Mike Jittlov, a master of special effects who's strutted his stuff in several short films, is both the director and star of...
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1988
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Six sorority sisters are desperate for rent money, so, encouraged and trained by their den mother, they enter a...
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1985
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This uproariously bad film marks the less-than-glorious return of producer/director Jerry Warren, shameless purveyor of such...
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1981
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A young country-star wannabe takes off from her carhop career to join with a young, modern Billy the Kid wannabe for an...
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Producer
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1976
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Bill Rebane's backyard wonder is a hilariously hokey throwback to the giant-monster flicks of the 50s, while taking its only...
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1975
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Film editor Bill Brame directed this violent biker film featuring an intense performance by Bruce Dern as Keeg, the sadistic...
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1969
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Candy makes good his long-standing promise to quit the Ponderosa to join his longtime sweetheart Lila Holden (Elizabeth...
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1968
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1966
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Batwoman (Katherine Victor) is a costumed crime fighter who leads a gang of beautiful Batgirls in a neverending crusade to...
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Jim Flanagan
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1966
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Having been told repeatedly that her share of the Clampett fortune is $11 million, Granny marches over to the Commerce Bank...
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1965
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Charlie Rogers (Elvis Presley) is a coffeehouse singer who joins a financially troubled carnival in Roustabout. He is hired...
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1964
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Season Five of Bonanza came to a close on May 24, 1964 with the episode titled "Walter and the Outlaws", a sequel to the...
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1964
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One of the best-remembered and best-loved Bonanza episodes, "Any Friend of Walter's" first aired on March 24, 1963. While...
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1963
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The "teaser" opening of this episode shows Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) losing an appeal before Judge Daniel Redmond (Robert...
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1963
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Boiling over with sexual shenanigans and general sleaziness the Mexico-set tale centers on a confused socialite who falls in...
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Bill Maxton
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1963
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Washed out of an upcoming Moon project, civilian astronaut Mitchell Heller (Robert Bray) has plenty of reason to despise the...
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1962
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Certain film historians are perpetually amazed that the doggedly unappetizing Laurence Harvey became a major film star. In...
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1962
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Season Four of Maverick concludes with the series' only two-part episode. In Part One, Bart (Jack Kelly) purchases a...
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1961
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One of Elvis Presley's most successful post-Army vehicles, Blue Hawaii casts Elvis as scion to a Hawaiian pineapple fortune....
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1961
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In the conclusion of a two-part story, Bart (Jack Kelly) and crooked peddler Cannonbaugh (John Dehner) have been captured by...
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1961
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A routine story about an attempted assassination of a foreign head of state, Three Came to Kill is one of many action dramas...
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Dave Harris
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1960
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Perennial loser Larry Benton (Wynn Pearce) is convinced that he has killed a guy named Mike during a poker-game argument....
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1959
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Feeble in the action department, this drama directed by Thor Brooks fizzles before the arsonist gets his due. John...
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John
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1959
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The creation and testing of jet planes is the focus of this action film. The story centers on a boozy hero from the Korean...
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Logan
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1959
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In this western set in the California territory in the mid-19th century, a rancher tries to protect his Spanish land grant...
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Rufus Bynum
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1958
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Worrywart Norman Frayne (James Best) is so wrapped up with his own problems that he is neglecting his wife, Paula...
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1958
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W. Lee Wilder, the somewhat less prestigious producer-director brother of Billy Wilder, went to Holland to film his 1958 opus...
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Victor Cabot
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1958
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A former fighter's younger brother decides that he too wants to enter the squared circle and so leaves his native Maine to...
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1958
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Another "pocket" adventure film from 20th Century-Fox's Regal Films subsidiary, Under Fire is set during WW2. Four American...
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Capt. Linn
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1957
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1957
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Originally released as Gun Duel in Durango, this solid little western stars George Montgomery as reformed outlaw Dan. He...
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Dunston
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1957
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Released from prison, criminal Joe Kedzie (Steven Hill) makes a beeline to an abandoned mine shaft in the desert, where he...
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1957
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The Cruel Tower is a dog-and-pony variation of a well-worn triangle plot. John Ericson is a handsome young steeplejack,...
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Casey
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1956
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A stalwart of the radio anthology circuit, the classic suspense tale "The Creeper" is given its first TV treatment on this...
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1956
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One of the most entertaining of the Western movies to come out of the 1950s, this is a Stewart vehicle in which he must take...
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1955
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Robert Francis is at the center of the story as Willis Keith, a newly-minted ensign assigned to the destroyer/minesweeper...
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1954
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Jack
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1953
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Sea of Lost Ships is partly a tribute to the U.S. Coast Guard, but mostly a typical Republic Pictures melange of action,...
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1953
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A longtime "dream" project of production designer-turned-director Eugene Lourie, The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms sees the...
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1953
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Herbie Yocum
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1953
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With all those flaming arrows being aimed directly at the audience, it is fairly obvious that Charge of Feather River was...
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1953
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Will Rogers Jr. stars as his own father in this slow, sentimental biopic. The film begins with Rogers' days on his father's...
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1952
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The famed Bal Tabarin cabaret in Paris is the gathering spot for this swiftly paced crime melodrama. It all begins when...
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Joe Goheen
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1952
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An aging movie star and her precocious daughter hide out in the train berth of a scientist during a cross-country journey...
