Alfred Hitchcock inaugurated the tenth and final season of his popular TV suspense anthology by moving from CBS to NBC --...
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1964
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Who else but Randolph Scott could be the Tall Man Riding in this rugged western? Forced to lay low for several years after...
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1955
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A "big" western by Allied Artists standards, Cow Country is directed with his usual panache by horse-opera expert...
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1953
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In this swashbuckling adventure-satire, Kashma Baba's famous father Ali, sends the reluctant youth to military school to...
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1952
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1951
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Flight to Mars is the second American film of the postwar era (after the previous year's Rocketship X-M) to depict a manned...
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1951
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Filmed on location in Florida's Everglades, Distant Drums stars Gary Cooper as Indian fighter Quincy Wyatt. At the height of...
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1951
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Stanley Clements stars in Republic's Pride of Maryland as an ambitious jockey named Frankie (an inside joke: most movie...
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Col. Harding
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1951
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1951
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Samuel Fuller wrote and directed this lively drama based on the real-life adventures of James Addison Reavis, one of the most...
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1950
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The year is 1942. Ensign Chuck Palmer (Tyrone Power) is stranded in the Japanese-occupied Philippines after his ship is...
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1950
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If ever there was an actor born to play Billy the Kid, it was the combustible Audie Murphy. In Kid from Texas, Murphy is cast...
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1950
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Double Crossbones is an unusually elaborate comedy vehicle for Donald O'Connor. Set in the Carolinas in the 18th century, the...
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1950
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Davy Crockett, king of the wild frontier, didn't become a nationwide craze (and merchandising cash cow) until Disney got hold...
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1950
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When a priceless diamond is stolen from a museum exhibition all suspicion falls upon the notorious Lone Wolf, a former jewel...
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1949
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Director Kurt Neumann, more closely associated with science fiction and mystery programmers, delivers a powerhouse of a...
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1949
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Randolph Scott both co-produced and starred in this above average Western chronicling the career of one of the last of the...
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1949
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Sheriff
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1949
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East Indian actor Sabu goes through his usual paces in Columbia's Song of India. Sabu plays Ramdar, prince of a jungle tribe,...
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1949
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Filmed on location in the Canadian Rockies, this historical adventure spins a fanciful account of the building of the...
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1949
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1948
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Jacques D'Arc
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1948
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Private detective Franchot Tone is hired by a prominent politician (Tom Powers) to run a background check on the politician's...
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1947
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Fans of William "Wild Bill" Elliot vastly prefer his B westerns to his big-budget Republic "specials", though the latter...
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Dr. Sharp
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1947
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Road to Rio was the first of three "Road" pictures jointly produced by stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. On the run from the...
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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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With Tim Holt still in military service and Robert Mitchum promoted to "A" pictures, RKO Radio attempted to create a new...
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Curtis
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1946
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In this entry in the Crime Doctor series, amateur sleuth Dr. Ordway is duped into giving one of his patients a fatal shot....
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1946
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In this mystery, a millionaire shipping tycoon commands that eight of his relatives come to his Chinese mountain retreat...
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1946
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Director Frank Borzage and star Ginger Rogers both came acropper in the lavish but dull historical biopic Magnificent Doll....
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Mr. Payne
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1946
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The first "Road" picture in three years (the last was The Road to Morocco), Road to Utopia is set during the Alaskan gold...
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1946
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While perhaps not Abbott & Costello's best film, The Time of Their Lives is certainly their most unusual. Lou Costello plays...
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1946
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The old bromide about a group of avaricious heirs waiting for an old millionaire to die is trotted out in Grissly's Millions....
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Grissly Morgan Palmor
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1945
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In his final epic Western, Errol Flynn plays cattleman Clay Hardin, who, on a trek south of the border, has discovered that...
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1945
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1945
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In this western, a young cowboy rides out to avenge his father's killer. Eventually, he finds the scoundrel, but by this...
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Uncle Collinshaw
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1945
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In this low-budget thriller, a ferry captain named Douglas (Charles Middleton) is accused of a murder he did not commit and...
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Christain
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1945
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John Brickley (Robert Montgomery) believes in PT boats, and as a lowly U.S. Navy lieutenant stationed in the Philippines,...
