Famed archeologist Rick Banning has mysteriously vanished after reports surfaced claiming that he had unearthed the mythical...
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2007
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1992
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Here's a look back at a bunch of the funniest scenes that appeared in the long-running Red Skelton Hour series. ~ Rovi...
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1991
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1989
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The Beach Party Gang meets a coterie of muscle-men who try to take over their spot on the beach in Muscle Beach Party....
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1964
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Toward the end of Jerry Lewis's Paramount studio period, Lewis slapped together this bitter comedy about Hollywood phoniness...
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1964
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On the verge of bankruptcy, undertaker Vincent Price hits upon a novel method of drumming up business. Together with his...
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Felix Gillie
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1964
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Although Roger Corman narrowly managed to avoid self-mockery in his pulpy, flamboyant adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe tales,...
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Dr. Adolphus Bedlo
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1963
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1962
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With Five Weeks in a Balloon, 20th Century-Fox hoped to cash on the success of the studio's earlier Jules Verne adaptation...
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Ahmed
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1962
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Montresor
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1962
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Walter Pidgeon is the nominal star of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, portraying Admiral Harriman Nelson, the designer of...
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Cmdre. Lucius Emery
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1961
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This is a pilot program for television that was never produced. This is about a pair of art dealers who constantly become...
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1960
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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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Smiley
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1960
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One of the best-remembered of all the Alfred Hitchcock Presents episodes, "Man From the South" is a typically twisted tale...
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1960
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Victor Mature, in one of his last leading man performances, plays Hank Whirling, the owner of a financially shaky circus who...
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Skeeter
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1959
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The Buster Keaton Story is the sublimely inaccurate life story of immortal film comedian Buster Keaton, played by...
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Kurt Bergner
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1957
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Abdul
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1957
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Brankov
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1957
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This semicomic Playhouse 90 episode was based on a true case history, as related in The 50 Minute Hour, a book by...
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Dr. Ostrow
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1957
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Future "Master of Disaster" Irwin Allen produced this curious but inarguably fascinating adaptation of...
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Nero
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1957
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In this South Seas adventure, a sea captain teams up with lovely island princess help her vanquish the brutal smugglers who...
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1957
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While on vacation in Mexico, a wealthy woman dies in the back seat of the car owned by her daughter Janet (Mary Scott) and...
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1957
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Razzle-dazzle showman Michael Todd hocked everything he had to make this spectacular presentation of Jules Verne's 1872 novel...
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1956
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A whole slew of guest stars makes Meet Me in Las Vegas a special treat for movie buffs. The central plot concerns wealthy...
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1956
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This crime drama comes from an episode of the Climax TV series. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1956
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George Nader stars as David Carr, a construction engineer operating in the Belgian Congo. In true jingoistic fashion, Carr...
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Col. Arragas
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1956
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1955
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1955
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With cheerful shamelessness, Walt Disney managed to use several first-season episodes of his Disneyland TV anthology to plug...
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1955
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This live television adaptation of Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel, Casino Royale, much more closely adheres to the...
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Le Chiffre
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1954
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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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Conseil
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1954
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Humphrey Bogart stars as one of five disreputable adventurers who are trying to get uranium out of East Africa. Bogart's...
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O'Hara
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1953
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Der Verloreue (The Lost One) was the only directorial effort by actor Peter Lorre. In keeping with Lorre's established screen...
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Director, Screenwriter, Dr. Karl Rothe
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1951
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The presence of Peter Lorre assured a modicum of American business for the British meller Double Confession. It all begins...
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Paynter
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1950
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Mickey Rooney, with his kid roles and musicals behind him, went for a major change of image in this harrowing film noir. He...
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Nick Dramoshag, Penny Arcade Owner
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1950
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Producer Hal Wallis evidently hoped to recapture the magic of his earlier Casablanca with 1949's Rope of Sand. To that end,...
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Toady
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1949
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Casbah is a musical remake of the 1938 film Algiers, which was itself a remake of the French film Pepe Le Moko. Tony Martin...
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Slimane
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1948
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Kismet
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1947
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On the eve of the Chinese New Year, three strangers make a pact before a small statue of the Chinese goddess of Destiny. The...
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Johnny West
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1946
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This movie is an early horror film classic and certainly one that a well-rounded horror movie aficionado should not miss. An...
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Hilary Cummins
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1946
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Originally slated for release through Monogram Pictures, The Chase was ultimately distributed by United Artists. Adapted by...
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Gino
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1946
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With an ingenious script by Roy Chanslor, this modest, but imaginative film noir is notable for the strong performance by...
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Marko
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1946
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The novel The Big Bow Mystery by Israel Zangwill had been filmed in 1928 as The Perfect Crime and again in 1934 as The Crime...
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Victor Emmeric
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1946
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Vicki Baum, the author of the novel Grand Hotel, also wrote this similarly structured tale about a group of disparate...
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Johannes Koenig
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1945
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Contreras
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1945
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Designed as a followup to the enormously successful Casablanca, Passage to Marseille utilizes the talents of many of the on-...
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Marius
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1944
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Zachary Scott made his screen debut in this clever bit of film noir that has gained a cult reputation in recent years. Dutch...
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Cornelius Latimer Leyden
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1944
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The West Coast's answer to Broadway's Stage Door Canteen, the Hollywood Canteen was created as a GI morale-booster by film...
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1944
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This Casablanca-esque spy thriller set during WWII centers on the exploits of the notorious "Flying Dutchman," a fugitive...
