Spencer Tracy stars in John Ford's sentimental adaptation of Edwin O'Connor's novel about the final campaign of a big city...
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1958
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Within its own modest limits, The Great Jesse James Raid is a well-crafted western. Willard Parker plays Jesse James, who...
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Arch Clements
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1953
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This vintage collection includes a cavalcade of vaudeville acts and is hosted by Jackie Coogan. ~ Rovi...
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1952
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Tuna fisherman Joe Morelli (Tom Neal) is Navy Bound in this Monogram programmer. While on board ship, Morelli becomes the...
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Joe Morelli
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1951
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In this action comedy, a bunch of bungling jewel thieves are in such a hurry to flee the site of their latest caper that...
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1951
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Through an incredible series of circumstances, the Bowery Boys sign up for a hitch in the Navy. While clumsily going about...
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Joe
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1951
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The 62-minute GI Jane may well be the best of Lippert Studios' "pocket" musicals. TV producer Tim (Tom Neal) is in the midst...
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Tim
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1951
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This film features two mystery stories featuring Hugh "the Beaver's TV Dad" Beaumont. First, he is hired to go to an auction...
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Edgar Spadely
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1951
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Lippert's Fingerprints Don't Lie stars Richard Travis as fingerprint expert James Stover. At the moment, Stover is attempting...
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Prosecutor
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1951
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Partially filmed in the San Bernardino Mountains, Call of the Klondike was perhaps the best of producer Lindsley Parson's...
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Mallory
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1950
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Written and produced by its star, Donald Barry, Train to Tombstone was a low-budget version of the classic Stagecoach (1939)....
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Dr. Willoughby
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1950
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By the standards of low-budget Lippert Productions, Everybody's Dancin' is an "A" picture. Country-western favorite...
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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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Moran
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1950
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The plot for this Western involves the wives and girlfriends of the Dalton gang, who decide to carry on the gang's criminal...
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1950
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The title King of the Bullwhip could only refer to one of two western-movie favorites: Lash LaRue or Whip Wilson. Since...
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Benson
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1950
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Don Barry stars as the Pecos Kid in Red Desert. The Kid is a federal agent, assigned by President Ulysses S. Grant to locate...
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John Williams
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1950
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From Lippert Studios, the same company responsible for I Shot Jesse James, comes I Shot Billy the Kid. Those who know their...
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Bowdre
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1950
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Apache Chief was the second film to be lensed with the Garutso Balanced Lens, which gave the illusion of a three-dimensional...
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Lt. Brown
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1949
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Trail of the Mounties was the last of four "streamlined" actioners released by Screen Guild in the late 1940s. Each of these...
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1949
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Yards and yards of stock footage from the old German jungle actioner Green Hell were used to pad out the 1949 programmer...
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Tom
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1949
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An older soldier enters West Point but remains haunted by nagging guilt. It all began in Tunisia during a tremendous battle....
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1948
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In early 1947, Screen Guild Productions experimented with a new format: a 90-minute double feature package, consisting of two...
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Russ
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1947
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The baby sitter is none other than veteran Hollywood tough guy Tom Neal. A private detective, Neal is hired to keep an eye on...
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Russ
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1947
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Edgar G. Ulmer's Club Havana is Grand Hotel, PRC style. The titular club is a popular nightspot where everyone who is anyone...
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Bill Porter
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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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Al Roberts
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1946
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Martha O'Driscoll fills the title role quite nicely in Blonde Alibi. The plot of this rapid-fire programmer involves a...
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Rick Lavery
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1946
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An unwanted orphan decides to run away with his dog, but later becomes the goal of an urgent quest when his relatives...
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1946
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The tragic Rondo Hatton, whose acromegaly-disfigured face secured him meaty screen roles in Universal's horror films, had...
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Clifford Scott
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1946
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Rusty Curtis wants his beloved cavalry horse back, but unfortunately the former sergeant's steed has been sold to a society...
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Rusty Curtis
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1945
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More expensive-looking than most PRC productions, Crime Inc. is based on a story by former crime reporter Martin Mooney....
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Jim Riley
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1945
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This WW II drama is the first to deal with the fateful atomic bomb attack on Japan. Originally, the film centered on the...
