Woody Allen's character study of a well-kept, upscale Manhattan woman (Mia Farrow) takes the title character on a journey...
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1990
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Where the original Gremlins was a horror film spiked with comedy, Gremlins 2: The New Batch is essentially a black comedy,...
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1990
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Xavier Quinn (Denzel Washington) is police chief of a tiny Caribbean island. Quinn's efforts to straddle the fence between...
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1989
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Although many genre filmmakers have managed to blend horror and humor with great success, movies employing this formula often...
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1988
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Mac (Charlie Robinson) finds himself on the horns of an ethical dilemma when his old Vietnam buddy Hondo (David Graf) is...
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1987
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1986
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Twenty-one years after ending its original ABC prime-time run in 1965, the Hanna Barbera animated adventure series...
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1986
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This 2-hour revival of the old David Carradine TV series was originally titled simply Kung Fu. Set in the west of the late...
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1986
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Dan (John Larroquette) is more put out than pleased when Harry (Harry Anderson) throws a surprise birthday party in his...
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1986
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Not to be confused with the 1975 TV movie Bloodsport, this 1986 production was a spin-off of the recently cancelled police...
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1986
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Terry Lester stars as Joe Blade in this unclaimed TV pilot film. An American, Blade works in Hong Kong, the home of his...
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Chang Chin-tzu
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1985
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"Don't expose him to bright light. Don't ever get him wet. And don't ever, ever feed him after midnight." This sage advice is...
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1984
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The Golden Pagoda, a Chinese restaurant owned by Wan Chu (James Hong) and sponsored by the A-Team, has been targeted for...
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1983
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Magnum (Tom Selleck) embarks upon a personal vendetta against the unknown culprit who nearly killed Higgins (John Hillerman)...
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1983
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Cocaine and Blue Eyes was the pilot film for a TV detective series starring former footballer O.J. Simpson (who also produced...
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1983
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1981
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It looks like the 4077th won't get the Christmas turkey dinner they'd been promised. The only staffer not feeling sorry for...
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1980
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In this comedy, an elderly ex-vaudevillian is surprised to find a naked young woman in the trunk of his car. He soon...
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1979
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Hawkeye (Alan Alda) seeks out refuge from the unending parade of casualties by holing up in Rosie's Bar. While downing a...
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1979
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The busiest person on this M*A*S*H episode is an adroit Korean jeweler, Mr. Shin (Keye Luke). His knowhow comes in quite...
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1978
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In an episode obviously inspired by the death of Bruce Lee, Quincy's assistant Sam (Robert Ito) takes it personally when his...
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1977
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Robert Mitchum seems more aloof and detached than usual in the Hong Kong-produced crime caper Amsterdam Kill. Mitchum plays a...
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Chung Wei
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1977
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This spoof makes fun of a certain famous German shepherd movie star from the 1920s. The mayhem begins when the head honcho...
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1976
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Season three of Kung Fu occasionally relieves the loneliness of Kwai Chang Caine (David Carradine), the ex-Shaolin priest...
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1974
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In this interesting murder mystery a Chinese detective from the 7th century must solve a strange case involving a trio of...
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1974
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Cat Creature is a heady Curtis Harrington combination of high-gloss production values and spinechilling terror. A curse...
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1973
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As Kung Fu enters its second season, the mystical, mysterious Kwai Chang Caine (David Carradine), a half-Chinese,...
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1973
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David Carradine first stepped into the sandals of taciturn martial-arts expert Caine in the made-for-TV pilot film Kung Fu. A...
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1972
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Season one of Kung Fu finds Chinese-American drifter Kwai Chang Caine (David Carradine) solemnly making his way across the...
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1972
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A crime wave sweeps through Los Angeles' Chinatown district, and an undercover police officer is shot. Investigating,...
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1972
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It's an unhappy birthday for Officer Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) when he forgets to renew his driver's license. As a result,...
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1971
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The scene a remote South Sea island. A minor skirmish between rival soldiers snowballs into a potential catastrophe. A...
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1971
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The Hawaiians is the sequel to 1969's Hawaii; both films were adapted from the same sprawling novel by James A. Michener....
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1970
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1969
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Keye Luke guest stars as Grandfather Chang, a venerable Chinese gentleman whose interest in life is renewed by his friendship...
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1968
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This military comedy finds chief petty officer Doc Willoughby (Doug McClure) on board the submarine U.S.S. Bustard. He spends...
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1968
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Project X boasts better special effects than usual for tight-fisted producer/director William Castle, but it crumbles in the...
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1968
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Pulling $400 out of the bank, Aunt Bee invests in the Canton Palace, Mayberry's new Chinese restaurant. When the...
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Charlie Lee
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1967
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World-renowned humanitarian Juliet Sinclair (Ruth Roman) has arrived in America to deliver a cute Chinese orphan girl named...
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1967
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In hopes of smashing a Red spy ring, Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) poses as Adam Rogers, a foreign service worker....
