The entire Earth is placed in jeopardy when a huge asteroid -- measuring more than five miles across -- approaches on a...
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1953
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With no Lois Lane around, her "Daily Planet" colleagues Perry White (John Hamilton) and Jimmy Olsen (Jack Larson) are the...
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1953
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1935
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In her final film appearance, Kay Francis plays Sheila, the slinky, seductive mastermind of a marriage racket preying on...
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1943
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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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Making her first film appearance since 1941, Deanna Durbin plays the title role in The Amazing Mrs. Holliday. Truth to tell,...
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1943
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In this melodrama, a doctor returns to his home town to set out his shingle. He was born on the poor side of town and so has...
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1944
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In this comedy, Paul Muni plays a recently murdered gangster who finds himself roasting in Hell. Muni can't believe that he's...
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1946
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1938
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The gathering war clouds in the late 1930s prompted a number of Hollywood films about recent political upheavals, one of...
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1939
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Filmed not long after the actual events, The Beginning or the End is a sober, intelligent account of the development and...
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1947
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1952
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In this melodrama, the acting warden at a correctional facility must make a difficult choice when he comes across some...
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1939
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1937
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King Stephen
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1944
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When Columbia Pictures secured the movie rights to Chic Young's popular comic strip Blondie, the studio executives probably...
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1938
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Columbia's new "Blondie" series continued its winning streak with its fourth entry, Blondie Brings Up Baby. So much happens...
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1939
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Anxious to do her bit for the war effort, Blondie (Penny Singleton) joins the Housewives of America, a home defense league....
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1942
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Dagwood Bumstead (Arthur Lake) is invited by his boss Mr. Dithers (Jonathan Hale) to accompany Dithers on an ocean cruise to...
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1941
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One of the most fondly remembered of the "Blondie" series entries, Blondie Goes to College is predicated on the notion that...
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1942
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Few of Columbia's "Blondie" films went as far off the beaten path as the bizarre Blondie Has Servant Trouble. Things get...
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Mr. Dithers
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1940
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Mr. Dithers
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1941
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Blondie Knows Best was writer/director Edward Bernds' first entry in the long-running "Blondie" series, and arguably his...
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1946
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This second entry in Columbia's new "Blondie" series is every bit as delightful as the first. When Dagwood Bumstead...
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Mr. Dithers
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1939
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Mr. Dithers
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1940
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An historical entry in Columbia's Blondie series, Blondie's Blessed Event recreates the moment in Chic Young's original comic...
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1942
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Blondie's Lucky Day, indeed! Not only must Blondie Bumstead (Penny Singleton) put on a brave face when her husband Dagwood...
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1946
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1953
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A never-completed stage musical was the source for the MGM superproduction Born to Dance. The plot is another...
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1936
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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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Boy soprano Bobby Breen dons a pair of skates in the oddball musical Breaking the Ice. Escaping his super-strict Mennonite...
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1938
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Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant star in this inspired comedy about a madcap heiress with a pet leopard who meets an...
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1938
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By 1941, Wallace Beery was pretty much confined to playing two characters: The reprobate with the heart of gold, or the...
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1941
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In this documentary-inspired thriller, P.J. McNeal (James Stewart) is a reporter who is asked by his editor to look into a...
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1948
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When Lew Ayres' wartime conscientious-objector status caused MGM to drop the actor like a hot potato, Ayres' "Dr. Kildare"...
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1942
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A young woman not only inherits her late father's estate, she also gets control of a carnival on the edge of bankruptcy in...
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1937
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When wealthy Mr. Ames is murdered, his beautiful wife Hope (Madeleine Carroll) is the principal suspect. She is acquitted...
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1936
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Advertised as a typical Universal horror film, The Cat Creeps is more of a crime melodrama, and not a particularly...
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1946
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Actual footage of the 1936 Berlin Olympics is rabbeted into the action of this superior Charlie Chan entry. Assigned by the...
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1937
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En route from Honolulu to Los Angeles by steamship, Charlie Chan (Warner Oland) is pressed into action when a fellow...
