Back before he was producing Charlie's Angels, Aaron Spelling was a major supplier of made-for-television feature films,...
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Senator Quincy George
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1971
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Airport had enough plot and enough star power in its cast for three feature films, and it only encompassed about half of the...
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1970
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Jack Ryan (Ryan O'Neal) is a cucumber picker who is fired after a fight with a Mexican-American (Victor Paul) co-worker. He...
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Sam Mirakian
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1969
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Ruthless Four follows four prospectors who are out to strike a big lode in the Nevada gold rush days. When one of the four...
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1968
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Bill McLean (Van Heflin) is a former CIA agent living in London. He had been fired when he stuck up for one of the men in his...
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Bill MacLean
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1968
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1966
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Outbound from a small town recently besieged by Indians, a stagecoach carries several diverse characters. They include rummy...
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1966
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1966
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Once a thief, always a thief. This is the sorry lot of Eddie (Alain Delon), an ex-convict who tries his best to go straight....
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Mike Vido
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1965
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1965
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Filmmaker George Stevens chose Monument Valley, Utah for his exterior sequences in The Greatest Story Ever Told, this ($20...
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1965
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1965
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1965
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Joe Trent
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1963
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This is a standard, somewhat slow-paced drama about a much-needed transformation in a husband and father. Duncan (Van Heflin)...
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Duncan Bell
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1963
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Under Ten Flags is a fact-based British maritime epic set during World War II. Allied ships are being victimized by a German...
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Reger
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1960
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Once branded himself by the House Un-American Activities Committee, award-winning director Martin Ritt focuses on the cruel...
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1960
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Gary Cooper stars in one of his final roles in They Came To Cordura, Robert Rossen's moody study of the thin dividing line...
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Sgt. John Chawk
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1959
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Emelyan Pugachov
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1958
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The highly variable Tab Hunter delivers his best film performance in the grim western Gunman's Walk. Hunter plays Ed Hackett,...
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Lee Hackett
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1958
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Desperate for money, frontier rancher Van Heflin holds outlaw Glenn Ford at gunpoint, intending to collect the $200 reward....
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Dan Evans
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1957
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Fred Staples
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1956
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Adapted by Leon Uris from his own novel, the film follows a group of World War II marines, from Basic Training to...
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Maj. Sam Huxley
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1955
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This laid-back western manages to deliver a full quota of action, an agreeable dash of sentiment, and quite a few...
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Luke Fargo
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1955
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Based on a true story from the Civil War, this drama follows a band of Confederate POWS who escape from a New England prison...
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Maj. Neal Benton
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1954
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Despite its title, Tanganyika was largely filmed in the wilds of Universal City. Set in 1900, the film stars Van Heflin as...
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John Gale
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1954
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In this subtle 1954 comedy with feminist overtones, Clifton Webb plays Gifford, an executive with a large automobile...
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Jerry
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1954
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Peter
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1954
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Released in Great Britain as South of Algiers, Golden Mask thrusts it main characters into the dangerous environs of North...
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Nicholas Chapman
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1953
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The simple story of a Wyoming range war is elevated to near-mythical status in producer/director George Stevens' Western...
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Joe Starrett
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1953
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Irish Gallager
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1953
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Filled with the kind of Red Scare propaganda that must have delighted members of McCarthy's House Un-American Activities...
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Stedman of the FBI
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1952
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Vernon Sewell, a mercurial filmmaker who preferred to lens his pictures on chunks of his own property, was the director of...
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1951
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Tomahawk takes place during the Great Sioux Uprising of the 1860s. Van Heflin stars as famed frontier scout Jim Bridger, who...
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Jim Bridger
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1951
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Webb Garwood (Van Heflin) is a cynical policeman who believes that success comes from lucky breaks. Responding to a prowler...
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Webb Garwood
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1951
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Brad Stubbs
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1951
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An unusually disturbing noir from a director better known for more mainstream fare like High Noon and From Here to Eternity,...
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Frank R. Enley
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1949
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Director Mervyn Leroy lends a burnished MGM gloss to this sordid tale of infidelity among rich New York East Siders....
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Mark Dwyer
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1949
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MGM circumvented the censorship that would otherwise have prevented a film version of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary by...
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Charles Bovary
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1949
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The third talkie version of Dumas' The Three Musketeers, this splashy MGM adaptation is also the first version in...
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Robert Athos
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1948
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Thomas W. Brett
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1948
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Set at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses to secede from the state...
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Keith Alexander
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1948
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The Secret Land is the Oscar-winning documentary of Admiral Richard Byrd's 1946-1947 Antarctic expedition. Robert Montgomery,...
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Co-Narrator
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1948
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We first meet Joan Crawford, star of the moody flashbackfest Possessed, wandering aimlessly through the city streets, moaning...
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David Sutton
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1947
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The 161-minute costume drama Green Dolphin Street is set in 1840, on an island off the coast of Newfoundland, (or at least,...
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Timothy Haslam
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1947
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MGM's Till the Clouds Roll By is the musicalized, and highly fictionalized, life story of beloved composer Jerome Kern, who...
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James I. Hessler
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1946
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In The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, relationships formed in childhood lead to murder and obsessive love. The wealthy Martha...
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Sam Masterson
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1946
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1944
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John Thornway
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1943
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For his first directorial assignment at RKO Radio, Edward Dmytryk was handed the mile-a-minute topical meller Seven Miles...
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1943
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Kid Glove Killer is an expanded remake of They're Always Caught (1938), a 2-reel entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series....
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Gordon McKay
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1942
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The tumultuous presidency of 17th-president Andrew Johnson is chronicled in this biopic. The story begins with Johnson's...
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Andrew Johnson
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1942
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Grand Central Murder was intended as a followup to the MGM "sleeper" Kid Glove Killer, with the earlier film's star, Van...
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"Rocky" Custer
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1942
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This MGM musical lifts the premise of Pride and Prejudice and plunks it down into the early 1900s. S.Z. Sakall is a...
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Henry Taggart
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1942
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Robert Taylor toughened up his image considerably with this gangster movie, which was unusual both in its plot and origins,...
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Jeff Hartnett
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1941
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MGM was doing so well in 1941 that it could afford the occasional "prestige" film with little box-office appeal. Based on the...
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Bill King
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1941
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An expert cast of farceurs goes through its customary paces in MGM's The Feminine Touch. Don Ameche plays college...
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Elliott Morgan
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1941
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Santa Fe Trail, Errol Flynn's third western, has precisely nothing to do with the titular trail. Instead, the film is a...
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1940
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William K. Howard, a once-prestigious director fallen on hard times in 1939, proved that he still had the "right stuff" with...
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1939
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Outcasts of Poker Flat is an adaptation of Bret Harte's western story of the same name, with elements of Harte's...
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Rev. Samuel Woods
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1937
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This laudable RKO programmer casts Chester Morris as a fearless pilot whose misdeeds have exiled him to a remote flying field...
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George Wilson
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1937
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Annapolis Salute is the 1937 remake of RKO's 1933 film Midshipman Jack. Lensed on location at the Annapolis Naval Academy,...
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1937
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The low-budget football drama Saturday's Heroes is remarkably frank and timely -- at least for the first 4 reels or so....
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Val
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1937
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Based on a novel by Netta Syrett, A Woman Rebels is the story of Pamela Thistlewaite (Katharine Hepburn), whose mission in...
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1936
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