In this heartwarming children's adventure set in Marineland, a young boy secretly trains a killer whale to appear in the big...
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1976
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Naturalist Larry Jones, who in recent years has turned to evangelism, was responsible for The Great Call of the Wild. The...
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1976
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The central "character" of the Disney made-for-TV movie The Sky's the Limit is a battered old biplane. The aircraft comes in...
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1975
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1968
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Chaddock (Barry Sullivan) is the straight-shooting marshall of Gloryhole, Montana. Wealthy rancher Rep Marlowe...
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1968
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Buddy Rogers and Richard Arlen, who costarred in the very first Oscar-winning movie Wings, are reunited in this episode. The...
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1968
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1967
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An insane, renegade cavalryman leads his vicious band of outlaws into a series of brutal raids against settlers and local...
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1967
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In the first episode of a two-part story, Lucy (Lucille Ball) temporarily leaves her bank job to train as a flight attendant...
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1967
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U.S. Marshal Gid McCool (George Montgomery) leads a wagon train of convicted felons to Huntsville prison in this routine...
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1967
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In this routine western, Captain Tom York (Howard Keel) tries to warn the residents of Deadwood of an impending Sioux Indian...
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1967
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Jim Walker Rory Calhoun is a hero who fights Indians and crooks who plan a series of stagecoach robberies in this routine...
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1966
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In this western, a gunfighter is hired to clean up the chaotic streets of Emporia, Wyoming. The gunfighter arrives and finds...
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1966
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Johnny Reno (Dana Andrews) is a US Marshall who is bushwhacked by outlaws on his way to Stone Junction, Kansas. Joe Connors...
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1966
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Dan Duryea plays a Western bounty hunter, expert in his job, but ill at ease with his conscience. He is shunned by the "good"...
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Ridgeway
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1965
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In this western, a world-weary bounty hunter begins working for an avaricious crook who wants to destroy the good name of a...
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1965
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Adapting his own novel, Frank Gruber penned the screenplay for the A.C. Lyles production Town Tamer. Veteran filmmaker Leslie...
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1965
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This episode reunites Branded star Chuck Connors with Johnny Crawford, who from 1958 through 1963 had played Connors' son on...
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1965
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In this western, a gunslinger runs from the Dawson gang and decides to return home to the wife he abandoned many years...
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Sheriff Jenkins
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1965
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The Viet Cong have captured an American doctor to treat their wounded soldiers, but the doctor's U.S. Marine brother, with...
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1965
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1964
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Kolos (Richard Kiel) is a space alien sent to Earth in this low-budget science fiction story. His mission is to make...
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1964
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This is the first of numerous westerns produced by A.C. Lyles which became famous not for their stories but for who played in...
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1964
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A cad who goes through women faster than his laundry finally meets his match while vacationing in Puerto Rico. ~ Rovi...
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1964
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This drama is set in an Ozark mountain community where a family is frequently assisted by an amiable old mountain man...
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1964
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The hand of an exploded astronaut takes on a life of its own in this unintentionally funny horror film that begins when the...
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1963
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In this Korean War drama, three POWs escape the North Koreans and try to make it safely across enemy lines. During their...
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1963
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After a Philippine guerrilla soldier witnesses the benevolence of his American enemies during their military occupation in...
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Sgt. Heisler
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1963
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Once again, Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) is called upon to defend an old war buddy on a murder charge. This time around, his...
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1961
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The title character in this standard comedy about the foibles of military life is Archie Hall (Robert Mitchum), a puffed-up...
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1961
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The story of a boy and his fish is chronicled in this heartwarming children's drama. The story centers around Raymie, a...
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Garber
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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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To fully enjoy the rugged outdoors adventure The Mountain, one must accept the notion that 55-year-old Spencer Tracy and...
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1956
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Hidden Guns is not so much a western as a suspense melodrama. Bruce Bennett plays Stragg, a mean-spirited cardsharp with...
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Sheriff Young
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1956
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In this drama, a convicted killer serves his time and after his release sets off in search of those who framed him. ~ Sandra...
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1955
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The Devil's Harbor is a second-string British melodrama starring American film vet Richard Arlen. Arlen is the captain of a...
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John
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1954
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Filmed in Cinecolor, Sabre Jet concentrates as much on a group of jet pilots' wives as on the pilots themselves. As their...
