When Carl (James Best), the son of former Ponderosa foreman Will Reagan (Will Wright), is reported killed, Adam Cartwright...
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1961
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John Wayne's directorial debut The Alamo is set in 1836: Wayne plays Col. Davy Crockett, who, together with Colonels Jim...
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1960
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A somewhat wooden rendition of an improbable western, this tale of Basques crossing the U.S. in 1847 with a load of...
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1959
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In this drama, a Korean war veteran, a victim of brainwashing while he was a POW, finally goes back to his home in...
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Vivian Loder
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1958
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The Wings of Eagles is filmmaker John Ford's paean to his frequent collaborator--and, it is rumored, drinking buddy--Cmdr....
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1957
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Just before achieving TV stardom as The Sheriff of Cochise, John Bromfield headed the cast of Frontier Gambler. Coleen Gray...
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1956
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Paula Hudson (Ruth Hussey) has always wanted a mink coat, but she doesn't have the necessary money. Helpfully, Paula's...
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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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Susan Hayward pulls out all the stops, and then some, in this cinemadaptation of singer Lillian Roth's autobiography I'll Cry...
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1955
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This 1955 film began life as two Runyon short stories, the most prominent of which was "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown." This...
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1955
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1955
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One of the gutsiest movie musicals of the 1950s, Love Me or Leave Me is the true story of 1930s torch-singer Ruth Etting,...
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1955
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Neither a B nor an A picture, Bitter Creek is a solid western programmer, offering an excellent, unglamorized performance by...
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1954
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Though it isn't obvious at first glance, Three Sailors and a Girl is the fourth screen version of the George S. Kaufman stage...
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1953
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1953
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Robert Jordan is a television star. Robert Jordan likes things orderly, on time and properly executed. In his world children...
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Blonde
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1953
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1953
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A rare foray into straight action-adventure by comedy director Edward Bernds, Hot News stars Stanley Clements as ex-pugilist...
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Doris Burton
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1953
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Except for a few later guest-star spots, Dinah Shore ended her film career with Aaron Slick From Punkin Crick. Based on an...
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1952
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Johnny Sims, a two-bit burglar and sneak-thief, breaks into the apartment of Clark Kent (George Reeves) and chances upon the...
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1952
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Of all the "kill the commies" cold war films of the 1950s, John Wayne's Big Jim McLain may well be the worst. Certainly it's...
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Madge
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1952
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The Bowery Boys go to college in Hold That Line. Things haven't changed much since the Marx Bros. went to college in...
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1952
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Stella Grey
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1950
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Arizona rodeo champs Dave Saunders (Tim Holt) and Chito Rafferty (Richard Martin) head for Oro Grande, CO, to witness the...
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Gypsy
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1950
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Zachary Scott uncharacteristically plays for laughs in Warner Bros.' One Last Fling. Scott plays Larry Pearce, the dullish...
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1949
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Country western star Jimmie Davis heads the cast of the Monogram musical western Mississippi Rhythm. Teamed with perennial...
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Jeanette
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1949
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Forgotten Women is Monogram's cut-rate 65-minute spin on MGM's The Women. The film deals with four lovely ladies, each of...
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Claire Dunning
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1949
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George Seaton's 1948 comedy Chicken Every Sunday was based on the play by Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein as well as...
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1948
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1948
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Big Town was the first of a series of Pine-Thomas productions inspired by the radio series of the same name--which in turn...
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Vivian LeRoy
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1947
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A woman looks back at her childhood in show business in this musical comedy. At the turn of the century, Myrtle McKinley...
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Rosemary Olcott
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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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Eve Standish
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1947
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Judge Myrna Loy decides that the best way to curb the excesses of playboyish art teacher Cary Grant is to force him to do...
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1947
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Blonde Savage was directed by one "S. K. Seeley"-who at closer examination turns out to be Steve Sekely hiding behind an...
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1947
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Daisy, the Bumstead's mischievous mutt, makes the family a little extra cash when she wins a contest to become a model for...
