During her 25th high school class reunion, middle-aged Peggy Sue (Kathleen Turner) tries to forget her marital problems with...
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1986
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An adventure tale for movie buffs, Jake Speed deftly lifts scenes from detective films of the '40s through the '70s to bring...
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Pop
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1986
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Director Lynne Littman has created an effective, understated portrayal of the cost of a nuclear war in human terms, in a film...
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1983
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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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An upcoming Chief's examination has Captain Stanley (Michael Norell) more uptight than usual, due to the "bad blood" between...
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1977
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When a grizzly begins killing the people of a small Alaskan town, a woodsman, a game warden, and an Indian join forces to...
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1977
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Sherlock Holmes in New York is a topnotch TV movie starring Roger Moore (surprisingly effective as Holmes) and...
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1976
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This episode focuses on the Jeffersons' interracial neighbors, Tom and Helen Willis (Franklin Cover, Roxie Roker). It seems...
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1975
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When a couple of ruthless businessmen threaten her logging camp, a defenseless widow is aided by a group of Alaskan...
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1975
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In this drama, a wealthy socialite hosts a dinner party for the rich and powerful. During the course of the dinner, they...
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1975
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This is a remake of The Asphalt Jungle with an all black cast. In it a paroled convict plans to steal $3 million work of...
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1972
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Loosely based on the Faust legend, Hammersmith is Out stars Richard Burton as the title character, a mental patient confined...
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Gen, Sam Pembroke
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1972
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1971
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A grizzly bear cub makes friends with a lonely old shepherd in the wild mountains of Utah in this family wilderness...
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1971
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Hoping to increase Darrin's bank account and make life easier for Samantha, Endora casts an "ambition" spell on her...
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1970
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Vincente Minnelli directed, and Alan Jay Lerner adapted the stage musical he had written with Burton Lane, for this this...
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1970
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This 25-million dollar epic collaboration accurately recreates the events that led to the Japanese attack on the American...
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1970
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Long before establishing herself as a top-rank actress of the British stage and screen, American-born Gayle Hunnicutt did...
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1966
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Chosen to direct the senior high school play, Helen allows the kids to dance the Watusi during one of the production numbers....
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Mr. Hampton
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1966
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In the conclusion of a two-part story arc, the police have arrested Colonel Foxhall (Leon Ames) for attempting to blackmail...
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1966
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Judge Holmsby
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1965
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In this Disney family film, brainy college student Merlin Jones (Tommy Kirk) invents a mind-reading machine, but the...
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Judge Holmby
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1964
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Lucy's son Jerry (Jimmy Garrett) has begun his first year at military school, where the parents of the students are not...
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Col. I. J. Anderson
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1963
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Son of Flubber represented the first time that Walt Disney ever attempted a theatrical feature sequel: in this case, the...
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1963
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Stanley Banks
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1961
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One of Disney's most entertaining forays into live-action, this hit family comedy stars Fred MacMurray as a college professor...
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Rufus Daggett
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1961
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This adaptation of John O'Hara's From the Terrace stars Paul Newman as Alfred Eaton, an unhappily married financial adviser,...
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Samuel Eaton
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1960
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Grace Metalious' once-notorious bestseller Peyton Place is given a lavish -- and necessarily toned-down -- film treatment in...
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1957
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By the Light of the Silvery Moon was a sequel to Warner Bros' On Moonlight Bay (1951); both films were loosely based on the...
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George Winfield
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1953
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Fred Barrett
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1953
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This tuneful remake of 1937's The Awful Truth centers on the rocky marriage of a philandering composer and the wife who has...
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Chet Stuart
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1953
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Filmed in Cinecolor, Sabre Jet concentrates as much on a group of jet pilots' wives as on the pilots themselves. As their...
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Lt. Col. Eckert
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1953
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Cattle Drive stars Joel McCrea as boss drover Dana Mathews. It is Mathews' task to make a man out of Chester Graham Jr....
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Mr. Graham
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1951
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Booth Tarkington's Alice Adams, coupled with his Penrod stories, were incorporated in the script of the 1951 Warner Bros....
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George Winfield
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1951
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Owen Johnson's novel The Lawrenceville School Stories (compiled from short stories originally published in...
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Samuel H. Stover, Sr.
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1950
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Ambush is a tight, well-paced western, expertly assembled by veteran director Sam Wood, whose last film this was....
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1950
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Nobody sits on the fence so far as The Big Hangover is concerned. Leonard Maltin considers it "predictable, as well as silly...
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Carl Bellcap
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1950
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Dr. Philip Abbott
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1950
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Comprised of eight unrelated episodes of inconsistent quality, this anthology piece of American propaganda features some of...