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1945
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It's nice to see perennial "other woman" Ann Savage in a leading role, even in so antiseptic a film as Klondike Kate. Savage...
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Jefferson Braddock
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1944
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An ex-racketeer becomes an undercover for the military in this drama. He keeps his work so secret that his friends become...
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1944
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Columbia's Two-Man Submarine was predicated on a then-new Japanese invention, designed to maneuver in waters where no...
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Jerry Evans
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1944
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The Unwritten Code is an offbeat, better-than-average Columbia wartime "B" picture. Though Ann Savage and Tom Neal are...
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Sgt. Terry Hunter
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1944
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Mitchell Leisen utilizes his stylistic pizzazz to enliven this romantic comedy that proves the old adage "opposites attract"...
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1943
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On December 6, 1941, a squadron of nine B-17 bombers takes off for Hickam Field, HI. The crew of the Mary Ann, including two...
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1943
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Behind the Rising Sun is a rarity: a WW2 film with a handful of sympathetic Japanese characters. His eyes slanted by the RKO...
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Taro Seki
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1943
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In this drama, set during WW II, a teacher at a military school is derided by his students because he has not joined the...
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Charlie Edmonds
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1943
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In this musical, a lovely and ambitious young woman masquerades as the daughter of a formerly beloved stage actress to help...
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Roger Rutledge
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1943
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1943
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This flag-waving Columbia programmer concentrates on five young Officer's Candidate School applicants. Each of the...
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Wally Williams
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1943
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This historical drama tells the story of the first class to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. In the...
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1942
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"It's box office poison," producer Samuel Goldwyn is said to have exclaimed when he heard the idea of filming the life story...
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1942
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1942
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Among the few wartime comedies that are still genuinely funny today, Monogram's One Thrilling Night (aka Horace Takes Over)....
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1942
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The attractive physiques of Tom Neal and Carol Hughes are generously displayed in the PRC comedy The Miracle Kid. Neal is...
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Jimmy Conley
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1942
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Bowery at Midnight casts Bela Lugosi as Professor Brenner, a psychology instructor at New York University (which looks a lot...
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Frankie Mills
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1942
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The Flying Tigers were a group of American volunteer aviators, flying against the Japanese on behalf of General Claire...
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1942
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Unavailable for decades, this 15-chapter serial from Republic Pictures was finally re-released on video tape in the late...
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Jack Stanton
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1941
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Top Sergeant Mulligan was Monogram Pictures' attempt to cash in on the popularity of such service comedies as Abbott &...
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1941
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Columbia Pictures put a goodly number of its contract starlets to work in the mild exploitationer Under Age. Fresh out of...
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"Rocky" Stone
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1941
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The debutante whom Andy Hardy (Mickey Rooney) meets-after falling in love with her photograph -- is blonde Diana Lewis (the...
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1940
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The last of MGM's "Nick Carter" trilogy, Sky Murder is a tad too cute and clever for its own good, but its mystery angle...
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1940
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The second entry in RKO Radio's "Dr. Christian" series, Courageous Dr. Christian was like the first inspired by the popular...
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Dave Williams
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1940
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Stronger Than Desire is a streamlined remake of 1934's Evelyn Prentice. Instead of the earlier film's William Powell and...
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1939
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In this crime drama, a thieving employee sticks her stolen goods into the locker of a co-worker and causes all sorts of...
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Richard Gilder
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1939
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Three years after the second Thin Man entry, MGM brought back the property by popular demand with Another Thin Man. As ever,...
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1939
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Famous filmmaker Jacques Tourneur (known for his compelling film noir and scary horror movies) makes his directorial debut in...
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Joe Z. Cameron
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1939
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1939
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District attorney Walter Pidgeon pursues the conviction of criminals so diligently that word has gone out in the state prison...
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1939
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The zippy world of auto-racing provided the basis of this off-beat actioner that centers on an auto magnate who is...
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1939
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This hospital drama chronicles the exploits of four nursing students enrolled in a three-year training course. One of them...
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1939
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The title tells the story in this fourth of MGM's "Hardy Family" series. Judge Hardy (Lewis Stone) takes his family to the...
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1938
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