Six convicts plan a prison break and are successful, though their ringleader (William Bendix) is injured in the attempt. He...
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1955
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A lesser Fred Astaire effort, Belle of New York is set during the turn of the century. Astaire plays a footloose and...
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1952
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In this entry in the "Henry Latham" series, set during WW II, an independent young woman takes control of a flying school...
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1951
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The most delightful aspect of You Never Can Tell is the film's ability to successfully sustain its single joke for 78...
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1951
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Painting the Clouds with Sunshine was a remake of the 1929 musical Gold Diggers of Broadway, which no longer exists for...
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1951
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Damon Runyon's Broadway fable The Lemon Drop Kid was filmed twice by Paramount Pictures, but only the 1934 version with...
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1951
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1949
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This modern-day "Faust" variation benefits from a superb cast. Thomas Mitchell plays Joseph Foster, an honest judge who wants...
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1949
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1949
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So baseball pictures never make money, eh? Try telling that to MGM, which raked in a box office gross of $4 million on their...
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1949
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Tulsa was, in 1949, the most elaborate production released to date by the Eagle-Lion corporation-though all evidence,...
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1949
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1949
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Small-town department store manager Sam Clayton (Gary Cooper) is a born "Good Samaritan", which in his case translates as...
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1948
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In this mystery, a detective encounters a woman in a nightclub. He finds that she is being blackmailed by a dancer who is...
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1948
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Texas, Brooklyn and Heaven deserves a historical footnote as director William Castle's only comedy western. Future...
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1948
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In this funny tale of deception and romantic fireworks, a rather prissy New England school marm finally gets a chance to...
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1948
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Acclaimed playwright George S. Kaufman made his directorial debut with this broad political satire. Senator Melvin G. Ashton...
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1947
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Based on the lives of big-band stars Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, this biographical chronicle begins with their childhood in an...
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1947
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Pooch
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1947
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Beneath the proper, prurient exterior of a spinster college professor beats the passionate, seductive heart of a sexy...
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1947
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1947
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The third of four films bearing the title of The Perils of Pauline, this musical biopic purports to tell the life story of...
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1947
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William Powell plays a cynical con man who graduates from penny-ante operations to a big-time charity racket. The scam...
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1946
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Accomplice was the "pilot" for a proposed PRC series based on Frank Gruber's short-tempered detective hero Simon Lash....
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Eddie Slocum
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1946
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In this drama, three veteran pilots from WW II decide to start their own air freight business. In order to earn enough...
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1946
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1946
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The Shadow Returns was the first of three above-average Monogram features based on the popular radio melodrama The Shadow....
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Shevvier, the Chauffeur
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1946
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This Technicolor musical remake of the 1936 comedy classic Libeled Lady isn't quite up to the standards of the original, but...
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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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Hod Carrier
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1946
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Rosalind Russell plays yet another independent career woman in She Wouldn't Say Yes. This time she's a psychiatrist who sees...
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1945
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In this musical, a humble cigarette girl dreams of auditioning for the handsome bandleader at the nightclub. Her many...
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1945
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New chorus member Eadie Allen (Ann Miller) is the only thing that's good or lively or fresh in a run-down burlesque revue run...
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1945
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In this comedy, a bookish kid sister reads a psychology book and comes to believe that, according to the book, she is...
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Michael the Cop
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1945
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Broadway producer Earl Carroll was a Ziegfeld-like entrepreneur who staged lavish revues featuring attractive young ladies....
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1945
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In this comedy, a barge captain with an Electra complex marries two women. He married the first because she laughed like his...
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1945
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Robert Young stars as a WW2 pilot named Hank, who accompanies his pal Jerry (Bill Williams, in his film debut) on a furlough....
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1945
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Kit Carson appears in Trail of Kit Carson in the form of Allan "Rocky" Lane. The tall, dark and taciturn western hero spends...
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1945
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Deanna Durbin offered her fans a change of pace in this mystery story seasoned with elements of comedy and music. Nikki...
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1945
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In this comedy drama a war hero returns home following a medical discharge and ends up entangled with a young woman speeding...
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1945
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In this touching drama, city-slicker Sparke Thorton goes to live on his aunt and uncle's horse farm in the country. The...
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1944
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Night Club Girl was designed as a feature-length "screen test" for new Universal contractee Vivian Austin. The plot is the...
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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 fifth entry in MGM's off-and-on "Thin Man" series maintains the high production and story values of the first four. Per...
