Gidget (Sally Field) lands a part-time job at a florist's shop. Her duties require her to make delveries in the florist's...
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1966
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A team of surveyors determines that the Shady Rest Hotel has been built right in the middle of the border between two...
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1965
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The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Curly Joe De Rita) leave Boston for the Wild West when they are fired from the...
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Chief Crazy Horse
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1965
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In the conclusion of a three-part story arc, movie star Dash Riprock (Larry Pennell) tries his best to follow studio orders...
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1965
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Toward the end of Jerry Lewis's Paramount studio period, Lewis slapped together this bitter comedy about Hollywood phoniness...
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1964
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The Board of Education warns that Munsters that little Eddie's grades must improve immediately or he'll be expelled. To this...
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1964
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In this comedy classic, Jerry Lewis plays Jerome Littlefield, an orderly in a mental hospital in this slapstick situation...
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1964
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This slapstick comedy is a hilarious spoof on "Around The World In 80 Days." The grandson of the celebrated Phinius Fogg...
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1963
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Professor Julius F. Kelp (Jerry Lewis) is an addle-brained, absent-minded chemistry instructor always incurring the wrath of...
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1963
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This moody and controversial drama takes place in Depression-era New Orleans. Dove (Laurence Harvey) has traveled by bus from...
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1962
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The second of Jerry Lewis' directorial endeavors, The Errand Boy, like its predecessor The Bellboy, is essentially a series...
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1961
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An uninspired horror film by Edward Dein, this ragged story begins in darkest Africa and in the even darker psyche of a...
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1960
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Arrested for embezzling 20,000 dollars, mild-mannered Milton Potter (Paul Hartman) immediately surrenders to the police,...
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1960
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During a Los Angeles Christmas, a group of 82nd Airborne vets assembles under the leadership of gamblin' man Danny Ocean...
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1960
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Bart (Jack Kelly) is framed for crimes he didn't commit by sadistic sheriff Horace Hadley (Edgar Buchanan) and his equally...
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1960
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This musical comedy takes an off-beat religious turn as it tells the tale of a show-biz priest (Bing Crosby) who runs a...
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1959
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In this entry in the long-running series, The Bowery Boys must help their leader after he becomes hypnotized by an...
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1957
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Fittingly directed by Illinois native and bad-guy filmmaker Don Siegel, this action-packed film stars Mickey Rooney as the...
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1957
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One of the more diverting byproducts of the short-lived Calypso craze was this quickie Allied Artists musical. What plot...
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1957
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A TV telethon is the "gimmick" in Allied Artists' The Big Tipoff. Richard Conte plays two-bit newspaper columnist Johnny...
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1955
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1955
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In this entry in the long-running series, the Bowery Boys must help a reporter who was beaten up during an undercover...
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1955
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With the exception of the vastly superior Caged, Columbia's Women's Prison was the quintessential "babes behind bars" drama...
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1955
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Alfred Hitchcock's second directorial effort for his popular suspense anthology is one of the series' best ever episodes....
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1955
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Highway Dragnet is best known to modern movie buffs as the first film to carry Roger Corman's name in the credits. Corman...
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1954
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In this espionage drama, an FBI agent heads to California's Big Bear resort for R&R and ends up stopping the evil communists...
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1954
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The staff of the "Daily Planet" investigates when the scavenger ship commandeered by Captain McBain (Peter Whitney) returns...
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1954
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The Bowery Boys go to Africa in this entry in the long-running series. They embark upon their adventure after they discover...
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1954
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Despite its title, Tanganyika was largely filmed in the wilds of Universal City. Set in 1900, the film stars Van Heflin as...
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1954
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RKO Radio's second 3D production, Devil's Canyon is a combination western and jail-break picture. The scene is Arizona...
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1953
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While the Three Stooges are best known for their violent brand of slapstick -- and director Jules White generally played the...
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1953
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Jalopy represents the first Bowery Boys film to be released by Allied Artists, though in essence it's still a Monogram...
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1953
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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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Craig Stevens offers a seminal version of his "Peter Gunn" TV characterization in Allied Artists' Murder Without Tears....
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1953
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Though it isn't obvious at first glance, Three Sailors and a Girl is the fourth screen version of the George S. Kaufman stage...
