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    Masters of Men

    This confusing maritime drama is divided into four parts; the ages of stone, iron, barbarism, and...

  • The Men She Married picture
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    The Men She Married

    In this melodramatic silent outing, a young girl gets into trouble when she marries a bigamist who...

  • Minesweeper picture
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    Minesweeper (1943)

    An Annapolis graduate discharged for gambling rejoins the Navy and helps uncover a new type of...

  • Modern Youth picture
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    Modern Youth

    Long before he became established as Hollywood's favorite headwaiter, character actor Gino Corrado...

  • Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch picture
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    Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch

    So far as W.C. Fields fans are concerned, Ann Hegan Rice's sentimental 1901 novel Mrs. Wiggs of the...

  • The Night Before the Divorce picture
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    The Night Before the Divorce

    The Night Before the Divorce is when Lynn Thorndike (Lynn Bari) seeks out her ex-husband George...

  • The Night of Nights picture
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    The Night of Nights

    Directed by Lewis Milestone nine years after taking home the best director Academy Award for All...

  • Il Sole sorge ancora picture
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    Il Sole sorge ancora

    Originally Il Sole Sorge Ancora, Outcry is a neorealist tribute to the Italian resistance fighters...

  • The Passing Stranger picture
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    The Passing Stranger

    The British Passing Stranger stars Hollywood actor Lee Patterson as a deserting American GI. He...

  • Port of Seven Seas picture
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    Port of Seven Seas

    James Whale directed this screen adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's French classic Fanny. Madelon...

  • Private Angelo picture
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    Private Angelo

    Peter Ustinov co-produced, wrote and co-directed the quietly effective Private Angelo. Set during WW...

  • The Recoil picture
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    The Recoil

    A lot of money was spent on this romantic melodrama -- enough so that part of it was actually filmed...

  • Savage Woman picture
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    Savage Woman

    This was a different kind of role for dramatic star Clara Kimball Young -- she first appears in this...

  • Silent Dust picture
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    Silent Dust

    Roland Pertwee and his son Michael Pertwee penned the stage play The Paragon, and then Michael...

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    Sky Devils (1932)

    Hoping to match the success of his boisterous (and Oscar-winning) silent comedy Two Arabian Knights,...

  • Soldiers Three picture
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    Soldiers Three

    A retired British general (Walter Pidgeon) recalls how a private (Stewart Granger) and his buddies...

  • The Stain picture
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    The Stain

    An ambitious bank teller (Edward Jose) steals a large deposit and starts life over under an assumed...

  • Still Alarm picture
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    Still Alarm

    Joseph Arthur's The Still Alarm was one of the most popular melodramas ever written. It had already...

  • This Above All picture
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    This Above All (1942)

    A World War II deserter (Tyrone Power) who resents the upper class falls for a WAAF private (Joan...

  • Two Tickets to London picture
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    Two Tickets to London

    Too expensive for a "B"-picture, yet not quite an A, Two Tickets to London is an acceptable vehicle...

  • Waterloo Road picture
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    Waterloo Road

    A drama set during WWII. A tale of adultery & desertion.

  • Conquest picture
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    Conquest

    H.B. Warner, so convincing as Jesus Christ in DeMille's The King of Kings, does a complete...

  • The Third Degree picture
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    The Third Degree

    Hungarian director Michael Curtiz made his American film bow with the highly stylized crime...

  • The Faithful Hearts picture
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    The Faithful Hearts

    Herbert Marshall and Edna Best, husband and wife in 1933, star in the British drama Faithful Hearts....

  • Way of a Gaucho picture
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    Way of a Gaucho

    Producer/writer Philip Dunne adapted the screenplay of Way of a Gaucho from the novel by Herbert...

  • 24 Stunden aus dem Leben einer Frau picture
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    24 Stunden aus dem Leben einer Frau

    Also known as 24 Hours in a Woman's Life, this perceptive romantic drama was based on the novel by...

  • Le Messager picture
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    Le Messager

    Le Messager was the fourth directorial effort for prominent Gallic actor Raymond Rouleau. Adapted...

  • Bel Amour picture
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    Bel Amour

    Bel Amour (Beautiful Love) is a compact little tale of love, betrayal and redemption. Happily...

  • Chlen Pravitelstva picture
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    Chlen Pravitelstva

    Completed in 1937, this Soviet propaganda film focuses on the courage of farm-woman Alexandra...

  • The Record of a Tenement Gentleman picture
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    The Record of a Tenement Gentleman

    In this classic shomin-geki ("story of middle-class life"), Ozu relates the slightly comic tale of a...