An interesting bit of casting enlivens this psycho-thriller set in a California boarding house run by eccentric Karen Black...
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1991
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Jessica (Angela Lansbury) arrives in Hollywood, where her first mystery novel "The Corpse Danced at Midnight" is being made...
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1984
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This intriguing odd-ball melodrama has supernatural overtones and was especially made for drive-in theaters. The strange...
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Countess Piazza/Ida
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1978
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It was a hundred years ago that an innocent Indian woman was framed for a crime she didn't commit, and wrongly sentenced to...
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Michelle
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1976
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This spoof makes fun of a certain famous German shepherd movie star from the 1920s. The mayhem begins when the head honcho...
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1976
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A gangster becomes enraged when a young man prevents his wife from killing herself and then proceeds to run off with her. ~...
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1975
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An insane, renegade cavalryman leads his vicious band of outlaws into a series of brutal raids against settlers and local...
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Linda Lee
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1967
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A bunch of hopeful heirs arrives on an isolated island to hear the will of a horribly scarred, mad scientist. They must not...
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Sable
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1966
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In this western, a gunslinger runs from the Dawson gang and decides to return home to the wife he abandoned many years...
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Sara McCoy
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1965
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In this drama, a widowed duchess finds herself drawn to leader of a mercenary band. The cavalier leader offers to save her...
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1961
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A fast-paced western with a romantic twist, this was one of the last films pairing director Budd Boetticher and popular...
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Norma Puntman
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1959
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A onetime pilot, now a convicted killer in the custody of the FBI, is the only hope of an overseas flight carrying a bomb. ~...
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1959
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In this western, an accused killer is able to escape lynchers by trading coats with a dead man he found lying beside the...
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Celia Gray
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1958
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Future "Master of Disaster" Irwin Allen produced this curious but inarguably fascinating adaptation of...
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1957
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Produced by Alan Ladd's own Jaguar company, The Big Land stars Ladd as Texas cattleman Morgan. As a means to expedite...
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Helen Jagger
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1957
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Joel McCrea essays the title role in this moody little western. McCrea is a Union officer wounded in battle, who joins up...
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Ellen
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1957
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George Nader stars as David Carr, a construction engineer operating in the Belgian Congo. In true jingoistic fashion, Carr...
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Louise Whitman
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1956
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When gold is discovered in the Colorado Territory at the start of the Civil War, Confederate Owen Pentecost (Robert Stack)...
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Ann Merry Alaine
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1956
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A small Kansas town braces itself for the arrival of the first Texas trail herd. The marshal (Robert Ryan) expects trouble...
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Sally
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1956
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Refreshingly, the tropical melodrama Pearl of the South Pacific never takes itself too seriously. Virginia Mayo heads the...
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Rita Delaine
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1955
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Paul Newman made his screen debut in the gloriously nonsensical costume epic The Silver Chalice. Freely adapted from a novel...
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Helena
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1954
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Roundly panned when it was first released, this CinemaScope film version of Sir Walter Scott's The Talisman can now be...
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Lady Edith
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1954
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Catherine Terris
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1953
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RKO Radio's second 3D production, Devil's Canyon is a combination western and jail-break picture. The scene is Arizona...
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Abby Nixon
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1953
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Ginger Martin
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1953
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Though its title would seem to indicate a medieval swashbuckler, The Iron Mistress is actually based on the life of American...
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Judalon de Bornay
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1952
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She's Working Her Way Through College is a completely depoliticized remake of the liberal-minded comedy The Male Animal...
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Angela Gardner/Hot Garters Getlie
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1952
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Raoul Walsh injects his expected artistry in the otherwise journeyman western Along the Great Divide. Feeling responsible for...
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Ann Keith
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1951
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Lady Barbara Wellesley
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1951
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Painting the Clouds with Sunshine was a remake of the 1929 musical Gold Diggers of Broadway, which no longer exists for...
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Carol
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1951
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Starlift was Warner Bros' attempt to revive the "all-star patriotic musical" format which had worked so well during WW II....
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Herself
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1951
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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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Julie Benson
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1950
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Anne
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1950
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James Cagney delivers a vibrant performance as a down-on-his-luck Broadway musical director in The West Point Story,...
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Eve Dillon
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1950
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Ronald Reagan plays a George Petty-type magazine illustrator who creates a "perfect girl" from a composite of the features of...
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Ruth Wilson
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1949
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In later years, James Cagney regarded White Heat with a combination of pride and regret; while satisfied with his own...
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Verna Jarrett
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1949
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Though not acknowledged by contemporary reviewers, Colorado Territory is a westernized remake of the 1941 crime drama...
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Colorado Carson
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1949
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Milton Berle was enjoying the first flush of his television success when his musical-comedy movie vehicle Always Leave Them...
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Nancy Egan
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1949
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Infused with religious themes, this crime drama is considered a minor example of film noir. Set in Los Angeles, it tells the...
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Carla North
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1949
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Virginia Mayo is Flaxy Martin in this complicated Warner Bros. melodrama. Flaxy is a bad girl but good company, especially...
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Flaxy Martin
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1949
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A Song is Born is a musical remake of the 1941 comedy Ball of Fire, with the same producer (Sam Goldwyn) and director...
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Honey Swanson
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1948
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Despite the film's title, socialite Linda Vickers (Virginia Mayo) isn't smart enough to steer clear of the gambling den...
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Linda Vickers
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1948
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James Thurber wasn't too happy with the Sam Goldwyn film adaptation of his 1939 short story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,...
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Rosalind Van Hoorn
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1947
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If Eagle-Lion's Out of the Blue looks more like a slick Warner Bros. product at times, it's because the film was peopled by...
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1947
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The postwar classic The Best Years of Our Lives, based on a novel in verse by MacKinlay Kantor about the difficult...
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Marie Derry
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1946
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Polly Pringle
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1946
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Danny Kaye plays the first of his cinematic dual roles in Goldwyn's Wonder Man. Kaye appears as timid librarian Edwin Dingle...
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Ellen Shanley
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1945
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Princess Margaret/"Margaret Warbrook"
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1944
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Ostensibly a vehicle for RKO Radio's new comedy duo Wally Brown and Alan Carney, Seven Days Ashore actually casts Brown &...
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Carol
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1944
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It is said that producer Sam Goldwyn had a habit of addressing his new star of the 1940s, Danny Kaye, as "Eddie", confusing...
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1944
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Though Wendy Barrie never quite achieved stardom in A pictures, she could always count on top billing in Hollywood's B...
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1943
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This ambitious filmed biography of writer-adventurer Jack London is somewhat compromised by its too-tight budget....
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Mamie
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1943
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