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    Unsichtbare Gegner

    In this thriller, a corrupt business magnate wants to buy a financially troubled oil company. He...

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    Isn't It Romantic?

    One of the more popular movie-review paperbacks sums up Paramount's Isn't it Romantic? with a terse...

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    Jack Straw

    This light comedy was based on the play by W. Somerset Maugham. While Maugham's witty dialogue is...

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    The Jailbird

    Douglas MacLean, one of the best of the straight comedians of the 1920s ("straight" in those days...

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    King of the Saddle

    This obscure silent western features Bill Cody as a cowboy who discovers that his stock is all but...

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    Ladies' Man

    No relation to the 1961 Jerry Lewis comedy of the same name, the 1947 musical Ladies' Man stars...

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    Leadville Gunslinger

    In this western, a U.S. marshal rides into Leadville to get a prisoner and ends up staying to help a...

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    Let's Make a Million

    In this comedy, a WWI veteran gets married after receiving his bonus money from the government. His...

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    Lights of the Desert

    Although busy with the Tom Mix and Buck Jones westerns, the Fox company also issued non-series...

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    The Lone Hand Texan

    Cowboy star Charles Starrett goes through his usual paces in the under-an-hour formula western The...

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    Love Before Breakfast (1936)

    Love Before Breakfast was the scintillating title Universal chose over Spinster Dinner, the Faith...

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    The Money Habit

    In his last British-made silent, debonair leading man Clive Brook played a man of the world who...

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    No More Women

    This independently made light comedy starred Matt Moore and Madge Bellamy. When geologist Peter...

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    Oil for the Lamps of China

    This drama about corporate treachery was based on the best-selling novel by Alice Tisdale Hobart....

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    Old Home Week

    Thomas Meighan plays Tom Clark, who left his home town to make good -- and wound up as part owner of...

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    Outlaws of the Orient

    Jack Holt is so tight-jawed in Outlaws in the Orient that one wonders how his bridgework will hold...

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    The Potters

    One of several "lost" W.C. Fields silent comedies, The Potters was based on a play by J.P. McEvoy....

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    The Pretenders

    Upon striking oil on his farm, Silas T. Pettingill (Charles Eldridge) moves to Park Avenue at the...

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    Problem Girls

    A medical student (Ross Elliott) learns about a scheme to drug a girl (Susan Morrow) and pass her...

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    Raiders of the Range

    Republic's "Three Mesquiteers" western series was in its fifth year of production when Raiders of...

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    Real Folks

    Real Folks was based on a story by amateur scrivener Kate Corbaley, the winner of a screenwriting...

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    Red River Shore

    Rex Allen, the last of Republic's singing cowboys, stars in Red River Shore. This time, it's up to...

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    Riders of the Dawn

    An otherwise ordinary Monogram western songfest, this movie opens with a grizzly double homicide....

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    The Root of All Evil

    Based on a novel by J. S. Fletcher, The Root of All Evil casts Phyllis Calvert as a grimly ambitious...

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    Sham

    Katherine Van Riper (Ethel Clayton) is a society girl with expensive taste, which she inherited from...

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    Sin Town

    Marlene Dietrich was supposed to have starred in Universal's Sin Town, but the script was not to her...

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    Singed

    This Blanche Sweet vehicle was directed by John Griffith Wray, who outside of her own husband...

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    State Trooper

    In this crime drama, a highway patrolman gives an oil magnate a ticket. He later quits the force to...

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    Strike It Rich

    Wildcatters in search of a gusher during the late 1920s provide the basis of this comedy-drama that...

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    The Ten Dollar Raise

    Mild-mannered Wilkins (William V. Mong) has been a bookkeeper for the firm of Bates and Stryker for...