The Last Ride was also the last production to emanate from Warner Bros.' B-picture division. The plot involves the illicit...
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1944
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In one of their most genial comedies -- based on a Damon Runyon story -- Bud Abbott and Lou Costello have to help one friend...
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1943
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Keep 'Em Slugging was the last of Universal's "Little Tough Guys" series-which, like Monogram's "East Side Kids", was an...
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1943
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After years of faithful supporting-player service to Warner Bros., Jerome Cowan was rewarded with two starring vehicles, the...
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1943
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The Abbott & Costello vehicle Hit the Ice started life as satire of health clinics, with Lou Costello cast as a hypochondriac...
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1943
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Dick Foran and Harriet Hilliard (aka Harriet Nelson) top the cast of the Universal musical quickie Hi, Buddy. Foran plays GI...
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1943
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For reasons unknown, Paramount Pictures decided to dust off the 1926 George S. Kaufman-Herman Mankiewicz stage comedy The...
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1943
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No relation to the 1950 Frank Capra film of the same name, the 1943 Technicolor musical Riding High is a by-the-numbers...
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1943
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Maybe Errol Flynn was never the war hero that he often played, but he was a capable boxer, and Gentleman Jim makes full use...
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1942
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1942
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1942
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1942
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A bit higher-budgeted than most of Universal's "pocket" musicals, Get Hep to Love runs a full 79 mintues rather than the...
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1942
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Some unexpected casting choices distinguish this so-so Universal actioner. Richard Dix stars as police chief Richard Barry,...
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1942
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A "B" picture with "A" aspirations, Bombay Clipper mostly takes place on a flight from India to San Francisco. Someone has...
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1942
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In this drama, a dedicated forest ranger begins suspecting that a recent series of fires has been caused by arson. He...
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1942
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Lt. Com. Frank V. Martinek's widely circulated comic strip Don Winslow of the Navy was brought to the screen in this...
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1942
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Cult-favorite director Anthony Mann's second filmic effort was the unprepossessing Universal mini-musical Moonlight in...
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1942
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Splendor
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1942
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1942
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1942
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1942
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Laurel & Hardy's second starring vehicle for 20th Century-Fox is arguably their weakest feature film, with the laughs few and...
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1942
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1942
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Bud Abbott & Lou Costello invade the wild west in Ride 'Em Cowboy. The boys play Duke and Willoughby, a couple of rodeo...
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1942
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Timber is a typical Universal Pictures amalgam of he-man virility and endless spools of stock footage from earlier films....
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1942
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A sequel to The Green Hornet, The Green Hornet Strikes Again is a 15-chapter serial that was based upon characters from the...
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1941
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To those under the age of 60, it should be noted that the title of this lively Universal filler was inspired by a popular...
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1941
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In this drama, a South American planter and his neighbors find themselves plagued by vandals who have been destroying their...
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1941
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A schoolteacher battles for women's rights in mid 19th century Wyoming. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1941
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Also known as The Singing Hills, this Gene Autry western boasts a screenplay cowritten by Jesse Lasky Jr. Gene and his...
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1941
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Well-known New York sports promoter Frankie Christopher (Victor Mature) is the prime suspect in the murder of Vicky Lynn...
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1941
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The girl is stenographer Dot Duncan (Lucille Ball); the guy is her boss, stuffy young shipping magnate Stephen Herrick...
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1941
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1941
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William Powell and Myrna Loy re-team for this (literally) crazy screwball comedy about a happily married couple who, thanks...
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1941
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A man trying to make his dying father happy makes his love life very complicated indeed in this musical comedy starring...
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1941
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In this musical comedy, a motley band of musicians have only their extreme poverty in common. They end up writing a hit and...
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1941
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Robin Hood of the Pecos was set immediately after the Civil War, when most of Texas was under the thumb of corrupt northern...
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1941
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Strawberry Blonde is the second, and by far the most well-regarded, of the three film versions of James Hogan's play One...
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1941
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Strange Alibi offered young Warner Bros. contractee Arthur Kennedy to carry a picture all by himself. The star is cast as...
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1941
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The high batting average of 20th Century-Fox's Michael Shayne detective series remained intact with Blue, White and Perfect....
