Billy Winder directed and co-wrote this bitterly satiric comedy-drama which turns a jaundiced eye towards both the news media...
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Jacob Q. Boot
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1951
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And Sudden Death was inspired by a Reader's Digest article by Theodore Reeves, which later became one of the magazine's most...
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1936
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Wesley Ruggles's Arizona is an epic western set in an impoverished Arizona outpost. It tells the story of the feisty,...
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Lazarus Ward
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1940
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In its never-ending efforts to find a "rustic" screen personality to replace the late Will Rogers, Hollywood turned to...
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1938
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1949
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In his first film in two years, James Cagney stars as Nick Condon, the American editor of a pre-WW2 Tokyo newspaper. When two...
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Arthur Beckett
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1945
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In this high-spirited musical comedy, J. Newport Bates (Eddie Bracken) is a millionaire who finds women are only interested...
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1945
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Paramount's "Bulldog Drummond" series got off to a start with 1937's Bulldog Drummond Escapes. Up-and-coming Ray Milland...
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Merridew
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1937
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Though John Barrymore is top-billed in Bulldog Drummond's Peril, the aging matinee idol is consigned to the supporting role...
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1938
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Brandy Smith
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1942
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The tougher postwar screen image of James Stewart is given a good workout in the fact-based Carbine Williams. In 1952, the...
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1952
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The legs in question in this the second of Warner Bros. Perry Mason whodunits belong to Margy Clune (Patricia Ellis), the...
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1935
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George Seaton's 1948 comedy Chicken Every Sunday was based on the play by Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein as well as...
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1948
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In this drama, a gangster finds the woman of his dreams, but before he can have her he must frame her fiance. Meanwhile the...
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1938
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Set in the years leading up to the Civil War and its outbreak, Dark Command tells a fictionalized version of the story of...
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1940
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In this Western drama, Steve Upton (Randolph Scott) is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne...
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1943
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Mr. Jackson
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1944
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General Yang (Akim Tamiroff) is a politically ambitious Chinese bandit who holds the Northern districts in a grip of terror....
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Peter Perric
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1936
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It took some doing to persuade the staunchly Catholic Bing Crosby to play a happy-go-lucky priest in Going My Way; luckily he...
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1944
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In this drama, an ingenious journalist finds himself at odds with his brother the district attorney over his unconventional...
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1939
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After producing, writing and directing one hit film after another, Preston Sturges finally misfired with the biopic The Great...
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1944
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1951
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Frank Morgan stars as vaudevillian Henry Conroy, who puts show business behind him when he inherits a dilapidated Arizona...
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1939
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Murphy
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1940
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1952
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1937
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Intruder in the Dust is one of the best of Hollywood's postwar "racial tolerance" cycle--a cycle that would come to an abrupt...
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1949
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We never actually see J. Carroll Naish in Alcatraz, but there's no doubt he's the "king" of the title. Most of the action...
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1938
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Akim Tamiroff, Paramount Pictures' resident crime lord, runs all illegal gambling activities in a major city. Reporter...
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1937
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If there were any doubts that little Shirley Temple was all grown up by 1945, those doubts were disippated by her appearance...
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1945
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In this comedy, a WWI veteran gets married after receiving his bonus money from the government. His meddlesome aunts then...
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Spencer
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1937
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While not a box-office success, this drama, directed by Leo McCarey, developed a potent reputation among film critics and...
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1937
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The Whistler, the unseen mystery-story narrator of radio fame, relates another tale that he's gleaned from "walking by night"...
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Joe Sorsby
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1944
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Brash and vigorous director William Wellman always had a place in his filmography for movies glorifying the early years of...
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1938
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This wild, once-controversial comedy stars Betty Hutton as Trudy Kockenlocker, a man-crazy single girl whose favorite pastime...
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Justice of the Peace
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1944
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Edmund Gwenn plays Kris Kringle, a bearded old gent who is the living image of Santa Claus. Serving as a last-minute...
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1947
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"Mr. and Mrs. North" started as a series of comic articles about a Park Avenue married couple, written by Richard and Frances...
