Just as Edgar C. Ulmer would at PRC around the same time, young Phil Karlson turned Monogram's almost nonexistent production...
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Paula Webb
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1945
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In this WW II-era drama set in a small town, most of the adults are so busy fighting the war or working in the local defense...
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1944
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In this musical comedy, a pair of small-potatoes performers try to make it to the big-time after winning an amateur talent...
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1944
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In this adventure the young lively daughter of wealthy Virginia parents bridles under the stern tutelage of her new English...
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1944
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The murder of a wealthy, much-married rancher (Lyle Talbot) in a posh Manhattan nightclub is the catalyst for The Falcon Out...
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Mrs. Irwin
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1944
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RKO brought its "Mexican Spitfire" saga to a close with the eighth film in the series, Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event. Lupe...
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1943
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In this '40s film Kay Kyser parades an entertainment group all over the globe providing laughs for the boys in battle. This...
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1943
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Tom Conway makes his second appearance as amateur sleuth Tom Lawrence, aka "The Falcon", in RKO Radio's The Falcon Strikes...
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1943
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In this entry, the detective must find two missing industrialists. They and $100,000 suddenly vanished while flying in a...
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1943
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A young buckaroo gallops off after the conniving crooks who framed his bank president daddy for embezzlement. Plenty of...
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1943
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In this comedy, Gildersleeve is assigned to be a contentious jury foreman who refuses, despite the opinions of all the other...
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1943
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Connie
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1943
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1943
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Written by Dudley Nichols and directed by French expatriate director Jean Renoir, This Land is Mine is one of those...
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1943
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1943
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A courageous cowboy dons the guise of a Texas Ranger to keep murderous cattle rustlers from harming a beautiful young woman,...
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1942
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In this "East Side Kids" escapade (the eighth in the series), the gang, led by Muggs McGinniss (Leo Gorcey), help a man load...
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1942
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After an opening scene at a Washington DC cocktail party where it is demonstrated that "loose lips sink ships", the plot...
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Alice Saunders
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1942
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Despite the typical Monogram drawbacks -- murky photography, stolid staging, ramshackle sets -- The Corpse Vanishes remains...
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1942
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1942
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Mugs McGinniss (Leo Gorcey), top dog of the East Side Kids, takes a job at an airplane plant. Here he grows suspicious of Dr....
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1941
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MGM's The Trial of Mary Dugan was based on the popular stage play by Bayard Vellier, previously filmed as a Norma Shearer...
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1941
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William Powell and Myrna Loy re-team for this (literally) crazy screwball comedy about a happily married couple who, thanks...
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1941
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Small-but-wiry Bob Steele plays the title role in the PRC western Billy the Kid's Range War. Once again rewriting history,...
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Ellen
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1941
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All that MGM's Ziegfeld Girl lacks is Technicolor; otherwise, the film has talent and "sock" entertainment value in...
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1941
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Though not the best of the Fred Astaire musicals, Second Chorus is the most easily accessible thanks to its current...
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1940
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Monogram hoped that The Gentleman From Arizona would be their "prestige" release for 1940, and to that end the film was...
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Georgie
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1940
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Radio crooner Tex Fletcher was given a one-time-only chance at western stardom in Grand National's Six-Gun Rhythm. The plot...
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Jean
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1939
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Tall-in-the-saddle Tim McCoy essays a dual role in the low-budget western Outlaw's Paradise. As luck would have it,...
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Jessie
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1939
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In this exciting western, a mysterious masked hero helps tired settlers protect their lands from the wicked land-grabbers....
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Molly
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1939
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Monogram's seemingly endless series of inexpensive crime mellers continued with Convict's Code. Robert Kent plays a star...
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1939
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Ticket buyers got two Tim McCoys for the price of one with this low-budget Western, one of McCoy's eight Lightning Bill...
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1939
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Contrary to popular belief, the Nelson Eddy-Jeanette MacDonald Technicolor confection Sweethearts is not based on the 1913...
