One more stock western in a long line stretching back to the turn of the 20th century, this oater by peripatetic director...
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1961
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After speculating on the possibility that a person can travel back in time and change history, Peter Corrigan...
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1961
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Mr. Preston
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1959
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Curvaceous cult actress Joi Lansing appears in this episode as policewoman Helen O'Hara, who upon meeting Superman (George...
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1958
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It has now become a film-review clich to preface a write-up for I Married a Monster From Outer Space with the cautionary...
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H.B. Collins
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1958
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Lucy (Lucille Ball) wants to return to New York for a fancy dinner and a Broadway show. As luck would have it, the Ricardos...
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Man in Box
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1957
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Conceived as a Gone With the Wind for the CinemaScope generation, Raintree County wasn't quite as successful as its role...
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1957
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Wealthy and spoiled Myra Van Clever (Gloria Talbott) hires Superman (George Reeves) to entertain at a party. What Myra...
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1956
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Once you get past the fact that handsome Paul Newman could never pass for plug-ugly boxer Rocky Graziano in real life, you...
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1956
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Ginger Rogers ended her 23-year association with RKO Radio with the indifferent musical comedy western The First Travelling...
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1956
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This adventurous crime drama is set in exotic Latin America and chronicles a lawman's attempt to bust up the ring of Yankee...
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1955
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1954
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Bank teller Mike Donovan (Barry Sullivan) takes the first step on the road to Perdition when he fails to report a $49,000...
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1954
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Produced, directed and cowritten by former child star Wesley Barry, Racing Blood was distributed in the US by 20th...
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Mitch
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1954
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1954
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This slam-bang episode opens with a montage of highlights from previous Superman entries, illustrating a crime wave that has...
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1953
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A frantic woman named Harriet Hopper (Vera Marshe) bursts into the offices of the "Daily Planet" demanding to speak to...
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1953
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Originating during the science-fiction/Red-Scare boom of the '50s, Invaders From Mars is an entertaining little picture that...
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1953
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This fifth entry in Universal's "Ma and Pa Kettle" series finds the Kettle family taking a trip to Paris (courtesy of the...
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1953
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1952
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1952
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Gene Kelly does his patented Pal Joey bit as Jerry Mulligan, an opportunistic American painter living in Paris' "starving...
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1951
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1951
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1951
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Richard Denning is Insurance Investigator Tom Davison in this Republic second feature. Davison has been assigned to look into...
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John Hammond
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1951
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The title Street Bandits refers to the crooked slot machines peddled by racketeer Monk Walter (Roy Barcroft). Struggling...
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L.T. Mitchell
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1951
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Ray Milland plays a happily married college professor whose wife and child perish in a fire. Despondent, Milland loses...
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1951
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Lawman Allan "Rocky" Lane is mistaken for a hired killer in this average western from Republic Pictures. Assuming the...
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1950
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Dorothy Patrick, the sweetheart of Republic Pictures' "B" unit, stars in Lonely Hearts Bandits. Patrick plays Louise Curtis,...
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Tony Morell, AKA Wade Antrim
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1950
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1950
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Raymond Burr stars as Roger Lewis, the ruthless publisher of a Confidential-style scandal magazine. For a fee, Lewis will...
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1950
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Bejabbers! Sure an' some heathen has gone and stolen the Blarney Stone. Yes, Top O' the Morning is set in Ireland, or at...
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1949
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Lippert's Square Dance Jubilee was aimed squarely at the rural movie market. Don Barry and Wally Vernon play a pair of talent...
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Stratton
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1949
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Film historian Leonard Maltin has labelled this final entry in Monogram's "Charlie Chan" series as "embarrassing," but it's...
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1949
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1949
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In this courtroom drama, two opposing lawyers lead a double life. In the courtroom they are ruthless toward each other, but...
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1948
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This fact -based western follows a soft-spoken railroad detective (Alan Ladd) as he brings a murderous ring of robbers to...
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1948
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Jinx Money is not so much a Bowery Boys vehicle as a murder mystery that happens to star the Bowery Boys. It all begins when...
