The Johnny Mack Brown West of Wyoming concerns the efforts by cattle baron Simon (Stanley Andrews) to prevent the opening up...
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1950
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Though no longer employed by Universal in 1949, pert Peggy Ryan continued to show up in movie musicals for a variety of...
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1949
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No one is as good as Barbara Stanwyck when she's bad. Here Stanwyck plays Thelma Jordon, a woman who late one night shows up...
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1949
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1949
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Based on a novel by Charles Huckelmann, Deputy Marshal was a "special" by the standards of cost-conscious Screen Guild...
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1949
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Haunted Trails is another of the long series of Whip Wilson westerns churned out by Monogram in the late 1940s. As before,...
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1949
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The never-solved disappearance of Judge Crater in 1930 was the inspiration for RKO's The Judge Steps Out. Alexander Knox (who...
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1949
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1948
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Angels Alley was the ninth entry in Monogram's Bowery Boys series. This time around, Slip Mahoney (Leo Gorcey) welcomes his...
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1948
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Strange Mrs. Crane stars Marjorie Lord, later famous as the TV wife of Danny Thomas (and the real-life mother of actress Anne...
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1948
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There's a thrill a minute in the economical actioner Highway 13. Robert Lowery plays Hank Wilson, an honest truck driver who...
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1948
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1947
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Veterinarian Ronald Reagan contracts anthrax from treating diseased cows in this horsey melodrama from Warner Bros. In fact,...
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1947
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James Thurber wasn't too happy with the Sam Goldwyn film adaptation of his 1939 short story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,...
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1947
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Based upon the French film Le Jour Se Lève, The Long Night opens in the in the midst of a dire situation: ex-serviceman Joe...
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1947
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Not precisely the best film of 1947, the Republic comedy-mystery Exposed is nevertheless consistently enjoyable. Adele Mara...
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1947
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1946
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This second entry in the Bowery Boys series plays more like an extended 2-reeler than a feature film, perhaps because its...
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1946
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William Powell plays a cynical con man who graduates from penny-ante operations to a big-time charity racket. The scam...
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1946
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Sidney Toler seems listless and barely awake throughout the intrigues of the Monogram "Charlie Chan" opus Shadows over...
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1946
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Based on the prolific Sir Arthur Conan Doyle mysteries, Sherlock Holmes is on the job again. This time the inmate of a...
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1946
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Universal's 1946 The Dark Horse is not a remake of the 1932 Warner Bros. film of the same name, though both deal with a long...
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1946
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With the profits of the Abbott & Costello films in decline, Universal decided to experiment with the comedians' standard...
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1946
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In this musical, a struggling songwriter endeavors to make it big in Tin Pan Alley. She is befriended by the widow of a...
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1946
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1946
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With a title like Singin' in the Corn, how could the star be anyone else but rambunctious rustic comedienne Judy Canova. This...
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1946
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Marital entanglements provide the basis for this drama. The trouble begins as a woman prepares to marry her fifth husband,...
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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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1945
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Famed WW1 aviator Eddie Rickenbacker once more entered the public's consciousness during WW2 when, while serving as an Air...
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1945
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Bearing little relation to the hit Broadway play on which it was based, See My Lawyer was the last and least of Olsen and...
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1945
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1945
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Kitty is the "Pygmalion" legend, 18th century style. London aristocrat Ray Milland takes it upon himself to make a lady of a...
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1945
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This lesser "Inner Sanctum" entry stars Lon Chaney Jr. as unhappily married lawyer Wayne Fletcher. In love with his secretary...
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1945
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1945
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The East Side Kids were betwixt and between their earlier roughneck characterizations and their later Bowery Boys buffoonery...
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1944
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The East Side Kids are back in Follow the Leader, one of their most consistently funny outings. While on leave from the Army,...
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1944
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The exciting world of the cosmetic industry provides the basis of this lively low-budget musical comedy that centers on the...
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1944
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1944
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The Last Ride was also the last production to emanate from Warner Bros.' B-picture division. The plot involves the illicit...
