The Buster Keaton Story is the sublimely inaccurate life story of immortal film comedian Buster Keaton, played by...
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1957
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In this entry in the long running Bowery Boys series, the boys begin working as free-lance photographers. Trouble ensues when...
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1956
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1954
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The scene is Schofield Army Barracks in Honolulu, in the languid days before the attack on Pearl Harbor, where James Jones'...
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1953
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Jalopy represents the first Bowery Boys film to be released by Allied Artists, though in essence it's still a Monogram...
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Screen Story, Screenwriter
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1953
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Considered by many the weakest of Wayne Morris' latter-day B-Westerns, The Marksman features the no longer svelte star as a...
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1953
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The Bowery Boys go to college in Hold That Line. Things haven't changed much since the Marx Bros. went to college in...
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1952
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This "Bowery Boys" entry is an on-target satire of TV wrestling (which, if anything, is even sillier in the 1990s than it was...
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1952
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Bela Lugosi plays a mad scientist in the jungle who stumbles across a couple of comedians (intended to resemble Dean Martin...
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1952
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1952
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In this entry in the long running "Bowery Boys" series, one of the boys is bequeathed a farm in Kentucky. The boys go there...
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1952
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Cowboy hero Wild Bill Elliot (whose trademark was wearing his six-shooters backwards in his holsters) stars in this oater....
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1952
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On a pure storytelling level, Crazy Over Horses is one of the best entries in Monogram's "Bowery Boys" series. This time,...
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Screenwriter, Flynn
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1951
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Cuban Fireball is a vehicle for the combustible talents of Estelita Rodriguez, here cast as "herself." The plot finds...
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1951
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The Asphalt Jungle is a brilliantly conceived and executed anatomy of a crime -- or, as director John Huston and scripter...
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1950
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Arrogant Mike Brannan (Clark Gable) is a famous driver of midget race cars and is the type of man crowds love to hate. He...
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1950
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This "Joe Palooka" entry concentrates on Joe's porcine pal Humphrey Pennyworth (played by Robert Coogan, the brother of...
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1950
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Dinty Moore
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1950
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Columbia Pictures attempted to duplicate the success of Monogram's "Bowery Boys" pictures with its 1950 programmer Military...
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1950
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Back in the 1930s, '40s and '50s, artist George Petty was famous for his "Petty Girl" illustrations; lovingly detailed...
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1950
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1949
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Though no longer employed by Universal in 1949, pert Peggy Ryan continued to show up in movie musicals for a variety of...
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1949
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1949
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1949
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Film historian Leonard Maltin has labelled this final entry in Monogram's "Charlie Chan" series as "embarrassing," but it's...
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Lt. Ruark
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1949
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Taken (as far as possible) from the Cole Porter musical comedy of the same name, Red, Hot and Blue stars Betty Hutton as an...
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1949
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Forgotten Women is Monogram's cut-rate 65-minute spin on MGM's The Women. The film deals with four lovely ladies, each of...
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1949
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1949
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1948
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Smugglers' Cover was Number Eleven in Monogram's moneymaking "Bowery Boys" series. Terence Aloysius "Slip" Mahoney...
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1948
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Jinx Money is not so much a Bowery Boys vehicle as a murder mystery that happens to star the Bowery Boys. It all begins when...
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1948
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Angels Alley was the ninth entry in Monogram's Bowery Boys series. This time around, Slip Mahoney (Leo Gorcey) welcomes his...
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1948
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John Garfield, in the best performance of his career, portrays Joe Morse, an ambitious attorney who has long since abandoned...
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1948
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In this entry in the long-running "Bowery Boys" series, Slip Mahoney and his boys witness a murder, but cannot identify the...
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Screenwriter
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1948
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A semi-fantasy with sociological overtones, The Luck of the Irish stars Tyrone Power as an American journalist named Stephen...
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1948
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Monogram's Jiggs and Maggie in Society was the second entry in the series based on the George McManus comic strip "Bringing...
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1948
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The Golden Eye is a Charlie Chan mystery set on a Southwestern ranch. A once-dormant mine mysteriously begins to yield gold,...
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Lt. Ruark
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1948
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Even after three appearances as oriental sleuth Charlie Chan, Roland Winters showed no interest in taking the role seriously....
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1948
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This 20th entry in Columbia's long-running "Blondie" series finds poor Dagwood Bumstead (Arthur Lake) in financial trouble...
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1947
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This riveting 1947 drama, regarded by many as the greatest boxing movie of all time, centers on a former pugilist who looks...
