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1989
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In this post-modernist exercise, star/writer Steve Martin and director Carl Reiner spoof the film noir yarns of the '40s with...
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1982
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The Atomic Cafe is a sometimes hilarious, sometimes sobering collection of film clips taken from American propaganda films of...
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1982
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1981
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1979
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In 1979, Jonathan Demme was still a cutting-edge director and The Last Embrace was his first effort at a completely...
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1979
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In Fedora, Billy Wilder approaches Hollywood stardom in the same fashion as he did in Sunset Boulevard--with cynicism,...
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1978
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The first English-language film from Alain Resnais, this drama about a spiteful, alcoholic novelist contains the French...
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1977
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1977
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The second of special-effects wizard Ray Harryhausen's three Sinbad epics, this film finds the titular hero played by...
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1973
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1970
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A team of research scientists believe they have discovered a superior intelligence. Jim Tanner (George Hamilton) and his...
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1968
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The Green Berets is an exciting war film that was lambasted by critics who at the time of its release opposed the war in...
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1968
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Terrence Rattigan, the playwright who brought us the multicharactered, multistoried Separate Tables, again offers us an...
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1963
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This 153-minute Biblical epic about salt and sin is directed by Robert Aldrich and has enough dynamic interactions between...
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1962
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When French playwright Pierre Corneille wrote El Cid, a fanciful version of the life of 11th-century Spanish hero Rodrigo...
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1961
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One major film star referred to director Nicholas Ray as a "loser," because of Ray's alleged willingness to let his more...
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1961
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Pennsylvania miner Harry Belafonte emerges from a cave-in to discover the coal field, and indeed all of Pennsylvania,...
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1959
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This 1959 version of Lew Wallace's best-selling novel, which had already seen screen versions in 1907 and 1926, went on to...
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1959
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Douglas Sirk directed this doomed World War II love story, seen from the German side of the war, as filtered through a...
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1958
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Youssef Chahine directs and stars in this bittersweet, neo-realist drama about a crippled newspaper vendor who falls for a...
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1958
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The literalism of writer-director Richard Brooks serves him well in this meticulously faithful adaptation of the Robert Ruark...
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1957
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A remake of The Painted Veil (which was itself based upon a novel by W. Somerset Maugham), The Seventh Sin stars Eleanor...
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1957
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In this 1957 psychological action drama, Robert Taylor plays Lloyd Tredman, a WWII American airman plagued by guilt over the...
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1957
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Ava Gardner was never more alluring than as the half-caste heroine of Bhowani Junction. Set during India's battle for...
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1956
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This filmed biography of Vincent Van Gogh was adapted by Norman Corwin from the best-selling novel by Irving Stone, which was...
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1956
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The catch-all title Tribute to a Bad Man had been floating around MGM for years (at one point, it was the working title for...
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1956
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In the 1750s, young orphan John Mohune (Jon Whiteley) arrives at the seaside Dorset village of Moonfleet seeking Jeremy Fox...
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1955
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Lana Turner stars as Diane in this opulent costume drama. Set in 16th century France, the film finds the gorgeous Diane de...
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1955
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Director Robert Z. Leonard brought his 31-year association with MGM to a rousing close with The King's Thief. Set in England...
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1955
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Leave it to MGM to turn the Korean War into a splashy, big-budget, all-star extravaganza. Men of the Fighting Lady is set on...
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1954
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1954
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Using the dry historical tome Gods, Graves and Scholars as its source, MGM came up with the rip-roaring adventure film Valley...
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1954
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Crest of the Wave is the original British title of Seagulls over Sorrento, filmed at MGM's Elstree facilities in 1953 and...
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1954
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MGM's first CinemaScope production was the lavishly appointed Knights of the Round Table. Without overlapping into any...
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1953
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This anthology film tells three stories of love involving the passengers of an ocean liner at sea. In the first, "The Jealous...
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1953
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Previously adapted to film in 1923, Ben Ames Williams' rousing sea adventure All the Brothers Were Valiant was given the...
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1953
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This costume drama was based on the historical fiction of Margaret Irwin, which embellishes the facts of the early years of...
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1953
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1953
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Produced by MGM's British facilities, the Technicolor Ivanhoe starred Robert Taylor in the title role. Returning to England...
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1952
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Plymouth Adventure earned a footnote in film history as the last directorial effort by the prolific Clarence Brown....
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1952
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1951
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Originally advertised as "Colossal Quo Vadis," this opulent MGM production is far and away the most elaborate of the many...
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1951
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The Asphalt Jungle is a brilliantly conceived and executed anatomy of a crime -- or, as director John Huston and scripter...
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1950
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Cary Grant's utter credibility in the role of a brilliant, world-famous brain surgeon Dr. Eugene Norland Ferguson is the...
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1950
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This sequel to the 1942 Oscar-winner Mrs.Miniver can be considered ill-advised, if only because the producers could never...
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1950
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Federal agent Robert Taylor journeys to a mythical South American community, there to break up a war-surplus contraband...
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1949
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Director Mervyn Leroy lends a burnished MGM gloss to this sordid tale of infidelity among rich New York East Siders....
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1949
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MGM circumvented the censorship that would otherwise have prevented a film version of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary by...
