Police struggle to stem the tide of teenage drug addiction in this vintage exploitation drama, which combines the procedural...
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1957
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Newly re-energized in the late 1950s, the venerable Pine-Thomas production company moved from Paramount to United Artists,...
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Col. Hughes
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1957
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Trouble brews when a widowed, small town librarian takes a stand against censorship. The trouble begins when the town...
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Judge Robert Ellerbe
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1956
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The splendid physique of Tony Curtis is given generous screen exposure in the boxing melodrama The Square Jungle. Curtis...
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Jim McBride
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1955
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For The High and the Mighty, director William Wellman made a point of using Cinemascope to heighten the dramatic content of a...
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1954
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Duffy of San Quentin is an Allied Artists low-budgeter based on the life of the warden who first introduced reforms in the...
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Warden Clinton T. Duffy
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1954
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Like its predecessor Duffy of San Quentin, The Steel Cage is made up of episodes from a never-telecast TV series based on the...
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Warden Clinton T. Duffy
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1954
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Tony Curtis stars as Johnny Dark, a moody automobile designer. Rejected by a major auto firm because of his "radical"...
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Jim "Scotty" Scott
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1954
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No relation to the TV and radio series of the same name, Universal-International's Gunsmoke is a Technicolor vehicle for...
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Dan Saxon
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1953
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1953
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Lt. Col. John Hudson
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1952
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Alexander Hull's novel Shep of the Painted Hills was refashioned into a traditional Lassie vehicle by screenwriter...
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Jonathan Harvey
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1951
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1950
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Pete Lambert
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1950
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Made in the same atmosphere and paranoia that spawned the infamous Joseph McCarthy, this is an anti-communist propaganda...
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Tom Kelly
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1950
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The Secret Fury works best if one is willing to suspend one's disbelief from the outset. Claudette Colbert stars as Ellen, a...
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Eric Lowell
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1950
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Farley Granger plays a casually larcenous New York City mailman who steals a shipment of money. Granger's excitement over...
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Capt. Walter Anderson
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1950
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1950
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No one is as good as Barbara Stanwyck when she's bad. Here Stanwyck plays Thelma Jordon, a woman who late one night shows up...
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Miles Scott
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1949
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The "spoilers" in this Republic programmer are headed by unscrupulous salmon fisherman Matt Garraway (Paul Kelly). Treating...
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Matt Garraway
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1947
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Capt. Lochlin
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1947
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One of several low-budget mellers directed by scriptwriter Maxwell Shane, Fear in the Night was based on the short story...
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Cliff Herlihy
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1947
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This drama was one of the first major-studio efforts to confront anti-Semitism (beating the Oscar-winning...
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The Man
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1947
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In this crime drama, two crooks dupe their friend, a professional gambler, into nipping some important government documents....
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1946
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In this drama, a reporter marries a socialite with a bad ticker. The gold-digging reporter is well aware of her delicate...
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Max Anderson
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1946
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Advertised as a typical Universal horror film, The Cat Creeps is more of a crime melodrama, and not a particularly...
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Ken Grady
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1946
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In this low-budget adventure, a gangster and his spouse are stranded on a lonely tropical island. They soon discover that a...
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1946
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In this propaganda film, a courageous group of Chinese children risk their lives to assist downed American pilots escape the...
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1945
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The old bromide about a group of avaricious heirs waiting for an old millionaire to die is trotted out in Grissly's Millions....
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Joe Simmons
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1945
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In his final epic Western, Errol Flynn plays cattleman Clay Hardin, who, on a trek south of the border, has discovered that...
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Roy Stuart
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1945
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The third installment in Universal's low-budget "Inner Sanctum" mysteries, Dead Man's Eyes promises a great deal more than...
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Alan Bittaker
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1944
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In this melodrama, two young lovers secretly elope after the woman is involved in a hit-and-run accident. The young groom...
