U.S. Marshal Gid McCool (George Montgomery) leads a wagon train of convicted felons to Huntsville prison in this routine...
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1967
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In this offbeat crime drama, Mafia boss Johnny Colini (Marc Lawrence) has run afoul of the law and is being deported back to...
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1963
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John Wayne's directorial debut The Alamo is set in 1836: Wayne plays Col. Davy Crockett, who, together with Colonels Jim...
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1960
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This was the first film directed by Paul Stanley, and its theme of second-generation Puerto Ricans living in New York's...
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Alvears
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1959
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This baroque nightmare of a south-of-the-border mystery is considered to be one of the great movies of Orson Welles, who both...
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Pete Menzies
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1958
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Filmed for the first season of Have Gun--Will Travel, this episode ultimately served as the opener for Season Two (though...
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1958
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Those who learned to dislike Conrad Richter's novel The Light in the Forest when it was required reading in high school will...
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1958
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Wild Is the Wind represents a (perhaps deliberate) reversal of the situation in The Rose Tattoo (1955). Whereas in Tattoo,...
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Alberto
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1957
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Loosely based on a novel by James M. Cain, this romantic drama centers on the struggles of a humble vineyard worker...
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Prof. Marcatello
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1956
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If Hot Blood is remembered at all today, it is for its ludicrous advertising blurb "Jane Russell shakes her tambourines and...
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Papa Theodore
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1956
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Filmed on location, Treasure of Pancho Villa stars Rory Calhoun as a mercenary at large during Mexico's civil war. Though...
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Pablo Morales
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1955
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Both Jane Russell and her uncredited stunt double look great in skimpy swimwear throughout the Technicolor and SuperScope...
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1955
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Filmed in Mexico, The Littlest Outlaw was produced for Walt Disney Studios by Larry Lansburgh, who'd previous turned out...
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Padre
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1954
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Martin and Lewis tee each other off on a PGA tour in The Caddy. Harvey Miller (Jerry Lewis) is an expert with his golf club,...
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Papa Anthony
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1953
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Though its title would seem to indicate a medieval swashbuckler, The Iron Mistress is actually based on the life of American...
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Juan Moreno
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1952
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The innate dignity of leading-man Jeff Chandler lends credibility to the swashbuckling proceedings of Yankee Buccaneer. Set...
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Count Domingo Del Prado
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1952
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During the Vatican Holy Year of 1950, confidence trickster Joe Brewster (Paul Douglas) disguises himself as a priest and...
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Aggiunto Bodulli
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1952
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Lt. Massiro
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1951
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One of the most notorious flops in the history of Columbia Pictures, Valentino is actually fairly entertaining -- but only...
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Luigi Verducci
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1951
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With The Palomino, Columbia Pictures inaugurated its policy of giving "class" to its medium-budget pictures by filming in...
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Miguel Gonzales
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1950
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Alan Ladd plays the title role in Captain Carey USA. A former OSS operative, Captain Carey returns to Italy after the war to...
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Dr. Lunati
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1950
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Rubriz
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1950
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Vendetta began as a pet project of producer/director/writer Preston Sturges. Producer Howard R. Hughes was at first...
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Mayor Barracini
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1950
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For their first independently-produced vehicle, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello chose to appear in a remake of the 1939 Universal...
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Mike Craig
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1948
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When the family land is threatened with foreclosure, honest, hard-working rancher Ross McEwen (Joel McCrea) resorts to bank...
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Monte Marquez
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1948
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In postwar London, Chicago-raised fashion reporter Linda Medbury, working for a British newspaper, runs across a crime story...
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Sugiani
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1948
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Lucille Ball is an American taxi-dancer living in London whose roommate has disappeared. The missing girl had left to answer...
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1947
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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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Dr. Enrico Fermi
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1947
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Deadline at Dawn represented not only the sole film directorial effort of Broadway's Harold Clurman, but also the only...
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Bartelli
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1946
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When wealthy Ballin Mundson (George Macready) rescues down at his heels gambler Johnny Farrell (Glenn Ford) and invites him...
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Obregon
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1946
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This Casablanca-esque spy thriller set during WWII centers on the exploits of the notorious "Flying Dutchman," a fugitive...
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1944
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The time is World War II. A group of disillusioned French soldiers are approached by Nazi troops and promised safe passage to...
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Rodriguez
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1943
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Based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls is a romantic drama set against the turbulent tapestry of the...
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1943
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Buldeo
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1942
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1942
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One of the most schizophrenic films ever to come out of the Paramount "B" mill, The Monster and the Girl starts out as a...
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Deacon
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1941
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Pallini
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1941
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The once-in-a-lifetime teaming of Mae West and W.C. Fields in My Little Chickadee had the potential for comic greatness: what...
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Masked Bandit
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1940
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In addition to being a fine Western in its own right, this film served to introduce perhaps Hollywood's oddest romantic...
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John Buckley
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1940
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Often cited as a "model" B picture, Five Came Back is set in motion when the twelve-seat passenger plane "Southern Star"...
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1939
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When Fox bought the rights to Ralph Spence's warhorse stage mystery-comedy The Gorilla for the Ritz Brothers, they walked out...
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1939
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In this thriller, a man is brutally murdered and an innocent man takes the rap. The real murderer later confesses his crime...
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Father Loma
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1939
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Juarez was originally designed to concentrate almost exclusively on the tragedy of Hapsburg Emperor Maximillian, whose...
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1939
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Eddie Fuseli
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1939
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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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Ben
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1938
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M.G.M.'s opulent costume drama Marie Antoinette marked a return to the screen after a two-year absence for reigning Queen of...
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1938
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A standard-issue "screwball comedy" of the 1930s, Four's a Crowd starred a quartet of Warner Bros' biggest stars:...
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1938
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This Hollywood remake of the French Pepe le Moko adheres so slavishly to its source that it utilizes stock footage from the...
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Inspector Slimane
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1938
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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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Jack Moreno
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1937
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Dancer
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1936
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Sinner Takes All shines with the production gloss only MGM could create; the prettiness of the images helps to hide the plot...
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Frank Penny
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1936
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Warner Baxter does a variation of his Oscar-winning "Cisco Kid" characterization in Robin Hood of El Dorado. Baxter plays the...
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Screenwriter
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1936
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In this polished soap opera from MGM, Robert Taylor plays Chris Claybourne, a dedicated scientist researching a possible...
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Fish Eye
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1936
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In this drama, a boy's love for his loyal dog, helps him survive in a hard cruel world. The trouble begins with the boy's...
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Joe
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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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Joe Emerald
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1936
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Former newspaperman Martin Mooney based his script for Exclusive Story on the racket-busting activities of New York district...
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Ace Acello
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1936
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Riff-Raff begins riff-raffing when boastful fisherman Dutch (Spencer Tracy) marries down-to-earth cannery worker Hattie...
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Nick Appopolis
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1935
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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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Sonny Black
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1935
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In this drama, a remake of Sal of Singapore(1929), the captain of a freighter becomes an instant father when his crew rescues...
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1931
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