Cassandra Peterson (aka cheeky television horror host Elvira) headlines this sexy drive-in comedy centering on the efforts of...
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1974
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Every so often, the prestigious 1950s CBS anthology Playhouse 90 would digress from its "live" format and offer a sumptuously...
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1958
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Gun Battle at Monterey begins where most other westerns would end: with outlaw Turner (Sterling Hayden) double-crossed and...
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Cleo
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1957
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The Bowery Boys--Slip (Leo Gorcey), Sach (Huntz Hall) et. al.--are suckered into buying a uranium mine near the western town...
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Jeanette
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1956
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A juvenile delinquent in the "holding tank" lets slip that his older brother is planning to rob a loan office. Though Friday...
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1956
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1955
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Bank teller Mike Donovan (Barry Sullivan) takes the first step on the road to Perdition when he fails to report a $49,000...
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Vera
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1954
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Highway Dragnet is best known to modern movie buffs as the first film to carry Roger Corman's name in the credits. Corman...
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Terry
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1954
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Paramount's Ray Milland and 20th Century-Fox's Gene Tierney star in Warner Bros.' Close to My Heart. The stars play,...
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Arlene
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1951
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Somewhat similar to John Ford's Wagon Master (1950), Passage West deals with a band of religious pioneers, led by a...
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1951
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The life of tragic jazz great Bix Beiderbecke is given the "a clef" treatment in Warner Bros. Young Man With a Horn. Kirk...
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1950
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Little Lippert Studios wasn't really equipped to produce large-scale musicals, but the company can't be faulted for trying....
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Alice
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1950
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When bucolic character comic Grady Sutton shows up as a pistol packin' Westerner in Grand Canyon, your suspicions are...
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Terry Lee
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1949
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Bargain-budget Screen Guild Productions was in the process of metamorphosing into Lippert Studios when Rimfire was filmed in...
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Polly
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1949
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By the none-too-exacting standards of Screen Guild Productions, Last of the Wild Horses is practically an "A" picture....
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Terry Williams
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1949
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1949
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Produced in garish Cinecolor, this aspiring "A" Western features John Payne as Clay Fletcher, an Eastern lawyer assigned to...
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1949
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Gene Autry enjoyed considerable success with his recording of Stan Jones' haunting "Riders in the Sky". He then parlayed this...
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Julie Steward
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1949
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Lippert's Square Dance Jubilee was aimed squarely at the rural movie market. Don Barry and Wally Vernon play a pair of talent...
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Barbara
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1949
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Caged Fury was the last of three Pine-Thomas productions tradeshown in Los Angeles within the same February week in 1948. The...
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Lola Tremaine
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1948
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Ham Fisher's comic-strip pugilist Joe Palooka is once more visualized on-screen in Monogram's Winner Take All. In this one,...
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1948
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The Pine-Thomas action/adventure assembly line put together another winner with Waterfront at Midnight. Hoping to put the...
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Ethel Novack
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1948
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Based on the radio show of the same title, a young woman meets a gypsy who reads her fortune and predicts a terrible fate...
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1948
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In this above-average western, a villainous land grabber attempts to force horse ranchers to sell their ranches so he can...
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Judy Marlowe
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1948
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This ambitious independent production was packaged by producer W. Lee Wilder, brother of Billy Wilder, and distributed by...
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Connie Wallace
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1945
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1945
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I Accuse My Parents was one of PRC's entries in the "wartime juvenile delinquent drama" sweepstakes, as exemplified by such...
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Kitty Reed
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1945
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The title The Lady Confesses is slightly misleading, since it's the hero of the film is accused of murder. On the eve of his...
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Vicki McGuire
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1945
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Perennial starlet Mary Beth Hughes has Men on Her Mind in this PRC quickie. Mary Beth plays a radio and nightclub singer to...
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Lily Durrell
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1944
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Timber Queen is another of Pine-Thomas' rugged low-budget adventure films of the 1940s, most of which (like this one) starred...
