Lumber tycoon Bill Fleming (Paul Douglas) knows that his wife, Laura (Dody Heath), is unfaithful, but he draws the line at...
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1959
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Pop Larkin
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1959
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New York City is known for choosing colorful characters for its mayors. One its most illustrious was the wisecracking,...
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Chris Nolan
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1957
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A rare comedy effort by director Robert Wise, This Could Be the Night is based on a series of short stories Cordelia Baird...
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Rocco
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1957
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The Solid Gold Cadillac was adapted from the George S. Kaufman-Howard Teichmann Broadway hit of the same. Both the play and...
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Edward L. McKeever
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1956
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Filmed in England, The Gamma People is a strange blend of "Prisoner of Zenda" type adventure, comic opera, cold war paranoia...
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Mike Wilson
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1956
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The Leather Saint is an uneasy blend of religious drama and prizefight picture. John Derek stars as Father Gil Allen, an...
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Gus MacAuliffe
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1956
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Paul Douglas repeats his Broadway stage role as corrupt, bombastic scrap-metal tycoon Harry Brock in this Hallmark Hall of...
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1956
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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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Joe MacBeth
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1955
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A good Samaritan applies himself to others to the point of injuring his own life by ignoring his personal obligations and...
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1955
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Originally released as High and Dry, The Maggie was one of the most endearing of the "regional" British comedies of the...
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Marshall
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1954
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Vic Leonard
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1954
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Cameron Hawley's novel of corporate in-fighting and gamesmanship was brought to the screen by producer John Houseman and...
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1954
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Sir James Barrie's whimsical play Rosalind was updated and urbanized as the 1953 film Forever Female. Ginger Rogers plays a...
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E. Harry Phillips
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1953
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The opening credits appearing over a turbulent ocean serve as a foreshadowing of things to come in this standard-issue love...
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Jerry D'Amato
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1952
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During the Vatican Holy Year of 1950, confidence trickster Joe Brewster (Paul Douglas) disguises himself as a priest and...
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Joe Brewster
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1952
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Having supped full of success with the multi-storied O. Henry's Full House, 20th Century-Fox assembled another all-star...
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1952
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Andrew McBain
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1952
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The title character (Paul Douglas) is a pro football player of the early 1940s at the end of his career. Douglas is offered a...
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Harry Joplin
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1951
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Though not the most profitable baseball comedy ever made, Angels in the Outfield is one of the most likeable and enduring....
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Guffy McGovern
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1951
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Rhubarb is an amusing, if not entirely faithful, adaptation of the H. Allen Smith novel of the same name. When Thaddeus J....
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1951
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Henry Hathaway directed this high-tension drama about a man teetering on the verge of self-destruction and how his dilemma...
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Dunnigan
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1951
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Big Ed Hanley
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1950
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Filmed entirely on location in New Orleans, Panic in the Streets stars Richard Widmark as Dr. Clinton Reed, a physician from...
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Police Capt. Tom Warren
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1950
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Filmed on location, The Big Lift is a reenactment of the Berlin airlift of 1948. Flexing their postwar muscles, the Russians...
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Hank Kowalski
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1950
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Lloyd Bacon's baseball comedy stars Ray Milland as Vernon Simpson, a chemist who develops a product which repels wood....
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Monk Lanigan
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1949
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Three wives, played by Jeanne Crain, Ann Sothern and Linda Darnell, are about to embark on a boat trip when each receives a...
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Porter Hollingsway
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1949
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Leonard Borland
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1949
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