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Conde Marlow
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1952
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As indicated by the title, Lady in the Iron Mask is a distaff version of the famous Alexandre Dumas yarn. D'Artagnan...
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Athos
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1952
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Bantam-weight Stanley Clements is Army Bound in this breezy Monogram programmer. Clements plays midget-car driver Frank...
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Matt Hall
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1952
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Writer and director Samuel Fuller enjoyed his first box-office and critical success with this hard-boiled but human tale of...
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Lt. Driscoll
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1951
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Joe Palooka in Triple Cross, like its predecessors, was based on Ham Fisher's comic strip Joe Palooka. This time around,...
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Dutch
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1951
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It took nerve for director Joseph Losey to attempt a remake of Fritz Lang's classic chiller M, but by and large Losey was up...
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Lt. Becker
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1951
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The Coast Guard is highlighted in this propaganda drama set during WW II. In addition to the usual blend of romance and...
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1951
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Sword of Monte Cristo picks up where the Dumas original leaves off. The titular sword is not only valuable in itself, but...
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1951
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Dependable supporting actor John Litel is top-billed in the independently produced Two Dollar Bettor. Litel plays John...
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Rick Bowers
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1951
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Some auteur critics feel that director Richard O. Fleischer did his best work while laboring in the "B" mills of RKO Radio....
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Al Mapes
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1950
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1950
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Taking place during a transcontinental flight, the story of The Great Plane Robbery concerns an airborne robbery (hence the...
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Murray
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1950
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1950
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Obviously designed as an exploitationer, It's a Small World isn't bad within its own limits. Paul Dale, a real-life radio...
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Charlie
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1950
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Wanda Hendrix is awfully cute as a WAVE officer who is endlessly pursued by lascivious men. Ex-airmen Edmond O'Brien,...
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Mike
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1950
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1950
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This independently produced crime caper was picked up for distribution by 20th Century-Fox. Tom Conway stars as criminal...
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Frank Bricolle
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1949
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In The Big Wheel, Mickey Rooney plays Billy Coy, a garage mechanic who matriculates into a champion race-car driver. On the...
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1949
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Granite-jawed Lawrence Tierney is the Bodyguard in this second-echelon noir thriller. Invited to resign from the LA police,...
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1949
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1949
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Guy Madison and Rory Calhoun, both of whom went on to star in their own TV western series, head the cast of the Monogram...
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1949
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Wheeler
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1949
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1949
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Arthur Laurents' play Home of the Brave concerned a paralyzed Jewish war veteran who begins to walk again only when he...
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T.J.
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1949
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William "One Take" Beaudine warms the director's chair for Lippert Pictures' Tough Assignment. The film is essentially a...
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Morgan
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1949
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Earl Jackson
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1949
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Filmed at majestic Lone Pine, CA, this fine B-Western features Tim Holt and sidekick Richard Martin helping an elderly miner,...
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1948
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In this western, a troubled, battle-weary youth must somehow put his life together after he is discharged from Roosevelt's...
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Quirt Butler
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1948
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The success of 1947's Badman's Territory prompted RKO Radio to assemble another "outlaw rally," Return of the Badmen....
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Cole Younger
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1948
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Station West may look like a western, but it sure sounds like a contemporary film noir. Dick Powell stars as Haven, a...
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1948
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The third of western hero James Warren's trio of RKO Radio vehicles, Code of the West was like its predecessors based on a...
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Saunders
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1947
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Quick-draw legend Bat Masterson is summoned to Kansas to end a small-town feud between local farmers and criminal ranch...
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1947
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Based on Zane Grey's 1922 novel To the Last Man, filmed previously by Paramount in 1923 and 1934, this fine RKO Western...
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Chick Jorth
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1947
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With 1947's Desperate, a disturbing, noirish twist on traditional moral values, responsibility, and guilt, director...
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Steve Randall
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1947
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Out of the Past is so perfect a film noir that it is considered practically a textbook example of the genre. In his first...
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1947
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This drama was one of the first major-studio efforts to confront anti-Semitism (beating the Oscar-winning...
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1947
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With The Outlaw still being withheld from general release, Young Widow represented the first time that most filmgoers ever...
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1946
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With Tim Holt still in military service and Robert Mitchum promoted to "A" pictures, RKO Radio attempted to create a new...
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1946
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In this is '40s western a U.S. marshal chases a band of big-name bandits into no-man's territory (land outside of U.S....
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1946
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When a scientist discovers a way to create synthetic diamonds, a group of criminals kidnap his daughter Meredith (Louisa...
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Benny
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1946
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Elevating Criminal Court above the B-picture norm is the inventive direction by Robert Wise and the better-than-usual...
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1946
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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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1945
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Ned Trumpet (Wallace Beery), the chief pilot of a Navy blimp, is given to weaving accounts of the fighting prowess of his...
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1945
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An offbeat Universal murder mystery, Crimson Canary is set in the very special world of jazz musicians. A duplicitous...
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1945
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This mammoth musical is at base the story of two sailors on leave in Hollywood. Brash Joseph Brady (Gene Kelly) has promised...
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1945
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Paramount Pictures did their patriotic duty with this World War II era musical, with a number of the studio's biggest stars...
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1944
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Billed third, Spencer Tracy plays Lt. Col. James P. Doolittle, who led the bombing raid over Tokyo. Most of the footage...
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1944
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All but forgotten today, Ladies Courageous was one of the more successful wartime morale-boosters. Loretta Young heads the...
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1944
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