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1946
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Avalanche offers an IRS man as a hero, meaning that there isn't much chance of this particular film being remade! Treasury...
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Claire Jeremy
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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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Joyce Bonniwell
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1946
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In this crime drama, a fading movie star plays a similar character in her farewell film, a B crime-drama about a...
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1946
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Barbara Britton is as cute as can be as the title character in Republic's The Fabulous Suzanne. The plot, which bears a faint...
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1946
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This comedy centers around an inept reporter who wouldn't recognize a hot story if it burned him on the hand. The trouble...
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Flo Rosson
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1945
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1945
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A New-York-bound hitchhiker is hit by a car. The driver, a successful art dealer, stops and finds that he has hit a...
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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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In this high-spirited musical comedy, J. Newport Bates (Eddie Bracken) is a millionaire who finds women are only interested...
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1945
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One of the screen's favorite tough blondes, the delightful Veda Ann Borg, stole the show in this low-budget serial produced...
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1945
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The bland performance of star George Raft is the only drawback of this splashy 20th Century-Fox musical. Set in...
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1945
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Joan Crawford won an Academy Award for her bravura portrayal of the titular heroine in Mildred Pierce. The original James M....
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1945
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An early low-budget spin on Ten Little Indians, this cheap but entertaining PRC production features a wonderful cast of...
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Sylvia
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1945
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What a Blonde gets under way when wealthy lingerie manufacturer Fowler (Leon Errol) runs out of valuable gas-ration coupons....
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Pat
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1945
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The trouble begins when glamorous Broadway actress Roberta Baxter (Virginia Bruce) signs for her latest play. She proceeds to...
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1945
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Lorna Gray, shortly before changing her professional name to Adrian Booth, plays the title character in Republic's The Girl...
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1944
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This delightful entry in RKO Radio's "Falcon" series finds amateur Tom Lawrence (Tom Conway), aka The Falcon, tring to solve...
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Billie
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1944
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This Technicolor musical biopic stars Argentina-born Dick Haymes as Irish-American composer Ernest R. Ball. Climbing to fame...
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1944
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Unlike previous "Trail Blazers" entries, each of which starred three veteran western heroes, Marked Trails top-bills only two...
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Blanche
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1944
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Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy play janitors for a detective agency who pose as super-sleuths when they're hired to protect...
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Mayme
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1944
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The first of two Monogram comedy-mysteries built around the talents of perky Jean Parker, Detective Kitty O'Day casts Parker...
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1944
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The overcrowding in WWII-era Washington, D.C., provided the concept for this comedy, as well as another film from the...
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1944
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The world of boxing provides the framework for this romantic musical that tells the story of Baby and his manager who is...
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Flossie
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1943
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An amoral gambler tries to beat a murder rap by adopting an orphaned newsboy in this drama. He takes in the lad to show the...
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Lee
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1943
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The King Brothers, entrepreneur siblings who parlayed an allegedly ill-gotten fortune into a long movie career, produced...
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Helen
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1943
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This backstage musical offers a peek at vaudeville behind-the-scenes. The story centers on a recently divorced woman who...
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1943
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Though somewhat past his prime, Edmund Lowe carries the dramatic weight of Murder in Times Square with breezy assuredness....
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1943
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Cult-favorite director Edgar G. Ulmer has quite a disparate cast to work with in Isle of Forgotten Sins. The story is...
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1943
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The second of Monogram's "zombie" thrillers, Revenge of the Zombies is better than the first, if only because of its...
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Lila von Altermann
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1943
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Republic's False Faces is a choice example of wartime "victory casting", with all the male cast members drawn from the ranks...
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Joyce Ford
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1943
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The Two Yanks in Trinidad are gangsters Tim Reardon (Pat O'Brien) and Vince Barrows (Brian Donlevy), who split up over a...
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1942
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Irene Dunne plays a flibbetygibbet socialite who inherits a farm in Arizona. She can't seem to manage either her money or her...
