In 1979, Jonathan Demme was still a cutting-edge director and The Last Embrace was his first effort at a completely...
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Sam Urdell
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1979
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Norman Jewison's blackly satirical look at the American justice system has gained in stature as one of the more incisive...
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1979
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1977
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For the Record was an outgrowth of Camera 76, a component of the CBC series Performance. Concentrating on social issues...
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Producer
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1977
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Released theatrically as God Told Me To, this inventive film from "B"-movie auteur Larry Cohen was later re-named Demon after...
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1976
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1975
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A young thug needs money, so he visits his girlfriend while she's baby-sitting. While there, he plans to tie up the girl,...
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Lou
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1975
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Throughout its two-year lifespan, the Canadian documentary series Gallery never settled on a single permanent time slot:...
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Executive Producer
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1973
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Based upon the novel by Lois Gould and adapted (under the pseudonym Esther Dale) by Elaine May, Such Good Friends focuses on...
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1971
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Anthony Quinn plays Matsoukas, a Greek/American ne'er do well, living in Chicago with his long-suffering wife Caliope...
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Cicero
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1969
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This autobiographical story traces the career of playwright Moss Hart. Moss (George Hamilton) struggles as a dramatic writer...
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Richard Maxwell
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1963
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Racketeer Larry Fay (Sam Levene) gains control of New York's dairy industry, forcing the price of milk to an astronomical...
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1961
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This omnibus release consists of three playlets filmed and aired during television's Golden Age, and starring some of the...
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1959
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A child star becomes a brat to hide her loneliness in this drama. The popular little actress is quite insolent and refuses...
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Ben Melnick
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1958
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Though Slaughter on Tenth Avenue's background music relies heavily on the Richard Rodgers composition of the same name, the...
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1957
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Ned Hammerstein
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1957
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Ernest Lehman drew upon his experiences as a Broadway press agent to write the devastating a clef short story "Tell Me About...
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Frank D'Angelo
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1957
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Farewell to Arms is the second film version of Ernest Hemingway's World War One novel--and also the last film produced by...
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1957
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The Opposite Sex is an opulent musical remake of Clare Booth Luce's The Women (1939). June Allyson stars in the old Norma...
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1956
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Though it isn't obvious at first glance, Three Sailors and a Girl is the fourth screen version of the George S. Kaufman stage...
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Joe Woods
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1953
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Zachary Scott plays Max Thursday, an alcoholic ex-police detective working as a bouncer at a sleazy rooming house owned by...
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Capt. Mark Tonetti
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1950
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With These Hands is an entertaining 47-minute slice of propaganda, courtesy of the International Ladies Garment Workers...
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Alexander Brody
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1950
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Louis B. Mayer's nephew Gerald proved himself an able director with the MGM "B" thriller Dial 1119. Marshall Thompson stars...
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Dr. John Faron
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1950
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The Plan 9 From Outer Space of baseball biopics, The Babe Ruth Story is definitely in the "So Bad It's Good" category. An...
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Phil Conrad
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1948
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In this drama, a wanderer is put on a fight card after promising the promoter that he will take a dive. He soon falls in...
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Bernie
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1948
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Burt Lancaster had one of his first starring roles in this hard-hitting prison drama. Capt. Munsey (Hume Cronyn) is a cruel,...
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1947
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Boomerang, directed by Elia Kazan, is a chilling film noir, the true story about the murder of a priest, the subsequent...
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1947
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In one of his first "adult" roles (he made his last Andy Hardy vehicle only a year earlier), Mickey Rooney plays Tommy McCoy,...
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1947
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Louie
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1947
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This drama was one of the first major-studio efforts to confront anti-Semitism (beating the Oscar-winning...
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1947
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Lt. Sam Lubinsky
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1946
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The year is 1942: eight American airmen crash-land during the Doolittle bombing raid on Tokyo and are taken prisoner. Though...
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Lt. Wayne Greenbaum
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1944
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In later years, director Vincente Minnelli would dismiss I Dood It as his worst picture, though a more deserving candidate...
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Ed Jackson
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1943
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Accepted in 1943 as standard wartime propaganda, Gung Ho can be seen today as an outrageous exercise in raging machismo....
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1943
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The last of three films starring Red Skelton as ace radio detective Wally "The Fox" Benton, Whistling in Brooklyn opens with...
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1943
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Action in the North Atlantic is solid wartime propaganda with a rather endearing inner lining of left-wing politics, courtesy...
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1943
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Another graduate of MGM's short-subject department, director David Miller proved he had what it took to helm a feature film...
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1942
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Grand Central Murder was intended as a followup to the MGM "sleeper" Kid Glove Killer, with the earlier film's star, Van...
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1942
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How could anyone resist a 1940s film starring Bert Lahr, June Havoc, Buddy Ebsen and Patsy Kelly-even a film as relentlessly...
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1942
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Lucille Ball delivers the finest dramatic performance of her career in this satisfying adaptation of Damon Runyon's The Big...
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1942
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No relation to the 1933 film of the same name, the 1942 Universal programmer Destination Unknown stars William Gargan as a...
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Victor
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1942
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This fourth entry in MGM's Thin Man series could just as well have been titled "Nick and Nora Charles Go to the Races"....
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Lieutenant Abrams
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1941
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Married Bachelor is a cute little MGM situation comedy, designed for the bottom half of the studio's double bills....
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1941
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1939
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Wealthy socialite Melsa Manton (Barbara Stanwyck) is taking her pooches for a walk in the dead of the night when she stumbles...
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Lt. Mike Brent
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1938
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The second motion picture version of a Saturday Evening Post story by Dana Burnet, this romantic melodrama was also the...
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1938
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The Sidney Howard/Paul de Kruf Broadway play Yellow Jack was transferred to the screen by MGM in 1938. The film is set at the...
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1938
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1936
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1936
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