Comedian Jerry Lewis began directing movies in 1960, and this often unkind satire on the nature of American womanhood is one...
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1961
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Having been on the side of the law as one of the original "Untouchables" in the series' two-part pilot film, Keenan Wynn...
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1961
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Director John A. Bushelman makes a departure from his usual western and action films to guide this respectable,...
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1961
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The second of Jerry Lewis' directorial endeavors, The Errand Boy, like its predecessor The Bellboy, is essentially a series...
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1961
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On a cold and blizzardy night, a man named Lorca (Ricardo Montalban) saunters into the Last Chance Saloon in the Western town...
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1960
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Bart (Jack Kelly) is framed for crimes he didn't commit by sadistic sheriff Horace Hadley (Edgar Buchanan) and his equally...
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1960
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A formerly rough-and-tumble Western mining town has lived in peace and tranquility ever since the arrival of gentle giants...
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1960
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En route from Tucson to the town of Ten Strike, Bret (James Garner) makes the acquaintance of Frankie French (Connie...
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1959
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1959
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In order to play in a high-stakes poker game, Bret (James Garner) and Bart (Jack Kelly) enter a pair of certified checks,...
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1959
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This is Maverick's celebrated spoof of Gunsmoke, emulating its more serious "role model" right down to the pre-credits...
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1959
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1958
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After the death of her first husband, Judy (Joanna Moore) marries Steve (Steve Forrest), the man who sold her the insurance...
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1958
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The Sheepman was touted as a comedy by some of MGM's publicity people. It really isn't, but this western does have its...
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1958
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1958
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As a favor to an old friend, producer Alex Gordon, James Cagney turned director for the first and only time in his career...
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1957
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1957
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This comedy is a remake of 1941's The Lady Eve, and tells the story of the vegetarian son of a prominent meat packer who is...
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1956
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In this upbeat drama, a reformed father returns to the Arkansas farm of his estranged family after having spent too many...
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1956
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The Kettles in the Ozarks was the eighth of Universal's "Ma and Pa Kettle" series--minus "Pa" (actor Percy Kilbride had left...
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1956
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An unusually matronly Jane Wyman plays the title character in Lucy Gallant. Adapted from a novel by Margaret Cousins, the...
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1955
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The best thing that can be said about Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops is that it's better than the team's previous...
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1955
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1954
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Randolph Scott makes his 3-D debut in the stereoscopic western Stranger Wore a Gun. This time, Scott plays Jeff Travis, a...
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1953
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Paramount's Pine-Thomas production unit takes the plunge into the 3-D craze in Those Redheads from Seattle. The titular...
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1953
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Library footage from the 1940 Paramount feature The Forest Rangers is used sparingly but effectively in the 1952 Pine-Thomas...
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1952
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After a lengthy absence from the screen, Judy Canova returned in the raucous musical Honeychile. The plot had been utilized...
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1951
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In this entry in the "Henry Latham" comedy series, the parsimonious Henry protests the rising cost of meat and decides to...
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1950
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In his second starring vehicle, singing cowboy Rex Allen plays the head of a frontier cattlemen's association. The villain is...
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1950
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Future "Superman" George Reeves and former "Dick Tracy" Ralph Byrd co-star in Thunder in the Pines. The stars play a pair of...
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1949
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Tornado Range is one of five Eddie Dean westerns originally produced by PRC in 1947 but released the following year by...
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Soapy
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1948
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Eddie Dean and sidekick Roscoe Ates come to the aid of a young rancher in this low-budget singing Western from PRC....
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1948
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Singing cowboy Eddie Dean and sidekick Soapy (Roscoe Ates) come to the aid of novice cattle rancher Ann Howard...
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Soapy
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1948
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PRC's singing cowboy Eddie Dean once again brings law and order to a corrupt town in this average Western co-starring...
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Soapy
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1948
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Arguably Eddie Dean's best Western -- and certainly the balladeer's most unusual -- The Hawk of Powder River features busy...
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Soapy
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1948
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PRC/Eagle-Lion's Eddie Dean western series came to an end with The Tioga Kid. Dean plays a dual role, as an upright Texas...
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Soapy
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1948
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Based on the radio show of the same title, a young woman meets a gypsy who reads her fortune and predicts a terrible fate...
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1948
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The country in this low-budget Eddie Dean Western from PRC isn't so much wild as it is familiar. Dean is assigned to bring in...
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Soapy
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1947
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Its title notwithstanding, the PRC western Range Beyond the Blue was lensed in glorious black-and-white. Singing cowboy...
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Soapy
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1947
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Eddie Dean and his pal Soapy Jones (Roscoe Ates) are assigned by the U.S. marshal to safeguard the invaluable Mexican Lopez...
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Soapy Jones
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1947
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At least 10 percent of the 58-minute Eddie Dean western Shadow Valley is comprised of stock shots from earlier Dean oaters....
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Soapy
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1947
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A nasty rancher orders his men to kill his own half-brother for a piece of valuable ranch land in this low-budget PRC oater...
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Soapy
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1946
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Eddie Dean, PRC's low-budget answer to Gene Autry, starred in this lethargic singing western which benefited from Dean...
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Soapy
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1946
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Filmed in less than glorious two-strip Cinecolor, this average Eddie Dean western benefited from Dean performing "Ride on the...
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Soapy
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1946
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A virtual remake of the 1943 "Trail Blazers" western Wild Horse Stampede, this unspectacular but pleasant Eddie Dean oater...
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1946
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A Hollywood movie company descends on the Ozarks in this pleasant, if low-budget, musical from PRC undoubtedly inspired by...
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Pappy
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1946
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Inexpensive Cinecolor adds little to this standard Eddie Dean music western from bottom-of-the-barrel company PRC. Dean, as...
