TV producer Aaron Spelling first came up with the story for this standard western set in a small town just after the American...
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1960
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This undistinguished murder muddle by director Michael Curtis involves an artist and his alcoholic psychologically disturbed...
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1959
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In this crime drama, a police psychiatrist sets out to capture a whacko purse snatcher who has been scarring the faces of...
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1958
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A master blend of comedy, domestic drama and sudden tragedy, The Marrying Kind remains one of the best collaborations between...
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Howard Shipley
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1952
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Reportedly, there was no love lost between the three stars of Untamed Frontier, and perhaps it was this tension that added so...
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1952
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The model (Jeanne Crain) is stuck in an unhappy relationship with a married man. The marriage broker (Thelma Ritter) doesn't...
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1951
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1950
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1950
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One of the finest and most troubling films to come out of Universal-International, The Sleeping City tried to emulate some of...
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Inspector Gordon
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1950
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A man who dreams of seeing the future discovers the horrible burden that it can carry in this film noir suspense story....
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1948
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Mr. McComber
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1948
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Despite MGM's insistence that star Gene Kelly, just returning from military service in 1947, appear exclusively in big-budget...
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1947
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1947
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New Orleans is Republic Pictures' spin on such "musical origin" films as Birth of the Blues and Dixie. Covering nearly four...
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Col. McArdle
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1947
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1947
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Though legendary entertainer Al Jolson was a highly visible presence on the U.S.O. circuit during World War II, he was...
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1946
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Though Jack Benny made a cottage industry out of joking about the purported rottenness of his 1945 vehicle Horn Blows at...
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1945
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1945
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J.B. Curtis
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1945
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1944
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From a novel of the same name by "Elizabeth", the film begins in 1914, with Bette Davis cast as vain, flighty society woman...
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1944
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The wartime housing shortage in Washington DC is the basis for this comedy. Several attractive young ladies rent a single DC...
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1944
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This 20th Century-Fox cheapie stars Carole Landis as a pretty detective and Allyn Joslyn as a fast-talking reporter ever on...
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1942
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A tough, bitter fugitive's travels lead him to a grungy rundown oil town. There the transient is taken in by an oil-rigger...
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1940
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Poor Mr. Trippe, a spineless spouse, finds himself brow-beaten by his overbearing nag of a wife who constantly reminds him...
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1940
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Director John Farrow was always at his best when dealing with desperate men in desperate situations. One of Farrow's lesser...
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1937
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A Mississippi flood saves the life of a petty crook who is about to be lynched for a murder he did not commit. After he...
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1937
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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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1936
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At the time of its release, Polo Joe was critically lambasted as the worst Joe E. Brown starrer to date. Compared to his...
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1936
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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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Although billed fourth, Veteran silent screen actor Franklyn Farnum is the real star of this ultra low-budget Western from...
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1935
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Shirley Temple's first starring vehicle casts her as the button-cute daughter of ex-convict Eddie Ellison (James Dunn) and...
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1934
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"Monkey" Brand
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1924
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British farmer James Falconer (Guy Newall) worships Ivy Duke (Ann Wetherall) from afar. When Falconer is blinded in an...
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1922
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