A veteran cast gives the 1968 cheapie The Bamboo Saucer what little credibility it has. In his last role, Dan Duryea plays...
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Short Story Author, Special Effects
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1968
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In this high-seas adventure, framed by the Napoleonic War, a pirate is sponsored by the government to save those living on...
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1967
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In this tale of espionage and adventure set during World War II, Norway has fallen under Nazi occupation, and a factory is...
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1965
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In this comedy classic, Jerry Lewis plays Jerome Littlefield, an orderly in a mental hospital in this slapstick situation...
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1964
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This was the first film directed by dancer and choreographer Gower Champion, already experienced at directing television and...
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1963
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Jerry Lewis stars in this broad slapstick comedy as Lester March, a TV repairman who dreams of some day being a private...
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1962
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A little bird tells on the U.S. Army during WWII in this farcical comedy. In 1944, during the last stages of the war in...
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1962
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Essentially a chase film from beginning to end, this standard adventure yarn by director Ronald Neame is set in "Zahrain," a...
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1962
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Hatari! is Swahili for "danger"--and also the word for action, adventure and broad comedy in this two-fisted Howard Hawks...
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1962
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In this comedy drama, two troubled college freshmen find themselves united by their mutual family woes and so decide to...
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1961
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Western bandit Kid Rio (Marlon Brando) is betrayed by his partner, Dad Longworth (Karl Malden). Escaping from prison, Rio...
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1961
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In an idealized New York City during the early '60s, Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn) is a charming socialite with a youthful...
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1961
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1961
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Comedian Jerry Lewis began directing movies in 1960, and this often unkind satire on the nature of American womanhood is one...
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1961
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After his pioneering independent film Shadows (1960), actor/writer/director John Cassavetes made his major studio directorial...
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1961
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1961
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Danny Kaye headlines this lively WW II-era comedy. He plays a foot soldier who with his fellow troop is preparing for D-day....
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1961
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When a space alien's fascination with Earthlings gets the better of him, he breaks one of his planet's laws and speeds off to...
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1960
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1960
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1959's Li'l Abner was adapted from the hit 1956 Broadway musical--which, in turn, was inspired by the satirical comic strip...
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1959
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The Five Pennies is the life story of influential jazz cornetist Red Nichols, played here by a remarkably straight-faced...
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1959
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Bob Hope plays a 19th-century insurance agent whose miserable sales record prompts his boss to send him out West, where he...
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1959
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Playwright James Lee adapted his off-Broadway play for the screen in this high-strung adaptation, directed by Joseph Anthony....
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1959
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Don't Give Up the Ship stars Jerry Lewis as a navy officer who is whisked away from his honeymoon by a senate investigating...
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1959
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Dismissed when first released, later heralded as one of director Alfred Hitchcock's finest films (and, according to...
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1958
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Maracaibo was actor Cornel Wilde's second directorial effort. Wilde casts himself as troubleshooting oil man Vic Scott, who...
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1958
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Cary Grant scored still another box-office smash with his 1958 vehicle Houseboat. Grant plays a widowed father who packs...
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1958
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Elvis Presley delivers one of his finest early performances in King Creole. Elvis plays a teenager named Danny Fisher, who is...
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1958
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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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The life of legendary bluesman W.C. Handy is highly dramatized in this tuneful biopic. The story opens as his father, a...
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1958
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It has now become a film-review clich to preface a write-up for I Married a Monster From Outer Space with the cautionary...
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1958
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This low-budget, Frankenstein-flavored sci-fi flick involves the transplantation of a dead scientist's brain into the body...
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1958
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Dave Brewster (Adam Williams) arrives to take his new job as an electronics technician at a top-secret Air Force base in...
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1958
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Wild Is the Wind represents a (perhaps deliberate) reversal of the situation in The Rose Tattoo (1955). Whereas in Tattoo,...
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1957
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Frank Freeman Jr., son of the longtime head of Paramount Pictures, made his debut as producer with the opulent but empty Omar...
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1957
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Loving You was the most autobiographical of all Elvis Presley's movies, and, not coincidentally, features the most...
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1957
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As a favor to an old friend, producer Alex Gordon, James Cagney turned director for the first and only time in his career...
