Mae West (1892-1980) was perhaps the original comic sex goddess of American cinema. Originally a vaudeville performer, she...
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1978
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The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case, based on newspaper coverage, court testimony and eyewitness accounts, was dramatized for...
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1976
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This spoof makes fun of a certain famous German shepherd movie star from the 1920s. The mayhem begins when the head honcho...
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1976
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Larry Peerce directed this tired disaster movie about a mad sniper loose in a football stadium. At the beginning, the sniper...
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1976
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1975
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While bound for London from New York, the occupants of a 747 are terrorized by a mad bomber. The jet's pilot (Robert Stack)...
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1975
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The science of "cryogenics" forms the basis of the made-for-TV Live Again, Die Again. Donna Mills plays a young woman who...
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1974
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Don Murray stars as slick network news producer William Martin in The Girl on the Late, Late Show. In addition to his...
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1974
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A research facility becomes a death trap, and only an untested Navy vessel can save the day in this adventure drama. A team...
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Dr. Samuel Andrews
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1973
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In this engaging crime drama with an undercurrent of subtle humor, James Coburn stars as Harry, a "cannon" (a top-flight...
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Casey
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1973
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An antacid pill, provided by Gwen Snoop, causes a basketball star to become ill prior to appearing on a television talk...
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1973
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Sky Terror is the reissue title for Skyjacked, a 1972 MGM all-star adventure based on a novel by David Harper....
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1972
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Olivia De Havilland plays a middle-aged woman who has recently been released from a mental institution after suffering a...
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1972
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House on Greenapple Road was an off-length TV movie (135 minutes instead of the usual 100), first telecast on...
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1970
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1969
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1969
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Rascal, the Sterling North novel that has been a longtime fixture of Scholastic Magazine book clubs, was given Tiffany...
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1969
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"Hello, gorgeous!" was Barbra Streisand's first comment to the Oscar statuette which she won for her performance in this...
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Florenz Ziegfeld
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1968
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1968
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In this suspenseful caper, a sightless professor decides to steal jewels and relics from the Vatican. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1968
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In this made-for-TV crime melodrama, Robert Wagner plays a handsome ex-GI determined to wreak vengeance on millionaire...
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1967
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LAPD detective Sgt. Tom Valens (David Janssen) is a ten-year veteran of the force who has had more than his share of hard...
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1967
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In the conclusion of a two-part story, the FBI continues to exert pressure on La Cosa Nostra, even while a bitter turf war...
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1967
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In the first episode of a two-part story, the FBI squares off against La Cosa Nostra (evidently J. Edgar Hoover had finally...
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1967
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Released theatrically in Europe, Cosa Nostra, Arch Enemy of the FBI originated as "The Executioner", a two-part episode of...
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1966
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Lesley Ann Warren plays the title role in this television production of the classic Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein III...
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King
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1964
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This is the last of four consecutive episodes in which Perry Mason appears only briefly, while a "guest" lawyer handles the...
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1963
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In this Italian WW II comedy, an Italian colonel leads the invasion of Montegreco, a small town on the Greek-Albanian...
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Col. Timothy Henderson
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1962
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Big Red is one of several Disney pictures filmed in Canada during the 1960s. Orphaned Gilles Payant goes to work for wealthy...
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James Haggin
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1962
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The first of Allen Drury "all names changed to protect the guilty" political novels, Advise and Consent was brought to the...
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Sen. Bob Munson
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1962
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Walter Pidgeon is the nominal star of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, portraying Admiral Harriman Nelson, the designer of...
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Adm. Harriman Nelson
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1961
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Produced for the Armed Forces overseas, this is a holiday spectacular created for Christmas. Fifty of the top stars of...
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1958
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The Korean conflict of the early '50s saw widespread use of psychological torture by the North Korean communists on enemy...
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Col. Edward W. Hall, Sr.
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1956
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The MGM melodrama These Wilder Years marked the first onscreen pairing of Hollywood stars James Cagney and Barbara Stanwyck....
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James Rayburn
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1956
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MGM's first big-budget science fiction film, Forbidden Planet, combined state-of-the-art special effects with a storyline...
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Dr. Edward Morbius
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1956
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The Glass Slipper is a charming retelling of the Cinderella story, eminently suitable for both kids and adults. Leslie Caron...
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1955
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Hit the Deck is the second film version of the same-named 1927 hit Broadway musical. Though updated for the 1950s, the basic...
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Read Admiral Daniel Xavier Smith
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1955
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Loosely based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story Babylon Revisited, MGM's The Last Time I Saw Paris is a star-studded soap...
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James Ellswirth
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1954
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Cameron Hawley's novel of corporate in-fighting and gamesmanship was brought to the screen by producer John Houseman and...
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Frederick Y. Alderson
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1954
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J.J. Shubert
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1954
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Leave it to MGM to turn the Korean War into a splashy, big-budget, all-star extravaganza. Men of the Fighting Lady is set on...