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1948
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In this wartime drama, an American officer is accused of secretly working as an SS man. Though all evidence is against the...
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1948
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Angels Alley was the ninth entry in Monogram's Bowery Boys series. This time around, Slip Mahoney (Leo Gorcey) welcomes his...
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1948
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In this crime melodrama, two would-be jewel thieves conspire to pull a heist, but are frustrated because the police are able...
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1947
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This minor 20th Century-Fox B picture received a great deal of TV play in the late 1950s. In a series of flashbacks, the...
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John Morland
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1947
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A plane crash over the Pacific leaves seven survivors stranded in a life raft in this war-time disaster movie. One of the...
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1947
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In this outtake from the "Hal Roach Comedy Carnival," a talking dog lends support to a harried husband (Walter Abel). ~ Iotis...
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1947
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In this musical, a struggling young singer falls in love with a nightclub owner whose father mistakes her for someone else...
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1946
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French Key is a Republic Pictures murder mystery with all of the studio's genre trademarks: Good cast, reasonably good...
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John Holterman
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1946
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Temptation is an appropriately moody romantic melodrama, providing a golden opportunity for some memorable histrionics by...
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1946
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In this episode of the popular detective series, Chan learns that fake fingerprints have caused innocent people to go to...
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1946
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Set at a major newspaper, this crime drama centers on a fellow who returns to newspaper reporting after he bombs as a...
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1946
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In this comedy-mystery, an advertising executive begins looking into a touchy situation involving two brothers who are...
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1946
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In this comedy, a spoiled, temperamental and filthy rich aunt is committed to an asylum by her nephew after he learns that...
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1946
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British character actor Lionel Atwill, in his final performance, appeared as a power-mad Englishman attempting to rule the...
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1946
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MGM's first "Maisie" entry in two years, Up Goes Maisie once more stars Ann Sothern as eternally stranded showgirl Maisie...
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1946
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1946
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Set on the Mexican border in 1850, Bad Men of the Border was the first of seven Universal Westerns starring handsome Kirby...
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1945
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Circumstantial Evidence is so expertly acted and directed that the audience is willing to forget its gaping logic holes....
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1945
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In this a briefcase containing four wills is found next to the unconscious body of a man. He lies beside a plane crash. Each...
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1945
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1945
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Female musicians Sally Richards (Jane Frazee) and Sue Ford (Judy Clark) are Beautiful but Broke in this frantic Columbia...
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1944
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This 20th Century-Fox programmer stars Preston Foster as breezy detective Steve Carromond. When a man dies of a suspicious...
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1944
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No production unit at Paramount Pictures was busier in 1944 than the Pine-Thomas unit-and few were as bankable at the...
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1944
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Considering the fact that it was the only Universal horror film directed by cult favorite Joseph H. Lewis, it's a shame that...
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1942
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This remake of the 1934 WW I melodrama Madame Spy has been updated to the WW II era. Once again accepting a role unworthy of...
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Carl Gordon
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1942
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Aircraft plant worker Robert Cummings is accused of sabotaging his factory and causing the death of a co-worker. Actually,...
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1942
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In this crime drama, an ambitious law student begins working for a corrupt finance company and becomes the neighborhood...
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1942
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The Carter Case was the second and last Republic film based on the popular radio series Mister District Attorney. Like the...
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1942
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Number ten in MGM's heart-warming (and immensely profitable) "Andy Hardy" series was the 1941 entry Life Begins for Andy...
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1941
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1941
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Greer Garson is dignity and integrity personified in the role of the real-life Edna Gladney. After several life experiences...
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1941
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In this drama, a terminally ill college professor with only three months to live asks some younger colleagues what he should...
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1941
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1941's The Black Cat is neither a remake of the 1934 Karloff-Lugosi film of the same name, nor does it bear the slightest...
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1941
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A man trying to make his dying father happy makes his love life very complicated indeed in this musical comedy starring...
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1941
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It has been alleged that Horror Island was the least expensive of Universal's 1940s horror films. While it certainly looks...
