In this mystery, Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) helps out an actress justly terrified for her own life after her fellow actors...
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1947
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In this episode of the popular detective series, Chan, along with Number Two Son, are aboard a ship bound for Pago Pago. On...
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1946
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In this episode of the popular detective series, Chan learns that fake fingerprints have caused innocent people to go to...
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1946
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Sidney Toler seems listless and barely awake throughout the intrigues of the Monogram "Charlie Chan" opus Shadows over...
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Charlie Chan
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1946
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Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) heads south of the border in this so-so series entry. With the help of Mexican police official...
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Charlie Chan
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1946
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Birmingham Brown joins pal Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) in solving this missing government documents mystery, set at a New...
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1945
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Just as Edgar C. Ulmer would at PRC around the same time, young Phil Karlson turned Monogram's almost nonexistent production...
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Charlie Chan
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1945
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Based on the popular Russian novel The Twelve Chairs, this stars Fred Allen as flea-circus impresario Fred Floogle. Learning...
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1945
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More tightly scripted than most of the Monogram Charlie Chan whodunits, The Scarlet Clue is set in a radio station that,...
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Charlie Chan
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1945
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Having ended its 11-year run at 20th Century-Fox, the "Charlie Chan" series set up shop at Monogram with the singularly...
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Charlie Chan
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1944
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An engagingly silly Charlie Chan whodunit from Poverty Row company Monogram, The Jade Mask mixed science fiction with Old...
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Charlie Chan
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1944
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1944
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Meeting at Midnight is the reissue title of Black Magic, a Charlie Chan "B" effort from Monogram Studios. A murder occurs...
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1944
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Charlie Chan's second mystery for Poverty Row company Monogram, The Chinese Cat is one of the inscrutable detective's better...
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Charlie Chan
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1944
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1944
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The 12-episode Universal serial The Adventures of Smilin' Jack is based on the Zack Mosely comic strip of the same name. The...
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1943
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This frothy fantasy adventure centers upon the exotic romance between a shark fisherman (the sharks he captured are used for...
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1943
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Cult-favorite director Edgar G. Ulmer has quite a disparate cast to work with in Isle of Forgotten Sins. The story is...
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Krogan
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1943
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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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Inspector Hankins
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1942
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This final entry in 20th Century-Fox's "Charlie Chan" series is set in a huge mansion, smack-dab in the middle of the Mojave...
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Charlie Chan
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1942
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Wily Honolulu detective Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) is summoned when Miss Nodbury (Ethel Gryffies), an elderly eccentric, is...
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Charlie Chan
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1941
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Charlie Chan in Rio is a remake of 1931's Black Camel, one of the few pre-1934 "Charlie Chan" entries still in existence....
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Charlie Chan
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1941
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Murder Over New York finds Honolulu-based detective Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) arriving in the Big Apple for a policeman's...
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Charlie Chan
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1940
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Charlie Chan in Panama was the first entry in the "Chan" series to capitalize on WW2. Sidney Toler stars as the wily oriental...
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Charlie Chan
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1940
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Though the 1931 Fox release Charlie Chan Carries On apparently no longer exists, modern viewers can get a general idea of the...
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Charlie Chan
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1940
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Escaped gangster Steve McBirney (Marc Lawrence), vowing to get even with Oriental sleuth Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler), lies in...
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Charlie Chan
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1940
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Sidney Toler made his second appearance as oriental sleuth Charlie Chan in the above-average Charlie Chan in Reno. It all...
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Charlie Chan
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1939
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Akim Tamiroff plays the title role, an underworld leader who controls all illicit operations in Chinatown. Tamiroff is...
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Dr. Chang Ling
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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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Charlie Chan
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1939
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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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Don Fernando Rameriez
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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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1939
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In this episode of the popular detective series, Chan attends a WW I reunion in Paris. While catching up with his buddies,...
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1939
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In the tradtion of producer Harry Sherman's earlier Zane Grey westerns for Paramount, Heritage of the Desert features an...
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Nosey
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1939
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G.L. "Hardy" Mardeen
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1939
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This timely entry in Fox's Charlie Chan series is set in Paris during the Munich Crisis of 1938. Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler)...
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Charlie Chan
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1939
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If I Were King is a delightful costume adventure tale set in 14th century France, during the reign of Louis XI, and inspired...
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1938
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In this crime comedy, a fortune is stolen and every gangster in town is looking for it. They all end up staying at a young...
