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1968
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1967
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This sci-fi melodrama about housing construction in the murky deep sea is as clear as the muddied water itself. Enterprising...
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Bob Gage
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1962
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Every so often, the prestigious 1950s CBS anthology Playhouse 90 would digress from its "live" format and offer a sumptuously...
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Ben Gammon
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1958
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First filmed under the supervision of Orson Welles in 1942, Eric Ambler's espionage thriller Journey Into Fear was...
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1956
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The Christmas, 1955 presentation of the CBS anthology Climax! was based on a true story in the lives of the ancestors of...
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1955
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Host
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1954
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In this vintage sci-fi adventure, a team of scientists is studying meteors and is baffled by how and why they are often...
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Richard Stanton
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1954
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In this exciting drama, three people spy an empty yacht adrift at sea. They get on board and begin investigating, thinking...
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1954
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This romantic adventure takes place in the jungles of Southern Mexico and centers upon an archaeologist and a photographer...
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Robert Burton
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1954
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This colorful musical comedy was obviously inspired by the success of Broadway's South Pacific. Army Captain Bill Willoby...
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Capt. Bill Willoby
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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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Lucilius
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1953
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Brief and very much to the point, Inferno is a grim, fascinating tale of survival. Breaking his leg on a vacation trip,...
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Joseph Duncan
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1953
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After surviving the hell of a Nazi death camp, a refugee faces even greater dangers in America in this tale of murder,...
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Maj. Marc Anders
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1951
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Love Nest is a thoroughly likeable formula comedy with a most engaging cast. William Lundigan plays Jim Scott, an aspiring...
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Jim Scott
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1951
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In this inspiring drama, William Thompson (William Lundigan) is a minister from the deep South who has recently married Mary...
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William Asbury Thompson
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1951
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In this romance, an industrial designer is bitterly disappointed when he discovers that upon graduation his daughter decides...
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Matt Reagan
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1951
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Dr. William Wright
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1950
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William Spencer
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1950
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Lt. Harry Grant
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1949
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Those scurrilous Chinese communists are up to their old tricks in the 1949 flagwaver State Department - File 649....
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Ken
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1949
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Elia Kazan directed this, one of Hollywood's early attacks on racism, starring Jeanne Crain as Patricia "Pinky" Johnson....
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Dr. Thomas Adams
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1949
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Few major directors made "small" films with such frequency and expertise than the ubiquitous Allan Dwan. Set in 1933, Dwan's...
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1948
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Much of Mystery in Mexico was filmed on location through the facilities of RKO Radio's Churubusco Studios. William Lundigan...
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Steve
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1948
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In this drama, Madeleine Damien (Hedy Lamarr) is a successful magazine editor with a free-spirited private life, but a number...
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Jack Garet
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1947
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Based on the lives of big-band stars Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, this biographical chronicle begins with their childhood in an...
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1947
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1945
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John Brickley (Robert Montgomery) believes in PT boats, and as a lowly U.S. Navy lieutenant stationed in the Philippines,...
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1945
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The third of MGM's Dr. Kildare series to dispense with the services of Dr. Kildare (Lew Ayres), Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case...
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1943
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In this wartime comedy drama an ultra-macho but aging Marine sergeant does all he can to keep his men intimidated and towing...
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Rufus Cleveland
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1943
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When MGM made a program western, it generally looked more expensive than an entire years' sagebrusher output at Monogram or...
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Tom Folliard
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1942
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MGM's "Andy Hardy" series continued to rake in the bucks with its 12th entry, The Courtship of Andy Hardy. The story takes...
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Jeff Willis
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1942
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Incredible as it may seem, rambunctious 18-year-old Andy Hardy (Mickey Rooney) finally makes it to college in Andy Hardy's...
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1942
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Another graduate of MGM's short-subject department, director David Miller proved he had what it took to helm a feature film...
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Ken Burke
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1942
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In this North western, Indians orphan two boys who are then raised by a Mountie. The boys are different as night and day:...
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James Kevin Gardiner
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1942
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This thriller, set aboard a transatlantic ship heading for America during WW II, chronicles the endeavors of a cagey...
