Comedian Godfrey Cambridge guest stars as federal agent Bond -- Harry Bond, that is -- who has been assigned to locate a...
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Wendell P. Gerard
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1966
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The most interesting aspect of The Swinger is the name of the character played by Ann-Margret: the former Ann Margaret Olsson...
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1966
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The first person the audience sees in Ship of Fools is dwarf Michael Dunn, who speaks to viewers directly and acts as a Greek...
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1965
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1965
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Although Tony is by now accustomed to Jeannie, it embarrasses him to have her waiting on him hand and foot like a...
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1965
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Lucy (Lucille Ball) wheedles some extra money out of Mr. Mooney (Gale Gordon) by claiming she needs some medical treatment....
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Dr. Fleisher
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1965
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Hardly the best of Hammer Studios' Frankenstein epics, The Evil of Frankenstein is too much the mixture as before to be truly...
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1964
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In this comedy, a Yankee musician is working in Paris when he encounters a movie star chasing after her naughty French poodle...
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1964
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The Seaview is called upon to investigate a series of bizarre deaths in the North Sea. They find a Norwegian village living...
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1964
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Elliot Ness (Robert Stack) goes undercover again, this time motivated not so much by a sense of duty as by loyalty to his old...
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1963
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Dime with a Halo was designed in part as a showcase for MGM's new child actor Manuel Padilla, who was featured shortly...
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1963
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Mob boss Big Jahnchek (Peter Whitney) escapes Federal custody and makes a beeline for his brother Gregory (R. G. Armstrong),...
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1962
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The Cartwrights take a hand in matters when bandits reportedly steal the $100,000 dowry intended for the wedding of Michele...
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1962
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Even their fellow hoodlums are in mortal terror of the Purple Gang, a Detroit-based operation led by Eddie Fletcher (Steve...
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1961
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Mob boss Nate Kestor (Steve Cochran) adds to the profits accrued by his popular burlesque house with sales of "imported"...
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1961
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This routine drama is helped by good acting and well-known stars like Rossano Brazzi as an unfaithful French husband,...
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1959
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Director Samuel Fuller skillfully intercuts footage of the German death camps with scenes from this thought-provoking drama...
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1959
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Accused of murdering her Uncle Martin (Alexander Price), Nadine Marshall (Christine White) makes a detailed confession of the...
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1958
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1958
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In this sequel to the second-season episode "Panic in the Sky", Clark Kent's friend Gary Allen (Robert Lowery) has been...
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1956
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Stagecoach to Fury was one of several "pocket westerns" released through 20th Century-Fox's Regal Films subsidiary. The...
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1956
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It is easy to see why the US Army refused to cooperate in the production of Attack. Based on the Norman Brooks play The...
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1956
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A communist spy plots the abduction of an important American atomic scientist in this espionage drama. To do his evil deed,...
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1955
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This last remake (thus far) of the Jean Webster novel Daddy Long Legs was extensively revised to accommodate the talents of...
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1955
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A jewel thief is at large on the Riviera, and all evidence points to retired cat burglar Cary Grant. Escaping the law, Grant...
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1955
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New York Confidential is based on the Jack Lait-Lee Mortimer bestseller of the same name. Richard Conte plays Nick Magellan,...
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1955
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Barbara Rush is at her most exotically beautiful in the lush costumer Kiss of Fire. Based on Jonreed Lauritzen's novel...
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1955
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This children's sci-fi adventure chronicles the friendship between an 11-year-old and his grandfather's robot Tobor, who was...
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Man with Glasses
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1954
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Gaspard
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1954
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1954
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Like so many other films that were once considered "lewd" and "scandalous", The French Line seems as harmless as Pollyanna...
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1954
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1953
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Tonight we Sing is the life story of legendary impresario Sol Hurok, impersonated herein by David Wayne. A lover of the arts,...
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1953
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This anthology film tells three stories of love involving the passengers of an ocean liner at sea. In the first, "The Jealous...
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1953
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Universal's Technicolor cameras this time tell the story of Harun El Raschid (Rock Hudson), who innocently comes into...
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1953
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Second-billed Marilyn Monroe is the blonde in question in this second film version of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: Miss Lorelei...
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1953
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Louis Hayward goes the "stiff upper lip" route in the Allied Artists "B"-plus actioner The Royal African Rifles. Set in...
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Van Stede
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1953
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MGM was never quite sure what to do with their resident funster Red Skelton, and The Great Diamond Robbery betrays this...
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1953
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This anthology film assembles five respected directors and a top-notch cast to bring a handful of stories by the great...