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1944
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The West Coast's answer to Broadway's Stage Door Canteen, the Hollywood Canteen was created as a GI morale-booster by film...
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1944
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An ex-racketeer becomes an undercover for the military in this drama. He keeps his work so secret that his friends become...
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1944
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This Technicolor musical biopic stars Argentina-born Dick Haymes as Irish-American composer Ernest R. Ball. Climbing to fame...
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1944
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In this musical comedy, a vaudevillian father, wanting a better life for his son, fires the youth from their act. The deeply...
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1944
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Jim Hetherton (Franchot Tone), the scion of an aristocratic rural English family, was traumatized from boyhood by a shooting...
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1944
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Secrets of Scotland Yard is Republic's spin on a plotline first elucidated in the old E. Phillips Oppenheim novel...
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1944
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Someone in London has driven several prominent men to madness and suicide. Normally, Scotland Yard would call in Sherlock...
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1944
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The 80-star cast of Forever and a Day would certainly not have been feasible had not most of the actors and production people...
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1943
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The title of this low-budget Universal musical was lifted from the Andrew Sisters' hit song, introduced in 1941's...
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1943
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Kelly (Eddie Quillan) is a tough little wiseacre who can't keep his fists to himself. As a result, he loses one job after...
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1943
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In this taut crime thriller, a quiet bank clerk spends his little vacation in Indianapolis and then returns to his little...
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1943
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There are those who consider Sherlock Holmes Faces Death to be the best of Universal's Holmes series, though others hold out...
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1943
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One of the silliest and most unbelievable of the Universal Sherlock Holmes series, Sherlock Holmes in Washington is also...
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1943
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Moving slightly up the poverty-row ladder from PRC to Monogram, Burlesque queen Ann Corio starred in the musical comedy...
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1943
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An amoral gambler tries to beat a murder rap by adopting an orphaned newsboy in this drama. He takes in the lad to show the...
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1943
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1943
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Too expensive for a "B"-picture, yet not quite an A, Two Tickets to London is an acceptable vehicle for French leading lady...
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1943
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Quality was seldom a consideration in the low-budget films of PRC Studios; still, the company was a welcome harbor for...
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1943
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Keep 'Em Slugging was the last of Universal's "Little Tough Guys" series-which, like Monogram's "East Side Kids", was an...
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1943
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1942
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It Happened in Flatbush is a likable baseball comedy inspired by the 1941 Brooklyn Dodgers' pennant win. Lloyd Nolan portrays...
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1942
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You cannot keep a good mummy down forever and Kharis is back in this sequel to The Mummy's Hand, which itself was something...
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Jane Banning
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1942
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"It's box office poison," producer Samuel Goldwyn is said to have exclaimed when he heard the idea of filming the life story...
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1942
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RKO Radio's Powder Town has the makings of an A picture, but the budget and approach is strictly "B" grade. Adapted by...
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1942
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From the first frame of its opening credits, Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror promises (and subsequently delivers)...
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1942
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This lighthearted romantic comedy stars William Holden as working stiff Michael Stewart and Frances Dee as wealthy socialite...
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1942
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Maybe Errol Flynn was never the war hero that he often played, but he was a capable boxer, and Gentleman Jim makes full use...
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1942
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Half Way to Shanghai is Burma, according to this Universal B-grade actioner. The film takes place almost in its entirety on a...
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1942
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1942
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The innovative direction of Robert Siodmak lifts the inexpensive imitation-Hitchcock Fly By Night well above the ordinary....
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1942
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A "B" picture with "A" aspirations, Bombay Clipper mostly takes place on a flight from India to San Francisco. Someone has...
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1942
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Dr. Timothy Kane (MacDonald Carey) is a young, affable physician with a practice in New York's Times Square, whose exploits...
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1942
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In this drama, a terminally ill college professor with only three months to live asks some younger colleagues what he should...
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1941
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This quickie RKO musical is the second retread of Street Girl (1929); the 1937 musical That Girl from Paris was the first...
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1941
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This Monogram quickie stars Richard Cromwell as Dr. Tom, an idealistic young tenement-district physician. When his best pal,...
