This crime drama features the double murder by a woman of her husband and his twin brother. ~ Rovi...
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Producer
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1977
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The last gasp of gimmick-horror auteur William Castle (who produced and co-wrote), Bug is an entertaining throwback to the...
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Producer, Screenwriter
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1975
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A frankly adult comedy about the sex lives of the aimless and the rich, Shampoo is also a pointed commentary on the demise of...
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1975
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The Day of the Locust is anything but a cheerful, light look at Hollywood in the '30s. It recreates both the town as well as...
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1975
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1974
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Shanks is not so much a movie as an hallucinatory experience. World-renowned mime Marcel Marceau plays a dual role as a mute...
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Director, Executive Producer
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1974
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Project X boasts better special effects than usual for tight-fisted producer/director William Castle, but it crumbles in the...
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Director, Producer
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1968
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A desperate group of convicts stage a minor riot to divert attention in an escape attempt. Red (Gene Hackman) and two others...
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Producer
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1968
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In Roman Polanski's first American film, adapted from Ira Levin's horror bestseller, a young wife comes to believe that her...
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Producer
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1968
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A nosey housewife (Marguerite Viby) takes on extra responsibilities when her husband (Buster Larsen) hurts his back while...
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Director, Producer
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1967
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In this spooky comedy, a couple and their adolescent son move into a quiet New England summer cottage. Soon their arrival, a...
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Director, Producer
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1967
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The twelve-year old heir to a fortune decides to fight back after he learns that his avaricious uncle is out to kill him in...
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Director, Producer
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1966
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1965
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Director
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1964
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Irene Trent (Barbara Stanwyck) was married to the inventor Howard (Hayden Roarke) before the blind electronics genius blows...
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Director, Producer
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1964
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Director, Producer
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1964
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An international bevy of beautiful teenage girls represent their countries as the daughters of diplomats. The teenage...
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Director, Producer
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1963
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Set in the title manse, this chilling comedy chronicles the spooky exploits of a Yankee car salesman working in London who...
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Director, Producer
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1963
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TV actor Tom Poston stars as Prof. Jonathan Jones in this early feature-film appearance, a standard comedy-fantasy oriented...
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Director, Producer
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1962
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In this 1961 William Castle film based on Ray Russell's novel Sardonicus, Guy Rolfe stars as the wicked Sardonicus, a wealthy...
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Director, Producer
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1961
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Homicidal represents producer/director William Castle's slant on Hitchcock's Psycho. The film concerns a young woman named...
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Director, Producer
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1961
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Gimmick-loving producer William Castle strikes again with this fun haunted-house thriller which invited audiences to find the...
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Director, Producer
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1960
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As famous for the gimmick with which the film was shown as for its genuinely spine-tingling story, The Tingler follows a...
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Director, Producer
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1959
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This first "gimmick" outing from horror producer William Castle is mainly distinguished by the clever ad campaign promising...
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Director, Producer
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1958
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A perennial favorite of the "Shock Theatre" TV circuit, House on Haunted Hill stars Vincent Price as sinister gent (you're...
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Director, Producer
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1958
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One of the many "exposes" of corporate corruption filmed in the 1950s, Houston Story was ground out with stingy efficiency by...
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Director
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1956
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In this drama, two prospectors search the Colorado Territory for precious radioactive metal. They find large deposits and...
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Director
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1956
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19th century Louisiana is the setting for Duel on the Mississippi. Patricia Medina stars as Lili Scarlet, a vengeful Creole...
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Director
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1955
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Hot on the heels of Warner Bros.' New York Confidential came Columbia's New Orleans Uncensored. Lensed in semi-documentary...
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Director
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1955
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The Gun That Won the West was, of course, the Springfield Rifle, the "central character" in this inexpensive Columbia...
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Director
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1955
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Director
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1954
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Scott Brady plays a decidedly mature Billy the Kid in this Columbia western programmer. According to this acount, Billy was...
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Director
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1954
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The Americano is Glenn Ford, a north-of-the-border cowboy working in Brazil. Ford has been assigned to deliver a cargo of...