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1957
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This filmed version of the 1927 George Gershwin Broadway musical Funny Face utilizes the play's original star, Fred Astaire,...
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1957
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1957
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Based on a 1941 movie entitled Shepherd of the Hills, this is the story of a gunfighter who decides to return home after 17...
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1957
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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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Special Effects
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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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This Runyonesque fable serves as a vehicle for TV quiz-show host Hal March. The star plays con artist Marty Holland, who for...
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1957
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Set in the American West after the Civil War, this drama is the pull-no-punches story of a lethal family feud. Colt Saunders...
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1957
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1957
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To fully enjoy the rugged outdoors adventure The Mountain, one must accept the notion that 55-year-old Spencer Tracy and...
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1956
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In this war romance, set during WW II, a widow falls for a Marine colonel. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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Special Effects
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1956
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The debate still rages as to whether Alfred Hitchcock's 1956 remake of The Man Who Knew Too Much is superior to his own...
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Special Effects
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1956
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Danny Kaye spoofs medieval swashbucklers in this classic musical comedy. While the infant King of England awaits his rightful...
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Special Effects
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1956
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N. Richard Nash's play The Rainmaker has always attracted the most flamboyant of performers, and this 1956 film version is no...
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1956
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The Search for Bridey Murphy was inspired by the purportedly true story of a Colorado housewife named Virginia Tighe, who...
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1956
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The Rudolf Friml operetta The Vagabond King was first filmed in 1930, with Dennis King in the lead. On both sides of this...
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Special Effects
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1956
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Based on the Holy Scriptures, with additional dialogue by several other hands, The Ten Commandments was the last film...
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1956
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Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis made their last joint film appearance in the girl-filled musical Hollywood or Bust. The thinnish...
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1956
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1955
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The trouble with Harry is that he's dead. The scene is a autumnal Vermont village, where a pre-Leave It to Beaver...
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1955
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1955
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1955
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George Pal's now-quaint science fiction odyssey concerns a multi-national group on the first space flight to Mars. Pal pulls...
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1955
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Inspired in part by the true story of baseball great Ted Williams, who after serving in World War II was drafted to serve in...
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Special Effects
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1955
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Samuel and Bella Spewack's English adaptation of French playwright Albert Husson's morbidly humorous stage piece...
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1955
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An unusually matronly Jane Wyman plays the title character in Lucy Gallant. Adapted from a novel by Margaret Cousins, the...
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1955
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A jewel thief is at large on the Riviera, and all evidence points to retired cat burglar Cary Grant. Escaping the law, Grant...
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1955
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It doesn't take long for old-time-radio fans to figure out that The Naked Jungle is a film version of the classic...
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1954
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1954
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1954
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1954
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1954
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Elephant Walk was several weeks into production when the film's original leading lady, Vivien Leigh, was replaced by...
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1954
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Bing Crosby does the Academy Award-bid bit in the atypical role of a self-pitying alcoholic, but it was his co-star, a...
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1954
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Laid up with a broken leg, photojournalist L.B. Jeffries (James Stewart) is confined to his tiny, sweltering courtyard...
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1954
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1954
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On paper, Red Garters sounds like a wonderful idea: a raucous spoof of westerns, done up in the stylized fashion of a...
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1954
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1949
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Tulsa was, in 1949, the most elaborate production released to date by the Eagle-Lion corporation-though all evidence,...
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1949
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A Song is Born is a musical remake of the 1941 comedy Ball of Fire, with the same producer (Sam Goldwyn) and director...
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1948
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1948
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When Episcopalian bishop Henry Brougham (David Niven) prays for divine guidance in his efforts to raise the necessary funds...
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1947
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Absent from films since 1938 (except as producer of a brace of RKO Radio features), silent-screen comedy favorite...
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Special Effects
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1947
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James Thurber wasn't too happy with the Sam Goldwyn film adaptation of his 1939 short story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,...
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1947
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If Grecian storyteller Aesop really did exist, he was most likely a black slave. He wasn't an Austrian actor with an Egyptian...
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1946
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In this musical comedy, a young singer becomes so desperate to appear on Broadway that she goes to a prominent producer and...
