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    Nola (2003)

    A young woman (Emmy Rossum) says goodbye to her abusive home life and heads to New York to find her...

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    Four Sheets to the Wind

    His father's suicide prompts a young American Indian (Cody Lightning) to leave the reservation and...

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    Jersey Girl (1993)

    A working girl (Jami Gertz) from New Jersey looks for love with a fast-lane Manhattan salesman...

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    Bad Boy

    Independently (and very cheaply) produced, Bad Boy stars Johnny Downs as the title character, one...

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    The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (1953)

    Revived by a North Pole atomic blast, a submerged dinosaur swims to New York and goes to Coney...

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    Big Town After Dark

    A daily editor (Philip Reed) and newswoman (Hillary Brooke) expose mob-run poker clubs, but their...

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    Carrie

    A farm girl (Jennifer Jones) goes to Chicago, meets men (Laurence Olivier, Eddie Albert) and becomes...

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    City Girl (1930)

    Director F.W. Murnau began City Girl as a silent film, hoping to match the artistic triumph of his...

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    Homer Comes Home

    Film after film, Charles Ray played the same character: a country bumpkin who, more often than not,...

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    Life Begins for Andy Hardy

    Judge Hardy (Lewis Stone) lets Andy (Mickey Rooney) look for work in New York the summer before he...

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    The Magnificent Dope

    A lazy Maine man (Henry Fonda) wins a contest for failures sponsored by the head (Don Ameche) of a...

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    Subida Al Cielo

    Better known as Ascent to Heaven, Luis Bunuel's Mexican Bus Ride is a genial surrealistic comedy...

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    Skyscraper

    A pre-Hopalong Cassidy William Boyd stars in the virile Cecil B. DeMille production Skyscraper. Boyd...

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    Slaves in Bondage (1937)

    A police raid on a roadhouse leads to a war on vice that results in the downfall of a vicious...

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    South of Santa Fe

    In this western, brave Roy Rogers and his pals take on high-tech big city gangsters who fight their...

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    The Underdog

    Bullies pick on a farm couple's (Barton MacLane, Jan Wiley) son (Bobby Larson) as he and his dog...

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    All-American Chump

    Bucolic Elmer Lamb (Stuart Erwin), who only wants to raise dairy cattle, is a mathematical prodigy;...

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    Arizona to Broadway

    While travelling through Arizona, carnival huckster Smiley Wells (James Dunn) makes the acquaintance...

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    Arson Squad

    PRC's Arson Squad stars Frank Albertson as an insurance investigator and Robert Armstrong as chief...

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    Back Pay

    In this melodramatic early sound-film an innocent country gal tires of her dull pastoral life and...

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    Beauty Prize

    There wasn't much story to this lightweight romance starring Viola Dana. Dana plays Connie DuBois, a...

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    The Big City

    An independent cabby (Spencer Tracy) and his Russian wife (Luise Rainer) fight corrupt competition...

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    Big City Blues (1932)

    An Indiana boy (Eric Linden) lives it up with his girlfriend (Joan Blondell) in New York until...

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    The Big City

    The Big City was perhaps the most "normal" of the Lon Chaney-Tod Browning collaborations. Minus...

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    The Big Shot

    A veterinarian (Guy Kibbee) inherits a tainted fortune and moves to the city with his wife (Cora...

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    The Blazing Forest

    Library footage from the 1940 Paramount feature The Forest Rangers is used sparingly but effectively...

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    Blue Scar

    Those unfamiliar with the Welsh dialect may want to bring an interpreter to Blue Scar. Emrys Jones...

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    Border Cafe

    The cattle rustlers in Border Cafe, a modern-day western from the RKO B-unit, are Eastern gangsters...

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    Branding Broadway

    Drunk and disorderly cowpoke Robert Sands (William S. Hart) is banished from an Arizona frontier...

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    The Cabaret Girl

    Ann Reid (Ruth Clifford) is your average, everyday small town girl who comes to the city to make it....