In 1964, as the "Boston Strangler" killings of young nurses in Boston remained unsolved, this film was rushed into release to...
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1964
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Released about five weeks before the Adolf Eichmann trial began in Jerusalem on April 11, 1961, this docudrama by director...
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1961
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1961
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The D-Day invasion of 1944 provides a backdrop for the Allied Artists actioner Screaming Eagles. Tom Tryon plays Private...
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1956
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Based on actual events, The Phenix City Story tells the tale of a wide-open "Sin City" in Alabama (across a bridge from...
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Producer
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1955
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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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Randolph Scott once more contributes mightily to Warner Bros.' annual box-office gross in the well-mounted western...
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1954
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1953
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The System was one of several "exposé" films inspired by the Kefauver crime committee. The title refers to the manner in...
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1953
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Executive Producer
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1952
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The tendency is to scoff at Macao as just another example of Josef von Sternberg's late-career exercises in exoticism; true,...
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Executive Producer
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1952
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Dick Powell stars as Canadian Mountie Sgt. Mike Flannagan. When Boston-bred Kathy O'Fallon (Evelyn Keyes) marries Mike, she...
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Producer
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1949
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While under contract to Warner Bros., George Raft turned down picture after picture as being "unimportant" and thus unworthy...
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Executive Producer
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1949
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The darker side of the American dream is explored in the fascinating film noir Pitfall. Dick Powell stars as John Forbes, a...
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Producer
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1948
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George Raft once again plays the outcast of society who comes through in the end in Intrigue. Dishonorably discharged from...
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Producer
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1947
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Reminiscent of the classic "screwball" comedy-mysteries of the prewar years, Columbia's The Corpse Came C.O.D stars Warner...
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1947
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Columbia's Mr. District Attorney was the second attempt to launch a film series based on the popular radio series of the same...
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1946
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1945
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In his final starring film, bandleader Kay Kyser is cast as bandleader Kay Kyser. Picking up where Kyser's previous RKO Radio...
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Producer
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1944
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In this drama, a crippled German veteran of WW I attempts to reconcile his recent experiences with his former ideologies in...
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1944
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Stalwart supporting actor Allyn Joslyn is afforded a rare leading role in the Columbia mystery meller Dangerous Blondes....
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Producer
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1943
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This flag-waving Columbia programmer concentrates on five young Officer's Candidate School applicants. Each of the...
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Producer
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1943
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This wartime melodrama stars George Sanders as Keith Wilson, a disillusioned Britisher who becomes a "Lord Haw Haw"type at a...
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1943
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The Two Yanks in Trinidad are gangsters Tim Reardon (Pat O'Brien) and Vince Barrows (Brian Donlevy), who split up over a...
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1942
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Brian Aherne stars as a successful murder-mystery novelist; his wife, Loretta Young, wishes Aherne would switch to writing...
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1942
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Texas was Columbia Pictures' lighthearted (and frankly more enjoyable) follow-up to its 1940 big-budget western Arizona....
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Producer
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1941
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In this drama, which blends romance with suspense, Prince Kurt von Rotenberg (George Brent) is attempting to flee his native...
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1941
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Faith, Hope and Charity motivate the wacky storyline of Columbia's Three Girls About Town--or to be more exact, gorgeous...
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Producer
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1941
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You'll Never Get Rich was the first of two films made by Fred Astaire at Columbia, and also the first in which he was paired...
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1941
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Stereotypes abound in this drama that follows the attempts of a Scottish lad to marry a pretty Irish lassie and join the...
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Producer
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1940
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A Child is Born is a remake of 1932's Life Begins, softened to conform to stricter movie censorship and lengthened to qualify...
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Associate Producer
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1940
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The Grand Hotel formula that was so overworked in the 1930s made an encore appearance in 1940's Escape to Glory. The story is...
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1940
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Associate Producer
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1940
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It's Swing Music vs. the Classics in the easy-to-take Warners tunefest Naughty But Nice. Dick Powell dons the obligatory...
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Associate Producer
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1939
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Based upon an idea by Broadway columnist Mark Hellinger, The Roaring Twenties opens during World War I as doughboys Eddie...
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Associate Producer
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1939
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Banking on the popularity of the Warner Bros.' boxing saga Kid Galahad (37), the studio rushed into production with another,...
