a pre-superstardom Burt...
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1968
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After speculating on the possibility that a person can travel back in time and change history, Peter Corrigan...
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1961
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The title character in this standard comedy about the foibles of military life is Archie Hall (Robert Mitchum), a puffed-up...
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1961
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In this romantic melodrama, a light-skinned black woman abandons her family to pretend that she is white. She soon marries a...
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1960
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A curious "gimmick" movie in the William Castle tradition (though not itself a Castle project), screenings of this film...
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1960
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Developing a hankerin' for Bart Maverick (Jack Kelly), wealthy young widow Belle Morgan (Julie Adams) arranges it so Bart can...
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1959
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In this crime thriller a young woman marries a wealthy vintner. Soon afterward, she falls in love with a handsome rodeo...
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1957
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Former "Henry Aldrich" James Lydon is cast against type as a mean-spirited reform school alumnus in Chain of Evidence....
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1957
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Produced by low-budget maven Bryan Foy, Battle Stations is a standard wartime melodrama with the usual assortment of cliches....
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1956
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1956
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The third of four Wayne Morris B-westerns for Allied Artists, Desperado casts Morris as fugitive gunman Sam Garrett. The...
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Tall Cameron
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1954
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In this low-budget but nostalgic sci-fi movie based on an early live television show about space cadets, courageous Rocky...
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1954
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Rocky Jones, Space Ranger was an action/adventure television show of the early '50s that followed the trials and tribulations...
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1953
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During World War II, a Military Air Transport Command DC-3 piloted by a civilian crew is forced down in northern Labrador....
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1953
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Gasoline Alley was based on Frank King's popular comic strip of the same name. The strip's central characters, service...
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Skeezix
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1951
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Corky of Gasoline Alley was the second and last Columbia "B"-picture inspired by Frank King's popular comic strip Gasoline...
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Skeezix
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1951
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Oh! Susanna is a "big" western by Republic standards, decked out with lavish production values and an extended running time...
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1951
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Destination Big House is a well directed Republic Programmer starring Dorothy Patrick as a vacationing schoolteacher....
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Fred Brooks
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1950
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The postwar hot-rod craze spawned a whole new movie subgenre. This Monogram entry, titled simply Hot Rod, stars Jimmy Lydon...
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David Longhorn
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1950
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With location scenes lensed in Italy, September Affair is consistently good to look at, even when the pacing flags and the...
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1950
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Junior Bunker
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1950
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A rare comedy from director John Ford, this story about a WWII soldier trying to gain some respect is based on the published...
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Charles Fettles
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1950
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1950
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Former "Henry Aldrich" Jimmy Lydon had matured into a capable leading man by the time Tucson went before the cameras. Lydon...
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Andy Bryant
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1949
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In 1947, Variety Clubs International, a showbiz charitable organization, was responsible for the frothy musical Variety Girl....
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1949
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The "B"-picture unit at 20th Century-Fox was slowly being phased out when Miss Mink of 1949 was produced. Lois Collier heads...
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Joe Forrester
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1949
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Tom Shaw
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1948
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Pierre D'Arc
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1948
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After turning down several other Hollywood producers, playwright William Saroyan sold the film rights of his whimsical...
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1948
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Former "Henry Aldrich" James Lydon acquits himself nicely in a serious role in Republic's Out of the Storm. Lydon plays...
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Donald Lewis
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1948
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Fifteen-year-old Elizabeth Taylor receives her first screen kiss in the innocuous MGM confection Cynthia. Taylor plays the...
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1947
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1947
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The longest-running non-musical play in Broadway history, Life With Father was faithfully filmed by Warner Bros. in 1947....
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1947
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1946
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The little-known Twice Blessed was an MGM vehicle for the Wilde Twins, who were first introduced in...
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1945
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In this romantic comedy, two warring neighbors are aghast when their respective daughter and son fall in love and plan to...
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Bob Harrison
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1945
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Strange Illusion is really several movies in one, part dark psychological chiller, part unsettling murder mystery, and part...
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1945
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Paramount's "Henry Aldrich" series came to a quiet conclusion with 1944's Henry Aldrich's Little Secret. The titular secret...
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Henry Aldrich
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1944
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A druggist's pretty assistance ignores the call of the bright lights and audience that runs in the veins of her show biz...
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Johnny McCloud
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1944
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This was the seventh entry in Paramount's "Henry Aldrich" series, and there were still two more to come. Per the title,...
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Henry Aldrich
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1944
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In this drama, a young couple ignores the advice of their elders and get married. Soon afterward, the young groom is...
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Ted Benson
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1944
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Bumbling high schooler Henry Aldrich (Jimmy Lydon) finds himself in hot water once more when he offends school principal Mr....
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Henry Aldrich
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1944
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A wounded aerial gunner tells his story in this wartime propaganda film. He begins with his recruitment and basic training...
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Sandy Lunt
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1943
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Henry's friends think he's a coward because he refuses to fight a local bully, but his reason for refusing had more to do...
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Henry Aldrich
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1943
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For this entry in the popular Henry Aldrich series, bumbling typical high school student Henry (Jimmy Lydon) catches sight of...
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Henry Aldrich
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1943
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Star-Spangled Rhythm is a typical wartime all-star musical-comedy melange, this time from Paramount Pictures. The slender...
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1942
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Adenoidal teenager Henry Aldrich (James Lydon) "gets glamour" when he wins first prize in a movie-magazine contest. Before he...
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Henry Aldrich
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1942
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With The Mad Martindales, the eight-year association between 20th Century-Fox and child star Jane Withers came to an end....
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Bobby
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1942
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Regarded by many aficionados as the best of the "Henry Aldrich" series, Henry Aldrich, Editor is a master blend of laughs and...
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1942
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James Lydon makes his second screen appearance as "typical" teenager Henry Aldrich in Henry and Dizzy. The plot complications...
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Henry Aldrich
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1942
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1942
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In this drama a military cadet must demonstrate his courage to quell accusations of cowardice. His friend assists him. ~...
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1942
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Three of Hollywood's best child actors-Freddie Bartholomew, Jimmy Lydon and Billy Cook-join forces in Columbia's Naval...
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Tommy Blake
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1941
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Henry Aldrich for President was the second of Paramount's "Henry Aldrich" series to star Jimmy Lydon in the teenaged title...
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1941
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Sock Dolan
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1940
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Little Men, Louisa May Alcott's followup to her successful novel Little Women, has never truly adapted well to the screen,...
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Dan
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1940
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This Victorian-era drama is based upon the classic novel by Thomas Hughes. It follows the exploits of a young boy forced to...
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Tom Brown
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1940
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Few promotional films have received such wide circulation, and for so long a period, as 1939's Middleton Family at the NY...
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Bud
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1939
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The thoroughbreds invoked by the title are a stray colt and the teenaged boy (Jimmy Lydon) who raises the animal. Despite the...
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1939
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William K. Howard, a once-prestigious director fallen on hard times in 1939, proved that he still had the "right stuff" with...
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1939
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