Peter Bogdanovich's attempt to direct a homage to the great musicals of the 1930s is now remembered as one of the...
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1975
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The posh St. Gregory Hotel in New Orleans is the setting for this drama based on a popular novel by Arthur Hailey. Trent...
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1967
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The focus in this classic Green Acres episode is on that porcine superstar, Arnold the Pig. The complications begin piling up...
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1966
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Accused by Vera Wynne (Jeanne Bal) of embezzling $200,000 from the So-Cal Investment Company, executive Clyde Darrell (Linden...
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1965
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Ex-fire chief Carey York (Tom Tully) hires Perry (Raymond Burr) to sue TV repoter Tommy Towne (Frank Aletter) for slander,...
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1964
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A low-budget, tawdry police yarn with the world of prostitution and gangsters thrown in, Vice Raid features Mamie Van Doren...
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1959
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Feeble in the action department, this drama directed by Thor Brooks fizzles before the arsonist gets his due. John...
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1959
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Marjorie Morgenstern (Natalie Wood) is an 18-year-old, middle-class, Jewish girl from New York who wants nothing more than to...
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1958
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In this youthful drama, a young nephew is forced to live a highly restricted lifestyle by his two spinster aunts who will...
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1958
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Ginger Rogers ended her 23-year association with RKO Radio with the indifferent musical comedy western The First Travelling...
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1956
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In this comedy sequel to Wonderful Town (a popular Broadway musical), Kim, a museum worker from Providence, Rhode Island,...
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1955
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1954
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The Killers from Space in this low-budget sci-fier are a group of aliens bent on conquering the earth. To this end, they...
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1954
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According to some eyewitness reports, the feud between Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis was at its peak during the filming of...
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1954
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Superman (George Reeves) rescues Corky, a sweet, playful dog, from the well into which he's fallen, and returns the dog to...
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1953
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Cecil B. DeMille's The Greatest Show on Earth is a lavish tribute to circuses, featuring three intertwining plotlines...
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1952
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A congressional witness against crime boss Lou Cranek (Dan Seymour) suddenly refuses to testify--then abruptly drops dead....
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1952
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1952
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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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1951
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Mickey Rooney returned to his "home" studio MGM, after a three-year absence, in the location-filmed melodrama The Strip....
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1951
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1951
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Billy Winder directed and co-wrote this bitterly satiric comedy-drama which turns a jaundiced eye towards both the news media...
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1951
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1951
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Jimmy Durante plays the patriarch of a down-on-their-luck family of acrobats, who suddenly finds a great deal of money hidden...
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1950
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A state rangers rides out to find rustlers who have stolen from every ranch in the territory except a hot-headed loner, whom...
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1950
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1950
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Dorothy Patrick is The Blonde Bandit in this Republic time-filler. The script establishes a degree of sympathy for Gloria...
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1950
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Mickey Rooney, with his kid roles and musicals behind him, went for a major change of image in this harrowing film noir. He...
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1950
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Faith Domergue, the latest of Howard Hughes' protegees, made her film debut in 1950's Where Danger Lives. Domergue plays...
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1950
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1949
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1949
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Taken (as far as possible) from the Cole Porter musical comedy of the same name, Red, Hot and Blue stars Betty Hutton as an...
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1949
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1949
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The saga of the Hatfield-and-McCoy feud is romanticized in Samuel Goldwyn's Roseanna McCoy. Newcomer Joan Evans stars as the...
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1949
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1948
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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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Love leads a man to his most evil deeds and forces him to change his ways in this Western. After being handed a dishonorable...
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1948
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A man who dreams of seeing the future discovers the horrible burden that it can carry in this film noir suspense story....
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1948
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This musical tells the tales of two movie extras who abscond to an expensive resort with their costumes and pretend to be...
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1948
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1948
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1948
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1947
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A dude ranch, unemployed cowhands, modern-day bank robbers, and music are the main ingredients in this, Gene Autry's swan...
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1947
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In this aerial melodrama, four brothers working as stunt pilots for a flying circus leave their jobs to become mail pilots....
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1947
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Chased by a posse to a remote cabin, Jeb (Robert Mitchum) is joined by his fearful wife Thorley (Teresa Wright), awaiting the...
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1947
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The Shadow Returns was the first of three above-average Monogram features based on the popular radio melodrama The Shadow....
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1946
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1946
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1946
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Although Bowery Bombshell was the third entry in Monogram's "Bowery Boys" series, it was released second in several regions....
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1946
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In this crime drama, two crooks dupe their friend, a professional gambler, into nipping some important government documents....
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1946
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Several of Paramount Pictures brightest stars make cameo appearances in this comedy set in "Duffy's Tavern," a favorite...
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1945
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The bland performance of star George Raft is the only drawback of this splashy 20th Century-Fox musical. Set in...
