Combining familiar newsreel footage with freshly shot material, David Helpern's Hollywood on Trial is a documentary...
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1976
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Former army pilot Robert Taylor is accused, on the basis of strong circumstantial evidence, of his wife's murder. Suffering...
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1947
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1947
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Janet Leigh made an impressive film-debut in MGM's The Romance of Rosy Ridge. Though the title suggests a lighthearted...
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1947
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This drama is set within a steamy tropical jungle and chronicles the rivalry between two doctors looking for the cure to a...
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1946
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A few corny moments aside, Objective Burma must rate as one of the best combat films of WW2. Errol Flynn stars as Captain...
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1945
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In his first film in two years, James Cagney stars as Nick Condon, the American editor of a pre-WW2 Tokyo newspaper. When two...
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1945
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In 1912, John Bunny and Flora Finch starred in the one-reel farce The New Secretary, wherein Bunny's wife hires a homely...
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1945
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In this drama, a crippled German veteran of WW I attempts to reconcile his recent experiences with his former ideologies in...
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1944
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Luise Rainer's last Hollywood film was the economically produced wartime drama Hostages. Adapted from the novel by Stefan...
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1943
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An adequate wartime filler, Night Plane from Chungking features Robert Preston as the captain of the titular aircraft. En...
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1942
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One of the eerier chillers of its period -- and one of the best ever to come out of Paramount -- Stuart Heisler's Among the...
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1941
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Midnight Angel was the title of this Paramount actioner when it was first released in December of 1941. But by the time the...
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1941
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Footsteps in the Dark is a comedy/mystery, starring Errol Flynn as a wealthy investment counselor who secretly doubles as a...
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1941
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When the Daltons Rode is the much-embellished tale of that celebrated outlaw family, the Daltons. Broderick Crawford,...
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1940
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This fine adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic tale about a cursed family opens with a title card that reveals how the...
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1940
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A semi-sequel to the 1933 Universal horror masterwork The Invisible Man, The Invisible Man Returns stars Vincent Price in the...
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1940
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In this crime drama, a grizzled cabbie is scammed out of his life savings by a fake finance company. He tries to no avail to...
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1939
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This romance is set during the Dartmouth College Winter Carnival and follows the exploits of a woman recently divorced from...
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1939
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In this drama, a waitress leaves her husband after getting sick of being alone while her husband, a commercial pilot, plies...
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1939
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In this melodrama, the acting warden at a correctional facility must make a difficult choice when he comes across some...
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1939
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At one time Universal's "prestige" director, James Whale had slipped off the A-list by the end of the 1930s; even so, his...
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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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Universal ran into censorship problems with this farfetched but well-acted courtroom drama directed by silent screen veteran...
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1938
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In this comedy, two racetrack gamblers lose all their dough by betting on a long shot. Now they must hitchhike to the next...
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1938
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This medical melodrama, set in the moist Sumatran jungles, centers around bacteria research. To find a cure for red fever, a...
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1938
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Returning from a trip, wealthy seaman Cappy Ricks (Walter Brennan) is annoyed to find his home automated, his daughters'...
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1937
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Robert Wilcox stars in Man in Blue as Frankie, a gangster's son. Frankie has been raised since childhood by Officer Martin...
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1937
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Some Blondes are Dangerous is a remake of 1931's The Iron Man, using the same W. R. Burnett novel as its source. Noah Beery...
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1937
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1936
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Casting an envious eye towards the huge box-office take of Columbia's Grace Moore vehicles, Republic hoped to strike gold in...
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1936
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In this emotional drama, a lonely British housekeeper, uses her hard-earned savings account to finance a trip to America so...
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1936
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Directed by Raoul Walsh, Under Pressure tells of the competition between the crews employed to excavate a complex network of...
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1935
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The construction site of a big tunnel provides the backdrop for this drama. When the project is delayed, the chief engineer...
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1935
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In this drama, a nice young woman is saving all her money so she can leave her South Seas island home, move to San Francisco...
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1934
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Based on a novel by Frederick Nebel (of "Torchy Blane" fame), Sleepers East is largely set on a train bound for New York. The...
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1934
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This off-beat romantic melodrama contains elements of comedy not usually found in the genre as it tells the story of the love...
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1934
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Walls of Gold is based on the Kathleen Norris novel of the same name. Sally Eilers stars as Jeanie Satterlee, a level-headed...
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1933
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Warner Oland returns as wily, philosophical oriental detective Charlie Chan in this expensive-looking series entry. This...
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1933
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1932
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In this musical, two producers find backing for their Broadway debut and must then find someone to star in it. One of the...
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Paul Russell
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1930
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A circus clown creates trouble when he serves on a jury and refuses to convict an innocent young woman for murder. His vote...
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1929
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