A former fighter's younger brother decides that he too wants to enter the squared circle and so leaves his native Maine to...
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1958
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Joe Besser's French wartime girlfriend, Fifi (Vanda Dupre), moves in next door to the boys in this Three Stooges comedy...
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1958
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A locked-in-the-fifties science fiction film, The 27th Day begins with five different people from five different countries...
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1957
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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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As was his custom, producer/director Stanley Kramer made some iconoclastic casting decisions when mounting his $5 million...
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1957
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One screen legend tips his hat to another as James Cagney portrays horror film icon Lon Chaney in Man of a Thousand Faces....
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1957
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A bizarre western that at times veers dangerously close to outright burlesque, Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend concluded Randolph...
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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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Containing a wealth of stock footage from the earlier Fuelin' Around (1949), this Three Stooges two-reeler features a gang of...
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1956
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Our Miss Brooks had been a radio and TV sitcom hit thanks to the considerable input of star Eve Arden. The film version of...
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1956
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In this drama, two prospectors search the Colorado Territory for precious radioactive metal. They find large deposits and...
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Navajo Charlie
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1956
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In this drama, a divinity student endeavors to help the police break up the rackets by impersonating his jailed brother, a...
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1955
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1955
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Cub reporter Jimmy Olsen (Jack Larson) is mistaken for Prince Gregory of Burgonia (Chet Marshall), who has been targeted for...
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1955
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Following Gypped in the Penthouse, a rare original comedy short, the battle-fatigued Three Stooges returned to revamping one...
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1955
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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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For their final two-reel comedy of 1954, the Three Stooges remade their earlier The Hot Scots (1948), playing detective...
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1954
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1954
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According to some eyewitness reports, the feud between Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis was at its peak during the filming of...
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1954
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A remake of the Three Stooges' earlier Squareheads of the Round Table, this two-reel comedy features the boys as troubadours...
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1954
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A remake, with stock footage, of the earlier Fiddlers Three (1948), this Three Stooges comedy short features the boys as...
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1954
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Completed in 1953, Dragon's Gold was released by United Artists early the following year. John Archer (the father of...
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1954
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Shelley Winters was still in the sex-symbol phase of her career when she headed the cast of Universal's Playgirl....
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1954
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Yankee Pasha has the potential for silliness, but is commendably played straight by most of the participants (exceptions...
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1954
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When two scientists at a top-secret government installation devoted to space research are killed -- in their own test...
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Dr. Elzevir
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1954
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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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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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1953
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A good man tries to warn his daughter away from a bad man who has stolen her heart in this melodrama. Steve Latimer...
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1953
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The first of two misguided Three Stooges comedy shorts released in 3-D, Spooks mainly consisted of flying pies as the boys...
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1953
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Set in the southernmost regions of Texas, Ride, Vaquero stars Robert Taylor as a steely-eyed gunman named Rio. In league with...
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1953
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1953
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Project X, an experimental nuclear reactor located just outside of Metropolis, runs out of control and threatens the city and...
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1953
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This slam-bang episode opens with a montage of highlights from previous Superman entries, illustrating a crime wave that has...
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1953
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Whether true or not (evidence indicates "not"), the legend of Captain John Smith and Pochahontas is one of history's great...
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1953
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Though it isn't obvious at first glance, Three Sailors and a Girl is the fourth screen version of the George S. Kaufman stage...
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1953
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When the Bowery Boys go to visit a friend on an Air Force base, they are pulled into an investigation to discover why their...
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1953
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Pride of St. Louis is the story of one of baseball's most colorful characters, Jerome Herman "Dizzy" Dean. While playing...
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1952
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1952
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The tendency is to scoff at Macao as just another example of Josef von Sternberg's late-career exercises in exoticism; true,...
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1952
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In this swashbuckling adventure-satire, Kashma Baba's famous father Ali, sends the reluctant youth to military school to...
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1952
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Fans of Loretta Young were rather taken aback by the early scenes of Because of You, wherein Young is seen as brash,...
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1952
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Generous portions of stock footage from 1948's Joan of Arc are somehow worked into the Arabian Nights proceedings of Thief of...
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1952
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In this Yukon adventure, a gold mining community is rocked by a murder. A Mountie investigates and encounters a female...
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1952
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Dependable supporting actor John Litel is top-billed in the independently produced Two Dollar Bettor. Litel plays John...
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1951
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The Desert Fox is a superb filmed biography of German general Erwin Rommel, concentrating on the period between his retreat...
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1951
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The Bowery Boys once more frolic about in an "old dark house" setting in Ghost Chasers. The story finds Slip Mahoney...
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1951
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In the first two-reel comedy of 1951, the Three Stooges fall into possession of Aladdin's famous lamp, conjuring up what...