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1945
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Greg McClure stars as legendary boxer John L. Sullivan in this screen biography of the famous fighter. Known as "The Boston...
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1945
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Though the filmmakers claimed they were writing a biography of Nazi minister Dr. Joseph Goebbels, this film is actually...
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1944
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Dismissed by critics as corny and obvious in 1944, this overlong but sincere biopic looks pretty good when seen today,...
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1944
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Fall In was the fourth of Hal Roach's 1940s comedies revolving around the misadventures of Doubleday, an army recruit...
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Colonel Elliot
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1943
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For his first independently-produced starring effort, James Cagney chose the sentimental drama Johnny Come Lately. Cagney...
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1943
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An American pilot swears to get revenge on the German ace who shot his brother in this war movie set in war-torn Europe....
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1943
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Mayor James Connison
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1943
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In this provocative WW II drama, an American agent sneaks into a Nazi spy ring to learn the identities of certain...
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1943
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Originally slated for release through Paramount Pictures but ultimately distributed by United Artists, American Empire is a...
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Crowder
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1942
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In this drama, set during the gold-rush, an unsuccessful prospector prepares to leave Alaska. But first he has a grand,...
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Frayne
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1942
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Previously filmed three times, the evergreen Zane Grey yarn Riders of the Purple Sage was given a fourth go-round by 20th...
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Judge Dyer
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1941
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In this patriotic war drama, a unit of Army recruits train for a parachute corps. One is an arrogant football star who finds...
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1941
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One of the less laudable results of the United States' wartime "good neighbor" policy with South America was the relentlessly...
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Don Enrique de Los Santos O'Shea
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1941
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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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Good-ol' sheriff Holt is determined to prove that prisoners can be rehabilitated and released into society in this prison...
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Chester Russell
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1940
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Set during the war of 1812, Hal Roach's Captain Caution is an unusual swashbuckler in that the "hero" is actually the...
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Capt. Dorman
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1940
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1940's Laddie was the third cinemadaptation of the heartwarming story by Gene Stratton-Porter (the second version, filmed in...
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Mr. Stanton
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1940
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Wallace Beery trots out his "lovable lout" act for the zillionth time in Man From Dakota. Beery plays a Union army sergeant...
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Parson Summers
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1940
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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 episode of the popular western series, Cisco stops a claim-jumping killer from the mine. He then makes sure the...
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Jim Harbison
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1939
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RKO's Conspiracy attempts to be an up-to-date (for 1939) espionage drama without using such problematic words as "Nazi" or...
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Tio
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1939
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In the tradtion of producer Harry Sherman's earlier Zane Grey westerns for Paramount, Heritage of the Desert features an...
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Andrew Naab
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1939
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Bad Lands is a remake of John Ford's The Lost Patrol, with the locale changed from the Mesopotamian to the Arizona desert....
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Sheriff
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1939
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In this Mexican version of the popular southwestern series, Cisco barely escapes the deadly bullets of a firing squad. He...
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1939
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Films set during America's colonial era seldom did well at the box office, and Allegheny Uprising was no exception....
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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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Gene Autry goes up against another "protection" racket in this tuneful series entry, which also features country & western...
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1939
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Capt. Grady
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1938
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1938
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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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Igor Sargoza
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1938
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Wallace Beery plays one of his patented good bad guys in this MGM Western. "Trigger" Bill (Beery) is an outlaw with a heart...
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1938
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Sidney Toler made his first appearance as aphorism-spouting oriental sleuth Charlie Chan in 1938's Charlie Chan in Honolulu,...
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1938
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Boy soprano Bobby Breen dons a pair of skates in the oddball musical Breaking the Ice. Escaping his super-strict Mennonite...
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William Decker
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1938
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In the rough-and-tumble world of post-Civil War Texas, ex-Confederate soldier Kirk Jordan (Randolph Scott) crosses paths with...
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1938
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M.G.M.'s opulent costume drama Marie Antoinette marked a return to the screen after a two-year absence for reigning Queen of...
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1938
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In this youth-oriented western, a young man's father is wrongfully accused of murder. Unfortunately, his pa can't prove it...
