While playing poker with Big Jim Watson (Alan Hale Jr., Bart (Jack Kelly) again comes face to face with his old friendly...
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1962
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Town curmudgeon Ben Weaver (Will Wright) is on the warpath again. This time, Ben demands that itinerant peddler Bert Miller...
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1962
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After an eight-year prison term for rape and assault, Max Cady (Robert Mitchum) is set free. Immediately making a beeline to...
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1962
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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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Sam Peckinpah's first feature as director is this modest Western, taking place in the late 1860s. Yellowleg (Brian Keith), a...
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1961
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Edward Petrie
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1961
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Charles Cromwell (Karl Weber), president-elect of Euclid College, arranges a meeting with Robert Haskell, who is handling a...
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1961
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Evidently having learned nothing from his humanity-affirming experience in "The Christmas Story", Ben Weaver (Will Wright),...
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1961
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In an episode originally filmed for Maverick's third season--and originally intended as the fourth-season opener--Bret and...
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1960
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This classic episode of The Andy Griffith Show begins when Sheriff Andy compassionately decides not to lock up moonshiner Sam...
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1960
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Bob Hope plays a 19th-century insurance agent whose miserable sales record prompts his boss to send him out West, where he...
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1959
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In order to play in a high-stakes poker game, Bret (James Garner) and Bart (Jack Kelly) enter a pair of certified checks,...
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1959
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Caught in a "goose-drownder" (a heavy rainstorm, that is), Bart Maverick (Jack Kelly) and his friend Gentleman Jack Darby...
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1959
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Lou Costello made his only film appearance without Bud Abbott in 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock. Lou plays a bumbling junk...
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1959
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Bret (James Garner) is summoned for jury duty in the trial of young Bill Gregg (William Reynolds), who is accused of...
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1958
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The highly variable Tab Hunter delivers his best film performance in the grim western Gunman's Walk. Hunter plays Ed Hackett,...
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1958
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The oft-told tale of controversial Southern-sympathizing outlaw Quantrill is recounted again in this low-budget western....
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Judge Wood
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1958
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Flamboyant character actor Hans Conried delivers a surprisingly low-key performance as Homer Eakins, the black sheep of a...
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1958
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Missouri Traveler was one of a handful of independent films distributed by Disney's Buena Vista corporation. Brandon De Wilde...
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1958
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Kim Novak is clearly out of her depth as legendary Broadway actress Jeanne Eagels, but one can't fault her for trying very...
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1957
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Pete at Firehouse #7
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1957
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John Steineck's novel The Wayward Bus was retranslated into pop-entertainment terms for the screen. Most of the story takes...
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1957
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Frontier peacekeeper Sheriff Galt (Sterling Hayden) faces a crisis of conscience in The Iron Sheriff. In the aftermath of a...
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1957
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This Walt Disney filmization of Esther Forbes' Revolutionary-War novel Johnny Tremain was appropriately released on July 4,...
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1957
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This first episode of Dragnet's sixth TV season was adapted from a radio drama first broadcast on June 15, 1954. Identifying...
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1956
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The MGM melodrama These Wilder Years marked the first onscreen pairing of Hollywood stars James Cagney and Barbara Stanwyck....
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1956
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Still en route from New York to Hollywood, the Ricardos and the Mertzes are arrested for exceeding the speed limit of Bent...
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Sheriff
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1955
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In this 1955 Otto Preminger film, Gary Cooper stars as World War I hero Brigadier General Billy Mitchell. The film recounts...
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1955
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When Otto Preminger was willing to release his drug-addiction drama Man With the Golden Arm without the sanction of a...
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1955
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1955
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Based on a true story from the Civil War, this drama follows a band of Confederate POWS who escape from a New England prison...
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1954
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Director Otto Preminger's only western, River of No Return is set in Canada during the 19th century Gold Rush. Farmer Matt...
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1954
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One of the strangest westerns on record, Johnny Guitar has less in common with Zane Grey than it does with Sigmund Freud and...
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1954
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"What are you rebelling against?" asks someone. "What've you got?" responds surly, leather-jacketed motorcycle punk...
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1954
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1953
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Mr. Walters
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1952
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Belated honeymooners Polly (Jean Peters) and Ray Cutler (Casey Adams) arrive at their Niagara Falls cottage only to find that...
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1952
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The Young Man with Ideas in this MGM production is idealistic lawyer Maxwell Webster (Glenn Ford). Too self-effacing for his...
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1952
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The Happy Time was adapted from the long-running Broadway play by Samuel Taylor, which in turn was based on the novel by...
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1952
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1952
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This anthology film assembles five respected directors and a top-notch cast to bring a handful of stories by the great...