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1944
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Paramount's Pine-Thomas production unit continued its unbroken string of box-office successes with Gambler's Choice....
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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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1944
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Those willing to accept Carmen Miranda as a "typical" 1920s type will be able to swallow the rest of the lavish but rather...
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1944
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It is said that producer Sam Goldwyn had a habit of addressing his new star of the 1940s, Danny Kaye, as "Eddie", confusing...
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1944
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1944
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In this musical romance, a young couple is still in love, but find themselves facing insurmountable turmoil in their...
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1944
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Colonel Breckinridge Marshall (Walter Catlett) of Clearwater, GA -- who puts on a big front but is actually only a step away...
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1944
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For his first independently-produced starring effort, James Cagney chose the sentimental drama Johnny Come Lately. Cagney...
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1943
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William Gargan and Margaret Lindsay, stars of Columbia's "Ellery Queen" series, were reunited for the like-minded...
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1943
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In 1942, Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer and the United States Office of War Information collaborated on Bataan with the official goal...
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1943
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Overloaded with unreleased films in 1942 and 1943, Paramount Pictures cleaned house by diverting several pictures to United...
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1943
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Flight for Freedom was an "a clef" version of the Amelia Earhart story. Rosalind Russell plays the Earhart-like aviatrix...
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1943
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Star-Spangled Rhythm is a typical wartime all-star musical-comedy melange, this time from Paramount Pictures. The slender...
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1942
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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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Cult-favorite director Anthony Mann's second filmic effort was the unprepossessing Universal mini-musical Moonlight in...
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1942
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Joan Crawford is the kissable bride of the title--but when the film opens, matrimony is the farthest thing from her mind....
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1942
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Forced to flee Paris during the Occupation, the great French leading man Jean Gabin starred in a brace of Hollywood films,...
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1942
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This lighthearted romantic comedy stars William Holden as working stiff Michael Stewart and Frances Dee as wealthy socialite...
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1942
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1942
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A woman's attempt to disguise herself as an underage girl mushrooms into a series of humorous deceptions in this romantic...
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1942
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In this lighthearted musical comedy, Marjory Stuart (Mary Martin) is a girl who works in the hatcheck room at a Manhattan...
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1942
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James Cagney made his first Technicolor appearance in the morale-boosting aviation flick Captains of the Clouds. Cagney plays...
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1942
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Ernst Lubitsch directs the 1942 political satire classic To Be or Not to Be, which marked the final screen appearance of...
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1942
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1942
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This 20th Century-Fox cheapie stars Carole Landis as a pretty detective and Allyn Joslyn as a fast-talking reporter ever on...
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1942
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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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1941
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One of the most schizophrenic films ever to come out of the Paramount "B" mill, The Monster and the Girl starts out as a...
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1941
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Bandleader Orrin Tucker and his featured vocalist "Wee" Bonnie Baker are the stars of the Paramount pocket musical You're the...
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1941
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In this musical comedy, a pregnant disc jockey misses her husband who is fighting overseas. Stressed out by the situation and...
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1941
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By 1941, Wallace Beery was pretty much confined to playing two characters: The reprobate with the heart of gold, or the...
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1941
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Broke and stranded once more, golden-hearted showgirl Maisie Revere (Ann Sothern) finds herself in upstate New York in...
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1941
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Fresh from his Broadway triumph as "The Stage Manager" in Our Town, veteran actor-playwright Frank Craven heads the cast of...
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Jack Leslie
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1941
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Ralph Bellamy made his fourth and final appearance as literary sleuth Ellery Queen in Columbia's Ellery Queen and the Murder...
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1941
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Like the first entry in Columbia's "Ellery Queen" series, Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery depicts its amateur-criminologist...
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1941
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The 1940 peacetime draft spawned a whole slew of military and naval comedies, the most successful of which was Abbott and...
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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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From first frame to last, foxy Charles Coburn thoroughly dominates the proceedings in the bubbly RKO Radio comedy Unexpected...
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1941
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This comedy-drama is adapted from a story by Damon Runyon and centers on a mobster with unusually large feet. The trouble...
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1941
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Lieutenant Commander Joe Blake (Fred MacMurray), Lt. Tim Griffin (Regis Toomey), and Lt. Swede Larson (Louis Jean Heydt) are...
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1941
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This 20th Century-Fox programmer revolves around the misadventures of two not-overly-bright motorcycle patrolmen. Waitress...
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1941
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This third film version of Maxwell Anderson's play Saturday's Children stars Claude Rains as the impecunious but proud father...
