Produced in the 1980s but held from release until the dawn of the new millennium, imps* (*The Immoral Minority Picture Show)...
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2009
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This Florida-lensed slasher silliness (not surprisingly produced by exploitation overlord Fred Olen Ray) is enlivened only...
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1995
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Although this bloody, relentlessly weird South African production purports to be a modern-day treatment of the works of Edgar...
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Jacob
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1989
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1988
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A humorous and skilful parody of the cliches and plot contrivances of 50's horror films, this monster movie is set in...
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1987
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Evil Spawn, a violent, bloody, but surprisingly effective English horror film directed by Kenneth Hall, deals with a woman's...
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1987
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The Justice
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1987
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During her 25th high school class reunion, middle-aged Peggy Sue (Kathleen Turner) tries to forget her marital problems with...
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Leo
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1986
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Hosted by veteran horror actor John Carradine, this documentary chronicles the legends of several supposedly haunted sites in...
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1986
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This low-budget, supernatural, tongue-in-cheek story is about an ancient Egyptian princess out to maintain her immortality....
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Mr. Androheb
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1986
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A cult of "caninus" or dog-worshippers is terrorizing a farm woman in order to get her to sell them her land, land that they...
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Sen. Bradford
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1986
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Filmed in 1982 but unreleased until after the success of 1983's Valley Girl, this is a low-budget mix of valley-speak,...
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1985
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This uproariously bad sci-fi horror oddity plays like a modern version of a cheesy '50s alien invasion flick, only not as...
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1985
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In this undistinguished parody of the sci fi genre, Robert Urich is Jason who leads a band of pirates in redistributing the...
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1984
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Directed by Philip Martell, music director of such horror films as Snake Woman (1961) and Die, Monster, Die! (1964), this...
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1983
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As a sequel to the first Boogey Man, the horror of Boogey Man II lies in the script itself which adapts so much of the...
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1983
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1983
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This gothic hillbilly horror thriller was produced in New Zealand and centers around a small rural town, circa 1953, where...
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1982
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1982
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Frustrated with the Walt Disney studio's reluctance to produce full-length animated films, Don Bluth and a number of...
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1982
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Lord Grisbane
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1982
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This sex-filled exploitation favorite has bounced from one double-billing to the next, undergoing numerous re-titlings...
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Father Stratten
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1982
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This quaint horror anthology is loosely based on the works of horror novelist R. Chetwynd-Hayes -- who is portrayed by...
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Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes
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1981
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Though it strains credibility to the breaking point, the made-for-TV Goliath Awaits proved a ratings success when it was...
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1981
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A delightful feature that tells how a young boy learns about inner feeling and their importance. ~ Rovi...
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1981
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This groundbreaking, darkly comic horror film from director Joe Dante changed the look and feel of werewolf movies in ways...
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1981
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This uproariously bad film marks the less-than-glorious return of producer/director Jerry Warren, shameless purveyor of such...
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Dr. Frankenstein
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1981
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This compilation of previews from low-budget action films & softcore sex films is hosted by veteran horror actor...
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1981
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Perhaps inspired by the success of PBS' Shakespeare Plays series, Bard Productions Ltd. Came out with this diverting if not...
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1981
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Fassbinder protegee Ulli Lommel directed this moody, atmospheric but ultimately derivative horror film about a dark family...
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Dr. Warren
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1980
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An agoraphobic author decides she needs a more suitable environment in which to pen her best-selling Gothic novels and so...
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Col. LeBrun
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1980
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A delightfully horribly sci-fi horror outing, Monster is the story of young people whose lives are placed in jeopardy by the...
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1980
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1979
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1979
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This inept, obviously low-budget, poorly-acted horror-comedy is primarily a showcase for Nai Bonet a belly-dancer turned...
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Count Dracula
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1979
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Originally titled Stories from the Bible, Greatest Heroes of the Bible was designed as a seven-part TV miniseries; evidently...
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1978
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This hilariously awful killer-bee epic from director Alfredo Zacharias features surprisingly good special effects and...
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Dr. Sigmund Hummel
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1978
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Cruise Missile takes its time getting to its much-anticipated climax, but by and large it's worth the wait. Peter Graves...
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1978
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Also released under the titles Sensuous Vampires, Cemetery Girls, and Night of the Bloodsuckers, this horror film revolves...
