Venerable character actor Paul Fix guests in this episode as Wade Tillman, a self-styled septugenarian Robin Hood. Outraged...
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1973
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Frasier the Sensuous Lion would seem to have been conceived as a racy "answer" to Disney's sugary-sweet animal comedies. The...
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1973
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A familiar film noir plotline is dusted off and gussied up in this episode. A former convict hires hit man Alex Tanner...
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1973
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Arte Johnson makes his first Partridge Family guest appearance as all-purpose handyman and "part-time Cossack" Nicholas...
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1972
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In this drama, two middle-aged businessmen decide to chuck it all and get back to the land. Unfortunately, they too soon...
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1971
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Veteran character actor John Qualen makes a return appearance to Green Acres, this time in the role of ex-forger Willie...
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Willie Dunhill
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1970
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Hail, Hero! stars Michael Douglas in his screen debut as long-haired college student Carl Dixon. Reversing the usual...
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1969
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In this detective drama, a struggling private detective is hired to protect a millionaire's mistress. After repeated...
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1968
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Jimmy Stewart and Henry Fonda headline this western in which an old lawman (Stewart) attempts to keep his town safe from a...
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1968
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Considering his previous lack of matrimonial success (specifically, he was jilted at the altar), handyman Eb (Tom Lester)...
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Mr. Appleby
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1968
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1966
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The action in A Big Hand for the Little Lady centers around a high-stake poker game. The participants include some of the...
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1966
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Shelley Winters won an Academy Award for her searing performance as Rose-Ann d'Arcy in A Patch of Blue. The star, however, is...
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1965
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Henry Hathaway directs the 1965 psychological Western The Sons of Katie Elder. Four sons reunite in their Texas hometown to...
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1965
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Bob Holcomb (Bob Hope) is a widower who worries about his teenage daughter JoJo (Tuesday Weld) in this light romantic comedy....
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1965
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Originally trade-previewed as Those Crazy Calloways, Disney's Those Calloways is a lengthy, anecdotal film about a highly...
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1965
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John Ford's last western film, Cheyenne Autumn was allegedly produced to compensate for the hundreds of Native Americans who...
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1964
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In his efforts to help museum curator Wilbur Canfield (Cecil Kellaway)--and incidentally, to expand the cultural horizons of...
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1964
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Based on the novel by Irving Wallace, The Prize takes place in Stockholm, where several laureates gather to accept their...
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1963
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Tony Randall has the showcase of a lifetime in the marvelous George Pal production The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao. We first see...
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1963
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Is meek and mild Henry Bennett (John Qualen) a natural-born jinx? Deputy Barney thinks so-and soon so does everyone else in...
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Henry Bennett
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1962
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Like Pontius Pilate, director John Ford asks "What is truth?" in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance--but unlike Pilate, Ford...
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1962
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Bart (Jack Garner) offers a helping hand to farmer Henry Albright (John Qualen), who wants to start a gold mining company....
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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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Hell Bent for Leather is a standard western that features Audie Murphy in the role of Clay, a cowboy hunted by a posse out...
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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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Those familiar only with Johnny Horton's song hit North to Alaska might not be aware that the song came equipped with a...
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1960
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1959
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Making the acquaintance of pretty Abigail Taylor (Joanna Barnes) in the lobby of a Denver hotel, Bret (James Garner) cannot...
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1958
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The "psycho"-logical melodrama My World Dies Screaming was appropriately released on a double bill with...
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1958
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Revolt in the Big House stars Gene Evans as a prison "lifer" who rules the roost in his particular cell block. With the help...
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Doc
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1958
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The third and (as of 2005) the last film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's short story To Have and Have Not, The Gun Runners...
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1958
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1957
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Produced by Alan Ladd's own Jaguar company, The Big Land stars Ladd as Texas cattleman Morgan. As a means to expedite...
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1957
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1956
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Fired after decades of loyal service to an investment firm, mousy Benjamin Stepp (John Qualen) retaliates by murdering his...
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1956
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In dire need of money for his wife's operation, Mr. Crabtree (John Qualen) accepts a job from a certain Mr. X (played by a...
