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1940
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Johan David Wyss' novel Swiss Family Robinson had been in print for nearly fifty years before the first film version was made...
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1940
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Wallace Beery trots out his "lovable lout" act for the zillionth time in Man From Dakota. Beery plays a Union army sergeant...
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1940
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Fiercely independent authoress June Cameron (Loretta Young) has no time for men in her life. Chauvinistic medical college...
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1940
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Gone With the Wind boils down to a story about a spoiled Southern girl's hopeless love for a married man. Producer...
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1939
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1939
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Otis Ferguson has said of Each Dawn I Die that "the story is of the kind you would have to see to disbelieve." And to be...
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1939
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This romance is set during the Dartmouth College Winter Carnival and follows the exploits of a woman recently divorced from...
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1939
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British leading man Barry McKay made a respectable if unsuccessful bid at Hollywood stardom in Republic's Stolen Cargo. The...
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1939
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The classic "old dark house" motif is given sterling treatment in this second filmed version of the hit play. Bob Hope's...
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1939
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Through a miscarriage of justice, John Ingram (Edward G. Robinson) is convicted of a crime he did not commit and sentenced to...
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1939
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1939
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An outbreak of cholera threatens a luxury liner in this surprisingly low-budget melodrama from RKO. En route from Shanghai to...
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1939
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One review of Columbia's The Amazing Mr. Williams referred to its private-detective hero as "slap happy". As played by...
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1939
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In this crime drama, an undercover cop infiltrates a crime syndicate being run by an incarcerated mob boss who conducts his...
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1938
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Spencer Tracy won his second Oscar for his portrayal of Father Edward J. Flanagan--then promptly turned the statuette over to...
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1938
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In this drama, a 12-year-old boy becomes an orphan after seeing a detective shoot his father. Later the detective feels bad...
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1938
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When this politically charged crime drama came out in 1938, many viewers saw that the themes therein echoed those of the...
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1938
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The visual wizardry in this period action picture about Alaskan fishermen won a special honorary Oscar in the years before...
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1938
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Ace the Wonder Dog, RKO's Rin Tin Tin-wannabe, plays Picardy Max, a mongrel dog adopted by Dan Preston (James Ellison) when...
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Crack Williams
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1938
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Harold Lloyd plays a professor of Egyptology, frightened by the notion that he has fallen under an ancient Egyptian curse....
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1938
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A remake of 1933's One Man's Journey, A Man to Remember was the auspicious film directorial debut of Garson Kanin. Told in...
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Johnson
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1938
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Most reviewers in the late 1930s considered Columbia's Jack Holt vehicles to be a waste of time, but Holt still had a fairly...
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1938
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Archetypal depression-era stars Henry Fonda and Sylvia Sidney are felicitously teamed in Fritz Lang's You Only Live Once....
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1937
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In this comedy drama, a newspaper report discovers that a popular religious cult is really a scam. Unbeknownst to him, his...
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1937
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Its title notwithstanding, We Who Are About to Die has nothing to do with Roman Gladiators. Rather, the film is based on the...
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1937
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1937
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In the fine tradition of And Sudden Death, Columbia's The Devil is Driving tabulates the dangers of drunken driving in an...
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1937
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Warren William stars as Dr. Phillip Wendel Jones, a doctor whose patient dies under questionable circumstances. He is...
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1937
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The Man Betrayed in this Republic actioner is hero Eddie Nugent, though this doesn't occur until the film is half over....
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1937
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A Mississippi flood saves the life of a petty crook who is about to be lynched for a murder he did not commit. After he...
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1937
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This crime drama is set in the fictional San Francisco eatery, Mary Grady's Chowder House which is presided over by the...
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1936
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1936
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Directed by Edwin L. Marin, Sworn Enemy stars Robert Young as "Hank" Sherman, a law student who earns extra cash by working...
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1936
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When a car crash ends the life of a fabulously wealthy patron of the arts, the decedent's $20,000,000 fortune is inherited by...
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1936
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Gladys George, a superlative actress often wasted in secondary roles, carries her starring assignment in Valiant is the Word...
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1936
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1936
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In this romance, a social worker employed by Traveler's Aid finally is able to show her love to a construction foreman...
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1935
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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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The Istanbul Express provides the setting for this crime drama that centers around a courier carrying the priceless Karenina...
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1935
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Bad Boy Eddie Nolan (James Dunn) spends more time in the poolroom than he does looking for work. Even so, Sally Larkin...
