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    Call Her Savage (1932)

    The daughter (Clara Bow) of a white woman and an Indian chief (Gilbert Roland) marries a man (Monroe...

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    Canyon City

    In this western a pugnacious cowboy tries to prevent a city-slicker from conning the local ranchers...

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    The Cat's Paw (1934)

    Town honchos choose a missionary's son (Harold Lloyd) as a joke mayoral candidate to run against...

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    City Streets (1931)

    Never one to hide his talent under a bushel basket, director Rouben Mamoulien proudly proclaimed...

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    Dance, Charlie, Dance

    This drama is based upon a play by George S. Kaufman, The Butter and Egg Man. It tells the tale of...

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    Deadline U.S.A. (1952)

    A big-city editor (Humphrey Bogart) brings down a mobster, saves his newspaper and reunites with his...

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    The Finger Points

    A gangster (Clark Gable) pays a crime reporter (Richard Barthelmess) to bury bad news, then has him...

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    Francis Covers the Big Town

    The talking mule's buddy (Donald O'Connor) becomes a star reporter, thanks to hot tips from New York...

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    Front Page Story

    In this newsroom drama, a workaholic editor refuses to take a vacation with his wife. Instead he...

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    The Girl in 419

    A large urban hospital provides the setting for this drama. The staff there has seen it all and this...

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    Girls of the Big House

    A women's prison provides the setting for this drama that centers around a naive small-town woman...

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    Gold Diggers of Broadway

    Previously filmed in 1923, Avery Hopwood's 1920 comedy The Gold Diggers was resurrected in 1929 as...

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    Goodnight Sweetheart

    In this drama a big-city reporter moves to a tiny town to begin running the newspaper he half-owns....

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    Gun Smoke

    William Boyd is one of the stars of the Paramount western Gun Smoke -- only it's not the same...

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    Headin' East

    This is one of Buck Jones' most unusual sound films. Cowboy Buck Benson (Jones) is incredulous to...

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    Her Highness and the Bellboy

    A New York hotel bellboy (Robert Walker) forgets his girlfriend (June Allyson) after meeting a...

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    Her Kind of Man

    This Warner Bros. programmer stars Dane Clark as Prohibition-era columnist Don Corwin and Janis...

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    Hi, Nellie!

    A newsman (Paul Muni) cracks a murder case after being demoted to a lonely hearts column.

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    Hit the Hay

    In this tuneful comedy, an opera talent scout is in the country one day when he overhears a...

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    Hungry Hill (1947)

    Life becomes a tragedy for the wife (Margaret Lockwood) of an Irish heir (Dennis Price) to a...

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    I'll Be Yours (1947)

    A small-town girl tells a small fib to a wealthy businessman; complications ensue.

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    If You Believe It, It's So

    Even though Thomas Meighan was well-cast in this comedy-drama, meant as sort of a lower-echelon...

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    It Comes up Love

    It Comes Up Love was typical of teenaged songstress Gloria Jean's Universal vehicles: good songs and...

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    It Happens Every Thursday

    Excluding a brace of 1980s TV-movie appearances, It Happens Every Thursday was the final feature...

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    King of Gamblers

    Akim Tamiroff, Paramount Pictures' resident crime lord, runs all illegal gambling activities in a...

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    Lonesome

    Two lonely people in the big city meet and enjoy the thrills of an amusement park, only to lose each...

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    Love and Learn

    A New York socialite (Martha Vickers) plays working girl around two struggling songwriters (Jack...

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    M

    Berlin's underworld races the police to find a whistling killer (David Wayne) of children.

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    Missing Girls

    A couple of naïve girls get themselves unwittingly involved in the gambling racket in this Poverty...

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    Molly and Me

    In this early talkie, a burlesque team grows tired of playing rural gigs. When the fellow is offered...