In this beach movie, a group of teenagers hang out at the Silver Palms everyday after school. Because things can get quite...
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1964
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An otherwise peaceful lakeside resort is the scene of an angry confrontation between Edward Lewis (Richard Anderson) and his...
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1964
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In this offbeat crime drama, Mafia boss Johnny Colini (Marc Lawrence) has run afoul of the law and is being deported back to...
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1963
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Veteran boxing trainer Jimmy West (played by Robert Armstrong of King Kong fame) thinks he's finally found a "golden boy" in...
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1962
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When a drifter named Ray Roscoe (Robert Sterling) saves little Tony Mitchell (Bill Mumy) from drowning, Tony's grateful...
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1962
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Small-town garage mechanic Aaron Menefee (Andrew Prine) becomes a devoted disciple of the Reverend Otis Jones...
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1962
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When a storm at sea threatens to sink the freighter "Janeel Trader", first officer Jerry Griffin orders a million dollars'...
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1961
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Roy Carter (Scott Marlowe) will hang for murder unless Paladin (Richard Boone) can reach the prison in time with news that...
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1958
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Although Army major Frank Lessing (John Archer) left behind a suicide note before his death, Sgt. Joseph Dexter (Paul...
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1958
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A former fighter's younger brother decides that he too wants to enter the squared circle and so leaves his native Maine to...
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1958
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1956
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Ian Carmichael plays the "white sheep" in a family of successful thieves. Everyone in the clan has made a healthy career out...
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1956
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1955
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The title refers to the euphoric pleasures of motorcycle racing, a sport that is exploited to the breaking point in this...
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Barton
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1952
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Destination Big House is a well directed Republic Programmer starring Dorothy Patrick as a vacationing schoolteacher....
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Ed Somers
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1950
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Columbia's "Crime Doctor" series drew to a close with 1949's Crime Doctor's Diary. A visibly weary but still virile...
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"Goldie" Harrigan
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1949
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Pat Feeney
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1949
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Paramount's Pine-Thomas production unit was afforded a larger budget than usual for Captain China. The title character,...
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1949
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At the last possible moment, convicted murderess Anne Marie St. Claire (Dorothy Lamour) is saved from execution. However, the...
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1949
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Max O'Hara
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1949
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Willard Logan
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1949
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The success of 1947's Badman's Territory prompted RKO Radio to assemble another "outlaw rally," Return of the Badmen....
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Wild Bill Doolin
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1948
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1948
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Bob Hope's Technicolor western spoof The Paleface was one of the comedian's biggest box-office hits. Hope plays Painless...
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Terris
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1948
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Nice guys don't always finish last as can be seen in this crime drama. The story begins as a perfectly nice fellow finds...
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1947
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Not precisely the best film of 1947, the Republic comedy-mystery Exposed is nevertheless consistently enjoyable. Adele Mara...
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Inspector Prentice
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1947
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Usually associated with erudite, urbane comedies, the legendary screen team of Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy goes...
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1947
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The biggest surprise in Republic's Gay Blades is that the studio's resident skating star Vera Hruba Ralston doesn't appear....
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1946
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Elevating Criminal Court above the B-picture norm is the inventive direction by Robert Wise and the better-than-usual...
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Vic Wright
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1946
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Martha O'Driscoll fills the title role quite nicely in Blonde Alibi. The plot of this rapid-fire programmer involves a...
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Williams
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1946
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This gripping, gritty film noir begins as a mortally wounded physician staggers into the apartment of a vicious vixen, the...
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Frank Olins
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1946
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Republic Pictures certainly didn't believe in obscure or misleading film titles, as G.I. War Brides amply proves. Ann Lee...
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Dawson
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1946
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In his first film in two years, James Cagney stars as Nick Condon, the American editor of a pre-WW2 Tokyo newspaper. When two...
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Col. Tojo
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1945
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In his first starring role in several years, Robert Armstrong essays a dual role in Gangs of the Waterfront. Armstrong is...
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Dutch Malone,Peter Winkly
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1945
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Capt. Joe Dugan
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1945
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1945
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Filmed extensively on location, The Falcon in San Francisco is one of the best of RKO Radio's "Falcon" series. This time...
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1945
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Johnny Jersey (Robert Lowery) learns The Navy Way in this typical Pine-Thomas actioner. A product of the streets, Johnny has...
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1944
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The year is 1942: Mr. Winkle (Edward G. Robinson), a mild-mannered bank clerk, decides to quit his job and open a fix-it shop...
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1944
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In this drama a big-city reporter moves to a tiny town to begin running the newspaper he half-owns. His in-your-face...
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1944
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Exiled from his own country during WW2, French filmmaker Leonide Moguy worked briefly in Hollywood, where he directed the...
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Reed
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1944
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Belle Of The Yukon is standard backstage musical fare, featuring Randolph Scott as a reformed con man who has fled north from...
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1944
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In this '40s film Kay Kyser parades an entertainment group all over the globe providing laughs for the boys in battle. This...
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1943
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Like several other Harry Sherman Productions of the 1942-43 season, The Kansan was originally slated for a Paramount release,...
