Marlon Brando went out on yet another creative limb when he insisted upon playing sly, philosophical Okinawan interpreter...
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1956
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1956
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Charles Y. Bewell
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1956
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One critic has noted that The Prodigal was aptly titled, inasmuch as it was all too prodigal with the funds of the...
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Nahreeb
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1955
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In this gritty urban drama, war veteran Richard Dadier (Glenn Ford) wants to begin his career as a teacher and is given an...
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Jim Murdock
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1955
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1954
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Clark Gable's final effort for his longtime home studio MGM, Betrayed is an exciting espionage thriller set during World War...
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Gen. Ten Eyck
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1954
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Leave it to MGM to turn the Korean War into a splashy, big-budget, all-star extravaganza. Men of the Fighting Lady is set on...
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James A. Michener
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1954
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Rhapsody is high-gloss soap opera in the grand MGM manner. Elizabeth Taylor stars as Louise Durant, the beautiful but spoiled...
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Nicholas Durant
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1954
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Cameron Hawley's novel of corporate in-fighting and gamesmanship was brought to the screen by producer John Houseman and...
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1954
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Edmund Purdom plays Prince Karl, but Mario Lanza sings the bold tunes coming out of Purdom's mouth, in this MGM remake of the...
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King of Karlsburg
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1954
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A genuine novelty, MGM's Main Street to Broadway offers the modern viewer a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse of the 1953...
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1953
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Opie Bedloe
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1953
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June Allyson plays a band singer working in New York City; Van Johnson is the manager of a fancy apartment house where a...
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Benjamin Goodman
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1953
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Julius Caesar
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1953
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Grandfather Santos
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1953
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Mistaken identity and underhanded dealings set the stage for this adventure story based on Anthony Hope's classic novel....
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Col. Zapt
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1952
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Having supped full of success with the multi-storied O. Henry's Full House, 20th Century-Fox assembled another all-star...
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1952
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Simon Bowker
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1952
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Kirk Douglas plays the corrupt and amoral head of a major film studio in this Hollywood drama, often regarded as one of the...
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1952
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Washington Story stars Van Johnson as mildly liberal congressman Joseph T. Gresham. For reasons that he can't fathom, Gresham...
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Charles W. Birch
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1952
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Set in 19th-century New York, this mystery begins when a Frenchwoman shows up at the home of one of Napoleon's former...
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Thevent
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1951
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The Asphalt Jungle is a brilliantly conceived and executed anatomy of a crime -- or, as director John Huston and scripter...
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Alonzo D. Emmerich
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1950
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Devil's Doorway was the first of many top-rank westerns directed by Anthony Mann. RobertTaylor is cast against type as a...
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Verne Coolan
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1950
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Two Weeks With Love is set in a Catskills resort in the early 1900s. Seventeen-year-old vacationer Patti Robinson...
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Horatio Robinson
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1950
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Lana Turner stars as an ambitious model who seeks her fortune in New York City. She is befriended by over-the-hill cover-girl...
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Jim Leversoe
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1950
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Ann Sothern closed out her MGM contract with the Technicolor musical Nancy Goes to Rio. As Frances Elliot, Sothern is billed...
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Gregory Elliott
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1950
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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1950
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Judy Garland was originally slated to star in MGM's film version of Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun, but she was forced to...
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Buffalo Bill
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1950
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Grandpa
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1949
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One of the more palatable of Hollywood's anti-communist tracts of the late 1940s-early 1950s was MGM's The Red Danube....
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1949
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Based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque, Arch of Triumph is a complicated war romance directed by Lewis Milestone. Dr....
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Morosow
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1948
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Paul Prescott
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1946
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First filmed in 1928, Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer-winning novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey is given a ponderous treatment in...
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The Viceroy
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1944
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It is said that producer Sam Goldwyn had a habit of addressing his new star of the 1940s, Danny Kaye, as "Eddie", confusing...
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Col. Ashley
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1944
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On the day of his death in 1943, the spirit of Henry Van Cleave (Don Ameche) obligingly heads for the place where so many...
