Michael Chekhov and George Shdanoff were Russian expatriates who came to Hollywood and became two of the best known and most...
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1999
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Satirist Jim Arahams returned with this comedy spoofing the Godfather trilogy, and other films and TV, including...
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1998
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In this dark comedy, Peter (Josh Charles) is a well-educated Jewish writer from Los Angeles who has fallen in love with...
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Col. Branson
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1998
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1997
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After an unfortunate encounter with an Exacto knife, Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld) receives an infusion of Kramer's blood -- and he...
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1997
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Throughout her life, small-town schoolteacher Elaine Hodges (Mare Winningham) has been fiercely devoted to her infirm,...
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1996
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This drama examines the behavior of three female resident doctors working at a San Francisco hospital. It is based on a novel...
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1995
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Jill Eikenberry stars in this made-for-television drama about a mother's strength. Eikenberry stars as divorcee Tessa Bryan,...
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1995
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This program interweaves an animated musical telling of the story of Peter and the Wolf with a live action narrative about...
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1995
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Real-life father and son Lloyd and Beau Bridges star in the tense modern melodrama Secret Sins of the Father. Nebraska farmer...
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Louis Thielman
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1994
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Opening within one month from each other in 1994, Blown Away invited many comparisons to Speed. Both are pyrotechnical...
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Max O'Bannon
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1994
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See world and Olympic figure skating champion Dorothy Hamill perform the lead role in this Ice Capades production. With an...
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1993
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Jake Tyrell
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1993
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1993
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A ten-part series of some 3500 photos, sketches, and paintings of myths of the American West between the end of the Civil...
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1993
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Tug Benson
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1993
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This exhaustive treatment of the roots of environmental destruction in the modern world has come in for scathing criticism...
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1993
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Clifford Sterling
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1992
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When a North Pole bookkeeping boo-boo threatens to destroy the magic of Christmas, poor Santa is left with very little time...
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Santa Claus
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1992
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In this made-for-cable-TV crime drama, New York detective Devlin must prove that he is innocent of killing his...
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1992
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Taken from the television series "Shining Time Station," this holiday special tells the story of an unusual passenger, Mr....
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Mr. Nicholas
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1992
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Admiral "Tug" Benson
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1991
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Academy Award-winning screenwriter John Patrick Shanley's first foray into the director's chair is a quirky romantic fantasy,...
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Samuel Harvey Graynamore
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1990
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Based on fact, this TV drama details the life of New York property magnate, Leona Helmsley, her personal ups and downs and...
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1990
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Lloyd Bridges stars as a newspaper chief in this made-for-television movie about life in big-city journalism. This fast-paced...
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1990
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1990
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Set in the Appalachians during the Depression, this drama follows the events that take place when Wayland Jackson...
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William Wright
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1989
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In this romantic comedy, two people brought together by marriage are brought even closer by their mates. Maria Hardy...
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Vince Kozinski
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1989
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The two-part TV movie Cross of Fire is set in the 1920s, when the Ku Klux Klan was at the height of its political power in...
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1989
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History tells us that would-be automobile mogul Preston Tucker was a silver-tongued con man, who misappropriated his...
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1988
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In this suspenseful drama, a prominent publishing executive marries a younger man soon after the death of her husband. After...
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1988
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1988
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When uptight FBI agent Joe Jennings (Beau Bridges) is forced to team up with reluctant local officer Benny Avalon...
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Col. Hester
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1987
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This comedy is set in Hollywood in 1961, where a group of young men join the National Guard in an attempt to escape Vietnam....
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Col. Archer
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1986
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When it was first telecast on November 23, 1986, the made-for-TV Thanksgiving Promise (based on a novel by Blaine and Brenton...
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1986
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A made for TV movie which serves as much a condemnation of the military establishment as a murder mystery, this film...
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1986
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This six-part, 12-hour miniseries was a sequel to the 1985 "mini" North and South, and like its predecessor it was based on a...