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1947
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Bowery Buckaroos would have the viewer believe that pint-sized sweetshop proprietor Louie Dumbrowski (Bernard Gorcey),...
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Screenwriter
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1947
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In this war movie, set during WW II, a pilot must crash land in the Pacific after he is shot down. As he floats upon the...
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1947
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News Hounds has more plot than usual for a "Bowery Boys" film-too much plot, so far as diehard fans of the series were...
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1947
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1947
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Although Bowery Bombshell was the third entry in Monogram's "Bowery Boys" series, it was released second in several regions....
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1946
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Bringing Up Father was the first of a series of Monogram comedies based on the popular comic strip by George McManus....
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Dinty Moore
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1946
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1946
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The first of the Bowery Boys' "haunted house" comedies, Spook Busters casts the boys as recent graduates of Exterminators'...
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1946
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1946
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In this musical, a struggling young singer falls in love with a nightclub owner whose father mistakes her for someone else...
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1946
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1946
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This second entry in the Bowery Boys series plays more like an extended 2-reeler than a feature film, perhaps because its...
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1946
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In this crime drama, a fading movie star plays a similar character in her farewell film, a B crime-drama about a...
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1946
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In this episode of the popular detective series, Chan learns that fake fingerprints have caused innocent people to go to...
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1946
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By 1946, MGM's musical output was in the hands of two men: the incisive, progressive Arthur Freed, and the sentimental,...
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1946
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Edgar G. Ulmer's Detour begins when hitchhiker Al Roberts (Tom Neal) accepts a ride from affable gambler Charles Haskell Jr....
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Diner Proprietor
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1946
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1945
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Undoubtedly inspired by Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians, filmed the same year by United Artists as And Then There Were...
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Duke Ellis
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1945
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Surprisingly, leading lady Marjorie Weaver isn't the Fashion Model in this tongue-in-cheek Monogram meller. When two...
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1945
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Republic's Swingin' on a Rainbow utilizes a plotline that had already done service in several of the studio's previous budget...
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1945
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There Goes Kelly is a followup of sorts to Monogram's 1943 comedy Here Comes Kelly, with Jackie Moran taking over for Eddie...
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1945
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Judging by such films as Shadows of Suspicion, it's too bad that leading man Peter Cookson eventually elected to leave the...
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Everett G. Northrup
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1944
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And The Angels Sing is an odd smorgasbord of musical-comedy and romance -- part screwball comedy, part backstage musical,...
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1944
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In this drama, a piano teacher buys a song-publishing business only to discover that it is on the brink of bankruptcy and is...
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1944
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Screenwriter, O'Hara
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1944
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While younger, handsomer actors were off fighting WW2, pudgy, middle-aged James Dunn suddenly found himself playing leading...
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1944
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The first of two Monogram comedy-mysteries built around the talents of perky Jean Parker, Detective Kitty O'Day casts Parker...
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Screenwriter, Inspector Clancy
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1944
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Three bumbling, stumbling slapstick "spiritualists" end up nearly scared to death when they must spend the night in a...
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1944
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1944
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If one were forced to choose, Swingtime Johnny may well be the best of the Andrews Sisters' 1940 "B"-musicals. Patty, Maxine...
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1944
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The world's nosiest telephone operator is at it again in this murder mystery. This time Kitty overhears the plans for three...
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1944
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Change of Heart is the reissue title of the Republic musical Hit Parade of 1943. The studio had been turning out these annual...
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1943
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The seemingly ageless Eddie Quillan heads the cast of the Monogram musical Melody Parade. Eddie plays Jimmy Tracy, a...
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Screenwriter, Happy Harrington
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1943
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The title of this "Lum 'N' Abner" comedy isn't explained until the film is half over. Chester Lauck and Norris Goff repeat...
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1943
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True to Life stars Dick Powell as a radio writer in search of saleable material. He comes up with a weekly sitcom about a...
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1943
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This Monogram melodrama is a remake of the 1932 thriller The 13th Guest, which starred Ginger Rogers and Lyle Talbot. In the...
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Screenwriter, Burke
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1943
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Moving slightly up the poverty-row ladder from PRC to Monogram, Burlesque queen Ann Corio starred in the musical comedy...
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1943
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Beverly Ross (nn Miller) is a would-be radio personality, but the closest she gets to being on the air is running the...
