In this amusing fantasy, a combination of live-action and animated effects, Don Knotts plays scrawny bookkeeper Henry Limpet,...
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Adm. Spewter
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1964
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In this squeaky clean sex comedy (the sort that could only have been made in the early 1960s), Kathy (Kim Novak) is a...
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1962
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1961
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A screwball comedy that turns into political farce, this film was something of a throwback even in 1960. Real-life husband...
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1960
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1958
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John Steineck's novel The Wayward Bus was retranslated into pop-entertainment terms for the screen. Most of the story takes...
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1957
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Novelist John P. Marquand's soft-spoken Japanese detective Mr. Moto was brought to the screen in an entertaining 1930s...
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1957
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The Buster Keaton Story is the sublimely inaccurate life story of immortal film comedian Buster Keaton, played by...
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Larry Winters
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1957
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1957
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Tyrone Power stars in this tear-jerking biography of the beloved but short-lived pianist and bandleader Eddy Duchin....
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1956
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1956
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The Best Things in Life are Free is the tuneful if uninspired life story of popular composers DeSylva (Gordon MacRae), Brown...
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1956
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1955
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This last remake (thus far) of the Jean Webster novel Daddy Long Legs was extensively revised to accommodate the talents of...
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1955
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1954
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Gypsy Colt was based on a story by Eric Knight, better known for his enduring dog saga Lassie Come Home. This time, a...
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Wade Y. Gerald
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1954
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1953
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After providing excellent support in previous MGM musicals, the singing-dancing team of Marge and Gower Champion were...
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1953
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1953
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Brief and very much to the point, Inferno is a grim, fascinating tale of survival. Breaking his leg on a vacation trip,...
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Emory
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1953
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In 1945, James Cagney, through his independent production company, bought the rights to a lurid novel by Adria Locke Langley,...
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1953
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Above and Beyond is the story of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, as told from the perspective of the man who flew the...
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Maj. Gen. Vernon C. Brent
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1952
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1952
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1952
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About Face is a musicalized remake of the old stage and film comedy Brother Rat. The basic story remains the same, as...
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1952
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Something for the Birds is a toothless satire of Washington, filmed during the McCarthy era. For lack of a political target...
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Patterson
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1952
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1951
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1951
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A pair of top 20th Century Fox contractees were loaned to Paramount as stars of The Mating Season. Gene Tierney plays...
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Mr. Kallinger, Sr.
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1951
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Bannerline was Don Weis' first solo directorial credit for MGM. Keefe Brasselle stars as cub reporter Mike Perrivale, who...
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1951
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Arthur Kennedy stars as a blinded war veteran struggling to adjust to his affliction in peacetime. He must overcome his...
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1951
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Can it be that June Allyson is Too Young to Kiss in this bit of MGM fluff? Well, not really. Pianist Cynthia Potter (Allyson)...
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1951
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First published in 1932, Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer's speculative novel When Worlds Collide was immediately purchased by...
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Dr. Cole Hendron
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1951
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James Cagney plays a once great newspaper reporter ruined by liquor. Thanks to the help of reformed alcoholic James Gleason,...
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1951
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Follow the Sun is the filmed biography of golf champion Ben Hogan. Glenn Ford, no mean duffer himself, stars as Hogan, here...
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Jay Dexter
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1951
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A rare comedy from director John Ford, this story about a WWII soldier trying to gain some respect is based on the published...
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1950
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Stella is an out-of-left-field black comedy in which star Anne Sheridan is upstaged by an uproarious supporting cast. At a...
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1950
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Three Secrets is a darker variation on a theme first explored in A Letter to Three Wives (1949). There's only one survivor...
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1950
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Based on a true story, Mister 880 is the whimsical tale of an elderly gentleman (Edmund Gwenn) who dabbles in counterfeiting....
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1950
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In this musical comedy with dramatic touches, Jack and Molly Moran (Dan Dailey and Betty Grable) are a show business couple...
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1950
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The title tells all--or at least most--in I Was a Shoplifter. The title character, played by Mona Freeman, is Faye Burton, a...
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1950
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1950
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1950
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1950
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Tulsa was, in 1949, the most elaborate production released to date by the Eagle-Lion corporation-though all evidence,...
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1949
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This musical comedy stars William Powell as Emery Slade, who was once a major film star but lately isn't getting much work....
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1949
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In this compelling and unusual psychological melodrama Ann Sutton (Gene Tierney), a woman tormented by her secret...
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1949
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