Kirk Douglas produced, directed, and starred in this cynical western concerning Howard Nightingale (Kirk Douglas) a United...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1975
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Shirley MacLaine plays Charity Hope Valentine who, despite her job at a seedy dime-a-dance joint, is an incurable optimist....
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1969
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Occasionally listed as In Enemy Hands (evidently a working title), In Enemy Country is a war film with "A" ambitions and a...
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1968
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This hilarious oater finds Jesse Heywood (Don Knotts) as a Philadelphia dentist who leaves his home to open a new practice on...
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1968
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In this adventure, seven young west Texans ride out to volunteer for the Confederate army during the mid-point of the Civil...
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1968
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1967
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George Roy Hill directed this original musical set the 1920s that mixes pop standards with new tunes written by Sammy Cahn...
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1967
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In this psychological thriller, Paul (James Caan) and Jennifer (Katherine Ross) are a pair of wealthy but blasé socialites...
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1967
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Rosie! is directly based upon Ruth Gordon's play A Very Rich Woman, which was itself based upon a French play by Philippe...
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1967
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This typical western tale of beleaguered townsfolk mustering up the courage to fight the villain that controls their town...
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1967
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Dean Martin stars as an amiable gunrunner in the tongue-in-cheek western Texas Across the River. Martin teams up with...
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1966
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Gunpoint stars Audie Murphy as a Colorado sheriff -- and never mind that the film was shot in Utah. Sheriff Lucas (Murphy)...
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1966
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The year is 1863. Wealthy Virginia landowner Charlie Anderson (James Stewart), a man of peace despite his autocratic...
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1965
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In this domestic comedy, a high school graduate causes chaos when he tells his parents that he is going to get married and...
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1965
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In this comedy, an even-tempered fireman with a happily tepid life, finds his peaceful world disrupted when he becomes...
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1965
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1964
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Based on the popular children's story by Scott O'Dell, this family movie tells of the true adventures of a young Native...
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1964
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In this western, the trouble begins when a rancher's mother and father are killed by a young outlaw and his family who want...
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1964
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In this remake of Johnny Dark (1954) an ex-GI and college dropout would rather play with cars than anything else until he...
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1964
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Light and laugh-filled, Send Me No Flowers is typical Rock Hudson and Doris Day fare. George (Hudson) is a hypochondriac...
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1964
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Irene Trent (Barbara Stanwyck) was married to the inventor Howard (Hayden Roarke) before the blind electronics genius blows...
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1964
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Deliberately casting his established screen image to the four winds, Cary Grant plays Walter Eckland, an unkempt, uncouth and...
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1964
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This amusing romantic comedy concerns Dr. Gerald Boyer (James Garner), a successful gynecologist with a wife and two...
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1963
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In this romantic comedy, Deke Gentry (Kirk Douglas) is a lawyer who gets an unusual assignment from Chloe Brasher...
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1963
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In this western adventure set in a Mexican border town, two prisoners Foster and Pickett (Audie Murphy and Charles Drake),...
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1963
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A sometimes astonishingly grim western, Six Black Horses ostensibly stars Audie Murphy, but is effortlessly stolen by Frank...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1962
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Filmed in Germany by American director John Huston, Freud is a sincerely felt but overly simplistic biopic of the pioneering...
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1962
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Audie Murphy plays a gunslinger put in charge of a posse. His quarry is a four-man bandit gang that has robbed the local...
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1961
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1961
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Kit (Doris Day), an American married to wealthy London businessman Tony Preston (Rex Harrison) becomes the terrified victim...
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1960
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An uninspired horror film by Edward Dein, this ragged story begins in darkest Africa and in the even darker psyche of a...
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Producer
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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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1960
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1959
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In this comical western, a curmudgeonly fur-trapper is hurt by an enraged bear and must send his nephew to town with his...
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1959
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Only one of three films directed by screenwriter Charles Lederer, known for movies as disparate as The Thing (1951) and...
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1959
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American live-action footage frames this animated feature from the USSR, and the cartoon characters' voices are also dubbed...
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1959
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This glamorized remake of the 1934 film Imitation of Life bears only a passing resemblance to its source, the best-selling...
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1959
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1959
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A small western town in the 1880s has been beset by a series of mysterious deaths, mostly involving young women, with no...
