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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Originally released as The Wild McCulloughs, this AIP melodrama stars Forrest Tucker as J.J. McCulloch, a domineering...
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1975
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1973
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1965
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Uncle Charley (1965-1972)
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1965
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Viva Las Vegas, one of Elvis Presley's most popular vehicles, adheres as rigidly to formula as a Kabuki dance. Elvis plays a...
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Mr. Martin
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1964
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"Old Sheba" is a scraggly circus elephant, which the Cartwrights receive as payment for Hoss' one-night stand as a big-top...
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Tweedy
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1964
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As a repairman (Sterling Holloway) works on his malfunctioning television set, middle-aged TV addict Joe Britt...
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Joe Britt
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1964
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With this all-star Cinerama epic, producer/director Stanley Kramer vowed to make "the comedy that would end all comedies."...
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1963
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In this comic episode, Adam and Hoss Cartwright want to enter their newly purchased thoroughbred in the Virginia City...
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Enos Milford
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1963
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Son of Flubber represented the first time that Walt Disney ever attempted a theatrical feature sequel: in this case, the...
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1963
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Bounty hunters hired by an ex-con focus on the Wells Fargo agent who placed the ex-con in prison. ~ Rovi...
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1961
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1961
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Sounding something like a standard '40s police story, this talkative but interesting murder mystery stars David Janssen of...
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1961
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Popular Mexican comedian Cantinflas (Mario Moreno) plays the title character in this star-studded, amusing comedy drama by...
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1960
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1958
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In this western, an adventurous gambler goes on the lam when he is falsely accused of a riverboat killing. He hides out for...
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1956
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To fully enjoy the rugged outdoors adventure The Mountain, one must accept the notion that 55-year-old Spencer Tracy and...
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Father Belacchi
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1956
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Esther Williams' long association with MGM came to an abrupt end with Jupiter's Darling, which even she will admit was her...
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1955
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Hell on Frisco Bay is a slam-bang return to the sort of gangster fare turned out by the yard at Warner Bros. in the 1930s....
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Dan Bianco
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1955
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The Untamed West is the reissue title of the Pine-Thomas production The Far Horizons. This romanticized retelling of the...
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Sgt. Cass
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1955
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A too-tough Army major gets himself sent to run an ROTC program at a Santa Barbara military school after he calls unwanted...
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John, handyman
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1955
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An unusually matronly Jane Wyman plays the title character in Lucy Gallant. Adapted from a novel by Margaret Cousins, the...
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Charles Madden
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1955
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At the height of his TV fame, flamboyant pianist Liberace starred in the lavish Warner Bros. production Sincerely Yours. A...
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Sam Dunne
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1955
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Lex Barker trades his Tarzan loincloth for buckskins in the Universal western Yellow Mountain. Barker stars as gold...
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Jackpot Wray
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1954
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In this comedy, a housewife schemes to make her dreams of feeling the soft touch of mink on her hardworking shoulders a...
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Harvey Jones
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1953
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A nail-biting Indian deadlock remains the climax of this otherwise overly verbose Western filmed in M-G-M's then-new Ansco...
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Campbell
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1953
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Esther Williams stars in this button-cute musical about a health-conscious family of swimmers who fall in with con man Windy...
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1953
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Originally intended as a 3D film, this standard-issue Bob Hope musical comedy was released "flat." The 50-year-old Hope plays...
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1953
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Library footage from the 1940 Paramount feature The Forest Rangers is used sparingly but effectively in the 1952 Pine-Thomas...
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Syd Jessup
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1952
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James Cagney signed on to play Captain Flagg in 20th Century Fox's 1952 remake of the 1926 classic What Price Glory after...
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Corporal Kiper
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1952
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Since its lapse into public domain in 1978, First Legion has joined Love Affair and Algiers as the most readily available of...
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Msgr. Michael Carey
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1951
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O'Ryan
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1951
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Mickey Rooney returned to his "home" studio MGM, after a three-year absence, in the location-filmed melodrama The Strip....
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Fluff
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1951
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Excuse My Dust is one of the few Red Skelton musicals in which Skelton is not obliged to share screen space with the likes of...
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Harvey Bullitt
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1951
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He's a Cockeyed Wonder stars Mickey Rooney as the title character. Try as he might, Freddy Frisby (Rooney) can't succeed at...