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1953
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1953
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1952
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1952
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This "Bowery Boys" entry is an on-target satire of TV wrestling (which, if anything, is even sillier in the 1990s than it was...
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1952
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1952
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1951
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Through an incredible series of circumstances, the Bowery Boys sign up for a hitch in the Navy. While clumsily going about...
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1951
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Tuna fisherman Joe Morelli (Tom Neal) is Navy Bound in this Monogram programmer. While on board ship, Morelli becomes the...
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Chris "Warthog" Novak
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1951
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Al Goddard, (Alan Ladd) special investigator for the U.S. post office, is assigned to collar two criminals who've murdered a...
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1951
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Warner Bros. made good use of its backlog of Harry Warren/Al Dubin tunes in its 1951 Doris Day musical Lullaby of Broadway....
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1951
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In this adventure-fantasy, an American rocket ship crashes upon a remote island in the Pacific and an Air Force pilot and a...
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1951
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Blonde Dynamite was the 17th of Monogram/Allied Artists' 48 Bowery Boys entries. This time, the boys have transformed Louie's...
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1950
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1949
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This Abbott & Costello vehicle was originally planned as a Bob Hope comedy titled Easy Does It. The Hope role is fairly...
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1949
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1949
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So baseball pictures never make money, eh? Try telling that to MGM, which raked in a box office gross of $4 million on their...
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1949
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1948
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A safecracker risks his own life to save an endangered child from an oncoming truck and finds his life changes forever in...
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1948
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John Garfield, in the best performance of his career, portrays Joe Morse, an ambitious attorney who has long since abandoned...
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1948
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1948
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In this whimsical fantasy, a young girl suddenly discovers that her horse is really a reincarnation of her beloved uncle who...
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1948
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Based upon the French film Le Jour Se Lève, The Long Night opens in the in the midst of a dire situation: ex-serviceman Joe...
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1947
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Having struck gold with the previous season's Dillinger, the King Brothers returned to Monogram as producers of The Gangster....
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1947
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In this comedy, Paul Muni plays a recently murdered gangster who finds himself roasting in Hell. Muni can't believe that he's...
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1946
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MGM's first "Maisie" entry in two years, Up Goes Maisie once more stars Ann Sothern as eternally stranded showgirl Maisie...
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1946
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According to the MGM publicity department, Gallant Bess was based on a true story, as told by Naval Reserve officer Marvin...
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Johnny
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1946
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Boston Blackie is back and in hot pursuit of a jewel thief and killer in this mystery. The reformed thief soon tracks the...
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1946
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A Guest in the House is an involving psychological melodrama, well directed and acted, concerning a young woman's obsessive...
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1945
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The third of Columbia's "Whistler" series, Power of the Whistler once more stars Richard Dix as the tortured protagonist....
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1945
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Such was the prevailing mood among filmgoers in 1943 that God Is My Co-Pilot was allowed to show a spiritual shaft of light...
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1945
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In this musical, a chorus of convicts conspires to get a paroled crooner chucked back in the clink. Songs include: "Time...
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1945
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John Brickley (Robert Montgomery) believes in PT boats, and as a lowly U.S. Navy lieutenant stationed in the Philippines,...
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1945
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Though Jack Benny made a cottage industry out of joking about the purported rottenness of his 1945 vehicle Horn Blows at...
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1945
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1944
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Freely adapted from a successful Broadway musical by Moss Hart, this story stars Ginger Rogers as Liza Elliott, the editor of...
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1944
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Melodramatic gangster action characterizes this tough and freely fictionalized biography of notorious, murderous Chicago...
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1944
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Former president Ronald Reagan may have genuinely believed that he was referring to a real-life act of selfless wartime...
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1944
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The swinging Andrews Sisters provide the musical interludes and romance in this western. They play a trio of WW II era...
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1944
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Few B-picture factories ground out topical wartime dramas with as much regularity as Monogram. In Army Wives, Elyse Knox...
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Mike
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1944
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The Cole Porter Broadway musical Something for the Boys was brought to the screen by 20th Century Fox with three new non-...
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1944
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1944
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In most of his movie vehicles, bandleader Kay Kyser played a bandleader named Kay Kyser. In Swing Fever, however, Kyser is...