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1943
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Even by Monogram standards, Wings Over the Pacific is a modest effort. In his final film role, Montague Love plays WW I...
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Pieter
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1943
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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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The Mad Ghoul may well be the definitive George Zucco horror melodrama. The star plays Dr. Alfred Morris, a distinguished...
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Ken McClure
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1943
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This homey little comedy is predicated on the notion that bucolic country boy Morgan (Richard Cromwell) is the son of a...
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"Doc" Rogers
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1942
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Produced by silent-film comedian Harold Lloyd, My Favorite Spy is a vehicle for bespectacled bandleader Kay Kyser, who...
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Harry Robinson
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1942
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Based on a popular radio series, this Universal serial, produced in 13 chapters, starred two of the studio's better B-movie...
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1942
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Set soon after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Let's Get Tough! opens with the East Side Kids -- Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall,...
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1942
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It Happened in Flatbush is a likable baseball comedy inspired by the 1941 Brooklyn Dodgers' pennant win. Lloyd Nolan portrays...
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Danny Mitchell
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1942
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In this crime drama set on the seedy waterfront of San Francisco, a longshoreman studies in his spare time to become an...
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Father Cameron
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1941
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Lloyd Nolan is thoroughly convincing as a big-league baseball pitcher in Mr. Dynamite--and never mind that the film never...
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Paul
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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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Citadel of Crime was the original title of the Republic John Wayne vehicle which eventually emerged as A Man Betrayed (TV...
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Cal Fullerton
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1941
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Universal catered to the young fans of aviation with this airborne serial, which featured a plucky kid -- "Bowery Boy" Billy...
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1941
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1940
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The physically challenged bride of the title is played by Lynne Roberts, but it's reporter Ted North who's the film's true...
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Pete
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1940
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In this espionage adventure, a courageous millworker must prove himself innocent of treason charges after the title spies...
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Gordon
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1940
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An innocent young woman is accused of murder by her wicked stepmother. The poor lass ends up in prison. Fortunately, a...
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1940
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Reporter Albertson works to solve a murder case in order to clear his name and get a great story for his paper. ~ Rovi...
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Skippy
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1940
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As suggested by its title, Behind the News was a "stop the presses!" yarn set in a big-city newsroom. Lloyd Nolan is...
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Vic Archer
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1940
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Call a Messenger is the second entry in Universal's "Dead End Kids/Little Tough Guys" series. In this one, the Little Tough...
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Kirk Graham
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1939
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Man of Conquest was the first "super production" from Republic Pictures, a studio not known for its lavish budgets. This...
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1939
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In this high-flying drama, a foolhardy, free-spirited pilot throws his responsibilities as a mail pilot to the wind when he...
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Jim Brennan
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1939
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This romance is set during the Dartmouth College Winter Carnival and follows the exploits of a woman recently divorced from...
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Tiger Reynolds
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1939
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In this sentimental drama, a washed-up boxer falls for a nightclub owner whose business has nearly been ruined by...
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Pins Streaver
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1939
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It matters not at all that the famed "wrong way" flight of aviator Douglas Corrigan, who in 1938 tried to fly from New York...
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Joe Alden
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1939
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Heiress Virginia Bruce tries to prove her worth by taking a job as a shopgirl in the store owned by her family. The pampered...
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1938
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In this action-packed crime drama, an ace reporter declares war on the mobsters that killed his best friend, helps a...
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McCormick
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1938
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1937
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More ambitious than its budget will permit, Three Legionnaires details the misadventures of comrades-in-arms Chuck...
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Chuck
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1937
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In the tradition of such earlier Universal serials as Flash Gordon and Jungle Jim, the 12-chapter Radio Patrol was based on a...
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1937
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Al Tinker
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1937
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The rollicking music of Gilbert and Sullivan is featured in this musical. It tells the story of a dance hall girl with a love...
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Jimmie Allen
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1937
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In this lively adventure aimed at youthful audiences, a wiseacre fireman soon finds himself in trouble with his fire captain...
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Smokey Shannon
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1937
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Scoops Hanford
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1937
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In this drama, a flamboyant womanizing airline pilot competes with another, rather dull, pilot for the love of a fetching...
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Wad Madison
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1936
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In this melodrama the captain of a decrepit boat must get it to port but finds that racketeers are trying to prevent him...
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Dusty Johnson
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1936
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Nick Martel
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1936
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Margaret Lindsay stars in the title role, playing a young woman imprisoned for a crime which she didn't commit. The real...
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Gene Ferguson
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1936
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Bucolic Elmer Lamb (Stuart Erwin), who only wants to raise dairy cattle, is a mathematical prodigy; he's even a whiz at...
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Hogan
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1936
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In this romance, set during the Great Depression, an impoverished socialite is forced to work by her financial situation....
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Chuck Ahearn
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1935
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This peppy Monogram meller stars Robert Armstrong as a big-city newspaper reporter. After getting a bonus, Armstrong...
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Larry
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1935
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In the wake of The Thin Man, every studio in Hollywood scrambled to churn out sophisticated mystery-comedies wherein murders...
