If you think that Oliver Stone invented the "political paranoia" movie, take a glance at Executive Action sometime. Based on...
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Foster
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1973
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John Frankenheimer's screen version of Eugene O'Neill's 1947 Broadway play The Iceman Cometh is set in 1912 at Harry Hope's...
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Larry Slade
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1973
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Though previously filmed several times in one- and two-reel form, Edward Everett Hale's classic 1863 novel The Man Without a...
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1973
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Petty jealousies and misunderstandings between two rival families escalate into a tragic outburst of violence in this drama....
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Pap Gutshall
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1973
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A two-bit criminal takes on the Mafia to avenge his brother's death in this drama based on a novel by Donald E. Westlake....
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Mailer
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1973
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In this offbeat crime drama, a French fugitive heads for Canada and ends up joining a gang of desperate criminals who have...
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Charley
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1972
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Based on the novel The Love Machine, by Jacqueline Susann, this movie concerns the machinations, in the boardroom and in the...
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1971
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In Lawman, Burt Lancaster is Jered Maddox, a dedicated marshal with an inflexible adherence to upholding the law at all...
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Cotton Ryan
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1971
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"If they move, kill 'em!" Beginning and ending with two of the bloodiest battles in screen history, Sam Peckinpah's classic...
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Thornton
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1969
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Captain Nemo and the Underwater City thrusts several "name" actors into the specialized world of Jules Verne. Six...
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Capt. Nemo
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1969
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Gen. Carson
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1968
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Opening with a montage depicting its subject's Civil War exploits, Custer of the West carries us across four years of...
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1968
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Ike Clanton
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1967
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Clay McCord (Alex Cord) is a former outlaw determined to live the life of a law-abiding citizen. Colby (Arthur Kennedy) is...
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Gov. Lem Carter
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1967
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A nosey housewife (Marguerite Viby) takes on extra responsibilities when her husband (Buster Larsen) hurts his back while...
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Charley Baker
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1967
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1967
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Filmed on location in New York, the 60-minute TV drama Guilty or Not Guilty was cowritten by Evan "Blackboard Jungle" Hunter....
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1967
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Hans Ehrengard
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1966
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La Guerre Secrete is divided into four separate vignettes, each scene representing a day in the life of international...
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Gen. Bruce
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1965
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This British programmer was filmed on the cheap in Yugoslavia, with an American star, Robert Ryan, to secure U.S. playdates....
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Richard Ashley
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1965
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In December of 1944, the Allied high command is convinced that German forces in Belgium are in a low state of readiness, and...
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Gen. Grey
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1965
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Master-at-Arms Claggart
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1962
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The Longest Day is a mammoth, all-star re-creation of the D-Day invasion, personally orchestrated by Darryl F. Zanuck....
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Brig. Gen. James M. Gavin
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1962
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In the late nineteenth century, Inspector Gannon (Robert Ryan) is a member of the Northwest Mounted Police (forerunners of...
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Insp. William Gannon
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1961
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One major film star referred to director Nicholas Ray as a "loser," because of Ray's alleged willingness to let his more...
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1961
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Based on the Edna Ferber novel, this engrossing period piece covers the triumphs, tragedies, loves, and sorrows of a few...
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Thor Storm
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1960
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Harry Belafonte was both producer and star of this hard-edged film noir crime drama. Dave Burke (Ed Begley, Sr.) is an ex-cop...
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Earl Slater
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1959
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Set in an isolated, snow-covered town in the far West, this story has a renegade army officer named Jack Bruhn (Burl Ives)...
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Blaise Starrett
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1959
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For his film directorial debut, producer Dore Schary selected a longtime pet property: Miss Lonelyhearts, Nathaniel West's...
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William Shrike
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1958
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Ty Ty Walden
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1958
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Anthony Mann, best known for his intelligent Westerns and hard-boiled crime films, directed this unflinching look at the...
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Lt. Mark Benson
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1957
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Bill
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1956
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A small Kansas town braces itself for the arrival of the first Texas trail herd. The marshal (Robert Ryan) expects trouble...
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Marshal Cass Silver
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1956
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This powerfully tense, fast-paced suspense drama also yields a grim social message about racial prejudice. Spencer Tracy is...
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Reno Smith
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1955
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Jim Brecan
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1955
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Samuel Fuller directed and cowrote this typically hard-boiled drama set in Japan following World War II. Eddie Kenner...
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Sandy Dawson
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1955
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Nathan Stark
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1955
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After a fruitful 15-year association, Greer Garson and MGM parted company with Her Twelve Men. The William Roberts-Laura Z....
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Joe Hargrave
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1954
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George Leslie
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1954
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Alaskan salmon fisherman Matt Kelly (Robert Ryan) doesn't care who he runs over in race to get ahead in life. He even manages...
