This homage to the cinema by venerated movie-maker Agnes Varda, often dubbed the "grandmother" of the French New Wave,...
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1995
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For many years, Hollywood movie music has been looked down upon and ignored by critics as a valid and important form of...
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Featured Music
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1995
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Herbert Ross directed this adaptation of Woody Allen's hit Broadway play concerning a shy film critic who has trouble with...
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1972
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Originally trade-previewed as Those Crazy Calloways, Disney's Those Calloways is a lengthy, anecdotal film about a highly...
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1965
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A scary old haunted house provides the setting of this spooky thriller that centers on a psycho-magician who cut off his...
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1965
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Youngblood Hawke (James Franciscus) is a Kentucky truck driver who comes to New York City to make it as a writer. He meets...
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1964
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Troy Donahue stars in this drive-in quality "B"-Western from the Warner Brothers backlot, directed by veteran director...
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1964
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A full year before the debut of Warner Bros.' TV series The FBI, a pilot of sorts was filmed under the title FBI Code 98....
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1964
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For a family picture, not to mention a story that later became the old-fashioned-values-affirming series The Waltons,...
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1963
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Delmer Daves directs this cross between a travelog and a routine romantic drama set in Italy. The story begins when beautiful...
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1962
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This standard love story adapted by Leonard Spigelgass from his stage play was acclaimed when it was released for probing...
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1961
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Prolific director Joseph Pevney is better known for his next venture -- the Star Trek television series -- than this...
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1961
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A scenic, tobacco-road soap opera by director Delmar Daves, known more for his westerns, Parrish features Troy Donahue in the...
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1961
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A complicated soap opera, Susan Slade features Connie Stevens as the title character, a naïve, virginal 17-year-old, raised...
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1961
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Rachel Cade (Angie Dickinson), a dedicated American nurse working in the Belgian Congo, meets administrator Henri Derode...
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1960
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Robert Preston plays the flip side of his eternally ebullient Professor Harold Hill in Dark at the Top of the Stairs....
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1960
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Based on the Edna Ferber novel, this engrossing period piece covers the triumphs, tragedies, loves, and sorrows of a few...
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1960
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The Jorgensons are a wealthy family spending the summer on a resort island. Ken (Richard Egan), Helen (Constance Ford) and...
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1959
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In this routine business-story-cum-romantic-comedy, James Garner is Cash McCall, a wheeling and dealing tycoon, and...
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1959
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Gary Cooper plays a frontier doctor with a checkered past who works in a rowdy Montana mining camp. Cooper falls in love with...
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1959
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If Warner Bros.' pageantlike The FBI Story resembles an episode of Jack Webb's Dragnet at times, it's probably because the...
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1959
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Robert Stack stars in this sea-faring historical epic as John Paul Jones, the first great hero of the American Navy. While...
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1959
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1958
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Marjorie Morgenstern (Natalie Wood) is an 18-year-old, middle-class, Jewish girl from New York who wants nothing more than to...
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1958
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In this western, an accused killer is able to escape lynchers by trading coats with a dead man he found lying beside the...
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1958
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1957
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Filmed on location, Escapade in Japan stars child actors Jon Provost and Roger Nakagawa. Separated from their parents, Tony...
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1957
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Writer-director Samuel Fuller applies his kino-fist to this raw-boned war drama -- one of the first American films to deal...
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1957
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1956
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In this upbeat drama, a reformed father returns to the Arkansas farm of his estranged family after having spent too many...
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1956
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A contemptuous and self-serving immigrant, Clementi Sabourin (George Sanders) pulls himself up by his bootstraps by...
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1956
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If John Ford is the greatest Western director, The Searchers is arguably his greatest film, at once a grand outdoor spectacle...
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1956
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Bandido is set during the Mexican civil war of 1916. Robert Mitchum stars as a sleepy-eyed soldier of fortune who finds...
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1956
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The Kettles in the Ozarks was the eighth of Universal's "Ma and Pa Kettle" series--minus "Pa" (actor Percy Kilbride had left...