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1986
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This live action trip back to Wonderland finds Alice dodging the Jabberwocky and encountering a Wonderland crew including...
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1985
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This short-lived TV series was based on the 1982 television movie of the same name and focused on two young women and their...
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1984
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1984
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Following the lead of the CBS soap opera Capitol, NBC's daytime drama Loving was introduced by a two-hour, prime-time TV...
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1984
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This 1982 made-for-TV version of the Lewis Carroll classic Alice in Wonderland features an all-star cast. Such celebrities as...
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1983
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Grace Kelly, the high-society beauty who became an Oscar-winning actress and then a European princess, is the subject of this...
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1983
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A Case of Libel was adapted from the 1953 Broadway play by Henry Denker. The story was inspired by the real-life courtroom...
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1983
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McCroskey
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1982
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Originally networkcast in three installments, the 8-hour Blue and the Gray is a sprawling adaptation of a story concept by...
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1982
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1982
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The 1955 film version of John Steinbeck's East of Eden will always be popular because of the presence in the cast of...
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Samuel Hamilton
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1981
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Actress and popular culture icon Marilyn Monroe is the subject of yet another made-for-television movie. This film, which...
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Johnny Hyde
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1980
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Up on Bear Island -- somewhere off the northeast American coast -- a U.S. meteorological team discovers German submarines...
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1980
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This film profiles the early career of Marilyn Monroe when she develops a relationship with her Hollywood agent, Johnny Hyde....
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1980
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This spoof of the Airport series of disaster movies relies on ridiculous sight gags, groan-inducing dialogue, and deadpan...
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McCroskey
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1980
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It's Airplane on the rails in the made-for-TV Disaster on the Coastliner. A crazed engineer holds his employers responsible...
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Al Mitchell
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1979
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Several episodes of the TV series were edited together to create this Battlestar Galactica full-length feature. The ship is...
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Commander Cain
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1979
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In this drama, a man swears revenge upon those who sent him to jail. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1978
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Lloyd Bridges stars as stubborn high-wire artist Karl Wallenda in the made-for-TV The Great Wallendas. The famed family...
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1978
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In the first episode of a two-part story, a recon mission led by Apollo (Richard Hatch) and Starbuck (Dirk Benedict)...
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1978
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In the conclusion of a two-part story, Adama (Lorne Greene) clashes with Commander Cain (Lloyd Bridges), a legendary--and...
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1978
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In this gentle drama, a young American man (Beau Bridges) forsakes his promising career working with his father (Lloyd...
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1978
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Critical List divides its four-hour running time between a big city hospital and a courtroom where the hospital heads are...
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1978
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This award-winning six-part historical epic was one of the first examples of the miniseries format and one of the...
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1977
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In this made-for-TV movie, an insane killer is released from prison and sets out to extract his revenge from the family of...
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1977
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1977
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A marathon fundraiser held in exciting Las Vegas finds itself beset by behind-the-scenes romance and danger in this drama. ~...
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1977
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The story in this lavish cinemadaptation of Alexandre Dumas' The Man in the Iron Mask remains faithful to the original novel:...
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Aramis
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1977
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Deadly Weekend stars Lloyd Bridges as LA beat cop Joe Forrester. Patrolling his old neighborhood, Forrester gets wind of an...
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1975
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Lloyd Bridges stars as plainclothes policeman Joe Forrester. When a gang of robber-rapists besiege his old beat, Forrester...
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1975
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The made-for-TV Stowaway to the Moon may be regarded by some as an excellent argument for birth control. Michael Link plays...
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Charlie Englehardt
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1974
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1974
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Lloyd Bridges' gloriously unconvincing German accent is but one of the guilty pleasures of Death Race. Set during the African...
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1973
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This Mexican-filmed melodrama was released under a multitude of titles. Running Wild was evidently its working title, but...
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1973
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The old Outward Bound formula is pulled out of mothballs for the made-for-TV Haunts of the Very Rich. The scene is a gorgeous...
