This made-for-cable documentary traces the filming of the imperishable classic Gone with the Wind, from its inception to its...
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1989
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This 1981 John Irvin picture constitutes an adaptation of Peter Straub's colossal, bestselling novel. The central plot --...
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John Jaffrey
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1981
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1981
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Sen. Joe Carmichael
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1980
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David
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1980
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Having lived his life as the gardener on a millionaire's estate, Chance (Peter Sellers) knows of the real world only what he...
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Benjamin Rand
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1979
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Alan Alda wrote and starred in this tale about a big-time politician's struggles with his own morality and the corruption he...
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Sen. Birney
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1979
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This grim made-for-TV domestic drama examines the terrible effects caused by spousal abuse. The story centers on the mental...
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1977
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This film tells the story of a young artist who desperately wants to finish a painting of his grandfather for his first...
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1977
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Soured on America by his experiences as a POW in Vietnam, General Lawrence Dell (Burt Lancaster) hopes that his government...
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Guthrie
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1977
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Director Roman Polanski casts himself in the lead of the psychological thriller The Tenant. Trelkovsky (Polanski) rents an...
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Monsieur Zy
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1976
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Made for television in 1974, a doctor (Melvyn Douglas) is accused of murdering his terminally ill wife. The defense receives...
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1974
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Filmed on location in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, The Going Up of David Lev is a dramatized salute to the 25th anniversary of the...
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1973
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Made for television, Death Squad focuses on a group of renegade police responsible for the murder of shady crooks--especially...
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1973
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A woman struggles to rebuild her life after her husband leaves her in this drama. Amy Brower (Trish VanDevere) is a...
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Joseph Provo
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1972
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1972
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This 1971 TV movie remake of the 1934 film of the same name (see the above synopsis) adds little to the original story about...
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1971
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L.G. Floran (Burt Reynolds) is released from prison after serving six years for manslaughter -- convicted of killing his own...
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1970
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Based on the play by Robert Anderson, I Never Sang for My Father is devoted to the prickly relationship between aged Tom...
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Tom Garrison
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1970
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Melvyn Douglas made his TV-movie debut in Companions in Nightmare. Douglas plays a famous psychiatrist who conducts a...
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1967
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The posh St. Gregory Hotel in New Orleans is the setting for this drama based on a popular novel by Arthur Hailey. Trent...
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Warren Trent
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1967
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Kimble (David Janssen) covers several states using several aliases in this episode, barely escaping capture at every turn....
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1966
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Adapted for television by Robert Hartung from the play by Barrie Stavus, Lamp at Midnight deals with the 16th-century...
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1966
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Raised in the country with only her world-weary, cynical father, a former judge, for company, a young woman grows up...
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Frederick Larbaud
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1965
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A renegade policeman who is committing gang-like executions is hunted down by an ex-cop who was hired by the police...
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1965
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Union Colonel Brackenby (Melvyn Douglas) and his second-in-command, Captain Heath (Glenn Ford), attempt to command a rather...
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Col. Claude Brackenby
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1964
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The lively but somehow slightly distasteful The Americanization of Emily stars James Garner as a WWII naval officer who...
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Adm. William Jessup
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1964
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Homer Bannon
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1963
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The Dansker
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1962
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While overseeing the atomic tests in the Nevada desert, Army colonel Glenn Manning (Glenn Langan) is exposed to extensive...
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1957
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On the Loose was produced by the Filmakers Organization, consisting of producer Collier Young and director Ida Lupino (Mrs....
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Frank Bradley
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1951
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This period melodrama stars Ava Gardner as Barbara Beaurevel, a woman who inherits a substantial fortune from her...
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Paul Beaurevel
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1951
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Based loosely on the Dostoyevsky novel, The Gambler stars Gregory Peck as a sensitive 19th-century Russian author. His "great...
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Armand de Glasse
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1949
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Luke Jordan
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1949
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Fed up with crowded big-city living, advertising executive Mr. Blandings (Cary Grant) decides to seek out a big, roomy house...
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Bill Cole
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1948
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After supervising several of the best "psychological" horror films ever made, producer Val Lewton shifted his base of...
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1948
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Usually associated with erudite, urbane comedies, the legendary screen team of Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy goes...
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Brice Chamberlain
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1947
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In this drama, a soldier's widow, whose husband died a hero in WW II, begins a quest to find the five men whose lives were...
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Smithfield Cobb
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1947
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Marjorie Main's first solo starring vehicle for MGM finds the formidable character actress cast as a tough-but-tender female...
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1944
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Hoping to achieve a brilliant career as a violinist, Julia Seabrook (Ann Sothern) divorces her husband Jeff (Melvyn Douglas),...
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Jeff Seabrook
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1943
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Strange but true: Norma Shearer turned down the title role in Mrs. Miniver to star instead in the insignificant trifle We...
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Nicki Prax
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1942
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Joan Crawford is the kissable bride of the title--but when the film opens, matrimony is the farthest thing from her mind....
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Michael Holmes
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1942
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Attempting to Americanize Greta Garbo to appeal to American audiences (since most of the foreign markets for Hollywood...