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1949
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1949
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One of the more palatable of Hollywood's anti-communist tracts of the late 1940s-early 1950s was MGM's The Red Danube....
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1949
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Businessman Spencer Tracy is devoted beyond all reason to his son Edward. Tracy lies, cheats, steals, commits arson, and...
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1949
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1948
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Steve Thompson (Burt Lancaster) returns home after a few years of knocking around the country following his divorce from...
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1948
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Young model Jean Dexter is knocked unconscious and drowned in her own bathtub in her Manhattan apartment, and a lot of...
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1948
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Even star Joan Bennett and director Fritz Lang regarded The Secret Beyond the Door as the weakest of their collaborative...
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1948
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In this film noir drama, Bill Saunders (Burt Lancaster) is a former Prisoner of War living in England whose experiences have...
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1948
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Bearing little resemblance to reality, this musical biography of 19th century Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov takes...
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1947
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A Woman's Vengeance concerns a "likely" murderer, Henry Maurier, played by Charles Boyer. It is no secret that Maurier is...
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1947
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Barbara Stanwyck headlines this romantic tearjerker as a free-spirited concert pianist dying of tuberculosis. She checks into...
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1947
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Adapted from a novel by Rachel Field, Time Out of Mind is a slow-moving costume drama enlivened by its stars. Servant girl...
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1947
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Ronald Colman won an Academy Award for his portrayal of an off-the-beam actor in A Double Life. A beloved stage star, Anthony...
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1947
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Burt Lancaster had one of his first starring roles in this hard-hitting prison drama. Capt. Munsey (Hume Cronyn) is a cruel,...
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1947
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Desert Fury is a rarety for the 1940s, a Technicolor "film noir." Set in a Nevada gambling town, the story concerns the...
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1947
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When a man dies under suspicious circumstances, the law must decide if it was murder or an accident. Francis Macomber...
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1947
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1947
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As appealing as ever in 1946, Deanna Durbin was admittedly getting a bit long in tooth for her ingenue-like role in Because...
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1946
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In The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, relationships formed in childhood lead to murder and obsessive love. The wealthy Martha...
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1946
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1946
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One of the most successful filmed biographies of the 1940s, A Song to Remember alleges to be the true story of Polish...
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1945
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As Alfred Hitchcock's classic psychothriller opens, the staff of a posh mental asylum eagerly awaits the arrival of the new...
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1945
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In his first film in two years, James Cagney stars as Nick Condon, the American editor of a pre-WW2 Tokyo newspaper. When two...
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1945
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Billy Wilder's searing portrait of an alcoholic features an Oscar-winning performance by Ray Milland as Don Birnam, a writer...
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1945
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Deanna Durbin offered her fans a change of pace in this mystery story seasoned with elements of comedy and music. Nikki...
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1945
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Originally, producer Harry Sherman's Woman of the Town was slated for Paramount release, but that studio was overloaded with...
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1944
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Jim Hetherton (Franchot Tone), the scion of an aristocratic rural English family, was traumatized from boyhood by a shooting...
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1944
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A scientist discovers that he can live forever by receiving gland transplants every ten years. Unfortunately, the unwilling...
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1944
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An innocent man is drawn into a web of espionage when he unwittingly comes into possession of a crucial piece of microfilm in...
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1944
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1944
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1944
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Billy Wilder's Five Graves to Cairo is the third take on Lajos Biro's theatrical tale of romance and espionage, Hotel...
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1943
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1943
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1943
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Ernst Lubitsch directs the 1942 political satire classic To Be or Not to Be, which marked the final screen appearance of...
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1942
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Released in the U.S. by United Artists, the feature-length documentary Jacare was originally produced and released in Brazil....
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1942
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1942
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1941
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Adapted from a French movie entitled Un Carnet de Bal, this is a story of love unrequited. In one of her best performances,...
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1941
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1941
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Also released as The Great Awakening, New Wine purports to recreate an incident in the life of Austrian composer Franz...
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1941
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In ancient Bagdad, Abu, a good-natured young thief (Sabu), befriends the deposed king Ahmad (John Justin) as both are...
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1940
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The Spy In Black is the story of a German World War I submarine captain (Conrad Veidt) who is given a mission to discover...
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1939
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Rex Harrison plays a young Englishman who suffers periodic bouts of amnesia. When the plane he is riding in crashes, Harrison...
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1939
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This was the first sound production of A.E.W. Mason's classic adventure novel, which was brought to the screen three times in...
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1939
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In this British thriller, a barber must steal to fund his wife's addiction to spending money. She uses the cash he took to...
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1939
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Filmed in lavish Technicolor and given Tiffany production values by producer Alexander Korda, the British comedy Divorce of...
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1938
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Dave Connor (Robert Newton) is a fixer for the London mob, who goes against his boss Terrell (Charles Oliver) for a big...
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1937
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In this satire of British-American relations, Edward G. Robinson stars as Dan Armstrong, a hard-sell American saleman whose...
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1937
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Based on an Edgar Wallace novel, this is an involved story of the consequences within the underworld of a big-time diamond...
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1937
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1937
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1937
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In this drama, a power-mad attorney, the bastard son of a baronet, plots the demise of the rightful heir so he can inherit...
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1932
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