John Gavin stars as Santa Fe marshal Ben Cutter, whose homecoming is blighted when he finds his town has been taken over by a...
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1969
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In his final Untouchables appearance, Lee Marvin is cast as Chicago cop Mike Brannon, a veteran of fifteen years on the...
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1962
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A young speed demon drives himself down the road to ruin in this crime drama. The trouble starts because the teen is so...
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1961
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Perry (Raymond Burr) is startled late one evening to find a beautiful young woman (Joan Tabor) climbing into his office...
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1959
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In this dark drama a hapless hitchhiker takes a ride with a drunk driver who takes him to his house. There he meets the...
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1958
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En route to the Evans ranch, where he hopes to help Hugh Evans (Malcolm Atterbury) and his daughter Elaine (Nancy Hadley)...
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1958
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In this western, the town sheriff must look into a scandal involving his friend who is reportedly having an affair with a...
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1957
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) are summoned to the home of wealthy Mr. and Mrs. Moran (Tom Brown, Virginia...
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1956
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The seventh live presentation of the CBS drama anthology Playhouse 90 was "Heritage of Anger", written especially for...
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1956
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The redoubtable John Carpenter strikes again with the ultra-low-budget I Killed Wild Bill Hickok. Carpenter serves as the...
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Wild Bill Hickok
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1956
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Not to be confused with the popular David Zuckor comedy from the late '80s that starred Leslie Nielson, 1956's Naked Gun...
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1956
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The original radio version of Gunsmoke was in its third year on the air when the TV version made its CBS network bow on...
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1955
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Fireman Save My Child started out as an Abbott and Costello picture, but then Lou Costello became ill with rheumatic fever....
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Capt. Bill Peters
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1954
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Veteran character actor Joe Sawyer produced, co-wrote and co-starred in the diverting docudrama Operation Haylift. Based on...
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Tom Masters
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1950
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In this boxing drama, Jimmy Brody, a retired middle-weight champion turned publisher, must return to the ring when his...
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Jimmy Brody
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1949
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Just before its matriculation into Lippert Pictures, Screen Guild produced the fast-based boxing drama Ringside....
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Joe
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1949
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A safecracker risks his own life to save an endangered child from an oncoming truck and finds his life changes forever in...
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Father Shanley
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1948
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After serving with a notable lack of distinction in WW2, Corporal Slicker Smith (Bud Abbott) and Private Herbie Brown...
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Bill Gregory
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1947
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Filmed in semi-documentary fashion, House on 92nd Street is a "now it can be told" drama about the smashing of a Nazi spy...
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1945
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Lee Tracy once more plays a fast-talking, slightly amoral newspaper reporter in PRC's The Payoff. Tracy is cast as Brad...
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Guy Morris
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1943
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The 12-episode Universal serial The Adventures of Smilin' Jack is based on the Zack Mosely comic strip of the same name. The...
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1943
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1942
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Judy Canova plays Bessie Cobb, a kitchen worker at a Miami hotel who happens to have a crackerjack singing voice. The bell...
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1942
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Set soon after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Let's Get Tough! opens with the East Side Kids -- Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall,...
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1942
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A nine-year-old Elizabeth Taylor made her film debut in this lively comedy. She plays the spoiled-brat daughter of a pudding...
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1942
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The second of Hal Roach's "streamliners" (feature films running 45 minutes or so), Niagara Falls serves as a showcase for...
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Tom Wilson
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1941
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The comic effusions of Hugh "woo woo" Herbert helps to keep this otherwise forgettable farce afloat. It all begins when Bob...
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Bob Wade
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1941
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This Buck Privates knockoff concerns the misadventures of the three Patterson brothers: Charley (Wayne Morris), Eddie (Tom...
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Eddie
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1941
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In this musical, a sharp witted press agent teams up with an unemployed chorine and dubs her "Miss Manhattan" to promote a...
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Tommy Shaw
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1940
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The mystery surrounding the gender of infant film star Baby Sandy was finally solved in her penultimate vehicle, Sandy is a...
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Joe Phillips
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1940
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Margie is one of the fast and funniest of Universal's pocket musicals, though its two-director dichotomy hardly seems...
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Bret
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1940
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In this musical comedy, a traveling salesman gets mixed up with a bratty heiress after she gets in a car wreck as she heads...
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Johnny Sandham
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1940
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In this boxing drama, an ex-champ finds himself working as a doorman at a nightclub. His son aspires to a high caliber...
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Bob Hill
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1939
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In this interesting drama, a highly respected straight-arrow Irish cop is pleased when his son follows him onto the force....
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Al Boylan, Jr.
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1939
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It was once said of actor Barton MacLane that he never spoke when shouting would do. Cast as the title character in Big Town...
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Danny Daley
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1939
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In this comedy/drama, a feisty taxi-dancer (Lana Turner in her first starring role) takes on a sorority full of snooty...
