The CB (citizen's band) radio fad had nearly run its course when this feel-good action film was made by director...
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1978
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Five of Laurel and Hardy's best features from the silent film era are compiled in this collection by Robert Youngson....
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1965
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Hoping to rid Mayberry of that old eyesore cannon in the town square, Sheriff Andy fabricates a tall tale about the cannon's...
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1961
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1952
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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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Most of this Republic B-plus mystery yarn is set in a penthouse, next door to a music hall where a strange song-and-dance...
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1946
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In this musical, a chorus of convicts conspires to get a paroled crooner chucked back in the clink. Songs include: "Time...
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1945
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1944
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In their last starring film, The Ritz Brothers play the Three Funny Bunnies, a trio of nightclub comedians. The plot...
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1943
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This second film version of the George and Ira Gershwin's Broadway hit Girl Crazy stars reigning MGM musical prince and...
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1943
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In one of their most genial comedies -- based on a Damon Runyon story -- Bud Abbott and Lou Costello have to help one friend...
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1943
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Deanna Durbin is all grown up in Hers to Hold, the unofficial sequel to her "Three Smart Girls" films of the 1930s. Durbin...
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1943
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In this screen version of the James Thurber-Elliot Nugent Broadway play of the same name, Henry Fonda stars as bespectacled,...
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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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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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1942
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In this wartime drama, a doctor discovers that one of his patients isn't as crazy as he thought, with dangerous consequences...
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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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Corn Cob Kelly (Marvin Stephens) is a young jockey whose ambition is dwarfed only by his ego. All set to ride in his first...
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1941
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Skating star Sonja Henie and the Glenn Miller Orchestra share the spotlight in Sun Valley Serenade. Henie plays a Norwegian...
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1941
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Ronald Reagan is his usual sprightly self as ambitious insurance claims adjuster Eric Gregg. While diligently investigating a...
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1938
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1938
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This musical comedy is based on a modestly successful Broadway play and stars Humphrey Bogart as wrestling promoter Ed Hatch....
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1938
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A remake of 1932's Guilty as Hell, Night Club Scandal also borrows a page from 1934's Murder at the Vanities by depicting the...
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1937
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A lovely stenographer, tired of men falling all over her, tries to make herself homely in this comedy. With her horn rim...
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1937
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The first of three remakes of the 1933 Paul Muni picture Hi, Nellie, Love is on the Air is historically important as the...
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1937
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Johnny Downs takes a break from his usual campus musicals to play a small-town songsmith in Blonde Trouble. Attempting to...
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1937
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The Ritz Brothers play three goofballs working their way through college by putting in time at a tailor shop. The college...
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1937
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In this lively campus comedy, a stern rowing coach sets up a rigorous practice schedule for his team and insists they lead...
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1936
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The MGM historical "spectacular" San Francisco was allegedly based on a three-sentence synopsis, submitted verbally to...
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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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The quaint genetic theories of the 1930s are satirized in College Holiday. Dotty matron Mary Boland runs a ramshackle summer...
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1936
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After several false starts, opera star Grace Moore became a motion picture success in the sublimely assembled One Night of...
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1934
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Baby Face is a good example of the kind of spitfire lead female characters that appeared in the cinema of pre-code Hollywood....
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1933
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As directed by Norman Houston, this newsroom-themed melodrama from 1932 stars Walter Byron as an alcoholic reporter who...
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1932
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This early musical is a bit slim on story but features a number of vintage performances by a stellar cast, including some of...
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1932
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1932
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In his first Western for 1932, Buck Jones went mostly for laughs playing a former Texas ranger inheriting an Arizona ranch...
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1932
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This wonderful Warner Bros. epic was one of the earliest talkie musicals with a Hollywood background -- and the last of its...
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1930
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No one suffered more magnificently in the early-talkie era than the inimitable Helen Twelvetrees. In Grand Parade, the...
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1930
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1929
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In this comedy, a college sophomore gets into deep trouble when he gambles away his tuition money on the first day of...
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1929
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Western Union Boy/Mercury
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1928
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1928
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Spec
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1928
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Because of its heavy reliance on slapstick (a no-no for features in the late '20s), this picture, very loosely based on the...
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1927
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Jewish comic Max Davidson stars in this Hal Roach farce that would most likely have been completely forgotten had not Stan...
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The Gimpelwart's son
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1927
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The second of Thomas Meighan's three 1927 vehicles, We're All Gamblers was also the first of two collaborations between...
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1927
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Broadway entertainer Georgie Jessel beat his "friendly rival" Al Jolson to the screen by one year in the wartime comedy drama...
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1926
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Sparrows, Mary Pickford's 1926 release, superbly combines the two elements--sentiment and adventure--that characterized...
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1926
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Tom Mix plays an Eastern dandy who finds himself banished to a Western ranch in this routine silent Western which boasted of...
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1926
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Long derided by film historians as a talented but visually unimaginative director, James Cruze made up for any and all past...
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1926
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The subject matter to this Victor Fleming-directed drama is typically virile -- it takes place in Sacramento during the Gold...
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1925
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1925
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1925
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1924
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Joe Applegate
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1923
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