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Producer
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1959
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John Gant (Audie Murphy) rides into the town of Lordsburg and quietly checks into the hotel. He doesn't say much, nor does he...
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1959
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Though billed fifth, Mary Astor is the one to watch in the Ross Hunter-produced soapera Stranger in My Arms. Astor portrays a...
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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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1958
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Audie Murphy heads the cast of the better-than-usual oater Ride a Crooked Trail. It all begins when gunslinger Joe Maybe...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1958
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In her second film for Universal-International, Esther Williams stars as Laura, a high-priced fashion model. While working in...
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1958
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Saga of Hemp Brown gets under way when the title character (Rory Calhoun) is court-martialed and booted from the Cavalry....
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1958
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George Nader plays a reporter whose career is ruined by liquor. A comeback opportunity presents itself when Nader is a...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1958
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Having gained a measure of TV fame by 1958, the nightclub comedy duo of Dan Rowan and Dick Martin decided to give movies a...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1958
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Though the fact was played down by the Universal-International publicity department, Step Down to Terror (aka...
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Producer
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1958
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In this curious blend of Western and detective melodrama, Jock Mahoney plays a frontier gumshoe named Hogan. When an old...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1958
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In this sci-fi film, a college professor must deal with the cataclysmic consequences that ensue when a transmogrifying...
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Producer
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1958
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Small-minded small town 1950's mores threaten a youthful romance in this sudsy melodrama based on the play Teach Me How to...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1958
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This Happy Feeling is based on the F. Hugh Herbert play For Love or Money. Debbie Reynolds plays impulsive Janet Blake, who...
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1958
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Summer Love is a sequel to 1957's Rock Pretty Baby, with John Saxon repeating his role as aspiring musician Jim Daley. When...
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1958
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Will Rogers Jr. follows in the cinematic footsteps of his famous father in the evenly-paced western Wild Heritage. Rogers is...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1958
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Shipped out on a double bill with Summer Love, Universal's The Big Beat is another of those "rock & roll salads" so popular...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1958
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In this low-budget crime drama a runaway girl joins a gang of jewel thieves and finds herself leading an exciting luxurious...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1958
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In this frothy romantic comedy, a hard-working female Army shrink (Janet Leigh) devises the "perfect furlough" for battle...
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1958
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When a millionaire discovers that he is going to lose half of his business if his missing brother isn't found to keep it out...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1958
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Harry Keller, the man who directed the extra scenes in Orson Welles' Touch of Evil, receives solo directorial credit in The...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1958
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A young woman plays with a divining rod and ends up finding much more than water in this horror movie. Instead of the...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1958
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According to Universal-International publicity, The Lady Takes a Flyer is partially based on fact. The "lady" is Maggie Colby...
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1958
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Fred MacMurray is the beleagured hero of the Universal western Day of the Badman. MacMurray plays circuit judge Jim Scott,...
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1958
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A child star becomes a brat to hide her loneliness in this drama. The popular little actress is quite insolent and refuses...
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1958
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In this sensitive drama, a commercial artist is devastated by his tiny daughter's death and takes to drinking to numb the...
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1958
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This biographical drama, chronicles the patriotic exploits of World War II hero Colonel Francis C. Grevemberg, who fought a...
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1958
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A tall horseman (Jock Mahoney) rides into the small town of Arborville, deserted except for redheaded Jody (Luana Patten),...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1957
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The 8-year-old "Ma and Pa Kettle Series" came to an end with The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm. In her last screen...
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1957
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Longtime MGM executive and short-subject producer Carey Wilson wrapped up his career with the 67-minute...
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1957
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Generous portions of The Secret Land, the 1948 documentary on the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, were worked into the action of...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1957
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Fred MacMurray plays the head of an outlaw band trying to escape across the Mexican border. The gang is able to elude the law...
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1957
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1957
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One screen legend tips his hat to another as James Cagney portrays horror film icon Lon Chaney in Man of a Thousand Faces....
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1957
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Kelly is a big, lovable, immensely talented German Shepherd. "Me" is Len Carmody (Van Johnson), a third-rate vaudevillian....
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1957
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The Depression-New Deal subtext of the original 1936 My Man Godfrey was understandably dispensed with in this so-so 1957...