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1978
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One of the less offensive Al Adamson productions of the 1970s, Save Our Beach is an R-rated rehash of all those "Beach...
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1978
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In this horror move, a husband sends a demonic antique car after his wife. She uses her own black magic to fight back. ~...
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1977
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1977
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This horror film concerns a shipwrecked yachting party. Rose (Brooke Adams) and her fellow yacht-mates, including the captain...
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Capt. Ben
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1977
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Originally known as Christmas Miracle in Caulfield, USA, this made-for-TV film concerns the true story of striking coal...
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1977
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1977
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The cheerleaders of Benedict High are a rowdy, randy bunch with little regard for rules, decorum, or anything that gets in...
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1977
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John Wainwright (Larry Hankin) is an author whose body and soul have been invaded by the reincarnated spirit of the sinister...
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1977
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Told in flashback form, Tail Gunner Joe traces the rise and fall of Wisconsin senator Joseph McCarthy (Peter Boyle). The...
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1977
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About ten minutes into The Shootist, Doctor Hostetler (James Stewart) tells aging Western gunfighter John Bernard Books...
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1976
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This spoof makes fun of a certain famous German shepherd movie star from the 1920s. The mayhem begins when the head honcho...
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1976
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Halliran
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1976
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1976
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Stacy Keach plays Lou Ford, a deputy sheriff whose brutal childhood experiences have left him emotionally warped. Ford is...
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1976
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1976
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One of four dramatic miniseries carried by NBC under the blanket title Best Sellers, Captains and the Kings was adapted from...
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1976
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In this made-for-TV film, a screenwriter (Robert Wagner) begins writing the biography of the dead movie queen who had a brief...
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1975
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A sultry artist (Cristina Ferrare) moonlights as a vampire while in Mexico, killing both male and female lovers. Seems the...
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Mary's Father
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1975
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John (Randolph Mantooth) would like to date a new nurse named Daisy (Britt Lind), but it looks like he'll have to wait in...
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1974
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The made-for-TV Stowaway to the Moon may be regarded by some as an excellent argument for birth control. Michael Link plays...
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1974
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Murder abounds at a wax museum after the owner decides to sell it, and seemingly waxen figures come alive. By the way, are...
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1973
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Cat Creature is a heady Curtis Harrington combination of high-gloss production values and spinechilling terror. A curse...
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Hotel clerk
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1973
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When a couple of coal miners decide to turn into gangsters they find they're still in the wrong business. ~ Rovi...
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1973
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In this bizarre biker movie, set in 1919, a wandering group of bikers encounter two weird sisters from Nebraska. The...
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1973
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Tara B. True is the airline hostess with the mostest. While at work she affects the demeanor of a rather introverted,...
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1973
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A filmmaker and his crew get more than they bargained for in this low-budget haunted house film directed by Paul Harrison....
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1973
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Publisher
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1973
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The secrets of a small New England town are violently exposed on Christmas Eve in this proto-slasher shocker. The owner of...
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1973
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This Western presents a fictionalized account of the ways in which the Gatling gun was created. Also chronicled are its...
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Rev. Harper
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1972
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This campy oddity -- featuring John Carradine in one of his patented walk-on roles -- pits some silly facsimile of a...
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Jasper B. Hawks
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1972
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Al Adamson, shameless purveyor of countless horror anti-classics, juggles around most of the footage from his 1965 clunker...
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Dr. Van Ard
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1972
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This prescient satirical drama (it came out before Watergate) takes a harsh look at Richard Nixon. His rise to political...
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1972
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1972
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A young man finds himself trapped in a cycle of reincarnation, reliving the same twenty five years over and over, in this...
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1972
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H. Buckram Sartoris
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1972
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Woody Allen's in-name-only adaptation of the once notorious sexual reference guide by Dr. David Reuben contains seven...
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Dr. Bernardo
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1972
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1972
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1971
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Posing as an elderly and very grouchy English professor, Ironside (Raymond Burr) infiltrates a convalescent home where many...
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1971
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1971
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1971
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Blood Legacy was also released as Legacy of Blood (as was a like-titled, though dissimilar, 1978 film). Looking older than...
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1971
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Gore Vidal's best-selling satiric novel gets an inarguably unique screen treatment in this off-center psycho-sexual farce....
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1970
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Crowhaven Farm is a contrived creepy-crawly originally telecast on The ABC Movie of the Week. Hope Lange is probably the last...