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Tom Elliott
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1944
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1944
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Though it bears the same title as an earlier Gene Autry western, Roy Rogers' The Man from Music Mountain isn't a remake....
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Victor Marsh
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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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Maj. Pete Martin
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1943
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This final "Tarzan" entry from the MGM assembly line is arguably one the least effective of the series, though it certainly...
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1942
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The Flying Tigers were a group of American volunteer aviators, flying against the Japanese on behalf of General Claire...
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Hap Davis
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1942
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Jim Blake
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1942
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1942
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In this crime drama, an ambitious law student begins working for a corrupt finance company and becomes the neighborhood...
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1942
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Tough-guy actor (on-screen and off) Paul Kelly starred in this typical war-time serial about a police officer going...
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1942
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"Mr. and Mrs. North" started as a series of comic articles about a Park Avenue married couple, written by Richard and Frances...
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Lt. Weigand
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1941
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Mystery Ship was one of the last of Columbia's pre-Pearl Harbor "preparedness" melodramas. Paul Kelly and Larry Parks are...
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Allan Harper
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1941
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In this patriotic war drama, a unit of Army recruits train for a parachute corps. One is an arrogant football star who finds...
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1941
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The title I'll Wait for You effectively gives away the ending of this MGM second feature. Robert Sterling plays a gangster on...
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Lt. McFarley
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1941
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All that MGM's Ziegfeld Girl lacks is Technicolor; otherwise, the film has talent and "sock" entertainment value in...
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1941
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In addition to being a fine Western in its own right, this film served to introduce perhaps Hollywood's oddest romantic...
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1940
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In this drama, six street-wise tough girls try to imitate the older sister of one who became a gangster's wife and lives a...
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Johnny Cane
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1940
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Invisible Stripes is a cookie-cutter Warners prison drama which rounds up the usual suspects. George Raft and...
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1940
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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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Though the title character is loosely based on that of the notorious killer/robber Ma Barker, she has been sanitized and...
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1940
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MGM had a tendency to overglamorize the sort of rough-hewn film fare that Warner Bros. offered to its public without...
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Lt. Cmdr. "Dusty" Rhodes
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1940
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District attorney Walter Pidgeon pursues the conviction of criminals so diligently that word has gone out in the state prison...
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Dr. Malcolm Scott
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1939
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In this crime drama, a thieving employee sticks her stolen goods into the locker of a co-worker and causes all sorts of...
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Joe Garson
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1939
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It matters not at all that the famed "wrong way" flight of aviator Douglas Corrigan, who in 1938 tried to fly from New York...
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Butch
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1939
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Based upon an idea by Broadway columnist Mark Hellinger, The Roaring Twenties opens during World War I as doughboys Eddie...
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1939
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In this actioner, a U.S. border patrol agent stationed in Tijuana loses his job and gets into deep trouble after a friend is...
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Dan Frazer
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1939
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In this desert adventure, a cruel commander viciously rules a regiment of foreign legionnaires. They tire of his brutality...
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Jim Wilson
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1938
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The Missing Guest is the first of two remakes of the 1933 melodrama Secret of the Blue Room. The audience knows what it's in...
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Scoop Hanlon
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1938
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Gary Franklin
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1938
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In this drama, a woman is betrothed to a district attorney. When a man is falsely convicted of murder and condemned to...
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Doyle
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1938
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In this crime drama, a woman is told that a cop killed her brother in cold-blood during a shoot-out. The woman believes the...
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Jim Barnes
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1938
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This melodrama chronicles the enduring friendship between four boys in New York's Hell's Kitchen. As boys, the made a pact...
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Jerry Donovan
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1938
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With Glenda Farrell having temporarily taken leave of Warner Bros., the actress' signature role of fast-talking girl reporter...
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Steve McBride
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1938
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MGM's Navy Blue and Gold prettily dresses up some of the oldest cliches in the "military cadet" movie genre. The film charts...