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1957
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In some ways, the coming-attractions trailer for The Monolith Monsters is more exciting than the picture itself. The plot...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1957
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The screen's great existential science fiction film, The Incredible Shrinking Man stars Grant Williams in the title role....
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1957
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This is the one in which the "villain" is a huge, carnivorous praying mantis. After the titular insect has attacked several...
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1957
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1957
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1957
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Though Slaughter on Tenth Avenue's background music relies heavily on the Richard Rodgers composition of the same name, the...
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1957
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Having inherited a huge cattle ranch from his late father, Will Keough (Fred MacMurray) wants nothing more than to tend to...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1957
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Like many of his best works, filmmaker Douglas Sirk's Interlude is a remake of an earlier Universal soap opera. In this case,...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1957
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In this adventure, a remake of Singapore (1947), a hero finds a bracelet containing 13 precious gems while visiting Istanbul....
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1957
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This parody of Hollywood westerns centers on a boorish hellion of a cowboy star who makes life for the studio people around...
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1957
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In this dark drama, a schizophrenic is forced out of his hospital due to overcrowding, and his doctors tell him to avoid...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1957
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In this tense murder mystery, a San Francisco traffic officer vows to find the killer of the kindly priest who raised him....
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1957
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Jeff Chandler plays big-city lawyer James Gordon Blane, who heads to a small Nevada town to defend a playboy (Phillip Reed)...
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1957
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You knew what you were in for when you saw the title, so don't grouse. Don Taylor stars as a doctor/adventurer who ventures...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1957
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Zsa Zsa Gabor plays twin sisters in this campy Red Scare espionage thriller from the late 1950s. She plays the nurse to...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1957
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Mister Cory represented the first of several successful collaborations between star Tony Curtis and director Blake Edwards....
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1957
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In this boxing drama, a young pugilist hopes his talent will be his ticket out of the ghetto. Sure enough, the welterweight...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1956
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George Nader stars as David Carr, a construction engineer operating in the Belgian Congo. In true jingoistic fashion, Carr...
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1956
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1956
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This is the final installment in Universal's uneven "Gill Man trilogy," which began with Creature From the Black Lagoon and...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1956
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Walk the Proud Land is the true story of Indian agent John Philip Clum, as set down on paper by Clum's son. The film begins...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1956
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Though both star Donald O'Connor and director Arthur Lubin had said goodbye to the "Francis the Talking Mule" series,...
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1956
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1956
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In this western, a lawman tries to mediate between irate farmers and angry ranchers who are trying to decide the fate of a...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1956
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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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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1956
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Four Girls in Town is essentially an excuse by Universal-International to test out several of their newer contractees. The...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1956
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There's Always Tomorrow is a remake of a 1934 film of the same name. Fred MacMurray is a toy company executive whose wife...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1956
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In this drama, a man is falsely accused of committing two murders, one of which is committed at the dog-track. Now he is...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1956
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The "Bridey Murphy" craze of the 1950s was the catalyst for I've Lived Before. Jock Mahoney plays a contemporary pilot who...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1956
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Raw Edge is a modest Universal western from the peak of the double-feature era. Rory Calhoun plays a rancher whose "equal...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1956
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1956
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A Day Of Fury stars Jock Mahoney as town marshal Alan Burnett, whose life is saved by a stranger he meets on the trail. His...
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1956
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Composer (Music Score)
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1956
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The Kettles in the Ozarks was the eighth of Universal's "Ma and Pa Kettle" series--minus "Pa" (actor Percy Kilbride had left...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1956
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1956
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In this western, the ex-sheriff of Abilene returns from the Civil War a changed man. Traumatized by the horrors of war, the...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1956
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The Mole People holds the dubious distinction of being the weakest of the Universal-International horror films. John Agar...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1956
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A must-see for students of 1950s pop culture, Rock, Pretty Baby was Universal-International's earliest acknowledgement of the...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1956
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In this western, an adventurous gambler goes on the lam when he is falsely accused of a riverboat killing. He hides out for...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1956
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This exciting caper outing is loosely based on the famous robbery of Brinks in Boston that netted the crooks $2.5 million....
