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1971
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Devious socialite Gene Barry stands to come into one million dollars. The catch is (and don't ask us why) that he must...
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1970
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1969
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Ben Cartwright is determined to block the gubernatorial bid of John Faraday (Simon Scott), the corrupt stooge of crooked...
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Sam Endicott
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1968
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In Roman Polanski's first American film, adapted from Ira Levin's horror bestseller, a young wife comes to believe that her...
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Roman Castevet
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1968
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In this courtroom drama, a Mexican American judge must preside over the case of the town ne'er-do-well, who is accused of...
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1966
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George Axelrod's script for How to Murder Your Wife isn't politically correct in the least, but you're likely to get a charge...
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1965
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In this romantic drama based on a novel by Betty Smith, Carl Brown (Richard Chamberlain) is a student in law school who wants...
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1965
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The second volume in a collection culled from the 1963-1965 science fiction anthology television series focuses on an...
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1963
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Small-town garage mechanic Aaron Menefee (Andrew Prine) becomes a devoted disciple of the Reverend Otis Jones...
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1962
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Sidney Blackmer guest-stars as baloon ascensionist Major Cayley, an old Army friend of Ben Cartwright. With Ben's blessing,...
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Maj. Cayley
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1961
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1959
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1959
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Created and written by Sam Peckinpah, the premiere episode of The Rifleman stars Chuck Connors and Johnny Crawford as Lucas...
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1958
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Debbie Reynolds stars as Tammy in this romantic comedy of a country girl living in the South who cares for pilot Peter Brent...
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Prof. Brent
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1957
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Crusading publisher Austin Spenser (Sidney Blackmer) wants to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial...
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Austin Spencer
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1956
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Nightclub singer Ilona Vance (Vera Ralston) is Accused of Murder in this Republic programmer. And from the looks of things,...
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Hobart
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1956
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1956
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Hollywood's archetypal "good woman" Greer Garson pulls off an astonishing about-face as the wicked, scheming Regina Giddens...
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1956
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Miscegenation, that old reliable bugaboo of many a Southern-based novel, is at the center of Hamilton Basso's The View from...
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Garvin Wales
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1955
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1955
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For The High and the Mighty, director William Wellman made a point of using Cinemascope to heighten the dramatic content of a...
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1954
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Tony Curtis stars as Johnny Dark, a moody automobile designer. Rejected by a major auto firm because of his "radical"...
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James Fielding
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1954
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Joel McCrea plays 19th-century miner Rick Nelson in The San Francisco Story. The year is 1856, and Frisco is a wide-open...
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Andrew Cain
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1952
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Washington Story stars Van Johnson as mildly liberal congressman Joseph T. Gresham. For reasons that he can't fathom, Gresham...
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Philip Emery, Lobbyist
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1952
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John Derek plays a Polish-American immigrant who excels in high school sports. Though no great shakes academically, Derek...
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T.C. McCabe
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1951
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People Will Talk was less a movie than a conduit for the genteel liberalism of screenwriter/director Joseph M. Mankiewicz....
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1951
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Those who fail to learn from history, the saying goes, are destined to repeat it. This is the lesson propounded by the...
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1950
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A Song is Born is a musical remake of the 1941 comedy Ball of Fire, with the same producer (Sam Goldwyn) and director...
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1948
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Adapted by Allen Boretz from Lucille S. Plumbs and Sara B. Smith's stage play Ever the Beginning, My Girl Tisa is set in New...
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1948
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The Lover
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1946
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Lady and the Monster was the first film version of the classic Curt Siodmak sci-fi/horror tale Donovan's Brain. The plot...
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Eugene Fulton
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1944
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1944
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The plot of the overinflated MGM musical Broadway Rhythm can be summed up briefly: Musical comedy producer Jonnie Demming...
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1944
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No slouch himself at rearranging the facts to make a good story, Colonel William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody would probably have...
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1944
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With a title like I Escaped from the Gestapo, it's a wonder that there's any suspense at all in this Monogram programmer....
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Bergen
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1943
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Though somewhat past his prime, Edmund Lowe carries the dramatic weight of Murder in Times Square with breezy assuredness....
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1943
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In Old Oklahoma is better known today by its reissue title, War of the Wildcats. John Wayne heads the cast as oil man Dan...
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1943
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This Irving Asher production was that rarity, a genuine B-movie from posh MGM. Set in a pre-Pearl Harbor United States, Nazi...
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1942
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Magazine writer and editor Fulton Ousler's stern police commissioner Thatcher Colt came to the screen in April of 1942...
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Thatcher Colt
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1942
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A real four-hanky picture, Always in My Heart was loosely adapted from the stage play by Dorothy Bennett and Irving White....
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1942
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1942
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A public library at night is the setting for this fast-moving crime caper. George Sanders is a gentleman crook specializing...
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Martin Cleaver
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1942
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In this drama, a woman performs a mercy killing and ends up in jail. To clear her name, she escapes and ends up hiding out...
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Steve
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1942
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The lachrymose PRC drama Prison Girls was based on the Octavious Roy Cohen short story Gallant Lady, which was also the...