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1972
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Screen newcomers Darren O'Connor (the brother of Glynnis O'Connor) and Pamela Sue Martin (billed here as Pamela Martin) play...
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1972
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The "trouble" that comes to a small southern town is (ostensibly) Thomas Evans, an African American youth from the north....
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1972
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Crime Club was the umbrella title given a series of monthly mystery novels in the 1930s and 1940s. Several films and radio...
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Paul Cord
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1972
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1972
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Where do dreams end and reality begins? That's the question facing research scientist Lloyd Bridges in the made-for-TV...
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1971
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A Tattered Web starts out at a high level of tension which seldom flags during its lean 74 minutes. Lloyd Bridges stars as a...
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1971
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The ongoing war between the planets Argon and Zinan is slated to be resolved in a winner-take-all battle, to be held on the...
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1970
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Devious socialite Gene Barry stands to come into one million dollars. The catch is (and don't ask us why) that he must...
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1970
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The Silent Gun refers to the weapon no longer toted by Westerner Lloyd Bridges. Once a notorious gunfighter, Bridges has...
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1969
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Suburban housewives console themselves with pills and alcohol to tolerate their spouses' infidelities in The Happy Ending....
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Sam
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1969
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In 1966, producer Frank Price came up with a TV series concept about a group of people lost on an uncharted island who are...
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1969
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In this made-for-TV movie, a New England hotel is the meeting place for two lonely, unhappy people (Lloyd Bridges and...
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1969
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Vic Powers (Lloyd Bridges) leads a specialized rescue unit known as the Flying Fish. When an American economics professor is...
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Vic Powers
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1968
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Major James Wilson (Lloyd Bridges) must lead his troops across the English channel in the D-day invasion of Normandy. He...
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1968
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Lloyd Bridges guest-stars as Anasta Poltroni, heads of an international drug ring. Under the alias of Ted Carson, Poltroni...
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1966
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Ivan Tors Productions, the firm responsible for such aquatic TV delights as Sea Hunt and Flipper, was the prime mover behind...
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Dr. Doug Standish
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1965
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Mike Nelson
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1961
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1961
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Mike Nelson
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1960
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Mike Nelson
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1959
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Mike Nelson
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1958
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Screenplay writer Paddy Chayefsky, and indeed everyone involved with the film, insisted that The Goddess wasn't really all...
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Dutch Seymour
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1958
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In this revisionist western, Captain George (Lloyd Bridges) is a cavalry officer of dubious principles who is given the...
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Capt. George
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1957
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Per its title, Wetbacks deals with the smuggling into the US of illegal Mexican aliens. The villains are played by John Hoyt...
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Jim Benson
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1956
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N. Richard Nash's play The Rainmaker has always attracted the most flamboyant of performers, and this 1956 film version is no...
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Noah Curry
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1956
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The seventh live presentation of the CBS drama anthology Playhouse 90 was "Heritage of Anger", written especially for...
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1956
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In 1870s Arizona, Anne LeBeau (Joan Taylor) is caught between two cultures in a conflict that may kill her and her brother...
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Rex Moffet
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1955
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The Deadly Game was originally released in England as Third Party Risk. Lloyd Bridges stars as an ex-GI living in Spain....
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1955
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Filmed around the same time as Gunfight at the OK Corral, Wichita is a more modest--and to some, more entertaining--slant on...
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Gyp
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1955
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During his brief tenure as a "graylisted" actor (thanks to his activities in the "radical" Actors Lab), Lloyd Bridges made a...
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1954
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When equestrian Linda (Vera Miles) talks her trainer, Jim (Lloyd Bridges), into taking care of Gypsy Prince, her horse, Jim...
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Jim
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1954
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Despite the lighthearted promotional campaign mounted by 20th Century-Fox when the film was first released,...
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Pete Haines
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1953
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Unlike many westerns, City of Bad Men is placed within a specific historical time frame. The scene is Carson City, Nevada, in...
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Gar Stanton
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1953
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His Hollywood career temporarily in the doldrums in 1953, Lloyd Bridges headed to Britain to star in The Limping Man....