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1955
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In this deceptively titled and paced Western, Kirk Douglas shines in the hyper-macho role of Dempsey Rae, a good-natured...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1955
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Joseph Kramm's Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway play The Shrike was brought to the screen by its original director/star, Jose...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1955
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Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy is the last of the team's vehicles for Universal-International. Stranded in Egypt, Bud and...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1955
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This musical is a contemporary version of Aristophanes' ancient play Lysistrata. Instead of Greece, this play is centered in...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1955
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One of the earliest examples of the hot rod/juvenile delinquency flick, Running Wild featured William Campbell as a rookie...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1955
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1955
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Barbara Rush is at her most exotically beautiful in the lush costumer Kiss of Fire. Based on Jonreed Lauritzen's novel...
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1955
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To say that Lady Godiva is historically inaccurate is a moot point, since most historians agree that the whole Lady Godiva...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1955
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The title tells all in this seventh entry in Universal's "Ma and Pa Kettle" series. This time around, Ma (Marjorie Main) and...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1955
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For full appreciation of the culture-clash drama Foxfire, it is crucial that the viewer accept Jeff Chandler as a Native...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1955
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Reviled in his lifetime as a lunatic insurrectionist, Chief Crazy Horse has in recent years emerged as a Native American...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1955
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Actor Abner Biberman specialized in unpleasant characters; when he turned director in the mid-1950s, he specialized in...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1955
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This movie is ideal for those in the mood for something steamy, overwrought and wonderfully trashy. Billed as a mystery, it...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1955
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Rock Hudson stars as Michael Martin, a naive and impetuous young would-be rebel in 1815 Ireland, who turns to robbery in his...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1955
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One of the most entertaining of the Western movies to come out of the 1950s, this is a Stewart vehicle in which he must take...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1955
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A too-tough Army major gets himself sent to run an ROTC program at a Santa Barbara military school after he calls unwanted...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1955
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The highly variable Audie Murphy delivers his best screen performance as "himself" in Universal's To Hell and Back. Based on...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1955
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The "one desire" of ex-gamblers Rock Hudson and Anne Baxter is to escape their shady former lives and settle down to...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1955
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In this lively musical a chorine hooks a successful businessman and becomes the snob she thinks he expects her to be. This...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1955
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Tony Curtis was by 1955 an accomplished enough actor to get through the costumed derring-do of The Purple Mask minus the...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1955
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For reasons that defy logic, the excellent This Island Earth was held up for ridicule as an allegedly bad movie in the film...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1955
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Lex Barker is The Man From Bitter Ridge in this modest Universal western. Barker plays Pinkerton man Jeff Carr, who comes to...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1955
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One of director Douglas Sirk's best and most successful romantic soapers of the 1950s, All That Heaven Allows is predicated...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1955
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Complaining that Francis the Mule was getting more fan mail than he was, Donald O'Connor bade adios to the "Francis" series...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1955
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The best thing that can be said about Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops is that it's better than the team's previous...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1955
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Steve Allen makes his dramatic film debut in The Benny Goodman Story. Outside of Goodman's conflicts with his parents over...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1955
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Dana Andrews plays Cavalry deserter Brett Halliday in the compact Universal western Smoke Signal. Cavalry captain Harper...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1955
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A man with a strangely misshapen face wanders out of the desert near a small town and falls to the ground dead. The county...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1955
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The splendid physique of Tony Curtis is given generous screen exposure in the boxing melodrama The Square Jungle. Curtis...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1955
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The Spoilers is the fourth and (very likely) last film version of Rex Beach's rugged Alaskan adventure yarn. Set during the...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1955
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1954
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Tony Curtis always seemed a little uncomfortable in costume epics, but this trait serves him well in Black Shield of...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1954
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Tony Curtis stars as Johnny Dark, a moody automobile designer. Rejected by a major auto firm because of his "radical"...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1954
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Rory Calhoun stars as veteran gunfighter Brett Wade in Dawn at Socorro. In a lengthy flashback, the audience learns why Wade...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1954
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Fireman Save My Child started out as an Abbott and Costello picture, but then Lou Costello became ill with rheumatic fever....
