Chance brings two people together in this romantic drama. David (James Brough) is a guy from London who has a one-night stand...
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2008
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1985
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Scott Harper (Ron Foster) is frustrated and angry as a police detective because he keeps getting passed over for a promotion...
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Dan Melrose
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1960
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Skeptical about paranormal phenomena, Arthur Douglas (Lin McCarthy) hypnotizes a woman named Ellen Larrabee (Jocelyn Brando),...
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1959
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A steamship docks in San Francisco, and as one of the passengers, Philip Dressler (Raymond Bailey), is waiting for a cab...
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1958
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Flood Tide can be described as The Children's Hour gone ballistic. Michel Ray is David Gordon a sweet-faced little boy who...
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1958
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In this drama, a singer finds herself implicated in the fatal immolation of her husband. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1958
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This Republic potboiler is no relation to the like-vintage Swedish film of the same title. The wayward girl in question is...
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1957
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Of the many filmed versions of the October 26, 1881, O.K. Corral shootout in Tombstone, Arizona, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral...
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1957
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In this crime drama, a young man with a love of hot cars and fast women gets into real trouble when he finds himself...
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1956
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Though both star Donald O'Connor and director Arthur Lubin had said goodbye to the "Francis the Talking Mule" series,...
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1956
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In this western, the ex-sheriff of Abilene returns from the Civil War a changed man. Traumatized by the horrors of war, the...
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1956
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This modest Republic suspenser stars Joan Vohs as a gorgeous victim of circumstance. Led to believe that she's killed a man...
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1956
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The MGM melodrama These Wilder Years marked the first onscreen pairing of Hollywood stars James Cagney and Barbara Stanwyck....
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1956
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In this 1955 Otto Preminger film, Gary Cooper stars as World War I hero Brigadier General Billy Mitchell. The film recounts...
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1955
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In this British espionage drama, a murderer hopes to escape his fateful appointment on death row by identifying the leaders...
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1955
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One of Republic's most elaborate productions of the 1950s, The Eternal Sea is the biography of American admiral John M....
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Adm. William F. Halsey
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1955
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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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1955
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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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Long before he devoted his life to gimmicky horror epics, director William Castle turned out a series of compact westerns for...
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1954
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Young at Heart is a soft-pedaled, musicalized remake of 1938's Four Daughters. Robert Keith takes over the Claude Rains role...
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1954
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A little girl is found wandering in the desert, in a state of complete shock. When she finally revives, she can scream out...
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1954
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A good man tries to warn his daughter away from a bad man who has stolen her heart in this melodrama. Steve Latimer...
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1953
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Clark Kent (George Reeves) and Inspector Henderson (Robert Shayne) go off to Hollwyood, where Clark is to serve as technical...
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1953
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By the Light of the Silvery Moon was a sequel to Warner Bros' On Moonlight Bay (1951); both films were loosely based on the...
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1953
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The title character is Edmond O'Brien, a lonely travelling salesman who ends up married to two women, Eve (Joan...
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1953
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H.G. Wells's War of the Worlds had been on the Paramount Pictures docket since the silent era, when it was optioned as a...
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1953
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Edmond O'Brien stars as an idealistic state's attorney assigned to crack down on a crime syndicate. This proves more...
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1952
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Something for the Birds is a toothless satire of Washington, filmed during the McCarthy era. For lack of a political target...
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1952
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Despite its ebullient title and the presence of lightweight dancing star Dan Dailey, Meet Me at the Fair has a lot more meat...
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1952
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Fred Saunders
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1952
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Pretty stewardess Marcy Lewis (Jane Wyman) must choose between Three Guys Named Mike in this frothy MGM concoction. There's...
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1951
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Webb Garwood (Van Heflin) is a cynical policeman who believes that success comes from lucky breaks. Responding to a prowler...
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Bud Crocker
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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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Can it be that June Allyson is Too Young to Kiss in this bit of MGM fluff? Well, not really. Pianist Cynthia Potter (Allyson)...
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1951
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Starlift was Warner Bros' attempt to revive the "all-star patriotic musical" format which had worked so well during WW II....
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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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1951
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Mickey Rooney returned to his "home" studio MGM, after a three-year absence, in the location-filmed melodrama The Strip....
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1951
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Highly respected defense attorney Dwight Bradley Mason (Walter Pidgeon) is able to clear young Rudi Wallchek...