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1941
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Frank Capra's classic comedy-drama established James Stewart as a lead actor in one of his finest (and most archetypal)...
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1939
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Harry Beaumont, a director-composer most closely associated with MGM's musical product, does a nice job handling the...
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Murray
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1934
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Though it comes on much too strong at times, Murder, He Says fully justifies its present "cult" status. Professional pollster...
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Mr.Johnson
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1945
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Jonathan Randall
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1941
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Burned-out British intellectual Alan Squier (Leslie Howard) wanders into the desert service station/restaurant owned by Jason...
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1936
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1937
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The action in this loose adaptation of a popular 1925 silent tells the galloping (and largely untrue) tale if the formation...
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1953
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The 1936 comedy-mystery The Princess Comes Across might well have been inspired by a real-life incident during the...
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1936
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Shirley Ross plays an innocent young girl convicted for complicity in a crime committed by her boy friend (Lloyd Nolan). The...
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Chiston R. Bradby
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1938
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Andrew Jackson is very happy to serve as the secretary of the society that honors his presidential namesake until he is...
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1942
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Famed German filmmaker E. A. Dupont, who in his peak years was responsible for such classics as Variety, merely goes through...
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Maximillian Harris
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1954
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1936
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In this often funny crime melodrama, a librarian moves to a small town and finds herself the butt of local gossip. While the...
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James Wilson
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1938
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In this drawing room drama, an impetuous heiress goes on a cruise and ends up marrying a Latin gigolo on a whim. Her father...
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1931
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Returning to Singapore after a five-year absence, WWII veteran Matt Gordon (Fred MacMurray) mournfully recalls his romance...
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1947
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In this comedy, a blocked writer decides he needs a little peace and quiet to spark his creativity so that he can write the...
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1936
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Paramount's answer to Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) also involved mutiny and romance on the high seas. Gary Cooper stars as...
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1937
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The overcrowding in WWII-era Washington, D.C., provided the concept for this comedy, as well as another film from the...
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1944
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Before he became the high priest of realism, producer/director Andrew L. Stone was fascinated with classical music (he'd...
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Von
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1938
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"Every time Paul Muni parts his beard and looks through a microscope, we lose a million dollars." Producer Jack Warner's...
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1936
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Judge Austin Harkley
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1943
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Mr. Hadrian
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1941
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The tumultuous presidency of 17th-president Andrew Johnson is chronicled in this biopic. The story begins with Johnson's...
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1942
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That Wonderful Urge is the second remake of Love is News (37), and is much closer to the original than the first remake (the...
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1948
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This musical drama follows a young ghetto kid who dreams of being a classical musician like his idol Jascha Heifetz. He first...
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1939
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Filmed on what MGM considered a B-picture budget and schedule (14 days, which at Universal or Columbia would have been...
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1934
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This Way Please marked Betty Grable's first appearance under her new Paramount contract. The fact that Grable plays the new...
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1937
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Even geniuses have to eat, and when Mark Twain was offered a substantial sum of money to slap together a quickie sequel to...
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Uncle Silas
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1939
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In this drama, a group of young cadets in a military academy struggle to overcome their personal problems and make it through...
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Mrs. Saunders
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1936
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Trail of the Vigilantes was conceived as a straight action picture, but was reshaped during filming into a comedy western in...
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1940
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Carole Lombard stars as Helen Bartlett, a compulsive liar who always tips the audience to an oncoming whopper by sticking her...
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Prosecutor
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1937
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1947
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Jack Hartrampf, Undertaker
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1953
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Weekend at the Waldorf is an unabashed remake of MGM's 1932 Oscar-winner Grand Hotel: in fact, at several points in the...
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1945
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James Oliver
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1937
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In this crime drama, a tightwad accountant for a newspaper becomes friends with a reporter. The bookkeeper goes on vacation,...
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1937
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Originally, producer Harry Sherman's Woman of the Town was slated for Paramount release, but that studio was overloaded with...
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1944
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In this romantic comedy, a wealthy heiress marries hastily and realizes her mistake on her honeymoon in New York. Though it...
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1948
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