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Composer (Music Score)
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1954
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1954
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The muscular physique of Rock Hudson is given plenty of screen exposure in the British-India actioner Bengal Brigade. Adapted...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1954
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Lex Barker trades his Tarzan loincloth for buckskins in the Universal western Yellow Mountain. Barker stars as gold...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1954
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Universal Pictures introduced audiences to yet another classic movie monster with this superbly crafted film, originally...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1954
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Tony Curtis makes his musical-comedy debut in the frolicsome Universal production So This is Paris. Curtis, Gene Nelson and...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1954
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Despite its title, Tanganyika was largely filmed in the wilds of Universal City. Set in 1900, the film stars Van Heflin as...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1954
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The Glenn Miller Story traces Miller's rise from pit-orchestra trombone player to leader of the most successful big band of...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1954
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Saskatchewan is a "northern" starring Alan Ladd as tight-lipped Canadian Mountie Sgt. Thomas O'Rourke. He rescues Grace...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1954
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Rails into Laramie is one of the more obscure Universal-International western programmers of the 1950s, but this is no...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1954
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This second film version of Lloyd C. Douglas' spiritual novel Magnificent Obsession is in its own way as successful as the...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1954
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1954
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Marjorie Main is the whole show in the Universal programmer Ricochet Romance. Playing the outspoken new cook at a rundown...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1954
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1954
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An outdoor adventure musical comedy, Take Me to Town features Ann Sheridan as Vermilion O'Toole, a barroom singer with a...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1953
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John Forsythe plays a successful television writer, Don Newell, who works on the "Crime of the Week" anthology series. Newell...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1953
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Walking My Baby Back Home is a bubbly musical of no significance whatsoever, but this doesn't diminish its enjoyability...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1953
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1953
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It Came From Outer Space is one of a handful of science fiction films from the 1950s that plays as well today as it did on...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1953
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1953
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1953
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Audie Murphy is suitably cast as cavalry lieutenant Jed Sayre in Universal's Column South. Stationed in Navajo country, Sayre...
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1953
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All I Desire an early exercise in Douglas Sirk Baroque, is set at the turn of the century. Long divorced from her husband...
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1953
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The motivating factor behind City Beneath the Sea is an underwater treasure hunt. In 1692, an underwater earthquake sends the...
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1953
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No relation to the TV and radio series of the same name, Universal-International's Gunsmoke is a Technicolor vehicle for...
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1953
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This was the last in a string of spoofs that found the comedy duo tangling with various classic Universal Studios monsters....
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1953
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Excluding a brace of 1980s TV-movie appearances, It Happens Every Thursday was the final feature film appearance of...
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1953
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Rock Hudson stars in Seminole as 19th-century army officer Lance Caldwell. Born and raised in Florida, Caldwell is assigned...
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1953
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Juvenile delinquency is the subject of the misleadingly titled Universal-International potboiler Girls in the Night....
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1953
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In this fourth of the "Francis" series, former Army officer Peter Stirling (Donald O'Connor) becomes a reporter for a big...
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1953
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Universal's Technicolor cameras this time tell the story of Harun El Raschid (Rock Hudson), who innocently comes into...
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1953
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Several genuine Native Americans dot the cast of Universal's The Great Sioux Uprising. The scene is the frontier outpost of...
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1953
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Audie Murphy plays wagon train scout Jim Harvey in Universal-International's Tumbleweed. Through a series of unfortunate...
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1953
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They don't really go to Mars, they go to Venus, but first they go to New Orleans. While working at a missile base,...
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1953
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War Arrow is another of Universal's efficiently produced A plus/B minus Technicolor westerns of the early 1950s....
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1953
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Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair was Number Four in Universal's immensely successful "B"-picture series. It is giving away...
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1952
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Joel McCrea plays 19th-century miner Rick Nelson in The San Francisco Story. The year is 1856, and Frisco is a wide-open...
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1952
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Despite its ebullient title and the presence of lightweight dancing star Dan Dailey, Meet Me at the Fair has a lot more meat...
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1952
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The Lawless Breed is based on the exploits of Texas bad man John Wesley Hardin, played here quite convincingly by...
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1952
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Nineteenth-century saloon gal Roxy McClanahan (Yvonne DeCarlo) manages to inveigle herself into the uppermost rungs of polite...
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1952
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One reviewer of Abbott & Costello's Lost in Alaska summed up the proceeding in three pithy words: "Lost is right." While not...
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1952
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Back at the Front is the second of two film comedies based on the wartime cartoons of Bill Mauldin. As in Up Front, the...