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1956
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Adapted by Leon Uris from his own novel, the film follows a group of World War II marines, from Basic Training to...
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1955
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Rossana Podesta may not quite possess the face that would launch a thousand ships, but she is otherwise convincing in the...
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1955
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Hell on Frisco Bay is a slam-bang return to the sort of gangster fare turned out by the yard at Warner Bros. in the 1930s....
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1955
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The Republic super-production The Last Command is a partial remake of the same studio's Man of Conquest (1939). But whereas...
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1955
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Once again Edward G. Robinson takes a script from the trash bin and makes it into a palatable movie. A remake of The...
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1955
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Alan Ladd plays real-life air force hero Captain Joseph McConnell Jr. in this inspirational biopic, while June Allyson does...
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1955
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Rudolphe Maté directs the western The Violent Men, based on the novel Rough Company by Donald Hamilton. Edward G. Robinson...
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1954
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1954
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Roundly panned when it was first released, this CinemaScope film version of Sir Walter Scott's The Talisman can now be...
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1954
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Robert Francis is at the center of the story as Willis Keith, a newly-minted ensign assigned to the destroyer/minesweeper...
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1954
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By the Light of the Silvery Moon was a sequel to Warner Bros' On Moonlight Bay (1951); both films were loosely based on the...
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1953
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"Winning isn't everything -- it's the only thing." These words were spoken not by Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi but...
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1953
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1953
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1953
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This 1953 tear-jerker is the third film version of the Edna Ferber novel So Big. Stepping into the role previously essayed by...
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1953
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This tuneful biography of operatic soprano Grace Moore begins as she prepares to perform on opening night. While awaiting...
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1953
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With all those flaming arrows being aimed directly at the audience, it is fairly obvious that Charge of Feather River was...
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1953
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A very tired-looking Errol Flynn heads the cast of Maru Maru. Flynn plays deep-sea diver Gregory Mason, who is hired to...
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1952
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The Lion and the Horse is one of the best efforts to come out of Bryan Foy's "B"-picture unit at Warner Bros. Steve Cochran...
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1952
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Based on the autobiography by George and Anna Rose, Room for One More is a warm-hearted vehicle for husband-and-wife actors...
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1952
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Like its spiritual predecessor Song of Bernadette, Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima is based on a true story. The year is 1917:...
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1952
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1952
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1952
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Though its title would seem to indicate a medieval swashbuckler, The Iron Mistress is actually based on the life of American...
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1952
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The real Matt Cvetic was a borderline alcoholic with a nasty disposition (he once allegedly beat his sister-in-law so badly...
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1951
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Filmed on location in Florida's Everglades, Distant Drums stars Gary Cooper as Indian fighter Quincy Wyatt. At the height of...
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1951
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1951
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1951
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In Lightning Strikes Twice, Ruth Roman stars a Shelley Carnes, a stage actress who champions the cause of Richard Trevelyan...
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1951
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Booth Tarkington's Alice Adams, coupled with his Penrod stories, were incorporated in the script of the 1951 Warner Bros....
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1951
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Set during WW II, this film casts John Wayne as Duke Gifford, two-fisted submarine commander. Patricia Neal co-stars as Mary...
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1951
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Randolph Scott stars as a former Confederate Army officer known only as "Sugarfoot." Hoping to start life anew in Arizona,...
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1951
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Burt Lancaster stars as Jim Thorpe, the Native American sports whiz whom many consider the greatest athlete of the 20th...
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1951
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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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1951
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With Dallas, Gary Cooper revived his long-dormant association with westerns. Cooper plays ex-Confederate officer Blayde...
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1950
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Caged, considered the best woman's prison film ever made, represents a union between realistic socially conscious drama and...
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1950
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1950
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1950
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Rocky Mountain was planned as a big budget western, but Warner Bros. pared down both its budget and its length to...
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1950
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Another of 20th Century-Fox's Technicolor musical biopics, Oh You Beautiful Doll is allegedly the life story of popular...