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1943
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Mitchell Leisen utilizes his stylistic pizzazz to enliven this romantic comedy that proves the old adage "opposites attract"...
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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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This 67-minute farce stars Dennis O'Keefe as a music publisher sued for plagiarism by a pair of scraggly songwriters....
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1943
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Deanna Durbin is all grown up in Hers to Hold, the unofficial sequel to her "Three Smart Girls" films of the 1930s. Durbin...
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1943
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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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On December 6, 1941, a squadron of nine B-17 bombers takes off for Hickam Field, HI. The crew of the Mary Ann, including two...
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1943
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In this musical, the vocalist and her chamber music quintet lose their job when a conniving manager of a rival orchestra...
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1943
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Moving out of their standard small-town surroundings, the Our Gang kids visit the farm owned by the uncle of Gang member...
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Mickey's Father
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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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In this entry in the "Dead End Kids" series (later they would reappear as "The Bowery Boys") the lads encounter a terribly...
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1943
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In this wartime drama, a doctor discovers that one of his patients isn't as crazy as he thought, with dangerous consequences...
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1942
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In this grim melodrama, Barbara Stanwyck plays the eldest of three wealthy sisters who become orphans when their father dies...
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1942
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Aircraft plant worker Robert Cummings is accused of sabotaging his factory and causing the death of a co-worker. Actually,...
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Truck Driver
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1942
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1942
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The Lady Bodyguard of the title is pretty but somewhat physically frail A. C. Baker (Anne Shirley). An advertising...
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1942
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Produced by silent-film comedian Harold Lloyd, My Favorite Spy is a vehicle for bespectacled bandleader Kay Kyser, who...
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1942
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RKO Radio's Powder Town has the makings of an A picture, but the budget and approach is strictly "B" grade. Adapted by...
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1942
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1942
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In this dark drama an iron-willed older sister forcibly thrusts her only modestly talented younger sister into a Broadway...
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1942
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1942
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Like 1940's Melody Ranch, the 1941 Gene Autry vehicle Down Mexico Way was designed as a "special", to be promoted separately...
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1941
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The 1940 peacetime draft spawned a whole slew of military and naval comedies, the most successful of which was Abbott and...
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1941
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Affectionately Yours offers the spectacle of glamorous Merle Oberon and gorgeous Rita Hayworth jockeying for the best camera...
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1941
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Married Bachelor is a cute little MGM situation comedy, designed for the bottom half of the studio's double bills....
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1941
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My Life with Caroline is a dizzy boy-chases-girl affair with a twist: the girl being chased is the boy's own wife. Wealthy...
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1941
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Manpower was Warner Bros' latest reworking of 1932's Tiger Shark, with power-company linemen substituting for tuna fisherman....
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1941
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Bob Hope plays a famous movie star who does his best to avoid the pre-war draft, but ends up in uniform all the same. Hope...
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1941
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Out of the Fog is the film version of the Irwin Shaw play The Gentle People, refashioned to mollify the Hollywood censors by...
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1941
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The studio concocted the film as a showcase for its 9-year-old discovery Joan Carroll, here cast as precocious Bridget...
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1941
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After two previous film versions of Dashiell Hammett's detective classic The Maltese Falcon, Warner Bros. finally got it...
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1941
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When World War I hero Alvin York agreed to sell the movie rights to his life story to Warner Bros., it was on three...
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1941
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In the wake of Abbott & Costello's Buck Privates, every studio in Hollywood began cranking out service comedies. Warner...
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1941
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1941
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Lewis Milestone directs the lightweight romantic comedy Lucky Partners, based on a story by Sacha Guitry. David Grant (Ronald...
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1940
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There are three key characters in Anatole Litvak's filmization of Aben Kandel's novel City for Conquest, as opposed to the...
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1940
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Leo McCarey was supposed to both produce and direct My Favorite Wife, but an illness forced him to relinquish the director's...
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1940
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This 55-minute remake of the 75-minute Warner Bros. crime drama Special Agent retains a surprising amount of the original's...
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1940
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In this drama, set in New York City, two brothers fight it out over a girl. The boys were raised by their Italian mother....
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1940
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In this entry in the long-running series, the reformed master jewel thief rushes to help a lovely heiress whose pearl...