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1945
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Freely adapted from a successful Broadway musical by Moss Hart, this story stars Ginger Rogers as Liza Elliott, the editor of...
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1944
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An engagingly silly Charlie Chan whodunit from Poverty Row company Monogram, The Jade Mask mixed science fiction with Old...
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1944
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Judging by such films as Shadows of Suspicion, it's too bad that leading man Peter Cookson eventually elected to leave the...
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1944
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Four Jills in a Jeep is the (mostly) true story of a four-girl USO team, entertaining American troops overseas. Kay Francis,...
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1944
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Though the filmmakers claimed they were writing a biography of Nazi minister Dr. Joseph Goebbels, this film is actually...
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1944
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Bob Kane's 1939 Detective Comics superhero The Batman came to the screens in serial form courtesy of Columbia Pictures and...
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1943
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Hitler's Madman is based on an all-too-real wartime atrocity. John Carradine portrays Heydrich, the vicious SS officer put in...
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1943
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In this flag-waving adventure, the Masked Marvel helps keep the world safe for capitalism by taking on the evil Japanese...
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1943
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Edward G. Robinson portrays a hard-driving, hard-nosed perfectionist who causes dissension aboard the WWII destroyer he...
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1943
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The Mystery of Marie Roget is more faithful to its Edgar Allan Poe original than most Universal films of its ilk, even though...
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1942
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Judy Canova plays Bessie Cobb, a kitchen worker at a Miami hotel who happens to have a crackerjack singing voice. The bell...
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1942
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Tough-guy actor (on-screen and off) Paul Kelly starred in this typical war-time serial about a police officer going...
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1942
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Monogram's So's Your Aunt Emma owes whatever success it enjoys to its star, the incomparable ZaSu Pitts. The fluttery ZaSu...
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1942
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Maybe Errol Flynn was never the war hero that he often played, but he was a capable boxer, and Gentleman Jim makes full use...
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1942
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Irene Dunne plays a flibbetygibbet socialite who inherits a farm in Arizona. She can't seem to manage either her money or her...
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1942
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1942
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Released in late August of 1942, Sabotage Squad was the last of Columbia's B-budget wartime melodramas of the 1941-42 season....
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1942
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The very first Disney feature to include live-action footage, this behind-the-scenes documentary about the studio's animation...
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1941
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Though based on a stage play by Laurence Gross and Edward Childs Carpenter (previously filmed as an Ernest Truex vehicle in...
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1941
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If Edward G. Robinson thought he'd get away from tough-guy roles by moving from Warners to MGM, he was sorely mistaken....
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1941
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A daffy romantic comedy released in Great Britain under the title Good Morning Doctor, this film reunites the two stars of...
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1941
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Three disparate young men struggle to become Army Air Corps pilots in this rousing drama that earned an Oscar for its...
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1941
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Panama Menace is the reissue title of PRC's South of Panama. Secret agent Roger Pryor is dispatched below the border to...
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1941
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Celebrity fan-dancer Sally Rand, the undraped sensation of the 1933 Chicago World's Fair, was the star of the 1938 Grand...
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1941
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Two Latins From Manhattan was Columbia's 1941 contribution to the "Good Neighbor Policy" towards South America. Joan Davis...
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1941
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The Hollywood "establishment" had been waiting a long time for maverick director Gregory La Cava to fall from grace, and when...
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1941
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Faith, Hope and Charity motivate the wacky storyline of Columbia's Three Girls About Town--or to be more exact, gorgeous...
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1941
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You'll Never Get Rich was the first of two films made by Fred Astaire at Columbia, and also the first in which he was paired...
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1941
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Renfrew of the Royal Mounted rides again in the Criterion/Monogram "northern" Danger Ahead. There's not a whole lot of plot...
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1940
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Two Girls on Broadway is an updated reworking of MGM's Oscar-winning 1929 musical Broadway Melody. Joan Blondell and...
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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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In this third of RKO's "Mexican Spitfire" series, star Lupe Velez doesn't get any further west than Reno, Nevada. Lupe feels...
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1940
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The sailor in this entertaining 20th Century-Fox programmer is Danny Malone (Jon Hall), while the lady is Sally Gilroy...
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1940
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This Technicolor sequel to 1939's Jesse James does without the services of the earlier film's star Tyrone Power, who after...
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1940
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Gone With the Wind boils down to a story about a spoiled Southern girl's hopeless love for a married man. Producer...
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1939
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In what must have seemed like a good idea at the time, Grand National pictures attempted to build a series of westerns around...
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1939
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Upset that his youthful sweetheart Darla Hood has once again thrown him over in favor of neighborhood bully Tommy "Butch"...
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1939
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Stronger Than Desire is a streamlined remake of 1934's Evelyn Prentice. Instead of the earlier film's William Powell and...
