Shelley Winters won an Academy Award for her searing performance as Rose-Ann d'Arcy in A Patch of Blue. The star, however, is...
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Ole Pa
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1965
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Aunt Bee is swept off her feet when her former sweetheart Roger Hanover (Wallace Ford) pays a visit after 20 years. But Andy...
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Roger Hanover
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1964
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In this modernized version of Grace Miller White's popular novel, the feisty Tess moves to the Pennsylvania Dutch country...
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1961
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Warlock offers us a mean-spirited, mercenary Henry Fonda and an honest, peaceloving Richard Widmark. A Wyatt Earp-like...
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1959
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1958
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Spencer Tracy stars in John Ford's sentimental adaptation of Edwin O'Connor's novel about the final campaign of a big city...
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1958
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Thornton Wilder's 1938 stage play The Merchant of Yonkers was based on an old British stage farce by John Oxenford (which in...
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1958
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Stagecoach to Fury was one of several "pocket westerns" released through 20th Century-Fox's Regal Films subsidiary. The...
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Lester Farrell
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1956
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N. Richard Nash's play The Rainmaker has always attracted the most flamboyant of performers, and this 1956 film version is no...
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1956
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Albert Dark
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1956
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Cashing in on the popularity of TV's Davy Crockett and the jukebox favorite "Yellow Rose of Texas", Allied Artists came up...
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Delaney
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1956
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Thunder over Arizona was the second Republic feature to be lensed in the shortlived Naturama widescreen process. Running a...
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Hal Styles
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1956
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Filmed around the same time as Gunfight at the OK Corral, Wichita is a more modest--and to some, more entertaining--slant on...
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Whiteside
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1955
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The Spoilers is the fourth and (very likely) last film version of Rex Beach's rugged Alaskan adventure yarn. Set during the...
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1955
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An unusually matronly Jane Wyman plays the title character in Lucy Gallant. Adapted from a novel by Margaret Cousins, the...
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1955
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Charles O'Leary
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1955
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Up until its surisingly mundane finale, A Lawless Street is one of the best of the Randolph Scott westerns of the 1950s....
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Dr. Amos Wynn
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1955
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Based on a Zane Grey novel published over a decade after the author's death, The Maverick Queen stars Barbara Stanwyck in the...
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Jamie
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1955
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1954
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Wally Higgins
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1954
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According to some eyewitness reports, the feud between Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis was at its peak during the filming of...
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Sam Morley
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1954
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Within its own modest limits, The Great Jesse James Raid is a well-crafted western. Willard Parker plays Jesse James, who...
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Elias Hobbs
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1953
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Virile leading man Phil Carey heads the cast of the 3D western The Nebraskan. Carey plays U.S. Army scout Wade Harper,...
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McBride
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1953
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In this boxing drama, a deaf-mute prizefighter whose career is on the rise falls in love with a gold digging singer who only...
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Jack Richardson
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1952
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Lloyd Bacon wrapped up his lengthy directorial career with the innocuous comedy She Couldn't Say No. "She" is a young heiress...
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Joe
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1952
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Hard-working leading lady Jane Nigh attains top billing in 1952's Rodeo. It's all about rough-and-ready gal Nancy Cartwright...
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Barbecue Jones
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1952
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Nick Robey (John Garfield) is a down-on-his-luck two-bit hood, fast on his feet but a little slow on the uptake. His running...
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Mr. Dobbs
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1951
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In this western, a cowboy rides out to avenge the death of his fiancee. Three outlaws are responsible for the murder. He...
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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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1951
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This second screen version of Ernest Hemingway's To Have and Have Not is closer in spirit to the original than the first...
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Duncan
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1950
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This whimsical fantasy about a local drunk's 6' 3 1/2" imaginary rabbit pal was a smash hit (and a Pulitzer Prize winner) on...
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1950
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1950
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Although Marie Windsor plays the title role in Dakota Lil, she is shunted away to third billing, right after male leads...
