Returning from a Catholic retreat, public school teacher Jill Eikenberry picks up a hitchhiker--who repays her hospitality by...
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1989
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Under Siege was first telecast in February 1986, a time when the notion of foreign terrorists in America was still...
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1986
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First telecast on September 21, 1985, the 2-hour pilot for the TV series Lime Street stars Robert Wagner as James Greyson...
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1986
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Believing that her father plans to sell a briefcase full of government secrets to the KGB, Paula Anderson (Moya Kordick)...
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1986
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1985
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Quincy (Jack Klugman) is an unwilling key player in an elaborate vengeance scheme concocted by arrogant paralegal Carl Norman...
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1983
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During a major surf-ski competition, a Kahuna named Makua (Sol Bright) places a curse on Rick's club. At first, neither Rick...
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1981
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1981
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In this drama, a married man attends his high school reunion and finds himself falling for his ex-sweetheart's daughter. ~...
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1980
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This feature-length movie is a re-edited version of the first few episodes of the TV series. The story line concerns a...
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1979
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Part of "The Greatest Heroes of the Bible"series this story looks at Noah and the Ark. ~ Rovi...
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1979
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This entry in the "Greatest Heroes of the Bible" series looks at the circumstances surrounding God's greatest flood. ~...
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1979
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Novelist David Soul returns to his hometown of Salem, finding that things have changed a bit. More than a bit, in fact: the...
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1979
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Frank is Frank Miller (Art Carney), a 65 year old newspaper man. His letters are to his oldest son Richard (Mike Farrell),...
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1979
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Suddenly, Love is a tried and true "class conscious" TV movie set in the Manhattan of the 1960s. Cindy Williams stars as a...
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1978
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Originally titled Stories from the Bible, Greatest Heroes of the Bible was designed as a seven-part TV miniseries; evidently...
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1978
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In part one of Battlestar Galactica's pilot episode, the 12 colonies of humankind are poised to sign a peace treaty with the...
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1978
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Satan's son comes of age in this horror sequel. Shortly after the events of The Omen, a pair of anthropologists uncovers an...
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Bill Atherton
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1978
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Dr. Andrew Boran (Kirk Scott) is picking up strange signals from outer space that seem to predict natural disasters. When he...
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1977
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This feature-length documentary views religious people and their ceremonies around the world, devoting most of its time to...
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Cinematographer, Director, Editor, Producer
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1976
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Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy is a TV dramatization of the notorious Cold War incident of 1960. The...
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1976
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This video explores the sacred sites and practices of the religions of the western world including Judaism, Christianity, and...
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Cinematographer, Director, Editor, Producer
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1976
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The made-for-TV Requiem for a Bride opens with San Francisco police commissioner McMillan (Rock Hudson) congratulating an old...
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1975
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1974
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Astronaut Neil Stryker (Glenn Corbett) returns from space, only to find himself held incommunicado by government security...
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1973
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Blood Feud is a 90-minute episode of the TV series Hawkins. Folksy lawyer/detective Hawkins (Jimmy Stewart) is faced with a...
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1973
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This sci-fi film chronicles the exploits of an incredibly strong android that is totally devoid of emotion. ~ Sandra...
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1973
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The fifth and last of the original series of motion pictures based upon author Pierre Boulle's imaginative novel Monkey...
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Mandemus
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1973
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A forbidding old mansion in a residential San Francisco neighborhood is the centerpiece of this grim story. When a young boy...
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1973
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1972
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In this touching adventure, a remake of the popular 1940 film, two Georgia boys ignore their racial differences to team up...
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Mr. Ames
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1972
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Rod Serling, a master of speculative scriptwriting, penned the screenplay of The Man. Set a few days into the future, the...
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Noah Calvin
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1972
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1971
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She Waits, directed by Delbert Mann, an above average, frightening made-for-TV horror film tells the very familiar story of a...
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1971
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The all-purpose science fiction title Earth II was utilized in 1971 for this TV pilot film. Producer/writers Allan Balter and...
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1971
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The launching pad for the long-running ABC medical series Marcus Welby, M.D. was this feature-length pilot film, first aired...
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1968
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TV buffs will undoubtedly relish this episode, in which future M*A*S*H "good guy" Wayne Rogers is cast as a psychotic killer,...
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1966
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1966
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1964
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The first of Allen Drury "all names changed to protect the guilty" political novels, Advise and Consent was brought to the...
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1962
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Adapted from the autobiography of Helen Doss, this 90-minute TV version of The Family Nobody Wanted stars Nanette Fabray as...
