This penultimate film by director Michael Curtiz, perhaps best known for his 1942 Casablanca, is a verbose, routine religious...
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1961
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Michael Curtiz's The Comancheros was a deceptively complex movie -- so enjoyable, that it masked some of the best character...
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1961
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MGM's all-star 1960 filmization of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn surgically removes the sociological subtext of Mark...
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1960
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Based on the Ferenc Molnar play Olympia, A Breath of Scandal serves as an elegant vehicle for a ravishing Sophia Loren. The...
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1960
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This undistinguished murder muddle by director Michael Curtis involves an artist and his alcoholic psychologically disturbed...
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1959
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The Hangman is a stock western with a thin plot and cardboard characters, about a rigid, U.S. Marshal. Mackenzie Bovard...
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1959
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Elvis Presley delivers one of his finest early performances in King Creole. Elvis plays a teenager named Danny Fisher, who is...
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1958
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A gentler but no less resourceful Alan Ladd stars in The Proud Rebel. Ladd is cast as civil war veteran John Chandler, while...
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1958
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Ann Blyth plays famed "torch singer" Helen Morgan, from her humble beginnings as a carnival dancer to the height of her...
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1957
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The Best Things in Life are Free is the tuneful if uninspired life story of popular composers DeSylva (Gordon MacRae), Brown...
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1956
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The Rudolf Friml operetta The Vagabond King was first filmed in 1930, with Dennis King in the lead. On both sides of this...
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1956
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The Scarlet Hour was a relatively bold experiment for a mid-1950s Paramount release. The studio expended a great deal of...
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1956
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Samuel and Bella Spewack's English adaptation of French playwright Albert Husson's morbidly humorous stage piece...
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1955
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1954
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White Christmas, Paramount's belated follow-up to the 1942 hit Holiday Inn, was the studio's first VistaVision production. A...
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1954
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Based on the novel by Mika Waltari and helmed by Casablanca director Michael Curtiz, The Egyptian, a lavish period soaper,...
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1954
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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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Will Rogers Jr. stars as his own father in this slow, sentimental biopic. The film begins with Rogers' days on his father's...
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1952
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The ultra-sentimental I'll See You in My Dreams is based on the life and work of composer Gus Kahn. The story is told from...
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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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1951
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This second screen version of Ernest Hemingway's To Have and Have Not is closer in spirit to the original than the first...
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1950
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Bright Leaf, a sprawling saga of the tobacco industry in North Carolina, began as a novel by Foster Fitzsimmons, a native...
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1950
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The life of tragic jazz great Bix Beiderbecke is given the "a clef" treatment in Warner Bros. Young Man With a Horn. Kirk...
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1950
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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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1949
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1949
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1949
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This cute film is Doris Day's film debut and in it she plays Georgia Garrett, a substitute traveller on an ocean cruise. Her...
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1948
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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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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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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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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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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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Janie, adapted from the Broadway play by Josephine Bentham and Herschel Williams, was one of a 1940s cycle of stage-to-film...
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1944
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1943
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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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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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James Cagney made his first Technicolor appearance in the morale-boosting aviation flick Captains of the Clouds. Cagney plays...
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1942
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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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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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1941
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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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1940
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In the 1580s, the Sea Hawks -- the name given to the bold privateers who prowl the oceans taking ships and treasure on behalf...
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1940
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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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It is no secret that Bette Davis and Errol Flynn were at each other's throats throughout the filming of The Private Lives of...
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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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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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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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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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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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A standard-issue "screwball comedy" of the 1930s, Four's a Crowd starred a quartet of Warner Bros' biggest stars:...
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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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The "Stavisky Affair," a high-level swindling scandal which all but destroyed the French government in the early 1930s, was...
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1937
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Based on a popular novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams, this screwball comedy stars Errol Flynn in the title-role, the heir to an...
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1937
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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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In this depressing drama, even though she is an adult, the eldest daughter of a hillbilly clan headed by a brutal patriarch...
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1937
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In one of his most successful portrayals of a "living dead" man, Boris Karloff plays John Ellman, an ex-convict who is framed...
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1936
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1936
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Errol Flynn makes his Hollywood screen debut as a corpse in this funny, fast-paced whodunit, the third of six Perry Mason...
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1935
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Ellen Garfield (Bette Davis) is a neophyte reporter with ambitions big enough to take on assignments usually reserved for...
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1935
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In the wake of Shirley Temple, every Hollywood studio scrambled to find a child star who might possibility match Temple's...
