Captain Stanley (Michael Norell) confuses the emergency staff when he begins showing signs of uncharacteristic nervousness...
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1977
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In this pivotal episode, budding writer John-Boy (Richard Thomas) is encouraged by his teacher Miss Hunter...
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1972
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First telecast September 14, 1971, "The Priest Killer" was originally identified as the two-hour opening episode of...
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1971
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At last the secret has been revealed! Prime-time network programming is determined by a chimpanzee! That's the premise of...
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1971
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This 25-million dollar epic collaboration accurately recreates the events that led to the Japanese attack on the American...
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1970
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In this drama, a stripper leaves the stage and becomes a grape picker at a California vineyard. There she soon arouses the...
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1966
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Two feuds are fired up in the course of this episode. For starters, Hooterville vies with Crabwell Corners over the ownership...
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1965
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After a dangerous tiger turns on its trainer and escapes from the circus, a small town in Texas finds itself in an uproar...
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1964
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Son of Flubber represented the first time that Walt Disney ever attempted a theatrical feature sequel: in this case, the...
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1963
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Well-made considering its six-day shooting schedule, this "B"-grade cops 'n robbers drama by Jack Leewood features...
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1961
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Weakly etched characters are one of the problems in this simple story of three thieves on the run. Wayne (John Hudson), Jan...
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Capt. Sid Walker
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1960
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Scott Harper (Ron Foster) is frustrated and angry as a police detective because he keeps getting passed over for a promotion...
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1960
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In this taut thriller, an aging safe-cracker's daughter gets involved with a petty gangster who is always looking for the...
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1960
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While having lunch at the Plaza Hotel in New York, advertising executive Roger O. Thornhill (Cary Grant) has the bad luck to...
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1959
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A standard crime story with a dash of a disillusioned generation of men thrown in for good measure, The Rebel Set, also known...
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1959
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Wanting to cash in on the launching of Russia's Sputnik satellite, director Roger Corman hastily made this Earthlings vs evil...
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1958
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Like many American International films of its era, How to Make a Monster was sold to distributors on the basis of its title...
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1958
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1958
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By 1958, director Roger Corman had switched from making low-budgeters like Apache Woman to movies like the gangster flic I,...
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1958
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Still headquartered in the busy ZIV studios, The Adventures of Superman churned out 13 full-color episodes for its sixth and...
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Insp. Bill Henderson
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1957
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Season Five of The Adventures of Superman) begins as the title character (played by George Reeves) arrives in Paris to help...
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1957
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A alien satellite enters close orbit around the Earth and releases a projectile that takes over the body and mind of Dr....
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1957
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When a city cafe owner buys himself a peaceful country manse to relax in, the Bowery Boys are quite excited. Unfortunately,...
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1957
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Scientist Mitch McAfee (Jeff Morrow) cannot convince anyone that an enormous bird, evidently here from outer space, has...
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Gen. Ben Penner
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1957
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"Wild Bill" Elliot once again plays diligent police lieutenant Boyle in Footsteps in the Night. This time, Doyle investigates...
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Fred Horner
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1957
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Prof. Bradshaw
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1956
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Dance With Me, Henry was the screen swan song for the comedy team of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. Most of the action takes...
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1956
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Having filmed its fourth season within the hallowed walls of the old Chaplin Studios, The Adventures of Superman moved into...
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Insp. Bill Henderson
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1956
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This is one of the last episodes of the long-running Bowery Boys film series. This time the trouble begins when a spoiled...
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1956
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Nightclub singer Ilona Vance (Vera Ralston) is Accused of Murder in this Republic programmer. And from the looks of things,...
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1956
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The Feds investigate a counterfeit ring operating out of a traveling circus in this 12-part Republic crime serial. ~...
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1955
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Mr. Dean's body is found face down in the fireplace, his features burned beyond recognition. Detectives Patrick...
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Bert Rawley
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1955
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Filmed in color, the 13 episodes comprising Season Four of The Adventures of Superman upheld the standard set in Season Five:...
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Insp. Bill Henderson
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1955
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1954
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For its third season on the air, the popular action series The Adventures of Superman switched over from black and white to...
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Insp. Bill Henderson
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1954
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1954
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This children's sci-fi adventure chronicles the friendship between an 11-year-old and his grandfather's robot Tobor, who was...
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1954
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A feature version of a twelve chapter Republic Pictures, this drama starred Harry Lauter as Tom Rogers, an enterprising South...
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1954
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After learning that her boyfriend, a GI in Korea, has found someone else, Norah Larkin (Anne Baxter) impulsively agrees to...
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1953
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Prince of Pirates is fairly elaborate for a Sam Katzman production, though its low budget does betray itself in the closing...
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1953
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Originating during the science-fiction/Red-Scare boom of the '50s, Invaders From Mars is an entertaining little picture that...
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1953
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1953
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Evil traders and superstitious natives in India complicate the research efforts of an American doctor. ~ Rovi...
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1953
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In this comedy, a housewife schemes to make her dreams of feeling the soft touch of mink on her hardworking shoulders a...
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1953
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Filmed nearly two years after production shut down on The Adventures of Superman's first season, the series' second season...
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Insp. Bill Henderson
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1953
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In a mountain home, Dr. Cliff Groves (Robert Shayne) is working hard on the theories that have driven him to the point of...
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1953
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Adventures of Superman, also sometimes known simply as Superman, went into production in 1951, following the shooting and...
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Inspector Henderson
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1952
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1952
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Mr. Walkie Talkie was the second attempt by producer Hal Roach Jr. to revive the popular series of William Tracy/Joe Sawyer...