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1940
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Eleanor Browne's novel Highway to Romance was the source for this moneyspinning RKO Radio comedy. Obviously inspired by...
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1940
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1940
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1940
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1940
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Seventeen-year-old Linda Darnell received her first big break in the appropriately titled 20th Century Fox production Star...
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1940
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The W. Somerset Maugham play Home and Beauty was successful Americanized as Too Many Husbands (British title: My Two...
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1940
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In this comedy of mistaken identity, a bookish literary reviewer bows to the desires of his lover and shaves off his...
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Dude
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1940
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Teenaged soprano Gloria Jean plays the Little-Miss-Fixit heroine in Universal's Little Bit of Heaven. The most precocious...
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1940
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Imagine the dismay of those hapless TV station managers who've booked the 1940 Martha Raye vehicle The Farmer's Daughter in...
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1940
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A young, naive schoolteacher gets in over her head when the advances of a suitor grow too ardent. To escape his unwanted...
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Red
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1940
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Originally slated for released through Grand National Pictures, Isle of Destiny was redirected to RKO Radio when Grand...
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1940
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Lewis Milestone directs the lightweight romantic comedy Lucky Partners, based on a story by Sacha Guitry. David Grant (Ronald...
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1940
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Officially, America had no intention of entering the Second World War in 1940: Why, then, were there so many "preparedness"...
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1940
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Based on a novel by Medora Field, Who Killed Aunt Maggie? would appear to be an attempt by Republic Pictures to launch a new...
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1940
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Promoted as a follow-up to the popular 1939 western Dodge City (which, indeed, was left wide open for a sequel in its closing...
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1940
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This family drama features the same cast and crew from the highly successful Four Daughters, but it isn't actually a sequel....
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1939
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In this comedy, a Missouri mule breeder faces financial ruin after the market collapses. He takes his best mule to a Kansas...
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1939
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G-Man Bill Collins (Preston Foster) swings into action when a crooked sweepstakes racket begins insinuating itself upon the...
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1939
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In this comedy, a gangster's moll gets tired of the mob scene and returns to her mother's house. Her mom is a wealthy...
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1939
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They Made Me a Criminal opens in New York, depicting the latest victory in the ring for Johnny Bradfield (John Garfield), a...
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1939
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1939
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How could anyone dislike a film with the title Lady and the Mob? Sweet Fay Bainter stars as eccentric dowager Hattie Leonard,...
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1939
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1939
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This film should have been a press agent's dream: Hollywood's two greatest "big mouths," Joe E. Brown and Martha Raye,...
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1939
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A remake of Paul Leni's The Last Warning (1929), this "Crime Club" series entry once again presents the spectacle of an actor...
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1939
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Regarded as the best of Columbia's "Lone Wolf" B-picture series, The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt stars Warren William as Michael...
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1939
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It's Swing Music vs. the Classics in the easy-to-take Warners tunefest Naughty But Nice. Dick Powell dons the obligatory...
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1939
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A young punk hooks up with a mobster and helps him rob a gas station in this crime drama. From there the crimes become more...
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1939
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No relation to the 1932 W.C. Fields comedy of the same name, Million Dollar Legs is a college picture starring most of...
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1939
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Following up their successful film Love Affair, Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne team up again for the romantic melodrama When...
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1939
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A typical, fast-paced Grade-B murder mystery, Mystery of the White Room was based on the then revolutionary medical...
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1939
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Sons of the Legion is a showcase for Paramount's juvenile-talent pool-specifically, Donald O'Connor, Billy Lee and Billy...
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1938
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Fannie Hurst's Sister Act was the source for this money-making Warners weeper. The four daughters of the title are played by...
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1938
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There's That Woman Again was the second and last entry in Columbia's own spin on MGM's "Thin Man" series. Virginia Bruce and...
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1938
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Capitalizing on the success of MGM's Thin Man series, virtually every major studio of the 1930s came up with its own...
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1938
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Chronic gambler Joe Beebe (Bing Crosby) is a source of great consternation for his loving mother (Elizabeth Patterson), who...
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1938
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A naive gas station attendant's life takes a turn for the better when he is adopted by an eccentric, boozy travelling...
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1937
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Film collectors take note: Hal Roach's Pick a Star is not a Laurel and Hardy picture, though the popular comic duo does make...
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Screenwriter
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1937
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Directed by Edwin L. Marin, Married Before Breakfast follows the hectic life of young inventor Tom Wakefield (Robert Young)....
