This classic episode begins when a youngster tunes into his favorite TV series Moonlighting, only to be ordered to switch off...
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1986
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In this comedy-drama, a family's well-ordered life is thrown into chaos after the youngest daughter brings home a wounded...
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1977
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The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh is an hour-long compendium of the three Disney "Winnie" animated short subjects...
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Winnie-the-Pooh
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1977
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Hobe Carpenter
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1977
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This spoof makes fun of a certain famous German shepherd movie star from the 1920s. The mayhem begins when the head honcho...
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1976
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This third entry in Disney's animated-featurette series based on A. A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh tales was also the first...
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1974
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Originally telecast January 13, 1973, as an episode of the Saturday-morning NBC Children's Theatre anthology, "All About Me"...
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1971
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The Aristocats was the first Disney Studios animated feature to be produced after Walt Disney's death. A wealthy woman leaves...
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Roquefort
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1970
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Singing stars from two very different generations appear in Live A Little, Love A Little. Elvis Presley plays Greg, a...
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1968
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Winnie The Pooh & the Blustery Day was the second Disney animated featurette based on characters created by A. A. Milne. It...
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1968
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Now that they're in an accelerated-learning class, Buffy (Anissa Jones) and Jody (Johnnie Whitaker) must face the treacherous...
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1967
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The Castaways pin their rescue hopes on a homing pigeon named Walter. Unfortunately, the recipient of Walter's messages is a...
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Burt
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1967
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The final animated feature produced under the supervision of Walt Disney is a lively neo-swing musical, loosely based upon...
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Kaa the Snake
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1967
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Ken Berry essays a dual role in this episode as mild-mannered Captain Wilton Parmenter and his ill-mannered lookalike, a...
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1966
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"Bears love honey and I'm a Pooh bear," sings Winnie the Pooh setting the stage for the goings-on in Winnie the Pooh and the...
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1965
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As a repairman (Sterling Holloway) works on his malfunctioning television set, middle-aged TV addict Joe Britt...
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TV Repairman
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1964
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With this all-star Cinerama epic, producer/director Stanley Kramer vowed to make "the comedy that would end all comedies."...
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1963
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This was the first film directed by dancer and choreographer Gower Champion, already experienced at directing television and...
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1963
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Town curmudgeon Ben Weaver (Will Wright) is on the warpath again. This time, Ben demands that itinerant peddler Bert Miller...
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Bert Miller
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1962
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Originally released in Japan as Saiyu-ki, this animated feature film was purchased by American-International Productions,...
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Narrator [English version]
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1961
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MGM's all-star 1960 filmization of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn surgically removes the sociological subtext of Mark...
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1960
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1960
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In the conclusion of a two-part story, Capone's second-in-command Frank Nitti (Bruce Gordon) steps up his heretofore...
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1960
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This 1957 Disneyland episode is essentially a promotional film for the upcoming Disney theatrical release Johnny Tremain. An...
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Amos the Mouse
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1957
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Disneyland host Walt Disney endeavors to demonstrate how inanimate objects can become "human", with the attendant full range...
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1957
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The second in a group of full-color Bell Science Specials produced, written and directed by the legendary Frank Capra, Hemo...
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Lab Assistant
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1957
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The endearingly awful Shake, Rattle and Rock! serves as a showcase for four top rock-and-roll talents of the 1950s. Fats...
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Axe
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1957
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The Adventures of Superman switches from black and white to color in this first episode of the series' fourth season. Just as...
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1955
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In order to pass through Comanche territory, the stranded passengers of a West-bound wagon train must sell the Indians their...
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1955
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1954
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Sterling Holloway returns as eccentric scientist Uncle Oscar, who while trying to cook up a formula for flavored stamp glue...
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1954
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Though running slightly less than a half-hour, Walt Disney Productions' animated Ben and Me is produced with as much loving...
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1953
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Ex-mobster Larry McCoy (Billy Nelson) is looking to make a comeback, and finds the means to do so in the work of his...
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1953
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Narrated by the ubiqitous Sterling Holloway, the cartoon begins as Mr. Stork delivers a new batch of arrivals to a flock of...
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Mr. Stork
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1952
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This Disney feature-length cartoon combines the most entertaining elements of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through...
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Cheshire Cat
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1951
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Basserman Boy
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1949
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Gene Autry is back near the saddle, trying to help out a crippled jockey. Gene is certain that the jockey can ride in the Big...
