This silly horror film stars Dean Jagger in a zoned-out performance as a mad scientist whose experiments in halting the aging...
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1987
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Brian Foster (Wesley Eure) is a young inventor who creates a mechanical dog as part of a home protection system. When he...
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1979
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1977
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This spoof makes fun of a certain famous German shepherd movie star from the 1920s. The mayhem begins when the head honcho...
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1976
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In this thriller, an enigmatic phantom lives in the dank tunnels running beneath the ramshackle back lot of a former movie...
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1974
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When Officer Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) wins $5000 in a contest, everyone else at Rampart has a suggestion as to how he...
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1973
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Blake Edwards directed this murder mystery set against the backdrop of a busy metropolitan hospital. Dr. Peter Carey...
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1972
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The FBI investigate a series of mysterious assaults in three different states. Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) has one clue to...
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1972
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An amoral film student will stop at nothing to gain a movie contract in this pretentious effort. Tony Hall (Robert Forster)...
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1970
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Betty Jo (Linda Kaye Henning) and Steve (Mike Minor) have chosen Dr. Janet Craig (June Lockhart) to be godmother at the...
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1969
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Dr. John Carpenter (Elvis Presley) helps the economically disadvantaged in an inner-city medical clinic. Three nuns are...
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1969
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Season Six of Petticoat Junction begins as Betty Jo (Linda Kaye Henning, now billed under her full given name) and her...
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1968
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The Bradley sisters, alias the "Singing Sweethearts", are signed sight unseen to perform on the TV show hosted by Buddy...
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1968
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With train conductor Wendell Gibbs (Byron Foulger) fast asleep, no one is around to pilot the Hooterville Cannonball when the...
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1968
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June Lockhart makes her first series appearance as Dr. Janet Craig, the new replacement for Hooterville's Doc Stuart (Regis...
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1968
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All of the excitement lavished upon expectant mother Betty Jo (Linda Kaye Henning) does considerable collateral damage on her...
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1968
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Although the rest of the community has been won over by Dr. Janet Craig (June Lockhart), Uncle Joe (Edgar Buchanan) is still...
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1968
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Blake Edwards directed this big-screen adaptation of the once-popular TV detective series Peter Gunn, which Edwards helped...
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1967
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A small town is terrorized by a grizzly bear in this uninspired western. Jim Cole {Clint Walker} must defend his inherited...
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1966
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Because Hooterville is a "fringe" reception area (one of the fringiest), Oliver (Eddie Albert) must install a roof antenna if...
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1966
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Unsuccessful football coach Burt Payne (Bill Williams) wants to sell his share of the Wildcats pro football team to a cartel...
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1965
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Les Hart
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1964
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Les Hart
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1963
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Roger Willoughby (Rock Hudson) is a super salesman of sporting goods who sells fishing equipment but knows nothing about the...
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1963
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1961
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1961
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Walter Pidgeon is the nominal star of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, portraying Admiral Harriman Nelson, the designer of...
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1961
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1960
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1960
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Lewis Martin (Wynn Pearce) considers himself lucky to be alive; he has been kidnapped, driven way in the country, and forced...
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1960
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In this action drama, ranchers and lumberjacks are at loggerheads over the proper usage of the land. When the logging team...
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1960
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Warlock offers us a mean-spirited, mercenary Henry Fonda and an honest, peaceloving Richard Widmark. A Wyatt Earp-like...
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1959
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1959
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In this musical drama, a popular rock star leads a successful and happy life while his grandfather, a stern, traditional...
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1958
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Every so often, the prestigious 1950s CBS anthology Playhouse 90 would digress from its "live" format and offer a sumptuously...
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1958
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Adapted by Christopher Knopf from a short story by C.B. Gifford, Joy Ride is a fast-paced pocket variation of the...
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Miles
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1958
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In one of Maverick's all-time greatest episodes, Bret (James Garner) is cheated out of $15,000 by "respectable" banker John...
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1958
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This western is set during the Civil War and chronicles the efforts of a recently paroled Confederate soldier to keep the...
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1957
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Police struggle to stem the tide of teenage drug addiction in this vintage exploitation drama, which combines the procedural...
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1957
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Some good performances overcome the scripted cliches in Dakota Incident. In the tradition of Stagecoach, the film offers a...