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Carter
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1950
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Hoping to shed itself of the onus of its low-budget predecessor PRC Pictures, Eagle-Lion productions occasionally invested in...
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Talky Carson
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1949
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As shown by the clock face that opens and closes the film, The Set-Up takes place within a compact 72 minutes, with the...
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Gus
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1949
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In this crime drama, a loving husband listens to his wife and fakes his own death so that she can get her hands on his...
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Sam Grover
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1948
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In this drama, a killer and a driver accidently run over a girl while fleeing a murder scene. The pursuing detective is sure...
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Ferria
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1948
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Eagle-Lion studios inaugurated its new "big budget" western policy with 1948's The Man From Texas. James Craig stars as the...
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Jed
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1948
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Randolph Scott is a single-minded gunman bent on tracking down and killing the white man responsible for an Indian raid on a...
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1948
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The moodily evocative docudrama T-Men stars Dennis O'Keefe as Dennis O'Brien, a treasury agent determined to bring a...
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Schemer
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1947
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Lou Dicketts
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1947
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In Dead Reckoning, Rip Murdock (Humphrey Bogart) recites the film's plotline to a priest in the confessional. Murdock and...
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McGee
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1947
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A young woman rides out for vengeance against the marshall who killed her notorious outlaw mother in this western sequel to...
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Bailey
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1947
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Lucille Ball stars as the wife of a war correspondent, anxiously awaiting her husband's return. Ball is convinced that hubby...
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1946
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1946
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In this drama, a husband becomes a single parent after his wife dies in childbirth. He is so engrossed in his newspaper...
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Bill Conley
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1946
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With an ingenious script by Roy Chanslor, this modest, but imaginative film noir is notable for the strong performance by...
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Joe
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1946
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Art critic and forgery expert George Steele (Pat O'Brien) is apprehended by the police as he desperately tries to break into...
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Cochrane
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1946
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Director Allan Dwan moved to Republic Pictures in 1946, there to make the same sort of marital farce he'd been specializing...
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1946
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In his first film in two years, James Cagney stars as Nick Condon, the American editor of a pre-WW2 Tokyo newspaper. When two...
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Ollie Miller
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1945
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For at least 63 of its 68 minutes, Republic's The Woman Who Came Back is an exciting and compelling journey into the realm of...
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1945
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Greg McClure stars as legendary boxer John L. Sullivan in this screen biography of the famous fighter. Known as "The Boston...
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1945
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As Alfred Hitchcock's classic psychothriller opens, the staff of a posh mental asylum eagerly awaits the arrival of the new...
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1945
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Jack Oakie and Peggy Ryan head the cast of the Universal "B plus" musical On Stage Everybody. As indicated by the title, this...
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1945
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John Brickley (Robert Montgomery) believes in PT boats, and as a lowly U.S. Navy lieutenant stationed in the Philippines,...
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1945
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PRC's Machine Gun Mama is the sort of comedy that tries to get laughs by invoking the name of Brooklyn. Wallace Ford and El...
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John O'Reilly
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1944
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1944
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Secret Command features Pat O'Brien as a onetime foreign correspondent in the wartime employ of the FBI. Under an assumed...
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1944
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Whatever poor Bela Lugosi may have done in a past life, the man did not deserve The Ape Man, arguably the worst of his...
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Jeff Carter
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1943
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The time is World War II. A group of disillusioned French soldiers are approached by Nazi troops and promised safe passage to...
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1943
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Filmed on location in Florida (you can even see the mosquitoes!), The Marines Come Through stars Wallace Ford and Grant...
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Singapore
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1943
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Teresa Wright plays Charlie, a small-town high-schooler who enjoys a symbiotic relationship with her favorite uncle, also...
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1943
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X Marks the Spot was the first of eight brisk wartime-oriented melodramas, each running slightly under an hour, produced and...
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1942
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You cannot keep a good mummy down forever and Kharis is back in this sequel to The Mummy's Hand, which itself was something...