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1951
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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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The Asphalt Jungle is a brilliantly conceived and executed anatomy of a crime -- or, as director John Huston and scripter...
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1950
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Blonde good-time girl Vivian Heldon (Jan Sterling), who lives in a cheap rooming house in a working-class section of Boston,...
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1950
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Farley Granger plays a casually larcenous New York City mailman who steals a shipment of money. Granger's excitement over...
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1950
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A woman's desire to rise above her drab lower middle-class life take her down the road to destruction in this gripping crime...
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1950
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Robert Lowery stars in the 65-minute actioner Arson Inc. Lowery plays a fireman in search of a seemingly random arsonist--or...
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1949
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1949
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Bob Hope's Technicolor western spoof The Paleface was one of the comedian's biggest box-office hits. Hope plays Painless...
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1948
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Set during WWII, this taut and suspenseful espionage outing chronicles the courage of a brand-new cadre of specially trained...
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1946
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Ida "Don't mess with me" Lupino takes a job as a singer in Robert Alda's seedy Santa Monica nitery. Lupino ignores Alda's...
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Director
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1946
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Monsieur Beaucaire, Booth Tarkington's novel about an 18th-century French barber who poses as a swashbuckling aristocrat, was...
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1946
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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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Like many PRC films, Lady in the Death House was run incessantly in the early days of television, then disappeared into the...
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1944
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Oriental Dream is the TV title for the 1944 Technicolor version of Kismet. Ronald Colman plays Hadji, "king of beggars" in...
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1944
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Former Hopalong Cassidy sidekick Russell Hayden retains his nickname of Lucky in this average entry in his short-lived...
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Cash Watson
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1944
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Silver Skates was designed to showcase Monogram's latest discovery, ice-skating star Belita. The minimalist plot concerns the...
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1943
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1943
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Lee Falk and Ray Moore's famous syndicated comic strip hero came to the screen in this 15 chapter serial produced by Rudolph...
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1943
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Republic's False Faces is a choice example of wartime "victory casting", with all the male cast members drawn from the ranks...
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1943
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Lee Tracy once more plays a fast-talking, slightly amoral newspaper reporter in PRC's The Payoff. Tracy is cast as Brad...
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1943
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Quality was seldom a consideration in the low-budget films of PRC Studios; still, the company was a welcome harbor for...
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1943
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Another of Universal's "pocket" musicals, Rhythm of the Islands is set in the South Seas, presumably far away from the...
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1943
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More so than most wartime films, Mission to Moscow must be viewed within the context of its times. Requested by President...
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1943
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Bob Kane's 1939 Detective Comics superhero The Batman came to the screens in serial form courtesy of Columbia Pictures and...
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Sam Fletcher
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1943
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At 49 minutes, Murder on the Waterfront was the shortest-ever Warner Bros. B picture. Alas, brevity is not the soul of wit in...
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1943
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This Monogram "special" stars Frank Albertson as the title character, a police reporter named Larry Doyle. Our hero solves a...
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Marvin
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1942
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Murder in the Big House was a remake of the 1936 Warner Bros. programmer Jailbreak. In his first starring role, Van Johnson...
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1942
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Before his promotion to "A" pictures, Don "Red" Barry was perhaps the feistiest of Republic's cowboy-star stable. In Arizona...
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Larry Madden
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1942
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It takes a while for the viewer to catch on, but the 1942 quickie Spy Ship is a remake of the 1934 crime melodrama...
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1942
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The Mystery of Marie Roget is more faithful to its Edgar Allan Poe original than most Universal films of its ilk, even though...
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1942
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In this musical, which manages to look back with nostalgia upon prohibition and the depression (no small accomplishment),...
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1942
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Hayden enters the lawless prairie in which criminals have had free reign to manipulate the innocent settlers. ~ Rovi...
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1942
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Alan Baxter, usually seen as a neurotic villain in A pictures, gets to play the good guy in Monogram's Borrowed Hero. Baxter...
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1941
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Flying Cadets is basically a vehicle for William Gargan and Edmund Lowe, doing a Flagg-and-Quirt act as a pair of eternally...
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1941
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The marvelous rapport between stars Clark Gable and Lana Turner makes MGM's Honky Tonk seem far more substatianal than it...
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1941
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In the wake of Abbott & Costello's Buck Privates, every studio in Hollywood began cranking out service comedies. Warner...
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1941
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Perhaps nine lives weren't enough, but 63 minutes was plenty of time to relate the plot of this Ronald Reagan vehicle. Reagan...
