Film star Lylah Clare is dead, but her legend lives on. Movie-producer Barney Sheean (Ernest Borgnine) hires Elsa Brinkmann...
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Stunts
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1968
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Dumped by his girlfriend because she thinks he's a crashing bore, Walter Mills (Larry Blyden) decides to completely alter his...
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1965
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Though he hardly relishes the assignment, Jason (Chuck Connors) agrees to help a rural undertaker haul a coffin into town....
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1965
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This drama tells the true story of one of Broadway's most successful madams in the 1920s. It is loosely based on the...
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1964
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Kolos (Richard Kiel) is a space alien sent to Earth in this low-budget science fiction story. His mission is to make...
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1964
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In this romantic comedy, Deke Gentry (Kirk Douglas) is a lawyer who gets an unusual assignment from Chloe Brasher...
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1963
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1963
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In 4 for Texas, Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin star as Zack Thomas and Joe Jarrett, a pair of rival mountebanks who spend most...
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1963
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The "lost woman" of the title is Rita Marlowe (Ruta Lee), an alcoholic singer whom Ben Cartwright hopes to rehabilitate. But...
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1963
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Jack Lemmon stars as Hogan, who lives a bachelor's dream as the manager of an apartment building that caters only to single...
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1963
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Lawyer Dean Martin's gambling habit is beginning to get on the nerves of his wife Lana Turner. To keep the money in the...
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1963
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This Elvis Presley vehicle is close to a lemon, even for his die-hard fans. Elvis is Mike Edwards, a pilot of a small plane...
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1963
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One of Hollywood's great directors, Vincente Minnelli, turns a jaundiced eye towards the film industry in this drama about...
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1962
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An unusually tense and intelligent political thriller, The Manchurian Candidate was a film far ahead of its time. Its themes...
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1962
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1961
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Theft is the pivotal element of this drama which was based on a Brink's robbery. A gang of thieves decide to pull a major...
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1961
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Forbidden to fight in the US because he has sustained too many serious injuries, boxer Yank Dawson (a pre-Death Wish Charles...
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1961
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Although this story of the making of a gangland hoodlum reflects only some of the real history of the Detroit Purple Gang in...
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1960
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During a Los Angeles Christmas, a group of 82nd Airborne vets assembles under the leadership of gamblin' man Danny Ocean...
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1960
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The launching pad for Billy Wilder's comedy classic was a rusty old German farce, Fanfares of Love, whose two main characters...
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1959
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Anthony Quinn and Shirley Booth play a married couple who cling and claw like cats in a bathtub in this sudsy melodrama set...
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1958
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Ten North Frederick is a generally satisfying adaptation of one of John O'Hara's weaker novels. Gary Cooper plays wealthy...
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1958
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Actor Cornel Wilde branched out into directing with The Devil's Hairpin--reserving the starring role for himself. Wilde plays...
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1957
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Chicago Confidential may not have been the best of the late-1950s "expose" films, but it certainly boasted one of the most...
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1957
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One of the best of Elvis Presley's pre-Army films, Jailhouse Rock offers us the sensual, "dangerous" Elvis that had won the...
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1957
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This 1955 film began life as two Runyon short stories, the most prominent of which was "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown." This...
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1955
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John Wayne plays anti-Nazi Prussian sea captain Karl Erlich in Sea Chase, one of the many film commentaries released post...
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1955
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Rescuing Daniel Norton (Dewey Martin) from a watery grave, two-bit fight promoter Willy Wurble (Keenan Wynn) senses potential...
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1954
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During World War II, a Military Air Transport Command DC-3 piloted by a civilian crew is forced down in northern Labrador....
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1953
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Authentic New Orleans locations enhance the overall enjoyment of the prizefight melodrama Glory Alley. A mere few seconds...
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1952
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Something to Live For is the last of director George Stevens' "small" films, before he concentrated full-time on such...
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1952
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This "Bowery Boys" entry is an on-target satire of TV wrestling (which, if anything, is even sillier in the 1990s than it was...
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1952
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Based on The Mexican, a novel by Jack London, this is the story of a young man whose family, girlfriend and village were...
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Consultant/advisor
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1952
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Pier 23 was one of three hour-long mysteries produced by Lippert Productions for both TV and theatrical release. Each of the...
