Based on a play by Phoebe and Henry Ephron, Three Is a Family is a 1940s farce that frequently substitutes noise for humor....
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1944
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1944
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A young woman and her two buddies team up to run her newly inherited trucking company. In this comedy, the trouble begins...
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1943
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One can't deny that Monogram's Spy Train never stops moving; after all, it is set on a speeding train. Richard Travis and...
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1943
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In this drama, set at a WW II munitions plant, the lives of five workers are chronicled. Their stories are told via...
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1943
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Olivia De Havilland hadn't wanted to star in RKO's Government Girl, but was forced to do so by her home studio Warner Bros....
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1943
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Billed as "The Girl who Stopped a Thousand Shows" and "The Poor Man's Garbo," burlesque dancer Margie Hart made her feature...
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1942
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In this "East Side Kids" escapade (the eighth in the series), the gang, led by Muggs McGinniss (Leo Gorcey), help a man load...
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1942
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Among the few wartime comedies that are still genuinely funny today, Monogram's One Thrilling Night (aka Horace Takes Over)....
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Pat Callahan
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1942
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This homey little comedy is predicated on the notion that bucolic country boy Morgan (Richard Cromwell) is the son of a...
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1942
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Believe it or not, this bizarre wartime "B"-picture was based on a true story. In the early stages of WWII, a prominent...
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Hans "Dutch" Havermann
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1942
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Monogram's So's Your Aunt Emma owes whatever success it enjoys to its star, the incomparable ZaSu Pitts. The fluttery ZaSu...
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Joe
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1942
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In this musical, a convict finds his life calling after a prison show is staged and he discovers a talent for stage...
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1942
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She's in the Army is a fascinating vehicle for character actress Lucille Gleason (aka Mrs. James Gleason), heretofore usually...
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1942
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Dr. Timothy Kane (MacDonald Carey) is a young, affable physician with a practice in New York's Times Square, whose exploits...
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1942
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In this murder mystery, a re-working of The Sphinx, a distract attorney is determined to prove that the community's most...
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Sgt. Pete Corrigan
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1942
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James Lydon makes his second screen appearance as "typical" teenager Henry Aldrich in Henry and Dizzy. The plot complications...
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1942
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In this crime drama, the police endeavor to destroy the oppressive protection racket that has been plaguing their city. ~...
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1942
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In this WW II-era drama, an over-ambitious beauty contestant's single-minded pursuit of movie stardom causes her to step...
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1942
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A gangster and his mob buy a small-town in this warm comedy. They, tired of trying to make it as big city hoods, buy the...
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1941
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Rather shaky as history, Birth of the Blues delivers the goods in terms of entertainment, thanks to the unbeatable star...
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1941
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Wessel Smitter's semicomic novel FOB Detroit was the source material for Reaching for the Sun. Joel McCrea plays a North...
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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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1941
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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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Universal Studios had their "B" musicals down to a science in the 1940s. All that was needed was a cast of talented...
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Big Foot Louie
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1940
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Tom Destry (James Stewart), son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn't believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the object...
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1939
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How could anyone dislike a film with the title Lady and the Mob? Sweet Fay Bainter stars as eccentric dowager Hattie Leonard,...
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Frankie O'Fallon
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1939
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In this action film two Coast Guard pilots fall in love with the same woman. She chooses the more macho of the two, but soon...
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O'Hara
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1939
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In this patriotic spy adventure, a young gangster joins an enemy espionage agency and agrees to enlist in the Marine Corps...
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Snooker
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1939
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There was no getting around the fact that child star Jane Withers was growing up in a hurry by the time she made...
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Greenberg
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1939
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1939
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Twister McGurk
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1939
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1938
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Arson Gang Busters was a slick little Republic programmer highlighted by several well-staged miniature sequences, courtesy of...
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Tom
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1938
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This film is one of acclaimed director Fritz Lang's less noted achievements, a mixture of romance, comedy, drama, and satire....
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1938
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1938
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Thanks for Everything is an unjustly forgotten lampoon of media promotional stunts. Jack Haley wins a contest sponsored by an...
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1938
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1938
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Set during World War I, Submarine Patrol stars Preston S. Foster as a naval officer demoted for dereliction of duty. He is...
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1938
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Judith Allen stars as Telephone Operator Helen in this Monogram actioner. Most of the story is built around newsreel footage...