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1936
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A serial-like pace and some stylish directorial choices by Gordon Wiles distinguish this "Charlie Chan" entry. The reading of...
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1935
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1945
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An airy screwball comedy, Danger--Love at Work explores the lives of a wealthy but wacky family. Ann Sothern plays the...
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1937
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The Dangerous Profession of the title is the bail-bond business. George Raft stars as Kane, a former cop turned professional...
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1949
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The third installment in Universal's low-budget "Inner Sanctum" mysteries, Dead Man's Eyes promises a great deal more than...
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Dr. Welles
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1944
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The Devil Is a Sissy deserves an historical footnote as the only film to team three of the biggest child stars of the 1930s:...
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1936
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It's always a risky venture to give a film a title like Disaster (certain critics, like certain vultures, just can't wait to...
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1948
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Timed to coincide with the 1956 reissue of Walt Disney's 1948 theatrical feature Song of the South, this episode of...
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1956
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Marital entanglements provide the basis for this drama. The trouble begins as a woman prepares to marry her fifth husband,...
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1945
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Duffy of San Quentin is an Allied Artists low-budgeter based on the life of the warden who first introduced reforms in the...
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1954
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Louis Hayward plays an arrogant Cambridge student who emigrates to America and enrolls at the West Point. Hayward's superior...
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1938
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The 1922 George S. Kaufman-Marc Connelly play Dulcy was based on a delightful character created by columnist Franklin P....
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1940
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This Technicolor musical remake of the 1936 comedy classic Libeled Lady isn't quite up to the standards of the original, but...
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1946
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This second entry in the "Jones Family" series finds Pa Jones (Jed Prouty) once again at loggerheads with his oldest son Jack...
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1936
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It's nearly the End of the Road for condemned prisoner Chris Martin (John Abbott), slated to be executed for a murder he says...
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Gregory McCune
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1944
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Exiled to Shanghai uses the then-waging wars in Spain and China as backdrops for a familiar "rival reporters" yarn....
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1937
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The federal agent "at large" in this Republic programmer is played by Kent Taylor. On the trail of gold smugglers in Mexico,...
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1950
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Fifteen thousand dollars may have been a fortune back in 1938, but to high-powered literary agent Lynn Conway...
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1938
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In this drama, a terminally ill college professor with only three months to live asks some younger colleagues what he should...
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1941
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There are moments in Columbia's Flight Lieutenant that approach "high camp"; indeed, one is hard pressed to remember if any...
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Sanford
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1942
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1936
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Footlight Glamour is one of two "Blondie" series entries in which Blondie's name isn't included in the credits. Otherwise,...
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J.C. Dithers
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1943
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The hero of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead is Howard Roark (Gary Cooper), a fiercely independent architect obviously patterned...
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1949
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Granite-jawed Jack Holt plays a dual role in Columbia's Fugitives at Large. Civil engineer George Storm (Holt) finds himself...
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1939
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The RKO Radio backlot gets quite a workout in the peppy "B" comedy-mystery Fugitives for a Night. When movie executive...
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1938
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1936
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In this romantic comedy, set during WW II, an newlywed army couple are unable to consummate their marriage, as on their...
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1945
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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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The biggest surprise in Republic's Gay Blades is that the studio's resident skating star Vera Hruba Ralston doesn't appear....
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1946
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The Ghost Goes Wild is a low-cost but high-rolling farce starring James Ellison and Anne Gwynne. It starts off with Ellison,...
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1947
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The Glory Brigade is a standard Korean War combat drama with a few interesting plot wrinkles. Victor Mature stars as Lt. Sam...
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1953
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In G Men, Warner Bros. "bad boy" James Cagney plays James "Brick" Davis, a young lawyer whose education has been financed by...
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1935
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In this mystery, an insurance investigator must find the arsonists behind the burning of a warehouse. The detective does get...
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Swann
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1941
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Hangmen Also Die is set in Czechoslovakia during the Nazi occupation. Czech loyalist Brian Donlevy assassinates the vicious...
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1943
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In this tuneful programmer a singer, believing that her husband, a Marine pilot accused of treason, has died in the Pacific,...