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1937
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This service comedy from the Republic Studio mills was perhaps the most aggressively titled of the "Marine Corps" film cycle...
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Phil Donlan
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1937
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This standard crime meller from the Columbia assembly line stars Paul Kelly as police lieutenant Tony Roberts. Hoping to...
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Police Lt. Tony Roberts
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1937
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The Frame-Up is a timely and typically tacky crime meller from the Columbia film factory. There's dirty work at the...
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Mark MacArthur
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1937
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In this romantic comedy, a rookie reporter works for his uncle's newspaper and gets assigned to write a story about an...
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Briggs
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1937
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The very urban Paul Kelly is the unlikely hero of It Happened Out West. Sent to Arizona to persuade ranch owner Anne Martin...
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Dick Howe
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1937
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Dynamic district attorney Douglas Goodwin (Paul Kelly) has no patience with murderers: his philosophy is "burn them all," and...
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Douglas Goodwin
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1936
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Sgt. Cassidy
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1936
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This musical is adapted from a popular Broadway show written by George M. Cohan. It tells the tale of a team of Broadway...
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Hap Farrell
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1936
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Rockie Johnson
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1936
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In this crime drama, a girl whose father was murdered by gangsters wants to marry into a rich family. Her fiance's mother...
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Barney Dolan
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1936
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In this crime comedy, an ocean liner engineer messes up and ends up relegated to shoveling coal. Later he accepts a lovely...
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Duke Donovan
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1936
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Ace reporter Casey (Stu Erwin) and city editor Blaine (Paul Kelly) are agreed on only one point: women are trouble! This is...
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Blaine
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1936
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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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I.B. McGoogin
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1936
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Garry Waltham
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1935
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Jim Kinland
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1935
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Though the film is called Speed Devils, the only racetrack scenes occur at the very beginning of the picture. After cracking...
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1935
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A frequently-filmed Harold Bell Wright novel was the source for this leisurely-paced George O'Brien western. His fortune...
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Phil Acton
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1935
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The stringent censorship imposed upon Hollywood of the mid-1930s dictated that gangsters could no longer be the "heroes" in...
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Duff
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1935
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The Silk Hat Kid is Lew Ayres, a babyfaced gangland "torpedo." Circumstances force the Kid to hole up in a slum settlement...
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Tim Martin
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1935
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In this melodrama set in San Francisco, a businesswoman gives a job to an unemployed, homeless sailor. Later she becomes his...
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Tim O'Hara
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1934
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The all-purpose title Blind Date was trotted out in 1934 for this romantic trifle. Poor Kitty Taylor (Ann Sothern) just can't...
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Bill
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1934
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Nils Asther stars as Dr. Callendar, a modern-day Svengali who hypnotizes women to do his eeeevil bidding. Callendar is...
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Dr. Norman Ware
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1934
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Based on a novel by Cortland Fitzsimmons, the storyline of this "gimmick" mystery follows the St. Louis Cardinals during a...
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1934
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Based upon a novel anonymously written by Rex Stout, The President Vanishes has as its title character a peace-loving man...
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Chick Moffat
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1934
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This drama was written by famed radio announcer Walter Winchell. It chronicles the tragic love between a racketeer and a...
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Hank Rocci
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1933
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That charming supporting player, Fifi D'Orsay, got a rare starring role in this obscure show business melodrama produced by...
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1932
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The second and last of Eddie Cantor's silent vehicles, Special Delivery casts the wide-eyed comedian as a hapless mailman....
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1927
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One of the most popular baseball films ever made, Slide, Kelly, Slide also solidified the stardom of MGM leading man...
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1927
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The New Klondike was a satire of two ripe-for-plucking targets: The national baseball craze and the Florida "land boom" of...
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Bing Allen
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1926
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Comedy was not the forte of great character actor Lionel Barrymore, and this picture, based on the novel by Arnold Bennett,...
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1921
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1914
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1914
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