An offbeat 1970s black-comic Western with an all-star cast, this Joseph L. Mankiewicz film is set in 1883 in Arizona. Paris...
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1970
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This week, the Clampett family succumbs to the jogging craze. Naturally, Jethro and Elly May have no trouble keeping apace of...
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1969
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The second season of 12 O'Clock High opened with a shocker of an episode, in terms of killing off a central character. That...
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Lieutenant General Pritchard
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1965
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Sidney Pollack marked his feature film directing debut with this taut suspense drama, based upon an actual incident reported...
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1965
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The lively but somehow slightly distasteful The Americanization of Emily stars James Garner as a WWII naval officer who...
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1964
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The first season of this World War II series -- which was based on the 1949 feature film starring Gregory Peck and Dean...
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Lieutenant General Pritchard
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1964
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Captain Grey
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1959
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Captain Grey
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1958
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When Cecil B. DeMille was set to direct a re-make of his 1938 swashbuckler The Buccaneer and suddenly became ill, his...
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1958
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A mayoral candidate is booted out of town after he is gulled into a gunfight and kills his rival. This western chronicles...
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1957
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Based on a 1941 movie entitled Shepherd of the Hills, this is the story of a gunfighter who decides to return home after 17...
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1957
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Captain Grey
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1957
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1957
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This gritty crime drama is based on the true story of a Mexican news reporter who single-handedly takes on a crime...
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1957
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Danny Kaye spoofs medieval swashbucklers in this classic musical comedy. While the infant King of England awaits his rightful...
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1956
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Acting in self defense, Marshal Matt Dillon (James Arness) is forced to shoot down a rampaging farmer named Stoner (Paul...
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1956
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1956
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One of Dodge's finest citizens is shot down in cold blood on Front Street. Marshal Matt Dillon (James Arness) soon discovers...
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1956
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Esther Williams' long association with MGM came to an abrupt end with Jupiter's Darling, which even she will admit was her...
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1955
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Wisely cashing in on the enormous (and largely unexpected) success of his 1954 Davy Crockett TV miniseries, Walt Disney...
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1955
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In the second episode of Walt Disney's two-part miniseries The Legends of Davy Crockett, frontiersman Davy Crockett (Fess...
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1955
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Hammid Khassan
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1955
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A jewel thief is at large on the Riviera, and all evidence points to retired cat burglar Cary Grant. Escaping the law, Grant...
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1955
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Samuel and Bella Spewack's English adaptation of French playwright Albert Husson's morbidly humorous stage piece...
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1955
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Director Otto Preminger's only western, River of No Return is set in Canada during the 19th century Gold Rush. Farmer Matt...
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1954
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Demetrius and the Gladiators was the sequel to The Robe, and though they were released several months apart, the films were...
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1954
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They don't really go to Mars, they go to Venus, but first they go to New Orleans. While working at a missile base,...
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1953
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1953
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When Gloria Grahame signed her contract at Columbia Pictures, she had no idea the studio would require her to appear in...
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Thief No. 1
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1953
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One reviewer of Abbott & Costello's Lost in Alaska summed up the proceeding in three pithy words: "Lost is right." While not...
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1952
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1952
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Something to Live For is the last of director George Stevens' "small" films, before he concentrated full-time on such...
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1952
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One of several early-1950s films to capitalize on the Kefauver Committee's investigation of organized crime,...
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1952
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The Lawless Breed is based on the exploits of Texas bad man John Wesley Hardin, played here quite convincingly by...
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1952
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Gentlemanly William Powell is cast spectacularly but effectively against type in Treasure of the Lost Canyon. Powell plays...
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1952
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Bob Hope is up to his famous nose in danger in this espionage comedy. Second-rate burlesque comic Peanuts White (Hope) is...
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1951
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Randolph Scott stars as a former Confederate Army officer known only as "Sugarfoot." Hoping to start life anew in Arizona,...
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1951
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Callaway Went Thataway is an amiable spoof of early television's "Hopalong Cassidy" craze. Fred MacMurray and...
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1951
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David and Bathsheba is a respectable, slightly stodgy cinematic adaptation of the Old Testament story. King David...
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1951
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In this 1951 comedy Irene Dunne stars as Kay, a Manhattan-based songwriter who marries widowed rodeo cowboy Chris...
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1950
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Bright Leaf, a sprawling saga of the tobacco industry in North Carolina, began as a novel by Foster Fitzsimmons, a native...
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1950
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The Randolph Scott western Colt .45 was retitled for TV so as not to be confused with the TV series of the same name. The new...