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Frank Prior
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1953
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Elmo Williams, the veteran Hollywood film editor who gained fame for his work on High Noon, serves as director of the...
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Ben Trask
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1953
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This Western classic stars Gary Cooper as Hadleyville marshal Will Kane, about to retire from office and go on his honeymoon...
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Harvey Pell
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1952
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Plymouth Adventure earned a footnote in film history as the last directorial effort by the prolific Clarence Brown....
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Coppin
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1952
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Jim Starbuck
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1952
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In this comedy-drama, Frank Keeler (Lloyd Bridges is an American G.I. stationed in Italy whose less-than-legal side business...
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Frank Keeler
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1951
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Produced by "March of Time" maven Louis de Rochemont, Whistle at Eaton Falls is docudrama concerning a labor dispute in a...
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Brad Adams
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1951
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Ninety per cent of Little Big Horn takes place before Custer's Last Stand; thus, the emphasis is on character and suspense...
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Capt. Phillip Donlin
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1951
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The Randolph Scott western Colt .45 was retitled for TV so as not to be confused with the TV series of the same name. The new...
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Paul Donovan
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1950
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Glenn Ford stars as American pilot Martin Ordway, who joins an expedition to scale a treacherous Swiss mountain peak. Each of...
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1950
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Floyd Oldham
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1950
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The Sound of Fury is better known by its general release title, Try and Get Me. Based on Jo Pagano's novel The Condemned, the...
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Jerry Slocum
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1950
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When nearly perfect counterfeit 20-dollar bills start turning up, the Treasury Department recognizes them as the work of Tris...
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Stewart
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1949
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Reliable serial and western leading lady Adrian Booth is awarded top billing in Republic's Hideout. Hannah (Booth) and Edie...
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George Browning
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1949
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For various reasons, the 1949 western Calamity Jane and Sam Bass has a rather poor reputation amongst film buffs. Many...
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1949
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Red Canyon was one of several medium-budget, Technicolor westerns turned out by Universal-International between 1949 and...
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1949
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Arthur Laurents' play Home of the Brave concerned a paralyzed Jewish war veteran who begins to walk again only when he...
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Finch
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1949
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An especially good casts helps lift Republic's Secret Service Investigator well above the norm. Lloyd Bridges plays...
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Steve Mallory
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1948
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16 Fathoms Deep was a curious choice as the first effort from Arthur Lake Productions. Heretofore known best as Dagwood...
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Douglas
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1948
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All of his life, Danny Hawkins (Dane Clark) has been taunted and mistreated by most of the people around him, enduring...
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1948
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This cowboy drama from Hungarian director Andre De Toth was the first of several films based on the stories of Western author...
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Red Cates
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1947
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1947
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In this comedy, a scatter-brained professor nearly starts a riot when he writes a book claiming that women like to be...
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1947
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Dan Mitchell (Randolph Scott) is the town marshal of Abilene, KS, in the turbulent years after the Civil War and the start of...
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Henry Dreiser
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1946
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Dana Andrews -- in one of the best performances of his career -- plays Logan Stuart, a bold, ambitious general store and...
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Johnny Steele
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1946
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Based on the '30s comic-strip character, Secret Agent X-9 was a black-and-white adventure serial from Universal. This 1945...
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1945
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Harry Brown's honest, unsentimental WW2 novel A Walk in the Sun has been effectively adapted for the screen by Robert Rossen....
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Sgt. Ward
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1945
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In this suspense story (released as part of Universal's "Inner Sanctum" series, named for the popular radio series of the...
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Dave
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1945
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Based on the novel by Augusta Tucker, the provocatively titled Miss Susie Slagle's is actually a leisurely, sentimental story...
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1945
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But for the presence of the Columbia "torch lady" in the opening credits, it would be easy to mistake Judy Canova's Louisiana...
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Montague Price
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1944
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The Master Race argues persuasively that, although it appeared that the Nazis would lose WW2, it was foolish to assume that...
