Often trailers and coming attractions are of as much or more interest to viewers than the actual movie. Included here are...
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1987
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This fantasy-adventure is geared to the younger set. The saga begins when an American military plane is forced to explode an...
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Prof. Timothy Wallace
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1985
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Film clips and interviews with actors and colleagues provide the material for this laudatory view of the career of Alfred...
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1985
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1984
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In this taut, futuristic drama, the maiden voyage of a hypersonic passenger jet becomes a disaster when something goes...
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1983
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1983
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The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana was one of two 1982 TV movies inspired by the 1981 wedding of the Prince of...
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1982
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Originally designed as a pilot for a television series, this crime drama tells the tale of two Italian-American brothers...
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1981
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Old-time Hollywood director Vincent Sherman brings a glossy studio-bound look to The Dream Merchants, a two-part, four-hour...
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1980
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Wendell
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1980
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In this youthful adventure, six adolescents head for a vacation in Arizona and end up stranded in the desert after their car...
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1980
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This feature-length movie is a re-edited version of the first few episodes of the TV series. The story line concerns a...
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1979
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You'd think that Irwin Allen had exhausted the "disaster" genre by 1979. Think again: 1979 was the year that Allen put...
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1979
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Darker Side of Terror is a TV movie that wants to have its cake and eat it too: it is a science fiction drama and a romantic...
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1979
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In this drama, a black man fights for freedom from racial oppression in the troubled country of Rhodesia. ~ Iotis Erlewine,...
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1979
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In an attempt to sell his manuscript, a writer tries to persuade a prospective publisher that cats are ultimately evil by...
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1978
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In part one of Battlestar Galactica's pilot episode, the 12 colonies of humankind are poised to sign a peace treaty with the...
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1978
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This delightfully bad made-for-TV movie throws together an assortment of television stalwarts and movie has-beens for what is...
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1978
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In this Canadian-made action thriller, four psychopaths, led by Christie (Robert Carradine) take over and vandalize a ritzy...
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1978
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In Part Two of Battlestar Galactica's pilot episode, Galactica's Commander Adama (Lorne Greene) has managed to escape the...
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1978
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Get ready for another dose of love and loss in this sequel to the four-handkerchief classic Love Story (1970). Oliver Barrett...
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1978
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In this made-for-television action adventure, brave firefighters attempt to quell a cataclysmic oil fire out in the Sahara....
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1978
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The patient and non-pugilistic methods used by Inspector Simpson (Ray Milland) finally help him discover who killed the...
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Simpson
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1977
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Set in 19th-century Africa, this film chronicles the horrors of the slave trade and the relationship between an Arab...
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Hassan
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1977
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Filmed on location in Zurich, Switzerland, The Swiss Conspiracy is concerned with a Swiss bank that discovers some of its...
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1977
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The inaugural presentation of the syndicated "Operation Prime Time" anthology, the three-part, six-hour miniseries Testimony...
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1977
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More ambitious and expensive than ABC's first "novel for television" miniseries QB VII, the eight-episode, 12-hour Rich Man,...
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1976
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1976
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Mayday at 40,000 Feet is a regulation crisis-in-the-air TV movie distinguished by the accomplished direction of Robert...
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1976
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Malcolm McDowell plays a World War I air ace, in charge of an elite squadron. Outwardly a bastion of courage, McDowell dies a...
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1976
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This sequel to the smash hit chiller Rosemary's Baby (1968) chronicles the childhood of Rosemary's demon spawn. The still...
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1976
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This fast-paced Disney endeavor stars Kim Richards and Ike Eisenmann as two adolescents with acute psychic powers. The kids...
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Aristotle Bolt
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1975
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Ellery Queen (also known as Too Many Suspects) was the 78-minute pilot film for a TV series based on the fictional...
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1975
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Jim Moss
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1975
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Peter Hunt directed this old fashioned -- if not reactionary -- action film about gold-mining in South Africa. The story...
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Hurry Hirschfeld
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1974
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That's Ray Milland all right, making the best of a seedy situation in the Spanish-lensed Student Connection. He plays the...
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1973
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In this entry from the Cool Million television series, a detective finds a Canadian artist whose knowledge is crucial to a...
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1973
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In this mundane, droll horror spoof, British comedian Frankie Howerd plays a washed-up actor who tries to cash in on his...
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1973
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Murder abounds at a wax museum after the owner decides to sell it, and seemingly waxen figures come alive. By the way, are...
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1973
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A slightly bizarre rare plant collector kills off his nephew to help finance his hobby. ~ Tana Hobart, Rovi...