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Director
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1954
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During a 1980 interview, writer-director Douglas Heyes mentioned that he preferred to forget his first big-screen writing...
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Director
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1954
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The title doesn't tell all in Jesse James vs. the Daltons. For one thing, hero Joe Branch (Brett King), is suspected of being...
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Director
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1954
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Director
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1954
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Long before he devoted his life to gimmicky horror epics, director William Castle turned out a series of compact westerns for...
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Director
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1954
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Director
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1954
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Cashing in on the popularity of such pro-Native American films as Broken Arrow, Columbia's resident quickiemeister...
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Director
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1953
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Filmed on sets left over from the Columbia superfeature Salome (and also using generous chunks of stock footage from that...
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Director
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1953
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Future horror-film entrepreneur William Castle warmed the director's chair for Fort Ti. Set in the 18th century, the film...
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Director
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1953
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Charge of the Lancers is an all too typical Columbia "B" adventure film of the 1950s, with inexpensive sets, fading stars,...
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Director
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1953
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Producer Sam Katzman once more rummages through stock footage from the 1953 Columbia costumer Salome and comes up with...
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Director
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1953
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Economically utilizing the Universal Studio itself as a "set," Hollywood Story is a murder mystery centered in the film...
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Director
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1951
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Director
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1951
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The popular radio detective series The Fat Man was brought to the screen in 1951, with the series' original star J. Scott...
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Director
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1951
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Obviously designed as an exploitationer, It's a Small World isn't bad within its own limits. Paul Dale, a real-life radio...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1950
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Undertow stars Scott Brady as a gambler just out of wartime military service. No longer interested in wagers and...
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Director
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1949
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In Johnny Stool Pigeon, the title character's name is really Johnny Evans (Dan Duryea). Evans is an imprisoned crook whose...
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Director
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1949
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Texas, Brooklyn and Heaven deserves a historical footnote as director William Castle's only comedy western. Future...
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Director
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1948
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Director
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1948
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The Lady From Shanghai, a complex, involving puzzle-within-a-puzzle mystery story, is a showcase for Orson Welles, showing...
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Associate Producer
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1948
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For the ninth time, Warner Baxter plays Dr. Robert Ordway, better known to movie (and radio) fans as "The Crime Doctor"....
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Director
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1947
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Director
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1946
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Director
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1946
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In this entry in the Crime Doctor series, amateur sleuth Dr. Ordway is duped into giving one of his patients a fatal shot....
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Director
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1946
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Mysterious Intruder was the fifth entry in Columbia's B-picture series based on the radio anthology "The Whistler". Richard...
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Director
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1946
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In this episode of the "Crime Doctor" series, Dr. Orday, the sleuthing shrink, cares for a patient who suffers from...
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Director
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1945
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In this drama based on a popular radio series, a millionaire believes he has six months left to live and so marries his...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1945
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In this drama, a female taxi driver takes pity on a soldier who has come to search for his estranged son and decides to help...
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Director
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1944
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The Whistler, the unseen mystery-story narrator of radio fame, relates another tale that he's gleaned from "walking by night"...
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Director
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1944
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It's nice to see perennial "other woman" Ann Savage in a leading role, even in so antiseptic a film as Klondike Kate. Savage...
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Director
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1944
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Betrayed is the reissue title for the classic melodrama When Strangers Marry. In her third film, Kim Hunter plays a waitress...
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Director
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1944
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The Whistler was the first of eight Columbia "B" thrillers based on the popular radio series of the same name. The Whistler,...
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Director
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1944
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The second entry in Monogram's low-budget "Trail Blazers" B-Western series, The Law Rides Again marked the final directorial...
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Director
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1943
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This lively entry in the "Boston Blackie" series finds Blackie (Chester Morris) acting as spiritual leader of a group of...
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Director
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1943
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Columbia's The Lady in Question is a remake of the French Gribouille, a Raimu vehicle from 1939. Brian Aherne plays Andre...
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1940
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In this drama, set in Paris, a devout communist is slowly seduced into becoming a capitalist by a persuasively pretty young...
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1940
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An actor creates a devious murder plot in this suspenseful, ironic drama. For many years, the aging thespian has been...
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1937
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