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1949
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"What a dump!" That's the classic line delivered by Bette Davis at the halfway point of Beyond the Forest, her final Warner...
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1949
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A Kiss in the Dark opens with a shot of Jane Wyman in a two-piece bathing suit. Alas, the dictates of cinematic construction...
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1949
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The hero of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead is Howard Roark (Gary Cooper), a fiercely independent architect obviously patterned...
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1949
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1949
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Though she may have won an Oscar in 1948, Jane Wyman still had a Warner Bros. contract to fulfill, even if it meant appearing...
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1949
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1949
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Though Errol Flynn was well past his prime (and obviously well lubricated in certain scenes), he rises to the occasion of The...
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1949
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Dick Powell stars as Canadian Mountie Sgt. Mike Flannagan. When Boston-bred Kathy O'Fallon (Evelyn Keyes) marries Mike, she...
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1949
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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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1949
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Produced by Milton Sperling's United States Pictures, South of St. Louis was given a widespread release by Warner Bros. The...
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1948
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1948
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Love leads a man to his most evil deeds and forces him to change his ways in this Western. After being handed a dishonorable...
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1948
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Excellent Technicolor photography, principally in the aerial scenes, is the main asset of the cliché-ridden Fighter Squadron....
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1948
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The most memorable aspect of Winter Meeting, and the one that stirred up the most publicity, was its teaming of two Davises:...
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1948
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The Woman in White attempts to translate the archaic prose of 19th century gothic-mystery writer Wilkie Collins to the medium...
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1948
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1948
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In this drama, a poor young boy must choose between his divorcing parents. With the help of a kind judge, he tries to get...
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1948
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After years of dumb-blonde and best-friend roles, Jane Wyman proved her skills as a dramatic actress -- and won an Academy...
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1948
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Adapted by Allen Boretz from Lucille S. Plumbs and Sara B. Smith's stage play Ever the Beginning, My Girl Tisa is set in New...
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1948
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Jack Carson and Robert Hutton make a curious but copacetic comedy duo in the Warner Bros. musical Love and Learn. The stars...
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1947
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A mysterious crook by the name of "The Poet" is robbing Wells Fargo stages and creating havoc in the Old West. The sheriff is...
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1947
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Chased by a posse to a remote cabin, Jeb (Robert Mitchum) is joined by his fearful wife Thorley (Teresa Wright), awaiting the...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1947
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John Van Druten's Broadway hit The Voice of the Turtle was purchased by Warner Bros. as a vehicle for...well, in all...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1947
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The longest-running non-musical play in Broadway history, Life With Father was faithfully filmed by Warner Bros. in 1947....
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1947
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Though not readily apparent at first, The Unfaithful is a remake of the 1940 Bette Davis vehicle The Letter, which in turn...
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1947
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Just as she had in High Sierra (1941), Ida Lupino enjoys a brief moment of bliss with a man on the run in this highly...
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1947
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The Warner Bros. musical My Wild Irish Rose purports to tell the life story of popular 19th century balladeer Chauncey...
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1947
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This Warner Bros. programmer stars Dane Clark as Prohibition-era columnist Don Corwin and Janis Paige as speakeasy singer...
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1946
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1946
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Elizabeth MacDonald (Claudette Colbert) is a newly married corporate librarian in 1918 Baltimore working for a chemical...
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1946
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Faced with the challenge of writing a screenplay based on the life of fabulously wealthy, fabulously successful composer Cole...
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1946
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Ida "Don't mess with me" Lupino takes a job as a singer in Robert Alda's seedy Santa Monica nitery. Lupino ignores Alda's...
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1946
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In this romantic melodrama, Bette Davis plays twin sisters for the first time (she would do so again in 1964's Dead Ringer)....
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1946
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1946
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This movie is an early horror film classic and certainly one that a well-rounded horror movie aficionado should not miss. An...
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1946
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A woman struggling to rebuild her life becomes the victim of uncharitable rumors in this sudsy drama. After the recent death...