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Minstrel
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1956
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The fate of wealthy Jamie Dawn (Marilyn Simms) hangs in the balance as she stands trial for murder. Defense attorney Random...
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1956
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When gold is discovered in the Colorado Territory at the start of the Civil War, Confederate Owen Pentecost (Robert Stack)...
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1956
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This 1955 film began life as two Runyon short stories, the most prominent of which was "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown." This...
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1955
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In this western with echoes of High Noon, gunman Rick Martin (Sterling Hayden) rides into a small frontier town to warn its...
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O'Hara
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1955
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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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In the tradition of Dragnet and The Lineup, this is devoted to a typically busy day at a police precinct station house....
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Geddes
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1954
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Virile leading man Phil Carey heads the cast of the 3D western The Nebraskan. Carey plays U.S. Army scout Wade Harper,...
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1953
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Excluding a brace of 1980s TV-movie appearances, It Happens Every Thursday was the final feature film appearance of...
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1953
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During World War II, a Military Air Transport Command DC-3 piloted by a civilian crew is forced down in northern Labrador....
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1953
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"You guys will never be soldiers!" With these words, Richard Widmark opens and closes Take the High Ground. Widmark plays...
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1953
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A heretofore unexplored chapter in the saga of female western desperado Belle Starr is detailed in this fanciful sagebrusher....
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Tom Wren
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1953
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Farley Norris
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1952
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1952
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1952
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Stanley Kramer's production unit at Columbia Pictures was known for its willingness to tackle subject matter that was not...
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1952
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1952
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1952
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1951
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Tuna fisherman Joe Morelli (Tom Neal) is Navy Bound in this Monogram programmer. While on board ship, Morelli becomes the...
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Capt. Danning
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1951
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Fish-market worker Johnny O'Hara (James Arness) is named as a suspect when his boss -- with whom he had a dispute the...
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1951
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Cobb
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1951
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Tomahawk takes place during the Great Sioux Uprising of the 1860s. Van Heflin stars as famed frontier scout Jim Bridger, who...
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1951
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The Tall Target is based on a true story: the attempted assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln, even before he was...
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1951
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1950
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This spiritually-themed drama concerns a poor family who move into a wealthy town and suffer from harassment at the hands of...
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1950
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In their never-ending efforts to create a movie series to match the success of "The Thin Man," MGM came up with the...
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1950
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1950
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Tim Holt and Richard Martin, RKO's resident western good guys, are back in Dynamite Pass. Usually cast as cowpunchers, Holt...
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1950
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"What a dump!" That's the classic line delivered by Bette Davis at the halfway point of Beyond the Forest, her final Warner...
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Sorren
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1949
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1949
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1949
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A Christmastime TV perennial, Come to the Stable is the gentle saga of two French nuns (Celeste Holm with accent,...
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1949
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Station West may look like a western, but it sure sounds like a contemporary film noir. Dick Powell stars as Haven, a...
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1948
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Finding a curiously silent young runaway boy (Dean Stockwell) whose head has been completely shaved, small town police call...
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1948
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A Cornell Woolrich novel was the source for the variable Monogram melodrama I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes. The plot refers to...
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1948
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In this murder mystery, a man goes into a bar and begins telling his story to the bartender. His tale is depicted in...
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1947
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The last of the Richard "The Jaw" Dix films. Dix, the trucking company owner, is pitted against time to discover who...
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1947
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In this drama, a trucker's business is nearly destroyed after he is wrongfully accused of killing a policeman with whom he...
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1947
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1947
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In this mystery, set within the newspaper industry, a detective is hired to protect the editor who believes that someone is...
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Inspector O'Haffey
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1947
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A star basketball player is assailed by gangsters who want him to throw the Big Game in this drama. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1947
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When Episcopalian bishop Henry Brougham (David Niven) prays for divine guidance in his efforts to raise the necessary funds...
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1947
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1946
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An unusually elaborate film from the bargain-basement PRC studios, Her Sister's Secret is set in New Orleans at Mardi Gras...
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Bill
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1946
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1946
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Mysterious Intruder was the fifth entry in Columbia's B-picture series based on the radio anthology "The Whistler". Richard...
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James Summers
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1946
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Ray
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1946
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Follow That Woman is a tad more light-hearted than most Pine-Thomas adventure efforts. William Gargan plays private eye Sam...
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Barney Manners
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1945
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Strange Illusion is really several movies in one, part dark psychological chiller, part unsettling murder mystery, and part...
