This collection of bloopers and outtakes is largely from Warner Bros. films of the 1930s and 1940s. Included are such sights...
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1986
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Milos Foreman's cinematic adaptation of E.L. Doctrow's sprawling pop-culture epic Ragtime follows a variety of characters...
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Delmas
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1981
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Born in 1899, James Cagney managed to become one of America's greatest and most imitated actors. Some of his best-known films...
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1981
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In this children's movie, a single executive enjoys her life on the fast track, but when she is talked into becoming a den...
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1980
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At the beginning of The End, Wendell Sonny Lawson (Burt Reynolds) is informed by his doctor that he's dying from "the same...
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1978
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The fourth film starring Tom Laughlin as Billy Jack, Billy Jack Goes To Washington was a loose remake of Frank Capra's...
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1977
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Jimmy
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1976
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The central "character" of the Disney made-for-TV movie The Sky's the Limit is a battered old biplane. The aircraft comes in...
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Abner Therman
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1975
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Created for the "dime novels" in 1886, scientific detective Nick Carter has been transferred to film and radio several times...
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1972
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In this drama, a freed-POW returns home and is further traumatized by his supposed friends, family and neighbors. ~ Sandra...
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1971
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One of the better and more diverting of ABC's first full season of made-for-television movies, The Over-the-Hill Gang was a...
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Captain Oren Hayes
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1969
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Adapting his own novel, Frank Gruber penned the screenplay for the A.C. Lyles production Town Tamer. Veteran filmmaker Leslie...
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Judge Murcott
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1965
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TV certainly makes strange bedfellows, as witness this Branded episode featuring veteran film star Pat O'Brien and recording...
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1965
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Himself
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1959
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The launching pad for Billy Wilder's comedy classic was a rusty old German farce, Fanfares of Love, whose two main characters...
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Mulligan
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1959
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Spencer Tracy stars in John Ford's sentimental adaptation of Edwin O'Connor's novel about the final campaign of a big city...
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John Gorman
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1958
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In this sad drama, a boozy reporter must cope with a series of personal disasters begin with the death of his wife in a car...
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1958
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The distinguished CBS dramatic anthology Studio One moved from New York to Hollywood with this adaptation of David Karp's...
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Mike Waterson
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1958
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This probing drama offers an inside look into corruption within the United Auto Workers and is loosely adapted from the true...
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Gus Linden
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1955
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A real "must see" for devotees of 1950s pop culture, Ring of Fear boasts a script co-written by character actor Paul Fix and...
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Frank Wallace
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1954
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Based on a novel by Gwen Bristow, Jubilee Trail is a sprawling, all-star western from the Republic Studio mills. Despite is...
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Ernest "Texas" Conway
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1954
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1952
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Running an action-packed 67 minutes, Okinawa is an expert combo of wartime newsreel footage and studio re-enactments. The...
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Lieutenant Commander Hale
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1952
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Though made in 1951, Criminal Lawyer has the feel of a 1930s film, right down to the casting of Pat O'Brien in the lead. The...
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James Regan
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1951
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Fish-market worker Johnny O'Hara (James Arness) is named as a suspect when his boss -- with whom he had a dispute the...
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Vincent Ricks
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1951
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Mickey Rooney is The Fireball in this independently produced sports film. The sport in this case is roller-skating, which was...
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Father O'Hara
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1950
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Martin Martin
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1950
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The Dangerous Profession of the title is the bail-bond business. George Raft stars as Kane, a former cop turned professional...
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Farley
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1949
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"Boys Town" goes to turn-of-the-century St. Louis in this moving drama that chronicles the love of a determined priest...
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Father Dunne
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1948
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Finding a curiously silent young runaway boy (Dean Stockwell) whose head has been completely shaved, small town police call...
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Gramp
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1948
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No relation to the 1935 Jean Harlow-Spencer Tracy vehicle of the same name, RKO Radio's Riff-Raff is an action-packed vehicle...
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Dan Hammer
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1947
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Art critic and forgery expert George Steele (Pat O'Brien) is apprehended by the police as he desperately tries to break into...
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George Steele
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1946
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Patrick Nevil
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1946
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Having Wonderful Crime spotlights Michael J. Malone, the murder-solving attorney created by author Craig Rice. The film is...
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Michael J. Malone
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1945
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Man Alive is an inventive and consistently amusing farce dominated by stars Pat O'Brien and Adolphe Menjou. The former plays...
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Speed
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1945
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Secret Command features Pat O'Brien as a onetime foreign correspondent in the wartime employ of the FBI. Under an assumed...
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Sam Gallagher
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1944
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In this wartime propaganda film, two Marine officers and their company go on leave when the Army takes over during the...