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1952
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Loretta Young plays a guilt-ridden hit-and-run driver in Paula. After leaving the scene of an accident, Paula (Young)...
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1952
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Twenty-one-year-old Anne Francis carries off the title-character duties in 20th Century-Fox's Lydia Bailey with class and...
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1952
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Lure of the Wilderness is a remake of 1941's Swamp Water, with Walter Brennan repeating his role as a half-crazed fugitive...
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1952
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1952
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People Will Talk was less a movie than a conduit for the genteel liberalism of screenwriter/director Joseph M. Mankiewicz....
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1951
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This period melodrama stars Ava Gardner as Barbara Beaurevel, a woman who inherits a substantial fortune from her...
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1951
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The old "Cain and Abel" plot device is redefined within Western terms in MGM's Vengeance Valley. Burt Lancaster stars as...
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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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1951
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The Tall Target is based on a true story: the attempted assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln, even before he was...
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1951
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William Elliot is the multitextured hero of the deluxe Republic western Savage Horde. Elliot plays a gunslinger named Ringo,...
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1950
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Sunset in the West finds Roy Rogers playing a deputy sheriff in a wide-open town. Roy must contend with a vicious...
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Sheriff Osborne
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1950
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Fritz Lang was the guiding hand of this laudable Republic Studios melodrama. Louis Hayward stars as a wealthy wastrel who...
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1950
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A Ticket to Tomahawk has sometimes been described as a musical western satire, but in fact is more "straight" western than...
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1950
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With Dallas, Gary Cooper revived his long-dormant association with westerns. Cooper plays ex-Confederate officer Blayde...
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1950
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A pioneering film about racial tensions, No Way Out stars Richard Widmark as a criminal named Ray Biddle, who despises...
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1950
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Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men is a roman à clef inspired by the career...
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1949
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"This boy...and this girl...were never properly introduced to the world we live in." With this superimposed opening title,...
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1949
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Wallace Beery's final film was the curiously endearing "black comedy" Big Jack. Set in 1820, a time when "science was a crime...
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1949
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An unusually disturbing noir from a director better known for more mainstream fare like High Noon and From Here to Eternity,...
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1949
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Though he doesn't know it at first, industrialist Walter Williams (Brian Donlevy) shouldn't trust his wife Irene...
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1949
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Producer/director S. Sylvan Simon, a man usually associated with comedies and musicals, turned out a rip-roaring western...
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1949
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1949
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Dick Powell stars as Canadian Mountie Sgt. Mike Flannagan. When Boston-bred Kathy O'Fallon (Evelyn Keyes) marries Mike, she...
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1949
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Of the many film versions of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, this 1949 MGM adaptation is by far the prettiest. Set in New...
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1949
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1949
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The age-old enmity between cattle ranchers and settlers once again takes center stage in this slightly above-average Western...
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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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Fed up with crowded big-city living, advertising executive Mr. Blandings (Cary Grant) decides to seek out a big, roomy house...
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1948
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It's always a risky venture to give a film a title like Disaster (certain critics, like certain vultures, just can't wait to...
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Pop Hansford
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1948
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In this drama, based on a novel by Mary O'Hara, the relationship between humans and animals is paralleled as they struggle to...
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1948
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The year is 1908 and the setting Jericho, Kansas, a veritable cesspool of sin and vice. Dave Connors is a politically...
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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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1948
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In this provocative drama, a stern hard-liner judge commits euthanasia to save his terminally ill wife from further...
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1948
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1948
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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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1947
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1947
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In this comedy, a scatter-brained professor nearly starts a riot when he writes a book claiming that women like to be...
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1947
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Based upon the French film Le Jour Se Lève, The Long Night opens in the in the midst of a dire situation: ex-serviceman Joe...
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1947
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Alan Ladd and Robert Preston star as Joe Madigan and Jim Davis, rival grain harvesters in the Midwest's wheat country. The...
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1947
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The restful hues of the Trucolor process add to the overall entertainment value of Republic's Along the Oregon Trail. Singing...
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1947
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Fifteen-year-old Elizabeth Taylor receives her first screen kiss in the innocuous MGM confection Cynthia. Taylor plays the...
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1947
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A woman looks back at her childhood in show business in this musical comedy. At the turn of the century, Myrtle McKinley...
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1947
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Philo Vance, the infuriatingly brilliant amateur detective created by S. S. Van Dine, hadn't been seen on screen for seven...
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Philo Vance
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1947
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In this drama, three veteran pilots from WW II decide to start their own air freight business. In order to earn enough...
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1946
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This neat, fast-paced perfectly cast film noir reflects the hard-boiled, grim wit of the author of its screenplay,...
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1946
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1946
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William Powell plays a cynical con man who graduates from penny-ante operations to a big-time charity racket. The scam...