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Caretaker
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1970
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1970
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Though the title smacks of World War II, Is This Trip Really Necessary is actually a 1971-vintage drug flick. The "trip" of...
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1970
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Bikers, Nazis, Mafiosi, and the FBI all clash in this wild and wooly exploitation picture from director Al Adamson. Mark...
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1970
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Based on a Broadway musical by Mel Brooks and Joe Darion, the animated feature Shinbone Alley is an adaptation of the...
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1970
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Perhaps the most flagrantly re-packaged and re-titled no-budget project from notorious schlockmeister Al Adamson, this goofy...
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Scientist
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1970
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Set in the immediate post-Civil War era, The McMasters stars Brock Peters as a black Union soldier who finds he must...
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1970
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Walter Hale (Elvis Presley) is the manager of a chautauqua, a traveling show consisting of performances, lectures and...
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1969
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Psychologist Don Murray investigates the claim of Nobel prize winning scientist Ray Milland, who insists he has spoken to his...
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1969
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Although Salty Hubbard (Arthur Hunnicutt) is Sunville's biggest liar, everyone in town believes Salty's claim that stranger...
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1969
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Ben Thompson (Robert Dix) rides through the wilds of Arizona seeking revenge in this violent, low-budget Al Adamson Western....
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1969
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1969
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In this low-budget thriller, a fugitive convict traveling with a young adventurer finds action and adventure when they...
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Train Engineer
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1969
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Las Vampiras and The Vampire Girls are the alternate titles to this Mexican schlock-shocker. Like his fellow horror-thespian...
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1969
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In this comic western, Flagg (Robert Mitchum) is a veteran marshal forced to retire by the pompous Mayor Wilker...
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1969
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Helicopter Spies is a Man From UNCLE "feature film"--actually spliced together from a two-part adventure from the UNCLE TV...
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1968
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1968
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In this crime adventure, a young woman carrying an important paper finds herself pursued by three crooks who chase her into...
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1968
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In this bloody Mexican horror outing, a beautiful woman suffers a terrible accident and becomes maimed and ugly. Desperate...
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1968
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In the final episode of Lost in Space's second season, Penny (Angela Cartwright) saves the life of an alien named Arcon (John...
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1967
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1967
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Six year-old Davey Cleaves (Danny Martins) is trapped in a moving van with two killers after witnessing a murder in this...
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Otis Lovelace
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1967
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Writer/producer/director Oliver Drake made so many poverty-row pictures over a 40 year period that one suspects he wasn't a...
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1967
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This laughably-bad mess stars ubiquitous "Z"-movie journeyman John Carradine as Dr. DeMarco, a loony scientist whose original...
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Dr. DeMarco
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1967
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The Spanish/Mexican Autopsy of a Ghost might have escaped our notice altogether had not a company called Sinister Cinema made...
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Satan
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1967
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Dracula carries on his blood-drinking tradition in modern-day California, joined by his bride in a castle into which an...
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George
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1967
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Dr. Terror's Gallery of Horrors; Return from the Past; The Blood Suckers; Gallery of Horrors. No, that's not a quadruple...
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1967
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Horror, comedy, and country corn combine when country singers Woody Weathrby and Boots Malone get caught in a big storm en...
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1967
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In the second episode of a two-part story, Jason McCord (Chuck Connors) has infiltrated a group of insurrectionists who plan...
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1966
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John Carradine guest stars as Marvo the Magnificent, a seedy, unemployed magician. Hoping to relieve Jed of a few of the...
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1966
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Herman Munster and his ghoulish clan leave the confines of their 1960s television series The Munsters to try their luck on...
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1966
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Culture-conscious Herman (Fred Gwynne) demands that son Eddie (Butch Patrick) learn to play the trumpet, but the boy has no...
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1966
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Vampire/Uncle
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1966
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In the first episode of a two-part story, Jason McCord (Chuck Connors) is again summoned to Washington by President Grant...
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1966
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Child actress Suzanne Cupito, who went on to a long and rewarding adult career under the name Morgan Brittany, essays the...
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1966
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In the first episode of a three-part story, Jason McCord (Chuck Connors) is invited to Washington DC by his ex-fiancee...
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1965
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Cadaverous John Carradine makes his first series appearance as mortuary owner Mr. Gateman, the employer of Herman Munster...
