Sol Madrid isn't a western, as might be gathered, but a drug-ring melodrama. David McCallum shows up early in the film as a...
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1968
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Enemy agents Sava (Edward Mulhare), Karn (Diana Hyland) and Veltran (David Frankham) pool their efforts to kidnap prominent...
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1967
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In the conclusion of a two-part story, Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) has learned that defecting East European...
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1966
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In the first episode of a two-part story, Dr. Gregory Holman (George Voskovec), a cryptographer from an Iron Curtain country,...
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1966
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Joseph Conrad's cerebral, philosophical novel Lord Jim is streamlined and simplified by producer/director/writer...
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1965
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1963
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Elvis Presley stars as Mike Windgren, a former trapeze artist who's suffered from vertigo ever since accidentally dropping...
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Maximillian Dauphin
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1963
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There's a rumor that the MGM executive who thought that Glenn Ford could fill Rudolph Valentino's shoes in the 1962 remake of...
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1962
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David O. Selznick had intended to film an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night as a vehicle for his wife...
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1961
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Produced by Mike Todd Jr., Scent of Mystery was a misguided attempt to introduce a new gimmick to motion pictures. The plot...
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Baron Saradin
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1960
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Romain Gary's best-selling novel The Roots of Heaven was adapted to film in Cinemascope and DeLuxe Color by producer...
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1958
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This 1954 Disney version of Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea represented the studio's costliest and most elaborate...
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Prof. Aronnax, Narrator
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1954
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Lama
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1950
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On a trip from France to Allied-occupied Berlin, a group of travelers -- a mysterious and very secretive European woman...
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Dr. H. Bernhardt
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1948
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In an on-the-run investigation, a female reporter is in a race against time to capture a prominent attorney who has been...
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Albert Frederic
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1947
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Though not readily apparent at first, The Unfaithful is a remake of the 1940 Bette Davis vehicle The Letter, which in turn...
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1947
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Temptation is an appropriately moody romantic melodrama, providing a golden opportunity for some memorable histrionics by...
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Isaacson
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1946
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Deadline at Dawn represented not only the sole film directorial effort of Broadway's Harold Clurman, but also the only...
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Gus
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1946
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Produced by the U.S. Army Signal Corps, the 18-minute Don't Be a Sucker was designed as a cautionary fable for returning...
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1946
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Officially based on a novel by Margaret Carpenter, Experiment Perilous would seem to be more inspired by MGM's psychological...
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Nick Bedereaux
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1945
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Uncertain Glory finds Errol Flynn atypically cast as French criminal Jean Picard, a craven coward whose many misdeeds have...
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Marcel Bonet
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1944
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A plot revealed through the correspondence between German-American businessman and his Jewish partner, Lukas, the...
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Martin Schulz
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1944
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Luise Rainer's last Hollywood film was the economically produced wartime drama Hostages. Adapted from the novel by Stefan...
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1943
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An expansion of, and improvement upon, Lillian Hellman's stage play of the same name, Watch on the Rhine stars Paul Lukas,...
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Kurt Muller
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1943
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In this drama, which blends romance with suspense, Prince Kurt von Rotenberg (George Brent) is attempting to flee his native...
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Baron von Helsing
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1941
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One of the most schizophrenic films ever to come out of the Paramount "B" mill, The Monster and the Girl starts out as a...
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W.S. Bruhl
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1941
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Yuan Sing
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1940
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"Strange" is right: this mystical MGM melodrama has to be the oddest of the studio's Clark Gable-Joan Crawford vehicles. When...
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Hessler
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1940
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Parada
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1940
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This is a remake of Chinese Bungalow, which came out in 1930. A Chinese banker gets revenge when his wife, an Englishwoman,...
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1940
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This exciting adventure is set in the rugged Australian outback back when the continent was used as a giant penal colony for...
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Francois Dupre
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1939
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Bold for its time (just prior to World War II), Confessions of a Nazi Spy is an expose of a genuine Nazi espionage ring...
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Dr. Kassel
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1939
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Filmed in 1939 but not put into general release until 1942, Lady in Distress stars Michael Redgrave as an innocent bystander...
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Zoltini
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1939
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A brief encounter forms the basis of this romantic drama. It all begins when Helen Bernardi meets Jim Wyndham in a London...
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Prof. Paul Bernardy
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1938
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Dr. Hartz
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1938
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The notorious Orient Express provides the setting for this romance involving two rival reporters in pursuit of a munitions...
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Kronsky
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1937
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Filmed in Paris and along the French Riviera, Dinner at the Ritz afforded David Niven the chance to play his first starring...
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Baron Philippe de Beaufort
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1937
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Erudite novelist Jack Pathurst (Paul Lukas) happens to be a passenger of the sailing ship Elsinore when a mutiny breaks out....
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Jack Pathurst
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1937
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In this romantic drama, a May-December relationship goes awry when the bride finds herself in love with her aged groom's...
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Prof. Paul Bernardy
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1937
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In this highly acclaimed adaptation of Sinclair Lewis's novel, Walter Huston plays Sam Dodsworth, a good-hearted, middle-aged...
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Arnold Iselin
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1936
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Ladies in Love transplants 20th Century-Fox's favorite film plot--three girls on the prowl for rich husbands--into the...
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1936
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S. S. Van Dine's intelligent, insufferable amateur sleuth Philo Vance is the protagonist of The Casino Murder Case....
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Philo Vance
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1935
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Athos
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1935
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Kay Francis stars as Stella Parish, a London stage favorite who suddenly disappears without a trace. British news...
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Stephen Norman
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1935
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Critics in 1935 recognized immediately that Age of Indiscretion drew its inspiration from the well-publicized Gloria...