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Soapy
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1946
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1944
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After producing, writing and directing one hit film after another, Preston Sturges finally misfired with the biopic The Great...
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1944
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1942
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As for the opening reels, the principal motivating factor is money. After a deliberately confusing pre-credit sequence (not...
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1942
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1941
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Based on the long-running comic strip by Gene Byrne, PRC's Reg'lar Fellers was intended as the first of a series of 6-reel...
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Emory McQuade
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1941
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In this corny comedy, the Weaver Brothers learn that in 1790, their distant forebears loaned the government some cash. The...
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1941
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In this romantic comedy, a blue-blooded girl falls in love with a wealthy rake who wants to settle down and marry her....
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1941
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Author Hartzell Spence's popular biography of his preacher father was the source for One Foot in Heaven. Fredric March stars...
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1941
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Robin Hood of the Pecos was set immediately after the Civil War, when most of Texas was under the thumb of corrupt northern...
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1941
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All that MGM's Ziegfeld Girl lacks is Technicolor; otherwise, the film has talent and "sock" entertainment value in...
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1941
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When a young man is in trouble, his sister puts herself in danger to save him. ~ Rovi...
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1941
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Rather than play famous outlaw Cole Younger in this film, Warner Bros. contract star Humphrey Bogart chose suspension....
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1941
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Henry Fonda plays Chad Hanna, a New York country bumpkin of the mid-nineteenth century who joins a travelling circus. He...
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1940
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A courageous doctor braves a fierce blizzard in the Canadian wilderness to save a remote community from a deadly epidemic....
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1940
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Ironically, the marriage between Dick Powell and Joan Blondell was beginning to fall apart at the time they co-starred in...
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1940
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East meets west in this musical western starring singing cowboy Gene Autry. After the death of its owner, the financially...
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1940
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Hoof and mouth disease reared its ugly head in this unusual Tex Ritter singing Western from Monogram. Ritter played Tex...
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Gloomy
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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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1940
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Gone With the Wind boils down to a story about a spoiled Southern girl's hopeless love for a married man. Producer...
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1939
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Forever switching its time-frame from past to present, Republic's "Three Mesquiteers" series returned to a contemporary...
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1939
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Co-directed by former supporting player Mack V. Wright and Sam Nelson, The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok is considered...
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1938
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Riders of Black Hills is the second of 13 consecutive "Three Mesquiteers" westerns directed by George Sherman. The...
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Sheriff Brown
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1938
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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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1937
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A criminologist, who wishes to discourage his son from a career as detective, organizes a picture theft which the son...
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1936
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Slip
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1935
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1934
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This drama was adapted from a minor story by Dashiell Hammett and chronicles the attempts of an ex-con to stay on the...
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Tommy Logan
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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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Santa Fe
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1934
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In this comedy, Jimmy Potts (Jimmy Durante) and Elmer J. Butts (Buster Keaton, Jr.) come up with a scheme to start up a beer...
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Schultz
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1933
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This star-laden version of Lewis Carroll's novel combines elements of both the title novel and Carroll's sequel, Through the...
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Fish
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1933
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A play by Nina Wilcox Putnam was the source for the empire-building drama Golden Harvest. Chester Morris stars as ambitious...
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Loopey Lou
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1933
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This western features a case of mistaken identity after a friendly cowboy is thought to be the dreaded outlaw "Denver Ed."...
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1933
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Though the story isn't much, this actioner does offer a neat behind-the-scenes look at the travails of Hollywood stuntmen as...
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1933
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In Scarlet River, Tom Keene plays "himself," a cowboy movie star, on location in the Wide Open Spaces for his latest epic....
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1933
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A former opera star loses her voice, her career evaporates, and she takes to drinking heavily and blaming her son for her...
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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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1933
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Slippery Sam Brown
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1932
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Ike Wilkins
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1932
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An eager cub reporter visits a roadhouse, stumbles across a corpse and decides to drum up a little notoriety for himself by...
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Joyce
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1932
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A vengeful cowpoke rides out for revenge against the cattle rustlers who killed his pa in this western. Along the way, he...
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1932
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Based on Veneer, a 1929 Broadway flop by Hugh Stange, this sentimental domestic drama came to the screens in early 1932,...
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Mike
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1932
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Edna May Oliver portrays a society dowager called for jury duty on a murder trial wherein a pretty young woman is accused of...
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Andrew MacKaig
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1932
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In this western, a Texas Ranger is assigned to bring in a woman who is causing trouble in a nearby town. He soon comes to...
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1932
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The genesis of MGM's Freaks was a magazine piece by Ted Robbins titled Spurs. The story involved a terrible revenge enacted...
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Roscoe
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1932
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Wilson
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1931
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No relation to the 1949 Bob Hope comedy of the same name, The Great Lover stars that master of sartorial splendor,...
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1931
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In this comedy, a female mayoral candidate promises to rid the town of gangsters. She joined the race in the first place...
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Peter
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1931
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In this Academy Award-winning film, Stephen Ashe (Lionel Barrymore) is a hotshot Californian lawyer from a well-to-do family,...
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1931
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1931
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Wallace Beery won an Academy Award for his tour de force performance as a washed-up boxer. The bibulous Beery travels from...
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Sponge
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1931
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Rusty the Barber
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1931
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Sparring landladies provide the focus of this comedy. The two women are constantly competing to take in the most boarders at...
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1930
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1930
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1930
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The tall and virile Johnny Mack Brown portrays the short and dyspeptic outlaw William Bonney, a.k.a. Billy the Kid....
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1930
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1930
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1930
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Not the first of the prison pictures, but the one that truly put the genre on the map. Playboy Kent (Robert Montgomery),...
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1930
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In this comedy drama, a very early talkie, set in the splendiferous South Seas, a French lassie charms a sea captain who...
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1929
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