The hand of an exploded astronaut takes on a life of its own in this unintentionally funny horror film that begins when the...
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1963
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Framed for setting fire to a warehouse containing the famous Nathan Claver art collection, Claude Demay (Robert H. Harris) is...
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1961
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This trite, low-budget Western stars Victor Mature as Ben Lassiter, a former Confederate soldier who is traveling to the...
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1959
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) investigate the theft of a car containing a baby. The car is ultimately found...
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1959
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Wayde Preston took a break from his starring duties on the Warner Bros. western series Colt. 45 for a guest stint in this...
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1959
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In one of Maverick's all-time greatest episodes, Bret (James Garner) is cheated out of $15,000 by "respectable" banker John...
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1958
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Bart (Jack Kelly) is one of several stagecoach passengers who are attacked by the Apaches. With their coach destroyed, the...
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1958
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After suffering a broken leg, Bart (Jack Kelly) convalesces at the ranch owned by Pete Stillman (Wayne Morris) and his...
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1958
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$1200 in cash and various other items of value have been stolen from a restaurant safe. Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben...
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1957
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This retelling of one of Charles Lindbergh's most famous feats stars Jimmy Stewart as the legendary flier, and was directed...
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1957
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A bizarre western that at times veers dangerously close to outright burlesque, Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend concluded Randolph...
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1957
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This adventurous crime drama is set in exotic Latin America and chronicles a lawman's attempt to bust up the ring of Yankee...
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1955
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Three Hours to Kill is a "message" Western that manages to entertain without preaching. Jim Guthrie (Dana Andrews), unjustly...
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1954
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1954
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They don't really go to Mars, they go to Venus, but first they go to New Orleans. While working at a missile base,...
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1953
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1953
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Elmo Williams, the veteran Hollywood film editor who gained fame for his work on High Noon, serves as director of the...
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Carney
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1953
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Gene Autry was clearly tiring of the rigors of moviemaking by the time he starred in The Old West. Even so, Autry gives his...
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1952
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Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair was Number Four in Universal's immensely successful "B"-picture series. It is giving away...
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1952
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Cecil B. DeMille's The Greatest Show on Earth is a lavish tribute to circuses, featuring three intertwining plotlines...
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1952
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By virtue of the popularity of his TV series The Range Rider, Jack (later Jock) Mahoney is afforded almost as much screen...
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1952
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Gene Autry goes undercover once again in this rather pedestrian western from Columbia Pictures. Suspecting jailed youth Dave...
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1952
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1952
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Myrna Loy returns as Mrs. Gilbreth -- efficiency expert, industrial engineer, and mother of twelve -- in this sequel to...
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1952
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Though out of favor with many Abbott and Costello buffs, Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd is actually a lot of fun, so...
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1952
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The staff of the "Daily Planet" investigates when several armored trucks are hijacked in Metropolis. It turns out that the...
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1952
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Valley of Fire is a fairly gutsy title for this formula Gene Autry western. This time, Autry plays the reform-minded mayor of...
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1951
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1951
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MGM's Three Little Words is a "twin" musical biopic, covering the lives and careers of songwriters Bert Kalmar and...
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1950
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1950
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Though the hit song "Mule Train" is most closely associated with Frankie Laine, it was Gene Autry who first sang the tune on...
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1950
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Even allowing for the fact that it owed its existence to the popularity of Life with Father (1947), Cheaper by the Dozen is...
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1950
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The Jackpot is a generally pleasing satire of quiz programs. James Stewart stars as Bill Lawrence, an average Joe who picks...
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1950
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Wallace Beery's final film was the curiously endearing "black comedy" Big Jack. Set in 1820, a time when "science was a crime...
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1949
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This musical comedy stars William Powell as Emery Slade, who was once a major film star but lately isn't getting much work....
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1949
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1949
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Both Van Johnson and Gregory Peck were considered for the role of baseball star Monty Stratton in the 1949 biopic The...
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1949
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One of the more popular movie-review paperbacks sums up Paramount's Isn't it Romantic? with a terse "No." There's actually...
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1948
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1948
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Bob Hope's Technicolor western spoof The Paleface was one of the comedian's biggest box-office hits. Hope plays Painless...
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1948
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Casting Frank Sinatra as a Pennsylvania priest is but one of the many miscalculations made by the producers of Miracle of the...
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1948
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Robin Hood (Jon Hall) acosts Sir Allan Claire (Michael Duane) and his sister Lady Marian (Patricia Morison) in Sherwood...
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1948
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Clifton Webb has the role of a lifetime as Lynn Belvedere, self-styled genius and expert on everything. Belvedere accepts the...
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1948
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1948
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In this family farce, an older couple falls in love and decide to marry and embark upon a peaceful honeymoon without the...
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1948
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"A woman loses her mind and is confined to a mental institution." That's the usual TV-listing encapsulation of The Snake Pit...