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1937
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1937
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Carole Lombard stars as Helen Bartlett, a compulsive liar who always tips the audience to an oncoming whopper by sticking her...
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1937
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Hotel barber Joe Jenkins (Jack Haley), who's obsessed with newspaper stories about high-society celebrities, is dragooned...
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1936
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Magazine publisher Clark Gable is happily married to Myrna Loy. Clark's devoted, super-efficient secretary Jean Harlow may...
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1936
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1936
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The MGM historical "spectacular" San Francisco was allegedly based on a three-sentence synopsis, submitted verbally to...
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1936
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This was one of Charley Chase's last comedies for producer Hal Roach. Here, Charley is determined to attend his local movie...
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1936
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The Calling of Dan Matthews is a modernized and sanitized version of Harold Bell Wright's muckraking novel. Minister Dan...
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1936
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1936
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In this romantic comedy, two college boys get expelled because they could not pay tuition. They decide to scare up some cash...
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1936
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In his only visit to Columbia Pictures, Paramount's resident crooner Bing Crosby stars in a sentimental musical drama. In...
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Crowbar
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1936
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In this romantic comedy, Marilyn David (Claudette Colbert) is a stenographer who has become good friends with Peter Dawes...
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1935
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This obscure Damon Runyon adaptation stars Jean Parker as Princess O'Hara, the spirited granddaughter of Central Park...
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1935
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Charming but ruthless fugitive gangster Dutra (Brian Donlevy) demands that a doctor (Oscar Apfel) perform plastic surgery...
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Screenwriter
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1935
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Long before its "Teen Agers" series of the 1940s, Monogram Pictures went to college in the minor musical Girl of My Dreams....
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1935
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In this western, a cowpoke from Wyoming rides into the big city to look for a wife. Instead he finds himself investigating...
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1935
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Having gained considerable audience attention for his appearance in the 1935 "Crime Does Not Pay" 2-reeler Buried Loot, new...
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1935
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Susan (ZaSu Pitts) is a plain-Jane wallflower who spends a day at Coney Island. Here she catches the eye of equally shy (and...
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Jeff Barnes
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1935
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Anti-Communist politics and screwball romance make strange bedfellows in this comic tale that plays like a cross between the...
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1935
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This espionage thriller with romantic comedy touches was loosely based on the book American Black Chamber by the real-life...
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1935
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The title character in this Columbia quickie is an elusive jewel thief who doesn't like to be photographed. Erstwhile...
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1935
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The indomitable May Robson is firmly in the driver's seat of this Runyonesque comedy-drama. While riding through Central...
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1935
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Feeling stifled by her wealthy existence, flighty heiress Kay (Joan Crawford) falls in love with poor archaeologist Terry...
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1935
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Dore Schary, several years removed from his tenure as head of MGM, was screenwriter for the modest Universal actioner...
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1935
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Harold Lloyd plays Ezekial Cobb, a missionary's son who has spent his entire life in China. Cobb is sent to his father's home...
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1934
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Joe E. Brown plays a dual role in Circus Clown, as would-be circus entertainer Happy Howard and his rustic old father. When...
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1934
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Based upon a novel anonymously written by Rex Stout, The President Vanishes has as its title character a peace-loving man...
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1934
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Based on the popular comic strip by Ham Fisher, this fast-paced and funny boxing outing follows the exploits of a boxing...
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1934
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In this comedy, a wealthy socialite pursues a carefree playboy who isn't at all interested in her. After all her regular...
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1934
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The rivalry between two deep-sea diver is chronicled in this adventure. The trouble begins when a young woman inherits one...
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1934
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Albert Young
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1933
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Monogram's Skyway stars Ray Walker in his usual role as a brash troublemaker who can't hold down a job. This time he's a...
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1933
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A man's addiction to betting on the horses severely disrupts his love life in this comedy. He, a plumber, and his fiancee, a...
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1933
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This musical romance is set upon a college campus and centers on a coquettish coed who promises her dates more than she cares...
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1933
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Paul Lukas plays a nightclub headwaiter who rises to fame as a bridge expert. He marries hat check girl Loretta Young,...
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1933
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In this crime drama an escaped killer hunts the man who squealed upon him. He stalks the man onto a train bound for San...
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1932
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Blessed Event is one of several early-1930s films inspired by the meteoric rise to fame of gossip columnist Walter Winchell...
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1932
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Fay Wray screams when she first lays eyes on Lionel Atwill in Doctor X, but don't let that fool you. Atwill plays Fay's...
