One by-product of two consecutive Oscar wins is that Tom Hanks no longer has to appear in such potboilers as Turner and...
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1989
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The made-for-TV The Dream Breakers harks back to all those Pat O'Brien and Spencer Tracy "fighting priest" films of the 1930s...
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1989
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As Summers Die was produced as an "HBO Premiere" attraction. Set in the segregationist South of the 1950s, the film pits the...
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1986
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Much to the surprise of the Night Court staff, Dan Fielding's parents, whom he insisted were dead, show up in New York City,...
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1985
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Originally made for television, this story concerns a champion rodeo rider (Lee Majors) and his romance with a Russian...
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1984
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Juvenile actor Henry Thomas, late of E.T., is the star of Cloak and Dagger. Given to telling whoppers, Thomas finds himself...
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George MacCready
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1984
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In the first episode of a two-part story (originally telecast as a single, two hour "very special" episode), Quincy (Jack...
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1983
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Clint Eastwood put his tough-guy image on hold for this personal project, which follows a musician taking one final chance at...
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Grandpa
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1982
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Officially premiering April 27, 1981, the weekly TV drama American Dream was preceded by a 90-minute pilot film, telecast...
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1981
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The Disney animated feature The Fox and the Hound tells the story of a friendship between traditional enemies. Tod is a fox...
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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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In this adventure, a mother ends up lost in a blizzard after she goes out in search of a Christmas tree. ~ Sandra Brennan,...
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1979
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An angry mother (Cloris Leachman) fights an ineffective judicial system to bring justice to her daughter's rapist. The film...
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1979
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In this action film, a former pro skier who has become a sheriff attempts to talk daring, but unprepared teens from climbing...
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1978
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Raymond Burr attempted a return to weekly television in this feature-length pilot for the proposed series The Jordan Chance....
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1978
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1978
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Two fantasy novels by Margery Sharp were combined for in the Disney animated feature The Rescuers. The title characters are a...
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1977
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Ostensibly a six-hour miniseries adaptation of Bert Hirschfield's novel Aspen, the program actually used only the title of...
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1977
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The third and final TV-movie in the "Joshua Cabe" saga, this ABC effort stars John McIntire as rascally...
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1976
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John Wayne returned to the role that won him an Oscar in this sequel to the western classic True Grit. Rooster Cogburn...
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Judge Isaac C. Parker
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1975
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After an Alaskan fur trapper accidentally shoots and kills a ranger, he must flee through the frozen Arctic wilderness as he...
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Narrator
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1975
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Herbie Rides Again is the first sequel to Disney's fabulously successful The Love Bug. The emphasis here is on Mrs. Steinmetz...
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Mr. Judson
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1974
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The Healers is a soap opera-style affair starring John Forsythe as head researcher at a California medical center....
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1974
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John McIntire is cast as Michael "Doc" Lacy, a lifelong criminal whose career stretches back to the Dillinger era. Having...
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1971
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Made-for-TV, this originally aired in 1971 under the title Bayou Boy. Mitch Vogel plays an orphan who inherits a tiny silver...
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1971
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Originally a pilot for a television series, this western centers on a wild pair of detectives who are hired to bring train...
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1970
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The Mystery of Edward Sims is based on one of the many "Gallegher" stories by Richard Harding Davis. Roger Mobley stars as...
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1968
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This typical western tale of beleaguered townsfolk mustering up the courage to fight the villain that controls their town...
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Ben Hickman
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1967
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This episode is something of a family affair, with John McIntire, his wife Jeanette Nolan and their son Tim McIntire) cast in...
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1966
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Determined that his grandson Ed (Buck Taylor) will attend school rather than follow family tradition and become a miner, old...
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1966
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Hoss Cartwright saves Old Charlie (John McIntire, the town's premiere spinner of tall and outlandish tales, from a...
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Old Charlie
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1966
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Forced into retirement, disgruntled truck driver Harold K. "Smitty" Smith (Arthur O'Connell) decides to get even with his...
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1965
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When Hale and Smith make friends with a preacher, they didn't realize he was out to con them out of everything they had. It...
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1962
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Directed by Edward Killy, The Wagon Train, Vol. 3: The Dr. Denker Story follows the train's two newest members--a young boy...
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1962
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John McIntire appears as radio commentator Loren Hall, a character rumored to be based on The Untouchables' rat-a-tat...
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1961
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One of director John Ford's least characteristic films, it derives from the latter part of his career, when the director's...
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1961
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During Ben Cartwright's absence, a woman named Jennifer (Suzanne Lloyd) shows up at the Ponderosa, claiming to be Ben's new...
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Sheriff Mike Latimer
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1961
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Dr. Buchanan
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1961
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Sam Burton
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1960
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Prof. Daemon
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1960
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1960
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A screwball comedy that turns into political farce, this film was something of a throwback even in 1960. Real-life husband...
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Bob Doyle
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1960
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In 1960, Alfred Hitchcock was already famous as the screen's master of suspense (and perhaps the best-known film director in...
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1960
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Elmer Gantry (Burt Lancaster), a drunken, dishonest street preacher allegedly patterned on Billy Sunday, wrangles a job with...
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1960
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Seven Ways from Sundown is a well-wrought western by director Harry Keller, starring Audie Murphy in the title role (his...
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Sgt. Hennessey
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1960
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With Gene Barry already riding the video range as legendary gunfighter-turned-lawman Bat Masterson, independent producer...
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Doc
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1959
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In this musical drama, a popular rock star leads a successful and happy life while his grandfather, a stern, traditional...