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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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Inspector Manet
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1952
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1952
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Given to violent, unpredictable behavior, composer Richard Morton (Gary Merrill) is an accident waiting to happen. Attempting...
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1952
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In this romantic spy thriller, a nightclub performer plys her trade in her husband's Trinidad bar. He is murdered by a...
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1952
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In this off-beat, tuneful psychological thriller, an ailing pregnant woman is in the hospital when she inadvertently...
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1952
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After surviving the hell of a Nazi death camp, a refugee faces even greater dangers in America in this tale of murder,...
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Dr. Burkhardt
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1951
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1951
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Presumably, Savage Drums was an attempt by Lippert Studios to launch an adventure series along the lines of "Jungle Jim" and...
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Chang
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1951
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Set during WW II, Target Unknown follows the exploits of a group of American flyers who crash behind enemy lines. Captured by...
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1951
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Bob Hope is up to his famous nose in danger in this espionage comedy. Second-rate burlesque comic Peanuts White (Hope) is...
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1951
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Little Egypt is a lighthearted "biopic" all about the hootchie-kootchie dancer who created a sensation at the 1893 Chicago...
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1951
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Money, romance, betrayal, double-dealing -- who knew making dresses could be so interesting? Harriet Boyd (Susan Hayward) is...
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1951
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Pygmy Island was entry number five in Columbia's "Jungle Jim" series. Johnny Weissmuller is back as Jungle Jim, who this time...
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Leon Marko
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1950
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A haunting work of stark confessionalism disguised as a taut noir thriller, In a Lonely Place -- Nicholas Ray's bleak,...
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1950
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Based on the story The Wisdom of Eve by Mary Orr, All About Eve is an elegantly bitchy backstage story revolving around...
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1950
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Set in Paris, Under My Skin stars John Garfield as a washed-up jockey who has stolen money from a crooked gambler...
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1950
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Frank Johnson (Ross Elliott), a window-dresser and struggling artist, accidentally witnesses a mob-related rub-out of a...
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1950
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Republic's Harbor of Missing Men stars Richard Denning as a two-fisted smuggler named Brooklyn. Double-crossed by his...
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Capt. Corcoris
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1950
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A Lady Without Passport stars Hedy Lamarr in the title role. Lamarr plays Marianne Lorress, a concentration-camp refugee who...
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Frenchman
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1950
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When a priceless diamond is stolen from a museum exhibition all suspicion falls upon the notorious Lone Wolf, a former jewel...
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1949
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In her second film appearance, Marilyn Monroe stars as Peggy Martin, a second-generation showgirl who begins a romance with a...
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1949
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Produced in garish Cinecolor, this aspiring "A" Western features John Payne as Clay Fletcher, an Eastern lawyer assigned to...
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1949
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Kalzac
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1949
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1949
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Desi Arnaz's bandleader career was in decline when he starred in Columbia's Holiday in Havana. Arnaz essays the difficult...
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Lopez
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1949
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Set virtually in its entirety in an airborne TWA Constellation (evidently the company agreed to the use of its name in...
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Bokejian
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1949
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1948
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In this faithful remake of Blind Alley (1939), psychoanalyst Andrew Collins (Lee J. Cobb), his wife, his son, and some...
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1948
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In this romantic musical, a clever young adman decides to create the perfect woman as none of his models quite measure up....
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1947
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For the ninth time, Warner Baxter plays Dr. Robert Ordway, better known to movie (and radio) fans as "The Crime Doctor"....
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Jules Daudet
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1947
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Private detective Franchot Tone is hired by a prominent politician (Tom Powers) to run a background check on the politician's...
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1947
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Chester Morris plays a mystery writer who bears a grudge against his publisher. Morris is mad enough to get blind drunk, but...
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1947
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Zane Grey, that bottomless bounty of inspiration for Hollywood westerns, wrote the novel upon which Gunfighters was based....
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1947
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Though not readily apparent at first, The Unfaithful is a remake of the 1940 Bette Davis vehicle The Letter, which in turn...
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1947
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1946
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Columbia's Mr. District Attorney was the second attempt to launch a film series based on the popular radio series of the same...
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1946
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This well-plotted and executed film noir suffered from its lack of star power, but has become something of a cult classic....
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Henri Cassin
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1946
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Blondie Knows Best was writer/director Edward Bernds' first entry in the long-running "Blondie" series, and arguably his...
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Dr. Schmidt
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1946
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When wealthy Ballin Mundson (George Macready) rescues down at his heels gambler Johnny Farrell (Glenn Ford) and invites him...
