A serial killer (Grant Williams) and his therapy sessions with a psychologist are juxtaposed with his gruesome, successive...
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Dr. Janz
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1962
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1961
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Robert Wagner plays Chad Bixby, a role reportedly inspired by the life of jazz trumpeter Chet Baker in this romantic drama...
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1960
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Determined to track down the man who murdered his wife, Flint Johnson (Onslow Stevens) forms a posse. Adam and Little Joe...
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Flint Johnson
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1959
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A soldier is expected to never question the actions of his commanding officer, but when a Marine sees his CO breaking the...
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Gen. Nathan Keller
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1958
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Cocky Twig Webster (Mark Damon) is the leader of a gang of wealthy teenagers who go around crashing - and trashing - parties,...
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1958
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For his film directorial debut, producer Dore Schary selected a longtime pet property: Miss Lonelyhearts, Nathaniel West's...
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1958
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When Cecil B. DeMille was set to direct a re-make of his 1938 swashbuckler The Buccaneer and suddenly became ill, his...
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1958
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In a customary act of gallantry, Paladin (Richard Boone) acquires opera tickets for Mexican noblewoman Maria Rojas (June...
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1957
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Kelly is a big, lovable, immensely talented German Shepherd. "Me" is Len Carmody (Van Johnson), a third-rate vaudevillian....
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Walter Van Runkel
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1957
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The seventh live presentation of the CBS drama anthology Playhouse 90 was "Heritage of Anger", written especially for...
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1956
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In this adventure, a man a man is paroled from prison and made to join the army so he can break up an international...
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Alec Conrad
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1956
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The catch-all title Tribute to a Bad Man had been floating around MGM for years (at one point, it was the working title for...
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1956
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Based on the Holy Scriptures, with additional dialogue by several other hands, The Ten Commandments was the last film...
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1956
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New York Confidential is based on the Jack Lait-Lee Mortimer bestseller of the same name. Richard Conte plays Nick Magellan,...
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1955
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A little girl is found wandering in the desert, in a state of complete shock. When she finally revives, she can scream out...
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Brig. Gen. O'Brien
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1954
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Charles Chaplin Jr. makes his film starring debut in the location-filmed meller Fangs of the Wild. It's the old "boy cries...
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Jim Summers
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1954
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Col. Ethan Waters
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1954
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In 1945, James Cagney, through his independent production company, bought the rights to a lurid novel by Adria Locke Langley,...
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1953
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With all those flaming arrows being aimed directly at the audience, it is fairly obvious that Charge of Feather River was...
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1953
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1952
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Joel McCrea plays 19th-century miner Rick Nelson in The San Francisco Story. The year is 1856, and Frisco is a wide-open...
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1952
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In Sirocco Humphrey Bogart is cast as Harry Smith, a casino operator in 1925 Damascus. For a tidy profit, Smith runs guns to...
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1951
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1951
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Hills of Utah casts Gene Autry as a frontier doctor with a predilection for singing. A recent med-school graduate, Autry sets...
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Jayde McQueen
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1951
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McLean
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1951
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A lawyer must make the most difficult decision of his life in this crime drama that begins when the attorney's son...
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1951
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Lorna Doone is based on the oft-filmed novel by Richard D. Blackmore. Set in 17th century Scotland during the reign of...
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1951
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Produced and distributed by legendary road-show entrepreneur Kroger Babb, One Too Many details the tragedy of alcoholism....
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1950
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Mark of the Gorilla was Number Four in Columbia's "Jungle Jim" series. Johnny Weissmuller stars as Jim, who this time around...
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Brandt
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1950
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Warner Baxter made his final screen appearance in Columbia's State Penitentiary. Baxter plays airplane engineer Roger...
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Jim Evans
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1950
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Can there actually have once been a film in which an IRS agent is the hero? Yes, and it was titled Revenue Agent....
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Sam Bellows
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1950
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Filmed under the title Highway Patrol, Lippert's Motor Patrol stars Don Castle as Ken, a rookie policeman. When his fiancee's...
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1950
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Inspired by the adventure-book series by Roy Rockwood, Monogram's Bomba the Jungle Boy was the first of a series of twelve...
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George Harland
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1949
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Taken (as far as possible) from the Cole Porter musical comedy of the same name, Red, Hot and Blue stars Betty Hutton as an...
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1949
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When Universal went briefly out of the "B" horror film business in 1946, the studio sold two of its productions to other...
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Dr. Bordon
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1948
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A man who dreams of seeing the future discovers the horrible burden that it can carry in this film noir suspense story....
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1948
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Columbia kept insisting upon placing its hottest new star Larry Parks in swashbucklers, and though Parks wasn't really suited...
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1948
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Filmed almost entirely on location, Walk a Crooked Mile was Columbia Pictures' "answer" to 20th Century-Fox's late-1940s...
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1948
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Dana Andrews -- in one of the best performances of his career -- plays Logan Stuart, a bold, ambitious general store and...
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1946
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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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Dr. Matt Higgins
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1946
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Set during WWII, this taut and suspenseful espionage outing chronicles the courage of a brand-new cadre of specially trained...
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1946
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This Universal "monster rally", an immediate sequel to House of Frankenstein, would seem to have been deliberately designed...
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1945
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There's practically no western action in Hands Across the Border, but there's music aplenty. Roy Rogers stars as a wandering...
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1943
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For his first directorial assignment at RKO Radio, Edward Dmytryk was handed the mile-a-minute topical meller Seven Miles...