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Frank Bartoc
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1944
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1944
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1944
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In this drama, a female taxi driver takes pity on a soldier who has come to search for his estranged son and decides to help...
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1944
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This second entry in Columbia's "Crime Doctor" series once again stars Warner Baxter as Dr. Ordway, a former criminal turned...
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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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After an absence of three years, Mae West returned to the screen in the musical comedy The Heat's On. La West is cast as Fay...
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Andy Walker
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1943
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Though it's not made readily apparent by the title, Passport to Suez was the 10th entry in Columbia's "Lone Wolf" series....
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1943
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Fred Clarkson
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1943
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In this western, fake settlers make themselves at home on an ex-ranger's ranch and drive him away. A shady newspaper...
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1943
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In this espionage caper, a government spy must keep enemy agents from spying upon a defense plant. His work is made easier...
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1942
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1942
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In this WW II spy comedy, an American pilot stationed in England is flying a routine mission when the Nazis shoot down his...
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1942
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In this western, a community revives the legend of Billy the Kid after robbers attack a stage coach. The deputy marshal...
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1942
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1942
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The best of Joe E. Brown's Columbia starring vehicles, Shut My Big Mouth is also one of Joe's funniest efforts since his...
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1942
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In this western, three Texas Rangers decide to do their part to save the world and join the Army, but before they can, they...
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1942
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Nurse Chapman begins to fall in love with a gangster and ends up entertaining miners until she manages to pull herself out of...
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1942
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In this western, a rancher is ambushed, killed, and robbed, but for some reason the killers through his money pouch in the...
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1942
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In this musical comedy, an agent for an advertising agency begins trying to push a new "Blind Date" service and so engages...
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1942
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1942
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Another timely entry from the Columbia assembly line, Canal Zone stars Chester Morris as flight instructor "Hardtack"...
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1942
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Ex-thief Boston Blackie (Chester Morris) brings a variety show up to his old prison alma mater for Christmas Eve. In...
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1942
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One of the most fondly remembered of the "Blondie" series entries, Blondie Goes to College is predicated on the notion that...
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1942
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Columbia Pictures evidently felt that ex-boxer "Slapsy" Maxie Rosenbloom was the funniest man on earth, despite the fact that...
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1942
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Columbia's belated effort to cash in on the popularity of Abbott & Costello's Buck Privates was the raucous and generally...
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1942
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Scripted by Irwin Shaw from a story by C. S. Forester (of "Captain Horatio Hornblower" fame), Commandos Strike at Dawn is a...
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1942
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There are moments in Columbia's Flight Lieutenant that approach "high camp"; indeed, one is hard pressed to remember if any...
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1942
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In this war comedy, an army reject becomes a war hero by rounding up a ring of Nazi spies. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1942
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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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Western star Charles Starrett makes one of his periodic forays into the Great White North in Columbia's Royal Mounted Patrol....
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Hap Andrews
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1941
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In this drama, which blends romance with suspense, Prince Kurt von Rotenberg (George Brent) is attempting to flee his native...
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1941
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Medico of Painted Springs was the first of western hero Charles Starrett's appearances as frontier doctor Steven Monroe....
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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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While in Hawaii, Velez begins the film as a risque nightclub act and due to her involvement with a group of sailors becomes...
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1941
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Harmon of Michigan was the first in a trio of Columbia sports films, each starring a real-life athlete. In this case, the...
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1941
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Robert Montgomery plays saxophone-playing boxer Joe Pendleton, who insists upon piloting his own plane, much to the...
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1941
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The title of this series entry may strike some as a tad redundant: After all, isn't crook-turned-sleuth Michael Lanyard, aka...
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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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Next to Ann Miller, few Columbia contractees made more B musicals than Jinx Falkenberg. In Sing for Your Supper, Falkenberg...
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1941
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Bill Elliot took time out from his "Wild Bill Hickok" westerns series to essay the title role in Son of Davy Crockett. During...
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1941
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