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1946
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In this comedy, an adaptation of the play The Animal Kingdom, a liberal, social reformist photographer falls in love with a...
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1946
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There's slightly more fancy than fact in this lavish film biography of legendary American composer George Gershwin, but oh!...
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1945
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In his final epic Western, Errol Flynn plays cattleman Clay Hardin, who, on a trek south of the border, has discovered that...
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1945
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1945
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Joan Crawford won an Academy Award for her bravura portrayal of the titular heroine in Mildred Pierce. The original James M....
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1945
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This odd combination of roughneck comedy and serious domestic drama was adapted by Louise Randall Pierson from her own...
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1945
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1945
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1945
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Dismissed by critics as corny and obvious in 1944, this overlong but sincere biopic looks pretty good when seen today,...
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1944
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1944
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1944
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Humphrey Bogart plays Harry Morgan, owner-operator of charter boat in wartime Martinique. Morgan's right-hand man is Eddie...
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1944
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This Casablanca-esque spy thriller set during WWII centers on the exploits of the notorious "Flying Dutchman," a fugitive...
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1944
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Designed as a followup to the enormously successful Casablanca, Passage to Marseille utilizes the talents of many of the on-...
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1944
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The splashy, star-studded This is the Army is based on the Irving Berlin Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was...
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1943
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An expansion of, and improvement upon, Lillian Hellman's stage play of the same name, Watch on the Rhine stars Paul Lukas,...
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1943
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More so than most wartime films, Mission to Moscow must be viewed within the context of its times. Requested by President...
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1943
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In this, one of many World War II propaganda films of the early 1940s, Errol Flynn is one of five RAF pilots to survive a...
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1942
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In this grim melodrama, Barbara Stanwyck plays the eldest of three wealthy sisters who become orphans when their father dies...
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1942
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Olive Higgins Prouty's popular novel was transformed into nearly two hours of high-grade soap opera by several masters of the...
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1942
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One of the most beloved American films, this captivating wartime adventure of romance and intrigue from director...
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1942
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In This Our Life is not a "for the ages" classic of the Golden Age of Cinema, but as a highly effective and entertaining...
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1942
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James Cagney made his first Technicolor appearance in the morale-boosting aviation flick Captains of the Clouds. Cagney plays...
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Composer (Music Score)
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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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Composer (Music Score)
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1941
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Author Hartzell Spence's popular biography of his preacher father was the source for One Foot in Heaven. Fredric March stars...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1941
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Though history is distorted almost beyond recognition in Warner Bros.' They Died With Their Boots On, audiences in 1941 ate...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1941
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Neither James Cagney nor Bette Davis were particularly pleased with the outdated screwball comedy The Bride Came C.O.D., but...
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1941
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Lieutenant Commander Joe Blake (Fred MacMurray), Lt. Tim Griffin (Regis Toomey), and Lt. Swede Larson (Louis Jean Heydt) are...
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1941
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In this melodrama, a loyal research psychologist escapes from Budapest after the nature of his work is discovered. He...
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1941
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The Great Lie is Soap Opera Deluxe from Bette Davis' peak period at Warner Bros. Davis plays a socialite who is madly in love...
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1941
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Four Mothers was the last of three films inspired by Fannie Hurst's sentimental novel Sister Act. As in the earlier...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1941
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Promoted as a follow-up to the popular 1939 western Dodge City (which, indeed, was left wide open for a sequel in its closing...
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1940
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Composer (Music Score)
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1940
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Santa Fe Trail, Errol Flynn's third western, has precisely nothing to do with the titular trail. Instead, the film is a...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1940
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There are three key characters in Anatole Litvak's filmization of Aben Kandel's novel City for Conquest, as opposed to the...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1940
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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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Composer (Music Score)
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1940
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Tugboat Annie Sails Again stars Marjorie Rambeau as the rambunctious female skipper created by Norman Reilly Raine. In this...