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Bernazsky
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1944
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Dr. Einstein
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1944
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Warner Bros.' The Constant Nymph was the third filmization of Margaret Dean's 1924 novel; the first two were filmed in...
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Fritz Bercovi
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1943
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The time is World War II. A group of disillusioned French soldiers are approached by Nazi troops and promised safe passage to...
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1943
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Zaleshoff
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1943
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One of the most beloved American films, this captivating wartime adventure of romance and intrigue from director...
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Ugarte
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1942
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Universal's "Invisible Man" series does its bit for the war effort in this slyly tongue-in-cheek action melodrama. Jon Hall...
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Baron Ikito
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1942
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Dr. Lorentz
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1942
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In this low-budget thriller (which developed something of a cult following among film buffs in the '60s and '70s),...
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Janos Szabo
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1941
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They Met in Bombay is a typical MGM star vehicle, in which the leading players are called upon to carry a pencil-thin...
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Capt. Chang
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1941
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Humphrey Bogart plays Gloves Donahue, a rough-hewn but essentially decent New York gambler. The Runyonesque plot gets moving...
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1941
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After two previous film versions of Dashiell Hammett's detective classic The Maltese Falcon, Warner Bros. finally got it...
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Joel Cairo
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1941
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There were two separate 1940s film series inspired by Philips H. Lord's radio weekly Mr. District Attorney; the first was...
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Paul Hyde
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1941
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Prof. Fenninger
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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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Cochon,Monsieur Pig
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1940
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Though he doesn't speak his first line of dialogue until the film's final ten minutes, Peter Lorre spiritually dominates the...
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Stranger
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1940
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Steve Danel
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1940
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Actress/ballerina Vera Zorina stars as a phony countess, working in cahoots with two international con artists...
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Polo
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1940
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Japanese detective Mr. Moto finds himself hip-deep in international espionage in this adventure tale. In Port Said, a pair of...
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Mr. Moto
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1939
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Mr. Moto
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1939
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In this fourth of 20th Century-Fox's "Mr. Moto" series, a beautiful young aviatrix (Rochelle Hudson) on a secret diplomatic...
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Mr. Moto
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1938
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In this mystery programmer, a prizefighter dies in the midst of a match, but evidence suggests that it was a dose of poison...
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Mr. Moto
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1938
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This eighth (and final) entry in 20th Century-Fox's "Mr. Moto" series once again stars Peter Lorre as J. P. Marquand's...
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Mr. Moto
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1938
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Peter Lorre makes his fifth appearance as J. P. Marquand's polite but deadly Japanese sleuth Mr. Moto. This time Moto is...
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Mr. Moto
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1938
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In this upbeat drama, a disillusioned millionaire, sick to death of the attempts of greedy friends and relatives to sponge...
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Louie
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1938
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Set during World War I, Lancer Spy stars a young George Sanders as Michael Bruce, an officer in the British Navy who bears an...
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Maj. Sigfried Gruning
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1937
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Nancy Steele was the baby daughter of a munitions tycoon who was kidnapped by an antiwar activist who did it to protest the...
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Prof. Sturm
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1937
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Col. Gimpy
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1937
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The second of eight 1930s films based on J. P. Marquand's Japanese detective, Thank You, Mr. Moto finds Moto (Peter Lorre)...
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Mr. Moto
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1937
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Think Fast, Mr. Moto was the first of 20th Century-Fox's movie series based on the wily Japanese sleuth created by...
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Mr. Moto
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1937
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Based on the novels of W. Somerset Maugham, The Secret Agent is the second in a trilogy of Alfred Hitchcock spy movies (along...
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The General
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1936
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In his first American film, Peter Lorre portrays egg-bald Dr. Gogol. A brilliant and highly respected surgeon, Gogol would...
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Dr. Gogol
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1935
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Raskolnikov
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1935
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The first film version of The Man Who Knew too Much proved to be the international "breakthrough" film for British director...
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Abbott
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1934
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This deluxe German/British production was originally released as simply F.P. 1. The story and characterizations take a back...
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Johnny, a reporter
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1933
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In this pre-WWII German mystery-comedy, a lovely klepto with a taste for fine jewelry is unable to resist temptation....
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Otto Fussli
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1933
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This comedy of manners, set within a Viennese community, centers upon an uneducated soccer player who ends up being tutored...
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1933
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In this thriller, a corrupt business magnate wants to buy a financially troubled oil company. He hires a hitman to kill the...
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1933
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1932
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Popular German film star Hans Albers plays the brother of drug-addicted opera star Gerda Maurus. When Albers takes Gerda to a...
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1932
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The titular group is not a musical aggregation but a German acrobatic team. The lovely but unathletic Jenny Jugo is...
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1932
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A sedentary little German town is thrown into a tizzy when several trunks show up from Cairo, Egypt, all marked "O.F." This...
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1932
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1932
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1932
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A robbery and a betrayal begin this convoluted crime drama. Following a robbery, jewel thieves Dr. Sandegg and Klotz demand...
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1932
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Fritz Lang's classic early talkie crime melodrama is set in 1931 Berlin. The police are anxious to capture an elusive child...
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Franz Becker
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1931
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Despite its title, the German musical comedy Bomben auf Monte Carlo is not a war picture -- not in the traditional sense,...
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1931
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The queen wants to take a vacation, and she wants passage aboard a ship whose crew is waiting for their pay. The captain has...
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1931
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