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Martin Kane
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1957
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The fate that brings lovers together can easily tear them apart as can be seen in this sentimental tragedy that centers on an...
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1956
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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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1955
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Martin Kane
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1950
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Gunner Peterson
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1949
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Martin Kane
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1949
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The Pine-Thomas action/adventure assembly line put together another winner with Waterfront at Midnight. Hoping to put the...
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Mike Hanrohan
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1948
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Only faintly related to the old stage play The Argyle Case, The Argyle Secrets is based on a half-hour radio program...
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Harry
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1948
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In this drama two wandering WW II vets visit the family of a former buddy who had been killed in action. Finding the family...
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Joe Harkness
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1946
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Most of this Republic B-plus mystery yarn is set in a penthouse, next door to a music hall where a strange song-and-dance...
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Inspector Wilson
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1946
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1946
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One of many films of the late 1940s examining the impact of WWII on post-war domestic life in the U.S., The Swell Guy is the...
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Martin Duncan
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1946
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In this police drama, a busy precinct is thrown into chaos when the murdered corpse of a local detective is found in an...
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Sam Carson
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1946
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Two secret agents must somehow prevent a group of post WW II Nazis hiding in the Hartz mountains from successfully making an...
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Larry
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1946
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Inspired by the radio program of the same name, Night Editor features Charles D. Brown as the editor of the New York Star. In...
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Tony Cochrane
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1946
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Nora Goodrich (Brenda Marshall) is a dedicated research scientist who is very close to a breakthrough in her field of...
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1946
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In this drama, two competing reporters get involved in a mystery when they find a gangster's corpse in a wax museum. As no...
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Pete Wills
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1945
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William C. Thomas' Midnight Manhunt begins with the shooting death of a master criminal who expires in a wax museum. Reporter...
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1945
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Joan Davis, the daughter of a famed woman detective, has inherited none of her mother's deductive prowess. Nonetheless, Joan...
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1945
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Follow That Woman is a tad more light-hearted than most Pine-Thomas adventure efforts. William Gargan plays private eye Sam...
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Sam Boone
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1945
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In this tuneful comedy adventure, a free-spirited fellow with a keen eye for easy money is assigned to sail to a remote...
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Drew
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1945
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Joe Gallagher
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1945
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In this musical comedy, an aspiring singer is desperate to audition before a producer. She finally gets an opportunity...
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1944
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Sgt. Benson
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1944
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The world of horse racing provides the framework for this drama. The story centers around a young aspiring jockey who...
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Tom Harrigan
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1943
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In most of his movie vehicles, bandleader Kay Kyser played a bandleader named Kay Kyser. In Swing Fever, however, Kyser is...
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Waltzy Malone
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1943
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William Gargan and Margaret Lindsay, stars of Columbia's "Ellery Queen" series, were reunited for the like-minded...
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Jess Arno
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1943
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Lieutenant Moran
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1942
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This entry in the detective series follows Queen as he investigates the case of a woman's missing husband, a banker. As he...
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1942
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A "B" picture with "A" aspirations, Bombay Clipper mostly takes place on a flight from India to San Francisco. Someone has...
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Jim Wilson
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1942
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Ellery Queen
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1942
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In this drama, an ex-vaudevillian dancer opens up a dance band agency and help street kids at the same time by hiring them...
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Tommy Fallon
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1942
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No relation to the 1933 film of the same name, the 1942 Universal programmer Destination Unknown stars William Gargan as a...
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Briggs Hannon
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1942
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Columbia's Ellery Queen series called it quits with the timely 1942 entry Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen. The eponymous enemy...
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Ellery Queen
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1942
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14-year-old Shirley Temple receives her first on-screen kiss in this innocuous romantic comedy. Temple is cast as the titular...
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Tim Rooney
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1942
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Craig Morrison
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1941
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Something of a distaff Mr. Chips, schoolteacher Ella Bishop (Martha Scott) devotes her life to her work, ageing 50 years...
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Sam Peters
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1941
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There's something very odd about Romano (John Litel), a notorious gangster serving time in the federal pen. For one thing,...
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Lee Davis
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1941
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Flying Cadets is basically a vehicle for William Gargan and Edmund Lowe, doing a Flagg-and-Quirt act as a pair of eternally...
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Trip
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1941
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Well-known New York sports promoter Frankie Christopher (Victor Mature) is the prime suspect in the murder of Vicky Lynn...
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Jerry McDonald
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1941
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Throughout most of the running time of Universal's Double Alibi, it looks as though ostensible hero Stephen Wayne...
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Walter Gifford
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1940
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Originally slated for released through Grand National Pictures, Isle of Destiny was redirected to RKO Radio when Grand...
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"Stripes" Thornton
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1940
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One of several "naughty" screwball comedies based on the works of Thorne Smith (of Topper fame), Hal Roach's Turnabout stars...
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Joel Clare
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1940
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Like its predecessors, this third cinema version of Sidney Hoiward's Pulitzer Prize-winning play They Knew What They Wanted...
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Foreman
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1940
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Seventeen-year-old Linda Darnell received her first big break in the appropriately titled 20th Century Fox production Star...
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Dane Wharton
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1940
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Directed in 1940 by S. Sylva Simon, Sporting Blood stars Robert Young as racing stable owner Myles Vanders. Shortly after...
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Duffy
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1940
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In this comedy, a gangster's moll gets tired of the mob scene and returns to her mother's house. Her mom is a wealthy...
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Ed O'Malley
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1939
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Joe Turp
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1939
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Kay Francis was anxious to complete her Warner Bros. contract when she agreed to appear in this lower-berth drama. Francis...
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Ace Boreman
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1939
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This minor but entertaining screen version of the Monte Barrett-Russell E. Ross comic strip The Adventures of Jane Arden...
