Filmed in panoramic Cinerama, this star-studded, epic Western adventure is a true cinematic classic. Three legendary...
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1962
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Those familiar only with Johnny Horton's song hit North to Alaska might not be aware that the song came equipped with a...
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1960
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Caught gambling on a military post, Bart (Jack Kelly) is given the choice of spending several months in the stockage or...
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1959
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Sgt. Biff O'Hara
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1958
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In this episode of the popular canine series, the brave German Shepherd helps defeat a band of renegade Comanches who have...
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1957
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Sgt. Biff O'Hara
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1957
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Sgt. Biff O'Hara
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1956
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The Killing was director Stanley Kubrick's first major film effort -- though, like Kubrick's earlier films, it was...
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1956
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The Kettles in the Ozarks was the eighth of Universal's "Ma and Pa Kettle" series--minus "Pa" (actor Percy Kilbride had left...
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1956
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Sgt. Biff O'Hara
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1955
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1954
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Tony Curtis stars as Johnny Dark, a moody automobile designer. Rejected by a major auto firm because of his "radical"...
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1954
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In this western, a shotgun rider on a stagecoach must clear his reputation after some outlaws accuse him of being a crook....
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Tom Biggert
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1954
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Sgt. Biff O'Hara
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1954
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It Came From Outer Space is one of a handful of science fiction films from the 1950s that plays as well today as it did on...
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1953
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Mr. Walkie Talkie was the second attempt by producer Hal Roach Jr. to revive the popular series of William Tracy/Joe Sawyer...
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Sgt. Ames
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1952
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An abundance of subplots are expertly woven together by screenwriter/director Richard Brooks in Deadline - USA....
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1952
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Richard Widmark plays a firefighter for the US Forestry Service, a brave man who nevertheless does not believe in taking...
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1952
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Columbia's Colorado Uprising was neither expensive enough to qualify as an "A" picture nor inexpensive enough to qualify as a...
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1951
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In the early 1940s, producer Hal Roach turned out several entertaining and profitable "streamliners" (each running...
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1951
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Stanley Clements stars in Republic's Pride of Maryland as an ambitious jockey named Frankie (an inside joke: most movie...
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Knuckles
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1951
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Kalem McCoy
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1951
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Curtain Call at Cactus Creek is a combination of the western, comedy and musical genres. Donald O'Connor plays Edward...
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1950
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A submarine commander is determined to use guided missiles on his sub in this war drama. To do so, he defies the edict of...
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"Fuss" Payne
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1950
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Veteran character actor Joe Sawyer produced, co-wrote and co-starred in the diverting docudrama Operation Haylift. Based on...
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Producer, Screenwriter, George Swallow
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1950
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In the late 1940s - early 1950s, Columbia Pictures enjoyed a great deal of success with a series of slapsticky feature films...
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Cactus Jack
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1950
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This film, which is one of a series based on the characters from the Blondie comic strip, finds Dagwood entering the Army...
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1950
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Based on a James Oliver Curwood story, Kazan was one of those "little" pictures of the late 1940s which gained a lofty...
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Sandy Jepson
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1949
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The Gay Amigo was the second "Cisco Kid" theatrical entry produced for United Artists release by Philip N. Krasne....
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Sgt. McNully
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1949
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Bride-to-be Barbara Hale collapses into a faint while taking the altar vows. Hale learns that she is pregnant by her former...
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1949
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At the last possible moment, convicted murderess Anne Marie St. Claire (Dorothy Lamour) is saved from execution. However, the...
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1949
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While searching for a stolen gold shipment, partners in a stagecoach line attempt to keep crooked ranch hands from stealing...
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Thatcher
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1949
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Based on a novel by Charles Huckelmann, Deputy Marshal was a "special" by the standards of cost-conscious Screen Guild...
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Eli Cressett
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1949
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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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Tod Bryant
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1949
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"Boys Town" goes to turn-of-the-century St. Louis in this moving drama that chronicles the love of a determined priest...
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1948
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All cruel jokes aside, actor Sonny Tufts did on occasion deliver something resembling a good screen performance. In the...
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1948
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Hoping to start up where he left off before his studio was taken over by the government during WWII, Hal Roach turned out a...
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Ames
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1948
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Hoping for a success commensurate with his previous Show Business (1945), comedian Eddie Cantor poured a lot of his own money...
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1948
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Randolph Scott is a single-minded gunman bent on tracking down and killing the white man responsible for an Indian raid on a...
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1948
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In this mystery, a detective encounters a woman in a nightclub. He finds that she is being blackmailed by a dancer who is...
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Joe Nash
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1948
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In this crime drama, a convict is freed after he agrees to join the military during WW II. After he is discharged he gets a...