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1956
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1956
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If John Ford is the greatest Western director, The Searchers is arguably his greatest film, at once a grand outdoor spectacle...
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1956
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1955
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John Wayne plays anti-Nazi Prussian sea captain Karl Erlich in Sea Chase, one of the many film commentaries released post...
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1955
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This fact-based prison drama tells the tale of a band of prisoners living in the innovative 2,600-acre prison at Chino,...
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1955
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For The High and the Mighty, director William Wellman made a point of using Cinemascope to heighten the dramatic content of a...
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1954
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1954
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In this drama, a filmmaker emigrates to the States and ends up marrying the studio head's daughter. Later, he gets into...
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1954
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Edmund Purdom plays Prince Karl, but Mario Lanza sings the bold tunes coming out of Purdom's mouth, in this MGM remake of the...
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1954
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) investigate when a young wife and mother (Frances Rafferty) claims that she and...
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1953
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Mike Hammer, author Mickey Spillane's brutal-but-eloquent private eye, made his screen debut in this cleaned-up...
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1953
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Working out of Missing Persons, Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) investigate when Martha Borg (Irene Tedrow)...
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1953
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1953
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Hans Christian Andersen was Sam Goldwyn's final production for RKO Radio release, and also the producer's last Danny Kaye...
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1952
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Based on a play by Fay Kanin, this comedy drama follows a successful congresswoman's emotional journey back to her alma...
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1951
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Allan Dwan's assured direction is the principal selling card of Republic's Belle le Grand. Based on a story by Peter B. Kyne,...
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1951
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Frank Johnson (Ross Elliott), a window-dresser and struggling artist, accidentally witnesses a mob-related rub-out of a...
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1950
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A submarine commander is determined to use guided missiles on his sub in this war drama. To do so, he defies the edict of...
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1950
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The Jackpot is a generally pleasing satire of quiz programs. James Stewart stars as Bill Lawrence, an average Joe who picks...
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1950
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The Buccaneer's Girl of the title, played by Yvonne de Carlo, is Deborah McCoy, an entertainer who's been around a bit. While...
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1950
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This breezy and unpretentious film noir from director Don Siegel starts off with fireworks. Duke Holliday (Robert Mitchum),...
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1949
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Paramount's Pine-Thomas production unit was afforded a larger budget than usual for Captain China. The title character,...
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1949
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16 Fathoms Deep was a curious choice as the first effort from Arthur Lake Productions. Heretofore known best as Dagwood...
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1948
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Alias a Gentleman is impeccably tailored to the slovenly talents of MGM star Wallace Beery. He's cast as Jim Breeden, an...
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1948
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Adapted by Allen Boretz from Lucille S. Plumbs and Sara B. Smith's stage play Ever the Beginning, My Girl Tisa is set in New...
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1948
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1948
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Also known as A Miracle Can Happen, On Our Merry Way is a multipart comedy linked by inquiring reporter Burgess Meredith. It...
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1948
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John Muller (Paul Henreid), an intelligent, arrogant criminal who has been a medical student and a phony psychoanalyst,...
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Swangron
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1948
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Bearing little resemblance to reality, this musical biography of 19th century Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov takes...
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1947
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High Conquest was a good example of the sort of "prestige" fare that lowly Monogram Pictures hoped to turn out on a regular...
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1947
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This odd combination of roughneck comedy and serious domestic drama was adapted by Louise Randall Pierson from her own...
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1945
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It's every man for himself when Charles Laughton bites into the role of infamous 17th century pirate captain William Kidd....
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1945
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River Gang was another of Universal's attempts to tap the dramatic potential of their young singing star Gloria Jean. The...
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Uncle Bill
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1945
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A middle-aged Clark Gable returned from active duty in World War II to star in this MGM release that was heavily advertised...
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1945
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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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1944
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Uncle Norbert
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1944
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Director King Vidor intended An American Romance as the third entry in his "War, Wheat and Steel" trilogy (the War had been...
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Anton Dubechek
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1944
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1944
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One of the most beloved American films, this captivating wartime adventure of romance and intrigue from director...
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1943
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In her seventh outing as irrepressible vaudeville entertainer Maisie Revere, Ann Sothern aided the war effort by working the...
