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    Duke of Chicago

    In this boxing drama, Jimmy Brody, a retired middle-weight champion turned publisher, must return to...

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    The Easiest Way

    A poor store worker (Constance Bennett) becomes one man's (Adolphe Menjou) mistress and another...

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    Elisabeth of Austria

    Outside of Emperor Franz Joseph, there was no member of the Hapsburg dynasty who showed up in films...

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    The Final Hour

    A down-and-out lawyer gets back on his feet with help from a singer who later retains him to defend...

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    The Gay Falcon (1941)

    The first in the ``Falcon'' series finds the amateur detective and ladies' man on the trail of jewel...

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    The Girl in the Glass Cage

    In her second talking picture, Loretta Young stars as Gladys Cosgrove, the ticket-taker at a...

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    Happy Ever After

    In this musical, a frail artist is victimized by a con artist who cheats her out of her life...

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    Hello Sweetheart

    In this comedy, a sleazy group of gringo grifters try to con a naive farmer into investing his...

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    Highways by Night

    In this drama, a wealthy playboy decides to "slum it" for a while to see how regular people live....

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    I Lived with You

    In this drama, an impoverished exiled Russian prince is taken in by a good-hearted Cockney shopgirl....

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    The Kid from Left Field

    A big-league bat boy (Billy Chapin) ends his team's slump with tips from his washed-up ex-player...

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    The King's Game

    Many film historians claim that actress Pearl White concentrated exclusively on serials before...

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    Le Prince Jean

    The 1928 version of Le Prince Jean was the first of two filmizations of the same-named Charles Mere...

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    The Mediator

    Perhaps the name of this picture is a misnomer, because the tools of mediation that Lish Henley...

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    The Monkey's Paw

    An old man learns the sad truth of the old saw about being careful what you wish for in this horror...

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    Motel, the Operator

    In this Yiddish tragedy, a man leads a clothing worker's strike and suffers terrible consequences....

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    My Woman

    A successful radio star ignores his wife (Helen Twelvetrees), who supported him while he was a...

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    Out to Win

    Anthony Barraclough (Clive Brook) is the unemployed worker hired to impersonate a secret-agent...

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    Pauper Millionaire

    This English-made comedy was based on the novel by Austin Fryers. Its biggest flaw is that C.M....

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    Pick-Up

    In this romantic drama, an ex-con conceals her criminal past and starts a new life with a kindly cab...

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    Spring Meeting

    Based on a stage play by M. J. Farrell and John Perry, Spring Meeting stars Enid-Stamp Taylor and...

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    Strange Triangle

    In this drama, a seductive woman uses her wiles upon both a traveling bank examiner and a manager to...

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    Tales of Manhattan (1942)

    A charmed tailcoat has a magical effect on the series of owners who wear it.

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    The Third Alarm

    Emory Johnson directs this heartwarming film, which features his wife, Ella Hall, as the love...

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    Up for the Cup

    In this comedy, the inventor of a loom heads for London to see the Football Association Cup Final...

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    Up for the Cup

    In this comedy, the inventor of a loom heads for London to see the Football Association Cup Final...

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    The Boat

    In what is perhaps Buster Keaton's most fatalistic short subject, the comedian portrays a husband...

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    Yvonne la Nuit (1949)

    lga Villi essays the title role in the Italian Yvonne la Nuit. The film certainly spares its heroine...

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    Puu-san

    This biting comedy established Kon Ichikawa as one of Japan's premier post-war satirists. It centers...

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    Aqui Iba el Himno

    A friendship is tested by police corruption and bad luck at the ATM.