The record-breaking 20th season of Gunsmoke also proved to be the series' last stand--not because it had lost its huge fan...
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Doc Adams
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1974
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That Gunsmoke was the longest-running dramatic series in TV history was common knowledge by the time the program entered its...
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Doc Adams
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1973
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With the cancellation of Bonanza in December of 1972, Gunsmoke remained standing as the last of the "golden age" TV westerns...
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Doc Adams
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1972
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Seventeen seasons and 540 episodes since it burst on the TV scene as the first truly "adult" western back in 1955, Gunsmoke...
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Doc Adams
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1971
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Having twice "cheated the hangman" by eluding CBS' efforts to cancel the series, the venerable western Gunsmoke was still...
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Doc Adams
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1970
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Rescued from cancellation when it was moved from Saturdays to Mondays during its thirteen season, the venerable TV western...
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Doc Adams
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1969
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Despite stiff competition from NBC's top-rated Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, the venerable CBS western Gunsmoke continued to...
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Doc Adams
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1968
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Rescued from cancellation by an eleventh-hour decision from CBS president William Paley, Gunsmoke entered its 13th season in...
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Doc Adams
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1967
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Beginning with its 12th season, Gunsmoke switched from black-and-white to color, one of the last major network series to do...
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Doc Adams
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1966
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By the time Gunsmoke entered its record-breaking eleventh season in the fall of 1965, the series had past beyond the realm of...
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Doc Adams
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1965
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The fact that Gunsmoke is able to enter its 10th season despite ever-descending ratings is a tribute not only to the series'...
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Doc Adams
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1964
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Entering its ninth season on CBS, Gunsmoke has already made history as the first TV western series to surpass 300 episodes,...
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Doc Adams
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1963
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The decision to expand Gunsmoke from 30 to 60 minutes during its seventh season may have made sense insofar as offering more...
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Doc Adams
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1962
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1961 was a year of transition for Gunsmoke. The radio version of the popular series, which had been running since 1952, was...
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Doc Adams
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1961
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Having ridden high in the saddle as America's top-rated TV series for the past three years Gunsmoke managed to retain this...
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Doc Adams
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1960
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Gunsmoke's fifth season on CBS marked the third consecutive year that the series ranked as America's top-rated television...
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Doc Adams
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1959
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Having ended its third season as America's top-rated TV series, Gunsmoke managed to retain that title throughout Season Four,...
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Doc Adams
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1958
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After a shaky start opposite NBC's George Gobel Show during its first season, TV's foremost "adult" western Gunsmoke steadily...
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Doc Adams
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1957
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Union army major Drango (Jeff Chandler) is assigned to rebuild a ruined Georgian town in the aftermath of the Civil War....
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1957
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Season Two of Gunsmoke introduces the series' now-legendary opening sequence, as Marshal Matt Dillon (James Arness) shoots it...
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Doc Adams
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1956
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The life story of West Point athletic director Marty Maher was the inspiration for John Ford's The Long Gray Line. Told in...
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1955
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A too-tough Army major gets himself sent to run an ROTC program at a Santa Barbara military school after he calls unwanted...
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1955
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The original radio version of Gunsmoke was in its third year on the air when the TV version made its CBS network bow on...
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Doc Adams
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1955
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Unusual for its time, this 1955 film is a sympathetic treatment of the U.S. Army's resettlement of Native Americans in the...
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1955
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Dana Andrews plays Cavalry deserter Brett Halliday in the compact Universal western Smoke Signal. Cavalry captain Harper...
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Sgt. Miles
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1955
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Father Slocum
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1954
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Benjy
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1954
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Even without its 3D/stereophonic sound gimmickry, Second Chance is a crackling good suspenser. Robert Mitchum plays Russ...
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1953
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Samuel Fuller scarcely used Dwight Taylor's source material, a languid courtroom romance, in crafting this pugnacious...
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1953
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The Paramount publicity department had a field day heralding the news that Charlton Heston portrays a Native American named...
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1953
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Originating during the science-fiction/Red-Scare boom of the '50s, Invaders From Mars is an entertaining little picture that...
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1953
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Adapted from a novel by W.R. Burnett (which hadn't yet been published when the film was released), Arrowhead is a tough,...
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1953
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Director John Ford, notoriously difficult to please, regarded The Sun Shines Bright as his favorite film. Laurence...
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1953
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The city of the title is Los Alamos, where nuclear physicist Gene Barry lives and works. Terrorists kidnap Barry's son and...
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1952
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Season Two of the original TV version of Dragnet begins with an episode adapted from a Dragnet radio program first heard on...
