This is the third time around for the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. The action takes place in urban Texas instead of the...
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1962
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Popular Mexican comedian Cantinflas (Mario Moreno) plays the title character in this star-studded, amusing comedy drama by...
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1960
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Kim Novak is clearly out of her depth as legendary Broadway actress Jeanne Eagels, but one can't fault her for trying very...
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1957
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Ava Gardner was never more alluring than as the half-caste heroine of Bhowani Junction. Set during India's battle for...
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1956
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Hit the Deck is the second film version of the same-named 1927 hit Broadway musical. Though updated for the 1950s, the basic...
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1955
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Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1943 Broadway musical was considered revolutionary for a multitude of reasons, not least of which...
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1955
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Interrupted Melody is the inspirational filmed biography of world-renowned Australian soprano Marjorie Lawrence....
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1955
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Edmund Purdom plays Prince Karl, but Mario Lanza sings the bold tunes coming out of Purdom's mouth, in this MGM remake of the...
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1954
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Based on an operetta by Franz Lehar, this remake of the 1934 original finds a wealthy widow (Lana Turner) returning to her...
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1952
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Originally advertised as "Colossal Quo Vadis," this opulent MGM production is far and away the most elaborate of the many...
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1951
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The film traces Naples-born Caruso's ascension from adolescent choir singer to the uppermost ranks of the opera world. Caruso...
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1951
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Jeanette MacDonald made her first screen appearance in five years in the MGM confection Three Daring Daughters. Looking at...
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1948
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1946
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There's slightly more fancy than fact in this lavish film biography of legendary American composer George Gershwin, but oh!...
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1945
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Based on Marcia Davenport's novel and set in 1870, Valley of Decision details the romance between a housemaid named Mary...
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1945
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1945
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All that MGM's Ziegfeld Girl lacks is Technicolor; otherwise, the film has talent and "sock" entertainment value in...
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1941
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1939
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John Ford directed this outdoor adventure set in the American Colonial period. Gilbert and Lana Martin (Henry Fonda and...
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1939
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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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After an eccentric young woman (Merle Oberon) is left on her father's estate to keep her from spoiling his Presidential bid,...
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1938
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This saga spans the globe as the three young heroes search for the man who killed their much-admired, beloved father, a...
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1938
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Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure tale of a young 18th century boy betrayed by his wicked uncle didn't need a romantic...
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1938
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The well-publicized (and overexploited) birth of Canada's Dionne Quintuplets in 1934 formed the basis of The Country Doctor....
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1936
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1936
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A Kathleen Norris novel was the source for this romantic drama, which begins when widowed navy doctor Quentin Harden...
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1936
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1935
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Dedicated to "the memory of Florence Nightingale," White Parade might have been better dedicated to the cliche experts at Fox...
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1934
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Four courageous college graduates become heroes when they successfully complete a 15-hour coast-to-coast plane flight. Alas,...
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1934
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1934
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In this racy (for 1933) satire set in 800 BC, an overbearing band of Amazon women rule their men with an iron fist. They live...
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1933
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Adapted from John Balderston's successful stage fantasy (itself based on a story by Henry James), Berkeley Square is the...
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1933
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1933
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The 1933 State Fair was the first of three film versions of the Phillip Stong bestseller. Some consider it the best of the...
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1933
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1932
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Originally filmed with Mary Pickford in 1917, the Kate Douglas Wiggin children's classic Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm was...
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1932
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The moral of this drama could very well be for people to exercise caution with what they wish for as they just might get it....
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1932
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In this drama, an old sea captain and his feisty daughter are squatting upon the land of another. The trouble begins when...
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1932
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Janet Gaynor plays a teenaged orphanage waif who protects the younger children from the harshness of the supervisors. One of...
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1931
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1931
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Arguably John Ford's weakest film, The Brat was based on a popular 1917 stage play written by and starring Maude Fulton,...
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1931
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Surrender is yet another triangular romance set against the backdrop of WWI. French POW Dumaine (Warner Baxter) is...
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1931
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1930
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Will Rogers' second starring talkie feature was a spiritual twin of the first, They Had to See Paris, albeit with a...
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1930
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Lightnin' is based on the 1918 stage play by Winchell Smith and Frank Bacon, in which Bacon (the father of director...
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1930
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In this melodrama, set in the Far North, a half-Eskimo woman leaves her tribe and her husband to find adventure with a...
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1929
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Irving Cummings was a good choice to direct this third Charlie Chan feature, the first to use sound, as he had previously...
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1929
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In this sentimental drama, the son of a Jewish pushcart vendor abandons his roots as he builds himself a successful new life...
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1929
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In this comedy drama, a very early talkie, set in the splendiferous South Seas, a French lassie charms a sea captain who...
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1929
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Capricious Constance Bannister (Sally Eilers) has had 12 fiances, but has yet to take her marital vows. Fiance number 13,...
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1929
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Will Rogers' first all-talking feature casts the beloved humorist as Pike Peters, owner of an auto repair shop in Claremore,...
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1929
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In this drama, a lonely woman leads an isolated life on a ramshackle with her widowed mother who firmly believes her...
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1929
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Forty-five-year-old Irish tenor John McCormack made his screen debut in Song o' My Heart. Fans of McCormack would have been...
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1929
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Presently unavailable for public reappraisal, the biting and cynical melodrama Power of the Press would seem to be a...
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1928
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Also known as The Princess From Hoboken, this is an amusing "B" picture with "A" aspirations. Hoping to improve his business,...
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1927
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The ambitious and beautiful Sonya Mendel (Jetta Goudal) works her way up from the ghetto and lands a job as a reporter for a...
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1925
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The credibility of this northwoods melodrama strains at the seams and even the usually excellent Alice Brady in the starring...
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1923
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The Exciters is the old one about a footloose heiress who must marry by the age of 21 or forfeit her fortune. The girl...
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1923
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William Desmond Taylor's final film -- a poorly paced, overly sentimental romance -- only proves that if he had not been the...
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1922
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This melodrama, based on the novel Pink Gods and Blue Demons by Cynthia Stockley, wasted the talents of James Kirkwood,...
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1922
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