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1932
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Ben Lyon plays an aspiring boxer in this pre-code drama. Cookie Bradford (Lyon) toils at a diner and works out at the gym...
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1932
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Based on the play New York Town by Ward Morehouse, Mervyn LeRoy directs the black-and-white 1932 comedy drama Big City Blues....
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1932
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In this police drama, a cop, known for being a rock under pressure, endeavors to cope with the aftermath of a...
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1932
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In this light-hearted musical, an early color film, a successful actress tires of the bustle and hustle of her tawdry life...
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1931
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1931
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The star of the 12-episode Mascot serial The Galloping Ghost can be only one man: legendary college football star (Red...
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1931
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Star Witness starts out as a homey family comedy and develops into a rather gutsy thriller. Chic Sale plays a cantankerous...
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1931
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Class distinction rears its ugly head in this otherwise tuneful little musical from the pens of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz...
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Bill Dugan
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1931
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Mascot Pictures' second all-talkie sound serial, Phantom of the West starred Tom Tyler as Jim Lester, a young man attempting...
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Oscar
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1931
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In this western, three rambunctious young cowboys head for the hills after spending a night painting a town red and...
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1931
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Filmed at Newhall, CA, with exteriors shot at Universal City, Mascot Pictures' The Vanishing Legion became the little...
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1931
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Based loosely on Waite Hoyt and Mickey Cochrane, major league baseball players moonlighting as vaudeville entertainers, this...
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1930
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In this heartwarming drama, an amiable department store worker gets more than he bargained for when he accidentally slips a...
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1930
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1930
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In this melodrama, a dancer works in a sleazy Marseilles portside dive that is really the front for a bordello. While...
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1930
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An innocent maid stands accused of killing her employer in this courtroom melodrama from the silent era. During the trial it...
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1929
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A custody battle for a little boy forms the basis of this domestic comedy, a talkie that is so early that title cards are...
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1929
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In this romance set in Russia, a fisherman's daughter is jilted by her true love and instead marries a baron. Time passes...
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1929
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One of those transitional Vitaphone productions with a few dialogue scenes and a canned music score, the underworld melodrama...
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1929
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No, Richard Barthelmess doesn't don women's apparel in the 1929 talkie The Drag. Barthelmess plays a Vermont newspaper...
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1929
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The popularity of the Universal musical Broadway resulted in a whole slew of minor films with similar titles. In First...
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1929
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That intrepid German Shepherd Rin Tin Tin is his usual ruff-n-ready self in this adventure that has him trying to deal with...
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Ed Mack
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1929
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Contrary to popular belief, no one speaks into microphones hidden in vases in this, the first 100% "all-talking" feature...
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1928
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"Mile-Away" Morgan
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1928
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Madge Bellamy stars as Nancy Woods, the secretary to a successful divorce lawyer. Soured on matrimony by the examples set in...
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1928
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Most of Dressed to Kill takes place at a swank nightclub which serves as an Underworld rendezvous. Heroine Jean (Mary Astor)...
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1928
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Produced by Cecil B. DeMille, Friend from India was directed by, of all people, prissy character actor Franklin Pangborn, who...
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1928
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George O'Brien stars as George, a footloose sailor who adheres to a philosophy of "love 'em and leave 'em." While on leave in...
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Jerry
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1928
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Universal's first 100% all-talkie, Melody of Love was completed with the aid of borrowed Movietone sound equipment from Fox...
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Lefty
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1928
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As an answer to Warner Bros.' immensely successful canine star Rin-Tin-Tin, MGM launched Flash, a police dog. In Shadows of...
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Connelly
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1928
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Also known as Swell-Head, this enjoyable Columbia programmer starred former Mack Sennett leading man Ralph Graves, who also...
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1927
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This offbeat comedy-drama concerns Tommy Valentine, a young man whose path crosses with that of Barbara, the niece of local...
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1927
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By Whose Hand? is a swift little thriller expertly assembled by up-and-coming Columbia Pictures. Ricardo Cortez stars as a...
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1927
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Small town girls get a taste of the world when they go fortune seeking in the big city. The big sister goes first and gets a...
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1927
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The "Salome" of this heavy-breathing melodrama is Helene (Alma Rubens), who is betrayed by her wealthy lover Monte Carroll...
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Chauffeur
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1927
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Some observers have suggested that Meet Danny Wilson could just as well have been titled Meet Frank Sinatra. A star vehicle...
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