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1984
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James Toback made his screenwriting debut with this taut drama, loosely adapted from the story by Dostoevsky. Axel Freed...
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A.R. Lowenthal
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1974
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A View from the Bridge is set in New York, but the alleged political undesirability of playwright Arthur Miller dictated that...
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1962
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This omnibus release consists of three playlets filmed and aired during television's Golden Age, and starring some of the...
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1959
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Dr. Hartley
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1951
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Recreating his stage role, Jose Ferrer stars as Edmond Rostand's Cyrano, a 17th-century French cavalier, poet and swordsman...
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Capt. Le Bret
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1950
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Despite its title, Western Pacific Agent is a contemporary crime melodrama. Kent Taylor stars as a railroad detective,...
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1950
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The definitive Joseph H. Lewis-directed melodrama, Gun Crazy is the "Bonnie and Clyde" story retooled for the disillusioned...
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Judge Willoughby
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1949
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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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1949
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Siren of Atlantis is the third movie version of Pierre Benoit's fantasy novel L'Atlantide, first film in 1921. Jean-Pierre...
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Le Mesge
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1948
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One of the great onscreen romantic pairings, Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake, ended with this romantic adventure film, their...
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Alex Maris
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1948
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East Indian actor Sabu heads the cast of the location-filmed Man-Eater of Kumaon. While the film's romantic plotline is...
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Ganga Ram
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1948
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In this drama, Madeleine Damien (Hedy Lamarr) is a successful magazine editor with a free-spirited private life, but a number...
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Dr. Caieb
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1947
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In Dead Reckoning, Rip Murdock (Humphrey Bogart) recites the film's plotline to a priest in the confessional. Murdock and...
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Martinelli
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1947
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1947
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An earnest rural melodrama set among Norwegian immigrants in Wisconsin, Our Vines Have Tender Grapes is a slightly updated...
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Bjorn Bjornson
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1945
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There's slightly more fancy than fact in this lavish film biography of legendary American composer George Gershwin, but oh!...
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1945
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Canadian WW II pilot Gerard (Dick Powell) intends to track down and kill collaborationist Marcel Jarne, the man responsible...
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Santana
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1945
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Based on the novel by Augusta Tucker, the provocatively titled Miss Susie Slagle's is actually a leisurely, sentimental story...
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1945
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The Master Race argues persuasively that, although it appeared that the Nazis would lose WW2, it was foolish to assume that...
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1944
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A plot revealed through the correspondence between German-American businessman and his Jewish partner, Lukas, the...
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1944
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The Norwegian resistance to the Nazi occupation of their country inspired several wartime films from Hollywood, including...
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1943
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The Russian Story is actually several stories-in fact; snippets from 25 different Soviet documentaries were bundled together...
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1943
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1939
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The second of Paul Muni's biographical films for Warner Bros., the Oscar-winning The Life of Emile Zola is by far the best,...
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1937
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Two members of the Russian monarchy pose as French servants while hiding the Czar's fortune. This unlikely plot is at the...
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1937
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