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    But the Flesh Is Weak

    Ivor Novello's elegant stage play The Truth Game was the source for MGM's But the Flesh is Weak. C....

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    The Cardinal

    Set in 15th-century Italy, The Cardinal stars Matheson Lang as one Cardinal de Medici. Bound by the...

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    Case of Clara Deane

    Based on a play by Arthur M. Brilant, The Case of Clara Deane stars Wynne Gibson, repeating her...

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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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    The Cavalier of the Streets

    In this courtroom drama a barrister's wife is tried for her husband's murder. To save the innocent...

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    Cheating Blondes

    A typically pedestrian whodunit from low-budget entrepreneur Larry Darmour, Cheating Blondes...

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    Cheer Leader

    Still another of the seemingly endless stream of "collegiate" pictures, The Cheer Leader starred...

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    Code of the Rangers

    Code of the Rangers was one of four Monogram westerns of the 1937-38 season starring the venerable...

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    Comrades

    Comrades gets under way at a military academy, where cadets Gareth Hughes and Donald Keith greet the...

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    Confession

    A cabaret singer (Kay Francis) stands trial in Warsaw for killing a concert pianist (Basil Rathbone)...

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    Confessions of a Wife

    Helene Chadwick, a star of the late teens whose popularity had diminished by the end of the '20s,...

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    Conquest of Canaan

    This picture was a mediocre adaptation of the Booth Tarkington novel (which was filmed previously in...

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    The Convict's Code

    In this crime drama a convicted killer faces the chair for killing a woman. His lover goes to the...

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    Country Beyond

    The Country Beyond is another "Northwest Mountie" opus from the pen of James Oliver Curwood. Filmed...

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    The Covered Trail

    An honest cowboy is once again falsely accused of being an outlaw in this minor silent western from...

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    The Crime of the Century (1996)

    This unique thriller chronicles the exploits of a doctor who will do almost anything to please his...

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    Crime Without Passion

    Crime Without Passion is an odd, almost existential murder yarn. Famed attorney Claude Rains,...

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    Dangerous Corner

    A publisher (Conrad Nagel) holds a seance after a theft/suicide and makes everyone tell the truth.

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    Daughter of Devil Dan

    Irma Harrison and Kempton Greene star in this hackneyed melodrama. The daughter of a wealthy...

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    Death Flies East

    Two of Hollywood's duller actors, Conrad Nagel and Florence Rice, star in this overly complicated...

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    Debt of Honor

    A robbery committed by gambler Fitzgerald is claimed by his friend Banks while the two are stationed...

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    Delayed Action

    Robert Ayres plays a moody author with a suicide complex. Ayres' melancholia plays right into the...

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    Desert Driven

    One of three early 1920s westerns starring veterans Harry Carey and Marguerite Clayton, Desert...

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    Desert Valley

    Based on a 1921 story by Jackson Gregory, this silent Western starred Buck Jones as Montgomery...

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    Design for Murder

    In this suspense film, a tormented young man plots his revenge against his abuser. He decides that...

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    Desperate Moment

    Based on a novel by Martin Albrand, Desperate Moment is set in postwar Germany. Simon van Halder...

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    Double Confession

    The presence of Peter Lorre assured a modicum of American business for the British meller Double...

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    The Dupe

    Social secretary Ethel Hale (Blanche Sweet) goes to work for society matron Mrs. Strong (Veda...

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    Evidence

    It is lawyer John Corbin's (J. Barney Sherry) contention that a man can murder his wife, then beat...

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    The Fall Guy

    A drug dealer leaves a suitcase with a loser (Jack Mulhall) who lives with his wife (Mae Clarke) and...