Where Is Parsifal? -- he (Tony Curtis) is in a castle surrounded by nutcakes, himself a hypochondriac who has invented a...
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Montague Chippendale
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1984
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Again hoping to leave a legacy so that he will be remembered after his death, George Jefferson (Sherman Hemsley) hits upon...
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1981
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A medical student decides to enter the world of boxing and dives into a life of superficial values and corruption in this...
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Big Man
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1981
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It's the ladies to the rescue in the low-budget actioner Angel's Brigade. Wearing form-fitting fatigues, the female stars...
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1979
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1979
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In this made-for-TV adventure, six men end up marooned on a remote South Sea island and find themselves having to deal with...
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1979
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The long-running Aaron Spelling TV series Fantasy Island was launched with a two-hour pilot film, which originally aired...
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1977
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This spoof makes fun of a certain famous German shepherd movie star from the 1920s. The mayhem begins when the head honcho...
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1976
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1975
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Based on a novel by Joan Hemingway and Paul Bonnecarrere, Rosebud opens with five young women vacationing aboard a luxurious...
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1975
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It's ironic that MGM, in such dire financial straits in 1974 that it was selling its fabled back lot and auctioning off...
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Narrator
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1974
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In this thriller, an enigmatic phantom lives in the dank tunnels running beneath the ramshackle back lot of a former movie...
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1974
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Worried that she's losing her powers, Samantha's lookalike cousin, Serena, decides to settle down to mortal-hood. So that she...
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1972
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A small-town California sheriff attempts to uncover facts behind the killing of a pregnant woman by her Doberman pinscher....
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1972
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Jim Hutton and Anjanette Comer have the misfortune to be honeymooning while a forest fire ranges all around them. But that's...
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1971
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This crime drama from the 1970s examines the experiences of a Vietnam vet who gets involved with illegal drugs. In time he...
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1971
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Ellery Queen
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1971
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1970
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In this Cold War comedy, a handsome American rake falls for a communist female athlete in Greece. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1970
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Rat-pack pals Sammy Davis Jr. and Peter Lawford reprise their roles of Charlie Salt and Chris Pepper, respectively, in this...
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Chris Pepper / Lord Sydney Pepper
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1970
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Virtually the first third of The April Fools takes place at a trendy party held by sharkish executive Ted Gunther...
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Ted Gunther
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1969
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This comedy begins when Peter Ingersoll (Jerry Lewis) hears from Dr. Carter (Peter Lawford) that he has only a few months to...
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Scott Carter
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1969
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An international cast headlines this espionage comedy that centers on a world-wide hunt for stolen American defense papers....
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Dain
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1969
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Justin Young
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1968
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Christopher Pepper
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1968
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Producer and director Otto Preminger reportedly experimented with LSD in the late 60's, which inspired him to make this...
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1968
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1967
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Cavalrymen and hostile Indian warriors battle each other in this western. ~ Rovi...
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1967
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In this made-for-TV crime melodrama, Robert Wagner plays a handsome ex-GI determined to wreak vengeance on millionaire...
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1967
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A star-studded cast invigorates this film of a jazz trumpeter (Sammy Davis Jr.) who experiences both the prejudices of the...
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Manny
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1966
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A heartless actor scrambles to the top of show business' sleazy summit in this drama. Frank Fane (Stephen Boyd) is a...
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1966
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1965
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There has never been any love lost between handsome, dissolute playboy Ernest Mullett (Peter Lawford) and his homely,...
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Ernest Mullett
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1965
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Frederick Summers
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1965
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Though he's most famous for his portrayal of Victor Laszlo in 1942's Casablanca, actor Paul Henreid took a few turns behind...
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Tony Collins
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1964
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Executive Producer
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1963
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The first of Allen Drury "all names changed to protect the guilty" political novels, Advise and Consent was brought to the...
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1962
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The Longest Day is a mammoth, all-star re-creation of the D-Day invasion, personally orchestrated by Darryl F. Zanuck....
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1962
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The 1939 adventure classic Gunga Din is transferred from British India to the American West, courtesy of Frank Sinatra's...
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Sgt. Larry Barrett
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1962
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Produced and directed by Otto Preminger, Exodus is a 212-minute screen adaptation of the best-selling novel by Leon Uris. The...
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Maj. Caldwell
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1960
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During a Los Angeles Christmas, a group of 82nd Airborne vets assembles under the leadership of gamblin' man Danny Ocean...
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Jimmy Foster
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1960
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Popular Mexican comedian Cantinflas (Mario Moreno) plays the title character in this star-studded, amusing comedy drama by...
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1960
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Capt. Grey Travis
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1959
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Nick Charles
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1958
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1958
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Nick Charles
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1957
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Lord George Vane-Brinstead
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1957
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Adapted by Hagar Wilde from his own 1946 Broadway play, this TV version of Made in Heaven offered the once-in-a-lifetime...
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1956
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1955
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Forced to leave New York in a hurry, impoverished gambler Charlie Raymond (Peter Lawford) answers a newspaper ad from a...
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1955
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Gladys Glover (Judy Holliday) is an unsuccessful model and actress who believes that a jolt of publicity will do her career a...
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Evan Adams III
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1954
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Peter Lawford goes through his standard "rich, spoiled young playboy" paces in the MGM comedy Just This Once. In danger of...
