This documentary, made for PBS' American Masters series, explores the life and career of the renowned screenwriter and...
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1990
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The man who assembled the remarkable documentary George Stevens: A Filmaker's Journey had the benefit of knowing the subject...
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1984
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After 14 years' retirement, Joel McCrea chose to appear in Mustang Country. Looking extremely robust, the septuagenarian...
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Dan
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1976
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Rodeos and the people who work in them are the focus of this documentary. It demonstrates the resonance between the modern...
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Narrator
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1973
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Telling the story of his early life in flashback, a former prospector (Joel McCrea, with flashback sequences featuring son...
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Older Pitcalin
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1970
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Steve Judd
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1962
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With Gene Barry already riding the video range as legendary gunfighter-turned-lawman Bat Masterson, independent producer...
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Bat Masterson
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1959
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In this western, an embittered cavalry sergeant must take over his regiment after their commanding officer is killed during...
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Vinson
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1958
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A brave cowboy/ex-con hits the dusty trail as the leader of a major cattle drive in this western. He is offered the job by...
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John Cord
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1958
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Sgt. Hook
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1957
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In this western, the trouble begins when a ruthless outlaw impersonates a mine owner. When the sheriff begins to suspect...
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Mike Ryan
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1957
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Joel McCrea essays the title role in this moody little western. McCrea is a Union officer wounded in battle, who joins up...
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Ned Bannon
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1957
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Joel McCrea stars in this leisurely paced Western from Allied Artists (formerly Monogram) originally released in Cinemascope....
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Dr. John Brighton
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1956
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Cashing in on the popularity of TV's Davy Crockett and the jukebox favorite "Yellow Rose of Texas", Allied Artists came up...
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Sam Houston
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1956
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Filmed around the same time as Gunfight at the OK Corral, Wichita is a more modest--and to some, more entertaining--slant on...
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Wyatt Earp
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1955
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Adapted from a novel by Louis L'Amour, Stranger on Horseback is one of Joel McCrea's shorter western vehicles, zipping...
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Rick Thorne
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1955
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Clete Mattson
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1954
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Dee Rockwell
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1954
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Lone Hand benefits immensely from the genuine Colorado locations seen throughout. Zachary Hallock (Joel McCrea) and his son...
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Zachary Hallock
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1953
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Col. Bob Taine
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1953
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Joel McCrea plays 19th-century miner Rick Nelson in The San Francisco Story. The year is 1856, and Frisco is a wide-open...
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Rick Nelson
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1952
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Economically utilizing the Universal Studio itself as a "set," Hollywood Story is a murder mystery centered in the film...
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1951
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Cattle Drive stars Joel McCrea as boss drover Dana Mathews. It is Mathews' task to make a man out of Chester Graham Jr....
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Dan Mathews
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1951
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Chuck Conner
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1950
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Tom Banning
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1950
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Stars in My Crown is an episodic movie about a rural Southern community in the 19th century. Though the film features a...
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Josiah Dozier Grey
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1950
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MGM went into the western-programmer business relatively late in the game, but made up for lost time with such laudable...
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Will Owen
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1950
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Though not acknowledged by contemporary reviewers, Colorado Territory is a westernized remake of the 1941 crime drama...
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Wes McQueen
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1949
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Produced by Milton Sperling's United States Pictures, South of St. Louis was given a widespread release by Warner Bros. The...
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Kip Davis
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1948
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When the family land is threatened with foreclosure, honest, hard-working rancher Ross McEwen (Joel McCrea) resorts to bank...
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Ross McEwen
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1948
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This cowboy drama from Hungarian director Andre De Toth was the first of several films based on the stories of Western author...
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Dave Nash
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1947
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Owen Wister's 1902 novel was made into a movie several times, most notably in 1929, with Gary Cooper starring. This 1946...
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The Virginian
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1946
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This follow-up to the classic Hollywood ghost story The Uninvited doesn't quite measure up to its predecessor. Joel McCrea...
