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Avg Review 3.92 |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1915 |
| Director: |
D.W. Griffith |
| Starring: |
Lillian Gish; Mae Marsh; Henry Walthall |
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Drama, Historical, War |
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A Civil War story told through the interlocking destinies of two families. This historical saga recounts the beginning of the Civil War, the destruction it caused and Reconstruction, which included the birth of the KKK. Black & White. Silent. |
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Avg Review 4.62 |
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| Language: |
German Country: Germany Year: 1915 |
| Director: |
Henrik Galeen; Paul Wegener |
| Starring: |
Paul Wegener |
| Genres: |
Monster |
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One of the most important works of early German Expressionist Cinema. A 16th century Rabbi brings a clay statue to life to aid the persecuted Jews. Black & White. Silent. |
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Avg Review 4.36 |
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Avg Review 4.30 |
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| Language: |
German Country: Germany Year: 1922 |
| Director: |
F.W. Murnau |
| Starring: |
Max Schreck |
| Genres: |
Horror |
| Synopsis: |
The classic dracula movie. Black & White. Silent. |
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Movie is pre-1923, different versions may have copyright music, titles., etc. |
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Avg Review 4.86 |
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| Language: |
German Country: Germany Year: 1922 |
| Director: |
Fritz Lang |
| Genres: |
Mystery, Thriller |
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Fritz Lang's masterpiece about an arch-criminal who plots to rule Berlin. Black & White. Silent. |
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pre-1923 but different versions might have copyright protected music, titles, etc. |
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Avg Review 4.67 |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1922 |
| Director: |
Robert J. Flaherty |
| Genres: |
Documentary |
| Synopsis: |
Classic documentary that chronicals one year in the life of an Inuit Eskimo and his family. Black & White. Silent. |
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pre-1923 |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1922 |
| Director: |
Allan Dwan |
| Starring: |
Douglas Fairbanks; Enid Bennett |
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Action, Children & Family |
| Synopsis: |
Big budget (for the time) silent film starring Douglas Fairbanks that tells the Robin Hood story fairly straigtforwardly. Black & White. Silent. |
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Pre-1923 film. |
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Avg Review 4.56 |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1926 |
| Director: |
Albert Parker |
| Starring: |
Douglas Fairbanks; Billie Dove |
| Genres: |
Action, Adventure |
| Synopsis: |
Seeking revenge, a nobleman infiltrates a band of pirates responsible for the death of his father. Black & White. |
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Original music Mortimer Wilson (d. 1932) |
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Avg Review 4.86 |
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Avg Review 4.33 |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1928 |
| Director: |
Charles Reisner; Buster Keaton |
| Starring: |
Buster Keaton |
| Genres: |
Comedy |
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Steamboat Bill is excited that his son, Bill Jr., is coming to visit him. When Bill is arrested, Bill Jr. tries to get him out of jail. Black & White. Silent. |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1929 |
| Director: |
Dudley Murphy |
| Starring: |
Duke Ellington |
| Genres: |
Drama, Musical |
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Duke Ellington plays a talented jazz musician down on his luck. He meets a dancer with health problems and tries to help her. Black & White. |
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Contains many songs of unknown copyright protection |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1930 |
| Director: |
D.W. Griffith |
| Starring: |
Walter Huston |
| Genres: |
Biography |
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Griffith's first talking movie presents the life of the president as a series of short vignettes. Black & White. |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1930 |
| Director: |
George Archibald |
| Starring: |
Jean Arthur; Joel McCrea; Evelyn Brent |
| Genres: |
Drama |
| Synopsis: |
Remake of 1920 movie where a salmon fisherman is caught between a society girl and a prostitute. Black & White. |
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From the public domain novel by Rex Beach. |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1931 |
| Director: |
Lowell Sherman |
| Starring: |
Lowell Sherman; Mary Astor |
| Genres: |
Comedy |
| Synopsis: |
A comic farce among the royalty. Black & White. |
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From the play the The Queen's Husband by Robert E. Sherwood of unknown copyright status.
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1931 |
| Director: |
Edward Sedgwick |
| Starring: |
Buster Keaton; Charlotte Greenwood |
| Genres: |
Comedy |
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A man wants to get married, but his intended refuses to before her dislikable sister is wed. He comes up with a zany plan. Black & White. |
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Remake of a 1920 silent film, so underlying play should be public domain. |
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Avg Review 3.50 |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1932 |
| Director: |
Frank Borzage |
| Starring: |
Helen Hayes; Gary Cooper; Adolphe Menjou |
| Genres: |
Romance, War |
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From the Hemingway novel, a World War I ambulance driver falls in love with a nurse. Won Academy Awards for Best Cinematography and Best Sound, Recording. Nominated for Best Art Direction and Best Picture.