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Mark MacLene IV
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1952
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Besotted by alcohol, Australian cattle-station owner Michael McGuire (Finlay Currie) is led to believe that crooked gambler...
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Richard Connor
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1952
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Nicholas Revel
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1952
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Rogue's March was described by one observer as an eastern western. A mustachioed Peter Lawford stars as Capt. Dion Lenbridge...
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Capt. Dion Lenbridge
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1952
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You for Me stars Peter Lawford as a profligate playboy who's a nice guy underneath. After suffering a hunting accident which...
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Tony Brown
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1952
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Two real-life events were incorporated into the plot of the 1951 MGM musical Royal Wedding. One, the marriage of...
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Lord John Brindale
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1951
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Producer Val Lewton abandoned the "psychological horror" efforts of his RKO days when he moved to MGM in 1950. Lewton's...
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Jeremy Taylor
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1950
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Of the many film versions of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, this 1949 MGM adaptation is by far the prettiest. Set in New...
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Laurie Laurence
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1949
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One of the more palatable of Hollywood's anti-communist tracts of the late 1940s-early 1950s was MGM's The Red Danube....
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Maj. John "Twingo" McPhimister
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1949
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Fred Astaire had announced his retirement before the cameras began to roll on Easter Parade, but he decided to accept the...
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Jonathan Harrow III
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1948
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The title of this MGM musical alone should tip you to the fact that Esther Williams is the star. In this one, she plays a...
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Lt. Lawrence Y. Kingslee
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1948
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Ritchie Lorgan
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1948
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1947
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It Happened in Brooklyn was released at a time when the mere mention of the eponymous New York borough elicited loud laughter...
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Jamie Shellgrove
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1947
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In later years, director Fred Zinneman seldom referred to My Brother Talks to Horses as one of his career highpoints. Even...
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John S. Penrose
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1946
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The time is just prior to World War II. Lovely Cluny Brown (Jennifer Jones) is the niece of a London plumber; when her uncle...
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Andrew Carmel
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1946
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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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Lawrence Tyburt Patterson Jr
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1946
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The presence of William Powell as legendary showman Flo Ziegfeld at the beginning of Ziegfeld Follies might lead an...
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1946
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David Stone
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1945
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Son of Lassie is about a courageous collie named Laddie, played by a dog named "Pal". A sequel to Lassie Come Home, the film...
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Joe Curraclough
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1945
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The usual modus operandi for Hollywood "through the years" sagas was to gradually age its young actors in the course of the...
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Lord Thornley
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1944
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The White Cliffs of Dover is one of those overlong MGM wartime films that everyone seems to have seen a part of, but no one...
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1944
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Anthony de Canterville
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1944
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Though technically a Republic "B", the 58-minute The Purple V has glossy production values commensurate to a top-of-the-bill...
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1943
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Don "Red" Barry took a break from westerns to star in the fair-to-middling sentimental drama The West Side Kid. Barry is cast...
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1943
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Jean-Pierre Aumont (billed simply as Pierre Aumont) makes his American film debut in Assignment in Brittany. Set during WW2,...
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1943
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Pilot No. 5 is an oddly liberal-minded film to come from conservative old MGM. Franchot Tone plays an army pilot stationed in...
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1943
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Mabel Paige, one of Hollywood's most beloved character actresses, was given her one-and-only starring role in this Republic...
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1943
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If you believe all-American Fred MacMurray as an Oxford don, you'll probably swallow the rest of Above Suspicion. Newly...
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1943
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There are those who consider Sherlock Holmes Faces Death to be the best of Universal's Holmes series, though others hold out...
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1943
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Randolph Scott was the star of Corvette K-225, a tribute to the World War II corvette escorts which guided Allied convoys...
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1943
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1943
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1943
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This second film version of the George and Ira Gershwin's Broadway hit Girl Crazy stars reigning MGM musical prince and...
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1943
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1943
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In this drama set at the end of WW I, Sgt. Jocko Wilson leaves England to return to Australia. He brings with him, two...
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1943
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This French Underground melodrama stars George Sanders as a seemingly apolitical Parisian doctor who is actually a resistance...
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1943
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Several veterans of the "Dead End Kids" series are prominently featured in the Columbia programmer Junior Army. Grown-up...
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1943
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1943
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On a secluded base in Arizona, veteran World War One pilot Steve Britt (Preston Foster) trains flyers to fight in World War...
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1942
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MGM's A Yank at Eton follows the same basic formula as the 1938 Robert Taylor starrer A Yank at Oxford, with a wartime angle...
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1942
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As Academy Award-winning films go, Mrs. Miniver has not weathered the years all that well. This prettified, idealized view of...
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1942
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In this thriller set in WW II London during the bombing raids, a surgeon becomes a homicidal maniac during the frequent...
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1942
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With America's Air Force not completely mobilized in mid-1942, Universal paid tribute to those foresighted Yankee flyboys who...
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1942
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At the close of World War I, shell-shocked amnesia victim Ronald Colman is sequestered in a London sanitarium; with no...
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1942
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Director Sam Wood always seemed most comfortable with cozy family-oriented films like Lord Jeff. Freddie Bartholomew plays...
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Benny Potter
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1938
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In this drama, a French judge, a womanizer when he is not upon the bench, is out on a date when he witnesses a murder. One...
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1931
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A guest who will not leave provides the basis of this comedy. The trouble begins when a soldier returns from the war and...
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1931
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