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1972
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A scientist develops a device that gives him the power to manipulate military personnel and force them to fight, but first...
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1972
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The slimy denizens of the Everglades organize a particularly nasty rebellion in this enjoyable entry from the...
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Jason Crockett
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1972
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In this sci-fi horror movie with comedic elements, a racist transplant surgeon (Ray Milland) learns that he's dying of...
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Maxwell Kirshner
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1972
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In this spy thriller, Gorenko (Max Von Sydow) is on the run from his Russian spymasters, and wants to defect. The Americans...
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1972
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Hunt for a Lonely Girl was the opening 90-minute episode of the TV adventure series Cool Million. James Farentino stars as...
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1972
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Caleb Hobbs
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1971
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Dack Rambo and Roger Davis are two handsome young men (as if you didn't know) in search of a sunken treasure. They head to...
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1970
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Oliver Barrett III
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1970
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In this thriller a police detective must find a renegade assassin who is not only wanted by the cops, he is also wanted by...
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1970
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Psychologist Don Murray investigates the claim of Nobel prize winning scientist Ray Milland, who insists he has spoken to his...
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1969
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In this psychological drama, the daughter of a British barrister is killed in a hit-and-run accident. Her bereaved father...
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Director
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1968
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Though it was made in 1964, this romantic farce was not released until 1971. It stars an aging Ginger Rogers as a prosperous...
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1964
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Dr. Fenwick
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1963
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Dr. James Xavier (Ray Milland) is a brilliant but unorthodox researcher whose work with human sight has yielded an...
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Dr. James Xavier
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1963
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1962
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Ray Milland both starred in and directed the morose, minimalist sci-fier Panic in the Year Zero! (original title: Panic in...
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Director, Harry Baldwin
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1962
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Roger Corman's success with low-budget adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe tales continued with this third installment, the first...
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Guy Carrell
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1962
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Director, Colley Dawson
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1958
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A bank robber's avarice and obsessive quest for freedom lead to his downfall in this adventure-packed crime drama that was...
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Nardo Denning
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1957
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In this drama, the commanding officer of a British Royal Air Force flight training school must deal with an ornery,...
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Commander David Rudge
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1957
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The only thing genuinely brave about Three Brave Men is the second word in the title. The film is based on the true story of...
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Joe Di Marco
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1957
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Filmed on location, Lisbon was the second directorial endeavor of actor Ray Milland. The story revolves around a...
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Director, Producer, Capt. Robert John Evans
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1956
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Ray Milland made his directorial debut with the Republic western A Man Alone. Milland also starred in the film, playing...
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Director, Wes Steele
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1955
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This 1955 period piece recreates the notorious events surrounding the murder of architect Stanford White by Harry K. Thaw....
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Stanford White
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1955
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Based on the popular mystery play by Frederick Knott, Dial M For Murder is more talky and stagebound than most Hitchcock...
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Tom Wendice
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1954
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Patrick Fairlie
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1953
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This tuneful remake of 1937's The Awful Truth centers on the rocky marriage of a philandering composer and the wife who has...
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Gary Stuart
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1953
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Something to Live For is the last of director George Stevens' "small" films, before he concentrated full-time on such...
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Alan Miller
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1952
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During the Civil War, Colonel Kern Shafter (played by Ray Milland) and Captain Edward Garnett (played by Hugh Marlowe) become...
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Kern Shafter
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1952
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For his directorial debut, Ray Milland went out on a creative limb, resulting in the first American film since Chaplin's...
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Allan Fields
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1952
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Circle of Danger stars Ray Milland as an American at large in London, Wales and Scotland. During World War 2, Milland's...
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Clay Douglas
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1951
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Paramount's Ray Milland and 20th Century-Fox's Gene Tierney star in Warner Bros.' Close to My Heart. The stars play,...
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Brad Sheridan
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1951
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Rhubarb is an amusing, if not entirely faithful, adaptation of the H. Allen Smith novel of the same name. When Thaddeus J....
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Eric Yeager
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1951
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Ray Milland plays a happily married college professor whose wife and child perish in a fire. Despondent, Milland loses...
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Phillip Ainley
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1951
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A Woman of Distinction serves as a tailor-made vehicle for Rosalind Russell. The star is cast as Susan Middlecott, a highly...
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Alec Stevenson
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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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Johnny Carter
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1950
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Lana Turner stars as an ambitious model who seeks her fortune in New York City. She is befriended by over-the-hill cover-girl...
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Steve Harleigh
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1950
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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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Nick Beal
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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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Vernon Simpson
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1949
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Taking advantage of Paramount's "frozen funds" in Britain, producer Hal Wallis was able to film much of So Evil My Love in...