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1938
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The first of six Ken Maynard Westerns produced on the cheap by the Alexander brothers, Max and Arthur, Whirlwind Horseman...
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Peggy Radford
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1938
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When a man is blamed for murder and thievery, his lawman uncle chases after him. ~ Rovi...
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1938
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The Three Mesquiteers ride again in the economical Republic sagebrusher Purple Vigilantes. The Mesquiteers in question are...
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Jean
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1938
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In Two Gun Justice, Tim McCoy indulges in one of his favorite cinematic pastimes: Posing as a suave Mexican bandit, complete...
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Nancy
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1938
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One thing was always certain in Columbia's Jack Luden westerns: the supporting cast would include Hal Taliaferro, or...
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Alice
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1938
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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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Molly Henessey
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1937
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Silver-haired silent film leading man Herbert Rawlinson plays Scotland Yard inspector Sir James Blake in this 15-episode...
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1937
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There are those western fans who feel that cowboy star Tom Keene did better work at low-budget Crescent Pictures than he ever...
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Lucy Strong
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1937
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Filmed on a microscopic budget, the independently-produced Island Captives is purportedly set in the South Seas (though it...
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Helen Carsons
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1937
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An heiress on the lam, a federal agent on a mission to catch a gang of mail thieves, and Hattie McDaniel are the main...
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1937
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Though A.W. Hackel's Supreme Pictures went belly-up in 1936, he continued grinding out his popular Bob Steele westerns,...
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Betty
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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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Betsy
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1937
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In this western, a singing outlaw and a US marshal kill each other in a fight. Their demise is witnessed by an opportunistic...
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Joan McClain
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1937
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Filmed in rapid succession over an 18-month period, the 19 Tom Tyler westerns for Reliable Productions tend to look alike at...
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1937
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Veteran silent screen star William Farnum earns one of his more prominent talking picture roles in this otherwise standard...
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1936
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An existing production still for the Kermit Maynard "northern" Phantom Patrol pretty much sums up the outcome of the plot....
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1936
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1936
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The second of six generally well-made Rex Bell Westerns produced on the cheap by Gower Gulch company Colony Pictures, West of...
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Helen Haldain
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1936
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Prison Shadows was put together by the Mercury Productions division of Puritan Pictures, the same folks responsible for the...
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Mary Grant
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1936
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Tom Tyler stars in the B-Western Ridin' On as ranch hand Tom Rork. His family becomes involved in a feud with the neighboring...
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1936
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Musical comedy star Eddie Cantor stars in this story, well suited to his talents, as Eddie Pink, a meek gentleman who works...
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1936
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Produced for around 10,000 dollars by Gower Gulch entrepreneur Arthur Alexander, this the fourth of six Rex Bell Westerns was...
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Laura
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1936
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Notorious Hollywood tightwad Sam Katzman's first serial, Shadow of Chinatown stars Bela Lugosi as Victor Poten, a Eurasian...
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1936
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Neither the best nor worst of Hoot Gibson's westerns for producer Walter Futter, Feud of the West lies somewhere in between....
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Molly
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1935
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James Cagney manages to retain his pre-Code cockiness within post-Code limitations in the likeable St. Louis Kid. Cagney and...
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1934
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The end of prohibition spells the end of business as usual for Chicago gangster Bugs Ahearn (Edward G. Robinson in this...
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1933
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The scandalous doings behind the high-toned exterior of a private school for rich young women provides the framework for...
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1933
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Baby Face is a good example of the kind of spitfire lead female characters that appeared in the cinema of pre-code Hollywood....
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1933
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The second talkie version of the Avery Hopwood's theatrical war-horse The Golddiggers of Broadway, Gold Diggers of 1933 was...
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1933
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The quintessential "backstage" musical, 42nd Street traces the history of a Broadway musical comedy, from casting call to...
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1933
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