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Robert Lenhart
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1935
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G.K. Chesterton's crime-solving cleric Father Brown was first brought to the screen in 1934, in the corpulent form of...
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Flambeau
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1935
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After directing three of Universal's finest horror films, James Whale shifted gears with the elegant romantic comedy By...
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Josef
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1934
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In this wartime drama, set during WW I, the adoring wife of a German officer soon finds herself falling for a handsome...
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Rupert
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1934
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Rumowski
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1934
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Another of director William Wyler's "apprenticeship" films, Glamour is based on a story by Edna Ferber. The original story...
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Victor Bankl
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1934
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In this musical, a radio-announcer is fired after giving a false interview. For consolation he begins to drink heavily. It...
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1934
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The mysterious death of a notoriously candid author provides the basis of this mystery. Investigators do not believe the...
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Gresham
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1934
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In this melodrama, a woman must spend a decade in prison after murdering her spouse. Upon entering jail, she had to give up...
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Paul Vadja
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1934
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Paul Lukas plays a nightclub headwaiter who rises to fame as a bridge expert. He marries hat check girl Loretta Young,...
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Peter Stanislavsky
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1933
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George Cukor directed this classic adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's sentimental novel with a shimmering lavishness that is a...
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Fritz Bhaer
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1933
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Adapted from a "drawn from life" novel by Sir Phillip Gibbs, Captured is the story of the men in a German POW camp during...
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Ehrlich
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1933
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This tight little melodrama opens with a group of wealthy people staying at a luxurious European mansion. According to...
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Capt. Walter Brink
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1933
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Sing, Sinner, Sing is one of several 1930s films based on the notorious, well-publicized romance between nightclub singer...
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1933
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Horror film icon James Whale directed this well-detailed thriller about a man questioning his wife's honesty after a friend...
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Dr. Walter Bernsdorf
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1933
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Beautiful but impractical socialite Penelope Newbold (Carole Lombard) has convinced herself that "the perfect marriage" is an...
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Dr. Karl Bemis
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1932
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Anyone who believes that the career of silent screen idol John Gilbert ended because his voice has too high for the talkies...
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Albert
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1932
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In this melodrama, a woman is blamed for another's suicide and ends up deported to Germany. Just as WW I erupts she marries...
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Lt. Kurt Kurtoff
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1932
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Tallulah Bankhead's first Hollywood movie was this romantic-drama weepie, in which she plays Susan, the unhappy wife of oil...
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Ken
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1932
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In this drama, a frustrated wife, unable to get pregnant by her husband, decides to sleep with another in hopes of finally...
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Dr. Nicholas Faber
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1932
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Despite a troubled production that witnessed the exits of both leading man (Phillips Holmes) and director (George...
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Anthony De Sola
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1932
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In this crime drama, an ambassador must become a police snitch for a corrupt vice squad and it nearly destroys his career....
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1931
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A socially prominent wife must choose between avoiding scandal and her own happiness in this British drama. According to...
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Colin Graham
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1931
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The continental-flavored comedy drama Beloved Bachelor was based on a play by Edward H. Peple. Unmarried sculptor Paul Lukas...
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Michael Morda
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1931
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Never one to hide his talent under a bushel basket, director Rouben Mamoulien proudly proclaimed that, while there were ten...
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Big Fella Maskal
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1931
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Count Di Ruva
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1931
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An aspiring artist leaves his wife and daughter when he gets a chance to spend a year studying in Paris in this melodrama....
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Julien Fields
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1931
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Working Girls is a slight, dated, but still entertaining comedy, typical of its era. Louise Adams (Frances Dee) and her...
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1931
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Passing herself off as a countess, glamorous Lucy Stavrin (Evelyn Brent) hobnobs with the rich and famous along the French...
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Malatroff
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1930
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Adolph Mohler
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1930
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In this sassy romantic comedy, Clive Brook plays Neil Dunlap, a lawyer who is heartbroken when his wife leaves him. Neil is...
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Gustav Saxon
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1930
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In this convoluted drama, the jolly painted face of a circus clown is but a mask for an avaricious, ruthlessly ambitious,...
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1930
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George Cukor received his first film directorial credit for Grumpy, though he was contractually bound to share billing with...
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1930
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Aerial photography highlights this early sound actioner, set during World War I. Lt. Robert Banks (Charles "Buddy" Rogers),...
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Von Baden
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1930
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Nancy Carroll brings a touch of freshness to the well-worn plot convolutions of Devil's Holiday. Ms. Carroll plays a...
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1930
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In this melodrama, two young people fall in love and desire to wed, but their union is opposed by their families. As a...
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Eric
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1930
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The disastrous 1929 Stock Market crash was still several months in the future when Wolf of Wall Street made its screen debut....
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David Tyler
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1929
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In this murder mystery, set in a carnival, a performer loses her boyfriend, a trapeze artist, when his partner "accidently"...
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Nick
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1929
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Carlee Thorpe (Buddy Rogers) and Claire Jernigan (Nancy Carol) enjoy considerable success with their vaudeville magic act....
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1929
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1928
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Bailey
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1928
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Nancy Carroll stars in Manhattan Cocktail as Babs, a college coed who dreams of becoming a famous actress. Joining up with...
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Boris Renov
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1928
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Victorien Sardou's 1882 stage play Fedora was transformed by future director John Farrow into the Pola Negri vehicle The...
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Vladimir
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1928
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1928
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Baroness Gerda Wallentin (Pola Negri) walks out on her philandering husband Count Dietrich (Paul Lukas) and heads to Vienna....
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Count Dietrich Wallentin
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1928
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Another of Goldwyn's successful pairings of Ronald Colman and Vilma Banky, Two Lovers was the last of their co-starring...
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1928
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Capt. Corlaix
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1928
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