Bing Crosby heads this heart-tugging post war drama of a grieving widower who is duped into forming an unbreakable bond with...
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1953
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When Lucille Fletcher took on the challenge of expanding her classic 30-minute radio suspenser Sorry, Wrong Number into an...
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1948
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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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Olive Higgins Prouty's popular novel was transformed into nearly two hours of high-grade soap opera by several masters of the...
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1942
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Long underappreciated by film buffs, The Lady Has Plans is a screwball comedy disguised as an espionage melodrama. The title...
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1942
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A solid Jonathan Latimer screenplay is one of the "plusses" of the medium-budget mystery A Night in New Orleans....
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1942
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Angry natives or a beautiful widow -- which poses the greater threat? Keith Brandon (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) is an...
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1940
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1937
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The Unguarded Hour opens with prosecutor Sir Alan Deardon (Franchot Tone) in the midst of a murder trial. He gets his...
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1936
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In this romance, a slightly crooked and highly ambitious mayoral candidate convinces a woman to help him blackmail the...
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1935
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When British actor Robert Donat dropped out of Warner Bros. Captain Blood, the studio took a chance on its new contractee,...
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1935
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In this crime drama, policemen pursue a convicted killer as he diligently searches for the real culprit. ~ Sandra Brennan,...
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1934
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Another of director William Wyler's "apprenticeship" films, Glamour is based on a story by Edna Ferber. The original story...
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1934
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A rare "prestige" item from low-budget Allied Pictures, Parisian Romance boasts a screenplay by F. Hugh Herbert, of...
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Pauline
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1932
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The "Enoch Arden" theme is trotted out and slicked up for The Man From Yesterday. Nurse Claudette Colbert marries army doctor...
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1932
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In this romantic comedy a demanding French actress is upset because she has not recently received the proper adulation from...
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1932
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The old reliable Paul Frank/Ladislaus Fodor stage play The Church Mouse was streamlined for the movies in the form of Beauty...
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1932
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In this melodrama, a woman is blamed for another's suicide and ends up deported to Germany. Just as WW I erupts she marries...
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1932
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Hoping to match the success of his boisterous (and Oscar-winning) silent comedy Two Arabian Knights, and at the same time...
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1932
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The Russian Revolution provides the backdrop of this costume epic that centers around a young nobleman who, with his maid,...
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1932
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Though silent-screen favorite William Haines wasn't able to sustain his popularity into the talkie era, he insisted upon...
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1931
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Coney island vendors Baltimore Clark (Bill Boyd), Dutch Herman (Robert Armstrong) and Skeets O'Reilly (James Gleason) spend...
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1931
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God's Gift to Women demonstrated conclusively that Warner Bros. would never make a movie star out of Broadway comedian...
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1931
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The George du Maurier novel Trilby, about a hypnotist who controls a female musician, was originally filmed as Trilby, a...
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1931
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Women Go On Forever is almost as old-fashioned as its title. Silent-screen queen Clara Kimball Young makes a comeback attempt...
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Pearl
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1931
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1931
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A wealthy man's mistress abandons her luxurious life as a kept woman to be with the struggling Paris artist she has come to...
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1931
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Just before settling into bit roles and dialogue-director assignments, early-talkie leading man David Newell headed the cast...
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1930
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In the first years of the talkies, every studio drew up plans to release annual "all-star" musical spectacles, but only Fox...
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1930
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One of the most powerful anti-war statements ever put on film, this gut-wrenching story concerns a group of friends who join...
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1930
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This drama is set during the mid Twenties when gangsters were a bit more genteel than their 1930s counterparts. Based on a...
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1930
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The Truth About Youth is the third film version of Henry V. Esmond's play, When We Were Twenty-One. Richard Dane (David...
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1930
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Diane
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1930
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In this melodrama, a dancer works in a sleazy Marseilles portside dive that is really the front for a bordello. While...
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1930
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In this romance, a none-too-bright sailor (Victor McLaglen) takes a trip to Paris, not realizing he had just won the...
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1930
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Director Ernst Lubitsch's first talking picture, The Love Parade was a witty souffle about a royal "marriage of state."...
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1929
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In this curious film, a knickknack collector falls in love with the daughter of a jewel collector. When a rare stone is...
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1929
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In spite of its unbelievable storyline, She Goes to War manages to sustain interest from first reel to last. During WWI,...
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1929
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Mary Nolan, whose own private life was as sensationally scandalous as any of her screen roles, starred in this...
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1929
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1928
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The Noose was based on a story by H. H. Van Loan -- or rather, the play adapted from that story by Willard Mack. Cheap crook...
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1928
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1928
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Unable to utilize the original George Gershwin score, this silent version of the Broadway musical Lady Be Good concentrates...
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1928
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1928
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Billie Dove stars as Marcia Kane, whose head is turned by the charming but sinister Grand Duke Sergei (Montague Love)....
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1927
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The dazzlingly gorgeous Billie Dove is appropriately cast as the title character in American Beauty. This is the story of...
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1927
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When cowboy Buck Thomas' (Buck Jones) beloved horse Silver is "drafted" into the Cavalry during WWI, Buck loyally joins up as...
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Yvonne
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1927
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1927
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1927
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"Hard Boiled" Haggerty (Milton Sills) is a flight lieutenant who uses German planes for target practice during WWI. For all...
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1927
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