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Bennett
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1937
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In this drama, two childhood sweethearts endure the first pains of adult love. The young lady is beginning to feel...
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1941
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Lucille Ball offers a seminal version of her Lucy Ricardo TV character in Her Husband's Affairs. Ball is cast as Margaret...
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Gov. Fox
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1947
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1938
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Former army pilot Robert Taylor is accused, on the basis of strong circumstantial evidence, of his wife's murder. Suffering...
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1947
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The West Coast's answer to Broadway's Stage Door Canteen, the Hollywood Canteen was created as a GI morale-booster by film...
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1944
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A pre-stardom Bette Davis struggles mightily as the "other woman" in this rather obvious divorce court drama from Warner...
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1934
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Once again Edward G. Robinson takes a script from the trash bin and makes it into a palatable movie. A remake of The...
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1955
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Based on Memory of Love, a novel by Bessie Breuer, In Name Only is soap opera par excellence, blessed with a peerless cast....
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1939
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The United States Air Force dropping bombs on decent, taxpaying ranchers is perhaps not your standard B-Western theme but...
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1939
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Richard Denning is Insurance Investigator Tom Davison in this Republic second feature. Davison has been assigned to look into...
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1951
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When the profits of their various film series began slumping in the mid-1940s, Columbia Pictures tried to broaden the appeal...
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J.C. Dithers
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1943
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This ambitious filmed biography of writer-adventurer Jack London is somewhat compromised by its too-tight budget....
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1943
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Though Mickey Rooney is listed as coproducer of Jaguar, the star of the proceedings is East Indian actor Sabu, here cast as a...
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Dr. Powell
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1956
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This upbeat war-time tale chronicles the ordeal of ardently American munitions plant worker Joe Smith (Robert Young), whose...
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Blake McKettrick
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1942
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Edward Arnold once again plays a self-made businessman who inadvertently engineers his own downfall in John Meade's Woman....
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1937
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1940
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After years of dumb-blonde and best-friend roles, Jane Wyman proved her skills as a dramatic actress -- and won an Academy...
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1948
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The terrible consequences of perverting the legal system are spelled out in The Judge. In one of his rare starring roles,...
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1949
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The Hardys are off to Washington DC in this third entry in MGM's "Hardy Family" series. Judge Hardy (Lewis Stone) has been...
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1938
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Walter Wanger's first production for Allied Artists, Kansas Pacific is more slick and polished than the usual budget western....
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1953
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An honest football player single-handedly takes on a professional gambler and the crooked publisher of a sports magazine to...
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1948
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1957
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Originally designed for exhibition at the 1939 World's Fair, Land of Liberty is a 137-minute compendium of filmclips from...
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1939
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League of Frightened Men was the second and last entry in Columbia's short-lived mystery series based on the "Nero Wolfe"...
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1937
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After a two-year layoff, Columbia revived its moneymaking "Blondie" series with 1945's Leave It to Blondie. Older but no...
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J.C. Dithers
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1945
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Through an incredible series of circumstances, the Bowery Boys sign up for a hitch in the Navy. While clumsily going about...
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1951
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1938
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Daisy, the Bumstead's mischievous mutt, makes the family a little extra cash when she wins a contest to become a model for...
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Dithers
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1946
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It's a dark and stormy night. The butler of a large mansion is annoyed by the howling of a cat. He fires a few gunshots at...
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Captain Nelson
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1935
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20th Century-Fox hoped to make a film star out of Texas A&M football hero John Kimbrough, and to that end placed the gridiron...
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Judge Longstreth
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1942
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This is the second movie version of Willa Cather's Pulitzer Prize winning novel that tells the story of a bride-to-be whose...
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1934
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Sam Wood directed this fourth version of the Alexandre Bisson weeper, buffed to a high gloss by shimmering M.G.M. production...
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1937
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Man Alive is an inventive and consistently amusing farce dominated by stars Pat O'Brien and Adolphe Menjou. The former plays...
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1945
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One of the advantages of holding an MGM stock-company contract in the 1930s was the occasional opportunity to star in one of...
