The first person the audience sees in Ship of Fools is dwarf Michael Dunn, who speaks to viewers directly and acts as a Greek...
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1965
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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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This was the last film by director Stuart Heisler, and in his uneven output it was not one of the most memorable. The evil...
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1962
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Beating the U.S. Army to the punch by nearly six years, Elliot Ness (Robert Stack) goes after a criminal gang with links to...
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1961
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Jack Klugman guest stars as Morton Halas, an unethical but supremely successful criminal lawyer whose services are highly...
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1961
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After the end of World War II, the world gradually became aware of the full extent of the war crimes perpetrated by the Third...
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1961
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Young Billy Walker (Wesley Lau) is accused of murdering the wife of Marshal Dowd (Claude Akins). Walker's employers, the...
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1960
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Three explorers are hopelessly lost in the desert, their water supply all but depleted. Suddenly, a young man calling himself...
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1960
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Wanting to be free of her crippled husband but not his enormous fortune, a glamorous wife talks her lover, who is also her...
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1960
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Bumping along over several flaws, this is an odd sci-fi film directed by David Bradley, best known for his incredibly vast...
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Dr. Erik Heinrich
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1960
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Having murdered his wife, French aristocrat Marquis De La Roget (Max Adrian) not only manages to escape detection (the...
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1959
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Originally released as The Return of Dracula (and also known by the irrelevant title The Fantastic Disappearing Man), this...
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1958
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Edward Chodorov's stage farce Oh, Men! Oh, Women! is somewhat unnecessarily overburdened by star names in this 1957 film...
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1957
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As was his custom, producer/director Stanley Kramer made some iconoclastic casting decisions when mounting his $5 million...
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Germaine
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1957
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The Disembodied is a voodoo melodrama set in a Hollywood-backlot jungle. The villain of the piece is Tonda (Allison Hayes),...
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Dr. Metz
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1957
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Anita Ekberg amply fills the title role in the offbeat western Valerie. Clearly inspired by Rashomon, the film offers...
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Louis Horvat
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1957
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This emotional drama concerns a WWII medic who marries a German woman but leaves her in a jealous rage, taking their baby...
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1956
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1955
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When two scientists at a top-secret government installation devoted to space research are killed -- in their own test...
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Dr. Zeltman
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1954
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Hell and High Water brings an intriguing Cold War slant to a standard submarine melodrama. Richard Widmark plays a...
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1954
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1954
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Like so many other films that were once considered "lewd" and "scandalous", The French Line seems as harmless as Pollyanna...
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1954
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Gambler From Natchez is one of a group on non-Cinemascope films released by 20th Century-Fox's Panorama Pictures subsidiary....
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1954
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1953
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In this suspense drama, a group of strangers becomes acquainted as they wait for a plane to arrive at an airport in Tangier....
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1953
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1953
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It's always fun to watch Ronald Reagan play a slightly disreputable type, and Tropic Zone is no exception. Reagan stars as...
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1953
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) investigates the murder of shopkeeper John Wilford, whose bound-and-beaten body...
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1953
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Based on a true story, 5 Fingers stars James Mason as a man known to his superiors only as Cicero. Ostensibly the valet of...
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1952
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Adapted from a play by Honore de Balzac, Lovable Cheat offers a veritable smorgasbord of Hollywood's top character actors....
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1949
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This unusual, dreamlike John Wayne vehicle is set in the East Indies. The focus of the film is the deadly rivalry between two...
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1949
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As Cold-War melodramas go, Sofia goes pretty well. Set in a backlot version of Turkey, the film stars Gene Raymond as former...
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Peter Goltzen
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1948
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The moodily evocative docudrama T-Men stars Dennis O'Keefe as Dennis O'Brien, a treasury agent determined to bring a...
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1947
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After several years' service with the Marines in World War II, Tyrone Power made his much anticipated return to the screen in...
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1946
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Elizabeth MacDonald (Claudette Colbert) is a newly married corporate librarian in 1918 Baltimore working for a chemical...
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1946
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Weekend at the Waldorf is an unabashed remake of MGM's 1932 Oscar-winner Grand Hotel: in fact, at several points in the...
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1945
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In this mystery, the artist behind a detective cartoon strip solves real police cases on the side. The police are rather...
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1944
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This fifth entry in MGM's off-and-on "Thin Man" series maintains the high production and story values of the first four. Per...
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1944
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Fred Zinnemann directed this World War II drama, considered one of the best anti-Nazi dramas produced by Hollywood during the...
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1944
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1944
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All-purpose Columbia contractee Bruce Bennett (formerly college athlete Herman Brix) was awarded a leading role in the...
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Rudehoff
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1944
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1943
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This French Underground melodrama stars George Sanders as a seemingly apolitical Parisian doctor who is actually a resistance...
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1943
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More so than most wartime films, Mission to Moscow must be viewed within the context of its times. Requested by President...
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1943
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Lucky Jordan (Alan Ladd) is a tough but good-natured New York racketeer who tries to finagle his way out of Army service....
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1942
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Rex Harrison astonished his fans by donning a Nazi uniform in the British suspenser Night Train (originally titled Night...
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1940
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In this WW II comedy, three British sailors get roaring drunk in a South American port, accidentally mistake a German...
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1940
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Clive Brook heads the cast of this low-key British war film. Brook plays the skipper of a tiny English cruiser, performing...
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1940
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