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1938
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The first of three remakes of the 1933 Paul Muni picture Hi, Nellie, Love is on the Air is historically important as the...
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J.D. Harrington
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1937
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The second of Paul Muni's biographical films for Warner Bros., the Oscar-winning The Life of Emile Zola is by far the best,...
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1937
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Rivalry, romance, and brotherly love in logging camps are chronicled in this drama. The trouble begins when the brother of a...
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Jefferson Russett
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1937
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Draegermen are the brave people who rescue victims of mining disasters. This film tells the story of a Nova Scotia mining...
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Martin Crane
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1937
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German director Joe May brought a decidedly Teutonic ambience to his American film Confession--no surprise, since the film...
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1937
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John Gale
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1937
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This hard-hitting, socially conscious drama, the sort of story that Warner Bros. made their hallmark in the 1930s, concerns a...
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Brown
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1937
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Paramount's answer to Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) also involved mutiny and romance on the high seas. Gary Cooper stars as...
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1937
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In this depressing drama, even though she is an adult, the eldest daughter of a hillbilly clan headed by a brutal patriarch...
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Jeff Harkins
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1937
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The well-publicized (and overexploited) birth of Canada's Dionne Quintuplets in 1934 formed the basis of The Country Doctor....
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1936
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1936
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In this musical comedy, a pacifistic song-and-dance man is compelled to don a military uniform for one of his acts. Before...
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1936
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This Dick Foran "singing western" makes extensive use of stock footage from First National's Ken Maynard series of the silent...
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Abraham Lincoln
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1936
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Paramount's first outdoor Technicolor feature, Trail of the Lonesome Pine was the third film version of John Fox Jr.'s novel....
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1936
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Dusting off a couple of old Ken Maynard Western plots -- already recycled once with John Wayne in the early 1930s -- Warner...
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1936
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1936
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In this drama, the big city wife of a small town doctor learns a valuable lesson as she struggles to adapt to rural life. ~...
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1936
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1936
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Former newspaperman Martin Mooney based his script for Exclusive Story on the racket-busting activities of New York district...
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Werther
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1936
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Paul Muni is a prominent physician who is kidnapped by gangsters and forced to tend the needs of head crook Barton MacLaine....
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Dr. Ginder
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1935
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Spencer Tracy plays a hard-driving newsman with a special instinct for solving sensational murders before the police can....
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Robins
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1935
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Based on a mystery novel by Mignon Eberhardt, While the Patient Slept stars Aline MacMahon as Eberhardt's middle-aged amateur...
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1935
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Warner Bros.' Devil Dogs of the Air is very much a "formula" picture -- but what a wonderful formula it is! James Cagney...
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1935
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Paul Muni stars in this drama about a romantic triangle that leads to madness and murder. Overly enthusiastic Mexican...
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Padre
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1935
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The Istanbul Express provides the setting for this crime drama that centers around a courier carrying the priceless Karenina...
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Baron Van Kampf
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1935
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A descendant of the notorious Borgias begins to believe that he has inherited their murderous tendencies in this thriller....
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The Captain
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1935
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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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Stan Januaschek
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1935
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Dressed to Thrill was a brave but foredoomed attempt to transform Russian musical favorite Tutta Rolf into a Hollywood movie...
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Gaston Dupont
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1935
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This drama presents a dim view of life in a small town populated by back-stabbing, narrow-minded, hypocritical and...
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Drury Stevenson
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1935
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The agent of the title is George Brent, a journalist sent by the Government to get the goods on a crime syndicate. Brent...
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1935
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When British actor Robert Donat dropped out of Warner Bros. Captain Blood, the studio took a chance on its new contractee,...
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1935
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"I Sell Anything" is the boast of penny-ante auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler (Pat O'Brien), and he more than makes good his boast...
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1934
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An Edgar Wallace yarn was the basis for the uncharacteristic Warner Bros. melodrama Return of the Terror. Hoping to escape...
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1934
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Guy Kibbee trots out his small-town blowhard routine in the title role of Big Hearted Herbert. He plays a former plumber who...
