Hollywood Collection: William Holden - The Golden Boy takes a comprehensive look at an unconventional actor, who frequently...
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1991
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Tim Culley
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1981
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Shelby Gilmore
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1980
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Despite its title, The Earthling is not a science fiction opus. Instead, it's a low-key character study about a doomed man...
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Patrick Foley
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1980
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Released simply as Ashanti, this search-and-rescue film was adapted by scenarist Stephen Geller (Slaughterhouse-Five) from...
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1979
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The original British version of Escape to Athena ran 125 minutes; American prints were judiciously cut to 101 minutes,...
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1979
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In Fedora, Billy Wilder approaches Hollywood stardom in the same fashion as he did in Sunset Boulevard--with cynicism,...
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Barry Detweiler
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1978
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Satan's son comes of age in this horror sequel. Shortly after the events of The Omen, a pair of anthropologists uncovers an...
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Richard Thorn
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1978
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A trenchant satire of "trash TV," Network seems to grow only more relevant with each passing year. Howard Beale (Peter Finch...
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Max Schumacher
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1976
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21 Hours at Munich is a grim reenactment of the darkest days of the 1972 Munich Olympics. A gang of eight Arab terrorists...
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Manfred Schreiber
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1976
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Though no longer fighting in the war, four deranged Vietnam vets continue to enjoy hunting people down and killing them....
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1974
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A skyscraper and an all-star cast go up in flames in Irwin Allen's classic disaster movie. To celebrate the construction of...
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James Duncan
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1974
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In this Counterculture vs. Establishment romance, Frank Harmon (William Holden) is a middle-aged businessman, recently...
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Frank Harmon
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1973
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Bumper Morgan
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1973
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Despite the fact that most of the westerns made at this time (early '70s) were "deconstructionist" westerns, which either...
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1972
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If you want to know what The Wild Bunch would have looked like with Blake Edwards rather than Sam Peckinpah in the director's...
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Ross Bodine
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1971
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Laurent Segur
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1969
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"If they move, kill 'em!" Beginning and ending with two of the bloodiest battles in screen history, Sam Peckinpah's classic...
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Pike
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1969
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During the early days of World War II, while the United States was massing its forces for the war, England hastily plans...
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Lt. Col. Robert T. Frederick
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1968
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Retired after years of international espionage, Agent 007 is lured back into action to battle the evil spy organization...
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1967
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William Holden stars as Alvarez Kelly in this Civil War actioner. While transporting 5,000 head of cattle to the Union...
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Alvarez Kelly
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1966
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Richard Benson
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1964
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In this drama, William Holden plays Ferris, an American soldier who led troops in Malaya during World War II. After the end...
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Ferris
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1964
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In this tense espionage drama set in 1942, William Holden plays Eric Erickson, an American-born Swede who is put on the...
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Eric Erickson
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1962
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A saga about growing up, relationships, and romantic love, this entertaining drama set in Africa has all the added visual...
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Robert Hayward
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1962
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Father O'Banion
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1962
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William Holden stars as an American artist who becomes involved with the sordid underworld of prostitution in Hong Kong in...
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Robert Lomax
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1960
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Based on an actual Civil War mission, Colonel Marlowe (John Wayne) and Major Kendall (William Holden) are ordered by General...
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Maj. Hank Kendall
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1959
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David Ross
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1958
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The Bridge on the River Kwai opens in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Burma in 1943, where a battle of wills rages between...
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Shears
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1957
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This high-flying thriller utilizes exciting footage of the USAF Thunderbirds in action--an interesting and authentic look...
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Maj. Lincoln Bond
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1956
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In this war romance, set during WW II, a widow falls for a Marine colonel. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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Lt. Col. Colin Black
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1956
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One of the biggest box-office attractions of the 1950s, Picnic was adapted by Daniel Taradash from the Pulitzer Prize-winning...
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Hal Carter
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1955
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Based on the autobiographical novel by Han Suyin, Love is a Many Splendored Thing was evocatively location-filmed in Hong...
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Mark Elliott
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1955
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Musashi Miyamoto was the first entry in Japanese filmmaker Hiroshi Ingaki's Samurai trilogy. Toshiro Mifune is Takezo, a...
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1955
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Irregularly scheduled on NBC from 1954 through 1957, Producers' Showcase was a series of lavish, full-color 90 minute...