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David Fielding
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1945
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After producing, writing and directing one hit film after another, Preston Sturges finally misfired with the biopic The Great...
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W.T.G. Morton
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1944
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No slouch himself at rearranging the facts to make a good story, Colonel William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody would probably have...
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Buffalo Bill
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1944
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To fully appreciate The More the Merrier, it is important to know that, during WW2, there was an acute housing shortage in...
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Joe Carter
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1943
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As for the opening reels, the principal motivating factor is money. After a deliberately confusing pre-credit sequence (not...
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Tom Jeffers
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1942
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This rambling historical drama covers 109 years in the life of one woman. Encased in convincing old-age makeup,...
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Ethan Hoyt
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1942
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Wessel Smitter's semicomic novel FOB Detroit was the source material for Reaching for the Sun. Joel McCrea plays a North...
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Russ Elliott
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1941
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John L. Sullivan
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1941
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In her third film for innovative director Gregory LaCava, Ginger Rogers briefly turns her back on her established screen...
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Ed Wallace
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1940
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This slick marital farce features Joel McCrea as T. H. Randall, a race horse owner whose devotion to his work causes a strain...
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T. H. Randall
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1940
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Fourteen scriptwriters spent five years toiling over a movie adaptation of war correspondent Vincent Sheehan's...
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Johnny Jones
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1940
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Unlike many another pre-WW II spy melodramas, Espionage Agent clearly identifies the villains as Germans. Joel McCrea plays...
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Barry Corvall
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1939
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This musical drama follows a young ghetto kid who dreams of being a classical musician like his idol Jascha Heifetz. He first...
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Peter McCarthy
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1939
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Originally designed for exhibition at the 1939 World's Fair, Land of Liberty is a 137-minute compendium of filmclips from...
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1939
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Cecil B. DeMille takes us back to the 1860s, then rebuilds the first intercontinental railroad in Union Pacific. The...
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Jeff Butler
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1939
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Whenever things got slow at 20th Century-Fox, the studio revved up its old reliable "three girls looking for millionaires"...
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Van Smith
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1938
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Andrea Leeds, whose career had shifted into hyperdrive after her brilliant performance in Stage Door (1937), stars in the...
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Joe Meadows
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1938
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Adapted by Lillian Hellman from Sidney Kingsley's Broadway play, Dead End concerns itself with several denizens of New York's...
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Dave Connell
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1937
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Ramsay Mackay
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1937
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Pulp fiction writer Max Brand's 1936 creation Dr. Kildare made his screen debut in the amiable person of Joel McCrea in this...
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Dr. James Kildare
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1937
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This early feminist tale was a box-office flop that was released after years of script doctoring. Producer Samuel Goldwyn...
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Kenneth Nolan
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1937
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Set in the woodlands of Wisconsin, Come and Get It stars Edward Arnold as a logger-turned-lumber tycoon. In his rise to the...
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Richard Glasgow
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1936
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This lively riverboat musical shows off the vocal and terpsichorean talents of former Ziegfeld Follies star Barbara Stanwyck...
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Ernie Holley
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1936
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On New Year's Eve, aspiring actress Julia Wayne (Joan Bennett) and chronic gambler Larry Stevens (Joel McCrea), both flat...
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Larry Stevens
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1936
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Dr. Joseph Cardin
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1936
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Crime reporter George Melville (Joel McCrea) arrogantly repeated accurate predictions about jewel robberies. He befriends...
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George Melville
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1936
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One of four MGM "B"-pictures ground out in quick succession by director George B. Seitz, Woman Wanted is a crime melodrama...
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Tony
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1935
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The first major film about psychiatry, Private Worlds stars Claudette Colbert as a psychiatrist with more than a few problems...
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Dr. Alex MacGregor
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1935
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With Shirley Temple heading the cast of Our Little Girl, it's a moot point as to who plays the title role. Temple is cast as...