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Cmdr. Kent Dowling
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1954
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Patrick J. McChesney
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1953
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Clemson Reade (Cary Grant) is the kind of man who wants to marry an old-fashioned girl, one who will stay home and take care...
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Walter McBride
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1953
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Who else but Esther Williams could star in a romantic drama (with musical numbers) bearing a title like this? In Million...
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Frederick Kellerman
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1952
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Kirk Douglas plays the corrupt and amoral head of a major film studio in this Hollywood drama, often regarded as one of the...
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Harry Pebbel
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1952
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All the various Bulldog Drummond movie series had run their courses by 1951; nonetheless, MGM decided to revive the property...
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Hugh Drummond
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1951
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Highly respected defense attorney Dwight Bradley Mason (Walter Pidgeon) is able to clear young Rudi Wallchek...
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Dwight Bradley Mason
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1951
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Originally advertised as "Colossal Quo Vadis," this opulent MGM production is far and away the most elaborate of the many...
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1951
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Haven D. Allridge
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1951
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Allegedly based on a Rudyard Kipling novel, this draws most of its inspiration from the 1939 film made of Kipling's narrative...
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Col. Brunswick
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1951
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This sequel to the 1942 Oscar-winner Mrs.Miniver can be considered ill-advised, if only because the producers could never...
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Clem Miniver
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1950
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Though one might have expected friction between MGM's resident "nice lady" Greer Garson and Warner Bros. notorious "bad boy"...
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Young Jolyon Forsyte
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1949
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One of the more palatable of Hollywood's anti-communist tracts of the late 1940s-early 1950s was MGM's The Red Danube....
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Col. Michael "Jokey" Nicobar
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1949
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William Sylvester Packett
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1948
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Maj. Gen. Roland G. Kane
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1948
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In this drama, set in England, an honorable textbook writer in a village becomes friends with a pregnant girl. The...
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Mark Sabre
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1947
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Too long by at least two reels, Holiday in Mexico is nevertheless one of the more enjoyable MGM Technicolor musicals of the...
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1946
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The Secret Heart is a psychological drama starring June Allyson as a disturbed teenager obsessed with the memory of her dead...
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Chris Matthews
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1946
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Weekend at the Waldorf is an unabashed remake of MGM's 1932 Oscar-winner Grand Hotel: in fact, at several points in the...
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Chip Collyer
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1945
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The usual modus operandi for Hollywood "through the years" sagas was to gradually age its young actors in the course of the...
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Maj. Augustus Parkington
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1944
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Pierre Curie
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1943
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In this charming episodic comedy, a giddy group of adolescent girls form a movie-star fan club. Their favorite pastime is...
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1943
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As Academy Award-winning films go, Mrs. Miniver has not weathered the years all that well. This prettified, idealized view of...
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Clem Miniver
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1942
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The once-notorious theatrical chestnut White Cargo was toned down for public consumption in this 1942 MGM-ized adaptation...
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Harry Witzel
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1942
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Greer Garson is dignity and integrity personified in the role of the real-life Edna Gladney. After several life experiences...
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Sam Gladney
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1941
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Jeff Sherman
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1941
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A hunter finds himself in a world of danger when he decides to stalk Adolf Hitler in this taut WWII thriller. Capt. Thorndike...
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Capt. Thorndike
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1941
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Spanning 50 years, director John Ford's How Green Was My Valley revolves around the life of the Morgans, a Welsh mining...
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Mr. Gruffydd
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1941
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Set in the years leading up to the Civil War and its outbreak, Dark Command tells a fictionalized version of the story of...
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William Cantrell
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1940
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In It's a Date, the teenage diva Deanna Durbin is cast as Pamela Drake, the daughter of celebrated stage actress Georgia...
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John Arlen
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1940
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The second entry in MGM's three-film "Nick Carter" series, Phantom Raiders is undeniably the best, and not just by default....
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Nick Carter
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1940
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The last of MGM's "Nick Carter" trilogy, Sky Murder is a tad too cute and clever for its own good, but its mystery angle...
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Nick Carter
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1940
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Producer Walter Wanger's House Across the Bay serves as an excellent showcase for Wanger's then-wife Joan Bennett. She is...
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Tim Nolan
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1940
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MGM had a tendency to overglamorize the sort of rough-hewn film fare that Warner Bros. offered to its public without...
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Squadron Cmdr. Bill Gary
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1940
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District attorney Walter Pidgeon pursues the conviction of criminals so diligently that word has gone out in the state prison...
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Steve Donegan
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1939
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This remake of Penthouse (33) stars Walter Pidgeon as a smooth attorney with a few embarrassing friends. One of these is a...
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Christopher Durant
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1939
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Stronger Than Desire is a streamlined remake of 1934's Evelyn Prentice. Instead of the earlier film's William Powell and...
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1939
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Pulp-novel detective Nick Carter was created in the 1880s, but most film versions of the character have been updated to...
