When a call girl wearing a stolen diamond ring turns up murdered, Kojak (Telly Savalas) begins following the fragmentary...
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1973
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It took nerve for director Joseph Losey to attempt a remake of Fritz Lang's classic chiller M, but by and large Losey was up...
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1951
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1949
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The last of the Richard "The Jaw" Dix films. Dix, the trucking company owner, is pitted against time to discover who...
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1947
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A man down on his luck runs afoul of a beautiful but dangerous woman in this superior low-budget film noir. Mike Lambert...
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Mrs. Price
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1947
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In this drama, a trucker's business is nearly destroyed after he is wrongfully accused of killing a policeman with whom he...
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1947
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Rachel Martin
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1946
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A bit "artier" than most Republic melodramas, Jealousy was directed by Gustav Machaty, the Czech expatriate famous for the...
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Dr. Monica Anderson
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1945
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Long before 19th-century novelist Jane Austen became a hot property in Hollywood, MGM produced this opulent and entertaining...
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1940
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The blue grass of Kentucky was seen in three-strip Technicolor for the first time in this rambling racetrack drama. Sally...
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Mrs. Goodwin, 1861
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1938
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A Mississippi flood saves the life of a petty crook who is about to be lynched for a murder he did not commit. After he...
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Gail Stanley
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1937
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Set during the terrible Spanish Civil War, this film avoids political commentary in favor of objectively centering on the...
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Baroness Helene Rafitte
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1937
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The Girl from Scotland Yard has a dynamite opening sequence, as villain Franz Borg (Eduardo Cianelli) demonstrates his...
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Viola Beech
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1937
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Warren William stars as Dr. Phillip Wendel Jones, a doctor whose patient dies under questionable circumstances. He is...
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Margaret Stevens
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1937
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A pre-stardom Mickey Rooney earned top billing when this minor medical drama was re-released in 1939 as Little Pal (Rooney by...
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1936
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This lavishly appointed Sam Goldwyn soap opera is set in Ireland during "the troubles." Irish rebel leader Dennis Reardon...
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Cathleen O'Brien
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1936
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In this action film, a courageous test pilot works with experimental aircraft for the US Armed Forces. When an important...
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Martha Dawson
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1936
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Like many 1930s Warner Bros. films, Black Fury drew its inspiration from the headlines. The story is adapted from a true-life...
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Anna Novak
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1935
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In this drama, a mild-mannered bookkeeper has trouble asserting himself in both his personal and professional life. His boss...
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Emily Converse
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1935
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Most of the Fox productions of the 1930s had a "continental" flavor, and Thunder in the Night was no exception. Edmund Lowe...
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Madalaine
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1935
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The old Edward Peble play The Littlest Rebel was gussied up in 1935 as a Shirley Temple vehicle. The curly-topped child star...
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Mrs. Cary
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1935
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Kathryn Phillips
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1934
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Unable to secure Hollywood-studio backing for his Depression-era agrarian drama Our Daily Bread, director King Vidor financed...
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Mary Sims
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1934
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This thriller centers around a super detective's attempt to mastermind the perfect crime after he suspects his wife of...
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Andra
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1934
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Based on John Golden's stage play Four Walls, MGM's Straight is the Way offers the monumentally miscast Franchot Tone as...
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Bertha
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1934
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In 1933, at the height of the bleakness and desperation of the Depression, MGM released this genuine curiosity piece --...
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Pendola Molloy
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1933
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1933
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"So much for Carlotta" muses the head of German Espionage (Lewis Stone), shortly after secret agent Karen Morley is put to...
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1932
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Completed in mid-1930, Scarface, based on Armitage Trail's novel of the same name, might have been the first of the great...
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Poppy
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1932
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Boris Karloff stars as the villainous Dr. Fu Manchu in this wild and wooly -- and wildly racist -- adventure yarn, based on...
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Sheila Barton
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1932
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Helena
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1932
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"Are you listening?" was the catchphrase of early-1930s radio personality Tony Wons. Though Wons does not appear in the 1932...
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Alice
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1932
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Gary Curtis, aka Farnsbarns (Richardo Cortez), is really a former hoodlum hired to retrieve some compromising letters from...
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Jenny Wren
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1932
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Perhaps most noteworthy for the first onscreen performance by future Academy Award winner Hattie McDaniel, this politcal...
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Consuela Fairbanks
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1932
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Sonia
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1932
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Flesh was one of the few big-studio films to deal with the subject of professional wrestling--at least until Hulk Hogan came...
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Laura Nash
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1932
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1931
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Not every Greta Garbo film is an imperishable classic; this was seldom truer than in the case of her repetitious 1931 vehicle...
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1931
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In her final starring role, silent screen diva Mae Murray plays Dolly, a young gold digger who manages to trap a rich...
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1931
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In the space of 74 minutes, Helen Hayes goes from naïve French country lass to elderly harridan in Sin of Madelon Claudet. Is...
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1931
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MGM had hopes of turning Metropolitan opera singer Lawrence Tibbett into a movie star, but Cuban Love Song brought this...
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Crystal
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1931
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In this romantic comedy-drama, a wealthy San Francisco businessman becomes the guardian of a sexy young Polynesian woman. At...
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Maisie, Dan's Fiancee
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1931
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In this comedy, a female mayoral candidate promises to rid the town of gangsters. She joined the race in the first place...
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Myrtle
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1931
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A man who unthinkingly sullied the honor of a virtuous girl now must deal with his own ethical downfall in this drama. Willi...
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1931
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