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Horatio Curley
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1943
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Like the John Steinbeck novel on which it is based, Tortilla Flat is not so much a movie as a series of warm-hearted...
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1942
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In a harem in a Middle Eastern palace, the guardian leads the women he protects in telling the tale of Halroun-Al-Raschid...
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1942
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This parody of gangster flicks centers on an incarcerated gangster who decides to reform after he is released from Sing...
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1942
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The barber
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1942
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Also released as The Great Awakening, New Wine purports to recreate an incident in the life of Austrian composer Franz...
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1941
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Out of the Fog is the film version of the Irwin Shaw play The Gentle People, refashioned to mollify the Hollywood censors by...
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1941
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Harold Bell Wright's bestselling novel The Shepherd of the Hills had been previously filmed in 1919 and 1928 before Paramount...
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1941
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The real-life marriage between Dick Powell and Joan Blondell was already on the rocks when they costarred in Model Wife. The...
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1941
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1941
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In this upbeat drama, a lovely European heiress is disturbed to discover from her lawyer that her father made his fortune by...
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1941
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Charles Engle
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1940
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Knute Rockne-All American was Pat O'Brien's finest hour: thanks to intensive rehearsals and numerous makeup applications, he...
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1940
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John Ford welded four of Eugene O'Neill's one-act plays about the sea, Bound East for Cardiff, The Long Voyage Home, The...
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1940
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Edward G. Robinson plays orchid-loving gangster Little John Sarto, who aspires to "real class." During a power struggle with...
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1940
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1940
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In this musical comedy, a young woman is sent to a National Youth Administration camp after her father is arrested for...
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1940
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The adaptation of Nobel Prize-winner John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of dirt-poor Dust Bowl migrants by 4-time...
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1940
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This third film version of Maxwell Anderson's play Saturday's Children stars Claude Rains as the impecunious but proud father...
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1940
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This wartime drama is set in 1936 and begins at the Winter Olympics. It centers on the three medalists of a skiing...
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1940
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Telecast dozens of times on cable television back in the 1980s, Columbia's Babies for Sale was another stepping-stone on...
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1940
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This "Jones Family" entry does without the services of Pa Jones, inasmuch as actor Jed Prouty was having contract problems...
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1940
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This is the celebrated Blondie episode that costars Rita Hayworth, who in 1940 was still just another Columbia contract...
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1940
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Directed with customary haste by Woody Van Dyke, Stand Up and Fight is an excellent dual vehicle for veteran Wallace Beery...
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1939
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Thunder Afloat is set during the first world war. Wallace Beery plays an veteran tugboat captain who harbors a grudge against...
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1939
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1939
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Despite its comparatively upbeat ending, Let Us Live is one of the darkest and gloomiest films of the late 1930s. As working...
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1939
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In this drama, a New York physician takes a much-needed vacation down South. Unfortunately, he encounters a nurse working in...
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Stoner
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1939
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In this drama, the sequel to Four Daughters, the daughters are now adults. Three of the sisters rally together to find a new...
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1939
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In this heartwarming drama, a crook endeavors to raise his son in the slums until he kills a teller during a bank robbery....
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1939
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The financial exploitation of Canada's Dionne Quintuplets rolled ever forward with 20th Century-Fox's Five of a Kind, the...
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1938
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Wealthy socialite Melsa Manton (Barbara Stanwyck) is taking her pooches for a walk in the dead of the night when she stumbles...
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1938
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A sleazy lawyer gains clients by showing up at terrible accidents. His boss is determined to stop him so he hires a pretty...
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1938
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Wallace Beery plays one of his patented good bad guys in this MGM Western. "Trigger" Bill (Beery) is an outlaw with a heart...
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1938
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In the rough-and-tumble world of post-Civil War Texas, ex-Confederate soldier Kirk Jordan (Randolph Scott) crosses paths with...
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1938
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1938
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1938
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Lively June (Jane Withers), teen-aged daughter of mystery writer Waldo Everett (Jon Qualen), who calls her "Angel," becomes...
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1937
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This romantic tearjerker was the second film based on the popular 1922 stage play. James Stewart stars as Chico, a lowly...
