Season eight of Perry Mason begins with Perry (Raymond Burr) in the middle of a natsy child-custody battle between divorcing...
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1964
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1964
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Wealthy Timothy Balfour Sr. (Otto Kruger) draws up a new will leaving a great deal of money to his namesake grandson Tim...
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1963
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This light comedy by Axel von Ambesser was preceded by two other cinematic versions of the same tale, a story about two twins...
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1963
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This long, 135-minute feature is divided into four different segments, three highlighting fairy tales and the first...
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1962
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After he is seen literally throwing his money away, eccentric businessman Gus Dalgran (Otto Kruger) is locked up in a mental...
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1962
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Wealthy J.J. Gideon (Otto Kruger) disapproves of the romance between his grandson David (Karl Held) and David's secretary...
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1961
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Something of an urbanized, upscale version of Peyton Place, Vincent Sherman's
The Young Philadelphians is a glossy...
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1959
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In this routine business-story-cum-romantic-comedy, James Garner is Cash McCall, a wheeling and dealing tycoon, and...
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1959
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This low-budget, Frankenstein-flavored sci-fi flick involves the transplantation of a dead scientist's brain into the body...
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Dr. William Spennser
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1958
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The Republic super-production The Last Command is a partial remake of the same studio's Man of Conquest (1939). But whereas...
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1955
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1954
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This second film version of Lloyd C. Douglas' spiritual novel Magnificent Obsession is in its own way as successful as the...
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Randolph
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1954
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This Western classic stars Gary Cooper as Hadleyville marshal Will Kane, about to retire from office and go on his honeymoon...
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Percy Mettrick
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1952
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One of the most notorious flops in the history of Columbia Pictures, Valentino is actually fairly entertaining -- but only...
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1951
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1951
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Vernon Sewell, a mercurial filmmaker who preferred to lens his pictures on chunks of his own property, was the director of...
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1951
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Just before filming All About Eve, Bette Davis starred in the marital melodrama Payment on Demand. Davis plays Joyce Ramsey,...
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1951
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Edmond O'Brien plays a telephone repairman whose electronic savvy earns him a job with a bookmaking concern. O'Brien's bookie...
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Carl Stephans
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1950
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In this courtroom drama, two opposing lawyers lead a double life. In the courtroom they are ruthless toward each other, but...
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1948
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In this musical drama set at the turn-of-the-century, a saloon singer marries a wealthy attorney and then begins fooling...
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Harry Randolph
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1948
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Jack Carson and Robert Hutton make a curious but copacetic comedy duo in the Warner Bros. musical Love and Learn. The stars...
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Andrew Wyngate
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1947
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Barbara Britton is as cute as can be as the title character in Republic's The Fabulous Suzanne. The plot, which bears a faint...
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Hendrick Courtney, Sr.
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1946
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1946
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For at least 63 of its 68 minutes, Republic's The Woman Who Came Back is an exciting and compelling journey into the realm of...
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Rev. Stevens
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1945
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Dr. Stendahl
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1945
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Danny Kaye plays the first of his cinematic dual roles in Goldwyn's Wonder Man. Kaye appears as timid librarian Edwin Dingle...
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1945
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Broadway producer Earl Carroll was a Ziegfeld-like entrepreneur who staged lavish revues featuring attractive young ladies....
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Earl Carroll
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1945
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John Mitchell
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1945
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Greg McClure stars as legendary boxer John L. Sullivan in this screen biography of the famous fighter. Known as "The Boston...
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Richard Martin
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1945
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Jack Oakie and Peggy Ryan head the cast of the Universal "B plus" musical On Stage Everybody. As indicated by the title, this...
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1945
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In this thriller, a nurse begins having strange premonitions about an impending murder. So strong is her intuition that she...
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1945
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One-time movie crooner Dick Powell literally turned his career around in the 1944 film noir Murder My Sweet. Powell stars as...
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Amthor
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1944
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Leonard Maltin once observed that Storm Over Lisbon is what Casablanca would have looked like had it been produced by...
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Alexis Vanderlyn
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1944
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The wild and woolly early days of New York -- when it was still known as New Amsterdam -- provide the backdrop for this...
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1944
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John Coudair
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1944
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In this drama, a refugee escapes the Nazis and comes to America, but he cannot enjoy his new life because he is worried...
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1944
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During WWII, Johnny Weissmuller and his Tarzan character proved useful for Allied propaganda purposes. In the film...
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Hendrix
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1943
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This star-studded musical drama was largely financed by Theatre Guild, with all proceeds going to various wartime fundraising...
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1943
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In her final film appearance, Kay Francis plays Sheila, the slinky, seductive mastermind of a marriage racket preying on...
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Whitney Colton
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1943
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Outdistancing all competing studios, tiny PRC managed to register the title Corregidor for copyright within hours after the...
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Jan Stockman
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1943
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John Cleveland Carter (Minor Watson) is the publisher of a once-great newspaper, who discovers too late that his editor,...
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1943
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In this remake of the 1925 silent film, the breakup of a lifelong friendship between two German millionaires is chronicled....
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Anton Miller
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1942
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This modestly produced film version of Gregor Ziemmer's book Education for Death surprised everyone at RKO--and in the film...
