"Promise to Murder" is a 60-minute TV play adapted from the Oscar Wilde short story "Lord Arthur Saville's Crime." Louis...
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1977
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Murder abounds at a wax museum after the owner decides to sell it, and seemingly waxen figures come alive. By the way, are...
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1973
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In this western a desperado suffers an identity crisis in a frontier town. While he struggles to find the truth, he manages...
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Mike Culligan
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1968
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The title character (Rod Taylor) is a drifting gunslinger, who enters a Southwestern fort and immediately becomes embroiled...
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1967
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When the faithless wife of architect Paul Sampson (Barry Sullivan) demands a divorce, he goes berserk and kills her. The...
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1962
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The Search for Bridey Murphy was inspired by the purportedly true story of a Colorado housewife named Virginia Tighe, who...
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Morey Bernstein
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1956
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This crime drama comes from an episode of the Climax TV series. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1956
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Simon Templar
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1954
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This tape consists of two episodes of the television series starring Louis Hayward as private eye Mike Lanyard. The first...
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1954
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Like its predecessor Duffy of San Quentin, The Steel Cage is made up of episodes from a never-telecast TV series based on the...
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1954
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Duffy of San Quentin is an Allied Artists low-budgeter based on the life of the warden who first introduced reforms in the...
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Edward Harper
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1954
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Louis Hayward goes the "stiff upper lip" route in the Allied Artists "B"-plus actioner The Royal African Rifles. Set in...
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Denham
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1953
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As indicated by the title, Lady in the Iron Mask is a distaff version of the famous Alexandre Dumas yarn. D'Artagnan...
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D'Artagnan
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1952
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This above-average Louis Hayward swashbuckler was sumptuously produced by Columbia's resident western specialist...
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Peter Blood
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1952
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The "bandit" of the title is notorious 18th-century British highwayman Dick Turpin, herein portrayed by Louis Hayward. The...
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Dick Turpin
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1951
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The Son of Dr. Jekyll is Edward Jekyll, played by Louis Hayward. The film's events take place long after the unpleasantness...
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Dr. Jekyll (II)
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1951
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Fritz Lang was the guiding hand of this laudable Republic Studios melodrama. Louis Hayward stars as a wealthy wastrel who...
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Stephen Byrne
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1950
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Though usually associated with westerns, Columbia producer Harry Joe Brown proved to be up to the challenge of producing a...
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Capt. Peter Blood
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1950
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Disciples of "B"-picture stylist Edgar Ulmer will not be disappointed with Pirates of Capri. Lensed in Italy, the film stars...
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Capt. Sirocco
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1949
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Filmed almost entirely on location, Walk a Crooked Mile was Columbia Pictures' "answer" to 20th Century-Fox's late-1940s...
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Philip Grayson
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1948
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Richard Shelton
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1948
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Sharkishly handsome Zachary Scott is right in his element in the Eagle-Lion melodrama Ruthless. Told in flashback, this is...
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Vic Lambdin
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1948
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On New Year's Eve, Joan Leslie runs desperately out of a penthouse apartment and into the Times Square crowd. She has reason...
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Barney Page
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1947
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With The Outlaw still being withheld from general release, Young Widow represented the first time that most filmgoers ever...
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Jim Cameron
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1946
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Edmond Dantes
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1946
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B-movie auteur Edgar G. Ulmer managed to direct a few A-pictures during his long career; he was personally selected by...
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Ephraim Poster
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1946
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Phillip Lombard
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1945
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This documentary offers a profile of two of the Marine Corps' bloodiest battles. Perhaps the better known of the two,...
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Director
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1943
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Orson Welles' followup to Citizen Kane (1941) was utterly different from Kane in style and texture, but just as brilliant in...
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1942
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In this taut, creepy melodrama, a housemaid works as the companion of an aging, retired British actress. One day the maid...
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Albert Feather
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1941
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Though set in 1865, The Son of Monte Cristo is a thinly disguised indictment against 20th century dictatorships. Louis...
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Count of Monte Cristo
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1941
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Jimmy Harris
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1940
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Adapted from the novel by Howard Spring, My Son My Son stars Brian Aherne as a self-made success determined to give his son...
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Oliver Essex
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1940
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Man in the Iron Mask is independent producer Edward Small's 1939 edition of the much-filmed Dumas classic. The title...
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Louis XIV,Philippe
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1939
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In this drama, a falsely convicted woman falls in love with the prison psychologist who tries to liberate her. She ended up...
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Phillip Duncan
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1938
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In this comedy, two racetrack gamblers lose all their dough by betting on a long shot. Now they must hitchhike to the next...
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Barry Gilbert
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1938
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Louis Hayward plays an arrogant Cambridge student who emigrates to America and enrolls at the West Point. Hayward's superior...
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Steven Early
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1938
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This late-30s gem is an engaging spoof that features the U.S. film debut of the French acting beauty Daniell Darrieux. She...
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Bill Duncan
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1938
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The Saint, Leslie Charteris' charming but deadly criminal-turned-sleuth, made his first film appearance in RKO Radio's...
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Simon Templar
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1938
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Director Anatole Litvak's first Hollywood film was a remake of his French success L'Equipage, itself based on a novel by...
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Lt. Jean Herbillion
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1937
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When David O. Selznick produced the film version of the 1000-plus page novel Gone with the Wind, he declared he could not...
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1936
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In this comedy, an sheltered heiress bets her father that she can make it in New York city on only $150 per week. She does...
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Anthony McClellan
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1936
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Though its title and cast suggests a lighthearted romantic comedy, Trouble for Two is actually a fairly faithful adaptation...
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Young Man with Cream Tarts
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1936
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Despite its title, things get pretty noisy in MGM's Absolute Quiet. Lionel Atwill heads the cast as reclusive financier G. A....
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1936
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Legendary stage actress Pauline Lord made but a few films, but was always worth watching whenever she took command of the...
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Richard Orland
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1935
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MGM's The Flame Within was the second entry in the "psychiatric" film-cycle inaugurated by Paramount's Private Worlds....
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Jack Kerry
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1935
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This early comedy from director Michael Powell centers around a number of corporate researchers who are trying to discover a...
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John
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1935
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The venerable Warwick Deeping story Sorrell and Son was dusted off again for this 1934 screen incarnation. Repeating his role...
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1934
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When bumbling private eye Kendall investigates a case of stolen jewels he finds that the police inspector is at the head of...
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1933
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In this mystery a village squire holds a dinner party and during the festivities ends up dead. His wife is the prime...
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1933
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1933
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In this romantic comedy, a young heiress almost loses her fortune when she disobeys the preset conditions and falls in love...
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1933
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In this melodrama, a delicately beautiful ghetto girl works her fingers to the bone in hopes of escaping the oppressive...
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1932
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