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1941
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Possibly inspired by Universal's The Invisible Woman, Warner Bros.' The Body Disappears is an agreeably daffy comedy with...
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1941
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Having tried to wrest Shirley Temple away from 20th Century-Fox for nearly seven years, MGM was finally able to put the...
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1941
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From first frame to last, foxy Charles Coburn thoroughly dominates the proceedings in the bubbly RKO Radio comedy Unexpected...
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1941
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Though the 1931 Fox release Charlie Chan Carries On apparently no longer exists, modern viewers can get a general idea of the...
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1940
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Old stock shots are blended with freshly filmed material in the Universal programmer Hot Steel. Richard Arlen plays a...
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1940
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1940
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1940
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The once-in-a-lifetime teaming of Mae West and W.C. Fields in My Little Chickadee had the potential for comic greatness: what...
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1940
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Invisible Stripes is a cookie-cutter Warners prison drama which rounds up the usual suspects. George Raft and...
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1940
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Reporter Albertson works to solve a murder case in order to clear his name and get a great story for his paper. ~ Rovi...
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1940
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1940
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In this musical, a sharp witted press agent teams up with an unemployed chorine and dubs her "Miss Manhattan" to promote a...
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1940
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In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman (Deanna Durbin) attends a fair in Austria and buys a card from a...
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1940
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The Refugee was the original release title for the offbeat John Wayne vehicle Three Faces West. Wayne, Sigrid Gurie and...
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1940
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Stereotypes abound in this drama that follows the attempts of a Scottish lad to marry a pretty Irish lassie and join the...
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1940
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Throughout most of the running time of Universal's Double Alibi, it looks as though ostensible hero Stephen Wayne...
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1940
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In this boxing drama, the trouble begins when a fight breaks out at a local gym. When a boxing promoter sees that Dick, who...
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1940
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Gene Autry rescues a young boy from a gang of kidnappers in this delightful musical-Western from Republic Pictures. Having...
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1940
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Young Buffalo Bill was one of a brief series of Roy Rogers "historical westerns" of the early 1940s. Per the title, Rogers...
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1940
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1940
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Hollywood films about the Revolutionary War almost invariably lost money at the box office, and The Howards of Virginia was...
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1940
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The 13-episode Universal serial The Green Hornet is based on the radio series of the same name. Gordon Jones stars as Britt...
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1940
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1940
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With Under Texas Skies, Republic's Three Mesquiteers underwent a slight change of personnel. Robert Livingston remained as...
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1940
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Thunder Afloat is set during the first world war. Wallace Beery plays an veteran tugboat captain who harbors a grudge against...
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1939
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The Our Gang kids must raise 37 cents to pay off neighborhood bully Tommy "Butch" Bond. After earning a dollar for taking...
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1939
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The Missing Daughters of the title are innocent young girls who've been led astray by seedy dance-hall operator Lucky Rogers...
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1939
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James Cagney stars in the humorous Western The Oklahoma Kid, set during the land rush of 1893. John Kincaid (Hugh Sothern)...
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1939
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Dorothy Lamour had been playing "sarong girls" long enough to parody her screen character in 1939's Best of the Blues. Tired...
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1939
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Bing Crosby plays a tune-happy cab driver who finds himself the reluctant recipient of an abandoned baby. Together with his...
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1939
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This musical drama follows a young ghetto kid who dreams of being a classical musician like his idol Jascha Heifetz. He first...
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1939
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In this espionage drama, an inventor creates a way to send television broadcasts across the country and finds himself...
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1939
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Having made a mint with his Bobby Breen films, producer Sol Lesser decide to groom another talented youngster for stardom....
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1939
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Roy Rogers got himself a new sidekick in the disheveled, toothless person of George "Gabby" Hayes in this fine Republic...
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Denbigh
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1939
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Finishing out her Paramount Pictures contract, opera star Gladys Swarthout sings not a single note in the tense little...
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1939
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The Mysterious Miss X would have the audience believe that the very American Michael Whalen and Chick Chandler are a pair of...
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1939
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In this patriotic wartime drama set during WW II, a test plane crashes killing all aboard and causes the locals to accuse...