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Producer
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1939
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James Cagney stars in the humorous Western The Oklahoma Kid, set during the land rush of 1893. John Kincaid (Hugh Sothern)...
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Producer
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1939
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A young punk hooks up with a mobster and helps him rob a gas station in this crime drama. From there the crimes become more...
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Producer
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1939
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The last and least of Warner Bros.' Gold Diggers musicals, Gold Diggers in Paris at least has the novelty of a Gallic...
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1938
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1938
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Once a staple of summer stock and community theatres, Bella and Samuel Spewack's Broadway farce Boy Meets Girl dates rather...
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Producer
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1938
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Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan (James Cagney) and Jerry Connelly (Pat O'Brien) grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky...
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Producer
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1938
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In this gangster movie set in the Big Apple, a crime lord strong arms teamsters into paying him protection money. One young...
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Producer
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1938
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Slight Case of Murder is a breakneck-paced comedy starring Edward G. Robinson as a tough but good-hearted bootlegger. When...
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Producer
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1938
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Michael Curtiz directs this Technicolor Western based on the familiar story by Clements Ripley about the rivalry between...
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1938
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This musical comedy is based on a modestly successful Broadway play and stars Humphrey Bogart as wrestling promoter Ed Hatch....
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Producer
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1938
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An intrepid amputee must pass a test to prove his devotion to his sweetie in this romantic drama. The hero lost his leg...
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Producer
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1937
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The Warner Bros. musicals began running out of gas in the late 1930s, yielding such lukewarm efforts as Ready, Willing and...
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1937
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One of a slew of prison reform picture that flourished during the Great Depression, this melodrama was banned in Finland....
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Producer
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1937
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Making his debut with Warner Brothers, Henry Fonda plays an apprentice high-voltage lineman working with the no-nonsense, but...
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Associate Producer
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1937
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Fight manager Nick Donati (Edward G. Robinson) has just lost his best fighter to crooked promoter Turkey Morgan...
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Producer
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1937
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In this newsroom drama, a tabloid's ace reporter's investigations lead to a chorine's conviction for murdering her husband....
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Producer
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1937
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In this lighthearted musical comedy from legendary director Busby Berkeley, Henry Bowers (Dick Powell) is a saxophonist in a...
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Producer
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1937
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Margaret Lindsay stars in the title role, playing a young woman imprisoned for a crime which she didn't commit. The real...
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Producer
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1936
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For a change of pace, Warner Bros. contract tenor James Melton sings no opera in Sing Me A Love Song -- nor does he sing...
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1936
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1936
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1936
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Based on the true story of Pan American Airlines, China Clipper was released only a year after the first transpacific flight...
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1936
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Bette Davis plays a facial cream heiress in this middling comedy, which Warner Bros. filmed partially in Florida. Mistaking...
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1936
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1936
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Joe E. Brown was an ideal choice for the character of Alexander Botts, the brash, arrogant "natural born salesman" created...
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1936
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In this comedy, a toothpaste magnate's mischievous daughter, tired of her father's traditional ways of conducting business,...
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1935
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Ellen Garfield (Bette Davis) is a neophyte reporter with ambitions big enough to take on assignments usually reserved for...
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Producer
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1935
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This musical chronicles the rise to stardom of a humble bellhop after he is discovered by a talent agent. Though he becomes a...
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Producer
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1935
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Rudy Vallee made his third feature-film starring appearance in the breezy Warner Bros. musical Sweet Music. Vallee is...
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Producer
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1935
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Broadway legend Al Jolson and his second wife Ruby Keeler costarred in this thin backstage musical. In keeping with Jolson's...
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Producer
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1935
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In the wake of Shirley Temple, every Hollywood studio scrambled to find a child star who might possibility match Temple's...
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Producer
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1935
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In this action film, Wallace Storm, ace race car driver, gets into real trouble when he is accused of killing his partner...
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1935
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This fast-paced Warner Bros. comedy stars James Cagney and Pat O'Brien as brothers who fight over the same girl. Mrs. O'Hara...
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1935
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High-rolling gambler "Odds" Owen (Warren William) establishes an American insurance agency created along the lines of Lloyd's...
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1935
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1935
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Warner Bros. grabbed up the rights to Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis' satirical novel of middle America, soon after publication in...
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1934
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Having previously played dishonest politicians, lawyers, and businessmen, Warren William is cast as a fraudulent doctor in...