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1966
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Perry (Raymond Burr) and Paul (William Hopper) arrive in beautiful Hawaii to investigate the viability of a land deal between...
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1965
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In the Java Sea, the Quest team -- Jonny, Dr. Benton, Race, and Hadji -- come across the "Star of Borneo," a disabled...
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1965
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Janet Brent (Mala Powers), a close friend of Perry Mason's secretary Della Street (Barbara Hale), is being blackmailed by...
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1962
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The Yangtse Incident is the saga of the Amethyst, a British vessel left stranded in China during the Communist takeover. The...
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Capt. Kuo Tai
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1957
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Razzle-dazzle showman Michael Todd hocked everything he had to make this spectacular presentation of Jules Verne's 1872 novel...
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1956
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Based on the autobiographical novel by Han Suyin, Love is a Many Splendored Thing was evocatively location-filmed in Hong...
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1955
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Matt (James Arness) comes to the rescue of Chen (Keye Luke), a inarticulate, impoverished Chinese cook who is being taunted...
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1955
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World for Ransom is an unofficial extension of the popular 1950s TV series China Smith. Most of the Smith personnel,...
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1954
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American POWs struggle to escape from a North Korean camp. While this is basically a remake of Stalag 17, it does feature...
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1954
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Hell's Half Acre was written directly for the screen by Steve Fisher, whose I Wake Up Screaming remains one of the definitive...
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1954
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1953
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Republic Pictures' notion of an "epic", Fair Wind to Java manages to pack in enough entertainment value to send the adventure...
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1953
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1953
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The life of tragic jazz great Bix Beiderbecke is given the "a clef" treatment in Warner Bros. Young Man With a Horn. Kirk...
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1950
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Film historian Leonard Maltin has labelled this final entry in Monogram's "Charlie Chan" series as "embarrassing," but it's...
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Lee Chan
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1949
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The Pine-Thomas action/adventure assembly line put together another winner with Waterfront at Midnight. Hoping to put the...
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1948
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1948
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1948
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In this entry in the long-running mystery series, Chan must find out who has been killing people over rare antiques. ~...
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1948
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After 15 entries, MGM's "Dr. Kildare" series came to a quiet end with Dark Delusion. Although Dr. Leonard Gillespie...
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1947
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British character actor Lionel Atwill, in his final performance, appeared as a power-mad Englishman attempting to rule the...
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1946
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How Dooo You Do? offers two refugees from radio's Eddie Cantor Show, Bert Gordon and Harry Von Zell, as an erstwhile comedy...
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1946
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Based on the '30s comic-strip character, Secret Agent X-9 was a black-and-white adventure serial from Universal. This 1945...
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1945
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This WW II drama is the first to deal with the fateful atomic bomb attack on Japan. Originally, the film centered on the...
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Haan-Soo
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1945
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Tokyo Rose is a standard wartime melodrama with the slight advantage of topicality. Lotus Long plays the title role, an...
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1945
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College boy Andy continues his studies in this comedy. Well, at least he should be studying. Unfortunately, he seems to be...
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1944
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This lavish, 145-minute cinemadaptation of the Pearl Buck best-seller Dragon Seed was intended by MGM as a followup to the...
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1944
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MGM's popular Dr. Kildare series spanned 1938-47. Lew Ayres played the title character, but parted in 1942. Though crusty and...
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Dr. Lee Wong How
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1944
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The oft-used movie title Between Two Women was resurrected once more for this entry in MGM's "Dr. Kildare" series. Though...
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1944
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In this wartime comedy drama an ultra-macho but aging Marine sergeant does all he can to keep his men intimidated and towing...
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"Flashy" Logaz
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1943
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The third of MGM's Dr. Kildare series to dispense with the services of Dr. Kildare (Lew Ayres), Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case...
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Dr. Lee Wong How
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1943
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The 12-episode Universal serial The Adventures of Smilin' Jack is based on the Zack Mosely comic strip of the same name. The...
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1943
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It was an open secret in Hollywood that bosom buddies (and fellow Universal contractees) Broderick Crawford and Lon Chaney...
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1942
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It takes a while for the viewer to catch on, but the 1942 quickie Spy Ship is a remake of the 1934 crime melodrama...
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1942
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When George Sanders announced that he was leaving the "Falcon" series, RKO Radio came up with the perfect replacement:...
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1942
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On the verge of a nervous breakdown, Dr. Leonard Gillespie (Lionel Barrymore) realizes that it's time to appoint a new...
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Dr. Lee Wong How
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1942
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This raucous series entry reunites Lupe Velez as Carmelita (aka "The Mexican Spitfire") and Leon Errol as Uncle Matt, with...
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1942
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No relation to the 1933 film of the same name, the 1942 Universal programmer Destination Unknown stars William Gargan as a...