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Shorty
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1938
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1937
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Archetypal depression-era stars Henry Fonda and Sylvia Sidney are felicitously teamed in Fritz Lang's You Only Live Once....
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1937
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Spud
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1937
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Directed by Edwin L. Marin, Married Before Breakfast follows the hectic life of young inventor Tom Wakefield (Robert Young)....
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Harry
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1937
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Autograph hound Al Babson (Eddie Cantor) accidentally disrupts the filming of a movie about Ali Baba, and is injured in the...
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1937
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This drama chronicles the fate of two disparate brothers, both of whom work at the same power plant. One of them is...
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1937
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A tough sailor bets his pals that he can win the love of a prissy librarian and so masquerades as a candidate for the Naval...
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Biff
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1937
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"Bugs" Corrigan
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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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Herman Valentz
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1937
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Previously teamed in six early-1930s films, James Dunn and Sally Eilers bring the total up to seven with their last...
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Smacksey
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1937
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While drunk at a party, millionaire Stephens Cormack (Neil Hamilton) playfully marries footloose Clarice Andrews...
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1937
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The hyped-up 1930s radio feud between bandleader Ben Bernie and columnist Walter Winchell is all but forgotten today, but...
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1937
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This service comedy from the Republic Studio mills was perhaps the most aggressively titled of the "Marine Corps" film cycle...
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Holman
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1937
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Everybody's Old Man looks like a stray Will Rogers project, temporarily shelved when Rogers was killed in a 1935 plane crash....
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1936
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In this melodrama a chorine endeavors to become a star, but it isn't easy. Her wealthy boyfriend wants to marry her until...
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Joe Sloan
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1936
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1936
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This interesting low-budget Western was advertized as "A lightning trigger action drama of the glorious west .. packed with...
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1936
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A winning sweepstakes ticket is the catalyst in 36 Hours to Kill. The lucky recipient is gangster Duke Benson...
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1936
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In this emotional drama, a lonely British housekeeper, uses her hard-earned savings account to finance a trip to America so...
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Cluck Regan
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1936
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In this romantic comedy, an aspiring socialite heads for a vacation in Monte Carlo where she befriends a wealthy widowed...
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1936
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1936
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The second screen version of Anna Katherine Green's 1878 whodunit stars Donald Cook as Dr. Truman Hartnell, a dedicated...
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1936
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The MGM historical "spectacular" San Francisco was allegedly based on a three-sentence synopsis, submitted verbally to...
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1936
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A Kathleen Norris novel was the source for this romantic drama, which begins when widowed navy doctor Quentin Harden...
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Butch
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1936
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The real "message to Garcia" was delivered by an American lieutenant to Cuban rebel General Garcia, asking for the General's...
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1936
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Small-town waiter Will Wright (Edward Everett Horton) can't help but feel that his Kansas community has lost its civic pride....
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1936
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Universal contractee Henry Hunter never became a big star, but during his brief stay at the studio he appeared in a quite a...
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1936
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When a car crash ends the life of a fabulously wealthy patron of the arts, the decedent's $20,000,000 fortune is inherited by...
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1936
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1935
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Errol Flynn makes his Hollywood screen debut as a corpse in this funny, fast-paced whodunit, the third of six Perry Mason...
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1935
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With Shirley Temple heading the cast of Our Little Girl, it's a moot point as to who plays the title role. Temple is cast as...
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1935
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Treasury agent Dave Elliot (Donald Cook) dedicates himself to smashing a crime syndicate, especially after his best friend is...
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Midget
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1935
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In this romantic comedy, Marilyn David (Claudette Colbert) is a stenographer who has become good friends with Peter Dawes...
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1935
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In this comedy, a waitress at a local lunch counter inadvertently foils a bank robbery and finds herself turned into a...
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1935
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1935
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Action star Tom Keene appeared under his alternate screen cognomen of George Duryea in the 1935 quickie Hong Kong Nights. Tom...
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1935
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The Silk Hat Kid is Lew Ayres, a babyfaced gangland "torpedo." Circumstances force the Kid to hole up in a slum settlement...
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1935
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Pete Hogan
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1935
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Taking refuge from a rainstorm in a deserted farmhouse, young married couple Joe and Loretta Martin (Edward Norris and...
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1935
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Dumped by his fiancé, a young man (Buster Keaton) drives from Boston out West determined to start a new life. He winds up in...
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1934
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Perhaps the most memorable of all of the movies based on Damon Runyon's story because of the winning presence of...