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Elaine
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1944
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Amidst its usual yearly quota of adventure films, Paramount's Pine-Thomas unit turned out a handful of comedies and...
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Gaye Livingstone
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1944
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Rose Mapen
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1943
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In this musical drama, a Vermont farm lad goes to the Big Apple to become a member of the National Dairy Association. He...
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Dolly O'Brien
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1943
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This 67-minute farce stars Dennis O'Keefe as a music publisher sued for plagiarism by a pair of scraggly songwriters....
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Mira Bryon
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1943
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In their last starring film, The Ritz Brothers play the Three Funny Bunnies, a trio of nightclub comedians. The plot...
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Flo
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1943
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The seemingly ageless Eddie Quillan heads the cast of the Monogram musical Melody Parade. Eddie plays Jimmy Tracy, a...
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Anne O'Rourke
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1943
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Patricia Cordry
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1942
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In his last screen appearance, bandleader Glenn Miller plays--are you sitting down?--a bandleader. The film's main plot...
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1942
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The Night Before the Divorce is when Lynn Thorndike (Lynn Bari) seeks out her ex-husband George (Joseph Allen Jr.), begging...
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Lola May
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1942
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The high batting average of 20th Century-Fox's Michael Shayne detective series remained intact with Blue, White and Perfect....
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Merle Garland
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1941
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This back-stage romantic comedy pokes fun at Hollywood cowboys as it tells the story of a champion rodeo rider who is...
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Crystal Wayne
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1941
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Charlie Chan in Rio is a remake of 1931's Black Camel, one of the few pre-1934 "Charlie Chan" entries still in existence....
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Joan Reynolds
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1941
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Adele Blair
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1941
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This second entry in 20th Century-Fox's "Michael Shayne" series was a remake of the 1932 Fox romantic drama Sleepers East. In...
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Helen Carlson
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1941
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On the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of commercial radio, 20th Century-Fox cooked up the pageantlike entertainment...
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1941
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The fourth of 20th Century-Fox's "Michael Shayne" mysteries finds private detective Shayne (Lloyd Nolan) anxiously preparing...
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Joanne La Marr
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1941
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Cesar Romero plays the Cisco Kid, who may be a bandit but is no kidnapper. This being the case, Cisco and his pal Pancho...
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Sally
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1941
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John Barrymore provides an embarrassing spectacle in the semi-autobiographical role of a ham actor. Constantly in debt and...
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Sylvia Manners Ganick
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1940
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Free, Blonde and 21 was one of a handful of films directed by former leading man Ricardo Cortez. Two of 20th Century-Fox's...
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Jerry
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1940
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This remake of John Ford's classic WW1 drama Four Sons has been updated to the Europe of the late 1930s. At the time of the...
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Anna
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1940
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Seventeen-year-old Linda Darnell received her first big break in the appropriately titled 20th Century Fox production Star...
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1940
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Despite the title, the Cisco Kid (Cesar Romero) doesn't feel too lucky at the beginning of this film. It seems that someone...
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Lola
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1940
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Lana Turner (a mere 19 years old at the time) stars in this lighthearted musical comedy as Patty Marlow, a dancer fighting...
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1939
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Harry Kurnitz' fictional book-dealer/detectives Joel and Garda Sloane appeared in three MGM "B"s of the late 1930s, each with...
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1939
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In this comedy/drama, a feisty taxi-dancer (Lana Turner in her first starring role) takes on a sorority full of snooty...
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1939
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In this entry in the comedy series the "Higgins Family," the group must cancel a cruise to South America after the check...
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1939
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Based on the Clare Booth Luce play of the same name, this MGM comedy is famous for its all-female cast and deft direction by...
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1939
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Lily Becker (Hope Hampton) is the musically talented daughter whose mother forces her into a marriage to the son of a wealthy...
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1922
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