In this realistic crime drama, a Santa Ana housewife, anxious to somehow avenge the drug-related death of her nephew, offers...
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1958
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This forgettable piece of 1950s sleaze stars Cleo Moore as a voluptuous blonde who becomes a successful commercial...
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1956
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Produced by low-budget maven Bryan Foy, Battle Stations is a standard wartime melodrama with the usual assortment of cliches....
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1956
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With the exception of the vastly superior Caged, Columbia's Women's Prison was the quintessential "babes behind bars" drama...
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1955
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American POWs struggle to escape from a North Korean camp. While this is basically a remake of Stalag 17, it does feature...
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1954
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The System was one of several "exposé" films inspired by the Kefauver crime committee. The title refers to the manner in...
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1953
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Ronald Reagan delivers one of his best screen performances as baseball great Grover Cleveland Alexander in The Winning Team....
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1952
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Loosely based on the true story of Lieutenant Colonel Peter Ortiz, this mystery centers on an American WW II veteran who...
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1952
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Actual combat footage is deftly blended in with dramatized re-enactments in The Tanks Are Coming. Steve Cochran stars as...
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1951
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Filmed with the full cooperation of the U.S. Army, Breakthrough is a lean, no-nonsense war film set during the 1944 invasion...
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1950
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In this drama, a California artist becomes a New York prizefighter after he falls in love with a married singer. Her husband...
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1948
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Doll Face is one of two attempts by 20th Century Fox to make a movie star out of crooner Perry Como (the other was...
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1946
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The second of Perry Como's two starring vehicles for 20th Century-Fox, If I'm Lucky is an easygoing remake of 1937's...
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1946
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A servant with no experience ends up teaching the master of the house a thing or two in this comedy. Molly Barry...
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1945
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The Cole Porter Broadway musical Something for the Boys was brought to the screen by 20th Century Fox with three new non-...
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1944
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True to Life stars Dick Powell as a radio writer in search of saleable material. He comes up with a weekly sitcom about a...
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1943
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20th Century-Fox's 1943 filmization of Richard Tregaskis' best-selling book Guadalcanal Diary does full justice to the...
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1943
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1942
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1942
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1942
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In the wake of Abbott & Costello's Buck Privates, every studio in Hollywood began cranking out service comedies. Warner...
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1941
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Like MGM's Whistling in the Dark, Warner Bros.' The Smiling Ghost was inspired by the success of Paramount's comedy-mystery...
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1941
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Kisses for Breakfast is a dumbed-down remake of the 1930 marital comedy The Matrimonial Bed, itself based on a British stage...
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1941
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1941
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South of Suez is where diamond-mine foreman John Gamble (George Brent) plies his trade. When his boss is murdered, Gamble is...
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1940
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A barely disguised rip-off of 20th Century-Fox's all-female Tail Spin (39), Warner Bros.' Flight Angels is an inexpensive...
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1940
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Humphrey Bogart is a gangster again, this time as counterpoint to the comic elements of It All Came True. On the lam from the...
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1940
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Tugboat Annie Sails Again stars Marjorie Rambeau as the rambunctious female skipper created by Norman Reilly Raine. In this...
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1940
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In this actioner, heroic G-man Brass Bancroft must assume the identity of a notorious spy who died in a train wreck so he...
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1940
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In this entry in the long-running series, the Dead End Kids are freshly out of reform school when they find themselves...
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1939
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A remake of Dr. Socrates (1935), this middling melodrama features Kay Francis as Carol Nelson, a medical doctor blaming...
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1939
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Banking on the popularity of the Warner Bros.' boxing saga Kid Galahad (37), the studio rushed into production with another,...
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1939
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John Garfield once more plays a social outcast who's had nothing but lousy breaks. Released from prison for a crime he didn't...
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1939
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A young punk hooks up with a mobster and helps him rob a gas station in this crime drama. From there the crimes become more...
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1939
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In this entry in in the children's series, very loosely adapted from Booth Tarkington's popular story, the young Hoosiers get...
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1938
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In this comedy, a milquetoast office clerk is forcibly betrothed to a woman by her overbearing mother. The trouble begins...
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1938
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In this North Woods adventure a courageous Canadian Mounted Policeman takes on the outlaws who robbed a freighter heading...
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1938
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This entry in the Dead End Kids series of adventures makes critical comments about the failings of reform schools. The story...
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1938
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Department store owner Elliot Dinwiddy (Charlie Ruggles) never makes a decision without first consulting his astrologer Dr....
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1937
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Admidst a sea of melodramatic and unbelievable courtroom dramas, Career Woman is distinguished by its comparative realism....
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1936
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Young married couple Johnny and Trudy Ellis (Johnny Downs and Shirley Deane) are thrilled when their first baby is born. They...
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1936
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In this crime comedy, an ocean liner engineer messes up and ends up relegated to shoveling coal. Later he accepts a lovely...
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1936
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1936
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The otherwise standard series entry Charlie Chan in Paris is distinguished by the presence of actor Keye Luke, making his...
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1935
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Eight year old Paddy O'Day (Jane Withers) arrives at Ellis Island after a long sea voyage from Ireland, to be with her...
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1935
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A rich, melancholy family adopts poor orphan Jane Withers who brightens their lives. ~ Rovi...
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1935
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1934
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1933
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Alexander Carr, a Jewish-dialect comedian usually confined to small roles, is practically the whole show in the sentimental...
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1932
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Returning to Gunsight, AZ, from World War II, Buck Healy (Buck Jones) finds that his younger brother Tom (Thomas Carr) has...
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1930
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In this drama, a young woman gets angry when her boyfriend's father, a motorcycle cop, stops her for speeding, refuses her...
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1929
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In this drama, an early talky, a horse race determines a woman's romantic fate. The trouble begins when she finds herself...
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1929
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1929
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The 1928 Fox comedy-drama Square Crooks was based on James P. Judge's stage play of the same name (back then, "square" meant...
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1928
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1928
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Thunder the Dog, Fox Studios' answer to Warner Bros.' Rin Tin Tin, stars in Wolf Fangs. The star plays a sheepherder's pup...
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1927
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The tragic drowning death of stunt woman Ethel Hall marred the filming of this otherwise below average Tom Mix western. The...
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1927
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The greatest western star of his day, Tom Mix performed several dangerous stunts without the benefit of a double in...
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1927
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The Fox company's greatest asset, Western hero Tom Mix, was badly burned by gunpowder during a fight with co-star...
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1927
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One of cowboy star Tom Mix's best films for the Fox company, No Man's Gold was, according to the trade magazine Variety, "a...
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1926
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Silent screen Western star Tom Mix portrays a detective investigating a series of train robberies in this fast-paced,...
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1926
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Professor Henry Baldwin (Dan Mason) has developed an elixir of youth, and he is about to sample it with his secretary, Egbert...
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1924
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