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Matt Kelly
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1954
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Brief and very much to the point, Inferno is a grim, fascinating tale of survival. Breaking his leg on a vacation trip,...
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Carson
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1953
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The motivating factor behind City Beneath the Sea is an underwater treasure hunt. In 1692, an underwater earthquake sends the...
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Brad Carlton
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1953
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The powerhouse combination of star James Stewart and director Anthony Mann score another cinematic bullseye in The Naked...
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Ben Vandergroat
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1953
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Adapted from the stage thriller The Man (itself based upon a half-hour radio drama), Beware My Lovely is a taut suspenser...
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Howard Wilton
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1952
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The opening credits appearing over a turbulent ocean serve as a foreshadowing of things to come in this standard-issue love...
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Earl Pfeiffer
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1952
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Set in the years following the Civil War, Horizons West stars Robert Ryan as Dan Hammond, one of three Texans who decide to...
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Dan Hammond
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1952
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Robert Ryan plays Jim Wilson, a tough police detective embittered by years of dealing with low-life urban scum, in...
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Jim Wilson
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1951
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Nick Scanlon
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1951
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The Technicolor adventure epic Flying Leathernecks offers two things that film cultists can never get enough of: star...
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Capt. Carl Griffin
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1951
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Though RKO Radio Pictures was, in 1951, still faithful to the concept of "B" westerns starring Tim Holt, the studio was more...
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Jeff Clanton
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1950
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One of the most oft-revived of the pre-Technicolor Nicholas Ray efforts, Born to Be Bad offers us the spectacle of...
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Nick
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1950
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The Secret Fury works best if one is willing to suspend one's disbelief from the outset. Claudette Colbert stars as Ellen, a...
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David
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1950
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As shown by the clock face that opens and closes the film, The Set-Up takes place within a compact 72 minutes, with the...
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Bill "Stoker" Thompson
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1949
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It doesn't take a nuclear scientist to figure out that Smith Ohrig, the character played by Robert Ryan in Caught, is a...
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Smith Ohlrig
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1949
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An unusually disturbing noir from a director better known for more mainstream fare like High Noon and From Here to Eternity,...
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Joe Parkson
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1949
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There's propaganda aplenty in RKO's I Married a Communist, the first of producer Howard R. Hughes's many anti-Red broadsides....
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Brad Collins
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1949
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Finding a curiously silent young runaway boy (Dean Stockwell) whose head has been completely shaved, small town police call...
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Dr. Evans
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1948
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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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1948
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On a trip from France to Allied-occupied Berlin, a group of travelers -- a mysterious and very secretive European woman...
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Robert Lindley
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1948
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This drama was one of the first major-studio efforts to confront anti-Semitism (beating the Oscar-winning...
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Monty Montgomery
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1947
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A WWII Coast Guard veteran, Lt. Scott Burnett (Robert Ryan), is plagued by nightmares of his combat days. One day, he meets a...
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Lt. Scott Burnett
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1947
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Quick-draw legend Bat Masterson is summoned to Kansas to end a small-town feud between local farmers and criminal ranch...
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Allen Harper
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1947
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Three years after song-and-dance man Dick Powell reshaped his nice-guy image by playing hard-boiled gumshoe Phillip Marlowe...
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1947
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Daisy, the Bumstead's mischievous mutt, makes the family a little extra cash when she wins a contest to become a model for...
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1946
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The Iron Major is the saga of WW1 hero-cum-football coach Frank Cavanaugh, played with his usual no-nonsense professionalism...
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Fr. Tim Donovan
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1943
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In this wartime propaganda film, two Marine officers and their company go on leave when the Army takes over during the...
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Capt. Dan Craig
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1943
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In this drama, set at a WW II munitions plant, the lives of five workers are chronicled. Their stories are told via...
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Joe Dunham
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1943
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A major moneymaker for RKO Radio, Bombardier stars Pat O'Brien and Randolph Scott as trainers at a school for bomber pilots....
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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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Lefty
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1943
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A bit treacly at times, Tender Comrade is nonetheless a fascinating distillation of the American mindset during WW2. Ginger...
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Chris
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1943
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Reg Fenton
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1943
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An expert cast of farceurs goes through its customary paces in MGM's The Feminine Touch. Don Ameche plays college...
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1941
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Filmed on location at Mesa, AZ, this minor Paramount western featured newcomer Ellen Drew as "Slats" Dangerfield, a young...
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1940
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Though the title character is loosely based on that of the notorious killer/robber Ma Barker, she has been sanitized and...
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1940
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Cecil B. De Mille directed this lavish all-star spectacular paying tribute to America's neighbors to the North. In 1885, as...
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1940
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Filmed with the full cooperation of the Golden Gloves Tournament Association, this Paramount programmer stars...
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1940
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1940
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