The 1940s was a monumental decade for the United States. Amid World War II, economic recovery, and the start of the Cold...
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1998
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Created by former British prep-school teacher Anthony Buckeridge in the immediate postwar years, Jennings was an insatiably...
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Producer
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1966
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Because of its misleadingly sensual title and the participation of screenwriter/director F. Hugh Herbert (author of the...
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1953
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A Big Apple nightclub singer inherits a riverboat from his late grandfather and learns, via flashback, the interesting story...
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1953
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Audie Murphy is suitably cast as cavalry lieutenant Jed Sayre in Universal's Column South. Stationed in Navajo country, Sayre...
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1953
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Originally intended as a 3D film, this standard-issue Bob Hope musical comedy was released "flat." The 50-year-old Hope plays...
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1953
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Director
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1953
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In his second starring vehicle, singing cowboy Rex Allen plays the head of a frontier cattlemen's association. The villain is...
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1950
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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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1949
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1946
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There's slightly more fancy than fact in this lavish film biography of legendary American composer George Gershwin, but oh!...
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1945
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Originally titled They Shall Have Faith, Forever Yours was designed as Monogram's "prestige" release for 1945. Musical...
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1944
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In this romantic drama, an office clerk's quiet personal life is disrupted when a sick woman appears at his doorstep in...
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Henry Burrows
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1944
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In this musical, two young people inherit their foster father's nightclub. The joint teeters on the brink of bankruptcy...
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Johnny
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1944
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In this musical western, a cowboy band is offered the chance to appear in a Hollywood movie and begins the journey to the...
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1944
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"It'll make you yell SOLID!" boasted the ads for the Monogram musical Campus Rhythm. Johnny Downs stars as Scoop, a rather...
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Scoop
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1943
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As PRC pictures go, the modest Harvest Melody is practically a spectacular. Rosemary Lane plays former film star Gilda...
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Tommy
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1943
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Four enterprising air cadets are suspected of a series of murders actually committed by The Black Hangman, a mysterious Nazi...
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Danny Collins
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1943
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To say that Behind the Eight Ball is the best of the Ritz Brothers' quartet of Universal vehicles is faint praise indeed, but...
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Danny
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1942
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Bland former child actor Johnny Downs earns top billing in this low-budget horror film, but the real star is that most...
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Tom Gregory
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1942
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The bucolic, down-home novels and short stories of Gene Stratton-Porter had been fodder for Monogram's screenwriting staff...
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Freckles
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1942
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Ted Brown
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1941
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Ann Sheridan and her then-husband George Brent did their expected box-office duty in the Warner Bros. comedy Honeymoon for...
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1941
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This 48-minute Hal Roach "streamliner" represents a rare directorial assignment for veteran Hollywood choreographer...
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Bob Sheppard
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1941
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In this musical, an idealistic college graduate is bitten by the show business bug after he finds success writing and...
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Andy Peyton
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1941
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Another cookie-cutter Universal minimusical, Moonlight in Hawaii gathered together the usual suspects-Johnny Downs, Leon...
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Pete
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1941
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Ingrid Bergman stars in Adam Had Four Sons, her second American film appearance. Based on a novel by Charles Bonner, the...
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1941
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Jane Frazee made her starring film debut in the Republic B-plus musical Melody and Moonlight. The plot is motivated by the...
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Danny O'Brian
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1940
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Universal Studios had their "B" musicals down to a science in the 1940s. All that was needed was a cast of talented...
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Bob Gunther
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1940
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A Child is Born is a remake of 1932's Life Begins, softened to conform to stricter movie censorship and lengthened to qualify...
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1940
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In this musical, a con man makes a good living by promoting bogus charity shows. He gets the communities all revved up and...
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Johnny
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1940
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Woo-woo Hugh Herbert is the star of Universal's Slightly Tempted. Herbert plays a kleptomaniac who promises to go straight...
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Jimmy Duncan
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1940
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That fine stage and screen actor Walter Abel enjoys a rare movie starring role in Columbia's First Offenders. Upset with the...
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Fred Gray
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1939
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Stephen Hannis
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1939
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Independently (and very cheaply) produced, Bad Boy stars Johnny Downs as the title character, one John Fraser. In truth, John...
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1939
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For some reason, Hollywood movie musicals "discovered" Hawaii in the late 1930s. One of the lesser but still entertaining...
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Ted Hartley
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1939
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According to Hollywood, the parents were generally at fault when good kids went bad. This theory is elucidated in Columbia's...
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Don Martin
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1939
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This tuneful campus comedy features aging star John Barrymore as a sly, blustery Southern governor with his eye on the Senate...
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1938
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Hunted Men is part of Paramount's unofficial B-picture series based on the J. Edgar Hoover book Persons in Hiding....
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1938
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In this musical comedy, two star-struck small town kids head for the Big Apple and become famous for their jitterbug act....
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Johnny
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1938
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This Hollywood remake of the French Pepe le Moko adheres so slavishly to its source that it utilizes stock footage from the...
