Hayseeds abound in this musical comedy, two star-struck hoboes hop what they think is a west-bound train that will land them...
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1967
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Tommy
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1964
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Jayne Mansfield bares almost all (and became the first Hollywood actress to do so) in this nearly universally panned sex...
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Producer, Screenwriter, Jeff Brooks
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1963
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Bungling courier Freddie Merkel (Tommy Noonan) dreams of creative success but always manages to botch things up at crucial...
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Freddy Merkle
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1962
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After she escapes from an asylum for alcoholics, Anne Gilrain (Gloria Talbott) is sent right back by her husband Tom (Liam...
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1961
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This is an out-dated, feeble World War II comedy about a new army recruit who ends up alone with his Master Sergeant and a...
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Producer, Screenwriter, Songwriter
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1959
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The Girl Most Likely owns the distinction of being the last RKO Radio picture ever produced at the studio's Hollywood...
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Buzz
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1957
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The Best Things in Life are Free is the tuneful if uninspired life story of popular composers DeSylva (Gordon MacRae), Brown...
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Carl
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1956
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Freddie Miller
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1956
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The offspring of the American ambassador to France (the star was then living in Paris with her journalist husband),...
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Al
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1956
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Betty Grable's final film was a remake of the 1934 Bing Crosby-Miriam Hopkins musicomedy She Loves Me Not, which in turn was...
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Eddie
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1955
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Harry Reeves
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1955
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The 1954 musical remake of A Star is Born could have been titled A Star is Reborn, in that it represented the triumphal...
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Danny McGuire
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1954
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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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Gus Esmond
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1953
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1951
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The model (Jeanne Crain) is stuck in an unhappy relationship with a married man. The marriage broker (Thelma Ritter) doesn't...
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1951
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Little Lippert Studios wasn't really equipped to produce large-scale musicals, but the company can't be faulted for trying....
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1950
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Return of Jesse James is an excellent example of how to get full value for money from an attenuated budget. John Ireland...
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1950
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1949
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As shown by the clock face that opens and closes the film, The Set-Up takes place within a compact 72 minutes, with the...
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1949
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This dark, gloomy Western chronicles the shame and self-destruction of Bob Ford, the real-life James Gang member that...
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1949
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When nearly perfect counterfeit 20-dollar bills start turning up, the Treasury Department recognizes them as the work of Tris...
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1949
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This independently produced crime caper was picked up for distribution by 20th Century-Fox. Tom Conway stars as criminal...
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1949
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Photographer Paul Lester (John Ireland) and his wife, Nancy (Jane Randolph), are invited to share an apartment with Paul's...
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1948
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In this war drama, set in New Guinea circa 1943, a squadron of fliers, stationed near Port Moresby must keep the Japanese at...
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Ham
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1948
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1947
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A star basketball player is assailed by gangsters who want him to throw the Big Game in this drama. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1947
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No relation to the 1935 Jean Harlow-Spencer Tracy vehicle of the same name, RKO Radio's Riff-Raff is an action-packed vehicle...
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1947
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Somehow the titles of the films of hardcase actor Lawrence Tierney seemed to be extensions of the man's personality, as...
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1947
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Art critic and forgery expert George Steele (Pat O'Brien) is apprehended by the police as he desperately tries to break into...
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1946
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A moody but extremely talented clarinet playing band-leader is contracted to write a symphonic, bluesy soundtrack for an...
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1946
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In this courtroom drama, a husband finds himself accused of murder after his wife, a photographer, is found dead in her...
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1946
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In this romantic drama, Bill and Susan Cummings (Mark Stevens and Joan Fontaine), a couple from the Bronx, look back at the...
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1946
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In this WW II romance, a small-time nightclub singer who works in a little Manhattan nightclub has a one-night stand with a...
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1946
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Dick Tracy, Detective (originally just Dick Tracy) was the first of four RKO Radio B-pictures based on Chester Gould's...
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1945
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Like the same-named 1934 and 1935 films, RKO Radio's 1945 musical George White's Scandals uses the eponymous Broadway revue...
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1945
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1945
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Spencer Tracy won his second Oscar for his portrayal of Father Edward J. Flanagan--then promptly turned the statuette over to...
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1938
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