Hollywood films about the Revolutionary War almost invariably lost money at the box office, and The Howards of Virginia was...
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1940
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Norwegian skating star Sonja Henie reached an early pinnacle with this romantic comedy co-starring Tyrone Power as a...
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1937
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Seasoned newsreel cameraman Bob Adams (John Wayne) is assigned to cover the rebellion in the fictional Arab country of...
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Archie
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1937
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1937
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1937
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Puritan Pictures, a poverty-row operation devoted in the main to Tim McCoy westerns, turned out a few diverting murder...
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1937
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1937
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1937
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1936
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1936
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An airborne serial killer terrorizes a group of war veterans in this ultra-cheap but fairly engrossing whodunit produced by...
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1936
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Warner Baxter and Myrna Loy star as a husband and wife who've been married ten years...but they might not make it to eleven....
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1936
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In this romantic comedy, Marilyn David (Claudette Colbert) is a stenographer who has become good friends with Peter Dawes...
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1935
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Based on an obscure stage comedy, the Paramount musical Two for Tonight stars Bing Crosby as would-be composer and playwright...
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1935
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This big-budget 1936 RKO Studios picture lost money, perhaps due to a cool box-office reception to the idea of leading lady...
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1935
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High-rolling gambler "Odds" Owen (Warren William) establishes an American insurance agency created along the lines of Lloyd's...
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1935
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Ronald Colman plays Robert Clive, a true-life 18th century Britisher who works up the ranks to become leader of Britain's...
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1935
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1935
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This second and final "Bulldog Drummond" film to star Ronald Colman, finds the famed sleuth in the midst of a sinister plan...
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1934
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MGM was seldom content to just film a mystery; the story had to be dressed up in some elaborate, unorthodox fashion. Mystery...
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1934
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What a shame that the 1934 Fox crime meller Murder in Trinidad is currently unavailable for viewing. In one of his best...
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1934
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The Key is a story of the Irish "troubles" which avoids taking sides, but spends most of its screen time with the British...
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1934
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Harold Lloyd plays Ezekial Cobb, a missionary's son who has spent his entire life in China. Cobb is sent to his father's home...
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1934
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Virtually everybody except President Roosevelt was in the lavish MGM backstage musical Dancing Lady. Joan Crawford stars as...
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1933
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Everybody in The Midnight Club is seeing double, and it's all the handiwork of slick London criminal mastermind Colin Grant...
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1933
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The only Academy Award winning picture for Fox Studios (in its pre-20th Century-Fox era), Cavalcade is a stately film...
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1933
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Night World is an astonishingly compact 57-minute extravaganza, all of which takes place at the upscale (but somewhat...
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1932
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If only Merrily We Go To Hell was as interesting as its title! To escape an arranged marriage, heiress Joan Prentice...
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1932
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Marlene Dietrich stars as Helen Faraday, a German cabaret singer in the States whose husband, Ned, falls ill and his only...
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1932
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Running a swift 55 minutes, Trial of Vivienne Ware packs in more sheer entertainment value than its longer, more prestigious...
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1932
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This melodrama tells the tale of young American pilots who felt strongly about WWI before the US intervened. These men...
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1931
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Devotion is a stiff, static early talkie in which everybody speaks in stage British and suffers in dinner jackets....
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1931
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Cecil B. DeMille's third remake of his debut film, this was the first sound version of Edwin Milton Royle's stage western...
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1931
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This drama is set during the mid Twenties when gangsters were a bit more genteel than their 1930s counterparts. Based on a...
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1930
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No one was surprised in 1929 that aviation mogul Howard R. Hughes would produce a paean to World War I flying aces like...
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1930
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John Ford directed this undersea adventure from the early days of the sound era; it features talking sequences along silent...
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1930
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In this classy crime drama, the well-spoken, leader of a sophisticated gang of gangsters use their high social status to...
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1930
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1930
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Most of Monte Blue's talking-picture career was spent in small character roles, but he was still regarded as a bankable...
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1929
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In this early talkie from director John Ford, a Scottish captain and his regiment are sent to India during WW I and assigned...
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1929
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Technically, Mother Machree was director John Ford's first sound film -- even though the sound was limited to a Fox Movietone...
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1928
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Another variation on Abie's Irish Rose, the low-budget One of the Bravest focuses on the romance between Irish fireman Dan...
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1925
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Josephine Earle stars in this drama about a wife whose husband won't allow her to help with his business ventures. When the...
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1921
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1920
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