The American film industry took it upon itself to act as a cheerleader for United States and Allied military interests during...
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2008
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The life and career of 1940s sex symbol Rita Hayworth (1918-1987) is affectionately but uncompromisingly recounted in this...
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2003
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Narrated by Anjelica Huston, this cable-TV documentary offered an up-close and personal look at the life and career of...
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2002
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Chief film critic of Variety and director of the acclaimed Visions of Light (1993), Todd McCarthy spins this love letter to...
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1999
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In this drama, union organizers, desperate to control the lumber and mining empire of a wealthy family, resort to sabotage....
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Director
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1980
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Old-time Hollywood director Vincent Sherman brings a glossy studio-bound look to The Dream Merchants, a two-part, four-hour...
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1980
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1980
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Women at West Point is a close-order-drill soap opera inspired by the Point's first women cadets, who entered the school as...
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1979
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1979
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Dyan Cannon stars in this film inspired by the true story of Sally Stanford, who rose from notoriety as the madam of a famous...
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1978
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1977's Last Hurrah is a TV-movie remake of the 1958 John Ford film of the same name. Both versions are based on the Edwin...
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Director
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1977
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Andrea Marcovicci guest stars as Sandra Fleming, an intrepid -- and somewhat obnoxious -- newspaper reporter. Undercover cop...
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Director
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1976
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Samantha Eggar guest stars as daycare worker Laurie Eckhardt, the newest girlfriend of undercover cop Tony Baretta...
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Director
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1976
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When her limousine breaks down on the Mountain, flamboyant Hollywood actress Alvira Drummond (Pippa Scott) accepts the...
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1973
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Unable to produce the deed to their land, the Waltons are threatened with eviction from the mountain by a powerful lumber...
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1973
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A family of Jewish refugees settles in a small cottage on Walton's Mountain. Terrified that the Nazi persecution that had...
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1972
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The debut episode of The Waltons is set in 1933, with the Walton family of Virginia coping as best they can with the ravages...
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1972
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This epic Spanish biopic chronicles the life of Cervantes, Spain's great novelist, playwright and poet, during the...
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1967
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In this routine political drama by Vincent Sherman, a murder trial is converted into one piece in the complex interaction...
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1961
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Though the title suggests that this film is a musical romance built around the song hit of the same name, Second Time Around...
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1961
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Based on the Edna Ferber novel, this engrossing period piece covers the triumphs, tragedies, loves, and sorrows of a few...
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1960
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Something of an urbanized, upscale version of Peyton Place, Vincent Sherman's
The Young Philadelphians is a glossy...
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1959
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A poor Irishman goes to Africa to help a friend harvest his tobacco, but upon arrival, he learns that his friend was eaten...
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1958
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1957
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Two directors called the shots on Difendo il Mio Amore; Giulio Macchi helmed the original Italian version, while Hollywood's...
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1956
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In this romantic spy thriller, a nightclub performer plys her trade in her husband's Trinidad bar. He is murdered by a...
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1952
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1951
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Based on a play by Fay Kanin, this comedy drama follows a successful congresswoman's emotional journey back to her alma...
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1951
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1950
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A woman's desire to rise above her drab lower middle-class life take her down the road to destruction in this gripping crime...
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1950
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When he's discharged from a military hospital, ex-GI Bob Corey (Gordon MacRae) goes on a search for his army buddy Steve...
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1950
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Though Errol Flynn was well past his prime (and obviously well lubricated in certain scenes), he rises to the occasion of The...
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1949
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1949
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In this slick melodrama, a sort of film-noir for women, a nightclub singer has an affair with an unhappily married San...
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1947
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Though not readily apparent at first, The Unfaithful is a remake of the 1940 Bette Davis vehicle The Letter, which in turn...
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1947
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1946
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Yes, even Ida Lupino occasionally starred in screwball comedies during the 1930s and 1940s. Pillow to Post casts Lupino as...
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Director
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1945
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More a romantic melodrama than the uplifting propaganda piece the producers perhaps envisioned, In Our Time stars Ida Lupino...
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1944
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From a novel of the same name by "Elizabeth", the film begins in 1914, with Bette Davis cast as vain, flighty society woman...
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1944
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1943
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In this dark drama an iron-willed older sister forcibly thrusts her only modestly talented younger sister into a Broadway...
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1942
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Underground is an average Warner Bros. suspenser, given a boost by its unrelenting portrayal of Nazis as verminous...
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1941
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Humphrey Bogart plays Gloves Donahue, a rough-hewn but essentially decent New York gambler. The Runyonesque plot gets moving...
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1941
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In this drama, a terminally ill college professor with only three months to live asks some younger colleagues what he should...
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Director
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1941
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This slightly laundered remake of the 1932 courtroom classic The Mouthpiece stars George Brent as brilliant but unprincipled...
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Director
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1940
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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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Director
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1940
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A remake of Dr. Socrates (1935), this middling melodrama features Kay Francis as Carol Nelson, a medical doctor blaming...
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1939
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This minor but entertaining screen version of the Monte Barrett-Russell E. Ross comic strip The Adventures of Jane Arden...
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1939
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In this touching drama, a young woman cons her father the Colonel to put their colt in the Kentucky Derby. They do, but the...
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Screenwriter
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1939
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Humphrey Bogart makes his first and last appearance in a horror movie in this film. Though the title implies that it is a...
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Director
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1939
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In this North Woods adventure a courageous Canadian Mounted Policeman takes on the outlaws who robbed a freighter heading...
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Screenwriter
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1938
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The ever-suffering Kay Francis once again makes an assault on the audience's tear ducts in My Bill. Francis is cast as Mary...
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Screenwriter
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1938
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This entry in the Dead End Kids series of adventures makes critical comments about the failings of reform schools. The story...
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Screenwriter
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1938
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This third entry in Columbia's "Inspector Trent" series is cleverly (and economically) set in a movie studio. A malevolent...
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1934
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In this drama, a gambler must hide-out from the mob and ends up in a spinster's apartment. The old woman, is unused to...
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1934
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The fourth and last of Columbia's "Inspector Trent" mysteries, Girl in Danger once more stars Ralph Bellamy as the...
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1934
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In this crime drama, a state trooper falls in love with a night club singer. The club owner is a racketeer using the...
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Johnny Frank
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1934
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Speed Wings is another 1934 "eastern" from western star Tim McCoy. This time, the star is cast as Tim, a devil-may-care stunt...
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Mickey
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1934
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Adapted from the play by Elmer Rice, Counsellor-at-Law is the story of a successful Jewish lawyer George Simon...
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1933
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