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Mr Kennedy
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1943
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Singer Bob Haymes (not Dick Haymes, as has sometimes been reported) heads the cast of Columbia's Swing Out the Blues. The...
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1943
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In this frothy musical, a sultan's lovely daughter finds herself courted by a handsome American. WW II erupts and her father...
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Screenwriter, Tim
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1943
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No relation to the 1950 Frank Capra film of the same name, the 1943 Technicolor musical Riding High is a by-the-numbers...
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1943
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Substantially, Lupe Velez' Columbia vehicle Redhead from Manhattan was the same as her previous RKO starrers-boisterous,...
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Mike Glendon
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1943
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1942
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Strange but true: Norma Shearer turned down the title role in Mrs. Miniver to star instead in the insignificant trifle We...
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1942
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In this drama, a dedicated forest ranger begins suspecting that a recent series of fires has been caused by arson. He...
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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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A bit higher-budgeted than most of Universal's "pocket" musicals, Get Hep to Love runs a full 79 mintues rather than the...
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Detective
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1942
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Man in the Trunk is a variation on the "Topper" theme, with Raymond Walburn carrying the weight of the film as a restless...
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1942
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In this musical comedy, an agent for an advertising agency begins trying to push a new "Blind Date" service and so engages...
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1942
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1942
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This Irving Asher production was that rarity, a genuine B-movie from posh MGM. Set in a pre-Pearl Harbor United States, Nazi...
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1942
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In this musical comedy, a country bumpkin spends most of his free time watching movies and becomes such an expert that he can...
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1942
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Like the John Steinbeck novel on which it is based, Tortilla Flat is not so much a movie as a series of warm-hearted...
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1942
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A college student's passion for swinging music leads him to found his own band. When he starts spending more time playing...
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1942
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Rear Admiral Stephen Thomas' (Charles Laughton) spoken tribute to "the finest Naval officer I knew" provides the framework...
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1942
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Another of Universal's Richard Arlen-Andy Devine actioners, Lucky Devils casts the mismatched duo as a pair of intrepid...
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1941
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In this crime drama, a ruthless gangster's son is soon following in his father's footsteps. When his daddy kills an FBI...
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1941
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Despite its alluring title, Bedtime Story is an innocent little domestic comedy about a bickering married couple....
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1941
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You'll Never Get Rich was the first of two films made by Fred Astaire at Columbia, and also the first in which he was paired...
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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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"Mr. and Mrs. North" started as a series of comic articles about a Park Avenue married couple, written by Richard and Frances...
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1941
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In this musical, four entertaining farmboys from Iowa head for the Big Apple to find fame and fortune but find themselves in...
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1941
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In this drama an eager-beaver reporter loses his job when he prints a false story about a society girl. The unemployed...
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1941
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San Antonio Rose is an amiably wacky mini-musical evenly divided between its "official" stars, The Merry Macs, and a strong...
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1941
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Jack Oakie is near the top of his form as Boley Bolenciecwcz, the best college football player to come down the pike in a...
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1941
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1941
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By Republic Pictures standards, 1941's Ice-Capades certainly qualifies as an "all-star" film. The many subplots center around...
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1941
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In this musical comedy, a motley band of musicians have only their extreme poverty in common. They end up writing a hit and...
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1941
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Bucolic lawyer John Wayne takes on big-city corruption in A Man Betrayed. He sets out to prove that an above-suspicion...
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1941
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Two Latins From Manhattan was Columbia's 1941 contribution to the "Good Neighbor Policy" towards South America. Joan Davis...
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1941
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Strawberry Blonde is the second, and by far the most well-regarded, of the three film versions of James Hogan's play One...
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1941
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Harmon of Michigan was the first in a trio of Columbia sports films, each starring a real-life athlete. In this case, the...
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1941
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A man trying to make his dying father happy makes his love life very complicated indeed in this musical comedy starring...
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1941
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Well-known New York sports promoter Frankie Christopher (Victor Mature) is the prime suspect in the murder of Vicky Lynn...
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1941
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With Paramount abandoning its "Zane Grey" western series in 1941, 20th Century-Fox took up the cudgel with such films as The...
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1941
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Edward G. Robinson plays orchid-loving gangster Little John Sarto, who aspires to "real class." During a power struggle with...
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1940
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1940
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This box-office smash comedy of manners featured the popular Myrna Loy as Margot Sherwood Merrick, the stodgy editor of a...
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1940
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In this low-budget musical, two sets of politically ambitious parents attempt to pair up their youngsters who unfortunately...
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1940
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