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Avg Review 3.55 |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1932 |
| Director: |
King Vidor |
| Starring: |
Joel McCrea; Dolores Del Rio |
| Genres: |
Adventure, Romance |
| Synopsis: |
A man falls off a ship and into love with a beautiful island girl. Black & White. |
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Based on 1912 play by Richard Walton Tully |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1932 |
| Director: |
George Melford |
| Starring: |
Hoot Gibson |
| Genres: |
Western |
| Synopsis: |
A con man posing as a lawyer end sup having to defend an innocent man accused of robbery. Black & White. |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1932 |
| Director: |
Edward Sedgwick |
| Starring: |
Buster Keaton; Jimmy Durante |
| Genres: |
Comedy |
| Synopsis: |
A college professor uses inherited to back a Broadway musical in the hopes of winning the love of the star. Black & White. |
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From a story by Clarence Budington Kelland of unknown copyright status. |
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Avg Review 3.50 |
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Avg Review 4.50 |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1933 |
| Director: |
Armand Schaefer |
| Starring: |
John Wayne |
| Genres: |
Western |
| Synopsis: |
Wayne escapes jail for a murder he didn't commit. Finds the real killer. Black & White. |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1933 |
| Director: |
George Melford |
| Starring: |
Hoot Gibson |
| Genres: |
Western |
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A money lender stops at nothing to gain control of land. Black & White. |
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Based on a story by Jack Natteford of unknown copyright. |
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Avg Review 3.00 |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1934 |
| Director: |
Charles Barton |
| Starring: |
John Wayne |
| Genres: |
Western |
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A western that mixes up the good guys and the bad guys. The sheriff and a bank robber foil the plot of a wealthy citizen. Black & White. |
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Avg Review 4.00 |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1934 |
| Director: |
Robert N. Bradbury |
| Starring: |
John Wayne |
| Genres: |
Western |
| Synopsis: |
Rodeo riders are dying and Wayne needs to find out why. John Wayne sings in this movie. Black & White. |
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Avg Review 5.00 |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1934 |
| Director: |
Harry L. Fraser |
| Starring: |
John Wayne |
| Genres: |
Western |
| Synopsis: |
Wayne jailed for a murder he didn't commit is aided in escape by a women who believes his innocence. He finds and helps to jail the real outlaws. Black & White. |
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Avg Review 4.00 |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1934 |
| Director: |
Robert N. Bradbury |
| Starring: |
John Wayne |
| Genres: |
Western |
| Synopsis: |
Wayne becomes sheriff of a small town and sets out with his Indian companion to root out the bad guys. Black & White. |
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Avg Review 4.00 |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1934 |
| Director: |
Robert N. Bradbury |
| Starring: |
John Wayne |
| Genres: |
Western |
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Wayne sets out to find a missing miner and his daughter. Along the way runs into a old pal who is a bit of a scoundrel. Black & White. |
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Avg Review 3.91 |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1934 |
| Director: |
John Cromwell |
| Starring: |
Bette Davis |
| Genres: |
Drama |
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From the novel by W. Somerset Maugham Story of unrequited love. Black & White. |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1934 |
| Director: |
Robert F. Hill |
| Starring: |
Big Boy Williams |
| Genres: |
Western |
| Synopsis: |
The sheriff sets off after an outlaw whose recent crimes might result in the sheriff getting recalled. Black & White. |
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Avg Review 4.00 |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1934 |
| Director: |
Ray Taylor |
| Starring: |
Bela Lugosi |
| Genres: |
Horror |
| Synopsis: |
Feature length version of the serial of the same name. Black & White. |
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Avg Review 3.33 |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1935 |
| Director: |
Denison Clift |
| Starring: |
Bela Lugosi |
| Genres: |
Horror, Mystery |
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The Marie Celeste was a real ship that was found floating at sea with nobody aboard. This mystery has been speculated upon in many movies and books. This movie postulates a less likely theory - murder! Black & White. |
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Based on a story by the directory of unknown copyright. |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1935 |
| Director: |
Robert N. Bradbury |
| Starring: |
Bob Steele |
| Genres: |
Western |
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Classic western star Bob Steele gets deputized to go after some bad guys trying to angle in on some valuable land. He gets help from his deaf sidekick who can read lips. Black & White. |
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Based on a story by Forbes Parkhill of unknown copyright. |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1935 |
| Director: |
Ray Heinz |
| Starring: |
Reb Russell |
| Genres: |
Western |
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In this Forbes Parkhill screenplay a ranching family is wrongly accused of murdering their neighbors. They cross the border to safety and return to clear their name. Black & White. |
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Adapted from The Return of the Muley Kid by R. Craig Christenson which is of unknown copyright. |
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Avg Review 3.00 |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1936 |
| Director: |
John Blystone |
| Starring: |
James Cagney; Mae Clarke; James Burke |
| Genres: |
Film Noir |
| Synopsis: |
Cagney plays Johnny Cave, a retired boxer who becomes head of the Bureau of Weights and Measures. He quickly uncovers corruption and begins stepping on powerful toes.