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1965
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1965
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Gavin Revere
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1965
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In this sci-fi thriller, a man finds himself beleagured by jewel thieves after they hide their loot in his pick-up truck....
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1965
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In this western, after being branded as a coward by the army, an ex-soldier succumbs to his former finacee's pressure and...
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1964
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John Ford's last western film, Cheyenne Autumn was allegedly produced to compensate for the hundreds of Native Americans who...
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1964
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While strolling around an art store, Lucy (Lucille Ball) bumps into handsome John Brooks III (played by Robert Alda, the...
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Guzman
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1964
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Toward the end of Jerry Lewis's Paramount studio period, Lewis slapped together this bitter comedy about Hollywood phoniness...
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1964
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Released theatrically as The Wizard of Mars, this incredibly strange (and cheap) science fiction spin on The Wizard of Oz...
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Wizard of Mars
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1964
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Cut-and-paste schlock producer Jerry Warren patched together yet another of his patented Mexican imports with segments of a...
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1964
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Like Pontius Pilate, director John Ford asks "What is truth?" in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance--but unlike Pilate, Ford...
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1962
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Diane Wilson (Barbara Wilson) experiences an extraterrestrial visit one night while sleeping, awakening to a horrible,...
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The Narrator
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1962
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Seeking shelter from a particularly brutal Montana winter, Beau finds himself in a cave which is being used as a bank...
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1961
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The Cartwright boys' fraternal horseplay takes a painful turn when they accidentally injure their hired hand Jebediah Milbank...
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Jebediah Milbank
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1961
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1961
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MGM's all-star 1960 filmization of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn surgically removes the sociological subtext of Mark...
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1960
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Curvaceous Mamie Van Doren plays a super-genius who finds herself in charge of a college science department. Mamie would like...
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Prof. Watts
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1960
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Adapted by Charles Beaumont from his own short story, this is one of a handful of Twilight Zone episodes that can truly be...
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Brother Jerome
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1960
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Often tagged "The Incredible Petrified Movie," this science-fiction mistake was created by one of the more unsung "heroes" of...
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1960
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Gordon Scott's fifth and last appearance as Tarzan came in this 1960 installment of the long-running movie series featuring...
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Abel Banton
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1960
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As the Oregon Territory prepares to welcome settlers in 1846, wagons traveling the Oregon trail face increasing hostility...
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1959
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The Earth is attacked by mysterious invaders from outer space, who plan on destroying humankind. The invaders are invisible...
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Dr. Karol Noymann
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1959
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The Cosmic Man is a moralistic sci-fi tale that does not quite live up to the pretensions of its title. Everything starts...
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Cosmic Man
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1959
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John Carradine and Michael Landon guest star in this early episode of The Rifleman. The only one in town to own a shotgun,...
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James Barrow McBride
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1959
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A gentler but no less resourceful Alan Ladd stars in The Proud Rebel. Ladd is cast as civil war veteran John Chandler, while...
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1958
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Another example of a fairly interesting Japanese monster film rendered nearly incomprehensible by ham-fisted editing and...
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1958
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A pre-superstardom Charles Bronson plays a US marshal in Showdown at Boot Hill. Tracking down a wanted murderer to a small...
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Doc Weber
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1958
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In the town of San Sebastian, Paladin (Richard Boone) is hired by wealthy Scotsman Ian Crown (Judson Pratt) to track down...
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1958
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Spencer Tracy stars in John Ford's sentimental adaptation of Edwin O'Connor's novel about the final campaign of a big city...
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Amos Force
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1958
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Actually, this retelling of the life of outlaw Jesse James is only as true as its predecessor, the highly fanciful 1939...
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1957
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Republic's The Unearthly was originally released on a double bill with The Beginning of the End. John Carradine chews the...
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Prof. Charles Conway
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1957
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Future "Master of Disaster" Irwin Allen produced this curious but inarguably fascinating adaptation of...
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1957
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In this South Seas adventure, a sea captain teams up with lovely island princess help her vanquish the brutal smugglers who...
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1957
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This second presentation of the classic dramatic anthology Du Pont Show of the Month is a lavishly mounted adaptation of...
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1957
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Held back from release for nearly a year, The Female Jungle finally received bookings on the strength of its "star", Jayne...