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Ed Towers
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1939
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1939
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In this crime drama, a thieving employee sticks her stolen goods into the locker of a co-worker and causes all sorts of...
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Cassidy
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1939
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A remake of Paul Leni's The Last Warning (1929), this "Crime Club" series entry once again presents the spectacle of an actor...
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Arthur McHugh
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1939
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In this drama, a department store owner is deeply saddened to learn that none of his grown sons are interested in taking...
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Thane Pardway
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1939
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This medical melodrama, set in the moist Sumatran jungles, centers around bacteria research. To find a cure for red fever, a...
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1938
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This melodrama chronicles the enduring friendship between four boys in New York's Hell's Kitchen. As boys, the made a pact...
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Mike O'Mara
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1938
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Not a remake of the 1932 James Cagney vehicle of the same name, The Crowd Roars is set in the sweat-stained world of...
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Johnny Martin
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1938
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The rivalry between two columnists provides the basis of this drama. The most powerful of the two (patterned after columnist...
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Mark Farrell
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1938
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Rivalry surfaces between radio producers as they fight for control of programs and sponsors in this lively comedy that...
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George Hayes
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1937
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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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Steve Rowan
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1937
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In this musical, the only one singer/dancer Alice Faye, made for Universal, a Broadway producer is in a quandary when he...
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1937
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In this romance, a new man comes to a logging camp and learns of a conspiracy with a competitor. Unbeknownst to the other...
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Bruce Corrigan
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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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Father Dolan
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1937
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Dwight Stanford
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1937
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Some Blondes are Dangerous is a remake of 1931's The Iron Man, using the same W. R. Burnett novel as its source. Noah Beery...
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George Regan
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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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Lt. Jack Furness
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1937
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In this thriller, an ex-pilot develops a useful new navigating device and decides to test it out. Unfortunately the test-run...
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Steve Browning
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1937
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Hal Cunningham
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1936
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Winchellesque radio commentator Perry Travis (William Gargan) fancies himself a brilliant amateur detective; the cops wish...
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Perry Travis
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1936
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In this airborne adventure, three pals from WW I team up to run a commercial airline. They have also been working on a new...
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Speed Robertson
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1936
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1936
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The all-purpose title Man Hunt was trotted out for this 1936 Warner Bros. "B". Aging country newspaper editor Chic Sale is...
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Hank Dawson
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1936
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One of the funniest, most sharply paced comedies of the 1930s, and perhaps the best of all of Harold Lloyd's talkies, The...
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Elwood "Speed" MacFarland
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1936
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A naval officer gets more than he bargained for when he adopts a recently orphaned young boy, the son of his late best...
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Red Furness
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1936
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Amateur detective Peter Cornish (William Gargan) and dimwitted police inspector Killian (Paul Hurst) combine forces to track...
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Peter Cornish
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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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"Numbers"
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1935
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In this comedy, a toothpaste magnate's mischievous daughter, tired of her father's traditional ways of conducting business,...
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Pat O'Connor
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1935
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There's nary a serious moment in the loopy Warner Bros. programmer A Night at the Ritz. William Gargan stars as Duke Regan, a...
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Duke Regan
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1935
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A tuneful taxi driver secretly works to achieve his dream of becoming a radio singer in this musical comedy. One day he...
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Cliff
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1935
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Like many 1930s Warner Bros. films, Black Fury drew its inspiration from the headlines. The story is adapted from a true-life...
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Slim Johnson
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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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Daniel Wheeler
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1935
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British Agent starred the Hungarian/British actor Leslie Howard in the title role, was directed by full-fledged Hungarian...
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Medill
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1934
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Six writers were involved in the RKO Radio musical comedy Strictly Dynamite; ironically, the plot concerns a radio comedian...
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Georgie Ross
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1934
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William Gargan plays his first movie detective (but definitely not his last) in Columbia's The Lineup. The hero, a gumshoe...
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Bob
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1934
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In this British comedy, a proper teacher at a private girl's school secretly elopes with a wrestler. To conceal the wedding,...
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1934
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Cecil B. DeMille's least characteristic sound feature, Four Frightened People is a character study about a quartet of...
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Stewart Corder
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1934
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William Faulkner's novel Sanctuary was a notorious bestseller upon its publication in 1931, and while it was successful...
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Stephen Benbow
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1933
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1933
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Lionel Barrymore plays a Marshall Field-like Chicago businessman who emerges from the wreckage of the 1871 fire to build a...
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Gene Pardway
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1933
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Though the story isn't much, this actioner does offer a neat behind-the-scenes look at the travails of Hollywood stuntmen as...
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Bob Hughes
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1933
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Red Branahan
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1933
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In this drama, a young surgeon and his driver must combat the racketeers who have taken over the hospital where he works. ~...
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Steve Brennan
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1933
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Headline Shooter is a brisk comedy/melodrama about a newsreel photographer (William Gargan). He prefers to risk his neck to...
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Bill Allen
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1933
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Running just under an hour, Sport Parade stars Joel McCrea as a sportwriter who accidently becomes a champion wrestler. In...
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Johnny Brown
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1932
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"Red" Regan
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1932
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Claudette Colbert plays a dizzy socialite who wants to become an actress. She buys her way into an audition for the part of a...
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1932
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The pleasures of the flesh confront the discipline of the Lord's teachings in this screen adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's...
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Sgt. O'Hara
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1932
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1930
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In this drama, with a story that closely parallels the 1927 feature The Jazz Singer, a Jewish son disregards his father's...
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1929
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Lily Becker (Hope Hampton) is the musically talented daughter whose mother forces her into a marriage to the son of a wealthy...
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1922
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