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1951
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Callaway Went Thataway is an amiable spoof of early television's "Hopalong Cassidy" craze. Fred MacMurray and...
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1951
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A remake of the 1931 film of the same name, Iron Man stars Jeff Chandler as up-and-coming boxer Cokie Martin. A relatively...
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1951
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In this old-fashioned screwball comedy, Christy Sloane (Eleanor Parker) is a secretary with a large legal firm who is sent to...
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1951
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1950
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Consultant/advisor
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1950
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1949
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As shown by the clock face that opens and closes the film, The Set-Up takes place within a compact 72 minutes, with the...
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Consultant/advisor
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1949
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In this entry in the long running comedy-drama series, the boys get into the world of prizefighting. When one of Slip's pals...
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1949
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Though Humphrey Bogart is the official star of Knock on Any Door, the film is essentially a showcase for Columbia's newest...
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1949
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Monogram's low-budget, high-grossing "Joe Palooka" series carries on in this 66-minute entry. Joe Kirkwood plays Joe Palooka,...
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Choreography, Consultant/advisor
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1949
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Joe Palooka, comic strip artist Ham Fisher's golden-hearted pugilist, heads South of the Border in The Counterpunch....
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1949
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1949
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John Garfield, in the best performance of his career, portrays Joe Morse, an ambitious attorney who has long since abandoned...
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1948
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The Accused is a mystery melodrama with a predictable plot involving blackmail, attempted rape and murder. Loretta Young...
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1948
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This boxing drama focuses on the manager rather than the fighter. The story begins as a corrupt manager fakes the death of...
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1948
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In this entry in the long-running "Bowery Boys" series, Slip Mahoney and his boys witness a murder, but cannot identify the...
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1948
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In this musical drama set at the turn-of-the-century, a saloon singer marries a wealthy attorney and then begins fooling...
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1948
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Joe Palooka, Ham Fisher's famed comic-strip fighter, risks his life to clear the name of his manager in this series entry....
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1948
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This episodic holiday film centers around a rich spinster aunt whose greedy nephew is attempting legal action to take her...
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1947
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This riveting 1947 drama, regarded by many as the greatest boxing movie of all time, centers on a former pugilist who looks...
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1947
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Art critic and forgery expert George Steele (Pat O'Brien) is apprehended by the police as he desperately tries to break into...
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1946
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1946
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This second entry in the Bowery Boys series plays more like an extended 2-reeler than a feature film, perhaps because its...
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1946
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1946
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Our Hearts Were Growing Up is the sequel to Paramount's surprise 1944 hit Our Hearts Were Young and Gay. The first film was...
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1946
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Mr. Hex was the first Bowery Boys epic in which the goofy Sach (Huntz Hall) is given superhuman powers. Hypnotized by a...
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1946
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Several of Paramount Pictures brightest stars make cameo appearances in this comedy set in "Duffy's Tavern," a favorite...
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1945
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Greg McClure stars as legendary boxer John L. Sullivan in this screen biography of the famous fighter. Known as "The Boston...
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1945
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Abbott and Costello's The Naughty Nineties offers a million laughs and a nickel's worth of plot. Most of the film takes place...
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1945
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1945
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One-time movie crooner Dick Powell literally turned his career around in the 1944 film noir Murder My Sweet. Powell stars as...
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1944
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Lucille Ball delivers the finest dramatic performance of her career in this satisfying adaptation of Damon Runyon's The Big...
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1942
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Broke and stranded once more, golden-hearted showgirl Maisie Revere (Ann Sothern) finds herself in upstate New York in...
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1941
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Gene Autry battles a crooked mine owner in this his signature western from Republic Pictures. Years earlier, Gene promised to...
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1941
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Paramount spent a record one million dollars on its 1937 Mae West vehicle Every Day's a Holiday. La West portrays a...
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1937
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A sort of follow-up to the studio's earlier College Scandal, Paramount's Murder Goes to College once again combines homicide...
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1937
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1936
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1936
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In this lively comedy, a humble Italian barber wins the Irish sweepstakes. Unfortunately, he has misplaced the ticket....
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1935
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Two Fisted is based on the James Gleason-Richard Taber stage play Is Zat So?, previously filmed under its original title in...
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1935
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Some observers have suggested that Meet Danny Wilson could just as well have been titled Meet Frank Sinatra. A star vehicle...
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