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Maj. Steven Lockhard
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1943
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In this frothy musical comedy, Ann Carter (Deanna Durbin) is an aspiring singer from the Midwest who decides to move to New...
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Martin Murphy
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1943
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A major moneymaker for RKO Radio, Bombardier stars Pat O'Brien and Randolph Scott as trainers at a school for bomber pilots....
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Maj. Chick Davis
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1943
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The Iron Major is the saga of WW1 hero-cum-football coach Frank Cavanaugh, played with his usual no-nonsense professionalism...
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Frank Cavanaugh
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1943
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The Two Yanks in Trinidad are gangsters Tim Reardon (Pat O'Brien) and Vince Barrows (Brian Donlevy), who split up over a...
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Tim Reardon
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1942
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In this musical, which manages to look back with nostalgia upon prohibition and the depression (no small accomplishment),...
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Dan McCorn
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1942
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A combat picture was virtually a license to print money in 1942, and RKO Radio's The Navy Comes Through was no exception (net...
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Mallory
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1942
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There are moments in Columbia's Flight Lieutenant that approach "high camp"; indeed, one is hard pressed to remember if any...
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Sam Doyle
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1942
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1941
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In this western, a mining engineer vengefully seeks out the claim jumpers that murdered his brother. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1941
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The successful producer-director combination of Walter Wanger and Tay Garnett served up another winner with Slightly...
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John Webb
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1940
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Steve Case
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1940
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Warden Walter Long
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1940
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Knute Rockne-All American was Pat O'Brien's finest hour: thanks to intensive rehearsals and numerous makeup applications, he...
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Knute Rockne
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1940
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Steve Burke
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1940
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The Grand Hotel formula that was so overworked in the 1930s made an encore appearance in 1940's Escape to Glory. The story is...
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Mike Farrough
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1940
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A tough, bitter fugitive's travels lead him to a grungy rundown oil town. There the transient is taken in by an oil-rigger...
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Hap O'Connor
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1940
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Officially, America had no intention of entering the Second World War in 1940: Why, then, were there so many "preparedness"...
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Father Duffy
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1940
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Pat O'Brien is his usual likably obnoxious self in the Warner Bros. newspaper yarn Off the Record. While trying to smash a...
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Thomas "Breezy" Elliott
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1939
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Banking on the popularity of the Warner Bros.' boxing saga Kid Galahad (37), the studio rushed into production with another,...
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Bill Murphy
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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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Dan O'Farrell
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1939
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In this drama, a remake of The Crowd Roars, two auto racing brothers become rivals on the racetrack when the older brother...
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Joe Greer
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1939
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John Quinn
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1938
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Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan (James Cagney) and Jerry Connelly (Pat O'Brien) grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky...
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Rev. Jerry Connolly
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1938
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Bar 20 Justice is the 16th entry in the durable "Hopalong Cassidy" western series. As ever, William Boyd stars as Hoppy, this...
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1938
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Once a staple of summer stock and community theatres, Bella and Samuel Spewack's Broadway farce Boy Meets Girl dates rather...
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J. Carlyle Benson
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1938
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Filmed on location, Hawaiian Buckaroo is certainly the most novel of the Smith Ballew westerns. Pineapple plantation worker...
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Stephen Wainwright
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1938
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Though Kay Francis' Warner Bros. vehicle had slipped from "A" attractions to B-plus programmers by 1938, she was still worth...
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Bill Landin
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1938
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The plans of outlaw miners are foiled when Hopalong Cassidy assists a young woman to reopen her gold mine. (AKA...
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1938
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Dick Powell stars as a Brooklynite who becomes a cowboy in spite of himself. Drifting into a small western town, Powell takes...
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Roy Chadwick
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1938
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With Panamint's Bad Man, the brief film starring career of singing cowboy Smith Ballew came to an end. The star plays...
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1938
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One of a slew of prison reform picture that flourished during the Great Depression, this melodrama was banned in Finland....
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Capt. Stephen Jameson
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1937
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In this drama, Pat O'Brien plays James O'Malley, a tough, by-the-book policeman who is so unbending on any minor infraction...
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James Aloysius O'Malley
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1937
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Making his debut with Warner Brothers, Henry Fonda plays an apprentice high-voltage lineman working with the no-nonsense, but...
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Red Blayd
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1937
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With the considerable input of ex-Navy officer Frank Wead (who wrote the script) and technical adviser Cmdr. G. W. D....
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Butch Rogers
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1937
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In this newsroom drama, a tabloid's ace reporter's investigations lead to a chorine's conviction for murdering her husband....
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Bill Morgan
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1937
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In this drama, the big city wife of a small town doctor learns a valuable lesson as she struggles to adapt to rural life. ~...
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Dr. William P. Kennicott
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1936
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Margaret Lindsay stars in the title role, playing a young woman imprisoned for a crime which she didn't commit. The real...