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1934
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1934
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Woman Unafraid stars venerable character actress Lucille Gleason as Officer Winthrop, a no-nonsense but golden-hearted...
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John
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1934
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Produced by small-scale Mascot Pictures, this behind-the-scenes look at a now forgotten annual Hollywood event, the WAMPAS...
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1934
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Although it is included in TV's "Shock Theater" passage, there's nothing overtly frightening about the heavily plotted...
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Sam Collins
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1934
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Harold Lloyd plays Ezekial Cobb, a missionary's son who has spent his entire life in China. Cobb is sent to his father's home...
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1934
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One is Guilty was an entry in Columbia's "Inspector Trent" mysteries, all starring the ubiquitous Ralph Bellamy. A...
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Walters
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1934
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1934
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Legendary Broadway impresario George White made his Hollywood debut with this musical, which he wrote, co-directed, and...
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1934
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Brooklyn tugboat worker Eddie (Eddie Cantor), bullied and cowed by his tough-guy stepfather and stepbrothers (a la...
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1934
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1934
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A couple of down-and-out British aristocrats buy an American roadhouse in this uproarious farce from Paramount. Naming the...
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1933
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In this boxing drama/murder mystery, an aspiring small-town prizefighter ignores the objections of his pacifistic father, a...
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1933
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After suffering magnificently in picture after picture at RKO and Paramount, Helen Twelvetrees was subjected to even more...
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Al the Butler
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1933
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Loaned to MGM by her home studio of Warner Bros., Loretta Young suffers her way through the title role in Midnight Mary. A...
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1933
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This drama chronicles the devoted love of a woman who tries to reform her lover, a black marketeer with a compulsive...
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Mousey
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1933
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Jitney Smith
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1933
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Sent to Sing Sing prison, influential crook Spencer Tracy is unregenerate and refuses to adhere to the rules. While in...
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Hype
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1933
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One wonders if William Wyler ever gave Her First Mate a second thought when he was busy directing such subsequent films as...
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Percy
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1933
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In this comedy, a convict uses his skills as a masseur and a fight manager to get out of prison and become the private gym...
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1932
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This drama, made while New York mayor Jimmy Walker was still being reviled by newspapers for similar actions, follows a...
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Riley
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1932
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1932
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James Cagney was originally pegged to play brash Broadway columnist Jimmy Russell in this pleasant if somewhat lightweight...
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1932
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William Powell plays a condemned murderer who is being transported from Hong Kong to San Quentin by way of a luxury liner....
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Steve Burke
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1932
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A goodly portion of this boxing drama was filmed on location at the real-life Madison Square Garden. Jack Oakie stars as...
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1932
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Locomotive engineer Edmund Lowe falls head-over-heels in love with musical-comedy dancer Mae Clarke. When he finds out that...
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1931
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Smiley Corbin
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1931
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Spike
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1931
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The first of director John Ford's three films for 1931 was the now-forgotten The Seas Beneath. Essentially a reworking of...
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1931
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Max Minchin
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1931
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An illusionist is performing his astounding tricks when an audience member is killed by another. This mystery chronicles the...
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1931
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Dannemora Dan
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1930
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This sprightly romantic comedy chronicles the delightfully unlikely and tempestuous relationship between an opera diva and a...
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1930
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Based on the play Penny Arcade, Sinner's Holiday marked the film debut of James Cagney. After seeing the performance on...
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1930
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The Bowery Kid
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1930
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1930
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This drama is set during the mid Twenties when gangsters were a bit more genteel than their 1930s counterparts. Based on a...
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Big Shot
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1930
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John Ford directed this undersea adventure from the early days of the sound era; it features talking sequences along silent...
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Kaufman
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1930
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1929
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In this melodrama, set in the Far North, a half-Eskimo woman leaves her tribe and her husband to find adventure with a...
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1929
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In this romance, a greedy poacher travels to a small island in the Bering sea to rob a seal rookery. There he falls for the...
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1929
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Much of this drama is comprised of newsreel footage. It chronicles the exploits of a luckless college prize-fighter...
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Cannon Delmont
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1929
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The Girl from Havana is a kaleidoscopic early-talkie brew of comedy, melodrama, romance, and high-steppin' musical numbers....
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Spike Howard
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1929
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In this musical comedy, a young man from Virginia who is heir to a wealthy estate falls in love with a girl who longs to be a...
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Martin
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1929
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