This videocassette consists of "The Secret Jade of Kuan Yin," an episode from the weekly Hardy Boys TV series (1977-78)....
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1977
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1976
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1974
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Dana Wynter guest stars as Alexandria, a former sweetheart of Chief Ironside (Raymond Burr. Now that Alexandria has returned...
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1973
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David Carradine first stepped into the sandals of taciturn martial-arts expert Caine in the made-for-TV pilot film Kung Fu. A...
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1972
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In this murder mystery, a private investigator falls for the former mistress of a racketeer who is slated to be a witness...
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1971
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In this western, a train robber is framed by a fellow gang member and sent to prison. The gang member betrayed him so that...
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1971
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Evidently, this episode of Bewitched was scripted by Lila Garrett and Bernie Kahn before the "birth" of Samantha's son Adam,...
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1970
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An erstwhile student of the Cantonese language, Mr. Nigel French (John Williams) hopes to test out his linguistics skills on...
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1967
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Tony (Larry Hagman) angrily orders Jeannie (Barbara Eden) to stop using magic--completely, no matter what the provocation....
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1966
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Steve McQueen received his only Academy Award nomination for his performance in this epic-scale war drama, based on the novel...
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1966
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Juli Eng (Irene Tsu) travels from San Francisco to Hong Kong to claim the cache of precious diamonds left to her by her...
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1963
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The second volume in a collection culled from the 1963-1965 science fiction anthology television series focuses on an...
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1963
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Very freely based upon the book by Thomas DeQuincey, Confessions of an Opium Eater is set in San Francisco during the Tong...
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1962
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Certain film historians are perpetually amazed that the doggedly unappetizing Laurence Harvey became a major film star. In...
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1962
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Sue Ling (Lisa Lu), a Chinese slave girl purchased by the infamous General Tsung (Richard Loo), is kidnapped and held for...
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1961
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The actors do the best they can with this undistinguished wartime melodrama about a group of women caught in New Guinea just...
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1961
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Bart (Jack Garner) offers a helping hand to farmer Henry Albright (John Qualen), who wants to start a gold mining company....
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1961
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The Quiet American was the first major American-financed film to touch upon the powder-keg situation in Vietnam (still...
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1958
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In this thriller, shot on location in Hong Kong, the owner of a plantation that grows Iron Lady Buddha Tea, is perplexed...
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Li Noon
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1958
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Razzle-dazzle showman Michael Todd hocked everything he had to make this spectacular presentation of Jules Verne's 1872 novel...
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1956
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Battle Hymn was inspired by the true story of American minister Dean Hess, played here with rare sensitivity by Rock Hudson....
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1956
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1956
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Based on the autobiographical novel by Han Suyin, Love is a Many Splendored Thing was evocatively location-filmed in Hong...
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1955
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The first of two Clark Gable films produced by 20th Century-Fox, Soldier of Fortune casts Gable as an American mercenary,...
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1955
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American POWs struggle to escape from a North Korean camp. While this is basically a remake of Stalag 17, it does feature...
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1954
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1954
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Hell and High Water brings an intriguing Cold War slant to a standard submarine melodrama. Richard Widmark plays a...
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1954
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Produced and directed by the prestigious Frank Lloyd, The Shanghai Story was promoted as a "class" production by the...
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1954
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In late 1944, an American guerilla unit led by Capt. Matt Reardon (Edmond O'Brien) learns that a Japanese plane carrying...
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Chang Sung
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1953
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This Columbia quickie stars Richard Denning as an American soldier of fortune who wanders into Hong Kong. He is hired by...
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Fu Chao
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1952
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Based on a true story, 5 Fingers stars James Mason as a man known to his superiors only as Cicero. Ostensibly the valet of...
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1952
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Writer and director Samuel Fuller enjoyed his first box-office and critical success with this hard-boiled but human tale of...
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Sgt. "Buddhahead" Tanaka
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1951
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Set during WW II, this film casts John Wayne as Duke Gifford, two-fisted submarine commander. Patricia Neal co-stars as Mary...
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1951
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I Was an American Spy is a true story, based on a series of autobiographical Reader's Digest articles written by Claire...
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Col. Masamoto
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1951
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Those scurrilous Chinese communists are up to their old tricks in the 1949 flagwaver State Department - File 649....
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Marshal Yun Usu
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1949
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1949
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Ken Tokoyama
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1949
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The scene is Shanghai: the time, WW II. An international group of women left stranded during the Japanese invasion are...
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Col. Noyama
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1948
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Even when decked out in a Foreign Legion uniform, Dick Powell looked, talked and acted like an urban private eye. In Rogues'...
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1948
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Herbert Heyes, a largely unsung character actor who once played opposite Theda Bara in the silent days, is afforded one of...
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1948
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The Golden Eye is a Charlie Chan mystery set on a Southwestern ranch. A once-dormant mine mysteriously begins to yield gold,...
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1948
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In this mystery, a detective encounters a woman in a nightclub. He finds that she is being blackmailed by a dancer who is...
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1948
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An unimportant but likeable Republic drama, Web of Danger revolves around the rivalry between two hardhat bridge-builders....