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1945
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1945
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Danny Kaye plays the first of his cinematic dual roles in Goldwyn's Wonder Man. Kaye appears as timid librarian Edwin Dingle...
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1945
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Johnny Hart (Rod Cameron) is on the run from the law after killing one of the men who shot his partner. He passes through a...
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1945
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Fabric designer Harry Quincey (George Sanders) has the unhappy task of caring for his tiresome unmarried sisters, Lettie...
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1945
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This Universal "monster rally", an immediate sequel to House of Frankenstein, would seem to have been deliberately designed...
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1945
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1945
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At 88 minutes, Here Come the Co-Eds is one of the longest of Abbott & Costello's Universal starring vehicles, and though not...
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Special Effects
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1945
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In another of her series of romantic desert adventures, popular actress Maria Montez is this time Naila, the newly crowned...
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Special Effects
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1945
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Masterfully directed by Fritz Lang, Scarlet Street is a bleak film in which an ordinary man succumbs first to vice and then...
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1945
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This lesser "Inner Sanctum" entry stars Lon Chaney Jr. as unhappily married lawyer Wayne Fletcher. In love with his secretary...
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1945
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Deanna Durbin offered her fans a change of pace in this mystery story seasoned with elements of comedy and music. Nikki...
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1945
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Louise Allbritton, a talented but neglected film star of the 1940s, plays the oldest sister in a large motherless family....
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1944
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Strange Confession was the fourth in Universal's "Inner Sanctum" B-picture series, all of which starred Lon Chaney Jr. Chaney...
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Special Effects
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1944
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Set in a brooding old home, this musical mystery chronicles the endeavors of a young couple attempt to solve a mysterious...
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Special Effects
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1944
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At MGM, the studio's youth musicals were more rural than urban -- find a barn, get some friends together, and hey kids, let's...
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1944
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1944
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Paramount Pictures did their patriotic duty with this World War II era musical, with a number of the studio's biggest stars...
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Special Effects
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1944
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In this musical comedy, a soldier falls in love with a very young woman who in turn has a crush on an older, more...
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Special Effects
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1944
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In this swashbuckler, a princess is raised by gypsies and becomes their queen. The trouble really begins when a count is...
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Special Effects
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1944
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For their first film in a year, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello played it safe with a medley of old burlesque routines and...
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Special Effects
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1944
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On the eve of her wedding to Ramu (Jon Hall), the beautiful Tollea (Maria Montez) is spirited away from her tranquil South...
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Special Effects
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1944
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Though it is not based on any Conan Doyle story, The Scarlet Claw is regarded by Baker Street aficionados as the best of...
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1944
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In many ways the most endearing of Universal's B-grade "monster rallies" of the 1940s, House of Frankenstein manages within...
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Special Effects
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1944
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The Merry Monahans is one of the higher-budgeted Universal musicals of the 1940s, even though the storyline is strictly...
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Cinematographer
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1944
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The fifth in the Invisible Man series stars Jon Hall as Robert Griffin, a convict who takes the invisibility serum and then...
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Special Effects
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1944
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In this first of Universal's "Inner Sanctum" mysteries, Lon Chaney Jr. plays a neurologist plagued by a faithless wife. He...
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Cinematographer, Special Effects
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1943
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The general perception of the Technicolor costume adventure movies that Maria Montez and Jon Hall made for Universal in the...
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Special Effects
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1943
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In this frothy musical comedy, Ann Carter (Deanna Durbin) is an aspiring singer from the Midwest who decides to move to New...
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1943
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During WW II, Universal cornered the market on "quickie" musicals, wrapping up songs, laughs and pretty girls in neat...
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1943
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Accepted in 1943 as standard wartime propaganda, Gung Ho can be seen today as an outrageous exercise in raging machismo....
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1943
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1943
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The fifth film in Universal's "Frankenstein" series goes for the box-office gold by combining two--count 'em, two!--of the...
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1942
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Universal's "Frankenstein" series descended from the "A" to the "B" category with The Ghost of Frankenstein, though...
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Special Effects
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1942
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Universal's "Invisible Man" series does its bit for the war effort in this slyly tongue-in-cheek action melodrama. Jon Hall...