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1942
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Released in late August of 1942, Sabotage Squad was the last of Columbia's B-budget wartime melodramas of the 1941-42 season....
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Carlyle Harrison
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1942
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Ralph Bellamy makes the third of four appearances as "master detective" Ellery Queen in Columbia's Ellery Queen and the...
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1941
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Marjorie Weaver, frequently cast as the "Girl Friday" in 20th Century-Fox's Michael Shayne pictures, is permitted to solve a...
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1941
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Like 1940's Melody Ranch, the 1941 Gene Autry vehicle Down Mexico Way was designed as a "special", to be promoted separately...
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Gibson
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1941
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Hoping to cash in on the success of Universal's Buck Privates, Republic Pictures hastily commissioned an imitation, Rookies...
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1941
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Honest cop Bob Conlon (Bruce Bennett) is in love with Helen Regan (Rochelle Hudson),who begs off from a lasting committment...
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Blake Standish
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1941
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An expert cast of farceurs goes through its customary paces in MGM's The Feminine Touch. Don Ameche plays college...
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1941
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The studio concocted the film as a showcase for its 9-year-old discovery Joan Carroll, here cast as precocious Bridget...
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1941
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Something of a distaff Mr. Chips, schoolteacher Ella Bishop (Martha Scott) devotes her life to her work, ageing 50 years...
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John Stevens
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1941
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In this mystery, an insurance investigator must find the arsonists behind the burning of a warehouse. The detective does get...
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1941
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1941
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William Powell and Myrna Loy re-team for this (literally) crazy screwball comedy about a happily married couple who, thanks...
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1941
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The success of 1938's Kentucky prompted 20th Century-Fox to come up with the similar (though not entirely identical)...
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1940
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Reporter Albertson works to solve a murder case in order to clear his name and get a great story for his paper. ~ Rovi...
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Tony Bowman
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1940
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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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This box-office smash comedy of manners featured the popular Myrna Loy as Margot Sherwood Merrick, the stodgy editor of a...
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1940
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If not the best of the Hopalong Cassidy films, Law of the Pampas is certainly one of the better-known entries. This time...
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Ralph Merritt
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1939
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In this exciting spy drama, enemy agents endeavor to steal the plans for a top secret silent aircraft. The plane's inventor...
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1939
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In this sentimental drama, a washed-up boxer falls for a nightclub owner whose business has nearly been ruined by...
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1939
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Originally designed for exhibition at the 1939 World's Fair, Land of Liberty is a 137-minute compendium of filmclips from...
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1939
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1939
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1939
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In this frothy screwball comedy, Guy Johnson (James Stewart) is a private detective who is dedicated to his job but still...
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1939
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In this drama, an young, orphaned heir is dismayed to discover that his inheritance will no longer cover the tuition and...
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1939
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Monogram's seemingly endless series of inexpensive crime mellers continued with Convict's Code. Robert Kent plays a star...
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1939
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In this crime drama, a thieving employee sticks her stolen goods into the locker of a co-worker and causes all sorts of...
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1939
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In this romance, a young woman journeys from Syracuse to New York to see her sweetheart, a prominent architect. She is...
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1939
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Horse racing provides the framework of this crime drama that centers on an orphan who has been raising a promising horse....
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1938
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Thomas Bruhm II
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1938
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In Old Chicago was 20th Century-Fox's spin on MGM's San Francisco--a personal saga played out against the backdrop of a...
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1938
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In this musical comedy, the Ritz Brothers inherit a racehorse but are unable to make money from him because they cannot come...
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1938
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Sharpshooters was the initial entry in what was to have been a series of six "Camera Daredevils" adventures. Brian Donlevy...
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1938
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While New York Sleeps is when fast-talking reporter Barney Callahan (Michael Whalen) prowls the night beat for a great...
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1938
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This is an epic Darryl F. Zanuck production that plays fast and loose with historical facts regarding early 19th century...
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1938
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Edward Arnold once again plays a self-made businessman who inadvertently engineers his own downfall in John Meade's Woman....
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1937
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Based on Clarence E. Mulford's Mesquite Jenkins, Tumbleweed from 1932, Heart of the West addresses the issue of fences on the...
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Big John Trumbull
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1937
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A Doctor's Diary is told through the eyes of Dr. Dan Norris (John Trent), resident physician in a private hospital. In his...
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1937
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Johanna Spyri's perennial children's favorite Heidi was retailored to the talents of Shirley Temple, resulting in one of her...
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1937
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The Girl Overboard is Mary Chesebrooke (Gloria Stuart) but she doesn't take her dunk into the deep until the film's final...
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1937
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Released by Monogram in 1937, Shadows of the Orient was actually produced independently several years earlier by...
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King Moss
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1937
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A young man is in danger of losing his inheritance in this muddled thriller from the waning Chesterfield Motion Picture...
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Tom Stan
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1937
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In this comedy drama, a newspaper report discovers that a popular religious cult is really a scam. Unbeknownst to him, his...