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Droopy Stearns
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1947
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Smugglers are working the border between Mexico and California in this action-filled and, of course, tuneful Gene Autry...
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Pokie
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1947
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Saddle Pals hits a new low for Gene Autry's postwar Republic westerns, containing literally no action at all. Autry is drawn...
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Waldo T. Brooks
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1947
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A dude ranch, unemployed cowhands, modern-day bank robbers, and music are the main ingredients in this, Gene Autry's swan...
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1947
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The Italian-American Her Wonderful Lie is based on the novel Latin Quarter by Murger. This literary work is better known as...
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1947
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In his first postwar animated feature, Walt Disney attempted to repeat the Fantasia formula, substituting "pop" music for the...
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Narrator ("Peter and the Wolf")
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1946
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In his first film after four-years of military duty, Gene Autry returns to a familiar setting: a modern western...
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Nelson "Nellie" Bly
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1946
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This animated musical was included in a 1946 feature called Make Mine Music, after originally being planned for the...
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1946
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The titular valley is the locale for an inordinate amount of double-crosses and betrayals. Young prospector Carroll Nye...
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1946
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Three Caballeros is the first Walt Disney feature to combine animation with live action footage. Originally conceived as...
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1945
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Harry Brown's honest, unsentimental WW2 novel A Walk in the Sun has been effectively adapted for the screen by Robert Rossen....
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McWilliams
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1945
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Wildfire was the first release from Screen Guild Productions, the adventuresome little independent that would eventually...
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Alkali
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1945
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1942
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The classic Felix Salter story Bambi provides the basis for this near-perfect Disney animated feature. We follow the male...
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1942
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When the US marines land in Iceland during WW2, camp lothario John Payne wastes no time scoping out the local female...
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1942
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Star-Spangled Rhythm is a typical wartime all-star musical-comedy melange, this time from Paramount Pictures. The slender...
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1942
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Top Sergeant was the third of four inexpensive Universal action films top-billing Leo Carrillo, Andy Devine and Don Terry....
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1942
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The first of director Frank Capra's independent productions (in partnership with Robert Riskin), Meet John Doe begins with...
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1941
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Several popular radio personalities converge in the RKO Radio "comedy salad" Look Who's Laughing. Taking a vacation from his...
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1941
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Three different Universal pictures made between 1922 and 1941 bore the catchall title Don't Get Personal. The 1941 film stars...
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1941
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Something of a distaff Mr. Chips, schoolteacher Ella Bishop (Martha Scott) devotes her life to her work, ageing 50 years...
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Chris Jensen
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1941
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Also released as The Great Awakening, New Wine purports to recreate an incident in the life of Austrian composer Franz...
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1941
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The shortest of Disney's major animated features Dumbo involves a baby elephant with unusually large ears. Ostracized from...
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Stork
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1941
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Top Sergeant Mulligan was Monogram Pictures' attempt to cash in on the popularity of such service comedies as Abbott &...
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Snark
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1941
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In this musical, the second entry in a five-film series, a thrift shop owner sells his business and buys a small time radio...
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1940
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1940
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Little Men, Louisa May Alcott's followup to her successful novel Little Women, has never truly adapted well to the screen,...
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1940
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When Darryl F. Zanuck's arrangement to loan Shirley Temple to MGM as star of The Wizard of Oz fell through, Zanuck hastily...
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1940
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In this drama, a transient farm worker suffering from amnesia gets in trouble with the cops. One day he drifts into a town,...
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1940
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Dorothy Lamour had been playing "sarong girls" long enough to parody her screen character in 1939's Best of the Blues. Tired...
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1939
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Pulp-novel detective Nick Carter was created in the 1880s, but most film versions of the character have been updated to...
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1939
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1938
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Harold Lloyd plays a professor of Egyptology, frightened by the notion that he has fallen under an ancient Egyptian curse....
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1938
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In this collegiate romance, the love affair between two seniors is threatened by their different graduation plans. The...
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1938
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Bing Crosby plays the melodic medico of the title. To help cover for his ailing policeman pal (Andy Devine), Crosby takes the...
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1938
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This service comedy from the Republic Studio mills was perhaps the most aggressively titled of the "Marine Corps" film cycle...
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1937
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In this drama, a girl from a small town in Pennsylvania dreams of being a star while she goes to school. The trouble is, no...
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1937
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Claudette Colbert is a young freethinking woman living in Salem, Massachusetts during the notorious 17th century "witch...