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Gen. Robert E. Hale
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1953
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Library footage from the 1940 Paramount feature The Forest Rangers is used sparingly but effectively in the 1952 Pine-Thomas...
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Joe Morgan
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1952
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Surprisingly, the Paramount Technicolor actioner Hurricane Smith was not produced by the studio's Pine-Thomas unit (it sure...
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1952
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Ernest Hemingway could never come to terms with Hollywood's preoccupation with The Happy Ending: he accepted the money for...
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1952
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1951
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An excellent cast brings distinction to the pedestrian goings-on in Silver City. Per its title, the film is set in...
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Charles Storrs
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1951
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Having previously played Billy the Kid, Audie Murphy assumes the role of Jesse James in Kansas Raiders. The plot finds Jesse...
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1950
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When bucolic character comic Grady Sutton shows up as a pistol packin' Westerner in Grand Canyon, your suspicions are...
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Mike Adams
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1949
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In this above-average western, a villainous land grabber attempts to force horse ranchers to sell their ranches so he can...
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Dobe
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1948
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Speed to Spare is an efficient entry from the Pine-Thomas Productions assembly line. Ricard Arlen, who'd been a "regular"...
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Cliff Jordan
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1948
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Harvey
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1948
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Produced by Jack Schwartz for low-budget company Screen Guild, this mild Western starring the veteran Richard Arlen was...
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Buffalo Bill
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1947
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Accomplice was the "pilot" for a proposed PRC series based on Frank Gruber's short-tempered detective hero Simon Lash....
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Simon Lash
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1946
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French Key is a Republic Pictures murder mystery with all of the studio's genre trademarks: Good cast, reasonably good...
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1946
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Johnny March
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1945
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The ever-reliable Richard Arlen tops the cast of Republic's The Phantom Speaks. Arlen plays a reporter investigating a series...
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1945
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The Big Bonanza was a Republic Studios in-betweener: too elaborate for B picture, not expensive enough for an "A"....
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Jed Kilton
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1944
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Only at Republic studios would action star Richard Arlen head the cast of a muscial comedy. In That's My Baby, Tim Jones...
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Tim Jones
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1944
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Timber Queen is another of Pine-Thomas' rugged low-budget adventure films of the 1940s, most of which (like this one) starred...
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1944
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Lady and the Monster was the first film version of the classic Curt Siodmak sci-fi/horror tale Donovan's Brain. The plot...
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Patrick Cory
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1944
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Leonard Maltin once observed that Storm Over Lisbon is what Casablanca would have looked like had it been produced by...
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John Craig
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1944
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The plot of the Pine-Thomas adventure quickie Submarine Alert is more than a little beholden to Hitchcock's The 39 Steps....
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Lee Deerhold
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1943
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Army engineeer Richard Arlen helps blaze the trail for a crucial highway in the Alaskan wastes. His younger brother...
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Woody Ormsby
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1943
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Lt. Jim Smith
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1943
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A wounded aerial gunner tells his story in this wartime propaganda film. He begins with his recruitment and basic training...
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Ben Davis
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1943
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No relation to the much-later "Matt Helm" spy comedy of the same name, Pine-Thomas Productions' The Wrecking Crew serves as a...
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Matt Carney
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1942
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One of the most frequently revived of the Pine-Thomas productions of the 1940s, Wildcat is set amongst the oil fields of...
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Johnny Maverick
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1942
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Torpedo Boat is a typical action-filled effort from Paramount's busy Pine-Thomas unit. Richard Arlen and Phil Terry star as...
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Skimmer Barnes
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1942
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1942
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Flying Blind was the third of William Pine and William Thomas' independent productions for Paramount release. The cast...
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Jim Clark
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1941
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Mutiny in the Arctic was a 1941 entry in Universal's unofficial Richard Arlen/Andy Devine adventure series. Richard and...
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Dick
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1941
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In this drama, a young heiress finds trouble when she naively assumes control over some valuable timberlands. The trouble...
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1941
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In this war drama, a commercial pilot joins the air corps of a South Pacific island, and there he finds that he must contend...
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1941
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Power Dive was the first release from Pine-Thomas Productions, marking the beginning of a long and fruitful association...
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Brad Farrell
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1941
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Another of Universal's Richard Arlen-Andy Devine actioners, Lucky Devils casts the mismatched duo as a pair of intrepid...