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Claude Almstead
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1956
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It is sometimes customary for the star of a film to write and/or direct the picture under a pseudonym. John Calvert reversed...
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1956
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Based on the Holy Scriptures, with additional dialogue by several other hands, The Ten Commandments was the last film...
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1956
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Given its cast and director, it is disheartening that The Black Sleep isn't any better than it is. Basil Rathbone heads the...
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Borg
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1956
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Razzle-dazzle showman Michael Todd hocked everything he had to make this spectacular presentation of Jules Verne's 1872 novel...
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1956
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Danny Kaye spoofs medieval swashbucklers in this classic musical comedy. While the infant King of England awaits his rightful...
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1956
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Hidden Guns is not so much a western as a suspense melodrama. Bruce Bennett plays Stragg, a mean-spirited cardsharp with...
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Snipe Harding
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1956
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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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1955
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1955
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Although the French Foreign Legion became increasingly anachronistic in the 1950s, films like Desert Sands helped to...
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Jala
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1955
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Produced and directed by star Burt Lancaster, The Kentuckian is a leisurely western occasionally punctuated by spurts of...
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1955
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Lucy Hunt (Lola Albright) begs Matt Dillon (James Arness) to protect her from her much older husband Ephraim (John...
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1955
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1954
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Based on the novel by Mika Waltari and helmed by Casablanca director Michael Curtiz, The Egyptian, a lavish period soaper,...
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1954
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A U.S. Army cavalry officer (Dane Clark) leads westward-bound settlers through Indian territory. ~ Kristie Hassen, Rovi...
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1954
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Produced for the "Climax" television program, this small screen adaptation of Mark Twain's classic tale stars Thomas...
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1954
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One of the strangest westerns on record, Johnny Guitar has less in common with Zane Grey than it does with Sigmund Freud and...
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1954
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The satirical bite of Gogol's play The Government Inspector is dispensed with in favor of traditional Danny Kaye buffoonery...
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1949
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Doc Spencer
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1949
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Writer/director Albert Lewin, ever on the lookout for esoteric story material that would accommodate his fascination with...
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Charles Forestier
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1947
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Director William "One Take" Beaudine handles Face of Marble with his usual hasty professionalism. John Carradine stars as...
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Dr. Charles Randolph
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1946
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A Hollywood movie company descends on the Ozarks in this pleasant, if low-budget, musical from PRC undoubtedly inspired by...
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Thorndyke P. Dunning
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1946
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Otto Preminger directed this stylish film noir exercise, intended as a follow-up to his surprise hit Laura. Kicked off a bus...
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1945
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It's every man for himself when Charles Laughton bites into the role of infamous 17th century pirate captain William Kidd....
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Orange Povey
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1945
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Based on the popular Russian novel The Twelve Chairs, this stars Fred Allen as flea-circus impresario Fred Floogle. Learning...
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1945
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This Universal "monster rally", an immediate sequel to House of Frankenstein, would seem to have been deliberately designed...
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Count Dracula
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1945
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A strong contender for the title of Universal's worst horror film of the 1940s, Jungle Woman continued the melodramatic...
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1944
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The fifth in the Invisible Man series stars Jon Hall as Robert Griffin, a convict who takes the invisibility serum and then...
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Dr. Peter Drury
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1944
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With such charismatic villains as John Carradine and J. Carroll Naish on hand in PRC's Waterfront, who cares about nominal...
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Nazi agent
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1944
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1944
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Dismissed by critics as corny and obvious in 1944, this overlong but sincere biopic looks pretty good when seen today,...
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1944
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In many ways the most endearing of Universal's B-grade "monster rallies" of the 1940s, House of Frankenstein manages within...
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Count Dracula
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1944
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Gestapo officer
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1944
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Though no more expensive or ambitious than any of his earlier Sam Katzman-produced vehicles, Bela Lugosi's Voodoo Man is...
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Toby
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1944
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The still very undead mummy experiences insane jealousy in this the third of Universal's Kharis thrillers. Although he was...
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Egyptian Priest
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1944
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This '40s film (based upon a Jack London story) is set in Alaska's gold rush days and revolves around the dilemma faced by a...
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1944
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Bluebeard casts the saturnine John Carradine as Gaston, a popular painter in 19th century Paris. Unbeknownst to the...
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Gaston
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1944
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Campy Bela Lugosi plays a deranged scientist in this Monogram -produced horror movie. This time, Lugosi and his partner...
