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Art Hockstader
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1964
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Martin Kane
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1952
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In this mystery, set within the newspaper industry, a detective is hired to protect the editor who believes that someone is...
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Hugh Fresney
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1947
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In this comedy, a PR man saves a struggling radio station from ruin. Songs include: "Slap Polka", "Walk A Little Faster",...
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1945
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With famed journalist Drew Pearson appearing in the film's prologue and epilogue, it was easy in 1945 to confuse Betrayal...
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1944
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John Cleveland Carter (Minor Watson) is the publisher of a once-great newspaper, who discovers too late that his editor,...
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Griff Thompson
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1943
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Lee Tracy once more plays a fast-talking, slightly amoral newspaper reporter in PRC's The Payoff. Tracy is cast as Brad...
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Brad McKay
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1943
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The title of Millionaires in Prison (which begs for the rejoinder "about time!") pertains to four individuals. Two of the...
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Nick Burton
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1940
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Carnival promoter Fixer Dugan (Lee Tracy) is so named because of his ability to mollify angry customers and process-serving...
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Charlie Dugan
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1939
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In this crime drama, a shyster lawyer makes his living earning acquittals for his guilty clients. Most recently he freed a...
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Jed Marlowe
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1939
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A newspaper reporter vies with his arch rival, who is also his girl friend, for the scoop on a recent bank robbery. The race...
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Eddie Haines
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1937
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Attorney Lee Tracy gains renown for his flamboyant courtroom tactics, which nearly always result in acquittal for his...
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Brandon
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1937
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This back-stage crime comedy, a remake of Lights Out (1923), takes a healthy satirical stab at the powerful studio system of...
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Michael Winslow
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1937
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Wanted: Jane Turner was inspired by an actual robbery-murder case of 1926. A gang of thieves use the Post Office's...
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Mallory
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1936
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Universal plunged into the clutches of its creditors with its expensive fiasco Sutter's Gold. Edward Arnold plays Swiss...
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Pete Perkin
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1936
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In this melodramatic comedy a carnival puppeteer must cope with the death of his wife who expired while birthing his...
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Chick Thompson
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1935
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Two Fisted is based on the James Gleason-Richard Taber stage play Is Zat So?, previously filmed under its original title in...
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Hay Hurley
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1935
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Marshall Neilan, a great silent film director on the verge of obscurity, had one last big-studio stand with The Lemon Drop...
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Wally Brooks
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1934
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Bud Hannigan
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1934
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1934
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Lee Tracy is a middle-aged, middle-class man dissatisfied with his life. If he'd only married the girl he wanted to and had...
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Joe Gimlet
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1933
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A splashy journalist finds herself embroiled in international intrigue when she hooks up with a sneaky Russian correspondent...
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Buckley Joyce Thomas
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1933
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Jean Harlow is the "bombshell" of the title, a popular movie actress named Lola. Though she seemingly has everything a girl...
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Space Hanlon
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1933
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1933
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In this war comedy, the reluctant hero finds himself drafted and forced to fight the Germans whom he feels he has nothing...
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Private Jones
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1933
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J. Phineas Stevens (Lee Tracy) is a personal injury lawyer whose practice has become a nightmare to any number of defendants,...
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Joe Phineas Stevens
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1933
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Toby Prentiss
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1933
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James Cagney was originally pegged to play brash Broadway columnist Jimmy Russell in this pleasant if somewhat lightweight...
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Stanley Fiske
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1932
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This drama, made while New York mayor Jimmy Walker was still being reviled by newspapers for similar actions, follows a...
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Mayor Bobby Kingston
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1932
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Jimmy Bates
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1932
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Blessed Event is one of several early-1930s films inspired by the meteoric rise to fame of gossip columnist Walter Winchell...
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Alvin Roberts
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1932
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Molly Louvain (Ann Dvorak) is a young woman working as a clerk at a hotel. The product of a broken home, abandoned by her...
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Scotty Cornell
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1932
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Fay Wray screams when she first lays eyes on Lionel Atwill in Doctor X, but don't let that fool you. Atwill plays Fay's...
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Lee Taylor
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1932
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In this political melodrama, an idealistic freshman congressman swears to do his best to get relief for his impoverished...
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Button Gwinnett Brown
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1932
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This drama is set during the mid Twenties when gangsters were a bit more genteel than their 1930s counterparts. Based on a...
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Bill O'Brien
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1930
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She Got What She Wanted was director James Cruze's second "special" for Tiffany Pictures in 1930. Betty Compson, previously...
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1930
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Eddie
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1930
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Buzzard
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1930
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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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1929
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