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1948
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Hoping for a success commensurate with his previous Show Business (1945), comedian Eddie Cantor poured a lot of his own money...
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1948
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1948
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1947
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James Thurber wasn't too happy with the Sam Goldwyn film adaptation of his 1939 short story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,...
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1947
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In Dead Reckoning, Rip Murdock (Humphrey Bogart) recites the film's plotline to a priest in the confessional. Murdock and...
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1947
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Diminutive western hero Bob Steele stars in Six Gun Man. Steele plays federal marshal Bob Storm, who has been assigned to...
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Syd McTavish
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1946
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This marked the first starring role for Rondo Hatton, previously seen in a few Sherlock Holmes films as the spine-snapping...
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1946
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1946
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1946
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In this crime drama, two crooks dupe their friend, a professional gambler, into nipping some important government documents....
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1946
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A B-Western hero since the late silent era, Bob Steele would hang up his spurs after a final four westerns for director Harry...
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Happy
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1946
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In his final starring Western for PRC, Bob Steele plays Jim Brandon who is imprisoned for a bank robbery and murder he didn't...
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Utah McGirk
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1946
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One of four western films made for PRC by bantam-weight Bob Steele, Ambush Trail stars Steele as cowpoke Curley Thompson. The...
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1946
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Avalanche offers an IRS man as a hero, meaning that there isn't much chance of this particular film being remade! Treasury...
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1946
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Jack Oakie and Peggy Ryan head the cast of the Universal "B plus" musical On Stage Everybody. As indicated by the title, this...
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1945
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Based on the popular comic strip by Dale Messick, this Sam Katzman-produced Columbia serial starred the beautiful and...
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1945
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Her Favorite Patient is the TV title for Bedside Manner, an improbable comedy directed by future master of "realism"...
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1945
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Masterfully directed by Fritz Lang, Scarlet Street is a bleak film in which an ordinary man succumbs first to vice and then...
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1945
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Though it comes on much too strong at times, Murder, He Says fully justifies its present "cult" status. Professional pollster...
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1945
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Joan Davis, the daughter of a famed woman detective, has inherited none of her mother's deductive prowess. Nonetheless, Joan...
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1945
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The bland performance of star George Raft is the only drawback of this splashy 20th Century-Fox musical. Set in...
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1945
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1945
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Ingrid Bergman won her first of three Oscars for this suspense thriller, crafted with surprising tautness by normally genteel...
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1944
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But for the presence of the Columbia "torch lady" in the opening credits, it would be easy to mistake Judy Canova's Louisiana...
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1944
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If one were forced to choose, Swingtime Johnny may well be the best of the Andrews Sisters' 1940 "B"-musicals. Patty, Maxine...
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1944
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Musical star Ann Miller plays a Broadway leading lady coaxed into reteaming with Larry Parks, her former producer. Parks is...
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1944
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1944
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In this tuneful comedy, a would-be actor and playwright is deeply in debt, and to keep away from his creditors, begins...
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1943
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In this entry in the "Dead End Kids" series (later they would reappear as "The Bowery Boys") the lads encounter a terribly...
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1943
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In this comedy, a milque-toast bookkeeper buckles under his overbearing girl friend's constant nagging and begins investing...
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1943
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According to Doughboys in Ireland, there were those who sang their way through WW2. Radio tenor Kenny Baker plays Manhattan...
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1943
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As PRC pictures go, the modest Harvest Melody is practically a spectacular. Rosemary Lane plays former film star Gilda...
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1943
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Man in the Trunk is a variation on the "Topper" theme, with Raymond Walburn carrying the weight of the film as a restless...
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1942
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In this musical comedy set during WW II, a circus aerialist desires to be closer to her lover, a soldier. When she finds...
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1942
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Pacific Rendezvous is a B-picture remake of the 1935 MGM A-picture Rendezvous, updated to accommodate WW2. Lee Bowman plays...
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1942
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That Other Woman in this 20th Century-Fox programmer turns out to be Emily (Virginia Gilmore), faithful secretary to master...
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1942
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Adenoidal teenager Henry Aldrich (James Lydon) "gets glamour" when he wins first prize in a movie-magazine contest. Before he...
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1942
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1942
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Cesar Romero plays an outwardly tough bookie with the proverbial golden heart. Romero falls in love with Carole Landis, an...
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1942
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Irene Dunne plays a flibbetygibbet socialite who inherits a farm in Arizona. She can't seem to manage either her money or her...
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1942
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Like most of 20th Century-Fox's "Michael Shayne"detective series, Time to Kill was based on a source other than Brett...
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1942
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1941
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MGM was doing so well in 1941 that it could afford the occasional "prestige" film with little box-office appeal. Based on the...
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1941
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Don "Red" Barry's first western of 1941, Wyoming Wildcat told the careworn but still potent story of a war veteran returning...