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1943
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In this musical, the teenage daughter of a popular movie star tires of being ignored by her separated parents and decides to...
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1943
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Edward G. Robinson portrays real-life German medical researcher Paul Erlich, the man who discovered and perfected "Formula...
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1940
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This soapy drama stars Hedy Lamarr as a would be model who meets a research doctor en route to the US from Europe. They meet...
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1940
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Juarez was originally designed to concentrate almost exclusively on the tragedy of Hapsburg Emperor Maximillian, whose...
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1939
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A wealthy older man and a poor young woman each get a chance to see how the other half lives in this comedy. Alfred Borden...
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1939
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Arthur Aldrich
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1939
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Fast Company was another attempt by MGM to match the success of its "Thin Man" films. Melvyn Douglas and Florence Rice star...
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Elias Z. Bannerman
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1938
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The second of Paul Muni's biographical films for Warner Bros., the Oscar-winning The Life of Emile Zola is by far the best,...
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1937
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Two brothers exchange lifestyles in this drama. The older brother, a gambler, wants to lead a clean, crime-free life while...
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Sordoni
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1937
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The Gorgeous Hussy purports to be based on the life of Margaret "Peggy" O'Neill, the controversial wife of early 19th-century...
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1936
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One of four MGM "B"-pictures ground out in quick succession by director George B. Seitz, Woman Wanted is a crime melodrama...
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Smiley
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1935
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The Arizonian came at a time when Richard Dix's popularity was slipping, providing a welcome shot in the arm for the star and...
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Jake Mannen
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1935
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RKO Radio's spectacular production The Last Days of Pompeii utilizes the title but precious little else of the famous...
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Prefect
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1935
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1935
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Raymond de Villefort Jr.
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1934
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Stanley Vance
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1934
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The Affairs of Cellini is based on Edwin Justus Mayer's popular stage play The Firebrand, which in turn was based on the life...
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1934
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1933
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Sent to Sing Sing prison, influential crook Spencer Tracy is unregenerate and refuses to adhere to the rules. While in...
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1933
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In this 1933 Marx Brothers film, the mythical country of Freedonia is broke and on the verge of revolution. Mrs. Teasdale...
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1933
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Plodding through the dialogue-heavy script, this is still a timely movie topic. Dealing with white collar crime, this is the...
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Christopher Bruno
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1933
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Winklereid
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1933
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Magruder
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1933
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Jenny (Ruth Chatterton) becomes pregnant by a young man who is killed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Bearing her child...
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Steve Dutton
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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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Mileaway Rosso
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1932
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Eric Linden is a bellhop who has the extreme misfortune of being in the wrong place at the wrong time in gangster era of...
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Wade
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1932
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Though only 19, Loretta Young was an established Hollywood star in 1932, appearing in six films in that year alone. In They...
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Fred Humphries
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1932
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In one of his first starring roles, George Raft plays Joe Anton, a tough but basically decent speakeasy owner who falls in...
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1932
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Steve Perry
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1931
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Blonde Crazy is the kind of amoral fun that disappeared from Hollywood after 1933, once the Production Code forced morality...
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Dapper Dan Barker
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1931
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In this drama, a doctor and his wife are stationed in Singapore where the lonely wife, tired of constantly trying to get his...
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Dr. George March
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1931
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Horror flicks were few and far between when this melodramatic-thriller was released by Goldwyn. The powerfully named Hercules...
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1923
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Looking back on her film credits, Florence Vidor had been playing leads in pictures for the likes of Cecil B. DeMille and her...
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Monte Collins
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1922
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Too Wise Wives was an independent film produced and directed by prominent woman director Lois Weber. It is a pointed soap...
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1921
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Lois Weber was generally championing something or someone in her films; this time around it's underpaid white-collar workers....
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Phil West
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1921
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This comedy-drama isn't one of director Lois Weber's strongest films, but at least it isn't as preachy as some of her other...
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1921
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