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Larry Blake
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1941
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Dumped by wife Ellen Drew, musician Melvyn Douglas goes into a creative slump. His gloom is lifted when he falls in love with...
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Jerry Marvin
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1941
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Ernst Lubitsch's That Uncertain Feeling was previously filmed by the director in 1925 as Kiss Me Again; both versions were...
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Larry Baker
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1941
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A remake of the Swedish film of the same name (see entry 55092), MGM's A Woman's Face was reshaped into one of Joan...
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Dr. Gustav Segert
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1941
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The W. Somerset Maugham play Home and Beauty was successful Americanized as Too Many Husbands (British title: My Two...
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Henry Lowndes
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1940
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This Thing Called Love extracts its laughs from the prehistoric concept of sexual frustration. Business partners...
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Tice Collins
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1940
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This box-office smash comedy of manners featured the popular Myrna Loy as Margot Sherwood Merrick, the stodgy editor of a...
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Jeff Thompson
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1940
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In this drama, set in Paris, a devout communist is slowly seduced into becoming a capitalist by a persuasively pretty young...
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Paul Boliet
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1940
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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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Mike Cassidy
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1939
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Spunky Joan Blondell is practically the whole show in the diverting comedy Good Girls Go to Paris. Blondell is cast as...
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Ronald Brooke
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1939
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"Garbo Laughs!" declared the ads for Ninotchka. In the face of dwindling foreign revenues, MGM decided to put Greta Garbo, a...
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Count Leon Dalga
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1939
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One review of Columbia's The Amazing Mr. Williams referred to its private-detective hero as "slap happy". As played by...
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Kenny Williams
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1939
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Henry Linden
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1938
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Fast Company was another attempt by MGM to match the success of its "Thin Man" films. Melvyn Douglas and Florence Rice star...
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Joel Sloane
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1938
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Arsene Lupin/Rene Farrand
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1938
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Capitalizing on the success of MGM's Thin Man series, virtually every major studio of the 1930s came up with its own...
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Bill Reardon
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1938
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Directed by Richard Thorpe, this costume drama stars Luise Rainer as 16-year-old southern belle Gilberta, who, upon her...
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George Sartoris
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1938
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There's That Woman Again was the second and last entry in Columbia's own spin on MGM's "Thin Man" series. Virginia Bruce and...
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Bill Reardon
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1938
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In this musical romantic comedy of 1938, Deanna Durbin plays Alice Fullerton, a young woman of a "certain age" who is prone...
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Vincent Bullitt
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1938
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A boy learns life-changing lessons about the importance of friendship and the dignity of labor in this adventure saga based...
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Mr. Cheyne
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1937
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James Guthrie
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1937
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Dick Stark
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1937
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George Potter
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1937
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Anthony Halton
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1937
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The Gorgeous Hussy purports to be based on the life of Margaret "Peggy" O'Neill, the controversial wife of early 19th-century...
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John Randolph
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1936
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After six years' worth of tragic and noble roles, Irene Dunne began a new phase in her career as a top comedienne in Theodora...
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Michael Grant
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1936
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When widower Stephen Blake (Melvyn Douglas) and divorcee Edith Farnham (Mary Astor) are the only guests at a snowed-in...
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Stephen Blake
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1936
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Michael Lanyard
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1936
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Richard Barclay
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1935
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1935
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This highly fictionalized biopic of legendary sharpshooter Annie Oakley stars Barbara Stanwyck as "Little Sure Shot" Annie....
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Jeff Hogarth
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1935
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An innocent but admittedly none-too-bright victim of circumstance, Mary Burns (played by perennial movie victim...
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Barton Powell
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1935
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Traps
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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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Charles Stanton
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1935
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This drama was adapted from a minor story by Dashiell Hammett and chronicles the attempts of an ex-con to stay on the...
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Robson
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1934
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A countess and a doctor embark on an adventure in Africa in order to find a cure for sleeping sickness, but superstitions...
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1933
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Adapted from the play by Elmer Rice, Counsellor-at-Law is the story of a successful Jewish lawyer George Simon...
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1933
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It's a wildly varied group that takes shelter from a raging English storm in the forbidding mansion of the Femm family. Among...
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Roger Penderell
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1932
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Margaret Hughes (Claudette Colbert) returns from a trip abroad to discover that her sweetheart, crusading attorney David...
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David Rolfe
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1932
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This complex '30s film is based upon a play by Pirandello which involved a hapless amnesiac. In As You Desire Me, the...
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Count Bruno Varelli
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1932
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In this western, a lovely Mexican woman falls in love with the gringo pilot whose plane crashed nearby. Unfortunately, her...
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Phil Marvin
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1932
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The tragic death from peritonitis of leading man Robert Williams marred the production of this oppressive triangle drama set...
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Lt. Andre Verlaine
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1932
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Bloodsucking winged creatures who may take human shape appear to have returned after centuries of dormancy to the...
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Karl Brettschneider
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1932
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Fletcher
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1931
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