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Fred Larkin
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1935
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The title refers to those special government agents who go undercover to flush out criminal gangs. In his second starring...
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Sam "Red" Hammond
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1935
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The film that revived Edward G. Robinson's career after a string of flops, along with A Slight Case of Murder (1938), it was...
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1935
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Having fallen from grace at Paramount, musical comedy star Nancy Carroll retreated to Columbia Pictures, known in 1935 as...
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1935
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Hoping to finish his latest play in peace, writer Ricardo Souchet (Gilbert Roland) loses his train of thought when dizzy...
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1935
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An impoverished waitress marries a rich college boy against the wishes of his parents. Shortly after bearing his son, the...
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1934
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A much-married man of the world is found murdered in this typical low-budget whodunit and each and every one of his fifteen...
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Jason Getty
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1934
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Universal's Bombay Mail adheres to the pattern established by Paramount's Shanghai Express, with a group of Calcutta-bound...
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1934
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Nils Asther stars as Dr. Callendar, a modern-day Svengali who hypnotizes women to do his eeeevil bidding. Callendar is...
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1934
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Adapted by director Paul Sloan from the novel by Will James, Lone Cowboy is an "outdoors" epic tailored to the talents of...
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Bill O'Neal
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1934
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I'll Fix It is a strange bit of goods, condemning the excesses of capitalism while still allowing the chief capitalist to...
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1934
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It's Grand Hotel on the high seas, with a remarkable cast -- particularly for the usually parsimonious Columbia Pictures. As...
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1934
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Looking for all the world like a 2-reel comedy bloated to 6-reel proportions, Embarrassing Moments was directed by...
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Slug
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1934
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Although it is included in TV's "Shock Theater" passage, there's nothing overtly frightening about the heavily plotted...
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1934
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An idealistic but naive pharmacist believes the mobsters who claim they want him to manufacture illegal medicine to help out...
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1934
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Inspector Crofton
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1934
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Harold Lloyd plays Ezekial Cobb, a missionary's son who has spent his entire life in China. Cobb is sent to his father's home...
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1934
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While Tonart Studios is filming a gangster movie, one of the actors is killed in a shooting accident. After several other...
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Detective Sheehan
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1933
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Released in Great Britain as Sealed Lips, this WWI melodrama stars Constance Bennett as Carla, aka Russian spy "K-14." Though...
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1933
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In this crime drama, an assistant DA must scramble to save the life of an innocent man he mistakenly sent to the chair....
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Barton
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1932
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A talented cast does its best with a nonsensical script in The Rich are Always With Us. Ruth Chatterton stars as a witty...
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1932
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A San Francisco gangster hot foots it out of town to cool down after his crime boss is suddenly killed. He ends up in a...
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The Frog
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1932
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In this murder mystery, a nurse with an unusual eye for detail solves a puzzling case. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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Hugo
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1932
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Two small-town youths head for the Big Apple and somehow get mixed up with mobsters during a visit to the title park in this...
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1932
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The Match King was inspired by the checkered career of entrepreneur Ivar Krueger. Warren William plays a Krueger-like...
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1932
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In this WW II drama, the commander of the French cruiser Lafayette is sunk by a German U-boat. Following the rescue of the...
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Cmdr. Brambourg
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1932
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Fay Wray screams when she first lays eyes on Lionel Atwill in Doctor X, but don't let that fool you. Atwill plays Fay's...
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1932
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Based on Abel Kandel's 1931 play Hot Money, this delightfully daffy comedy from Warner Bros. is a typical example of that...
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1932
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Warner Bros.' hard-hitting chain-gang movie was a faithful adaptation of the similarly titled autobiography of Robert Elliot...
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1932
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Murder, blackmail and honor are the principal plot motivations of Silence. Clive Brook stars as Jim Warren, a gentleman thief...
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1931
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Truck driver Spencer Tracy claims he's "too lazy to work and too nervous to steal", but he gets mixed up in racketeering all...
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Screenwriter, Kenneth Stone
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1931
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A young Barbara Stanwyck was considered for the starring role as the exiled call-girl in this extremely frank pre...
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1931
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One of the most powerful anti-war statements ever put on film, this gut-wrenching story concerns a group of friends who join...
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Himmelstoss
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1930
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Ostensibly based of the life and violent death of glamorous New York mobster Arnold Rothstein, this early talkie from...
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Morton Bradstreet
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1930
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Terrified at the prospect of making her talking-picture debut, silent-screen queen Norma Talmadge spent several months taking...
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Joe Prividi
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1929
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