Republic Studios' B pictures were generally more exciting than their As, as was certainly the case with Girl in the Woods....
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Aunt Martha
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1958
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If Jet Pilot seems hopelessly out of date today, imagine how filmgoers in 1957 reacted when this relic from 1949 was taken...
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1957
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In one of his rare movie starring assignments, William Talman (Hamilton Burger on TV's Perry Mason) plays a dual role in The...
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1957
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When bucolic character comic Grady Sutton shows up as a pistol packin' Westerner in Grand Canyon, your suspicions are...
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1949
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When Lucille Fletcher took on the challenge of expanding her classic 30-minute radio suspenser Sorry, Wrong Number into an...
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1948
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1948
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MGM whipped up another musical salad with Luxury Liner, featuring a glittering lineup of contractees including Jane Powell,...
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1948
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Warren Douglas plays an average Joe who bears a striking resemblance to a famous gangster. A group of rival hoods beat up the...
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Joan
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1948
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Not precisely the best film of 1947, the Republic comedy-mystery Exposed is nevertheless consistently enjoyable. Adele Mara...
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1947
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Jane Cornell
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1947
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In this comedy, a novelist visits a local nightclub to do some research for her upcoming novel. Her husband, away on a...
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Mrs. LaVitte
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1947
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In this episode of the popular detective series, Chan learns that fake fingerprints have caused innocent people to go to...
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1946
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Faced with the challenge of writing a screenplay based on the life of fabulously wealthy, fabulously successful composer Cole...
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1946
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Crooked newspaper columnist Jeff Mann (James Cardwell), who apparently was blackmailing half the criminal gangs in the city,...
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1946
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In this drama, an amoral, manipulative womanizer gets his comeuppance. The story begins as the handsome cad is witnessed...
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1945
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Yes, even Ida Lupino occasionally starred in screwball comedies during the 1930s and 1940s. Pillow to Post casts Lupino as...
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1945
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Joan Crawford won an Academy Award for her bravura portrayal of the titular heroine in Mildred Pierce. The original James M....
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1945
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This odd combination of roughneck comedy and serious domestic drama was adapted by Louise Randall Pierson from her own...
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1945
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1945
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In this drama, an aspiring playwright gets a job in a New York City restaurant favored by celebrities in hopes of getting a...
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1945
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Silver Skates was designed to showcase Monogram's latest discovery, ice-skating star Belita. The minimalist plot concerns the...
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1943
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Mike Hallett (Barton MacLaine) is A Gentle Gangster in this satisfactory Republic programmer. A big shot during prohibition,...
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Kitty Parker
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1943
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This Roy Rogers musical western gets off to a grim start when rancher Jerry Johnson (Jerome Cowan) is murdered by...
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1943
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Let's Face It is adapted from the Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was based on the old Norma Mitchell/...
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1943
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Singer Bob Haymes (not Dick Haymes, as has sometimes been reported) heads the cast of Columbia's Swing Out the Blues. The...
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1943
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Republic's False Faces is a choice example of wartime "victory casting", with all the male cast members drawn from the ranks...
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1943
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When a common man pretends to be wealthy, hordes of desperate gold-diggers flock to win his affections. Before long, the...
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1942
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On a secluded base in Arizona, veteran World War One pilot Steve Britt (Preston Foster) trains flyers to fight in World War...
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1942
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Manpower was Warner Bros' latest reworking of 1932's Tiger Shark, with power-company linemen substituting for tuna fisherman....
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1941
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Dangerous Moonlight was the original British title for the wartime drama Suicide Squadron. Anton Walbrook plays a famed...
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1941
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All that MGM's Ziegfeld Girl lacks is Technicolor; otherwise, the film has talent and "sock" entertainment value in...
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1941
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Scattergood Meets Broadway was the third of RKO's film series based on the long-running radio favorite Scattergood Baines....
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Diana
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1941
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The big-band mystique of the 1940s was explored by Blues in the Night. Future directors Richard Whorf and Elia Kazan star as,...
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1941
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In this comedy, a popular radio marriage counselor tends to ignore his own advice and his wife to boot. One day, a handsome...
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1941
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Despite its alluring title, Bedtime Story is an innocent little domestic comedy about a bickering married couple....
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1941
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Like Prohibition, Franklin-Blank Productions' The Villain Still Pursued Her is best regarded as a "noble experiment". Using...
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Hazel Dalton
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1940
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The last of MGM's "Nick Carter" trilogy, Sky Murder is a tad too cute and clever for its own good, but its mystery angle...
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Christina Cross
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1940
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Based on a novel by Medora Field, Who Killed Aunt Maggie? would appear to be an attempt by Republic Pictures to launch a new...
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1940
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One of several "naughty" screwball comedies based on the works of Thorne Smith (of Topper fame), Hal Roach's Turnabout stars...
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1940
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Though he lacked the casual charisma of his brother Bing, bandleader Bob Crosby starred in a series of reasonably successful...