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Walter Wiley
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1937
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Dr. Therberg
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1937
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The second of eight 1930s films based on J. P. Marquand's Japanese detective, Thank You, Mr. Moto finds Moto (Peter Lorre)...
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Eric Koerger
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1937
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Theodore Roosevelt
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1937
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In this tearjerker, a 10-year old orphan and his crippled sister struggle to survive. The newsboy is devoted to his little...
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1937
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Charlie Chan was the Jessica Fletcher of the 1930s; no matter where he took a vacation, someone got murdered! This time, the...
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Karnoff
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1937
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Edward G. Robinson offers an excellent turn as a crime lord obsessed with the welfare of his son in this melodramatic crime...
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1937
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In this four-hanky drama, a young wife is desperate to save her foundering marriage and so takes in two adorable foundlings,...
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Jim Minturn
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1936
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A couple of naïve girls get themselves unwittingly involved in the gambling racket in this Poverty Row production directed by...
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Dan Collins
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1936
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1936
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Sartes
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1936
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A Florida-bound train is filled with romance and intrigue in this comedy. Among the passengers is a millionaire bon vivant...
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1936
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A gangland murder is the motivating factor of this fast-moving crime drama. George Murphy stars as reporter Kent Shevlin,...
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Riley Ferguson
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1936
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Apparently having cornered the market in white-collar crooks in 1935, Sidney Blackmer plays a shifty financier in Monogram's...
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John Hart
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1935
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1935
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Commenting upon the many relatives on the payroll of Carl Laemmle's Universal Pictures, poet Ogden Nash once wrote "Uncle...
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Clayton Bradford
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1935
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Gilbert Landon
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1935
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Socialite Pat Reynolds (Ida Lupino) is forced to become the "smart girl" of the title when her wealthy father commits...
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1935
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Shirley Grey plays The Girl Who Came Back in this Chesterfield Pictures "special". Grey is cast as Gilda, a former gun moll...
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1935
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Shirley Temple's first costume picture -- and one of her best pictures of any kind -- was 1935's The Little Colonel. The...
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Swazey
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1935
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Former Miss America Irene Ware stars in the standard Chestefield Pictures social drama False Pretenses. Ware is cast as...
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Kenneth Alden
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1935
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In this high-flying mystery set aboard a cross-country flight to New York, some of the passengers are kidnappers who are...
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Bernardi
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1935
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Ruthless criminal attorney Raymond Cortell (Sidney Blackmer) is not above bending and twisting the law to suit his purposes,...
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Raymond Cortell
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1935
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Goodbye Love is a lampoon of what was once designated the "alimony racket." Refusing to meet his wife's exorbitant alimony...
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1934
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1934
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While crossing the Atlantic aboard a luxury liner, a radio troupe (led by Jack Benny) becomes involved in a murder mystery...
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1934
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The musical picture that ended Lou Brock's career as an RKO Radio producer, Down to Their Last Yacht is almost festive in its...
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Michael Forbes
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1934
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Based upon a novel anonymously written by Rex Stout, The President Vanishes has as its title character a peace-loving man...
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1934
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Mondego
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1934
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The world of horse racing provides the backdrop for this episodic drama. Much of the story is set at the Luray Springs Hotel...
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Cliff Billings
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1933
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The Wrecker is a flinty-eyed demolition engineer named Regan (Jack Holt). While he's off on another assignment, Regan's wife...
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Tom Cummings
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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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Martin
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1933
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This melodrama, with a few comic overtones, was not the finest moment for either star Bebe Daniels or director...
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Lawton
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1933
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In this western, three rambunctious young cowboys head for the hills after spending a night painting a town red and...
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1931
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Conway Tearle stars as Jack Norton, a diamond smuggler operating in South America who is strong-armed into participating in a...
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Charles Townsend
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1931
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Samuel Goldwyn attempted to turn British operetta star Evelyn Laye into another Jeanette MacDonald with this cardboard...
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1931
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In this comedy, a conservative family becomes alarmed when they begin believing their daughter is pregnant. They frantically...
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Steve
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1931
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The pain of raising children alone is presented in this tragedy that centers on the failure of a widowed mother of four...
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1930
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Edward Knoblock's warhorse theatrical piece Kismet, first filmed in 1920, resurfaced as a talkie in 1930. Repeating the role...
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Wazir Mansur
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1930
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Morgan Pell
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1930
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A successful female writer finally finds true love in this romance. The story begins as the writer's cousin prepares to...
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Heath Desmond
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1930
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The first "talkie" gangster movie to capture the public's imagination, Mervyn LeRoy's Little Caesar started a cycle of...
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Big Boy
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1930
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Other Men's Wives, a play by Walter Hackett, was the source for this early-talkie comedy-melodrama. The scene is a sinister...
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Anthony Peel
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1930
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In this drama, a woman finds herself abandoned when the man she assumed was her husband suddenly marches in, announces that...
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1929
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1929
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The Perils of Pauline was not the first movie serial ever made, but it is perhaps the best known -- though that doesn't mean...
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1914
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