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1945
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As Alfred Hitchcock's classic psychothriller opens, the staff of a posh mental asylum eagerly awaits the arrival of the new...
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Sgt. Gillespie
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1945
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Set in a brooding old home, this musical mystery chronicles the endeavors of a young couple attempt to solve a mysterious...
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1944
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A beautiful child (14-year-old Jane Powell in her feature film debut) star tires of life in the spotlight and so disguises...
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1944
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In this drama, a young couple ignores the advice of their elders and get married. Soon afterward, the young groom is...
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Bill Regan
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1944
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Directed by Lewis Collins and Ray Taylor, Raiders of Ghost City is a 13-chapter serial account revolving around the highly...
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1944
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This Pine-Thomas actioner stars Robert Lowery as two-fisted forest ranger Don Bradley. Promoted to supervisor, Bradley finds...
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Steve Downey
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1944
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With famed journalist Drew Pearson appearing in the film's prologue and epilogue, it was easy in 1945 to confuse Betrayal...
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Scott
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1944
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The wartime housing shortage in Washington DC is the basis for this comedy. Several attractive young ladies rent a single DC...
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1944
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Engineer Scott Henderson (Alan Curtis) is at a seedy midtown Manhattan bar early one evening, drowning his sorrows over a...
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1944
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Paramount Pictures did their patriotic duty with this World War II era musical, with a number of the studio's biggest stars...
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Dr. Jim Henderson
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1944
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Four enterprising air cadets are suspected of a series of murders actually committed by The Black Hangman, a mysterious Nazi...
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1943
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Edward G. Robinson portrays a hard-driving, hard-nosed perfectionist who causes dissension aboard the WWII destroyer he...
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1943
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This ambitious filmed biography of writer-adventurer Jack London is somewhat compromised by its too-tight budget....
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1943
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Bob Leeds
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1942
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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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McDaniel
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1942
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Although Warner Bros. "officially" disbanded its B-picture unit in 1941, the studio continued to grind out lower-berth...
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Dr. Steven Bishop
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1942
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In this drama, a dedicated forest ranger begins suspecting that a recent series of fires has been caused by arson. He...
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1942
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The title of this series entry may strike some as a tad redundant: After all, isn't crook-turned-sleuth Michael Lanyard, aka...
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1941
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Tom Marshall
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1941
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Wessel Smitter's semicomic novel FOB Detroit was the source material for Reaching for the Sun. Joel McCrea plays a North...
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1941
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In the wake of Abbott & Costello's Buck Privates, every studio in Hollywood began cranking out service comedies. Warner...
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Capt. Radcliffe
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1941
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The oft-used title A Shot in the Dark was affixed in 1941 to this Warner Bros. B-picture. Much of the film takes place in the...
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Bill Ryder
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1941
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The first of director Frank Capra's independent productions (in partnership with Robert Riskin), Meet John Doe begins with...
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1941
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The Nurse's Secret is a low-budget remake of Miss Pinkerton (1932), which in turn was based on a play by Mary Roberts...
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Inspector Tom Patten
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1941
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Though history is distorted almost beyond recognition in Warner Bros.' They Died With Their Boots On, audiences in 1941 ate...
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Fitzhugh Lee
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1941
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The Devil and Miss Jones is a social comedy with left-wing undertones. John P. Merrick (Charles Coburn), the world's richest...
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1941
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Lieutenant Commander Joe Blake (Fred MacMurray), Lt. Tim Griffin (Regis Toomey), and Lt. Swede Larson (Louis Jean Heydt) are...
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1941
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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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1940
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Cecil B. De Mille directed this lavish all-star spectacular paying tribute to America's neighbors to the North. In 1885, as...
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1940
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1940
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1940
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Kenneth Roberts' fact-based novel Northwest Passage would seem too raw and explicit a book to be considered for an MGM film...
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1940
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Jim Daly
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1939
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In this drama, a remake of The Crowd Roars, two auto racing brothers become rivals on the racetrack when the older brother...
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1939
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The bravura performance of Bela Lugosi is the main selling card for the 12-episode Universal serial The Phantom Creeps....
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Jim Daley
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1939
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In this drama, a waitress leaves her husband after getting sick of being alone while her husband, a commercial pilot, plies...
