Although Perry Mason was showing signs of fatigue as the series entered its seventh season, the producers were able to stir...
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1963
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As a move to bolster up CBS' sagging Thursday-night schedule, the network's evergreen legal drama Perry Mason was moved from...
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1962
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Season Five of Perry Mason marked the series' last stand in its traditional Saturday-night timeslot. Though ratings were...
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1961
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Several of the episodes in Perry Mason's fourth season did without the services of costar William Talman (aka luckless...
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1960
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By the time Perry Mason rolled into its third season in the fall of 1959, the series was the 10th most popular program in...
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1959
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In this tearjerker, a morally disparate father and son attempt to reconcile their differences. The father is a major...
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1959
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This baroque nightmare of a south-of-the-border mystery is considered to be one of the great movies of Orson Welles, who both...
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1958
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Despite a less than spectacular showing during its first season, the marathon courtroom series Perry Mason quickly built up...
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1958
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Every time Republic Pictures head honcho Herbert J. Yates starred his minimally talented wife Vera Ralston in a film, the...
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Eric Warren
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1957
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Here's one for the "Trivial Pursuit" crowd: What was the title of the first episode of Perry Mason, and who was Mason's first...
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1957
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1956
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The Solid Gold Cadillac was adapted from the George S. Kaufman-Howard Teichmann Broadway hit of the same. Both the play and...
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1956
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This emotional drama concerns a WWII medic who marries a German woman but leaves her in a jealous rage, taking their baby...
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Dr. Bailey
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1956
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Claudette Colbert makes a long-overdue entree into the Western genre in Texas Lady. Looking at least a decade younger than...
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Ralston
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1956
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1955
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The 20th Century-Fox Hour (later syndicated as The Hour of Stars) ran on CBS just shy of two years, from October 1955 through...
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1955
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1954
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1954
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1954
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Audie Murphy is suitably cast as cavalry lieutenant Jed Sayre in Universal's Column South. Stationed in Navajo country, Sayre...
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Brig. Gen. Storey
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1953
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Despite the lighthearted promotional campaign mounted by 20th Century-Fox when the film was first released,...
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Whacker
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1953
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1953
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This fifth entry in Universal's "Ma and Pa Kettle" series finds the Kettle family taking a trip to Paris (courtesy of the...
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Jonathan Parker
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1953
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The Young Man with Ideas in this MGM production is idealistic lawyer Maxwell Webster (Glenn Ford). Too self-effacing for his...
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1952
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Dreamboat stars Clifton Webb as Thornton Sayre, the perfectionist professor of literature at a sedate Midwestern university....
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1952
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Dr. Warren Pritchard
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1952
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Jonathan Parker
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1951
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Welch
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1951
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Columbia and Universal were the leading purveyors of well-crafted "little" pictures in the 1950s. It was Universal who put...
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1951
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The old "Cain and Abel" plot device is redefined within Western terms in MGM's Vengeance Valley. Burt Lancaster stars as...
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1951
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Upon beginning production on his Korean-war drama I Want You, producer Sam Goldwyn lamented "I've just brought those boys...
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1951
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Gary Cooper stars in this broad naval farce, directed by Henry Hathaway and based upon a John W. Hazard New Yorker magazine...
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1951
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Summer Stock represented Judy Garland's swan song at MGM. Garland plays the owner of a New England farm which entrepreneur...
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1950
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The second of Universal's "Ma and Pa Kettle" series, Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town stars, as ever, Marjorie Main and...
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1950
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Dr. Fredericks
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1950
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William Bendix is perfectly cast as a diehard baseball fan who hates umpires with every fibre of his being. Bendix' devotion...
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Jonah Evans
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1950
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MGM's The Reformer and the Redhead was the first directorial collaboration of longtime screenwriting partners Norman Panama...
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commodore John Baldwin Parker
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1950
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Glenn Ford is top-billed in Man From Colorado, though he's anything but a hero. Ford plays a seriously disturbed Civil War...
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Big Ed Carter
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1949
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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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One wonders if Donald O'Connor would have consented to star in Francis if he knew that a series was to follow. Adapted by...
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Col. Hooker
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1949
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Henry James based his 1881 novella Washington Square on a real-life incident, wherein a young actor of his acquaintance...
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1949
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Mr. Blair
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1949
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Reliable serial and western leading lady Adrian Booth is awarded top billing in Republic's Hideout. Hannah (Booth) and Edie...
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Philip J. Fogerty
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1949
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Lloyd Bacon's baseball comedy stars Ray Milland as Vernon Simpson, a chemist who develops a product which repels wood....
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1949
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Hoping to shed itself of the onus of its low-budget predecessor PRC Pictures, Eagle-Lion productions occasionally invested in...