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Col. Henkel
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1942
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College co-ed Brenta (Tina Thayer) is the daughter of district attorney Reynolds (Otto Kruger). In defiance of her dad's...
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1942
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An adequate wartime filler, Night Plane from Chungking features Robert Preston as the captain of the titular aircraft. En...
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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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Charles Tobin
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1942
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The beautiful Florida Keys provide the setting of this adventure that tells the tale of a fun-filled fishing trip that...
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Dr. Sanderson
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1941
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Loretta Young is (mis)cast as a prima ballerina, who reaches the top of her profession and marries her demanding instructor...
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Victor
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1941
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The Big Boss is Jim Maloney (Otto Kruger), who pulls all the political strings in an unnamed major metropolis. Maloney's...
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Jim Maloney
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1941
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As part of his new contract with Warner Bros., Edward G. Robinson agreed to appear in the gangster comedy Brother Orchid on...
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1940
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Edward G. Robinson portrays real-life German medical researcher Paul Erlich, the man who discovered and perfected "Formula...
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Dr. Emil Von Behring
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1940
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Hollywood's Otto Kruger and Gertrude Michael head the cast of the British The Hidden Menace. The story takes place in a...
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Garvin
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1940
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Previously filmed in 1916 with Mary Pickford's brother Jack in the lead, Booth Tarkington's irresistable coming-of-age novel...
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Mr. Sylvanus Baxter
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1940
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This cautionary pre-World War II drama stars Joan Bennett as an American girl who falls in love and marries a German...
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Henrich Hoffman
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1940
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Mike Chadwick
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1939
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The publisher of a popular gossip magazine causes a scandal of his own when he hires his bastard son as a reporter. The cub...
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Jim Stevenson
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1939
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An embarrassed headwaiter provides the basis for this classical tale set in pre-war Russia. He conceals his lowly profession...
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Petroff
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1939
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The title tells all in Columbia's A Woman is the Judge. Frieda Inescourt stars as lady jurist Mary Cabot, who 20 years...
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Steven Graham
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1939
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Tyler Cradon
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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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Assistant DA Van Slack
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1939
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Hankies are not optional for this grim melodrama that tells the story of a kindly producer who mentors a beautiful young...
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Julian Forbes
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1939
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The incredibly complex plot of Republic's Star of the Circus can be whittled down to a single sentence: A jealous circus...
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Garvin
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1938
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Charles Donkin
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1938
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I Am the Law is arguably the best of the late-1930s films inspired by the racket-busting career of New York district attorney...
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Eugene Ferguson
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1938
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Glenda Farrell plays still another fast-talking girl reporter in Universal's Exposed. Willing to sell her soul for a story,...
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William Reardon
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1938
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Gil Morrell
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1938
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This hard-hitting Warner Bros. courtroom drama begins with the usual "Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is...
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1937
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Otto Kruger once again plays a dynamic, bombastic attorney in Columbia's Counsel for Crime. Kruger plays William Mellon, a...
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William Mellon
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1937
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Stark
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1937
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The popular Ivor Novello musical play Glamorous Night was given a conservative film treatment in 1937--minus much of the...
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King Stefan
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1937
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Dr. Stanley Norton
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1936
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In this tragic drama, a pregnant daughter prepares to marry a man she doesn't love when her 'sister' tells her a story. It...
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David
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1936
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It may be sacrilege to say so, but Dracula's Daughter is an immense improvement over the original 1931 Dracula, despite the...
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Dr. Jeffrey Garth
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1936
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Ellis
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1935
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One of the first releases of newly-formed Republic Pictures, Two Sinners was adapted from The Black Sheep, a serialized...
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Henry Vane
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1935
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In this crime drama, a famous criminal attorney is abandoned by his wife who has tired of his neglect and heavy drinking....
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Kent Barringer
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1934
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In an unusual move, MGM released its film version of Sidney Kingsley's Pulitzer-Prize winning play Men in White while the...
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Dr. Levine
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1934
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Dr. Livesev
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1934
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This thriller centers around a super detective's attempt to mastermind the perfect crime after he suspects his wife of...
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Dan Gifford
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1934
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In this romantic comedy, a rakish fellow involves himself with a married woman. Later his secretary endeavors to win him...
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Henry Dewlip
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1934
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Joan Crawford is at her most glamorous (a different outfit and hairdo in each scene!) in the romantic melodrama Chained....
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Richard Field
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1934
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Phillip Lawrence
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1934
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In director Edwin L. Marin's film Paris Interlude, a beautiful French woman named Julie Bell (Madge Evans) unexpectedly falls...
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Sam Colt
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1934
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Lee Tracy is a middle-aged, middle-class man dissatisfied with his life. If he'd only married the girl he wanted to and had...
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Ted Wright
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1933
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An espionage drama set in the early 20th century, Ever in My Heart stars Barbara Stanwyck as a New England naif who marries a...
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Hugo Wilbrandt
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1933
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One woman helps make an unknown boxer a star, but could a handful lead him back to obscurity again? Steve Morgan (Max Baer)...
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1933
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The beauty-parlor craze of the early 1930s was given a good going-over in MGM's Beauty for Sale. Madge Evans,...
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Sherwood
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1933
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An epic, 13-reel costume drama produced by William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan productions -- and it doesn't star his...
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1923
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