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1940
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As part of his new contract with Warner Bros., Edward G. Robinson agreed to appear in the gangster comedy Brother Orchid on...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1940
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An incredibly long but never dull adaptation of the Rachel Field best-seller, All This and Heaven Too was based on a...
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1940
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Gone With the Wind boils down to a story about a spoiled Southern girl's hopeless love for a married man. Producer...
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1939
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Although there were Westerns before it, Stagecoach quickly became a template for all movie Westerns to come. Director...
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1939
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James Cagney stars in the humorous Western The Oklahoma Kid, set during the land rush of 1893. John Kincaid (Hugh Sothern)...
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1939
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John Garfield once more plays a social outcast who's had nothing but lousy breaks. Released from prison for a crime he didn't...
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1939
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A violin-playing British doctor's life changes forever after he takes in a distraught Austrian ballerina who tries to kill...
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1939
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When Zoë Akins' play The Old Maid (based on a novel by Edith Wharton) won the 1934-1935 Pulitzer Prize, the selection was...
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1939
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Bette Davis earned an Oscar nomination for her role in this classic four-hanky tearjerker. Judith Traherne (Bette Davis) is a...
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1939
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Otis Ferguson has said of Each Dawn I Die that "the story is of the kind you would have to see to disbelieve." And to be...
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1939
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They Made Me a Criminal opens in New York, depicting the latest victory in the ring for Johnny Bradfield (John Garfield), a...
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1939
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This family drama features the same cast and crew from the highly successful Four Daughters, but it isn't actually a sequel....
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1939
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1939
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This landmark western -- which, along with Stagecoach, has often been credited with revitalizing what had become a stagnant...
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1939
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In this drama, the sequel to Four Daughters, the daughters are now adults. Three of the sisters rally together to find a new...
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1939
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Bold for its time (just prior to World War II), Confessions of a Nazi Spy is an expose of a genuine Nazi espionage ring...
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1939
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In 1938, Jezebel was widely regarded as Warner Bros.' "compensation" to Bette Davis for her losing the opportunity to play...
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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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Edward G. Robinson shines in a fine comic role as Dr. Clitterhouse, a brilliant psychiatrist doing research into the criminal...
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1938
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1938
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1938
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This 1938 remake of Howard Hawks' 1930 film The Dawn Patrol is faithful to the original's basic plotline. The story is set...
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1938
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Michael Curtiz directs this Technicolor Western based on the familiar story by Clements Ripley about the rivalry between...
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1938
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1938
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Fannie Hurst's Sister Act was the source for this money-making Warners weeper. The four daughters of the title are played by...
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1938
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This entry in the Dead End Kids series of adventures makes critical comments about the failings of reform schools. The story...
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1938
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Fight manager Nick Donati (Edward G. Robinson) has just lost his best fighter to crooked promoter Turkey Morgan...
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1937
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When Errol Flynn insisted that Warner Bros. cook up a non-swashbuckler for his next vehicle, the result was Green Light....
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1937
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Two members of the Russian monarchy pose as French servants while hiding the Czar's fortune. This unlikely plot is at the...
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1937
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1937
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1937
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It took British author James Hilton six weeks to write his visionary novel Lost Horizon. It took director Frank Capra two...
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1937
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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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Rivalry, romance, and brotherly love in logging camps are chronicled in this drama. The trouble begins when the brother of a...
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1937
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With the considerable input of ex-Navy officer Frank Wead (who wrote the script) and technical adviser Cmdr. G. W. D....
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1937
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Based on the 1935 Broadway play by George S. Kaufman and Katharine Dayton, First Lady is not, as might be assumed, the story...
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1937
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Making his debut with Warner Brothers, Henry Fonda plays an apprentice high-voltage lineman working with the no-nonsense, but...
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1937
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1936
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David O. Selznick's first independent production upheld the producer's tradition, established at Paramount, RKO and MGM, of...
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1936
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This lesser Astaire/Rogers vehicle is one of several screen versions of the venerable Hubert Osborne stage play Shore Leave....