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1939
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This gangster film is based upon fact as it tells the tale of a determined reporter who has decided to make sure a certain...
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1939
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In this interesting drama, a highly respected straight-arrow Irish cop is pleased when his son follows him onto the force....
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1939
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Based on a novel by Barry Benefield, Chicken Wagon Family affords nearly equal screen time to child star Jane Withers and...
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1939
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Comedy, romance, and song hit the ice in this musical. Larry Hall (James Stewart) is a professional ice skater whose act with...
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1939
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Donald Barry plays the legendary outlaw of the title in this Roy Rogers Western which, needless to say, plays fast and loose...
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1939
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Through a miscarriage of justice, John Ingram (Edward G. Robinson) is convicted of a crime he did not commit and sentenced to...
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1939
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Pat O'Brien is his usual likably obnoxious self in the Warner Bros. newspaper yarn Off the Record. While trying to smash a...
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1939
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Frank Capra's classic comedy-drama established James Stewart as a lead actor in one of his finest (and most archetypal)...
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1939
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Following up their successful film Love Affair, Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne team up again for the romantic melodrama When...
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1939
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Based upon an idea by Broadway columnist Mark Hellinger, The Roaring Twenties opens during World War I as doughboys Eddie...
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1939
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1938
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In this tearful crime melodrama, a waitress becomes so taken with her dream of living in posh luxury and comfort that she...
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1938
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Roy Rogers fans were in for a shock in the opening scenes of Billy the Kid Returns--for there was Rogers, playing the title...
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1938
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1938
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The Marines are Here exhumes the old bromide about the reckless young sprout who learns how to be an all-around good fellow...
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1938
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In Old Chicago was 20th Century-Fox's spin on MGM's San Francisco--a personal saga played out against the backdrop of a...
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1938
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Based on Will Gould's popular comic strip, the 13-episode Universal serial Red Barry stars Buster Crabbe in the title role....
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1938
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Capitalizing on the success of MGM's Thin Man series, virtually every major studio of the 1930s came up with its own...
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1938
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Slight Case of Murder is a breakneck-paced comedy starring Edward G. Robinson as a tough but good-hearted bootlegger. When...
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1938
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The second motion picture version of a Saturday Evening Post story by Dana Burnet, this romantic melodrama was also the...
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1938
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This third film version of Peter B. Kyne's Valley of the Giants benefits from the breahtaking Technicolor location...
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1938
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The visual wizardry in this period action picture about Alaskan fishermen won a special honorary Oscar in the years before...
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1938
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Peck's Bad Boy and his gang of mischievous misfits (including Spanky McFarland) make all kinds of trouble around the circus....
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1938
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Harold Lloyd plays a professor of Egyptology, frightened by the notion that he has fallen under an ancient Egyptian curse....
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1938
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Edward G. Robinson shines in a fine comic role as Dr. Clitterhouse, a brilliant psychiatrist doing research into the criminal...
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1938
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Tip-Off Girls is a worthwhile entry in Paramount's "FBI" series, based on the various writings of
J. Edgar Hoover. The title...
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1938
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The cattle rustlers in Border Cafe, a modern-day western from the RKO B-unit, are Eastern gangsters headed by none other than...
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1937
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A boy learns life-changing lessons about the importance of friendship and the dignity of labor in this adventure saga based...
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1937
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The saga of the Jones Family continues in 1937's Borrowing Trouble. When Pa Jones's drugstore is robbed, the evidence points...
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1937
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1937
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Sentenced to prison for a crime they did not commit, a desperate pair of young lovers attempts to capture the culprits...
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1937
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In this sports drama, framed by the annual Army-Navy football game, a freshman footballer at the Naval Academy falls in love...
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1937
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A feud between taxicab companies forms the basis of this drama. The trouble begins when the hero is double-crossed and...
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A.K. McDonald
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1937
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This musical chronicles 15 years in the life of a New York City Street. In 1912, 52nd Street is a peaceful residential...
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1937
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Adapted by Lillian Hellman from Sidney Kingsley's Broadway play, Dead End concerns itself with several denizens of New York's...