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1941
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Alan Baxter, usually seen as a neurotic villain in A pictures, gets to play the good guy in Monogram's Borrowed Hero. Baxter...
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1941
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Spanning 50 years, director John Ford's How Green Was My Valley revolves around the life of the Morgans, a Welsh mining...
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1941
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What's a modern guy to do when his wife's ideas about marriage are a bit too modern for his taste? Andre Casall...
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1941
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The Hollywood "establishment" had been waiting a long time for maverick director Gregory La Cava to fall from grace, and when...
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1941
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From first frame to last, foxy Charles Coburn thoroughly dominates the proceedings in the bubbly RKO Radio comedy Unexpected...
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1941
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A man trying to make his dying father happy makes his love life very complicated indeed in this musical comedy starring...
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1941
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There's something very odd about Romano (John Litel), a notorious gangster serving time in the federal pen. For one thing,...
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Mrs. Morton
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1941
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James Stewart once classified Pot O' Gold as his worst film, though this may have stemmed from his reported inability to get...
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Ma McCorkle
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1941
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In this action film, an officer is thrown off the force by his father the chief of police. The bitter ex-cop then joins a...
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1941
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Though the title character is loosely based on that of the notorious killer/robber Ma Barker, she has been sanitized and...
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1940
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When the Daltons Rode is the much-embellished tale of that celebrated outlaw family, the Daltons. Broderick Crawford,...
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1940
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I Take This Oath was the first official release from Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC), formerly known as Producers...
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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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1940
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A retired fireman teams up with an insurance investigator when an old buddy is killed in an arson fire in this surprisingly...
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Mrs. Hadley
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1940
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From the same folks who brought us My Son is a Criminal comes the near-lookalike property My Son is Guilty. Veteran police...
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1940
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Though Ginger Rogers' starring vehicles always turned a profit for RKO Radio, many filmgoers thought of Rogers only in terms...
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1940
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1940
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A semi-sequel to the 1933 Universal horror masterwork The Invisible Man, The Invisible Man Returns stars Vincent Price in the...
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1940
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"Over the hill" at the tender age of 12, Shirley Temple closed out her 20th Century-Fox contract with the musical seriocomedy...
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1940
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Dispensing with the melodramatic excesses of Universal's previous "Invisible Man" films, 1941's The Invisible Woman aims...
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1940
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Paramount's "B" pictures of the early 1940s were generally more interesting than their star-studded "A"s, as witness...
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1940
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Edward G. Robinson plays orchid-loving gangster Little John Sarto, who aspires to "real class." During a power struggle with...
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1940
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Fiercely independent authoress June Cameron (Loretta Young) has no time for men in her life. Chauvinistic medical college...
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1940
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Warner Bros. Tear Gas Squad manages to pack thrills, comedy, romance and songs into a neat 55-minute package. Dennis Morgan...
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1940
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No, No, Nanette was the second film version of the popular Otto Harbach-Vincent Youmans Broadway musical. Though slightly...
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1940
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Communism-the American variety-is given a hilarious going-over in 20th Century-Fox's Public Deb No. 1. Spoiled society girl...
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1940
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This slightly laundered remake of the 1932 courtroom classic The Mouthpiece stars George Brent as brilliant but unprincipled...
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1940
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Edith Fellows and Billy Lee, two of Hollywood's most talented second-echelon child stars, are teamed in the Columbia...
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1940
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Frank Capra's classic comedy-drama established James Stewart as a lead actor in one of his finest (and most archetypal)...
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1939
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This exciting adventure is set in the rugged Australian outback back when the continent was used as a giant penal colony for...
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1939
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Though it takes a few liberties with the Arthur Conan Doyle original -- not the least of which is turning Sherlock Holmes...
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1939
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Filmed on-location at the Naval Air Training Stations in San Diego, CA, and Pensacola, FL, this black-and-white Warner Bros....
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1939
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1939
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This comedy is set in New York and centers upon a singing Irish cop who causes quite a sensation among two producers when he...
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1939
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The Jones family goes to Tinseltown in this entry in the series. They go so Father can attend an American Legion meeting....