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Sgt. Scudder
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1948
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This episodic holiday film centers around a rich spinster aunt whose greedy nephew is attempting legal action to take her...
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1947
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Ronald Colman won an Academy Award for his portrayal of an off-the-beam actor in A Double Life. A beloved stage star, Anthony...
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1947
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Top-notch police reporter Lorelei Kilbourne (Hillary Brooke) decides to resign her job when her novel is published, and gives...
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1947
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Second-echelon leading man Don Castle (later a TV producer) stars in yet another Sol M. Wurtzel production, Roses Are Red....
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Wall
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1947
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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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The Runaround is a game attempt to return to the "screwball comedy" genre so popular in the 1930s. Rival detectives Kildane...
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1946
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In this first entry in the pugilistic comedy series based on Ham Fishers long-running comic strip, Joe Palooka is seen before...
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Lefty
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1946
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In this crime drama, two ex-hoods find their attempts to straighten up and fly right are foiled by a blackmailing gangster...
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Capt. Thomas
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1946
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Republic Pictures certainly didn't believe in obscure or misleading film titles, as G.I. War Brides amply proves. Ann Lee...
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1946
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When wealthy Ballin Mundson (George Macready) rescues down at his heels gambler Johnny Farrell (Glenn Ford) and invites him...
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1946
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Abbott and Costello's The Naughty Nineties offers a million laughs and a nickel's worth of plot. Most of the film takes place...
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1945
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Pine-Thomas Productions' High Powered is the mixture as before, a two-fisted adventure tale with a melodramatic "tortured...
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Spike Kenny
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1945
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1945
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In this musical romance, a young couple is still in love, but find themselves facing insurmountable turmoil in their...
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1944
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In this comic western, a Broadway star leaves his musical revue to go West and help out his troubled friend. While there,...
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1944
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Directed by Lewis Collins and Ray Taylor, Raiders of Ghost City is a 13-chapter serial account revolving around the highly...
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1944
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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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Ernest
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1944
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Musical star Ann Miller plays a Broadway leading lady coaxed into reteaming with Larry Parks, her former producer. Parks is...
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Sergeant
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1944
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In this musical comedy, a plucky young woman launches a successful campaign and becomes mayor of her tiny hometown. Now she...
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1943
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Albertson
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1943
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Originally slated for Paramount release, Buckskin Frontier was ultimately distributed by United Artists. Richard Dix stars as...
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1943
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Perhaps Hollywood's greatest success du scandal of the 1940s, this odd psychological Western became a box office hit largely...
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1943
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Army engineeer Richard Arlen helps blaze the trail for a crucial highway in the Alaskan wastes. His younger brother...
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Roughhouse
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1943
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The Abbott & Costello vehicle Hit the Ice started life as satire of health clinics, with Lou Costello cast as a hypochondriac...
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1943
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During WWII, Johnny Weissmuller and his Tarzan character proved useful for Allied propaganda purposes. In the film...
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Karl
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1943
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Fall In was the fourth of Hal Roach's 1940s comedies revolving around the misadventures of Doubleday, an army recruit...
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Sergeant Ames
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1943
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Robert Paige plays a struggling songwriter who poses as a millionaire cowboy. It's all part of a zany, wacky and nutty scheme...
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Louie
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1943
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Let's Face It is adapted from the Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was based on the old Norma Mitchell/...
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1943
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Paramount's Pine-Thomas unit continued humming profitably along with 1943's Tornado. Chester Morris (who eventually appeared...
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Charlie Boswell
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1943
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Yanks Ahoy was the last of a series of Hal Roach "streamliners" teaming William Tracy as Sgt. Doubleday, he of the...
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Sgt. Ames
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1943
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Hal Roach Studios' Brooklyn Orchid was one of three "streamliners" (films running between 40-50 minutes) starring...
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Eddie Corbett
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1942
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Sundown Jim was the second of two 20th Century-Fox westerns starring football champ John Kimbrough. The story takes place in...
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Moffitt
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1942
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Instant recall allows a man to become a very valuable Good Samaritan in this comedy. ~ Rovi...
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1942
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No relation to the much-later "Matt Helm" spy comedy of the same name, Pine-Thomas Productions' The Wrecking Crew serves as a...
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Fred Bunce
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1942
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Campy Kids From Boot Camp was cobbled together from a brace of "streamliners" (second features running between 43 and 50...
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1942
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No relation to the 1953 musical film of the same title, About Face is a 43 minute Hal Roach "Streamliner." Sgt. Doubleday...
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Sergeant Ames
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1942
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Taxi, Mister (AKA Two Mugs from Brooklyn was the first in a brief series of roughhouse comedies starring William Bendix and...
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Eddie Corbett
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1942
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Like 1940's Melody Ranch, the 1941 Gene Autry vehicle Down Mexico Way was designed as a "special", to be promoted separately...