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1942
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Victor Mature and Lucille Ball top the star-studded cast of RKO Radio's Seven Days Leave. Mature plays Johnny Grey, an...
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1942
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In this crime comedy, a gang of reformed criminals takes over the town bank and must then fight with their temptation to rob...
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1942
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The title neatly gives away the ending in RKO Radio's Scattergood Survives a Murder. Guy Kibbee once again stars as...
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Wally Collins
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1942
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Ace police reporter Wally Williams (Wallace Ford) is so devoted to his job that he even neglects his new bride Alice...
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Wally Williams
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1941
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In the wake of Abbott & Costello's Buck Privates, every studio in Hollywood began cranking out service comedies. Warner...
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1941
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The big-band mystique of the 1940s was explored by Blues in the Night. Future directors Richard Whorf and Elia Kazan star as,...
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1941
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Bucolic lawyer John Wayne takes on big-city corruption in A Man Betrayed. He sets out to prove that an above-suspicion...
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Casey
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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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Stars-on-the-downslide Wallace Ford and Marian Marsh briefly rallied in the above-average Monogram melodrama Murder by...
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Bob White
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1941
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In this drama, a despondent fellow contemplates suicide after he is abandoned by his last girlfriend. To ensure that his...
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1940
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Originally slated for released through Grand National Pictures, Isle of Destiny was redirected to RKO Radio when Grand...
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"Milly" Barnes
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1940
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1940
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This "Little Tough Guys" series entry finds the kids gainfully employed building airplane engines. Hoping to get into the air...
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1940
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Two Girls on Broadway is an updated reworking of MGM's Oscar-winning 1929 musical Broadway Melody. Joan Blondell and...
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1940
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Egyptian mystic Andoheb (George Zucco) is ordered by his High Priest (Eduardo Ciannelli) to stand guard over the sacred mummy...
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Babe Jenson
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1940
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William K. Howard, a once-prestigious director fallen on hard times in 1939, proved that he still had the "right stuff" with...
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Frankie (adult)
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1939
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In this drama, a black American corporal gets court-martialed for a murder and receives a death sentence. Unfortunately, he...
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1937
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Men may come and men may go, but silly service comedies like Swing It Sailor go on forever. James Dunn and Ray Mayer star as...
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Pete Kelly
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1937
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This British musical comedy boasts one of the most eclectic casts in film history. Brash Wallace Ford and smoothie Ben Lyon...
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Peter Jackson
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1937
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Exiled to Shanghai uses the then-waging wars in Spain and China as backdrops for a familiar "rival reporters" yarn....
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Ted Young
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1937
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Raoul Walsh, best remembered for his rough-and-tumble action pictures, made this film on a rare loan-out to a British studio....
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Jim Tracey
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1937
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Jimmy Flavin
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1936
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Wandering around in the darkness, an amnesiac (Walter Abel) can't shake the feeling that he's murdered someone. When it...
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Hillyer
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1936
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This crime drama is set in the fictional San Francisco eatery, Mary Grady's Chowder House which is presided over by the...
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Steve
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1936
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Despite its title, things get pretty noisy in MGM's Absolute Quiet. Lionel Atwill heads the cast as reclusive financier G. A....
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1936
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An innocent but admittedly none-too-bright victim of circumstance, Mary Burns (played by perennial movie victim...
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Harper
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1935
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This truly offbeat filmization of Jean Bart's stage drama The Man Who Reclaimed His Head has been misleadingly released to TV...
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1935
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Richard Cromwell stars in Columbia's Men of the Hour as dedicated newsreel cameraman Dave Durkin. When Dave and his...
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Andy Blane
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1935
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This amusing lampoon of low-budget filmmaking is set in motion when fly-by-night entrepreneur Bradley Page talks small-towner...
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1935
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Charming but ruthless fugitive gangster Dutra (Brian Donlevy) demands that a doctor (Oscar Apfel) perform plastic surgery...