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George
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1941
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This fourth entry in MGM's "Dr. Kildare" series once again stars Lew Ayres as Kildare, Laraine Day as his sweetheart Mary...
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1940
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Set in the Central American jungle, Lucille Ball plays plantation owner Joan Grant in The Marines Fly High. When a platoon of...
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John Henderson
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1940
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Stalwart Warner Bros. contract player George Reeves, better known as TV's Superman, was given an early opportunity to "carry"...
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Marshall Winkler
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1940
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In this exciting western, Roaring Dan is the meanest old cuss around. He and his "son" are constantly bickering. But things...
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1940
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1939
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In this crime drama, a young hood and a seductress team up and rob a gas station. As she requires an opulent, exciting...
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1939
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A remake of Dr. Socrates (1935), this middling melodrama features Kay Francis as Carol Nelson, a medical doctor blaming...
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Niles Nelson
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1939
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Blind Alley, directed by Charles Vidor is a chilling psychological drama in the film-noir tradition reminiscent of the fine...
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1939
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Undercover Doctor, like the other entries in Paramount's "FBI" series, could lay claim to being "drawn from today's...
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1939
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In this espionage drama, an inventor creates a way to send television broadcasts across the country and finds himself...
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Boris
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1939
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Though Kay Francis' Warner Bros. vehicle had slipped from "A" attractions to B-plus programmers by 1938, she was still worth...
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1938
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1937
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James Dunn is once more cast as a reporter, this one named Murphy. On the outs with practically every newsroom in America,...
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Briand
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1937
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Paul Morgan
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1937
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Within the framework of a conventional newspaper yarn, One Mile From Heaven raises several controversial issues. Scoop-happy...
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1937
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In this satire, an electrician from a tiny town impresses a New York radio sponsor with his booming baritone singing voice....
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1937
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Actual footage of the 1936 Berlin Olympics is rabbeted into the action of this superior Charlie Chan entry. Assigned by the...
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1937
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An intrepid amputee must pass a test to prove his devotion to his sweetie in this romantic drama. The hero lost his leg...
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1937
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Chunky character actor J. Edward Bromberg carries the weight of Fair Warning on his burly shoulders. Bromberg is cast as...
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1937
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In this polished soap opera from MGM, Robert Taylor plays Chris Claybourne, a dedicated scientist researching a possible...
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Tom
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1936
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Casting an envious eye towards the huge box-office take of Columbia's Grace Moore vehicles, Republic hoped to strike gold in...
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1936
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The Murder of Dr. Harrigan is based on a "Nurse Sarah Keats" mystery novel by Mignon Eberhardt. The middle-aged protagonist...
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Dr. Harrigan
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1936
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In this comedy, a blocked writer decides he needs a little peace and quiet to spark his creativity so that he can write the...
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1936
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Nurse Sarah Keate, the middle-aged crime-solver created by mystery novelist Mignon Eberhardt, was reshaped as a much younger...
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1936
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Based on a mystery novel by Mignon Eberhart, The White Cockatoo concerns three mysterious murders at a French chateau. The...
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1935
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In this romantic drama, a horsewoman is forced to work in a society dame's stable. There she meets and falls in love with a...
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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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Tanahill
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1935
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The fourth screen version of Hubert Henry Davies' 1914 play Outcast, this comedy-drama stars Bette Davis as Miriam Brady, a...
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Hugh Brown
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1935
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Paul Muni is a prominent physician who is kidnapped by gangsters and forced to tend the needs of head crook Barton MacLaine....
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Dr. Burton
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1935
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This drama about corporate treachery was based on the best-selling novel by Alice Tisdale Hobart. Stephen Chase (Pat O'Brien)...
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Don Wellman
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1935
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In this bedroom farce, an ex-wife overhears her former hubby's new wife and her lover planning a tryst for the weekend while...
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Lawrence
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1935
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Not even considered a good film back in 1935, Dangerous is held together by the mesmerizing performance of Bette Davis. The...
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Gordon Heath
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1935
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Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler reunite once again for this musical salute to the West Point Military Academy, including many...
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Lt. Robert Biddle
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1934
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1934
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