This western chronicles the struggle of a post-Civil War mountain family to prove that they did not betray the Confederate...
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1975
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When their aging father (Walter Brennan) is convinced his second wife is out to kill him, his four adult daughters gather...
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1972
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In this drama, two private investigators must find a serial killer after the 12-year investigation of the police fails...
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1972
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The Day They Hanged Kid Curry is the syndication title for the 90-minute second-season opener of the TV series Alias Smith...
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1971
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In this made-for-television western adventure, a gambler has many exciting experiences while looking for the rightful owner...
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1970
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The Over the Hill Gang Rides Again is a TV-movie sequel to 1969's ratings-grabbing The Over the Hill Gang, which told of a...
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1970
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James Garner is a nothing short of a delight in this western spoof that stands western clichés on their ears. The film takes...
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Pa Danby
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1969
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One of the better and more diverting of ABC's first full season of made-for-television movies, The Over-the-Hill Gang was a...
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1969
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Most of the 23 episodes in Season Two of the peripatetic western series The Guns of Will Sonnett adhere to the formula...
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Will Sonnett
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1968
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Set in 1888, this tuneful fact-based Disney production concerns the attempts of a musically talented family of Dakota...
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Grandpa Bower
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1968
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Seen on ABC's Friday-night schedule during its first season, The Guns of Will Sonnett firmly establishes its premise in the...
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Will Sonnett
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1967
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Harry Lucas (Jim Hutton) is a U.S. Mint employee who scrambles to recover $50,000 he accidentally destroyed in this...
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Pop Gillis
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1967
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D.J. Mulrooney/Knobby
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1967
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A heartless actor scrambles to the top of show business' sleazy summit in this drama. Frank Fane (Stephen Boyd) is a...
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1966
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Originally trade-previewed as Those Crazy Calloways, Disney's Those Calloways is a lengthy, anecdotal film about a highly...
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Alf Simes
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1965
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Walter Andrews
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1964
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In this western, originally designed as the pilot of a television show that never made it to air, a self-designated preacher...
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1962
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Filmed in panoramic Cinerama, this star-studded, epic Western adventure is a true cinematic classic. Three legendary...
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1962
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Set in Texas during the late 1860s, Rio Bravo is a story of men (and women) and a town under siege. Presidio County Sheriff...
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Stumpy
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1959
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This video contains a star-studded broadcast of the 1959 Emmy Awards Ceremony. It also contains a lively comedy short from...
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1959
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Debbie Reynolds stars as Tammy in this romantic comedy of a country girl living in the South who cares for pilot Peter Brent...
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Grandpa
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1957
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In this adventure, a convict gets released and immediately begins looking for the $250,000 in loot a fellow inmate hid...
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Uncle George
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1957
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Prominent surgeon Walter Brennan comes to the conclusion that his talents are on loan from God. He retires from his lucrative...
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1957
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Emerging victorious from a poker game, Paladin (Richard Boone) finds out that the prize is not so sweet: It seems that he has...
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1957
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Ned Otis
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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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Jake, Jailer
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1956
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The focus of this heartfelt family film is Skeeter (Brandon de Wilde), a 14-year-old orphan who lives with his aged Uncle...
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Uncle Jesse
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1956
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The glamorous myths of the Hollywood Western fade as the truth about the reprehensible treatment of American Indians comes to...
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1956
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In this upbeat drama, a reformed father returns to the Arkansas farm of his estranged family after having spent too many...
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Jeff Storys
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1956
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This powerfully tense, fast-paced suspense drama also yields a grim social message about racial prejudice. Spencer Tracy is...
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Doc Velie
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1955
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One of the most entertaining of the Western movies to come out of the 1950s, this is a Stewart vehicle in which he must take...
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Ben Tatem
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1955
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1955
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Doc Lacy
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1955
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Sam Brannon
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1954
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Simon Bhumer
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1954
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Sea of Lost Ships is partly a tribute to the U.S. Coast Guard, but mostly a typical Republic Pictures melange of action,...
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Chief O'Malley
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1953
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Dale Robertson stars as Sam Crockett, a widowed rancher trying to make a go of his small spread with his father...
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Firth Crockett
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1952
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Lure of the Wilderness is a remake of 1941's Swamp Water, with Walter Brennan repeating his role as a half-crazed fugitive...
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Jim Harper
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1952
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Maj. Gen. Wolfe
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1951
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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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Tim 'Pop' Keith
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1951
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Though RKO Radio Pictures was, in 1951, still faithful to the concept of "B" westerns starring Tim Holt, the studio was more...