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1938
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Sidney Toler made his first appearance as aphorism-spouting oriental sleuth Charlie Chan in 1938's Charlie Chan in Honolulu,...
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Charlie Chan
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1938
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Two imprisoned con men become ace football players on the prison team in this comedy. They get into real trouble when the...
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1938
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The oft-filmed Zane Grey story The Mysterious Rider was given another go-round by Paramount Pictures in 1938. Produced by...
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Frosty Kilburn
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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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In the course of One Wild Night, four prominent businessmen withdraw their savings from the bank and disappear from sight....
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Lawton
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1938
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1937
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1937
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Richard Thorpe's comedy Double Wedding (1937) marked the seventh screen pairing of William Powell and Myrna Loy, known for...
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1937
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The Gorgeous Hussy purports to be based on the life of Margaret "Peggy" O'Neill, the controversial wife of early 19th-century...
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1936
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Charismatic Polish opera singer Jan Kiepura made his Hollywood debut in Give Us This Night. His thick Slavic accent...
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1936
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In this western, three desperadoes rob the New Jerusalem Bank and flee across the desert where they find a seemingly...
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Prof. Snape
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1936
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The Longest Night is a curious title choice for this fast-paced mystery; at 50 minutes, it was the shortest feature film ever...
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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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Ship Captain
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1936
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A pre-Charlie Chan Sidney Toler stars in Champagne for Breakfast as The Judge, a philosophical racetrack tout. Though...
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The Judge
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1935
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The third screen version of Jack London's classic adventure story was also the first with sound, and it toyed with the...
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1935
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Warden Palmer
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1935
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The title may be Orchids to You, but the plot is motivated by a camellia -- to be exact, Camelia Rand (Jean Muir). About to...
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1935
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Prof. Breckenridge
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1935
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When asked in 1970 to recall his participation in RKO Radio's Spitfire, Ralph Bellamy prefaced his comments with a terse "Why...
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Mr. Sawyer
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1934
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1934
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A weak-willed gambler's compulsion destroys his life in this dramatic character study. In the beginning, he is seen working...
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1934
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If you can accept blonde, blue-eyed Marion Davies disguising herself in blackface, chances are you'll swallow the rest of...
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1934
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One of the first major Hollywood films to seriously address America's ongoing mistreatment of its Indian population,...
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1934
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Written by the prolific Ben Hecht, Upper World is a clash-of-class melodrama set in New York City. Railroad tycoon Alexander...
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1934
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Pepi Sancho
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1934
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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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Sylvestrie
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1934
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This well-wrought drama chronicles the rise and fall of a midwestern family dynasty from the mid 1800s through the Great...
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1933
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In this comedy, a childlike playboy inherits the family fortune and gets himself a worldly butler who teaches him how to...
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1933
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In this romantic musical, a carnival knife thrower's assistant falls for a Parisian tour guide who earns money wearing a...
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1933
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In this campy adventure, a man raised in the mysterious African jungles by a pride of lions is captured by circus people and...
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1933
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A Somerset Maugham story was adapted for The Narrow Corner, a film about Man's inability to escape his destiny. Douglas...
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1933
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Buster Keaton's best sound feature casts the Great Stone Face as Professor Post, a naïve college pedant who mistakenly...
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1932
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Disparate twin brothers, a phony will, and a beautiful woman provide the main ingredients for this romantic comedy. The...
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1932
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1932
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1932
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William Wyler directed this melodramatic story about a boy who, after growing up in the shadow of his father, learns the old...
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1932
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The concept of radio patrol cars was still brand-spanking new when this fast-moving programmer came off the Universal...
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1932
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Legendary songwriter and vaudevillian George M. Cohan made his first appearance in a sound film with this satiric musical...
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Prof. Aikenhead
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1932
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Marlene Dietrich stars as Helen Faraday, a German cabaret singer in the States whose husband, Ned, falls ill and his only...
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1932
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In this comedy, a convict uses his skills as a masseur and a fight manager to get out of prison and become the private gym...
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1932
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In this drama, an impoverished young woman meets a millionaire who marries her on the spot and then begins pampering her...
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William Sothern
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1931
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Insurance money collected from destroyed ships propels a ship's captain to sabotage. ~ Rovi...
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1931
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1931
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Alexandre Brisson's weepy 1906 play had already been filmed three times when the 1929 talkie Madame X made its debut....
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1929
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