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1950
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Betty Grable's Wabash Avenue is an agreeable remake of Grable's 1943 hit Coney Island. The locale is changed from New York to...
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1950
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The hero of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead is Howard Roark (Gary Cooper), a fiercely independent architect obviously patterned...
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1949
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1949
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1948
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John Garfield, in the best performance of his career, portrays Joe Morse, an ambitious attorney who has long since abandoned...
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1948
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In this western the two sons of the commanding officer of an outpost attempt to clear their father's name after he is...
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1948
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"Von Clausewitz said that war is the logical extension of diplomacy; Monsieur Verdoux feels that murder is the logical...
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1947
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1947
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In this war movie, set during WW II, a pilot must crash land in the Pacific after he is shot down. As he floats upon the...
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1947
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Bells of San Fernando was advertised as a romantic adventure, but it plays more like a Western. Donald Woods plays an Irish...
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Gueyon
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1947
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In this suspenseful, convoluted low-budget mystery, a Scotland Yard inspector travels to the Big Apple to investigate the...
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1947
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James Thurber wasn't too happy with the Sam Goldwyn film adaptation of his 1939 short story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,...
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1947
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Road to Rio was the first of three "Road" pictures jointly produced by stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. On the run from the...
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1947
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By 1946, MGM's musical output was in the hands of two men: the incisive, progressive Arthur Freed, and the sentimental,...
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1946
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The first "Road" picture in three years (the last was The Road to Morocco), Road to Utopia is set during the Alaskan gold...
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1946
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Just as Edgar C. Ulmer would at PRC around the same time, young Phil Karlson turned Monogram's almost nonexistent production...
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Bank Guard
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1945
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In this prison drama, a stern hanging judge is assigned to take over a chaotic prison. There he imposes an almost inhumanly...
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1945
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In this comedy drama a war hero returns home following a medical discharge and ends up entangled with a young woman speeding...
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1945
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Dismissed by critics as corny and obvious in 1944, this overlong but sincere biopic looks pretty good when seen today,...
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1944
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Lost in a Harem is arguably the best of Abbott & Costello's trio of MGM films; it's certainly the silliest, with any number...
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1944
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A sleepy hay-seed filled Arkansas town gets spotlight fever when a local sow bears an unprecedented 10 piglets. Suddenly...
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1944
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Wally Brown and Alan Carney, RKO's own Abbott and Costello ripoffs, star in the comedy western The Girl Rush. As usual, Brown...
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1944
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Lee Falk and Ray Moore's famous syndicated comic strip hero came to the screen in this 15 chapter serial produced by Rudolph...
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1943
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The racy, ribald Cole Porter musical Du Barry Was a Lady is here given a thorough dry-cleaning by prudish MGM....
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1943
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True to Life stars Dick Powell as a radio writer in search of saleable material. He comes up with a weekly sitcom about a...
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1943
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1942
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Slightly more elaborate than most Charles Starrett westerns, Down Rio Grande Way is set in the mid-19th century, when the...
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1942
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1942
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In this crime drama, a news editor writes a scandalous expose about a notorious gangster. The gangster then has the gall to...
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1942
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Though Republic Pictures had discontinued its "Higgins Family" series in 1940, the studio continued filming its stray...
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1941
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1941
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The marvelous rapport between stars Clark Gable and Lana Turner makes MGM's Honky Tonk seem far more substatianal than it...
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1941
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Down in San Diego was previewed as Young Americans, which is why prints still exist bearing both titles. The film is...
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1941
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Number ten in MGM's heart-warming (and immensely profitable) "Andy Hardy" series was the 1941 entry Life Begins for Andy...
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1941
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Hold That Ghost was the second of Abbott and Costello's starring films, but was held back from release in favor of their...
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1941
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1940
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1940
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Three years after the second Thin Man entry, MGM brought back the property by popular demand with Another Thin Man. As ever,...
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1939
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The "Lady" of the title is horse-farm owner Penelope Hollis (Ellen Drew), but during the first half of this film, bookie...
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1939
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This film is one of acclaimed director Fritz Lang's less noted achievements, a mixture of romance, comedy, drama, and satire....
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1938
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In this comedy, an American golf pro falls in love with a woman while visiting France; before long they are married and in...
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1938
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The legendary Cocoanut Grove nightclub is the setting for this all-star Paramount musical. Fred MacMurray heads the cast as...
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1938
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1937
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In this romance, a detective teams up with a count and travels to Budapest in search of an embezzler. While there, the two...
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1937
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The title doesn't refer to mosquitoes but to the amount of money that could be earned in the radio business of the 1930s....
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1935
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