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Doc Butcher
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1950
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Showdown is the story of a trail boss named Shad Jones (Bill Elliott) whose younger brother is murdered. Knowing that a...
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Capt. MacKellar
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1950
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William Howard
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1950
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Curtain Call at Cactus Creek is a combination of the western, comedy and musical genres. Donald O'Connor plays Edward...
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Rimrock
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1950
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A Ticket to Tomahawk has sometimes been described as a musical western satire, but in fact is more "straight" western than...
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Terence Sweeney
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1950
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Singer-bandleader Vaughn ("Racing with the Moon") Monroe made a tentative stab at movie stardom in 1950. Singing Guns casts...
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Dr. Mark
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1950
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A mule-stubborn farmer is determined to avoid modern technology and nearly destroys what is left of his family in this...
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Mr. Matthews
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1949
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In pageant-like fashion, Warner Bros.' Task Force traces the history of the American aircraft carrier, as experienced by a...
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Pete Richard
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1949
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The age-old enmity between cattle ranchers and settlers once again takes center stage in this slightly above-average Western...
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Pop Courteen
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1949
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One of the best "psychological" westerns of the 1940s, RKO Radio's Blood on the Moon stars Robert Mitchum as itinerant cowboy...
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Kris Barden
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1948
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John Wayne -- showing off a darker side to his screen persona than we'd previously seen -- portrays Thomas Dunson, a...
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Nadine Groot
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1948
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Though the title sounds like something from a Big Band era tune, it actually refers to commands used during the training of...
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Tony Maule
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1948
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Allan Dwan directs the family-oriented drama Driftwood, starring nine-year-old Natalie Wood. Orphan Jenny Hollingsworth...
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Murph
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1947
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One of the greatest movie Westerns, John Ford's My Darling Clementine is hardly the most accurate film version of the Wyatt...
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Old Man Clanton
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1946
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In this romantic melodrama, Bette Davis plays twin sisters for the first time (she would do so again in 1964's Dead Ringer)....
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Eben Folgor
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1946
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Otto Preminger directed this romantic musical (something of a change of pace for the rather serious-minded director) set in...
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Jesse Rogers
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1946
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In this film noir with romantic overtones, con man and cardsharp Nick Blake (John Garfield) returns home after serving in...
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Pop Gruber
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1946
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Captain Bounce
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1945
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Humphrey Bogart plays Harry Morgan, owner-operator of charter boat in wartime Martinique. Morgan's right-hand man is Eddie...
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Eddie
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1944
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Featherhead
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1944
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In this touching drama, city-slicker Sparke Thorton goes to live on his aunt and uncle's horse farm in the country. The...
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J.P. "Thunder" Bolt
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1944
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In this bit of WWII propaganda (designed to boost support of America's alliance with Russia against Germany), Kolya...
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Karp
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1943
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This airy bit of MGM fluff stars Lana Turner as small-town soda clerk Peggy Evans. After telling off the self-important new...
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Cornelius Burden
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1943
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Hangmen Also Die is set in Czechoslovakia during the Nazi occupation. Czech loyalist Brian Donlevy assassinates the vicious...
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Prof. Stephan Novotny
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1943
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"It's box office poison," producer Samuel Goldwyn is said to have exclaimed when he heard the idea of filming the life story...
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Sam Blake
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1942
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Rear Admiral Stephen Thomas' (Charles Laughton) spoken tribute to "the finest Naval officer I knew" provides the framework...
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1942
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One would never know it from the title, but This Woman is Mine is a virile seafaring yarn dealing with the northern fur...
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Capt. Jonathan Thorn
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1941
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The first of director Frank Capra's independent productions (in partnership with Robert Riskin), Meet John Doe begins with...
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The Colonel
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1941
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Noted French director Jean Renoir made his American debut with this 1941 film. Walter Brennan plays Tom Keefer, a man who is...
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Tom Keefer
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1941
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When World War I hero Alvin York agreed to sell the movie rights to his life story to Warner Bros., it was on three...
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Pastor Rosier Pile
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1941
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Nice Girl? answers its own question by casting the relentlessy nice Deanna Durbin in the title role. In her first truly adult...
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Hector Titus, Postman
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1941
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Jack Oakie is near the top of his form as Boley Bolenciecwcz, the best college football player to come down the pike in a...
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Grandpa
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1941
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Kenneth Roberts' fact-based novel Northwest Passage would seem too raw and explicit a book to be considered for an MGM film...
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Hunk Marriner
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1940
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The success of 1938's Kentucky prompted 20th Century-Fox to come up with the similar (though not entirely identical)...