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1940
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Few of Columbia's "Blondie" films went as far off the beaten path as the bizarre Blondie Has Servant Trouble. Things get...
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1940
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Universal Studios had their "B" musicals down to a science in the 1940s. All that was needed was a cast of talented...
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1940
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One of several "naughty" screwball comedies based on the works of Thorne Smith (of Topper fame), Hal Roach's Turnabout stars...
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1940
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Manhattan Heartbeat is a somewhat toned-down remake of the pre-Production Code melodrama Bad Girl (1931). Newlyweds Johnny...
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1940
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The sailor in this entertaining 20th Century-Fox programmer is Danny Malone (Jon Hall), while the lady is Sally Gilroy...
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1940
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Told in flashback as Dr. Ernest Sovac (Boris Karloff) is marched into the gas chamber, Black Friday concerns kindly college...
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1940
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Based upon an idea by Broadway columnist Mark Hellinger, The Roaring Twenties opens during World War I as doughboys Eddie...
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1939
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Ginger Rogers slipped off her dancing shoes to play one of her best comic roles as Polly Parish, a salesgirl at a large...
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1939
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This barely-disguised portrait of singer Fanny Brice led to Brice's lawsuit against 20th Century Fox for defamation of...
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1939
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Another worthwhile entry from the RKO Radio B-picture division, 12 Crowded Hours stars stalwart Richard Dix as crime-busting...
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1939
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Directed by Lewis Milestone nine years after taking home the best director Academy Award for All Quiet on the Western Front,...
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1939
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A remake of Dr. Socrates (1935), this middling melodrama features Kay Francis as Carol Nelson, a medical doctor blaming...
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1939
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Three years after the second Thin Man entry, MGM brought back the property by popular demand with Another Thin Man. As ever,...
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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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Set during World War I, Submarine Patrol stars Preston S. Foster as a naval officer demoted for dereliction of duty. He is...
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1938
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Though not the first Dr. Kildare film ever made, this is the first entry in MGM's long-running series set at Blair General...
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1938
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The legendary Cocoanut Grove nightclub is the setting for this all-star Paramount musical. Fred MacMurray heads the cast as...
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1938
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The Next Time I Marry stars actress Lucille Ball as an heiress who can only receive her 20 million dollar inheritance by...
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1938
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In this exciting action film, a young Indy driver endeavors to emulate his famous father, and restore his dad's good...
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1938
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It was from this military musical that the US Marine Corps got it's signature anthem, "The Song of the Marines." The story...
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1937
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In this crime drama, a highly superstitious racehorse owner spends his time off the track helping the less fortunate in any...
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1937
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Marty
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1937
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New York-based actress Claudia Morgan, best known for her interpretation of Nora Charles in the radio-series version of...
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1937
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Douglas MacLean, who starred in the original 1919 version of this World War I comedy, produced this remake starring...
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1937
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In this pastoral drama, a ruthless gang of fugitives, hide from the law on a remote farm. There they find themselves...
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1937
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In this actioner, a tough Coast Guard officer endeavors to marry his lovely daughter to a handsome sailor. The trouble is,...
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1937
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Maxwell Anderson combined the Sacco-Vanzetti story with elements of the still-unsolved disappearance of Judge Crater, and the...
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1936
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When Edna May Oliver decided to leave RKO Radio's "Hildegarde Withers" series, the studio came up with an unorthodox...
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1936
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Blending equal amounts of comedy, romance and thrills, High Tension is a near-perfect 20th Century-Fox "B" effort....
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1936
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A horse and a dog share the same birthday in this exciting children's drama. Both are born in captivity, but end up escaping...
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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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1936
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Sometimes referred to as a "baseball picture," Columbia's Panic in the Air is only peripherally involved in the sport....
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1936
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A Kathleen Norris novel was the source for this romantic drama, which begins when widowed navy doctor Quentin Harden...
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1936
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In this lively comedy, a cocky reporter follows a gangster aboard an ocean liner. While on board, the overconfident fellow...
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1935
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After nearly a decade of nominal "leading lady" roles, Carole Lombard landed her first genuine starring vehicle with Hands...
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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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1935
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Though he'd been given top billing at other studios, Charles Ruggles attained star status at his home lot of Paramount for...
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1931
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1930
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