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1952
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In the most controversial Dragnet episode to date, Sgt. Friday (Jack Webb) must put off his Christmas vacation to investigate...
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1952
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The Technicolor adventure epic Flying Leathernecks offers two things that film cultists can never get enough of: star...
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1951
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An insurance investigator, a dame with a yen for the finer things in life and a mail robbery gone horribly wrong are the...
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Egan
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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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1951
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1950
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Mickey Rooney is The Fireball in this independently produced sports film. The sport in this case is roller-skating, which was...
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1950
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The third installment in low-budget producer Lindsley Parson's "Chinook" series, Snow Dog was ostensibly based on pulp writer...
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1950
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A woman is torn between a comfortable lie and the painful truth in this drama. After she is abandoned by her unfaithful...
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1950
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The terrible consequences of perverting the legal system are spelled out in The Judge. In one of his rare starring roles,...
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Martin Strang
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1949
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A mule-stubborn farmer is determined to avoid modern technology and nearly destroys what is left of his family in this...
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1949
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Film historian Leonard Maltin has labelled this final entry in Monogram's "Charlie Chan" series as "embarrassing," but it's...
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Tim Norton
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1949
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For various reasons, the 1949 western Calamity Jane and Sam Bass has a rather poor reputation amongst film buffs. Many...
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1949
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This prison drama is told via flashback and follows a group of prisoners bound for Alcatraz. En route, the group plans their...
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1948
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1947
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In this comedy, a realtor at the end of his rope is grossly misdiagnosed as having three months to live. The already...
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Harding
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1947
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Jon Hall, Universal's beefcake kid, usually comported himself in South Seas or Arabian nights outfits. In Michigan Kid (based...
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1947
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After serving with a notable lack of distinction in WW2, Corporal Slicker Smith (Bud Abbott) and Private Herbie Brown...
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1947
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1947
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This drama is set within a steamy tropical jungle and chronicles the rivalry between two doctors looking for the cure to a...
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Bert Morrow
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1946
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Gale Sondergaard more or less recreates her role as the homicidal "Spider Woman" that she first essayed in the 1943 Sherlock...
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Moore
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1946
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In this comedy, a spoiled, temperamental and filthy rich aunt is committed to an asylum by her nephew after he learns that...
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1946
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The Beautiful Cheat was one of the last B pictures produced by Universal studios before its merger with International...
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1946
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Gerald King
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1946
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Teenaged Junior (Scotty Beckett) gets into trouble when he tries to bring a gun to school. To explain why he's packing a rod,...
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1946
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In this crime drama, two ex-hoods find their attempts to straighten up and fly right are foiled by a blackmailing gangster...
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1946
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John Kimble
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1946
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1945
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Joan Davis, the daughter of a famed woman detective, has inherited none of her mother's deductive prowess. Nonetheless, Joan...
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1945
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In this action western, the notorious Dalton Boys have decided to go straight and move to Argentina. Just before they leave,...
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1945
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In this suspense story (released as part of Universal's "Inner Sanctum" series, named for the popular radio series of the...
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Stevens
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1945
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Though on its last legs, Universal's "B"-musical unit continued grinding out tune-filled quickies like Swing Out, Sister well...
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1945
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An installment from Universal's "Inner Sanctum" series (whose trademark featured an introduction narrated by a spooky...
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George Keene
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1945
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In this drama, a goodie-two-shoes singer tries to save her bankrupt family by getting a radio job. She is soon entangled in...
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Winchester
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1945
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Jack Oakie and Peggy Ryan head the cast of the Universal "B plus" musical On Stage Everybody. As indicated by the title, this...
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1945
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At least 30 percent of Universal's "vest-pocket" musicals of the 1940s included the word "Hi" in the title. Such was the case...
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1944
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Strange Confession was the fourth in Universal's "Inner Sanctum" B-picture series, all of which starred Lon Chaney Jr. Chaney...
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1944
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In this musical comedy, a vaudevillian father, wanting a better life for his son, fires the youth from their act. The deeply...
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1944
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A strong contender for the title of Universal's worst horror film of the 1940s, Jungle Woman continued the melodramatic...
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Fred Mason
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1944
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Engineer Scott Henderson (Alan Curtis) is at a seedy midtown Manhattan bar early one evening, drowning his sorrows over a...
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1944
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A machine able to extract gold from the ocean floor is desired by both Axis powers and the FBI in this 13 chapter Universal...
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1944
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1944
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In this musical romance, a young couple is still in love, but find themselves facing insurmountable turmoil in their...
