Writer/director Albert Lewin, ever on the lookout for esoteric story material that would accommodate his fascination with...
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1947
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Capt. Burke
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1946
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Strange Illusion is really several movies in one, part dark psychological chiller, part unsettling murder mystery, and part...
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1945
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In this entry in the "Lone Wolf" series, the sleuth and former jewel thief, the Lone Wolf finds himself accused of killing a...
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1943
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Though it's not made readily apparent by the title, Passport to Suez was the 10th entry in Columbia's "Lone Wolf" series....
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Michael Lanyard
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1943
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Michael Lanyard
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1942
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It's hard to believe that Wild Bill Hickok Rides is a Warner Bros. picture-and harder still to believe that Constance Bennett...
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Harry Farrel
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1941
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Michael Lanyard, the reformed criminal known as the Lone Wolf, is played in this Columbia B picture by the suave...
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Michael Lanyard
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1941
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Wild Geese Calling is one of those 20th Century-Fox star vehicles which used to pop up all the time on TV before the Carsons,...
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Blackie
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1941
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"Even a man who is pure at heart/And says his prayers by night/May become a wolf when the wolf-bane blooms/And the moon is...
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Dr. Lloyd
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1941
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The title of this series entry may strike some as a tad redundant: After all, isn't crook-turned-sleuth Michael Lanyard, aka...
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Michael Lanyard
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1941
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Trail of the Vigilantes was conceived as a straight action picture, but was reshaped during filming into a comedy western in...
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Mark Dawson
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1940
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Warren William is back as suave thief-turned-sleuth Michael Lanyard, alias the Lone Wolf, in Columbia's The Lone Wolf Keeps a...
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Michael Lanyard
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1940
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In this entry in the long-running series, the reformed master jewel thief rushes to help a lovely heiress whose pearl...
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Michael Lanyard
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1940
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Wesley Ruggles's Arizona is an epic western set in an impoverished Arizona outpost. It tells the story of the feisty,...
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Jefferson Carteret
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1940
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Lillian Russell is the sanitized musical biopic of the legendary (and much-married) 19th century musical comedy star....
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Jesse Lewisohn
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1940
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The lady in question in this delightful whodunit is Joan Bradley (Jean Muir), a former secretary who is about to marry her...
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Michael Lanyard
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1940
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A longtime fan of comedians George Burns and Gracie Allen, "Philo Vance" creator S. S. Van Dyne wrote a tailor-made...
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Philo Vance
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1939
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Man in the Iron Mask is independent producer Edward Small's 1939 edition of the much-filmed Dumas classic. The title...
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D'Artagnan
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1939
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The extramarital shenanigans of a young married couple provide the basis of this surprisingly racy (for 1939 Hollywood)...
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Bernard Dexter
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1939
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Regarded as the best of Columbia's "Lone Wolf" B-picture series, The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt stars Warren William as Michael...
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Michael Lanyard
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1939
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Steve Emerson
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1938
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James Whale's Wives Under Suspicion is remake of Whale's own 1933 production A Kiss Before the Mirror, with a few noticeable...
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District Atty. Jim Stowell
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1938
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Fifteen thousand dollars may have been a fortune back in 1938, but to high-powered literary agent Lynn Conway...
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1938
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A custody battle provides the basis for this melodramatic domestic drama. The case centers around a young girl who has...
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Blackie Denbo
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1937
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Warren William stars as Dr. Phillip Wendel Jones, a doctor whose patient dies under questionable circumstances. He is...
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Dr. Phillip Wendel Jones
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1937
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Sam Wood directed this fourth version of the Alexandre Bisson weeper, buffed to a high gloss by shimmering M.G.M. production...
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Bernard Fleuriot
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1937
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Col. DeRougemont
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1937
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Harris
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1936
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In this comedy, based on a George M. Cohan play, a hick comes to the city to attend his old buddy's wedding. The rube is such...