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Avg Review 4.00 |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1936 |
| Director: |
Mack V. Wright |
| Starring: |
John Wayne |
| Genres: |
Western |
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Pony Express riders compete with the stagecoach for a governemnt mail contract. Black & White. |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1936 |
| Director: |
Bernard B. Ray |
| Starring: |
Bob Custer |
| Genres: |
Western |
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Cattlemen and homesteaders battle over government land. The marshall played by classic western star Bob Custer gets caught in the middle. Black & White. |
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Based on a story by Bennett Cohen of unknown copyright. |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1936 |
| Director: |
Sam Newfield |
| Starring: |
Tim McCoy |
| Genres: |
Western |
| Synopsis: |
A sharpshooter former federal agent goes undercover to find the killers of a friend. Black & White. |
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Based on a story by Norman S. Hall of unknown copyright. |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1936 |
| Director: |
John Reinhardt |
| Genres: |
Adventure |
| Synopsis: |
A South Seas skipper fights pirates and hunts for treasure. |
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Based on a story by Gordon Ray Young of unknown copyright. |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1936 |
| Director: |
Bernard B. Ray |
| Starring: |
Ralph Bushman |
| Genres: |
Action |
| Synopsis: |
A Rin Tin Tin movie involving the murder of a fur trapper. Black & White. |
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Remake of 1914 movie. |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1936 |
| Director: |
Eugene Cummings |
| Starring: |
Ray Walker |
| Genres: |
Drama |
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A prizefighter joins the police force to get gym use and escape fight fixing. Along the way he gets serious about fighting crime. Black & White. |
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Based on a story by Arthur T. Horman of unknown copyright. |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1936 |
| Director: |
Arthur Lubin |
| Starring: |
Ralph Morgan; Alan Hale; Andy Devine |
| Genres: |
Action |
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Filmed on location in Yellowstone national park. A bank robber's son searches for the loot his father hid 20 years before. Black & White. |
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From a story by Arthur Phillips of unknown copyright. Contains original music of unknown copyright by Irving Actman, Charles Wakefield Cadman, Frank Loesser, and Clifford Vaughan.