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1942
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1942
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With America's Air Force not completely mobilized in mid-1942, Universal paid tribute to those foresighted Yankee flyboys who...
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1942
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Originally slated as a Boris Karloff-Bela Lugosi vehicle, Man Made Monster emerged on screen as a tour de force for Lon...
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Special Effects
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1941
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One would never know it from the title, but This Woman is Mine is a virile seafaring yarn dealing with the northern fur...
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1941
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Hellzapoppin' is the film version of the "anything goes" Broadway hit starring Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson. The original...
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1941
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1941
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The third of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello's starring films, In the Navy was released second; Universal had just made a bundle...
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1941
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A semi-sequel to the 1933 Universal horror masterwork The Invisible Man, The Invisible Man Returns stars Vincent Price in the...
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1940
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Dispensing with the melodramatic excesses of Universal's previous "Invisible Man" films, 1941's The Invisible Woman aims...
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1940
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1939
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A novel by Arthur Stringer was the source for this two-fisted Universal programmer. When a giant utility company begins...
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Special Effects
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1937
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In this crime thriller, an old, ailing scientist has been robbed of the burglar alarm he invented by his partner, who owns a...
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Special Effects
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1937
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In the South Seas, Seaman Duke (John Wayne) boards a whaler, and asks the owner, Capt. Drew (Montague Love) and his daughter...
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Cinematographer
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1937
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A handful of German soldiers readjust to civilian life in the bitter wake of World War I in this follow-up to the classic All...
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Special Effects
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1937
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Tala Birell, one of the more talented of the Garbo wannabes of the 1930s, stars in the Universal quickie She's Dangerous. The...
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Special Effects
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1937
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In this black comedy, a twitchy hypochondriac ends up conned into giving up his $500,000 inheritance in exchange for $50,000...
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1937
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The Westland Case was the opening volley in Universal's "Crime Club" series. The film was based on Headed for a Hearse, a...
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1937
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John Wayne steered clear of westerns for the most part during his year-long contract with Universal Pictures. In The Sea...
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Cinematographer
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1936
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On New Year's Eve, aspiring actress Julia Wayne (Joan Bennett) and chronic gambler Larry Stevens (Joel McCrea), both flat...
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1936
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1936
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1936
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It may be sacrilege to say so, but Dracula's Daughter is an immense improvement over the original 1931 Dracula, despite the...
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1936
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Social butterfly Rena Allen (Doris Nolan) is bored unto tears by her stuffy fiance Throckton Van Cortland...
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Cinematographer
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1936
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Universal plunged into the clutches of its creditors with its expensive fiasco Sutter's Gold. Edward Arnold plays Swiss...
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1936
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1936
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Originally intended as a vehicle for Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, this Universal production predated The Wolf Man by six...
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Special Effects
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1935
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This greatest of all Frankenstein movies begins during a raging thunderstorm. Warm and cozy inside their palatial villa, Lord...
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Special Effects
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1935
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The Great Impersonation is based on the E. Phillips Oppenheim espionage novel of the same name, previously filmed in 1921....
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Cinematographer
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1935
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Charles Dickens' unfinished novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, has been a source of speculation and controversy ever since...
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1935
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The first cinematic teaming of horror greats Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi is a bizarre, haunting, and relentlessly eerie...
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1934
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A mysterious stranger, his face swathed in bandages and his eyes obscured by dark spectacles, has taken a room at a cozy inn...
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1933
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1932
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It's a wildly varied group that takes shelter from a raging English storm in the forbidding mansion of the Femm family. Among...
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1932
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The air-mail pilots who fly from a small airport in the Rocky Mountains are determined but not paid well, and there are...
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Special Effects
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1932
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Still regarded as the definitive film version of Mary Shelley's classic tale of tragedy and horror, Frankenstein made unknown...
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Special Effects
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1931
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Still in the "Lillian Gish" phase of her career, Una Merkel plays the put-upon heroine in The Eyes of the World. The story...
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Cinematographer
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1930
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Even allowing for the comparative freedom of the pre-Production Code years, 1930's Hell Harbor was pretty strong meat for its...
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Cinematographer
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1930
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In spite of its unbelievable storyline, She Goes to War manages to sustain interest from first reel to last. During WWI,...
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1929
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