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Vic Arnold
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1936
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Ted Shayne
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1936
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Perry Mason (Warren William) actually marries his secretary, the redoubtable Della Street (Claire Dodd) in this, the fourth...
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Perry Mason
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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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Chepstow
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1936
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Morgan
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1936
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High-rolling gambler "Odds" Owen (Warren William) establishes an American insurance agency created along the lines of Lloyd's...
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"Odds" Owen
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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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Perry Mason
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1935
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The legs in question in this the second of Warner Bros. Perry Mason whodunits belong to Margy Clune (Patricia Ellis), the...
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Perry Mason
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1935
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Robert Sheldon
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1935
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In this drama, an amateur pilot is driven to living life in the fast lane after he pilots that plane that crashed and killed...
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Walter Pritcham
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1935
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Written by the prolific Ben Hecht, Upper World is a clash-of-class melodrama set in New York City. Railroad tycoon Alexander...
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Alexander Stream
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1934
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Having previously played dishonest politicians, lawyers, and businessmen, Warren William is cast as a fraudulent doctor in...
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Louis
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1934
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Warren William delivers a curiously subdued performance as dilettante sleuth Philo Vance in The Dragon Murder Case. The plot...
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Philo Vance
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1934
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Stephen Archer
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1934
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Julius Caesar
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1934
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A battling married couple come to blows and afterwards the battered wife seeks legal council. This drama chronicles the...
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Tony Wallace
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1934
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Two wealthy neighbors, who make no secret of despising one another, both claim that they're married to Bessie Foley...
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Perry Mason
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1934
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The second of three Kay Francis films in which the star was cast as a dedicated lady physician, Doctor Monica was adapted...
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John Braden
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1934
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1933
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Warren William plays a high-powered ambitious executive who unflinchingly steamrolled his way to the top without regard for...
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Kurt Anderson
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1933
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In this romance, an con-artist leaves an unsuccessful carnival gig to become a successful phony psychic. He is assisted by...
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Chandra Chandler
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1933
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May Robson plays Apple Annie, a slatternly Broadway apple peddler. Annie has a curious setup whereby she is able to finagle...
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Dave the Dude
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1933
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The second talkie version of the Avery Hopwood's theatrical war-horse The Golddiggers of Broadway, Gold Diggers of 1933 was...
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J. Lawrence Bradford
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1933
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The old reliable Paul Frank/Ladislaus Fodor stage play The Church Mouse was streamlined for the movies in the form of Beauty...
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Baron Josef von Ullrich
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1932
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In this crime drama, an assistant DA must scramble to save the life of an innocent man he mistakenly sent to the chair....
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Vincent Day
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1932
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Robert Kirkwood
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1932
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The Match King was inspired by the checkered career of entrepreneur Ivar Krueger. Warren William plays a Krueger-like...
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Paul Kroll
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1932
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A wealthy theatrical producer entices a desperately poor young woman to visit his penthouse. The innocent girl doesn't...
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Howard Raymond
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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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Lt. D'Ortelles
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1932
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Produced by William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan Production for MGM, this well made Grand Hotel clone was based on a 1931...
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David Dwight
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1932
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Alfred E. Green directs the political satire The Dark Horse, starring Bette Davis early in her career. The progressive party...
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Hal S. Blake
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1932
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In this swashbuckling melodrama, set in Budapest, a seductive gold-digger becomes the mistress of a wealthy old man. She,...
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Capt. Boris
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1931
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Dolores Costello spent the twilight months of her Warner Bros. contract in such trifles as Expensive Women. The star is cast...
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1931
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In this romance, a disillusioned wife, learning that her husband has been unfaithful, divorces him and moves to Paris where...
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1930
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John Gilbert was one of MGM's top stars when he appeared this melodrama. Playing against his usual matinee idol type, Gilbert...
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1927
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Returning after a four year hiatus to the genre that had made her a world-wide household name back in the 1910s, Pearl White...
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Bit Part
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1923
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