A communist spy plots the abduction of an important American atomic scientist in this espionage drama. To do his evil deed,...
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1955
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This fictionalized biography of the famed American inventor's life provided actor Don Ameche with his signature role. For...
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1939
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Fighting Mad was the second of producer Phil Krasne's "Renfrew of the Royal Mounted" films to be released by Monogram (taking...
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Ann
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1939
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Movie buffs are nearly unanimous in agreement: Charlie Chan at Treasure Island is the best of the Sidney Toler "Charlie Chan"...
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1939
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Way Down South ranks as among the better Bobby Breen musicals, if only because of its impressive production credits. The film...
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1939
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A couple are shipwrecked and saved by a sea captain. The ruthless man blinds the husband in a fight and his sexual advances...
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1938
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Ann
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1938
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1938
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Within the framework of a conventional newspaper yarn, One Mile From Heaven raises several controversial issues. Scoop-happy...
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Barbara Harrison
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1937
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The Great Hospital Mystery is based on one of Mignon Eberhardt's "Nurse Sarah Keate" whodunits. Physically and...
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Ann Smith
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1937
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Lively June (Jane Withers), teen-aged daughter of mystery writer Waldo Everett (Jon Qualen), who calls her "Angel," becomes...
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Pauline Kaye
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1937
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Helen Davis
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1935
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Phyllis
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1934
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Beyond the fact that both films shared a "railroad" background, RKO Radio's 1935 actioner The Silver Streak bore no relation...
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Ruth Dexter
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1934
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Martha Gray
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1934
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Sally Bates ($Isabel Jewell) is a young Texas woman trying to make it to Hollywood on too little money and driving a car...
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Clara
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1934
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This comedy tracks the relationship between an ailing railroad president and the dogged reporter who tries to infiltrate his...
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Helen Matthews
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1934
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The rivalry between two deep-sea diver is chronicled in this adventure. The trouble begins when a young woman inherits one...
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Helen Young
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1934
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The independently produced Stolen Sweets was lensed in a hurry on standing sets at Universal. Future western star Charles...
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Patricia Belmont
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1934
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Rose Wentworth
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1934
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Constance Russell
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1933
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Mascot Films, the feisty precursor to Republic Pictures, was responsible for 1933's The Big Payoff. In a rare top-billed...
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1933
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In this murder mystery, Vicar Casson looks into the poisoning of a wealthy man. He soon finds that the man they convicted,...
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1933
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Louise Boley
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1933
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Top-billed Bela Lugosi has only a minor role in this routine variant on the Old Dark House scenario, playing a mysterious...
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Mary Rinehart
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1933
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Reported to have cost a whopping $2 million, this musical was actually made for far less -- and looks it. But unlike She Done...
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Lily Smith
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1933
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1933
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Warner Bros.' hard-hitting chain-gang movie was a faithful adaptation of the similarly titled autobiography of Robert Elliot...
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1932
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It is all but impossible to dislike a film as gloriously corny as The Phantom Express. The title is derived from an early...
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1932
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The troubled career of a luckless motorcycle cop provides the basis for this police drama. His difficulties begin when he...
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1932
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This second filming of Zane Grey's novel (first brought to the screen by Paramount in 1924 with Bebe Daniels as the female...
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Judy
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1932
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In this romance, a man runs a beautiful woman over with his car and falls in love with her. She loves him too, but...
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Janet Blake
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1932
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Sally Blane (Loretta Young's look-alike sister) plays Janet, a Manhattan socialite who is fed up with the superficiality of...
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Janet Holman
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1932
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Rest assured that star Hoot Gibson is not the "local badman" of the title. He is, however, accused of being a desperado by a...
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1932
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Such were the ways of Hollywood that the dignified H.B. Warner, who played Jesus in 1927's King of Kings, found himself in...
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1932
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1932
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In this western, a lawman restores law and order in town. He also stops a greedy horseman from trapping wild stallions with...
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Sandy Melberne
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1932
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Didn't the beautiful, ubiquitous Sally Blane ever take a day off in 1932? In Escapade, the busy Blane is cast as Kay Whitney,...
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Kay Whitney
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1932
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1932
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In this police drama, a cop, known for being a rock under pressure, endeavors to cope with the aftermath of a...
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1932
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In this marital drama, a wife fears that her checkered past will be revealed when she and her husband move to the city to...
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1931
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Ten cents a dance, that's what they pay her -- "her" being downtrodden taxi dancer Barbara (Barbara Stanwyck). The only thing...
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Molly
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1931
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High-class call girls provide the focus of this intelligent romantic comedy that takes a rather scathing look at the...
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1931
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Two rough-and-ready guys; one beautiful dame; a tough job that has to be done, and "one of us may not come out alive"; the...
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Marjory Randolph
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1931
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In this crime drama, the writer of a Broadway newspaper column finds himself accused of murder after a showgirl, who had...
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Sue
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1931
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This drama is set at Notre Dame and follows the exploits of a great football coach (patterned after Knute Rockne) who is...
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Peggy
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1931
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In this actioner, a sleazy sea captain not only treats his crew terribly, he also steals a sailor's wife and child. He is so...
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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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Silent screen serial star Charles Hutchison produced and directed this low-budget marital drama, which benefitted from one of...
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1931
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Star Witness starts out as a homey family comedy and develops into a rather gutsy thriller. Chic Sale plays a cantankerous...
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Sue Leeds
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1931
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Isabel
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1930
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In his movie debut, Rudy Valley portrays the crooning saxophone player who falls in love with a beautiful young woman....
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Jean
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1929
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Basically a filmed vaudeville presentation, The Show of Shows was Warner Bros.' entry in the "all star, all talking, all...
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1929
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This loosely-constructed romantic melodrama stars Olive Borden as society girl Judy Paige, who defies her parents by eloping...
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Sally
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1929
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1929
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In this comedy, a wealthy couple cannot manage to conceive the child they so desperately want and so hearken to the advice...
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1929
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The aforementioned appendages appear aplenty in this musical comedy that centers on a husband and wife seeking to recapture...
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Janet Reynolds
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1929
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A socialite gets involved with a newspaper expose in this crime melodrama produced by Universal. When Pat Doran (Bill Cody...
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1929
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The era's greatest western star Tom Mix had left his safe berth with the Fox company by 1929 and was struggling on poverty...
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Anne
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1929
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Long before the advent of Roy Rogers, Tom Mix was regarded as the "king" of the movie cowboys. It is altogether fitting and...
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1928
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This silent Paramount Zane Grey Western marked the screen debut of the then 7-year-old Tim Holt. Young Tim's father,...
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1928
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Louise Hunter
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1928
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Colette
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1928
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Tom Mix stars in the "modern" western Horseman of the Plains. Though the story is set in 1928, the plot is as old as the...
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1928
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No, Dead Man's Curve does not star Jan and Dean-mainly because it was filmed before either one of them was born. The film...
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1928
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Because of its heavy reliance on slapstick (a no-no for features in the late '20s), this picture, very loosely based on the...
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1927
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Though billed second, the stunningly beautiful Louise Brooks is the focal point of the campus comedy Rolled Stockings. It's...
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1927
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Lucy Blake
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1927
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