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1952
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Francis Goes to West Point is the third entry in Universal's money-spinning series about a talking mule. Donald O'Connor once...
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1952
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Blue-collar gal Henrietta Smith (Anne Sheridan) is mistaken for a woman of wealth by plumber Fred Newcombe (John Lund)....
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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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1952
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A group of vicious claim-jumpers is killing the miners in a Western settlement. Their latest victim is Cromwell...
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1952
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Boris Karloff returns to his old Universal stamping grounds in the mild horror item Black Castle. The plot is motivated by a...
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1952
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Fresh from radio and TV, "America's Favorite Family" stars in Here Come the Nelsons. That's right: this harmless little...
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1952
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Steel Town top-bills Ann Sheridan, but the bulk of the story is carried by John Lund. Cast as Steve Kostane, the nephew of a...
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1952
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1952
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Red Ball Express deals with the little-known activities of the U.S. Army Transportation Corps during WW II. It so happened...
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1952
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In this swashbuckling adventure-satire, Kashma Baba's famous father Ali, sends the reluctant youth to military school to...
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1952
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Set in the years following the Civil War, Horizons West stars Robert Ryan as Dan Hammond, one of three Texans who decide to...
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1952
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Gentlemanly William Powell is cast spectacularly but effectively against type in Treasure of the Lost Canyon. Powell plays...
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1952
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It's always a pleasure to see ace western director Leslie Selander in action, and Riders of Vengeance is no exception....
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1952
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Jeff Chandler stars in the Universal actioner Smuggler's Island. Chandler plays ex-Navy frogman Steve Kent, now employed as a...
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1951
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Columbia and Universal were the leading purveyors of well-crafted "little" pictures in the 1950s. It was Universal who put...
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1951
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Economically utilizing the Universal Studio itself as a "set," Hollywood Story is a murder mystery centered in the film...
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1951
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A remake of the 1931 film of the same name, Iron Man stars Jeff Chandler as up-and-coming boxer Cokie Martin. A relatively...
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1951
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The popular radio detective series The Fat Man was brought to the screen in 1951, with the series' original star J. Scott...
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1951
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Cattle Drive stars Joel McCrea as boss drover Dana Mathews. It is Mathews' task to make a man out of Chester Graham Jr....
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1951
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Set during WW II, Target Unknown follows the exploits of a group of American flyers who crash behind enemy lines. Captured by...
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1951
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1951
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1951
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1951
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1951
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1951
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1951
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1951
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Little Egypt is a lighthearted "biopic" all about the hootchie-kootchie dancer who created a sensation at the 1893 Chicago...
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1951
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Universal's Air Cadet stars Stephen McNally as the obligatory tough topkick, here assigned to whip a bunch of green pilots...
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1951
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1950
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The trendy elegance of director Douglas Sirk's later big-budget soap operas is nowhere to be found in Sirk's Atomic-Age...
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1950
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Wyoming Mail stars Stephen McNally as frontier postal inspector Steve Davis. Assigned to break up a gang of outlaws who prey...
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1950
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1950
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Roger Quain (Howard Duff) arrives in Europe to look after the welfare of two zoo-bound black panthers. Catherine Ulven...
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1950
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Peggy Brookfield (Diana Lynn) is one of many aspirants for the position of Queen of the annual Tournament of Roses in...
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1950
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1950
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Richard Conte plays a big-city racketeer whose luck runs out on him. He is sent to a Southern prison, but vows to be out and...
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1950
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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello play wrestling promoters whose star attraction, Wee Willie Davis, skips town to return to his...
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1950
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Two-bit photographer Howard Duff wins a big newspaper assignment by romancing his lady boss (Peggy Dow). Duff is sent to take...
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1950
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Having previously played Billy the Kid, Audie Murphy assumes the role of Jesse James in Kansas Raiders. The plot finds Jesse...
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1950
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The Runaround is a game attempt to return to the "screwball comedy" genre so popular in the 1930s. Rival detectives Kildane...
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1946
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With the profits of the Abbott & Costello films in decline, Universal decided to experiment with the comedians' standard...
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Producer
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1946
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Some observers have suggested that Meet Danny Wilson could just as well have been titled Meet Frank Sinatra. A star vehicle...
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