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1936
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1936
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Maxwell Anderson combined the Sacco-Vanzetti story with elements of the still-unsolved disappearance of Judge Crater, and the...
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1936
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Loosely based on a story by frontier writer Bret Harte, this romantic western drama tells the story of an innocent, carefree...
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1936
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1936
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In this emotional but fast-paced comedy, a husband/businessman creates an ingenious cure for his mid-life crisis. He suggest...
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1935
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If Columbia could make an acceptable movie star out of opera-diva Grace Moore, then RKO Radio could do the same with...
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1935
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Randolph Scott, whom Cooper borrowed from Paramount, plays Leo Vincey, an explorer searching for the "flame of life," a...
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1935
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1935
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The Informer, Liam O'Flaherty's novel of the the Irish "troubles" of the early 1920s, was first filmed in England in 1929,...
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1935
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Adapted from a typically tricky J. B. Priestley stage play, Dangerous Corner is a cautionary fable about the damage caused by...
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1935
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In this comedy-drama, an enterprising college football coach's desire to win overshadows his common-sense when he cuts a...
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1935
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1935
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1935
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Katharine Hepburn suffers nobly while her philandering conductor husband Charles Boyer dallies with the likes of Helene...
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1935
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1935
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1935
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An amoral capitalist is the protagonist of this drama written by one of Hollywood's famous "Ten" (the first people in the...
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1934
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In this comedy, two sisters work as assistants to a magician. The trouble begins when the day before a big show, the...
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1934
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Richard Dix plays the title-role, of a dashing highwayman and bandit in 1870's Australia, in this strangely delightful mix of...
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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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1934
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Previously filmed in 1929, Philip MacDonald's novel Patrol was lensed by director John Ford as The Lost Patrol in 1934....
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1934
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The musical picture that ended Lou Brock's career as an RKO Radio producer, Down to Their Last Yacht is almost festive in its...
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1934
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This thriller centers around a super detective's attempt to mastermind the perfect crime after he suspects his wife of...
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1934
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1934
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In the tradition of Fox Studios' Oscar-winning Cavalcade, The World Moves On covers over one hundred years in the lives of...
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1934
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In this wartime drama, set during WW I, the adoring wife of a German officer soon finds herself falling for a handsome...
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1934
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1934
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In this drama, a doctor and his wife find themselves dreaming of others and thinking about divorce. The wife decides to sow...
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1934
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Czech leading man Francis Lederer made his Hollywood film debut in the appropriately titled Man of Two Worlds. Based on the...
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1934
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In this tear-jerking adaptation of Louis Bromfield's novel A Good Woman, the title character stands tall in the face of small...
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1934
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After several years' faithful service in RKO Radio's short-subject department, director George Stevens was rewarded with his...
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1934
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Dry-goods store owner Tillie Prescott (ZaSu Pitts) has promised to marry meek barber Chris Peterson (El Brendel), but he...
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1934
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1934
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When asked in 1970 to recall his participation in RKO Radio's Spitfire, Ralph Bellamy prefaced his comments with a terse "Why...
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1934
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1934
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At his 1875 engagement party, Newland Archer (John Boles) is surprised to meet his childhood friend Ellen (Irene Dunne), now...
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1934
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1934
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1934
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1933
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Katharine Hepburn won her first Oscar for her portrayal of Eva Lovelace, a small-town community-theatre actress who comes to...
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1933
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In this sassy dramatic comedy, two reform-school girls finally graduate and as soon as they get out decide to board a New...
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1933
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This suspenseful, exciting mystery is based upon an Edgar Wallace story and centers upon the search for $1 million in buried...
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1933
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Released in Great Britain as Sealed Lips, this WWI melodrama stars Constance Bennett as Carla, aka Russian spy "K-14." Though...
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1933
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The scandalous doings behind the high-toned exterior of a private school for rich young women provides the framework for...
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1933
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1933
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Hoping to immediately cash in on its blockbuster hit King Kong (1933). RKO Radio commissioned producers Willis O'Brien and...