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Capt. Burke
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1952
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The first of several TV series based on the comic-book character "Superman" created by Joe Siegel and Jerome Schuster in...
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1952
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1952
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Though made in 1951, Criminal Lawyer has the feel of a 1930s film, right down to the casting of Pat O'Brien in the lead. The...
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Clark Sommers
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1951
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The title Missing Women refers to only one woman, who is perfectly visible throughout most of the proceedings. Penny Edwards...
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1951
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The Dakota Kid was the first of four Republic westerns built around the talents of preteen performers Michael Chapin and...
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1951
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Columbia's Colorado Uprising was neither expensive enough to qualify as an "A" picture nor inexpensive enough to qualify as a...
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1951
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Former juvenile star William Henry is the all-grown-up hero of Federal Man. Henry is cast as a government agent who dogs the...
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Stuart
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1950
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Arizona rodeo champs Dave Saunders (Tim Holt) and Chito Rafferty (Richard Martin) head for Oro Grande, CO, to witness the...
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Avery
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1950
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Experiment Alcatraz stars John Howard as a doctor who develops a serum to cure radioactive poisoning. He tests it on several...
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Barry Morgan
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1950
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Tim Holt and Richard Martin, RKO's resident western good guys, are back in Dynamite Pass. Usually cast as cowpunchers, Holt...
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Wingate
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1950
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William Eythe is the Customs Agent in this brisk Columbia programmer. The plot finds Bert Stewart (Eythe) stationed in China,...
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1950
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When You're Smiling is distinguished by the presence of several top recording artists of 1950. The wafer-thin plotline...
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1950
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Warner Baxter made his final screen appearance in Columbia's State Penitentiary. Baxter plays airplane engineer Roger...
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Stanley Brown
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1950
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Big Timber was another in a series of medium-budget dramas co-produced by actor Roddy McDowall for Monogram. McDowall himself...
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1950
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Gloria Henry, best known to modern viewers as Alice Mitchell in TV's Dennis the Menace, was the winsome leading lady of Law...
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Michael Lodge
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1949
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Homicidal criminal Charles McGraw busts out of jail, kidnapping the three people responsible for his incarceration. The...
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1949
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Forgotten Women is Monogram's cut-rate 65-minute spin on MGM's The Women. The film deals with four lovely ladies, each of...
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Richard Marshall
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1949
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Gene Autry goes in search of the man who killed his friend during a blackout in this action-packed western from Columbia....
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1948
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Sexual harassment can work both ways as can be seen in this romantic comedy when ad man endeavors to maneuver out of a...
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1948
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Strange Mrs. Crane stars Marjorie Lord, later famous as the TV wife of Danny Thomas (and the real-life mother of actress Anne...
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Floyd Durant
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1948
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Few major directors made "small" films with such frequency and expertise than the ubiquitous Allan Dwan. Set in 1933, Dwan's...
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1948
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Edgar Buchanan stars as a man who abruptly leaves his wife (Anna Lee) to "find himself". When he returns, he discovers that...
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Judge Carter
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1948
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Shaggy is a lovable dog, owned by equally lovable young George Nokes. The put-upon pooch is accused of killing sheep by a...
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Bob Calvin
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1948
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A curmudgeonly small-town doctor resents the presence of a new younger physician and his newfangled ways. He is especially...
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1947
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1947
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Chief Tom Blake
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1947
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This minor 20th Century-Fox B picture received a great deal of TV play in the late 1950s. In a series of flashbacks, the...
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1947
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A woman struggles to reassemble her broken life in this drama that features Susan Hayward in her first starring role. The...
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1947
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This biopic highlights the illustrious careers of "the touchdown twins," Heisman Trophy winners Felix "Doc" Blanchard (Mr....
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Col. Red Blaik
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1947
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In this crime drama, a fading movie star plays a similar character in her farewell film, a B crime-drama about a...
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1946
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In this film noir with romantic overtones, con man and cardsharp Nick Blake (John Garfield) returns home after serving in...
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1946
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Crooked newspaper columnist Jeff Mann (James Cardwell), who apparently was blackmailing half the criminal gangs in the city,...
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1946
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A woman struggling to rebuild her life becomes the victim of uncharitable rumors in this sudsy drama. After the recent death...
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1946
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Director William "One Take" Beaudine handles Face of Marble with his usual hasty professionalism. John Carradine stars as...
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David Cochran
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1946
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Set at a major newspaper, this crime drama centers on a fellow who returns to newspaper reporting after he bombs as a...
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Dick
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1946
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On the eve of the Chinese New Year, three strangers make a pact before a small statue of the Chinese goddess of Destiny. The...
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Fallon
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1946
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There's slightly more fancy than fact in this lavish film biography of legendary American composer George Gershwin, but oh!...
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1945
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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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Complete with a final production number filmed in Technicolor, this tuneful musical depicts the highly fictive ups and downs...
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1944
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After several years' faithful service in supporting roles, Jack Carson was awarded his first Warner Bros. starring vehicle...
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1944
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1944
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From a novel of the same name by "Elizabeth", the film begins in 1914, with Bette Davis cast as vain, flighty society woman...
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1944
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The West Coast's answer to Broadway's Stage Door Canteen, the Hollywood Canteen was created as a GI morale-booster by film...
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1944
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More so than most wartime films, Mission to Moscow must be viewed within the context of its times. Requested by President...
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1943
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Howard Benson
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1934
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The touching bond between a cavalry horse and the doughboy whose life he saves provides the basis for this syrupy war drama....
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1934
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