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Joe Haynes
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1935
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In this thriller, a humble cab driver is mistaken for the dead heir to an enormous fortune. Once the resemblance is noticed,...
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1935
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The film that revived Edward G. Robinson's career after a string of flops, along with A Slight Case of Murder (1938), it was...
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Mr. Healy
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1935
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When he's shipped off to prison on a tax-evasion charge, millionaire Van Dyke (Walter Connolly) breathes a sigh of relief: at...
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1935
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Hoping to avoid the new inheritance tax, eccentric millionaire Jasper Whyte (Charles Grapewin) gathers together his greedy...
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Joe Luvalle
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1935
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To the world at large, Mr. Wong (Bela Lugosi) is a harmless shopkeeper in the Chinatown district (where no one seems unduly...
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Jason Barton
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1935
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Wallace Ford plays Terry McCall, a small-town baseball star with a monumental ego. Terry's gift for self-aggrandizement...
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Terry McCall
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1935
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In this actioner, a race car driver is recuperating from an accident when he meets a charming waitress and decides to go...
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Bob Crane
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1935
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The Informer, Liam O'Flaherty's novel of the the Irish "troubles" of the early 1920s, was first filmed in England in 1929,...
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Frankie McPhillip
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1935
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In an unusual move, MGM released its film version of Sidney Kingsley's Pulitzer-Prize winning play Men in White while the...
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1934
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1934
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Previously filmed in 1929, Philip MacDonald's novel Patrol was lensed by director John Ford as The Lost Patrol in 1934....
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Morelli
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1934
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1934
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Money Means Nothing to tire salesman Kenneth (Wallace Ford), mainly because he doesn't have any. But when Kenneth falls in...
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Kenneth
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1934
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Warren William plays a high-powered ambitious executive who unflinchingly steamrolled his way to the top without regard for...
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Martin West
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1933
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This drama, set within a boarding house, centers around a pregnant show girl abandoned by her boyfriend, a married man who...
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Vic
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1933
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Renowned animal-trainer Clyde Beatty plays himself as a circus owner in this adventure that centers on an enthusiastic youth...
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1933
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Three-Cornered Moon is regarded by many film buffs as the first of the genuine "screwball comedies." Claudette Colbert stars...
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Kenneth Rimplegar
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1933
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Sol Glass (Ferdinand Gottschalk) is a man with a problem -- in the depths of the Great Depression, his garment business can't...
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1933
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After suffering magnificently in picture after picture at RKO and Paramount, Helen Twelvetrees was subjected to even more...
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Chick Rollins
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1933
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Top-billed Bela Lugosi has only a minor role in this routine variant on the Old Dark House scenario, playing a mysterious...
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Tom Hartley
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1933
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Bill Bogard
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1933
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Arthur Westlake
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1933
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Headline Shooter is a brisk comedy/melodrama about a newsreel photographer (William Gargan). He prefers to risk his neck to...
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1933
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"Are you listening?" was the catchphrase of early-1930s radio personality Tony Wons. Though Wons does not appear in the 1932...
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1932
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A reluctantly appointed police chief in a crime-riddled city takes his job seriously and works hard to clean the streets of...
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Ed Fitzpatrick
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1932
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Maggie Warren (Marie Dressler) is the matriarch of a banking family who has run the Warren Bank for years, until she turns it...
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1932
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Directed by Victor Fleming, Wet Parade chronicles the effects of alcoholism and the Prohibition on the lives of two families...
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1932
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Produced by William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan Production for MGM, this well made Grand Hotel clone was based on a 1931...
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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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The genesis of MGM's Freaks was a magazine piece by Ted Robbins titled Spurs. The story involved a terrible revenge enacted...
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Phroso
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1932
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Joan Crawford is her usual upwardly mobile self in this melodrama co-starring Clark Gable. She plays Marian Martin, a cynical...
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Al Manning
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1931
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In this crime drama, the writer of a Broadway newspaper column finds himself accused of murder after a showgirl, who had...
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Ted Lloyd
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1931
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