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Dr. Donald Middleton
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1935
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It's the wild and woolly waterfront world of San Francisco in the late 1800s in this rambling tale of an outrageous nightclub...
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James Carmichael
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1935
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This romantic comedy-drama is set -- typical for producer Samuel Goldwyn at the time -- among the upper class. Joel McCrea...
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Brighton Lorrimore
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1935
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Tony Travis
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1934
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John Adams
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1934
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Born on the proverbial wrong side of the tracks, Lady Lee (Barbara Stanwyck) rises to prominence as a professional gambler....
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Garry Madison
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1934
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Sidney Howard's once-controversial play about the smothering aspects of Mother Love, The Silver Cord was filmed in 1933 with...
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David Phelps
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1933
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In this sassy dramatic comedy, two reform-school girls finally graduate and as soon as they get out decide to board a New...
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Dan Walters
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1933
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In Scarlet River, Tom Keene plays "himself," a cowboy movie star, on location in the Wide Open Spaces for his latest epic....
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1933
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Lionel Barrymore plays one of those selfless general practitioners that seem to exist exclusively in the movies in One Man's...
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Jimmy Watt
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1933
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1933
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A spoiled rich girl marries a gas station owner in this dated romance starring Joel McCrea, Ginger Rogers, and Marion Nixon....
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Blacky Gorman
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1933
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In this newspaper drama, a dedicated small-town reporter works hard and becomes the editor of a major New York paper....
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1932
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Very loosely based on Booth Tarkington's novel The Plutocrat, Business and Pleasure stars Will Rogers as Earl Tinker, a newly...
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Lawrence Ogle
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1932
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Running just under an hour, Sport Parade stars Joel McCrea as a sportwriter who accidently becomes a champion wrestler. In...
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Sandy Baker
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1932
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Johnny Baker
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1932
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Despite a troubled production that witnessed the exits of both leading man (Phillips Holmes) and director (George...
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Jacob "Jake" Van Riker Pell
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1932
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Red
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1932
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The first of many official and unofficial screen versions of Richard Connell's The Most Dangerous Game was put together by...
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Bob Rainsford
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1932
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In this marital drama, a wife fears that her checkered past will be revealed when she and her husband move to the city to...
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Tommy Mason
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1931
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A wealthy man's mistress abandons her luxurious life as a kept woman to be with the struggling Paris artist she has come to...
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John Neville, Jr.
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1931
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A WWI American nurse stationed in London (Constance Bennett) meets a handsome flier and finds only sorrow in this three-hanky...
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Barry Craig
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1931
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In this drama, a blue collar steelworker marries a wealthy socialite. It all begins after he saves two workers during a...
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Dick Brunton
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1931
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Kay Francis and Lilyan Tashman portray what used to be euphemistically labelled "good time girls". They work the convention...
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Jim Baker
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1931
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Lightnin' is based on the 1918 stage play by Winchell Smith and Frank Bacon, in which Bacon (the father of director...
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John Marvin
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1930
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Filmed in 1929 and released early in 1930, Dynamite was Cecil B. DeMille's first all-talking feature. As one observer has...
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1930
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A somewhat primitive early talkie version of Rex Beach's lusty 1909 novel of Alaska salmon fishers, RKO's The Silver Horde...
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Boyd Emerson
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1930
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Tod Browning (Dracula, Freaks) directed this second film version of the Bayard Veiller play, which was his first...
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1929
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In this mostly silent drama, an overprotective brother tries to keep his sister from getting further involved with a group...
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Todd Sayles
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1929
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In this campus musical, the 1928 big game between USC and Stanford provides the impetus for music and mayhem. The story...
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1929
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No, Dead Man's Curve does not star Jan and Dean-mainly because it was filmed before either one of them was born. The film...
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1928
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In the spirit of female stars both before and after her, 30-year-old Marion Davies plays a girl a decade younger than herself...
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1927
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1927
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