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Rev. Walker
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1958
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Those who learned to dislike Conrad Richter's novel The Light in the Forest when it was required reading in high school will...
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1958
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Suicidal Sylvia (Ann Todd) desperately wants to be reunited with Peter, the callous fortune-hunter whom she'd married after a...
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1958
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Filmed on location in Africa, Mark of the Hawk stars Sidney Poitier as a London-educated African who returns to his homeland...
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Craig
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1957
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1957
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Based on the novel by Kenneth M. Dodson, Away All Boats stars Jeff Chandler as a tough Navy captain who takes charge of a...
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1956
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The breathtakingly beautiful Technicolor cinematography of Irving Glassberg is but one of the many small pleasures of the...
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Jim Bonniwell
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1956
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The "Bridey Murphy" craze of the 1950s was the catalyst for I've Lived Before. Jock Mahoney plays a contemporary pilot who...
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Dr. Thomas Bryant
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1956
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In this boxing drama, a young pugilist hopes his talent will be his ticket out of the ghetto. Sure enough, the welterweight...
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Dave Bernstein
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1956
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One of the most entertaining of the Western movies to come out of the 1950s, this is a Stewart vehicle in which he must take...
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Mr. Gannon
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1955
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The infamous Benedict Arnold affair is the basis of the lively MGM costumer The Scarlet Coat. Arnold is played with suitably...
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1955
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Based on actual events, The Phenix City Story tells the tale of a wide-open "Sin City" in Alabama (across a bridge from...
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Albert Patterson
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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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Zack
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1955
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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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Josiah Bannerman
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1955
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The Spoilers is the fourth and (very likely) last film version of Rex Beach's rugged Alaskan adventure yarn. Set during the...
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1955
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1954
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Lex Barker trades his Tarzan loincloth for buckskins in the Universal western Yellow Mountain. Barker stars as gold...
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Bannon
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1954
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Al Sieber
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1954
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War Arrow is another of Universal's efficiently produced A plus/B minus Technicolor westerns of the early 1950s....
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Col. Jackson Meade
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1953
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1953's The Mississippi Gambler was the third Universal Studios film to bear this title--though with a different plot each...
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Kansas John Polly
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1953
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In 1945, James Cagney, through his independent production company, bought the rights to a lurid novel by Adria Locke Langley,...
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Jeb Brown
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1953
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Jack Overton
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1953
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Gregory Peck and Anthony Quinn play two seal-hunting rivals in this adventure film set in the days when Alaska was a Russian...
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Deacon Greathouse
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1952
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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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Gabe Jordan
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1952
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Set in the years following the Civil War, Horizons West stars Robert Ryan as Dan Hammond, one of three Texans who decide to...
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Ira Hammond
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1952
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Young Sally Moyne (Ann Blyth) seldom makes a move in life without first consulting Saint Anne, patron saint of all young...
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Goldsooth McCarthy
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1952
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The Lawless Breed is based on the exploits of Texas bad man John Wesley Hardin, played here quite convincingly by...
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John Clements
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1952
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Though Frank Capra wrote the original story treatment for MGM's Westward the Women, he was too busy to direct the film, and...
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Roy Whitman
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1951
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The Raging Tide stars Richard Conte as San Francisco crime boss Bruno Felkin. After killing off a rival, Felkin tries to...
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1951
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Gary Cooper stars in this broad naval farce, directed by Henry Hathaway and based upon a John W. Hazard New Yorker magazine...
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Comdr. Reynolds
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1951
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Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis' second starring vehicle was the odd mixture of slapstick and sentiment known as That's My Boy....
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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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Richard Conte plays a big-city racketeer whose luck runs out on him. He is sent to a Southern prison, but vows to be out and...
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Langley
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1950
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Joseph Cotten stars in Walk Softly, Stranger as Chris Hale, a fugitive criminal who decides to hide out in a small Midwestern...
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1950
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Hess Higgins
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1950
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Rudolph Mate directs this sentimental melodrama about a ridiculously self-sacrificing wife based on the book by Ruth Southard...
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Dr. Ralph Frene
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1950
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A murder is witnessed by the victim's little daughter (Gigi Perreau), who immediately goes into a state of shock. All the...
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1950
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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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1950
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The Dore Schary regime at MGM brought a much-needed dose of stark realism to the venerable studio. Van Johnson sheds his...
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1949
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Red Canyon was one of several medium-budget, Technicolor westerns turned out by Universal-International between 1949 and...
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Floyd Cordt
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1949
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In Johnny Stool Pigeon, the title character's name is really Johnny Evans (Dan Duryea). Evans is an imprisoned crook whose...
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Nick Avery
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1949
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This full-blooded saga of the 19th century whaling industry stars Lionel Barrymore as tough old salt Captain Bering Joy and...
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1949
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One wonders if Donald O'Connor would have consented to star in Francis if he knew that a series was to follow. Adapted by...
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Gen. Stevens
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1949
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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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Worthless from a historical aspect, Black Bart is nonetheless an enjoyable fabrication about the fabled Western outlaw....
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1948
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1948
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In this documentary-inspired thriller, P.J. McNeal (James Stewart) is a reporter who is asked by his editor to look into a...
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1948
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FBI operative Mark Stevens is dispatched by his boss Lloyd Nolan to infiltrate a criminal gang. Stevens ingratiates himself...
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Cy Gordon
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1948
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In this provocative drama, a stern hard-liner judge commits euthanasia to save his terminally ill wife from further...
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1948
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Yvonne DeCarlo dons 19th century "adventuress" garb once more in River Lady. This time she's a 19th century gambling queen,...
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1948
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