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1951
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His Kind of Woman directed by veteran John Farrow, is a convoluted mystery thriller which tries unsuccessfully to combine...
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1951
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Auteur theorists may have trouble discerning the "signature" of director Phil Karlson in the Columbia costume adventure Mask...
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1951
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At Sword's Point is about the sons of Dumas' Three Musketeers--one of those "sons" being of the female persuasion, played by...
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1951
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For his initial effort from his own Norma Productions, Burt Lancaster picked a winner in Ten Tall Men. Lancaster stars as...
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1951
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1951
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Dorothy Patrick is The Blonde Bandit in this Republic time-filler. The script establishes a degree of sympathy for Gloria...
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1950
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Back in the 1930s, '40s and '50s, artist George Petty was famous for his "Petty Girl" illustrations; lovingly detailed...
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1950
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Between Midnight and Dawn is a solid, no-frills detective drama from the Columbia studio mills. Mark Stevens and...
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1950
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Faith Domergue, the latest of Howard Hughes' protegees, made her film debut in 1950's Where Danger Lives. Domergue plays...
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1950
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The Jackpot is a generally pleasing satire of quiz programs. James Stewart stars as Bill Lawrence, an average Joe who picks...
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1950
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Set just after the close of the Civil War, a former Confederate officer (Ray Milland) joins a vaudeville target-shooting show...
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1950
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Classic comedy is on the menu in this home video collection that serves up a trio of Three Stooges short subjects featuring...
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1950
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Columbia's final release for 1950 was the Gene Autry western Indian Territory. Set during the Reconstruction Era, the story...
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1950
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Recreating his stage role, Jose Ferrer stars as Edmond Rostand's Cyrano, a 17th-century French cavalier, poet and swordsman...
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1950
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Taken (as far as possible) from the Cole Porter musical comedy of the same name, Red, Hot and Blue stars Betty Hutton as an...
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1949
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This modern-day "Faust" variation benefits from a superb cast. Thomas Mitchell plays Joseph Foster, an honest judge who wants...
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1949
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Shemp fans rejoice! This home video release collects three classic Three Stooges comedies with Shemp Howard starring...
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1949
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1949
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When a priceless diamond is stolen from a museum exhibition all suspicion falls upon the notorious Lone Wolf, a former jewel...
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1949
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1949
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In this drama, a killer and a driver accidently run over a girl while fleeing a murder scene. The pursuing detective is sure...
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1948
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The Lady From Shanghai, a complex, involving puzzle-within-a-puzzle mystery story, is a showcase for Orson Welles, showing...
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1948
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April Showers stars Jack Carson and Ann Sothern as a pair of small-time vaudevillians whose act gets nowhere until their...
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1948
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FBI operative Mark Stevens is dispatched by his boss Lloyd Nolan to infiltrate a criminal gang. Stevens ingratiates himself...
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1948
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1948
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1948
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This time we're in ancient Egypt, where the Three Stooges own a used-chariot dealership ("I'm Honest Moe, he's Honest Shemp,...
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1948
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In this drama, an egomaniacal producer freely treads upon those around him without regard to the harm he does. The devoted...
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1948
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The Three Stooges play troubadours of the Middle Ages in this comic short. It opens with Shemp stuck in his armor suit -- "I...
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1948
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Even after three appearances as oriental sleuth Charlie Chan, Roland Winters showed no interest in taking the role seriously....
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1948
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1948
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Filmed on standing sets from Columbia's Bandits of Sherwood Forest (1946), this average Three Stooges comedy featured the...
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1948
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A man who dreams of seeing the future discovers the horrible burden that it can carry in this film noir suspense story....
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1948
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Filmed almost entirely on location, Walk a Crooked Mile was Columbia Pictures' "answer" to 20th Century-Fox's late-1940s...
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1948
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Singing cowboy Monte Hale plays "himself" in the Republic western Last Frontier Uprising. Actually, he's not really himself,...
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1947
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Slave Girl is the sort of fare that the Universal higher-ups used to dismiss as "tits and sand;" nonetheless, this kind of...
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1947
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The longest-running non-musical play in Broadway history, Life With Father was faithfully filmed by Warner Bros. in 1947....
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1947
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When wealthy Ballin Mundson (George Macready) rescues down at his heels gambler Johnny Farrell (Glenn Ford) and invites him...
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1946
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1946
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1946
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Joe Hilton (Warren Douglas), long on looks and ambition but short on ethics, takes immediate advantage when his gambler...
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Oney Kessel
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1946
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This gripping, gritty film noir begins as a mortally wounded physician staggers into the apartment of a vicious vixen, the...
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1946
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In this first entry in the pugilistic comedy series based on Ham Fishers long-running comic strip, Joe Palooka is seen before...