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1937
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Director Anatole Litvak's first Hollywood film was a remake of his French success L'Equipage, itself based on a novel by...
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1937
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Rivalry surfaces between radio producers as they fight for control of programs and sponsors in this lively comedy that...
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Tommy Astor
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1937
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If you're wondering which Warners musical featured the songs "Old King Cole" and "Have You Got Any Castles?," we refer you to...
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1937
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Just before his brief turn as a "singing cowboy," radio crooner Smith Ballew starred in Paramount's Palm Springs. Filmed on...
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1936
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Admidst a sea of melodramatic and unbelievable courtroom dramas, Career Woman is distinguished by its comparative realism....
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1936
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Feeling stifled by her wealthy existence, flighty heiress Kay (Joan Crawford) falls in love with poor archaeologist Terry...
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1935
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This espionage thriller with romantic comedy touches was loosely based on the book American Black Chamber by the real-life...
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1935
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Two rich and wealthy millionaires who have a lot of money bet that reporter Robert Pryor can't spend $720,000 in twelve...
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1935
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A best-selling nonfictional book of the 1920s provided the title for this Will Rogers vehicle. Rogers plays a small town...
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1935
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Long before its "Teen Agers" series of the 1940s, Monogram Pictures went to college in the minor musical Girl of My Dreams....
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Spec Early
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1935
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Spindler
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1935
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In their never-ending efforts to transform contract actress Pat Paterson a major star, Fox Studios cast the lovely lady...
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Cadet Harold Stump
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1935
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The musical picture that ended Lou Brock's career as an RKO Radio producer, Down to Their Last Yacht is almost festive in its...
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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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Six writers were involved in the RKO Radio musical comedy Strictly Dynamite; ironically, the plot concerns a radio comedian...
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1934
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In this musical, a radio-announcer is fired after giving a false interview. For consolation he begins to drink heavily. It...
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1934
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Heralded as the "most daring, sensational drama ever filmed," this exploitation-melodrama is actually a rather confused...
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1934
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1934
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Helen Hayes reportedly turned down the opportunity to play the title role in this dreary melodrama about self-sacrificing...
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1934
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1934
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Virtually everybody except President Roosevelt was in the lavish MGM backstage musical Dancing Lady. Joan Crawford stars as...
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1933
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Joe E. Brown plays Elmer Kane, a rookie ballplayer with the Chicago Cubs whose ego is matched only by his appetite. Because...
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1933
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Set during the Depression, this crime drama centers upon a basically honest girl who is forced into prostitution by...
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1933
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Reportedly at the request of Marion Davies herself, Bing Crosby was borrowed from Paramount for the MGM Davies vehicle...
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1933
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An admirably tough B-picture enlivened by an energetic James Cagney performance, Picture Snatcher stars Cagney as Danny Kean,...
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1933
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The second talkie version of the Avery Hopwood's theatrical war-horse The Golddiggers of Broadway, Gold Diggers of 1933 was...
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1933
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This star-laden version of Lewis Carroll's novel combines elements of both the title novel and Carroll's sequel, Through the...
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1933
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This earnest, socially-conscious road drama centers on two California teenagers who find their comfortable lives thrown into...
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1933
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An earthy, fun-loving radio pitchwoman finds it difficult to live up to her squeaky-clean public persona as the "Purity Girl...
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1933
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Hollywood responded to the exigencies of the Depression with such glorious nonsense as International House. The plot is...
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1933
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Frisky princess Marie Christine, known as Mitzi (Janet Gaynor) passes herself off as a manicurist, and falls in love with...
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1933
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Ruth Chatterton tears up the screen in this fast-paced, lusty comedy. Alison Drake is an automobile magnate, a hard-nosed,...
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1933
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1933
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William Powell is a poor East Side lawyer who works his way up the ladder to assistant prosecutor. He isn't too particular...
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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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Hard to Handle stars James Cagney as a fast-talking promoter who pounces upon every current fad and foible to make a quick...
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1933
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Benny
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1933
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This story centers around a love triangle between two construction workers and a girl. The film climaxes with a fight on top...
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1933
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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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Bank president Thomas Dickson (Walter Huston) has instituted a lending policy that shows great faith in ordinary people but...
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1932
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Despite a troubled production that witnessed the exits of both leading man (Phillips Holmes) and director (George...
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1932
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1932
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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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Putnam
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1927
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