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1937
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Hoping to ape the success of Sol Lesser's Bobby Breen musicals, Republic Pictures fashioned Dangerous Holiday as a movie...
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1937
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There was some novelty value in the fact that an actor whose initials were E.Q. was cast as intellectual sleuth Ellery Queen...
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Inspector
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1937
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This cinematic meringue stars Loretta Young as a young woman whose second husband (Lyle Talbot) is a hard working but dull...
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1937
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The Great Hospital Mystery is based on one of Mignon Eberhardt's "Nurse Sarah Keate" whodunits. Physically and...
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1937
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1937
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Edward G. Robinson offers an excellent turn as a crime lord obsessed with the welfare of his son in this melodramatic crime...
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1937
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The Frame-Up is a timely and typically tacky crime meller from the Columbia film factory. There's dirty work at the...
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1937
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When Errol Flynn insisted that Warner Bros. cook up a non-swashbuckler for his next vehicle, the result was Green Light....
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1937
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A reporter becomes an amateur sleuth to solve the mystery surrounding the death of a magician's wife and a few others. The...
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1937
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Archetypal depression-era stars Henry Fonda and Sylvia Sidney are felicitously teamed in Fritz Lang's You Only Live Once....
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1937
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1937
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Making his debut with Warner Brothers, Henry Fonda plays an apprentice high-voltage lineman working with the no-nonsense, but...
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1937
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In this detective story, a super sleuth is hired by an insurance company to find a stolen emerald belonging to a rich man's...
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1937
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Winchellesque radio commentator Perry Travis (William Gargan) fancies himself a brilliant amateur detective; the cops wish...
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1936
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1936
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Deanna Durbin, the teenaged soprano who literally saved Universal Pictures from bankruptcy, made her feature-film debut in...
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1936
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The Gorgeous Hussy purports to be based on the life of Margaret "Peggy" O'Neill, the controversial wife of early 19th-century...
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1936
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In one of his most successful portrayals of a "living dead" man, Boris Karloff plays John Ellman, an ex-convict who is framed...
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1936
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Musical comedy star Eddie Cantor stars in this story, well suited to his talents, as Eddie Pink, a meek gentleman who works...
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1936
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1936
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Newlywed Carolyn Martin (Barbara Stanwyck) has been raised to expect the finer things in life, but these are things that...
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1936
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In this crime comedy, an ocean liner engineer messes up and ends up relegated to shoveling coal. Later he accepts a lovely...
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1936
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Although Monogram Pictures hadn't yet reorganized as a separate entity in 1936, a few of its releases still managed to make...
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1936
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Based on a novel by Kathleen Shepard, Human Cargo is a lively, tongue-in-cheek melodrama purporting to expose the alien...
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1936
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When widower Stephen Blake (Melvyn Douglas) and divorcee Edith Farnham (Mary Astor) are the only guests at a snowed-in...
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1936
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Myrna Loy plays the glamorous member of a trio of jewel thieves. G-Man Spencer Tracy goes undercover to join the gang when it...
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1936
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Impressed by the popularity of radio program about the exploits of legendary safecracker Jimmy Valentine, advertising man...
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1936
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Former newspaperman Martin Mooney based his script for Exclusive Story on the racket-busting activities of New York district...
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1936
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Enjoying a break from crime-solving, oriental sleuth Charlie Chan (Warner Oland) takes his 12 children to the circus. It...
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1936
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The zany vaudeville comedy team of Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson was still one year away from their smash Broadway hit...
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1936
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Previously filmed in 1917 and 1928, the beloved Gene Stratton-Porter novel Freckles again went before the cameras in 1935....
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1935
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1935
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1935
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Ellen Garfield (Bette Davis) is a neophyte reporter with ambitions big enough to take on assignments usually reserved for...
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1935
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1935
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1935
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In this bedroom farce, an ex-wife overhears her former hubby's new wife and her lover planning a tryst for the weekend while...
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1935
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Like many 1930s Warner Bros. films, Black Fury drew its inspiration from the headlines. The story is adapted from a true-life...
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1935
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In the wake of The Thin Man, every studio in Hollywood scrambled to churn out sophisticated mystery-comedies wherein murders...
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1935
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In this drama, an amateur pilot is driven to living life in the fast lane after he pilots that plane that crashed and killed...