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1941
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In 1941, producer Hal Roach abandoned production of full-length features in favor of a new concept: The "Streamliner", a...
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Sgt. Ames
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1941
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Down in San Diego was previewed as Young Americans, which is why prints still exist bearing both titles. The film is...
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1941
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In the wake of Abbott & Costello's Buck Privates, every studio in Hollywood began cranking out service comedies. Warner...
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1941
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With Paramount abandoning its "Zane Grey" western series in 1941, 20th Century-Fox took up the cudgel with such films as The...
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1941
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A schoolteacher battles for women's rights in mid 19th century Wyoming. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1941
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1941
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When World War I hero Alvin York agreed to sell the movie rights to his life story to Warner Bros., it was on three...
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1941
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Though history is distorted almost beyond recognition in Warner Bros.' They Died With Their Boots On, audiences in 1941 ate...
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1941
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Noted French director Jean Renoir made his American debut with this 1941 film. Walter Brennan plays Tom Keefer, a man who is...
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1941
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A lumber camp provides the setting for this romantic drama that chronicles the love between a nightclub singer, her new...
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Jigger
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1940
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Santa Fe Trail, Errol Flynn's third western, has precisely nothing to do with the titular trail. Instead, the film is a...
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1940
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Seven years after helping to rescue RKO Radio from bankruptcy as the heroine of King Kong, Fay Wray returned to the studio as...
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1940
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The Man From Montreal is a lively entry in Universal's Richard Arlen-Andy Devine action series. The stars are cast...
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1940
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Despite the title, the Cisco Kid (Cesar Romero) doesn't feel too lucky at the beginning of this film. It seems that someone...
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1940
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Paramount's "B" pictures of the early 1940s were generally more interesting than their star-studded "A"s, as witness...
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1940
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Set in the years leading up to the Civil War and its outbreak, Dark Command tells a fictionalized version of the story of...
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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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An inordinate number of Hollywood detective films--including virtually the entire Bulldog Drummond series--extracted humor...
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1940
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Gulden
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1940
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The adaptation of Nobel Prize-winner John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of dirt-poor Dust Bowl migrants by 4-time...
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1940
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Producer Walter Wanger's House Across the Bay serves as an excellent showcase for Wanger's then-wife Joan Bennett. She is...
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1940
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John Ford welded four of Eugene O'Neill's one-act plays about the sea, Bound East for Cardiff, The Long Voyage Home, The...
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1940
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Pity poor police captain Dugan (Harry Carey). As if he hasn't got enough trouble with the green recruits that Headquarters...
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1939
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1939
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How could anyone dislike a film with the title Lady and the Mob? Sweet Fay Bainter stars as eccentric dowager Hattie Leonard,...
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1939
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In this crime drama, a grizzled cabbie is scammed out of his life savings by a fake finance company. He tries to no avail to...
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1939
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Bold for its time (just prior to World War II), Confessions of a Nazi Spy is an expose of a genuine Nazi espionage ring...
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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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1939
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A young punk hooks up with a mobster and helps him rob a gas station in this crime drama. From there the crimes become more...
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1939
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In this patriotic wartime drama set during WW II, a test plane crashes killing all aboard and causes the locals to accuse...
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1939
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Universal's old Show Boat sets are brought out of mothballs for the energetic "B" entry Gambling Ship. When honest gambler...
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Tony Garzoni
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1939
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Based upon an idea by Broadway columnist Mark Hellinger, The Roaring Twenties opens during World War I as doughboys Eddie...
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1939
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Before he became the high priest of realism, producer/director Andrew L. Stone was fascinated with classical music (he'd...
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1938
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While the "Tarzan" series was going full blast at MGM, several independent producers managed to secure the screen rights to...
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1938
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1938
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1938
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1938
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In this North Woods adventure a courageous Canadian Mounted Policeman takes on the outlaws who robbed a freighter heading...
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1938
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One of a slew of prison reform picture that flourished during the Great Depression, this melodrama was banned in Finland....
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"Sailor Boy" Hansen
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1937
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In this thriller, an ex-pilot develops a useful new navigating device and decides to test it out. Unfortunately the test-run...
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1937
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Making his debut with Warner Brothers, Henry Fonda plays an apprentice high-voltage lineman working with the no-nonsense, but...
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1937
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Movie trends always come in cycles: in 1937, motorboat melodramas were briefly the rage. In Columbia's Motor Madness,...
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1937
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A tough sailor bets his pals that he can win the love of a prissy librarian and so masquerades as a candidate for the Naval...
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Chips
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1937
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This drama chronicles the education of a naive, rich young woman who inherits a steel mill. To help her keep it running she...