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Matthew Simpson
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1949
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1948
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Small-town department store manager Sam Clayton (Gary Cooper) is a born "Good Samaritan", which in his case translates as...
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Rev. Daniels
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1948
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Deanna Durbin's career was clearly on the downswing when she starred in For the Love of Mary. Durbin plays a switchboard...
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Harvey Elwood
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1948
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When Homecoming was first released in 1948, some observers felt that Clark Gable's unusually sensitive performance was based...
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Lt. Col. Avory Silver
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1948
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Ronald Colman won an Academy Award for his portrayal of an off-the-beam actor in A Double Life. A beloved stage star, Anthony...
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Victor Donlan
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1947
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Mac-Ian
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1947
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Under the aegis of veteran program-feature producer Bryan Foy, the fledgling Eagle-Lion company made great strides during its...
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Barton
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1947
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Judge Myrna Loy decides that the best way to curb the excesses of playboyish art teacher Cary Grant is to force him to do...
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Matt Beemish
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1947
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Acclaimed playwright George S. Kaufman made his directorial debut with this broad political satire. Senator Melvin G. Ashton...
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1947
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Even if the film had been released without opening and closing titles, it wouldn't have been hard to identify Three Wise...
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1946
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Davis Banton
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1946
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If Grecian storyteller Aesop really did exist, he was most likely a black slave. He wasn't an Austrian actor with an Egyptian...
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Leonides
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1946
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Based on a famous book by Richard Henry Dana, Jr., this grueling saga of shipboard oppression is set in the mid-19th century....
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1946
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The postwar classic The Best Years of Our Lives, based on a novel in verse by MacKinlay Kantor about the difficult...
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1946
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MGM's first "Maisie" entry in two years, Up Goes Maisie once more stars Ann Sothern as eternally stranded showgirl Maisie...
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Mr. Henderickson
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1946
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In this is '40s western a U.S. marshal chases a band of big-name bandits into no-man's territory (land outside of U.S....
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Col. Farewell
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1946
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1946
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Art critic and forgery expert George Steele (Pat O'Brien) is apprehended by the police as he desperately tries to break into...
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Dr. Lowell
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1946
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1946
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This odd combination of roughneck comedy and serious domestic drama was adapted by Louise Randall Pierson from her own...
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Mr. Randall
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1945
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A Guest in the House is an involving psychological melodrama, well directed and acted, concerning a young woman's obsessive...
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1945
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Based on the novel by Augusta Tucker, the provocatively titled Miss Susie Slagle's is actually a leisurely, sentimental story...
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Dr. Elijah Howe
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1945
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The Hidden Eye was the second of two MGM films featuring mystery writer Baynard Kendrick's blind detective Duncan McLain. As...
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Philip Treadway
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1945
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Newspaper reporter Marion Hargrove's best-selling novel was adapted to the screen by MGM as a vehicle for Robert Walker. The...
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Brody S. Griffith
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1944
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1944
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Though it takes several liberties with facts and motivations, The Hitler Gang is a reasonably absorbing chronicle of Hitler's...
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1944
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Fred Zinnemann directed this World War II drama, considered one of the best anti-Nazi dramas produced by Hollywood during the...
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1944
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1944
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A con artist heads for the gold fields of Nevada during the 1880s after he is tossed off of San Francisco's Barbary Coast....
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1944
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In this drama, based on a popular radio program, the leader of a ring of burglars suffers a blow to the head and loses his...
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Dr. Carey
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1943
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In this wartime comedy drama an ultra-macho but aging Marine sergeant does all he can to keep his men intimidated and towing...
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Col. Mason
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1943
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This airy bit of MGM fluff stars Lana Turner as small-town soda clerk Peggy Evans. After telling off the self-important new...
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1943
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1943
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The last of three films starring Red Skelton as ace radio detective Wally "The Fox" Benton, Whistling in Brooklyn opens with...
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Grover Kendall
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1943
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Author William Saroyan's corn-shucking brand of sentimentality works wonders in this 1943 filmization of his novel. Narrator...
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Mr. Macauley
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1943
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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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Johan Bergesen
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1942
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Lucille Ball delivers the finest dramatic performance of her career in this satisfying adaptation of Damon Runyon's The Big...
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1942
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In this drama, a wealthy playboy decides to "slum it" for a while to see how regular people live. Trouble ensues when he...
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Uncle Ben
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1942
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Orson Welles' followup to Citizen Kane (1941) was utterly different from Kane in style and texture, but just as brilliant in...
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1942
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A combat picture was virtually a license to print money in 1942, and RKO Radio's The Navy Comes Through was no exception (net...
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1942
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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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Boss Jim Gettys
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1941
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