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1939
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The Mysterious Miss X would have the audience believe that the very American Michael Whalen and Chick Chandler are a pair of...
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1939
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Jack Holt is impossibly heroic as usual in the Columbia quickie Hidden Power. In his quest to perfect a cure-all for severe...
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Mayton
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1939
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Thunder Afloat is set during the first world war. Wallace Beery plays an veteran tugboat captain who harbors a grudge against...
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1939
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In this exciting spy drama, enemy agents endeavor to steal the plans for a top secret silent aircraft. The plane's inventor...
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1939
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Cecil B. DeMille takes us back to the 1860s, then rebuilds the first intercontinental railroad in Union Pacific. The...
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1939
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In this espionage drama, a G-man keeps an enemy spy from stealing highly classified plans for military equipment. While...
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Ted Hall
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1939
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When German director Joe May was working on such silent classics as The Indian Tomb and Asphalt, he probably never imagine...
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1939
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Sad-eyed Ann Dvorak plays Jo, the "café hostess" of the title. Poor put-upon Jo doesn't know it, but she's being used by her...
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1939
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Filmed on-location at the Naval Air Training Stations in San Diego, CA, and Pensacola, FL, this black-and-white Warner Bros....
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1939
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Boris Karloff starred in this rather static whodunit from the Warner Bros. B-unit as Jeffries, a civilian employee at a...
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Lt. Matthews
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1938
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Hunted Men is part of Paramount's unofficial B-picture series based on the J. Edgar Hoover book Persons in Hiding....
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1938
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J. Carroll Naish positively oozes immigrant gangster charm in this fairly entertaining thriller from Paramount. He plays...
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1938
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In this comedy, a milquetoast clerk is betrothed to the socialite whose aunt holds a big account with his company. When the...
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1938
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Released by Monogram in 1937, Shadows of the Orient was actually produced independently several years earlier by...
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Baxter
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1937
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Sometimes it seemed as if Brian Donlevy played nothing but G-men during his years at 20th Century-Fox. In Midnight Taxi,...
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1937
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The Big City is an improbable urban melodrama which takes place during a "taxi war" between honest independent cabdrivers and...
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1937
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With the considerable input of ex-Navy officer Frank Wead (who wrote the script) and technical adviser Cmdr. G. W. D....
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1937
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In this newsroom drama, a tabloid's ace reporter's investigations lead to a chorine's conviction for murdering her husband....
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1937
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In this bargain-basement actioner, a determined young woman tries to prove that her incarcerated brother is innocent. She...
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District Attorney
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1936
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Based on Danny Ahearn's short story "Back in Circulation", Republic's Bulldog Edition stars Ray Walker as Ken Dwyer,...
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Hardy
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1936
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Proof positive that Reliable Pictures' Skull and Crown was filmed several years before its 1938 New York premiere is the...
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Franklin
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1935
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Hoping to avoid the new inheritance tax, eccentric millionaire Jasper Whyte (Charles Grapewin) gathers together his greedy...
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1935
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1935
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Poverty-row director Wallace Fox came up in the world a bit when he signed on to helm RKO Radio's Red Morning. Steffi Duna,...
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1935
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Manhattan Moon is predicated on the notion that French songstress Yvonne (Dorothy Page) is so busy with her career that she...
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1935
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Produced by parsimonious Majestic Pictures, Reckless Roads stars Regis Toomey as perennial wise-guy Speed Demming. To gain...
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Speed Demming
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1935
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Apparently having cornered the market in white-collar crooks in 1935, Sidney Blackmer plays a shifty financier in Monogram's...
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Phil Stuart
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1935
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In G Men, Warner Bros. "bad boy" James Cagney plays James "Brick" Davis, a young lawyer whose education has been financed by...
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1935
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Tower Films' Big Time or Bust is strictly small time, though not bad at all within it own limits. Regis Toomey plays a...
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1934
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Sally Bates ($Isabel Jewell) is a young Texas woman trying to make it to Hollywood on too little money and driving a car...
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Jack Berry
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1934
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Smiley
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1934
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Although released as an "Allied Pictures Special," Picture Brides revealed its Poverty Row origins in almost all departments,...
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Dave Hart
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1934
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What's Your Racket? was another aimless crime drama from low-budget Mayfair Productions, albeit with a more alluring title...
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Bert Miller
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1934
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An above-average Monogram programmer, Red Head stars the gorgeous Grace Bradley as a good-hearted photographer's model. After...