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Mark Bellis
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1948
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In this wartime drama, an American officer is accused of secretly working as an SS man. Though all evidence is against the...
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Maj. Robert Lawson
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1948
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A woman stands to inherit a fortune if she can get all her brothers and sisters in one place...which is far more complicated...
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1948
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George Stroud
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1948
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Based on a novel by Yolanda Foldes, this confusing romantic adventure concerns a love affair and international espionage....
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Col Ralph Denistoun
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1947
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In this improbable romantic drama set in Gay Nineties London, a member of Parliament jeopardizes his career when he falls in...
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Clive Loring
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1947
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In this comedy, a scatter-brained professor nearly starts a riot when he writes a book claiming that women like to be...
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Prof. Gilbert Sedley
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1947
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This story of two young hopefuls who come to Hollywood is merely a thin device to feature almost every star working for...
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1947
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There's only one magnum of French champagne left in all of San Francisco, and both Navy lieutenant Briggs (Ray Milland) and...
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Lt. Dudley Briggs
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1946
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Jonathan Trumbo
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1946
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Billy Wilder's searing portrait of an alcoholic features an Oscar-winning performance by Ray Milland as Don Birnam, a writer...
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Don Birnam
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1945
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Kitty is the "Pygmalion" legend, 18th century style. London aristocrat Ray Milland takes it upon himself to make a lady of a...
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Sir Hugh Marcy
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1945
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John
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1944
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Freely adapted from a successful Broadway musical by Moss Hart, this story stars Ginger Rogers as Liza Elliott, the editor of...
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Charley Johnson
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1944
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The Uninvited is one of the rare Hollywood ghost stories that does not cop out with a "logical" ending. In fact, the film has...
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Roderick Fitzgerald
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1944
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An innocent man is drawn into a web of espionage when he unwittingly comes into possession of a crucial piece of microfilm in...
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Stephen Neale
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1944
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The 80-star cast of Forever and a Day would certainly not have been feasible had not most of the actors and production people...
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1943
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Overloaded with unreleased films in 1942 and 1943, Paramount Pictures cleaned house by diverting several pictures to United...
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Brad Cavanaugh
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1943
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A woman's attempt to disguise herself as an underage girl mushrooms into a series of humorous deceptions in this romantic...
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Maj. Kirby
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1942
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Long underappreciated by film buffs, The Lady Has Plans is a screwball comedy disguised as an espionage melodrama. The title...
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Kenneth Harper
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1942
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Star-Spangled Rhythm is a typical wartime all-star musical-comedy melange, this time from Paramount Pictures. The slender...
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1942
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In providing the "synopsis" for Are Husbands Necessary?, one best-selling film source says merely "And what about this film?"...
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George Cugat
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1942
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Stephen Tolliver
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1942
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Three disparate young men struggle to become Army Air Corps pilots in this rousing drama that earned an Oscar for its...
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Jeff Young
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1941
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Tony Kenyon
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1941
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Fiercely independent authoress June Cameron (Loretta Young) has no time for men in her life. Chauvinistic medical college...
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Dr. Timothy Sterling
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1940
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A courageous doctor braves a fierce blizzard in the Canadian wilderness to save a remote community from a deadly epidemic....
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Dr. William Crawford
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1940
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A serious journalist is sent to France and forced to write fashion fluff pieces. Tiring of this, she decides to sneak off to...
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Tom Martin
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1940
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In this remake of the 1926 silent hit (which was in turn based on a hit musical from 1919), Anna Neagle stars as Irene...
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Don Marshall
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1940
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In this drama, a vengeful woman searches for the man she blames for her sister's suicide. To get at him, the woman...
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Lt. Nemassy
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1939
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This second of three movie versions of P.C. Wren's adventure novel Beau Geste is a virtual scene-for-scene remake of the 1927...
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John Geste
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1939
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This Anglo-American coproduction was based on the popular West End stage comedy by Terrence Rattigan. It all begins when...
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1939
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20th Century Fox's Christmas gift to moviegoers in 1939, this fanciful comedy-drama features the studio's darling of the ice,...
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Geoffrey Thompson
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1939
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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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Scott Barnes
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1938
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Bob Mitchell
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1938
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Dorothy Lamour and Ray Milland, a popular Paramount screen team specializing in south-sea extravaganzas, don "civilized" garb...
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Ken Warren
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1938
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In this comedy, an American golf pro falls in love with a woman while visiting France; before long they are married and in...
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Richard Carrington, Jr.