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1939
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Goddbye Broadway is wrapped up by two stage & screen veterans, Alice Brady and Charles Winninger. The stars play...
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Chuck Bradford
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1938
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In Old Chicago was 20th Century-Fox's spin on MGM's San Francisco--a personal saga played out against the backdrop of a...
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1938
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Louis Hayward plays an arrogant Cambridge student who emigrates to America and enrolls at the West Point. Hayward's superior...
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Sonny Drew
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1938
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Ever youthful Tom Brown once more plays a campus football hero in Swing That Cheer. Undeniably talented on the gridiron, Bob...
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Bob Potter
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1938
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1938
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Jim Roberts
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1938
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In this detective story, a super sleuth is hired by an insurance company to find a stolen emerald belonging to a rich man's...
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Terry
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1937
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"That Man" is Hugh (woo-woo) Herbert, here cast as lovable eccentric Thomas J. Jesse. Befriending apartment-house elevator...
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Jimmy Whalen
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1937
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MGM's Navy Blue and Gold prettily dresses up some of the oldest cliches in the "military cadet" movie genre. The film charts...
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1937
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Kip Stuart
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1937
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Two brothers exchange lifestyles in this drama. The older brother, a gambler, wants to lead a clean, crime-free life while...
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Chick
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1937
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An actor creates a devious murder plot in this suspenseful, ironic drama. For many years, the aging thespian has been...
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Tommy Bradley
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1937
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After several appearances as a "good girl," little Jane Withers returns to her patented screen brattiness in Gentle Julia....
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Noble Dill
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1936
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Actual footage of the 1936 Rose Bowl game is cleverly (if not seamlessly) integrated into the action of this sports-oriented...
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Paddy O'Riley
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1936
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Previously filmed in 1928, the old Willard Mack stage melodrama The Noose was updated and streamlined in 1936 as I'd Give My...
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Nickie Elkins
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1936
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And Sudden Death was inspired by a Reader's Digest article by Theodore Reeves, which later became one of the magazine's most...
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Jackie Winslow
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1936
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Previously filmed in 1917 and 1928, the beloved Gene Stratton-Porter novel Freckles again went before the cameras in 1935....
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Freckles
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1935
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Morton "Click" Haley
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1935
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This tuneful melodrama is set upon a college campus and follows the attempts of a pretty young woman who slyly helps her...
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Alec Hamilton
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1935
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In this drama, a studio script girl works very hard to support her no-account family. One day she wins a lottery, gives her...
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1935
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In this drama, a hard working printer gets wanderlust, leaves his wife and family, and hits the road. Ten years pass. His...
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King Wagner
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1935
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The Black Sheep is professional gambler John Dugan (Edmund Lowe), who gets his kicks out of fleecing wealthy suckers during a...
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Fred Curtis
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1935
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Will Rogers stars as Judge William "Billy" Priest, the common-sense Kentucky jurist created by humorist Irvin S. Cobb. The...
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Jerome Priest
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1934
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Gilbert Blythe
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1934
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This Side of Heaven is an early, muted example of what would refine itself into the "screwball comedy" genre....
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Seth Turner
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1934
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In this drama, an impoverished orphan girl finds herself acting as a slave to a cruel old farmer. She is soon joined by a...
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Adam
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1934
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In this courtroom thriller, a hypnotic psychic uses his gift for dubious ends by running a gambling den. The trouble begins...
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Clay Thorne
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1934
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Three-Cornered Moon is regarded by many film buffs as the first of the genuine "screwball comedies." Claudette Colbert stars...
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Eddie Rimplegar
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1933
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1933
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This film offers melodrama on the high-seas as it follows the miraculous salvation of a becalmed ship filled with bootleg...
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Johnny
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1933
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Aerial footage distinguishes this romantic-triangle melodrama set among pilots in a flying circus. Jill (Sally Eilers) loves...
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Neil Blaine
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1933
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William Wyler directed this melodramatic story about a boy who, after growing up in the shadow of his father, learns the old...
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Tom Brown
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1932
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In this comedy, a shady jockey, Marty Black, teams up with Silk Henley to con the punters at little racetracks. Marty goes...
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Marty Black
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1932
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Bruce Foster
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1932
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Often referred to as an imitation of Warner's legendary prison drama I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932), RKO's stirring...
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Johnny Ellis
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1932
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In this musical comedy, two partners in the garter business fight for control and decide to play a round of poker to settle...
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1930
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When blue-blooded widower Robert Rossiter (Walter Huston) announces his plans to marry salesgirl Joyce Roamer (Claudette...
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Bob Rossiter
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1929
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The year is 1853 and Ralph Hartsook (Henry Hull) arrives in the Indiana town of Flat Creek to teach school. He boards with...
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1924
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