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1956
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Producer, Screenwriter
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1955
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John Tracy
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1953
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Dr. Patrick J. Cory
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1953
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A drama from the early television series: "A Measure of Faith." ~ Rovi...
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1952
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Filmed in Ansco Color (a fancy name for Eastmancolor), New Mexico stars Lew Ayres as Capt. Hunt, a U.S. Cavalry Captain...
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Capt. Hunt
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1951
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Virtually ignored at the time of its release, Capture has built up a small but enthusiastic following since its lapse into...
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Vanner
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1950
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After years of dumb-blonde and best-friend roles, Jane Wyman proved her skills as a dramatic actress -- and won an Academy...
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Dr. Robert Richardson
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1948
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Though not readily apparent at first, The Unfaithful is a remake of the 1940 Bette Davis vehicle The Letter, which in turn...
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Larry Hannaford
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1947
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Dr. Scott Elliott
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1946
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A fun though abortive bid to pair crime-solving duo Lew Ayres and Laraine Day for a series of thrillers, this murder mystery...
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Oliver Duffy
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1942
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In this episode of the popular medical series, Kildare finds himself involved in a dispute between to competing hospitals....
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Dr. James Kildare
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1941
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Out of work as usual, showgirl Maisie Revier (Ann Sothern) takes a job as the maid for a wealthy family. She wins over the...
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Bob Rawlston
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1941
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When MGM decided to move up-and-coming star Laraine Day out of the "Dr. Kildare" series, the studio did so in a startlingly...
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Dr. James Kildare
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1941
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Dr. Jim Kildare (Lew Ayres) plays Good Samaritan with potentially disastrous results in The People vs. Dr. Kildare. Happening...
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Dr. James Kildare
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1941
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Dr. Kildare's Crisis is actually one suffered by his fiancee, nurse Mary Lamont (Laraine Day). Mary's financier brother...
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Dr. James Kildare
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1940
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This fourth entry in MGM's "Dr. Kildare" series once again stars Lew Ayres as Kildare, Laraine Day as his sweetheart Mary...
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Dr. James Kildare
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1940
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Appointed resident assistant at the Byng State Hospital by his mentor Dr. Leonard Gillespie (Lionel Barrymore), young Doctor...
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Dr. James Kildare
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1940
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Dumb but honest insurance agent Henry Twinkle (Lew Ayres) is in love with Mary Blake (Rita Johnson), the secretary of Henry's...
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Henry Twinkle
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1940
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The second of MGM's "Dr. Kildare" series, Calling Dr. Kildare finds the title character (Lew Ayres) transferred to Blair...
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Dr. James Kildare
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1939
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In this third installment of MGM's "Dr. Kildare" series, Dr. James Kildare (Lew Ayres) comes to the rescue when his...
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Dr. James Kildare
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1939
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James Geoffrey Seymour
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1939
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Comedy, romance, and song hit the ice in this musical. Larry Hall (James Stewart) is a professional ice skater whose act with...
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Eddie Burgess
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1939
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In this off-beat love story, wealthy socialite Linda Bronson (Greer Garson) is about to marry Sky Ames (Lou Ayres) but then...
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Sky Ames
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1939
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In this comedy/drama, a feisty taxi-dancer (Lana Turner in her first starring role) takes on a sorority full of snooty...
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Philip S. Griswold
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1939
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In director Reinh Schunzel's film Rich Man, Poor Girl, the upper crust collides with the more financially unfortunate members...
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Henry Thayer
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1938
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Both film versions of Phillip Barry's stage comedy Holiday have their merits, but the 1938 version has the added advantage of...
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Ned Seton
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1938
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In this often funny crime melodrama, a librarian moves to a small town and finds herself the butt of local gossip. While the...
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Joe McKnight
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1938
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In this collegiate romance, the love affair between two seniors is threatened by their different graduation plans. The...
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Sam Thatcher
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1938
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Though not the first Dr. Kildare film ever made, this is the first entry in MGM's long-running series set at Blair General...
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Dr. James Kildare
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1938
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In this drama, a young man aspires to a life of wealth and power in the newspaper business. Unfortunately, it takes time and...
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Jerry Flynn
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1938
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In this sports drama, framed by the annual Army-Navy football game, a freshman footballer at the Naval Academy falls in love...
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Tommy Gorham
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1937
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Set during the terrible Spanish Civil War, this film avoids political commentary in favor of objectively centering on the...
