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1958
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Making the acquaintance of pretty Abigail Taylor (Joanna Barnes) in the lobby of a Denver hotel, Bret (James Garner) cannot...
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1958
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Spencer Tracy stars in John Ford's sentimental adaptation of Edwin O'Connor's novel about the final campaign of a big city...
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1958
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Blake Edwards made his directorial debut in the bubbly musical comedy Bring Your Smile Along. The story, written by Edwards...
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1955
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1955
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At the height of their TV fame, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz were contracted by MGM to make two theatrical films. The first of...
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1954
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Despite the lighthearted promotional campaign mounted by 20th Century-Fox when the film was first released,...
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1953
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1953
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1953
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1952
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Lon McCallister stars in the Columbia "B-plus" western Montana Territory. McCallister plays deputy John Malvin, whose loyalty...
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1952
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This anthology film assembles five respected directors and a top-notch cast to bring a handful of stories by the great...
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1952
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Never Trust a Gambler proves the veracity of its title by offering up a particularly unsavory specimen in the form of Steve...
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1951
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Farley Granger plays a casually larcenous New York City mailman who steals a shipment of money. Granger's excitement over...
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1950
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A pioneering film about racial tensions, No Way Out stars Richard Widmark as a criminal named Ray Biddle, who despises...
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1950
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The TV-generated popularity of professional wrestling in 1950 inspired a brief cycle of inexpensive films on the subject....
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1950
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Between Midnight and Dawn is a solid, no-frills detective drama from the Columbia studio mills. Mark Stevens and...
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1950
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A haunting work of stark confessionalism disguised as a taut noir thriller, In a Lonely Place -- Nicholas Ray's bleak,...
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1950
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Caged, considered the best woman's prison film ever made, represents a union between realistic socially conscious drama and...
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1950
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1950
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He's a Cockeyed Wonder stars Mickey Rooney as the title character. Try as he might, Freddy Frisby (Rooney) can't succeed at...
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1950
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This suspenseful crime drama reenacts the famed 1947 prison break out of the Canon City, Colorado corrections facility and...
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1948
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Clifton Webb has the role of a lifetime as Lynn Belvedere, self-styled genius and expert on everything. Belvedere accepts the...
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1948
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The deep unbreakable bond between a wild stallion and the boy he rescues is chronicled in this children's adventure. ~...
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1947
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In this episode of the popular mystery series, the crook turned sleuth must clear his name after he is accused of murder. To...
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1946
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Just when it didn't seem possible that Columbia had any room left for another B-picture series, along came The Adventures of...
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1945
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Weekend at the Waldorf is an unabashed remake of MGM's 1932 Oscar-winner Grand Hotel: in fact, at several points in the...
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1945
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1944
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In this musical drama, a woman turns her mansion into a boarding house for soldiers on furlough, providing them with room,...
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1944
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Despite the film's title, Pin-Up Girl offers surprisingly few glimpses of the famed Betty Grable "gams." This lively...
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1944
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In this musical romance, an ice skater comes to America to represent her country at a Lake Placid carnival. Unfortunately,...
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1944
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This 67-minute farce stars Dennis O'Keefe as a music publisher sued for plagiarism by a pair of scraggly songwriters....
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1943
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The Song of Bernadette is a reverent recounting of the life of St. Bernadette of Lourdes. As a teen-aged peasant girl growing...
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1943
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Lois Andrews, best known in 1943 as the ex-wife of comedian Georgie Jessel, plays the title character in this cinemadaptation...
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1943
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Thru Different Eyes is a remake of the 1929 film of the same name. The original was hailed for its creative use of sound and...
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1942
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1942
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Irene Dunne plays a flibbetygibbet socialite who inherits a farm in Arizona. She can't seem to manage either her money or her...
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1942
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A Clarence Buddington Kelland story was the source for the mildly farcical For Beauty's Sake. If he wants to inherit a...
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1941
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Paramount's "B" pictures of the early 1940s were generally more interesting than their star-studded "A"s, as witness...
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1940
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Manhattan Heartbeat is a somewhat toned-down remake of the pre-Production Code melodrama Bad Girl (1931). Newlyweds Johnny...
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1940
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The sailor in this entertaining 20th Century-Fox programmer is Danny Malone (Jon Hall), while the lady is Sally Gilroy...
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1940
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Producer Walter Wanger's House Across the Bay serves as an excellent showcase for Wanger's then-wife Joan Bennett. She is...
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1940
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The Shop Around the Corner is adapted from the Hungarian play by Nikolaus (Miklos) Laszlo. Budapest gift-shop clerk Alfred...
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1940
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1940
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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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1939
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Following up their successful film Love Affair, Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne team up again for the romantic melodrama When...
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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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Shirley Ross plays an innocent young girl convicted for complicity in a crime committed by her boy friend (Lloyd Nolan). The...
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1938
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The 45 Fathers of the title are the elderly members of the Gun and Spear Club, all of whom jointly adopt mischievous orphan...
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1937
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While not a box-office success, this drama, directed by Leo McCarey, developed a potent reputation among film critics and...
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1937
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1937
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1937
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To fully accept the premise of Her Master's Voice, one must also accept the notion that Edward Everett Horton is radio...
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1936
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1936
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Working on the theory that the only thing funnier than Laurel and Hardy is two sets of Laurel and Hardys, Our Relations milks...
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1936
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1935
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Though the names have been changed to protect the guilty, this romantic crime drama offers a relatively factual account of...
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1934
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Filmed between the original Thin Man and the first of its sequels, Evelyn Prentice re-teamed William Powell and Myrna Loy as...
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1934
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Based on a Zane Grey story, The Last Trail stars virile cowboy hero George O'Brien in a largely anti-heroic role. Escaping...
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1934
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A genial lampoon of the Greta Garbo craze, Let's Fall in Love stars Ann Sothern as Jean, a Brooklyn-born aspiring actress. It...
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1934
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1933
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The 1933 State Fair was the first of three film versions of the Phillip Stong bestseller. Some consider it the best of the...
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1933
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A beautiful orphan girl, faced with the prospect of being forced to work as an indentured servant (more like a slave) until...
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1933
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In his first Western for 1932, Buck Jones went mostly for laughs playing a former Texas ranger inheriting an Arizona ranch...
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1932
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The Calcutta Sweepstakes is the unifying factor of The Devil's Lottery. Among the winners of the sweepstakes are Evelyn...
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1932
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Locomotive engineer Edmund Lowe falls head-over-heels in love with musical-comedy dancer Mae Clarke. When he finds out that...
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1931
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The trials of being a doctor's wife are presented in this drama. The story centers upon the problematic marriage of one...
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1931
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In this screwball comedy, Annabelle Leigh (Jeanette MacDonald) happily spends the $5,000 sent her each month by her husband,...
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1931
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In his third feature-film appearance, Spencer Tracy plays a small-town hotshot named William Donroy, who talks a young...
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1931
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William Shakespeare's classic tragedy Romeo & Juliet is loosely adapted and modernized in director Rowland V. Lee's Guilty...
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1931
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Mr. Lemon of Orange was advertised as comedian El Brendel's first starring feature, even though he'd previously dominated the...
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1931
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1931
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Lightnin' is based on the 1918 stage play by Winchell Smith and Frank Bacon, in which Bacon (the father of director...
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1930
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