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1937
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A doctor (John Beal) who loses faith in his skills renounces his profession and hides himself in a variety of jobs. He takes...
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1937
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Jane Frazee made her starring film debut in the Republic B-plus musical Melody and Moonlight. The plot is motivated by the...
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1940
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Leave it to MGM to turn the Korean War into a splashy, big-budget, all-star extravaganza. Men of the Fighting Lady is set on...
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1954
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Brash and vigorous director William Wellman always had a place in his filmography for movies glorifying the early years of...
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1938
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In this three-hanky movie, an orphaned newsboy decides to care for a crippled young girl after her alcoholic mother is...
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1949
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A custody battle provides the basis for this melodramatic domestic drama. The case centers around a young girl who has...
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1937
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14-year-old Shirley Temple receives her first on-screen kiss in this innocuous romantic comedy. Temple is cast as the titular...
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1942
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A priest relates the tale of his friend, a WWI veteran, to the Post-War Planning Committee. Unable to get a job upon his...
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1944
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1952
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James Dunn is once more cast as a reporter, this one named Murphy. On the outs with practically every newsroom in America,...
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1937
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A Kathleen Norris novel was the source for this romantic drama, which begins when widowed navy doctor Quentin Harden...
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1936
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Although some purists hold out for Duck Soup (1933), many Marx Brothers fans consider A Night at the Opera the team's best...
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1935
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Though based on a true story, the principal inspiration for The Night Holds Terror was the success of Paramount's...
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1955
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In this musical, the teenage daughter of a popular movie star tires of being ignored by her separated parents and decides to...
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1943
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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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In this drama, an innocent man is framed for murder and sent to Sing Sing where he meets a kindly prison chaplain who helps...
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1938
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William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan Productions moved from MGM to Warners with Page Miss Glory--along with Cosmopolitan's...
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1935
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A lesser but still effective entry in the mid-1930s "prison" cycle, Parole catalogues the many problems facing prisoners...
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1936
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The ever-reliable Richard Arlen tops the cast of Republic's The Phantom Speaks. Arlen plays a reporter investigating a series...
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1945
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Unable to sign boxer Joe Louis to movie contract, Republic Pictures had to make do with the losers of Louis' heavyweight...
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1941
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1940
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The stringent censorship imposed upon Hollywood of the mid-1930s dictated that gangsters could no longer be the "heroes" in...
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1935
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In this gangster movie, a criminal king-pin and his gang hide out in his hometown where they witness a religious revival...
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1937
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1943
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Broke and stranded once more, golden-hearted showgirl Maisie Revere (Ann Sothern) finds herself in upstate New York in...
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1941
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The best film of Don Siegel's career to date, this surprisingly intelligent B-picture describes the dramatic arc of an...
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1954
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Set upon the mighty Mississippi, this comedy chronicles the travails of a showboat captain trying to keep his operation...
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Edward Beeler
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1946
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In this exciting action film, a young Indy driver endeavors to emulate his famous father, and restore his dad's good...
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1938
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In this children's move, a teenager and his loyal dog wander the wild West. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1948
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The Rodeo King and the Senorita stars Rex Allen (playing himself); it shouldn't be necessary to indicate which of the title...
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1951
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1949
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The Saint, Leslie Charteris' charming but deadly criminal-turned-sleuth, made his first film appearance in RKO Radio's...
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Inspector Henry Fernack
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1938
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George Sanders makes his final appearance as crook-turned-detective Simon Templar, a.k.a. "The Saint," in The Saint in Palm...
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Inspector Henry Fernack
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1941
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The Saint Strikes Back was the second in the series of films featuring Simon Templay, better known as The Saint, and the...
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Inspector Henry Fernack
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1939
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Inspector Henry Fernack
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1940
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Responding to star George Sanders' complaint that his role of "modern Robin Hood" Simon Templar was becoming a bore, RKO...
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Inspector Henry Fernack
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1940
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Jean Harlow offers her final screen performance in this witty and -- in retrospect -- quite moving racetrack comedy-drama...