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1941
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Producer
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1934
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In this musical-comedy, a good-hearted composer sees a beautiful woman at a traffic light and is inspired to write a song....
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Producer
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1934
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In this comedy, a naive young woman works as a servant for a home sublet to thieves. When she and the window cleaner...
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Producer
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1933
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While the opera "Faust" plays in the background, Lupino, in the audience, attempts to meet the girl of his dreams, Burne,...
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Producer
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1933
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Romance and espionage intermingle in this WW I drama that centers on an Austrian officer who falls in love with an Italian...
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Producer
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1933
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In this crime comedy, based on a popular British play, a young man poses as a poet to protect his auntie's jewels from...
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Producer
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1933
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Producer
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1932
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While at a duke's party, disguised Ruritanian king Gerrard and chancellor McNaughton are accused of jewel thievery, but find...
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Producer
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1932
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Producer
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1932
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In this farce, an excited miner begins making grandiose plans after he believes that he has won a large football pool. His...
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Producer
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1932
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In this British comedy, a fellow goes on a Spanish vacation and finds himself mistaken for a famous matador. Mayhem ensues...
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Producer
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1932
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Producer
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1932
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The title lass in this Eclipse production is a goatherd-ess, in love with a strapping mountain youth. During his daily...
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Producer
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1932
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Set during WW I, this comedy chronicles the heroism of a bungling British soldier who saves the day in spite of himself. ~...
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Producer
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1932
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In this romantic comedy, a philandering husband buys his lover an expensive necklace. When she accidentally breaks the...
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Producer
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1932
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This early Hitchcock effort is a parody of the thriller genre about a transient (Leon M. Lion) who accidentally discovers the...
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Producer
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1932
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Everyone remembers David Lean's near-perfect 1954 film version of Harold Brighouse's 1915 play Hobson's Choice -- but can the...
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Producer
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1931
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In this musical, an impoverished aristocrat's daughter tries for a singing career. She also falls in love with a radio star...
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Producer
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1931
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A spiteful, young noblewoman, married to a prominent lord attempts to ruin the life of the highly-principled chauffeur who...
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Producer
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1931
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In this British drama, a new public school encounters trouble when the new sports instructor arrives and begins using his...
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Producer
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1931
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In this interesting British prison film, an innocent man goes to prison and his wife later commits a crime so she can join...
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Producer
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1931
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In this comedy, a rebellious son of a powerful industrialist returns home to prepare to take over the company. While their...
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Producer
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1931
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Two prolific British character actors contributed to the production end of The Woman Between; its script was adapted from...
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Producer
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1931
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This atypical Alfred Hitchcock effort is a cautionary fable which lends credence to the old saw "Love flies out the door when...
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Producer
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1931
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Producer
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1931
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In this drama, one of the earlier British films, a man attempts to be near the woman he loves. Unfortunately, she is...
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Producer
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1931
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In this French action comedy, a recently betrothed bride invites her parents to meet her fiance. Unfortunately, they learn...
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Producer
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1930
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A literal adaptation of the popular stage play by Ian Hay and Stephen King-Hall, specialists both in maritime comedies,...
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Producer
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1930
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In this comedy, dim-bulbed Cockney Bill Biggles becomes a sailor and goes to sea. Many adventures later, he ends up running...
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Producer
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1930
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Alfred Hitchcock's second talkie was a surprisingly static adaptation of the Sean O'Casey stage drama Juno and the Paycock....
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Producer
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1930
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In this British crime drama, a Yankee crook uses a garage owner's son as his alibi after he robs a bank and shoots a cop. A...
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Producer
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1930
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Producer
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1930
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One of the first talkie adaptations of an Edgar Wallace story, The Yellow Mask is set in motion by the skullduggery of...
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Producer
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1930
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Producer
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1930
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Although he was established as a master of suspense by 1929, Alfred Hitchcock was still under contract to British...
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Producer
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1929
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Alfred Hitchcock's first sound film utilized the new sound technology in a rather creative way off-camera. Hitchcock's lead...
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Producer
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1929
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A wealthy man pretends he is bankrupt to teach his wayward daughter a lesson. An early, silent Hitchcock film which is...
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Producer
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1928
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Misguided heroine Louise Harding (Juliette Compton) marries into wealth for convenience's sake. While going about her...
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Producer
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1928
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Producer
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1928
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Producer
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1927
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