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Betty
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1940
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I Take This Oath was the first official release from Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC), formerly known as Producers...
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Betty Casey
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1940
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An inordinate number of Hollywood detective films--including virtually the entire Bulldog Drummond series--extracted humor...
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Kitty Kerry
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1940
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There are three key characters in Anatole Litvak's filmization of Aben Kandel's novel City for Conquest, as opposed to the...
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1940
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1940
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The rise of the popular Nevada city is chronicled in this epic drama that begins when Reno was a tiny silver-mining town and...
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1939
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This barely-disguised portrait of singer Fanny Brice led to Brice's lawsuit against 20th Century Fox for defamation of...
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Peggy
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1939
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It matters not at all that the famed "wrong way" flight of aviator Douglas Corrigan, who in 1938 tried to fly from New York...
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1939
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In this romantic musical, a Russian prince sees a lovely singer in a town cafe and falls head-over-heels. Realizing that he...
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1939
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In this musical adventure, a Latin American motorcycle-taxi driver shows an American tourist around his city. He next fixes...
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Penelope Carter
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1939
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In this romance, a young woman journeys from Syracuse to New York to see her sweetheart, a prominent architect. She is...
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1939
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Louis Armstrong steals the show as the groom to Jeepers Creepers, a skittish racehorse that can only settle down and run when...
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1939
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In this collegiate romance, the love affair between two seniors is threatened by their different graduation plans. The...
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1938
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Though Kay Francis' Warner Bros. vehicle had slipped from "A" attractions to B-plus programmers by 1938, she was still worth...
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1938
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1938
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1938
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20th Century-Fox's first "Jones Family" series entry for 1938 was the six-reel Love on a Budget. Back in their usual screen...
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1938
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Dawn Day
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1938
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This film is one of acclaimed director Fritz Lang's less noted achievements, a mixture of romance, comedy, drama, and satire....
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1938
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Based upon the book The Four Marys, by Fanny Heaslip Lea, Man-Proof involves members of the smart and sophisticated set of...
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1938
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Film collectors take note: Hal Roach's Pick a Star is not a Laurel and Hardy picture, though the popular comic duo does make...
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1937
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1937
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Small Town Boy was the 33rd release from the burgeoning "B"-picture factory of Grand National Pictures. Stuart Erwin plays...
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Molly
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1937
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Allegedly based on two factual works, Bouck White's The Book of Daniel Drew and Matthew Josephson's The Robber Barons, RKO's...
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1937
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1937
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Fight manager Nick Donati (Edward G. Robinson) has just lost his best fighter to crooked promoter Turkey Morgan...
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1937
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In this musical set in swingin' Manhattan, an heiress plans a ballet in the famous Moonbeam ballroom located atop a 100-story...
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1937
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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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1937
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A couple of American soldiers of fortune are hired by the wife of a Chinese general to deliver a priceless diamond to a...
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1937
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Previously teamed in six early-1930s films, James Dunn and Sally Eilers bring the total up to seven with their last...
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1937
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In this musical comedy, a struggling songwriter fakes a letter of admittance into the apartment of a rich composer. It is...
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1937
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Love Before Breakfast was the scintillating title Universal chose over Spinster Dinner, the Faith Baldwin novel upon which...
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1936
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Back in 1936 it was assumed that, once perfected, television would be a two-way device, enabling viewers to transmit as well...
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Mae
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1936
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Gail Patrick plays a young woman framed for murder. Luckily the newsman on the courtroom beat is ace photographer Lew Ayres....
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Hester Boone
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1936
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What would such second-echelon studios as Republic have done without the popular "rural" novels of Gene Stratton-Porter? This...
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1936
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The zany vaudeville comedy team of Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson was still one year away from their smash Broadway hit...
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Gertie
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1936
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Otto Preminger was able to make his directorial debut on Under Your Spell solely because Darryl Zanuck couldn't care less...
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1936
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Johnny Mack Brown goes in search of a treasure map tattooed on the chest of a man who once betrayed his father in this...
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1936
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From low-rent company Invincible comes this hardy survivor, a cheap-looking but fairly engrossing account of a convicted bank...
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1936
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At their best, the Republic musicals of the 1930s could hold their own against anything turned out by MGM or Warner Bros....
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1936
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1936
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Produced independently by Edward Small, this surprisingly realistic gangster yarn stars stalwart Richard Arlen as Mal...
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1935
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Broadway legend Al Jolson and his second wife Ruby Keeler costarred in this thin backstage musical. In keeping with Jolson's...
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1935
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A wannabe firefighter nearly destroys his own reputation by joining the force and putting his own brigade in danger, only to...
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1935
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Never mind the title and the musical content: College Scandal is at heart a murder mystery, and a pretty suspenseful one at...
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1935
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A man who has ruined a woman's life attempts to make good on his debt to her (and his conscience) in this sudsy drama based...