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1946
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Radio comedian Al Pearce heads the cast of Republic's One Exciting Week. Pearce is cast as wartime hero Dan Flannery, who...
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1946
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A Hollywood movie company descends on the Ozarks in this pleasant, if low-budget, musical from PRC undoubtedly inspired by...
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1946
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This drama is an updated version of Ulmer's 1944 film Bluebeard. It is set in New York and follows the exploits of an...
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1946
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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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1946
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Director Allan Dwan moved to Republic Pictures in 1946, there to make the same sort of marital farce he'd been specializing...
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1946
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The first "Road" picture in three years (the last was The Road to Morocco), Road to Utopia is set during the Alaskan gold...
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1946
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In this mystery, a private detective is falsely accused of murder by his secretary who wants to protect her little sister...
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1946
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Jed Potter (Fred Astaire) is a popular radio personality who was once a famous dancer. He also used to be friends with Johnny...
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1946
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Without Reservations has to be the least typical John Wayne picture of the postwar era. Top billing is bestowed upon...
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1946
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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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1946
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There's slightly more fancy than fact in this lavish film biography of legendary American composer George Gershwin, but oh!...
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1945
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"You can live a long time in three days -- sometimes when you're in a tight spot, you can live a year in ten seconds." US...
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1945
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Radio legend and 3-D pioneer Arch Oboler brings his story, Alter Ego, to the screen in a low-budget yarn that benefits from a...
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1945
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In this romantic comedy, two warring neighbors are aghast when their respective daughter and son fall in love and plan to...
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1945
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The old bromide about a group of avaricious heirs waiting for an old millionaire to die is trotted out in Grissly's Millions....
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1945
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Fabric designer Harry Quincey (George Sanders) has the unhappy task of caring for his tiresome unmarried sisters, Lettie...
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1945
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This campy little drama launched the career of B-girl Yvonne De Carlo. It is set during the Franco-Prussian war and...
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1945
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Masterfully directed by Fritz Lang, Scarlet Street is a bleak film in which an ordinary man succumbs first to vice and then...
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1945
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1945
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1944
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This musical comedy stars radio star Al Pearce has a double role playing himself and Elmer Blurt, the leader of a small-town...
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1943
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In this musical comedy, a plucky young woman launches a successful campaign and becomes mayor of her tiny hometown. Now she...
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1943
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In Old Oklahoma is better known today by its reissue title, War of the Wildcats. John Wayne heads the cast as oil man Dan...
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1943
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Robert Paige plays a struggling songwriter who poses as a millionaire cowboy. It's all part of a zany, wacky and nutty scheme...
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1943
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1943
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A woman's attempt to disguise herself as an underage girl mushrooms into a series of humorous deceptions in this romantic...
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1942
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Brian Aherne stars as a successful murder-mystery novelist; his wife, Loretta Young, wishes Aherne would switch to writing...
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1942
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The DE 733, a destroyer escort vessel, pulls into port with a gaping hole in her hull from a torpedo attack. At first, her...
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1942
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Aircraft plant worker Robert Cummings is accused of sabotaging his factory and causing the death of a co-worker. Actually,...
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1942
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One of the most frequently revived of the Pine-Thomas productions of the 1940s, Wildcat is set amongst the oil fields of...
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1942
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Tales of Manhattan is a sumptuous multipart film centered around a formal tailcoat. The coat is specially designed for stage...
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1942
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Stolen way back in 1880, a sack of United States mail is discovered in an old attic in 1942. The letters are finally...
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1942
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The best of Joe E. Brown's Columbia starring vehicles, Shut My Big Mouth is also one of Joe's funniest efforts since his...
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1942
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This wildly uneven "Dead End Kids/Little Tough Guys" entry focuses on young Tom Barker (Billy Halop), whose older brother...
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1941
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This fourth entry in MGM's Thin Man series could just as well have been titled "Nick and Nora Charles Go to the Races"....
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1941
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No relation to the Cracked Nuts he directed in 1931, this hokey sci-fi-comedy from director Edward F. Cline stars Stuart...
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1941
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Greer Garson is dignity and integrity personified in the role of the real-life Edna Gladney. After several life experiences...
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1941
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The marvelous rapport between stars Clark Gable and Lana Turner makes MGM's Honky Tonk seem far more substatianal than it...
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1941
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Fresh from his Broadway triumph as "The Stage Manager" in Our Town, veteran actor-playwright Frank Craven heads the cast of...
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1941
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A producer devises an elaborate gala premiere for his latest anti-Nazi propaganda epic, The Earth in Flames. It is slated to...
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1941
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This episode in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series takes on election fraud. It gives a behind-the-scenes account of how...
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1940
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1940
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