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1935
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Reckless is a delightfully breezy screwball comedy from the same director (Victor Fleming) and star (Jean Harlow) responsible...
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1935
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Mae West is Goin' to Town in this elegant post-Production Code vehicle. West plays Cleo Borden, a nouveau riche cattle...
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1935
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This typically lightning-paced Mascot Studios production stars Heather Angel as the title character, a thrill-seeking...
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1935
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Riff-Raff begins riff-raffing when boastful fisherman Dutch (Spencer Tracy) marries down-to-earth cannery worker Hattie...
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1935
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Love in Bloom ostensibly stars George Burns and Gracie Allen,but the team is actually comedy relief for the romantic leads,...
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1935
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Gene Autry's second starring western for Republic was the well-named Melody Trail. Unlike Autry's inaugural vehicle...
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Timothy
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1935
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1935
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Warner Oland made his fifth appearance as wily Honolulu-based detective Charlie Chan in Fox's Charlie Chan's Courage. Hired...
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1934
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Loretta Young, who became known almost exclusively for playing sweet, wholesome roles, is kind of a shocker in this romantic...
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1934
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In this thriller, a young woman marries a dashing young man who, unbeknownst to her, is a jewel thief. After his latest job,...
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1934
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Joan Crawford is at her most glamorous (a different outfit and hairdo in each scene!) in the romantic melodrama Chained....
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1934
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1934
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1934
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In this drama, an old woman gets disgusted by her relatives and runs away from home. She then begins working as a cook in...
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1934
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1934
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Again forsaking his traditional western garb, Tim McCoy plays a rough-and-ready fireman in Columbia's A Man's Game. During...
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1934
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If you can accept blonde, blue-eyed Marion Davies disguising herself in blackface, chances are you'll swallow the rest of...
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1934
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James Cagney manages to retain his pre-Code cockiness within post-Code limitations in the likeable St. Louis Kid. Cagney and...
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1934
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Radio tenor Lanny Ross made a game but unsuccessful bid for film stardom in Paramount's Melody in Spring. Though Ross, cast...
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1934
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Born on the proverbial wrong side of the tracks, Lady Lee (Barbara Stanwyck) rises to prominence as a professional gambler....
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1934
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Although it is included in TV's "Shock Theater" passage, there's nothing overtly frightening about the heavily plotted...
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1934
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A rather weak entry in Tim McCoy's Columbia oeuvre, this Western was released to smaller venues in December of 1934, but not...
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1934
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Notorious as the movie that gangster John Dillinger attended on the night he was killed, Manhattan Melodrama has weathered...
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1934
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"I'm the finest woman who walked the streets," declares bejeweled, hip-swishing Lady Lou (Mae West) at the beginning of She...
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1933
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Columbia's Buck Jones western series was winding down when Unknown Valley was released in mid-1934. Jones plays Bob Gordon,...
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Elder Crossett
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1933
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In this boxing drama/murder mystery, an aspiring small-town prizefighter ignores the objections of his pacifistic father, a...
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1933
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If Queen Christina is not the best of Greta Garbo's films (as many Garbo fanatics insist), it is certainly the most...
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1933
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Love turns into an unhealthy obsession in this offbeat drama. Millie (Zasu Pitts) and Peggy (Boots Mallory) are two friends...
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1933
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In this melodrama a Lower East Side doctor struggles to earn enough money to pay for his son's tuition in a prestigious...
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1933
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William Powell is a poor East Side lawyer who works his way up the ladder to assistant prosecutor. He isn't too particular...
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1933
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1933
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Often (and accurately) described as a model of the whodunit genre, The Kennel Murder Case stars William Powell, making his...
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1933
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While Tonart Studios is filming a gangster movie, one of the actors is killed in a shooting accident. After several other...
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1933
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Directed by Wesley Ruggles, the musical sendup of College Humor centers around the blooming love between a college professor...
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1933
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Cecil B. DeMille's This Day and Age was perhaps the most Draconian entry in Hollywood's early-1930s "vigilante" film cycle....
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1933
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1933
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George Arliss is a world-renowned pianist, engaged to a young woman (Bette Davis) much younger than himself. An explosion...