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1946
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The Technicolor swashbuckler Bandit of Sherwood Forest stars Cornel Wilde as Robert of Nottingham, son of the legendary Robin...
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1946
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George Taylor (John Hodiak) is a war veteran suffering from amnesia with only two clues to his past: the bitter letter from...
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1946
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Avalanche offers an IRS man as a hero, meaning that there isn't much chance of this particular film being remade! Treasury...
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1946
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Faced with the challenge of writing a screenplay based on the life of fabulously wealthy, fabulously successful composer Cole...
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1946
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The title states the case in Monogram's Don't Gamble with Strangers. It's all about a pair of crooked gamblers, Mike...
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1946
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Monsieur Beaucaire, Booth Tarkington's novel about an 18th-century French barber who poses as a swashbuckling aristocrat, was...
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1946
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I Love a Bandleader is an easy-to-take vehicle for personable orchestra leader Phil Harris. "Old Curly" is cast as...
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1945
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Outlaws of the Rockies is the fourth of Columbia's revitalized "Durango Kid" series. Charles Starrett is back in the saddle...
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Dan Chantry
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1945
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In another of her series of romantic desert adventures, popular actress Maria Montez is this time Naila, the newly crowned...
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1945
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Boston Blackie's Rendezvous quite transcended its B-picture origins, and was easily the best of Columbia's "Boston Blackie"...
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1945
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1945
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This drama is based on a Broadway play, One Against Seven, which in turn is based on the Russian play Pobyeda. Set during WW...
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Galkronye
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1945
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In this musical, an unemployed swing-band singer cannot hook up with another group and so becomes a switchboard operator at a...
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1944
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Burlesque queen Ann Corio took time out of her runway activities in the 1940s to star in three Monogram features, of which...
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1944
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Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy play janitors for a detective agency who pose as super-sleuths when they're hired to protect...
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1944
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1944
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This lavish, 145-minute cinemadaptation of the Pearl Buck best-seller Dragon Seed was intended by MGM as a followup to the...
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1944
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Opening in England during the middle of World War II, A Guy Named Joe tells the story of Pete Sandidge (Spencer Tracy), a...
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1944
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The Unwritten Code is an offbeat, better-than-average Columbia wartime "B" picture. Though Ann Savage and Tom Neal are...
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1944
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In many ways the most endearing of Universal's B-grade "monster rallies" of the 1940s, House of Frankenstein manages within...
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1944
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World War II rears its ugly head in this patriotic (if somewhat nonsensical) Tarzan picture. When a Nazi pilot (Rex Williams)...
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1943
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Hangmen Also Die is set in Czechoslovakia during the Nazi occupation. Czech loyalist Brian Donlevy assassinates the vicious...
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1943
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The Andrews Sisters harmonize their way through yet another 60-minute Universal musical quickie. The plot this time concerns...
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1943
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During WWII, Johnny Weissmuller and his Tarzan character proved useful for Allied propaganda purposes. In the film...
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1943
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1943
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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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After gathering dust for nearly a year, the independently produced The Deerslayer attained a national release through...
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1943
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Set in wartime (WW II), this film finds the fat guy, skinny guy comedy duo not much good at any attempted professions; they...
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1943
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At 49 minutes, Murder on the Waterfront was the shortest-ever Warner Bros. B picture. Alas, brevity is not the soul of wit in...
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1943
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1942
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This Irving Asher production was that rarity, a genuine B-movie from posh MGM. Set in a pre-Pearl Harbor United States, Nazi...
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1942
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Better known as Reunion in France, this women's-magazine-style romantic melodrama was the first major production for director...
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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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1942
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In this war comedy, an army reject becomes a war hero by rounding up a ring of Nazi spies. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1942
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Scripted by Irwin Shaw from a story by C. S. Forester (of "Captain Horatio Hornblower" fame), Commandos Strike at Dawn is a...
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1942
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The winner of four Oscar nominations, Wake Island was one of the first major Hollywood films to deal with America's forced...
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1942
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The cast and crew of Paramount's "Hopalong Cassidy" Westerns returned once again to Lone Pine's famous Alabama Hills for this...
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1941
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The Nazis are clearly the villains in So Ends Our Night, but since the film was made before America's entry into World War...
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1941
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Fred MacMurray is a breezy New York street photographer; Mary Martin is a small town girl hoping to make her fortune in the...
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1941
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Made just before America's entry into World War II, Paris Calling is one of the earliest French Underground adventures. When...
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1941
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Orson Welles first feature film -- which he directed, produced, and co-wrote, as well as playing the title role -- proved to...
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1941
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A girl reporter discovers that her own father runs a shady "school of fine arts" (read brothel) in this independently made...
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King Peterson
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1941
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World War II was just heating up, but the U.S. hadn't yet entered the fighting when the Three Stooges made this comic short....
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1940
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