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1943
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At 70 minutes, the Roy Rogers musical western Idaho was packaged and promoted as a "special", rather than just another...
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1943
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This wartime melodrama stars George Sanders as Keith Wilson, a disillusioned Britisher who becomes a "Lord Haw Haw"type at a...
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Rudolph Preissing
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1943
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Roy Rogers champions the cause of Easterner Sylvia Clark (Helen Parrish), who is in danger of losing her father's ranch to...
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Gregg Jackson
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1942
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Taking a vacation from her "Blondie" movies, Penny Singleton plays an Eastern girl who follows Horace Greeley's advice and...
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1941
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One of the most schizophrenic films ever to come out of the Paramount "B" mill, The Monster and the Girl starts out as a...
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McMasters
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1941
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Frederick Keller
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1940
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This crime drama tells the tale of a man who declines to defend himself against murder charges. ~ Rovi...
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1940
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Based on a novel by Medora Field, Who Killed Aunt Maggie? would appear to be an attempt by Republic Pictures to launch a new...
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Bob Dunbar
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1940
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Evidently Paramount had a great deal of faith in Mystery Sea Raider, else why would a mere B picture be permitted to run...
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Carl Cutler
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1940
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A genuine oddity, Life Returns was originally filmed by Universal Pictures in 1935. The story, concerning the efforts by...
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Dr. John Kendrick
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1939
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In this prison drama, a physician ends up incarcerated after he treats a long-time patient who was a fugitive convict. As...
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Dr. Norton
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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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Holden, Labor Organizer
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1939
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In this screwball comedy, a fresh-out-of-college fellow heads for the gold fields of Alaska to find his fortune. He is gone...
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Dr. Becker
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1937
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This laudable RKO programmer casts Chester Morris as a fearless pilot whose misdeeds have exiled him to a remote flying field...
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Ellis
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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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Joe Baldwin
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1937
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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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Nate Girard
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1936
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In this comedy a persistent, pesky fountaineer takes to following two government agents in hopes of becoming one of them....
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Mr. Shaw
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1936
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College mineralologist Bob (Richard Dix) decides to put his education to good use by prospecting for gold out West. Teaming...
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1936
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Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) rescues a stranded schoolmarm (Muriel Evans) from a lecherous saloon owner (Onslow Stevens)...
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Pecos Kane
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1936
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Curt Hayden (Ralph Bellamy), a witness from the mob, is hidden away in a remote mountain cabin for his own safety....
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1936
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Two silent film versions preceded this 1936 Hollywood adaptation of the 19th century novel by the writer Ouida Bergere. It is...
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1936
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Dan Adams
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1936
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The title may be Bridge of Sighs, but don't expect any location shots of Venice in this Invincible Studios cheapie. Heroine...
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Jeffery Powell
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1936
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Born to Gamble was one of the more palatable efforts of M.H. Hoffman's poverty-row Liberty Films. The four protagonists are...
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Ace Cartwright
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1935
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Commenting upon the many relatives on the payroll of Carl Laemmle's Universal Pictures, poet Ogden Nash once wrote "Uncle...
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John Barrett
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1935
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A scientist working on bringing asphyxiation victims back to life is stopped by gangsters. ~ Rovi...
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1935
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In this high-flying mystery set aboard a cross-country flight to New York, some of the passengers are kidnappers who are...
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Farraday
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1935
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Insurance investigator Tom Fletcher (Edmund Lowe) is hot on the trail of an arsonist (please excuse the pun). He is helped...
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John Grayson
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1935
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1935
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The mysterious death of a notoriously candid author provides the basis of this mystery. Investigators do not believe the...
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Lyn Durland
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1934
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Although it is included in TV's "Shock Theater" passage, there's nothing overtly frightening about the heavily plotted...
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Scotty Graham
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1934
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Universal's Bombay Mail adheres to the pattern established by Paramount's Shanghai Express, with a group of Calcutta-bound...
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John Hawley
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1934
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This Side of Heaven is an early, muted example of what would refine itself into the "screwball comedy" genre....
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1934
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The first of four low-grade thrillers produced by Sam Efrus and filmed on mostly rented sets around Hollywood, House of...
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Don Phillips
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1934
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Like many Chesterfield-Invincible films of the era, In Love with Life is built around the talents of a prominent character --...
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Professor
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1934
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Ex-convict Steve Nichols (Onslow Stevens) may be a free man, but it looks like he'll never be able to escape the onus of his...
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Steve Nichols/Cummings
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1934
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1934
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1934
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Distantly related to Frederick Lewis Allen's non-fiction book of the same name, Only Yesterday uses fictional characters to...
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1933
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Adapted from the play by Elmer Rice, Counsellor-at-Law is the story of a successful Jewish lawyer George Simon...
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John P. Tedesco
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1933
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This tight little melodrama opens with a group of wealthy people staying at a luxurious European mansion. According to...
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Frank Faber
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1933
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A countess and a doctor embark on an adventure in Africa in order to find a cure for sleeping sickness, but superstitions...
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Dr. Roy Stark
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1933
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Gerald Markham
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1933
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The concept of radio patrol cars was still brand-spanking new when this fast-moving programmer came off the Universal...
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1932
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1932
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In this western, based on a Zane Grey novel, the hero leaves town after someone is killed during a feud. As he escapes, he...
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1932
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As indicated by its "catchphrase" title, Okay America is one of several early-1930s films based on the exploits of gossip...
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1932
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The Gay Diplomat was an attempt by RKO Radio to make a movie star out of Ivan Lebedeff, a Russian actor better suited to...
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1931
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