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1934
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1934
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In this British comedy, a mild mannered editorial writer for a right-wing newspaper becomes fed up with the constant...
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Producer
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1934
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Two wealthy neighbors, who make no secret of despising one another, both claim that they're married to Bessie Foley...
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Producer
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1934
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An idealistic but naive pharmacist believes the mobsters who claim they want him to manufacture illegal medicine to help out...
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Producer
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1934
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In this sudsy hospital melodrama, a married nurse finds herself falling in love with one of two surgeons when her husband...
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Producer
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1934
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Completed just before the Production Code went into effect, I've Got Your Number is delightfully racy, risque entertainment....
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Producer
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1934
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A satire on radio crooners, Twenty Million Sweethearts stars Dick Powell as a singing waiter--fake handlebar mustache and...
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1934
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1934
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An Edgar Wallace yarn was the basis for the uncharacteristic Warner Bros. melodrama Return of the Terror. Hoping to escape...
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Producer
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1934
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A popular fad of the early 1930s provided the framework for this Joe E. Brown romp. Hoping to impress his girlfriend Phyllis...
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Producer
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1934
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Lyle Talbot stars as "Three Star" Halsey, a hotshot West Coast aviator with a reputation for recklessness. Time and time...
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Producer
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1934
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James Cagney manages to retain his pre-Code cockiness within post-Code limitations in the likeable St. Louis Kid. Cagney and...
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Producer
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1934
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In this melodrama set in San Francisco, a businesswoman gives a job to an unemployed, homeless sailor. Later she becomes his...
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1934
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Ken Maynard goes undercover to prove that his father (Horace B. Carpenter), a bank president, did not commit suicide but was...
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Producer
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1933
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Sherlock Holmes and Watson solve a puzzling case in which a bloody foreign word is found beside a murder victim. The plot...
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Producer
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1933
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Rivalry between two towns for the honor of becoming county seat turns violent in this interesting Ken Maynard Western from...
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Producer
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1933
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This remarkable early-talkie "disaster" flick was the first directorial effort of Felix E. Feist. An enormous tidal wave...
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Producer
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1933
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Produced by Poverty Row company KBS (formerly Sono Art-World Wide), this above-average B-Western starred Ken Maynard as an...
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Producer
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1933
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In the tradition of Bureau of Missing Persons, Warner Bros's From Headquarters offers a methodical, semi-documentary look at...
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1933
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Ken Maynard searches for a wayward youngster in this average Western from his days with low-budget KBS Productions. A rancher...
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1932
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1932
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Filmed at Red Rock Canyon, AZ, and at rental stages at the California Tiffany Studios, Tombstone Canyon was the fifth of...
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1932
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1932
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Ken Maynard's magnificent horse Tarzan took center-stage in this, perhaps the star's most flamboyant entry in the otherwise...
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1932
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Having signed for eight Westerns with poverty row entrepreneur E.W. Hammons, Ken Maynard went on to deliver a series of solid...
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Producer
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1932
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Alfred E. Green directs the political satire The Dark Horse, starring Bette Davis early in her career. The progressive party...
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1932
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Also known as The Hidden Corpse, Strangers of the Evening is an effective blend of horror and humor. There's dirty work at...
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1932
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1932
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Adopted brothers, both cattlemen, fight over the sheep man's daughter in this low budget but acceptable Ken Maynard Western...
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Producer
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1932
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A talented cast does its best with a nonsensical script in The Rich are Always With Us. Ruth Chatterton stars as a witty...
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Producer
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1932
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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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1931
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In this crime drama, dedicated to the police forces of America, a gangster searches for his estranged son, also a gangster....
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1931
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Still another of the seemingly endless stream of "collegiate" pictures, The Cheer Leader starred athletic Ralph Graves as the...
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1928
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The silent Catch as Catch Can starts out as a baseball picture before wildly riding off in all directions at once....
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Supervisor/Manager
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1927
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It was an open secret in Hollywood that actress Lilyan Tashman preferred the company of women to men. Who better, then, to...
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Supervisor/Manager
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1927
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Though in real life she was the daughter of a San Francisco rabbi, Carmel Myers was convincingly cast as the title character...
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Producer
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1927
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Produced independently by the enterprising Nat Levine, this ten-chapter action serial featured Danish-born character actor...
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1926
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