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Dick
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1941
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Set in the burning Arabian desert, this action-adventure centers on the attempts of a well-meaning and wealthy fellow to...
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1941
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Dick
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1941
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In this comedy-adventure two petroleum engineers must investigate strange reports from a Company outpost in the South Seas....
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Dick
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1940
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Old stock shots are blended with freshly filmed material in the Universal programmer Hot Steel. Richard Arlen plays a...
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Frank Stewart
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1940
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The Man From Montreal is a lively entry in Universal's Richard Arlen-Andy Devine action series. The stars are cast...
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Clark Manning
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1940
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Danger on Wheels is one of the 14 Richard Arlen-Andy Devine adventure films ground out by Universal Pictures between 1939 and...
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Larry Taylor
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1940
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In this boxing drama, the trouble begins when a fight breaks out at a local gym. When a boxing promoter sees that Dick, who...
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Dick
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1940
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Walter Norton
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1940
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The Missing Daughters of the title are innocent young girls who've been led astray by seedy dance-hall operator Lucky Rogers...
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Wally King
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1939
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Tropic Fury is one of several Universal programmers built around the box-office appeal of handsome Richard Arlen and...
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Dan Burton
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1939
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One part high-seas adventure and one part western, Mutiny on the Blackhawk opens as a pair of heroes take a stand against...
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Capt. Robert Lawrence
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1939
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Legion of Lost Flyers is a typically action-packed entry in Universal's Richard Arlen-Andy Devine series (if one can call a...
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"Loop" Gillan
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1939
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In this musical comedy, the Ritz Brothers inherit a racehorse but are unable to make money from him because they cannot come...
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Denny
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1938
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A female reporter is faced with a tough decision in this romantic comedy. She is engaged to another reporter. Though they...
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Perry Brown
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1938
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In this saccharine Klondike adventure, a brave female reporter who has a rapport with wild animals heads north to cover a...
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Gaston
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1938
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Released in Great Britain as Gangster's Valley, Secret Valley is a modern western (that is, it takes place in 1937). Richard...
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Lee Rogers
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1937
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The building of the great Canadian-Pacific Railroad that stretched from Montreal to Vancouver is chronicled in this...
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Hickey
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1937
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In this romantic mystery, a defense attorney attempts to get his lovely client acquitted of murder charges. As he and the...
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Steve Jackson
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1937
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Jack Benny had one of his first starring film roles in this breezy comedy with plenty of music. Benny plays Mac Brewster, an...
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Alan Townsend
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1937
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Previously filmed in 1924 by producer Sol Lesser, Harold Bell Wright's popular suspense novel The Mine with the Iron Door was...
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Bob Harvey
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1936
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The Calling of Dan Matthews is a modernized and sanitized version of Harold Bell Wright's muckraking novel. Minister Dan...
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Dan Matthews
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1936
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Produced independently by Edward Small, this surprisingly realistic gangster yarn stars stalwart Richard Arlen as Mal...
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Mal Stevens
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1935
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Three former POWs return home and find that they have been listed among the dead. This comedy follows their attempts to...
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1935
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In this drama, an impoverished dreamer saves a group of people during a terrible storm by leading them to shelter in a ghost...
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Art Ryan
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1935
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Lucky Davis
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1934
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In this fluffy romance, a young woman fights against the narrow-minded residents of her small town. The trouble begins when...
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Julian Barrow
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1934
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This drama is set within a carnival and centers on a young woman who falls in love but is unable to act upon her feelings...
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Wild Bill Smith
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1934
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No relation to the 1955 Cold War melodrama of the same title, the confusing 1933 melange Hell and High Water takes place in a...
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Capt. Jericho
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1933
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This drama centers on the fight for certain post-Prohibitionist groups to gain total control over the liquor industry. Much...
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Bill Hoffman
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1933
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Directed by Wesley Ruggles, the musical sendup of College Humor centers around the blooming love between a college professor...
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Mondrake
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1933
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A play by Nina Wilcox Putnam was the source for the empire-building drama Golden Harvest. Chester Morris stars as ambitious...
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Walt Martin
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1933
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Three-Cornered Moon is regarded by many film buffs as the first of the genuine "screwball comedies." Claudette Colbert stars...