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1932
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1932
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This drama is a compilation of stories occurring in the Empire State Building with the focus on topics such as bank...
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1932
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1932
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In this drama, the son of a shipping tycoon is left to reflect upon his life after his lover abandons him. He decides that...
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1932
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Set in exotic Singapore, this crime drama centers on a nightclub singer whose life is torn asunder when she is implicated in...
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1932
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Tim McCoy played a cavalry officer dishonorably discharged for selling weapons to the Indians in this arguably his finest...
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1932
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The factual story of H.A.W. Tabor and "Baby Doe" was the inspiration of Silver Dollar. Edward G. Robinson plays the Tabor...
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1932
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Two small-town youths head for the Big Apple and somehow get mixed up with mobsters during a visit to the title park in this...
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1932
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This drama, made while New York mayor Jimmy Walker was still being reviled by newspapers for similar actions, follows a...
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1932
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In this western, a Texas Ranger is assigned to bring in a woman who is causing trouble in a nearby town. He soon comes to...
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1932
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A troubled production that suffered from both severe cuts and retakes under a different director (Edward H. Griffith), this...
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1931
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1931
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In this western, an orphan who is discovered alone in the desert is raised by a kindly family. The only dark spot in their...
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1931
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24 Hours is all it takes for tippling married man Jim Towner (Clive Brook) to go from social respectability to convict...
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1931
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1931
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Writer/director Tay Garnett reunited the stars of his fabulously successful Her Man (1930) for the 1931 RKO crime drama...
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1931
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Murder, blackmail and honor are the principal plot motivations of Silence. Clive Brook stars as Jim Warren, a gentleman thief...
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1931
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In this boxing drama, a prizefighter is left by his money-grubbing showgirl wife who aspires to be a movie star. The...
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1931
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Blonde Crazy is the kind of amoral fun that disappeared from Hollywood after 1933, once the Production Code forced morality...
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1931
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1931
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Previously filmed in 1917 and 1922, Willard Mack's barnstorming stage melodrama Kick In was exhumed again in 1931 as a...
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1931
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1931
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Nancy Carroll brings a touch of freshness to the well-worn plot convolutions of Devil's Holiday. Ms. Carroll plays a...
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1930
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In this mystery set at an Army post, two women are having a passionate affair with a soldier. The trouble begins when one of...
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1930
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In this musical comedy, a bored office clerk finds much-needed excitement by masquerading as a millionaire. To do so, he...
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1930
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CPO Higgins
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1930
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In this corny disaster drama, patrons of an underground speakeasy in New Orleans attend a victory party and end up terrified...
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1930
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In this youthful sports comedy two football jocks, Eddie Smith and Tiny Courtlay are grid iron rivals competing to win the...
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Coach Donovan
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1930
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The life of merchant seamen is realistically portrayed in this adventure.
The story centers around two sailors who find...
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1930
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This tuneful tale revolves around a shy warehouse clerk who, at the encouragement of his girlfriend finally musters up his...
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1929
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Completed as a silent film, Cecil B. DeMille's The Godless Girl was quickly converted into a part-talkie by the simple...
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1929
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1929
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Long before Richard Harding Davis' "Gallegher" stories were serialized for television by Walt Disney, popular silent-screen...
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1928
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Toby
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1928
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When Cecil B. DeMille's own production company was absorbed by Pathe in 1928, several DeMille contractees went along for the...
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1928
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1928
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Directed by Fred C. Newmeyer, Warming Up is an early baseball film starring Richard Dix and Jean Arthur. After pitcher Bert...
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Doyle
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1928
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1928
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1928
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In this low-budget romantic comedy, a beautiful model from Paris sets her sights on the heart of an American ex-lover and so...
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1928
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Sports-loving inventor Richard Shelby (Richard Dix) develops an "Elasto-Tweed" golf suit then hits the road in hopes of...
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1928
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Douglas MacLean, who made his mark during the 1920s as a light comedian, stars as a Marine sergeant in this comedy-drama,...