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Fred Flannagan
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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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Jeff McCord
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1935
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Rudy Vallee made his third feature-film starring appearance in the breezy Warner Bros. musical Sweet Music. Vallee is...
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Dopey Malone
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1935
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Bob Owens
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1935
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In the wake of Shirley Temple, every Hollywood studio scrambled to find a child star who might possibility match Temple's...
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Steve Craig
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1935
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Few studios ground out as many aviation melodramas as Columbia. In Above the Clouds, Robert Armstrong stars as Scoop Adams,...
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Scoop Adams
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1934
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Scrappy society belle Geraldine (Ann Sothern) is The Hell Cat in this peppy Columbia potboiler. Fed up with the intrusions of...
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Dan Collins
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1934
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Based on a novel by Cornell Woolrich, Manhattan Love Song charts the misadventures of the madcap Stewart sisters, Jerry...
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Williams
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1934
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Based on the popular comic strip by Ham Fisher, this fast-paced and funny boxing outing follows the exploits of a boxing...
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Pete Palooka
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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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Duke Gordon
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1934
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Back in the 1930s, the "Search for Beauty" contests were designed to scout the hinterlands of America and England for...
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Larry Williams
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1934
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Kansas City Princess came at the tail end of the "gold-digger" movie cycle. The inevitable Joan Blondell plays Rosie, a...
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Dynamite
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1934
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Richard Bruce
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1933
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"How would you like to star opposite the tallest, darkest leading man in Hollywood?" Enticed by these words, brunette leading...
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Carl Denham
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1933
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This story centers around a love triangle between two construction workers and a girl. The film climaxes with a fight on top...
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Bucker Reilly
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1933
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This drama chronicles the devoted love of a woman who tries to reform her lover, a black marketeer with a compulsive...
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Driller
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1933
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Hoping to immediately cash in on its blockbuster hit King Kong (1933). RKO Radio commissioned producers Willis O'Brien and...
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Carl Denham
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1933
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Ed Maloney
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1932
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Lt. Woody Curwood
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1932
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The concept of radio patrol cars was still brand-spanking new when this fast-moving programmer came off the Universal...
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Bill Kennedy
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1932
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Edna May Oliver makes the first of three appearances as Hildegarde Withers, the schoolteacher/sleuth created by mystery...
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Barry Costello
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1932
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Eternal movie trollop Helen Twelvetrees is more sinned against than necessary in Panama Flo. Stranded in Panama, honky-tonk...
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Babe
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1932
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The first of many official and unofficial screen versions of Richard Connell's The Most Dangerous Game was put together by...
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Martin Trowbridge
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1932
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In this comedy, a convict uses his skills as a masseur and a fight manager to get out of prison and become the private gym...
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Fingers Partos
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1932
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1932
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Chester Binney
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1931
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In this boxing drama, a prizefighter is left by his money-grubbing showgirl wife who aspires to be a movie star. The...
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George Regan
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1931
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Coney island vendors Baltimore Clark (Bill Boyd), Dutch Herman (Robert Armstrong) and Skeets O'Reilly (James Gleason) spend...
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Dutch Herman
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1931
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A boxer and his girl try to dissuade their friend from getting involved with a Mafioso's gal. ~ Kristie Hassen, Rovi...
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Kayo McClure
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1931
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In this drama, an older railroad supervisor is engaged to a lovely young woman. Unfortunately, she falls in love with the...
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Larry Doyle
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1930
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Jerry Moore
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1930
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Joe Garson
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1930
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1930
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In this romantic comedy, a fighter goes to a southern town to train for the championship. He soon falls in love. The girl...
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Jerry Malone
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1930
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Rival arms smugglers in Cuba endeavor to be the first to send their weapons to the revolutionaries in Central America in...
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Blake
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1929
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This late-20s gangster movie features Carole Lombard as a young gal who agrees to marry a smooth-talking gangster in exchange...
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Mahlon Keane
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1929
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Filmed silent, but outfitted with a Movietone musical score and sound effects, Woman From Hell was inspired by From Hell Came...
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Alf Roslyn
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1929
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Steve Banks
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1929
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Babe Callahan
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1929
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Two vagabonds find romance in this love story. It all begins when they get jobs as railroad brakemen by proving to the...
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Dude
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1929
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Jacqueline Logan stars as Paula, a beautiful and fearless circus leopard trainer. Working hand-in-glove with the police,...
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Chris
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1928
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Gene
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1928
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Future "Hopalong Cassidy" William Boyd essays the title role in Pathe's The Cop. It all begins when likeable police sergeant...
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1928
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The rampant male chauvinism in A Girl in Every Port might be hard for contemporary audiences to stomach, but fans of director...
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Salami
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1928
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The 1928 Fox comedy-drama Square Crooks was based on James P. Judge's stage play of the same name (back then, "square" meant...
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1928
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When Cecil B. DeMille's own production company was absorbed by Pathe in 1928, several DeMille contractees went along for the...
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William Calhoun
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1928
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1928
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The ebullient Eddie Quillan made his talking-picture bow in the Pathe part-talkie Show Folks. After a chance meeting with...
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Owens
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1928
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Red Lucas
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1927
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