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Avg Review 3.33 |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1936 |
| Director: |
Alfred Santell |
| Starring: |
Burgess Meredith |
| Genres: |
Drama |
| Synopsis: |
An immigrant's son sets out to clear his father who was falsely condemned of a bank robbery. Black & White. |
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Based on the 1935 play by noted playwright Maxwell Anderson of unknown copyright status. |
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Avg Review 4.00 |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1937 |
| Director: |
Albert Herman |
| Starring: |
James Newill |
| Genres: |
Action |
| Synopsis: |
Canadian counterfeiters smuggling bills into the US. First of a series of Renfrew films. Black & White. |
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Based on a 1922 story. |
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Avg Review 4.00 |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1937 |
| Director: |
Ralph Staub |
| Starring: |
Walter Brennan; Mary Brian |
| Genres: |
Comedy |
| Synopsis: |
A man purposely shipwrecks his family to teach them a lesson. Black & White. |
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Based on popular public domain characters created by Peter B. Kyne. |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1937 |
| Director: |
Louis J. Gasnier |
| Starring: |
Conrad Nagel; Eleanor Hunt |
| Genres: |
Thriller |
| Synopsis: |
A G-man is on the trail of sophisticated bank robbers without realizing his sister is the girlfriend of the ringleader. Black & White. |
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Based on a story by Cynthia Meade and Lawrence Meade of unknown copyright. |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1937 |
| Director: |
Stuart Paton |
| Genres: |
Action |
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A G-Man goes undercover to capture some cross-border oil smugglers. Black & White. |
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Based on a story by Paul Willett of unknown copyright. |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1937 |
| Director: |
Leslie Goodwins |
| Genres: |
Action |
| Synopsis: |
Amateur detectives track down a gang of jewel thieves. Black & White. |
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Based on the 1934 short story Backfire by Peter B. Kyne of unknown copyright. |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1938 |
| Director: |
Louis Gasnier |
| Starring: |
Dorothy Short; Kenneth Craig |
| Genres: |
Comedy, Drama |
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A propagands film about the evils of marijuana smoking. The story, as told by a high school principal to a PTA meeting, chronicles the ruined lives of teenage dope smokers. Black & White. |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1939 |
| Director: |
A. Edward Sullivan |
| Starring: |
Stan Laurel; Oliver Hardy |
| Genres: |
Comedy |
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Oliver's heart is broken when he finds that his love Georgette is already married to Francois, a dashing Foreign Legion officer. He runs off to join the Foreign Legion, taking Stanley with him. Their zany antics get them charged with desertion and sentenced to a firing squad. Black & White. |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1939 |
| Director: |
John Ford |
| Starring: |
Claire Trevor; John Wayne |
| Genres: |
Western |
| Synopsis: |
The movie that defined the Western Genre. Won Oscars for Supporting Actor and Music Soundtrack. Nominated for 5 others. Black & White. |
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Basede on 1937 short story by Ernest Haycox "Stage to Lordsburg" (no record of renewal). |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1939 |
| Director: |
William Nigh |
| Starring: |
Jackie Cooper; Dick Purcell; Marjorie Reynolds |
| Genres: |
Drama |
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A young man looking to make his way in the New York relies on his hero Abraham Lincoln to guide his way. Black & White. |
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Based on a story by Robert D. Andrews of unknown copyright status. |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1939 |
| Director: |
Sam Newfield |
| Starring: |
Tim McCoy |
| Genres: |
Western |
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Tim McCoy poses as a Mexican cattle rustler to break-up a rustling gang. Black & White. |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1939 |
| Director: |
Lambert Hillyer |
| Starring: |
Robert Kent |
| Genres: |
Drama |
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Gamblers fix a football game by framing the star player for robbery. When the innocent man finally gets paroled, he goes for vengeance. Black & White. |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1940 |
| Director: |
William Nigh |
| Starring: |
Boris Karloff |
| Genres: |
Horror |
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A doctor allows an ape-mauled circus trainer to die so he can harvest spinal fluid. The ape moves on to terrorize the town. Black & White. |
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Based on a play by Adam Shirk with unknown copyright. Contains an uncredited song by Juventino Rosas - Sobre Las Olas - with unknown copyright. |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1940 |
| Director: |
Jean Yarbrough |
| Starring: |
Bela Lugosi; Suzanne Kaaren |
| Genres: |
Horror, Mystery, Sci Fi & Fantasy |
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Dr. Carruthers is betrayed and cheated by his business partners. He gains revenge by electrically enlarging bats and sending them on a killing mission.
