This independent New York film takes place in the bohemian coffeehouse hangout in Greenwich Village. A trio of robbers knock...
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1963
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Gladys Glover (Judy Holliday) is an unsuccessful model and actress who believes that a jolt of publicity will do her career a...
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1954
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The 80-star cast of Forever and a Day would certainly not have been feasible had not most of the actors and production people...
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1943
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Though Wendy Barrie never quite achieved stardom in A pictures, she could always count on top billing in Hollywood's B...
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Anne Merriday
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1943
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The plot of the Pine-Thomas adventure quickie Submarine Alert is more than a little beholden to Hitchcock's The 39 Steps....
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Ann Patterson
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1943
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Some unexpected casting choices distinguish this so-so Universal actioner. Richard Dix stars as police chief Richard Barry,...
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Betty Standing
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1942
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George Sanders makes his final appearance as crook-turned-detective Simon Templar, a.k.a. "The Saint," in The Saint in Palm...
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Elna Johnson
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1941
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When the film rights to its "Saint" series proved too expensive to renew, RKO Radio came up with a lookalike property in the...
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Helen Reed
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1941
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This second entry in RKO Radio's "Falcon" series begins with Gay Lawrence (George Sanders), aka the Falcon, promising to give...
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Helen Reed
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1941
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In this romance, a wealthy young heiress marries an avaricious foreigner to please her father and then dreams of finding...
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Emily Baldwin
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1941
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In this drama an eager-beaver reporter loses his job when he prints a false story about a society girl. The unemployed...
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Bonnie Parker
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1941
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A crime organization affects the lives of an ex-newspaper reporter and the socialite who cost the reporter his job. ~ Rovi...
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1941
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Musical comedy favorite Elsie Janis, who gained renown in WW1 as "The Sweetheart of the AEF", returned to the screen after a...
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Pamela Starr
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1940
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Based on a novel by Medora Field, Who Killed Aunt Maggie? would appear to be an attempt by Republic Pictures to launch a new...
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Sally Ambler
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1940
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Ruth
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1940
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Eleanor Browne's novel Highway to Romance was the source for this moneyspinning RKO Radio comedy. Obviously inspired by...
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Diane
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1940
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Richard Dix is his usual strong, silent self in RKO Radio's Men Against the Sky. Dix plays a washed-up pilot who designs a...
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Kay Mercedes
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1940
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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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Kitty
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1939
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In this mystery, a newspaper executive and three of his colleagues conspire to have the owner of the highly-respected London...
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Joan Marplay
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1939
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The Saint Strikes Back was the second in the series of films featuring Simon Templay, better known as The Saint, and the...
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Val Travers
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1939
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The "Little Tough Guys" get involved in a circulation war between a paper with underhanded tactics and a paper being...
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Gwen Dutton
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1939
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An outbreak of cholera threatens a luxury liner in this surprisingly low-budget melodrama from RKO. En route from Shanghai to...
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Ann Grayson
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1939
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Often cited as a "model" B picture, Five Came Back is set in motion when the twelve-seat passenger plane "Southern Star"...
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Alice Melhorne
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1939
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Though it takes a few liberties with the Arthur Conan Doyle original -- not the least of which is turning Sherlock Holmes...
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Beryl Stapleton
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1939
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I Am the Law is arguably the best of the late-1930s films inspired by the racket-busting career of New York district attorney...
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Frankie Ballou
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1938
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Framed by the fast-paced world of horse racing, this romance centers upon the wealthy young owner of a racing stable who...
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Gloria Lee
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1937
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In this crime drama, a cop is ashamed because a fearful moment prevented him from stopping a bank robbery. He feels so bad...
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Polly Moore
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1937
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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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Mary Morton
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1937
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Adapted by Lillian Hellman from Sidney Kingsley's Broadway play, Dead End concerns itself with several denizens of New York's...
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Kay
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1937
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In this romance, a detective teams up with a count and travels to Budapest in search of an embezzler. While there, the two...
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Dr. Valerie Wilson
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1937
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In this wartime drama, a young woman nearly comes unhinged when her husband, a Navy pilot, is transferred to Pearl Harbor on...
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Lauralee Curtis
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1937
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Otto Preminger was able to make his directorial debut on Under Your Spell solely because Darryl Zanuck couldn't care less...
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Cynthia Drexel
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1936
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In this comedy, an amnesiac takes off with a young woman. This causes the woman's father to hire a detective to find them....
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Jane Forbes
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1936
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Love on a Bet is a lightweight programmer from the "Get Rich Quick Wallingford" school of comedy. Gene Raymond stars as...
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Paula Gilbert
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1936
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A mid-1930s precursor to the 1956 Broadway musical Bells are Ringing, Give Her a Ring concerns a group of melodic telephone...
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Karen Swenson
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1936
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The fast-paced world of Indy car racing provides the backdrop for this drama. The story centers on a test driver who works...
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Jane Mitchell
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1936
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Legendary stage actress Pauline Lord made but a few films, but was always worth watching whenever she took command of the...
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Pauline Anders
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1935
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The title doesn't refer to mosquitoes but to the amount of money that could be earned in the radio business of the 1930s....
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1935
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Jane Dale
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1935
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Never mind the title and the musical content: College Scandal is at heart a murder mystery, and a pretty suspenseful one at...
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Julie Fresnel
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1935
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After a false start in 1932, Paramount's Big Broadcast series was jump-started in late 1935 with The Big Broadcast of 1936....
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Sue
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1935
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In this comedy, an artists paints his clothed model as if she had been dressed in very revealing garb. Later his servant...
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1935
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Freedom of the Seas is sometimes listed as French stage director Marcel Varnel's first film; it's actually his first British...
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1934
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1934
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In this comedy, an aspiring writer leaves her husband, a composer, to pursue a career as a playwright. After six months, the...
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1934
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1934
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It's a Boy was freely adapted from a German play by Franz Arnold and Ernest Bach. On the eve of his marriage to Anita Gunn...
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1934
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In this romantic comedy, two aspiring actors fall in love and marry against the wishes of their parents. The two begin...
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1933
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In this drama, a country physician earns the gratitude of an important newspaper publisher by saving the man's daughter's...
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1933
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Robert Donat stars as a businessman struggling to keep his company afloat in this British comedy also known as Cash. ~ Jason...
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Lilian Gilbert
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1933
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Charles Laughton became an international star by chewing both mutton and scenes in his Oscar-winning turn as King Henry VIII....
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1933
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The Barton Mystery was adapted from a play by Walter Hackett, previously filmed as a silent in 1920. Carried over from the...
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1932
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Quite popular when first released, Wedding Rehearsal is a bit obscure today, which is a shame when one considers the talented...
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1932
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In this musical romance, the chairman of a financially foundering bank is forced into a relationship with a supposed...
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Lucie Kleiner
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1932
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Wendy Barrie made her film debut in the verbose British mystery Collision. Wendy takes a back seat to top-billed...
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1932
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Fans of Doctor Who should know that a callbox is the British term for a police telephone booth. It stands to reason, then,...
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1932
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1932
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