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Jim Moore
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1941
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The Great Mr. Nobody is an easygoing classified ad salesman, appropriately nicknamed Dreamy (Eddie Albert). All Dreamy wants...
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Amesworth
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1941
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Lt. Rog Wilkins
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1941
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In this crime drama, a remake of Heat Lightning(1931), a robber kills a bank teller during a robbery and then takes his wife,...
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Dave Warren
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1941
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Sailors on Leave stars William Lundigan as sailor Chuck Stephens, who has borrowed so much money from his fellow gobs that...
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Chuck Stephens
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1941
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By 1941, Wallace Beery was pretty much confined to playing two characters: The reprobate with the heart of gold, or the...
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1941
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The oft-used title A Shot in the Dark was affixed in 1941 to this Warner Bros. B-picture. Much of the film takes place in the...
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Peter Kennedy
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1941
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In this drama, set in New York City, two brothers fight it out over a girl. The boys were raised by their Italian mother....
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Nick Lorenzo
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1940
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This slightly laundered remake of the 1932 courtroom classic The Mouthpiece stars George Brent as brilliant but unprincipled...
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Johnny Forbes
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1940
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In the 1580s, the Sea Hawks -- the name given to the bold privateers who prowl the oceans taking ships and treasure on behalf...
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1940
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Officially, America had no intention of entering the Second World War in 1940: Why, then, were there so many "preparedness"...
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1940
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Stereotypes abound in this drama that follows the attempts of a Scottish lad to marry a pretty Irish lassie and join the...
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1940
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Santa Fe Trail, Errol Flynn's third western, has precisely nothing to do with the titular trail. Instead, the film is a...
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1940
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This landmark western -- which, along with Stagecoach, has often been credited with revitalizing what had become a stagnant...
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1939
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Sigrid Gurie, the Swede from Brooklyn who in 1938 was touted as Sam Goldwyn's answer to Garbo, was taking whatever work she...
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Terence Kennedy
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1939
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Legion of Lost Flyers is a typically action-packed entry in Universal's Richard Arlen-Andy Devine series (if one can call a...
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1939
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When Zoë Akins' play The Old Maid (based on a novel by Edith Wharton) won the 1934-1935 Pulitzer Prize, the selection was...
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1939
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In this crime drama, the owner and chief editor of a newspaper gets together with two college pals and begins looking into...
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Steve Lewis
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1939
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1939
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Several second-echelon Universal contractees earn their paychecks in the two-week wonder State Police. John King stars as...
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Private Smith
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1938
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This harmless Universal musical comedy is worth having as one of the few filmed records of legendary Broadway comedian...
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Stanley Shaw
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1938
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The Missing Guest is the first of two remakes of the 1933 melodrama Secret of the Blue Room. The audience knows what it's in...
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Larry Dearden
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1938
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In this lively campus-set musical comedy, a budding entrepreneur nearly loses everything after his get-rich quick scheme to...
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Bob
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1938
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James Whale's Wives Under Suspicion is remake of Whale's own 1933 production A Kiss Before the Mirror, with a few noticeable...
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Phil
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1938
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This murder mystery is set behind-the-scenes of a radio station. the trouble begins when a hated cad of a sponsor is found...
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1938
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The Black Doll is one of the better entries in Universal's "Crime Club" series. Most of the action takes place on a dark and...
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Rex
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1938
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Less than a week after the press preview of his second starring feature Man in Blue, Robert Wilcox was seen on-screen in his...
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1937
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A novel by Arthur Stringer was the source for this two-fisted Universal programmer. When a giant utility company begins...
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Doug McKenzie
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1937
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In this anti-Japanese WW II propaganda film, Japanese invaders attempt to raid Alaska and are totally obliterated. The...
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Michael Banyan
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1937
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New York-based actress Claudia Morgan, best known for her interpretation of Nora Charles in the radio-series version of...
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Fields
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1937
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In this romance, a detective teams up with a count and travels to Budapest in search of an embezzler. While there, the two...
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1937
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Girl with Ideas was Universal Pictures' version of MGM's matchless Libeled Lady. Wendy Barrie plays a society girl miffed at...
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1937
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In this mystery, a railroad agent is blamed for a terrible train crash. Actually, just before the crash, the agent was...
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1937
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