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T.C. Jeffords
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1950
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Based loosely on the Dostoyevsky novel, The Gambler stars Gregory Peck as a sensitive 19th-century Russian author. His "great...
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Gen. Ostrovski
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1949
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Nat Miller
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1948
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Howard
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1948
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At the request of the Signal Corps, John Huston made a wartime documentary of the emotionally disturbed war veterans being...
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1946
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Years before he became the leading star in horror movies, Vincent Price starred in this gothic thriller based on the...
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Ephraim Wells
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1946
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1946
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Dr. Armstrong
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1945
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This lavish, 145-minute cinemadaptation of the Pearl Buck best-seller Dragon Seed was intended by MGM as a followup to the...
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Ling Tan
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1944
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The Norwegian resistance to the Nazi occupation of their country inspired several wartime films from Hollywood, including...
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Dr. Martin Stensgard
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1943
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This is a restored, 82-minute version of 1943's December 7th, originally commissioned by the U.S. Navy to document the events...
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Uncle Sam
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1943
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More so than most wartime films, Mission to Moscow must be viewed within the context of its times. Requested by President...
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Ambassador Joseph E. Davies
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1943
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Produced on behalf of the U.S. government, December 7th is just as slick and professional as any of director John Ford's...
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1943
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The Battle of Britain was the fourth of the US government's Why We Fight documentaries. The film uses newsreel footage and a...
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Narrator
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1943
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Perhaps Hollywood's greatest success du scandal of the 1940s, this odd psychological Western became a box office hit largely...
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Doc Holliday
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1943
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The semi-feature-length wartime documentary Report From the Aleutians was written and directed by Captain John Huston. It was...
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Director
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1943
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The 60-minute documentary was the fifth of the Army Special Service's "Why We Fight" series. Assembled under the supervision...
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1943
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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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Dr. Kurin
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1943
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In This Our Life is not a "for the ages" classic of the Golden Age of Cinema, but as a highly effective and entertaining...
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1942
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Jerry Cohan
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1942
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A real four-hanky picture, Always in My Heart was loosely adapted from the stage play by Dorothy Bennett and Irving White....
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MacKenzie Scott
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1942
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Sir Guy Charteris
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1941
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Director Lewis Milestone, himself a Russian expatriate, was one of the producers of this propaganda picture on behalf of...
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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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Thursday Ragan
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1941
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Mr. Scratch
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1941
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After two previous film versions of Dashiell Hammett's detective classic The Maltese Falcon, Warner Bros. finally got it...
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1941
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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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Based on a classic tale from Rudyard Kipling, this melodrama chronicles the desperate attempt of a painter to finish his...
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Terpenhow
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1939
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Ethan Wilkins
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1938
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In this highly acclaimed adaptation of Sinclair Lewis's novel, Walter Huston plays Sam Dodsworth, a good-hearted, middle-aged...
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Sam Dodsworth
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1936
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African-American students who have accepted Rhodes scholarships may feel like wincing at Rhodes of Africa, an unabashed...
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Cecil Rhodes
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1936
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Transatlantic Tunnel is the English-language version of the 1932 French-German speculative drama The Tunnel. Set sometime in...
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1935
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The touching bond between a cavalry horse and the doughboy whose life he saves provides the basis for this syrupy war drama....
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Sgt. Benjamin E. "Benny" Walsh
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1934
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Hell Below transcends its hackneyed World War I plot to emerge as a drama of rare originality and gutsiness. Walter Huston...
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Lt. Cmdr. Toler
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1933
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One woman helps make an unknown boxer a star, but could a handful lead him back to obscurity again? Steve Morgan (Max Baer)...
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"Professor" Edwin J. Bennett
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1933
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A conflict between the Serbs and the Hungarians provides the framework of this drama that centers on a love triangle between...
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Mayor Dushan
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1933
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This 1933 movie version of Sinclair Lewis's novel Ann Vickers stars Irene Dunne in the title role. Left alone and pregnant by...
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Barney Dolphin
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1933
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In 1933, at the height of the bleakness and desperation of the Depression, MGM released this genuine curiosity piece --...
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Hon. Judson Hammond
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1933
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A remake of West of Zanibar, this strange, gut-wrenching melodrama set in the African jungles, offers a disturbing portrait...
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Flint
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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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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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Frame Johnson
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1932
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The pleasures of the flesh confront the discipline of the Lord's teachings in this screen adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's...
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Rev. Alfred Davidson
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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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Capt. Jim Fitzpatrick
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1932
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Night Court is one of those pictures that "hooks" the viewer with one audacious plot twist after another. Walter Huston is...
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Judge Moffett
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1932
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In this WW II drama, the commander of the French cruiser Lafayette is sunk by a German U-boat. Following the rescue of the...
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Capt. Corlaix
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1932
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Bank president Thomas Dickson (Walter Huston) has instituted a lending policy that shows great faith in ordinary people but...
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Thomas Dickson
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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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Seth Law
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1931
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Jack Bannister
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1931
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Star Witness starts out as a homey family comedy and develops into a rather gutsy thriller. Chic Sale plays a cantankerous...
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Dist. Atty. Whitlock
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1931
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Warden Brady
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1931
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The Virtuous Sin was adapted from The General, a novel by Lajos Zilahy. Kay Francis plays Marya, the wife of overly sensitive...
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Gen. Gregori Platoff
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1930
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Pancho Lopez
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1930
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To date, this D.W. Griffith epic is the only talking-picture effort to encapsulate the entire life of Abraham Lincoln, from...
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Abraham Lincoln
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1930
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Gary Cooper, as a lanky Wyoming ranch and foreman, places his gun on a poker table after being insulted by one of the...
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Trampas
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1929
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In this dark drama, based on a play by Ward Morehouse, the life of a tough newspaperman is chronicled. The man is a...
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Wickland Snell
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1929
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When blue-blooded widower Robert Rossiter (Walter Huston) announces his plans to marry salesgirl Joyce Roamer (Claudette...
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Robert Rossiter
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1929
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