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Bob Sears
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1950
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A rare comedy from director John Ford, this story about a WWII soldier trying to gain some respect is based on the published...
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Herman Kluggs
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1950
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Anxious to remain active in the 1950s, director Frank Capra wanted to prove to Paramount Pictures that he could deliver an...
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1950
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In this 1951 comedy Irene Dunne stars as Kay, a Manhattan-based songwriter who marries widowed rodeo cowboy Chris...
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Mears
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1950
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Steve Martin
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1949
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Regret
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1949
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Taken (as far as possible) from the Cole Porter musical comedy of the same name, Red, Hot and Blue stars Betty Hutton as an...
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Charlie Baxter
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1949
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A man who dreams of seeing the future discovers the horrible burden that it can carry in this film noir suspense story....
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Lt. Shawn
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1948
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This fact -based western follows a soft-spoken railroad detective (Alan Ladd) as he brings a murderous ring of robbers to...
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Bill Dansing
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1948
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Vern Tewilliger
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1948
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Also known as A Miracle Can Happen, On Our Merry Way is a multipart comedy linked by inquiring reporter Burgess Meredith. It...
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1948
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The third of four films bearing the title of The Perils of Pauline, this musical biopic purports to tell the life story of...
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Chuck 'Mac' McGuire
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1947
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This story of two young hopefuls who come to Hollywood is merely a thin device to feature almost every star working for...
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Barker
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1947
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Though legendary entertainer Al Jolson was a highly visible presence on the U.S.O. circuit during World War II, he was...
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Steve Martin
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1946
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Our Hearts Were Growing Up is the sequel to Paramount's surprise 1944 hit Our Hearts Were Young and Gay. The first film was...
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1946
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The tumultuous world of horse-racing provides the backdrop of this drama. Directed by Raoul Walsh, Salty O'Rourke features...
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Smitty
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1945
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Gary Cooper added "producer" alongside "star" on his resume with this light-hearted Western about a mild-mannered cowboy...
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George Fury
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1945
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Several of Paramount Pictures brightest stars make cameo appearances in this comedy set in "Duffy's Tavern," a favorite...
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1945
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Chuck
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1945
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After producing, writing and directing one hit film after another, Preston Sturges finally misfired with the biopic The Great...
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Eben Frost
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1944
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It took nerve for writer/director Preston Sturges to lampoon the whole concept of hero worship in the middle of World War...
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Sergeant
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1944
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This wild, once-controversial comedy stars Betty Hutton as Trudy Kockenlocker, a man-crazy single girl whose favorite pastime...
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Constable Kockenlocker
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1944
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Nine Girls stars several of Columbia's loveliest contract actresses as sorority sisters at an exclusive California college....
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1944
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Brandt
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1944
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Stalwart supporting actor Allyn Joslyn is afforded a rare leading role in the Columbia mystery meller Dangerous Blondes....
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1943
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A grown-up Jane Withers is joined by a whole slew of former child stars in the lightweight Republic musical Johnny Doughboy....
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Harry Fabian
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1943
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This star-studded musical drama was largely financed by Theatre Guild, with all proceeds going to various wartime fundraising...
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1943
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True to Life stars Dick Powell as a radio writer in search of saleable material. He comes up with a weekly sitcom about a...
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Jake
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1943
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As for the opening reels, the principal motivating factor is money. After a deliberately confusing pre-credit sequence (not...
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Members of Ale & Quail Club
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1942
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To say that Behind the Eight Ball is the best of the Ritz Brothers' quartet of Universal vehicles is faint praise indeed, but...
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1942
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Produced by silent-film comedian Harold Lloyd, My Favorite Spy is a vehicle for bespectacled bandleader Kay Kyser, who...
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1942
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In this drama, a has-been stage thespian finds that his alcoholism is ruining his life. When his daughter, a cripple,...
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1942
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In this musical comedy set during WW II, a circus aerialist desires to be closer to her lover, a soldier. When she finds...
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Sgt. Butes
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1942
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One of the most often revived of Abbott & Costello's early-1940s films, Pardon My Sarong casts Bud and Lou as Chicago bus...
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1942
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Mr. Jones
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1941
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Muggsy-Ambrose Murgatroyd
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1941
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The fourth of 20th Century-Fox's "Michael Shayne" mysteries finds private detective Shayne (Lloyd Nolan) anxiously preparing...