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1947
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A plane crash over the Pacific leaves seven survivors stranded in a life raft in this war-time disaster movie. One of the...
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1947
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Tokyo Rose is a standard wartime melodrama with the slight advantage of topicality. Lotus Long plays the title role, an...
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Col. Suzuki
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1945
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In this WW II drama, American POWs aboard a Japanese ship revolt when they learn that their vessel is to used as a decoy for...
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Capt. Osikawa
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1945
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Such was the prevailing mood among filmgoers in 1943 that God Is My Co-Pilot was allowed to show a spiritual shaft of light...
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1945
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Edward Dmytryk's Back to Bataan stars John Wayne as Colonel Joe Madden. After General MacArthur decides to follow his order...
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Maj. Hasko
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1945
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This WW II drama is the first to deal with the fateful atomic bomb attack on Japan. Originally, the film centered on the...
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Col. Okanura
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1945
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Based on the novel by A.J. Cronin, The Keys of the Kingdom was the first big-budget effort of movie-newcomer Gregory Peck....
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1944
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The year is 1942: eight American airmen crash-land during the Doolittle bombing raid on Tokyo and are taken prisoner. Though...
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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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Tanni
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1944
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Pearl S. Buck's novel China Sky is boiled down to a wartime romantic triangle, courtesy of commercial-minded RKO....
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1944
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1944
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Flight for Freedom was an "a clef" version of the Amelia Earhart story. Rosalind Russell plays the Earhart-like aviatrix...
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1943
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Tom Conway makes his second appearance as amateur sleuth Tom Lawrence, aka "The Falcon", in RKO Radio's The Falcon Strikes...
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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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Yanks Ahoy was the last of a series of Hal Roach "streamliners" teaming William Tracy as Sgt. Doubleday, he of the...
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1943
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Set in Japanese-occupied China shortly before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, this action/drama stars Alan Ladd as Mr. Jones, a...
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1943
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Behind the Rising Sun is a rarity: a WW2 film with a handful of sympathetic Japanese characters. His eyes slanted by the RKO...
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1943
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Those obviously hastily assembled to cash in on current headlines, Manila Calling shows no signs of this haste in its...
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1942
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The Flying Tigers were a group of American volunteer aviators, flying against the Japanese on behalf of General Claire...
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1942
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Of the two PRC Anna May Wong vehicles filmed during the 1942-43 season, Bombs Over Burma is marginally the best, thanks to...
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1942
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Filmed in the months immediately following Pearl Harbor, 20th Century-Fox's Little Tokyo USA is 63 minutes' worth of...
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1942
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The winner of four Oscar nominations, Wake Island was one of the first major Hollywood films to deal with America's forced...
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1942
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A lively espionage drama that reunited the stars and director of the previous year's The Maltese Falcon, Across the Pacific...
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1942
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Having accidentally caused a merchant ship to blow up, stowaways Bob Hope and Bing Crosby are shipwrecked on the African...
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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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Secrets of the Wasteland is a lesser "Hopalong Cassidy" western, with talk taking precedence over action. This time, Hoppy...
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1941
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They Met in Bombay is a typical MGM star vehicle, in which the leading players are called upon to carry a pencil-thin...
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1941
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In his final "Mr. Wong" mystery, Boris Karloff solves the case of who killed shipping magnate Cyrus P. Wentworth...
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1940
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The Fatal Hour was the fourth entry in Monogram's "Mr. Wong" series, based on the gentlemanly oriental detective created by...
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1940
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The gathering war clouds in the late 1930s prompted a number of Hollywood films about recent political upheavals, one of...
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1939
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The FBI goes up against a female gang leader in this ultra-low-budget thriller directed by Raymond K. Johnson. Grant Withers...
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1939
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A mysterious visitor is found murdered in Mr. Wong's study in this, the third of Monogram's low-budget thrillers, featuring...
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1939
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This sequel to Grand National's 1938 actioner Cipher Bureau once again stars Leon Ames as bureau head Major Philip Waring. In...
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1939
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1939
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Merlini the Magician, Clayton Rawson's crime-solving illusionist, has been singularly ill-used by Hollywood, having appeared...
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1939
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The bloom of youth had long faded on actor James Dunn when he starred in Shadows Over Shanghai. Even so, he is fairly...
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1938
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1938
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It took British author James Hilton six weeks to write his visionary novel Lost Horizon. It took director Frank Capra two...
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1937
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In this drama, the third remake of a popular play by Porter Emerson Browne, General Wu Yen Fang, "the White Tiger," is an...
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1937
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1937
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It was from this military musical that the US Marine Corps got it's signature anthem, "The Song of the Marines." The story...
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1937
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Notorious Hollywood tightwad Sam Katzman's first serial, Shadow of Chinatown stars Bela Lugosi as Victor Poten, a Eurasian...
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1936
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1936
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In this romance, a social worker employed by Traveler's Aid finally is able to show her love to a construction foreman...
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1935
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Ne'er-do-well Gary Cooper is so desperate for quick cash that he's willing to sell the custody rights of his own daughter...
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1934
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1933
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In this crime thriller, a suicidal writer is saved by a helpful newspaper editor who gives her a much-needed job. Later she...
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1932
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