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1939
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The extramarital shenanigans of a young married couple provide the basis of this surprisingly racy (for 1939 Hollywood)...
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1939
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In keeping with its up-to-date title, the 1939 George O'Brien western Racketeers of the Range is set in "contemporary"...
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1939
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Directed by Lewis Milestone nine years after taking home the best director Academy Award for All Quiet on the Western Front,...
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1939
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A remake of sorts of the 1935 western The Arizonian, this fine George O'Brien oater features Leon Ames as Sheriff Judd...
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1939
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In the 1830s, despite the development of the steamboat at the outset of the 19th century, all trans-Atlantic travel was still...
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1939
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Pat O'Brien is his usual likably obnoxious self in the Warner Bros. newspaper yarn Off the Record. While trying to smash a...
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1939
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The exploits of female pilots are followed in this high-flying drama. These women are extremely competitive and will stop at...
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1939
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Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce make their second screen appearances as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in The Adventures of...
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1939
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According to Hollywood, the parents were generally at fault when good kids went bad. This theory is elucidated in Columbia's...
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1939
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A model of precision and economy, the MGM "B" thriller Tell No Tales represented the feature-film directorial debut of former...
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1939
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This tragedy has pathos to spare as it presents the story of a crippled orphan who finds support in a kindly storekeeper who...
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Mrs. Devlin
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1938
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Dick Powell stars as a Brooklynite who becomes a cowboy in spite of himself. Drifting into a small western town, Powell takes...
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1938
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1938
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Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure tale of a young 18th century boy betrayed by his wicked uncle didn't need a romantic...
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1938
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Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan (James Cagney) and Jerry Connelly (Pat O'Brien) grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky...
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1938
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1937
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While drunk at a party, millionaire Stephens Cormack (Neil Hamilton) playfully marries footloose Clarice Andrews...
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1937
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Fred Astaire's first RKO musical without his longtime partner Ginger Rogers is one of his best from any period -- even though...
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1937
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Allegedly based on two factual works, Bouck White's The Book of Daniel Drew and Matthew Josephson's The Robber Barons, RKO's...
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1937
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Robert Wilcox stars in Man in Blue as Frankie, a gangster's son. Frankie has been raised since childhood by Officer Martin...
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1937
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Film collectors take note: Hal Roach's Pick a Star is not a Laurel and Hardy picture, though the popular comic duo does make...
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1937
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Directed by Edwin L. Marin, Married Before Breakfast follows the hectic life of young inventor Tom Wakefield (Robert Young)....
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1937
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In this western, a cowboy rides into Mesa and finds that he bears remarkable resemblance to a dead man. Actually he is the...
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1937
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Alice Faye stars as aspiring playwright Judith Poe Wells. She falls in love with producer George Macrae (Don Ameche), which...
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1937
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Richard Thorpe's comedy Double Wedding (1937) marked the seventh screen pairing of William Powell and Myrna Loy, known for...
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1937
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Prospectors Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy head to the western town of Brushwood Gulch, two men on a top-secret mission. The...
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1937
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In this drama, Pat O'Brien plays James O'Malley, a tough, by-the-book policeman who is so unbending on any minor infraction...
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1937
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1936
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The real-life Yellowstone National Park provides a colorful backdrop to this melodramatic actioner. Henry Hunter stars as...
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1936
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1936
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Mrs. O'Keefe
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1936
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John Ford, whose fierce pride in his Irish heritage often manifested itself in his work, directed this historical drama which...
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1936
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1936
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After retiring from a boxing career, Johnny Cave (James Cagney) accepts an appointment to serve as head of the Bureau of...
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1936
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1936
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1936
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The 1932 publication of Charles Nordhoff and James Norton Hall's Mutiny on the Bounty sparked a revival of interest in the...
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1935
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This greatest of all Frankenstein movies begins during a raging thunderstorm. Warm and cozy inside their palatial villa, Lord...
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1935
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This fast-paced Warner Bros. comedy stars James Cagney and Pat O'Brien as brothers who fight over the same girl. Mrs. O'Hara...