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Inspector Pierson
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1941
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The Devil and Miss Jones is a social comedy with left-wing undertones. John P. Merrick (Charles Coburn), the world's richest...
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1941
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Hoping to cash in on the success of Universal's Buck Privates, Republic Pictures hastily commissioned an imitation, Rookies...
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1941
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Humphrey Bogart plays Gloves Donahue, a rough-hewn but essentially decent New York gambler. The Runyonesque plot gets moving...
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1941
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Republic Pictures obviously hoped to build vaudevillian Eddie Foy Jr. into a major screen comedian, as witness such efforts...
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Stogie McPhee
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1941
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Cesar Romero plays the Cisco Kid, who may be a bandit but is no kidnapper. This being the case, Cisco and his pal Pancho...
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1941
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In this crime drama, a brilliant lawyer is renowned for getting guilty-as-sin-but-powerful crime figures acquitted. He has...
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Bill Ennis
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1940
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The moral of Preston Sturges' first directorial effort The Great McGinty seems to be: If you're a crook, stay a crook,...
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The Politician
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1940
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Former child star Jackie Cooper headlines this sentimental behind-the-scenes comedy drama. He plays an ex-child star who now...
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1940
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Little Men, Louisa May Alcott's followup to her successful novel Little Women, has never truly adapted well to the screen,...
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1940
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Dumb but honest insurance agent Henry Twinkle (Lew Ayres) is in love with Mary Blake (Rita Johnson), the secretary of Henry's...
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1940
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Mr. Bildocker
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1940
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Imagine the dismay of those hapless TV station managers who've booked the 1940 Martha Raye vehicle The Farmer's Daughter in...
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1940
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1940
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1939
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A remake of Racetrack, King of the Turf stars Adolphe Menjou as a seedy, alcoholic bookie with a long-dormant streak of...
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Arnold
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1939
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A tough football scout thinks he has finally found a potential star quarterback when he sees a burly country-store stock boy...
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1939
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Merlini the Magician, Clayton Rawson's crime-solving illusionist, has been singularly ill-used by Hollywood, having appeared...
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1939
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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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1939
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Frank Capra's classic comedy-drama established James Stewart as a lead actor in one of his finest (and most archetypal)...
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1939
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In this musical comedy of errors, David Brassard, Sr. (William Collier, Sr.) has his heart stolen from him by a conniving,...
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1938
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1938
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Ageing, alcohol-benumbed John Barrymore had one last great performance left in him before his death in 1942, and The Great...
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1938
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In the course of One Wild Night, four prominent businessmen withdraw their savings from the bank and disappear from sight....
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1938
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While New York Sleeps is when fast-talking reporter Barney Callahan (Michael Whalen) prowls the night beat for a great...
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1938
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Previously filmed in 1917 and 1932, Kate Douglas Wiggins' bucolic novel Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm is herein refashioned--and...
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1938
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Peck's Bad Boy and his gang of mischievous misfits (including Spanky McFarland) make all kinds of trouble around the circus....
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1938
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Though its title suggests yet another rip-off of It Happened One Night, Republic's Romance on the Run is more accurately...
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Eckbart
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1938
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Financier J.B. Ball (Edward Arnold) -- known in the press as "the Bull of Broad Street" -- may be one of the wealthiest...
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1937
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In this drama, a Boy Scout leader hosts a local gossip show. Trouble ensues when he predicts a politician's murder just...
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1937
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The Great Hospital Mystery is based on one of Mignon Eberhardt's "Nurse Sarah Keate" whodunits. Physically and...
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1937
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In this black comedy, a twitchy hypochondriac ends up conned into giving up his $500,000 inheritance in exchange for $50,000...
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1937
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Actual footage of the 1936 Berlin Olympics is rabbeted into the action of this superior Charlie Chan entry. Assigned by the...
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1937
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Guy Kibbee, moviedom's archetypal small-town bigshot, stars in RKO Radio's Don't Tell the Wife. On this occasion, Kibbee,...
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1937
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In this musical an agent hawks a new singing star to irritate a wealthy socialite whom he managed to get on the radio. There...
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1937
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Akim Tamiroff plays the Great Gambini, a famous magician mixed up in a murder case. In addition to his card tricks and...