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1939
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This remake of Penthouse (33) stars Walter Pidgeon as a smooth attorney with a few embarrassing friends. One of these is a...
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1939
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On the verge of superstardom, Rita Hayworth played in scores of minor dramas like Homicide Bureau, an entertaining little...
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1939
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I Am the Law is arguably the best of the late-1930s films inspired by the racket-busting career of New York district attorney...
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1938
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1938
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In Early Arizona was western star Bill Elliot's first effort for Columbia Pictures. Not yet "Wild Bill" Elliot (as he would...
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1938
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This drama offers a fascinating backstage look at the making of westerns. The story centers around a stunt double working...
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1938
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Despite the presence of Busby Berkeley in the director's chair, Comet Over Broadway contains nary a single musical number....
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1938
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Contrary to popular belief, the Nelson Eddy-Jeanette MacDonald Technicolor confection Sweethearts is not based on the 1913...
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1938
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1938
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1938
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Nancy, a jilted bride-to-be, is played by Janet Gaynor in one of her last starring films. The three loves are novelist...
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1938
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1938
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American mousetrap salesmen Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy journey to Switzerland, reasoning that where there's cheese, there's...
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1938
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Test Pilot is one of those irresistible MGM potboilers of the 1930s that coast along on sheer star power. Clark Gable plays a...
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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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1938
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Prospectors Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy head to the western town of Brushwood Gulch, two men on a top-secret mission. The...
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1937
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In her third Three Stooges short, pretty Harley Wood (aka Harlene Wood) played a young girl living with her crippled kid...
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1937
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Movie cowboy Jeffrey Carson (George O'Brien) tries hard to live up to his image in this "backstage western." On location in...
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1937
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1937
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Columbia's Criminals of the Air is another entry in the "alien-smuggling" movie cycle -- and as such includes the obligatory...
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1937
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A boy learns life-changing lessons about the importance of friendship and the dignity of labor in this adventure saga based...
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1937
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In his third of four action serials, horror star Bela Lugosi played Boroff, an internationally notorious fiend who's...
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1937
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1936
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Hoping to win a 50-dollar prize, the Our Gang kids enter a radio talent contest. Despite the scene-stealing efforts of...
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1936
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Love Before Breakfast was the scintillating title Universal chose over Spinster Dinner, the Faith Baldwin novel upon which...
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1936
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Notorious Hollywood tightwad Sam Katzman's first serial, Shadow of Chinatown stars Bela Lugosi as Victor Poten, a Eurasian...
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1936
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After retiring from a boxing career, Johnny Cave (James Cagney) accepts an appointment to serve as head of the Bureau of...
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1936
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In this comedy, a blocked writer decides he needs a little peace and quiet to spark his creativity so that he can write the...
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1936
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Spendthrift gives the modern viewer a pretty good idea how Hollywood planned to "mold" the image of new star Henry Fonda. The...
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1936
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An existing production still for the Kermit Maynard "northern" Phantom Patrol pretty much sums up the outcome of the plot....
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1936
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Buck Jones was producing as well as starring in his own western series by the time Ride 'Em Cowboy hit the screen. A heady...
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1936
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Anti-Communist politics and screwball romance make strange bedfellows in this comic tale that plays like a cross between the...
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1935
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Taking refuge from a rainstorm in a deserted farmhouse, young married couple Joe and Loretta Martin (Edward Norris and...
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1935
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Ellen Garfield (Bette Davis) is a neophyte reporter with ambitions big enough to take on assignments usually reserved for...
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1935
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In this comedy, a waitress at a local lunch counter inadvertently foils a bank robbery and finds herself turned into a...
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1935
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Hoping to get on the good side of the new truant officer (Dick Elliot), the Our Gang kids go out of their way to impress the...
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1935
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Cited by film historian William K. Everson as one of the fastest-moving crime melodramas of the 1930s (if not the fastest)...
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1934
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James Cagney runs a shady missing-heir tracing service, occasionally providing phony heirs in order to collect his fee. He...
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1934
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On the day that he is scheduled to perform a violin solo at a swank bridge luncheon held by his social-climbing mother, rich...
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1934
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A battling married couple come to blows and afterwards the battered wife seeks legal council. This drama chronicles the...
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1934
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Written by the prolific Ben Hecht, Upper World is a clash-of-class melodrama set in New York City. Railroad tycoon Alexander...
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1934
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As the title song says, you go to those shows to see those beautiful dames--and there's dames aplenty in this 1934...
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1934
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The end of prohibition spells the end of business as usual for Chicago gangster Bugs Ahearn (Edward G. Robinson in this...
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1933
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In this rough-and-tumble action comedy, Chuck Connors (Wallace Beery) and Steve Brodie (George Raft) are friendly rivals on...
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1933
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1932
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1931
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