The powerhouse combination of star James Stewart and director Anthony Mann score another cinematic bullseye in The Naked...
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Jesse Tate
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1953
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Originally intended as a 3D film, this standard-issue Bob Hope musical comedy was released "flat." The 50-year-old Hope plays...
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Albert Snodgrass
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1953
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Stanley Kramer's production unit at Columbia Pictures was known for its willingness to tackle subject matter that was not...
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James Connie
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1952
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Hollywood, 1927: the silent-film romantic team of Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) and Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen) is the toast of...
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R.F. Simpson
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1952
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Strictly Dishonorable is a musicalized version of Preston Sturges' cynical Broadway comedy of the same title, previously...
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Bill Dempsey
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1951
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Gary Cooper stars in this broad naval farce, directed by Henry Hathaway and based upon a John W. Hazard New Yorker magazine...
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Larrabee
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1951
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Johnny "High Spade" Williams
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1950
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In this classic noir-influenced Western, Gregory Peck stars as an aging gunslinger, sick of killing but haunted by punks...
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Sheriff Mark Strett
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1950
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Malloby
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1950
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Based on a true story, Mister 880 is the whimsical tale of an elderly gentleman (Edmund Gwenn) who dabbles in counterfeiting....
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Mac
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1950
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Thieves' Highway is set in San Francisco and the surrounding countryside. Richard Conte plays Nick Garcos, an American GI who...
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Ed
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1949
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Mike Craig
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1949
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How much can a man give? When the U.S. 8th Army Air Force 918th Bombardment group is ordered on their fourth harrowing...
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General Pritchard
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1949
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Col. Rufus J. Plummer
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1948
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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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Based in part on a true story, Kiss of Death is given a veneer of reality by being filmed on location in New York, per the...
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1947
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One of many films of the late 1940s examining the impact of WWII on post-war domestic life in the U.S., The Swell Guy is the...
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Steve
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1946
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This airy bit of MGM fluff stars Lana Turner as small-town soda clerk Peggy Evans. After telling off the self-important new...
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1943
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Grand Central Murder was intended as a followup to the MGM "sleeper" Kid Glove Killer, with the earlier film's star, Van...
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1942
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In this drama, an ex-vaudevillian dancer opens up a dance band agency and help street kids at the same time by hiring them...
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1942
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Lucille Ball delivers the finest dramatic performance of her career in this satisfying adaptation of Damon Runyon's The Big...
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1942
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A bit higher-budgeted than most of Universal's "pocket" musicals, Get Hep to Love runs a full 79 mintues rather than the...
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1942
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"Mr. and Mrs. North" started as a series of comic articles about a Park Avenue married couple, written by Richard and Frances...
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1941
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1938
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In this drawing room drama, an impetuous heiress goes on a cruise and ends up marrying a Latin gigolo on a whim. Her father...
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1931
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