Soundies: A Musical History collects a number of short musical films that played on a film jukebox called Panoram in the...
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2007
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Joe Nighthawk used to serve in the San Francisco Police Department but got burned out by having to use lethal force one time...
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1992
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Sylvester Stallone gives comedy another try in this farce set in the 1930s. Angelo "Snaps" Provelone (Stallone) is the...
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1991
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Emelin
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1990
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This eccentric, amusingly sick Canadian production involves a group of annoying yuppies who charter a plane for a camping...
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Ma
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1988
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A quaint, stagebound little horror film from Charles Band's Empire Pictures, Cellar Dweller stars Jeffrey Combs (fresh off...
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1987
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A canine trained to kill provides the gruesome action in this horror film. Hester Yvonne DeCarlo buys a rottweiler by the...
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Hester
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1986
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This breezy compilation highlights the great villainesses, trollops and femme fatales of the American cinema. Special...
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1986
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Bob Hope makes his first starring film appearance in 14 years in this made-for-TV movie. Hope stars as a seedy private eye,...
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1986
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1985
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The scene is the West Barrington Institute for Women, where warden Elizabeth Gates (Vera Miles) invites Jessica (Angela...
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1985
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1984
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1983
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1983
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Against the wishes of both families, a poor boy (Matt Dillon) and a wealthy banker's daughter (Cindy Fisher) elope, only to...
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Jeanne Dubois
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1982
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This early-'80s made-for-TV movie includes most of the cast of the original Munsters TV series. An evil scientist creates...
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1981
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In The Man With Bogart's Face, an affectionate send-up of the Bogart detective films of the 1940s, Robert Sacchi plays a man...
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1980
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"Names have been changed to protect the innocent" in this infamous fictionalization of the tragic mass suicide of 914...
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1980
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When the on-campus accommodations are all taken, a group of college students are forced to take rooms in the spooky house of...
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1980
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This inept, obviously low-budget, poorly-acted horror-comedy is primarily a showcase for Nai Bonet a belly-dancer turned...
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Jugulla
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1979
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The cheerleaders of Benedict High are a rowdy, randy bunch with little regard for rules, decorum, or anything that gets in...
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1977
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This spoof makes fun of a certain famous German shepherd movie star from the 1920s. The mayhem begins when the head honcho...
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1976
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1975
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When a bunch of beautiful stewardesses attempt to relax at a ranch, they find themselves attacked by mysterious horsemen....
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1975
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In this Canadian comedy, a husband sleeps with his ex-wife on a weekly basis. The busy woman also has time to get involved...
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Julia
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1975
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Don Murray stars as slick network news producer William Martin in The Girl on the Late, Late Show. In addition to his...
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1974
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Made for television, The Mark of Zorro is virtually a scene-for-scene remake of the 1940 Tyrone Power theatrical film--the...
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1974
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1971
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In this action movie, based on a Mickey Spillane novel, a globe-trotting adventurer finds himself framed for a $40 million...
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1970
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A team of research scientists believe they have discovered a superior intelligence. Jim Tanner (George Hamilton) and his...
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Sally Hallson
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1968
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Producer A.C. Lyles managed to do quite well for himself in the 1960s by making low-budget westerns crammed full of familiar...
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Jill Wyler
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1967
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U.S. Marshal Gid McCool (George Montgomery) leads a wagon train of convicted felons to Huntsville prison in this routine...
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Laura Mannon
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1967
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Herman Munster and his ghoulish clan leave the confines of their 1960s television series The Munsters to try their luck on...
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Lily Munster
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1966
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Season two of The Munsters finds that monstrous Munster aggregation -- Frankenstein Monster look-alike Herman Munster...
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Lily Munster
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1965
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This is the first of numerous westerns produced by A.C. Lyles which became famous not for their stories but for who played in...
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Ellie Irish
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1964
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Those creepy-but-lovable residents of 1313 Mockingbird Lane are on deck for 38 hilarious half-hours during season one of...
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Lily Munster
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1964
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George Washington McLintock (John Wayne) has a saddlebag full of trouble. The owner of the largest ranch in the territory,...
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Louise Warren
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1963
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In this comedy, the head of a United Nations department suddenly becomes a father when he stumbles across an abandoned baby...
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1963
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This unexceptional adventure yarn by director Jacques Tourneur is set in the French Sudan during the beginning of World War...
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Natalie DuFort
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1959
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The 14-season run of Bonanza began with this introductory episode, originally aired on September 12, 1959, entitled "A Rose...
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Lotta Crabtree
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1959
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1958
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Amantha Starr
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1957
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Based on the Holy Scriptures, with additional dialogue by several other hands, The Ten Commandments was the last film...
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Sephora
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1956
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A contemptuous and self-serving immigrant, Clementi Sabourin (George Sanders) pulls himself up by his bootstraps by...
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Bridget Kelly
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1956
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Raw Edge is a modest Universal western from the peak of the double-feature era. Rory Calhoun plays a rancher whose "equal...
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Hannah Montgomery
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1956
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Filmed in Germany (where it was released in 1954), Republic's Magic Fire is the life story of controversial 19th century...
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Minna
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1956
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While John Ford and Howard Hawks received all the critical plaudits, Lesley Selander quietly went about his business...
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Abby
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1955
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Yvonne de Carlo is at her most smokily exotic in the Republic "special" Flame of the Islands. Filmed on location in the...
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Rosalind Dee
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1955
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La Castiglione is set in 19th-century Italy during the reign of Emperor Napoleon III. The only way for Italy to declare her...