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1950
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1950
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Louis B. Mayer's nephew Gerald proved himself an able director with the MGM "B" thriller Dial 1119. Marshall Thompson stars...
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Earl
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1950
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Cary Grant's utter credibility in the role of a brilliant, world-famous brain surgeon Dr. Eugene Norland Ferguson is the...
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1950
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Of the many film versions of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, this 1949 MGM adaptation is by far the prettiest. Set in New...
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1949
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The Dore Schary regime at MGM brought a much-needed dose of stark realism to the venerable studio. Van Johnson sheds his...
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Capt. A.C. Forster
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1949
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Incoming MGM production head Dore Schary ramrodded Battleground into the studio's schedule over the virulent protests of MGM...
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1949
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In this light drama, Clark Gable once again played his stock-in-trade role of a rogue with a heart of gold. Charlie King...
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1949
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The title of this MGM musical alone should tip you to the fact that Esther Williams is the star. In this one, she plays a...
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1948
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Alias a Gentleman is impeccably tailored to the slovenly talents of MGM star Wallace Beery. He's cast as Jim Breeden, an...
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Matt Enley
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1948
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Based upon a story by William Mercer, The Velvet Touch stars Rosalind Russell as Valerie Stanton, a celebrated Broadway...
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Gordon Dunning
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1948
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Lucien T. Pringle
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1948
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The George S. Kaufman-Marc Connelly play Merton of the Movies was previously filmed in 1923 with Glenn Hunter, and in 1932...
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Lawrence Rupert
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1947
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MGM's "Maisie" series came to an end with this undistinguished entry. Eschewing show business for the time being, perennially...
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"Amor"/Willis Farnes
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1947
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Mitchell Talbin
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1947
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Robert Montgomery is the director and star of the film noir mystery Lady in the Lake, adapted for the screen by source...
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Derace Kingsby
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1946
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James M. Cain's novel received its first authorized screen treatment in this MGM production. Drifter Frank Chambers...
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1946
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Previously filmed in 1926 and 1934, George Kelly's venerable stage comedy The Show-Off was dusted off as a Red Skelton...
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Frank Hyland
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1946
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In this WWII musical, a young hero and his buddy decide to celebrate his receiving the Medal of Honor by partying. He is...
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1946
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Frank Morgan plays a turn-of-the-century shipbuilder who dies of a sudden heart attack. Morgan is summoned to Heaven by the...
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1946
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Son of Lassie is about a courageous collie named Laddie, played by a dog named "Pal". A sequel to Lassie Come Home, the film...
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1945
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This mammoth musical is at base the story of two sailors on leave in Hollywood. Brash Joseph Brady (Gene Kelly) has promised...
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1945
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Weekend at the Waldorf is an unabashed remake of MGM's 1932 Oscar-winner Grand Hotel: in fact, at several points in the...
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1945
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John Brickley (Robert Montgomery) believes in PT boats, and as a lowly U.S. Navy lieutenant stationed in the Philippines,...
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1945
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Yolanda and the Thief has long been considered the nadir of Arthur Freed's years as an MGM musical producer. Unappreciated at...
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1945
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Sally Benson's short stories about the turn-of-the-century Smith family of St. Louis were tackled by a battalion of MGM...
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1944
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This fifth entry in MGM's off-and-on "Thin Man" series maintains the high production and story values of the first four. Per...
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1944
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Billed third, Spencer Tracy plays Lt. Col. James P. Doolittle, who led the bombing raid over Tokyo. Most of the footage...
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1944
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In this drama, based on a popular radio program, the leader of a ring of burglars suffers a blow to the head and loses his...
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1943
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The Iron Major is the saga of WW1 hero-cum-football coach Frank Cavanaugh, played with his usual no-nonsense professionalism...
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1943
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Ralph Bellamy made his fourth and final appearance as literary sleuth Ellery Queen in Columbia's Ellery Queen and the Murder...
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1941
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The dangers of the dread venereal disease syphilis are depicted in this earnest drama from the 1940s. The story centers upon...
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Dr. Cavanagh
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1941
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Police detective Pat O'Day (Leon Ames) involves himself with a gang of slum kids led by Dutch Kuhn (Hally Chester) and Danny...
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Pat O'Day
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1940
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In this patriotic spy adventure, a young gangster joins an enemy espionage agency and agrees to enlist in the Marine Corps...
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1939
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This gangster film is based upon fact as it tells the tale of a determined reporter who has decided to make sure a certain...
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1939
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1939
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Thunder Afloat is set during the first world war. Wallace Beery plays an veteran tugboat captain who harbors a grudge against...