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1938
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1938
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Department store owner Elliot Dinwiddy (Charlie Ruggles) never makes a decision without first consulting his astrologer Dr....
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Terry Keith
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1937
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1937
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"Camp Romance," a place for the romantically challenged, provides the setting of this musical. The story centers on a frumpy...
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Stanley Jackson
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1937
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Johnny Downs takes a break from his usual campus musicals to play a small-town songsmith in Blonde Trouble. Attempting to...
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Fred Stevens
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1937
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The first of 20th Century-Fox's college musicals, Pigskin Parade is also close to the best of them in musical terms -- though...
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Chip Carson
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1936
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The quaint genetic theories of the 1930s are satirized in College Holiday. Dotty matron Mary Boland runs a ramshackle summer...
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1936
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Everybody's Old Man looks like a stray Will Rogers project, temporarily shelved when Rogers was killed in a 1935 plane crash....
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Tommy Sampson
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1936
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Young married couple Johnny and Trudy Ellis (Johnny Downs and Shirley Deane) are thrilled when their first baby is born. They...
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Johnny Ellis
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1936
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Lone Alonzo Mulhall
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1936
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Vaudeville humorist Walter C. Kelley, who toured for years as "The Virginia Judge," repeated the characterization in this...
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Bob Stuart
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1935
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Former child actor Johnny Downs acts his first adult lead in this nonsensical but charming little musical which benefits...
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Johnny Marvin
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1935
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Never mind the title and the musical content: College Scandal is at heart a murder mystery, and a pretty suspenseful one at...
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1935
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So Red the Rose is a Civil War drama that plays like a warm-up for Gone With the Wind--and, unlike Wind, has two genuine...
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1935
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1934
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After attending a magic show, the Our Gang members decide to indulge in a little prestidigitation of their own. One of the...
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Johnny
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1927
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If not the funniest of the silent Our Gang comedies, Seeing the World is certainly one of the most famous. James Finlayson is...
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Johnny
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1927
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Habitually mistreated at the deceptively named Happyland Home Orphanage, the Our Gang kids find a loyal and kindhearted...
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Johnny
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1927
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While on a cross-country train trip, the Our Gang kids drive the rest of the passengers crazy with a never-ending game of...
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Johnny
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1926
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Easily one of the fastest and funniest of the silent Our Gang comedies, Thundering Fleas is set in motion with a sidewalk...
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Johnny
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1926
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The Our Gang kids are held in thrall by neighborhood bully Toughy (Johnny Downs), who not only extorts money from the kids,...
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Toughie
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1926
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While the Our Gang kids are beating the summer heat with their own elaborate version of a "slip-n-slide," a fire alarm rings,...
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Johnny
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1926
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A seance held by phony spiritualist Professor Fleece (George K. French) is inadvertently disrupted by the Our Gang kids....
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Johnny
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1926
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Originally released on January 10, 1926, Good Cheer was Our Gang's Yuletide present to the series' legions of fans. 'Tis the...
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Johnny
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1926
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Once again, the Our Gang kids embark upon a treasure hunt, this time in search of Captain Kidd's buried gold. Boarding their...
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Johnny
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1926
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Our Gang member Allen "Farina" Hoskins decides to run away from home on the same day that an oversized, trained chimpanzee...
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1926
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Mr. and Mrs. Weedle (William Gillespie and Charlotte Mineau) are in a jam: For years, they've been receiving substantial...
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Johnny
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1926
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According to the opening title of this silent Our Gang comedy, "Uncle Tom's Cabin had been translated and played in forty-two...
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Johnny
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1926
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Producer Hal Roach often claimed that Your Own Back Yard was his favorite of all the Our Gang silent comedies produced by his...
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1925
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Living in a crowded tenement neighborhood, the Our Gang kids habitually run afoul of the nasty, ill-tempered cop on the...
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Johnny
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1925
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Once again, the Our Gang kids go into the taxi business, this time with an old, abandoned, motorless auto and an obliging...
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1925
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When the Our Gang kids make the acquaintance of Billy Lord, a wealthy youngster who owns his own home-movie camera, the...
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1925
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Hoping to build their own amusement park, the Our Gang kids are disheartened to discover that their favorite vacant lot has...
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Johnny
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1925
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Romance enters the lives of the Our Gang kids, prompting them to go to their surrogate "grandma" for advice. After Joe Cobb,...
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1925
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This silent, two-reel Our Gang comedy was first released on May 3, 1925. Shootin' Injuns finds the Our Gang kids...
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1925
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Saddled with an overprotective mother, little Mickey Daniels is prohibited from playing with the rest of the Our Gang kids....
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Johnny
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1925
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The Our Gang kids argue amongst themselves over which of their dogs is the cleverest and best trained. This brouhaha is...
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1925
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Determined to get out of school to attend the circus, the Our Gang kids fake an epidemic by splotching their faces with...
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1925
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The first of several Our Gang comedies built around the manly art of self-defense, The Champeen finds Gang member "Sunshine...
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1923
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