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1954
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David Niven plays the new squire in a small Irish community. As snooty and restrictive as the old squire was warmhearted and...
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1954
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Carmelita Carjas
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1954
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Rosa Melo,Tonya Melo
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1954
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Victor Hugo's Toilers of the Sea was none too faithfully adapted for the screen as Sea Devils. The hero is Guernsey-Island...
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Drouette
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1953
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In this adventure, set in Algiers, a French cabaret singer tries to expose the identity of an Arab leader who is conspiring...
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Songwriter, Yvette
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1953
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In this bright British comedy, we meet Capt. Henry St. James (Alec Guinness) as he stands before a firing squad and then...
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Nita St. James
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1953
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This tuneful romantic melodrama is set in a tiny Mexican village and is comprised of three storylines. One tale concerns a...
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Maria
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1953
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Nineteenth-century saloon gal Roxy McClanahan (Yvonne DeCarlo) manages to inveigle herself into the uppermost rungs of polite...
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Roxy McClanahan
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1952
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Joel McCrea plays 19th-century miner Rick Nelson in The San Francisco Story. The year is 1856, and Frisco is a wide-open...
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Adelaide McCall
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1952
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Surprisingly, the Paramount Technicolor actioner Hurricane Smith was not produced by the studio's Pine-Thomas unit (it sure...
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Luana
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1952
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Yasmin Pallas
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1951
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An excellent cast brings distinction to the pedestrian goings-on in Silver City. Per its title, the film is set in...
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Candace Surrency
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1951
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Tomahawk takes place during the Great Sioux Uprising of the 1860s. Van Heflin stars as famed frontier scout Jim Bridger, who...
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Julie Madden
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1951
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The Buccaneer's Girl of the title, played by Yvonne de Carlo, is Deborah McCoy, an entertainer who's been around a bit. While...
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Deborah McCoy
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1950
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The Desert Hawk deserves to be seen on the basis of its cast alone. No more believable than any of Universal's other...
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Scheherazade
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1950
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For some reason, whenever Universal used the word "Gal" in a film's title, Yvonne de Carlo usually headed the cast. In Gal...
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Linda Marlowe
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1949
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For various reasons, the 1949 western Calamity Jane and Sam Bass has a rather poor reputation amongst film buffs. Many...
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Calamity Jane
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1949
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Casbah is a musical remake of the 1938 film Algiers, which was itself a remake of the French film Pepe Le Moko. Tony Martin...
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Inez
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1948
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Steve Thompson (Burt Lancaster) returns home after a few years of knocking around the country following his divorce from...
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Anna
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1948
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Worthless from a historical aspect, Black Bart is nonetheless an enjoyable fabrication about the fabled Western outlaw....
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Lola Montez
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1948
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Yvonne DeCarlo dons 19th century "adventuress" garb once more in River Lady. This time she's a 19th century gambling queen,...
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Sequin
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1948
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Burt Lancaster had one of his first starring roles in this hard-hitting prison drama. Capt. Munsey (Hume Cronyn) is a cruel,...
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Gina
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1947
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Slave Girl is the sort of fare that the Universal higher-ups used to dismiss as "tits and sand;" nonetheless, this kind of...
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Francesca
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1947
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Bearing little resemblance to reality, this musical biography of 19th century Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov takes...
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Cara de Talavera
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1947
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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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Salome
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1945
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Johnny Hart (Rod Cameron) is on the run from the law after killing one of the men who shot his partner. He passes through a...
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Lorena Dumont
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1945
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In this high-spirited musical comedy, J. Newport Bates (Eddie Bracken) is a millionaire who finds women are only interested...
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1945
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Oriental Dream is the TV title for the 1944 Technicolor version of Kismet. Ronald Colman plays Hadji, "king of beggars" in...
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1944
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1944
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The overcrowding in WWII-era Washington, D.C., provided the concept for this comedy, as well as another film from the...
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1944
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Rainbow Island is a lavish Technicolor confection designed to show off the physical attributes of star Dorothy Lamour. This...
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1944
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This peppy wartime musical stars Bing Crosby as radio crooner Johnny Cabot, the heartthrob of millions. To escape his...
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1944
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1944
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True to Life stars Dick Powell as a radio writer in search of saleable material. He comes up with a weekly sitcom about a...
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1943
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In this musical, a gang of college students decide to play a little trick by creating the perfect student. The fictional gal...
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1943
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In this romantic musical, a chipper radio crooner does everything she can and is still unable to get a break. Later her...
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1943
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Let's Face It is adapted from the Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was based on the old Norma Mitchell/...
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1943
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1943
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Overloaded with unreleased films in 1942 and 1943, Paramount Pictures cleaned house by diverting several pictures to United...
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1943
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During the '40s, Monogram ground out musical comedies by the ton, most of them starring their resident song-and-dance cutie...
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1943
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Based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls is a romantic drama set against the turbulent tapestry of the...
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1943
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After gathering dust for nearly a year, the independently produced The Deerslayer attained a national release through...
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1943
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Columbia Pictures evidently felt that ex-boxer "Slapsy" Maxie Rosenbloom was the funniest man on earth, despite the fact that...
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1942
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1942
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Lucky Jordan (Alan Ladd) is a tough but good-natured New York racketeer who tries to finagle his way out of Army service....
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1942
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Having accidentally caused a merchant ship to blow up, stowaways Bob Hope and Bing Crosby are shipwrecked on the African...
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1942
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