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Scoop
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1934
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New York Police Commissioner Mulroney opens Penal Code with a stern warning for parents about keeping the children off the...
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1933
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Sol Glass (Ferdinand Gottschalk) is a man with a problem -- in the depths of the Great Depression, his garment business can't...
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Tommy Nelson
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1933
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In this crime drama, a highway patrolman gives an oil magnate a ticket. He later quits the force to begin working for the...
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Michael Rolph
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1933
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At first concentrating exclusively on westerns and serials, up-and-coming Mascot Pictures began branching out in the early...
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1933
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Much of this exciting crime drama is set aboard an airplane in which a brave hero does battle with a gang of smugglers....
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Brad Allerton
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1933
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After being injured in the prizefighting ring, an ex-boxer is reduced to speakeasy bouncer and meets a charming burlesque...
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Nolan
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1932
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Upon her release from prison, Joyce Greeley (Edwina Booth) is promptly and mysteriously murdered. Fledgling crime reporter...
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John Martin
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1932
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A varied group of more or less greedy relatives is once again gathered at the reading of a will in this atmospheric thriller...
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Lt. Mitchell
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1932
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Howard Hawks directed this fast-paced auto racing drama. Joe Greer (James Cagney) is a top-ranked race car driver; his...
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1932
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Barbara Stanwyck overcomes a veritable ocean of clichés and manages to make her "shopworn" heroine come to life in this...
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David Livingston
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1932
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A wealthy theatrical producer entices a desperately poor young woman to visit his penthouse. The innocent girl doesn't...
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Jimmie
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1932
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Previously filmed in 1917 and 1922, Willard Mack's barnstorming stage melodrama Kick In was exhumed again in 1931 as a...
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Chick Hewes
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1931
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William A. Wellman's triangle melodrama "The Steel Highway" -- a title referring to the film's railroad setting -- was...
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Jack
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1931
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Mark Flint (George Bancroft) is the editor of the titular scandal sheet, possessing all of the gall and none of the ethics of...
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1931
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In this drama, an eager-beaver cub reporter looking for the big scoop that will give him his big break is sent to interview...
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Dusty Hotchkiss
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1931
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In this gridiron drama, a college football coach and ex-All American will stop at nothing to have a winning team. The trouble...
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Tom Hussey
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1931
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The names have all been changed, but this hard-hitting gangster tale is based on an actual newspaper headline story...
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Charlie "Breezy" Russell
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1931
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In this youthful comedy, a child genius has fun getting her cousin into trouble. The bright girl's parents take her and her...
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1931
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An eerie early-talkie mystery, Murder by the Clock spends most of its time in a cemetery. The matriarch (Blanche Frederici)...
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Officer Cassidy
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1931
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24 Hours is all it takes for tippling married man Jim Towner (Clive Brook) to go from social respectability to convict...
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Tony Bruzzi
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1931
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This comedy follows the attempts of a young woman to have her cake and eat it too. She is dating two nice young men, but she...
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Robert Metcalf
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1930
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Bob Drexell
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1930
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1930
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Framed represented the return of Evelyn Brent to her old home studio of FBO, which by 1930 had been rechristened RKO Radio....
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Jimmy McArthur
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1930
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In this suspenseful crime drama a woman is threatened by an angry husband and a man comes to her aid. Unfortunately, after...
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Tom Owen
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1930
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This fact-based drama chronicles the events that led to the murder of a notorious gambler. The story begins when a young...
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"Babe" Marsden
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1930
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In this classy crime drama, the well-spoken, leader of a sophisticated gang of gangsters use their high social status to...
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Richard Holt
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1930
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Director Roland West was a moody and mysterious Hollywood character, who insisted upon making his pictures in utter secrecy...
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1929
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Carlee Thorpe (Buddy Rogers) and Claire Jernigan (Nancy Carol) enjoy considerable success with their vaudeville magic act....
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Eric Schmittlap
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1929
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In his second talking picture, Richard Dix is cast as British officer Capt. Leslie Yeullat, at present on leave in London....
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1929
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In this romantic drama, a wealthy, young heiress suffers from ennui and begins rebelling against the restrictions of her...
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1929
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The Willard Mack stage play Kick In starred John Barrymore on Broadway and was made into a motion picture in 1917, with Ouida...
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1922
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