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1935
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Rustlers of Red Dog is a serial that was screened in 12 installments. The Western adventure features many of the genre's...
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1935
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Dedicated to "the memory of Florence Nightingale," White Parade might have been better dedicated to the cliche experts at Fox...
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1934
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Poverty Row studio Monogram took a stab at musical production with King Kelly of the U.S.A., a cinematic blunder starring...
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Maxine
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1934
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The mysterious death of a notoriously candid author provides the basis of this mystery. Investigators do not believe the...
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1934
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1934
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1934
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Emerson Treacy stars in this Mack Sennett-produced comedy short as Clarence, a hapless would-be lover (a "quivering mass of...
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1933
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Sing, Sinner, Sing is one of several 1930s films based on the notorious, well-publicized romance between nightclub singer...
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1933
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Distantly related to Frederick Lewis Allen's non-fiction book of the same name, Only Yesterday uses fictional characters to...
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1933
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Based on a novel by Rian James, Hat Check Girl stars Sally Eilers as the title character, a pert little number named Gerry...
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1932
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A rare "prestige" item from low-budget Allied Pictures, Parisian Romance boasts a screenplay by F. Hugh Herbert, of...
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Marcelle
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1932
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1932
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Before he moved to MGM, director Richard Thorpe virtually lived at the tiny production firm of Chesterfield-Invincible....
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Joan
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1932
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One of four films directed by Stephen Roberts in 1932, just four years before the filmmaker passed away prematurely, Lady and...
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1932
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Caroline
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1932
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In this melodrama, a sleazy plastic surgeon from Chicago bungles an operation and causes the amputation of his patient's...
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1932
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It took nerve for low-budget producer M.H. Hoffman to update Gustave Flaubert's 19th century novel Madame Bovary and relocate...
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Sheila Bailey
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1932
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A starry-eyed girl marries an impoverished but talented young writer. Though easily frustrated and given to temperamental...
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1932
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A standard Tim McCoy Western from Columbia Pictures, Fighting for Justice featured the stalwart McCoy as a cowboy whose late...
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1932
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Eric Linden is a bellhop who has the extreme misfortune of being in the wrong place at the wrong time in gangster era of...
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1932
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A wealthy theatrical producer entices a desperately poor young woman to visit his penthouse. The innocent girl doesn't...
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1932
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In this romance, an aspiring writer encounters a wealthy publisher who gives him an advance on the first two chapters of his...
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1931
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Even before the Fox Studios merged with 20th Century Productions in 1935, the company was dedicated to the proposition that...
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Edna Best
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1931
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In this western, three disreputable cowboys begin pursuing a beautiful lady because she possesses a map to a valuable gold...
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1931
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1931
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High-class call girls provide the focus of this intelligent romantic comedy that takes a rather scathing look at the...
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1931
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In this screwball comedy, Annabelle Leigh (Jeanette MacDonald) happily spends the $5,000 sent her each month by her husband,...
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1931
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Lightnin' is based on the 1918 stage play by Winchell Smith and Frank Bacon, in which Bacon (the father of director...
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1930
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This version of Shakespeare's most famous love story is set in Scarsdale, New York. This time, the heroine comes from an old...
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1930
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This melodrama follows the lives of three sisters. One dies while giving birth, another gets married and goes to the US, and...
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Carlotta
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1930
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This drama is set during Prohibition and follows the exploits of a spoiled brat with overly permissive parents. He soaks them...
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Anita
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1930
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In this film, the irresponsible Stella Ames (Clara Bow) spends her college career attending parties rather than studying....
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Eva Tutt
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1929
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Circus life provides the framework of this drama that chronicles the love, life, and aspiration of a young circus waif. The...
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1929
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One of the few pre-1930 John Ford films currently available, the part-talkie Salute was co-directed by Ford and David Butler....
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Marion Wilson
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1929
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In this wartime adventure, a wealthy young pilot strays from his mission and stops to say good bye to his girl friend....
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1929
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Madge Bellamy stars as Nancy Woods, the secretary to a successful divorce lawyer. Soured on matrimony by the examples set in...
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Billie Wilson
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1928
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Madge Bellamy plays a vivacious clothes model in Ankles Preferred. Tired of being appreciated only for her beauty, Bellamy...
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1927
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In this typical silent Universal "Blue Streak Western," a couple of crooked real estate speculators (Boris Bullock and...
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1927
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Corinne Griffith is Syncopating Sue in this jazz-age romp. Hoping to become a famous musical comedy star, Sue Adams takes a...
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Marge Adams
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1926
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This drama was based on the novel Joseph Greer and His Daughter by Henry Kitchell Webster. Inventor Joseph Greer (Lewis...
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1925
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Jailed for a robbery he didn't commit, Bullets Bernard (Art Acord) enlists an alcoholic jailhouse lawyer (Paul Weigel) to...
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1924
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