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Dr. Alan Stevens
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1933
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This star-laden version of Lewis Carroll's novel combines elements of both the title novel and Carroll's sequel, Through the...
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Cheshire Cat
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1933
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A star football player in college, Garry King (Richard Arlen) finds post-college life very different; he betrays the trust of...
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Gary King
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1932
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Edward Parker
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1932
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In this drama, a rich man's wife finds herself victimized by her cruel mother-in-law who doesn't think the girl is good...
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David Frost
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1932
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Richard Arlen more or less revives his aviation-ace role from Wings in the Paramount programmer Sky Bride. Arlen plays Speed...
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Speed Condon
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1932
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It is difficult to determine who is the more ferocious character in this film: The real shark seen in the underwater...
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Pipes Boley
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1932
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Frank Marsh
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1932
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In this courtroom drama, a lawyer defends his sister's fiance after he is accused of murder. The lawyer knows his client is...
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Joe Hart
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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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Dan Curtis
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1931
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In the wake of such cinematic Calamity Janes as Jean Arthur and Doris Day, it comes as a shock to find a film in which the...
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1931
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The Conquering Horde is a remake of the 1924 western epic North of 36, using generous amounts of stock footage from the...
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Dan McMasters
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1931
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Brad Farley
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1931
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Tom Blake
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1931
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Rubber-legged comedian Leon Errol made his talkie starring bow in Paramount's Only Saps Work. Based on a play by Owen Davis...
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Lawrence Payne
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1930
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Joseph Conrad's novel Victory inspired some of this South Sea drama. Alma (Nancy Carroll), a violinist hired to play at an...
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Heyst
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1930
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The popular silent-film screen team of Richard Arlen and Mary Brian was carried over into talkies with such films as Burning...
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1930
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Paramount star Richard Arlen heads a strong cast in this early talkie western about a sheepherder falsely accused of killing...
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Stan Hollister
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1930
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Dick Bailey
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1930
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Considered the best of the all-star "studio" musicals of 1929 and 1930, Paramount on Parade utilized the talents of...
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Guest Star
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1930
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The search for sunken treasure provides the basis for this adventure that begins when a treasure hunter's dive is sabotaged....
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Phillip "Pink" Barker
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1930
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Jim Cleve
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1930
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Bob Morgan
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1929
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Circus life provides the framework of this drama that chronicles the love, life, and aspiration of a young circus waif. The...
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Larry Lee
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1929
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Bearing no relation to the popular torch song of the same name, The Man I Love is a prizefight picture, courtesy of Paramount...
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Dum-Dum Brooks
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1929
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Gary Cooper, as a lanky Wyoming ranch and foreman, places his gun on a poker table after being insulted by one of the...
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Steve
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1929
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1928
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This was the third screen version of A.E.W. Mason's oft-filmed novel about one soldier's triumph over cowardice and was the...
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Harry Faversham
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1928
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Nancy Carroll stars in Manhattan Cocktail as Babs, a college coed who dreams of becoming a famous actress. Joining up with...
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Fred Tilden
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1928
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Jim
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1928
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The principal lady in Ladies of the Mob is jazz-baby Clara Bow. After her father is executed, Bow goes to heck in a...
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"Red"
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1928
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1928
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Wings, the first feature film to win an Academy Award, tends to disappoint a little when seen today. Too much time is...
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David Armstrong
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1927
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Capt. Colton
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1927
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Sally in Our Alley revives the old bromide about the orphan waif who is unofficially adopted by three men of different faiths...
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Jimmie Adams
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1927
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Though billed second, the stunningly beautiful Louise Brooks is the focal point of the campus comedy Rolled Stockings. It's...
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Ralph Treadway
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1927
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Figures Don't Lie is a showcase for the physical charms of lovely Esther Ralston, who in one scene proves the accuracy of the...
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1927
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Padlocked began as a serial for Cosmopolitan magazine, written by Rex Beach. After only a couple of chapters were published,...
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1926
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Like most Westerns of the era, this Jack Holt vehicle from Paramount includes automobiles and even airplanes. But Holt went...
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1926
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1926
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Long derided by film historians as a talented but visually unimaginative director, James Cruze made up for any and all past...
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1926
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Naturalized American Raoul Melnotte (Ricardo Cortez) travels from Chicago to his native France in search of his childhood...
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1925
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