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1944
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In this musical western, a cowboy band is offered the chance to appear in a Hollywood movie and begins the journey to the...
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1944
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A new invention, known as the Paratron and vitally important for America's war effort, becomes the focal point in yet another...
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1944
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Get Going is typical of the 60-minute musical comdies being churned out by Universal in the 1940s. A topical twist is added...
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1943
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1943
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One of the silliest and most unbelievable of the Universal Sherlock Holmes series, Sherlock Holmes in Washington is also...
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1943
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Keep 'Em Slugging was the last of Universal's "Little Tough Guys" series-which, like Monogram's "East Side Kids", was an...
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1943
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The Mad Ghoul may well be the definitive George Zucco horror melodrama. The star plays Dr. Alfred Morris, a distinguished...
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1943
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Accepted in 1943 as standard wartime propaganda, Gung Ho can be seen today as an outrageous exercise in raging machismo....
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1943
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There are those who consider Sherlock Holmes Faces Death to be the best of Universal's Holmes series, though others hold out...
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Capt. Vickery
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1943
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A mad scientist turns a gorilla into a beautiful young woman in this well-made Universal potboiler, the first of three films...
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Fred Mason
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1943
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1943
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Randolph Scott was the star of Corvette K-225, a tribute to the World War II corvette escorts which guided Allied convoys...
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1943
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Universal contractee Irene Hervey, generally required to stand by the sidelines while the leading men did all the acting, was...
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1942
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In this crime drama, the police endeavor to destroy the oppressive protection racket that has been plaguing their city. ~...
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1942
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Pacific Rendezvous is a B-picture remake of the 1935 MGM A-picture Rendezvous, updated to accommodate WW2. Lee Bowman plays...
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1942
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Edward Arnold made the first of his two screen appearances as Bayard Kendrick's blind detective Captain Duncan McLain in...
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1942
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The fourth production from the enterprising King Brothers, Rubber Racketeers drew its inspiration from late-breaking...
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Angel
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1942
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1942
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Universal's "Invisible Man" series does its bit for the war effort in this slyly tongue-in-cheek action melodrama. Jon Hall...
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1942
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There's a surprising lack of phyisical action in Phantom Cowboy, requiring star Don "Red" Barry to carry the picture through...
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Borden
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1941
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The Great Train Robbery is not a remake of the 1903 landmark film of the same name; if it had been, it wouldn't have run any...
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Duke Logan
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1941
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Produced and directed by George Sherman, Death Valley Outlaws starred James Cagney-lookalike Donald Barry as Johnny Edwards,...
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Jeff
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1941
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Lillian Russell is the sanitized musical biopic of the legendary (and much-married) 19th century musical comedy star....
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1940
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This "Little Tough Guys" series entry finds the kids gainfully employed building airplane engines. Hoping to get into the air...
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1940
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In this espionage adventure, a courageous millworker must prove himself innocent of treason charges after the title spies...
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1940
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An Angel from Texas was the fourth of five film versions of the venerable George S. Kaufman stage farce The Butter and Egg...
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1940
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It's ironic that leading man Jack Holt, who in real life was deathly afraid of flying, should appear in so many...
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1940
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1940
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Brothers end up on opposite sides of the law in this Western set during the Civil War. Posing as a Union officer, Don Mason,...
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Capt. Stone
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1940
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Diminutive Frankie Darro was always a lot of fun to watch when given his head in a leading role. In Monogram's Chasing...
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1940
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Reporter Albertson works to solve a murder case in order to clear his name and get a great story for his paper. ~ Rovi...
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1940
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In this campus drama, an orphan wins a cadet scholarship to the Culver military academy. He is a cocky fellow, and is very...
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1939
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Pulp-novel detective Nick Carter was created in the 1880s, but most film versions of the character have been updated to...
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1939
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1939
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Blind Alley, directed by Charles Vidor is a chilling psychological drama in the film-noir tradition reminiscent of the fine...
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1939
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Tropic Fury is one of several Universal programmers built around the box-office appeal of handsome Richard Arlen and...
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1939
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Stunt Pilot is a typically lively entry in Monogram's "Tailspin Tommy" series. Hired to work on an aviation picture, ace...
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Skeeter
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1939
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When German director Joe May was working on such silent classics as The Indian Tomb and Asphalt, he probably never imagine...
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1939
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Following up their successful film Love Affair, Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne team up again for the romantic melodrama When...
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1939
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Mystery Plane is one of the better-known entries in Monogram's "Tailspin Tommy" series, if only because of its frequent TV...