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1934
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Written by the prolific Ben Hecht, Upper World is a clash-of-class melodrama set in New York City. Railroad tycoon Alexander...
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1934
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As the title song says, you go to those shows to see those beautiful dames--and there's dames aplenty in this 1934...
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1934
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Brownell
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1934
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A pre-stardom Bette Davis struggles mightily as the "other woman" in this rather obvious divorce court drama from Warner...
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1934
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In this drama, a gambler must hide-out from the mob and ends up in a spinster's apartment. The old woman, is unused to...
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1934
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One of the first major Hollywood films to seriously address America's ongoing mistreatment of its Indian population,...
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1934
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Warren William delivers a curiously subdued performance as dilettante sleuth Philo Vance in The Dragon Murder Case. The plot...
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1934
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All but forgotten today, Warner Bros.' The Firebird was based on a once-popular stage mystery by Lajos Zilhany. Prohibited...
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1934
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James Cagney manages to retain his pre-Code cockiness within post-Code limitations in the likeable St. Louis Kid. Cagney and...
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Farmer Benson
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1934
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Born on the proverbial wrong side of the tracks, Lady Lee (Barbara Stanwyck) rises to prominence as a professional gambler....
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1934
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In this British comedy, a mild mannered editorial writer for a right-wing newspaper becomes fed up with the constant...
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1934
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James Cagney is Chesty O'Connor, a tough-as-nails, always-ready-for-a-fight shipyard worker, who loses out to US Navy CPO...
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1934
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Based on Al Jolson's 1931 Broadway hit, Wonder Bar transposes the "Grand Hotel" formula to a lavish nightclub in Paris'...
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1934
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A weak-willed gambler's compulsion destroys his life in this dramatic character study. In the beginning, he is seen working...
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Tex
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1934
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Cited by film historian William K. Everson as one of the fastest-moving crime melodramas of the 1930s (if not the fastest)...
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1934
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A Very Honorable Guy is an interesting if not terribly funny change of pace for comedy star Joe E. Brown. This Damon Runyon...
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Dr. Snitzer
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1934
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In this drama, the owner of a Chicago meat-packing company falls in love with a beautiful opera singer. Unfortunately, his...
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1933
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Marie Dressler plays the title character, tugboat captain Annie Brennan, in this 1933 Hollywood box office hit. Her husband...
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1933
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What isn't Heroes for Sale about? Within its 71-minute time frame, this film (co-written by "professional cynic"...
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Max Brinker
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1933
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In the tradition of Bureau of Missing Persons, Warner Bros's From Headquarters offers a methodical, semi-documentary look at...
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1933
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This drama is set aboard a cross-country train bound for New York. Aboard this train is a silk manufacturer from Seattle who...
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1933
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Baby Face is a good example of the kind of spitfire lead female characters that appeared in the cinema of pre-code Hollywood....
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1933
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An admirably tough B-picture enlivened by an energetic James Cagney performance, Picture Snatcher stars Cagney as Danny Kean,...
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1933
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In this campy adventure, a man raised in the mysterious African jungles by a pride of lions is captured by circus people and...
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1933
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Often (and accurately) described as a model of the whodunit genre, The Kennel Murder Case stars William Powell, making his...
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1933
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This weepie, adapted from a play by Philip Dunning and George Abbott, is a vehicle for Ruth Chatterton as the titular Lilly....
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1933
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This earnest, socially-conscious road drama centers on two California teenagers who find their comfortable lives thrown into...
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1933
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The French Foreign Legion is the setting for this episodic adventure yarn. Victor Jory plays a Legion doctor falsely accused...
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1933
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In this melodrama a superb female lawyer finds that her success has emasculated her husband, a rather average architect, who...
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1933
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This tight little melodrama opens with a group of wealthy people staying at a luxurious European mansion. According to...
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1933
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Gangster Cagney allows his powerful political connections to appoint him "deputy inspector" of a state reform school. There...
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1933
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Adapted from a "drawn from life" novel by Sir Phillip Gibbs, Captured is the story of the men in a German POW camp during...
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1933
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Drafted into the army during World War I, those muddled misfits Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy make a shambles of Training Camp...
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1932
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