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Prof. Gilmore
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1944
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A con artist heads for the gold fields of Nevada during the 1880s after he is tossed off of San Francisco's Barbary Coast....
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Duke Cleat
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1944
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With a title like I Escaped from the Gestapo, it's a wonder that there's any suspense at all in this Monogram programmer....
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Martin
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1943
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Cult-favorite director Edgar G. Ulmer has quite a disparate cast to work with in Isle of Forgotten Sins. The story is...
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Clancy
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1943
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A mad scientist turns a gorilla into a beautiful young woman in this well-made Universal potboiler, the first of three films...
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Dr. Sigmund Walters
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1943
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Hitler's Madman is based on an all-too-real wartime atrocity. John Carradine portrays Heydrich, the vicious SS officer put in...
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Heydrich
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1943
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The second of Monogram's "zombie" thrillers, Revenge of the Zombies is better than the first, if only because of its...
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Max Heinrich von Altermann
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1943
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This Roy Rogers musical western gets off to a grim start when rancher Jerry Johnson (Jerome Cowan) is murdered by...
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Lucky Miller
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1943
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In this drama, set at a WW II munitions plant, the lives of five workers are chronicled. Their stories are told via...
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Wellington
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1943
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1942
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Better known as Reunion in France, this women's-magazine-style romantic melodrama was the first major production for director...
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1942
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In this North western, Indians orphan two boys who are then raised by a Mountie. The boys are different as night and day:...
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1942
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The Milton Berle starrer Whispering Ghosts was clearly inspired by the Red Skelton comedy-mystery Whistling in the Dark...
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1942
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20th Century-Fox's Western Union was loosely based on a story by Zane Grey. The basic historical facts behind the connecting...
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Doc Murdoch
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1941
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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 hunter finds himself in a world of danger when he decides to stalk Adolf Hitler in this taut WWII thriller. Capt. Thorndike...
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Mr. Jones
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1941
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This Technicolor sequel to 1939's Jesse James does without the services of the earlier film's star Tyrone Power, who after...
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Bob Ford
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1940
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Inspired by the true story of the leader of the Mormon Church, this film features Dean Jagger in the title role. The members...
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1940
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Henry Fonda plays Chad Hanna, a New York country bumpkin of the mid-nineteenth century who joins a travelling circus. He...
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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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Jim Casey
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1940
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Although there were Westerns before it, Stagecoach quickly became a template for all movie Westerns to come. Director...
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Hatfield
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1939
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John Ford directed this outdoor adventure set in the American Colonial period. Gilbert and Lana Martin (Henry Fonda and...
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Caldwell
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1939
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Though it takes a few liberties with the Arthur Conan Doyle original -- not the least of which is turning Sherlock Holmes...
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Barryman
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1939
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This exciting adventure is set in the rugged Australian outback back when the continent was used as a giant penal colony for...
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Coughy
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1939
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The real Frank and Jesse James were murderous thugs, light years away from the Robin Hood image imposed on them by...
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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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Often cited as a "model" B picture, Five Came Back is set in motion when the twelve-seat passenger plane "Southern Star"...
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Crimp
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1939
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Allan Dwan's comedic musical adaptation of the classic Dumas story sticks close to the original tale, yet it augments it with...
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1939
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Ben Carter
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1939
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Japanese detective Mr. Moto finds himself hip-deep in international espionage in this adventure tale. In Port Said, a pair of...
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Danforth/Richard Burke
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1939
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Set during World War I, Submarine Patrol stars Preston S. Foster as a naval officer demoted for dereliction of duty. He is...
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1938
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1938
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In this upbeat drama, a disillusioned millionaire, sick to death of the attempts of greedy friends and relatives to sponge...
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1938
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1938
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This saga spans the globe as the three young heroes search for the man who killed their much-admired, beloved father, a...
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1938
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Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure tale of a young 18th century boy betrayed by his wicked uncle didn't need a romantic...
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1938
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1938
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Those zany Ritz Brothers are at it again--good news or bad, depending on one's feelings toward the team. This time they're a...
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Reef Hatfield
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1938
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In this adventure, set in Shanghai, a gunrunner gets entangled with a conspiracy to deliver customs certificates....
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1938
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Autograph hound Al Babson (Eddie Cantor) accidentally disrupts the filming of a movie about Ali Baba, and is injured in the...
