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1953
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Venerable Scandinavian leading-man Nils Asther tops the cast of That Man from Tangier. The story concerns foolhardy American...
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Mrs. Sanders
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1953
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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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1951
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In later years, James Cagney regarded White Heat with a combination of pride and regret; while satisfied with his own...
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Ma Jarrett
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1949
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1948
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Deanna Durbin stars in the musical shaggy dog story Something in the Wind. When the wealthy uncle of the Read family dies, he...
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1947
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They said it couldn't be done, but they did it: Kathleen Winsor's "notorious", bestselling bodice-ripper Forever Amber...
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1947
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Based on the novel by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling is set in post-Civil War Florida. Claude Jarman Jr. plays Jody...
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1946
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Officially based on a novel by Margaret Carpenter, Experiment Perilous would seem to be more inspired by MGM's psychological...
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1945
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1945
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Jean-Pierre Aumont (billed simply as Pierre Aumont) makes his American film debut in Assignment in Brittany. Set during WW2,...
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Mme. Corlay
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1943
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Hangmen Also Die is set in Czechoslovakia during the Nazi occupation. Czech loyalist Brian Donlevy assassinates the vicious...
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1943
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In this downbeat drama based on a novel by John Steinbeck (which was also adapted for the stage), German troops invade Norway...
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Mme. Orden
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1943
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An innocent man is put on trial, but is he really as innocent as he claims? Diplomat David Talbot (William Powell) and his...
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Mme. Pelletier
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1942
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If you're wondering what Citizen Kane might have looked like had it been produced by MGM, we submit for your approval Keeper...
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Mrs. Forrest
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1942
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At the close of World War I, shell-shocked amnesia victim Ronald Colman is sequestered in a London sanitarium; with no...
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1942
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When World War I hero Alvin York agreed to sell the movie rights to his life story to Warner Bros., it was on three...
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Mother York
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1941
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Victory was the first of Joseph Conrad's novels to be adapted to film, way back in 1919. The earliest talkie version,...
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1940
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The old "If it were your own daughter" plot device forms the basis of the independently-produced crime melodrama Midnight....
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Mrs. Weldon
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1934
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Tod Browning (Dracula, Freaks) directed this second film version of the Bayard Veiller play, which was his first...
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Mme. Rosalie La Grange
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1929
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