In the conclusion of a two-part story (originally telecast as a single two-hour episode), Magnum has figured out that the...
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1981
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In the first episode of a two-part story (originally telecast as a single two-hour "TV Movie"), Magnum (Tom Selleck) is...
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1981
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The Hawaiians is the sequel to 1969's Hawaii; both films were adapted from the same sprawling novel by James A. Michener....
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1970
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In Harm's Way, based on James Bassett's novel Harm's Way, has enough plot in it for four movies or a good miniseries (when it...
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1965
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The only Rodgers and Hammerstein cinemadaptation to be produced by Universal Pictures, Flower Drum Song was, alas, also the...
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1961
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Sayonara takes its own sweet time to unfold; in so doing, it permits us to make intimate acquaintance with its characters, so...
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1957
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Tony Dumont (Rory Calhoun) is none too trustworthy at the beginning of Flight to Hong Kong. A dealer in contraband goods,...
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Mama Lin
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1956
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Based on the autobiographical novel by Han Suyin, Love is a Many Splendored Thing was evocatively location-filmed in Hong...
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1955
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1955
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The first of two Clark Gable films produced by 20th Century-Fox, Soldier of Fortune casts Gable as an American mercenary,...
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1955
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Of all the "kill the commies" cold war films of the 1950s, John Wayne's Big Jim McLain may well be the worst. Certainly it's...
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1952
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This Columbia quickie stars Richard Denning as an American soldier of fortune who wanders into Hong Kong. He is hired by...
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Lao Shan
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1952
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Peking Express was the second remake of Josef vonSternberg's Shanghai Express. In the original film, a group of railroad...
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1951
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Set in Japanese-occupied China shortly before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, this action/drama stars Alan Ladd as Mr. Jones, a...
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1943
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An adequate wartime filler, Night Plane from Chungking features Robert Preston as the captain of the titular aircraft. En...
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Madame Wu
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1942
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Secrets of the Wasteland is a lesser "Hopalong Cassidy" western, with talk taking precedence over action. This time, Hoppy...
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1941
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Gary Cooper stars in this lavish and often comic retelling of the life of the famed Italian explorer. Marco Polo (Cooper)...
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1938
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1937
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The overlong but absorbing MGM "B" melodrama Mad Holiday stars Edmund Lowe as vacationing movie idol Philip Trent. Tired of...
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1936
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1936
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China Seas proved that the recently imposed Hollywood production code had little if any effect on the popularity of MGM sex...
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1935
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1934
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