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1935
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In her first starring role, 18-year-old Ann Rutherford plays Joan, a singer in a cheap waterfront café. Gambling-ship...
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1935
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1935
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In this romantic comedy, Marilyn David (Claudette Colbert) is a stenographer who has become good friends with Peter Dawes...
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1935
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The film that revived Edward G. Robinson's career after a string of flops, along with A Slight Case of Murder (1938), it was...
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1935
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Stanley MacLaurel (Stan Laurel), the American "black sheep" of the MacLaurel clan, stows away on a cattle boat to Scotland in...
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1935
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1934
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Based on the novel and play by James M. Barrie, The Little Minister turned out to be Katharine Hepburn's best vehicle since...
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1934
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In his first western, former football star Reb Russell plays Clint Mason, a young parolee returning to Bonanza City intent on...
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1934
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Design for Living was based on the stage comedy by Noel Coward, though little of his dialogue actually made it to the screen....
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1933
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Slow moving, overly complicated, and badly acted in key roles, this low-budget melodrama from Poverty Row company Progressive...
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1933
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Lionel Barrymore plays a Marshall Field-like Chicago businessman who emerges from the wreckage of the 1871 fire to build a...
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1933
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After suffering magnificently in picture after picture at RKO and Paramount, Helen Twelvetrees was subjected to even more...
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1933
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"I'm the finest woman who walked the streets," declares bejeweled, hip-swishing Lady Lou (Mae West) at the beginning of She...
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1933
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In this his first Western of 1932, Tim McCoy is supported by a young John Wayne. Learning that he is a dead ringer for...
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1932
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Marlene Dietrich stars as Helen Faraday, a German cabaret singer in the States whose husband, Ned, falls ill and his only...
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1932
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Running a swift 55 minutes, Trial of Vivienne Ware packs in more sheer entertainment value than its longer, more prestigious...
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1932
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1932
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In this drama, a bandleader thinks that his young friend will be corrupted by his budding relationship with a taxi dancer....
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1932
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In this melodrama with strong racist overtones, Clara Bow attempts to revive her failing career by playing a free-spirited...
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1932
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Bret Harte's story Salomy Jane's Kiss provided the basis for a play (by Paul Armstrong and a number of films, including...
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1932
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Drafted into the army during World War I, those muddled misfits Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy make a shambles of Training Camp...
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1932
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Adapted from a play by Eva Kay Flint and Martha Madison, Subway Express takes place entirely on a single subway car. When a...
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1931
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Actress Shelah Fane (Dorothy Revier) is in Honolulu to shoot a movie, but her chaotic personal life is keeping her from...
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1931
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Officially an "Our Gang" comedy, "When the Wind Blows" is really a vehicle for adult comic Edgar Kennedy, here playing his...
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1930
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Filmed in 1929 and released early in 1930, Dynamite was Cecil B. DeMille's first all-talking feature. As one observer has...
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1930
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1930
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1929
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Alexandre Brisson's weepy 1906 play had already been filmed three times when the 1929 talkie Madame X made its debut....
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1929
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Clara Bow and her sister Jean Arthur are wisecracking department store employees with ever-roaming eyes for eligible...
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1929
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A handsome French trapper must chose between an Indian girl and a pretty white orphan in this Northwoods melodrama produced...
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1928
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The "Our Gang" kids befriend elderly Chief Cummings, a former fire chief who runs a ramshackle taxi service with the help of...
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1928
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1927
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1927
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Black Paradise begins as lifelong crook Jack Callahan (Leslie Fenton) promises that he'll reform for the sake of his...
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1926
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Although this film sounds like a 1920s version of Mr. Mom, in some ways it's more enlightened than the 1983 comedy -- for one...
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1925
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This standard underworld meller was dressed up with good performances and an entertaining approach. Nancy Preston (Marguerite...
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1925
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Director Dallas M. Fitzgerald made this film independently, and he convinced star May McAvoy to invest in it. According to...
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1925
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Once again, Mae Murray plays -- what else? -- a dancer. But while the ex-Follies girl had made an enormous success in her...
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1922
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