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1941
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The marvelous rapport between stars Clark Gable and Lana Turner makes MGM's Honky Tonk seem far more substatianal than it...
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1941
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Not to be confused with his later Home in Wyomin', Gene Autry's Sunset in Wyoming is essentially a musical with western...
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1941
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Nevada City finds Roy Rogers and his perennial sidekick Gabby Hayes cast as stagecoach drivers. Their boss is Joseph Crehan,...
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1941
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In this Gene Autry Western, the valley is threatened by a weed capable of poisoning the cattle. When burning the range proves...
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1941
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With Paramount abandoning its "Zane Grey" western series in 1941, 20th Century-Fox took up the cudgel with such films as The...
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1941
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On the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of commercial radio, 20th Century-Fox cooked up the pageantlike entertainment...
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1941
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This soapy drama stars Hedy Lamarr as a would be model who meets a research doctor en route to the US from Europe. They meet...
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1940
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"Over the hill" at the tender age of 12, Shirley Temple closed out her 20th Century-Fox contract with the musical seriocomedy...
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1940
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In this remake of the 1926 silent hit (which was in turn based on a hit musical from 1919), Anna Neagle stars as Irene...
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1940
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Wesley Ruggles's Arizona is an epic western set in an impoverished Arizona outpost. It tells the story of the feisty,...
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1940
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1940
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Directed with customary haste by Woody Van Dyke, Stand Up and Fight is an excellent dual vehicle for veteran Wallace Beery...
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1939
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The late cinema historian William K. Everson once wrote an article titled "Movies Out of Thin Air", referring to films that...
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1939
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Cecil B. DeMille takes us back to the 1860s, then rebuilds the first intercontinental railroad in Union Pacific. The...
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1939
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1939
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In this drama, a waitress leaves her husband after getting sick of being alone while her husband, a commercial pilot, plies...
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1939
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Originally filmed in Sepiatone, Let Freedom Ring is a satisfying Nelson Eddy musical with patriotic overtones. Set in the...
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1939
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This film should have been a press agent's dream: Hollywood's two greatest "big mouths," Joe E. Brown and Martha Raye,...
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1939
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A big city lawyer returns to his tiny home town to enter the firm of his late father. His father's partner is happy to have...
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1939
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Heiress Virginia Bruce tries to prove her worth by taking a job as a shopgirl in the store owned by her family. The pampered...
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1938
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1938
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A Yank at Oxford was filmed in England at MGM's "sister studio", Elstree. Robert Taylor plays Lee Sheridan, an arrogant young...
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1938
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Despite its title and its potent lineup of cowboy talent, RKO Radio's The Law West of Tombstone is more comedy than western....
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1938
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Brash and vigorous director William Wellman always had a place in his filmography for movies glorifying the early years of...
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1938
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1938
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Test Pilot is one of those irresistible MGM potboilers of the 1930s that coast along on sheer star power. Clark Gable plays a...
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1938
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After several years' faithful service in supporting parts, Frank Jenks and Dorothea Kent were promoted to leading roles in...
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1938
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1937
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In this crime drama, a young couple decides to rob the bank where the woman works as a teller. They get 100,000 dollars and...
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1937
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Set in the land Down Under but filmed at Sunland, CA, and on Catalina Island, this low-budget action-adventure stars one of...
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1937
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1937
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In his third starring Western, former radio singer Tex Ritter played a minstrel performer turned tax collector! During a...
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Grass Hopper (Claude)
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1937
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1937
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Film collectors take note: Hal Roach's Pick a Star is not a Laurel and Hardy picture, though the popular comic duo does make...
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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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1937
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Released in Great Britain as Gangster's Valley, Secret Valley is a modern western (that is, it takes place in 1937). Richard...
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Paddy
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1937
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1937
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Scheduled to marry a man she doesn't love (and for good reason), spoiled heiress Barbara Blanchard (Claire Trevor) runs away...
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1937
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Exiled to Shanghai uses the then-waging wars in Spain and China as backdrops for a familiar "rival reporters" yarn....
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1937
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Paramount borrowed John Wayne from Republic Pictures for the studio's second screen version of Zane Grey's Born to the West,...
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1937
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Acting upon the belief that he accidentally murdered his best pal, a gunman swears never to draw his weapon again. ~ Jason...
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1937
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Wild and Woolly stars young Jane Withers as a hoydenish resident of a modern frontier town. Revelling in the town's 50th...
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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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Prison Shadows was put together by the Mercury Productions division of Puritan Pictures, the same folks responsible for the...
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Dave Moran
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1936
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1936
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After a couple of false starts, William Colt MacDonald's "Three Mesquiteers" stories were converted into a western film...
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Lullaby Joslin
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1936
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Actual footage of the 1936 Rose Bowl game is cleverly (if not seamlessly) integrated into the action of this sports-oriented...