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Lee Laird
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1936
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Based on the true story of Pan American Airlines, China Clipper was released only a year after the first transpacific flight...
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Dave Logan
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1936
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This fast-paced Warner Bros. comedy stars James Cagney and Pat O'Brien as brothers who fight over the same girl. Mrs. O'Hara...
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Pat O'Hara
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1935
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Per its title, this merry Warner Bros. musical was filmed on location in the resort community of Agua Caliente. Pat O'Brien...
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Lawrence "Larry" MacArthur
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1935
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This drama about corporate treachery was based on the best-selling novel by Alice Tisdale Hobart. Stephen Chase (Pat O'Brien)...
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Stephen Chase
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1935
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Warner Bros.' Devil Dogs of the Air is very much a "formula" picture -- but what a wonderful formula it is! James Cagney...
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Lt. William Brannigan
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1935
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This musical chronicles the rise to stardom of a humble bellhop after he is discovered by a talent agent. Though he becomes a...
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Al McGillevray
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1935
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Outlawed Guns stars Buck Jones as Reece Rivers, the nice-guy older brother of headstrong Babe Rivers (played by Pat O'Brien...
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Babe Rivers
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1935
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William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan Productions moved from MGM to Warners with Page Miss Glory--along with Cosmopolitan's...
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Dan "Click" Wiley
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1935
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Jake Lee
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1935
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With William Boyd in the cast, one would think that Flaming Gold was a "Hopalong Cassidy" western -- and one would be wrong....
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Ben Lear
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1934
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Completed just before the Production Code went into effect, I've Got Your Number is delightfully racy, risque entertainment....
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Terry
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1934
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Ritzy McCarthy
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1934
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"I Sell Anything" is the boast of penny-ante auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler (Pat O'Brien), and he more than makes good his boast...
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Spot Cash Cutler
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1934
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Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler reunite once again for this musical salute to the West Point Military Academy, including many...
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Sgt. Scrapper Thornhill
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1934
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A satire on radio crooners, Twenty Million Sweethearts stars Dick Powell as a singing waiter--fake handlebar mustache and...
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Rush Blake
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1934
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James Cagney is Chesty O'Connor, a tough-as-nails, always-ready-for-a-fight shipyard worker, who loses out to US Navy CPO...
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Biff Martin
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1934
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Born on the proverbial wrong side of the tracks, Lady Lee (Barbara Stanwyck) rises to prominence as a professional gambler....
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Charlie Lang
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1934
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Jean Harlow is the "bombshell" of the title, a popular movie actress named Lola. Though she seemingly has everything a girl...
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Jim Brogan
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1933
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Barney Slaney
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1933
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Those who only know Pat O'Brien from his later, slightly more avuncular roles may be surprised to see him pumping out almost...
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Coach Gore
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1933
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This film offers melodrama on the high-seas as it follows the miraculous salvation of a becalmed ship filled with bootleg...
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Matt Brennan
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1933
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Plodding through the dialogue-heavy script, this is still a timely movie topic. Dealing with white collar crime, this is the...
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Andy Terrell
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1933
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Although claiming to be based on actual cases, this mild crime drama appears to have been derived more from a screenwriter's...
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Butch Saunders
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1933
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In this newspaper drama, a dedicated small-town reporter works hard and becomes the editor of a major New York paper....
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Waddell
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1932
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Bank president Thomas Dickson (Walter Huston) has instituted a lending policy that shows great faith in ordinary people but...
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Matt Brown
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1932
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The air-mail pilots who fly from a small airport in the Rocky Mountains are determined but not paid well, and there are...
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Duke Talbot
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1932
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The title Virtue should be a good tip-off that the central character is a step below virtuous. Carole Lombard, still not...
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Jimmy Doyle
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1932
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1932
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The darkest side of Tinseltown is depicted in this drama that centers upon a Hollywood columnist determined to reveal the...
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Jimmie Reed
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1932
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Bette Davis was on loan from Universal when she appeared in this little juvenile delinquent melodrama from independent...
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Matt Kelly
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1932
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In this crime drama, a reporter pursues the crime lord in charge of laundering the town's dirty money. The new police...
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Sam Bradshaw
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1932
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Based on a play by Arthur M. Brilant, The Case of Clara Deane stars Wynne Gibson, repeating her original Broadway role....
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Frank Deane
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1932
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Flying High was a nonsensical Broadway musical hit of 1930 starring Bert Lahr. The film version, made one year later by MGM,...
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Sport
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1931
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Steve Rollo
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1931
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Hildy Johnson
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1931
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In this drama, a humble Irish lass from New York City's East Side, dreams of ascending the social ladder to escape her...
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Peter Shea
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1931
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1931
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