Black & White. |
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Based on a story by George Bricker of unknown copyright. |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1940 |
| Director: |
Rouben Mamoulian |
| Starring: |
Tyrone Power; Linda Darnell |
| Genres: |
Western |
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In early 19th Century California, the son of a Nobleman returns to California from Spain. He finds an evil dictatorship in place and dons the mask to fight back. Black & White. |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1940 |
| Director: |
William Nigh |
| Starring: |
Boris Karloff; Marjorie Reynolds |
| Genres: |
Mystery |
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From a series of popular stories involving detective James Lee Wong. In this case, he investigates the death of a shipping magnate. Black & White. |
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Based on characters by Hugh Wiley that first appeared in 1930 (copyright unknown). |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1940 |
| Director: |
Phil Rosen |
| Starring: |
Charles Bickford; Irene Rich |
| Genres: |
Adventure, Western |
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Set in Alaska's gold country, a company tries to cheat miners out of their claims. From a Jack London story. |
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The Jack London story if unknown copyright. |
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Avg Review 2.00 |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1941 |
| Director: |
Joseph Kane |
| Starring: |
Roy Rodgers |
| Genres: |
Western |
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A sharpshooter helps a sheriff clean up the town by travelling with a undercover with a medicine show. Black & White. |
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Avg Review 4.11 |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1941 |
| Director: |
William West |
| Starring: |
Harry Langdon; Charley Rodgers |
| Genres: |
Comedy |
| Synopsis: |
A valuable necklace accidentally gets into a can of beans. Features comedy star from silent era Harry Langdon. Black & White. |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1942 |
| Director: |
Evans Raymond |
| Genres: |
Documentary |
| Synopsis: |
WWII from the US Department of Agriculture encouraging farmers to grow hemp. Available at the Internet Archive Black & White. |
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US Government film. |
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Avg Review 3.00 |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1942 |
| Director: |
John Ford |
| Starring: |
Henry Fonda |
| Genres: |
Documentary, War |
| Synopsis: |
Details The Battle of Midway as the Japanese attack in 1942. Narrated by Henry Fonda. |
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Produced by the United States Navy |
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Avg Review 3.00 |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1942 |
| Director: |
William Nigh |
| Starring: |
Bela Lugosi |
| Genres: |
Mystery |
| Synopsis: |
Japanese spies undergo plastic surgery to pose as American Industrialists and sabatoge the war effort. Black & White. |
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There is a colorized copyright protected version (PA-530-258). |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1943 |
| Director: |
William Beaudine |
| Starring: |
Bela Lugosi |
| Genres: |
Horror, Monster |
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Mad scientist turns himself into a ape man. Seeks cure. Black & White. |
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Avg Review 2.33 |
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Avg Review 3.38 |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1945 |
| Director: |
Fritz Lang |
| Starring: |
Edward G. Robinson; Joan Bennett; Dan Duryea |
| Genres: |
Drama, Film Noir, Thriller |
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A mild-mannered, middle-aged bank cashier, who is married to a shrew, falls for a sexy young woman without realizing she's actually a prostitute. She and her scheming pimp/boyfriend then conspire to bilk him of his money. Plot turns and twists inevitably lead to murder and mayhem.
Black & White. |
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Avg Review 4.25 |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1945 |
| Director: |
Jean Renoir |
| Starring: |
Zachary Scott; Betty Field |
| Genres: |
Drama |
| Synopsis: |
The Tucker familly battles hardships including, disease, a flood and a jealous neighbor, as they try to make a go of being cotton farmers. Black & White. |
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Avg Review 3.42 |
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Avg Review 5.00 |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1945 |
| Director: |
Frank Capra |
| Starring: |
Robert Anderson |
| Genres: |
Documentary |
| Synopsis: |
The official US Government documentary defining the enemies faced in WWII. Black & White. |
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Avg Review 3.20 |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1945 |
| Director: |
Frank Capra |
| Genres: |
Documentary |
| Synopsis: |
Part of the "Why We Fight" Series. Chronicles the Nazi invasion of Russia through the fighting at Stalingrad. Black & White. |
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US governemtn film |
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Avg Review 5.00 |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1945 |
| Director: |
Frank Capra |
| Starring: |