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William Stewart
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1940
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The town of Vinegaroon, TX, is the home to Judge Roy Bean (Walter Brennan), who calls himself "The Only Law West of the...
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Judge Roy Bean
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1940
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Walter Ash
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1939
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Twentieth Century-Fox borrowed Spencer Tracy, from MGM for the sprawling (yet economically produced) historical drama Stanley...
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Jeff Slocum
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1939
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Originally designed for exhibition at the 1939 World's Fair, Land of Liberty is a 137-minute compendium of filmclips from...
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1939
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Jim
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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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Prof. Lawson
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1939
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Katharine Hepburn's association with RKO Radio Pictures came to an abrupt end when she refused to star in the studio's...
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Mr. Popham
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1938
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The blue grass of Kentucky was seen in three-strip Technicolor for the first time in this rambling racetrack drama. Sally...
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Peter Goodwin
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1938
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Ezra Peavey
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1938
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After an eccentric young woman (Merle Oberon) is left on her father's estate to keep her from spoiling his Presidential bid,...
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Sugar
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1938
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In the rough-and-tumble world of post-Civil War Texas, ex-Confederate soldier Kirk Jordan (Randolph Scott) crosses paths with...
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Chuckawalla, Foreman
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1938
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Muff Potter
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1938
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Returning from a trip, wealthy seaman Cappy Ricks (Walter Brennan) is annoyed to find his home automated, his daughters'...
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Cappy Ricks
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1937
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Wild and Woolly stars young Jane Withers as a hoydenish resident of a modern frontier town. Revelling in the town's 50th...
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Gramp Flynn
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1937
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Tala Birell, one of the more talented of the Garbo wannabes of the 1930s, stars in the Universal quickie She's Dangerous. The...
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"Ote" O'Leary
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1937
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In this drama, a girl from a small town in Pennsylvania dreams of being a star while she goes to school. The trouble is, no...
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Uncle Hugo
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1937
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This lively riverboat musical shows off the vocal and terpsichorean talents of former Ziegfeld Follies star Barbara Stanwyck...
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Newt Holley
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1936
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1936
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Set in the woodlands of Wisconsin, Come and Get It stars Edward Arnold as a logger-turned-lumber tycoon. In his rise to the...
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Swan Bostrom
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1936
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In this western, three desperadoes rob the New Jerusalem Bank and flee across the desert where they find a seemingly...
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Gus
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1936
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1936
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1936
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This comedy short puts The Three Stooges into a medieval setting and opens with a cameo from Walter Brennan as the boys' old...
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1935
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W.C. Fields plays Ambrose Wolfinger, the henpecked husband to end all henpecked husbands. A widower, Ambrose married a second...
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1935
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This greatest of all Frankenstein movies begins during a raging thunderstorm. Warm and cozy inside their palatial villa, Lord...
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1935
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In one of his few movie leading roles, Victor Jory plays an unmarried small-town creamery owner. Jory falls in love with...
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1935
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A variation on the Lady for a Day theme, Universal's Lady Tubbs stars Alice Brady as Henrietta "Mom" Tubbs, the no-nonsense...
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1935
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Directed by former screenwriter Ford I. Beebe, this Tim McCoy Western from Columbia co-starred Robert Allen, a handsome...
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1935
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It's the wild and woolly waterfront world of San Francisco in the late 1800s in this rambling tale of an outrageous nightclub...
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Old Atrocity
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1935
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1935
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The second of Kermit Maynard's "Mountie" actioners for Ambassador Pictures, Northern Frontier was a major improvement on the...
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1935
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1935
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In this comedy-drama, an enterprising college football coach's desire to win overshadows his common-sense when he cuts a...
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1935
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1935
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The stringent censorship imposed upon Hollywood of the mid-1930s dictated that gangsters could no longer be the "heroes" in...
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1935
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Speaking all their dialogue in rhyme, confirmed misogynists Moe and Curly try to break up Larry's marriage with perky...
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1934
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1934
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Based on a novel by Cortland Fitzsimmons, the storyline of this "gimmick" mystery follows the St. Louis Cardinals during a...
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1934
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In this drama, two carneys, a card-sharp, and a peep-show performer, find themselves booted out of the show and decide to...
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1934
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Filmed at the Columbia ranch in ten days in September of 1934, this Tim McCoy Western did not enjoy a wide release until...
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1934
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Twelve years before David Lean's definitive filmization of Dickens' Great Expectations, Hollywood had a go at the novel, with...
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1934
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This drama examines the rivalry between a mother and the daughter she is too vain to acknowledge. The mother is a famous...
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1934
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Inspired by the Titanic tragedy, Whom the Gods Destroy is a tour de force for character actor Walter Connolly. The star is...