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Bill Dexter
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1937
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In this comical murder mystery, three playwrights use $500 in advance money to get an apartment in which to write a mystery....
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Nicholas Carter
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1937
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Sometimes referred to as a "baseball picture," Columbia's Panic in the Air is only peripherally involved in the sport....
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Jerry
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1936
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Young engineer Bob Sanderson (Lew Ayres) is in love with wealthy socialite Edith Stuart (Joan Perry), and the feeling is...
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Bob Sanderson
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1936
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The Leathernecks Have Landed is an adventure yarn revolving around three boisterous marines. Lew Ayres is the headstrong one,...
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Woody Davis
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1936
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Gail Patrick plays a young woman framed for murder. Luckily the newsman on the courtroom beat is ace photographer Lew Ayres....
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Kent Murdock
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1936
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First-time director Lew Ayres performs miracles on a tiny budget in the Civil War drama Hearts in Bondage. The story offers a...
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Director
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1936
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Dud "Dynamite"
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1936
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In their never-ending efforts to transform contract actress Pat Paterson a major star, Fox Studios cast the lovely lady...
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Cadet Frank Harrington
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1935
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It is said that former gagman Clyde Bruckman spent most of his directing days sitting in his canvas chair quietly nursing a...
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Caleb Enix
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1935
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The Silk Hat Kid is Lew Ayres, a babyfaced gangland "torpedo." Circumstances force the Kid to hole up in a slum settlement...
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Eddie Howard
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1935
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In this romantic comedy, a chanteuse singing in a trashy Shanghai bar finds hope for escape when a rakish sailor comes to...
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1934
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Jimmie
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1934
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In this off-beat crime drama, a philandering husband murders his wife in the midst of a department store by skewering her...
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Norman
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1934
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Inasmuch as the film was based on a novel by Swedish author Sigrid Boo, Fox's Servant's Entrance is logically set in Sweden....
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Eric Landstrom
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1934
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A man's addiction to betting on the horses severely disrupts his love life in this comedy. He, a plumber, and his fiancee, a...
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Bill McCaffery
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1933
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The charming and effervescent continental film star Lillian Harvey made her Hollywood debut in My Weakness. Borrowing a page...
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Ronnie Gregory
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1933
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The 1933 State Fair was the first of three film versions of the Phillip Stong bestseller. Some consider it the best of the...
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Pat Gilbert
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1933
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As indicated by its "catchphrase" title, Okay America is one of several early-1930s films based on the exploits of gossip...
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Larry Wayne
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1932
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Night World is an astonishingly compact 57-minute extravaganza, all of which takes place at the upscale (but somewhat...
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Michael Rand
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1932
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Ruth Robbins (Mae Clarke) is already a cynic about marriage, and well she should be -- at age 19, she's the...
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Dr. Myron Brown
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1932
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Young Joan Bennett and Lew Ayres make an attractive couple in the Universal programmer Many a Slip. Because of her imperious...
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Jerry Brooks
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1931
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This drama is set at Notre Dame and follows the exploits of a great football coach (patterned after Knute Rockne) who is...
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Bucky O'Brien
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1931
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In this boxing drama, a prizefighter is left by his money-grubbing showgirl wife who aspires to be a movie star. The...
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Young Mason
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1931
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While on a riverboat traveling on the Mississippi River, Ayres finds out that his father is an impostor and that man...
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States
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1931
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In this melodrama, a cub reporter falls for the society editor who is already the mistress of the publisher. The two men...
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Robert Marshall
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1931
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In this early talkie, a vicious crime lord (played by Lew Ayres in a rare villainous role) decides that he has had enough and...
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Louis Ricarno
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1930
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Ellen Neal (Constance Bennett) is a "nice" girl -- just turned 18 -- who's been picked up in a raid on a speakeasy where she...
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Hugh Fullerton
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1930
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One of the most powerful anti-war statements ever put on film, this gut-wrenching story concerns a group of friends who join...
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Paul Baumer
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1930
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In this romance, men board "The Love Boat" (no, not the TV boat) and set sail for China with the hope of buying a Chinese...
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Billy Benson
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1930
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In this comedy, a college sophomore gets into deep trouble when he gambles away his tuition money on the first day of...
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1929
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Director William Wyler made the move up to talking pictures with this blend of action and comedy. Dave Roberts (James Murray...
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1929
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MGM's paranoid fear of audience reaction to Greta Garbo's speaking voice must have been the only reason for this plodding...
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Pierre
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1929
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1929
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