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1935
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Like many 1930s Warner Bros. films, Black Fury drew its inspiration from the headlines. The story is adapted from a true-life...
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1935
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When British actor Robert Donat dropped out of Warner Bros. Captain Blood, the studio took a chance on its new contractee,...
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1935
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British Agent starred the Hungarian/British actor Leslie Howard in the title role, was directed by full-fledged Hungarian...
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1934
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James Cagney runs a shady missing-heir tracing service, occasionally providing phony heirs in order to collect his fee. He...
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1934
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The Key is a story of the Irish "troubles" which avoids taking sides, but spends most of its screen time with the British...
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1934
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The official cast list of Warner Bros. Mandalay states that Kay Francis plays a character named Tanya. For most of the film,...
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1934
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Ruth Chatterton tears up the screen in this fast-paced, lusty comedy. Alison Drake is an automobile magnate, a hard-nosed,...
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1933
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The Mystery of the Wax Museum begins in London in the 1920s. Lionel Atwill plays Ivan Igor, a brilliant sculptor who manages...
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1933
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1933
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In this melodrama, the wife of a wealthy man abruptly leaves him and sets sail for Cuba leaving him to hire a gumshoe to find...
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1933
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Often (and accurately) described as a model of the whodunit genre, The Kennel Murder Case stars William Powell, making his...
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1933
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Romance throws a spanner into the works of a con game in this light drama. Donald Free (William Powell) is a private...
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1933
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Sent to Sing Sing prison, influential crook Spencer Tracy is unregenerate and refuses to adhere to the rules. While in...
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1933
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In this WW II drama, the commander of the French cruiser Lafayette is sunk by a German U-boat. Following the rescue of the...
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1932
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Molly Louvain (Ann Dvorak) is a young woman working as a clerk at a hotel. The product of a broken home, abandoned by her...
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1932
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Fay Wray screams when she first lays eyes on Lionel Atwill in Doctor X, but don't let that fool you. Atwill plays Fay's...
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1932
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Henry Harrison Kroll's novel Cabin in the Cotton was an attack on wealthy southern landowners who exploited their...
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1932
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A Bavarian orphan, raised by a wealthy family, grows up to become a promising physician (Richard Barthelmess). Meanwhile, the...
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1932
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In this light-hearted musical, an early color film, a successful actress tires of the bustle and hustle of her tawdry life...
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1931
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More of a follow-up than a sequel to 1931's popular Svengali, this drama centers on the attempts of a club-footed and...
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1931
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God's Gift to Women demonstrated conclusively that Warner Bros. would never make a movie star out of Broadway comedian...
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1931
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In this WW I comedy, several young men decide to join the army. Each one has his own reason for joining up. Songs include:...
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1931
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The second of three versions of James Oliver Curwood's pulp fiction drama of a mountie and his separated-at-birth prey stars...
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1931
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Whatever rapport comedian Frank Fay enjoyed with Broadway audiences invariably evaporated when he appeared on film. In The...
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1930
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Mammy features Al Jolson as the star of a travelling minstrel show, appearing in a small Southern town. Jolson falls in love...
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1930
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Comedian Frank Fay and director Michael Curtiz reportedly despised one another at sight, and their mutual animosity tends to...
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1930
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The 1929 Wall Street crash was still two months in the future when Warner Bros.' Gamblers was released in the late summer of...
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1929
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This drama opens with a most disturbing scene as a jilted lover places a gun to his head and pulls the trigger. Fortunately,...
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1929
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In this romance set in Russia, a fisherman's daughter is jilted by her true love and instead marries a baron. Time passes...
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1929
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1929
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1928
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Directed by a young Michael Curtiz, this Warner Bros. epic had aspirations of becoming another Intolerance (1916). In the...
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1928
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A Million Bid came about because Warner Bros. promised a film of that title to exhibitors in early 1927. Unable to deliver at...
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1927
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Even in the early stages of his Warner Bros. career, director Michael Curtiz was eager and willing to tackle any sort of...
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1927
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Warner Oland took time out from his customary screen villainy to play the title character in the sentimental backstage drama...
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1927
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1926
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Hungarian director Michael Curtiz made his American film bow with the highly stylized crime melodrama The Third Degree. Set...
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1926
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1926
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1925
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1924
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1922
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This epic Austrian production was credited to Michael Kertesz, who became better known as Michael Curtiz. It was also the...
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1922
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1917
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