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1938
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Wise Girl is a medium-level screwball comedy with faintly serious undertones. Miriam Hopkins plays an heiress whose millions...
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John O'Halloran
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1937
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In this wartime drama, a young woman nearly comes unhinged when her husband, a Navy pilot, is transferred to Pearl Harbor on...
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Lt. "Stony" Samuel Gilchrist
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1937
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Financier J.B. Ball (Edward Arnold) -- known in the press as "the Bull of Broad Street" -- may be one of the wealthiest...
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John Ball, Jr.
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1937
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Robert Herrick
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1937
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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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1937
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Deanna Durbin, the teenaged soprano who literally saved Universal Pictures from bankruptcy, made her feature-film debut in...
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Lord Michael Stuart
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1936
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Aspiring actress Cicely Tyler (Margaret Sullavan) puts her career on hold when she marries ambitious newsman Christopher...
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Tommy Abbott
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1936
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The third film of Paramount's "Big Broadcast" series follows the pattern of the first two titles: negligible plot with plenty...
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1936
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In this adventure, a young girl is stranded in the jungle with only a tiger cub for company and grows up to be a wild woman....
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Christopher Powell
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1936
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James Dawson
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1936
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Little Mary Dow (Baby Jane, aka Juanita Quigley) disappears from hearth and home on her 3rd birthday. Eighteen years later,...
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Peter Marshall
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1935
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Adapted from Norman Krasna's Broadway hit A Small Miracle, Four Hours to Kill is a multi-plotted effort that can best be...
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1935
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In this romantic comedy, Marilyn David (Claudette Colbert) is a stenographer who has become good friends with Peter Dawes...
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Charles Gray/Granville
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1935
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Taylor Henry
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1935
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Radio baritone Joe Morrison was being groomed for stardom by Paramount when he was top-billed in One Hour Late. Morrison is...
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1935
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We're Not Dressing is a bouncy musical-comedy variation of J. M. Barrie's The Admirable Crichton -- complete with a happier...
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1934
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MGM was seldom content to just film a mystery; the story had to be dressed up in some elaborate, unorthodox fashion. Mystery...
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1934
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Bolero stars George Raft as Raoul de Barre, an arrogant dancer who rises to fame in the years prior to, during, and after WW...
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1934
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Not to be confused with Universal's 1932 The Menace, Paramount's 1934 Menace does however included a "revenge" motif similar...
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1934
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Honolulu detective Charlie Chan (Warner Oland) spends an eventful weekend at an English country estate in this fog-bound...
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Neil Howard
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1934
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Department-store owner Horatio Allen's (George Barbier) biggest mistake is to name his scatterbrained daughter Gracie...
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1934
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Hollywood movie-making is satirized in this comedy. The trouble begins when an American filmmaker decides to us a British...
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1934
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In this comedy, the owners of a teahouse inherit a fortune from their uncle and head for London to live the highlife....
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1933
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1932
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In this romantic drama, a strait-laced preacher creates controversy when he marries a seductive trapeze artist . The two...
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1932
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George Arliss is a world-renowned pianist, engaged to a young woman (Bette Davis) much younger than himself. An explosion...
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1932
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Bill Harper (Will Rogers), a cattle baron turned diplomat, is assigned to the middle European country of Sylvania, which is...
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Lothar
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1931
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Though silent-screen favorite William Haines wasn't able to sustain his popularity into the talkie era, he insisted upon...
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1931
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1931
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Blonde Crazy is the kind of amoral fun that disappeared from Hollywood after 1933, once the Production Code forced morality...
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1931
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Geoffrey Trent
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1931
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Constance Bennett, Hollywood's favorite "wronged" heroine, is the star of the misleadingly titled Bought. Thing of it is,...
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Charles Carter
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1931
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In this drama, a two wealthy cousins find themselves involved in an unfortunate love triangle. The trouble begins when the...
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1930
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In his second talkie, former silent screen lover John Gilbert plays Jack, a sailor in the merchant marine who takes time out...
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1930
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Originally released as a silent film, this movie follows engineer Bob White (Moore Marriott) in his last run with the train...
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1929
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In this romance, a Scotsman, dull as cold oatmeal, attempts to become a suave and witty rake to impress an effervescent,...
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1929
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In this romance, a sailor saves a drowning Frenchwoman and falls in love forgetting all about his landlocked girlfriend....
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1929
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In this drama, an impoverished Irishman decides to turn an IRA colleague into the cops to receive a desperately needed...
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1929
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Just before making his talkie directorial debut with Atlantic, director E.A. DuPont dashed off the silent "backstage" drama...
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1929
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