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Nick Carter/Robert Chalmers
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1939
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Based upon the book The Four Marys, by Fanny Heaslip Lea, Man-Proof involves members of the smart and sophisticated set of...
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Alan Wythe
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1938
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Sheriff Jack Rance
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1938
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Richard Thurlow
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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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Sam Bailey
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1938
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Bill Dennis
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1938
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Girl with Ideas was Universal Pictures' version of MGM's matchless Libeled Lady. Wendy Barrie plays a society girl miffed at...
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Micky McGuire
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1937
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The Girl Overboard is Mary Chesebrooke (Gloria Stuart) but she doesn't take her dunk into the deep until the film's final...
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Paul Stacey
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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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Dr. Scott Logan
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1937
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Fraser James
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1937
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Ken Morley
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1937
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Jean Harlow offers her final screen performance in this witty and -- in retrospect -- quite moving racetrack comedy-drama...
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Hartley Madison
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1937
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Mary Ellis, Paramount's answer to Columbia's Grace Moore, stars in the title role in this musical melodrama/whodunit. When...
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David Roberts
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1936
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Joan Bennett is a manicurist who becomes a newspaper reporter. She joins forces with jaunty detective Cary Grant to get the...
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Richard Morey
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1936
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A Hollywood version of Jacques Deval's 1933 French drama Un Vie Perdue, Journal of a Crime stars Ruth Chatterton as Françoise...
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1934
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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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Despite a troubled production that witnessed the exits of both leading man (Phillips Holmes) and director (George...
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Commissioner Al Howard
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1932
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Class distinction rears its ugly head in this otherwise tuneful little musical from the pens of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz...
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Clay
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1931
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This second of four film versions of Ralph Spence's stage comedy-melodrama The Gorilla stars legendary Broadway comedian...
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Arthur Marsden
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1931
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In this musical, based on a famed operetta, a humble shop girl jilts her lover because his aristocratic family disapproves...
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Paul de St. Cyr
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1931
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In this comedy, a luckless newspaper reporter heads for a coastal resort and finds himself mistaken for a famous dare-devil...
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"Ace" Benton
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1931
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This wonderful Warner Bros. epic was one of the earliest talkie musicals with a Hollywood background -- and the last of its...
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1930
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This early musical was filmed in color and centers upon the love affair between a young composer and the woman he wants to...
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Lord Verney
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1930
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This historical drama, set in 18th-century England, chronicles the romance between a free-spirited coquette and a...
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Lord Varney
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1930
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A newlywed countess is asked to make a tremendous sacrifice for her husband and herself in this musical comedy-drama. Count...
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Colonel Wultow
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1930
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1929
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Tony Williams
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1929
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Based on Zoë Akins's 1923 novel Déclassée and the 1925 film of the same title, Her Private Life stars Billie Dove as Lady...
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1929
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William Russell is appropriately cast as "The Ne'er-do-well" in the 1928 military comedy Woman Wise. Stationed in Persia,...
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United States Consul
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1928
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Walter Pidgeon was loaned out by his parent studio Warner Bros. to star in the Tiffany-Stahl production Clothes Make the...
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Victor Trent
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1928
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Warner Bros. contractees Myrna Loy and Walter Pidgeon were "borrowed" by low-budget Lumas pictures for the 1928 military...
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Philip Drake
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1928
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Universal's first 100% all-talkie, Melody of Love was completed with the aid of borrowed Movietone sound equipment from Fox...
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Jack Clark
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1928
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Gateway of the Moon is set in Bolivia (with Southern California serving as a "stand-in"). Dolores Del Rio stars as Toni, the...
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Arthur Wyatt
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1928
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That creaky old Ralph Spence stage comedy-melodrama The Gorilla was given the first of its four screen treatments in 1927....
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Stevens
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1927
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Though in real life she was the daughter of a San Francisco rabbi, Carmel Myers was convincingly cast as the title character...
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Paul Sinclair
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1927
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The "Salome" of this heavy-breathing melodrama is Helene (Alma Rubens), who is betrayed by her wealthy lover Monte Carroll...
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Monte Carroll
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1927
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Francis X. Bushman, who had made a comeback two years previously as Messala in Ben Hur, was still trying to hang onto stardom...
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Richard Marsden
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1927
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In this romantic silent adventure, a beautiful heiress goes to California for a visit and while there learns that her New...
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Bravo
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1926
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Martin Innesbrook
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1926
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While studying dance in Hungary, British ballerina Leonide Sturdee (Jacqueline Logan) suffers a crippling accident. Enter...
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Basil Owen
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1926
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That question mark in the film's title should provide a good clue as to the tenor of the storyline. Married to British...
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Paul
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1926
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Betrayed by his wife and disillusioned by the world in general, British nobleman Lord Gervas Carew heads to Algeria, there to...
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Clyde Lord Geradine
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1926
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