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1933
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1933
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1933
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This western features a case of mistaken identity after a friendly cowboy is thought to be the dreaded outlaw "Denver Ed."...
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1933
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1933
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When Merian C. Cooper was in charge of production at RKO Radio, virtually every other film produced at the studio had an...
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1933
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This 1933 movie version of Sinclair Lewis's novel Ann Vickers stars Irene Dunne in the title role. Left alone and pregnant by...
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1933
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Though the story isn't much, this actioner does offer a neat behind-the-scenes look at the travails of Hollywood stuntmen as...
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1933
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The melodrama If I Were Free was adapted from the play Behold, We Live by John Van Druten. War veteran lawyer Gordon Evers...
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1933
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Headline Shooter is a brisk comedy/melodrama about a newsreel photographer (William Gargan). He prefers to risk his neck to...
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1933
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Joan Colby (Ann Harding) is the unmarried older daughter in a once-wealthy family. She's always been the mature, level-headed...
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1933
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An old man learns the sad truth of the old saw about being careful what you wish for in this horror outing that is based on...
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1933
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In this romance, an enrollee at the US Naval Academy finds it difficulty adjusting to the unending rules and regulations....
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1933
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Set in New York's Greenwich Village (specifically, on Bleecker Street), William Seiter's Rafter Romance is a cute romantic...
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1933
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An earthy, fun-loving radio pitchwoman finds it difficult to live up to her squeaky-clean public persona as the "Purity Girl...
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1933
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Ace of Aces was based on Bird of Prey by John Monk Saunders, an acknowledged master of aviation epics. Richard Dix stars as...
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1933
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The melodramatic No Other Woman is a remake of the 1925 silent film Just a Woman which was based on the play of the same name...
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1933
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Lionel Barrymore plays one of those selfless general practitioners that seem to exist exclusively in the movies in One Man's...
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1933
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Overworked and fearing that life is passing her by, eminent plastic surgeon Margaret "Peggy" Simmons (Ann Harding) takes an...
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1933
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Our Betters is adapted from Somerset Maugham's play about the shallowness and hypocrisy of the idle rich. American heiress...
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1933
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George Cukor directed this classic adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's sentimental novel with a shimmering lavishness that is a...
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1933
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"How would you like to star opposite the tallest, darkest leading man in Hollywood?" Enticed by these words, brunette leading...
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1933
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In this drama, a young surgeon and his driver must combat the racketeers who have taken over the hospital where he works. ~...
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1933
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1933
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Sidney Howard's once-controversial play about the smothering aspects of Mother Love, The Silver Cord was filmed in 1933 with...
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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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A spoiled rich girl marries a gas station owner in this dated romance starring Joel McCrea, Ginger Rogers, and Marion Nixon....
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1933
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A boozy newspaper reporter is booted out of his job for drinking too much. A few fateful twists later, he becomes partners...
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1933
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Often referred to as an imitation of Warner's legendary prison drama I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932), RKO's stirring...
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1932
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This droll, sophisticated comedy stars Constance Bennett as Venice Muir, a shy young lady with no "past" of any kind -- and...
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1932
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Edna May Oliver portrays a society dowager called for jury duty on a murder trial wherein a pretty young woman is accused of...
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1932
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1932
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Edna May Oliver makes the first of three appearances as Hildegarde Withers, the schoolteacher/sleuth created by mystery...
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1932
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Gary Curtis, aka Farnsbarns (Richardo Cortez), is really a former hoodlum hired to retrieve some compromising letters from...
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1932
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A vengeful cowpoke rides out for revenge against the cattle rustlers who killed his pa in this western. Along the way, he...
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1932
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A pre-Hopalong Cassidy William Boyd is the robust star of this logging camp melodrama which also featured a very young Ginger...
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1932
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1932
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Richard Dix stars as a heroic riverboat captain in this lurid action-melodrama produced under the aegis of David O. Selznick....