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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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The Big City is an improbable urban melodrama which takes place during a "taxi war" between honest independent cabdrivers and...
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1937
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Scheduled to marry a man she doesn't love (and for good reason), spoiled heiress Barbara Blanchard (Claire Trevor) runs away...
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1937
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Johnny Downs takes a break from his usual campus musicals to play a small-town songsmith in Blonde Trouble. Attempting to...
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1937
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1936
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In this newspaper farce, an editor loses his voice and his job after he tires of being tormented by the practical jokes of...
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1936
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1936
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In MGM's three-hour-plus The Great Ziegfeld, William Powell stars as the titular theatrical impresario, whose show business...
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1936
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S. S. Van Dine's intelligent, insufferable amateur sleuth Philo Vance is the protagonist of The Casino Murder Case....
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1935
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Spencer Tracy plays a hard-driving newsman with a special instinct for solving sensational murders before the police can....
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1935
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Joe E. Brown's extensive circus and burlesque training serve him well in this familiar but likeable yarn. Brown and...
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1935
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Screenwriter Preston Sturges never lets the facts get in the way of a good story in this colorful filmed biography of...
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1935
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1935
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After nearly a decade of nominal "leading lady" roles, Carole Lombard landed her first genuine starring vehicle with Hands...
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1935
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1935
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In this thriller, a young woman marries a dashing young man who, unbeknownst to her, is a jewel thief. After his latest job,...
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1934
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Joe E. Brown plays a dual role in Circus Clown, as would-be circus entertainer Happy Howard and his rustic old father. When...
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1934
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Department-store owner Horatio Allen's (George Barbier) biggest mistake is to name his scatterbrained daughter Gracie...
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1934
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Cited by film historian William K. Everson as one of the fastest-moving crime melodramas of the 1930s (if not the fastest)...
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1934
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A poor street cleaner inherits a fortune in this farce, which came complete with a music score and sound effects. According...
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1928
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George S. Kaufman's satirical 1926 play about a small-town clerk who becomes a top Broadway producer was filmed by First...
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1928
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In this broad comedy, Clyde Jones (Clyde Cook) and "Terrible Bill" McGovern (William Demarest) are a pair of streetcar...
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1928
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This second filmization of Paul Armstrong's play Escape is a bleak study of slum life. Virginia Valli plays May Joyce, the...
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Trigger Caswell
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1928
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George O'Brien stars as George, a footloose sailor who adheres to a philosophy of "love 'em and leave 'em." While on leave in...
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"Hi Jack" Murdock
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1928
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The rampant male chauvinism in A Girl in Every Port might be hard for contemporary audiences to stomach, but fans of director...
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1928
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1928
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On the verge of receivership in 1926, Warner Bros. studio decides to risk its future by investing in the Vitaphone sound...
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Buster Billings
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1927
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The Gay Old Bird in this silent Warner Bros. programmer is Louise Fazenda, cast as ugly-duckling maidservant Sisseretta...
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Mr. Fixit
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1927
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Long before he was established as screendom's Charlie Chan, Warner Oland was Warner Bros.' "all-purpose" character actor,...
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Dibbin
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1927
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The title refers to ugly-duckling heroine Louise Fazenda, who sweats and strains at a hand laundry. One fine day, shy...
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1927
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Actor-director Ralph Graves, the "auteur" of Columbia Pictures, paid a brief visit to Warner Bros. to put together Reno...
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1927
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The screenplay for Warner Bros.' Black Diamond Express was credited to "Mark Canfield," one of the many pseudonyms of Warner...
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1927
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The popularity of MGM's Slide, Kelly, Slide led to a brief cycle of baseball pictures in 1927. Warner Bros.' contribution was...
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1927
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Hardly an important film, Finger Prints pleased the crowd with its heady combination of slapstick comedy and old-dark-house...
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1927
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It would seem that Warner Bros. was trying to develop hoydenish Louise Fazenda and diminutive Clyde Cook into a screen team,...
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Detective
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1927
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The Carters (Irene Rich and Huntley Gordon), a nouveau riche couple from Peoria, Illinois, decide to take a trip to Europe in...
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Henry
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1927
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A Million Bid came about because Warner Bros. promised a film of that title to exhibitors in early 1927. Unable to deliver at...
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George Lamont
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1927
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1927
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The Village Cut-up
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1927
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1926
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