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Secretary
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1942
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In this mystery, a married pair of sleuths enjoy solving the cases that stump the cops. The husband uses his popular radio...
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Ah Foo
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1942
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A lively espionage drama that reunited the stars and director of the previous year's The Maltese Falcon, Across the Pacific...
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Desk Clerk
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1942
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Mercenary taxi driver Joe Tracy (Barry Nelson) is the Yank on the Burma Road in this MGM second feature. For strictly...
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Kim How
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1942
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Unable to convince their isolationist New York editor (Charles Dingle) that America must be alerted to the threat of...
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1942
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This wartime weeper could just as well have been titled Stardom for Margaret, inasmuch as it solidified the popularity of...
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1942
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Universal's "Invisible Man" series does its bit for the war effort in this slyly tongue-in-cheek action melodrama. Jon Hall...
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1942
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1941
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This action film is set in Asia during World War II and follows the exploits of a truck driver who must investigate the...
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1941
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They Met in Bombay is a typical MGM star vehicle, in which the leading players are called upon to carry a pencil-thin...
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1941
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The Monogram publicity machine advertised Gang's All Here as a story of "Young Americans Fighting for Their Rights." Young...
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George
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1941
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A sequel to The Green Hornet, The Green Hornet Strikes Again is a 15-chapter serial that was based upon characters from the...
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Kato
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1941
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In this collegiate drama, a team of college oarsmen promise their gals that they will win the big race. Unfortunately, it...
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Buck Wing
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1941
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"Mr. and Mrs. North" started as a series of comic articles about a Park Avenue married couple, written by Richard and Frances...
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1941
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Detective Chester Morris and his nosy wife Jean Parker set up housekeeping in a small Reno hotel room, whence Morris conducts...
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1941
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In the last of Monogram's "Mr. Wong" whodunits, Keye Luke takes over from Boris Karloff as the Chinese detective Jimmy Lee...
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Jimmy Wong
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1940
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No, No, Nanette was the second film version of the popular Otto Harbach-Vincent Youmans Broadway musical. Though slightly...
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1940
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The 13-episode Universal serial The Green Hornet is based on the radio series of the same name. Gordon Jones stars as Britt...
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1940
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The gathering war clouds in the late 1930s prompted a number of Hollywood films about recent political upheavals, one of...
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Ling
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1939
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In this newspaper drama, a female reporter and a newsreel cameraman are both assigned to cover the Sino-Japanese war. They...
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Jimmy Riley
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1939
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Idealism vs. Practicality is the Disputed Passage in this lavishly mounted soap opera. Based on a novel by Lloyd C. Douglas...
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1939
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Thanks to a practical joker, hotshot radio newscaster Steve (Kent Taylor) announces that prominent financier Pomeroy (Morgan...
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1939
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In this mystery programmer, a prizefighter dies in the midst of a match, but evidence suggests that it was a dose of poison...
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Lee Chan
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1938
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In this adventure, set in Shanghai, a gunrunner gets entangled with a conspiracy to deliver customs certificates....
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1938
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Actual footage of the 1936 Berlin Olympics is rabbeted into the action of this superior Charlie Chan entry. Assigned by the...
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Lee Chan
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1937
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In New York to attend a police testimonial in his honor, Honolulu detective Charlie Chan runs smack dab into another murder....
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Lee Chan
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1937
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1937
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Charlie Chan was the Jessica Fletcher of the 1930s; no matter where he took a vacation, someone got murdered! This time, the...
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Lee Chan
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1937
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En route from Honolulu to Los Angeles by steamship, Charlie Chan (Warner Oland) is pressed into action when a fellow...
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1936
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Enjoying a break from crime-solving, oriental sleuth Charlie Chan (Warner Oland) takes his 12 children to the circus. It...
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Lee Chan
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1936
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Lee Chan
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1936
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Anything Goes is a fun-filled but hardly faithful adaptation of the same-named Cole Porter Broadway musical, with additional...
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1936
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Warner Baxter plays the ambitious producer of a burlesque show who rises to the big time on Broadway. Alice Faye is the loyal...
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1936
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In his first American film, Peter Lorre portrays egg-bald Dr. Gogol. A brilliant and highly respected surgeon, Gogol would...
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1935
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S. S. Van Dine's intelligent, insufferable amateur sleuth Philo Vance is the protagonist of The Casino Murder Case....
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1935
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This drama about corporate treachery was based on the best-selling novel by Alice Tisdale Hobart. Stephen Chase (Pat O'Brien)...
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1935
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The otherwise standard series entry Charlie Chan in Paris is distinguished by the presence of actor Keye Luke, making his...
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1935
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After wrapping up his last case in Egypt, Charlie Chan (Warner Oland) heads to Shanghai for a well-deserved rest. It isn't...
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Lee Chan
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1935
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The stigma of miscegenation (horrors!) is at the base of this very dated romantic melodrama. Charles Boyer stars as Dmitri...
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1935
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1934
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