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Uncle Pio
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1946
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Deadline at Dawn represented not only the sole film directorial effort of Broadway's Harold Clurman, but also the only...
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1946
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Tarzan (Johnny Weissmuller) must once more contend with outsiders who invade his jungle domain to hunt for gold. Guarding the...
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1945
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Canadian WW II pilot Gerard (Dick Powell) intends to track down and kill collaborationist Marcel Jarne, the man responsible...
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1945
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As Alfred Hitchcock's classic psychothriller opens, the staff of a posh mental asylum eagerly awaits the arrival of the new...
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1945
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In this musical comedy, a popular Mexican singer finds himself tiring of the constant adulation of rabidly adoring females...
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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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Vicki Baum, the author of the novel Grand Hotel, also wrote this similarly structured tale about a group of disparate...
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1945
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Fred Zinnemann directed this World War II drama, considered one of the best anti-Nazi dramas produced by Hollywood during the...
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1944
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MGM's musical extravaganza Meet the People top-bills two future powerful TV executives: Dick Powell and Lucille Ball. Ball...
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1944
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Zachary Scott made his screen debut in this clever bit of film noir that has gained a cult reputation in recent years. Dutch...
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1944
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This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series turns the spotlight on juvenile delinquency. It shows how a combination of...
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1944
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For their first film in a year, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello played it safe with a medley of old burlesque routines and...
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1944
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This Casablanca-esque spy thriller set during WWII centers on the exploits of the notorious "Flying Dutchman," a fugitive...
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1944
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Pilot No. 5 is an oddly liberal-minded film to come from conservative old MGM. Franchot Tone plays an army pilot stationed in...
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1943
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The last of three films starring Red Skelton as ace radio detective Wally "The Fox" Benton, Whistling in Brooklyn opens with...
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1943
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1943
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If you believe all-American Fred MacMurray as an Oxford don, you'll probably swallow the rest of Above Suspicion. Newly...
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1943
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1943
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Dirk Stroeve
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1943
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This wartime melodrama stars George Sanders as Keith Wilson, a disillusioned Britisher who becomes a "Lord Haw Haw"type at a...
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1943
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1943
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Cesar Romero plays an outwardly tough bookie with the proverbial golden heart. Romero falls in love with Carole Landis, an...
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1942
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In this WW II spy comedy, an American pilot stationed in England is flying a routine mission when the Nazis shoot down his...
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1942
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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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Rev. Dr. Van der Lieden
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1942
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Secret Agent of Japan sometimes looks like a B-grade "answer" to Warner Bros.' Casablanca, except that the answer was...
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1942
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This final entry in 20th Century-Fox's "Charlie Chan" series is set in a huge mansion, smack-dab in the middle of the Mojave...
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1942
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With The Mad Martindales, the eight-year association between 20th Century-Fox and child star Jane Withers came to an end....
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1942
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Edward Arnold made the first of his two screen appearances as Bayard Kendrick's blind detective Captain Duncan McLain in...
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1942
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Fresh from his contract-player duties at Warner Bros., future TV "Superman" George Reeves heads the cast of 20th...
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Botany
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1941
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The high batting average of 20th Century-Fox's Michael Shayne detective series remained intact with Blue, White and Perfect....
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Vanderhoefen
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1941
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This lightweight but elaborately produced musical melodrama was originally released in Great Britain as Premiere. While...
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1940
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Those wily Egyptians are once again selfishly attempting to keep the treasures of the Pharaohs to themselves in this...
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1940
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Inspector Hornleigh was the first of three lively British crime films inspired by the popular BBC radio serial "Monday Night...
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Kavanos
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1939
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This breezy British action comedy stars Gordon Harker as Albert Rughouse, cockney conductor of a passenger bus running the...
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1938
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This Hungarian romantic comedy stars future Hollywood character actor Steve Geray as a carefree young bachelor named Peter....
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Peter
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1938
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With a plot that twists like a plumber's snake, this is more a story of family secrets than anything else, in which the...
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Martin Cloam
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1937
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1937
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Mai Lanyok (Modern Girls) is all about five young ladies who set up their own interior-decorating firm. One of the girls is...
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Szekeres
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1937
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In this comedy, a talented singer is hired to dub the voice of a star who has lost his own. During the film's premiere, news...
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1936
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Movie star-turned-bandleader Buddy Rogers heads the cast of the British tunefest Dance Band. The star is appropriately cast...
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Steve Sarel
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1935
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1935
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