This satirical fantasy is based upon an Elmer Rice play from 1923. A hard-working office employee is rewarded for his years...
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1969
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1966
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This was the last film for British director Wendy Toye whose special interests were always comedies and fantasies. In this...
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1962
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The Longest Day is a mammoth, all-star re-creation of the D-Day invasion, personally orchestrated by Darryl F. Zanuck....
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1962
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Craig Rhodes (John Derek) is the partner of gold miner Frank Davidson (Al Mulock). Frank's wife Lenore (Elaine Stewart)...
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1958
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Kenneth More portrays a British gunsmith who travels to the American West. After winning a rigged poker game, More is...
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1958
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A rugged, isolated island off the coast of Nova Scotia provides the setting for this drama. Much of the island is owned by...
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1957
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It took nerve to transpose Shakespeare's Macbeth into a 1930s gangster story using "tough guy" jargon, but Joe Macbeth very...
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1955
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The Night My Number Came Up was based on an actual incident in the life of Britain's Sir Victor Goddard. Michael Redgrave...
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1955
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Like so many other films that were once considered "lewd" and "scandalous", The French Line seems as harmless as Pollyanna...
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1954
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David Niven returns to his native England to star in the frothy comedy The Love Lottery. Niven plays a Hollywood movie star...
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1954
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Based on a true story, The Divided Heart is an effective, high-gloss British soap opera. Cornell Borchers stars as Inga, a...
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1954
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In this comical sci-fi adventure, two brave heroes take on a mad scientist and his legion of wicked aliens from the planet...
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1953
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Killer Ape is one of the most violent entries in Columbia's "Jungle Jim" series. In this outing, Jim (Johnny Weissmuller)...
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1953
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1953
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The 15-episode Columbia serial Blackhawk was based on the comic book created by Reed Crandall and Charles Cuidera. The title...
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1952
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In this convoluted adventure serial, a U.S. Air force captain begins searching for some stolen microfilm that contains vital...
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1952
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The oft-used title Night Beat was applied to the 1948 British melodrama. After serving as commandoes in WW2, Felix (Maxwell...
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1948
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1947
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Filmed in 1945 and released in the US the following year, the Anglo-American Journey Together is a tribute to the Royal Air...
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1946
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Originally released in England as The Way to the Stars, Johnny in the Clouds is the story of how the Battle of Britain...
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1945
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In this sci-fi comedy, a nutty inventor and his loyal butler use his time machine to travel to Elizabethan times. ~ Sandra...
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1944
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The East Side Kids come face to face with High Society in Mr. Muggs Steps Out. Ordered by a judge to get a job, Muggs...
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1943
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Whenever one sees a title like The Gentle Sex, one braces oneself for an ironic switcharound. The supposedly gentle girls of...
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1943
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In this WW II actioner, two British Intelligence agents and a French agent follow their leader into Nazi-occupied France to...
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1942
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Muggs Maloney (Leo Gorcey) is supposed to be preparing for the Golden Gloves competition but he doesn't want to train anymore...
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1941
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Silver-haired silent film leading man Herbert Rawlinson plays Scotland Yard inspector Sir James Blake in this 15-episode...
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1937
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The Fighting Playboy is a "Northern": a western plotline set in the Canadian woods. Nick Stuart plays the ne'er-do-well son...
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Don
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1937
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1936
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In this crime drama, a G-man goes on vacation and ends up pursing a crook disguised as an honest lawyer. ~ Sandra Brennan,...
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1936
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One of the few non-western releases from Sam Katzman's Victory Productions, Put on the Spot stars Eddie Nugent as G-Man Bob...
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1936
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Devil worshipping and Chinese tongs were the selling points of this ultra low-budget thriller produced at Willow Park, B.C.,...
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1935
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In his first of thirty-two B-Westerns for producer A.W. Hackel, bantamweight Bob Steele plays Bob Worth, a cowboy seeking...
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1934
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A whole slew of former silent-film favorites shows up in Mayfair's Secret Sinners. Dilettante songwriter Jack Mulhall falls...
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1933
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Just because Police Call was cheaply made doesn't mean it isn't fun to watch. Nick Stuart stars as Danny, a champion boxer...
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1933
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In this western, a cowboy and an eastern city-slicker find they are co-inheritors of a ranch. The genteel woman loathes the...
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Bobo
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1931
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Several silent-film favorites briefly extended their film careers in the Poverty Row epic Sheer Luck. Nick Stuart plays a...
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1931
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Future gossip columnist Hedda Hopper enjoyed one of her few top-billed movie roles in the independently-produced thriller...
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1931
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Trapped could well describe how former silent-movie queen Priscilla Dean must have felt when she was cast in this poverty-row...
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1931
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Advertised as an "all star" film, Swing High is hardly that: The biggest name in the picture, both in terms of popularity and...
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1930
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Filmed in "Fox Grandeur," an early widescreen process, Happy Days was the immediate follow-up to Fox Studios'...
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1930
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In this action-romance, a fireman captures a lovely little arsonist while heading out to fight a fire. He later has a...
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Dick Turner
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1930
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In this drama, a young woman gets angry when her boyfriend's father, a motorcycle cop, stops her for speeding, refuses her...
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Buck Brown
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1929
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An heiress Lois Moran heads to the United States from her Swiss boarding school. She begins an exciting life as a flapper...
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1929
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Dixie Lee, best known to latter-day viewers as the first wife of Bing Crosby, essayed a leading role in the early Fox talkie...
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Dick
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1929
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1929
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Why Sailors Go Wrong was directed by Henry "Pathe" Lehrmann, whose comedy technique hadn't changed much since his days with...
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1928
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Even fifty years after the fact, director David Butler harbored fond memories of 1928's News Parade. Fearless cameraman...
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"Newsreel Nick" Naylor
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1928
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One of the first talkies, this film concerns a youth torn between his fatherly gangland mentor and the beautiful, virtuous...
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Sandy
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1928
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1927
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Pete Greer
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1927
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