Dean Acheson; Winston Churchill |
| Genres: |
Documentary |
| Synopsis: |
Part of the "Why We Fight" war documentaries. This edition chronicles the events leading up to America's entry into WWII. Black & White. |
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Avg Review 4.19 |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1945 |
| Director: |
Edgar G Ulmer |
| Starring: |
Ann Savage; Tom Neal |
| Genres: |
Drama, Film Noir |
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A New York piano player hitches a ride to LA to see his girl. He gets a ride from a man who mysteriously dies. A femme fatale threatens to turn him in for the supposed murder unless he assumes the identity of the dead man to collect an inheritance. Black & White. |
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Based on the 1939 novel Detour: an Extraordinary Tale by Martin Goldsmith of unknown copyright. |
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Avg Review 3.81 |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1945 |
| Director: |
Lewis Milestone |
| Starring: |
Dana Andrews; Lloyd Bridges |
| Genres: |
War |
| Synopsis: |
A platoon lands in Italy and loses their commanding officer. They band together and fight their way inland. Black & White. |
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Notes: |
From a 1944 novel by Harry Brown of unknown copyright. |
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Avg Review 3.00 |
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Avg Review 4.56 |
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Avg Review 3.59 |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1946 |
| Director: |
Edward L. Marin |
| Starring: |
Randolph Scott |
| Genres: |
Western |
| Synopsis: |
Shoot 'em confrontation between homesteaders and cattlemen. A young Lloyd Bridges has a small role. Black & White. |
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Based on 1941 "Trail Town" by Ernest Haycox with copyright unknown. Film also contains many songs of unknown copyright protection. |
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Avg Review 3.85 |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1946 |
| Director: |
LÃ Moguy; ©; onide |
| Starring: |
George Raft; Ava Gardner |
| Genres: |
Film Noir |
| Synopsis: |
A small town girl returns home from Chicago bringing some of her big city ways. Black & White. |
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Based on 1941 novel by Maritta M. Wolff with unknown copyright status. |
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Avg Review 4.06 |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1947 |
| Director: |
Delmer Daves |
| Starring: |
Edward G. Robinson; Lon McCallister; Judith Anderson; Rory Calhoun |
| Genres: |
Film Noir, Mystery |
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The mysterious Red House sits on the property of Ellen and Pete, who is a crippled farmer. Pete becomes agitiated when his adopted daughter, Meg, and her boyfriend, Nath, take a shortcut and begin exploring too close to the Red House. Black & White. |
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Based on the 1945 novel by George Agnew Chamberlain of unknown copyright. |
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Avg Review 3.95 |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1947 |
| Director: |
James Edward Grant |
| Starring: |
John Wayne; Gail Russell |
| Genres: |
Romance, Western |
| Synopsis: |
Beautiful Quaker girl tries to reform an all around bad guy. Black & White. |
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From an original story by the director. Copyright protection of music unknown - original music by Richard Hageman (d. 1966) and uncredited songs by Walter Kent (d. 1994). |
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Avg Review 4.00 |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1947 |
| Director: |
Maxwell Shane |
| Starring: |
Paul Kelly; DeForest Kelley |
| Genres: |
Film Noir |
| Synopsis: |
A man awakes from a dream in which he and a women murder a complete stranger. He begins to suspect that the events in the dream actually occurrred. Black & White. |
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Based on 1 1943 short story by And So To Death by Cornell Woolrich with unknown copyright. |
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Avg Review 3.50 |
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Avg Review 4.14 |
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Avg Review 4.00 |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1948 |
| Director: |
Bernard Vorhaus |
| Genres: |
Horror |
| Synopsis: |
A wife hearing voices from her dead husband threatens her current marriage. Black & White. |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1948 |
| Director: |
Steve Sekely |
| Starring: |
Paul Henreid |
| Genres: |
Film Noir |
| Synopsis: |
A crook assumes the identity of a psychiatrist in order to escape the persuit of a gambler. Black & White. |
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Based on 1958 novel by Murray Forbes of unknown copyright status. |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1948 |
| Director: |
Dean Riesner |
| Genres: |
Children & Family |
| Synopsis: |
An all bird cast set in a miniaturized town. Won an honorary Academy Award. |
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Avg Review 4.00 |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1949 |
| Director: |
Charles Barton |
| Starring: |
Bud Abbott; Lou Costello |
| Genres: |
Comedy |
| Synopsis: |
Basic crazy Abbott and Costello movie that also features a couple of the three stooges. Black & White. |