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1939
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In this crime drama a wealthy business tycoon serves a sentence for tax fraud. While there he becomes good friends with his...
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1939
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Universal's Code of the Streets stars the Little Tough Guys, an offshoot of Warner Bros.' Dead End Kids. This time...
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"Chick" Foster
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1939
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Granite-jawed Jack Holt plays a dual role in Columbia's Fugitives at Large. Civil engineer George Storm (Holt) finds himself...
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1939
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Man of Conquest was the first "super production" from Republic Pictures, a studio not known for its lavish budgets. This...
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1939
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Hinge Jackson
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1939
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In this comedy set during WW I, two crazy vaudevillians try their new act out on their agent. He thinks it is a real dud and...
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1939
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This sequel to Grand National's 1938 actioner Cipher Bureau once again stars Leon Ames as bureau head Major Philip Waring. In...
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Lt. Phillip Waring
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1939
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Legion of Lost Flyers is a typically action-packed entry in Universal's Richard Arlen-Andy Devine series (if one can call a...
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1939
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A remake of sorts of the 1935 western The Arizonian, this fine George O'Brien oater features Leon Ames as Sheriff Judd...
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Sheriff Jud Cronin
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1939
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In this drama, a young man must choose between a military career or a career in professional football. The story opens as...
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1938
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In this drama, a woman is betrothed to a district attorney. When a man is falsely convicted of murder and condemned to...
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1938
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This spy thriller is centered upon the actions of the Cipher Bureau, a part of a government agency devoted to intercepting...
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Maj. Philip Waring
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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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1938
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Peter Lorre makes his fifth appearance as J. P. Marquand's polite but deadly Japanese sleuth Mr. Moto. This time Moto is...
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1938
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Spy Ring (aka International Spy) was designed as a trial balloon for new Universal contractee William Hall. He is cast as...
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Frank Denton
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1938
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1938
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This is an epic Darryl F. Zanuck production that plays fast and loose with historical facts regarding early 19th century...
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1938
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The slick Universal programmer Secrets of a Nurse was based on a Collier's Magazine story by distinguished journalist Quentin...
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1938
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After several years' faithful service in supporting parts, Frank Jenks and Dorothea Kent were promoted to leading roles in...
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Joe Gurney
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1938
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In this romantic mystery, a defense attorney attempts to get his lovely client acquitted of murder charges. As he and the...
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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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1937
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Puritan Pictures, a poverty-row operation devoted in the main to Tim McCoy westerns, turned out a few diverting murder...
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Carl Goering
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1937
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The 45 Fathers of the title are the elderly members of the Gun and Spear Club, all of whom jointly adopt mischievous orphan...
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1937
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In this romance, a detective goes undercover as a jewel thief and boards a trans-atlantic cruise ship. There he joins a ring...
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1937
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An airborne serial killer terrorizes a group of war veterans in this ultra-cheap but fairly engrossing whodunit produced by...
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Carl Goering
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1936
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This drama chronicles the emotionally distant relationship between a mother and her four grown children. Though they live in...
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1935
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When a playboy becomes entangled in the affairs of gamblers he eventually locates an underwater treasure. ~ Rovi...
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1935
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In this thriller, a humble cab driver is mistaken for the dead heir to an enormous fortune. Once the resemblance is noticed,...
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1935
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Though the names have been changed to protect the guilty, this romantic crime drama offers a relatively factual account of...
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1934
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1934
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1934
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Although it is included in TV's "Shock Theater" passage, there's nothing overtly frightening about the heavily plotted...
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1934
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1933
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This long-forgotten Hollywood picture concerns a conniving family so disgusted by the patriarch's incessant pipe-smoking...
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1933
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The Man Who Dared was inspired by the career of Chicago mayor Anton Cermak, here called "Jan Novak" and played by...
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1933
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A wife is on trial for murdering her husband's former spouse in this inexpensive melodrama from low-budget Mayfair Pictures...
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1933
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A young football hero learns valuable life lessons on the way to becoming a pro in this sports drama. Tommy is a promising...
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1932
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Veteran stage and screen star George Arliss forsakes his biographical roles for domestic comedy in A Successful Calamity....
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1932
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A depressed dance hall girl causes all kinds of problems when she stows away on a freighter and is discovered by the second...
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1932
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In this suspenseful drama, an embittered woman exacts revenge upon the 12 women who wronged her in college. The trouble...
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1932
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1932
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The factual story of H.A.W. Tabor and "Baby Doe" was the inspiration of Silver Dollar. Edward G. Robinson plays the Tabor...
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1932
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Truck driver Spencer Tracy claims he's "too lazy to work and too nervous to steal", but he gets mixed up in racketeering all...
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1931
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