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1937
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"This is New York, Skyscraper Champion of the World...Where the Slickers and Know-It-Alls peddle gold bricks to each...
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1937
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Don Ameche is called upon to testify in his married friends' divorce case. Unwilling to take sides, he skips town and hides...
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Sheriff Daw
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1937
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In this romantic comedy, a rookie reporter works for his uncle's newspaper and gets assigned to write a story about an...
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1937
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A naive gas station attendant's life takes a turn for the better when he is adopted by an eccentric, boozy travelling...
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1937
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1936
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Magazine publisher Clark Gable is happily married to Myrna Loy. Clark's devoted, super-efficient secretary Jean Harlow may...
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1936
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Rex Stout's overweight, under-exercised detective Nero Wolfe was first brought to the screen in 1936 in the portly person of...
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1936
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Ring Around the Moon was based on the once-popular novel by Vera Hobart. The story endeavors to invite comparisons between...
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1936
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1936
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French actress Simone Simon made her American film debut in Girls' Dormitory. Simon portrays a twentyish student in a Swiss...
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1936
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The well-publicized (and overexploited) birth of Canada's Dionne Quintuplets in 1934 formed the basis of The Country Doctor....
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1936
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Although Monogram Pictures hadn't yet reorganized as a separate entity in 1936, a few of its releases still managed to make...
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1936
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Myrna Loy plays the glamorous member of a trio of jewel thieves. G-Man Spencer Tracy goes undercover to join the gang when it...
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1936
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The Silk Hat Kid is Lew Ayres, a babyfaced gangland "torpedo." Circumstances force the Kid to hole up in a slum settlement...
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1935
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A writer of mysteries helps a house detective solve a murder in this murder mystery. The murder occurs in the hotel in which...
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1935
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One More Spring is a laundered version of Robert Nathan's whimsical Depression-era novel. Left destitute by the Wall Street...
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1935
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1935
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Though usually a supporting player in Warner Bros' A pictures, Barton MacLane was permitted an occasional leading role in the...
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1935
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Most of the Fox productions of the 1930s had a "continental" flavor, and Thunder in the Night was no exception. Edmund Lowe...
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1935
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The otherwise standard series entry Charlie Chan in Paris is distinguished by the presence of actor Keye Luke, making his...
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1935
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Like many 1930s Warner Bros. films, Black Fury drew its inspiration from the headlines. The story is adapted from a true-life...
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Mike Shemanski
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1935
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1935
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O.P. Heggie plays an ageing Parisian book collector who has spent four decades tracking down a rare volume. The trail leads...
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Coccoz
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1935
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The title may be Orchids to You, but the plot is motivated by a camellia -- to be exact, Camelia Rand (Jean Muir). About to...
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1935
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1935
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A midwestern girl heads for Hollywood in hopes of becoming a star. She is accompanied by two good buddies and this comedy...
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1934
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Annie Snodgrass (ZaSu Pitts) has a voice that could shatter glass, but try telling that to moonstruck gangster boss Fenny...
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1934
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A genial lampoon of the Greta Garbo craze, Let's Fall in Love stars Ann Sothern as Jean, a Brooklyn-born aspiring actress. It...
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1934
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Written by the prolific Ben Hecht, Upper World is a clash-of-class melodrama set in New York City. Railroad tycoon Alexander...
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1934
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In this crime drama, Flicker Hayes (James Cagney) is a safecracker who has just been released following a stretch in prison;...
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1934
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1934
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Inasmuch as the film was based on a novel by Swedish author Sigrid Boo, Fox's Servant's Entrance is logically set in Sweden....
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1934
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Unable to secure Hollywood-studio backing for his Depression-era agrarian drama Our Daily Bread, director King Vidor financed...
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Chris Larsen
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1934
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Based on an 1830 opera entitled "Fra Diavolo" by Daniel F. Auber, the parts of two bit bandits were built up for Laurel and...
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1933
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Adapted from the play by Elmer Rice, Counsellor-at-Law is the story of a successful Jewish lawyer George Simon...
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1933
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One of the more prestigious films of its time, John Ford's film adaptation of Sinclair Lewis' Pulitzer Prize-winning novel...
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1931
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1931
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