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Avg Review 1.75 |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1949 |
| Director: |
Anthony Mann |
| Starring: |
Robert Cummings; Richard Basehart |
| Genres: |
Historical |
| Synopsis: |
The French Revolution done as a film-noir. Black & White. |
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Based on original story. Contains original music by Sol Kaplan (d. 1990). |
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Avg Review 3.50 |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1949 |
| Director: |
Byron Haskin |
| Starring: |
Lizabeth Scott; Don DeFore; Dan Duryea |
| Genres: |
Film Noir |
| Synopsis: |
A satchel of money litteraly falls into the backseat of a young couple's car. When they decide to keep it, they run into trouble as the bad guy tracks them down. Black & White. |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1949 |
| Director: |
Fletcher Markle |
| Genres: |
Film Noir |
| Synopsis: |
A New York Assistant District Attorney Tone uncovers a racist hate group while on the trail of a journalist's killer. Film features cameos by Marlene Dietrich, Henry Fonda, John Garfield, Burgess Meredith, and Marsha Hunt. Black & White. |
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Avg Review 3.00 |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1949 |
| Director: |
Arthur Lubin |
| Starring: |
Brian Donlevy; Ella Raines |
| Genres: |
Film Noir |
| Synopsis: |
A two timing wife and her lover conspire to kill her husband. Plans go awry and the lover gets killed and the husband leaves town. Black & White. |
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Based on a story by Jay Dratler of unknown copyright. |
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Avg Review 3.00 |
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Avg Review 4.25 |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1950 |
| Director: |
George Seaton |
| Starring: |
Montgomery Clift; Paul Douglas; Cornel Borchers |
| Genres: |
Drama, War |
| Synopsis: |
Two airforce pilots try to get supplies to Berlin past the Russian post WWII blockade. Filmed on location in Berlin in 1950, giving a good view of postwar destruction. Black & White. |
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From an original story by George Seaton. Original music by Alfred Newman (d. 1970) and uncredited song by Hermann Leopoldi (d. 1959). |
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Avg Review 3.50 |
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Avg Review 4.00 |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1950 |
| Director: |
Michael Gordon |
| Starring: |
Jose Ferrer; Mala Powers; William Prince |
| Genres: |
Drama, Romance |
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Cyrano, a master swordsman and poet, is doomed to live with an absurdley long nose. He falls in love with the beautiful Roxanne, but she is in love with the handsome Christian. Cyrano and Christina deceive Roxanne with tragic results. Black & White. |
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Based on the play by Brian Hooker of unknown copyright. There was a Nov 1, 1923 production of the play (http://www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=9309), so it is probably public domain. |
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Avg Review 4.33 |
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Avg Review 2.33 |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1951 |
| Director: |
Felix E. Feist |
| Starring: |
John Ireland |
| Genres: |
Drama |
| Synopsis: |
Rising basketball star gets mixed up with gambling and mobsters. Black & White. |
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Avg Review 3.12 |
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Avg Review 3.67 |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1951 |
| Director: |
Harold F. Kress |
| Genres: |
Children & Family |
| Synopsis: |
A Lassie movie that involves a gold prospector. |
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Based on the 1930 novel Shep of the Painted Hills by Alexander Hull of unknown copyright. |
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Avg Review 3.00 |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1952 |
| Director: |
Felix E. Feist |
| Starring: |
Kirk Douglas; Eve Miller |
| Genres: |
Action, Drama |
| Synopsis: |
Quakers battle a timber baron to save California's giant redwoods. |
Copyright
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No renewal record for film, but there is a 1990 original record (non-renewal) on the 1951 screenplay (PAu-1-442-382) - not sure what this means. Uncredited songs by M.K. Jerome and Jack Scholl with unknown copyright status. There is a Spanish dubbed version that is copyright (PAu-718-239), and copyright captioned version (PAu-1-243-734). |
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Avg Review 3.70 |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1952 |
| Director: |
Alfred Green |
| Starring: |
Gerald Mohr; Peggie Castle |
| Genres: |
Drama, Sci Fi & Fantasy |
| Synopsis: |
A mystrious stranger named Mr. Ohman visits a New York bar and convinces the patrons that the Communists are invading and haved dropped the H-bomb on Manhattan Black & White. |
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Avg Review 4.00 |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1952 |
| Director: |
Felix Feist |
| Starring: |
Lon Chaney; Lex Barker |
| Genres: |
Historical, Western |
| Synopsis: |
A scout tries to broker peace between an Ottawa tribe and colonials. A Hessian mercenary works to slaughter the natives. Features music by Elmer Bernstein.