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1934
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A few unique touches aside -- notably the opening costume-party scene, in which the revellers are dressed as insects -- Rip...
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1934
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In this tear-jerking adaptation of Louis Bromfield's novel A Good Woman, the title character stands tall in the face of small...
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1934
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This weepie, adapted from a play by Philip Dunning and George Abbott, is a vehicle for Ruth Chatterton as the titular Lilly....
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1933
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Horror film icon James Whale directed this well-detailed thriller about a man questioning his wife's honesty after a friend...
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1933
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Young football hero Jim Fowler (Robert Young) isn't in it for the love of the game. The hardworking young man is simply using...
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1933
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1933
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In this drama, a recently convicted criminal boards a train bound for the prison where he will be hanged. His wife rides...
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1933
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Tim McCoy played the classic good/bad man in this average B-Western from Columbia Pictures filmed in about a week and on a...
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1933
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In this melodrama, the wife of a wealthy man abruptly leaves him and sets sail for Cuba leaving him to hire a gumshoe to find...
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1933
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In his first Western of 1933, Columbia Pictures' Tim McCoy once again played a Texas Ranger, this time investigating the...
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1933
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Tom Mix once again goes up against corrupt Fred Kohler in this would-be epic Western filmed on-location at Kanab, UT....
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1933
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1933
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Ruth Chatterton tears up the screen in this fast-paced, lusty comedy. Alison Drake is an automobile magnate, a hard-nosed,...
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1933
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Baby Face is a good example of the kind of spitfire lead female characters that appeared in the cinema of pre-code Hollywood....
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1933
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The strapping Tom Tyler, in his fourth and last serial for Universal, played a daredevil pilot coming to the aid of a...
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1933
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A mysterious stranger, his face swathed in bandages and his eyes obscured by dark spectacles, has taken a room at a cozy inn...
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1933
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Goldie dreams of being a movie star. One day she decides to leave her New Jersey home and her boy friend to head for...
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1933
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In the tradition of Bureau of Missing Persons, Warner Bros's From Headquarters offers a methodical, semi-documentary look at...
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1933
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Sing, Sinner, Sing is one of several 1930s films based on the notorious, well-publicized romance between nightclub singer...
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1933
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1933
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In this his first Western of 1932, Tim McCoy is supported by a young John Wayne. Learning that he is a dead ringer for...
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1932
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Penned by prolific pulp writer William Colt MacDonald, this Tim McCoy Columbia Western may have been the forerunner of...
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1932
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A star football player in college, Garry King (Richard Arlen) finds post-college life very different; he betrays the trust of...
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1932
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An early screen version of the oft-filmed tale of Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Law and...
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1932
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A standard Tim McCoy Western from Columbia Pictures, Fighting for Justice featured the stalwart McCoy as a cowboy whose late...
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1932
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In this crime drama, two corrupt financiers conspire to fake the murder of their boss and leave a hapless chauffeur to...
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1932
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In this murder mystery, a nurse with an unusual eye for detail solves a puzzling case. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1932
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"A house divided against itself cannot stand" declared Abraham Lincoln; proof that a house divided can be repaired is...
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1931
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Billed as "The Ace of Screen Dare-Devils," stuntman Richard Talmadge usually starred in films that suffered from strained or...
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1931
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Though he spent the bulk of the talkie era at mighty MGM, director Richard Thorpe put in three solid years' service on...
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Hector
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1931
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The answer to the question asked by small-scale Sono Art/World Wide Pictures in this minor crime drama was a resounding --...
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1931
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Intended as Universal Pictures' entry in the "all-star musical" cycle of the early talkie era, King of Jazz is certainly the...
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1930
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In this comedy, a young man slated to inherit a big fortune is conned into dressing up as Napoleon by his aunt and uncle who...
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1930
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1929
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Never one to take his metier too serious, Universal cowboy hero Hoot Gibson came dangerously close to outright burlesque in...
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1929
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Although The Shannons of Broadway was not James Gleason's first film appearance as advertised, it might as well as been:...
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1929
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One of the more used plots in silent westerns was the one about the son searching for the villain who killed his father. In...
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1929
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Prolific director Richard Thorpe helmed this average silent Western starring one of the era's lesser cowboy heroes,...
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1928
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1928
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1927
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Hayden Stevenson played the title role in this, one of Universal's most popular silent serials. A mystery villain, known only...
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1927
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Jailed for a robbery he didn't commit, Bullets Bernard (Art Acord) enlists an alcoholic jailhouse lawyer (Paul Weigel) to...
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1924
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