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1932
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A Parisian flower girl is trotted out as the missing Grand Duchess Anastasia in this fast-moving thriller based on a popular...
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1932
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Despite a troubled production that witnessed the exits of both leading man (Phillips Holmes) and director (George...
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1932
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Dolores Del Rio plays Dolores in Girl of the Rio -- which, one supposes, makes perfect sense. The heroine is a cabaret dancer...
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1932
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1932
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What Price Hollywood is often referred to as the "first" version of the oft-filmed A Star is Born. While there are strong...
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1932
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1932
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The first of many official and unofficial screen versions of Richard Connell's The Most Dangerous Game was put together by...
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1932
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Men of Chance refers to those well-dressed gentlemen who stake their fortunes upon the outcome of horse races....
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1932
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1932
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The arrival of a new rider creates a furor at a rodeo in this average Tom Keene Western from RKO. Joining Fred Burns'...
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1932
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1932
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Melody Cruise, director Mark Sandrich's first feature film, is an unofficial extension of Sandrich's Oscar-winning RKO short...
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1932
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A starry-eyed girl marries an impoverished but talented young writer. Though easily frustrated and given to temperamental...
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1932
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Running just under an hour, Sport Parade stars Joel McCrea as a sportwriter who accidently becomes a champion wrestler. In...
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1932
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In this suspenseful drama, an embittered woman exacts revenge upon the 12 women who wronged her in college. The trouble...
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1932
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1932
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This Depression-era morale-booster looks at the ups and downs of a banking family from the 1870s to the 1930s (and borrows...
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1932
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Based upon the phenomenally successful Harold Gray comic strip, Little Orphan Annie covers a lot of ground in its short 60...
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1932
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Based on Veneer, a 1929 Broadway flop by Hugh Stange, this sentimental domestic drama came to the screens in early 1932,...
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1932
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In this misleadingly-titled 1932 medical (not musical) drama, the resolve of a young surgeon is severely tested. Dr. Felix...
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1932
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Katharine Hepburn made her auspicious film debut in the otherwise undistinguished A Bill of Divorcement. Based on a play by...
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1932
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1932
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In this drama, a blue collar steelworker marries a wealthy socialite. It all begins after he saves two workers during a...
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1931
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1931
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The peripatetic spouses referred to in the title are all travelling salesmen, scooting to and from their wives via train. In...
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1931
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Hoping to benefit from the popularity of the 1927 silent version of P.C. Wren's Beau Geste, RKO Radio reunited the earlier...
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1931
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1931
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Filmed in an early Technicolor process, The Runaround tells the story of Broadway dancer Mary Brian, who refuses to play the...
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1931
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1931
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In this crime drama, a crime lord adopts the little brother of a slain colleague. Later a child-care inspector intervenes,...
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1931
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John Barrymore is the "State's Attorney" in the RKO picture of the same name. A brilliant criminal lawyer, Barrymore counts...
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1931
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The inimitable Edna May Oliver makes a meal of the title role in the Technicolor backstage drama Fanny Foley Herself. The...
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1931
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The old bromide about joining the Foreign Legion to "forget," so often parodied by such comedians as Laurel and Hardy, was...
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1931
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In this drama, a bored wife amuses herself with a lover from Spain. Later she writes a letter to her spouse explaining her...
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1931
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Eternal movie juvenile Eric Linden offers perhaps the best performance of his career in RKO's Are These Our Children? In this...
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1931
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The Gay Diplomat was an attempt by RKO Radio to make a movie star out of Ivan Lebedeff, a Russian actor better suited to...
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1931
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Check and Double Check brought radio's highest-rated program to the big screen. Amos 'N' Andy were two black characters...
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1930
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1930
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1930
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Hoping to repeat the success of its 1929 musical spectacular Rio Rita, RKO Radio reteamed leading lady Bebe Daniels and the...
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1930
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Rio Rita, an expensive filmization of the legendary Florenz Ziegfeld-produced Broadway musical of 1928, was the first major...
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1929
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