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Screenwriter, Kelly, the Gob
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1927
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Screenwriter
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1927
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Mr. Greer
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1927
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Book Author, Dave Barton
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1926
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Andrew MacTavish
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1926
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1925
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Earl Derr Biggers' novel was made into a play by George M. Cohan and had already come to the screen twice before (once with...
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1925
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Once he was established as a star, light comedian Douglas MacLean began producing his own films. This was one of a string of...
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Screenwriter
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1925
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1925
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The drama opens with a prologue in which an innocent boy (Eddie Phillips) is sent to the electric chair and executed before...
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1925
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Frank Lloyd, who directed The Sea Beast, tried to create another epic with this Rex Beach tale of the 1897 gold rush. The...
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1925
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Emory Johnson directed a series of dramas that focused on different, primarily blue-collar professions. He made films about...
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1925
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This drama was based on the play by Henry Wallace. Two Englishmen, Dick Chappell (George O'Brien) and Roddy Dunton (Walter...
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1925
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Wealthy John Woodbury (Douglas MacLean) is mistaken for a patient by a trio of overeager doctors. After being put through a...
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1924
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Although Colleen Moore made this drama before Flaming Youth, it came out later, which wound up being a big help at the box...
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1924
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Even if the seal of the American Legion didn't appear at the beginning of this Monogram feature, it would be pretty obvious...
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1924
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William Russell was a popular serial and western star of the early 1920s whose personal nirvana came when he was signed by...
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1923
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Light-comedy actor Douglas MacLean stars in this hilarious mystery capably directed by James W. Horne. Bruce MacAllister, a...
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1923
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Released in 12 chapters, two reels each, this Universal serial starred the veteran William Desmond as Phineas Fogg III, the...
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Wallace J. Brenton
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1923
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This farce was based on the musical comedy by Otto A. Harbach and Louis A. Hirsch, which was adapted from the play The...
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1923
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Whole films had been written around song titles before, but it had been years since the ditty "Second Hand Rose" had been...
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1922
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This drama was a rare directing effort from screenwriter Marion Fairfax. Sam Clairborne Sr. (Charles Mailes) wills his estate...
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1922
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Silent cowboy-star Hoot Gibson specialized in playing ruffled, slightly comical cowpokes suffering from a mix of shyness and...
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1922
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This Western -- which like many silent-era pictures was based on a Saturday Evening Post story (this one by Peter B. Kyne) --...
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Red Barton
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1922
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Universal star Herbert Rawlinson has the lead in this rather unusual romantic crime drama. James Harrington Court (Rawlinson)...
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Buck Lindsay
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1922
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The Great Night hasn't an original moment in its entire 5 reels, but audiences went home satisfied anyway. William Russell...
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Jack Denton
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1922
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Dick
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1922
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This entertaining little silent comedy stars Earl Schenck and Betsy Ross Clark). The pair play Harlan Carr and his wife, who...
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1922
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World War I veteran Frank Mayo wasn't Afraid to Fight in the battlefields of France. But when he becomes a professional...
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1922
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Florence Lawrence -- the original "Biograph Girl" -- attempted a comeback with this human interest drama. Katherine Nevin...
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1922
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This melodrama, with all its standard trappings, was adapted the stage play by Pierce Kingsley, which in turn was based on...
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John Simpson
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1922
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Hobart Bosworth both produced and starred in this rugged drama. Lars Larson (Bosworth) and John Thomas (Wade Boteler) are...
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John Thomas
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1921
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1921
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George Beban, who was known for his ethnic characterizations, especially Italians, wrote, directed, and starred in this...
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1921
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Bebe Daniels breezes through the comic complications of Ducks and Drakes. Daniels plays Teddy Simpson, the flirtatious...
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1921
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Bebe Daniels stars in this adaptation of the Miriam Michelson novel (and play), In the Bishop's Carriage. Thief Tom Dorgan...
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Tom Dorgan
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1921
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Johnny Hardwick (Douglas MacLean) is the owner of the fastest horse in the next race. Although it's almost guaranteed that he...
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Mr. Duffy
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1921
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Katherine MacDonald, who was known more for her beauty than for her acting ability, is the star of this satirical thriller,...
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1921
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With a title like this one, it's practically a given that this silent picture starred Charles Ray. But this time around,...
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1920
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