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1942
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1942
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She's in the Army is a fascinating vehicle for character actress Lucille Gleason (aka Mrs. James Gleason), heretofore usually...
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Diane
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1942
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Ralph Byrd, known far and wide for his movie interpretation of Dick Tracy, trades his civvies for Navy blues in PRC's Duke of...
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Maureen
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1942
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Unable to sign boxer Joe Louis to movie contract, Republic Pictures had to make do with the losers of Louis' heavyweight...
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Barbara Ellison
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1941
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The down-home Weaver family stars in this countrified drama set in Peaceful Valley where if things went any slower they'd be...
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1941
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In this crime drama, a ruthless gangster's son is soon following in his father's footsteps. When his daddy kills an FBI...
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1941
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The marvelous rapport between stars Clark Gable and Lana Turner makes MGM's Honky Tonk seem far more substatianal than it...
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1941
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1941
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Down in San Diego was previewed as Young Americans, which is why prints still exist bearing both titles. The film is...
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1941
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The third of six feature films based on radio's popular Dr. Christian series, Dr. Christian Meets the Women once more stars...
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1940
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Previously filmed in 1933, Noel Coward's sentimental operetta Bitter Sweet was transformed by MGM seven years later into a...
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1940
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Beautifully restored to its original theatrical length of 84 minutes by the Gene Autry Foundation, Melody Ranch is a bright,...
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1940
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I Take This Oath was the first official release from Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC), formerly known as Producers...
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1940
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Based upon the classic radio series and pulp magazine character, The Shadow is a 15-episode serial in which scientist Lamont...
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1940
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Monogram's Laughing at Danger finds page-boy Frankie Kelly (Frankie Darro) trying to solve a murder at a fancy beauty salon....
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1940
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The vice squad takes on escort services in this crime drama. Two services are depicted. One escort agency is legitimate,...
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1940
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As suggested by its title, Behind the News was a "stop the presses!" yarn set in a big-city newsroom. Lloyd Nolan is...
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1940
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In this touching holiday drama, a sad carnival dancer happens upon an abandoned baby on Christmas Eve. She takes the infant...
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1940
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In this actioner, a hardened cowboy decides to stop studying law and become a Texas state trooper instead. At the governor's...
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Dora Lewis
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1939
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In this drama, an innocent man is framed for murder and sent to Sing Sing where he meets a kindly prison chaplain who helps...
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Maxine
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1938
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It was from this military musical that the US Marine Corps got it's signature anthem, "The Song of the Marines." The story...
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1937
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The disarmingly zany Marry the Girl was one of the better Hugh Herbert "B"-vehicles for Warner Bros. Much of the story takes...
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1937
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Now decidedly a product of Warner Bros.' grade-B unit, The Case of the Stuttering Bishop brought the Perry Mason series to a...
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1937
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German director Joe May brought a decidedly Teutonic ambience to his American film Confession--no surprise, since the film...
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1937
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Director John Farrow was always at his best when dealing with desperate men in desperate situations. One of Farrow's lesser...
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1937
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Gat Brady (John Litel) is a wealthy gangster, though he's never killed anyone, an he is devoted to his teenaged daughter...
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1937
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Fight manager Nick Donati (Edward G. Robinson) has just lost his best fighter to crooked promoter Turkey Morgan...
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1937
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In this lively adventure aimed at youthful audiences, a wiseacre fireman soon finds himself in trouble with his fire captain...
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Betty
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1937
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One of a slew of prison reform picture that flourished during the Great Depression, this melodrama was banned in Finland....
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1937
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1937
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With the considerable input of ex-Navy officer Frank Wead (who wrote the script) and technical adviser Cmdr. G. W. D....
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1937
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Coincidentally, Warner Bros. contractee Jane Wyman made her starring debut in the same year as her husband-to-be...
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1937
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In this newsroom drama, a tabloid's ace reporter's investigations lead to a chorine's conviction for murdering her husband....
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1937
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In this musical, a young lady is sent to an East coast finishing school. She doesn't realize that it is a bogus school run by...
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1936
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