Black & White. |
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Avg Review 4.00 |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1953 |
| Director: |
Robert D. Webb |
| Starring: |
Robert Wagner |
| Genres: |
Adventure |
| Synopsis: |
A family of Greek descent struggles with the trials of sponge diving off the Florida coast. |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1953 |
| Director: |
William Beaudine |
| Starring: |
Chuck Courtney |
| Genres: |
Western |
| Synopsis: |
A young man seeks the help of his uncle when his father is murdered only to find that the uncle has also been shot. He gets mixed up with a gambler and horse race fixing. Black & White. |
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Based on the 1948 novel Quarter Horse by Gordon Ray Young of unknown copyright. |
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Avg Review 3.55 |
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Avg Review 4.00 |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1954 |
| Director: |
Vittorio De Sica |
| Starring: |
Jennifer Jones; Montgomery Clift |
| Genres: |
Drama, Romance |
| Synopsis: |
Jones plays an American housewife visiting relatives in Rome. She has an affair with Clift. She attempts to leave him at a train station, and he begs her to stay. Black & White. |
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Avg Review 4.56 |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1955 |
| Director: |
Otto Preminger |
| Starring: |
Frank Sinatra; Eleanor Parker; Kim Novak |
| Genres: |
Drama |
| Synopsis: |
Sinatra plays as an ex-junkie back in town from jail. He attempts to go straight, but cops, old friends and addiction make life tough. Black & White. |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1955 |
| Director: |
Leslie Goodwins |
| Starring: |
Forrest Tucker |
| Genres: |
Musical |
| Synopsis: |
Entrepeneur works to open a new nightclub. Available at the Internet Archive |
Copyright
Notes: |
Several of the songs were renewed and under copyright protection (RE-118-171, RE-163-347, RE-164-043, RE-164-044, RE-164-045). |
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Avg Review 4.24 |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1958 |
| Director: |
William Castle |
| Starring: |
Vincent Price |
| Genres: |
Horror |
| Synopsis: |
Millionaire holds a hunted house party with a prize of $10,000 to0 whoever will spend the night. Black & White. |
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Avg Review 3.17 |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1959 |
| Director: |
Bernard L. Kowalski |
| Genres: |
Horror, Monster |
| Synopsis: |
Leeches suck blood. Giant leeches suck lots of blood. A Rodger Corman production. Black & White. |
Copyright
Notes: |
There is a Mystery science theater 3000 version that has copyright material (PA-575-362) |
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Avg Review 4.00 |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1959 |
| Director: |
Tom Graeff |
| Genres: |
Sci Fi & Fantasy |
| Synopsis: |
An alien teenager flees his own society to warn Earth of its impending doom. Black & White. |
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Avg Review 3.00 |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1960 |
| Director: |
Paul Frees |
| Starring: |
Tony Travis |
| Genres: |
Drama |
| Synopsis: |
A young punk tries to break away from his gang using his singing talent. Black & White. |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1960 |
| Director: |
Edgar G. Ulmer |
| Genres: |
Sci Fi & Fantasy |
| Synopsis: |
Mad scientist sets out to create an army of invisable soldiers to take over the world. Black & White. |
Copyright
Notes: |
Film was copyright 1959 (PA-307-928), there is no renewal record. There is a 1995 Mystery Science Theatre 3000 version that has added copyright material (PA-699-327). |
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Avg Review 1.33 |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1960 |
| Director: |
Joel M. Rapp |
| Starring: |
Richard Devon; Ron Kennedy |
| Genres: |
War |
| Synopsis: |
A Jewish and a Christian soldier must overcome their prejudices to survive. Black & White. |
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Avg Review 4.00 |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1960 |
| Director: |
Monte Hellman |
| Genres: |
Monster |
| Synopsis: |
Gold thieves get more than they bargin for when they try to hide in the woods. Black & White. |
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Avg Review 3.11 |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1961 |
| Director: |
Coleman Francis |
| Starring: |
Tor Johnson |
| Genres: |
Monster |
| Synopsis: |
Atomic radiation transforms a defecting Soviet scientist into a rampaging monster. Black & White. |
Copyright
Notes: |
Original copyright 1961 (PA-385-906); no record of a renewal. There is a Mystery science theater 3000 version (PA-735-734) with additional copyright material. |
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Avg Review 4.75 |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1962 |
| Director: |
Herk Harvey |
| Starring: |
Candace Hilligoss; Sydney Berger |
| Genres: |
Horror, Mystery |
| Synopsis: |
A group of teenagers goes off of a bridge while drag racing. All are apparently killed, but a young woman miraculously survives. She is then drawn by a shadowy figure to a spooky carnival. Black & White. |
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Avg Review 3.03 |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1964 |
| Director: |
Nicholas Webster |
| Genres: |
Children & Family, Sci Fi & Fantasy |
| Synopsis: |
The Martians are worried that their children do not know how to have fun. There solution is to kidnap Santa and two earth children. |
Copyright
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There are a couple of Mystery Science Theater versions that are copyright protected. |
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Avg Review 4.55 |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1968 |
| Director: |
George Romero |
| Starring: |
Duane Jones |
| Genres: |
Horror |
| Synopsis: |
George Romero's classic zombie film. Public domain due to lack of copyright notice. Black & White. |
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Avg Review 4.04 |
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| Language: |
English Country: USA Year: 1976 |
| Director: |
Alfred Sole |
| Starring: |
Linda Miller |
| Genres: |
Horror |
| Synopsis: |
Members of a Caholic church die bloody. Brooke Shields has a minor role. |
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