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1937
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1952
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Lloyd Bacon wrapped up his lengthy directorial career with the innocuous comedy She Couldn't Say No. "She" is a young heiress...
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1952
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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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1937
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Western aficionados tend to regard Short Grass as the best-ever directorial effort by Lesley Selander. Considerably longer...
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Bissell
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1950
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Love leads a man to his most evil deeds and forces him to change his ways in this Western. After being handed a dishonorable...
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1948
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1944
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Strictly for Al Jolson's most fervent fans, The Singing Kid casts Jolie as neurotic Broadway star Al Jackson. Facing...
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1936
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A sequel to Bob Hope's 1948 box-office success The Paleface, 1952's Son of Paleface is a superior product in every way,...
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1952
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Spendthrift gives the modern viewer a pretty good idea how Hollywood planned to "mold" the image of new star Henry Fonda. The...
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1936
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1949
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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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1937
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Those scurrilous Chinese communists are up to their old tricks in the 1949 flagwaver State Department - File 649....
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Director-General
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1949
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Joseph Cotten plays a assistant bank manager who steals $500,000 from the safe late on a Friday. He plans to fly to Brazil...
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1952
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This fictionalized biography of the famed American inventor's life provided actor Don Ameche with his signature role. For...
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1939
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Strange Alibi offered young Warner Bros. contractee Arthur Kennedy to carry a picture all by himself. The star is cast as...
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Chief Sprague
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1941
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With Universal nearly out of the "B"-grade horror film business by 1945, it was up to Monogram to take up the slack with...
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1945
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1951
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1951
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1943
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Set at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses to secede from the state...
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1948
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This RKO Radio "expose" film is loosely based on the career of evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, who'd previously gotten the...
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1938
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1953
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This flag-waving Columbia programmer concentrates on five young Officer's Candidate School applicants. Each of the...
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1943
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There's That Woman Again was the second and last entry in Columbia's own spin on MGM's "Thin Man" series. Virginia Bruce and...
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1938
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A winning sweepstakes ticket is the catalyst in 36 Hours to Kill. The lucky recipient is gangster Duke Benson...
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1936
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1937
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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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1944
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Inspired by the 1949 hit A Letter to Three Wives, this takes the other side of the coin with a deceased playboy leaving...
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1950
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Three former POWs return home and find that they have been listed among the dead. This comedy follows their attempts to...
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1935
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In this western, three gringos deposit their loot in a Mexican bank and set up homes in a tiny village where they hope to...
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1956
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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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In this drama, a group of young cadets in a military academy struggle to overcome their personal problems and make it through...
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1936
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When an Army general is appointed to the sensitive diplomatic post that the powerful publisher of a prominent news magazine...
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1957
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1950
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In this western, a marshal goes undercover to stop a brutal gang of crooks from continuing to terrorize local ranchers....
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1947
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Based on the novel by MacKinlay Kantor, this 1936 drama from director Richard Thorpe stars Lionel Barrymore as Springfield...
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1936
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The Columbia mystery melodrama The Walls Came Tumbling Down is regarded in many circles as star Lee Bowman's finest...
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1946
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Though running a mere 15 minutes, Watchtower Over Tomorrow boasts some very impressive credits. Written by Ben Hecht, this...
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1945
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In this adventure, a convict gets released and immediately begins looking for the $250,000 in loot a fellow inmate hid...
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1957
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This upbeat domestic drama chronicles the struggles of a newlywed couple as they try to keep their marital status secret from...
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1940
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In this crime drama, a fading movie star plays a similar character in her farewell film, a B crime-drama about a...
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1946
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Filmed on-location at the Naval Air Training Stations in San Diego, CA, and Pensacola, FL, this black-and-white Warner Bros....
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1939
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In this wartime drama, a young woman nearly comes unhinged when her husband, a Navy pilot, is transferred to Pearl Harbor on...
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1937
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James Whale's Wives Under Suspicion is remake of Whale's own 1933 production A Kiss Before the Mirror, with a few noticeable...
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1938
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The Sidney Howard/Paul de Kruf Broadway play Yellow Jack was transferred to the screen by MGM in 1938. The film is set at the...
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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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