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1955
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Lt. Hany Brubaker, USNR
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1954
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Bing Crosby does the Academy Award-bid bit in the atypical role of a self-pitying alcoholic, but it was his co-star, a...
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Bernie Dodd
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1954
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David Larrabee
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1954
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Cameron Hawley's novel of corporate in-fighting and gamesmanship was brought to the screen by producer John Houseman and...
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McDonald Walling
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1954
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The scene is a German POW camp, sometime during the mid-1940s. Stalag 17, exclusively populated by American sergeants, is...
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Sefton
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1953
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This is the story of a chaste young TV-commercial actress (Maggie McNamara) who is romanced by a playboy architect...
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Don Gresham
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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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Capt. Roper
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1953
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Sir James Barrie's whimsical play Rosalind was updated and urbanized as the 1953 film Forever Female. Ginger Rogers plays a...
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Stanley Krown
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1953
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Edmond O'Brien stars as an idealistic state's attorney assigned to crack down on a crime syndicate. This proves more...
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Jerry McKibbon
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1952
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William Holden plays Boots Malone, a dishonest--and impoverished--jockey's agent. Malone sees a chance to crack the big time...
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Boots Malone
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1951
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Commander White
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1951
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Peterson
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1951
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Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard ranks among the most scathing satires of Hollywood and the cruel fickleness of movie fandom....
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Joe Gillis
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1950
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Garson Kanin's Broadway hit was transferred to the screen with only a few passing nods to the stricter censorship required by...
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Paul Verrall
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1950
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Lt. William Calhoun
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1950
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Father is a Bachelor is a pleasant throwback to the "rural" comedies of the 1930s. William Holden plays Johnny Rutledge, a...
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Johnny Rutledge
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1950
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Bill Seacroft
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1949
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Dick Richmond
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1949
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Jim Dawkins
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1949
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Glenn Ford is top-billed in Man From Colorado, though he's anything but a hero. Ford plays a seriously disturbed Civil War...
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Capt. Del Stewart
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1949
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This late-40s western features Robert Mitchum as an Indian scout who happens upon an unlikely family cabined up in the Great...
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David Harvey
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1948
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Jason (William Holden) is a World War II veteran going to college on the GI Bill in the hope of bettering himself. He has...
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Jason Taylor
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1948
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In this faithful remake of Blind Alley (1939), psychoanalyst Andrew Collins (Lee J. Cobb), his wife, his son, and some...
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Al Walker
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1948
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In this aerial melodrama, four brothers working as stunt pilots for a flying circus leave their jobs to become mail pilots....
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Colin McDonald
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1947
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Adapted from the popular stage play of the same name, Dear Ruth features Mona Freeman as teenaged Miriam Watkins, who can't...
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Lt. William Seacroft
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1947
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Andrew Jackson is very happy to serve as the secretary of the society that honors his presidential namesake until he is...
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Andrew Long
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1942
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This lighthearted romantic comedy stars William Holden as working stiff Michael Stewart and Frances Dee as wealthy socialite...
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Michael Stewart
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1942
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Out of the Frying Pan, Francis Swann's perennial community-theatre favorite, came to the screen under the title...
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Norman Reese
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1942
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In this, the third screen adaptation of the musical revue Sailor Beware, William Holden plays Casey Kirby, a shy sailor who...
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Casey Kirby
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1942
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Three disparate young men struggle to become Army Air Corps pilots in this rousing drama that earned an Oscar for its...
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Al Ludlow
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1941
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Texas was Columbia Pictures' lighthearted (and frankly more enjoyable) follow-up to its 1940 big-budget western Arizona....
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Dan Thomas
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1941
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Wesley Ruggles's Arizona is an epic western set in an impoverished Arizona outpost. It tells the story of the feisty,...
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Peter Muncie
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1940
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P.J. "Petey" Simmons
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1940
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Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Our Town is given the Hollywood treatment in this adaptation directed by...
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George Gibbs
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1940
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Invisible Stripes is a cookie-cutter Warners prison drama which rounds up the usual suspects. George Raft and...
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Tim Taylor
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1940
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1939
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No relation to the 1932 W.C. Fields comedy of the same name, Million Dollar Legs is a college picture starring most of...
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1939
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Shirley Ross plays an innocent young girl convicted for complicity in a crime committed by her boy friend (Lloyd Nolan). The...
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1938
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