The men behind America's first venture into space are honored in this drama that paid special emphasis on historical...
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Maj. Ward Thomas
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1956
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Adapted by Don M. Mankiewicz from his own novel, Trial is a surprisingly timely story of how justice can sometimes be...
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John J. Armstrong
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1955
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Dragonfly Squadron is set in 1950 in the months before the beginning of the Korean War. John Hodiak stars as Major Mathew...
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Maj. Mathew Brady
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1954
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McCord
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1953
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Cashing in on the popularity of such pro-Native American films as Broken Arrow, Columbia's resident quickiemeister...
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Cochise
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1953
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In this Korean War drama, a strong-willed, stubborn greenhorn pilot becomes obsessed with avenging the death of his brother...
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1953
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In this exciting Korean War-era actioner, two Marine combat photographers risk their lives on the front to chronicle the...
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Danny
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1952
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Chick Johnson
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1951
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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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Tom Lawry
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1951
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Clark Gable is the largely nonheroic hero of the sprawling western Across the Wide Missouri. A cunning trapper who lives...
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Brecan
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1951
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Fish-market worker Johnny O'Hara (James Arness) is named as a suspect when his boss -- with whom he had a dispute the...
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Louis Barra
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1951
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This sequel to the 1942 Oscar-winner Mrs.Miniver can be considered ill-advised, if only because the producers could never...
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Spike Romway
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1950
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Ambush is a tight, well-paced western, expertly assembled by veteran director Sam Wood, whose last film this was....
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Capt. Ben Lorrison
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1950
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A Lady Without Passport stars Hedy Lamarr in the title role. Lamarr plays Marianne Lorress, a concentration-camp refugee who...
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Pete Karczag
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1950
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Federal agent Robert Taylor journeys to a mythical South American community, there to break up a war-surplus contraband...
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Tug Hintten
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1949
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Incoming MGM production head Dore Schary ramrodded Battleground into the studio's schedule over the virulent protests of MGM...
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Jarvess
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1949
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Kellar
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1949
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When Homecoming was first released in 1948, some observers felt that Clark Gable's unusually sensitive performance was based...
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Dr. Robert Sunday
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1948
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1948
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On the whole, the films of producer-writer-director Arch Oboler seldom came up to the lofty standards of his radio work, but...
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Tony Arnelo
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1947
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Desert Fury is a rarety for the 1940s, a Technicolor "film noir." Set in a Nevada gambling town, the story concerns the...
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Eddie Bendix
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1947
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Based on the novel by Agatha Christie and play by Frank Vosper, Love From a Stranger isn't quite as good as the 1937 version...
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Manuel Cortez
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1947
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George Taylor (John Hodiak) is a war veteran suffering from amnesia with only two clues to his past: the bitter letter from...
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1946
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One of two con-artists ends up arrested and given five days of freedom before he must go to jail. This comedy chronicles...
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Ace Connors
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1946
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This glorified Technicolor commercial for the Fred Harvey restaurants stars Judy Garland as a 19th-century mail-order bride....
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Ned Trent
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1946
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Director Henry King's adaptation of John Hersey's novel is a faithful telling of the story of Major Joppolo (John Hodiak),...
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Maj. Joppolo
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1945
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Seeking a creative challenge after several years' worth of fairly elaborate melodramas, director Alfred Hitchcock stages all...
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John Kovac
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1944
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In this eighth film in MGM's "Maisie" series, Ann Sothern is back as ever-stranded chorus girl Maisie Revier. As the story...
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"Flip" Hennohan
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1944
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Robert Z. Leonard, who must have taken room and board at MGM, was the directorial hand behind this slight domestic drama....
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Lt. Tom West
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1944
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Charles Winninger plays an old seaman who rules the roost in his family, which resides on a Florida houseboat. His oldest...
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Eric Moore
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1944
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One can only imagine the reaction of arch-conservative MGM head Louis B. Mayer when Song of Russia first tumbled over the...
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Boris
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1943
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In her seventh outing as irrepressible vaudeville entertainer Maisie Revere, Ann Sothern aided the war effort by working the...
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1943
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In later years, director Vincente Minnelli would dismiss I Dood It as his worst picture, though a more deserving candidate...
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1943
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1943
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