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1937
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The second of eight 1930s films based on J. P. Marquand's Japanese detective, Thank You, Mr. Moto finds Moto (Peter Lorre)...
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1937
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A boy learns life-changing lessons about the importance of friendship and the dignity of labor in this adventure saga based...
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1937
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Framed in a flashback related by doctor Thomas Mitchell, The Hurricane is in essence the story of a struggle between...
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1937
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1937
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In this detective adventure, a young woman is accused of stealing a valuable necklace from her boss and takes off for Spain...
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1937
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The film is called Laughing at Trouble, but feisty female newspaper publisher Glory Bradford (Jane Darwell) doesn't waste...
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1937
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An airy screwball comedy, Danger--Love at Work explores the lives of a wealthy but wacky family. Ann Sothern plays the...
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Herbert Pemberton
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1937
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Nancy Steele was the baby daughter of a munitions tycoon who was kidnapped by an antiwar activist who did it to protest the...
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1937
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Edward G. Robinson offers an excellent turn as a crime lord obsessed with the welfare of his son in this melodramatic crime...
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1937
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The real "message to Garcia" was delivered by an American lieutenant to Cuban rebel General Garcia, asking for the General's...
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1936
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Maxwell Anderson combined the Sacco-Vanzetti story with elements of the still-unsolved disappearance of Judge Crater, and the...
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Romagna
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1936
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Warner Baxter plays Dr. Samuel Mudd, American history's most famous victim of circumstance. In 1865, Dr. Mudd, a known...
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1936
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Based on Jack London's famous story of the same name, White Fang was first filmed in 1925. It is set in the Gold Rush era in...
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Beauty Smith
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1936
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Anything Goes is a fun-filled but hardly faithful adaptation of the same-named Cole Porter Broadway musical, with additional...
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1936
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Two silent film versions preceded this 1936 Hollywood adaptation of the 19th century novel by the writer Ouida Bergere. It is...
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1936
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Previously filmed as a vehicle for Baby Peggy Montgomery in 1922, Laura E. Richard's Captain January was warmed up as a...
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1936
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This lavish Shirley Temple starrer is set in New York, sometime in the 1850s. While lovable pickpocket "Professor" Eustace...
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1936
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In this murder comedy, a young woman is no sooner acquitted of poisoning her father when she finds herself suspected of...
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1936
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First filmed in 1910, the venerable Helen Hunt Jackson novel Ramona was remade in 1936 in full Technicolor (20th...
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1936
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David Rizzio
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1936
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1936
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1935
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This greatest of all Frankenstein movies begins during a raging thunderstorm. Warm and cozy inside their palatial villa, Lord...
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1935
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Ronald Colman plays Robert Clive, a true-life 18th century Britisher who works up the ranks to become leader of Britain's...
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1935
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The great wilderness explorer Daniel Boone has many exciting adventures in this family-oriented outdoor actioner that...
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Simon Girty
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1935
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In this comedy, a waitress at a local lunch counter inadvertently foils a bank robbery and finds herself turned into a...
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1935
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The first cinematic teaming of horror greats Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi is a bizarre, haunting, and relentlessly eerie...
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1934
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Dry-goods store owner Tillie Prescott (ZaSu Pitts) has promised to marry meek barber Chris Peterson (El Brendel), but he...
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1934
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1934
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William Faulkner's novel Sanctuary was a notorious bestseller upon its publication in 1931, and while it was successful...
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1933
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Previously filmed in 1923, Zane Grey's To the Last Man manages to pack plenty of A-level production values into what was...
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1933
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A mysterious stranger, his face swathed in bandages and his eyes obscured by dark spectacles, has taken a room at a cozy inn...
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1933
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Cecil B. DeMille's This Day and Age was perhaps the most Draconian entry in Hollywood's early-1930s "vigilante" film cycle....
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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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Director Cecil B. DeMille returned to Paramount Pictures for this typically epic production, which became his first box...
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1932
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In this light-hearted musical, an early color film, a successful actress tires of the bustle and hustle of her tawdry life...
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1931
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While on a riverboat traveling on the Mississippi River, Ayres finds out that his father is an impostor and that man...
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1931
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This simple tale of peace-loving hillbillies defeating a gang of outlaws was based on a story by Joseph Hergesheimer and was...
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1930
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