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1936
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1936
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Cash Burridge
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1936
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1936
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In his second "Range Rider" music Western for poverty row newcomer Grand National, Tex Ritter played Tex Saunders, the...
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Chile
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1936
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A radio-controlled bomb accurate within 200 miles is the cause of much mayhem in this low-budget science fiction-thriller...
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1936
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1936
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In this polished soap opera from MGM, Robert Taylor plays Chris Claybourne, a dedicated scientist researching a possible...
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1936
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Produced by Hal Roach, Kelly the Second is one of the few feature films to capture the comic spirit of Roach's wonderful...
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1936
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In this airborne adventure, three pals from WW I team up to run a commercial airline. They have also been working on a new...
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1936
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Virtually all of the Chesterfield Pictures efforts of the 1930s served as starring vehicles for Hollywood's best character...
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1936
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In this western about the adventures of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, a fur trapper is robbed and killed by a local...
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1935
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In this off-beat outdoor adventure, a courageous Mountie braves the elements and many dangers to deliver mail to remote...
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1935
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In his first of 16 Westerns for independent producer A.W. Hackel, Johnny Mack Brown is Branded a Coward when instead of...
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Oscar
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1935
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Perhaps the best of Mascot Pictures' feature-film releases, Ladies Crave Excitement is also one of the fastest 69 minutes...
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1935
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This typically lightning-paced Mascot Studios production stars Heather Angel as the title character, a thrill-seeking...
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1935
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Based on a Peter B. Kyne short story, The Final Assignment (which was also the film's alternate title), Fighting Coward...
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1935
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Mae West is Goin' to Town in this elegant post-Production Code vehicle. West plays Cleo Borden, a nouveau riche cattle...
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1935
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1935
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The Lost Jungle is a feature-length version of the 12-episode Mascot serial of the same name. Legendary animal trainer...
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Larry Henderson
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1934
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The second entry in Buck Jones' Universal western series, When a Man Sees Red casts Jones as the foreman of a ranch owned by...
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1934
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In his first in a series of well-mounted Westerns and action melodramas for independent producer Sol Lesser, George O'Brien...
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1934
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In the first of two proposed serials for Mascot Pictures, Western hero Ken Maynard goes up against a murderous fiend known as...
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1934
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Larry Henderson
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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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Produced by small-scale Mascot Pictures, this behind-the-scenes look at a now forgotten annual Hollywood event, the WAMPAS...
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1934
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1934
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A professional gambler masquerading as a businessman boards a train and sets off across the country. During the journey he...
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1933
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Hell Below transcends its hackneyed World War I plot to emerge as a drama of rare originality and gutsiness. Walter Huston...
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1933
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In this syrupy tear-jerker a young girl is adopted by the judge who sent her daddy to prison. The father agreed to this...
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1933
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In this romance, an ambitious young career woman is slated to marry a wealth man until she gets into a fender-bender and...
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1933
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J. Phineas Stevens (Lee Tracy) is a personal injury lawyer whose practice has become a nightmare to any number of defendants,...
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1933
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"Klopstokia: A Far-Away Country. Chief Exports: Goats and Nuts. Chief Imports: Goats and Nuts. Chief Inhabitants: Goats and...
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1932
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1932
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One of four films directed by Stephen Roberts in 1932, just four years before the filmmaker passed away prematurely, Lady and...
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1932
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Produced at the little Tec Art studio by sound engineer Ralph M. Like, this film is one of those modest whodunits where the...
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1932
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1932
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The Crusader was one of the earliest efforts from Majestic Pictures, for many years the most ambitious of the independent...
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1932
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Buster Keaton once described his 1931 vehicle Sidewalks of New York as "God-awful"; it's hardly that bad, though admittedly...
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1931
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In the wake of such cinematic Calamity Janes as Jean Arthur and Doris Day, it comes as a shock to find a film in which the...
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1931
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1931
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A socially prominent wife must choose between avoiding scandal and her own happiness in this British drama. According to...
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1931
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1931
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In this courtroom drama, a lawyer defends his sister's fiance after he is accused of murder. The lawyer knows his client is...
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1931
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In this fluffy comedy, an innocent usherette falls for a customer whom she finally meets and eventually marries. Soon after...
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1931
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William Powell stars in this drama as William Foster, a gifted defense attorney with a gift for making cases go his way....
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1930
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Returning to Gunsight, AZ, from World War II, Buck Healy (Buck Jones) finds that his younger brother Tom (Thomas Carr) has...
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1930
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1930
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1930
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Ostensibly based on an "original story" by Arthur Hoerl, Shanghai Rose would seem to have been derived from the then-popular...
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1929
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One of the livelier late-silent entries in the "Our Gang" series, Cat, Dog & Co. begins with the kids thoughtlessly abusing...
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1929
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