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Skeeter
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1939
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A fearless young pilot helps turn around the lives of some young punks in this exciting episode of the "Tailspin Tommy" trio...
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Skeeter
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1939
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John Ford's fine direction distinguishes this highly fictionalized account of the early life of Abraham Lincoln. The film...
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1939
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Tailspin Tommy (played by John Trent) flies again in Monogram's Sky Patrol. The plot is motivated by an airborne smuggling...
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Skeeter
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1939
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A remake of Racetrack, King of the Turf stars Adolphe Menjou as a seedy, alcoholic bookie with a long-dormant streak of...
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1939
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In this melodrama, the acting warden at a correctional facility must make a difficult choice when he comes across some...
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1939
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Fighting Mad was the second of producer Phil Krasne's "Renfrew of the Royal Mounted" films to be released by Monogram (taking...
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Cardigan
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1939
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This adventure is the last entry in the "Renfrew of the Mounties" series. This time the tuneful Mountie travels to the north...
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Herrington
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1939
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This gangster film is based upon fact as it tells the tale of a determined reporter who has decided to make sure a certain...
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1939
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1938
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Set on the eve of California's entry into the Union, this fact-based Western features Buck Jones as an undercover agent out...
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Mal Halstead
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1938
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At one time Universal's "prestige" director, James Whale had slipped off the A-list by the end of the 1930s; even so, his...
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1938
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Less lurid than its title, Port of Missing Grils was one of several directorial efforts by screenwriter/cinematographer...
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Jim
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1938
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James Whale's Wives Under Suspicion is remake of Whale's own 1933 production A Kiss Before the Mirror, with a few noticeable...
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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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District Attorney Downey
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1938
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In this comedy, a dull statistician changes his life after winning a pile of money after successfully determining the number...
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1938
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Swing It, Professor stars Pinky Tomlin, the bespectacled crooner who parlayed the song "The Object of My Affections" into a...
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Lou Morgan
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1937
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Robert Wilcox stars in Man in Blue as Frankie, a gangster's son. Frankie has been raised since childhood by Officer Martin...
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1937
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Federal Bullets is a leisurely paced Monogram crime melodrama with not a few clever plot twists. The FBI, represented by...
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Tommy
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1937
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A Doctor's Diary is told through the eyes of Dr. Dan Norris (John Trent), resident physician in a private hospital. In his...
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1937
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Hotshot attorney Jimmy Hughes (Preston S. Foster) prides himself on never backing down from a dare. Thus, when he is goaded...
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1937
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The "suspense" in the RKO Radio musical comedy Music for Madame lies in whether or not golden-voiced Operatic tenor...
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1937
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Weldon Heyburn, poverty row's answer to Clark Gable, stars in this whodunit, in which the victim, a crusading district...
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Jimmy Moran
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1937
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Atlantic Flight was designed as a vehicle for Dick Merrill, a real-life pilot then very much in the news because of his...
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1937
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This upbeat, socially-conscious drama offered viewers a look into the benefits of the Civilian Conservation Corps, a program...
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1937
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In this wartime drama, a young woman nearly comes unhinged when her husband, a Navy pilot, is transferred to Pearl Harbor on...
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1937
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Sentenced to prison for a crime they did not commit, a desperate pair of young lovers attempts to capture the culprits...
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1937
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On New Year's Eve, aspiring actress Julia Wayne (Joan Bennett) and chronic gambler Larry Stevens (Joel McCrea), both flat...
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1936
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One of the funniest, most sharply paced comedies of the 1930s, and perhaps the best of all of Harold Lloyd's talkies, The...
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1936
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The 1936 comedy-mystery The Princess Comes Across might well have been inspired by a real-life incident during the...
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1936
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This lively riverboat musical shows off the vocal and terpsichorean talents of former Ziegfeld Follies star Barbara Stanwyck...
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1936
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After a couple of false starts, William Colt MacDonald's "Three Mesquiteers" stories were converted into a western film...
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1936
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Actual footage of the 1936 Rose Bowl game is cleverly (if not seamlessly) integrated into the action of this sports-oriented...
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1936
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Based on the true story of Pan American Airlines, China Clipper was released only a year after the first transpacific flight...
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1936
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Gail Patrick plays a young woman framed for murder. Luckily the newsman on the courtroom beat is ace photographer Lew Ayres....
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1936
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This espionage thriller with romantic comedy touches was loosely based on the book American Black Chamber by the real-life...
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1935
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A serialized remake of a popular 1919 film, the 12-chapter Burn 'Em Up Barnes was simultaneously released as a 74-minute...
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1934
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