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1937
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A novel by Arthur Stringer was the source for this two-fisted Universal programmer. When a giant utility company begins...
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1937
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This hard-hitting, socially conscious drama, the sort of story that Warner Bros. made their hallmark in the 1930s, concerns a...
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1937
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In this WW II era drama, a timid, pacifistic clerk is befriended by a gutsy circus barker while they are in the military....
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1937
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Richard Dix is as stalwart and oaklike as ever in Special Investigator. Here he plays courtroom-movie cliche #22B: The...
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1936
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After retiring from a boxing career, Johnny Cave (James Cagney) accepts an appointment to serve as head of the Bureau of...
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1936
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And Sudden Death was inspired by a Reader's Digest article by Theodore Reeves, which later became one of the magazine's most...
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1936
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Gail Patrick plays a young woman framed for murder. Luckily the newsman on the courtroom beat is ace photographer Lew Ayres....
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1936
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Dusting off a couple of old Ken Maynard Western plots -- already recycled once with John Wayne in the early 1930s -- Warner...
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Luke Thomas
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1936
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Joan Bennett is a manicurist who becomes a newspaper reporter. She joins forces with jaunty detective Cary Grant to get the...
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1936
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Burned-out British intellectual Alan Squier (Leslie Howard) wanders into the desert service station/restaurant owned by Jason...
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1936
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Actual footage of the 1936 Rose Bowl game is cleverly (if not seamlessly) integrated into the action of this sports-oriented...
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1936
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The Leathernecks Have Landed is an adventure yarn revolving around three boisterous marines. Lew Ayres is the headstrong one,...
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1936
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In this lively campus comedy, a stern rowing coach sets up a rigorous practice schedule for his team and insists they lead...
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1936
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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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1936
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In one of his most successful portrayals of a "living dead" man, Boris Karloff plays John Ellman, an ex-convict who is framed...
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1936
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After 25 years, notorious western outlaw Harry Carey is released from prison. He returns to his frontier home town, only to...
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1936
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Blending equal amounts of comedy, romance and thrills, High Tension is a near-perfect 20th Century-Fox "B" effort....
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1936
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The film that revived Edward G. Robinson's career after a string of flops, along with A Slight Case of Murder (1938), it was...
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1935
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Though usually a supporting player in Warner Bros' A pictures, Barton MacLane was permitted an occasional leading role in the...
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1935
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1935
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Kay Francis stars as Stella Parish, a London stage favorite who suddenly disappears without a trace. British news...
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1935
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The agent of the title is George Brent, a journalist sent by the Government to get the goods on a crime syndicate. Brent...
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1935
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Reckless is a delightfully breezy screwball comedy from the same director (Victor Fleming) and star (Jean Harlow) responsible...
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1935
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More a whodunit than a straight Western, this Tim McCoy series entry from Columbia featured a cowboy returning to his...
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1935
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A tuneful taxi driver secretly works to achieve his dream of becoming a radio singer in this musical comedy. One day he...
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1935
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W.C. Fields plays Ambrose Wolfinger, the henpecked husband to end all henpecked husbands. A widower, Ambrose married a second...
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1935
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Adapted from an earlier European film, Wharf Angel stars Dorothy Dell as Toy, a golden-hearted prostitute stranded in San...
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1934
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Paramount Pictures' annual college musical of 1934 is a pip, as they used to say. Jack Oakie plays Finnegan, a conceited...
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1934
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James Cagney runs a shady missing-heir tracing service, occasionally providing phony heirs in order to collect his fee. He...
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1934
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The real-life career of the notorious female spy known as "Fraulein Doktor" inspired several films of the 1930s. Stamboul...
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1934
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Annie Snodgrass (ZaSu Pitts) has a voice that could shatter glass, but try telling that to moonstruck gangster boss Fenny...
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1934
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Joe Graham (Spencer Tracy), a troubleshooter for the telephone company, suspects that his beloved Ethel (Constance Cummings)...
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1934
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Glamorous American jewel-thief Sophie Lang (Gertrude Michael) not only regularly outwits Scotland Yard, but has great fun...
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1934
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Three-Cornered Moon is regarded by many film buffs as the first of the genuine "screwball comedies." Claudette Colbert stars...
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1933
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Directed by Wesley Ruggles, the musical sendup of College Humor centers around the blooming love between a college professor...
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1933
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Joe E. Brown is a sailor who hopes to match the accomplishments of his seaman father. Unfortunately, Joe is perhaps the...
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1933
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Forgotten Commandments is a well-meaning but clumsy attempt to explore the consequences of communism. The story takes place...
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1932
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Barbara Stanwyck overcomes a veritable ocean of clichés and manages to make her "shopworn" heroine come to life in this...
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1932
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1929
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